KriegslokBR52
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And this is why criminals know they can get away with committing a crime, because of douchebags lawyers like this.
Running Bear's October 2025 Coffee Shop
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I’ve only driven in Austria twice and only in border areas so no freeway driving.
When you swipe up and get the fan of apps — where you can swipe each one away — those aren’t running apps. That’s the list of most recently used apps. Most apps aren’t running when placed in the background (no longer the front app). They get a few second or a minute to finish what they were doing and then they’re suspended. There are exceptions, like media players that run in the background. And apps can register to periodically be woken up in the background for a short time to check for new data etc. but in general apps don’t run in the background. AND their memory is auto purged if the system runs low on memory so you don’t need to kill the app to free memory. The system does that for you. And in fact swiping away manually can affect the algorithms the system uses for that (managing suspended apps and auto purging memory) and make them less efficient. iOS also assumes that if you swipe it away you really don’t want it to do anything so it will not get woken up to check for new data and it may not deliver notifications until you run it again. The system truly will mark it “not wanted” if you swipe it away.
The only time you really want to swipe an app away to kill it is if the app is hung or otherwise broken.
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That's going to be a hard habit to break.
My two IPADs still have the go away button.
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TLOC
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Good morning from frosty Wisconsin. 36f/2c feels like 29/-2 but heading to 56/13. There was frost on the grass this morning. It’s is extremely clear and there is a bright orb in the sky
Breakfast is out this morning. I then plan to spend most of the afternoon at the workbench over at the daughter’s studio/office. I am going to relax (he-he) by starting 2 projects at once. Both are single track swing bridge commissions. I will paint and matte clear coat most of the parts on the sprues before cutting them off. Some of the ideas I learned from my double track Swing Bridge thread I will be using on these 2 bridges
Enjoy your day
Breakfast is out this morning. I then plan to spend most of the afternoon at the workbench over at the daughter’s studio/office. I am going to relax (he-he) by starting 2 projects at once. Both are single track swing bridge commissions. I will paint and matte clear coat most of the parts on the sprues before cutting them off. Some of the ideas I learned from my double track Swing Bridge thread I will be using on these 2 bridges
Enjoy your day
santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. Clear and 55° here in Gulf Shores, same back home. The heavy rain tomorrow into Saturday morning back home should end before we get there, but we'll probably have to go through some in the Shreveport area on the way. Looking at the forecasts along the southern route show even heavier activity there. Looks like a rough trip either way, and delaying by a day won.t help as it's a two day event in all of the forecasts.
Still enjoying the beach vacation. We went souvenir shopping yesterday along with a visit to a chocolate shop that we have visited before. The water in the Gulf was calmer and smoother than I have ever seen in more than ten years of coming here. Dinner with our friends was just east in Orange Beach ay a place that we like, just on this side of the border bridge to Florida. Haven't decided on an agenda for today yet, except my wife and a couple of the gals might go shopping this morning. I'll do a load of laundry before the trip home.
Cell phones - I intentionally did not get my first one until three years after I retired, in late 2018. My wife's first one was in 1988 or so. She got it because there were only about 350 numbers in our exchange that we could call without long distance charges! So my only experience is with Android devices, which works for me since I don't use it but once or twice a week. I use it every day as an alarm clock and occasionally as a camera more than as a phone.
Michael - I saw a beer in both pictures!
Tom O - I haven't been on any road courses, but found myself going around 105 mph on TX-130 before. The limit there is 85 mph for readers not familiar with that road between Austin and San Antonio. I may have been going faster while driving on the autobahn in Austria when I was over there in 1984.
OK, we've decided to return to the train museum in Foley this morning instead of shopping! Good choice!
Weird Al Yankovic is 66 today.
Everyone have a wonderful Thursday.
Still enjoying the beach vacation. We went souvenir shopping yesterday along with a visit to a chocolate shop that we have visited before. The water in the Gulf was calmer and smoother than I have ever seen in more than ten years of coming here. Dinner with our friends was just east in Orange Beach ay a place that we like, just on this side of the border bridge to Florida. Haven't decided on an agenda for today yet, except my wife and a couple of the gals might go shopping this morning. I'll do a load of laundry before the trip home.
Cell phones - I intentionally did not get my first one until three years after I retired, in late 2018. My wife's first one was in 1988 or so. She got it because there were only about 350 numbers in our exchange that we could call without long distance charges! So my only experience is with Android devices, which works for me since I don't use it but once or twice a week. I use it every day as an alarm clock and occasionally as a camera more than as a phone.
Michael - I saw a beer in both pictures!
