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Looks original on the outside, but this Galant VR-4 has had a lot of mechanical work.. The car was imported to NZ about 10,000km ago.
The photos are just a selection of the completely documented build of the vehicle and they speak volumes about the quality of the parts selection and the level of the work performed.
Dyne Tuned to 230kw (310hp) and 405nm (300ft/lb). Add a larger intercooler and a set of 272 cams and this build will deliver well into the 300kw range.
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Datsun Stanza SSS. Silver on black - very rare car with most of these treated terribly and sent to the wreckers. One of the last Datsun SSS vehicles before the name change to Nissan. Got a few others on the register here. This one was located in VIC in 2019. Very original, just needs a clean up.
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It starts and drives fine, and the interior is in good condition and original LS. Body number and engine number match all records. See the photos for more information. Low ball prices and ridiculous offers will not be responded to. If you are looking for a genuine, 95% original 1275LS, then give me a call.. Test drives are available, although vehicle is not currently registered.
Great in Gold - this HK GTS was advertised in March 2019. The owner noted it is the 3030th manufactured GTS of its type to be built at the Pagewood Assembly Plant in NSW. It was resprayed around 2015 in the original Inca Gold metallic, retaining the original Buckskin Beige 18X vinyl interior. The majority of the interior is still original trim. Fitted with a 350 Chev V8 and four speed manual transmission with the 10 bolt diff.
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Only the 3rd on our little register, this 1988 Nissan gts-x was advertised on trademe NZ in March 2019 asking $10,500. Looks a little rough but quite original - would suit someone looking for an easy project, to bring it back to all factory spec and get the factory Nissan dish wheels back on it :).
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Advertised on Trademe NZ - this one was sitting there for a few months by the time we added it to classic register.. Asking $20,000 it seems to be in reaosable condition for the price.. The seller at the time noted the car is a barn find in original condition, with its 225ci slant six motor that runs well. According to the seller at the time it has all its original paint with factory stripes does have dings and dents around it. The factory radio still works on AM in the dash.The Front seats have covers on them for a reason they do need work.
Located in Victoria, this genuine 1978 Leyland Mini LS 1275 is in excellent condition, with only 45,602 km on the odometer.
One of approximately 800 1275 LS cars built, the car is finished in its original Nugget Gold paint, with chocolate brown cloth / creme vinyl trim. The 1275 LS benefited from a number of unique features, many of which were only available on foreign models, such as 8.4" disc brakes, the larger capacity 1275cc engine and 12" wheels as standard. The LS also benefited from unique interior trim - only available in two colours.
The car has been kept in storage for a number of years and only removed periodically to be driven. Therefore, the body is in excellent condition with no visible rust. The interior trim is in good condition but could do with a clean-up.
The car runs well, the engine is sound and the brakes are strong. As the car has only been driven periodically, the engine will need a service and check-up. The car is registered in Victoria, but will be sold without a roadworthy certificate. The current plates can be transferred at the time of sale.
The original motor number was 12H902UH00638. However, a new engine has since been installed with serial number 12YDTAH14105. This is a 1275cc block from a Morris 1100S of very similar specification to the cars original engine.
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1978 LS1275 rebuilt from the ground up. Stripped back to the metal. All rust cut out & replaced with steel. Floor sand blasted inside & out then coated with stone guard to protect against future rust problems.Engine is not the original but is era specific. Original wheels & hubcaps. Interior rebuilt, new carpet, headliner & seats rebuilt ( could not replace with the original fabric ) Door cards are untouched. Modern Dat/ bluetooth radio with classic look fitted. Paint is colour matched to HIHO Silver from 1978, side decals & pinstrip custom made.


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Nebraska remains today much as it has been for the last 150 years—a center of farming and ranching. Most of the state, in fact, is farm and ranching land. Earlier in its history, American Indians hunted and grew crops here. During the mid-1850s, thousands of pioneers traveled through Nebraska's prairies on their way to California, Oregon, and Utah.
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- According to writer Willa Cather, Mormon pioneers planted sunflowers as they headed west through Nebraska and other states to create a trail for later travelers.
- The 300-foot tall Chimney Rock, now a national historic site, was a well-known and comforting landmark for westbound pioneers.
- Rodeos are still a favorite entertainment in Nebraska. Burwell has hosted The Big Rodeo for more than 80 years.
- Nebraska is bordered by Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, Iowa, and Missouri. Summers are warm and dry; winters are cold and windy.
- Meatpacking is big business in Nebraska. Omaha is a center for insurance and finance.
- Mammoths were among the first residents of present-day Nebraska. Their remains have been found in every county there. Scientists estimate that 10 mammoths are buried in each square mile of the state.
- In Alliance, sits Carhenge, a replica of Stonehenge, the famous English circle of stones, made out of cars.
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Population: 1,826,341
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Largest city: Omaha (population, 458,958)
State bird: western meadowlark
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Question: Whom did early farmers buy the land from?
Answer: The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed homesteaders to receive 160 acres of farmland in Nebraska or other western and Midwestern states. In return, the homesteaders agreed to build homes and farm the land for at least five years. If they could survive five years of backbreaking work and uncertain harvests, the land was theirs.
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The Gap Concept is probably the most important preflop principle that exists in poker. Despite its importance, many online poker players don't even know it exists – but more or less all of them use it in their decision making.
The gap concept basically states that you'll need a better hand to call an opening bet preflop then you would to open the betting yourself. The difference in hand strength required in the two scenarios is known as the gap.
How Does the Gap Concept Help Me?
The gap concept is pivotal in cash games and multi-table tournaments (MTT Strategy). It effectively helps you pick out which hands to play, and when you'll be behind in a hand.
For instance, in an online tournament, if you're in middle position and no one has opened the raising; then raising with AJ is a good idea.
You're quite likely not to get called by anyone and will take the pot down there. If you're in later position however and there has been a raise (typically 2-4 times the Big Blind); then regardless of callers you should lay the hand down because it's not good enough to call via the gap concept.
A raise in early position tends to signify a stronger hand than in late position; so chances are if you call you'll already be behind on the flop.
The Gap Concept and 3Betting
The gap concept is extremely useful in poker when holding premium hands or pocket pairs.
If there an opening raise in a pot gets re-raised and then raised again (3betting – a 3rd bet), than the gap concept states that the player must be holding a hand with the strength of JJ or above. This means any situation where you're playing pocket pairs of 1010 or under you should fold preflop.
Although many players will naively disagree and call regardless of pot value to see the river; the fact that there has been so many raises and re-raises ensures a premium hand such as KK is in the mixer.
Problems with the Gap Concept
The biggest problem that presents itself in modern day poker is that too many people are aware of the gap concept. This means more players, particular in tournaments, will try to bluff players and squeeze play opponents out of the pot.
Knowing their re-raise or even opening raise carries such strong fold equity, more player players are taking advantage of this fact so the gap concept is losing its credibility.
For instance, with the increasing number of bluffs and value shoves in poker tournaments in the later stages, the gap concept can sometimes feel like a useless concept at times.
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In the series of our reviews, we are covering the handiest solutions for publishers and advertisers. In our constant pursuit to give maximum value to every advertising entity, we'll reveal an amazing free tool for programmatic ad buying for advertisers: Demand-Side Platform for Self-Serve Advertising. Created by Epom, DSP is tailored to a major goal: easing the process of buying targeted traffic programmatically from different publishers in one account with a few clicks.With Epom DSP for self-serve advertising account, there is no need to establish partnerships with numerous ad networks to find the necessary traffic and negotiate prices. Based on RTB technology, the demand-side platform enables buying unlimited traffic volumes automatically at reasonable bids. Demand-side platform cuts off the manual work and leaves no space for human mistakes.
