My husband was urging me to cancel — and the girl at Apple said she realised how long I had been waiting — but I think I will stick it out — but beyond the 27th ?? ?Thinking about it.?
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On 15 Jul 2021, at 4:39 pm, zuiko < ftog@...> wrote: It’s not like Apple to over-promise and under-deliver. I hope that it comes soon, Jude.?
Chris C M I Barker |?Corscombe | GB
?Month has passed since I ordered iPad. Rang Apple this morning checking on how things were going as theres no progress beyond "processing" on the Apple site and my husband was saying perhaps I should vancel the order....but then I'd be on the end of the queue again. :-) ?But girl assures me it is on track -- and remarked I had ordered the most popular model the iPad Pro.
So we wait ..... they haven't taken the money out anyway....that'll be a clue if the money suddenly zaps out of the account :-)?
Jude
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Oh dear! ?I’m really sorry to disappoint you, John, but my brain started boiling almost in the first sentence . . . ;-)
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I did think think Chris would get 10 to 25 & 10 to 50instantly, because he is such a skilled pilot, engineer & scientist. But here’s the thing, I’m sure Chris Harvey have heard of the Youngs slit experiment were several photons/electrons demonstrate a wave like interference pattern. BUT you send one photon through at a time and you still get the interference pattern. How does the single photon, know the other slit is there???
An absolutely brilliant Northern Irish Physicist, John Bell, theorised what Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen called “spooky action at a distance”??was a thought experiment, which Einstein didn’t like: “I don’t believe God throws dice!”
But a brilliant French Physicist, Alain Aspect showed by experiment this was TRUE?
Two particles can interact instantaneously, faster than the speed of light, but they can’t carry information. How inexplicable is that?
I started out doing quantum mechanics, before I turned to making new medicines for mankind
John
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Re: Can Boris Johnson Bridge The Gap Between The Tories And The England Team?
Well, I try to say it in a less incisive way but it really is the sheep leading the lions. I despair
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Yes. ?And in my less incisive way, Johnson is a seriously useless twat, dangerously useless for the UK.
Furthermore, the Tories, for having elected His Prime Uselessness to be their leader are almost all equally useless. ?I met several of the Tories about eight years ago when I attended a graduation dinner for the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme in the Speaker’s House (in one of the large towers of the Palace of Westminster). ?I thought them boorish, over-bearing and arrogant (they were merely there for the do, I thought, not to graduate or anything useful); the Duke of Edinburgh was the Presenting Officer and was wonderful.
I have a MP who votes with the Government, come what may, it seems. ?He therefore is utterly useless as a tool for improving the UK’s standing in world from the depths that she has plumbed.
Chris
Desperate in Dorset . . .
Not sure I remember how I came across this site. Huffpost seems very incisive Begin forwarded message:
Subject: Can Boris Johnson Bridge The Gap Between The Tories And The England Team?
Date: 14 July 2021 at 23:16:08 BST
By Paul Waugh. HuffPost UK. Wednesday July 14 It was Wednesday, just after noon and, in an imposing building overlooking the Thames in Westminster, the questions on football and racism were coming thick and fast.?
But the venue was not the House of Commons and the speaker was not the prime minister. In the fortified bowels of MI5’s Thames House HQ, director general (aka the ‘DG’) Ken McCallum was answering queries from the media, including yours truly.?
Whereas PMQs thrives off the bearpit jeers and cheers, DGQs is an altogether more sober affair, befitting its annual rather than weekly schedule. Yet when McCallum was asked about the problems of online extremism and the impact on young black men in the national team, he sounded more eloquent than many politicians.
At almost exactly the same moment that Boris Johnson was squirming under Keir Starmer’s prosecutorial glare, the domestic spymaster was unambiguously praising the England football team for their conduct over the past few weeks.
And he explicitly compared his own behind-the-scenes team with the one that performed on Europe’s biggest stage last weekend. “As I watched the penalty shootout on Sunday night,” he said, “I was very aware that I’ve got experience, MI5 has got experience, of watching capable, brave young people of all races, giving their all for their country.”
He went on to say that racism was strongly associated with extreme right wing terror groups whose activity has in recent years become a daily, significant part of his agency’s work. And he clearly meant it when he declared: “I’m proud of many of the people in MI5 today, working to deal with the terrorist threat that is fuelled in important ways by toxic racism”.
Even the most determined culture warrior would find it difficult to argue that McCallum, the youngest DG in the agency’s history, is some kind of “woke” Marxist. The Security Service, just like the England football team, benefits from diversity in a very practical sense as well as a symbolic sense. Looking like the nation it serves is a necessity, not ‘PC gone mad’.
But the contrast between the ease with which McCallum spoke about race, and the discomfort of the PM on the same topic just a few hundred yards away, could not have been more stark.?
As Starmer marshalled the evidence of senior ministers’ mixed messaging on booing players who ‘take the knee’, Johnson could tell his usual “vaccines-vaccillation-remoaner” distraction technique wouldn't work.
