Good Friday, not so good...

Started of today being very excited at enabling my PC with a new graphics card and some new cathode colour fans, installed the fans yay it works... installed the graphics card yay that works... wait for the hard drive to boot this fails... good bye to a 500gb drive of which 200gb is extremely important to me... :(

Dolpin washed up on Baden Powell a @CapeTown beach :(

Guys trying to asses if its still alive. It doesn't appear to be though.

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In case you have to call the cops or any other emergency room in SA

Here in SA we have a real communication problem, I'm not sure if it's the bad telephone line quality (fixed or cellular) or if it's due to all the different official languages we have, either way you should know the NATO phonetic alphabet in case you need to spell your name, address or other vital information as the person on the other side of the line might capture your information incorrectly and that mistake could be the difference between life and death.

Example

Call to operator, answered within 5 seconds, this is great!

Giving the operator vital information, Name, Location, Details, due to spelling and other communication issues this took 5 minutes, not so great!

Response time after call has been logged 4 minutes, this is not bad in my area or in our country!

If you could give all the vital information such as your name and the most importantly your location within 2 minutes you would've saved 3 minutes and alot can happen in 3 minutes.

 

Anyways here's the NATO phonetic alphabet, take some time to memorise it, it could save your life and a considerable amount of time in an emergency.

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Letters

Letter	Code word	Pronunciation
A	Alfa (ICAO, ITU, IMO, FAA) Alpha (ANSI)	AL FAH
B	Bravo	BRAH VOH
C	Charlie	CHAR LEE  or SHAR LEE
D	Delta	DELL TAH
E	Echo	ECK OH
F	Foxtrot	FOKS TROT
G	Golf	GOLF
H	Hotel	HO TELL (ICAO) HOH TELL (ITU, IMO, FAA)
I	India	IN DEE AH
J	Juliett (ICAO, ITU, IMO, FAA) Juliet (ANSI)	JEW LEE ETT
K	Kilo	KEY LOH
L	Lima	LEE MAH
M	Mike	MIKE
N	November	NO VEM BER
O	Oscar	OSS CAH
P	Papa	PAH PAH
Q	Quebec	KEH BECK
R	Romeo	ROW ME OH
S	Sierra	SEE AIR RAH (ICAO, ITU, IMO) SEE AIR AH (FAA)
T	Tango	TANG GO
U	Uniform	YOU NEE FORM  or OO NEE FORM
V	Victor	VIK TAH
W	Whiskey	WISS KEY
X	X-ray or Xray	ECKS RAY (ICAO, ITU) ECKS RAY (IMO, FAA)
Y	Yankee	YANG KEY
Z	Zulu	ZOO LOO

Digits

Digit	Code word	Pronunciation
0	Zero (FAA) Nadazero (ITU, IMO)	ZE RO (ICAO, FAA) NAH-DAH-ZAY-ROH (ITU, IMO)
1	One (FAA) Unaone (ITU, IMO)	WUN (ICAO, FAA) OO-NAH-WUN (ITU, IMO)
2	Two (FAA) Bissotwo (ITU, IMO)	TOO (ICAO, FAA) BEES-SOH-TOO (ITU, IMO)
3	Three (FAA) Terrathree (ITU, IMO)	TREE (ICAO, FAA) TAY-RAH-TREE (ITU, IMO)
4	Four (FAA) Kartefour (ITU, IMO)	FOW ER (ICAO, FAA) KAR-TAY-FOWER (ITU, IMO)
5	Five (FAA) Pantafive (ITU, IMO)	FIFE (ICAO, FAA) PAN-TAH-FIVE (ITU, IMO)
6	Six (FAA) Soxisix (ITU, IMO)	SIX (ICAO, FAA) SOK-SEE-SIX (ITU, IMO)
7	Seven (FAA) Setteseven (ITU, IMO)	SEV EN (ICAO, FAA) SAY-TAY-SEVEN (ITU, IMO)
8	Eight (FAA) Oktoeight (ITU, IMO)	AIT (ICAO, FAA) OK-TOH-AIT (ITU, IMO)
9	Nine (FAA) Novenine(ITU, IMO) (No 'r' in spellings)	NIN ER (ICAO, FAA) NO-VAY-NINER (ITU, IMO)

 

 Cheers...

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