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"Watch Dogs" protagonist / anti-hero Aiden Pierce is not an "every man" that somehow ends up with a special tool or unique abilities. Ubisoft Game Director Jonathan Morin explained in an interview with Examiner that he's a deadly combination of genius and knowing how to work people.
"Aiden was born as a genius, he's a guy that knows how to explore computers and all of that," Morin said. "There's a certain trait about people who develop those skills, and it's they seem to get together a bit.
"So some friends are questionable and others are not. He ended up becoming friends with a guy named Damien, who appears briefly at the intro of the game," as a bit of background on Pearce's life. "It's a scam, [Aiden's] dad was away and he wanted to become the provider for the family to use what he knew the best to push those things forward. Scams became bigger and bigger until they got out of hand, which created problems between him and Damien."
"That's something that's going to be explored a lot as we move forward. Maybe the one thing people don't know is when you have a hacker doing something in the real-world, there's almost always a combination of hacking and social engineering skills needed. Aiden has a lot of that too," he continued.
"He's a good mix of I know how computers work, he's been taught by Damien, but at heart [Aiden is] a guy that's very good on the field and very good with people, so he can read them really well. All of that creates a pretty dangerous combination."
"Watch Dogs" will land on the PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC worldwide on May 27. A Wii U release has been pushed back to later this year.


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I have downloaded Ubuntu 12.04, made both a bootable usb stick and a iso image dvd. I am not able to install it on my laptop running on windows or my desktop running only on ubuntu 10.04. Further, my desktop has now neither the old version or the new one and I am stuck. Unfortunately ubuntu no longer ships free CDs and we are stuck with the downloaded version which may be missing something. After entering user name and password, there is some error reported on both laptop and desktop after which it does not respond at all. Kindly help.
A good idea might be to download the alternate installation package, if you are sure you want to install, and not just try it out.
When you download that ISO image, there is a way to check the ISO before burning, using the md5sum. Once you know the ISO is valid, you can check the burned CD to make sure it is also correct.
For the official Ubuntu instructions to install, and to troubleshoot installation problems, you can read this guide. There is a section on troubleshooting that explains how to check the CDs, etc.

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Last week, I started Part 1 of My "Natural" Hair Journey. I've had some excellent feedback so I'm glad to share Part 2 of my story today.
Part 2-The Middle School Years-Hello Just For Me Relaxer.
|13 years old, washing my hair post relaxer.
Remember the 8 year old who wanted long hair? As a 13 year old her hair was long, but looking back it wasn't healthy. Next week, I'll share the my high school. "High School! Weave Ponytails and Wraps!"
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Why Ron Paul is wrong on every damn thing!
February 27th, 2010 8:00 am | by Marc Gallagher | Published in campaign for liberty, Commentary, Constitution, foreign aid, Foreign Policy, Humor, Maven Commentary, Racism | 43 Responses
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I mean just look at the guy. Ron Paul is all skinny, old, and wrinkly. His speeches are rambling diatribes supporting the long debunked conspiracy theory known as the U.S. Constitution. Everyone knows the Constitution expired more than 100 years ago and has no place in our Conservative-Progressive-Democratic-Socialist-Liberal-Republican (ConProDemSocLibRep) society.
After all it was Ru Paul's isolationist ideas that lead America into its darkest period following the Revolutionary War after his idiotic idols, the Founding Fathers, defeated the British occupiers. Well, they were more like friendly visitors than occupiers. Visitors that honored the American colonies by taxing them heavily and treating them like peasants.
Everyone knows by now that Ron Paul's efforts to abolish the massively successful Federal Reserve bank is kookier than cookies. The Fed has been our savior over and over and over and over and over again over the years. If it weren't for the Fed the so-called "Great Depression" would have been much shorter. That's a gigantic problem because we needed it to last much longer just to prove that government regulation is the lifeblood of the economy!
Ron Paul's foreign policy ideas are moonbat crazy. His ideas violate the golden rule. You know, the whole "do unto others as you would have them do unto you thing"? We would be far less safe if we hadn't flexed our military muscle in the Middle East. They only respect force and they've been cowering in fear of us for the last 10 years. Hopefully we'll be able to show them who's boss for at least 100 more years.
Ben Bernanke was overheard saying: "You can't put a price tag on keeping America safe. Do you know where I can get discounted printer ink? After all we need to save money where we can in these trying times!", according to a source who didn't want to be named as a source and who spoke to me through telepathy.
It was so stupid that Ron Paul won the CPAC straw poll. It was obviously rigged by his Campaign For Liberty organization and they were all young people anyway. Everyone knows the future of the GOP will come from the old people! At least the results of the poll were booed loudly which just proves that I'm right.
Not to mention Paul is an anti-semite because he wants to cut off foreign aid to all countries and the last time we checked, Israel was a country. It couldn't possibly defend itself with a stockpile of only 400 or so nuclear bombs. They need our help!
He's also an obvious racist because he has a long history of hate speech following the publication of some newsletters written by someone else 25 years ago. His racism is so rampant that one could pull just about any speech of his in his decades in Congress and find the bigotry. In fact here's one called "Government and Racism".
It's so easy to imagine a Klan hood over his head whenever he's on TV espousing the virtues of some of his lilly-white heroes like Dr. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks.
Get this through your think skulls people, Ron Paul has no chance at being the next President of the United States. He shouldn't run because all he will do is screw up the chances for the anointed Republican nominee, who won't be a crazy, kooky, old, skinny, wrinkly, anti-semitic, racist, isolationist with a fetish for the supreme law of the land.
Don't you understand, we hate Barack Obama more than we love the Constitution!
The last thing America needs is a candidate that adheres so rigidly to his principles and is logically consistent in both domestic and foreign policy.
And don't get me started on his supporters.


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Girls are sugar, spice, and everything nice...or sawdust, machine oil, and several tons of hardwood. Who says we can't play with the big boys while rocking our totally-feminine sex appeal? We'll leave princess daydreams to posh types and live out our fantasies on the right side of seventeen pounds of whirling razor-sharp steel.
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Danny Rose back returns to face Liverpool.
Martin O'Neill has named his side to face Liverpool at Anfield.
Danny Rose is back in the starting line-up after sitting out of Saturday's game with parent club Tottenham Hotspur.
John O'Shea misses out on tonight's game after picking up an injury in the clash with Spurs and Carlos Cuellar takes over the captain's armband thisevening.
SAFC: Mignolet, Rose, Gardner, Kilgallon, Cuellar ( c) Johnson, McClean, Larsson, Colback, Fletcher, Sessegnon
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Sit back and enjoy four seasons on a New England fiber farm with Barbara Parry. She will introduce you to her 220 acre Springdelle farm in Shelburne, Massachusetts through her writing of "Adventures in Yarn Farming". On the farm you will meet her husband Mike, a collection of 60 various breeds of sheep (Border Leicester, Cormo, Shetlands and Moorits), three miniature donkeys, llamas used as sheep 'watchdogs' and two golden retrievers.
If fiber runs through your veins, you will enjoy the farm life from the cast-on to the bind-off. The wip (work in process) is not for the faint of heart, but always rewarding. The photographs are wonderful. A beautiful farm in all seasons. Gardening and maple tree tapping are an addition on this artisanal farm.
Spring on the farm is a time for renewal and birth. Barbara will give you a good feel for what sheep farming is all about. You will be there for shearing, fleece skirting and the birth of the lambs. Summer is grazing, fence mending, hay gathering and armfuls of produce from the garden. Barbara says fall is the celebration of color. Autumn brings color to the landscape and this is the time of year the sheared fleece, turned into yarn gets dyed. Winter calls the sheep into the barn. With the long evenings, Barbara finds the yarn calling for her knitting needles.
Included are projects for hand-spinning, dyeing, knitting, weaving, sewing and recipes. Designers Kate Gilbert, Christa Giles, Lisa Lloyd, Marnie MacLean and Melissa Morgan-Oakes have included knitting patterns. This is a nice way to expand your fiber art and craft by trying a project that isn't in your niche.
The book will give you a taste for the fiber life, where your yarn comes from and how it gets to your needles. Barbara will share with you the routine and the rewards in great detail. This is a book for the fiberista who is curious about the process of the craft.


