WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

[Tripps]

Thanks for that Whypes. . . .

I'd never heard of him. I have now. Popped in - and stayed till the very end. Remarkable film.
Impossible to make such a film now - there are only white men throughout the whole thing.
No computers - electronic or human.

[Tizer]

Thanks for that Whypes. . . .I'd never heard of him. I have now. Popped in - and stayed till the very end. Remarkable film.

And please accept my thanks too. I agree with what Tripps wrote, you've found a gem there.

By the way, I've just seen your post: "Image search never seems to work for me. especially the Microsoft variant." I just go to the Google Images web page LINK and click on the Search by Image icon (little box with a dot in the middle) and upload the image you're trying to do your search on.

[Big Kev]

I use the Google Lens app

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[Stanley]

Susan is en route to Aberdeen via Orkney on the ferry, they are due in Aberdeen at 07:00. She says it is very rough and many people are calling for Huey.... She and Ruth are OK and hanging on in there when she reported.

Stanley Hooker.... If you enjoyed the video consider reading the 3 volume official history of RR, 'The Magic of a Name' by Peter Pugh.

[PanBiker]

I bench pressed 35Kg and did 10 reps rowing pulling 30Kg x 3. All different exercises in the group are x 3. I used to lift and carry a lot more when I was working but I wasn't nearly 72.

[Stanley]

I had a good day yesterday, achieved all my goals and got news from Susan that she was back with Mick and enjoying a site in Fraserburgh. She said the ferry trip was an adventure but she wouldn't want to do it again!

[Stanley]

A bunch of posts by wfca8tjyt2 advertising Temu. I deleted them all....

[Big Kev]

The Yeti went into limp mode a couple of times over the last 3 weeks, I dropped it into Noyna Garage yesterday for a diagnostic check (it didn't produce any errors for my ODB2 scanner to read). A 'live data' scan identified the oil pressure sensors (there's two) were failing and would put the engine into limp mode. As it was an intermittent fault restarting would temporarily fix it, I had no chance of finding it without the right software (my scanner will read live data but doesn't have the thresholds in it to identify if a reading is outside of normal parameters). All sorted with two new sensors

[Stanley]

Kev, can you bar the address above?

Glad you sorted the yeti

[Big Kev]

Kev, can you bar the address above?

Ian has already done it

[Big Kev]

Glad you sorted the yeti

Fortunately a relatively quick and not overly expensive repair due to wear and tear. It was only one pressure sensor that was giving the false reading but, due to experience at Noyna Garage, both were replaced. The sensors are know to deteriorate together.

[Wendyf]

Glad you sorted the yeti

Fortunately a relatively quick and not overly expensive repair due to wear and tear. It was only one pressure sensor that was giving the false reading but, due to experience at Noyna Garage, both were replaced. The sensors are know to deteriorate together.

I hope they can sort out the sensor issues that my Panda has Kev, if I phone to book it in might you be able to meet me there? At a time to suit you of course, there is no rush as I have another vehicle to drive. I would just like to get it sorted before winter. I got Col write down what he thought it was and what he had already tried. There is also a new pressure sensor ordered before he got too ill to continue.

[Big Kev]

Glad you sorted the yeti

Fortunately a relatively quick and not overly expensive repair due to wear and tear. It was only one pressure sensor that was giving the false reading but, due to experience at Noyna Garage, both were replaced. The sensors are know to deteriorate together.

I hope they can sort out the sensor issues that my Panda has Kev, if I phone to book it in might you be able to meet me there? At a time to suit you of course, there is no rush as I have another vehicle to drive. I would just like to get it sorted before winter. I got Col write down what he thought it was and what he had already tried. There is also a new pressure sensor ordered before he got too ill to continue.

No problem, I'll send you a message.

[Gloria]

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[Stanley]

Quite right Gloria.... just one of the misleading canards designed to control what we eat. My cauli and Broccoli came from Morocco this week but what can I do about it?

[PanBiker]

We had a substitute trainer (Dan) yesterday for our 9 x 2 exercise class yesterday and I am still feeling the after effects to some degree. Dan will be the regular Tuesday class trainer to give Katie a day free of the Evo60 classes which are very popular and are available most days of the week. Katie still sets the schedule for the classes as the courses are her responsibility, she has all her students stats on her laptop, Dan will just do the delivery on a Tuesday. I have to say that his 15 seconds recovery during each 45 second two part exercise did seem to go rather quickly. Must practice my sideways plank, harder than you think.

[Stanley]

I had to look sideways plank up..... Include me out!

[PanBiker]

I manage two full 45 second straight planks today which was one of our 9 in the session this morning. The balacing on one leg though doesn't work for me on the right as I have no control at that side from the ankle down, we do both legs separately and the left is fine.

What attracted me was that the end cap on our shower mixer bar went into self destruct mode when I turned the shower off this morning. I will start the local search for a replacement this afternoon, I will of course start with the plumbers merchant down Skipton Road. I have found one online but if I can get one locally it would be better.

