WHAT ATTRACTED YOUR ATTENTION TODAY?

[Whyperion]

Apart from the fact that it wasn't aired in the US so no electors there saw it. He still won the election so how he can claim that it damaged his reputation for the election is beyond me. It should be noted that the Beeb didn't alter any words that he said just reordered them. How you can damage a blokes reputation that is already about as bad as it gets, (judged by a good proportion of his own countrymen and women) is beyond me. His reputation in pursuing such matters precedes him, it seems to be a bit of an obsession to say the least.

IF the BBC are clever (or better still get Channel 4 in) it will make a great TV documentary 4 parter = The original speech etc , The BBC reporting (and discussion at top level = if any ). The Panorama report and the fallout when found it was selectively edited ( All TV seems to suffer from this like print media too) , The Trump response and cull of top brass, and then the Court Case and outcome.
Interestingly the case paperwork itself seems to say Maybe Viewed, Probably on streaming or similar - no actual proof require . while civil cases do hang on the balance of probabilities when there is no clear cut truth there does have to be some demonstrably likely inference. I suppose one could find a witness to say I thought Trump was the greatest thing since sliced bread but when I saw that I thought he was a traitor to the US nation.

[Stanley]

See THIS update on the case....
The BBC has said it will defend itself against a $5bn (£3.7bn) lawsuit filed by US President Donald Trump over an edit of his 6 January 2021 speech in a Panorama documentary. Trump accused the broadcaster of defamation and of violating a trade practices law, according to court documents filed in Florida, external. The BBC apologised to him last month, but rejected his demands for compensation and disagreed there was a "basis for a defamation claim". Trump's legal team accused the BBC of defaming him by "intentionally, maliciously, and deceptively doctoring his speech". A BBC spokesperson said: "As we have made clear previously, we will be defending this case." They added: "We are not going to make further comment on ongoing legal proceedings."
Regardless of what we think the BBC is now committed to an expensive legal exercise in a Florida court. M'learned friends will be rubbing their hands with glee.
In the deep cuts which the BBC has made in its news departments many older and higher paid editors have been terminated to save money. I can't help wondering whether these veterans would have seen the danger and stopped the edit in question at birth.

[Whyperion]

I doubt it. I am sure that the BBC regards itself above the law. I should follow up a complaint against them but it is soul sapping when I have other life things to do. They often allow speak from ignorance as if it is fact and I think some of the documentary and "real life" segments of some programmes are fake and acted.

Other news -Fog in London, not quite the old pea soupers and in west london it is not as cold as the wider thameside sometimes gets.

[Tizer]

I still can't understand what all the fuss is about. The BBC hasn't done anything unusual. News sources routinely chop out and string together the bits of long recordings, essays etc that they believe are most significant and relative for their readership. It's what I did when doing science journalism. Trump's rambling speech was 50 minutes long. The BBC's lawyers could take a look at Trump's social media site and see what gets published on there!

[Stanley]

It was a clumsy edit Peter and could well give the impression Trump says it did, making a direct link with the invasion of the White House. Personally, I suspect that on the balance of the evidence we have that would have been a correct assumption......

[Wendyf]

Gloria messaged me yesterday because she has been logged out of the site and can't get back on. Hopefully Ian or Kevin might be able to help her. It's above my pay grade I'm afraid!

This is the login screen she can't get past.

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[Wendyf]

I've just seen that Kev has already helped Gloria and that she managed to log on last night.

[Gloria]

I logged on this morning, not last night Wendy, Kevin sent me a new password

[Wendyf]

Brilliant!

[Big Kev]

I've just seen that Kev has already helped Gloria and that she managed to log on last night.

That was me that logged in as Gloria last night, I wanted to make sure the password reset 'CAPTCHA' didn't cause any problems. Adding the required characters, from the sentence to the response, is very precise. You have to count the spaces as well as it being case sensitive
All sorted now

[Wendyf]

I've just seen that Kev has already helped Gloria and that she managed to log on last night.

That was me that logged in as Gloria last night, I wanted to make sure the password reset 'CAPTCHA' didn't cause any problems. Adding the required characters, from the sentence to the response, is very precise. You have to count the spaces as well as it being case sensitive
All sorted now

I would have thrown in the towel at the sight of that captcha question! I couldn't work out what was required.

[Big Kev]

I've just seen that Kev has already helped Gloria and that she managed to log on last night.

That was me that logged in as Gloria last night, I wanted to make sure the password reset 'CAPTCHA' didn't cause any problems. Adding the required characters, from the sentence to the response, is very precise. You have to count the spaces as well as it being case sensitive
All sorted now

I would have thrown in the towel at the sight of that captcha question! I couldn't work out what was required.

Hopefully my explanation helps.

[Tizer]

I hope Gloria's problems are all sorted now. In the meantime, down in deepest Somerset...

A spooky event yesterday mid-afternoon. As part of my efforts to work out how we'll distribute our broadband signal when we get fibre I'd been checking my TP-Link powerline adapters in various parts of the house. I had one working OK in the room with my computer - lights on etc. No problem. I disconnected it and plugged it in a socket in the next room. Switched on the socket. None of its lights came on. Strange, a lamp had just been working plugged into that socket. Next thought was have I tripped out the switches?

Then Mrs Tiz shouted that the power has gone off and she was in the middle of baking rock buns in the oven. Oh dear! A swift inspection with a torch in the garage showed the breakers were still OK. In the meantime she had phoned National Grid and they said 16 houses in our postcode area were without power `due to a dangerous incident'. For a moment I wondered whether I was the cause of the `dangerous incident'! It had taken place in that minute that I moved the adapter between sockets. Then common sense kicked in.

