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$ 10 a month


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Unlimited movies (Netflix). Unlimited music (Spotify). Unlimited train travel (Europass). Unlimited seafood buffet (Red Lobster).

And now, ladies and gentlemen: unlimited magazines to read on your tablet. Introducing the Next Issue app.

So here’s the deal: For $10 a month, you can read the latest full issues of 27 magazines on your tablet, and back issues to the beginning of 2012. Each downloaded issue includes the full, colorful design, all articles and even the ads that you’d see in the printed edition.

There are some great magazines in this collection: Better Homes and Gardens, Car and Driver, Condé Nast Traveler, Elle, Esquire, Fitness, Fortune, Glamour, InStyle, Money, Parents, People, Popular Mechanics, Real Simple, This Old House, Time and Vanity Fair.
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I can read all of those at the public library for free and leave the issues there instead of piling them in a box or missing all of the pop up ads on a reader.
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Hoosiernorm wrote:.

I can read all of those at the public library for free and leave the issues there instead of piling them in a box or missing all of the pop up ads on a reader.

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Hoosie

not everybody is unemployed or senior citizen like you :lol: .. just jokin

people have a job or are on the go

my children download everything they must, or have to, or interested to read, into their mobile device and read them in plane, underground, bus, office, in bed and and and

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Hossie

10 dollars a moth a good deal

told my daughter to cancel all her subscription to all those and go on this


BTW, libraries going the way of museums .. pretty much nobody using them .. why bother when you have all on your fingertip, unless you want to kill time or socialize with others killing time or have a date with the widow from the old-house :lol: .. just jokin


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libaries arent quite as dead as those magazines which is why they have changed the business model from $10 each to $10 for the lot of them as a last ditch attempt to stay relevant.

i suspect most keen hobbiests have moved to self produced blogs and forums, in another age us lot might have even paid for philosophomabating politics unlimited.
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noddy wrote:.

libaries arent quite as dead as those magazines which is why they have changed the business model from $10 each to $10 for the lot of them as a last ditch attempt to stay relevant.

i suspect most keen hobbiests have moved to self produced blogs and forums, in another age us lot might have even paid for philosophomabating politics unlimited.

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true, hobbyist have moved to blogs and forums

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nobody has time to read anymore "Popular Mechanics" exclusively

interesting phenomena is, people do not stay more than a few minutes on any subject and site

"sticky'ness" a big issue these days .. to stick to a subject/site

and, that, is not possible with journals

I my self read FLYING magazine .. now , I look at it, downloaded, back to back, in 1.5 minutes .. that is all



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unprecedented $1 million buy-in tournament


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Thirty top poker daredevils have already confirmed their participation in an unprecedented $1 million buy-in tournament, which is expected to produce the biggest grand prize in the game’s history.

The players have let go of $1 million just in order to participate in the Big One for One Drop battle, while the series officials expect to reach a cap of 48 entries. With that many players, the top prize would reach an enormous $18.3 million.

You may calculate yourself how much greater this sum is than the $12 million Jamie Gold won in 2006 for beating over 8,700 players at no-limit Texas Hold 'em in the $10,000 buy-in main event.

Judging by the list of participants, which includes such poker sharks as Johnny Chan, Tom Dwan, Daniel Negreanu on the one side and wealthy businessmen for whom spending in seven-digits is a routine practice, the struggle, indeed, promises to be deadly.

Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte and casino owner Phil Ruffin, who will personally sit at the table, say they will relax with seven figures at stake.

Laliberte organized the tournament with WSOP officials to raise money for the Big One for One Drop, a non-governmental organization he founded that pushes for access to water in poor countries. The $1 million buy-in tournament includes a roughly 11 per cent cut for the charity.

The big game kicks off on July 1 in, that’s a given, Las Vegas.
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I like poker .. played "holdem" .. in Reno .. play only with professionals .. not that I win .. don't .. but lots of fun


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A court in Hamburg ruled that the grandchildren of a German industrialist have a valid claim to a classic Mercedes car worth about $4 million that was taken by U.S. soldiers during World War II.

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Hans Prym, the owner of a manufacturer of buttons, zips and other clothing fasteners that is still in the possession of his family today, kept the car in Stolberg, close to the Belgian border. Known locally as the “Zipper King,” he purchased the car -- one of the most expensive models available at that time - - in 1935.

In an initial ruling, the Hamburg regional court said yesterday there was no evidence that U.S. troops quartered at Prym’s Stolberg estate, Waldfriede, in 1945 were entitled to take the car, a Mercedes-Benz 500K “Spezial Roadster.” A Dutch classic car collector called Frans van Haren paid $3.8 million for it last year at RM Auctions in Monterey, California. When he offered it for sale in March this year at Techno Classica, a car show in the German city of Essen, it was impounded under court order.

“The court has recognized our claim is valid and we will prepare the next stage and file suit for the car’s return,” said Alexander Martius of Stein & Partner Rechtsanwaelte in Aachen, the lawyer who represented the heirs in court. “We think the decision is right and it’s an important step toward restitution. I am extraordinarily happy for the Prym family.”
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The car may be one of only 29 of its type left and is still in immaculate condition, according to Martius. RM Auctions said in its sale note that the car’s history from Prym’s purchase until the 1970s was unknown. It described the Mercedes as “magnificently designed, fastidiously constructed and assiduously maintained by a succession of owners.”

At the end of World War II, many valuables found their way to the U.S., taken as trophies and souvenirs by troops when they left Germany. Some have since been returned. In a New York court decision in 2009, for instance, a collector was forced to return a 16th-century book worth $600,000 to a museum in Stuttgart, more than six decades after it was stolen by a U.S. army captain.

Prym’s Mercedes disappeared in 1945, while he was serving a prison sentence handed to him by the Allies. His estate was used as a base for U.S. troops serving under General Maurice Rose at the beginning of the march into Germany. Stolberg was one of the first places in Germany to be conquered.

The caretaker who looked after Prym’s car, Franz Wagemann, was away for a few days when it vanished. His daughter, who is now 84 and lives in the U.S., recalled her father’s reaction in a statement presented to the court. He was, she wrote, “furious” and “very dismayed.”

The court said that the statute of limitations has not yet expired on the theft, because the 30-year period under German law is only applicable for the time the car has been in Germany. In the U.S., the statute of limitations runs only from the time of discovery of its location.

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lots of things stolen from Germans



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