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It was meant to be a big sporting weekend for some of us southern zoners. Starting on Saturday with the Peak to Pub, a race which consisted of snowboarding or skiing down Mt Hutt, biking down the access road and then running to Methven. A few hardy souls had entered but were at the mercy of New Zealand’s infamous changeable weather. The warm nor’wester brought with it strong gale force winds which forced the event to be postponed to Sunday. Unfortunately most had other plans so were unable to compete which was a shame.

On Sunday morning the wind had changed and brought rain. Three more zoners got up early to compete in the Physiomed Women’s Triathlon. The initial adrenaline was a little dampened when we arrived, and the longer we stood in the rain waiting for the event to begin the more our enthusiasm waned. Luckily by the time the race started the weather gods had noticed our sun dance and the rain stopped while we were swimming, and stayed away for the duration. We all managed to stay upright and on our bikes which was a bit of a feat due to the slippery conditions. After some amazing photo finishes we waited to see if any of us placed our respective categories. Sadly, not this time, but watch this space!

A great effort by all, big ups to Maria (2 time duathlete) and Liz (triathlon newbie).

Rose ‘tri veteran’ 3 time triathlete  

Week 2 of the University of California Bears 2008 college football update presented by TimeZoneOne College Football Analyst - Folksey.

Cal Rolls to Victory in Rout of Washington State

Jahvid Best ran for 200 yards and three touchdowns

Sept. 6, 2008

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) - Jahvid Best ran for 200 yards and three touchdowns Saturday as California blasted Washington State 66-3, spoiling coach Paul Wulff’s first game back in Pullman since he was a star player in the late 1980s.

Best made his first career start and California (2-0, 1-0) produced 505 yards for its most lopsided victory over Washington State (0-2, 0-1) in the 69-game series, topping a 61-0 win in 1922.

Best rushed 14 times for an average of 14.3 yards per carry. The 5-foot-10, 193-pound speedster earned the start by rushing for what had been a career-high 111 yards last week against Michigan State. The Bears finished with 391 yards rushing, including runs of 80 and 86 yards by Best.

Wulff, hired in December, is the first WSU alum to lead the team since Phil Sarboe in 1949. Washington State opened the season with two losses for the first time since 1999.

Washington State mustered only 167 yards of total offense, and barely preserved their string of scoring in 275 consecutive games, second longest streak in the nation after Michigan’s 300 straight. They have not been shut out since 1984.

This game was over early as Cal scored on its first three possessions and piled up 171 yards to take a 21-3 lead after one quarter.

Best set the tone on the first play of the game, darting 80 yards up the middle for a 7-0 Cal lead.

On WSU’s first possession, Gary Rogers was intercepted by Syd’Quan Thompson, who returned it 18 yards to WSU’s 12. Kevin Riley hit Sean Young for a 12-yard touchdown pass and a 14-0 lead only 1:31 into the game.

On Cal’s next possession, freshman Shane Vereen dashed up the middle for a 39-yard touchdown run and a 21-0 lead.

WSU’s Chris Ivory returned the kickoff 68 yards to Cal’s 22, but the Cougars were pushed back and had to settle for Nico Grasu’s 43-yard field goal.

Cal’s Zack Follett returned a blocked field-goal attempt 65 yards for a touchdown and Riley dashed 27 yards for a score to make it 34-3 in the first half.

Thompson’s 90-yard interception return set up Best for a 5-yard TD off a direct snap that put Cal up 42-3 at the half.

Kevin Lopina replaced Rogers at quarterback for WSU to open the second half, and marched the Cougars to California’s 13 before throwing an interception. On the second play, Best ran 86 yards for a touchdown and a 49-3 Cal lead.

Week 1 of the University of California Bears 2008 college football update presented by TimeZoneOne College Football Analyst - Folksey.

Strong Cal Offense Gets 38-31 Win Against Michigan State

Kevin Riley passed for 202 yards and two second-half touchdowns

Aug. 30, 2008

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Kevin Riley passed for 202 yards and two second-half touchdowns, and Shane Vereen broke an 81-yard scoring run with 4:21 left in California ’s 38-31 victory over Michigan State on Saturday night.

Jahvid Best rushed for 111 yards and a score, while tight end Cameron Morrah and fullback Will Ta’ufo’ou caught Riley’s TD passes in a solid debut for the Golden Bears’ brand-new collection of starting offensive skill players.

Brian Hoyer passed for 321 yards, hooking up with Mark Dell for nine catches and 202 yards, the fifth-biggest yardage total for a receiver in Michigan State history. Javon Ringer rushed for 81 yards and two touchdowns for the Spartans, but they couldn’t catch up in a back-and-forth second half featuring 45 total points and 503 yards of total offense.

