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JB I had a different problem: anytime a phone rings in house or car, my missus has to grab it and answer. Anybody’s phone, if she is at son or daughter’s house, she always moves towards the ringing phone. The kids (48 & 50!) just say “I got it mum, leave it!” When my mobile rang in the car, it used to be in the centre console and she would answer it: good if I was driving of course, but if we were parked she would still answer it. It’s a compulsion, brought about by years of working as a PA for 2 Heads of Department and a Manager, with her own workstation, 3 phones and a headset. The workstation chair was mounted on a traveling base, across about 15 feet of desk. The Manager, a good guy and a great boss, told me that she was irreplaceable, but a botched operation on her right hand, plus osteo arthritis, sent her into retirement. She has been slowly driving me bonkers ever since, with not enough to keep her frantic brain busy. We have about 40 massive jigsaws which she has completed many times over, stacked in the utility cupboard.
Anyway, now I have the phone on a cradle to my right, and using Bluetooth can talk to anyone hands free, she can no longer answer it. Until we get home….??
Nolan, is Android Auto possible on any car, or built in by vehicle manufacturers? I really like being in charge of my own phone ( at least, in the car) again, next move is a Bluetooth headset. I don’t like parking cameras, prefer the sensors beeping. I can judge to the last centimeter what is behind and/or around me by the beeps. I like to reverse into spaces, especially car parks. Today in town, I waited patiently whilst a misguided soul in a (faux BMW) Mini stooged around, trying to get into a space, in a line of parked cars. Forward, backward, sideways, up on the kerb. He gave in, drove out and I just slid halfway alongside the car in front, reversed back on full lock, judged by the mirrors where the kerb was, straightened up , forward a bit and we got out. Walked past him, he was still looking back at my car: “How did you do that?” – “About 56 years of practice, mate!”
EDIT: I have also got the Lenovo and Hudl Tablets working through the iX20’s Bluetooth. This is a revelation to me, I am playing catch-up but still dragging myself into the 21st century. ??
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I'm out.JB I have spoken to a mate down the road this morning, who works at Grimsby Read Hyundai. He phoned me from work to say that there are 3 models of this iX20 and the “not possible” bit only applies to the base model: I have the mid range one. He is going to remind Hyundai about this.
They probably write one handbook for all 3 models, but as I told him, they should really include some information about specific model applications. But I love it that I could talk to my youngest grandchild “hands free” yesterday when she phoned as I was driving from Cleethorpes. Answered a Geography question for her homework and granddad is Top Man again.
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I'm out.I have seen my Macmillan Charge Nurse today for a report on my progress and it is all good news. My previous bloods are fine, apart from a slight downturn in protein, which should be OK after I gave more samples this morning. I have been eating for England in the last couple of weeks, always hungry, which is my body demanding protein and carbs, so I am listening and taking it onboard. My old Gert and I had to go for my bloods at 11:00, however the CN appointment was not until 2:20. We had to hang around the hospital until that time, as we have a 44 mile round trip back home. Had an absolutely horrible “Healthy Eating” chicken & bacon sandwich, which was dryer than the cardboard it came in. I start Cycle 2 on Wednesday: looking forward to it actually, as I am one of those people who cannot resist talking to anyone who will listen about anything other than what is happening to each of us at the time. I have made several friends that way and learned to avoid the one moaner who thinks she is the only one there who is ill.
Richard I hope you and your wife have better news soon, you have a big battle on your hands, all my best wishes for better health.
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I'm out.John I found this, which might help you find what all your warning lights mean:
There is a possibility that your problem may be a dashboard fault, in what I think is a PCB behind the dash (so long since I worked on this stuff!) Reason why I say that, is the Brake warning light flashing. Those mean a problem with brakes, have you had any problems during braking? Any grinding noises from the front disc brakes, pulling to one side on braking?
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I'm out.Have to edit that last Richard: I realised that I had already given you White Rose in another Thread. I have another good source, which has very good quality clothing and footwear:
https://www.clifford-james.co.uk/
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I'm out.Bob, I thought that you had started the chemo already but I see not yet.
