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<p>I'd have enough trouble throwing with one hand these days let alone two!</p>
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<p>He's just been called up to the Majors.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://deadspin.com/oakland-as-call-up-switch-pitcher-1709309809'>http://deadspin.com/oakland-as-call-up-switch-pitcher-1709309809</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(First <span>ambidextrous pitcher in MLB in 20 years.</span>)</span></span></p> -
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<p>Arnold should not have made T5, he's just not got it any more...</p>
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<p>I met these poeple at the saturday market in Nelson last weekend, <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.therugbybox.com/'>http://www.therugbybox.com/</a></p>
<p>If you love rugby stats or history check out the link, I'm getting one for the old mans birthday. The couple that do the graphics and algorithms on the posters are both south african so we had a short discussion about the period of Springbok success and the "no maoris allowed to tour South Africa" and "no neutral refs" policies and how they reflected on test results, They were good sports and knew more than enough to hold their own .</p> -
<p>A blast from the past.</p>
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<p> Jesse Ryder!! I didn't know he'd gone blonde</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="495069" data-time="1433791601"><p>I met these poeple at the saturday market in Nelson last weekend, <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.therugbybox.com/">http://www.therugbybox.com/</a><br>
If you love rugby stats or history check out the link, I'm getting one for the old mans birthday. The couple that do the graphics and algorithms on the posters are both south african so we had a short discussion about the period of Springbok success and the "no maoris allowed to tour South Africa" and "no neutral refs" policies and how they reflected on test results, They were good sports and knew more than enough to hold their own .</p></blockquote>
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Have a look at that leg of lamb potjie recipe on that website......bloody marvellous!</p></blockquote><br>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:18px;"><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://io9.com/22-incredible-facts-about-the-life-and-career-of-sir-ch-1710917366'>22 Incredible Facts About The Life and Career Of Sir Christopher Lee</a></span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:15px;">18) Lee was quite interested in the history of public executions, and reportedly knew “the names of every official public executioner employed by England, dating all the way back to the mid-15th century.â€</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:15px;">19) He’s always been a big metal fan, but he released his first full heavy metal album in 2010 at the age of 88. Titled </span><em>Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross</em><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:15px;">, which won the “Spirit of Metal†award from the 2010 </span><em>Metal Hammer</em><span style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:15px;"> Golden Gods ceremony. He made a metal Christmas album in 2012. He was the oldest metal performer, and the oldest musician to ever hit the Billboard music charts.</span></p>
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<p>Yeah, that's a life in full to say the least!</p>
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<p>6) At some point during the war he moved from the LRDP to Winston Churchill’s even more elite Special Operations Executive, whose missions are literally <em>still</em> classified, but involved “conducting espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers.†The SOE was more informally called — and I can’t believe this somehow hasn’t been made into a movie yet — <strong>The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.</strong></p>
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<p>One example of why you need to take care when taking panorama shots on your phone...</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://cdn77.sadanduseless.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/panorama6.jpg'><img src="http://cdn77.sadanduseless.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/panorama6.jpg" alt="panorama6.jpg"></a></p> -
New Zealander Earl Bamber part of a winning LMP1 Porsche entry at Le Mans, with fellow drivers Nick Tandy and Nico Hulkenberg.<br><br><img src="http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2015/06/14/1227397/709666-6519762a-1297-11e5-9f1b-ea0e0a7b6fb6.jpg" alt="709666-6519762a-1297-11e5-9f1b-ea0e0a7b6"><br><br>These are the future of motorsport. The acceleration out of corners on these hybrids is unbelievable.