Power was off until 17.30 and we'd been living by candlelight. It came back on and we managed to boil a kettle of water for a brew. Then off again. By 18.00 it was back on and stayed on.

It was only a week ago that we had a power cut in the middle of the night affecting 11 houses nearby. Mrs Tiz was the first to be woken - she has very good hearing and is especially sensitive to high-pitched sound. Our landline phones were making noises to warn us they were running on battery power. Then it all became much more obvious when multiple vans appeared opposite our house, men started putting out those plastic fences and traffic warning signs and a mechanical digger started digging up the road. Also they had a powerful light on that shone through our curtains.

The power was back on for breakfast but we had a hole like a bomb crater outside and men working in it under cover from a large umbrella. The work went on for days until finally the last layers of tarmac were put on the road and pavement. We're hoping these events don't come in threes!

[PanBiker]

The challenge question keeps the wolves, (bad press) from the door. It could be made a lot easier but we have tried that and it usually ends in tears, (or at least a whole lot of fire fighting work). I can dumb it down if required as long as someone else deals with the potential aftermath.

[Gloria]

I've just seen that Kev has already helped Gloria and that she managed to log on last night.

That was me that logged in as Gloria last night, I wanted to make sure the password reset 'CAPTCHA' didn't cause any problems. Adding the required characters, from the sentence to the response, is very precise. You have to count the spaces as well as it being case sensitive
All sorted now

Do you have to include full stops as well as spaces?

[Big Kev]

I've just seen that Kev has already helped Gloria and that she managed to log on last night.

That was me that logged in as Gloria last night, I wanted to make sure the password reset 'CAPTCHA' didn't cause any problems. Adding the required characters, from the sentence to the response, is very precise. You have to count the spaces as well as it being case sensitive
All sorted now

Do you have to include full stops as well as spaces?

You would if they were asked for in the CAPTCHA. The response I used, based on your screenshot above, was 9hFe4s

[Cathy]

Oh Tize, what a palaver.
I had a problem this week. A few days ago I heard a sudden very loud noise. It sounded to be very close. I raced around inside looking from room to room, thinking “What the heck??” , found nothing, checked around outside and found nothing.
A couple of days later a friend popped by and as she was walking up my front path, she said “What happened to your roof?”
My neighbour and I have an adjoining wall, it turns out that quite a few roof edge tiles had fallen from his roof onto mine. What a mess.
I let my landlady know in case some of my roof tiles had been damaged. From me to her, to our strata liaison, to strata, to a building inspector ( who did a safety covering) to a building services company, the damage will be fixed in early January.
My neighbour rents so it won’t cost him anything, but he doesn’t answer his door, and after 2 notes being placed under his front door, he still hasn’t responded. He has no idea of all the steps that have been done to fix his roof.

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[Big Kev]

[Tizer]

I'm glad it's all in hand, Cathy, and going to be fixed.

An hour after I posted a National Grid van pulled up outside our house and one of the men came to tell us there's another problem and the power will be going off for 5 hours. The problem is spot on the point where our drive meets the pavement and they're going to dig another `bomb crater' to sort it. They warned us to move our car away because our drive won't be accessible. That was about 12.15, it's now 14.45 and the digger has only just arrived this very minute. So I'm logging out now before the power goes off. It's a dark overcast day and we'll be in the dark by 16.00!

[Tripps]

It was a clumsy edit Peter and could well give the impression Trump says it did,

Not half. . . .

I would suggest that a "clumsy edit" would not have resulted in the prompt resignation of the Director General and the Head of News, at the BBC. Had that been the slightest sort of defence, they would have clung on to office tenaciously.

[Stanley]

I have just read all the alarums and excursions above and hope you all get satisfactory resolutions very quickly.
Peter, your description of the problems with the leccy mains doesn't surprise me. Lots of our electricity supply mains are a century old now and the miracle is that the 1920s technology was so good that it has lasted so long.

[Big Kev]

From Facebook courtesy of David Whipp

Because of Christmas, collection days are different this week.

Zone 1 - Earby, Salterforth, Coates and Barlick up to the old rail line, plus around Gisburn Road School, is SATURDAY 20th December collection (tomorrow) not Monday.

Zone 2 - Rest of Barnoldswick, Kelbrook, Sough and Foulridge, is collection on MONDAY 22nd (not Tuesday).

Please keep back streets clear of parked cars to allow the bin wagons to get round OK.

Please remember to put your bin out on the right day!

Oh, and it's GREY bin this week...

[Whyperion]

Thankfully Christmas falls with enough saturday catch up days for most people. sometimes having 12 days without a collection can be a bit much if you miss putting a bin out.

London Schools were out early today . high schools at midday with the primaries staggered 1230 to 1pm. Threw out the normal buses as a lunchtime I expected a quick run into next suburb to meet someone turned into an hour of chaos.

[Tripps]

Because of Christmas, collection days are different this week.

Caused me to check mine.

Pleased to see that the Winter Festival has no effect at all. Same bins on the same days

All that despite the S. Cambs staff (including the bin staff) only work a four day week too.

[Tizer]

I have just read all the alarums and excursions above and hope you all get satisfactory resolutions very quickly.
Peter, your description of the problems with the leccy mains doesn't surprise me. Lots of our electricity supply mains are a century old now and the miracle is that the 1920s technology was so good that it has lasted so long.

The National Grid `A Team' deployed their mechanical digger and made a trench about 50cm by 200cm and 100cm deep and exposed two junctions that were then replaced. By 20.00 the power was back on and they'd tidied a gap so we could walk through (our car is now parked on the street) and were getting ready to leave. We went out and thanked them and they were surprised because apparently it's rare for anyone to do that! So now we have a big hole (slowly filling with rainwater!) and hope to see the heavy gang soon to finish off the job. Too much excitement!