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Thanks eveyone for your replies. I do not work near a linear accelerator - as far as I know - nor do I have one at home! Good to know plasma tv's are ok. thanks again.

Good afternoon everyone. I am thinking about buying a plasma tv, but - there's always a but - I have just read that they have a strong magnetic and electrical fields within a radius of about six feet. Neither of these strikes me as being particularly healthy for our Greys. Now I am having serious second thoughts. Any thoughts/opinions would be appreciated. If I am merely repeating a previuos question, my apologies, though I have looked and have not seen anything about this.

It is such a shame that St Georges Hall is built back to front. I am surprised that you did not mention the Anglican Cathedral, a very impressive Gothic pile, or the Metropolitan Cathedral, which in my opinion, is even more breathtaking than the other. The very shape, and the stained glass lantern, which, when the sun is on it, lends the interior a remarkable ethereal atmosphere, especially as the inside is open and airy. A truly remarkable structure.

There is nothing wrong with the photograph. You have merely discovered that macrophotography has limitations, and the major one is a distinct lack of depth of field, and that it is measured in millimetres, and the greater the magnification the shallower the depth of field. All this means in practice, is that you need to be very picky as to where you focus. As a matter of interest, when magnification reaches 10x, it ceases to be macrophotography, and becomes photomicrography. I have said in a post before, that a when a photograph looks right to you, the photographer, it is right. If your photography is for yourself, then the only opinion that matters is your own. However, as you gain more experience, you will find that you are your most pitiless critic.

If you take a peek at the underside of the tail, the female will/should have a pronounced "V" of white at the base of the tail. The male lacks this. If this is common, this is a quick -and cheap - way of determining the sex of your parrot.

The President of Guyana, a country about the same size as Britain - where I live - has contacted my government offering to "give" their rainforest as a global resource (sorry about the terminology) to combat "climate change". Individual opinion on this subject is irrelevant, conserving and protecting this huge expanse of rainforest most certainly is not. I intend to write to the Prime Minister (the head of UK government), and to my local Member of Parliament (MP) urging them to accept this offer with alacrity. It is surely worth several millions in any currency to protect this ecosystem. It would be marvellous if every member of this forum would do the same, and, at the same time, lobby their own elected representative to urge their own government to support this remarkable and unique offer. Write to: The Prime Minister The Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP 10 Downing Street London SW1A The rain forest of Guyana will thank you all for your support.

Going Postal; Making Money; Guards!Guards!; Reaper Man; Witches Abroad - all Terry Pratchett. The Book With No Name by that well known author Anonymous. Area 7 by Matthew Reilly.

If anyone has read Terry Pratchet - Discworld to which I will freely admit a serious incurable addiction - you will know that the Unseen University Librarian is an Orang Utan.

Yet another. Possibly not the right forum, if not, my apologies. A Russian Commissar was giving a lesson on Communism to a peasant. "If you had two bicycles", said the Commissar, you would give one to your neighbour, wouldn't you". "Oh, yes" replied the peasant. "If you had two cows" said the Commissar, "you would give one to your neighbour, wouldn't you". "Oh, yes" replied the peasant. "If you had two pigs" said the Commissar, "you would give one to your neighbour, wouldn't you". "Oh no", said the peasant. "Why would that be" asked the Commissar. "Because I have two pigs" said the peasant.

Funny that... Here in the UK voters have discovered two identical highly dense elements named Blairite and Brownium. Blairite manifests itself through high religious morals, preferably Roman, but any will do, coupled with an intense hypocrisy. Brownium is characterised by profligacy with public funds, seizure of the high moral ground, and the idea that the answer to all ills is to tax them out of existence. All politicians should be jailed as soon as they are elected. This will save time and money in the long term.

I do not live in the US, but I am appalled at this bill. Politicians are not just on another planet, but in a different universe. Banning the import of wild birds - any species - or any other species of wild creatures - deserves wholehearted and unstinting support. This bill needs stangling now. If you think it would help, I will gladly add my UK voice to your protest.

Peaches is almost 4 and she still digs, mostly when she is between us on the couch. She will tuck herself close to either my wife or me, put her head down and scratch away.

I agree with Tari. Vincent started plucking his chest feathers about five months ago, just after we bought a new large cage for him. We took him to our vet to rule out any physical cause, and thankfully it was not any illness or parasitic cause. We sprayed him with aloe vera regularly and showered him regularly, still do, and, difficult though it was, we mostly ignored his plucking, and this seems to have worked, as his feathers are growing back.

I agree with Tari. Vincent started plucking his chest feathers about five months ago, just after we bought a new large cage for him. We took him to our vet to rule out any physical cause, and thankfully it was not any illness or parasitic cause. We sprayed him with aloe vera regularly and showered him regularly, still do, and, difficult though it was, we mostly ignored his plucking, and this seems to have worked, as his feathers are growing back.

Last post by dblhelix. Could not agree more. .end