No Richard I started my first cycle 30 May, had the 3rd and last of that cycle on 13 June. Had a week off, start again next Wednesday 27th. I am also taking Capacetabine tablets: 3x tablets, twice a day, for the 21 days of each cycle. So I start those again from the 27th also. These have been diagnosed to teach my immune system and white cells, to recognise cancer cells and attack them. I actually feel much better, having lost 2 stone plus * I keep getting told by friends and neighbours that I look very well. That doesn’t always match the way I feel of course, but yesterday I went to my son’s 50th birthday bash and had a great time. No alcohol of course, but we had made it a surprise for him at his local pub. Many of his old mates from Nottinghamshire came, lots of his current Lincolnshire friends from his village and the Stationary Engine clubs in the County. I met lads I had not seen for almost 20 years, who now had adult kids of their own. They all reminded us that we used to feed them by the dozen when they came to see our son, and some said we were second mum and dad, which was a bit of a boost.
Today my Gert and I went to Cleethorpes and spent the whole day in beautiful sunshine. We parked the car under the shade of trees and a huge motor home, walked a mile to the Pier for an excellent lunch.Then walked until we could walk no farther, and took the Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway back to a sunny spot near the car. CCLR:
All in all, feeling much better, but my Gert spotted a pattern during Chemo weeks. Bloods Monday, chemo dosage on the Wednesday dependent upon results of that, feeling OK during the following 2 days, but becoming rather crook over weekends. She is rather observant when it comes to me and my health moods, is my Gert!
We shall just have to see how things shape up from here. Having another week of after next Cycle, then holiday for that week.
*Having to buy new trousers, dropped 2 waist sizes and (due to spinal problem resurfacing) 2 inside leg sizes. The Incredible Shrinking Bob.? Another High Waist Trouser Shop for you, Richard:
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I'm out.That is an ongoing problem JB. First a leak, then 2 oil switches, then the light coming on. If all of that had come into my workshop (and similar problems did) I would be investigating the housing that the switch screws into. A repeated problem in the same place? I would be digging deeper, had it appeared in my workshop. I would first check the condition of the threads in the housing and the switch, also the condition of metal surfaces between housing and switch. Depends whether they “find” another cause, be sharp with them: why was this not picked up before?
Good luck.
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I'm out.Hope you get through your current pain issues Nolan, I know what severe, ongoing pain can be like. There is some pain that I can handle with meditation, but during my 2 weeks in hospital and the aftermath, I just could not concentrate as much. 18″ semi-circular wound across my stomach, several smaller wounds and several different bits hanging from various parts, some pumping in pain relief, some intravenous feeding, some who knows.
Good luck with managing it.
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I'm out.Reset the light John: http://tinyurl.com/ybo9mh6q
T’other John (JayCeeDee) is right, only top range high class motors have Power Steering fluid warning lights and not many of those. But if you do decide to check the PS fluid, do it with engine warm and car on level ground. Don’t worry if it’s a little below level, it won’t matter unless it’s well down.
Good luck and good results from next month’s hospital visits.
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I'm out.Steve, I find that my phone (a Wileyfox) also does a variable rate charge, and cuts right down to a slow trickle charge above 80%. One year on, the battery seems to have a very similar performance to its original. Battery management is an art, and some phone makers unwisely save a few pence in this area. I do agree that the worst thing you can do is to allow the phone battery to go below 20% (ideally not below 50%).
I have the same experience with my Swift and SWMBO’s Spark, Ed. However, my Gert has only learned not to run hers down to nothing, in the last few weeks. That was due to a failed boot, after who knows how may shutdowns. I managed to recover it, but at least the lesson has gone home: now, every time she uses the Spark, she checks the battery. Always takes a near-disaster!
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I'm out.It was mini strokes that brought on my brother’s Dementia. His eldest daughter, only 7 years my junior and more like a kid sister, had double breast and Lymph cancer as a staff nurse, recovered, went back to work in a clinic for older patients and stroke victims, then had a stroke herself, big one. Mostly recovered from that, she now has seizures and mini strokes. This lass is incredible and I am proud to be her uncle: she is at every Forest home game and makes it to some away matches. Always on FB, usually attacking her Man U idiot male cousin for supporting a team miles away. She also goes to every Forest Colts game, because her granddaughter plays. Her Sisters are exactly the same: one has been supporting and caring for her OH for years after his massive stroke. There is just something about my family that does not give in or give up.