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DSP for self-serve advertising is the platform where you can quickly setup desktop, mobile, and in-app ad campaigns & buy relevant traffic worldwide programmatically. You gain absolute control over your campaign performance, track conversions & other essential metrics in real-time and optimize ad campaigns.
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The platform connects you to the top publishers to buy traffic directly: Pubmatic, Smaato, InMobi, Mobfox, indexExchange to name a few.Just in a year, Epom DSP has become a must-use solution for over 1500 companies.
Feel intrigued? Let's walk through the features that help advertisers buy and manage high-quality impressions easily at any time and place.
Users are being targeted from everywhere, so ads without proper targeting have become a white noise. Working with the intermediaries, advertisers can't usually see the results they expected. The demand-side platform provides the necessary tools to create a high-impact ad campaign and scale it effectively based on real-time data. Let's walk through the features we liked most in Epom's DSP for self-serve advertising.
Bidding Autopilot automates performance optimization with a system of bidding rules that cut off the manual campaign management and deliver outstanding returns on marketing budgets. Bidding Autopilot works on "If This Then That" basis. For example, if the advertiser buys 10,000 impressions from a specific domain and doesn't receive a single conversion, this domain will be blacklisted automatically. If conversions start arriving even before the first thousand of impressions runs out, the platform puts this domain on the whitelist automatically.
A DSP helps you get hard-to-reach traffic from 35+ SSPs within an Epom DSP account. Instant access to premium inventory has never been easier: you get the most converting traffic from the top SSPs like inMobi, indexExchange, Pubmatic, Smaato, Mobfox, and others with a few clicks.There's no need to set up ad campaigns on multiple platforms and worry about duplicated traffic - DSP double-checks the incoming traffic with powerful fraud protection tools.
A DSP helps you get hard-to-reach traffic from 35+ SSPs within an Epom DSP account. Instant access to premium inventory has never been easier: you get the most converting traffic from the top SSPs like inMobi, indexExchange, Pubmatic, Smaato, Mobfox, and others with a few clicks.There's no need to set up ad campaigns on multiple platforms and worry about duplicated traffic - DSP double-checks the incoming traffic with powerful fraud protection tools.
Precise targeting options enable you to hit the target audience effectively by showing them relevant ads. Epom DSP has more than 30 precise targeting options including OS, app type, domain URL to name a few. Overview real-time statistics (the data is updated every 1,5 sec) and generate granular reports to control ad performance.Track impressions, conversions, and other essential metrics and efficiently optimize ad campaigns to your business goals.
The process of creating an account is pretty easy — after signing up, you get the advertiser's account with a user-friendly interface. We got the email with a quick setup guide with the comprehensive explanation of the major features.
Epom DSP works on a pre-payment account system, which means that you need a minimum deposit (at Epom it's $100) to start running the ad campaign.
You can pay by credit card or Paypal which means the money will get to your account within a minute. As the platform usage is free, the whole amount of money you pay goes straight to your ad account.
Aside from that, we love the "TRUE" real-time reporting which has only 1.5 seconds delay compared to most ad platforms where the delay can reach 24 hours.
The support team is extremely quick and helpful — they guided us through custom metrics we wanted to track, giving extensive answers about ad campaign targeting.
While everyone's going crazy over mobile and video, abandoning desktop, Epom Market provides multi-screen advertising experience.
While writing this review, Epom DSP for self-serve advertising hasn't yet released its video formats, which are extremely popular among the vast majority of advertisers. However, the support team ensured us that video ads are to be added soon.
Epom hit the market in 2010, as an ad serving solution startup funded by venture capital. Eight years later they have grown into a successful ad tech company with full-scale solutions for digital advertising.
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When the weather gets warm, the tank tops and swimsuits come out -- as do the razors, tweezers and hot wax. Women go to great lengths to look smoother and sexier during the summer, and that includes shaving those underappreciated underarms.
Of course, skin problems can arise when people shave. The most common underarm skin issues are the bumps and discoloration that usually come from shaving. Doctors call those unsightly, irritating red bumps folliculitis, which is an infection of the hair follicles [source: Mayo Clinic]. Lest you think that folliculitis is little more than a nuisance, keep in mind that the condition can be painful and can actually cause permanent baldness and scarring.
The skin underneath our arms can get irritated even when it's not being constantly scraped by a razor. The reason for this is simple. Human skin is home to trillions of bacteria [source: Pennisi]. Researchers are only beginning to understand the complex relationship between the human body and the army of microscopic creatures that reside on the surface of our skins. One thing's for sure: The damp, warm underarm area is an oasis for bacterial life [source: DeNoon].
We've assembled the top five tips for keeping the skin underneath your arms healthy, smooth and soft -- even after the rigors of shaving. Let's start with a good exfoliation.
Exfoliate Regularly
Exfoliation is the process of scrubbing away dead skin cells from the surface of the skin. If layers of dead skin are allowed to pile up, they can become a breeding ground for bacteria.
The underarm area deserves regular exfoliation as much as your face does. In fact, exfoliation is an ideal way to smooth and soften the underarm skin because the process exposes hair follicles, leading to a closer, smoother shave [source: Muniz]. It also unclogs pores and reduces the formation of acne.
To exfoliate the underarm, use a gentle exfoliating cleanser applied with a loofah, washcloth or your hand. If you want to exfoliate without taking a shower first, you can also try disposable exfoliating wipes. You can find them in any drug store.
Since exfoliation removes layers of skin, it's important to let the skin rejuvenate between treatments. To avoid skin irritation and damage, dermatologists recommend exfoliating the underarms no more than twice a week [source: Bergman].
Be a Sensitive Shaver
Shaving can be rough on sensitive underarm skin. Make sure that you use products free of common allergens and irritants, and that also help retain the skin's moisture levels.
You don't need to use a special shaving gel or cream for your underarms -- but avoid using soaps that contain deodorants, fragrances, alcohol or other ingredients that can dry out and irritate sensitive skin. Whether you use regular body soap or a special shaving gel, choose mild products that contain moisturizers.
This may sound obvious, but you should make sure that you use a new, sharp razor when you shave. Of course, you should use your own razor when you do so; shared razors spread bacteria. Don't push down too hard, either, because the blade can push bacteria into your hair follicles and cause infection [source: Monroe].
One of the best ways to be sensitive to your underarm skin is to shave less often. If you allow more time for the hair underneath your arms to grow, the skin there will retain more natural moisture and be less prone to irritation. That said, allowing your armpit hair to grow may be a luxury you can't afford during beach season.
Shave at Night
Shaving at night has nothing to do with the healing power of moonlight. In actuality, it's all about shaving your underarms when the skin has the most time to heal and rejuvenate.
During the day, your underarms accumulate a lot of sweat and bacteria. If you shave in the morning, you expose your recently shaved skin -- which is often raw and sensitive -- to an entire day's worth of bacterial invaders.
It's also common practice to apply antiperspirant or deodorant to your underarms right after shaving. This makes sense in the morning, because you want to protect yourself from excessive sweating and body odor during the day ahead. But as we mentioned earlier, recently shaved skin is highly sensitive to the chemicals in many antiperspirants and deodorants. So, applying deodorant directly after shaving will increase the likelihood of skin bumps, redness and irritation.
That's why some dermatologists recommend that you shave your underarms at night. This way, your underarm skin has time to repair itself from the shave before the onslaught of bacteria that comes from daytime sweating. It also allows the skin time to recover before you apply deodorant or antiperspirant in the morning.
