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About 4000 homes in Ashburton are still at risk of flooding, with another 24 hours of “waiting and watching” ahead, the district's mayor says.

Rising river levels forced the urgent evacuation of dozens of homes in North Canterbury, while thousands of Ashburton residents were on standby as river waters threatened the town's stop banks.

The Christchurch Art Centre's great hall was packed full of people doing maths in disguise on Sunday. Nine craft stations were set up with one goal - to engage as many people as possible in the subject so many of us fear.  "What's happening here is sort of deeply mathematical, but it's also not what a lot of people experience as mathematics," says University of Canterbury mathematics lecturer David Pomeroy. The format proved appealing to all ages and stages - and it works. "It's brilliant," says mother Hannah. "They don't really realise they're doing maths, just having fun and definitely lea...

Mar 11 2021 Read 173 Times Author: Jacqueline Balian on behalf of Gambica Trade Association Free to read Unlock One of the lovely things about being part of an association, is that you get to meet all the interesting people from the industry and recently, when I was one of the judging panel for the GAMBICA awards, I met many of the brilliant young talented people who are starting their careers in the life sciences industry. The GAMBICA Rising Stars award entries demonstrate that we have a bumper crop of talented and able young people poised to take the industry forward and...

big trouble and its counter parties demanded cash or refused to fund aig and coming under tremendous pressure. now the failure of aig in our estimation would have been basically the end. it was interacting with so many different firms. it was so interconnected with both the u.s. and the european financial systems, global banks. we were quite concerned that if aig went bankrupt that we would not be able to control the crisis any further. fortunately perspective of lender of last resort theory, aig has taken a lot of losses in its financial products division but underlying those losses...