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Here is a lovely current job add offering ?1000 a day: Turnaround Finance Consultant Location Hampstead, London Salary ?600.00 - ?1,000.00 per day Sector Accountancy (Qualified) - Public Sector Finance Applications 1 Job ref no 18154585 The role will involve looking at what proposals needed to be put in place and work with the managers as financial advisors to get a 30% saving year on year. The Turnaround consultant will be expected to make suggestions about the performance of departments, benchmark them against other providers, and also look at strategies such as whether if a service was shut either clinical or non clinical (managerial) how this would create savings and how affect the hospital in the long term. So they are going to pay ?1000 per day to draft in an accountant, who's job is to explain to them how not to waste money. How can an accountant drafted in to a hospital understand the quality of care provided or what that service does for patients? Sometimes the outcomes will play out over many years and I don't believe that eg. number of patients seen per hour or any other such simple measure will tell you anything about the value of a service. Task number one for the luxury accountant: recommend dismissal of hospital manager who approved this. Task number two: sack yourself, and replace yourself with someone who is value for money, say on ?40,000 a year instead of ?250,000. They don't seem to have any criteria at all other than making 30% cuts. Looks like butchery coming at what I guess must be the Royal Free? - location Hampstead.

Ergh. What a way to go. Paralysed then drowned. How can you murder a furry animal like this? (and aren't they going to float if attached to impermeable sticky paper?) I think I may have to hand them the keys and walk away. Does anyone else have demented mice addicted to poison? Thought mice are supposed to be intermittent eaters but this lot are hoovering up poison 3 times a day and even scratching up the kitchen tiles. Unless success in getting rid of previous mice has just made room for rats.

Also notice there is not one person willing to explain what you are supposed to do with mouse after it has attached itself to sticky paper.

Just got back and they have finished off the super huge pile of poison I left next to fridge this am. Obviously they are loving it. I for one still voting for Mouse Extermination project. Am a bit vague on what is place of mouse in food chain but surely it is not Gaia plan for them to live in our houses and keep Cadbury's in business? If they were keeping any pests down they wouldn't need to stuff themselves with chocolate raisins and poison pellets all day long.

Ugh. I wish I could do that, with the sticky boards. But what do you do with stuck mouse? This is why I would need the tiny machine gun. Doesn't seem to be need at the mo. to put poison in chocolate (and in any case I would forget and eat it myself). The tip on scattering the poison granules, so it looks like dropped crumbs, is a top tip. Problem is they have been eating it for days now and seem to be thriving on it. Am sure they are getting bigger. Unless I have small rats. Next door's cat is excellent mouser but she can't keep up, poor thing. She's done for two lots but this is fourth or fifth infestation. Also once you've put poison down, you don't know if cat is then going to consume poisoned mouse and croak too. I get a week off, then they're back. Feel we need London-wide effort, would be v good for renewing community spirit, as per The Blitz, and we could then have anti-mouse stations with home-guard cats stationed around the M25.

Our biology teacher used to tell us of his admiration for the Chinese who he claimed had eradicated the house fly by mobilising the entire nation to swat, en masse. I am just wondering if it would be possible to organise a London mouse eradication day. Round here they are getting bigger, they are getting smarter (they don't take poison from the little trays) and there are more of them. Have read all the good advice on here, like stuff all the air vents with wire wool etc. But all you need to do now is leave a door or window open and they're back. One has just nipped through the French doors and ran over my foot. I'm thinking bussing in of cats, tiny little machine guns, etc? Surely someone can organise this, via the BBC or something?

Does it have wi-fi?

RosieH Wrote: > > Do you think it's possible to manufacture a colour > that doesn't exist in nature? > I haven't a clue but this Synthetic chemical turns out to mimic molecule in body, causing unwanted death (the latter bit being my laywoman's interpretation) seems to tell us that we should adopt a little more caution before having fun with man-made chemicals and gaily adding them to everyday substances. Whether as colour or scent. Should you choose to click and read the article - Chemical Xenobiotics and Mitochondrial Autoantigens in Primary Biliary Cirrhosis: Identification of Antibodies against a Common Environmental, Cosmetic, and Food Additive, 2-Octynoic Acid 1 - you will see that some fairly sensible researchers believe this 2-Octynoic Acid, invented to give a lovely lemony=limey scent and added with merry disregard for human life to all kinds of stuff that we slap onto or into our bodies, turns out to mimic a molecule that already existed in nature - in the cells on the lining of our bile ducts (bile - lemony/limey colour). Unfortunately this has a tendency to confuse the immune system which sadly in the course of getting rid of the synthetic chemical, destroys the bile ducts as well, causing a truly life ruining illness followed by death - faster or slower. I couldn't give you a definite vote for the slow death over the fast one. Either way, it cannot be described as a bundle of fun. Don't know about Dulux v Gaia specifically, but in chemical manufacturers v human race, I have known a number of losers.

Meaning that as you all the haute bourgeoisie living off expense accounts over there, no-one would ever have commented on her little perk???

dita-on-tees Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > London Kings Cross to York, change at york and > head Masham way.... sorry not helpful... No it was not. That was cruel, just cruel, to mention Masham. Sob. I may have to get on a train now.

You can walk and walk LYM, but it's just not Wharfedale. Or Wensleydale, or Nidderdale or Coverdale.

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well that must make them the same then. Not the same at all: Barbara Castle Gwyneth Dunwoody Kate Hoey - for her recent record voting against the anti-civil liberties laws what's-her-face Hackney MP, when she has a good day The woman who is now leader of Green Party if only I could remember her name too and the one from the Liberal Democrats who's always on Question Time. Sarah Teather. Actually I have no evidence for that but I'm willing to take a punt. and - topic - I am sure they have all used buses at some point.

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > and not the > thread to start a general heard it all before > critique of the rights and wrongs of the war! If you read it you will see that is not what was posted at all. The comment is about their just-now refusal to comply with an instruction from the lawfully appointed body that has told them to release the record of the meeting in which they committed to taking the United Kingdom to war. Your line, of "Say what you like about TJ, at least she wants to make the buses run on time", is terribly appropriate of course, since I believe the original, "Say what you like about Hitler, he made the trains run on time" was one of the immortal sayings of a predecessor of TJ's chum, Sivio Berlusconi - namely one Benito Mussolini.

Oh I say..Is there an email address for uk.reassurance? You know, re anti-social behaviour everywhere. I guess not, because "uk.reassurance", that would be the job for the UK government, "TJMP" included. And we have got this lot. The same government that has just refused the Information Tribunal's order to release the cabinet minutes covering their decision to take us into war on the basis of a great big whopping lie. The same government that wouldn't award the police their full pay award, while exploiting every loophole to fill their own pockets with immoral expense claims. And don't mention Italy, whatever you do. It's just not nice to remind anyone about all the dead and dying people. How does anyone expect the young to behave, given the example of this woman and her chums?

See today's Independent