With Priti Patel having said booing the team was “a choice”, with No10 having said the PM “fully respects” the right of those booing to “make their feelings known”, even the later U-turn was too late to use as a defence. The real problem was that Johnson resembled the wonky trolley of Dominic Cummings’ image.
Drawing a culture war dividing line only works if you don’t keep hopscotching over it yourself. Put another way, “wedge” issues (as the Americans call them) are a bit pointless if they end up giving the instigator a political wedgie (as we British would call it). If they noticed at all, the minority of voters who think booing is ok may have been simply been confused by the PM’s shifting stance.
He did have one concrete policy announcement in his back pocket, namely extending football ground banning orders to be triggered by online as well as offline offences. Yet even that welcome development was obscured by the bigger row over the gulf between the Tory party and the England team.
And when a Tory MP heckled that footballer Tyrone Mings was a “Labour party member” they managed to undermine rather than help the PM’s case (“I do not want to engage in a political culture war of any kind”). Aside from anything else, failing to praise working class black and white kids who go on to become self-made millionaires sounds a strangely un-Tory thing to do.
With key ministers attacking footballers for “gesture politics”, why would any player want to take part in the real gesture politics of visiting No.10 in future? If the whole booing issue and taking the knee issue had not been weaponised by some ministers, Johnson could even have said his own cabinet team mirrored the diversity of the England team and was stronger as a result.
Perhaps the most revealing remark of the week however came not in PMQs but in Tory backbencher Natalie Elphicke’s private message to colleagues: “They lost - would it be ungenerous to suggest Rashford should have spent more time perfecting his game and less time playing politics."
Note that Elphicke didn’t say “we lost”, she said “they lost”. Despite her subsequent apology, that word “they” was possibly as damaging to the Tory brand as any explicit racist epithet could have been. It exposed a gap between some in her party and the national team in a brutal fashion, just when any normal politician would want to celebrate their achievement.
It’s that gap, which is implicitly also a gap between a party and the public, that worries some Conservatives dismayed by the culture war rhetoric. It’s also why any future visit to No.10 of the England team (to promote our World Cup bid, for example) is now freighted with tension. At least they know they'll get a warmer reception down the road in MI5.
? “Hate will never win. To all the young people who have received similar abuse, hold your heads up high and keep chasing the dream.”
England footballer?Jadon Sancho?
? Boris Johnson will promise on Thursday that the government will not make the "rich parts" of the UK poorer as it pursues its "levelling up" programme.
The UK has reported 42,302 new coronavirus cases and 49 more deaths in the latest 24-hour period, the highest figures since January.
Six Labour metro mayors signalled they wanted passengers to keep wearing masks from Monday.
MPs who refuse to wear a face mask should be banned from the Commons chamber, a group of unions has said.
Green Party co-leader Sian Berry has announced she will stand down this autumn, blaming "inconsistency" among party figures over transgender rights.
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It’s not like Apple to over-promise and under-deliver. I hope that it comes soon, Jude.?
Chris C M I Barker |?Corscombe | GB
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?Month has passed since I ordered iPad. Rang Apple this morning checking on how things were going as theres no progress beyond "processing" on the Apple site and my husband was saying perhaps I should vancel the order....but then I'd be on the end of the queue again. :-) ?But girl assures me it is on track -- and remarked I had ordered the most popular model the iPad Pro.
So we wait ..... they haven't taken the money out anyway....that'll be a clue if the money suddenly zaps out of the account :-)?
Jude
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Month has passed since I ordered iPad. Rang Apple this morning checking on how things were going as theres no progress beyond "processing" on the Apple site and my husband was saying perhaps I should vancel the order....but then I'd be on the end of the queue again. :-) ?But girl assures me it is on track -- and remarked I had ordered the most popular model the iPad Pro.
So we wait ..... they haven't taken the money out anyway....that'll be a clue if the money suddenly zaps out of the account :-)?
Jude
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Re: Can Boris Johnson Bridge The Gap Between The Tories And The England Team?
Yes. ?And in my less incisive way, Johnson is a seriously useless twat, dangerously useless for the UK.
Furthermore, the Tories, for having elected His Prime Uselessness to be their leader are almost all equally useless. ?I met several of the Tories about eight years ago when I attended a graduation dinner for the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme in the Speaker’s House (in one of the large towers of the Palace of Westminster). ?I thought them boorish, over-bearing and arrogant (they were merely there for the do, I thought, not to graduate or anything useful); the Duke of Edinburgh was the Presenting Officer and was wonderful.
I have a MP who votes with the Government, come what may, it seems. ?He therefore is utterly useless as a tool for improving the UK’s standing in world from the depths that she has plumbed.
Chris
Desperate in Dorset . . .
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Not sure I remember how I came across this site. Huffpost seems very incisive Begin forwarded message:
Subject: Can Boris Johnson Bridge The Gap Between The Tories And The England Team?
Date: 14 July 2021 at 23:16:08 BST
By Paul Waugh. HuffPost UK. Wednesday July 14 It was Wednesday, just after noon and, in an imposing building overlooking the Thames in Westminster, the questions on football and racism were coming thick and fast.?
