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dukesdenver wrote > (Like how much the library service spends on postage for letters notifying you that reservations are ready for collection - > they could save a bit there by sending emails instead!) When I took some books back two days ago I was told that my registration needed to be rechecked -- no problem, just a matter of checking that i was ta the same address. But I was also asked for an e-mail address, and told that that would be used for communications. I belong to several other London borough libraries. They've all been using e-mail for communications for yonks.

You want to start a bring back kedgeree campaign.

> RIP Thaddeus, lone tadpole occupant of our salad bowl 'pond'crying smiley > We had such hopes for you, you managed to outlive your brothers and sisters for so long! RIP Thaddeus, et eius fratres sororesque. Were any of them named, btw, or was this a sad consequence of Thaddeus's outliving them?

I'm not sure how useful a statistic the cost per open-library-hour is anyway. It conflates running costs, capital outlay, and overheads. Given that the staff and fuel costs of keeping even the largest library open will be a lot less than ?297 per hour, the logical thing to do to reduce it would be to increase opening hours (and the annual cost). There's a Tim Coates (as mentioned in James's blog, linked-to above) paper from 2004, "Who?s in Charge?", downloadable from http://www.rwevans.co.uk/libri/downloads.htm, which at least gives an idea of the type of his arguments. I'd recommend looking at it too for some of his statistics, including the Appendix showing specific costs for a county library, though the proposals there seem me well-intentioned hand-waving, possibly very practicable but without enough convincing detail. Do any of the videos of any of his (presumably more recent) presentations go further? I'm reluctant to be a 'consultee' on Southwark's own service without having more facts as to their specific costs. Are they available anywhere? Related to that question, I did see yesterday, I think perhaps in the latest Southwark News, a public announcement about the forthcoming annual audit. It mentioned the public right, within a specified time window, to examine any of the accounting documents presented for the audit, and to ask the auditors questions about them. I can today find NOTHING so far on the Southwark council website resembling this announcement. Is it hidden somewhere or perhaps not available there, or have I been careless?

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Our libraries are open collectively for 518 hours per week. The budget is ?8M in the last statement > given to me by the head of leisure incl. libraries. That's ?15,444 for each hour that a library is open. 8,000,000 / (518 x 52) -> 297.00 (pounds per library-hour)

If you google 'wholesale oil painting china' you can get an idea of how extensive it is. Found a price list at http://www.oil-painting-wholesaler.com/en/prices.asp.

>I have intermittent connectivity with the Virgin ADSL service which is definitely made worse during poor weather. I've had that. It's quite possibly not attributable to Virgin but to a bad joint in the BT wiring near you. The problem is it's often not bad enough to cause degradation below BT's standard of acceptability for voice calls. If your modem interface permits it, you could monitor your connection statistics, particularly for the number of line drops, errors reported, and the value of your download signal/noise ratio margin. Connections are liable to be dropped when the latter gets too low (less than six or so), as will happen if the line gets noisier because of damp or corrosion. It gives you something to pass on to the Virgin help desk. Noting times and conditions may also help provide clues as to the cause: sometimes signal degradation can be due to intermittent electromagnetic interference in the home.

Are you folk who are talking about Virgin connections deteriorating in wet weather speaking about the ADSL (phone wire) service, or the optical fibre cable one?

Danel_Davis Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I prefer Flanklins. It is very delicious. Any specific kitchen, food variety? > > Regards, Danel > Olympic London accommodations I don't think they do spam.

And Miss Shonk had been in post since 1905! I wonder if she eventually retired and got any sort of award. BTW, do councils still take out fidelity bonds against possible fraud, etc by employees?

Miss, Miss. George is eating the paste and won't give it to me.

Er ... plut?t http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Voyelles.html?

The Trampoline and Miscreant sounds a bit like a pub name.

On Green Dolphin Street - Mark Murphy

"You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video." No I don't, I have Flash turned off. ∅

I don't think you have the willpower to stay seated, and was planning on making a couple of thousand or so from the video I'd sell to a tabloid. You'd then have to emigrate, or devote yourself to a life furthering good causes. ;-)

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>Posting here on EDF. means the Whole World knows your intentions. >It will be flashed across all the major Tabloids. Then you'll have to spend at least a couple of weeks trundling round ED in your wheelchair trying to re-establish your bona fides.

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If it shows up as an attachment, you have successfully uploaded it, and anyone who wants to see it can download it (as on eg this page). Do you really want to force it to be downloaded and visible to everyone who loads the page, irrespective of their interest, wish or bandwidth?

> "...and the representatives that are marketing the service are from LOVEFiLM & genuine." The Woodland Trust, OTOH, as a collector for charitable purposes, would require a licence from the police or an exemption order before they could lawfully make any door-to-door collection. http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Publications/cc20.aspx#e6

> Looking at this article it seems the police themselves advise you only to conduct these sorts of sales in a public place That's not my reading, which is just that if you are meeting in a public place, the police recommend that it be a safe busy area. You mentioned being messaged. I'd distinguish mobile phone messages from forum PMs. Someone using an unknown mobile phone number I'd count as being potentially untraceable by anybody. Someone's PM'ing does at least potentially provide you with a track record, and a link to forum, ISP, etc. records that the police could access if they thought it necessary. Similarly so, if you've communicated via their private landline phone. I'd count the existence of either of those traceables as goodish predictors of my own safety, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary. Personally, I think I'd be unlikely to buy any valuable consumer item (particularly an as-new one) without evidence of ownership, without believing that the seller would be subsequently findable if need be. An address or receipt would do; I don't think corner seat, Caff? Nero, would.

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