News by Jennifer Johnson,
After nearly a decade of observing the aftermath of environmental crises in Oregon, Anton Chiono ’06 knew he wanted to be part of a solution.
During the “Timber Wars” of the ‘80s and early ‘90s, when the Pacific Northwest battled to preserve endangered species and federal forests, he was a child living in rural Summer Lake, an Oregon ranching and logging town. When Summer Lake s sawmill closed, many of his parents’ friends lost jobs. Some moved on. Others never recovered.
No matter what reasoning could be given for such a closure that globalization had depressed demand for domestic forest products and cheaper timber could be sourced from abroad, that the culmination of decades of short-term policy decisions and inexorable global economic trends led to this outcome Chiono realized little could salve the loss of the town’s primary economic driver.
The Conversation: Government funds are not taxpayer money media and politicians should stop confusing the two
19 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Try not paying your income tax and see what the courts do. Money payable through taxes is the Government s property. Photo / File
Try not paying your income tax and see what the courts do. Money payable through taxes is the Government s property. Photo / File
Whanganui Chronicle
By: Jonathan Barrett
Rhetoric plays an important role in tax debate and therefore tax policy. If your side manages to gain traction in the public imagination with labels such as death tax or dementia tax , you have gone a long way to normalising the labels and winning support.
Posted January 19th, 2021 for Eton College
Indian students contemplating safer and more affordable options closer to home, but are still planning to study abroad, can now take advantage of Eton College Canada’s partnership agreement with Punjab’s premier institution, the Rayat-Bahra University (RBU), to establish an Eton Global Location on campus.
Vancour,BC, Canada., January 18, 2021 - /PressReleasePoint/ -Indian students contemplating safer and more affordable options closer to home, but are still planning to study abroad, can now take advantage of Eton College Canada’s partnership agreement with Punjab’s premier institution, the Rayat-Bahra University (RBU), to establish an Eton Global Location on campus.
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MetService
How weather predictions are made. This is an example of a MetService three-day rain forecasting model, mapping out what kind of weather we re in for.
EXPLAINER: If you want a weather forecast you can choose from many different providers – but sometimes their forecasts clash. The reasons why come down to complex international models, stunning supercomputers, and human judgement. On the morning of Tuesday, January 12, the MetService website, the AccuWeather app, and Apple’s weather app (powered by IBM’s Weather Channel) told different stories. .
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How Apple, AccuWeather, and MetService called the weather in Christchurch on Tuesday, January 12, 2021.