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Kiwi Celebs Support Dry July

Registrations are now open for popular fundraiser Dry July’s fourth year, and a host of local celebrities have pledged to give booze a break in order to improve the wellbeing of cancer patients and their loved ones.
Famous faces who are Dry July Ambassadors this year are netball captain Casey Kopua, comedian Urzila Carlson, cookbook author Chelsea Winter, Shortland Street actor Jayden Daniels, Step Dave star Sia Trokenheim, broadcaster Carly Flynn, and radio presenter Nicki Sunderland.

High resolution sub seasonal and seasonal forecast now available for New Zealanders

The seasonal forecasting team at CLIMsystems has developed ExtendWeather for New Zealand’s primary producers and energy sector. It is a state-of-the-art seasonal forecasting service that delivers high resolution maps of precipitation, temperature and soil potential evapotranspiration deficits and other variables depending on the subscription level from 10 days to up to nine months into the future. All forecasts are updated ever ten days and are based on downscaled NOAA CFSv2 data. As partners of Farmlands subscribers receive discounts if they are Farmlands members or shareholders.

New Factory to Create More Jobs

Leading Kiwi fresh chilled food producer Pitango will relocate to a new $3 million factory in South Auckland this month, and along with an increased production capacity will create up to 20 new jobs in South Auckland during peak season.

Staff With Disabilities an Asset

Kiwi businesses could be more profitable and improve their organisational culture if managers committed to hiring a more diverse group of people, and rethink their concept of ‘disability’, says GSK’s general manager Anna Stove.

Attitudes to disability need to change

Disabled people still experience serious barriers that prevent them from fully participating in society and feeling accepted, according to two new reports. Based on interviews with disabled people, the reports share examples where people feel their human rights have not been respected. As well as sharing their experiences, the disabled people interviewed called for a change in attitudes to disability, greater awareness throughout society and a more accessible New Zealand for all.

Tennis elbow clinical trial at the Dunedin School of Medicine, patients and funding wanted

Globally, 3% of the population suffers from a Tennis Elbow (lateral epicondylitis) inflammation. A highly successful experimental device has been recently tested in Germany using a very densed acoustic pressure which loosens both inflammation and scar tissue in only 24 hours. An exclusive clinical trial will be conducted at the Dunedin School of Medicine. For this clinical trial we need both patients who have suffered more than 12 months as well as funding.

Auckland Suicide Awareness Carnival

Native American Lakota John has been working in the suicide black-spot area of Kawarau in the Bay of Plenty for three years. He will be a guest speaker, as well as introducing Charitable Trust Nga Hau e Wha (Pukenga) at this weekend’s Suicide Prevention carnival in Auckland.

Better Melanoma Screening Needed

One of the country’s leading skin cancer experts says the lives of hundreds of New Zealanders and millions of dollars could be saved if more at risk Kiwis were screened regularly for melanoma.

Worlds’ First Olympic Games Cricket scoring system developed in New Zealand

Auckland based LED sign company Signopsys Electronic Signs Ltd (Signopsys), a 25 year supplier of Cricket scoring systems and LED screen hardware to ICC Cricket World Cups internationally, has been contracted by Korean IT giant Ssangyong Information and Communications Corporation (SICC) to provide the world’s first Olympic Games Cricket Scoring software system for the Incheon Asian Games beginning next week in Korea.