Try Some Alternatives to Shaving
For many people, shaving isn't the ideal method for underarm hair management. During the process of shaving, you effectively scrape away layers of healthy skin cells. This constant abrasion often leaves skin feeling raw and irritated.
What's more, shaving is also a temporary fix. Depending on the color of your body hair and its growth rate, you may have to shave a couple times a week to stay smooth and soft.
Depilatory creams like Nair can be very harsh for sensitive underarm skin. The active ingredients in Nair -- potassium thioglycolate and calcium hydroxide -- attack the proteins in skin and hair [source: Di Justo]. So even if the hair falls out, the skin still might take a beating.
Waxing provides a slightly more permanent hair removal solution, but it can be extremely painful when used on the skin underneath the arms. The skin of the underarm is looser and softer than other skin, meaning it stretches more when the wax is pulled free. Plus, since the effects of waxing don't last forever, you'll have to endure this particular brand of agony every couple of months.
Electrolysis and laser hair removal are two of the most popular long-term hair removal solutions available today. Electrolysis is a time-consuming, but effective process where individual hairs are zapped directly at the follicle and tweezed out. Laser hair removal uses beams of targeted light to "destroy" the hair follicle [source: Mayo Clinic]. In reality, laser hair removal isn't permanent, but hair grows back much softer and lighter [source: Heppt].
Despite the disadvantages associated with some shaving alternatives, the biggest potential benefit is smoother, softer underarm skin for longer periods of time.
Use a Moisturizing Deodorant
If you already use special moisturizing products for your face, hands, feet, arms and legs, why skimp on your underarms? Even though the skin of your underarms is naturally moisturized by your own sweat, that area can get dry and irritated after shaving or from reactions to harsh deodorants and antiperspirants.
One solution is to use a deodorant that also contains moisturizers. There are several products on the market that are designed to provide smoother and softer underarm skin [source: Daily Beauty]. Some contain dimethicone, a moisturizing agent that helps replace the lipids that hold skin cells together. Others are made with a touch of olive oil, an effective natural moisturizer.
Moisturizing deodorants may also contain fragrances and chemicals that act as antiperspirants. If you find that you're sensitive to those ingredients, you can simply use the same moisturizer on your underarms that you use for the rest of your body.
For more beauty and skin care tips from HowStuffWorks, take a look at the links on the next page.
How do deodorants keep you from stinking?
Humans have tried for centuries to mask the scent emanating from their bodies, so what do deodorants do differently?
Related HowStuffWorks Articles
- Bergman, Elisabeth. "Summer Skin Makeover." Oprah.com. (September 7, 2009)http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/health/wellnessandprevention/slideshow2_ss_soh_200706_makeover
- Daily Beauty. "Younger Underarms." July 26, 2007 (September 10, 2009)http://www.newbeauty.com/dailybeauty/entry.aspx?ID=1125
- DeNoon, Daniel J. "Human Skin Alive with Bacteria." WebMD Health News. May 28, 2009 (September 7, 2009)http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/news/20090528/human-skin-alive-with-bacteria
- Di Justo, Patrick. "What's Inside: Nair Hair Remover, Feel the Burn!" Wired Magazine. December 20, 2007 (September 10, 2009)http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-01/st_nair
- Heppt, Wendy Korn. "Hair Removal How-To Guide." Prevention. (September 7, 2009)http://health.yahoo.com/beauty-treatment/hair-removal-how-to-guide/prevention--23328.html;_ylt=AuSTWJvTjh8UH3hs7zGU2_hLvs8F
- Mayo Clinic. "Folliculitis" (September 7, 2009)http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/folliculitis/DS00512
- Mayo Clinic. "Laser Hair Removal."http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/laser-hair-removal/MY00134
- Monroe, Valerie. "How Can I Avoid Underarm Razor Bumps?" O, The Oprah Magazine. (September 7, 2009)http://www.oprah.com/article/omagazine/val_omag_200712_razor
- Muniz, Alex. "Exfoliation: The Secret to Healthy Skin." Askmen.com. (September 10, 2009)http://www.askmen.com/fashion/fashiontip_200/248_fashion_advice.html
- Pennisi, Elizabeth. "Bacteria Are Picky About their Homes on Human Skin." Science. May 2008 (September 7, 2009)http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/320/5879/1001


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Planning hydration & nutrition for your virtual run
It doesn't matter if you are an experienced runner or a first timer, it is extremely important for everyone to plan their hydration and nutrition for a virtual run.
After the high of an event, it's time to take a break before setting a new goal.
By Benita Willis
So you've run the Gold Coast Airport Marathon and had a wonderful run or may not have done quite as well as you would have liked. Either way, you've felt the post race let down, maybe had too many big nights and sleep ins. You're ready for another challenge but what do you do?
Firstly, understand that it's perfectly fine to take a break for a while, in fact I recommend it after you've spent months of physical and emotional energy training for one particular event. The energy required to complete your goal event, regardless of the result, takes its toll on you and you need to give yourself some time to relax and recover. Once you feel ready to do some training again, it's perfectly normal to feel sluggish and lacking energy at first, this is as much mental as it is physical. You may even try to do the same run as you'd done before the event and lose confidence, putting off starting a new program for another week. You can get back to top shape again but the longer you remain in an indecisive state, the longer it takes to get back into a good training routine.
Start actioning your new plan to take you to the next event.
So, to get back on the horse, so to speak, you need to firstly figure out what you'd like to do next, whether that's another running event or even focusing on something different for a while. You could work on your speed and power and sign up to do some shorter races, using your extra time to start a new strength and conditioning program. Or you could step up in distance if you've just accomplished a 10km as your goal race, and try a half marathon. Or if you've done a few road races this year, why not try a trail race? Whatever you decide, set some goals (and these could be anything from just completing the event to a time based goal) and then figure out what you need to do to achieve them.
Work out a plan to take you through to the Gold Coast Airport Marathon. Your goal for the next event may change, but start to plan for either sticking to the same distance and aiming for a personal best, or embracing the next step to a longer distance. For most people, writing your goals down will help you remember why you're training so you can revisit them when needed.
Visit Qrun to see a list of Queensland-based running events to try, local groups you could join and more!
Benita Willis is a four-time Olympian and Australian female marathon record holder as well as an ambassador for the Gold Coast Airport Marathon and Recreational Running Manager for Qrun.
Benita holds the Australian women's record over 2km, 3km, 5km, 10km and the marathon and is well known for her 2004 World Cross Country Championship win in which she became the first Australian medalist and is still the last non-African to win the event.


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Fuel Recruitment have been awarded Large Business of the year at Leamington Business Awards. The trophy was picked up by Steve Willmore and Chris McCarthy at a packed ceremony held at the Royal Pump Rooms.
The awards are held annually to celebrate the wide range of businesses in Leamington, and winners are chosen based on public votes. The awards are also held to raise money for charity, with an incredible £3,000 donated to Molly Olly's Wishes on the night.
We'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone that took the time to vote for us, and congratulations to all the other award winners.


