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IN a bid to empower and connect the music industry across regional NSW, MusicNSW has appointed five regional-based team members, with Ali Buckley’s territory including the Mid North Coast. The team’s remit is to deliver development opportunities and work to expand touring circuits across regional NSW, thanks to a four-year funding commitment by Create NSW....
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RSPCA’s Million Paws Walk on Sunday 28 May saw a great turn-out of around 100 people and their pups in Coffs Harbour adding to the 4,000-plus who joined across NSW in Australia’s biggest doggy day out to raise funds to fight animal cruelty. The sun shone on the bright and chilly morning at Park Beach...
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COFFS Harbour Regional Landcare (CHRL) President Barry Powells keenly welcomed volunteer teams of planters from John Paul College (JPC) Coffs Harbour, City of Coffs Harbour’s Coastal Work bush regeneration team members and GeoLINK staff, who gathered on Boambee Headland on Tuesday 23 May to plant over 400 trees. Some 200 trees were once again donated...
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Greenville, CA — Pines and firs parched by a three-year drought had been burning for days on a ridge 1,000 feet above my remote mountain town. On August 4, 2021, the flames suddenly flared into a heat so intense it formed a molten cloud the color of bruised flesh. As that sinister cumulus rose above an oval-shaped reservoir, it collapsed, sending red-hot embers down the steep slopes toward Greenville in a storm of torched trees and exploding shrubs. It took less than 30 minutes for the Dixie fire to transform my town’s tarnished Gold Rush charm into a heap of smoldering hand-hewn timbers and century-old brick walls. Minutes earlier, the last of the nearly 1,000 residents had bolted, some in... Read more
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – June 4, 2023
by Tony Wikrent
Why elites are misanthropic
Billionaires and the Evolution of Overconfidence
[The Garden of Forking Paths, via The Big Picture 5-31-2023]
To understand billionaires, you need to understand horizontal inequality, illusory control, self-selection bias, quantified self-worth, and the evolution of overconfidence.
What would you do if you suddenly had a billion dollars?
The way you answer that question will tell you something about how likely you are to become a billionaire in the first place.
“It is a trope of twentieth and twenty-first century-life that governments faced with financial shortfalls look first to the services they provide their citizens when making cuts. Instances like these …
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