The thread of learning something new every day
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<p>When it comes to books, if you can make it big in Germany, you're almost set. They are HUGE readers and buyers there. After North American rights, German is the one everyone wants. Then Spanish.</p>
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<p>No bloody point trying to make it 'big' in NZ. Fucking pointless exercise with no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. There is just no market here. I look at someone like Nalini Singh, a massive name in <strong>paranormal romance</strong>. I mean massive. Multi New York Times bestseller, RITA (oscars of the romance world) winner etc etc, and here she is 'NZ's best kept secret'. (Auckland Library marketing for a talk she did)</p>
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<p>Overseas, fans line up for blocks to get a book signed or pic taken. It's just insane, the lack of recognition she gets in her own country. Although good I guess to have a bolthole when the celebrity gets a bit much!</p>
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<p>That's the same in many endeavours for kiwis though Mokey. Our market is far too small. There are many bands over the years that have managed to find leverage overseas from one song to earn good money and act like stars in single highly populated countries. It's a case of grabbing the opportunity when it comes.</p>
<p>To a degree you can even argue that sportspeople like Wynton Rufer were unheralded for many years (outside of their sport) until the huge weight of evidence of them being big names elsewhere forced public recognition.</p>
<p>There are many fringe sports where kiwis are much bigger names overseas than here. Most NZers only heard of Jossi Wells last year during the Winter Olympics but he has been one of the biggest names in the Freeskiing world for years at at his peak was pulling in big endorsements including appearing on a billboard in Times Square for Skullcandy.</p>
<p>If you see a chance anywhere, grab it. (the thought of steamy romance in germanic language does seem a bit funny though. "Ve have ways of making your knees tremble")</p> -
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<p>It does make it kind if surprising Lydia Ko has decided to remain a kiwi , I'm guessing that if she decided to base herself on Korea and call herself Korean again there'd be massive potential for advertising deals and sponsorship there compared to here.</p>
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<p>Perhaps keeping the kiwi connection offers more 'uniqueness' for her brand? There are heaps of great golfers coming out of South Korea. So she gets more worldwide opportunities to offset the smaller NZ market.</p> -
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<p>If you see a chance anywhere, grab it. (the thought of steamy romance in germanic language does seem a bit funny though. "Ve have ways of making your knees tremble")</p>
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<p>Ve haf vays of making you pork!</p> -
<p>having seen a fair few of these amazingly talented young Korean golfers about (training & playing) if she had grown up over there, she may have just been 'another' gifted young golfer to emerge amongst the many over there, and not been afforded the opportunities she has in NZ where she has stood out alot more.</p>
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<p>It does make it kind if surprising Lydia Ko has decided to remain a kiwi , I'm guessing that if she decided to base herself on Korea and call herself Korean again there'd be massive potential for advertising deals and sponsorship there compared to here.</p>
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<p>This would only apply if she was actually playing in NZ. She is a global player, with global fame, and her advertising market is everywhere. Yes, her being Korean might make her more money in Korea, but it's not going to make her any more money in the states or Europe than she would get as a kiwi. </p> -
<p>What does a butler do and how much do they earn?</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.simplyhired.com/job/butler-greenwich-job/society-staffing/seeg6aag6d?cid=jmdkhnlsropgnolgnygwiywvpstlhmra'>http://www.simplyhired.com/job/butler-greenwich-job/society-staffing/seeg6aag6d?cid=jmdkhnlsropgnolgnygwiywvpstlhmra</a></p> -
<p>I've learned something about my job after going to an event called #APIDays as part of the newish role I'm doing: all these kiddies learning how to write apps for iOS and Android seem to be in awe of the basics of data structures. I asked a peer of mine at the event if I was just missing the point of API development or whether it was something else. He said its because I'm old, and had learned how to handle big data the hard way.</p>
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<p>That said, this API thing looks interesting - kind of like Stored Procedures, but easier.</p> -
