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It is being described as potentially one of the biggest global outages ever experienced. The outages, starting Friday evening (NZT), have rippled far and wide, affecting New Zealand businesses, banking and businesses and international airlines alike. The cost will stretch into the billions of dollars, Griffin says, noting the outage exposes a major point of failure in our tech systems. Officials are working to ensure that impacts on lifelines services are minimised and national coordination structures are activated, if required.”Stuff reported Parliament’s tech systems, including phone lines, have been affected. Flights have been grounded in the US, airports internationally are reporting issues, and trains in the UK are affected.
Source: Asia Pacific Region 2 – SingaporePRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR NURSES 2024Five nurses were conferred the President’s Award for Nurses this year. The highest accolade in Singapore’s nursing profession, the President’s Award for Nurses recognises nurses who have shown sustained outstanding performance and contributions to patient care delivery, education, research and administration. The national award is open to nurses and midwives from healthcare institutions in the public, private and community care sectors, as well as educational institutions. She was also the first nurse awardee as the principal investigator of the National Healthcare Group Research Support Scheme and National Innovation Challenge Grant. She also designed the COVID-19 pandemic workflow for community nurses in IMH to better respond to patient needs while adhering to strict infection control measures.
19 July, 2024LUMO Digital Outdoor and New Zealand Media & Entertainment (NZME), two of New Zealand’s leading media companies, have announced a strategic content partnership that will extend the headlines of The New Zealand Herald’s top stories across LUMO’s national digital out-of-home network. From today, the partnership will see real-time updates from the Herald across the LUMO network, made available via a website RSS feed. Jack Plowright, Lumo GM of Platform & Partner Strategy, highlights the significance of this partnership: “We have worked closely over the years with NZME to deliver successful, collaborative campaign solutions, but this partnership marks a real moment for our teams." LUMO has done a superb job of bringing together this collaboration between our editorial operation and their tech. This partnership will improve the discoverability of the Herald’s news, helping us to continue to grow overall audience as NZ's leading news destination.
Here's our summary of key economic events overnight that affect New Zealand with news policymakers are still struggling with the last-mile gains in their war on inflation. Their jobless rate rose marginally to 4.1% and their participation rate is still hovering around 67%. The Kiwi dollar starts today little-changed at 60.6 USc. That all means our TWI-5 starts today at 69.4 and essentially unchanged from this time yesterday. The bitcoin price starts today at US$63,799 and down -0.9% from this time yesterday.
A reminder to all Kiwi marketers: the deadline for the 2024 Effie Awards Aotearoa is fast approaching on Tuesday, July 23. The awards, run in association with TVNZ, provides the opportunity for the industry to celebrate their most effective marketing campaigns. The Effie Awards are renowned globally for celebrating marketing effectiveness and measurable success, recognising campaigns that not only resonate but also drive real business impact. “An Effie is the ultimate recognition of marketing success. Following the early bird deadline, late date entries will be accepted until Thursday 1 August 2024.
The problem with black ice is that it's especially dangerous because it's a type of ice you can't see. Black ice is "black" because it's transparent and the road surface shows through. Black ice can hang around much longer on rural roads, because the warmth and friction of traffic wears it away. The difference between white ice and black ice is that the former is more likely to be sustained. So if you hit black ice and lose control, don't panic and try to fight your way back - because you won't be able to.
The inflation drop is driven by a failing economy, not a softening of the cost of living. Watch for increasing council rates and insurance driven astronomically higher by climate change. Watch for the Chinese economy that came in well under expectations…China’s economy falters, raises pressure for more stimulusChina’s economy grew much slower than expected in the second quarter as a protracted property downturn and job insecurity knocked the wind out of a fragile recovery, keeping alive expectations Beijing will need to unleash even more stimulus. The world’s second-largest economy grew 4.7% in April-June, official data showed, its slowest since the first quarter of 2023 and missing a 5.1% forecast in a Reuters poll. Even if mortgage rates are cut, won’t they immediately jump again as geopolitical inflationary pressures kick off?
Perhaps it simply reflects current tough times, a retreat into safe stuff that’s easy to sell. I am also a sucker for tribute albums, enjoying the new The Power Of The Heart, a collection of the songs of Lou Reed. It reminds me of Reed himself claiming September Song on a long-ago tribute album featuring the songs of Kurt Weill and turning it into nothing but a Lou Reed song. Lou Reed performing on stage. The Power of The Heart compares favourably with last year’s Velvet Underground tribute, I’ll Be Your Mirror, which, while fun, somewhat failed to capture the sheer grown-up power of its source.
“Between this inquiry and the one into personal banking, there’s a real risk of regulatory fatigue setting in,” says King. “We’ve known for years what will help the rural sector access the capital needed to help productively grow the economy. Comments which are defamatory, abusive or in some way deemed inappropriate will not be approved. It is allowable to use some form of non-de-plume for your name, however we recommend real email addresses are used. Comments from free email addresses such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc may not be approved.
The explosion of white wrath that the Treaty was inside Pharmac to begin with highlights how pig ignorant most redneck crackers are when it come to Māori pain. Because most redneck crackers benefited from theft of Māori land, they never want to look at the impact of colonisation. Never mind that contact almost wiped Māori from the face of the planet. Put aside a party like ACT who are a pimp for the pharmaceutical industry telling a Former National Party to burn the Treaty, let’s remind people why the Treaty is in Pharmac to begin with…- Sponsor Promotion -..That redneck crackers have to be reminded of the inequalities all the time is the shocking thing. Pharmac includes the Treaty so Māori can demand the same outcomes and Pharmac are forced to respond to that, by reaping the Treaty out, Māori being poor are simply left to whither on the vine with the rest of the poor.
The Great North American Eclipse as seen in Mazatlan, Mexico on April 8 this year. Dunedin Astronomical Society member Warren Hurley said it would be a rare event for the city — so rare that the last time it happened was in 1163, long before Dunedin was established. "A total eclipse, where the sun is completely covered, it truly is awe-inspiring." Mr Hurley said the city was making a "big deal" about it so early because there was a lot of preparation to do. The path of the total solar eclipse, which will darken Dunedin’s skies for nearly three minutes on July 22, 2028.
Stability, safety nets & research mean investors can have both – General Finance. That is a rare bright spot in an otherwise static economic environment, says Brent King, managing director of NZ-listed financial services group General Capital, the owner of General Finance. For instance, a 12-month term deposit of $100,000 with General Finance at a 7.5 per cent interest will deliver a pre-tax yield of $7500. The higher figure is a result of re-investing returns so the amount compounds quarterly. You are asked to do this in order to verify that this enquiry is not being performed by an automated process.
As of July 2024, it is projected to miss that budget by around 17 million tonnes. But 1.4 million of those rely on unproven carbon capture and storage and 2.7 million tonnes relies on things that were probably going to happen anyway. And the much derided clean car discount was estimated to save 1.2 million tonnes of CO2 a year which is 7.2 million tonnes over the period. Eloise Gibson describes how much worse in this passage:According to government projections, NZ is on track to be 6 million tonnes under budget from 2022-5, 2 million tonnes under budget from 2026-2030 but 17 million tonnes over budget in 2031 to 2035. For 2030-2035 emissions will be higher by 24 million tonnes higher than estimated a year ago under Labour, and 17 million tonnes over budget.
Volleyball Junior A Qualifier & Season NEW DATESThere is a new date for the Volleyball Junior A Qualifier, this tournament will now take place on the 21st September venues tbc. The Junior A season will now start in Term...