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It was also in 1990 that I joined the Hungarian PARA-Research Scientific Society managed by Dr. György Egely, and later I became the secretary of the organization. Here I set up research groups and organized lectures. This was the time when I started giving lectures on parapsychology, that I have been doing since than. I am popularizing this subject in Hungary, and reinforcing this profession. I also facilitate self-knowledge workshops. From 1994 I worked as a constant editor for the prominent Hungarian spiritual magazine called Elixir, which advocates the holistic health of body, mind and spirit. I worked as temporary editor of other periodicals too. From 1997 I was a specialist associate of another Hungarian magazine on natural medicine, member of the editorial committee of the magazine Új Elixir. From 2002 spring, I became editor in chief of the literary and philosophical magazine entitled Szintézis. At 2002 spring I became member of the Hungarian Association of Journalists. My main professional activities nowadays include being the manager and researcher of Szintézis Alternative University founded by Mária Szepes (a very famous Hungraian esoteric teacher) and professor Ervin László. I am also the chief of Szintézis PSI Labor -- for paranormal researches. I am also the a member of a shamanic drumming circle, specialist editor of an integrative documentary series on human understanding of the world at the Hungarian National TV and I am writing a literary work that I am planning to publish soon."
Tamás Paulinyi teaches for Integral Academy ESP and parapsychology at Integral Academy, and about some of the transpersonal phenomena of the psychic and subtle stages of development.
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I have also pointed out this year, that the JIG MAKER from the BAY, makes this:
I should point out that the Rustfri Svenskepilk Deco, does not seem to be available inside the US at this time. Also the price of this SS jacketed jig will make any GOM codfishermen do a double take.
We here at FISHING UNITED.COM have shown you a few options to keep costs down in buying fishing tackle, and a similar Norwegian designed chrome plated hammered jig was available this year. Just add heavy duty split rings, swivel and treble hook with tubing, gitzit or cod squid and your ready to go.
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. – Robert Fulghum
Angels in America?
Kids……Love Your Parents!
"Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother" – which is the first commandment with a promise – "that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth."
Exodus 20:12
I do not think children respect or appreciate their parents enough. One day you will look around and they will no longer be there. It is easy to push that thought to the background, especially if you're young, but when you begin to reach middle age it becomes more of a real, and sometimes lingering thought, and not a passing one. Not so easy to ignore!
My wish and prayer for today is that children will learn, sooner than later, how important their parents are to them. Truth is that if you would spend any amount of real-time thinking about it, you will probably realize how important your parents are to your life! And remember once they are gone, they are gone.
Your parents are your parents; like it or not your parents were instrumental in making you who you are, even if only for the fact that they were instruments used by God to get you here. Your parents are human beings with issues and childhoods…you are not the only person who has a story! We all have a story and they have theirs. Why do I say this? Because so many of us want to hold our parents responsible for the problems, pain, sad times…etc….of our lives. I totally get it….I really do!! But at some point we need to realize that they have their own stories, they had parents, parents who raised them a certain way and they are doing the best that they can with the tools they were given ( at being parents.) I KNOW this is hard for some to accept; some people are not ready to hear or accept this idea. Trust me when I say that one day, if you want it to, it will all make sense! Really it will!
Just keep growing, keep educating yourself and you will learn how to accept things that seem impossible today. We are all in charge of creating our own lives by the choices that we make!!
Love and Peace~ Christine


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I'm so sorry folks. I didn't know what I was doing. I was so drunk.
I went to an AA meeting, which didn't really help, but it stopped me from drinking for 2 hours. I've drunk so much over the last couple of days that I can't even think straight any more. I'm due to go back to work on Tuesday, and I'm freaking out. Can't face the narcissist. Can't face the exhausting responsibility. I need to go to my GP tomorrow, and I promise I will. I know now that I need help. I've drunk two bottles of wine today because of the anxiety, and now I'm still drinking. I can't go on like this. I broke down in tears at the meeting. I want to live. But, at the same time, I hate my life.
Please... don't worry. I'll go to bed now and call my surgery in the morning. If it means going sick from work, it does.
Thank you all for your concerns. I assure you all I'm not attention-seeking. My head is simply in a complete mess.
I'm so grateful to you all. Ellie... thank you xxx
Not me.. but the ND army.... ! You have a whole team behind you!


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I've been Krogering—going to Kroger grocery stores—for a lot of years now. Since I currently live in Covington, Kentucky, I go to the one on Madison Avenue. See, I don't always go down to the corner of happy and healthy (Walgreens/Covington). Sometimes I shake it up. Sometimes I don't want to pay outrageous prices (Walgreens/Covington).
A friend and I went to Kroger on Wednesday afternoon and the store was packed—too packed. When the grocery store is like this, that's when the stupid comes out in people or at least that's when I notice it. You know what I'm talking about—those customers who block aisles, who think they own the damn store. There was one customer in there who was so bad at doing this; I decided to avoid one entire aisle just to get away from her.
I remember writing about grocery shopping rage, wrote about it in February of 2004. It was called "Adventures in the Grocery Store." I wrote it for CityBeat, but apparently it's no longer on their web site. It's including in my Living Out Loud book however—just so you know.
Here's another one I wrote for CityBeat back in April of 2010 called Chicken Liver. This is a better one to link to anyway as it's less mean—just so you know that too.
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Rare firefighting memorabilia goes on auction block
Chicago Tribune
"Fire's a big collecting field people don't know about," says George Glastris, director of Skinner Auctioneers' Science & Technology department. Glastris is the specialist in charge of the first auction of firefighting memorabilia this house had conducted in 15 years, and likely the biggest one ever, both by numbers and quality, he says.
The Rare Fightfighting Memorabilia auction starts at 10 a.m. Nov. 10 at the Skinner Gallery in Bolton, Mass. Rare and one-of-a-kind items of memorabilia will go on the block. Most of the material comes from private collections.
Skinner had been planning the auction since January, but after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, considered postponing it. "Our friends and colleagues in the fire services were emphatic that we host the auction as planned," says Glastris. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Uniformed Firefighters Association Widows' and Children's Fund in New York City, in honor of the firefighters who died in the World Trade Center tragedy. Read the full article here
ANTIQUES; Dalmatians Not for Sale
The New York Times
A bright red 1926 Ford Model T fire chief's truck with the chief's white helmet still on the seat, a collection of antique toy firetrucks, an 1890's hose cart that required the brawn of 14 male pullers — these are just a few of the holdings in the Sag Harbor Firemen's Museum on Long Island. They were assembled by Thomas W. Horn Sr., a former fire chief who this year celebrated his 50th anniversary on the 165-member Sag Harbor Fire Department. Chartered by the state Legislature in 1803, it is the oldest volunteer squad in New York.
The museum is in a handsome Federal-style building erected by the First Presbyterian Church of Sag Harbor as a lecture hall in 1833. The pale green shingled structure with brick-red trim is on Church Street in the center of this former whaling village and within a National Historic District. The building retains its original potbellied stove, and a bell tower with a bell that can still be rung by hand.
'It's a guy thing," said George Glastris, the science and technology specialist at Skinner Inc., in Bolton, Mass., where the sale will be held. He said that the Skinner sale might be the largest auction of firefighting memorabilia ever held. "I cannot remember anything, even sales in England, coming close to this," he said. Read the full article here
Auctioning Off Digital History For Sale: A Key Element Of The First Computer.
A nearly four-foot-long gizmo bristling with vacuum tubes, wires and connectors that was the key element in the first digital electronic computer is up for auction tomorrow.
It is one of the "decade ring counters" that were placed in the innards of the 30-ton monster called ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, that a team led by two men at the University of Pennsylvania built during World War II for the U.S. Army.
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington has several in its ENIAC display in the National Museum of American History, but this one is believed to be the only one in private hands.
