Give your Dad the present he deserves this Father’s Day by shouting him a ticket to Toll Stadium to see the Taniwha take on the Stags this Saturday, kick off 5.35pm.

Thanks to the great support from Lion Breweries, you can purchase a ticket to the grandstand (uncovered), along with a can of Lion Red at the game and a pottle of hot chips for just $15

http://www.taniwha.co.nz/newsdesk_info.php?newsdesk_id=345&rugby_sid=783d97956ff081c11ea6311f61abb659

From NZ Hockey
"New Zealand’s women Black Sticks rued missed chances in their 2-0 loss to Germany at the BDO World Cup in Rosario, Argentina on Monday (local time).

“It was disappointing to create so many chances and not put them away,” said Mark Hager, the Black Stick’s Coach who admitted to being gutted by the result.

The BlackSticks job does not get any easier with their next match today against the Netherlands; I'm sure the team will rectify their missed opportunities against Germany and come out on top - go the Sticks!
http://www.hockeynz.co.nz/news/index_dynamic/containerNameToReplace=Middle/focusModuleID=10752/overideSkinName=newsArticle-full.tpl

A recent review published in the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport compared the mortality and longevity of elite athletes with the general population.

Fourteen epidemiological studies were identified and grouped into endurance (aerobic) sports, mixed sports, and power sports.

The results showed that endurance and mixed sport athletes had lower cardiovascular disease mortality than their nonathlete counterparts but participation in power sports conferred no survival advantage.

The authors hypothesised that the enhanced survival in endurance or mixed sports is mainly due to lowered mortality from cardiovascular diseases and by comaprison former power athletes are at greater risk of becoming obese and diabetic later in life which has an adverse effect on long term survival.

It is certainly a 'long bow' to draw from one review but it seems to me that for a longer and healthier life being 'fitter' is better than being 'stronger and more powerful' - at least where cardiovascular disease is concerned.

Now envisage the Nokia bike phone charger on some of the pimped models here . . .
http://www.ridestrong.org.nz/RS/blogs/cycling_tips/archive/2010/08/13/cycling-tips-guidelines-to-pimping-your-bike.aspx#5286

Fantastic!

Although I don't know that those cyclists with bikes in the plus $2-3000 mark will go for the old school dynamo - probably weighs more than most high tech bikes!
http://www.ridestrong.org.nz/RS/blogs/action/archive/2010/08/24/nokia-announces-bike-powered-phone-charger.aspx

Why would'nt you go skiing when you're a couple of weeks post op for a knee niggle, before you've even played your first match for the Crusaders, and with the world cup just around the corner??
http://www.3news.co.nz/Sonny-Bill-ski-trip-irks-Canterbury-bosses/tabid/415/articleID/172698/Default.aspx

From The Healthy Food Guide
We like to think we're pretty onto it here at HFG when it comes to deciphering food labels and packaging –we've learned over the years to pretty quickly look at a label and make a decision about what the food manufacturer is
trying to tell us (or not tell us).
We see lots and lots of products – they are sent to us by companies, we buy them when we're writing our shopping guides and testing our recipes, and we spot them when we're out and about in the supermarket.
All these products are analysed, evaluated and – the fun part – taste tested. But even with all this practice, we
can be fooled by food labels.
The other day a reader sent us an email about a recipe. "You've made a mistake," she said, about our nutrition analysis. The recipe included a packet of fresh pasta. We checked the recipe, then we checked the package. Everything seemed in order. But then we realised:
we had under-analysed the energy in the pasta. On further investigation, we figured out why.
Partly it was because the analysis on the package (per 100g) was for cooked pasta, not raw – and the weight of raw pasta is different from the weight of cooked pasta, and pasta manufacturers are not all the same on whether they use cooked or raw information.
But we also found there was a discrepancy in the labelling of this particular product which had caught us out: the 300g pack stated it had two serves per pack, and the 500g stated it had four serves per pack; but both packs had exactly the same nutrition info per serve.
Confused? We were,too!
It just goes to show that even expert nutritionists can get confused by food labels, so it's not surprising that we regular shoppers do, too.
Our advice: don't rely on the serving size stated on packaging; use the 'per 100g' info when comparing products.

http://www.healthyfood.co.nz/

From NZ Hockey
"The young New Zealand Youth Olympics Hockey team defeated Korea 5-4 in the girls’ Bronze Medal Match played in Singapore, late on Tuesday afternoon.

Korea came back after being 1-4 down and tied the score to 4-4 in the 69th minute. The game went into extra time for 142 seconds when Michaela CURTIS scored the golden goal."

Awesome job Kiwis - more NZ Hockey talent on the rise!
http://www.hockeynz.co.nz/news/index_dynamic/containerNameToReplace=Middle/focusModuleID=10720/overideSkinName=newsArticle-full.tpl?PHPSESSID=c489e46919ccf2f2023ed5f7b8cd35a1