1,676 Topic by William

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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-new … s-29121698

I tried the problem and I got the answer.

But the method they give seems a strange way to solve it.

I started by considering that he had £x to start.

Then I produced an equation.

Multiply each term by a well-known whole number suitable for the purpose, then one finds x.

Then remember which value is wanted as the answer.

Frankly, the tone of the article implying that Mr Sunak has the wrong policy backfires. It seems to me that the tone of the article implies that Mr Sunak knows what is needed!

William

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1,677 Reply by William

(3 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

There are some very interesting videos about Welsh on YouTube.

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Was this Britain's Native Celtic Language? Brythonic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Z3dXIJA40

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How to spot Welsh Place Names in England

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQoVaPvRqvc

William

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1,678 Topic by William

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I am learning (some) Welsh, using the course at Duolingo.com

Recently one part involved talking about opening and closing a door or doors.

I noticed that the verb for open is agor and it occurred to me that agor is in agorapobia.

The verb for close is cau and, having related agor to agoraphobia, it has occurred to me that cau is a little like the start of the word claustrophobia.

However, it appears that the etymology of agoraphobia is that the word was coined in Germany, from the Greek for a marketplace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agoraphobia#Etymology

So, I wonder if this is coincidence or if there is some connection from very many years ago.

William

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1,679 Reply by William

(19 replies, posted in History & Geography)

Here is a version with singing by Lale Andersen in German, on screen lyrics of an English translation of the German lyrics if one turns on the subtitles, and archive photographs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nilDHzva2Gg

The English translation of the German lyrics is different from the English lyrics of the English versions.

William

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1,680 Topic by William

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Serendipitously, YouTube drew my attention to this video that shows a man making a globe using traditional methods.

How do you make a globe?

The video runs for 3 minutes 51 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N18eSMuDO8

I like the way that he gets a cast hemisphere out of the mould.

William

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1,681 Reply by William

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There is also this. Call this B.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u17V5sfT5U

There is a picture, but I don't know if it is actual or just an artist's impression.

Also this. Call this C.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4aDQ90FhnM

Does anyone here know what each of these is please?

William

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1,682 Reply by William

(19 replies, posted in History & Geography)

Yes.

As an entertainer for the troops, so that she could not be deemed a spy if captured, she was an American Army officer and wore uniform.

I read somewhere once the following.

Either very late in the war, or just after, in Germany, she was seeking information about her sister.

Apparently at where she enquired, an assistant went into an office to say to someone in authority that there was an American officer wanting to see him.

"Send him in", was the reply!

William

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1,683 Reply by William

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The YouTube feed is available

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0sD-qcnvpY

There is a delay due to cloud cover, but they are going to try in less than 3 minutes from now.

William

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1,684 Reply by William

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I think that that is for the geosynchronous satellites that are in Clarke orbit.

If I remember correctly a lot of satellites and the early manned space flights are much nearer the surface of the earth.

I know that Telstar was much lower. I remember seeing the first Telstar broadcast live from the USA one evening.

Later that evening, when the 20 minute window became available again, which was on the next orbit, a programme from England was broadcast to the USA, but I did not see that as it was on late, after I had gone to bed.

The satellite had to be tracked as it travelled across the radio-observable window.

William

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1,685 Topic by William

(19 replies, posted in History & Geography)

Something that I found puzzling growing up in the 1950s in England was why, on radio and television, a German song, Lili Marlene was sometimes featured, reminiscing about the war that had happened.

By Vera Lynn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSMuTm649Hk

or by Anne Shelton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HaR1nzQYQk

> Orders came for sailing ...

So lyrics linked to our island country surrounded by sea.

Interestingly, there are other versions with different English lyrics.

Marlene Dietrich sang as follows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAfiw-OPBXU

Lale Andersen sang as follows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0P_m7SZBvQ

Two renditions of the original German version.

One from 1939,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjXC4N1HXf0

One from 1993,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swxBxs3cE1c

In French, sung by Marlene Dietrich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcP2lm6u15c

An interesting karaoke version with lyrics in French and many pictures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMJfq3RK9SY

William

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1,686 Reply by William

(6 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

When one compares that with the distance from England to the USA by ocean liner, or the distance from Chicago to Los Angeles by Route 66, hmm!

William

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1,687 Topic by William

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https://news.sky.com/story/how-to-watch … h-12795203

William

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1,688 Reply by William

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The interesting thing is that the computer is running Windows 10S.

But if it is a scam then it got through, though maybe it just displays the same picture for everybody and does not actually do a scan, so not stopped from doing it.

William

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1,689 Topic by William

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I started this computer up above 5 minutes ago and go a screen purportedly from McAfee, of which I saved a Print Screen image, here attached.

Perhaps foolishly I clicked a button and it gave this picture.