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Twelve different Lancers spiked kills in helping the Pasadena City College women's volleyball team record head coach Tammy Silva's milestone 50th South Coast Conference victory Wednesday night. State No. 6-ranked PCC swept Los Angeles Harbor College, 25-16, 25-15, 25-9, at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium.
Silva has a current 50-11 coaching record in SCC play in her fifth season in charge of the Lancers' program. Overall, Pasadena improved to 12-1 and remains perfect along with rival and No. 4-rated El Camino atop the South Coast standings with 4-0 league marks. Those two teams collide Friday when PCC travels to Torrance to face the Warriors in a 6 p.m. match.
Middle blocker Jackie Valle-Acosta continued her efficient hitting with a match-high 10 kills in just 12 attempts. Anolani Ramos-McCorriston added nine kills and opposite Yanise Joseph contributed seven kills. Sophomore middle blocker Stacey Diaz added four kills and three blocks while setter Jessica Xu, a September CCCSIA State Player of the Month honorable mention, had four kills, served three aces and dished out 16 assists.
Frosh setter Kailey Faust reached a season-high in assists with 21 while fill-in libero Jennifer Estrada totaled 10 digs. Viridiana Gallardo tacked on nine digs and three aces, and Ella Moe dropped in five kills, made six digs and served three aces. Reserves Tiffany Roesler, Kassie Jones, Victoria Arreola and Hunter Martinsen each had a kill.
Harbor (3-3, 1-3 in SCC play) actually was tied with the Lancers at 12-12 in the first game. From that point on, Pasadena outscored the Seahawks, 63-18, in completing the sweep.
"It was nice to see us control a match, and be able to see the reserves play well," Silva said. "Stacey did a solid job blocking. It's important that she play at a high level in order to give us depth at the net. Now we have a major test in facing El Camino next match."
[Photo--Stacey Diaz (left) and Hunter Martinsen team up on a block during PCC's sweep over LA Harbor Wednesday, image by Richard Quinton.]
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"The Charismatic Movement operates on the premise that everything that happened in the early church ought to be expected and experienced in the church today." ~John MacArthur, Strange Fire, available at Cleveland's Visible Voice Books
"Most charismatic prophets are no different than sideshow psychics and palm readers." ~John MacArthur
"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father". ~Jesus of Nazareth, John 14:12
MacArthur's work is an odd string of arguments. Personally I don't believe in labels that include denominational distinctions. There is no biblical basis for calling someone a Baptist or Pentecostal or Protestant or Catholic or any other thing.
The closest 'label' you find in scripture for those who pursue a life in Christ is "followers of the Way" (Acts 24:14).
But for convenience sake, using common labels, MacArthur admits that there are half a billion people who believe in the current gifts, or charisma, of the Holy Spirit. He also shares this is the fastest growing segment of the "church".
Yet, instead of seeing this as a move of God, he is convinced all these people in all these diverse cultures in all these separate countries are simply deceived and following a "false gospel".
He claims that people that claim to operate in the gift of healing are simply using a "gimmick" to get people "to loosen their wallets". He especially takes issue with Oral Roberts, Kenneth Hagin, Kathryn Kuhlman and Benny Hinn. He even takes aim at T. L. Osborn and Reinhardt Bonnke, the latter of which currently has crusades in Africa that draw over 1.5 million people on a regular basis.
Consider for a moment, the average church in the United States has 75 members. There are an estimated 350,000 congregations in America. David Cho's leads a congregation in South Korea that has one million members, the largest in the world.
Yet MacArthur takes issue with each of these men, claiming they are theologically impotent and deceiving those who are seeking after Christ. The audacity of such an attack is simply mind boggling. Rather than seeing a move of God, MacArthur's book is a defense of how right he is and how wrong everyone that disagrees with his theology is.
Is it not miraculous that millions of people come to a crusade? Are they all simply lying when they claim miraculous healings? Are we to believe that these men are such good con artists they can proclaim the gospel of Christ with impure motives and fool hundreds of thousands of people on a daily basis?
Jesus had a word for such drudgery. When speaking with the Pharisees he told them, You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel (Matthew 23:24). What he was referring to was their use of special cups with netting to cover their drinks lest they swallow a bug and be "unclean". Yet they would freely take in gulps of hatred and criticism and bitterness, i.e. swallowing a camel, without even noticing. They were so caught up in arguing that they were right about everything, they missed how clearly wrong their own efforts and critical spirits were.
This is perhaps the most apt metaphor for MacArthur's whole argument. Is he right on some finer theological points? Perhaps, but what camel does he imbibe in the process, to his own and his readers misfortune?


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NASCAR Nationwide Series rookie sensation Chase Elliott will be back behind the wheel of the familiar No. 9 JR Motorsports Chevrolet in Nationwide competition in 2015, but something will be different. Ernie Cope, currently the crew chief on JRM's No. 5 team that competes part-time in the series, will be Elliott's full-time crew chief next year.
"It became clear rather quickly that the absolute best option for Chase and the NAPA team next year is already in this building," JR Motorsports General Manager Kelley Earnhardt Miller said. "Ernie builds fast cars, has a good rapport with Chase and is familiar with the inner-workings of our company. Hopefully, that will create a seamless transition at the end of the year, and the No. 9 team will continue its championship form right into 2015."
Moving over to the No. 9 team, Cope will replace Greg Ives, Elliott's current crew chief. As previously announced, I'ves will make the move to the Sprint Cup Series next year to be JR Motorsports' co-owner Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s crew chief on the No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet team. Earnhardt's current crew chief, Steve Letarte, will be climbing down from the pit box at season's end to be a part of the NBC Sports broadcast team for NASCAR coverage.
Cope joined JR Motorsports prior to the start of the current season to crew chief the No. 5. So far this year, Cope has led the No. 5 team to three wins -- at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway and Kentucky Speedway in Sparta with Kevin Harvick behind the wheel and at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway with Kasey Kahne as the driver.
In all, Cope has 12-career Nationwide Series wins as a crew chief. Harvick was the driver for 10 of them.
"Kevin and I have enjoyed a lot of success, and we're not done yet," Cope said. "There is a lot of racing left this year, but in putting the pieces together for 2015, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to complete the full race schedule. I've been able to do that only once, and that was in 2011 with Elliott Sadler when we finished second in the championship. I'd like another shot at it, and Chase Elliott is an extremely talented race car driver."
Elliott has three wins, so far, 22 races into his rookie season in the Nationwide Series. He also has nine top-fives and 16 top-10 finishes and leads the championship standings.


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Mr. Keillor,
I was going to enter your Talent Contest for People in their Twenties only to find that what I regard as my talent - the writing of prose - does not qualify. Being a former struggling writer yourself, I am sure there is no one who can better appreciate the struggle of the writer in their twenties: the stream of rejections, the doubt (should I give up? Should I have given up three, four, nine years ago?) and the anguish of watching your best efforts disappear into the void of silence, unread... Remember how it was: before the book deals, before you saw your name in The New Yorker's index? How about expanding the definition of 'talent' to include prose?
Scott B.
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If we expand the contest to include prose, then we'll have to plan on an eight-hour show, which is longer than what I care to do. A prose talent contest is sort of like a dance marathon or a six-day bicycle race: it takes a man with more stamina than I possess. But good luck to you. And don't sweat the rejections. I still get rejected all the time. Shake it off and get a good night's sleep and try again in the morning.
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I've been planning to submit one of the stories that I tell--a la "The News from Lake Wobegon." I couldn't decide if the rules allowed for that. The more general directions said "talent" while the upload instructions said "music." I guess this post tells me not to submit it.
I was in a creative writing class where I received praise from fellow students on several stories I wrote. They were referred to as my "Prairie Home Companion/Guy Noir" stories.
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Sorry, this isn't creative or witty now. I'm in my mondo todotoday mode.
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(11:30 a.m. EDT) -- Transocean Tours confirmed today that 200 passengers out of 769 -- a very high 26 percent -- aboard Marco Polo have now reported symptoms of gastric illness, suspected to be the dreaded Norovirus.
According to a statement from the Bremen, Germany-based travel company, several passengers were hospitalized after falling ill onboard the ship. Four passengers are currently being treated at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness; one person has already been discharged. Onboard, a team of local doctors and nurses are working with Marco Polo's medical team to care for others with symptoms.
