Substack has lured and attracted hundreds of thousands of top-end and everyday writers, espousing their views on specialist topics. In a blog post announcing the new technology, McKenzie wrote that Substack, now six years old, always planned to extend beyod the written word. That’s 10 big award ceremonies straight off the bat, not to mention the various smaller, specialist media awards. One independent media agency, D3, says it purposely does not enter awards and hasn’t done so for five years. “Our commitment is to substance over show, to tangible results over industry recognition.”SEE FRIDAY’S MEDIA INSIDER COLUMN HERE

An airline has banned filming on their plane without consent(Picture: Getty Images)There’s no shortage of viral videos captured on planes showing people behaving badly, but it seems this phenomenon could be coming to an end soon. A major airline is thought to have quietly added a new rule for passengers flying with them and it’s all to do with filming on board. But Qantas isn’t the only major airline to have introduced a policy like this. It reads: ‘Recording or photographing our personnel, whether at the airport or onboard the plane, without their consent is strictly prohibited. MORE : Three-year cruise people sold homes to go on is cancelled weeks before departureMORE : Woman threatens to pee in plane aisle after being ‘refused access to bathroom’

By Sheryl Sutherland*When it comes to saving and investing be a pessimist but be an optimist too. His law said that miracles, or events, happen at the rate of about one a month. Mostly, these events are insignificant but the chance of a major event is about one per million events. The chance of one in a million things happening is as true for terrible events as well as miracles. Optimistic investing when it comes down to it is realising there’ll be an inevitable chain of short-term setbacks and disappointments.

According to the Companies Register, Anderson is a current director and/or shareholder of 32 different companies, including Cotto Karangahape Road Ltd, which covers the bar side of Cotto, and Sawmill Holdings Ltd, trading as Leigh Sawmill. On August 23, 2023, Leigh Sawmill Cafe Ltd, which has the Guinness brothers listed as directors, was removed from the Companies Register. A call to the company listed as the registered office of the Leigh Sawmill Cafe was not answered. The sudden closures of Cotto and the Leigh Sawmill are not without precedent. While Pasture’s demise was permanent, it’s possible Cotto and Leigh Sawmill will return, The Spinoff understands.

As part of its 100 day plan the Government intends to allow the sale of cold medication containing pseudoephedrine. Then in 2011 the National Government made Pseudoephedrine available through prescription only. The substance was banned from general availability to stop gangs from establishing meth labs and cooking methamphetamine. But returning pseudoephedrine to chemist shelves will only see the return of meth labs, a greater availability of the drug, more ram raids of chemist shops and greater misery and addiction. And we will again see the sight of addicts going from chemist to chemist buying as much pseudoephedrine as they can manage.

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Two teenagers who died when the car they were in crashed into roadworks at speed on Thursday have been remembered as “beautiful” students by their Northland high school. And their family and friends have spoken about the tragic loss of Trinity Vemoa and Corey-Leigh Tobin in a raft of social media tributes. Serious crash investigator Jeff Cramp told the Northern Advocate that at the time of the crash the car was speeding southbound on SH1. “It is with broken hearts we are devastated to announce the tragic passing of our beautiful girl Corey-Leigh Kahutia Tobin,” said the post. “It is with broken hearts we are devastated to announce the tragic passing of our beautiful girl Corey-Leigh Kahutia Tobin,” she wrote online.

Photo: NZ Herald/fileOne person has died and another taken to hospital following a water-related incident at Rothesay Bay on Auckland’s North Shore. St John said it responded to the incident after 5pm this afternoon. "Three ambulances, one rapid response unit, and one operations manager are in attendance. "One person was taken to North Shore Hospital in a moderate condition, while three others suffered minor injuries on site." Police said their thoughts were with the family of the person who died.

Photo: NZ Herald/fileOne person has died and another taken to hospital following a water-related incident at Rothesay Bay on Auckland’s North Shore. St John said it responded to the incident after 5pm this afternoon. "Three ambulances, one rapid response unit, and one operations manager are in attendance. "One person was taken to North Shore Hospital in a moderate condition, while three others suffered minor injuries on site." Police said their thoughts were with the family of the person who died.

Here's our summary of key economic events overnight that affect New Zealand, with news there were a flurry of factory PMIs released overnight confirming a global manufacturing downturn remains but it is minor. A week ago it was at exactly the same level. A week ago it was at US$2000/oz, so a +3.0% gain since then. A week ago it was at 60.7 so a +1¼c gain from then. A week ago it was at US$37,928 so a lesser +2.2% rise from then.

Bangladesh celebrate a wicket against the Black Caps. Photo: Bangladesh Cricket BoardAfter going unbeaten in their first 15 test encounters, the Black Caps have been beaten by Bangladesh for the second time in as many years. It was Bangladesh’s first test victory over the Black Caps at home, having enjoyed a historic eight-wicket triumph over the hosts in Mount Maunganui in January 2022. The New Zealand batters had few answers for the hosts’ spin-heavy attack on a track that turned but maintained its consistency in a manner that belied the Black Caps’ fourth-innings collapse. But after reaching his ninth test 50, Mitchell swept Nayeem Hasan to backward square in the 10th over of the day, where Taijul took the catch to quash the Black Caps’ faint hopes.

“And there’ll be no shortage of ‘events’ to test Luxon’s political skills. David Seymour wants a referendum on the Treaty. Winston wants a Royal Commission of Inquiry into Labour’s handling of the Covid crisis. Talk about cans of worms!”were very fond of their local. It was nothing ...

Non-performing housing loans rose again quite sharply in the last month after seemingly stabilising for several months. In addition, there was another reasonably substantial rise in overall non-performing loans across the whole banking system. Latest Reserve Bank loans by asset quality figures for October show that non-performing housing loans rose by $71 million (5.3%) to $1.414 billion. But nevertheless, year-on-year the non-performing housing loans are up by $606 million - or 75.1%. By some means of comparison, in the post GFC period, the non-performing housing loans ratio hit 1.2%, while the total system non-performing loan ratio hit 2.2%.

However, the thing that caught everyone’s eye was Rublev’s actions during his group stage matches against Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev. Rublev hit himself with the racquet during his match against the Spaniard, who had lost a couple of points, leading to blood oozing out of his knee. ADVERTISEMENTIn a recent interview with media outlet Championat, Rublev gave his reasons behind his acts of self-mutilation. Rublev sounded funny when they talked about how he didn’t want to break his racquet by striking it on the ground, thereby choosing to hit it on his knee. Andrey Rublev throws his racquet in disgust during the match against Alexander Zverev.

That sense of disbelief only intensified when, to everyone’s surprise, the stolen truck reappeared at the same spot days later. Despite arriving with an apology letter from the thief and toys for the owner’s son, police are still trying to find the responsible party. Varun Chada owns the Kati Street cafe and after work one day he realized he’d left something in the shop. He left his truck running as he popped back in to retrieve that item. Four days later, Chada rocked up to his business only to be shocked once again but this time because the truck had returned.