Hastings: Frimley School students travel to Sir Edmund Hillary s Antarctic hut
23 Feb, 2021 01:39 AM
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Frimley School student s Evanaleeigh Collier, Evie Peterson and Antarctic Heritage Trust s Sarah Bouckoms using the VR set to walk through of Sir Edmund Hillary s Antarctic hut.Photo / Warren Buckland
Frimley School student s Evanaleeigh Collier, Evie Peterson and Antarctic Heritage Trust s Sarah Bouckoms using the VR set to walk through of Sir Edmund Hillary s Antarctic hut.Photo / Warren Buckland
Hawkes Bay Today
By: Louise Gould
Scott Base s oldest building, a hut built by a Sir Edmund Hillary-led team to Antarctica, was at Frimley School in Hastings on Tuesday – virtually.
Covid 19 coronavirus: This 105-year-old beat Covid. She credits gin-soaked raisins
23 Feb, 2021 08:09 PM
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Lucia DeClerck s extended family travelled from several states to celebrate her 104th birthday last January, before the onset of the pandemic. Photo / Shawn V. Laws O Neil via The New York Times
New York Times
By: Tracey Tully
Lucia DeClerck, the oldest resident of her New Jersey nursing home, tested positive for the virus on her 105th birthday, one day after her second vaccine shot. Ask Lucia DeClerck how she has lived to be 105, and she is quick with an answer. Prayer. Prayer. Prayer, she offers. One step at a time. No junk food.
Breakers Restaurant building up for sale
22 Feb, 2021 02:32 AM
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Owner Neville Gorrie is sad to be selling the Heretaunga Street site after three decades. Photo / Paul Taylor
Owner Neville Gorrie is sad to be selling the Heretaunga Street site after three decades. Photo / Paul Taylor
What might be the oldest continuously liquor-licensed premises in Hastings is up for sale after about 30 years under the current owner. Neville Gorrie has listed the site on the corner of Heretaunga St East and Karamu Rd, which is currently home to Breakers Restaurant and Bar 2013, with Harcourts.
He said he is sad about letting the site go, but it has become necessary as he lives in Whanganui where he intends to stay for the rest of his life.
These 10 Lovely Log Cabins Are Perfect Places To Get Cozy This Winter
These 10 Lovely Log Cabins Are Perfect Places To Get Cozy This Winter
We scoped out listings from coast to coast in search of log cabins, and found 10 places where it s always a great time to snuggle in front of the fireplace.
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As we slog through this uniquely horrible winter, let s turn our attention to cozy and warm thoughts. In terms of real estate, that means log cabins.
These rustic structures are the favorite comfy sweaters of the housing world, and we d like to slide right into each one of the 10 below. We scoped out listings from coast to coast to round up these lovely log cabins, where it s always a great time to snuggle in front of the fireplace.
The First Example of Hybrid Speciation in Ancient DNA
The new study has also amplified the ability for researchers to track the evolutionary process of speciation – the formation of new and distinct species. A
Nature press release states that this process generally occurs “over time periods that are thought to be beyond the limits of DNA research.”
A tusk from a woolly mammoth discovered in a creek bed on Wrangel Island in 2017. (Credit: Love Dalén)
Nonetheless, the scientists’ study of the mammoth DNA suggests that there was not one, but two different lineages of mammoth alive during the Early Pleistocene in the region of what is now eastern Siberia. Adycha and Chukochya are believed to be members of a species that spawned the woolly mammoth, but Krestovka appears to come from an unknown, and possibly entirely new, mammoth lineage. Tom van der Valk, the study’s lead author and a bioinformatician at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, explains the researchers’