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    • I think that artists give us a tremendous gift. They help us get through difficult times. I am still struggling mightily to see the light amidst the darkness right now. I do not want to become bitter and angry, because then Trump and his supporters will win.

      Listening to George Michael reminded me of what is beautiful in life and what speaks to me and nourishes my soul – music! It’s been my passion ever since I can remember, I felt joy again as I took a trip down memory lane listening to his music yesterday after I heard about his death.

      Stevie Wonder is a true genius who thankfully, is still with us. Love has to triumph in this world. We have to stay strong even in the face of something terrible.

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        • Dear Amy,

          Thanks so much for your kind words, I not surprised that you would understand.

          I am just trying to cope in the best way I can with the reality of everything post-election in the states. I have expressed my feelings and vented at length. But I do think it is important to keep the faith, stay true to one’s beliefs and keep love and hope alive.
          ??

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          • think i do understand nny. i was thinking the other day of auden’s poem written at the beginning of the second world war – ‘we must love one another or die’. great poem. meant to write more but am too shattered having just spend over an hour on the dell help line. an experience which is not to be recommended. xxxxx

          • Oooh, BTDT Amy.

            Got fed up and told them to replace my new laptop after hours of frustration.

            Should have done that from the start.

            Still, Dell is one of the few that actually have call in support.

          • kind of insane with frustration hawks. on there over an hour yesterday and over an hour today. don’t know what to do!!
            does btdt mean been there done that?
            the laptop is still under warranty.

          • Been there done that.

            All else fails, ship it back for repair/replacement.

            They are usually pretty fast. Probably 2 week turnaround.

        • i dont think they can blame me if the problem was there from day 1. i should have complained before really. don’t want to be without my computer for 2 weeks!

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          • I had to send mine back for a refund and went with a different model.

            My wireless card kept randomly disconnecting. Bad design from what I read.

          • one of the many problems i have is that all of a sudden it will stop working ie freeze and i will restart it and it has a red cross over the wifi signal. this is clearly nothing normally to do with my wifi and i looked it up and it says that windows 10 has this problem in that it randomly switches off wireless network adaptor. is that similar to your problem? also it keeps also jamming and when you restart coming up with the age old ‘your ac adapter is not connected’ when it is. you can’t run dellsupport to diagnose as that jams in the same place every time as well. really does my head in.
            any advice gratefully received!!

          • Not quite. It wouldn’t lock up. Just the wireless card would lose the wifi connection which is a common problem for certain wireless cards used by Dell.

            If it’s less than 6-8 weeks old, I’d send it back and insist on a refund.

          • ok thanks for the advice hawks. it’s later than that now so can’t ask for a refund. my own stupid fault for not complaining straightaway as the problems have been there since day 1. wish i’d talked to you sooner and acted!! SIGH. dell are driving me insane atm.

  2. amy dec 26th 7:39 pm “actually that summed up something about this entire year. incredible.”
    It was indeed an incredible year for you as Murray won Wimbledon, Olympics and WTF AND made that amazing run to the year end #1 .
    I hope 2017 brings cheer to Rafa fans and makes it an incredible year for us.

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    • Amy,

      I was just reading about the problem you are having and I am having the exact same problem with Wifi going out and losing the internet connection with that little red mark. It just started happening in the last week. Is it Windows 10?

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    • PS I’m not Buddhist or any religion and the video isn’t what I’m going for – my eyes are closed. It’s to feel a calm from the sound of singing metal bowls.

      And I keep playing Alberto Balsam, by Aphex Twin, for a reason I haven’t figured out. I don’t even especially like anything else from Aphex Twin. Just this — is useful. Maybe it’s the scissors or the dragging sound of the chair, who knows. It just works to reset my thoughts in general:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihyQf8mww3o

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      • just listening to the singing sound of the metal bowls. works straightaway for me..! like the sound of emptiness…
        really like it…thanks rc..

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      • rc,

        Thanks for posting that. I think anything that is soothing and promotes a sense of peace and relaxation is a good thing!

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  6. I know we have done our tribute videos to George Michael, but I was going through his songs on iTunes and found a gem of a song. I checked it out on youtube. It’s a cover of an old Isley Brothers song they did on a 1973 album.

    When you find a gem like this, it makes you want to tear up all over again at the loss of such a great talent. I like George Michael’s version better than the Isley Brothers.