However, the U.K. media has taken Transocean to task for allowing some ill passengers to debark the ship to tour Invergordon (cruise ships generally quarantine passengers with suspected Norovirus as it is easily spread between individuals). A spokesperson for Transocean did not immediately respond to our request for additional comment.
The ship had previously been on a cruise to Iceland during which "a very small number" of passengers suffered symptoms of gastroenteritis, but the ship was cleared at Tilbury on turnaround day. This latest outbreak is unrelated, according to a statement from Transocean.
The 74-year-old passenger who died onboard the ship (incorrectly reported by BBC News yesterday as being age 70) was also an "unrelated incident," according to Transocean's statement, which says the man had underlying health problems. A post mortem will be conducted determine the cause of death, though a report today from BBC News indicates he may have suffered a heart attack.
At this time, Transocean has not confirmed how long the ship will remain in Invergordon (BBC News reports that it will be held until tomorrow); the ship arrived there yesterday for its first port call on a 10-night British Isles cruise. It was supposed to visit Kirkwall today.
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Investors are gearing up for the start of the US first-quarter earnings season with Alcoa set to report on Tuesday and they will be closely watching what kind of outlook corporate America sees for the months ahead.
Analysts estimate profits for companies in the S&P 500 increased 1 percent in the first three months of the year, down from 8.9 percent in the previous quarter, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Expectations have also been downgraded since the start of this year. Thomson Reuters data showed first-quarter S&P 500 companies' earnings are projected to have increased 1.2 percent from a year ago, down from the 6.5 percent growth seen at the start of the year.
Minutes from the latest Federal Open Market Committee will be released on Wednesday. First though, investors will eye speeches from several US policy makers for their take on the state of the economy including the latest employment data. On Friday, a government report showed US payrolls rose 192,000 in March, and there was an upward revision for February's gain to 197,000 from 175,000. The unemployment rate held at 6.7 percent in March.
The payrolls data showed "that the recovery process in the US is progressing," Ralf Umlauf, head of floor research at Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thueringen in Frankfurt, told Bloomberg News. "Our view is that the growth scenario in the US is intact."
Today, St Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard is set to talk about monetary policy and the economic outlook in Los Angeles. On Tuesday, Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota will speak in Rochester, Minnesota, while Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser will discuss prudential regulation in Philadelphia.
On Wednesday, Chicago Fed President Charles Evans will talk about Fed communications in Washington, while Fed Governor Daniel Tarullo will give a dinner speech in Washington. On Thursday, Evans is part of a panel discussing central banking after the recession, in Washington.
US reports scheduled for release this week include consumer credit, on Monday; the NFIB small business optimism index, on Tuesday; wholes sale trade, on Wednesday; weekly jobless claims, as well as import and export prices, on Thursday; and the producer price index, and consumer sentiment, on Friday.
Last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.55 percent and the Standard & Poor's 500 index added 0.40 percent. The Nasdaq Composite index, however, slid 0.67 percent as investors dumped shares of some of the biggest internet companies including Google and Facebook.
Both the Dow and the S&P 500 touched intra-day record highs on Friday before ending the day lower.
Investors remained optimistic about the outlook for the broader market.
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The government go-ahead came in a decree of 3 September 1956. The Fourth Scientific Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense had meanwhile completed a draft project for the KIK ground control system. Tikhonravov's 1.4 metric ton ISZ satellite was to have been launched by the new R-7 ICBM as the Soviet Union's first satellite, but the R-7 was ready before the satellite, so it was preceded by Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2. The ISZ was a miniature physics laboratory, but was launched with a known faulty recorder, limiting data to that received when the spacecraft was over Soviet tracking stations. As a result, the Van Allen radiation belts were discovered by the United States rather than Russia.
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Warner Brothers Home Entertainment in the United States have announced, via DVDactive, The Dark Knight Blu-ray and DVD releases, featuring the best cover art I have seen in some time.
Being released just shy of Christmas '08, on December 9th, the two disc Blu-ray and DVD sets will no doubt sell like proverbial hotcakes. Whilst Warner Home Entertainment in Australia have yet to officially announce any release, it is quite telling that they have announced a re-release of the original four Batman titles (1989-1997) for release on December 17th.
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In my dreams, I live in a house with a library like the one from Beauty and the Beast.
When I move, there are always twice as many boxes of books as anything else. I restrain myself from entering bookshops because the seven bookcases I own are already double stacked and I live in tiny apartment (not an enchanted castle). I own three copies of A Streetcar Named Desire (one filled with director's notes, one 'borrowed' from a past educational institution, one "pretty edition"). I'm a book person. The physical object kind.
So when e-readers first came out, I was one of those alarmists moaning about the 'death of the print book' and 'society being defined by the extent of its arts culture'.
Past-me was an idiot*. I freaking love my e-reader (a Kindle). Also, all those people on trains were reading dreadful free evening newspapers before and now some of them (surely) are reading actual literature.
I love my Kindle for all the usual reasons – it's super light, I have 100s of options in my handbag all the time and I can read vampire books on the tram and no-one knows. If sales are anything to go by, nobody needs convincing that e-readers are awesome, so here's what I DON'T like about it (the non-culture-police list):
It's Indestructible
I've owned mine for 2 years. Technologically, it's a relic. It's in the cheapest cover I could buy. I've been known to read in the rain. And it shows no sign of wear. This is bad because now they make pretty touch screen ones with fancy features and when it comes to gadgets I am definitely Gen-Y. Haven't Amazon heard of built-in obsolescence?
It's Waaay Too Easy To Buy Books
Real-life scenario: Flick past Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban on TV. Realize I still haven't read The Casual Vacancy. Buy The Casual Vacancy. Remember it was recently revealed that Rowling used a pseudonym to write some mystery novel. Buy The Cuckoo's Calling. Discover that the Potter series are like $7 each and BUY THEM ALL EVEN THOUGH I ALREADY OWN THEM BUT THEY'RE IN HARDCOVER BECAUSE I'M A SUPER-NERD AND I LINED UP TO BUY THEM THE DAY THEY CAME OUT BUT READING BOOKS IN HARDCOVER IS ACTUALLY REALLY ANNOYING. Realize I've spent $80 on books in 4 min, 3 ½ min of which was looking for my Kindle.
You Can't Put e-Books On a Shelf When You've Finished Reading
I would seriously be interested in some kind of a trade-your-ebook-credits-towards-a-print-copy-of-the-book-for-your-bookshelf scheme. Because Belle-fantasy.
Kindle Collections is Clunky
There's no good way to organize your e-books. I'd like a drag-and-drop iPhone-app style thing or automatic alphabetization. It's possible that other e-readers have better systems, or that they've fixed this in future versions (I wouldn't know because Point 1).
Do you have a love/hate relationship with any of your gadgets?
*not about the arts culture thing, she was on the money there.
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I miss looking at the covers of other people's books on the train, and starting conversations discussing the book. Also I miss feeling smart because everyone could see I was reading something cerebral.
I miss that too! I was recently reading the Game of Throne series on my Kobo, and noticed someone reading the first book in the paper version. I managed to catch her eye (in a not creepy way) and explained that I was further in, and loving the series and we had a nice chat, but it did used to be easier.
I bought Game of Thrones and I can't get into it. So disapointing
I can't read on trains anyway, I always listen to podcasts. I miss being handed a battered book by friends though. Lending of books seems to be a thing of the past.
I just got a kindle!! So much fun! But I've spent way more on books in the last 2 days than I would've spent in 2 months. Whoops! Maybe that's why they don't need planned obsolescence.
I'm terrible! I buy a book every two days especially as I was just on holiday.
Wow. I relate to every single word you have said in this post. EVERY WORD! Right down to the Beauty and the Beast library!
It's every woman's fantasy.
Book/kindle twins! You took the thoughts right out of my head. I however, have become exceptional at giving books to op-shops due to the nature of living overseas and being unable to take stacks of books every time I moved!
I've got a new vampire series to read on my kindle as I fly to Scotland in 2 weeks, hurrah!
It always upsets me if someone doesn't love a book that I love, more than if they hate every other object I own.
Another thing that bugs me about kindle is that when you search for something in the store, you always get ridiculous things come up, that have no relevance to what you were searching for.
I hate when an e-book 'isn't available in my country'. Why??? It's a FILE!!!!
Right there with you on point 2. I LOVE 'Buy now with 1-click' but I'm sure my credit card hates it…
Buy with one click KILLS me!