Except for my one idiot nephew, who is a prize pillock. His 2 brothers passed a few years ago, cancer and heart attack, but both were more intelligent, hard working than him, carried on to the end with dignity and resistance. If his dad had lived, he would be ashamed of him, always getting the sack, once jailed for messing with his former OH’s 13 yo sister. Complete a-hole.
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I'm out.A personal experience:
My 88 year old brother was, until about 3 years ago, a fun-loving guy, an underground, coalface miner all his life from the age of 15 until the pit closures of the late 80’s. During his late 50’s and on into his 60’s to early 80’s, he had worked on a farm in retirement, travelled for several foreign holidays abroad, walked miles and swam wherever he could find water. 3 years ago he began to change. Now he is permanently in a wheelchair, no longer knows his wife, 5 daughters, 1 surviving son of 2, many grandchildren and great grandchildren. He does not know me: before Alzheimers became full blown Dementia, he thought I was our senior brother that he grew up with, and passed away in ’88 at 59 years of age. He is totally incontinent, but the one thing that really breaks my heart is when he asks for our mam, as if he is still a child.
I have had 2 mates in this Oldpharts Ghetto over the last few years, both of whom became Alzheimers sufferers and both of whom were thoroughly good blokes and good mates. I have been subject to so much in the way of medical conditions, disease, physical damage and serious operations over the last 20 years or so, but if there is any chance of missing this bloody awful condition, I would like to take that chance and keep all my marbles in one bag, please. T’other stuff I can battle with, providing my brain retains as many working cells and firing neurons as possible. Thank you so much.
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I'm out.Ed: going even further back, the Babbage Difference Engine, or to be correct, Engines plural:
Charles Babbage was a British mathematical and engineering genius, born in the 18th century, whose designs were never fully built during his lifetime, but the Science Museum built an engine for the 200th anniversary of Babbage’s birth. It worked perfectly and still does:
All of which demonstrates that innovators, innovation and ideas ahead of their time have always been rarely recognised in this country. But I completely agree with you about Tommy Flowers, Ed.
Richard: I remember the Wilson – Callaghan governments in 1974 – 79. I left the army in ’76 and had what the kids today would call a “gap year” which was actually about 5 months of being a total idiot, affected by leaving a family. I decided to retrain as a Motor Engineer and Callaghan had created a large number of Skill Centres throughout the country, to retrain people into all kinds of work. I carried on 6 months of training in the local Skill Centre into work as a mechanic and continued with courses at a local Technical College. I got my qualifications as a certified IMI Automotive Engineer whilst I was still working full time. But that Skill Centre set me on the path which eventually saw me employed as a workshop foreman, managing a large, independent garage business. All the machinery within the various centres was new and mostly state of the art. They were absolutely brilliant places which should have been given more time to retrain enough people, but the next Conservative government closed them all and sold off all the machinery, tooling and plans, mostly abroad.
Nothing changes.
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I'm out.Well I have received the DVD Player. Not setting it up yet, as I need to reorg anise all my audio/video/TV components and cabling. Arrived from an Amazon Marketplace company called magicdiscounts and was very securely packed, marked FRAGILE: handle with care. It is quite a large machine and plays almost anything I can throw at it, according to the documentation.
Original link: http://tinyurl.com/y9o9l3rm
Came with an enormously long flat HDMI cable, long enough to reach across most of the lounge. Registering the player with LG Support, was probably the easiest and quickest online registration I have ever carried out, all done in steps on an impressively efficient website.
I have been reading about HD DVD and how it was killed off. Primarily a contest between Toshiba who marketed it in conjunction with NEC, and Sony/SNE who came out with Blu-ray. As Sony owned the studios and convinced Warner to support Blu-ray and Walmart followed suit by restocking with Blu-ray disks exclusively, there could be only one winner. It cost Toshiba almost $1Billion. Kind of a Japanese mega – business civil war. Reading all of that made me realise how I got hold of the wrong end of the stick about HD DVD. Not for the first time, I was confused by Tech. ?? Doesn’t take much. Anyhow, we are looking forward to playing our DVDs when I set it all up. Together with all the options available via the Humax such as Netflix and OD channels, we should have enough entertainment to see us safely into senility. ??
My Gert is especially looking forward to ” Buying the DVD of that film I wanted to see at the cinema, but never got round to going.”
