Sideswipe: February 17: Give Way tree
16 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Way up Klondyke Rd. Out past Onewhero en route to Port Waikato the high way!
A hairy tale People on TikTok have been sharing some strange things they can do with their bodies as you can imagine it s an absolute horror show of people who are hyperflexible, and I say this as somebody who can spin my arm through 540 degrees. But then there was this: When I was 2 years old, my mom slammed a door shut on my finger and it ripped off the top piece of my finger. This was back in the 90s and I got a skin graft. For skin grafts, surgeons take a patch of healthy skin from another area of your body for use on the injured part. For most people, this would be an arm or a leg, but her medical team didn t want the scar to grow as she grew. So they took it from my groin area, she explained. My bikini line. I got home with the cast, I dunked my hand in the toilet and it got wet inside the cas
Pangong Tso disengagement: Three key takeaways as India, China finally break the deadlock The Pangong Tso disengagement is by no means the end of the Ladakh standoff, as both troops are still deployed offensively at Gogra-Hot Springs, Galwan Valley and Depsang Plains, that should be part of the next stage of extrication Sreemoy Talukdar February 15, 2021 18:43:49 IST File image released by the Indian Army shows military disengagement near Pangong in Ladakh. AFP
Almost nine months into the military standoff in Ladakh along the LAC, India and China have announced that a limited and phased disengagement of troops is under way from February 10 on the northern and southern banks of Pangong Tso the first tentative strides of a multi-step, protracted process expected to last weeks, if not months, before a final disengagement and de-escalation is achieved on term
Why power wires sometimes ‘dance’ to an undetectable breeze
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Print article On these quiet, still days, as winter plods on, Alaskans tend to notice any movement outside their windows, such as dancing power wires strung between poles. The answer as to why the wires bounce is in Neil Davis’ “Alaska Science Nuggets.” First, though, a refresher on that book a compilation of 400 of these columns and why you are reading this right now. Neil Davis was a do-all scientist at UAF’s Geophysical Institute from the 1960s to the 1980s. He started this column in 1976 at the urging of a newspaper editor.