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  • in reply to: General Discussion #254405
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    An old record spinner…

    Veteran broadcaster Sir Jimmy Young has died aged 95.
    The long-serving DJ, who spent almost three decades at BBC Radio 2, died “peacefully at home” on Monday afternoon with his wife Alicia by his side, a family spokesman said.
    Sir Jimmy was one of the original Radio 1 DJs when the station launched in 1967.
    He moved to Radio 2 in 1973 and filled the early afternoon slot until he retired in December 2002.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37903108

    A retired US politician bales out before their election…

    Shy and admittedly awkward, Janet Reno became a blunt prosecutor and the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general and was at the center of a relentless series of political storms, from the deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, to the seizure of 5-year-old Cuban immigrant Elian Gonzalez.

    Reno, 78, died early Monday of complications from Parkinson’s disease, her goddaughter Gabrielle D’Alemberte told The Associated Press. D’Alemberte said Reno spent her final days at home in Miami surrounded by family and friends.

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/janet-reno-us-attorney-general-died-43353469

    in reply to: How Do You All Manage Your Digital Photographs? #443114
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    There used to be Picasa, run by Google.

    Picasa is a powerful, yet easy to use and attractive tools suite to manage and organize your digital images and photos. It offers one simple place to organize, edit, and share your pictures. After installing, the software can automatically scan your drive(s) for images and intelligently sorts them into virtual photo albums, ready for you to customize and organize (your original images are not moved).
    Picasa offers several easy to use photo editing features that enable you to apply image adjustments, corrections and special effects that can be applied and undone without modifying your original photos. Other features include photo printing, photo email, image collages, slideshow and timeline view, image tags and much more.
    Picasa also supports facial recognition, a cool feature that can automatically categorize your photos based on the person appearing in it.

    http://www.snapfiles.com/get/picasa.html

    But…

    On February 12, 2016, Google announced that the Picasa desktop application would be discontinued on March 15, 2016, followed by the closure of the Picasa Web Albums service on May 1, 2016. Google stated that the primary reason for retiring Picasa was that it wanted to focus its efforts “entirely on a single photos service” the cross-platform, web-based Google Photos. While support for the desktop version of Picasa is ending, Google has stated that users who have downloaded the software, or who choose to download it prior to the March 15th deadline will still be able to use its functionality, albeit with no support from Google.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasa

    On the plus side you can still download Picasa (http://www.snapfiles.com/get/picasa.html) and if Google has disattached itself from it then it will not come with all the Google privacy stuff that comes with its successor, Google Photos.
    I have not used it but heard good things about it, just not recently.

    in reply to: General Discussion #254410
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    He’ll be the one with the flamin’ pitchfork stall at the starting line, wearing a Farage for dictator t-shirt, dangling a migrants severed head on a pike and baying for immediate capital punishment for anyone who disagrees with his views.

    in reply to: John Coggins RN #840491
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    I had a physics teacher who, apparently, was a former V bomber pilot. Can’t even remember his name at the moment, despite him being my form tutor (whoops), but that might be because he was only with us for one year. Didn’t talk much except for the lessons, and looked a little nervous. I wonder…?

    in reply to: General Discussion #254529
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    Ignoring the injunction, John?;o)

    in reply to: General Discussion #254532
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    Fun. Things that move and can be pounced on are fun to a cat.

    You ever have slow worms (legless lizards – always amuses me, that!) in your garden? My parents used to find bits under the settee, the beds, behind the toilet, until the cat learned how to catch them without killing them – then Dad used to put them under the shed where they thrived.
    There used to be a cat in the New Forest that caught adders the same way, haven’t heard about him for many years but would like to think s/he died of old age rather than one of the snakes finally getting him.

    in reply to: General Discussion #254556
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    http://whotv.com/2016/11/03/suspect-in-officers-murders-released-from-hospital-undergoing-police-questioning/

    Amusing to see people blaming Obama for their deaths, whereas if weapons hadn’t been as accessible then maybe crazies wouldn’t have access to them and these police officers wouldn’t have been ambushed and…whatever.
    So remember and spare a thought for all those alive at the moment but who will be dead by the end of the year: innocent and trusting children, family members shot by the gun freak relative who cannot handle life, those shot for kicks by the loon with the gun he just has to hear sing, those shot dead because those with a vested interest in the maintenance of the status quo are happy for nothing to change for the better.