Bryant Nnabuife returned a blocked punt for the first score as Cal won for the fifth time in seven openers under coach Jeff Tedford. Cal rebuilt its entire offense, and Riley looked sharp in his second career start along with Best and Vereen, who ran for 101 yards in his Cal debut.

Otis Wiley returned an interception 31 yards for an early TD for the Spartans, whose trip to the West Coast was a long-delayed return of Cal’s visit to East Lansing in 2002. The Bears upset the nationally ranked Spartans 46-22 on that trip, propelling Tedford’s first team into the rankings just three games removed from a 1-10 season.

Perhaps looking to recapture a bit of that 2002 magic, the Bears called a double pass for their opening offensive play - nearly the same play Tedford used for a stunning touchdown on Cal’s first snap of his rookie season against Baylor. Vereen underthrew it, but the redshirt freshman made up for it later.

After struggling on offense for three quarters, Michigan State converted three third downs and got a roughing-the-punter penalty during a 97-yard drive that ended with Ringer’s 10-yard TD run with 10:45 to play, pulling within 24-21.

Cal replied with its own lengthy drive ending in Ta’ufo’ou’s scoring catch with 5:45 left. Michigan State trimmed the lead to seven points, but Vereen then broke his impressive scoring run on an innocuous first-down play.

After an apparent interception by Cal’s Darian Hagan was overturned by replay, Dell caught a 29-yard TD pass with 3:09 left. Michigan State got one last chance, but Hoyer threw four straight incompletions at midfield.

This Sunday is Father’s Day in New Zealand.  So this weeks ‘Zoner of the Week’ goes to all the Dads at TimeZoneOne for creating so much more than just extraordinary creative, Nigel Foley, Andy Carruthers, Murray Grossmith, David McLeod (me) and Hamish McDonald. Mark Cornellison gets an honorable mention, but narrowly misses out on new socks and hankerchiefs this year, his baby is not due for another month.

Here’s a little Father’s Day entercation…

Although normal English punctuation guidelines indicate that the holiday should be spelled “Fathers’ Day” (as it is a plural possessive), common usage dictates that the ostensibly singular possessive “Father’s Day” is the preferred spelling.

In New Zealand…

the average age of fathers of new babies is 33 years.

Fathers with children aged under one year manage 42 minutes less sleep than the average of 8.5 hours.

Over a lifetime, fathers have seven fewer Father’s Days, on average, than mothers have Mother’s Days. This is because men generally start parenting later in life and women have a longer life span. So make the most of it.

More than a quarter (28 percent) of babies born in New Zealand last year were to fathers who were not themselves born in New Zealand.

In the USA…

Father’s day is celebrated on the 3rd Sunday of June (In New Zealand, it’s the 1st Sunday of September.).

there is an estimated 64.3 million Dads.

Americans spend around $11 billion on gifts for Father’s Day. This is about $7 billion less than the amount spent on Moms for Mother’s Day.

David ‘top of the fooseball ladder’ McLeod

We have a new bloke in the New Zealand office, Robert MacDonald. He comes all the way from nearly-tropical Glasgow, Scotland. To introduce Robert to the rest of the team and expose him to a bit of kiwiness, I put a simple Kiwiness Exam to him. It is very scientific, there are 10 questions, each question worth 10 marks, to give a total kiwiness percentage.

SECTION 1: SMALL TALK.
A. How’s it going?

brilliant! (6/10)

MODEL KIWI ANSWER: Sweet as.

B. Whatcha been up to?

getting married, emigrating, skiing (4/10)

MODEL KIWI ANSWER: Aw, ya know, nothin’ much

SECTION 2: HAVE YOU EVER…

A. Climbed Mt. Everest?

no, just K2…just joking but I have done the Gobi Challenge which a 140 mile trek through the desert carrying all my own food and equipment! (8/10)

MODEL KIWI ANSWER: Na, I don’t need to, cos Sir Edmund already did.

B. Used the Metric System?

Robert: yes (8/10)

MODEL KIWI ANSWER: Yeah, heaps.

C. Spent Christmas day at the Beach?

no, just in the deep dark depressing depths of a Scottish winter (2/10)

MODEL KIWI ANSWER: Yeah, heaps.

D. Eaten any of the following?… Porkbones and pūhā? a Crunchie Bar? Green-lipped Mussels? Hāngi? Chocolate Fish? Rotten Corn? Pavlova? Fish and Chips? Huhu grubs? or a Hamburger with beetroot in it?

Robert: Yes and deep fried Mars Bars too! (8/10)

MODEL KIWI ANSWER: Yeah, heaps.