Tom O - I haven't been on any road courses, but found myself going around 105 mph on TX-130 before. The limit there is 85 mph for readers not familiar with that road between Austin and San Antonio. I may have been going faster while driving on the autobahn in Austria when I was over there in 1984.
OK, we've decided to return to the train museum in Foley this morning instead of shopping! Good choice!
Weird Al Yankovic is 66 today.
Everyone have a wonderful Thursday.
DeaconKC
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Good morning all, lifting my coffee cup to you. 52 here right now, gonna hit 78 they say and sunny. Rain coming in this weekend. Growing up in Chicago, I remember you would go Trick or Treating in your coat and gloves! Crud, I remember going to White Sox games and taking a blanket along! That actually worked well if I had a pretty girl along. Quiet day here today, got my Missus home last night, so my world is much improved, not even gonna grump today. Take care.
migalyto
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We have been to Wrigley Field in late May, early June and needed a blanket and vendors were bringing around Hot Chocolate to sell.. The wind off the lake can make for a miserable time if your not dressed properly.
2 years ago the kids were Trick or Treating in 3" of snow around here, Very rare, but it happens.
chadbag
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Unlike Germany my understanding is that they have limits on all theirs and I’ve heard they’re strict. Glad you didn’t get caught.
I’ve only driven in Austria twice and only in border areas so no freeway driving.
RhB Michael
RhB Lokführer
Servus and good morning. For a little while longer anyway.
Groceries are on the way this morning and I'm thinking of lunch already. Last hamburger today until the next batch. I might be standing in a parka the next time I cook out the way it's going now. When Autumn finally got here, it pretty well entrenched itself. I thought there would be frost this morning with a low of around 40°F, but I didn't see any between 0630 and 0800 but I was looking.
Nothing planned for today. It is bright and sunny here and 53°F without the wind that has been blowing for days. Rain maybe on Friday evening or Saturday, but their Magic 8 Ball isn't certain yet.
Groceries are on the way this morning and I'm thinking of lunch already. Last hamburger today until the next batch. I might be standing in a parka the next time I cook out the way it's going now. When Autumn finally got here, it pretty well entrenched itself. I thought there would be frost this morning with a low of around 40°F, but I didn't see any between 0630 and 0800 but I was looking.
Nothing planned for today. It is bright and sunny here and 53°F without the wind that has been blowing for days. Rain maybe on Friday evening or Saturday, but their Magic 8 Ball isn't certain yet.
Texas Hobo
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Good morning, all! A rather dim sun trying to break through the clouds. Current temp 78 degrees going for a high around 88.
On today's agenda, pharmacy pick-up and a hunt for smoked turkey, the whole bird.
Cell Phone - It is mostly the "muscle memory" that gets me when switching from one device to another. The same app acts a little different from Android to iOs, but in the end you get the same result. Now with an iPad and iPhone I have crossover between the two. Here again there are differences that irk me a little. Both are iOS26, which I really like, but to close an app differs and that is what I am sort of struggling with. On the iPad you merely swipe down and under "file" you hit "close window" and the app is closed. However, on the phone, you swipe up from the bottom and the app goes away but not closed. To close you need to be back at the home screen, swipe up to reveal all the open apps and then swipe each one up to close. To add a little frustration, it seems at times my fingers don't activate the screen.
Jury duty - I'm going with Troy on this. I'm glad I did it, but I don't want to do it again. My age now assures me that I won't have to. The case I was called for was a child custody case. Both parties bad mouthed the other. It was very sad to see two parents say the things each was saying about the other and neither ever mentioned the children that this was going to affect. While in the jury room, they settled, so we never did render a verdict.
Speed demons - I had a 1972 New Yorker Brougham, 440. The speedometer was 0 to 160. I wonder. There was a stretch of road that was straight and long and in the early mornings was pretty much empty. So, on my way to work one morning a I floored it. I chickened out at 130 and climbing. The road sure gets narrow fast when traveling at that speed.
STAY SAFE
LATER
On today's agenda, pharmacy pick-up and a hunt for smoked turkey, the whole bird.
Cell Phone - It is mostly the "muscle memory" that gets me when switching from one device to another. The same app acts a little different from Android to iOs, but in the end you get the same result. Now with an iPad and iPhone I have crossover between the two. Here again there are differences that irk me a little. Both are iOS26, which I really like, but to close an app differs and that is what I am sort of struggling with. On the iPad you merely swipe down and under "file" you hit "close window" and the app is closed. However, on the phone, you swipe up from the bottom and the app goes away but not closed. To close you need to be back at the home screen, swipe up to reveal all the open apps and then swipe each one up to close. To add a little frustration, it seems at times my fingers don't activate the screen.
