 feedback on the reorganisation proposals—if Mahurangi Action, and the Mahurangi Magazine could provide constructive feedback, as they have done since the beginning of the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance process, our local board has no excuse.
In respect to what you claim to be the issue with Waiheke—a tiny local board with a tiny budget—you seem to believe that the main job of local boards is to spend money.  It is not the size of board or budget that is important, but how it is used.
As for the supposed ideal size of a local board area population being about 120 000, that is the projected population for 2043 for the entire Rodney Ward area. There is nothing to recommend that an area that takes two hours to drive from corner to corner be represented by one local board—local boards were introduced to address the abject lack of local representation recommended by our inept royal commission. In fact the government allowed for 30 local boards, only to have that number eroded by the Local Government Commission.
So that is a fail for the local board, throughout the reorganisation process, and the for the commissions then, and the commission now, except for the only decision the latter could make in respect to the asinine bid for secession.Yesterday IKEA launched their new STOCKHOLM collection and I really like what I see! It´s different from earlier versions, but it still have certain common features: Scandinavian modernism of the best quality in form, function and materials – at an affordable price of course. The new IKEA STOCKHOLM is a thoroughly upgraded collection, designed to be combined with what you already have at home. The products are made of natural materials that are pleasant to touch, and are including materials such as velvet, rattan, hand-blown glass and ash.
The new collection is inspired by Scandinavian light and nature, and the objects are made to be used and enjoyed every single day – I love that!
The collection will be available in stores from the 7th of April.
Kjempefin kolleksjon! Vet du når den er i butikk?
Den kommer i butikk 7.april 🙂 Hadde glemt å skrive det, men har fått det med nå..
Jane Buekett, Editorial Manager at Hodder Education shares her thinking on why project management is a critical skill for all editors.
Job titles across the publishing industry are notoriously inconsistent. In my department the desk editors/project editors—the people who turn what an author has written into a published product—are called Project Managers, because project management is what they do. When we recruit, the ability of a candidate to keep multiple projects, all at different stages of production, on schedule and within budget, is just as important as the eye for detail, the editorial sensibility.
Yes, spelling, consistency and clear use of language matter, but they are of little use if the project never gets published. An editor not only has to assess and create accurate budgets and schedules, but also to liaise with all the other parties involved in the project: authors, commissioning editors, designers, photo researchers, artists, typesetters, marketing executives, sales reps…. And these skills do not just apply to in-house editors — fluctuating levels of work in line with market needs mean that much project management work is outsourced to freelance editors and packagers.
One reason why the project management skills of the editor are more important today than ever is that publishing, particularly in education and academic fields, is not only about books. Almost none of the projects we work on today is 'just' a book. The most straightforward publication will have a print and an e-book version, many books have linked online resources, and an increasing number of projects are multi-component, with interrelated print materials alongside digital products containing hundreds of resources in different formats, from Word files to video. Then there is the marketing material—the samples for social media, the database that feeds information to Amazon, the advance chapter and cover.
The PTC offers three project management courses, two for editors Editorial Project Management and Digital Project Management., and one for everyone Project Management Tool for All, one of them may be just the thing to take your skills to the next level.
JAGUAR rolled out – literally – their new baby SUV by pulling off a James Bond stunt world record last night.
Britain’s biggest car firm have built an incredible reputation for incredible publicity to launch new vehicles which has included celebs like Daniel Craig, Simon Cowell and Victoria Beckham.
But perhaps their most daring to date was last night with their new E-Pace baby SUV setting a Guinness World Record for the furthest barrel roll in a production vehicle.
At London’s ExCel centre, stunt driver Terry Grant hit pedal to metal in Jag’s new E-Pace and took a 160-metre run up to hit the air at speed.
He then pulled off a sensational 270-degree barrel roll 15.3 metres through the air, landing cleanly on all four wheels – and then immediately asked for a new pair of underpants. Well the last bit is made up.
However, it was a stunt that brought to life the famous Bond barrel roll from The Man with the Golden Gun.
We’re told that during the jump, Grant was subjected to 5.5g of force. That’s a lot of g, so months of CAD modelling and testing and analysis made sure he didn’t end up being removed with a mop and bucket.
Don’t forget, for the reveal of the F-Pace, Jag employed Grant to go and do a loop-the-loop (which earned him another world record).
Next up we fear the next new Jag could be jumping over 20 double decker buses.
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1990's:
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Play It to the Bone | Mission to Mars | High Fidelity | Keeping the Faith | Shanghai Noon | Gone in 60 Seconds | Coyote Ugly | The Crew | Unbreakable | O Brother, Where Art Thou?11 | Double Take | Pearl Harbor | Crazy/Beautiful | Bubble Boy | New Port South | Corky Romano | High Heels and Low Lifes | Out Cold | The Royal Tenenbaums | The Count of Monte Cristo | Sorority Boys | Big Trouble | Frank McKlusky, C.I. | Ultimate X: The Movie | Bad Company | Reign of