Aotearoa / New Zealand

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Hi all!

We had suggestions for Lemmyvision in this post, and then I forgot about it for a while. Or maybe I was just waiting for all submissions to be in.

Anyway, we've got to get onto this soon, so here's a poll of all the songs in the previous post that were from 2023:

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The poll is multichoice (select as many as you like), the song with the most votes wins and we submit that to the competition.

Sorry, I know everyone loves STV but I don't thing the survey software supports it so we will just tally up the song with the most votes.

If you don't know the songs, give them a listen here:

Yahyah feat. Mohi - I Like You (english/te reo)

The Black Seeds - So True/Koia ko kohi (te teo version from 2023)

Stan Walker - I Am

L.A.B - Cassanova

Tiki Taane, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra - Tangaroa spotify - youtube

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The first day of the SailGP racing event in Lyttelton has been abandoned after dolphins were sighted on the course.

The race was due to get under way about 3pm, but was delayed after the dolphins were spotted.

After they had not moved on about two hours later, the race was called off entirely.

Concerns about Hector's dolphins had been raised prior to the event.

Two dolphins had been spotted in the area, within 300 metres of the boats, during the final race in 2023.

But despite being told to stop racing, the event director allowed it to go ahead.

That led to an independent decision-maker being appointed for this year's event. They sit in the control room and are tasked with halting racing if any dolphins are seen.

Organisers have acknowledged that boat strikes are likely to be fatal to dolphins.

While chocolate-studded or fruit-free sourdough or brioche hot cross buns are becoming common, a Taranaki bakery has found a way to push the boundaries even further by producing a cheese and onion version containing onion powder, onion flakes and "a very nice Dutch cheese".

Trade Aid will shut its 24 shops, known for selling rugs, baskets, arts and crafts goods from developing countries.

The not-for-profit group was a leader in importing fair-trade products such as coffee and ethically based food items, but said it needed to change to survive.

The shops would be progressively closed and the organisation shifted to online sales, wholesaling and importing from producers and farmers.

This is a really good read about one of my favourite weird animal facts!

Looks like it's back to the high seas for us...

I didn't actually know they were building a new wharf on Somes, it's great that the island is getting more infrastructure. And great they caught the ants, obviously.

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The kahukura red admiral butterfly has been named New Zealand's Bug of the Year today, after nearly 17,000 bug lovers voted for their favourite insect.

Twenty bugs were vying to be New Zealand's favourite, with 11 of the 20 nominees listed as at-risk, endangered or declining.

The competition - run by the Entomological Society of New Zealand - was created to give bugs the same kind publicity seen in the popular Bird of the Year race.

The winning insects receive research funding and promotion about their conservation.

Autistic children and young adults are more than twice as likely to die before their 25th birthday, compared to their non-autistic peers, new research shows.

The study, published this week in the international academic journal Autism, tracked 857,944 children born in Aotearoa - including 11,919 autistic children - between 1996 and 2010 using individual-level data from the government's Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI).

It found autistic females were four times more likely to die, compared to non-autistic females

This article is actually from last week but I only just came across it.

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Look, we need the money and fuel is bloody expensive, but I believe we are adding another problem to the next generation and regressing further.

The tax sucks, but the benefits were worth it.

The privacy of shoppers signed up for Woolworths' new loyalty card Everyday Rewards has been questioned with the fine print revealing the supermarket can record licence plates, capture video and audio of customers and link them to membership numbers.

Woolworths states video footage and audio recordings are used for security, theft prevention and safety purposes only.

One customer said he was not bothered too much with the recording of licence plates and CCTV footage - "I'm not planning on stealing anything or abusing anyone" - but questioned how the information was kept secure.

The man pointed to an IT oversight last week which saw Everyday Rewards customers cashing in by creating multiple accounts and sharing points to get vouchers.

"Our team is well versed in protecting the information we do hold," the spokesman said.

My selection of paragraphs may have made Countdown/Woolworths look less competent than the article makes out, but I don't think it's too far off.

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As of January this year, Aotearoa New Zealand became just the second country (after Canada) to adopt a groundbreaking new procedure for patients experiencing cardiac arrest.

DSED is a novel method that provides rapid sequential shocks to the heart using two defibrillators. The pads are attached in two different locations: one on the front and side of the chest, the other on the front and back.

A single operator activates the defibrillators in sequence, with one hand moving from the first to the second. According to a recent randomised trial in Canada, this approach could more than double the chances of survival for patients with ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia who are not responding to standard shocks.

The guidelines now specify that if ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia persist after two shocks with standard defibrillation, the DSED method should be administered. Two defibrillators need to be available, and staff must be trained in the new approach.

Though the existing evidence for DSED is compelling, until recently it was based on theory and a small number of potentially biased observational studies. The Canadian trial was the first to directly compare DSED to standard treatment.

From a total of 261 patients, 30.4% treated with this strategy survived, compared to 13.3% when standard resuscitation protocols were followed.

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Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

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Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

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