How much money could the vintage device command? The published estimate is $8,000 to $12,000, but "who knows? – that's my honest answer," George Glastris, a Skinner official, said. Glastris said he expected most bidders to be private individuals rather than institutions. Has he contacted Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates? "We can't discuss who we talk to," he said. Read the full article here
ANTIQUES; Child's Play The Way It Used to Be
The New York Times
R2D2, meet Barbie. Vintage toys and dolls are in, not that they ever went out. There are specialty auctions, Web sites, collector clubs, swap meets. There are sales four times a year in Gaithersburg, Md., as well as the twice yearly Atlantique Fairs, sales that attract tens of thousands to Atlantic City. There are more than 80 dealers on nadda.org, the Web site of the National Antique Doll Dealers Association.
"It's a baby boomer thing," said George Glastris, head of the toy and doll department at Skinner, the Boston auction house. "It's about nostalgia and recapturing our youth, even for 35-year-old yuppies like me. The robots are a guy thing. Dolls are for girls."
He said tomorrow's auction at Skinner, with 694 lots, is its biggest toy sale to date. The sale includes wind-up toys, lithographed tinplate vehicles, dolls, 18th-century Neapolitan creche figures, toy soldiers, cast iron banks, board games, puzzles and robots. Read the full article here
ARTS/ARTIFACTS; Prehistoric Relics Ride a Roller Coaster
The New York Times
SPURRED BY THE HOOPLA OVER "Jurassic Park," the top grossing film of all time, fossil frenzy escalated to record levels last year. At trade shows and auctions here and abroad, exotica of all sorts, from dinosaur eggs to prehistoric skeletons, starred as the collectibles of the 1990's. Then, suddenly, supplies exceeded demands for even the most spectacular of ancient remains and the market fizzled.
Two weeks ago, the majority of the costliest items offered at Bonham's, the London house that has become the most aggressive in organizing such auctions, went unsold during the largest sale of natural history material in memory. Now the experts are wondering whether the phenomenal interest in some of Earth's oldest and most esoteric objects was a fluke.
In the summer of 1992, dinosaur eggs began to command high prices: a seven-inch-long one was bought at Christie's in London for $10,444, the highest price ever for this kind of relic. "That dinosaur egg had everything going for it," says George Glastris, one of Christie's natural-history specialists. Found in southern France, it was in good condition, free of earth and rock, and the first of its kind to come to auction in years.
Read the full article here
Baltimore dental museum acquires instruments fit for a queen's cuspids
The Baltimore Sun
LONDON — "They're cheering in Baltimore," said Christie's specialist when the auctioneer knocked down Queen Victoria's personal dental tools to Baltimore's National Museum of Dentistry for 14,000 pounds.
They sure were. The dental museum in Baltimore had long coveted these royal picks, mirrors, scrapers and scalers.
"They rank in importance with George Washington's teeth," museum director Ben Z. Swanson said in Baltimore, where he and others participated in the bidding by telephone.
Mr. Glastris, Christie's expert, reckoned the set was bought at a sale at Sotheby & Co. in 1966 for 200 or 250 pounds, something like $500 in those days. Read the full article here


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Cardano (ADA) first entered into the crypto world in September 2017. Since then, ADA has seen huge price movements—up to its all-time high and back down to 90% of that where it sits today. Within a period of four months after its launch, the value of ADA gained by 1,520%, and its market cap also rose to $18 billion.
The Cardano blockchain applies a scientific strategy with a methodology driven by research. The open source technique of ADA passes through a thorough peer assessment process conducted jointly by both scientists and inventors.
The Current Price of Cardano
In the day following the listing the price of the coin jumped by 11 percent as of the time of writing. The market cap of ADA also increased to $1.3 billion. The altcoin is currently trading at $0.05 with a 24-hour trading volume of $49 million. You can see current prices on Coinmarketcap or the ADA trading page on Binance.
The 11 percent gain represents a four day high for that altcoin that has been gathering some momentum over the course of the week. Binance holds most of ADA's trading volume with 27.26 percent which translates to $32.624 million. Upbit follows closely in second with $30.607 million.
The coin has been appreciating in more momentum for the last few weeks, and even though ADA has plummeted by -50% during the past few months because of the continued sluggish market trends, with the latest upward trend, ADA has risen by 4% for a 24-hour period. Furthermore, the Cardano management announced the launch of IELE (a Cardano Virtual Machine), which allows Cardano customers to easily develop dApps through the Cardano blockchain.
More news for Cardano comes from the launch of the Infinito Wallet, as a superior replacement for the Daedalus wallet. The Infinito wallet is a mobile app which makes it far much easier to deposit and receive ADA tokens as well as view the transaction history. The Daedalus wallet has been criticized for being too cumbersome to use. The launch of the Infinito wallet will no doubt improve the adoption and usage of Cardano.
The Internet Online Hong Kong (IOHK) and the Cardano Foundation are rumored to be on the verge of inventing a widely accepted payment system of ADA, apart from teaming up on establishing solutions for some of the toughest challenges in the blockchain world.
Since ADA is among the top eleven major cryptocurrencies, a market recovery would surely boost its coin price along with BTC and ETH. The combination of an all-market increase and ADA's technical advancements could propel the coin to serious multiples. We think it's possible to see a 4-5x by the end of the year with these factors; but it won't do it on its own. The entire market, lead by Bitcoin, will need to come.
Could ADA Reach $.50 By The End Of The Year?
Going by the recent trend in the crypto market, almost every digital currency is gaining in value, some have risen greatly while others seem to be warming up for the imminent market bulls. Regarding the above statement, on 21st September 2018, ADA rose by 12% in a period of 24 hours. This trend further boosted the currency's value on the weekly chart by 19%.
If you take a keen look at the historical ADA charts, particularly the previous quarter of 2017, you will observe that a time like this last year, ADA was valued at around $0.020. The current price of ADA is $0.050, four times better than that of last year, but ten times lower than its all-time high.
Irrespective of its present value, Cardano is presenting some inventions to the blockchain sector that cannot be ignored. For instance, Cardano is one of the few cryptocurrencies with a strong team of scientists and developers reviewing and striving to enhance the project. Any crypto expert will agree with me that this is what makes a currency to be reliable.
With the release of IELE, which is set to offer the use of smart contract technology to the Cardano blockchain simplifying the process of dApp invention, ADA is projected to become more popular among crypto enthusiasts and investors. This will further be reinforced by the release of Trezor hardware wallet in October, which will give more support to ADA.
With a successful implementation of these projects, ADA could bounce back to coin prices around the quarter of a dollar ($.25) mark. And that prediction was buoyed this week by the successful deployment of the platform's 1.5 mainnet.
Upcoming Shelly Release
There is a lot of buzz surrounding Cardano at the moment and its proving instrumental to its price. The platform just deployed its 1.5 mainnet which means its closer to the release of Shelley and if the latest price action we have seen from of the altcoin is anything to go by then the release of Shelley will be massive for ADA's price.
Shelley will make Cardano a truly decentralized blockchain and a powerful one at the same time. This is because it will be the first provable proof-of-stake blockchain whose security is at the same level as Bitcoin's POW however without the energy issues that hamper the POW systems.
Also, the new protocol will make Cardano attractive to developers of dapps due to two vital features; security and being censorship resistant.
See our guide on how to buy ADA on Binance here.
Technical Outlook
Here is a LONG TradingView chart of Cardano by DanielAdam that indicates that the start of the ADA bull run may have begun and the last resistance could be at 1400.
The analyst says that we have already witnessed the golden cross 50 MA over 200 MA on the daily since March 15 and today we have seen a bullish cross that confirms the uptrend.
Now there are only two resistances left one at the 1350 and the other at the 1375-1400 area to break. After this, there is no other serious resistance until the 1800-2000 levels. However, with the RSI so dangerously high, the analyst expects a pullback at least a cooling down on or after breaking the 1350 resistance level. But with Shelley, the Cardano summit and other significant updates around the corner the altcoin could be preparing to go to the moon.
