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Good morning everyone

 

Brighter weather here than the last couple of days and may stay dry.

 

Summer, I hope all goes well with your eye test

 

BBC Four programme tonight "How to See a Black Hole" will be of interest to anyone interested in astronomy. A group of scientists have been combining radio telescopes and onservatories around the world into effectively a global telescope. Over a period of a week they have been collecting and collating data with the intention of providing a close up as to what is going on at a black hole. The results are due to be announced later today, The programme is about how this project was brought together and the work which has been going on over the last couple of years. Whether the programme will actually include today's results isn't clear - if it does, this could be quite something.

 

I hope everyone has a good day

El Loro

Phone call from "British Gas" saying there had been a technical problem this morning, that they were going to read out my customer number and wanted me to then give them more information.

 

I have had this type of scam phone call before and refused to answer. I've since informed British Gas so that they are aware of this and can follow it up.

El Loro

A follow up to the above post. I think a scammer would tell you what is called a MPRN (meter point reference number) which is for gas and is shown on bills. That's not the same as the meter number itself, That would make them appear genuine but that MPRN can easily be found on an online database. That's not the case for MPAN (meter point administation number) which is for electricity. Although that's shown on bills that's not on an online database.

 

Scammers can't do anything just with the MPRN number by itself but they can use that to try to convince people they are who they say they are.

El Loro
El Loro posted:

Good morning everyone

 

Brighter weather here than the last couple of days and may stay dry.

 

Summer, I hope all goes well with your eye test

 

BBC Four programme tonight "How to See a Black Hole" will be of interest to anyone interested in astronomy. A group of scientists have been combining radio telescopes and onservatories around the world into effectively a global telescope. Over a period of a week they have been collecting and collating data with the intention of providing a close up as to what is going on at a black hole. The results are due to be announced later today, The programme is about how this project was brought together and the work which has been going on over the last couple of years. Whether the programme will actually include today's results isn't clear - if it does, this could be quite something.

 

I hope everyone has a good day

That sounds fascinating. I once watched a show that explored the discovery of dark matter. I wonder if black hole’s are connected to this, and if that previous research has contributed to this new discovery 

~Sparkling Summer~
twickers posted:

Morning all       

 

Let's see what today brings. I hope it brings redemption and enlightenment. Two words out my prayer    

Is redemption necessary? Are mindful awareness & acceptance and compassion & loving kindness, more likely to lead to obtaining a peaceful state of mind? 

 

No need to answer that, contemplation without judgment will suffice... 

~Sparkling Summer~
El Loro posted:

Phone call from "British Gas" saying there had been a technical problem this morning, that they were going to read out my customer number and wanted me to then give them more information.

 

I have had this type of scam phone call before and refused to answer. I've since informed British Gas so that they are aware of this and can follow it up.

I had a scam call like that once! I refused to confirm any of my personal details, telling them that they should be able to tell me them, if they are in fact a genuine caller. They said data protection prevents them from revealing that information, and reassured me that they were genuine. I told them that a scammer would say that, and that they had my permission to tell me my own private information.. and so round in circles we went. I had nothing better to do at the time, so I stayed on the line to see what would happen lol it took them 20 minutes to get fed up and hang up on me  

~Sparkling Summer~

I hope you all had a good day, and I wish you all very sweet dreams  

I was doing voluntary charity work this morning, which lasted longer than originally planned, but I didn’t mind. My eye test concluded that there’s no change in my prescription and I crammed in a late lunch with my mum. Then I ran a few errands, and came home to take advantage of the dry weather by cutting the grass! Add a few more chores,  a long hot bath, and a much needed meditation and here I am finally climbing into bed  

 

 

~Sparkling Summer~

Good morning everyone

 

Sunny here with a frosty start.

 

Summer, well done on giving that scammer the runaround and a very full day for you yesterday

 

I recorded that programme about black holes yesterday but haven'e seen it yet. So I don't know if it included the first ever black hole image which was released yesterday and can be viewed on:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-47873592

 

I hope everyone has a good day

El Loro

Good morning everyone 

Frost overnight and a dry, chilly and bright day.

Summer, I’m glad the eye test was fine and well done on thwarting the scammers.

You had a very busy day yesterday so I hope you enjoyed your bath and slept well last night.

El, I have also recorded the Black Hole programme but haven’t watched it yet.

I’ve got a busy day ahead. Have a good day, all.

Yogi19

A BBC article about Jack Cole who was the creator of some of Marilyn Monroe's dance routine, the most famous being the Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend (Gentlemen prefer Blondes (1953)).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ent...inment-arts-47814968

Much of the article is with one of his pupils, Chita Riviera. The article mentions a routine between the two of them on the Sid Caesar comedy show. Although the article mentions various other dance routines in films which one has seen, it's unlikely that you've seen the Sid Caesar one. So here it is, though the graphics are not good.

El Loro

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