We’re not only not in Lakerdom anymore, we’re about as far away as we can get.
This is the Anti-Lakerdom, the place and the time of year when visiting Lakers find the ground giving way under them, to the delight of local fans.
They could be great teams like the Showtime Lakers who had four titles when [...]

Transpower put out a statement today on behalf of the industry saying contingency planning was under way for measures that could be put in place this winter, if severe drought conditions continued and the hydro lakes remained low.
The hydro lakes currently are very low for this time of year, Transpower said.
But they were still higher [...]

Daylight saving came four weeks later than usual this year, after a petition organised by United Future leader Peter Dunne and Nelson city councillor Mark Holmes prompted an extension. Federated Farmers Southland dairy chairman Rod Pemberton said most dairy farmers looked forward to the end of daylight saving and would change the time they milked.
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Denmark has long been renowned as a style and design Mecca. But only when we encountered a rhapsodic double-page spread on Danish designer rubbish bins in Sterling airline’s magazine on our flight to Copenhagen did we realise just how seriously the Danes took their reputation as design gods. Right enough, they were lovely looking receptacles [...]

The following are some of the most common industry terms lobbed about, particularly at this time of year with the annual harvest underway once again.
Wild ferment - Refers to the kind of fermentation the grapes underwent. The %26lsquo;wild term is used as in this case yeast that comes in on the grapes from the vineyard [...]

These freaks of nature that are neither fish, worm nor eel have survived for 360 million years, have long snake-like bodies and a sucker mouth adorned with sharp teeth worthy of any Hollywood sci-fi movie. Think Alien.
Many of the parasites feed by sucking the blood of fish, attaching to their prey with a suction disk [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. housing market crash has exposed the mortgage industry’s suspect lending standards, and investors now fear credit cards, car loans, and student debt could be the next sectors to unravel.
If proof of income was shrugged off as a nuisance on home loans, lenders may have been even less scrupulous in [...]

Unlike some wonders of the world, the Grand Canyon is better in real life than you could ever imagine. Apart from one hotel on the rim which is inexplicably built in the style of a 1970s polytechnic, it is unspoilt, unfenced, silent, awesome [...]

For 16 years or more, capsicum plants, heavy with large green, red and orange fruits and stretching toward the glasshouse roofs, have been Ivan and Caryl Kippenbergers main crop at their Marshland property.
Now, in a manner of speaking, they have downsized. They still grow up to 2800sq m of capsicums each year, but now [...]