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Expert Analysis
According to an analyst at CRYPTOGLOBE, ADA is likely to rise but may face resistance at the $0.070 level. The coin has already broken out from the previous range of $0.040 and $0.045 to reach a high of $0.054. He also foresees the medium trend being bullish with resistance levels at $0.080, $0.090 and $0.100. The support levels: $0.050, $0.040, $0.030.
Also, ADA's price is above the EMAs which signifies that it's likely to rise. Lately, the coin's price has been making higher highs and higher lows, so the bullish trend is ongoing if the trend line remains unbroken by the price.
If a candlestick is to break the trendline and another closes opposite it, the current trend will have been terminated. In the meantime, the stochastic seems to be in the overbought region but over the 80% range. It's a clear indicator that the price of ADA is in a strong bullish momentum and a buy signal.
Market Sentiment
Here is the long-term, medium-term and short-term outlook of the ADA/USD pair:
· Long-Term – bullish
· Mid-term – bullish
· Short-term – Bullish
Conclusion And Buying Cardano ADA
Cardano has been making progress during the bear market on its technical roadmap and its application to everyday use cases. That's a good thing and should come to support the coin's price if and when we see a full market recovery. Enthusiasts with Cardano's possibilities have likely not faded as the coin's price has fallen; so community and investor support should return with confidence.
If we see Bticoin recover and head back to levels above $10,000, it should also boost Cardano back to levels where it sees 2-4x price returns, heading toward a year-end price somewhere between $.15 and $.3. The latter seems to be a high side.
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When acute services cuts were considered and implemented before local SOS Grantham Hospital campaigners argued it would make the hospital less attractive to new consultants who historically and successfully shared services across Lincoln Boston and Grantham.
that the trust is having difficulty recruiting is no surprise given the poor senior management decisions.
The closure of Grantham A&E at night puts the most vulnerable in our community and most in need at most risk. The hospital serves a community in excess of 100,000 people and has 3 of the poorest communities with highest levels of child poverty in the County at Harrowby Estate, Earlesfield and St Johns area. Low income residents, disabled residents and those unable to drive will be totally dependent on a poor if not nonexistent public transport system to get to A&E. residents without a car have been stranded at Lincoln in the early hours.
Whilst ULHT state their decision reduces risk the fact is their decision also puts local people more at risk especially patients who have acute breathing difficulties for whom time is of the essence.
Sos grantham hospital have an online petition which is being supported by petition forms being delivered across Grantham. The petition pre empts the autumn consultation but we urge as many people to sign as quickly as possible to make it clear we are still prepared to fight for our A&E services.
The petition may be used to call lincolnshire county council to consider our concerns. Further action is also being considered.
The petition is available at:
Anyone unable to access online services may call 01476574748. Electronic petition forms or paper copies of the petition are available by contacting SOS Grantham Hospital at 07429334260 or emailing email@example.com.
Best regards
District & County Councillor Charmaine Morgan
Chair SOS Grantham Hospital
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Maybe it was the days of rain.
Maybe it was an absence of down time.
Maybe it was hormones or the moon or some sort of terrible, but thankfully brief curse.
Maybe it was because sometimes I am a baby.
What I know is that life is short and chaotic and full of people and things that I love. And today I have to do a better job keeping myself together because really, there is no need for bad attitudes.
And the sun is shining.
Happy May. I'm glad today is Friday.


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Your own ideas are always better
Creative people don't respond well to enterprise level systems and color-coded filing. We don't do too well with org charts and direct reporting grids. And we surely are awful at doing time sheets! Hopeless. And the real creative doesn't really care what her title is – does she? The person in the room with the best idea has the most status at that moment – whatever their title, whatever their age.
To learn what choices exist for my creative-business clients, I have been looking at coaching and self-help sites. I reacted really badly to a lot of the false enthusiasm I saw – and to acronyms – especially acronyms. What is it with acronyms?
Here's one of mine:
SWOTWA Stop Wasting Our Time With Acronyms.
And another.
FAME: Fatuous Acronyms Make Enemies
Got any others?
The one proven way to help a creative person is to help them figure out their own answers for themselves. We all know that someone else's idea is never a hit – until it becomes your own idea – then it is the smartest thing since whatever. I know that's how it works for me and that's how it works for pretty much every creative person I have worked with.
It's not manipulation – you help them to find a better answer – or a better way of doing things. (and I am sorry to say if they find an acronym helpful – well it will have to come from them – and they are welcome to it. Though LSMFT worked pretty well on the poor misguided smokers of the world. Look it up!)
So give creative people respect and help them to solve it themselves. Create a good environment, excite them, nurture and guide them and together we'll conquer the world.


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Steidl Books has published a new book by David McMillan: Growth and Decay: Pripyat and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, April 23, 2019. Since 1994 Scottish-born Canadian photographer David McMillan (born 1945) has journeyed 21 times to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Inspired by his teenage memories of Nevil Shute's On the Beach (1957), a disturbing vision… Read more »
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Invisible Colors: The Arts of the Atomic Age by Gabrielle Decamous
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After Hiroshima
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Rebooting India is one of the most inspiring books I've read in years. Given that its subject matter is a government IT project, that might also be one of the most surprising sentences I've written in years. In the UK, the phrase 'government IT projects' just generates massive grumpy old man rage. Put it into Google and you get a torrent of 'Why do all government IT projects seem to fail?' headlines. Take government IT and combine it with another depressing topic, the public sector in India - infamous for horrible corruption, hopeless inefficiency and pointless bureaucracy - and you have Rebooting India. So how can that ghastly combination tell an inspiring story?
Nandan Nilekani is co-founder of Infosys. Time magazine calls him 'the Bill Gates of Bangalore', and includes him in a list of the 100 most influential people in the world. (Declaring an interest, I know Nandan a little personally, after 20 years in Bangalore IT.) Since Infosys, his project for the past five years has been the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) - a government agency whose mission is to provide every Indian with a 12-digit Aadhaar number (Aadhaar means 'foundation' or 'base' in Hindi). This number gives them a unique verifiable identity, based on a small set of demographic and biometric data.
And what's amazing is that the UIDAI has almost completed its mission! Over a billion of India's 1.25 billion people have had their names, addresses and birth dates recorded, been fingerprinted and iris-scanned, been 'de-duplicated' to check their data sets are unique, and received their Aadhaar numbers. Now all they need to prove who they are is to quote that number and be biometrically checked, and that's true even if they are completely illiterate and their address is 'the shack by the large mango tree behind the post office'.
This is an amazing feat. It has overcome political and bureaucratic resistance. It has generated technological breakthroughs such as the massive computing needed to store and de-duplicate a billion iris scans.
The authors (Nandan's techie co-author, Viral Shah, also worked at UIDAI) see the programme as a platform for delivering multiple services. At least a third of India's welfare spending is siphoned off or lost before it reaches intended recipients. But an Aadhaar number can allow even the poorest disconnected citizen to open a micro bank account in their village and receive welfare payments. Such direct benefit transfers can also eliminate inefficient and corruption-ridden subsidies for essentials. On these two fronts, over 200 million Aadhaar numbers are already linked to bank accounts; and the old LPG cooking fuel subsidy (PAHAL) is paid as a direct bank transfer to 140 million consumers.