Jury duty - I'm going with Troy on this. I'm glad I did it, but I don't want to do it again. My age now assures me that I won't have to. The case I was called for was a child custody case. Both parties bad mouthed the other. It was very sad to see two parents say the things each was saying about the other and neither ever mentioned the children that this was going to affect. While in the jury room, they settled, so we never did render a verdict.
Speed demons - I had a 1972 New Yorker Brougham, 440. The speedometer was 0 to 160. I wonder. There was a stretch of road that was straight and long and in the early mornings was pretty much empty. So, on my way to work one morning a I floored it. I chickened out at 130 and climbing. The road sure gets narrow fast when traveling at that speed.
STAY SAFE
LATER
chadbag
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You don’t want to do this. You don’t need to “close” apps on the iPhone. And Apple specifically says not to do this.
When you swipe up and get the fan of apps — where you can swipe each one away — those aren’t running apps. That’s the list of most recently used apps. Most apps aren’t running when placed in the background (no longer the front app). They get a few second or a minute to finish what they were doing and then they’re suspended. There are exceptions, like media players that run in the background. And apps can register to periodically be woken up in the background for a short time to check for new data etc. but in general apps don’t run in the background. AND their memory is auto purged if the system runs low on memory so you don’t need to kill the app to free memory. The system does that for you. And in fact swiping away manually can affect the algorithms the system uses for that (managing suspended apps and auto purging memory) and make them less efficient. iOS also assumes that if you swipe it away you really don’t want it to do anything so it will not get woken up to check for new data and it may not deliver notifications until you run it again. The system truly will mark it “not wanted” if you swipe it away.
The only time you really want to swipe an app away to kill it is if the app is hung or otherwise broken.
TLOC
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Oh yeah, lots of trick or treating with a winter coat and gloves on the southside. We’d go up and down the street and have to stop home to get another bag. Then another block. Usually we would have 3-4 bags of candy no matter the weather but I do remember sleet or heavy rains besides the cold. Never took a blanket to a Sox game but did to the Bears after they moved to Soldier Field
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trailrider
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Charlie Russell was up early. Usually he paints Western sunsets!
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NYC_George
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After I took down the second deck. I started the below display late last winter but then golf season came around and nothing more was done until this week. You can see two guys sitting on the signal abutment rail fanning one with a camera the other just waving. It's hard to make out but someone graffitied SWAL on the grain car. Penn Central & Conrail were the 2 company's I worked for in my time on the railroad. Swal
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PNKFLOYD
Mikey
My eyes are crossed and my hand is cramped, but I managed to paint about 80 HO figures today. I think I got more paint on my fingers than I got on the figures. A hand full of figures produced one figure that did not need work.
I started with 8 German white plastic unpainted figures that had the shoes painted in the past. As paint dried, I poured out several figures of Oriental origin. I started with a flesh colored craft paint with a #8 brush. I have mentioned in the past my love for purple and lavender clothing colors on these figures. I think 5 figures now have those colors. I used mostly blue jean blue and black to cover those purple hues and the lovely orange plastic that about 30% of the figures are molded from. I now have some people with blond and chestnut brown hair, too.
On my next painting session, I plan to use more red and Kelly green for shirts and coats to provide more variety.
i have consolidated (actually, I found where I put them in a safe place) close to 500 unpainted and unsatisfactory paint figures from several sources. I have purchased mostly unpainted plastic figures , but I have acquired some rather interesting metal figures over the years from people leaving the hobby and at estate sales.
How many figures do you need on your layout?
I started with 8 German white plastic unpainted figures that had the shoes painted in the past. As paint dried, I poured out several figures of Oriental origin. I started with a flesh colored craft paint with a #8 brush. I have mentioned in the past my love for purple and lavender clothing colors on these figures. I think 5 figures now have those colors. I used mostly blue jean blue and black to cover those purple hues and the lovely orange plastic that about 30% of the figures are molded from. I now have some people with blond and chestnut brown hair, too.
On my next painting session, I plan to use more red and Kelly green for shirts and coats to provide more variety.
i have consolidated (actually, I found where I put them in a safe place) close to 500 unpainted and unsatisfactory paint figures from several sources. I have purchased mostly unpainted plastic figures , but I have acquired some rather interesting metal figures over the years from people leaving the hobby and at estate sales.
How many figures do you need on your layout?
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Kusojiji
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Did not know this. I'm very cautious and try to limit big brother from knowing what I'm doing every second of every day, so I make the effort to ensure they are all gone from the home screen (or whatever its called).
That's going to be a hard habit to break.
My two IPADs still have the go away button.
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