The thing is, I bought this computer in a March, probably 2021, and have not bought McAfee but I think it was bundled as a free trial. yet 22 months seems a peculiar time for it to have expired, rather than, say, 6 months or 12 months.

William

https://i.postimg.cc/RW9gTWqT/purported-virus.png

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1,690 Reply by William

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Thank you for your reply.

I had forgotten about this, so as I have recently installed the three Affinity programs, version 1 of each, on a new computer, it would be a good project for me to start to use the software on the new computer. Thank you for reminding me.

Yes, I think that the project could be done using Affinity Publisher.

I don't know about the new version 2 programs, but in version 1, for some reason unknown to me, that whereas Affinity Publisher allows setting of the author field in the PDF document, Affinity Designer does not. So if one is producing a PDF document that needs one or more of the facilities that are in Affinity Designer yet are not in Affinity Publisher, and one wants to add one's name in the author field of the PDF document, one needs to use the two programs.

William

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1,691 Reply by William

(2 replies, posted in History & Geography)

Yes, the show is from 1956, yet the historical event is from longer before 1956 than 1956 is before 2023.

William

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1,692 Topic by William

(2 replies, posted in History & Geography)

An interesting link about history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPoymt3Jx4

William

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1,693 Reply by William

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Hi Vicki

The problem is not with the software itself.

I can get FontCreator and the Affinity programs by electronic download over the internet.

PagePlus X7 is on a disc. i am not sure where the disc is located. In one of a number of envelopes, so I need to go through them. Maybe I will find the disc quickly, maybe not.

Also, since a quite expensive computer that I had about five years ago, which had wired Ethernet and a built-in disc drive broke down, I decided to have low-end computers and plug in thngs like a disc drive. So a computer would be almost like a consumable and if one went wrong then the disc drive would not go wrong as part of it.

I loaded PagePlus onto the recently broken down computer three or four years ago and I don't think I have used the disc drive since and I put it back in its box, I am not sure at this moment exactly where it is located.

So, when I set up the new computer, adding FontCreator and Affinity software can hopefully happen just by sitting at the computer and using the keyboard and the pointer. This will involve registering all the software with the registration codes.

Once that is done I will try to find the disc and the USB disc drive and try to install PagePlus X7, which could be something that happens easily if I can find both of them.

PagePlus is indeed a good program. The problems that I may have in getting it installed on a new computer are not about the software itself.

I hope this helps.

Best regards,

William

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1,694 Reply by William

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Thank you for your post.

Your post has helped me solve the problem.

I found Notepad++ on the web, found it was not a Microsoft program, so, as this computer is running Windows 10S I realized I would need to get it via Microsoft Store, if it were there.

Upon searching in Microsoft Store I could not find it, but it did then occur to me to search for

word count

in Microsoft store, and I found a word counter.

I got it, it is free, and it works well.

Thank you.

William

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1,695 Topic by William

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For years I have used PagePlus to do word counts.

Recently I have had computer problems on the computer that has PagePlus on it.

I have got a new computer and I can hopefully add FontCreator and the Affinity programs fairly straightforwardly.

However, PagePlus might be a bit problematic for various reasons.

Can anyone suggest a readily available way to do a word count on some text please?

Preferably one that I can use using this Windows 10 computer.

I would rather not use a web-based facility. Nothing particularly sensitive, but, well, privacy.

William

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1,696 Topic by William

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One example, a gentleman uses a basic level 3d printer to make scale models of locomotives.

I think it is great how he is willing to show his first attempt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn7qJ3Qn39E

The second video shows how he applies his gained experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xfu7S7y1eU

Please enjoy.

William

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1,697 Reply by William

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd16sNr9T2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehRwzmqfvMA&t=80s

William

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1,698 Topic by William

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRdgk3mv7ls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ema7SL9dpfQ

William

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1,699 Reply by William

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Alfred wrote:

Perhaps I’m misremembering, but I thought you had purchased two different USB keyboards at the same time. If you had, swapping out the current keyboard in favour of the hitherto unused one would have been an obvious thing to try, and you would no doubt have tried it by now!

Thank you for replying.

You have not misremembered, I did buy several keyboards of two different types, when they were on offer at various times.

This is the one I am using at present.

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/p … /270129320

I think this is the other type.

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/p … /308033616

I have not used it at all yet. I just got it as an emergency backup.

Actually it did not occur to me to try it.

The keyboard I am using worked fine on this new computer before and is at this very moment as I am typing this text. The exact same unit, unplugged from one computer, then plugged into the other one.

So it did not occur to me as a keyboard issue.

Perhaps it should.

William

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1,700 Topic by William

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An interesting list of preserved British steam locomotives

https://preservedbritishsteamlocomotive … comotives/

William

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