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<p>I watched a bit of this on the weekend. It's funny to watch, those LMP1 things fucking fly, and they blow past the 4th class cars like they are standing still. I couldn't believe how quickly some of them were being lapped, and it's not a small track!</p>
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<p>The TV coverage is "interesting", commentators talking about inane shit as nothing is happening for large portions of the day. </p> -
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<p> </p>Dog taken by rogue wave a 'victim of climate change'
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<img height="310" src="http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/201525/dunedin_dog_620x310.jpg" width="620" alt="dunedin_dog_620x310.jpg">Jayne Bush and her mother Debbie hold a treasured photo of their missing dog Ali, who was thought to have been swept away near St Clair Beach on Sunday. Photo / Peter McIntosh & Gerard O'Brien, ODT</div>
<p>A Jack Russell terrier swept under big waves near St Clair was a victim of rising tides and climate change, her owner says.</p>
<p>Debbie Bush, of Macandrew Bay, went for a walk with her dog along St Clair Beach just before high tide on Sunday.</p>
<p>The waves were bigger than any she had seen before, she said.</p>
<p>''I actually turned around to go back to the car, because I thought it was getting a bit dangerous.''</p>
<p>Then, she saw the sand ''give way'' and watched her dog, a 15-year-old long-haired Jack Russell named Ali, fall into the waves.</p>
<img src="http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/201525/dog_dunedin_620x310.jpg" alt="dog_dunedin_620x310.jpg">A woman scans the sea yesterday looking for Ali. Photo / Peter McIntosh & Gerard O'Brien, ODT<p>''I went down to grab her and I managed to actually try to push her up on to the track, and she just freaked.</p>
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<p>''I lost grip, and she just went back down again. After that, I went straight back down to get her again, and that's when the wave got me. And I thought: This is about saving myself now.''</p>
<p>The wave surged up to Mrs Bush's neck.</p>
<p>She managed to extract herself by driving her boots into the sandhill to gain traction.</p>
<p>There had been a sign warning about erosion at the entrance to the track she was on, Mrs Bush said, but the path was open.</p>
<p>Later, when she went back to look for Ali, the track had been closed.</p>
<p>After Ali had been swamped by the waves, Mrs Bush saw her emerge and run along the beach.</p>
<p>She called to her, but Ali just kept running.</p>
<p>''She's deaf,'' Mrs Bush said. ''I'd never seen waves like this before ... everything's intensifying,'' she said.</p>
<p>''I think we've all been quite blasé about global warming. People don't like to say it's happening, but it is.''</p>
<p>Dunedin City Council senior animal services officer Peter Hanlin said animal services got a call about Ali's disappearance about 2pm on Sunday.</p>
<p>About a dozen people searched for Ali for more than an hour, including an animal services officer, but no sign of the terrier was found.</p>
<p>University of Otago geography professor Mike Hilton said the waves had been unusually high at St Clair and St Kilda Beaches in recent days.</p>
<p>The big waves were caused by low atmospheric pressure, an especially high tide, and waves that were widely spaced out.</p>
<p>Those conditions also created a perfect storm for erosion, he said.</p>
<p>''Whenever we get three of those things combining, we get erosion.''</p>
<p>Prof Hilton said the sea was ''up to half a metre higher than it should've been.''</p>
<p>Rising sea levels as a result of climate change were one part of the picture, but not the whole picture.</p>
<p>He said the ''spring high tides'' were now bigger than they were 100 years ago.</p>
<p>''Not much higher - only 20cm or 30cm higher - but that can make a difference,'' he said.</p>
<p>''So, there's some element of climate change in what we experienced over the weekend.''</p>
<p>In the future, ''the climate change element to these events is going to get bigger and bigger'', he said. ''But most of it is just a coincidence.''</p>
<p>He recommended people stay away from the beach until tonight as it was ''just too dangerous''.</p>
<p>However, from tomorrow, the tides should not be as high.</p>
<p>Victoria University professor of physical geography James Renwick <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/276351/retreat-from-coast-may-be-'>told Radio NZ</a>that extreme weather events posed a risk to New Zealand's coast.</p>
<p>"We're a long, narrow country with a lot of coast and a lot of people live near the coast ... and if one thing is for sure, it's that sea levels are rising. It does pose a very serious problem.</p>
<p>"Over time we do have to look at moving back from the present coastline because the coastline is going to move inland - that's the reality."</p>
<p>Mrs Bush said she ''would love to think'' Ali had survived, ''but I don't see how she could've.''</p>
<p class="">- <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.odt.co.nz/'>Otago Daily Times</a></p>
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<p>I found this to be quite funny. If World War One was a bar fight:</p>
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<p>Spoilered for size.</p>