Being a hard-core bibliophile, the paper/digital book dichotomy strikes a chord! LOVE my Kindle. It augments my books rather than replacing them. Spent a month working my way through Project Gutenburg. The sorting into Collections drives me nuts. That so needs an update. The other bug-bear? Not being able to print out a text that is ONLY available electronically. Bear with me. My mum is a bit of an aviation history buff. Limited interest subject, so more and more is coming out as e-book only. At 80, mum does not want a Kindle, she wants paper. Obedient daughter buys e-books, downloads all the relevant software (including the ones that should remove the don't edit block) and the damn things won't let me convert to a pdf so I can print them for her. Argh!!!!


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Magazine of the painting blogosphere.
Thomas Micchelli blogs about Leonardo da Vinci's drawing Head of a Young Woman (Study for the Angel in the 'Virgin of the Rocks') on view in the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Treasures from the Biblioteca Reale, Turin at the Morgan Library, New York, through February 2, 2014.
Micchelli writes that "the drawing is imperfect, which is essential to its probing, critical, transporting beauty. Leonardo's inquisitive hand never settles on a single way of seeing or doing: the cheek on the right is molded with an exquisite caress, with the artist's distinctive left-to-right hatch marks cascading like sheets of water, while the shadow across the woman's back feels bluntly swiped in, as if he saw no reason to spend time on it. The dancelike curls delineating the locks of hair trailing down her spine are rendered minimally, almost abstractly, even as the minute strokes of white gracing her nose, cheeks and eyelid return the drawing to a moist, porous realism."
Charles Kessler visits two exhibitions at the Morgan Library: Fantasy and Invention: Rosso Fiorentino and Sixteenth-Century Florentine Drawing (through February 3) and Dürer to de Kooning: 100 Master Drawings from Munich (through January 6).
Of Rosso's Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist (c. 1520), Kessler writes: "Rosso makes no attempt to create a plausibly real scene in a real space. What's being depicted is not ordinary human activity, and it's not an idealized scene either, but rather it's an almost hallucinogenic, spiritual ecstasy more akin to medieval mosaics in spirit than to the High Renaissance. This ecstatic emotion is conveyed by the glowing colors and the swirling, rhythmic brushwork. (The painting is unfinished so it's probably rougher and less polished than it would be if he had finished it — but still.) In the Rosso, St. Joseph and St. John are so emotionally overwrought they seem to be dissipating visually."
Charles Hope examines the two versions of Leonardo's Virgin of the Rocks, on view opposite each other at the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan at the National Gallery, London (through February 5, 2012).
Hope writes that "Although the compositions are very similar, each creates a very different impression. The figures in the Louvre version, which is universally considered the earlier of the two, are slightly smaller than those in the London picture, as well as livelier and more individualized. But the most obvious difference comes from the fact that the Paris picture is covered with a layer of dark varnish, which softens the contours and adds a sense of mystery to the landscape, whereas the version in London is brighter, with all the forms more precisely indicated and more easily visible."
Chloé Nelkin reviews the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, National Gallery, London, on view through February 5, 2012.
Nelkin writes that "The sensational and unprecedented loans and the amassing of these works is something that will, in all likelihood, never be attempted again. Nearly every surviving painting from Leonardo's Milan period is exhibited including nine of his own works plus around 60 preparatory studies."
With the impending re-discovery of Leonardo's The Battle of Anghiari, long thought to be covered by a commissioned work from Giorgio Vasari, Daniel B. Gallagher takes another look at Vasari's paintings in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.
"It was there," Gallagher notes, "that Vasari made a triumphal return after two of his staunchest supporters in the city were murdered in 1530. Not until Duke Cosimo I invited him back in 1554 to decorate apartments begun by Battista del Tasso was Vasari vindicated... With the help of an eager crew of collaborators, Vasari completed the project in less than three years."
Daniel B. Gallagher reviews the exhibition Figure, Memorie, Spazio: disegni da Fra'Angelico a Leonardo which was on view at Galleria degli Uffizi and Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence (closed June 12, 2011). Gallagher writes: "Precisely because drawing was considered an indispensable daily discipline, it became the privileged means of unlocking the cognitive processes that led masters to produce their greatest work. Whereas we tend to approach sketchbooks as modern-day detectives, at the time they were produced, budding apprentices knew full well that they were the most reliable entryway into the minds of their teachers."
Chris Miller reviews Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France at the Art Institute of Chicago. Focusing on French art patronage around the year 1500, the exhibition brings together an impressive array of paintings, tapestries, and illuminated manuscripts. Miller writes "Objects were borrowed from almost fifty institutions and private lenders... A better survey of this time and place is likely not possible."
The Guardian's Jonathan Jones poses an interesting question: "In The Agony in the Garden, [Giovanni Bellini] attempted a true landscape 20 years before Leonardo's lauded sketch of the Arno river. Does that make him an innovator to rival Da Vinci?"
Edited by artist Brett Baker, Painters' Table highlights writing from the painting blogosphere as it is published and serves as a platform for exploring blogs that focus primarily on the subject of painting.
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Return of Capt'n Meyer
Well, I don't know about the Capt'n, but Meyer's lemon has returned to the stores. Last weekend I bought a bunch of them at Whole Foods Market.
The best thing about this putative lemon-orange hybrid is that it makes a great cocktail with rum. So then, here is the recipe for my internationally famous, award winning* and newly christened Capt'n Meyer's rum cocktail that was first unveiled in this post from last spring.
Fill a tumbler about 1/3 full with your favorite brand of rum (mine is Bacardi Gold). Add the juice of one Meyer's lemon. Top it off with orange juice.
Now sit back and enjoy your evening while updating your blog or watching Spongebob.


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Globetrotter who took the NZ thoroughbred to the world ...more
Balmerino is remembered for a pioneering odyssey which brought the New Zealand thoroughbred to the world stage. Less remembered is what a good galloper he proved himself in New Zealand and Australia before setting out on his world travels.
Bred and raced by Waikato dairy farmer Ralph Stuart, who had bred very successfully from the family previously, Balmerino was by Trictrac from the grand broodmare Dulcie. Stuart usually sold his colts; the elderly farmer was persuaded by brash young trainer Brian Smith to keep Balmerino after Smith won five races with older half-sister Mia Bella to keep the ledger in the black. Balmerino was the outstanding three-year-old of 1975-76, proving not only his class but his toughness through a campaign that began in the spring and ended in the Queensland winter; that embraced 18 starts and netted 14 wins and three seconds. That toughness stood to Balmerino when, after a truncated four-year-old season which nevertheless provided wins in the Air New Zealand Stakes, Awapuni Gold Cup, Sydney Autumn Stakes and Hastings Ormond Memorial, he headed for Europe. Stopping off on the way in California, where he notched a win despite missing his main target, he won the Valdoe Stakes at Goodwood first up in England and, on that one outing, ran a rather unlucky second in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe to the very good three-year-old Alleged (who won the Arc again the following year). Balmerino then went to Italy, where he finished first in the Gran Premio del Jockey Club but was relegated that to second. Allowing that as at least a moral victory, Balmerino had now won in New Zealand, Australia, the United States, England, and Italy – and finished a luckless second in France's most prestigious race.
As a six-year-old stallion Balmerino had one more campaign and, though he'd lost some of his zest for racing, still managed a win in the Clive Graham Stakes at Goodwood and seconds in the Coronation Cup at Epsom and the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown. He returned home to stand at Middlepark Stud, Cambridge, and sired some quality gallopers despite suffering the quick abandonment by breeders that was the lot of "colonial-bred" stallions at that time.
Champion Jockey who started a racing dynasty ...more
The oldest of five jockey brothers from Greymouth, Bill Skelton began his successful career in the South Island, moved to Levin in 1964 and continued to pump out the winners at just as high a rate. He won seven premierships spread across three decades – four in the 1950s, two in the '60s and one more in the '70s – and was either first or second leading rider in each of those three decades. His winning tally of 124 in the 1967-68 was a record until headed by David Peake, with 127, in 1982-83. Skelton was the first New Zealand jockey to ride 2000 winners and retired with a then record tally of 2156. He rode successfully as well in Australia, where his best win was the VRC Derby on Daryl's Joy.
Bill Skelton is sponsored by Bloodstock PR Ltd a company associated with NZRHF director - Phillip Quay. Phillip is an internationally acclaimed independent journalist and can be contacted at 07-846-4507.
