And Happy Passover to our Jewish friends.

Explained briefly and clearly by Joe Posnanski in 2013 (pre-Jeter): "No. 8: Bill Dickey and Yogi Berra. This was an interesting one. The Yankees did not retire Dickey’s number when he retired in 1946. Instead, two years later, they gave it to a young catcher named Yogi (up to that point, Berra had worn No. 38 and No. 35). So, two of the greatest catchers in baseball history wore No. 8 for the Yankees. In 1972, the Yankees decided to retire the number for Yogi, but they couldn’t leave out Dickey. So they retired the number in both names."

https://joeposnanski.com/yankees-retired-numbers/

And then there's Ella Fitzgerald's take from her famous Berlin concert--perhaps a bit less than romantic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoh4GQ7fhKY

Below is part of the message I sent to Skylum Support 3 days ago. Windows 10, 1GB RAM. Got their boilerplate response requesting patience before they're able to help. I'm not holding my breath:

I've tried and retried to install Luminar 3. I download the install file, click the install button. After the extraction, a box opens up saying "database opening failed," and I can't proceed. If I click out of the pop up box and then click on the Luminar 3 icon nothing opens. I uninstalled the program, reinstalled it, and the same thing happened. I'm completely stopped at the install step. Please help

Always excellent service from Canon. Had one camera fail under warranty--quick repair and turn around. Two separate episodes with clumsiness. Camera slipped off my shoulder and landed lens first on a stone floor. Another time I tripped over a street grating and fell while holding a camera and cracked the LCD screen. Both were repaired quickly and returned better than new, i.e. the repair crew obviously checked out the whole item and fixed what was needed not just what I asked for, since both functioned even better than before. About 3 years ago, I switched to M43 because at my age I wanted lighter weight. No problems yet with Olympus, so nothing to report on their CS, but I stayed with Canon for decades and hesitated to make the shift in part because of their excellent service.

There are only 10 kinds of people in the world: those that understand binary numbers and those that don't.

Here's the announcement from Skylum:

https://skylum.com/blog/skylum-introduces-skylum-ai-lab-and-joins-forces-with-photolemur?utm_source=Macphun+Friends&utm_campaign=fcdaf4c2ff-May_Skylum_News_Mac_EN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_912838542a-fcdaf4c2ff-276148165&mc_cid=fcdaf4c2ff&mc_eid=c27b9a5fb1

Also well-known, from Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, "the girl with colitis goes by" (the girl with kaleidoscope eyes).

Add me as another person with praise for focus peaking, in my case with an Olympus mirrorless. I assume other manufacturers also have this option, but in addition to focus peaking, with Olympus, you can add a "magnify" option through the menu. I abandoned my Canon dslr a few years ago when I developed an epi-retinal wrinkle in my dominant eye (a wrinkle in the tissue in front of the retina). Bifocal vision compensates for this, but this had made it impossible to focus manually through the view finder. Olympus's manual focusing is quite accurate, but when I need to adjust focus, I just rotate the focus ring and both the LCD screen and the electronic view finder show a zoomed in enlargement with the edges of objects in the focus area outlined (peaked) in red or some other color you may have chosen. As you change the focus with the focus ring, the red outline shifts to show you the area in focus. Given my current vision, no way I could do this without this technical assistance. I used it just a couple of days ago, for example, in a museum where I was photographing a pre-Columbian mask that was inside a glass case. The camera wanted to focus on the glass case, and it was a simple matter of a second or two to shift the focus to the object itself. I was even able to nail the focus on the mask's closer eye. If you're not familiar with it, this is a remarkable technological aid, and because it's so easy, I'm surprised at how often I use it.

I'll echo what I think is the best advice in the thread: try before you buy. Everybody loves the a6000, so I bought it a couple of years ago when it was on super sale for Christmas. It just felt alien to me: too much had to be done by plunging into the menus, and I especially disliked the offset view finder. Colors seemed a bit too cool for me. Clearly, I was in the minority since it's so highly rated and popular, but luckily I bought it from Amazon and was able to return it after a couple of weeks, no questions asked. Subsequently bought the Olympus em10 mark ii, and it immediately felt like my camera. Ergonomics were instinctive in a way the Sony wasn't. As others have said, virtually all companies these days make excellent cameras. Try a few out and find the one that feels right for you. PS: Amazon has the em10 mark ii with both 14-42 and 40-150 for $600. The mark iii has better features, but might be a bit above the OP's price range.

The plaques are a memorial to Nazi victims from the town. You''ll see that some of the nouns and adjectives end in -o, for male victims, and some in -a for female victims (for example, assassinato vs. assassinata). For simplicity, my examples below will use the male endings.

Each begins "QUI ABITAVA," here lived, followed by the name of the townsperson, birthdate, date of arrest, and date of death, if known. Most say "ASSASSINATO" followed by a date. I assume there was a Jewish community in the town, since for several the arrest date is followed by the words "DEPORTATO AUSCHWITZ," and then sometimes "MORTO IN LUOGO IGNOTO IN DATO IGNOTO" (deported Auschwitz, died in unknown place on unknown date). For some, the assassination date is followed by FOSSE ARDEATINE. The "Ardeatine ditches" was the site of the most infamous massacre of civilians in wartime Italy, a formal reprisal by the German high command for a partisan attack against German occupying soldiers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardeatine_massacre).

There are many memorials of wartime atrocities throughout Italy, in large cities and small, many including the words, forgive, but never forget.

Lots of great advice in the responses. I'll second the notion that you should try cameras out before purchase. I bought the a6000 because of its great reviews. Everyone loves it. I wanted to love it. Didn't, and ended up returning it. It just felt alien. Luckily I bought it from BestBuy and they have a month-long return period, so I gave it an honest test. I'm the exception, because, as I said, everyone seems to love the camera. Tried the Olympus em10 mark ii and fell in love. As soon as I picked it up, it felt like an extension of my hands and eyes. Loved the knob placement in particular. Incredible 5-axis image stabilization. It made photography fun again. Great out of camera results that save time in post-processing. But again, as people have said, depends on what you shoot. Sports and wildlife or anything that moves fast, and the Sony is better. If you do more video than I, then consider Panasonic.

I get a lot of calls from the phony Microsoft and Windows people with Indian accents claiming to have Western names. Recently I got a call from "Randy," so I said, "Hi Randy. I'm so glad you called. How are you today?" "Uh, I'm fine." "Great, glad to hear it. Listen, you have my home phone number, but I'm embarrassed to say that I don't seem to have yours. Can I ask you to give my your home phone number, so I can call you up whenever I want to?" Pause for a couple of beats, and then, indignant voice, "Sir! This is my job." I hung up.

The next day I read that these people are not just a nuisance, but are often looking for identity theft info. Later in the day, I got a call from "Sean." So I said, "Hi Sean, I'm so glad you called. Listen, maybe I can save us both some time and get straight to the point. You're going to ask me a lot of questions, but ultimately you'll ask me either for my Social Security Number or my Credit Card number. Which is it that you want?" Pause again, and then, "Uh, your Credit Card number, sir." I guess he gets some points for honesty, but I hung up any way.

I use Word 10. I'd guess later versions are the same, but can't be sure. Baked into the program are various preset shortcuts, including (e) for the Euro glyph, (c) for the copyright symbol, etc. (Also some of the classic emoticons.) The Pound symbol wasn't there, so I added it. If you've never added a shortcut like this, it's trickier than it should be, but useful in many ways.

1. First you need a copy of the symbol. As others have suggested here in their responses, in the word ribbon, go to the Insert tab, click on Symbol off to the right and then More Symbols. The pound symbol will be in the top row. Click Insert and it will appear in your text. Now select (highlight) it and then copy it (Ctl-C).

2. To create the shortcut analogous to the Euro sign, click on the File tab and then Options, the second last item in the list on the right (or type alt-f and then the letter t if you're in the Home menu). Click on Proofing in the list on the right, and then the AutoCorrect Options box. This is the list of automatic typo corrections in the program--hte auto corrects to the, for example, and accross to across. It's primarily designed to protect you from typos, but as you'll see the first items are the symbols such as the ones I mentioned at the beginning, (e) for Euro, etc.

3. You'll see that there are two columns, one for the key combination to REPLACE (e.g. het) and the second for the combination to substitute WITH (e.g., the). Ihe first line has two hyphens in each box, erase them and put in your own variables. To keep the parallel with the Euro, I inserted "(l)" in the left box and in the right I typed ctl-v, to copy the Pound symbol that I had saved to the clipboard back in step 1. Click the OK button to return to the Options tab and then OK again to save the change. Now every time you type "(l)" into your text, your "misspelling" will auto correct to £.

4. I said this was a useful trick to learn, because you can use it for all sorts of shortcuts. I use the combination "letter" plus left bracket key ("[")for several words that I type frequently, since I know I will never type that combination in a regular text. (There's always a space before the left bracket in a regular sentence, so I'll never type them consecutively.) For example, if I wanted to type the name of our forum as one word with the U and both H's capitalized, it would be a slight nuisance to type. But I can enter "u[" as word and "UglyHedgeHog" as its correct spelling. Then every time I enter "u[" that's what I get.

This is non-destructive, of course. If you no longer want the "correction," just go back in, type the letter combination into the right hand empty box, and delete it, so you can set up a variety of shortcuts for a given project and then erase them when you finish if they're no longer useful.

Hello Erv. I sent you a PM through the UHH site.