Thats a hefty haul for the Cavs therefar better than what Jimmy Butler and Paul George got this offseason, though neither of those players, to public knowledge, forced a teams hand quite the way Irving apparently did. Now the deal is done, and Kyries return raised more than a few eyebrows, even those of true believers in his talent.
Forget the market then what about critical consensus Broadly it seems clear that the Cavs just made themselves viable and flexible for the near future, but this trade is much harder to assess from the Celtics vantage point. In finance, an exchange rate also known as a foreignexchange rate, forex rate, ER, FX rate or Agio between two currencies is the rate at which one currency will be.
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Unfortunately for the The Jackal. Last year the government turned the ETS into a farce , flooding the market with 7 million tons of extra pollution in a failed and counterproductive effort to keep carbon prices low.
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister has announced that he intends to abolish the death penalty : Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape says his government is doing away with the death penalty and those now on death row will instead serve life sentences without parole. Marape told members of While so much of Pundit By Tim Watkin. I might not be very good at maths but I never bought into the developing "Omicron is the Covid we can live with" narrative.
I remember reading that Omicron was about half as likely to end you in hospital as delta was Left hand palm By lurgee. The air is filled with the scent of patchouli and hand-crafted leather. There are troll figurines and fairies for sale, alongside crystals and dream-catchers. This is an adapted repost of the educators' resource page on CrankyUncle. Cranky Uncle uses cartoons, humor, and logic-based inoculation to build resilience against misinformation — an ideal tool for teaching critical thinking to students.
This page features resources for educators interested in using Cranky Uncl e the game or the book The US has kept people imprisoned without trial - sometimes without even charges - for twenty years now. Most of those kidnapped by the US have since died or been released, but 39 remain Back in , in what they trumpeted as a victory for the environment, the government banned new offshore oil exploration permits. But the victory was short-lived: two-faced Labour immediately started to undermine it , extending permits and changing conditions to try and keep the industry they had "banned" alive.
And there's C ompared to Covid and climate change, the threat from plastics seems like a low rent version of planetary disaster. Can that plastic bottle, this fast food plastic knife and fork, and the plastic packaging wrapped around everything from supermarket fruit to toys to consumer durables really be omens of the Gordon Campbell By lyndon.
Although a well-intentioned rallying cry, it raises important questions about how the chant is to be interpreted. Unfortunately, 1. At need, however, she will put down her book and take up a sword. Never has that need been greater. Only when we remember who we are, where we have The Future That Got Away: Rob Sitch's ineffectual idealist, Tony Woodfood played by himself attempts to convince a fellow "nation-builder" that Australia's utopian future will be somewhere around here, and about this big, if the planning application is successful, and Canberra doesn't change its mind.
As his eponymous TV series It's official: was Aotearoa's hottest year on record. And the climate chaos is now affecting milk production : Challenging pasture growing conditions have prompted Fonterra to revise its forecast milk collections to 1. A bit belated perhaps, but A Phuulish Fellow By strda Back in November, the government introduced a new, "more ambitious" climate change target, which turned out to not be very ambitious at all.
Quite apart from the funny accounting, the target will be met primarily through "international mitigation" rather than, say, cuts to agricultural emissions. Overseas readers might be curious to learn that Omicron has still not arrived in the New Zealand community, so our supermarket shelves are still functioning.
And indeed that the August Delta outbreak is well on its way to dying out within the next month or so. The reasons for I had thought or hoped that, as we turned into the New Year, the Herald would give us a break or put another record on. But, presumably because they have nothing new to say, the Herald has begun by re-publishing the columns written last year by their Bryan Gould By Bryan Gould.
Just sent the following submission in on the law repealing the three strikes sentencing regime. You have until midnight tonight if you want your say. I am a barrister with an interest in criminal law issues.
Public Address. Pundit By Brian Easton. Happy New Year everyone. I am, by personal and professional inclination, loathe to speculate on uncertain future events. On the other hand, I have an abiding interest in distant political processes even though I cannot claim particular analytic expertise when considering them.
Thus, when watching the recent Chilean presidential election Kiwipolitico By Pablo. Of late, ACT and National Incidental rainmaking with utility-scale PV? Ths week's geoengineering section includes an article that focuses not on planetary cooling but instead a surprising possible feature of decarbonization, for certain circumstances.
The analysis treats a particular geographic context and so it's not possible to say how widely it could be replicated. The All-Too-Visible Hand: Most people are surprised to learn how recently this idea: that the greatest say rightly belongs to the greatest number; took root in human societies. Others might Stuff has a story about the holiday road toll, and police saying they are "disappointed" and "frustrated" that it is so high.
Meanwhile, on Sunday, the Herald pointed out why it is so high: because police haven't been doing their job : [F]or a couple of years now, police enforcement Graham Adams reports. They have condemned in a statement published in Manila Redline By Admin. It may interest you to know that the only piece of Peter Jackson movie-related paraphernalia I actually own is a jigsaw puzzle.
Specifically, a thousand-piece Two Towers-themed one. This is a re-post from Carbon Brief Extreme weather events across the world this year have been hitting the headlines at an alarming rate. To name a few, has seen flooding in central Europe , China and New York , a record temperature of With each tragic event comes the question of whether human-caused Well, well.
Looks like I owe a nameless someone an apology. This being the final installment for , I'd be interested to know how helpful this summary blog post is, so please leave a comment if you check Back in November , the New York Times got a fair bit of blow-back, after putting out a tweet about H.
Wells inventing the genre of science-fiction: With Jules Verne Well done and goodbye to the back of New Zealand and Australia have swapped places from , Germany has gained a place, Sweden has gained two places, India has The year we are about to depart has been a frustrating one for the New Zealand medicinal cannabis community. A cluster of companies established to produce and distrubute legal cannabis products ran up against a regulatory scheme that sometimes seemed unworkable and informal growers and green fairies struggled to see a Both are certain to spawn variants of unpredictable virulence from the original strain.
But, as happened with the Pandemic, the unfolding of the Co-Governance Debate is proceeding in ways determined by the decisions Due to data source limitations we do not have an exact count but at least 30, researchers contributed to findings covered in It is the time of the year for reflection so let me share with you a problem which is puzzling me. It arises from the book, In Open Seas , I am writing about our future prospects.
The problem may be summarised that while I can write easily about the evolution Things were definitely looking up on the New Zealand Coronavirus front.
The Auckland Delta Outbreak was dwindling down to levels last seen in September, and it remains entirely possible barring accidents that the thing finally dies out at some point in late January or early February.
At which point If this is so, it is significant. It would be the only uniquely human attribute. A dog will never tease you. A dog is direct and forthright. If humour is endemic to humans it is at least part of what distinguishes us from other animals. It may be the only thing that distinguishes us from them, as there is nothing else that I can think of that does.
All animals have intelligence, at least to a degree, above a certain level of complexity. Some animals show preference for attractive appearance or display particularly birds which may be the basis of our aesthetic sense, but no animal, so far as I know shows a sense of humour.
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