Raced into equine immortality in the race of the century ...more
44 starts, 18 wins (nine Group One, six of these in Australia), five seconds, 12 thirds; NZ$674,225, A$1,679,495.
Champion NZ 3YO Bonecrusher can count amongst his home wins the NZ Derby and Air New Zealand Stakes, followed up with stunning Australian wins in Sydney including the Tancred Stakes and AJC Derby.
In the following spring Bonecrusher won the most memorable Cox Plate duel with Waverley Star – being described as the "race of the century". In this career defining race, Bonecrusher's name continues to live on in equine immortality.
Bonecrusher beat At Talaq in the Australian Cup, again displaying a huge will to win and continued on to win another Air New Zealand Stakes at five, despite having injury problems.
An International Jockey Star ...more
Brent Thomson showed remarkable maturity as leading apprentice of his time.
He won the 1976 Auckland Cup on Perhaps when only 17, and finished third on Kythera in the Melbourne Cup in the same year.
Brent moved to Colin Hayes' stable in Australia and, over the next eight years, won just about every major Australian race except the Melbourne Cup.
Based in England for the next seven years (and then in Hong Kong for four), Thomson wound up his international career the winner of more than 3000 races, 53 of them at Group One level.
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All the Racing Hats - a master all rounder. ...more
Brian Anderton was a successful jockey on the flat and over fences, starting at age 13 and riding 398 winners – but is even more successful as a trainer, his winning tally now close to 1300.
Brian is a one-time riding master for the Otago Apprentice School, and a past president of the Otago Racing Club and Otago branch of New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders Association.
In 1956 founded national icon stud White Robe Lodge, where he stood champion sires Mellay and Noble Bijou.
In recent years, White Robe Lodge helped to under pin South Island breeders with Stallions, and has continues through sponsorship and racing to supporting racing in the South.
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The Ultimate Stayer ...more
Great stayers Great Sensation won three Wellington Cups, and Il Tempo two Auckland Cups and a Wellington Cup. Castletown won three Wellington Cups AND an Auckland Cup AND placed in a Melbourne Cup and two Sydney Cups. He also won the New Zealand Derby as a three-year-old and proved his weight- for-age class with wins in the Kelt Capital Stakes and Caulfield Stakes.
Champion trainer of 11 premierships - producing a racing dynasty ...more
The only apprentice to salute the judge before a young Queen Elizabeth at the Royal Ellerslie meeting of 1953 – not a bad win, either: the Railway Handicap on Te Awa – O'Sullivan rode for less than a decade (125 winners) before weight problems forced him out. Setting up as a trainer at Matamata, he first became known as a successful mentor of apprentices. Roger Lang, Peter Johnson, Shane Dye and eventually his son Lance were just some of the top riders who came from the stable. Equine winners also came off the property in a steadily expanding stream until (ultimately in partnership with his son Paul) O'Sullivan found a regular place at the top of trainers' list. Dave O'Sullivan retired in 1998 with a lifetime tally of 1877 wins (at present the New Zealand record), 1613 in partnership with Paul. Dave won the premiership on his own in 1978-79, another 10 titles in partnership with Paul. Oopik, Golden Rhapsody, Sharivari, Waverley Star, Paul De Brett, La Souvronne, Blue Denim, Mapperley Heights and champion mare Horlicks were among the many Group One performers to wear the O'Sullivan polish.
Dave O'Sullivan is proudly sponsored by TRAC racing consortium which consists of the racing clubs in the Bay of Plenty, Taupo, Te Aroha and Matamata regions.
The ultimate professional over 40 years in the saddle ...more
David Peake first appeared on winning jockeys' list 1962-63, retired 40 years later as the winner of 2,085 races in New Zealand, the third biggest-winning jockey in New Zealand history.
David won six NZ Jockey Premierships, rode the most winners of any jockey in the 1970s (794) and held the course record for winners at Ellerslie (392) until topped by champion jockey Lance O'Sullivan.
Renowned as a rider of stayers David regularly rode track work over the years – every bit the professional.
Worldwide Ambassador for the NZ thoroughbred ...more
Graeme Rogerson has had stables in many parts of the racing world – including New Zealand, Australia, and even Dubai – as he set upon a campaign to take NZ racing to the world.
Fierce determination and hard work enabled "Rogie" to overcome early stoushes with officialdom to then reach the pinnacle of his profession.
By the time he trained his 2000th New Zealand winner, in 2010, he had won 12 NZ premierships, and one in Sydney, where he had operated a separate stable for years.
His major wins in Australia include the big three:
the Golden Slipper,
the Cox Plate, and
the Melbourne Cup.
Rogie was and is a tireless and enthusiastic ambassador internationally for the New Zealand thoroughbred.
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The Washdyke Wonder - one of the best of the post war era ...more
164 starts, 51 wins, 27 seconds, 21 thirds, NZ$235,020, A$8,400.
Grey Way's first win was at Rangiora in October 1972. His last win was on the same racecourse - eight years later.
Grey Way's 50 wins in New Zealand, often against outstanding opposition, beat Black Duke's previous New Zealand record of 46.
Grey Way won from 1200m to 2000m and was a noted miler, at which distance he scored great wins in the ARC Easter Handicap and the WRC George Adams.
Australasia's record breaking champion mare and producer ...more
40 starts, 17 wins (six at Group One), 10 seconds, 2 thirds. NZ$3,411,682, A$625,000
Horlicks, by Three Legs out of Malt, won 17 of her 40 starts, chalking up six Group One victories in three countries. She won both the million-dollar DB Draught Classic and the New Zealand Stakes twice.
In the spring of 1989 she won the weight-for-age Mackinnon Stakes at Flemington and followed it up three weeks later with a win in the $3 million Japan Cup (2400m) in world record time for trainers Dave and Paul O'Sullivan.
She was retired from racing the following year, with career earnings of $A3.2 million.
A super mare on the track, Horlicks later became a very successful broodmare. At stud she left 13 foals with Brew, the winner of the Melbourne Cup in 2000, the most notable. One of her daughters, Latte, produced the 2007 AJC Australian Derby winner Fiumicino
Horlicks died peacefully at Cambridge stud in August 2011 and is buried at her owner breeder Graham de Gruchy's Hawke's Bay property.
Honorary New Zealander –Melbourne Cup's King ...more
Bart Cummings is the New Zealand Hall of Fame's first honorary inductee.
James Bartholomew "Bart" Cummings has never raced a horse in New Zealand, but no overseas trainer has done more to promote the New Zealand stayer through the success he has achieved with the New Zealand thoroughbred.
Bart saddled an astonishing 12 Melbourne Cup winners, with eight of these being New Zealand-bred.
An astute judge, Bart has been a major buyer at New Zealand yearling sales since the early 1960s.
A legend of the Australian turf in Australia, Bart was awarded the Order of Australia and was an inaugural inductee into the Australian Hall of Fame.
Sponsor: Cambridge Stud
Bart Cummings is the New Zealand Hall of Fame's first honorary inductee.
James Bartholomew "Bart" Cummings has never raced a horse in New Zealand, but no overseas trainer has done more to promote the New Zealand stayer through the success he has achieved with the New Zealand thoroughbred.
Bart saddled an astonishing 12 Melbourne Cup winners, with eight of these being New Zealand-bred.
An astute judge, Bart has been a major buyer at New Zealand yearling sales since the early 1960s.
A legend of the Australian turf in Australia, Bart was awarded the Order of Australia and was an inaugural inductee into the Australian Hall of Fame.
Sponsor: Cambridge Stud
The Pumper is King! ...more
A record-breaking apprentice in New Zealand, where he won the 1981-82 jockeys' premiership in just his fourth full season. After his famous 1983 Melbourne Cup win on Kiwi; moved to Australia where he was to perform at top level for the next 30 years. One of only seven jockeys to win the Australian "grand slam" (Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, Cox Plate and Golden Slipper). On Derby Day 2013 he became one of just three Australasian jockeys to win 100 Group Ones.
"Gentleman Jim" - The Trainers' Trainer ...more
As a jockey, trainer, owner, breeder, mentor, and astute judge of a horse 'gentleman Jim' has done it all at group one level.
Jim Gibb's career started at a very early age in the saddle – winning many prestigious jumping races.
