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ISSN 1174-8656 100% 6 Tuesday May 24 2016 our PEOPLE > Do you know someone who should be our next Our People? Nominate them now by emailing andrew.king@starmedia.kiwi NOR’WEST NEWS Elizabeth Challies Puzzle expert in the zone Bishopdale resident Elizabeth Challies, 34, was recently crowned the 2016 New Zealand open vaki puzzle and sudoku champion. She bounced back from narrowly losing last year by seven points to register a record score of 14,195. She speaks to Andrew King Elizabeth, you are the New Zealand Sudoku champion, how does that feel? It feels pretty good. I was really pleased with my score because I did better than last year. I was really in the zone that day. So it is all about the personal score rather than beating other players? Pretty much. I think the score matters more as I am trying to beat myself. I like to see improvement in everything I do. So when you found out you had won how did that feel? I actually thought there might have been a problem with the website when I saw my score. But then I realised I had beaten my last year’s score by quite a bit so I got pretty excited. Last year I placed second, I was extra determined this year as I had lost last year by the tiniest of margins. What did you win? The New Zealand Puzzle Association is posting a medal and a shirt to me for being the New Zealand champion. Tell me what it is like to compete in a sudoku tournament? It is a really friendly sort of competition because everyone is really competing with themselves. It is online and you can have as many goes as you want so there really is no pressure. I get the puzzle and just dive straight in, then it is just me and the puzzle. How did you get into sudoku? I have always loved puzzles. I like to try all them out and they are so accessible so I can get them anywhere. I have been into them since I was a little kid. What made you want to start competitively doing sudoku? I found the website when I was poking around on the internet, did a few for fun then saw there was a competition and said might as well have a go. Do you win prize money for the events? That would be nice, but no. It is all about personal satisfaction for me anyway, I just Watch Repairs want to beat my last score. What was the first puzzle you did? I can’t remember what I got into first. I know I started off with puzzle books that have a variety of different ones in it to challenge myself. Where did she go to school? I went to Burnside High. Tell me a bit about how school was for you? I quite enjoyed school. I was quite motivated and kept my head down. Were you good at maths at school? At high school I was good at maths and science. But at primary school I was pretty good at English and literacy in general. But there was a switch in high school I am not sure how that came about. Tell me a bit about your friends? We were not sporty at all although a few of us did get into ballet. I love movies and coffee all the usual. Rent Me Or Buy Me • Pure meat, no chemicals or fillers • A convenient chilled roll • Dogs LOVE Essentials • CHEAP to feed - $1 a day for a medium dog TRY NOW AT Shop 33, Bishopdale Mall Ph: 359 5118 www.thefeedshack.co.nz | thefeedshackbishopdale@gmail.com Mon-Sat 9.00am - 5.30pm. Closed Sundays & Public Holidays. 44 Newnham St, Southbrook, Rangiora Ph: (03) 313 3016 www.thefeedshack.co.nz | thefeedshack@orcon.net.nz Mon-Fri 9.00am - 5.00pm. Sat 9.00am - 12.30pm. Closed Sundays & Public Holidays. Did you know we repair these brands locally? • Rolex • Omega • Tag Heuer • Rado • Tissot and many, many more Visit our website www.ilam-watchmakers.co.nz Ilam Watchmakers Watch & Clocks • Sales & Service 207 Waimairi Rd. Ph 357 1002 NO BOND REQUIRED Rental - From $75 p/w Size 10m2 • Accommodation –teenagers, elderly, guests • Cabin Sleep out • Site office • Storage • Home office/ small business • Games room 0800 HouseMe 468 736 houseme2015@xtra.co.nz We’re for every gardener autumn planting • moon calendar • the lone pine • plant doctor We’re for every gardener FlAnders PoPPy Its significant story InsPIred by AustrAlIA Ideas from Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show $5.90 incl. GST Issue 413 | April 16 – April 29, 2015 What it means to be KIWI mAke It eAsy Low-maintenance gardening Projects to remember Making wreaths and poppies SUBSCRIPTIONS FREEPHONE 0800 77 77 10 subs@gardener.kiwi 100% 12 ISSUES delivered to your door FROm ONly $ 49. 00
NOR’WEST NEWS Tuesday May 24 2016 7 Professor to be awarded rare honour to win title Does being able to think logically to solve puzzles help you with your job? Well, I work at the post office so it doesn’t really help all that much. Thinking logically really helps me with puzzles but it gets a bit much sometimes so I have taken up abstract painting to pull myself in a new direction. Abstract painting, that’s a bit different from puzzles? Yes, it is but I love it. I like making a mess with the paint on a canvas. It is just something a bit different. Do you have any other hobbies? Painting is the main other hobby aside from puzzles. I also like going to the gym and I am part of a writers’ group. What do you do with the writers’ group? The writers are a group of people interested in writing and reading. It is a lot of fun and I have met a few good people in it. Speaking of friends, do you get them coming to you for sudoku pointers? Not really. Most people say I can’t do those but they have never attempted to do one. I tell them to chose an easy one and give it a go. You never know you could be good at them. Have you ever been completely stumped by a sudoku puzzle? Yes, I have. I find sometimes when I get stuck I put it away then come back to it and then I find I can work it out quite easy. Sometimes you look and look and look and can’t see what the pattern is, when that happens it is best to put it away and come back to it later while you mind is fresh. Was this year’s score your best ever? Yes 14,195 is my best score ever. It is tallied by a combination of time and points. You lose a point for every second you spend solving a puzzle, gain points for a correct placement and lose points for a mistake. At the end of the thirty minutes the four highest scores from solved puzzles are added together and that is your championship score. You can chose the size and difficultly of the puzzle, bigger ones get you more points so you work out which one will you will able to complete in the time allowed. Now you are the New Zealand champion, will you try be the world champion? I hadn’t thought of that. I would have to look into it. Former St Andrew’s College student Professor Roy Kerr will be awarded the rare honour of the title Canterbury Distinguished Professor in November. It is the highest academic title that can be awarded by the University Council and has only been won twice before in Canterbury University’s 143-year history. Professor Kerr (right) was nominated for the title after he won the Crafoord Prize, which he will receive in Sweden in two days time. The new appointment makes Professor Kerr the only Canterbury Distinguished Professor in New Zealand. Canterbury University chancellor Dr John Wood said the previous distinguished professors were both Nobel Prize winners, the late Sir Clive Granger, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, and Robert Grubbs, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. “We are extremely proud of Professor Kerr’s long association with the University of Canterbury and all that he has done to increase our understanding of the universe,” he said. Dr Wood notes that the Royal Society of London described his work as of particular importance to general relativistic astrophysics, and all subsequent detailed work on black holes has depended fundamentally on it. “He has made other important contributions to general relativity theory but the discovery of the Kerr black hole was so extraordinary that it is comparable to the discovery of a new elementary particle,” he said. Professor Kerr retired as Professor of Mathematics at Canterbury University in 1993 after 22 years, including a decade as the head of the mathematics department. At its December 2015 graduation ceremonies, the university conferred a Doctor of Science on Professor Kerr. The Crafoord Prize award ceremony will be held at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, in the presence of HM King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. 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