Good Morning, Do, Today is Thursday, February 16 Have FUN! DearWebby Todays Bonehead Award: Virginia man gets life sentence for killing Harlem dad in 'monstrous' shooting Details at  Boneheads ______________________________________________________ Today, February 16 in 1804 A raid was led by Lt. Stephen Decatur to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia. The ship had been taken by pirates.  See More of what happened on this day in history. ______________________________________________________ 
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 ______________________________________________________ Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. --- Gladys Bronwyn Stern England and America are two countries separated by a common language. --- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) ______________________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  ______________________________________________________ An Octogenarian who was an avid golfer moved to a new town and joined the local Country Club. He went to the Club for the first time to play but was told there wasn't anybody he could play with because they were already out on the course. He repeated several times that he really wanted to play. Finally the Assistant Pro said he would play with him and would give him a 12 stroke handicap. The 80 year old said, "I really don't need a handicap as I have been playing quite well. The only real problem I have is getting out of sand traps." And he did play well. Coming onto the 18th the old man had a long drive, but it landed in one of the sand traps around the hole. Shooting from the sand trap he hit a very high ball which landed on the green and rolled into the hole! The Pro walked over to the sand trap where his opponent was still standing. He said "Nice shot, but I thought you said you have a problem getting out of sand traps?" "I do!" replied the Octogenarian, "Please give me a hand." ______________________________________________________   ______________________________________________________ A young lad and his mother were walking down the street one day, when suddenly the boy yelled out excitedly, "Mother, Mother, look at that bowlegged man!" His mother immediately hushed him explaining it was not polite to make fun of bowlegged people. The next day the same thing happened, "Look mother, there's that bowlegged man!" The mother grabbed the lad by the arm saying, "When we get home you'll be taught a lesson for this outburst." When they got home, she gave her son a work by Shakespeare, "Go to your room and read this book. You can't come out until you have finished it. Maybe you will learn something from this." A few days later they were walking down the same street when the boy spotted two bowlegged cowboys. And the boy said, "Hark! What manner of men are these, Who weareth their legs in parentheses?" ______________________________________________________   >From FB ______________________________________________________ 
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 ______________________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Bryan Rogers, 31, Virginia  Virginia man gets life sentence for killing Harlem dad in 'monstrous' shooting  A Manhattan judge threw the book at a Virginia man Wednesday for the "monstrous" murder of a Harlem father who died in his elderly mother's arms. "This was senseless, absolutely senseless. It's monstrous," Manhattan Supreme Court Justice A. Kirke Bartley told Bryan Rogers, 31, as he handed down a life sentence. After expressing condolences to the victim's family and telling them he meant "no disrespect," Rogers said, "If you all had told the truth, everything would have been better." The victim's brothers and son inhaled sharply in the audience, visibly stunned by Rogers accusation that they had lied on the witness stand in November when they said he was the aggressor. When Rogers took the stand, he testified that his girlfriend, Logan Wilson, fired the shots that killed her uncle, Todd Wilson, 48, in the hallway of a building in the Manhattanville Houses where the Wilson family had lived a long time. The judge disagreed with Rogers, accepting the testimony of family members who said the killer fired four shots into Wilson after the victim insisted that Rogers leave the apartment in the middle of the night because the family had to go to work in the morning. "You threw your life away each time you pulled the trigger not once, not twice, not three times, but four times," the judge told Rogers. Bartley said he was touched by the testimony of Wilson's mother, who described having her youngest son die in her arms, and by the image of Wilson's teenage child having to "watch his father breathing his last breath." Assistant District Attorney Mark Dahl whod asked the judge to sentence Rogers to 25 years to life read a long letter from the victim's niece, Logan Wilson, who detailed how Rogers abused her verbally, physically, mentally and emotionally for years prior to the August 2014 shooting.  ______________________________________________________  Tech Support Pits From: Steve Re: Duplicate files Dear Webby As I have upgraded my laptop every few years, I now have a great number of duplicate files and folders. Is there a way to find duplicate files and photos? Easily? Thank you. Steve  Dear Steve There are hundreds of duplicate finders and de-duplicators available on the net. It seems every programming student has to write one or improve one and put his name on it. Some claim to compare pictures. Those are naturally very slow. The ones, that just compare file name and size, are quite fast. Here is one trick I use: Make a DUMP folder for receiving files. Use Everything Search from http://www.voidtools.com/. Yeah, verily I have recommended that program countless times. Tell it to search for pictures, and put *.jpg into the search line. The first time it indexes your drives, all of them, it takes a few minutes, especially if you have big drives. Then click on the first found JPG file, hit CTRL A to select ALL, then SHIFT-drag them all to your new DUMP directory. The first time it encounters a duplicate, Windows will squawk and ask you if you want to overwrite or skip or rename. I choose Overwrite. That gets rid of the duplicates in a hurry. You can, of course, rename the duplicates, but I found that a big waste of time. You will still have a lot of duplicates, especially from your email area. Look at the DUMP folder with your graphics program set to browse thumbnails. Tell it to SORT by size. That may take a while! When sorted, you will have thousands of the thilly Incredimail nuisance dodads and lines and buttons at the top. Click on the top one, hold down SHIFT and scoot down to where collectable pictures begin. CTRL Delete THAT selection. Then trim from the bottom up. A lot of the very large stuff is crap, that you don't really want to keep. Alternate like that, tag from the top down and from the bottom up. It is still a bit time consuming, but you are at the same time also weeding out stuff, that is not worth keeping. Have FUN! DearWebby    Thanks to Dana for this one: Once upon a time in their marriage, my Dad did something really stupid. My Mom chewed him out for it. He apologized, they made up. However, from time to time, my mom mentions what he had done. "Honey," my Dad finally said one day, "why do you keep bringing that up? I thought your policy was 'forgive and forget.'" "It is," she said. "I just don't want you to forget that I've forgiven and forgotten." 
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 Today on February 16 1804 A raid was led by Lt. Stephen Decatur to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia. The ship had been taken by pirates. 1857 The National Deaf Mute College was incorporated in Washington, DC. It was the first school in the world for advanced education of the deaf. The school was later renamed Gallaudet College. 1862 During the U.S. Civil War, about 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Fort Donelson, TN. 1868 The Jolly Corks organization, in New York City, changed it name to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE). 1883 "Ladies Home Journal" began publication. 1914 The first airplane flight between Los Angeles and San Francisco took place. 1918 Lithuania proclaimed its independence. 1923 Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen. The next day he entered the chamber with several invited guests. He had originally found the tomb on November 4, 1922. 1932 The first fruit tree patent was issued to James E. Markham for a peach tree which ripens later than other varieties. 1937 Wallace H. Carothers received a patent for nylon. Carothers was a research chemist for Du Pont. 1938 The U.S. Federal Crop Insurance program was authorized. 1945 During World War II, U.S. troops landed on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines. 1946 The first commercially designed helicopter was tested in Connecticut. 1948 NBC-TV began airing its first nightly newscast, "The Camel Newsreel Theatre", which consisted of Fox Movietone newsreels. 1858 The ironing board was patented by William Vandenburg and James Harvey. 1959 Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba after the overthrow of President Fulgencio Batista. 1960 The U.S.S. Triton began the first circumnavigation of the globe under water. The trip ended on May 10. 1968 In the U.S., the first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated in Haleyville, AL. 1970 Joe Frazier began his reign as the undefeated heavyweight world champion when he knocked out Jimmy Ellis in five rounds. He lost the title on January 22, 1973, when he lost for the first time in his professional career to George Foreman. 1985 "Kojak" returned to network television after an absence of seven years with the CBS-TV special, "Kojak: The Belarus File." 1987 John Demjanjuk went on trial in Jerusalem. He was accused of being "Ivan the Terrible", a guard at the Treblinka concentration camp. He was convicted, but the Israeli Supreme Court overturned the ruling when the real "Ivan the Terrible" showed up. 1989 Investigators in Lockerbie, Scotland, announced that a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player was the reason that Pan Am Flight 103 was brought down the previous December. All 259 people aboard and 11 on the ground were killed. 1999 A bomb exploded at the government headquarters in Uzbekistan. Gunfire followed the incident. The event apparently was an attempt on the life of President Islam Karimov. 1999 Kurds seized embassies and held hostages across Europe following Turkey's arrest of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan. 1999 Testimony began in the Jasper, TX, trial of John William King. He was charged with murder in the gruesome dragging death of James Byrd Jr. King was later convicted and sentenced to death. 2002 The operator of a crematory in Noble, GA, was arrested after dozens of corpses were found stacked in storage sheds and scattered around in the surrounding woods. 2005 The Kyoto global warming pact went into effect in 140 nations. 2005 The NHL announced the cancellation of the 2004-2005 season due to a labor dispute. It was the first time a major sports league in North America lost an entire season to a labor dispute. 2017 Do smiled.
 
 

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