How has the UIDAI achieved so much so quickly - and at such a reasonable cost, not much over $1bn to date, $1 per enrolment? The authors pick out a few reasons. Aadhaar was kept as a 'thin solution', resisting mission creep; it stuck to its objective of establishing a unique verifiable identity. It adopted a start-up approach, having a core team of around 300, bringing in contractors as needed, and buying off-the-shelf technology. Politically, the Aadhaar number was never to be mandatory for any interaction with government - so it could operate in parallel with existing systems. (This non-mandatory nature has been upheld by the Supreme Court, but is under pressure from the Modi government.)
The authors go on to lay out a manifesto for how India can be comprehensively transformed by applying similar technology-led programmes. With breathtaking hubris but also disarming energy and optimism, they say that an A-Team 'of 100 carefully selected individuals can fix all the problems that ail India'. Wow! If, like I have, you've suffered Bangalore's infrastructure nightmare for 20 years, you'd think, that's nuts, India is unsolvable. But after reading the Aadhaar story, you think, well, maybe that's right, mad though it sounds.
MT threw another newish India book on my pile, for a bit of compare-and-contrast - The Tears of the Rajas. It's about the latter East India Company era, 1805 to the company's dissolution in 1858 and the start of The Raj. It is classic Boy's Own Paper stuff, full of manly cavalry charges, horrible mutual atrocities, and the underlying scramble for filthy lucre. It is actually a very good read. The main feeling is how distant that not-very-distant time now feels. In my lifetime, British India has become as remote a concept as the Roman Empire.
How about a bit of modern reverse colonialism? Maybe Nandan and Viral could pop over and fix the UK's government IT projects? We could do with some thin solutions over here.
Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations by Nandan Nilekani & Viral Shah is published by Allen Lane, £20
The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905 by Ferdinand Mount is published by Simon & Schuster, £25
Andrew Wileman is a consultant, and the author of Driving Down Cost


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Disney Remakes Keep Coming… But Will Our Nostalgia Last?
It didn't matter that critics laid their teeth into The Lion King remake — audiences would not be denied a return to their childhoods, and more importantly, the chance to share a piece of it with their own children. Disney is on a streak with a slew of money-making live-action remakes that have recaptured the public's imagination… but will our nostalgia follow?
Disney's live-action remakes are the new normal
Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, The Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, Christopher Robin, Dumbo, Aladdin, The Lion King — this is only the beginning. So what's the driving force behind these new live-action releases?
It's simple: remaking Disney classics is like a money-printing machine. The latest Lion King collected $1 billion at the box office in 19 days, surpassing the animated original. Even more impressive, it's the 4th Disney movie to hit the coveted billion-dollar benchmark this year alone.
Live-action projects currently in the works include (take a deep breath): Lady and the Tramp, Mulan, Cruella, The Sword in the Stone, The Little Mermaid, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Lilo & Stitch, Pinocchio, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and more. Nothing in Disney's storied catalogue is off-limits.
Is nostalgia fatigue on the horizon?
There's nothing inherently wrong with Disney cashing in on repurposing many of their most beloved classics — the box office numbers speak for themselves. These are movies that we want to see… again. But the bigger problem with rehashing out old classics is that Disney will most likely focus less on original content. Why take a gamble on something new when there's already a built-in audience for content people already love and relate to?
Live-action is king right now
One of the biggest casualties of Disney's live-action strategy is that we'll probably be seeing less animated movies on cinema screens. There will still be monster hits like Frozen II in the pipeline, but the desire (and curiosity) to see our favorite animated characters come to life is far too tempting at this point.
When press images of the Aladdin cast surfaced on magazine covers before the film's release, there was a massive public outcry regarding the (very un-blue) Genie, played by Will Smith. This demand to ensure that these live-action remakes stay true to the beloved originals presents a strange predicament for filmmakers: should these remakes be a scene-by-scene recreation (which is what bothered most critics about The Lion King)… or something more that adds to the original?
Whether you're a fan of the remakes or prefer that the classics be left alone, it's going to be years before Disney runs out of material to repurpose. Eventually though, that day will inevitably come. Will they be able to dazzle us all over again with something original?


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A wheelchair user said she was refused entry to a nightclub by a bouncer who said the music was "too rowdy" for her.
Lucy Webster, 24, a BBC journalist, tried to get into Aquum – a wheelchair-accessible club in south-west London – on Saturday night.
After first being told by door staff that it was not safe, she was then told that the music was not suitable.
Aquum said it "deeply apologises" for what would seem to be an "error of judgement" by third-party contractors.
Lucy was in a bar with two friends – one who is her carer – in Clapham when they decided to continue on to a nightclub.
She said a quick internet search told her that nearby Aquum was wheelchair-accessible.
The club was busy when they arrived at around 01:30 GMT on Sunday morning and there was a small queue.
But door staff were letting in a steady stream of people, she said, until her group was stopped and taken aside.
'Accessible but not safe'
"This is where it starts to get odd," she said.
"The bouncer informs me that the physical access is fine, but the club is busy and he just wants to 'keep me safe'. 'I'm used to busy,' I say, 'I live in London. And anyway, I can look after myself'."
She said a doorwoman then came over "to tell me the music was 'too rowdy' for me – as if, as a disabled woman, I can only listen to girly pop and, presumably, very sad songs."
Lucy, who has cerebral palsy, responded by saying that was discrimination.
She was told it wasn't, because wheelchair users were often let into the club.
A heated discussion followed, which Lucy says included the door staff suggesting that she could go inside by herself to see that the club was unsuitable – despite earlier being told it was unsafe for her to go in.
She said her friends were getting angry but she decided it was better just to walk away.
"I just wanted to get out of there", she said, and they headed to a takeaway because "sometimes you just give up and get chicken".
"I ended up feeling pretty sad," she said. "You feel like you don't belong in that environment – even though you know that you do.
"It hasn't put me off because I'm stubborn, but it could put off others.
"Finding somewhere accessible on a night out is hard enough to start with – you're very limited where you can go. Even in London, it is genuinely hard to find somewhere to go."
Club promises action
Managing director of Aquum, Terry Georgiou, said: "I need to investigate this unfortunate incident further to ascertain all the facts, but it would seem that one of our third-party contractors has made an error of judgement on the evening in question for which I deeply apologise.
"I will be calling a meeting with our third-party supplier and appropriate action will be taken."
He added: "It was not our intention to cause any upset although I can see that it has… We will endeavour to ensure that such an incident never happens again."
He said Aquum was deliberately designed to be an inclusive venue and he had organised for his staff to have further training.
Lucy said: "I'm glad Aquum apologised and that they are retraining their staff. I don't think my friends and I will be going back but I hope other wheelchair users have better experiences in future."
Ceri Smith, campaigns manager at disability equality charity Scope, said businesses needed to work harder to prevent situations like this from happening.
"Disabled people deserve to be seen as more than their impairment or condition and should be able to enjoy a night out clubbing without encountering this type of bizarre and discriminatory behaviour.
"All too often disabled people tell us they face unfair accusations of being too drunk, or that their very presence makes them a fire hazard."


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As from 1 January 2015, new VAT place of supply rules will come into effect for EU cross-border business of electronically supplied services to non-taxable consumers (B2C). The new rules will shift the place of supply of e-services from the location of the supplier to the country of consumption or residence of the consumer.
The general rule and the exceptions to the general rule
The general rule for the supply of electronic supplied services to non-taxable persons (B2C) is that the place of supply is the place where the supplier is established for vat purposes. There is however one exception where the services are being supplied by a taxable person who has established his business outside the Community to non-taxable persons who are established in, or who have their permanent address or usually resides in an EU Member State. In this case the place of supply is the place where the non-taxable person is established, or where he has his permanent address or usually resides.
What is the current situation?
The current situation with respect to electronically supplied services to a non-taxable customer (B2C) is as follows:
What does the changes consist of?