“Oh yeah, which one, I can check Netflix?”
“Er – can’t remember the name.” ” (Sigh)” ??
Wheels, I have a drawer full of all kinds of blank DVD disks. Last time I used a disk, was a Rescue disk for my desktop and Gert’s laptop. I make one of these every 12 months or so.
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I'm out.” Sounds a daft statement, but the dynamics and predictability of the balls really change from gen to gen.”
No Steve, it’s not daft. How many corners and crosses have we seen, from all teams, that sail across the goal and miss everyone? How many long passes upfield, go sailing out for goal kicks? Long before this era, my old man (a Staffordshire County Schools player, circa 1918) used to say that ” …players today play in running pumps and kick balloons.” That would have been around 1975, I don’t know what he would make of it now. All I know is that I was once knocked spark out at 14, heading an old leather ball off the goal line. Running across a mud heap pitch in heavy old leather boots, counting blisters in the dressing room. Sorry dad, but I would have preferred playing with footballs and boots of today!
RIP dad, still love and respect your memory.
Have to say a word about Mo Salah. ?? It doesn’t matter how talented one player in any team might be: he’s only as good as those around him, and the service he gets from them. He worked his socks off and he got the goal he deserved, but the Russians were just too good for his teammates. As for Russia: you can only beat what they put in front of you, and how can you argue with Won 2, For 8 , 1 Against? How on earth this Russian team lost the last 7 before the WC, is a mystery. Drug checks please!??
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I'm out.Steve, neither my Gert nor myself can tell the difference now. We are both 70+ and our eyes are no longer able to see a difference. I have visited homes with great TVs and Home Cinema systems, also looked in TV shops at various TVs: they don’t look any better to me than 1080P full HDTV. I have been watching the WC football on this desktop, with a Hauppage DVB-T2 HD tuner card, on my HP VH240a monitor. The picture is great and I can’t tell the difference between that and my neighbour’s 55″ UHD TV. It’s just age and reduced vision: why should I pay for a much more expensive TV, when I get just as much enjoyment out of the set I have?
DVDs I have, were bought or recorded at least a couple of years ago. As you say, the TV upscales to full HD, 1080P. So that is good enough for us and we have no intention of recording any more, that’s why we have the Freesat Humax box, to record from programmes. We just want to be able to play the shelves full of DVDs that we have. So we don’t need Blu ray.
Hope I explained that OK.
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I'm out.Dave, we need several miracles after the Tunisia game. I almost fell off my chair when Harry Kane scored the second, 2 minutes from the end of added time. The Tunisians were not half bad, but spoiled themselves with blatant time wasting. Also think the Ref should have seen Kane dragged to the deck TWICE in the penalty area. Unless we really up our game, Belgium will destroy us. We need goals against Panama.
Steve, I thought your captain JH played very well, along with Harry Maguire, the only player making forward runs from deep. He also made the headers that gave Kane the goals. Although why Southgate continues with Ashley Young, beats me. One style, one way, no initiative. I could take better free kicks with my stick.
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I'm out.Belgium will be our toughest group game, if we can get over the Tunisian hurdle. Lukaku is a battering ram, De Bruyne and Hazard are on fire.
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I'm out.I had that same problem when I was a Nationwide customer: they had me install that against my wishes with a vague threat about security. I junked it and told them I was never going to take their “Security” recommendation threats seriously again. To add insult to injury, NW closed my local branch and the nearest is a 44 mile round trip. Which is why I left NW. For TSB.??
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I'm out.Thanks but I knew that Ed, had investigated USB players and the Bravia link. This is the player I decided upon:
I didn’t want a Blu ray player: don’t have any Blu ray discs, HD is fine for us, as we cannot tell the difference now with our fading vision. The Bravia 40RD453 is not in itself a “Smart” TV, but does have an Ethernet port, without the nonsense of manufacturer’s ‘apps’ which don’t work after a year or two. The “All Regions 0 1 2 3 4 5 6” appealed to me, as I have some older DVDs from over the water, which have only been played perhaps twice.
EDIT: the TV also upscales to full HD, we can watch it happen and cannot tell the difference. Takes a couple of seconds, if that. Had this TV about 18 months now and very pleased with it, does what we want for less than a Smart TV.
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