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The handpan is a remarkable instrument that defies its ordinary name, and Tairua musician Taylor Sol plays it as part of his sound healing workshops. He has beautiful crystal quartz singing bowls and other healing sound instruments, all resonating peaceful vibrations to touch the heart and soul…

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My next stop was a dingy flat in a grey suburb with grey weather in a grey London. Somehow, I had envisaged a white Christmas with snow covered Christmas trees and lovely green holly decorating every doorway. This cold, dull, drizzly place wasn’t what the doctor ordered, so a few of the flat’s occupants, including myself, hatched a cunning plan to escape and head south through France and Spain to the warm, sunny beaches of southern Morocco. Seven of us chipped in and bought an old Ford Transit van with a few mattresses in the back and off we went...

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As the chill of winter approaches, it's a great time to prepare your home for the colder months ahead. Areas often overlooked when it comes to heat loss prevention are windows and doors. The theory behind achieving insulation is to form spaces to trap the air flowing from ‘A’ to ‘B’. When you minimise heat transfer through glass, you keep the warmth in and keep the cold out. This results in keeping heating costs down. As the chill of winter approaches, it's a great time to prepare your home…

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Hi, my name is Sienna and I am 12 years old, from Thames. I currently go to Parawai School and am a Year 8. Last year I was old enough to compete in my first year at the AIMs games in Tauranga for Gymnastics. I've been doing gymnastics competitively…

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Born and Raised is our inspirational feature, highlighting homegrown Coromandel Peninsula peeps doing wonderful things out in the world.

In this edition: Tanya Johnston Sannuto

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Today we’ll dive into ‘Nutritional Information’ labels. Much like the requirement to identify ingredients on food packaging, manufacturers have to include a macro breakdown on each food label sold in New Zealand. But what does macro mean? Our food is made up of three macronutrients…

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In conversation the other day someone mentioned “In its heyday …”, and it made me think about what’s happening in this millennium of great invention and apparent progress. I noted recently that vinyl records have now exceeded CD sales by quite a margin. It’s not that long ago that CDs were heralded as the greatest sound recording, but eventually something called a cube was…

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From their arrival here, c1350, Māori developed a communications network using waterways and foot tracks along the shore and through forests. Ocean-going waka plied the coast and fished in Tīkapa Moana, while smaller dugout waka tiwai navigated rivers. James Cook and his party were the first…

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After having accomplished the breakthrough of the so-called ‘transformer’ technology into the mastery of language as seen in ChatGPT and similar applications, AI now converses fluently in most written languages including te reo. After gaining the ability to ‘understand’ and implement complex tasks, engineers have been busily working on principles to make these systems

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I’d like to think I’m a pretty forgiving person. When people have wronged me in the past, I’ve always said that all I really need from them is a good, heartfelt apology, and then I’ll be ready to move on. In my mind, an apology was always kind of a magic spell that fixed everything. But I’m starting to understand now that that’s not true…

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