Jim began training while still riding. Preparing 145 stakes winners, Jim reached the apogee of his career as a trainer in the 1980s when, with a team of modest size and sometimes modest pedigrees, lining up as many as five runners in major northern group events.
Jim was the first Kiwi to train the winners of $1 million in New Zealand, in 1986-87, and the first to saddle the winners of $2 million in a season - two years later.
Tidal Light was the star three-year-old of the 1986-87 racing season, racking up 10 wins, including the group one New Zealand Derby at Ellerslie.
Gibbs won the 1989 Auckland Cup with Spyglass and enjoyed Melbourne Cup success as an owner through a retained share in Doriemus who won the 1995 Melbourne and Caulfield Cups when trained in Melbourne by Lee Freedman.
Revered as a mentor for trainers and young apprentice jockeys, Jim will be remembered for producing 36 apprentice jockeys, a future generation of trainers, and as an respected gentleman – a trait backed up by a 'racing personality of the year' award.
Jim signed off his training career with a winner, as he did with his last ride on Pretty Peen some 43 years earlier, after 47 years as a trainer and was recognised for his contribution to thoroughbred racing when awarded the Member of NZ Order Of Merit.
Sponsor: NZ Thoroughbred Magazine
International trainer of great gallopers and jumpers ...more
During his hay day, John Wheeler was more successful in Australia than any other New Zealand trainer of modern times.
In Australia John trained three near-champions – Poetic Prince, Rough Habit, and Veandercross and won many major Australian races (including a dozen Group Ones) with all three horses.
John has dominated the Australia's jumping scene for many years (winning seven Great Eastern Steeplechases at Oakbank) and won what is arguable the greatest jumping race in the world – the Nakayama Grand Jump in Tokyo with outstanding jumper St Steven.
A leading trainer at home John continues to be a great ambassador for his country.
The Jumping Maestro - jockey, trainer, owner, breeder, and polo player ...more
In 1977 Ken Browne became the first man to own, train and ride the winner of the Great Northern Steeplechase when he rode the tough gelding Ascona to victory.
Two years later the combination repeated the feat.
Browne would go on to train, in later years in partnership with his wife Ann, a further seven Great Northern Steeplechase winners as well as three Great Northern Hurdle winners.
Ken, an enthusiastic amateur from the time he left school in the 1950's, recorded numerous wins as a jumps jockey. He was New Zealand's leading jumps jockey in the calendar years 1981 and 1984 and in the 1986-87 racing seasons.
That enthusiasm was to span a remarkable fifty years during which Ken as an owner trainer prepared more than 500 winners over jumps. Together, he and wife Ann won most of New Zealand's major jumping races, many of them several times.
From the 1980s he, and later with Ann, had jumping teams in work of a size never approached by another owner or trainer, except perhaps by Bill Hazlett in his heyday.
The consequence was that Browne runners frequently made up more than half a field and it is seriously doubtful whether northern jumps racing would have survived without the Browne's contribution.
Browne's success in the saddle remarkably increased as he grew older, with his peak coming during the 1978-1993 period when he was aged between 44 and 59.
One of Ken Browne's stars was the great Sydney Jones, who had 56 starts over the steeples for 11 wins, earning $273,450 in stakes. Included in those wins were two McGregor Grant Steeplechases, two Pakuranga Hunt Cups and a win in the Great Northern Steeplechase.
In 2001 Ken Browne suffered a serious riding accident at his home which left him a tetraplegic confined to a wheelchair.
Not one to sit back, Browne was still training from his wheelchair and was a regular at the races to watch his and Ann's horses. Two weeks prior to his passing in 2006, at the age of 72, Ken was at Ellerslie when he had two winners including a victory in the inaugural running of the race named after him, the K S Browne Hurdles.
NZ's most successful championship winning jockey ...more
At the end of the 2002-03 season, Lance O'Sullivan retired from race riding at the top (three winners at Tauranga from his last three rides) and with every record in New Zealand flat racing safely in his saddle bags. With a New Zealand tally of 2358 he held the record of wins by a New Zealand jockey – and that was without adding the wins in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Singapore and, yep, one in Turkey which brought his lifetime tally to 2479. In 2001-02 he rode 193 winners to reclaim the New Zealand record for wins in a season which a young Michael Walker had briefly taken from him the season before. O'Sullivan retired with 12 New Zealand premierships to his credit, having broken Bill Broughton's long-standing record of 11 premierships. All of these records placed O'Sullivan firmly at the head of his profession at the time of his retirement. What makes them a testament to character, professionalism and determination as much to innate ability is that they were achieved – or at least completed – after a horrendous race fall at Moonee Valley in which O'Sullivan's left leg was so badly smashed that it took three years, three operations and unguessable grinding pain before he could return to race riding in 1998-99. O'Sullivan was born on August 28 1963 into a racing family. His father Dave, a good journeyman jockey who became a champion trainer, was followed into a training partnership by Lance's brother Paul; Lance rode 181 winners while apprenticed to his father. Over two decades the O'Sullivan trio – trainers and jockey – became the most formidable team in New Zealand's racing history. Lance won 50 Group One races, perhaps his most memorable being the 1989 Japan Cup on Horlicks, the W.S.Cox Plate on Surfers Paradise and that remarkable third ARC Railway Handicap win on Mr Tiz, on whom he won six Group Ones. Since his retirement from the saddle, Lance O'Sullivan has seamlessly turned his talents to training.
Lance O'Sullivan is sponsored by Highview Stud. Highview Stud stands an excellent line up of stallions including exciting young sires - Johar, Align and Danbird, and well established sire - Kashani. Highview welcomes your enquiries. Please phone Brent Gillovic on 07-825-2649.
Trailblazing female jockey who rode into racings history books ...more
Linda Jones led the 1970s fight for the rights of women to be jockeys. Linda created a media sensation during in her first riding season in 1978-79; when she was equal-second in NZ Jockey's Premiership - when a race fall halted her season.
Linda was a forerunner in noth Australia and New Zealand. Her success and celebrity status took the pressure off young women who followed her into the profession.
Linda was the first female jockey in the world to ride a recognised Derby winner, first to ride winners at Ellerslie and Trentham, and against male jockeys at a registered Australian meeting.
Sprinter Supreme ...more
One of our best ever sprinters, Australian-bred Mr Tiz won Ellerslie's Railway Stakes three times and New Zealand's other top sprint, the Wellington Telegraph Handicap twice. His remarkable third Railway win, after being checked to near last and charging home late, was matched by his stunning defeat of Australia's best sprinters, from near-last 350m out, in The Galaxy at Randwick.
The voice of NZ racing ...more
The voice required for the unique skills of race calling and auctioneering is surely something one must be born with.
Peter Kelly, one of the best known voices in racing certainly had a voice that carried him in both race calling and auctioneering for more than 30 years.
Calling his first race meeting as an 18-year-old in Stratford in 1947 Kelly's deep rich-timbered voice was distinctively known by punters whether on course or listening on radio.
Debate will always rage as to who the best race caller is and personal preferences may have caused some to choose others such as his counterparts of the time Syd Tonks, Keith Haub or Dave Clarkson.
However, there would be no disagreement in the hard headed and result-orientated world of auctioneering that Kelly was a world class auctioneer and at his prime has been described by more than a few vendors and buyers as the best in the world.
An auctioneer at the New Zealand National Thoroughbred Yearling sales for Wrightson Bloodstock, as it was known then, Kelly retired after 30 years in 1989 as both head auctioneer and a director of the company. In 1989 he sold the $1 million yearling.
In a tribute after Peter Kelly's death in1997, Manawatu studmaster Gerald Fell said: "Though he was probably better known as a commentator, I believe his greatest talent was as an auctioneer. He was certainly the best auctioneer I have ever seen."
Kelly's depth of knowledge extended far beyond being able to call it as he saw it though and his talent and experience as a bloodstock expert were often called into play in pre-sale inspections, advice on importations, valuations and part of the team developing and maintaining the company's extensive bloodstock records.
Following his retirement from Wrightsons Bloodstock, Kelly continued to operate as a bloodstock agent on his own account.
Racing good horses such as Fun On The Run, Meralini and Greene Street, Kelly also served on the committee of the Manawatu Racing Club, being based in Palmerston North for much of his life.
With many highlights throughout his career, Kelly always rated his call of Great Sensation's third Wellington Cup win as a stand-out memory.