But the venue was not the House of Commons and the speaker was not the prime minister. In the fortified bowels of MI5’s Thames House HQ, director general (aka the ‘DG’) Ken McCallum was answering queries from the media, including yours truly.?
Whereas PMQs thrives off the bearpit jeers and cheers, DGQs is an altogether more sober affair, befitting its annual rather than weekly schedule. Yet when McCallum was asked about the problems of online extremism and the impact on young black men in the national team, he sounded more eloquent than many politicians.
At almost exactly the same moment that Boris Johnson was squirming under Keir Starmer’s prosecutorial glare, the domestic spymaster was unambiguously praising the England football team for their conduct over the past few weeks.
And he explicitly compared his own behind-the-scenes team with the one that performed on Europe’s biggest stage last weekend. “As I watched the penalty shootout on Sunday night,” he said, “I was very aware that I’ve got experience, MI5 has got experience, of watching capable, brave young people of all races, giving their all for their country.”
He went on to say that racism was strongly associated with extreme right wing terror groups whose activity has in recent years become a daily, significant part of his agency’s work. And he clearly meant it when he declared: “I’m proud of many of the people in MI5 today, working to deal with the terrorist threat that is fuelled in important ways by toxic racism”.
Even the most determined culture warrior would find it difficult to argue that McCallum, the youngest DG in the agency’s history, is some kind of “woke” Marxist. The Security Service, just like the England football team, benefits from diversity in a very practical sense as well as a symbolic sense. Looking like the nation it serves is a necessity, not ‘PC gone mad’.
But the contrast between the ease with which McCallum spoke about race, and the discomfort of the PM on the same topic just a few hundred yards away, could not have been more stark.?
As Starmer marshalled the evidence of senior ministers’ mixed messaging on booing players who ‘take the knee’, Johnson could tell his usual “vaccines-vaccillation-remoaner” distraction technique wouldn't work.
With Priti Patel having said booing the team was “a choice”, with No10 having said the PM “fully respects” the right of those booing to “make their feelings known”, even the later U-turn was too late to use as a defence. The real problem was that Johnson resembled the wonky trolley of Dominic Cummings’ image.
Drawing a culture war dividing line only works if you don’t keep hopscotching over it yourself. Put another way, “wedge” issues (as the Americans call them) are a bit pointless if they end up giving the instigator a political wedgie (as we British would call it). If they noticed at all, the minority of voters who think booing is ok may have been simply been confused by the PM’s shifting stance.
He did have one concrete policy announcement in his back pocket, namely extending football ground banning orders to be triggered by online as well as offline offences. Yet even that welcome development was obscured by the bigger row over the gulf between the Tory party and the England team.
And when a Tory MP heckled that footballer Tyrone Mings was a “Labour party member” they managed to undermine rather than help the PM’s case (“I do not want to engage in a political culture war of any kind”). Aside from anything else, failing to praise working class black and white kids who go on to become self-made millionaires sounds a strangely un-Tory thing to do.
With key ministers attacking footballers for “gesture politics”, why would any player want to take part in the real gesture politics of visiting No.10 in future? If the whole booing issue and taking the knee issue had not been weaponised by some ministers, Johnson could even have said his own cabinet team mirrored the diversity of the England team and was stronger as a result.
Perhaps the most revealing remark of the week however came not in PMQs but in Tory backbencher Natalie Elphicke’s private message to colleagues: “They lost - would it be ungenerous to suggest Rashford should have spent more time perfecting his game and less time playing politics."
Note that Elphicke didn’t say “we lost”, she said “they lost”. Despite her subsequent apology, that word “they” was possibly as damaging to the Tory brand as any explicit racist epithet could have been. It exposed a gap between some in her party and the national team in a brutal fashion, just when any normal politician would want to celebrate their achievement.
It’s that gap, which is implicitly also a gap between a party and the public, that worries some Conservatives dismayed by the culture war rhetoric. It’s also why any future visit to No.10 of the England team (to promote our World Cup bid, for example) is now freighted with tension. At least they know they'll get a warmer reception down the road in MI5.
? “Hate will never win. To all the young people who have received similar abuse, hold your heads up high and keep chasing the dream.”
England footballer?Jadon Sancho?
? Boris Johnson will promise on Thursday that the government will not make the "rich parts" of the UK poorer as it pursues its "levelling up" programme.
The UK has reported 42,302 new coronavirus cases and 49 more deaths in the latest 24-hour period, the highest figures since January.
Six Labour metro mayors signalled they wanted passengers to keep wearing masks from Monday.
MPs who refuse to wear a face mask should be banned from the Commons chamber, a group of unions has said.
Green Party co-leader Sian Berry has announced she will stand down this autumn, blaming "inconsistency" among party figures over transgender rights.
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I did think think Chris would get 10 to 25 & 10 to 50instantly, because he is such a skilled pilot, engineer & scientist. But here’s the thing, I’m sure Chris Harvey have heard of the Youngs slit experiment were several photons/electrons demonstrate a wave like interference pattern. BUT you send one photon through at a time and you still get the interference pattern. How does the single photon, know the other slit is there???