With effect from 1st January 2015, the B2C supplies provided by EU suppliers to non-taxable customers within the EU will be treated as supplied in the EU member state where the recipient of the service is established, has a permanent address or usually resides.
What are electronically supplied services?
Electronically supplied services include services relating to website supply, webhosting, distance maintenance of programmes and equipment, supply of software and updating thereof, supply of images, text and information, and making available of databases, supply of music, films and games, including games of chance and gambling games, and of political, cultural, artistic, sporting, scientific and entertainment broadcasts and events, and the supply of distance teaching.
Electronically supplied services are generally defined as services the supply of which is essentially automated and involving minimal human intervention. Establishing whether the service is an electronically supplied service or otherwise is of paramount importance. Games where the outcome is determined by an automated random number generator require minimal or no human intervention at all, while games involving live events require more human intervention in the setting and amending of the odds, monitoring the event and analysing the statistics. The latter games involve more human intervention and will thus classify them as e-services.
What needs to be done?
Gaming companies established in Malta must therefore establish the jurisdiction in which their players are located so as to apply the correct VAT treatment. Verification of the client's IP address is not sufficient and verification need to be backed up by other evidence of where the player usually resides.
Most EU member states apply an exemption from VAT on betting and gambling transactions, however each MS would have its own rules and conditions of how such an exemption will be applied. Furthermore not all EU MS apply a blanket exemption since some member states restrict the exemption to certain gaming activities such as land-based gaming activities.
In view of the change of supply rules, iGaming operators will as from 1 January 2015 might have to start charging VAT to their players who are located in these jurisdictions. The VAT rate will depend on the applicable rate of the member state concerned. Thus the following matters should be kept in mind:
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Les Baux-de-Provence
Nov 10, 2015
|Today we headed out to Les Baux-de-Provence. However we stopped on the way just outside Fontvielle and visited some remains of another Roman aqueduct and the Moulin de Daudet (windmill). It was another beautiful day.
We then carried onto the small fortified village of Les Baux-de-Provence again perched high on a hill. The main purpose was to visit the ruined 11th century castle which merges almost imperceptibly into the plateau above the village. We were surprised by the number of visitors in the village and the castle.
Again the excellent audio guide told the story of the castle. There was interesting collection of replica siege engines and catapults along with the ruined castle which had amazingly been built into the rock. It was not only the castle that had been built in the rock but the servant and village houses all clung to the rock face. Once again the castle had great views across the surrounding countryside and we could just make out the coast.
The castle was excellent and we ran out of time to visit the Val d'Enfer and the audiovisual experience of Cathédrale des Images but we may return to this area again latter in our trip.


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'Is anyone dead yet?' What happens when you overdose on homoepathic medication?
All photographs © Will Storr
Throughout its defiant 230-year history, homeopathy has attracted the disbelieving fury of doubters from Richard Dawkins today all the way back to Charles Darwin. Will Storr describes witnessing the fury in his book The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science. What follows is a heavily edited extract.
They have gathered for the 'QED Conference' that has been organised jointly by the Merseyside and the Greater Manchester cells of Skeptics in the Pub. It will culminate in a mass international homeopathic overdose – a stunt that will seek to demonstrate that, as the campaign's marketing slogan has it, 'There's nothing in it'.
They dress in comfortable jeans paired with strange polemical T-shirts ('Stand back, I'm going to try science', 'I reject your reality and substitute my own', 'Over 1000 scientists named Steve agree') or in dark-coloured knitwear, sleeves pushed up to elbows to regulate temperature.
The theory of homeopathy says that illnesses can be cured by taking minute portions of substances which cause similar symptoms to those which ail you. So, if the bark of a toxic Peruvian tree causes symptoms similar to malaria, say, then a tiny dose of that can cure malaria.
The truth is, if you buy a standard '30C' dose of any homeopathic treatment, it means the active ingredient has been diluted thirty times, by a factor of 100. That might not sound like too much, until you realise that your chance of getting even one molecule of the original substance in your pill is one in a billion billion billion billion.
After a day of presentations and talks, the final event of the evening is a set by a sceptical musician from the US named George Hrab. As I leave the convention hall for bed, he is leading the crowd in a sing-along, the chorus of which goes: 'You won't believe what a Skeptic I am/I can't believe you believe in that sham/We disagree but I still give a damn.'
And in the morning, I overdose.
One of the convention's organisers, Michael 'Marsh' Marshall, arrives. Charismatic, confident and eloquent, the twenty-seven-year-old marketing executive in the crisply ironed shirt seems at ease both on stage addressing the conventioneers and on television news shows, on which he has recently been in demand on account of his campaign against the homeopaths.
And then the moment arrives. The crowd shouts, '3, 2, 1, There's nothing in it!' And the sound of three hundred nerds crunching nothing fills the conference hall. Marsh happily surveys the room.
'Is anyone dead yet?'
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The Medtechy Daily: December 3, 2018
Posted on December 03, 2018 by Medtech[y] Staff
The Medtechy Daily provides the latest news and insight for the medical technology industry, including medical device, biotech and digital health.
Tweet of the Day
We have been working hard on this - and it's only going to get better! https://t.co/MtGjmhMO8B— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2018
CVS Completes $70 Billion Acquisition of Aetna. CVS Health Corp. CVS -0.50% completed its nearly $70 billion acquisitionof Aetna Inc.,forging a new industry giant and starting the clock ticking on ambitious goals of curbing health-care costs and improving consumers' experience. (WSJ)
Novartis HQ is pulling up its roots in the UK and moving to a new biotech campus in London. Novartis is joining the migration of the major players directly into the heart of the world's biggest biotech R&D hubs. (Endpoints)
A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions. It's easy to be confused about how to grow in your career. My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they're between average and poor at developing future talent. They're often not transparent about your real needs and vague about the most effective development options. (HBR)
Boston Startup Aims To Change How Primary Care Is Done In America. When it comes to your health, forewarned is forearmed, yet the nation's health care system often struggles with providing the kind of preventative care that can fend off chronic diseases like diabetes. (Forbes Health)
Boston Scientific sues Micro-Tech over endo clip patents. Boston Scientific has filed a lawsuit against Micro-Tech USA and its Chinese manufacturer, Micro-Tech Nanjing, alleging that Micro-Tech infringed three of its patents for endoscopic hemostatic clips. (MassDevice)
AbbVie inks Humira patent deal No. 7, delaying Pfizer's U.S. biosim launch until late 2023. AbbVie is on a hot streak striking patent deals to protect its top drug, Humira. Even as Boehringer Ingelheim has opted to fight the company's patent claims in court, Pfizer has decided it's in its own best interest to settle on a late 2023 biosimilar launch date. (FiercePharma)
We're just getting caught back up on the Medtechy Daily and are linking our most recent articles in case you've missed them.
Are Medical Device Reps Wearing Out Their Welcome? An interesting article was posted to our forums earlier this week which questions the need and usefulness of medical device sales reps in the operating room.
Georgia ENT Practice to Pay $1.2 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations. We were alerted to a False Claims Act allegation after the story was posted on our forums earlier this week. According to the FDA press release, the government alleges that Northwest ENT in Georgia violated the False Claims Act.
MedReps' 2019 Best Places to Work in Medical Sales. MedReps announced their annual Best Places to Work in Medical Sales for 2019 and some familiar names sit on top of the list.
Auris Health Announces $220 Million Growth Financing. Auris Health recently announced the close of a $220 million equity financing led by Partner Fund Management. New investors Wellington Management, D1 Capital Partners and Senator Investment Group