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I stand to be corrected by others more knowledgable than I, but I believe another downside of FB is that you cannot go back and look at older posts. They seem to disappear into the ether.

Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes has died at the age of 83. The iconic Latin artist passed away in Los Angeles, according to a Friday report from TMZ. Mendes was a world-famous Brazilian musician who collaborated with jazz greats such as Herb Alpert. Sergio was known for bossa nova, a jazz-inflected derivative of samba, and worked with the famous musician Antônio Carlos Jobim. Mendes also headed up the iconic musical group Brasil ’66. He was Oscar-nominated for his song Real In Rio which he made with John Legend for the 2012 animated movie Rio. And he won three Grammys over his 70 year career.

Dyslexic signwriter?

The alphabet question shows half of consecutive pairs of the alphabet, half A half B, half C half D etc, so the answer, as Marty said, is half G half H. In the image question, the sequence is incrimenting no. of wheels. As the question mark is before the unicycle, the answer must have zero wheels, in other words, the kayak.

I am aware of that, I am a member of a number of them. Memories of the Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd, (for staff of the bank before the merger which created Westpac in 1986), CBA Bank Data Centre Burwood, (staff of the centre in NSW I managed from 1973 to 1978), VMSA Public Notices (Vic Mens Shed Assn blog), Vintage Bonanzas.

Unfortunately, no.

As a regular user of Facebook, I would like to address the points raised in OME's second last post. (He posted again while I was typing.) Posts on FB are generally no longer than one sentence. OME's last paragraph is about the largest post seen. Multiple paras are not simple, because if you press Enter, it has the same effect as our Submit Reply button. Facebook is open to anyone on the planet. You can find the profile of a friend or relative, and select them as a "Facebook Friend". Then you can make you post available to "Public", "Friends", "Specific Friend", "All Friends Except" or "Custom". You can search for people you know, and send them a "Friend Request". People are suggested based on mutual friends, or common things in their profile, such as attended the same high school. Actually, it's quite simple.When in the comment entry panel, an icon (as shown below) opens the Add photos box, where you select the file to upload. As for videos, usually short video clips are uploaded in posts and show as a freeze frame with the circle and arrowhead "Play" button.Clips such as you would take on your phone. I cannot address Youtube type videos, I've never tried to upload one. Negatives. There are plenty of negatives as well as the positives. With items flagged as public, you get inundated with trolls. There are complaint groups for things like Australia Post and Foxtel. They are not run by those organisation, but there are a number on each group who appear to be employed by them and refute the complaint, sometimes abusively. If yhou want to waste an hour or so, check out those groups. However there are plenty of aviation groups, Vintage Bonanzas, Short winged Pipers, Cessna 172, to name a few. Private groups can only be viewd by members. Adverts. Absolutely littered with adverts. AI monitors your web searches then bombards you with adverts that are barely related.

Correct.

Vladimir Putin has just confirmed he wants Kamala Harris to be the next president of the US in a moment of typical Kremlin trolling. The Russian president told an economic forum in the country’s far east that it was up to the American public to choose their next leader, but that he would recommend his supporters back Harris. “She laughs so expressively and infectiously that it means that everything is fine with her,” he said on Thursday, suggesting this could mean she would not impose further sanctions against Russia. This comment is clearly tongue-in-cheek. After all, Harris was the vice-president when the US ordered a ban on oil, gas and coal imports from Russia in 2022, in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. And such seemingly affectionate remarks are at odds with the tensions between the US and Russia, which have only been rising since Putin started the war. Only on Wednesday this week, the US justice department charged two Russian media executives over an alleged illegal scheme to influence the upcoming presidential election with pro-Russia propaganda – allegations Moscow denies. Putin also endorsed outgoing president Joe Biden back in February, before he dropped out and was replaced by Harris. In a similarly wry moment, he claimed Biden was a more “old school” politician than his Republican opponent Donald Trump, saying: “He’s more experienced, he’s predictable.” Biden famously called Putin a “killer” in 2021, and has more recently called him a “murderous dictator” and a “pure thug”. Trump, on the other hand, has regularly talked up his relationship with the Russian authoritarian leader, claiming to admire his “genius”.

The Nostradamus of U.S. presidential elections has predicted a winner when the country goes to the polls in November. Pollsters will no doubt swing back and forth between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump as the race comes down to the wire, but Allan Lichtman has history on his side. The American University history professor and former quiz champion has forecast the White House winner in almost every election since 1984. The exception was in 2000, when he picked Al Gore over George W. Bush, although Lichtman did claim his model was then based on the popular vote, which Gore narrowly won. In 2016, he accurately predicted that Trump would overcome Hillary Clinton and was rewarded with a handwritten note from the winner saying. “GOOD CALL!” Now 77, Lichtman put his system to the test with the 2024 candidates, and Trump won’t be sending him a congratulatory message this time. “The Democrats will hold on to the White House and Kamala Harris will be the next president of the United States,” the septuagenarian soothsayer told The New York Times.

Correct. Surprisingly, at least one person said a circle.

I kicked one off just after this thread was posted, a guy advertising his auto servicing business.

I'll make some enqiries.

Like the tiny emergency wheels on EV's.

Correct.

I resemble that remark!! Yes, that is the correct answer.

Correct. And incidentally, the "VICAR, VIABLE" one was the 1% question of that episode. Four people got to that point, winning a share of $10,000, ie. $2500 each, and earning the right to risk that and attempt the question, which they had not seen at that stage. All four elected to take the risk, but none of them got the answer. All went home empty handed. Here is the solution. Next....

A private school will no longer be able to hold school camps on a South Australian island after a Native Title ruling. Students at Adelaide's Scotch College had enjoyed going to Goose Island, on the Yorke Peninsula, for school camps since 1966, taking part in activities like snorkelling, kayaking and sailing. The school's licence to access the island was due to expire in 2027, but trips to Goose Island will now end later this year. Scotch College was permitted to use the island for camps through a licence agreement with the Department of Environment and Water. However, in March last year, the Federal Court ruled the Narungga people were Native Title holders of the state's Yorke Peninsula, which includes Goose Island. Scotch College Principal Trent Driver said he was 'profoundly disappointed' that a request had been made for the school to 'hand the island back to traditional owners for alternative uses'. 'After several months of good faith negotiations and discussions between the College and DEW, we were informed the licence agreement with Scotch will now end in December 2024, and we will not have access to the island for school programs in the years ahead,' he said in a letter to parents on Tuesday, The Advertiser reported.