An absolutely brilliant Northern Irish Physicist, John Bell, theorised what Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen called “spooky action at a distance” was a thought experiment, which Einstein didn’t like: “I don’t believe God throws dice!”
But a brilliant French Physicist, Alain Aspect showed by experiment this was TRUE
Two particles can interact instantaneously, faster than the speed of light, but they can’t carry information. How inexplicable is that?
I started out doing quantum mechanics, before I turned to making new medicines for mankind
John
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Can Boris Johnson Bridge The Gap Between The Tories And The England Team?
Not sure I remember how I came across this site. Huffpost seems very incisive Begin forwarded message:
Subject: Can Boris Johnson Bridge The Gap Between The Tories And The England Team?
Date: 14 July 2021 at 23:16:08 BST
By Paul Waugh. HuffPost UK. Wednesday July 14 It was Wednesday, just after noon and, in an imposing building overlooking the Thames in Westminster, the questions on football and racism were coming thick and fast.?
But the venue was not the House of Commons and the speaker was not the prime minister. In the fortified bowels of MI5’s Thames House HQ, director general (aka the ‘DG’) Ken McCallum was answering queries from the media, including yours truly.?
Whereas PMQs thrives off the bearpit jeers and cheers, DGQs is an altogether more sober affair, befitting its annual rather than weekly schedule. Yet when McCallum was asked about the problems of online extremism and the impact on young black men in the national team, he sounded more eloquent than many politicians.
At almost exactly the same moment that Boris Johnson was squirming under Keir Starmer’s prosecutorial glare, the domestic spymaster was unambiguously praising the England football team for their conduct over the past few weeks.
And he explicitly compared his own behind-the-scenes team with the one that performed on Europe’s biggest stage last weekend. “As I watched the penalty shootout on Sunday night,” he said, “I was very aware that I’ve got experience, MI5 has got experience, of watching capable, brave young people of all races, giving their all for their country.”
He went on to say that racism was strongly associated with extreme right wing terror groups whose activity has in recent years become a daily, significant part of his agency’s work. And he clearly meant it when he declared: “I’m proud of many of the people in MI5 today, working to deal with the terrorist threat that is fuelled in important ways by toxic racism”.
Even the most determined culture warrior would find it difficult to argue that McCallum, the youngest DG in the agency’s history, is some kind of “woke” Marxist. The Security Service, just like the England football team, benefits from diversity in a very practical sense as well as a symbolic sense. Looking like the nation it serves is a necessity, not ‘PC gone mad’.
But the contrast between the ease with which McCallum spoke about race, and the discomfort of the PM on the same topic just a few hundred yards away, could not have been more stark.?
As Starmer marshalled the evidence of senior ministers’ mixed messaging on booing players who ‘take the knee’, Johnson could tell his usual “vaccines-vaccillation-remoaner” distraction technique wouldn't work.
With Priti Patel having said booing the team was “a choice”, with No10 having said the PM “fully respects” the right of those booing to “make their feelings known”, even the later U-turn was too late to use as a defence. The real problem was that Johnson resembled the wonky trolley of Dominic Cummings’ image.
Drawing a culture war dividing line only works if you don’t keep hopscotching over it yourself. Put another way, “wedge” issues (as the Americans call them) are a bit pointless if they end up giving the instigator a political wedgie (as we British would call it). If they noticed at all, the minority of voters who think booing is ok may have been simply been confused by the PM’s shifting stance.
He did have one concrete policy announcement in his back pocket, namely extending football ground banning orders to be triggered by online as well as offline offences. Yet even that welcome development was obscured by the bigger row over the gulf between the Tory party and the England team.
And when a Tory MP heckled that footballer Tyrone Mings was a “Labour party member” they managed to undermine rather than help the PM’s case (“I do not want to engage in a political culture war of any kind”). Aside from anything else, failing to praise working class black and white kids who go on to become self-made millionaires sounds a strangely un-Tory thing to do.
With key ministers attacking footballers for “gesture politics”, why would any player want to take part in the real gesture politics of visiting No.10 in future? If the whole booing issue and taking the knee issue had not been weaponised by some ministers, Johnson could even have said his own cabinet team mirrored the diversity of the England team and was stronger as a result.
Perhaps the most revealing remark of the week however came not in PMQs but in Tory backbencher Natalie Elphicke’s private message to colleagues: “They lost - would it be ungenerous to suggest Rashford should have spent more time perfecting his game and less time playing politics."
Note that Elphicke didn’t say “we lost”, she said “they lost”. Despite her subsequent apology, that word “they” was possibly as damaging to the Tory brand as any explicit racist epithet could have been. It exposed a gap between some in her party and the national team in a brutal fashion, just when any normal politician would want to celebrate their achievement.
It’s that gap, which is implicitly also a gap between a party and the public, that worries some Conservatives dismayed by the culture war rhetoric. It’s also why any future visit to No.10 of the England team (to promote our World Cup bid, for example) is now freighted with tension. At least they know they'll get a warmer reception down the road in MI5.