Another favourite was his trip to Longchamp, Paris where he called Balmerino's great run for second to Alleged in the Prix de l'Arc deTriomphe. The race was broadcast back to New Zealand listeners.
Having called 28 successive Wellington Cups it was fitting that Peter Kelly's last call of a memorable commentating career was made at Trentham in 1983.
Quiet achiever of 1000 winners over four decades ...more
Ray Verner took up training reluctantly to help his aging father at the time. Over time he became a master trainer, renowned for his conditioning of horses and was named NZ Racing Personality of the Year in 1978.
Ray trained top stayers like Good Lord (two Wellington Cups, Sydney Cup), sprinters like Blue Blood and Gold Hope, and weight-for-age horses like Prince Majestic and The Gentry.
Ray continued as an integral part of a family training dynasty spanning more than 70 years.
Southland's Quiet Achiever ...more
From his Southland country base at Gore, Cochrane became the first man to train a thousand winners in New Zealand. Versatile Cogitation, in the 1957 Grand National Steeplechase, was his first winner on his own account and Palimony, in July 1980, was his 1000th. Retired with a tally of 1520 wins, Game Call and Enceeoh (and Cogitation) his best jumpers; Court Belle, Castle Flight and Yipp's Secret among his best on the flat.
Honorary 'Queenslander' who made Brisbane his own ...more
"Roughie" won 29 races from 1200m to 2400m, including 11 Group Ones.
Six of these Group Ones were in Queensland, where he won the Stradbroke-Doomben Cup double not once but twice. Rough Habit went on to win the Doomben Cup a third time.
Roughie was and still is hugely popular in Brisbane. As an indication of his popularity, a bar at Eagle Farm was named the Rough Habit Bar after his sixth group one success there.
His other four Group Ones were spread between Victoria, New South Wales and his native New Zealand.
Sponsor: Brisbane Racing Club
Multiple super sire producing stud master ...more
At the forefront of the thoroughbred industry as proprietor of Cambridge Stud for the past three decades, Patrick Hogan was recognised for his services to racing with a knighthood shortly before that title was removed from the New Zealand honours list. Born in Auckland in 1939, the young Patrick Hogan became involved in the breeding industry in the 1960s with his father Tom and brother John at the relatively low-key Fencourt Stud near Cambridge, where Blueskin II was a successful sire.
Wanting to operate on a bigger and more commercial scale, Patrick set up Cambridge Stud on his own in 1972. His entrepreneurial and marketing/promotional skills quickly brought him prominence. With the National Yearling Sales his focus, his "Melbourne Cup," he moved staff and yearlings to Trentham (then the home of the sales) on a previously unknown scale, was a pioneer in the hospitality tents which became a sales feature, and became a renowned presenter of yearlings. Leading his own yearlings into the ring in those days, as brisk and well presented as the young thoroughbreds, he knew where the buyers were positioned (the Australian market was his target from the outset) and made sure the main players got a good look at the youngsters he led.
Sir Tristram, the stallion who was to build Cambridge Stud into a showplace and an unquestioned market leader, arrived in 1975 and, though greeted with lukewarm enthusiasm at first by the market and by some of Hogan's established clients, made sensational progress from the time his oldest progeny turned three and included the likes of multiple Group One winner Sovereign Red. When he died, 22 years after coming to Cambridge Stud, Sir Tristram had been Australian champion sire six times (only once at home, where relatively few of his best-bred progeny raced) and had won five Dewar Awards (for combined Australian-New Zealand progeny earnings). He was second in the world for individual Group One winners (45). Sir Tristram founded a sire son dynasty (Grosvenor, Kaapstad, Marauding and Military Plume notable among them) but it was not until late in the great stallion's life that Sir Patrick acquired a Sir Tristram son, the well-performed and well-bred Zabeel, to stand alongside his ageing father and take up the mantle. Zabeel was to outshine the other sons of Sir Tristram and rival his father (as at October 2005, two Australian championships and always in the top two or three; three New Zealand championships; a remarkable nine Dewar Awards; 33 individual Group One winners) and keep Cambridge Stud in a pre-eminent position. With his wife Justine Lady Hogan, Sir Patrick has been four times Mercedes Breeder of the Year and in 1991 received the Mercedes Award for Outstanding Contribution to Racing. A past president of the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders Association and a major racing sponsor (especially at Te Rapa), he has been a large-scale racing owner in recent years. Going into the 2005-06 season, he had an interest in 46 racehorses, including a dozen two-year-olds.
Sir Patrick Hogan is sponsored by the internationally acclaimed hospitality lodge - Huka Lodge of Taupo. Huka Lodge is a NZ business icon and we are delighted to have this association. For further information on Huka Lodge and its facilities please call 07-378-5791.
Irish "Paddy" - champion NZ and Australian sire ...more
Irish born stallion Sir Tristram has left an indelible mark on the Australasian breeding and racing scene.
The champion stallion, born in 1971, sired more than 130 stakes winners during his amazing stud career, 45 of those Group 1 winners.
By Sir Ivor out of the Round Table mare Isolt, Sir Tristram's arrival in New Zealand in 1975 wasn't greeted with the enthusiasm Sir Patrick Hogan had hoped for.
Although Sir Tristram's pedigree carried impeccable bloodlines his conformation was far from perfect. Shareholders in the horse were quick to let Hogan know exactly what they thought and had he listened we may never have seen the phenomenal successes that the horse achieved.
Luckily for the ill-tempered stallion he had found an allay in Sir Patrick and the partnership that was to span 22 years, and put Hogan and his Cambridge Stud firmly on the map, had begun.
The success of his early runners saw a number of Sir Tristram's sons, such as Sovereign Red, Dalmacia and Grosvenor take up stud duties in Australia and New Zealand from the early 1980s.
The victory of Grosvenor's first crop son,Omnicorp, in the 1987 Victoria Derby saw even more demand for sons of Sir Tristram.
However, it was as a broodmare sire that Sir Tristram's potential as a long term breeding influence was first realised.
His daughters have left Golden Slipper winners, Classic and Cup winners, super weight for age performers and even a Group winner at Royal Ascot in Kingfisher Mill.
Commencing his stud career in 1976 at Fencourt Stud, Hogan's forerunner to Cambridge Stud, Sir Tristram stood for the princely sum of $1500. That fee in years to come would rise into the six figures.
Named Australia's Champion Broodmare Sire for the fourth time in the 1997-98 season with 132 winners, Sir Tristram is the brood mare sire of the winners of more than $50 million.
His influence in almost every major race in New Zealand and Australia saw him named winner of the Dewar Trophy for combined Australia-New Zealand progeny earnings a record nine times.
Six time winner of the Champion Australian Sire, he has the notable distinction of having sired three Melbourne Cup winners, a record recently emulated by his super sire son, Zabeel.
Not surprisingly, Sir Tristram provided the top-priced yearling at twelve New Zealand National Yearling Sales, from the early 1980's to the mid-1990's. His sale-toppers include the first seven-figure yearling ever sold in New Zealand; the colt from Surround sold for $NZ1.2 million to Mr Kobayashi of Japan in 1989.
With the assistance of his sons and daughters, Sir Tristram appeared in the pedigrees of one in four of the 67 Group One winners in Australia in the 1996-97 season. This bold statistic from the world's second largest racing arena more than most demonstrates the might and power of Sir Tristram's dynasty.
In 1996 a wide cross-section of the racing and breeding fraternity celebrated Sir Tristram's 25th birthday at Cambridge Stud.
Less than a year later Sir Tristram was gone. Breaking his shoulder in a paddock accident, Sir Tristram was unable to be saved. He was euthanised on May 21, 1997.
New Zealand's mare of the world ...more
This wonderful mare captured the hearts of the public at the beginning of the new millennium like few other horses in post-War years. Tough-minded if not bloody-minded, she had a physique to match and was able to race competitively at top level from two to seven years. Sunline raced 45 times for 32 wins, eight seconds and two thirds and an Australasian record $11 million in stakes. She raced in four countries and won in three; she twice won the Southern Hemisphere's weight-for-age championship, the Cox Plate (on the second occasion by a stunning seven lengths) and was narrowly beaten by Northerly going for a third. She twice won Sydney's toughest "metric mile," the Doncaster Handicap, and was second on another occasion when conceding 6kg to her conqueror, Over. Her optimum distance was probably 1400m, at which she was unbeaten, yet she was able to stretch her high cruising speed to the 2040m of the Cox Plate, and to hold out the redoubtable Fairy King Prawn in the tough Hong Kong International Mile. At home, where her races were usually in preparation for another overseas campaign, she was unbeaten in seven starts. Sunline was twice elected Australian Racehorse of the Year and three times New Zealand Horse of the Year. In 1999 the authoritative Timeform publication named her the best turf mare in the world.
