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When John Key ordered the party faithful of Epsom to help rig the last election he told them to vote for the former National party Police Minister John Banks. How did they feel seeing their MP in the defendant dock on Friday.  John Banks, Government Minister http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/8646686/I-haven-t-committed-any-offence-ACT-leader
Welcome back đ David Stewart set up Exposures Online began life in about 1995 as a horse racing website to help establish the New Zealand horse racing industry as a leader in innovation and use of technology. Exposures Online broke a lot of new ground, providing race day photofinishes and videos to the Interweb where none had been available before. Stewart also used the website to blog before blogging was a word and wrote stories of things that ‘wound his clock’, mainly music, politics and everything else. As horse racing took off on the internet the need for Exposures Online diminished and Stewart put the website into hibernation in 2009. Stewart is currently going over the old content and will post the best parts of that over the next few months. For now though enjoy David’s blogging anew. đ Another recycled article from the old Exposures Online Website archives originally published 10th May 2010
The leader after day one of the New Zealand round of the World Rally Championship, Solberg couldn’t have said anything more meaningful at the end of Friday’s press conference. He warned that Loeb “would leave his brain in the service area and it will be a maximum attack … expect incredible times from him.” Solberg was right. For the second day in a row, the flying Frenchman made all the headlines. On Friday, he lost control of the rear end of his Citroen and smacked into a bridge railing, destroying the left-hand door. Loeb lost 1m 21s and dropped to eighth, about 1m 40s behind the leaders. He started yesterday seventh on the road but, by service, had taken a chunk of time from the leaders. After three morning stages, he’d reduced the deficit to just 1.8s behind fifth-placed Mikko Hirvonen and 38.5s behind the leader. By the end of the day, he was just 5.1s off the lead behind fellow Frenchman Sebastien Ogier, having made up over a minute and a half over a day and a half and 1m 14s yesterday. From losing a door one day, to opening the door to success the next – this was the stuff of rally legend. …>>> …Continue reading Flying Loeb the stuff of rally legend …>>> Another recycled article from the old Exposures Online Website archives originally published 27th March 2007
The 27-year-old beat 40 male shearers to take the senior runner-up title at the weekend’s 47th Golden Shears in Masterton, a feat never accomplished by a woman. “I went into the competition really well prepared. It was one of those competitions where everything just clicked. I’m normally much slower, and I combed a lot better than usual. I can’t really explain why but everything just seemed to go right,” says Emily. Emily impressed judges with her speed and quality. The final saw her shear 10 sheep in 11 minutes 28 seconds. “The judges were pretty happy with me. Allan McDonald (former world record holder) told me it was the best he had ever seen me,” she says. Emily was nudged out of a win by Marlborough’s Angus Moore. She says there was the odd man who refused to accept her success, but the majority were ecstatic to see her do well. “Most were pretty good. I didn’t have time to chat to my competitors but all the guys in the open category were really happy, I got heaps of support from them,” she says. Encouraged by her father, Phillip Woodward, Emily took up shearing five years ago. She and Phillip hold the unofficial record for father-daughter shearing team. Emily’s husband, Sam, also competed at the Golden Shears in the open category where he placed 29th out of 90. Emily attributes a lot of her recent success to Sam’s support. “I don’t think I would have made it so far without his support. He was there on the sideline yelling at me to breathe. He and dad were pretty happy ?- there were a few tears,” she says. Emily says it’s a lot harder for a woman to climb the shearing ladder. “It’s very hard work. It’s very physical and you have to be determined to stick at it.” As for being a role model for aspiring female shearers, Emily says: “I think it’s good for girls starting out to see that a woman can do it. I was getting told that the sheep were too big for me – I proved them wrong.” Another recycled article from the old Exposures Online Website archives originally published 15th March 2004
I went. The support act was Brook Fraser who’s old man used to play for the All Blacks so she gets a leg in to the big time. She’s probably OK, but as any support act will tell you, you don’t get the full PA, you don’t get the lights and you don’t get the anything more than polite applause. 9.00 pm, it’s starts persisting down – the storm that flooded the bottom half of the North Island had begun. There’s no big screen, but there’s a huge stage backdrop that is an enormous LCD screen and it’s awesome. It’s dark now, it’s raining, we all know the bands about to start playing and then we hear the opening notes of Rebel Rebel. The spotlight comes on and there he is. 56 years old and he’s still got that voice. He gets a couple of newer songs in early, New Killer Star and Reality I think they were, then it’s Fame, the song he co-wrote with John Lennon. “Here’s one from the great ’80’s band the Pixies’ he tells and plays Cactus. It’s about this stage where I realise we are in for something special. Bowie’s doing covers. …>>> …Continue reading Concert Review – David Bowie, Wellington Feb 14 2004 …>>> Ex-punk makes surfing on turf an art2002-05-03 03:03:07
Dave Stewart’s been breaking the rules since he was a teenage punk rocker – waxing his hair bright yellow long before gel became de rigueur. You won’t find the Aucklander prancing around the stage any more with New Zealand’s first punk rock band Anti Music, but he’s still banging the keyboards. Only today, he does it from the confines of his ten by eight spare room, and the keyboards, while silent, are helping him make a noise all around the world. Stewart’s instrument of choice is the computer, four of them to be exact, and bit by byte he’s establishing himself as one of it’s leading exponents. Last week, Stewart, 45, gained some long overdue recognition when named one of the finalists for a southern hemisphere Internet award. Expert’s chosen by racing’s largest Internet portal, Letitride, selected Stewart’s www.exposures.co.nz from nearly 1000 web sites on racing, breeding and horse sales. And on April 17 at a function in Sydney he’ll find out if his site is the winner for the best innovative use of technology. But, considering Stewart runs the site on his own, and is his spare time, and has few of the resources of his competitors, he already can claim a moral victory. He’s not still using that first ZX Spectrum PC he brought in 1980 but he cannot afford the grunt others enjoy. And if the judges were to look at the achievements in the last few years, which have set New Zealand on a pedestal for promoting racing on the Internet, he would win hands down. …>>> …Continue reading Ex-punk makes surfing on turf an art …>>> |
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On Friday, he lost his door. Yesterday, as Petter Solberg ruefully put it, Sebastien Loeb drove as if he’d lost his mind.
She may be petite but Waikaretu’s Emily Welch is one tough and determined competitor.
Exposures has been nominated in the Racing and Breeding Magazine Internet awards. The following article was published in the Sunday Star Times, April 8th, 2001