Three motorcycle crashes on Hawke s Bay roads per week on average
13 Mar, 2021 08:18 PM
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The scene of a motorcycle crash on SH2, near Te Hauke, in October 2020. Photo / Warren Buckland
Close to three motorcycle crashes occur on Hawke s Bay roads on average per week – resulting in more than $17.8m in ACC compensation in five years. Between 2015 and 2019, there were 736 motorcycle crashes in Hawke s Bay. These crashes cost ACC more than $17.8m to help people recover.
In 2019 alone, there were 168 motorcycle injury claims in Hawke s Bay (3.2 per week on average) which came at a cost of $3.7m – the second highest number and cost from the five-year period.
Whanganui news in brief: Gumboot kudos, rail bridge struck
14 Mar, 2021 05:40 PM
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Gumboot throwing promoter Curly Troon has been named a joint winner of the Toyota Lifetime Legacy to Rural Sport at the 2021 Norwood New Zealand Rural Sports Awards. Photo / file
Gumboot throwing promoter Curly Troon has been named a joint winner of the Toyota Lifetime Legacy to Rural Sport at the 2021 Norwood New Zealand Rural Sports Awards. Photo / file
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Gumboot throwing promoter Curly Troon has been named a joint winner of the Toyota Lifetime Legacy to Rural Sport at the 2021 Norwood New Zealand Rural Sports Awards held in Palmerston North on Friday, March 12. Troon is a founding member and chairman of the New Zealand Boot Throwing Association and has promoted Taihape as a destination of the sport for many years. For the past five years he has been a member of the North Island team and has competed in the men s open, North Island champs and was
Speeding Auckland bus drivers snapped 10,500 times
14 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Bus drivers in Auckland racked up 10,500 speed camera tickets and more than 500 for running red lights in the last five years. Photo / Michael Craig
Nearly $700,000 worth of fines have been handed out to speeding bus drivers in the past five years, including one who was clocked going 61km/h over the limit. The Herald can reveal more than 10,500 tickets were issued to Auckland bus drivers and a further 553 fines, worth almost $83,000, were issued to those who were caught running red lights.
Fines range from $30 to $630 depending on how fast the driver was going - but those caught going more than 50km/h over the limit resulted in a court summons for careless, dangerous or reckless driving
Five Chinese companies pose threat to U.S. national security: FCC
Reuters | Mar 12, 2021 04:19 PM EST
Jessica Rosenworcel testifies during an oversight hearing held by the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee (Photo : Alex Wong/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo)
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday designated five Chinese companies as posing a threat to national security under a 2019 law aimed at protecting U.S. communications networks.
The FCC said the companies included Huawei Technologies Co, ZTE Corp, Hytera Communications Corp, Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co and Dahua Technology Co.
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The Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 requires the FCC to identify companies producing telecommunications equipment and services that have been found to pose an unacceptable risk to U.S. national security or the security and safety of U.S. persons.
Diet absorbs most of the focus but sleep may also play a role in reducing the belly fat.
A study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine suggests extremes of sleep can encourage visceral fat gain.
The findings suggest the causes of visceral fat extend beyond diet and inactivity.
We put a lot of stock in diet, said Kristen G Hairston, M.D., M.P.H., an assistant professor of endocrinology and metabolism and lead author on the study.
How to reduce visceral fat: Getting less than five hours sleep may raise your risk (Image: Getty Images) But this study brings up some interesting questions about the way we live. We may need to start looking at other behaviours - besides daily food choices - that could be contributing to the obesity epidemic in younger age groups.