ianr

I have an Exmoor Wishbone, who got several show best-in-class awards for cow in calf, and second place in Milk Yield Tests at the Royal Show of 1936. That wouldn't be you, would it? I know these messages can get rather garbled sometimes.

That'll be Miller, G.A. (1956) The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two

> a logic free directive sadly - apply it to all mammals or @#$%& off. The preamble to the regulation begins: "(1) In the perception of EU citizens, cats and dogs are considered to be pet animals and therefore it is not acceptable to use their fur or products containing such fur."

There seems, on paper, to be a phasing-out schedule. A fair bit of the wasted energy does presumably go toward room heating. The fault really, given that heat rises, is placing them up on the ceiling. I gather that a whole new generation of LED bulbs, of allsorts hues, is a real possibility within a few years.

oilworker Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "Will you tell us the precise location?" > > yes - at the letter "o "where it says "San Donato" Thanks, I'll have a look next time I'm down the Duomo.

Ah, memory. Pass me a banana.

oilworker Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >I went down to look at the road a bit later and once again there was nothing untoward - > perfectly flat and no potholes or anything. Explain that!! Will you tell us the precise location?

Tarot Wrote: > --- > So you,ve been to one of those sessions to Ianr:) A lot more than one. You didn't have much choice, other than to wonder why, when you were seven years old and in school.

>I've been researching cycling courses on his behalf as I think he would benefit from having an >instructor to advise him how to approach busy roundabouts and junctions etc in heavy traffic. I think what's been said about defensive riding hits the mark. To think what might happen if the road-user you can see acts as if they can't see you or are not going to be considerate to you; or if what you can't see contains a possible hazard. What's happened to him could well be very useful experience.

>As Hugonot says"Breathe and relax". And now we're all going to be trees, with our branches waving slowly in the wind. So put your arms up in the air, and when the music starts ...

klikker22 wrote on 12 january: > I was trying to get a FCC train to Farringdon, and the screen said it was delayed by about 5 minutes; I kept waiting for another 10 > minutes (and in the mean time missed a train to LBR) and when I eventually pushed the info button, they told me it was cancelled; I don't travel often on trains, but I've seen enough of this pattern -- progressive extension of the ETA, maybe then a more general 'delayed', followed up by 'Cancelled' -- to actually expect it, once I see more than a single change. And I find it difficult to believe that it accurately reflects real-time events. It seems to me more like clunky information flow and labelling, but I'd be interested to know more details of how it works. Whatever, I think it happens across too many locations and trains to be attributable to any single TOC, though they may well get the flak for it, might be to some extent complicit in it, and will certainly be interested parties. Which entity actually controls the information system?

>The perpetrators have to be stopped and the way is to take joint action with the police in the lead. What sorts of joint action did you have in mind?

>The car hit the frame of his bike a couple of inches from his ankle. Worse than I thought. I'm glad he's ok. The question's going to be asked: did he have a good front light? I see that sunrise today was 07:57, and the collision was at 06:50.

>My son managed to swerve to avoid direct impact and car fortunately narrowly missed his leg ... headlight plastic casing found in road dated 1996. In other words, he managed to avoid riding straight into its side, but still had glancing contact with the front of the car that occasioned the damage to the headlight. That seems the most obvious reading to me. I also take it that MM's son was on CPRd and had right of way.

It sounds possibly like a rerun of this: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,568535,573505 . If so, this particular scam does seem to provide some scope for counter-measures at the time. What time of day was it?

Even if a search for an author returns "This user doesn't exist or has been deactivated", their posts can usually still be seen in the threads where they were posted and be returned as hits in a search by content.

You want more info? Just heard a piece in the World Service Science in Action prog, about an all-electric m/c; 11kWh battery capacity, 184 bhp, from memory (might be wrong) -- it's said to have the power/weight ratio of a petrol-driven 600cc bike -- that got third place in a time trial or summat at a California track.

The Supporters' Trust newsletter was actually right. If you look at the Order Info link on the CH DHPD page, it shows the dissolution on 24/11/09, but then an April 2010 application for restoration.

PeckhamRose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > to lift up the cover so they can see your licence plate. > Not exactly sure what the wording is of the law London Local Authorities and Transport for London Act 2008 Section quoted at section 9 here. Was amused to read of the barrister who took his argument, that a m/c wasn't parked if its wheels weren't touching the ground, all the way to the Court of Appeal in 1997, and ended up having to pay off a hundred tickets. >> and can't be arsed to check. No worry. First post of the day: pro bono. :)

I wouldn't be surprised if there was also a copy-cat or group membership element to these mini-spates, with kids following on from, or trying to keep up with, each other.

Offering to cut a hedge for reward isn't a criminal offence, nor in itself necessarily suspicious.

>..a EDF iphone app?? What would this notional app actually do?

I find the pictures of that bl*y dog a real turn-off, so much so that I normally avoid all your threads. Which is probably as it's meant to be and for the best.

> we are filming with a selection of people of varying ages to illustrate how our sensory system develops over our life time. >We would just need to walk through the park with your baby and sit on a bench We have to include pictures of mothers and babies so that people can really understand that we're talking about people just like them, and we can't use stock footage because we're creatives, and anyway it has to be up-to-date people just like us, and we have to put in lots of emotive audio background and other zappy graphics because ... because ... because ... Sofia, when you have the time, get to a viewing room and watch some Horizons from twenty, thirty, forty years ago. Better still, rebroadcast a few.

Fabricio the Guido Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > PS: is it always necessary to quotes one's sources when posting on here? In theory, can I make up > any old farrago of nonsense and pass it off as "commonsense" "opinion" "fact"? it does make for > a very laborious conversation if I have to have a reference for every comment I make. Just saying. Adding http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061107145607AAuN9u5 or http://www.roebuckclasses.com/people/thinkers/hobbes.htm or even http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Human+beings+are+physical+objects%2C+according+to+Hobbes is scarcely laborious.