? “Hate will never win. To all the young people who have received similar abuse, hold your heads up high and keep chasing the dream.”
England footballer?Jadon Sancho?
? Boris Johnson will promise on Thursday that the government will not make the "rich parts" of the UK poorer as it pursues its "levelling up" programme.
The UK has reported 42,302 new coronavirus cases and 49 more deaths in the latest 24-hour period, the highest figures since January.
Six Labour metro mayors signalled they wanted passengers to keep wearing masks from Monday.
MPs who refuse to wear a face mask should be banned from the Commons chamber, a group of unions has said.
Green Party co-leader Sian Berry has announced she will stand down this autumn, blaming "inconsistency" among party figures over transgender rights.
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Not sure if I told you this, but I had A very dirty 1L round bottommed flask. I tried everything on it!?,?. Then I got bleach and sulphuric acid. Well it sat their a while, & I put my hand against it, to see if it was getting warm, but it was cool. 5 Seconds later it EXPLODED!. It was a good job the toilet was 100 yds away. I didn’t stop shaking until I’d downed a litre bottle of Jack Daniels. The flask was BLOODY CLEAN! Albeit at the 6 corners of the fume cupboard! In case you think I’m making it up, one of my Professors, lost is left arm to Fluorine Chemistry: Darryl D Desmarteau?ClemsonStill played golf better than I ever could & drive Raleigh Cars, with a Prosthesis Professor Percy had a Fluorine fire at Birmingham University. Well what do you put it out with, water? Forms hydrofluoric acid. Just let it burn itself out with a concrete fire. The only thing I can think of worse is Chernobyl! John
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I feel like a one legged man in an ass kicking contest
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I’m looking at buying The Sinking City for my Windows laptop, as it’s a Steam game with, apparently, a strong HP Lovecraft flavour and is on special offer for a couple of days more. ?Best Susan Oh, what was the name of the game please?
In the words of “Hong Kong Phooey” Could be (Microsoft)They say Monterrey (coming out Autumn) should be compatible with my iMac Pro, but I figure I’ll let someone else do the gamma testing. There have been a helluva lot of not just Dr’s, but Professors questioning the wisdom of July19th. I’m going out once a week ( at most) with a mask. Depending on how the figures go maybe NBC. We’ll know in 4-6 weeks. Had 3 seizures on Tuesday 6th, so the clock starts again until I can drive. Regards John On 13 Jul 2021, at 15:56, zuiko < ftog@...> wrote:
Hi John
I don’t have it, but isn’t it Microsoft?
Big Sur should be fully compatible with Intel Macs, and I’m not looking forward to the whole transition again. ?I remember that Power PC to Intel was a bit of a pain . . .
Cheers
Chris
Dear Chris,
When my Mac crashed I had backed up alien isolation, Tyranny Gold & my 3D Human anatomy atlas. I hadn’t backed up the flight simulator. Could you tell me the supplier again, so (hopefully) I can get it back.
I don’t know why it crashed, maybe because I’ve got an Intel based processor & Big Sur is a halfway house between Intel & Apple’s M1 chips
John
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I’m better. It does seem to be pretty random. I never had anything like this until 6 weeks after the drug dealers moved in! It made me feel ill, physically & mentally. Nikki Marshall sold her body for drugs money. Not one, not two, but three by the time I moved out. I DESPISE that. It causes misery to millions. Still, you have to give him credit for confidence in his product. He was up at 12.30 am, 2.00am 5.00am, midday. My father said: “Well he must sleep sometime.” But these coke heads don’t sleep. I think it was Cocaine, maybe it was methamphetamine who knows? Near me!
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Ye gods, Jude, that is so brilliant that you can really tell it like it is to John and encourage him. ?I do hope he is in a state to take notice. Best Susan From my limited experience John I would say you are not on the right path.?I found initially I was prescribed 1500 mg of absolutely ghastly med, and then it got changed for an equally ghastly med, and then for just as ghastly med. I’m normally a bright and cheerful optimistic person and I went from that to a total weeping mess not able to get out of bed or off the lounge chair - I wept from one end of the day to the end. My husband would confirm the state I was in. I ?felt pretty desperate and I talked about ditching the meds altogether as it was worse than the seizure in my opinion.?
What I did discover is under the health system here you have to go through all the cheap crap meds before they give you the decent stuff which is more expensive.
I approached my GP and said get me the best neurologist in town because I cannot and will not go on like this.? Scans had showed nothing at all. Didn’t think they would frankly.
But GP got me in front of a good man and he was totally aghast at what had been done to me. ?I had all the testing at his office — you know stuff stuck all over my head and strobe lighting and all the things they do….. nothing. ?Could not reproduce the nocturnal seizure whatsoever.
So I ended up on a child’s dose of Keppra - couldn’t drive for 18 months (thats the law here) and my neuro said he appreciated that I hadn’t hassled him to give me clearance to drive - and when I could I bought myself the red Alfa on the premise if I was back driving I should drive something that tickled my fancy.
