And while most won’t reach Swiftie-level superfans, there’s still good reason for them to transform their micro moments into something more memorable. Here are a couple of best-in-class examples of how brands are sweating the small stuff. Adding youness with Nike As far as fitness-lifestyle brands go, it’s hard to top Nike. Yep, it’s the small details that make a difference, even for one of the world’s biggest brands. Pit Vipers, hit makers Dudes-being-bros American brand Pit Viper sells extreme, unbreakable sunnies that promise to “protect your face from boring”.

Source: Victoria Country Fire AuthorityHalls Gap Fire Brigade is seeking new members and the rewarding role could be yours. The brigade is attending events around the community and hosting information nights informing locals about the good work they do. After moving to Halls Gap, he found CFA was a great way to meet new people and help the community. The brigade currently has 17 non-operational and operational members, responding to both rural and urban call outs. Justin said new members would ease the load on current members.

An Ashburton woman who fatally stabbed her partner in the head - then tried to convince a jury he’d inflicted the 12cm wound himself - has been jailed for more than four years. “In a moment of extreme anger borne out of the hurtful verbal tirade, she stabbed Mr Hemi in the back of the head,” McRae said. Because of the vulnerable location in which you struck Mr Hemi, the outcome of such an attack can have, as was the case here, catastrophic consequences. Photo / NZ Herald“These features of your background do not bear directly on your actions in killing Mr Hemi. “Because you continue to deny the offending in the face of what is an overwhelming case, any discrete credit for remorse is unavailable,” said Justice Mander.

What is the impact elsewhere in the health sector of this “un-Budgeted” spending. Adding in increases around Very Low Cost Access, Community Services Cards and other general practice funding, the total funding increase proposed – by the Government side of the PHO Services Agreement Amendment Protocol equation – to support sustainability in general practice is $81.9 million. It’s a different league from the costs faced by cancer patients to self-fund lifesaving medicines, but add increased copayments to the return of the $5 prescription charge and this cost-shifting by the Government is going to hurt patients and general practice. Nothing quite says cosy reliability more than the rows of pylons that march up and down the country delivering power. Yet again the budgetary eye stays firmly unfocused on general practice, where the key purpose is keeping people healthy and out of costly secondary care.

Here's our summary of key economic events overnight that affect New Zealand with news the expected dairy price drop has been more than expected. The Australian 10 year bond yield starts today at 4.45% and down -2 bps. The Kiwi dollar starts today slightly softer from yesterday at just on 60.7 USc. That all means our TWI-5 starts today still at 70.3. The bitcoin price starts today at US$61,903 and down -2.1% from this time yesterday in a developing yoyo pattern.

Wet days could get 10 percent wetter and the driest group of days 10 percent drier even in places where previous modelling has shown no change to average yearly rainfall. Wetter wet days mean more chance of flooding. The timing of those heavier rain days also becomes important. There were already multiple lines of evidence showing wet days would get wetter in New Zealand, Harrington said. The drier dry days affected some of country's most prominent farming areas, including the middle of the North Island down to Wairarapa, he said.

More than 35% of homes listed for sale in Auckland and Northland are subsequently withdrawn from sale, one economist says. He took the number of properties listed in a month, compared to the number sold and the overall number of houses listed for sale. "That suggests over 45% of properties listed for sale are eventually pulled from the market." That covers properties withdrawn between March and May in each year. Trade Me said the median days properties were listed on its site increased to 68 days for May, which was an increase of six days from April.

- Leith Hutchison shaken to death by his father. Leith Hutchison was 15 months old when he was violently shaken to death by his father. Leith Hutchison was shaken to death by his father. Leith Hutchison. “It is well known that New Zealand has an appalling history of child abuse cases.

Eight regions had annual stock increases above 30% and none had less stock for sale compared to a year ago. The above figures suggest the market remains firmly in buyers' favour, which is also being reflected in average asking prices on the website which have been tumbling since March. The national average asking price, non-seasonally adjusted, for properties advertised on Realestate.co.nz has declined for the last four consecutive months and was $837,241 in June. The average asking price in Auckland is now perilously close to dipping under $1 million. However the slide in asking prices does have a silver lining.

Another week, and another seemingly hair-raising security issue crops up: this time it's a vulnerability affecting a common application millions of people use for remote access over networks, namely OpenSSH. Except a bug has been found that potentially makes the remote access tool potentially a lot less secure. As per infosec industry custom, the critical bug was given a snazzy logo and a catchy name by Qualys: regreSSHion. #regreSSHion #CVE20246387 — Faisal (@faisalusuf) July 1, 2024Cutting to the chase, if an attacker is successful in exploiting the regreSSHion bug, it opens up the target system completely. Qualys said attackers can get root access; this is the highest level of privilege for an account on UNIX-like systems.

Wednesday Davis died while climbing on Mt Ruapehu in the central North Island on Saturday. Friends of the woman who died after a climbing accident say the promising marine biologist was a lovely and warm woman who was passionate about the ocean and sealife. She led the university’s Marine Sciences Society, was a Kupe Leader [scholarship winner], a Blake Leader and YWCA Y25 Alumnus. Davis has been identified as the woman who died whiile climbing on Mt Ruapehu June 28, 2024. The University of Auckland Marine Science Society today also posted a tribute to the “wonderful” Davis on their Facebook page.

But almost seven years later she is living a “nightmare” - still waiting for authorities to make a formal ruling on what caused Isabella’s death - and if anyone will be held accountable. Initially, it was thought that the syndrome and prematurity combined were at the root of Isabella’s health issues. “I was originally told Isabella had a grade four [severe] brain haemorrhage - I was told this while being shown brain scans,” she told the Herald. Isabella's mother is confused by the cause of death listed - as it is at odds with an expert report. The Coroner will also look into Isabella’s death - but cannot begin that process until the HDC work is complete.

Someone who’s almost synonymous with Mitre 10 Mega Queenstown is retail manager Marlene Crimp, who’s been with the company for almost 31 years. One such is Marlene Crimp, retail manager for one of the town’s largest stores, Mitre 10 Mega, who joined the original H&J’s Mitre 10 in 1993. She married Ray Crimp in Nelson in 1978; they bought a house in nearby Brightwater and raised two sons, Phillip and Matthew. In 1997 the store manager left and she took over, then was initially retail manager when the much larger Mitre 10 set up in Remarkables Park in 2000. Her title reverted to store manager in 2007, but she’s been retail manager since Mitre 10 Mega opened in 2015.

Barfoot & Thompson's June sales slumped to a 14 year low, while the amount of stock for sale on the real estate agency's books hit a 14-year high. That's down 26% from the 916 it sold in May, and is the lowest number of sales Barfoot & Thompson has achieved in the month of June since 2010. The combination of declining sales running at a 14 year low, while new listings and total stock levels remain elevated, suggests the Auckland market is likely to remain extremely subdued over winter. Barfoot's median selling price in June was $1,020,000. Barfoot's average selling price in June was $1,236,336, the highest it has been since December 2021.

Photo / SuppliedWhen Nadia Tolich is invited to describe ThreeNews, the 6pm TV news bulletin Stuff is producing in place of Newshub, one word comes up more than any other: “different”. In one sense, Tolich, the managing director of Stuff Digital, is merely stating the obvious. “We’ve actually been working really hard over the last few months in terms of finding that balance,” says Tolich. “But also you’ll see brilliant journalists from around New Zealand, who are in the Stuff stable,” says Tolich. The final broadcast of Newshub Live with Mike McRoberts and Samantha Hayes is on Friday, July 5.