    George Michael had an insane falsetto! Just beautiful!

    Here it is – If You Were There

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f8f2ndBXOU

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  8. RT @robreiner: No press access,no ethics committee. Most powerful country on earth being governed by tweets of a mentally unstable liar. Goodbye Democracy

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  10. trump already working on plans to gut the security agencies. is anyone going to stop him?!
    he’s asked for lists of people who favour climate change, civil rights, women issues….what next?
    #kleptocracy and kakistocray

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    • Yes…spot on alison. That’s a good pick. Works well with my dystopian reading list for 2017 and what’s outside my window: talking about some ‘minor’ flooding after a 30 year historical snowstorm last week. Thank goodness I moved my car to the 6th floor of a parking garage downtown. Given a choice I’d rather shovel snow than worry about the car floating away! Congrats to me for some quick thinking.

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    • Love that episode….Jimmy…classic ?
      You know who is famous for referring to himself in the third person and tho it’s not hilarious at the moment (nothing hilarious about him being POTUS) he’s always touting himself that way.

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  14. RC OMG Please make sure you stay safe, thankfully no snow here in Norfolk although 4 inches is forecast eek, pretty mild here for the time of year, which can be a bad sign sometimes, and living by the seaside i do panic when it rains too much in case we get flooding, pleased you liked the song BTW ….

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    • I’m okay. It’s still rough out there…right now there’s a lot of snow melting fast and the city isn’t good a snow removal or equipped to clear streets like say Buffalo, NY. But yeah we got hammered. And It was beautiful when the snow was soft and fluffy…now it’s all kinds of bad. Roofs collapsing, street level flooding, homes and buildings plumbing breaking and water damage inside buildings. It was a big deal. It’s not over …a cold front is moving in and all the piles and pools of slush are gonna turn to blocks of ICE! Again… It’s wonderful in the mountains though. Skiing hasn’t been this good in years 🙂

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    • rc,

      Thanks for posting that! It’s been in cable tv news all day!

      Trump had his press guy come out to accuse the media of lying about the size of the crowd st his inauguration. Then they challenged the size of the women’s protest in D.C. today!

      Someone is feeling threatened and quite out of sorts today! LOL!

      In France they were demonstrating with signs that said – we hate Trump!

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      • Nny

        Glad you enjoyed it. My thoughts are with you way over there in Florida! Yesterday I watched the DC march then went out in a cold wind and icy rain – over 5,000 people, which is a great turn-out for the capital city of Red State, Idaho. I was very surprised and inspired! It’s wonderful. Today I’m nursing a sore throat and a fever but I’m much encouraged to keep fighting on. #notmypresident

        Music and poetry for a Sunday evening:
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC8cpXMl4LM

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        • rc,

          I was thinking of you! It was a magical day all across the country. No violence! Great speeches at the women’s march in DC! Inspirational!

          I think that sometimes good can come out if something bad. The challenge now is to keep this movement going! We have to turn it into action that combat trump’s fascist and regressive agenda. People are getting involved and finding their voices.

          Trump is going after the media. This us a classic fascist tactic used to try to ” gaslight” people into believing only what the government wants them to think. It’s George Orwell’s 1984!

          The media must follow get back against trump’s attacks and hold him accountable for his lies. Today they showed pictures that prove that trump’s crowd was far smaller than Ibsna’s inauguration crowd in 2012.

          Think about an idiot president who has nothing better to do than argue about having a bigger crowd! This is the man who has the nuclear codes!

          Also, I read today that Trump will never release his tax returns! Another lie! He. Sn’t release them because they will prove that he is getting money from the Russians.

          Intelligence experts already believe that Trump had been recruited by Putin. That would make Trump a traitor on top of everything else!

          Power to the people!

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          • Nny
            Yes indeed well said … We stand in solidarity on all issues and matters and will not rest. We must hold this phony deceitful POTUS and his cabinet of Wayward Wall Street billionaires accountable — and we keep moving forward stronger together 🙂 #PowertothePeople!

            During the Goffin vs Thiem match I paused everything and closed my eyes and connected to you and all my internet sisters (plus a few select internet brothers) in strength and peace for 15 minutes listening to this powerful ❤? energy:
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Y_ztEW1NE

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