[Stanley]

THIS is what caught my attention....
45 minutes ago
Universities have collectively announced more than 12,000 job cuts in the last year, new analysis from the University and College Union (UCU) suggests.
Additional cost savings announced in the same period are equivalent to a further 3,000 jobs, the union says, but universities have not confirmed whether these savings will be made by cutting staff. UCU members will vote on potential UK-wide strike action later this month over a 1.4% pay offer made over the summer. Employers say that offer "clearly does not reflect the true value employers place on staff", but that it is the "only prudent option" given the scale of the financial challenge facing the higher education sector. Four in 10 English universities are now believed to be in financial deficit, according to the Office for Students.
At a time when better recruits are needed to raise national productivity, starve education of funding..... Brilliant strategy! Not!!

[Tizer]

An update on the `lost' parcel' fiasco. Cotton Traders quickly sent me a replacement and Evri has managed to deliver it. I'd noticed that two of the main direction finding apps showed the wrong part of town when our street name was entered. I contacted the apps,
OpenStreetMaps and Grid Reference Finder, and pointed out that their apps would send emergency services to the wrong part of town. I'm glad to say they have now corrected and them, which will benefit not just us but our neighbours too. Cotton Traders thanked me profusely for pointing them to What ThreeWords when I suggested they incorporate an entry box for the code on their order page. It's accurate down to a 4m square and the emergency responders use it. Why does an old bloke like me have to tell the digital generation how to do their jobs properly?

[Stanley]

Evri have never impressed me.....

See THIS BBC In Depth article....
The facelift is moving into new territory. A quick search on socials and my feed is inundated with posts from people in their late 20s, 30s, discussing different types of facelift - the mini, the ponytail, the deep plane. Gone are the days when facelifts were reserved for the ageing wealthy - now an increasing number of younger people are opting to go under the knife. Some happily share pictures of their face before, after and the very bruised bit in between - their often very painful recovery. It's no longer a procedure that's spoken about in secret, celebrities like Kris Jenner, Catt Sadler and Marc Jacobs have spoken openly about their treatment. Many more are rumoured to have had one. The facelift is often seen as the last resort, the most major of cosmetic surgeries. Are people becoming so insecure in an often fake online world that they will pay thousands of pounds for the operation? Or have we had so many non-surgical treatments, such as Botox and fillers, that having our skin peeled from our cheekbones and our facial tissues and fat rearranged feels like a logical - and longer lasting - next step?
Include me out!!!!

[Tizer]

Mrs Tiz found this in the Lincolnshire BBC news...
`When can I see the Lancaster bomber sculpture?' BBC
Don't miss the other links at the bottom of the article.

[Stanley]

Thanks to Janet! That's another positive article.

THIS caught my attention and it's not so positive....
2 hours ago
What does my baby look like at six weeks? When's my due date? When should I book my first midwife appointment? These are just some questions women type into search engines when they find out they're pregnant. For Sammi Claxon, it was no different. Soon after she started searching for answers, algorithms picked up that she was pregnant, and began targeting her with adverts. But when she lost her baby due to a miscarriage, the adverts didn't stop. After her first miscarriage in 2021, Sammi had four more over the next three years.
These women became data sources and suffered because of it. Having a miscarriage is bad but being reminded every day by adverts targeted at you is inexcusable.

[Stanley]

I was wondering how the US Treasury shut down was going so I went looking. I Found THIS
3 hours ago
It's been three months since Jonathan Giba moved into temporary housing for homeless veterans inside a hospital for former members of the US military in West Virginia. He has been waiting for medical and dental consultations, after medications he was previously prescribed left him without teeth and unable to walk. Now, with the government shut down, he is preparing to wait even longer. He calls it "political bs". The US Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital where Mr Giba is staying in Martinsburg, West Virginia, is still providing medical care, but the VA stopped other programs that help veterans find jobs and transition from military life. "The shutdown is a waste of time, and it hurts everyone in the meantime," the Army veteran says. Martinsburg is an American town particularly fixed to feel the impacts of the US government shutdown. A city of nearly 20,000 people some 85 miles (136km) outside of Washington DC, federal agencies employ upwards of 3,300 people in the area, between the veterans' hospital, an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) processing facility and an agricultural assistance office. Another thousand or so federal workers commute to the nation's capital each day from the Amtrak station in Martinsburg's centre. This is Trump country, where 67% voted for the president in 2024 and a fierce independence undergirds something of a make-it-work mindset.
Worth reading the rest of this piece for news of the real America. I suspect we are looking at almost total control of the news agenda in the US as everything concentrates on Gaza and lobbying for Trump's Kissinger style Nobel Peace Prize.... News reports of the Federal shut down and the sagging economy are not needed.

[Tizer]

`The century-old ship sail technology finally catching on' LINK
There's plenty of information about Flettner technology and the Magnus effect on the Web.