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The whole idea is to get them to apply for one of the millions of jobs going begging.

Canadian singer songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who wrote "If you could read my mind" and many other songs recorded by people Bob dylan and Elvis Pressley, has died at the age of  84.

OK. So work for the dole is still in place. Must be a bl**dy small number.

Why, when every industry is crying out for staff, businesses going to the wall because they don't can't get staff, are we hearing about the cost of the increasing number of jobseekers? What sort of work are these people, crying that the dole is insufficient to live on, looking for? Banana straighteners on salaries equivalent to Alan Joyce?

They are about to make a TV show about living on Mars, and the location is Coober Pedy.

The commander of the expedition is Capt. Kirk himself, William Shatner. Rumours have it that other stars will be Charlie Sheen, Keanu Reeves and a few others I can't recall. The Herald-Sun only gives  a small para, the rest behind the paywall.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/president-biden-earned-580000-in-2022-paid-24-in-federal-income-taxes-returns-show/ar-AA1a1ze6

If it's an iPhone, the up or down volume buttons on the side act as shutter releases. I don't know anything about Android phones.

Dick Van Dyke will make his soap opera debut on Days Of Our Lives.

The 97-year-old is set to appear as a guest star on a forthcoming episode of the long-running series.

45 minutes ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

big office building in Nigeria.

Or Kolkata (aka Calcutta).

OT, I think those two photos of yours are new digital photos, not colorized B&W images from yesteryear. 

During the earlier conscription my numbers didn't come up, like Powerball. When re-introduced for Vietnam I was older than the bracket conscripted.

My father went to the enlistment centre for WWII, but failed the medical, so I was told, due to flat feet. He was told he would be more use on the dairy farm supplying milk.

Another example.

1 hour ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

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The process is free. You can register and log in (I didn't), so I don't know what that offers. 

As we didn't have a topic related to photography, I have started this one to show you something I have found on the internet.

First, I was looking at my Facebook feed, and this interesting photo came up,  and I downloaded it.

I wondered what it would look like in colour, so I searched "colorise photos", (I used American spelling to speed things up), and found this link:  https://www.img2go.com/colorize-image. All I had to do was uplod the B&W image, select output format (.jpg) and press Start. In about a minute, the converted file was ready to download. Here is the result:

Unfortunately some people are gullible and fall for these scams despite repeated warnings that banks, gov't departments etc. will never send such texts or emails. I guess when they are older, they panic. Obviously there enough gullible people to make it worthwhile for the scammers. Even a young sportsman was scammed out of $17,000 I think it was. The stories in the texts are so believable. This one purported to be from the NAB. Don't trust the ones you don't know, and trust the ones you do know even less. Double check everything, and don't use phone numbers, links etc in texts or emails even if they look genuine. Unfortunately it's getting harder to go to a bank branch to check it out, they are closing so many.