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The top Russian military leader who is believed to have known in advance about the weekend’s mutiny has been arrested — and security services have him “by the balls,” according to a local report.

The Kremlin on Thursday again refused to discuss the whereabouts of Gen. Sergei Surovikin, 56, who has not been seen since the weekend revolt by his close ally, Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.

However, two sources close to Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed to the Moscow Times that the one-time military leader of the Ukraine war has been arrested, with one saying his situation is “not OK.”

“Apparently, he [Surovikin] chose Prigozhin’s side during the uprising, and they’ve gotten him by the balls,” one of the sources said.

The interrogation of the general — who remained a deputy commander of Russian forces in Ukraine — is so sensitive that defense department officials “are not even commenting on this information through our internal channels,” one of the sources told the Moscow paper.

I was flipping channels during a commercial break, and happened on the Discovery Channel, and a show called The Explorers Club. This episode related to a 1960 dive in a submersible to the depth of 7 miles in the Challenger Deep, the deepest point of the Mariana Trench in Micronesia. Two divers took the submersible to the bottom, risking death like the crew of Titan. They heard a bang on the way down, but continued the dive. An expert said that if you hear a bang, that's good, because if you don't hear it, you are already dead.

Can you count to 10 in German?

Nein.

Does anyone think those mysterious creatures supposedly captured on CCTV's etc., look like Dobby from the Harry Potter movies?

For anyone who has not seen one, this is a hard disk stack, a form of removable storage medium from 1960s computers. This one holds 200 mb of data. A 16 Gb SD card holds the equivalent of 80 of these packs.

When not installed in the disk drive, they are held in containers like this, which look like cake containers.

Why? What did Tim do?

I know, spacey, but they don't place those around shopping centres for us oldies. Lucky to have anything to sit on.

That's probably why bank staff ceased being armed (other than escort guards) many years ago. No, I was never threatened, therefore never had to respond.

While CASA and BHP are acronyms, they substitute as names, and probably don't require either "a" or "an". We don't say a Robert, or  an Robert.

Back in the day - mid 1960's - I was an agency officer with the old Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd. Another officer and I would take cash and documents from the main branch to a small agency in a nearby suburb too small for a full branch, where we provided over the counter banking services for two or three hours per day, before returning to the main branch. In those days, bank staff were armed, and we took a couple of Browning automatics to protect the cash.

This must have taken ages to set up.

Watch this.

43 minutes ago, onetrack said:

I don't support the death penalty,

I feel that if someone commits a heinous crime such as bashing an elderly person to death, and there is irrefutable proof (DNA etc.) of a persons guilt, they have surrender the right to live. Why should the taxpayer spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions, keeping these peices of shyte alive? 

My late wife had a gun pointed at her when she wa a relief teller in the bank. Affected her for the rest of her life.

Working with doctor and dietician, and exercisig. It's the exercising puffing me out, which is why I take regular breathers.

I have two gripes today. One many people will agree with, the other a more pesonal irritation.

Centrelink.

Why is it so difficult to get any action from Centrelink. Don't bother trying to ring them. You will be on hold from 3/4 to 1.5 hours, until the call eventually drops out. My daughter has to report her earnings each week, and I can't tell you how many hours she has spent hanging on the end of a call. This has been complicated by Centrelink changing their reporting day to Wednesday, when she gets paid on Thursday. Also, a mate from the Men's Shed applied for renewal of Low Income cards for he and his wife. He mailed the paperwork for both together. No response for 6 weeks. He contacted them and was told they had not received the paperwork. He took copies to the Centrelink office personally and handed it over the counter. Another few weeks and his card turned up, but not his wifes. When he contacted them they said they didn't have the paperwork. He told them he had delivered it to their office. They looked around and found it. Took another three weeks for the card to turn up.

Lounge chairs and settees.

I find these are all about 15 cm too low. My chair at home has two extra cushions in it, and it is still difficult to get out of. I was walking in a shopping centre today, and got a bit puffed. There were very inviting armchair placed out for shoppers to use. I sat down for a few minutes to regain my breath, and almost couldn't get up.

I have a good DSLR camera, but it's quite a while since I've used it. A bit bulky to carry around all the time.  I like the camera in my iPhone 6 and use it daily. Email my photos to myself, download them into a folder called iPhone Pics, and edit them from there. It's a bit annoying sometimes when you try to take a photo and it rapid shoots half a dozen or so.

I was surprised today when I was in J.B. Hi Fi, to see that you can still buy a Kodak Film Camera.