Race Record:
48 starts, 32 wins, 8 seconds, 2 thirds
$13million, a record for her time.
Sunline is proudly sponsored by Dunstan Horse Feed - New Zealand's leading horse feed suppliers. Dunstan is a major sponsor of horse sports and racing events and we appreciate their involvement in our event. For further information please call Dave Smith at 0274-931-580.
New Zealand's Aussie Raider ...more
Winner of two NZ training premierships in the 1960s, Syd Brown became our most successful Aussie raider of the era, making lucrative trips with the likes of Redcraze and Summersette, Sailing Away and Dark Smudge, Daryl's Joy (Cox Plate, VRC Derby) and Wood Court Inn; and Classic Mission (AJC and VRC Derbys). Brown then moved to Australia and trained successfully at Warwick Farm, Triton his best performer. A great friend and host to visiting Kiwis.
Rewriting Sir Tristram's record book ...more
Followed his great sire Sir Tristram at Cambridge Stud and in some respects outshone him. Still alive and active in 2013 aged 27, he has achieved four NZ and two Australian general sire premierships; 15 Dewar Awards (NZ and Australian progeny earnings combined); 43 Group One winners (two behind his sire) and 148 stakeswinners (Sir Tristram 130). He has sired three Melbourne Cup winners, four Cox Plate winners, successful sire sons and grandsons, and is an outstanding broodmare sire.


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Stanford Synchronized Swimming's "B" team recently traveled to Monmouth, Ore., to compete against the University of Arizona at a dual meet hosted by Western Oregon University. Meet organizers hope the attention and interest will help the WOU Wolfpack launch its own synchro program in the near future.
Stanford's short-handed but talented team did exceedingly well. The Cardinal routine featuring Mari Maekawa, Hae-Rin Lee, and Hilary Homenko captured first in the trio competition with a score of 82.83. Katherine Norris secured first in solo with an outstanding swim and a final score of 84.5. Stanford shined in the team event, wowing the audience and placing first with a score of 85.333.
The entire Cardinal squad will travel to the University of Alabama at Birmingham on February 5th for a dual meet.
Finals Results:
Trio: 1. Stanford - Maekawa, Lee, Homenko (82.33); 2. Univ. of Arizona (74.83).
Duet: Univ. of Arizona (76.3); 2. Univ. of Arizona (63.5).
Solo: 1. Stanford - Norris (84.5); 2. Univ. of Arizona (77.66).
Team: Stanford - 85.3; 2. Univ. of Arizona (78.66).
Figures (Top 6): 1. Stanford - Katherine Norris (73.42); 2. Stanford - Hae-Rin Lee (71.99); 3. Stanford - Hilary Homenko (71.83); 4. Stanford - Mari Maekawa (70.64); 5. Univ. of Arizona - Alexandra Salas (69.61); 6. Univ. of Arizona - Megan Zakerwski (68.5).


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Cambridge 3 Unit Mathematics Year 12 Enhanced Version contains the following features:
A large number of fully worked examples demonstrate mathematical processes and encourage independent learning. Exercises are carefully graded to suit the range of students undertaking each mathematics course
Online self-marking objective response quizzes provide further opportunities to practice the multiple choice style questions included in HSC Maths exams. 2 Unit / 3 Unit Mathematics:
Foundation questions consolidate fluency and understanding, development questions encourage students to apply their understanding to a particular context.
Extension or Challenge questions inspire further thought and development for advanced students.
The wealth of questions in these three categories enables teachers to make a selection to be attempted by students of differing abilities and provides students with opportunities to practice questions of the standard they will encounter in their HSC exams.
Series: Cambridge Secondary Maths (Australia) S.
Audience: Primary / High School
For Ages: 16 - 17 years old
For Grades: 12
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Language: English
Number Of Pages: 432
Published: 25th July 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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2010 Season (Senior): Won the NCAA uneven bars title (9.9375) to become the first Stanford individual champion since 1998 and the second overall ... also was the balance beam runner-up (9.8875), tying for Stanford's highest individual finish in that event ... was third in the all-around (39.650) for Stanford's best finish in that event ... captured three first-team All-America honors to finish with a total of seven ... finished with a total of nine All-America honors, tying for third all-time at Stanford ... NCAA postgraduate scholarship recipient ... Pac-10 Scholar-Athlete of the Year for women's gymnastics ... Honda Award finalist ... AAI Award finalist as the top senior female gymnast ... Pac-10 Tom Hansen Conference Medal winner ... Pac-10 floor exercise champion ... four-time individual champion ... part of Stanford class of 2010 that reached the NCAA Super Six an unprecedented three times ... Pac-10 All-Academic team ... All-Pac-10 first-team selection for all-around ... Stanford Athletic Board's Donald Kennedy Award winner ... Team Academic Award winner ... team Most Valuable Player ... two-year team captain ... three-time 2010 Pac-10 Gymnast of the Week ... two-time 2010 Stanford Muscle Milk Athlete of the Week ... had team's highest season scores on every event ... had 21 first-place finishes ... competed in every event in every team competition ... named to the Scholastic All-America team by the National Association of Collegiate Coaches/Women.
2009 Season (Junior): NCAA runner-up on the uneven bars for Stanford's highest NCAA finish since 2001 ... scored 9.9125 to finish behind the 9.95 of Georgia's 2004 Olympic bars bronze medalist Courtney Kupets ... also was a second-team All-America in the all-around ... has six All-America honors (four first team), the sixth-highest total in school history ... won the NCAA South Central Regional title in Fayetteville, Ark., with a 39.425 (4/4) ... won three events at the Pac-10 Championships at Stanford's Maples Pavilion (3/21) ... captured the all-around by tying her collegiate high of 39.575, becoming the fifth Stanford gymnast to win a conference all-around title ... repeated as Pac-10 beam champion with a 9.95, tying her collegiate high ... tied teammate Nicole Ourada, and three others, for the Pac-10 bars title (9.9) ... named to the All-Pac-10 first team, and earning conference All-Academic honors for the third consecutive season ... had 19 first-place finishes, and had multiple firsts in six meets ... had two 9.95s on the beam, Stanford's highest scores of the year ... team captain ... Academic Award winner and named MVP at team banquet ... named Conference Female Athlete of the Year at Stanford Athletic Board awards.
2008 Season (Sophomore): Enters 2009 season as a tri-captain, with Heather Purnell and Kelly Fee ... earned second-team All-America honors on floor in 2008, making her a four-time All-American ... won her first Pac-10 individual championship, scoring 9.95 on the beam to tie Oregon State's Jami Lanz for the title ... scored 9.9 on the beam at the Super Six ... season bests: vault (9.85), bars (9.9), beam (9.95), floor (9.875), and all-around (39.375) ... named to her second Academic All-America team. 2007 Season (Freshman): Three-time first-team All-American, in all-around, vault and floor exercise ... Placed fourth in the NCAA all-around, eighth on floor and 15th on vault ... Pac-10 Freshman of the Year ... Cardinal team MVP ... competed all season in all four events ... season bests: vault (9.925), bars (9.95), beam (9.9), floor (9.925).
Club/High School: Placed ninth in all-around, sixth on vault, seventh on beam, and eighth on floor at the 2004 Olympic trials ... one of 10 invited to the 2004 Olympic selection camp ... earned golds in two international meets while representing the U.S. in 2004 ... won the 2006 Junior Olympic bar and all-around titles ... trained at Desert Devils Gymnastics in Mesa, Ariz., under Geoff Eaton, Shelly Eaton and Kristin Fanning ... A 2006 graduate of Saguaro High School in Scottsdale, Ariz. ... member of National Honor Society ... participated in the Tour of Gymnastics Superstars on Sept. 21, 2008, at San Jose's HP Pavilion, alongside Olympic gold medalists Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson.
Personal: Parents are Bill and Ellen Janiga ... majoring in psychology.
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