Now I know not every case is the same and there’s lots of variables. But you need to get in front of a decent neuro who knows what he’s doing and have the meds reassessed before they kill you. ?
One of the top footballers here Wally Lewis when he retired and went into TV commentary started having seizures to the point he couldn’t work and they did that procedure where they put needles into the trouble spots in the brain and zapped them with laser and he’s been as right as rain ever since. ?Might be worth asking the questions of the right neuro.?
?I still take the meds as a precaution and at last appointment in February he said he doesn’t want to see me for two years and as far as he’s concerned I’m cured.?
Jude?
Hi,
I’m not sure entirely what to say. I had 3 seizures, 6th July 04.30. That was the best (?). I had an aura of 3-4 seconds made it to my bed. Gripped my bed like it was SUSIE!. 0930, no aura. My left leg would have kicked every male here into orbit. Then 10 minutes later another one.
Took me to local hospital. I was prescribed anti-epileptic medicine at set hours, then as “I needed it. Nurse said “well I’ll end my shift in 30 minutes, so who gives a damn. Well it was hopeless, got dressed, matron helped me. Next day orderly said you can’t stay in bed. So with 3 Degrees & an NIH Postdoctoral fellowship. I was left to look at 4 square walls for 48 hours.?
At this stage I gave up: “I’ve had enough, I just want go. Where I do not care
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Well done, Jude, both physically and intellectually :-)
I would try to improve your sleep, though. ?I treasure my sleep as to lose it increases my chances of losing my brain function in some way in later life.
“In later life”! ?I’m 67 now and still writing as if I were younger . . . :-)
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I don’t know about brilliant. Wasn’t a brilliant experience for me ?at the time. ?But I went from first time ever Grand Mal seizure (1am in sleep) late in life to where I am now - and recently had carotid surgery without incident. I had two seizures in 2 weeks in that initial incident - both really serious.?
Two ambulances, paramedic, and first responders turned up each time. Meantime my husband had to get me on the floor and do CPR till they arrived and we live in the bush. I frightened everybody except me.?
I told my neurologist when I finally got to him that I knew it sounded odd but I had determined I was not going to worry and he said not odd but that was good. So I embraced what he had to say and followed instructions and it’s worked for me pleased to say.?
But the meds in between were soul destroying prescribed by a random neuro at hospital using out of the ark knowledge frankly. And on discharge took little interest in my case. So you learn quick you have to do battle for yourself.?
I shall find my neurologist’s YouTube chats about the importance of sleep for John ?- I’ve had the lectures about sleep ??
My sleep has been rather disturbed following surgery but I fit sleep in where I can and I don’t worry about when and I’m getting myself back to a better pattern. I just float over it all and do my best. Can’t be rigid about it. Attitude is half the battle.?
I set out to teach myself something new computer wise daily and keep the mind busy - hence the new iPad coming and I might go do a course.?
Just did a great set of slides for an important conference in Windsor (uk) that went well. Was also being shown USA. Chairman of the conference came up to friend who presented that set and said her presentation was far better than his :-) I do laugh at myself sometimes.?
Jude ? Ye gods, Jude, that is so brilliant that you can really tell it like it is to John and encourage him. ?I do hope he is in a state to take notice. Best Susan From my limited experience John I would say you are not on the right path.?I found initially I was prescribed 1500 mg of absolutely ghastly med, and then it got changed for an equally ghastly med, and then for just as ghastly med. I’m normally a bright and cheerful optimistic person and I went from that to a total weeping mess not able to get out of bed or off the lounge chair - I wept from one end of the day to the end. My husband would confirm the state I was in. I ?felt pretty desperate and I talked about ditching the meds altogether as it was worse than the seizure in my opinion.?
What I did discover is under the health system here you have to go through all the cheap crap meds before they give you the decent stuff which is more expensive.
I approached my GP and said get me the best neurologist in town because I cannot and will not go on like this.? Scans had showed nothing at all. Didn’t think they would frankly.
But GP got me in front of a good man and he was totally aghast at what had been done to me. ?I had all the testing at his office — you know stuff stuck all over my head and strobe lighting and all the things they do….. nothing. ?Could not reproduce the nocturnal seizure whatsoever.
So I ended up on a child’s dose of Keppra - couldn’t drive for 18 months (thats the law here) and my neuro said he appreciated that I hadn’t hassled him to give me clearance to drive - and when I could I bought myself the red Alfa on the premise if I was back driving I should drive something that tickled my fancy.
Now I know not every case is the same and there’s lots of variables. But you need to get in front of a decent neuro who knows what he’s doing and have the meds reassessed before they kill you. ?
One of the top footballers here Wally Lewis when he retired and went into TV commentary started having seizures to the point he couldn’t work and they did that procedure where they put needles into the trouble spots in the brain and zapped them with laser and he’s been as right as rain ever since. ?Might be worth asking the questions of the right neuro.?
?I still take the meds as a precaution and at last appointment in February he said he doesn’t want to see me for two years and as far as he’s concerned I’m cured.?
Jude?
