Vintage machines prepare to crank back into life for Taranaki machinery working weekend
16 Feb, 2021 07:51 PM
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There will be a variety of things to see and do on the day, with children s activities, food and plenty of displays for people to enjoy. Photo / Supplied
There will be a variety of things to see and do on the day, with children s activities, food and plenty of displays for people to enjoy. Photo / Supplied
Age isn t a barrier when it comes to getting the job done, says Lance Mullin, vice president of the Taranaki Vintage Machinery Club.
In fact, many old machines are still up to doing the work they were originally designed to do and some of them will be doing exactly that at the club s Vintage Machinery Working Weekend event next month.
Lance O Sullivan: The future of healthcare is here
9 Feb, 2021 11:35 PM
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Online healthcare project with Huawei should expand further in NZ, says doctor.
Dr Lance O Sullivan is sure the ground-breaking MAiPOD health service he has developed in partnership with Huawei will help usher in a new era of accessible, affordable online health care.
A MAiPOD is essentially a 40-foot shipping container, fitted out like a doctor s clinic but with powerful, cloud-based digital health channels. It is designed to bring free healthcare to areas of New Zealand where such care is either not available or not affordable – so the MAiPOD can be loaded on the back of a truck and taken where it is most needed.
MGM studios screened a couple of its old big budget epics this week, to wit: âAlexander the Greatâ (1956), the Richard Burton version; and âTaras Bulbaâ (1962), with Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis.
I am grateful to Oliver Stone and Warner Bros. for giving us the 2004 version of âAlexander,â if only for wiping away the vision of Burton in a most unfortunate blond wig, watching as production assistants did their best to keep vast numbers of Argentinaâs army under sufficient control to make Alexanderâs conquest of Persia and lands beyond look reasonably under control. Robert Rossen, who directed âAll the Kingâs Men,â wrote and directed.