SECTION 3: DO YOU…

A. Know any Māori words?

Robert: Te (0/10)

MODEL KIWI ANSWER: Yeah, heaps.

B. Own a pair of gumboots? If yes…. If it weren’t for your gumboots, where would you be?

Robert: What are gumboots?? (0/10)

MODEL KIWI ANSWER: Yeah, If it weren’t for me gumboots, where would I be? I’d be in the hospital or infirmary.

C. Follow Rugby?

Robert: not really because Scotland are crap at all sports, except in 1984 when they won the grand slam!!! woohoo! (While not a very kiwi response, Robert is absolutely correct. 10/10)

MODEL KIWI ANSWER: Yell the name of your local team for as long and loud as possible. eg. ‘CAAAAAAAANNNNNNTEEEERRRRBBBUUUURRRRYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’

THE RESULT.

Robert is 46% kiwi as. That’s a C- pass, wellll done Robert. we’re chuffed to have you onboard.

David ‘Brian’ McLeod

In the spirit of the Tri-Nations and the current rugby crazed Southern Hemisphere it would seem remise of me not to mention the newest TimeZoneOne client - USA Rugby.

Richard McDonald, new business extraordinaire met with Nigel Melville (CEO & President of Rugby Operations USA Rugby) on Tuesday August 19^th in Boulder, Colorado (yes another Boulder client).

We look forward to working closely with USA Rugby and helping spread the great game of rugby in the USA.

So well done us!

Blogged out from the foxhole

New Zealand - a country of around 4.26 million people has produced some outstanding golfing talent over the last 50 or so years.  Please indulge me with a short history of some notable New Zealand golfers…

Golf in New Zealand has to start with Sir Bob Charles.  Sir Bob put golf on the map in New Zealand.  Sir Bob’s record of golfing accomplishments is something to behold.  The most notable of his achievements include: Being Officially Knighted in 1999, 1963 British Open Champion, 1969 World Matchplay Champion, 1993 Senior British Open Champion, Inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2008, and most recently making the cut at the 2007 New Zealand Open at the ripe old age of 71.  Sir Bob became the oldest person on the European Tour history to make a cut.

Other notable New Zealand Team and Individual Achievements include:

- 1992 Winning the Eisenhower Cup (Amateur team event).

- 2002: The Year of the Kiwi Golfer

• Craig Perks winning the PGATOUR’s Players Championship in one of the most memorable last 3 holes in tournament history
• Phil Tataurangi winning the PGATOUR’s Invensys Classic in Las Vegas
• Michael Campbell winning the European Tours European Open
• David Smail winning the Japanese Tours Japan Open

- 2005: Michael Campbell winning the USGA’s US Open

Past New Zealand Golfing Legends

Frank Nobilo, Greg Turner, Simon Owen.

Past New Zealand PGATOUR Winners

Grant Waite 1993 Kemper Open Champion

Frank Nobilo 1997 Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic Champion

Current New Zealand Golfers on the World Stage

Asian Tour:, Kevin Chun, Mahal Pearce, Mark Brown, Matt Holten, Michael Long, Richard Lee

Japan Golf Tour: David Smail, Eddie Lee

European Golf Tour: Steve Alker, Michael Campbell, Stephen Scahill.

Nationwide Golf Tour:  Brad Iles, Grant Waite

PGATOUR:  Frank Nobilo, Craig Perks, Phil Tataurangi, Tim Wilkinson

Golfing Blogster - Folksey

Saturday August 16th, 2008 - this is a date that a number of proud New Zealanders will remember for a long, long time. 

It was a day that New Zealand had their most successful single day in the Summer Olympic history.  It was a morning of success where New Zealand athletes won two golds, one silver and two bronzes in Beijing, China.

Click the link for an update on your successful kiwis - New Zealanders Medallists

Blogolympian Brett

Right on the back on the TV3 camera’s…the TimeZoneOne creative team had the pleasure of sharing a cup of tea with New Zealand’s “uber entrepreneur”  Stephen Tindall, Founder of The Warehouse.

Stephen is an avid supporter of the New Zealand “knowledge economy“. We believe the TimeZoneOne business model is a perfect example of the “knowledge economy” in action - we use Flat World technology to bring our clients New World creativity.

Why New Zealand?

• Exceptional creative talent
• Global thinkers
• English speaking, strong communication
• Western (USA and UK) culture
• Technologically advanced
• Can-do mentality
• Time zone advantage
• Friendly
• Cost of doing business advantage

Richard

Love them or loathe them, Crocs are a fashion feat.

Check out this TV3 news item for the full story.

Richard