Hi,
I’m not sure entirely what to say. I had 3 seizures, 6th July 04.30. That was the best (?). I had an aura of 3-4 seconds made it to my bed. Gripped my bed like it was SUSIE!. 0930, no aura. My left leg would have kicked every male here into orbit. Then 10 minutes later another one.
Took me to local hospital. I was prescribed anti-epileptic medicine at set hours, then as “I needed it. Nurse said “well I’ll end my shift in 30 minutes, so who gives a damn. Well it was hopeless, got dressed, matron helped me. Next day orderly said you can’t stay in bed. So with 3 Degrees & an NIH Postdoctoral fellowship. I was left to look at 4 square walls for 48 hours.?
At this stage I gave up: “I’ve had enough, I just want go. Where I do not care
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I don’t have a problem with CCC and Big Sur, Susan. ?I use CCC three times a week to supplement my Time Machine backups – three different disks have CCC backups of my photos.
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I’m fending off Big Sur, since I read that Carbon Copy Cloner doesn’t like it. Maybe it will be more welcome later on.
Best
Susan
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It is beautiful, John. ?We sang it at my father’s funeral in 1982, his favourite hymn. ?It encapsulates what God gives us.
There are many meditations on the Psalm, but here’s one:?
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I’m sorry if I offend anyone, but this always brings me comfort in the worst of times: 23?The?Lord?is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2?He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 3?He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 4?Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. 5?Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. 6?Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the?Lord?for ever.
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I don’t know about brilliant. Wasn’t a brilliant experience for me ?at the time. ?But I went from first time ever Grand Mal seizure (1am in sleep) late in life to where I am now - and recently had carotid surgery without incident. I had two seizures in 2 weeks in that initial incident - both really serious.?
Two ambulances, paramedic, and first responders turned up each time. Meantime my husband had to get me on the floor and do CPR till they arrived and we live in the bush. I frightened everybody except me.?
I told my neurologist when I finally got to him that I knew it sounded odd but I had determined I was not going to worry and he said not odd but that was good. So I embraced what he had to say and followed instructions and it’s worked for me pleased to say.?
But the meds in between were soul destroying prescribed by a random neuro at hospital using out of the ark knowledge frankly. And on discharge took little interest in my case. So you learn quick you have to do battle for yourself.?
I shall find my neurologist’s YouTube chats about the importance of sleep for John ?- I’ve had the lectures about sleep ??
My sleep has been rather disturbed following surgery but I fit sleep in where I can and I don’t worry about when and I’m getting myself back to a better pattern. I just float over it all and do my best. Can’t be rigid about it. Attitude is half the battle.?
I set out to teach myself something new computer wise daily and keep the mind busy - hence the new iPad coming and I might go do a course.?
Just did a great set of slides for an important conference in Windsor (uk) that went well. Was also being shown USA. Chairman of the conference came up to friend who presented that set and said her presentation was far better than his :-) I do laugh at myself sometimes.?
Jude
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On 14 Jul 2021, at 7:58 am, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
? Ye gods, Jude, that is so brilliant that you can really tell it like it is to John and encourage him. ?I do hope he is in a state to take notice. Best Susan From my limited experience John I would say you are not on the right path.?I found initially I was prescribed 1500 mg of absolutely ghastly med, and then it got changed for an equally ghastly med, and then for just as ghastly med. I’m normally a bright and cheerful optimistic person and I went from that to a total weeping mess not able to get out of bed or off the lounge chair - I wept from one end of the day to the end. My husband would confirm the state I was in. I ?felt pretty desperate and I talked about ditching the meds altogether as it was worse than the seizure in my opinion.?
What I did discover is under the health system here you have to go through all the cheap crap meds before they give you the decent stuff which is more expensive.
I approached my GP and said get me the best neurologist in town because I cannot and will not go on like this.? Scans had showed nothing at all. Didn’t think they would frankly.
But GP got me in front of a good man and he was totally aghast at what had been done to me. ?I had all the testing at his office — you know stuff stuck all over my head and strobe lighting and all the things they do….. nothing. ?Could not reproduce the nocturnal seizure whatsoever.
So I ended up on a child’s dose of Keppra - couldn’t drive for 18 months (thats the law here) and my neuro said he appreciated that I hadn’t hassled him to give me clearance to drive - and when I could I bought myself the red Alfa on the premise if I was back driving I should drive something that tickled my fancy.
Now I know not every case is the same and there’s lots of variables. But you need to get in front of a decent neuro who knows what he’s doing and have the meds reassessed before they kill you. ?
One of the top footballers here Wally Lewis when he retired and went into TV commentary started having seizures to the point he couldn’t work and they did that procedure where they put needles into the trouble spots in the brain and zapped them with laser and he’s been as right as rain ever since. ?Might be worth asking the questions of the right neuro.?
?I still take the meds as a precaution and at last appointment in February he said he doesn’t want to see me for two years and as far as he’s concerned I’m cured.?
Jude?
Hi,
I’m not sure entirely what to say. I had 3 seizures, 6th July 04.30. That was the best (?). I had an aura of 3-4 seconds made it to my bed. Gripped my bed like it was SUSIE!. 0930, no aura. My left leg would have kicked every male here into orbit. Then 10 minutes later another one.
