The Weather is Auckland’s Best Kept Secret.

Come to the warmth in the North of New Zealand they say….  Having only moved to Auckland some 6 years ago, I still find amusement in the changeable weather.

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NZ Prime Minister Helen Clark Advising Businesses How To Operate

Here we go again…… This Government sheesh. This is the last straw, I intend to make my dis-satisfaction publicy known.

Helen is now officially off my Christmas List

(and probably just in time before she bans Christmas anyway)!

No fruit-basket for your birthday either Helen. I’m miffed.

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Young car enthusiasts have embarked on a project to turn their $250 dollar car into a drift project for free with donations submitted on their website to be launched early next week.

James Butterworth, Micheal Kemp, Simon Maddock and Jeremy Harris who have named them selves North Side Custom’s Have embarked on this mission to build their 1986 pillar less Carena (basically it’s a Carola) into a drift car. Read more about…

Auckland’s Own Search Engine Offers Unique Advertising Package.

FindAuckland.com is a dedicated search engine for Auckland New Zealand.

Find Concerts, Events, News, and Search Local Business in FindAuckland.com.

Local business can get great exposure by advertising in FindAuckland.

Use the Google custom search bar to find the most relevant local content. Read more about…

90 MIle Beach

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Man Walking His Pet Cow

This pic was taken when this man was seen walking his cow along the streets of Northland. He is stopped in this picture letting his cow eat some of the road side grass!

Figure Put on The TVNZ Job losses

The State Broadcaster TVNZ has finally put a figure on the number of jobs that are expected to be lost.

Staff have been told by CEO Rick Ellis that “between 140 and 160 positions will go accross the organisation”

Approximately one thrid of that number will be cuts made in the news and current affairs.

Farm Worker Dies in Quad Bike Accident

A farm worker, 55, has died after being pinned under the quad bike he was riding while moving stock on a farm near Ohope.

“Whakatane police were called out to a farm on Burma Rd at about 8.15pm. The deceased farm worker they found had gone out to move stock in the morning” Said Sergeant Russell Hope.

The death has been regarded as suspicious and Occupation Safelty and Health have been advised. The coroner will report on his death.

Teen on Trail For Killing A 16 Year old

The Trial of a Turangi teenager who has been accused of murder started today in the High Court in Rotorua. There was a delay in the start of the trial because the prosecution raised an issue over one of the jurors.

The Teenager accused of the murder could not be legally named at the time becasue she was only 16, she is now 27 but has been granted name suppression. The 17year old has pleaded not guilty to stabbing Melissa Moana Puhi, 16, in Turangi on May 13, 2006.

The selected jury consists of eight women and four men, and the trial is expected to last for three weeks.

The 2007 Winners of Academy Awards

The winner is in bold.

BEST PICTURE

Babel
The Departed
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

ACTOR

Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole, Venus
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
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Teacher Accused With Running Off With Pupil

A male teacher at Wairarapa College has been accused of running off with a 16 year old girl today. The principal of the school has confirmed the allegation. Read more about…

Angelina and Brad Are Adopting Again

According to US reports Angelina and Brad are making plans to adopt a Vietnamese child. The pair already have three children adopted Maddox, five and two year old Zahara, and their 9 month old biological child Shiloh. Read more about…

Pope Speaks Out Against ‘Designer Babies’

In Rome today Pope Benedict condemned genetic engineering and other scientific practises that allow people to choose ‘designer babies’ by screening them for defects. Read more about…

Jaguar Kills Zookeeper at Denver Zoo

A male Jaguar killed a zookeeper today at Denver Zoo today, which forced zookeepers to put the jaguar down so police have said. Denver Police spokesman Sonny Jackson said “I can confirm that a female worker was killed and we’re still conducting an investigation,” Read more about…

College Student Expelled For Having a Tattoo

An Auckland Mother is intending to comlain to the Ministry of Education this week because her son was expelled for having a tattoo. Read more about…

Waratahs Captain Named

Hooker, Adam Freier has been named captain of the New South Wales Waratahs. Freir is captain until Phil Waugh recoveres from an ankle injury.

Freier was the Waratahs captain on the 2004 tour to Argentina. Freier said I’ve been leading the side in one way or another since 2004 and it’s something that I really enjoy.

Gangs Recruiting Youth Via The Internet

Gang members have been creating profiles on the internet, this is sparking fears gangs are using websites for recruitment. Read more about…

Girl Loses Finger to Flesh Eating Bug

necrotising fasciitis, a flesh eating disease, has claimed the finger of a five-year-old Invercargill girl.Leilani Pennicott spent five weeks in Auckland’s Starship hospital in an induced coma last October as a needle has been embedded in her hand.
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Something to Ponder

The following is also something to ponder…

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness…you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation …you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death…you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep…you are richer than 70% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace … you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.

If your parents are still alive and still married … you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.

If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

If There Were Only 100 People In The World

If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:

There would be:
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
8 Africans

52 would be female
48 would be male

70 would be non-white
30 would be white

70 would be non-Christian
30 would be Christian

89 would be heterosexual
11 would be homosexual

6 people would possess 59% of the entire world’s wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.

80 would live in substandard housing
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
1 would own a computer

Tourist Attacked in Camp Toilet Block

An English female tourist was attacked in early hours of this morning by a knife weilding sex attacker in a cam public toilet. Luckily, she managed to fend him off at the Kaikoura motor camp.

Police have said the 23year old was sexually assulted in the 3am attack in a toilet cubicle at the A1 Motor Camp.

The woman has suffered an injury to her hand while fending off the man. The attacker is beleived to be a caucasian believed to be aged in his 20s. He was descirbed as about 180cm tall, with brown hair, and was wearing shorts, a T-shirt and work boots.

A police spokeswoman said “detectives from Blenheim and Christchurch, together with forensic experts from Environmental Science and Research, were travelling to Kaikoura to assist in the hunt for the man”.

“Dead” Man Brought Back To Life

A young man “died” after losing a significiant amount of blood through his hand after smashing it through a window during an arguement on Thursday.
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Quake Shakes Auckland

Auckland Airport was closed for part on Wednesday night as the runways had to be checked for earthquake Damage. Three earthquakes hit the Auckland Region on wednesday night.
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Asteroid on collision path with Earth

A group of former cosmonauts and astronauts are warning that atleast one of the asteriods that have already been identified in outer space is on a path that could indeed see it colliding with Earth in 2036.

The United Nations will soon be asked to take on a mission to save the Earth. Work should begin now in order to save humankind from this asteroids and also others. It will be presented to the United Nations in 2009.

“You have to act when things look like they are going to happen - if you wait until you know for certain, it’s too late,” Dr Russell Schweickart, who was an astronaut aboard the Apollo 9 and told a conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco.