Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Canny lass I would have backed Symptoms. I had to check, and I would have lost my bet:-

I personally was not affected but on behalf of many I knew at the time a thank you and your sisters.

Don't know if this will help young lady but it can't do any harm to try and you could end up a happy youngin selecting your 'Quote' Radio button. Java and Radio buttons are something I have ever 'played' with but I did remember noticing a setting on my Google Chrome web browser menu about Java. - if you right click with your mouse on the 3 horizontal bars in the top right hand corner of the screen you will get your browser settings displayed. I have done a bit of checking and even found a site that gives a guide on how to check that Java is enabled within various browsers :- http://enable-javascript.com/ For Google chrome:- 1. On the web browser menu click on the "Customize and control Google Chrome" and select "Settings". 2. In the "Settings" section click on the "Show advanced settings..." 3. Under the the "Privacy" click on the "Content settings...". 4. When the dialog window opens, look for the "JavaScript" section and select "Allow all sites to run JavaScript (recommended)". 5. Click on the "OK" button to close it. 6. Close the "Settings" tab. 7. Click on the "Reload this page" button of the web browser to refresh the page. As I would expect the Default setting would be to Allow all sites................' I am not too hopeful but you never know. If nothing else we might just prompt the experts on this site to come to your aid and make next years dancing around the xmas tree Radio controlled. ps. as for capitla letters popping up I can only add - I have the same problems because I keep cathing the Caps Lock key when typing the letter 'A'.!

In Canny lasses birthday post she mentions wood for the burner and that to me means - open fire and REAL toast. Not grilled or electric toasted but a slice of bread on a toasting fork over real flames. The 1950's Rayburn stoves installed in all the house in Coquetadle Place were ideal for real toast. Also remember the large black ranges that were in the houses in the Barrington pit rows and I would assume were just as good. Can't find a picture of what was installed in Coquestdale, Rayburn with the black chimney pipe, oven and fire place (with door) but this one is similar:- An absolutely simple pleasure on a cold day. The whole family, 6 of us, would sit around the oven. Me dad toasting and me mam buttering. We could go through a whole loaf in half an hour and all be fed, warmed and have 'corned-beef' features from sitting to close to the fire. If the bread was too soft and would curl around the toasting fork when the first side was toasted the rest of the bread to be used would be placed on the warm oven shelf, for just a few seconds, to dry it out slightly and prevent the slice from curling up too much. When the father-in-law's, Cramlington, council house was upgraded from coal to gas (approx 1990) we had a real toast party on the coal fire's last day. The kids just thought we were mad but we knew it would probably be out last taste of real toast.

Happy Birthday Canny Lass. One will have no control over this increase! You can't strike this one out! But perhaps you can, now that you are wiser?

This mankin geet glakey chep was doon on honkas, looked like he was on the bog – or was it on a mat or poe, i a think it was.

Thanks for that Mike. Promise not to nag you for info!

Done

Oxter: The armpit. From the Old English oxta or ohsta. The word oxter is used in certain areas of the world (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England), reminding us that there are many local and colloquial names for parts of the human anatomy. Synonymous with axilla.

A,A, neetha (but if the word 'I' was replaced with 'A' then ,B,B,A (but a would always avoid Blyth so it dosnt coont),B( but just on a Market Day when the pubs were open all day),nivva weshed a frock so cant say, If a had weshed a frock wor lass wud not complain aboot the ootcum.

Joe asked a cousin to ask her parents if they had any idea why it was called Shiny Row. Really the answer was 'no-idea' but to confirm how asking one question does not get the hoped for answer but sends the aged off down memory lane - exact extract from email recieved:- Heres the commentary as they are chatting!! There are 2 shiny row's-one at Dr Pitt and one is a place in Durham. It was a street in the colliery and pops used to walk along it when he went to pictures which is now the gym on glebe row bank. Charlie Cofran lived there (apparently!) No ideas on why it would be called Shiny Row I'm afraid! Just a random name?! Doctor Terrace and North Terrace were beside Shiny Row. Pops had piano lessons at Cross Row which was next to the Dr Pitt brickyard. Lukey lived at Doctor Terrace. They must all have been in the vicinity?! Talk has gone off at a tangent to Jimmy Graves and very random other names!! Doesn't help but getting oldies to recall the past makes me smile.

Joe I can't remember anyone on this site giving an explanation for any of the street names. I would agree that some would appear obvious but just so we (or just me) have the same idea - Office Row - I was always told that in a pit village the Office Row was built close to the pit and those house were for the white collar workers. Eggy

Only remember that I was told the sleepwalking incident was known as 'Watson's Wake'. Mrs Watson shouted up to him, he awoke and fell to death. I have nothing to substantiate this.

Can't ever remember anyone saying that the list of 70-75 Mr Scargill talked about was ever published. Does the Freedom Of Information Act cover the secret cabinet document of 1983:- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-subject/parliament.htm ? The National Archives 'Secret' meeting at No 10 Document marked "Not to be photocopied or circulated outside the private office" recording a meeting attended by seven people, including the prime minister, chancellor, energy secretary and employment secretary, at No 10 about pit closures A document in the secret files includes an instruction that details of the meeting should not be made public ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is a list of all the closures from 1984 that was published in 2004 by the BBC :- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3500979.stm Although there were 170 collieries open in 1984, several merged before they closed which is why there are only 152 entries on this list.

Ccleaner: The Real Review Started by Mr Darn, Mar 10 2009 05:59 PMSymptoms - read the previous topic on CCleaner by Mr Darn. Downloaded the free software and from the Options given when the package is loaded I would assume there have been quite a few changes in the operating of this package since Mr Darn, and many disgruntled users lost there Documents. Leaving the default settings unchanged I initiated the 'Analyze' run and found the list of files reported that would be deleted if the 'Run Cleaner' was initiated, with the default settings, would be acceptable to me. Details of files to be deleted (Note: No files have been deleted yet) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internet Explorer - Temporary Internet Files 117,559 KB 381 files Internet Explorer - History 2,162 KB 23 files Internet Explorer - Cookies 3 KB 11 files Internet Explorer - Index.dat files 1,072 KB 5 files Windows Explorer - Recent Documents 4 KB 6 files Windows Explorer - Thumbnail Cache 4,112 KB 6 files System - Empty Recycle Bin 28,520 KB 20 files System - Temporary Files 302,027 KB 325 files System - Memory Dumps 26,303 KB 12 files System - Windows Log Files 128,572 KB 51 files Google Chrome - Internet Cache 417,032 KB 2,696 files Google Chrome - Internet History 1,447 KB 12 files Google Chrome - Cookies 198 KB 469 files Google Chrome - Session 32 KB 3 files Applications - Adobe Acrobat 10.0 453 KB 1 files Applications - Adobe Acrobat 9.0 222 KB 4 files Applications - Adobe Acrobat XI 229 KB 3 files Applications - Adobe Reader 11.0 221 KB 2 files Applications - McAfee AntiVirus 15,842 KB 252 files Applications - MS Office Picture Manager 4 KB 2 files Applications - Office 2007 65 KB 17 files Applications - Office 2010 65 KB 17 files Internet - Google Toolbar IE 14 KB 7 files Internet - Skype 169 KB 61 files Multimedia - Adobe Flash Player 1 KB 34 files Multimedia - Macromedia Shockwave 11 19 KB 1 files Multimedia - Microsoft Silverlight 1 KB 12 files Multimedia - Windows Media Center 28 KB 22 files Multimedia - Windows Media Player 1 KB 1 files Utilities - Adobe Air 7 KB 1 files Utilities - Windows Defender 2,436 KB 1 files Windows - MS Search 8,448 KB 66 files Windows - Remote Desktop 20,467 KB 1 files . Initiated the 'Run Cleaner' and 5,419 files deleted = 1,052 MB removed So my system was not that bad, but the tidy still worthwhile.

I have now ran the Free download scans from Malwarebytes – Avast & Kaspersky and compared them against my current McAfee version. Each product was left with their default settings. My McAfee is set to search for 'Unnecessary system files' of the type :- Temporary Files, Recycle Bin, Registry, Shortcuts, Windows History, Lost File Fragments, Active X Controls, Flash and Searchlight cookies, Memory Image files, Problem report files & Thumbnail cache. The default at download was not changed for the three downloaded products. No. of Files Scanned Quick San - Full Scan – Time Taken – Virus found – Adware/Spyware found McAfee 4,706 not given None None 254,005 not given None None Malwarebytes 267,727 11 mins None 5 (5 files) 486,451 1hr 58mins None 6 (5 files + 1 'exe' in ProgramFiles) Avast not given 38mins None None not given 1hr 22mins None None Kaspersky not initiated 478,874 1hr 10mins None None Naturally this small test with only my own spec, and limited knowledge, was very basic. So please no "you should have done…………………….. etc. etc.†It's just me playing (filling in my retirement spare time) and you can ignore or read into it whatever you want. The one 'exe' file that was found = OptimizerPro and was only detected in the Full scan so I assume 'Program Files' is not scanned on the quick scan. The full filename was C:\Program Files\Optimizer Pro\OptProsmartSmartScan.exe The other 5 files were under my user in Documents\OptimizerPro. I Googled 'OptimizerPro' and from the entries returned this is a known piece of Adware/Spyware and earliest report of I saw from Google was 6th December 2011. As this Spy ware has been known about for at least a couple of years I would have expected all the major products to be aware of this and have it in their relevant database. Reran Malwarebytes Full scan and at the end took the option to remove the detected files.

Threegee - when there are a lot of entries to go through I often use the 'search' facility on the topic. In this case I searched for the word 'bet' and nothing found. Tried it again today and the word 'bet' still not found. Tried longer words and they were all found. Tried 'bet' again and still not found. Tried numerous 3 letter words - 'and' - 'the' - 'bus' - 'car' etc. and nothing returned. This system does not like searching for 3 letter words. Tried a two letter word and the system informs you that words below 3 characters, and certain other words, are not allowed. 'bet' must not be allowed. Bet I still get it wrong in the future.

Searched for 'bet' and it wasn't me. AV Summary:- Malwarebytes detected more that Norton, AVG or McAfee Adam says Kaspersky is best (or is that just Internet Security?) threegee says Avast is best Now my system has been scanned and cleared by Malwarebyte I will, when I have 4 hours spare, do another full scan with Malwarebytes (before by two week free trial runs out) and follow that immediately by downloading and running Avast free AV. At the end of me running and attempting to compare products I will make a decision on what I will use. But now I would bet that everyone will still have their own preference. For & Against is easy, just ask my wife!

Adam, thanks for the info – did some testing with Malwarebytes. Will try Kaspersky PURE 3.0 when I can find their free trial download. Not going to give them £49.99 up front without a trial! With my current system – Norton Security came with it as part of the package. Switched to AVG when Norton wanted more money. AVG introductory offer was £10 and that lasted for 2 years. Switched from AVG to McAfee in November 2012 – just because of price – AVG price quadrupled and McAfee introductory offer, for what appeared to be the same security options. None of the security products I have used – Norton, AVG & McAfee have ever detected any possible malicious items on my PC. Downloaded the trial version of Malwarebytes and did comparison runs against McAfee:- Quick Scan – Items Scanned – Items Detected - McAfee 4,706 0 Malwarebytes 267,727 5 Skipped the request to remove the detected items and did:- Full Scan (C & D) McAfee 254,005 0 Malwarebytes 486,451 6 All items detected by Malwarebytes were labelled as 'PUP.Optional's - Potentially Unwanted Program. One exe file that was detected in the FULL scan was C:\Program Files\Optimizer Pro\OptProSmartScan.exe Ran the Malwarebytes Quick Scan & Full Scan again and this time requesting the detected files to be removed on the completion of each scan. So this time the Full scan only detected the 1 item = the exe file. Files Detected: 1 C:\Program Files\Optimizer Pro\OptProSmartScan.exe (PUP.Optional.OptimizerPro) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. Restarted my system after the deletions. The folder C:\Program Files\Optimizer Pro was still present, but empty. Deleted the folder. Reran the FULL scan on C: & D: Scan type: Full scan (C:\|D:\|) Scan options enabled: Memory | Startup | Registry | File System | Heuristics/Extra | Heuristics/Shuriken | PUP | PUM Scan options disabled: P2P Objects scanned: 487482 Time elapsed: 2 hour(s), 7 minute(s), 20 second(s) Memory Processes Detected: 0Adam – did some testing with Malwarebytes. Will try Kaspersky PURE 3.0 when I can find their free trial download. Not going to give them £49.99 up front without a trial! With my current system – Norton Security came with it as part of the package. Switched to AVG when Norton wanted more money. AVG introductory offer was £10 and that lasted for 2 years. Switched from AVG to McAfee in November 2012 – just because of price – AVG price quadrupled and McAfee introductory offer, for what appeared to be the same security options. None of the security products I have used – Norton, AVG & McAfee have ever detected any possible malicious items on my PC. Time elapsed: 2 hour(s), 7 minute(s), 20 second(s) Memory Processes Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Memory Modules Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Registry Keys Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Registry Values Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Registry Data Items Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Folders Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) (end) (No malicious items detected) Memory Modules Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Registry Keys Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Registry Values Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Registry Data Items Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Folders Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) (end)

You have me hooked on a feeling that one is pulling our plonker - Ouga Ouga Ouga Chaka. When the red lights, on the outside of each chimney, used to go out me dad was called out to go and fix them (probably just replace the bulb, but he made it sound important).

Well spotted sir. Yes, missed out the right click on the Task Bar. Must stop these grandkids interrupting me. My knowledge of Ctrl + Alt + Del has been expanded. Remember, vaguely, back in 1987-8 when we first found out you could restart ICL DRS configurations via that method and have always thought it only applied to DOS based systems - never used anything else. Never thought when I retired that years later I would have to dig out my old note book and update it! Free version of Malewarebytes from http://www.malwarebytes.org downloaded. Thank you.

Whilst checking out why one of my applications would fail 'application already running' when attempting to restart it within a session I noticed, within Task Manager, a process I could not remember seeing before. It was - Premieropinion. I Googled 'premieropinion' and the results told me that I had a piece of 'Adware/Spyware' and this Adware has been around for a few years, difficult to get rid off in Mac systems but easy with Windows Vista etc. So this code had been sitting on my machine for approximately two months. I could blame grandchildren but from what I have read it could have been initiated as a download buy anyone accidentally clicking on any area of a 'pop-up'. Probably my fault for suspending my McAfee real-time scanning for a few weeks whilst I was checking out performance issues. You can easily check to see if the Adware is on your system via the Task Manager. For those who have never checked their Task Manager before:- Two methods to start your Task Manager, and display the processes that are running on your system are:- Simultaneously press the Ctrl-Alt & Delete keys and you will be given a menu of items you can select.. One will be 'StartTask Manager', select that one and a The Windows Task Manager will start and you will have a list of TABS you can select - Applications/Processes/Services/Performance etc. Select Processes tab and a list of names, in alphabetical order, of executable jobs (with 'exe' file extension) will be displayed. Scroll down and if you find one for 'premierop.......' then select it and then select the 'End Process' button at the bottom right of the display. That stops the process running in your current session. If not fully deleted the process will restart when you load your system. To 1) read about and 2) prevent the Adware been reloaded the following is the info from Google search:- 1) http://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2010/jun/02/how-to-remove-opinionspy PremierOpinion (or Premier Opinion) is adware which gets into computers by piggybacking corrupt screensavers downloaded onto a computer system. Premier Opinion is one of the first badware programs that affects both Macs and PCs. The removal of PremierOpinion has proven to be rather difficult but experts say using a reliable antispyware program should do the trick. Remove PremierOpinion immediately before it wreaks havoc on your system. 2) http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101008083340AAkEuER PremierOpinion is an Adware application for Window's. Adware isn't harmful at all (unless it freezes your system that is) as it gets rid of things like cookies and, to keep it simple, a whole load of other unnecessary rubbish that'll do nothing but gradually slow your computer to "watchingpaintdry" mode. If you're having problems with this app. and would like to remove it, click "Start Menu" and open up your "Control Panel". Inside you'll find either "add/remove programs", or "Programs and Features" , depending on the operating system you use. Simply open and you'll be shown a list of all the programs installed on your PC, all you need do is search for and delete the application in question. If you use Vista like myself, it'll be named "PremierOpinion" and have an unknown publisher. Rick click and you will be given the option to UNINSTALL - select that and the offending application will be removed.

How did Joseph and Mary know that Jesus was 6 pound 7 ounces when he was born? They had a weigh in a manger.

Final Chapter = Exodus Mary bent down to pick up the coins. Oh dear, said Wilf. It wasn't an immaculate conception, just Trapped wind. We three kings of orient are, blown away, along with star. Broon and Amber, Founders too Following yonder star. O Star of wonder, star of night Shepherds, sheep and menu bright. Eastward leading, still proceeding Propelled by Mary, into the Light. New Years resolution = No more. I have used this to practice photo manipulation with transparencies. I hope I have not offended anyone. yours sincerely Wilf