Took me to local hospital. I was prescribed anti-epileptic medicine at set hours, then as “I needed it. Nurse said “well I’ll end my shift in 30 minutes, so who gives a damn. Well it was hopeless, got dressed, matron helped me. Next day orderly said you can’t stay in bed. So with 3 Degrees & an NIH Postdoctoral fellowship. I was left to look at 4 square walls for 48 hours.?
At this stage I gave up: “I’ve had enough, I just want go. Where I do not care
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I’ve been resisting too but when I get new M1 iPad in my clutches might get hard to resist Big Sur - but will see. You always have to do a bit of research on what works what doesn’t. Seem to lose something or everything every time they make these moves. But trying to keep up :-)
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On 14 Jul 2021, at 8:02 am, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
? I’m looking at buying The Sinking City for my Windows laptop, as it’s a Steam game with, apparently, a strong HP Lovecraft flavour and is on special offer for a couple of days more. ? Best Susan Oh, what was the name of the game please?
In the words of “Hong Kong Phooey” Could be (Microsoft)They say Monterrey (coming out Autumn) should be compatible with my iMac Pro, but I figure I’ll let someone else do the gamma testing. There have been a helluva lot of not just Dr’s, but Professors questioning the wisdom of July19th. I’m going out once a week ( at most) with a mask. Depending on how the figures go maybe NBC. We’ll know in 4-6 weeks. Had 3 seizures on Tuesday 6th, so the clock starts again until I can drive. Regards John On 13 Jul 2021, at 15:56, zuiko < ftog@...> wrote:
Hi John
I don’t have it, but isn’t it Microsoft?
Big Sur should be fully compatible with Intel Macs, and I’m not looking forward to the whole transition again. ?I remember that Power PC to Intel was a bit of a pain . . .
Cheers
Chris
Dear Chris,
When my Mac crashed I had backed up alien isolation, Tyranny Gold & my 3D Human anatomy atlas. I hadn’t backed up the flight simulator. Could you tell me the supplier again, so (hopefully) I can get it back.
I don’t know why it crashed, maybe because I’ve got an Intel based processor & Big Sur is a halfway house between Intel & Apple’s M1 chips
John
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Yes, I know that one, it’s very clever.
Best
Susan
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On 13 Jul 2021, at 22:24, John Miller via groups.io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
Not sure where I first saw this:
“Jesus was talking to one of his followers. His follower said:
“I’ve noticed we have two tracks of foot prints, where we walked together, but in the worst times, there is only one track of footprints. Why did you desert me in the hardest times, Lord?”
Jesus replied:
“My foolish son, that was when I carried you.”
John
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I don’t believe any of that stuff but the words and the rhythm are amazing, like a lovely poem, and can be very calming, so that is important. Best Susan
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I’m sorry if I offend anyone, but this always brings me comfort in the worst of times: 23?The?Lord?is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2?He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 3?He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 4?Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. 5?Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. 6?Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the?Lord?for ever.
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I’m looking at buying The Sinking City for my Windows laptop, as it’s a Steam game with, apparently, a strong HP Lovecraft flavour and is on special offer for a couple of days more. ? Best Susan
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Oh, what was the name of the game please?
In the words of “Hong Kong Phooey” Could be (Microsoft)They say Monterrey (coming out Autumn) should be compatible with my iMac Pro, but I figure I’ll let someone else do the gamma testing. There have been a helluva lot of not just Dr’s, but Professors questioning the wisdom of July19th. I’m going out once a week ( at most) with a mask. Depending on how the figures go maybe NBC. We’ll know in 4-6 weeks. Had 3 seizures on Tuesday 6th, so the clock starts again until I can drive. Regards John On 13 Jul 2021, at 15:56, zuiko < ftog@...> wrote:
Hi John
I don’t have it, but isn’t it Microsoft?
Big Sur should be fully compatible with Intel Macs, and I’m not looking forward to the whole transition again. ?I remember that Power PC to Intel was a bit of a pain . . .
Cheers
Chris
Dear Chris,
When my Mac crashed I had backed up alien isolation, Tyranny Gold & my 3D Human anatomy atlas. I hadn’t backed up the flight simulator. Could you tell me the supplier again, so (hopefully) I can get it back.
I don’t know why it crashed, maybe because I’ve got an Intel based processor & Big Sur is a halfway house between Intel & Apple’s M1 chips
John
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I’m fending off Big Sur, since I read that Carbon Copy Cloner doesn’t like it. Maybe it will be more welcome later on.
Best
Susan
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On 13 Jul 2021, at 15:00, John Miller via groups.io <johnmiller051118@...> wrote:
Dear Chris,
When my Mac crashed I had backed up alien isolation, Tyranny Gold & my 3D Human anatomy atlas. I hadn’t backed up the flight simulator. Could you tell me the supplier again, so (hopefully) I can get it back.
I don’t know why it crashed, maybe because I’ve got an Intel based processor & Big Sur is a halfway house between Intel & Apple’s M1 chips
John
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