<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Flynn'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Flynn</a><br><br></p><p></p><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">Flynn had a reputation for womanizing, hard drinking, and for a while in the 1940s, narcotic abuse. His lifestyle caught up with him in public in 1942 when two underage girls, Betty Hansen and Peggy Satterlee, accused him of statutory rape,[38] alleging that the event occurred at the Bel Air, Los Angeles home of Flynn's friend Frederick McEvoy.[39] The scandal received immense press attention with many of Flynn's movie fans refusing to accept that the charges were true (one such group that publicly organized to this end was[b] "The American Boys' Club for the Defense of Errol Flynn (ABCDEF)"[/b]who counted in its number William F. Buckley, Jr.),[40] taking the image that they had of Flynn's screen persona as a reflection of his actual character in real life. The trial took place over January and February 1943, and Flynn was acquitted after a successfully aggressive defense by his lawyer castigated the accusing girls' morals and characters. Although Flynn was acquitted of the charges, the trial's sexually lurid nature played out day by day by the media, created a notorious public reputation of Flynn as a ladies' man, and permanently damaged his screen image as an idealized romantic lead player, which Warner Bros had expended much time and resources establishing in the eyes of female moviegoing audiences.</blockquote>
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<p>Today i learned about the horrible shit poor people in terrible countries use to get wasted. </p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_1368_20-shockingly-creative-ways-other-people-get-drunk-high/'>http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_1368_20-shockingly-creative-ways-other-people-get-drunk-high/</a></p> -
<p>I learnt how they used to measure speed in knots back in the day while watching TV<br>
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<p>“With no landmarks to gauge their progress across the open sea, sailors couldn’t tell how fast or how far they were traveling,†explains Camila Caballero, an MIT senior and the academic coordinator for Amphibious Achievement, an athletic and academic outreach program for urban youth in Boston. But when the nautical mile – 1.852 kilometers – was introduced in the 15th century, they had a handy standard against which to measure speed and created out of necessity the chip log, the world’s first maritime speedometer. “They used materials they had on hand,†she explains. “A wedge-shaped piece of wood, a small glass timer, and a really long rope.â€<br><br>
But not just any rope would do. Based on the length of the nautical mile, knots were tied along the log line at intervals of 14.4 meters. One end was secured to the ship’s stern and the other was attached to the wooden board, which was dropped into the water. “As one sailor watched the sand empty through the 30-second glass, his shipmate held the line as it played out behind the ship and counted the knots as they passed between his fingers,†says Caballero. Dividing that 14.4 meters by 30 seconds told them that one knot equaled 1.85166 kilometers per hour, or one nautical mile. By performing the calculation using the actual number of knots that unspooled, the sailors were able to measure the ship’s speed.</p>
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<p>TR, that reminds me of the unfortunate Admiral visiting a brothel "How am I doing miss"? </p>
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<p>"About 3 knots Admiral"</p>
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<p>"Only 3 knots"?</p>
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<p>"Yes. You're not hard. You're not in and you're not getting your money back"</p> -
<p>Well, for a while I've needed to buy a new aftershave....or cologne....or Eau de toilette....or Eau de parfum.... :)</p>
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<p>The selection in the local chemist shop didn't look superb last time I looked, so I left it. But, this week, a flyer arrived in my mailbox advertising a 5-day fragrance pop-up shop in Nelson. And it seemed to have a shitload of men's "fragrances" to choose from.</p>
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<p>Now, I know from experience that if you turn up to buy - after you've squirted about three of these on your wrists you can't smell a thing, so I thought "google is my friend". Little did I know.</p>
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<p>I came across the Base Notes forum.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.basenotes.net/forums/17-Male-Fragrance-Discussion'>http://www.basenotes.net/forums/17-Male-Fragrance-Discussion</a></p>
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<p>Look at that first sticky thread.... 1.5 million views!!! </p>
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<p>Rugby is in its infancy in New Zealand. And Kirwan and Bart are in the wrong business!</p>
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<p>There has been a Doco on Nat Geo/Discovery about Haast's eagle a few times</p>
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<p>There are still Moa in Fiordland apparently!! :)</p>
