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    Princess of Wales shares intimate family video as she completes cancer chemotherapy treatment

    It takes 5 years to be declared "cancer free". She is in remission. It can still turn up elsewhere.
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    Veteran radio icon Ron E Sparks dies at 72

    I despise (strong word, I know) the way "clickbait" story titles are used here. Seniors ought to be discouraged from "clicking to find out who died", rather than having to do so to find out who died. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE make your story links MUCH more descriptive of the storyline, so that we...
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    Major outage affects Optus customers: Emergency services unavailable for landline users

    My students were due to undertake their final exams today via an online test. Those using Optus are unable to do so, which brings into question how those who are using Optus can be fairly assessed. I do realise that this concern is not life-threatening, but it is still very distressing for those...
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    Is your Audi safe to drive?—Nearly 8,000 A3 and Q2 models face urgent recall due to a serious defect

    Ah, yes, Audi rhymes with "Howdy", who can ever forget? Apparently it also rhymes with "Danger" now too!
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    Meta pulls the plug on its widely used messaging app

    Oh, yes, a SAMSUNG NOTE 1, the original NOTE, bought in Hong Kong in 2010. Still going strong!
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    Meta pulls the plug on its widely used messaging app

    So, the message is not a message received through WhatsApp messaging, it automatically appears when openning WhatsApp as a notification coming from the App itself. The message only appears for devices that use very old versions of Android. The devices I am referring to are 2010 vintage. Thank...
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    Meta pulls the plug on its widely used messaging app

    The same is happening with Meta's WhatsApp messenger. My older devices keep telling me that WhatsApp will no longer work on those devices after September. That's progress for you!
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    Own a Hyundai? Two popular models are at risk—is yours one of them?

    "At no cost" huh? Really? You gotta love all these vehicle manufacturers who do "free repairs" of manufacturing defects. Hmmm...Come to think of it, I wonder who pays in the long-run? Manufacturers? Shareholders? Stakeholders? Ummm...nope, it's the you and the me, the customers, that's who...
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    End of an era: Nestle discontinues iconic Fantales chocolate after 93 years

    I remember heading to the corner store to buy a bag of mixed lollies for a shilling. I enjoyed the cobbers the most. I wonder who made cobbers and whether they are still available anywhere? Fantales seemed to just be cobbers in a wrapping of star-tales.
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    Cynthia Weil, the legendary lyricist behind 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and other hits, passes away at 82

    If I remember correctly, she (co-)wrote a number of The Partridge Family songs as well.
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    Learning grammar is just as important as it always was but the way we teach it has changed

    Go back and read the second sentence in the "What is grammar?" section. It says "We use the rules of grammar to structure words into sentences and sentences into longer speech and writing others can understand us." Wrong grammar! I believe it ought to be "so that others can understand us." In...
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