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May 22, 2012
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Men on the lookout for a good tux rejoice, for Rembrandt is finally opening its first own-brand store in New Zealand: doors open tomorrow at Rembrandt on Broadway in Newmarket, Auckland. The Kiwi-owned company is returning to its home turf – two more
Auckland stores and one in Palmerston North will follow by the middle of
the year, making a total of four on this side of the Tasman.
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With government and corporates alike onside, nonprofit Kiwipedia is out to make learning about New Zealand’s animals more fun. Ryan
Ghisi has spent the last year developing the NZ Fauna app,
with the assistance of DOC, Forest and Bird and Te Ara (the Ministry of
Culture and Heritage), which granted access to their text and media
libraries. And when it came time to promote it,
the award-winning Air New Zealand marketing department stepped in to
help identify relevant media channels.
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Despite the spread of technologies such as MySky and TiVo, designed to cut out ad breaks, TV ad revenue continues to increase. Data
released by industry body ThinkTV shows telly advertising revenue rose
by 1.9 percent or $11.4 million over 2011, generating a cool $618.1
million in revenue – a massive jump from $569.2 million in 2009.
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What’s a key tenet of successful design? Originality? Creativity? According to Dr Edgar Rodriguez Ramirez, the ability to surprise is one often overlooked element. The Victoria University PhD graduate has explored the concept of surprise to pinpoint common design strategies that work. He
has designed a set of 25 pocket-sized cards for practicing designers
and design students, which he is currently working on commercialising
through an educational publishing house.
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How much do Aucklanders care about their waterfront? Enough to oppose a major expansion of Auckland’s ports, Heart of the City hopes. The lobby group has launched a publicity campaign, “Your Port, Your Call”,
to get Aucklanders involved in plans which it said were buried in
technical documents supporting the Auckland Draft Waterfront Plan. Chief executive Alex Swney said Ports of Auckland
wanted
to increase the area of its downtown container wharves by the size of
16 Eden Parks while selling Captain Cook Wharf back to the city.
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The Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has become the
first successful applicant to receive funding from the Ministry of
Agriculture and Forestry’s Irrigation Acceleration Fund. The
fund provides $35 million, over five years, with the aim of increasing
the number of sustainable and water-efficient facilities in New Zealand. The HRBC will use the $1.67 million received from the IAF fund to commission a feasibility study for building a storage dam
on the Makaroro River that would provide for up to 22,000 hectares of
irrigation while improving water quality and summer flows in the Tukituki
River and others.
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The official cash rate is staying at 2.5 percent,
with Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard citing a fragile global
economy in retaining the status quo. The dollar rose against the greenback ahead of the announcement, recently trading at US 81.37 cents, up from 80.98
yesterday. Bollard said international financial
markets were still threatening to push up local bank funding
costs, and New Zealand’s economic recovery could be
constrained by delays to the Christchurch rebuild.
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Sick of your old mobile or iPod but too environmentally conscious to throw it out or too cash-poor to replace it? It’s a first world problem gaining urgency here but in the US, an ATM is revolutionising the way people recycle their unwanted consumer electronics. People looking to ditch a phone or music player need only place an unwanted device into an ecoATM, which then values and recycles the item, offering a cash payment or donation to a charity of choice in return.
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