    If only something might change because of the election.

    in reply to: General Discussion #254558
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    The spiders catch them, and the grass snake is magnificently marked.

    If you have a patch of waste ground and no cat (or the local population is low) try putting down a small sheet of corrugated iron close to weeds (or other cover). If it is dark (or you paint it) then the local wildlife will congregate beneath it for the warmth – the other week, at a local country park, I was able to show the kids a few mice that had been hiding under one; a few years ago I lifted another, in a different park, where an obviously not hungry adder was sharing with two small toads.
    About 10 years ago I was walking along part of the South Downs Way when came across a freshly killed adder, quite large for an adder (must have been as long as my leg), that had been savaged by a dog. Later heard – from a ranger – that middle aged couple had their dog off its lead (there were sheep in the area, and signs quite noticeable too) and it came across the mature pregnant, female adder off the path; dog killed snake, dog brought the body to them only for someone to tell them that the adder is the only poisonous wild snake in Britain – so they complained to the ranger about why they were allowed in areas where people walked their dogs!
    Adders have to be provoked to attack something other than food (my mother accidentally trod on one in the New Forest in the early 1970s, ended up in hospital for three days) and are much happier sliding away than acting aggressively. Leave them alone and they will not bother you, even keep the local rodent population down for you.

    in reply to: General Discussion #254561
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    Charities annoy me, if water aid can bring water to some kid in the back of beyond in Africa for £3.00 a month, why can’t my local water company do the same in the UK 😀

    Shareholders would want a return on their ‘investment’, and while they might do something like that for £3 in Africa they would be laughing stockholders for being so cheap in the rich pickings that is Europe. That and since WaterAid is a charity and the water companies aren’t – and have staff who need paying, etc – one needs to make money from your necessity… Have you tried registering with WaterAid?

    Looks as tho’ Nigel could be back in business. Can he put his house in order ? How likely is his forecast of civil unrest ?

    How likely is he to finish his jigsaw, you mean? Still, if they stick a cheeky nought on the end of his fee it will get him out of the pub for an afternoon…;o)
    (Not that he needs it – with his MEP salary having gone up by £1000 a month since Brexit)

    Is SOCPA 2005 still in force?

    in reply to: 9th of Sept 1940 Hurricane/He111 collision Alton Hants #840631
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    Thanks Martin.
    I too have seen this incident reported as happening over Farnborough but concluded that it actually happened over Alton. I stand to be corrected but Alton newspapers reported it and local people witnessed it but no one seems to have taken pictures. The Hurricane crash site had a marker placed by an RAF team not long ago.
    Richard

    Maybe the incident started over -or flew past – Farnborough and finished over Alton, although looping round to both East Sussex and Portland does somewhat stretch the imagination beyond credible.

    in reply to: General Discussion #254913
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    A grass snake. Young? Can’t judge its size since there is nothing to compare it to…

    in reply to: General Discussion #255071
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    No, Widnes.

    (Cheshire)

    in reply to: Taranto Swordfish serials #841010
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    Looking through my ‘image library’ the few images I have of the Taranto raid seem to be of those shot down; they have the black distemper. I also have found a few illustrations that have a standard colour scheme (ie P4210, 5B, unit unidentified, noted as in scheme worn when taking part in Taranto Harbour raid, 1940, although Air Britain’s Fleet Air Arm Aircraft 1939-1945 has it as being with 771NAS as R5B 10/39, RNARY Donibristle 25/7/40, 753NAS Arbroath 8/5/41 – with nothing about participating in Taranto…) without any distemper.

    The moral of this observation is…get all your information from photographs with good research behind them; anything else is open to misinterpretation.

    in reply to: Wonder Woman – Iffy CGI Fokkers #841023
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    Yes, I saw right through it immediately.

    in reply to: Taranto Swordfish serials #841038
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    Might prove a little difficult since they were given a coat of temporary black paint on their lower surfaces which covered their serials – but I am sure you already knew that, which was why you are asking.

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