Posts by Bob Munro
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Hopefully this Weather Underground link will work ...
And there is just superb hour by hour coverage at Nola which did a great job during Katrina and is just so ready for Gustav.
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A hail mary pass is a risky play made in desperation
Maureen Dowd uses the term exactly the same way in The New York Times.
Palinistas, as they are called, love Sarah’s spunky, relentlessly quirky “Northern Exposure” story from being a Miss Alaska runner-up, and winning Miss Congeniality, to being mayor and hockey mom in Wasilla, a rural Alaskan town of 6,715, to being governor for two years to being the first woman ever to run on a national Republican ticket. (Why do men only pick women as running mates when they need a Hail Mary pass? It’s a little insulting.)
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"Stick a video on, doesn't matter what, they won't care."
Same approach over at TV2. Army Wives is finishing two episodes short of it's first season run. No explanation. Maybe the punters won't notice? :)
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I have travelled very long distances to see great bridges such as Norman Foster's beautiful span in the south of France.
Wow!! I'd travel from Christchurch to see this one in action. Go for it Auckland.
It is an artist's impression of the tentatively chosen design for a lifting bridge at the entrance to the Viaduct Harbour, linking it with a planned waterfront development to the west, known as Wynyard Quarter.
Sometimes I'm in awe of architects, especially when they produce a design that is not just stunningly right for its location but so obvious that I would never have thought of it.
What could be more elemental to the Viaduct than tall yachts? They were the very reason for its redevelopment. And what in this world is more elegant than a modern America's Cup sail?
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But both of them are ahead of us in Rowing.
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A Friday fun fact. On the Athletics medal table NZ is ahead of Australia and China.
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And y'know, she won, and smashed the competition out of the stadium, whereas he came third, in what wasn't an incredibly fast 1500m race.
Vili totally dominated the arena at her event with her presence and her performance. She threw a personal best of 20.56m to win with her first put and all her other throws were over 20m. Silver medallist Natallia Mikhnevich could only do 20.28 after doing a PB of 20.70m a month ago. No other finalist threw over 20m.
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Doesn't work in IE either.
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Am I alone in being a little befuddled at Keith Quinn's commentary during the shotput final?
Dave Moore in The Press goes into some detail about Quinn's shortcomings but doesn't mention that he called Valerie by her maiden name 'Adams' several times.
Another unnamed Kiwi journalist got noticed by The New York Times at a Michael Phelps press conference.
The question-and-answer session, arranged by one of Phelps’s sponsors, Visa, included journalists from The Harvard Lampoon, The Hollywood Reporter and a cheeky gentleman from New Zealand, a nonmedalist in swimming here, who, when called on, delivered a stand-up routine around the theme of Phelps’s greediness.
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Lasse Viren's 5k-10k double at two successive Olympics is another prodigious achievement.
The accusation of 'blood doping' always hung over Viren.
Blood doping is believed to have entered sport in the 1970s but was not made illegal until 1986. Before then it was in vogue among middle-and long-distance runners, notably the Finn Lasse Viren, winner of the 5,000m and 10,000m in the Munich and Montreal Olympics, and was also used by the US cycling team in the 1984 Los Angeles Games.
Blood doping was made redundant in the late 1980s with the arrival on the market of a synthetic version of the hormone erythropoietin, the infamous EPO, which stimulates the bone marrow to produce red cells.
Still Arthur Lydiard's methods were adopted by the Finns so perhaps we can take some remotely reflected glory there? But then again Lydiard was forced offshore by an obdurate administration here so I guess that's cancelled out.