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IANAA but ... a) Surrounding fully specified URLs with angle brackets is actually a long-standing convention, and has its justifications. See for example https://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/5.1_Wrappers.html. I use them myself around URLs in plain text emails and newsgroup posting, to protect them from line breaks or inadvertent conjunction with surrounding text.. b) I doubt whether Admin will want to delve into Phorum source code, or mess about with it, should he find what looks like the relevant bit. c) If you search for 'angle' in Github k-9 issues, what you're complaining about has been flagged. I suggest monitoring there for the time being.
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I'm reminded of this thread on a similar issue, but at a different shop: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?30,1822325. From a rather limited sample of two I'm wondering if there's a common theme; maybe retailers sometimes finding the contracts less rewarding and more demanding than they'd anticipated. Or maybe it's just the kind of transaction that's more likely to occasionally disclose stress anyway. But that's no good excuse for not properly advertising any restrictions they've felt constrained to apply.
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Search on Zeus virus warning and you'll get some reassurance that it's a known tech support scam: the popup is a fake warning. You did well to power down. It's probably best to assume that some misdirecting malware or worse may have been installed on your system (maybe piggybacked with a recently installed program) and do a clean-out. There's plently of specific advice about, like https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-windows-detected-zeus-virus-popups/. As Blah Blah says, there are adequate free scanners and cleaners around. ETA: Just reread the OP. I'm not quite sure now why I concluded so definitely that it was a scam. I still suspect it most probably was, even if the substance of the message was a demand rather than a warning, so add those two words to my description. How did you arrive at the Zeus attribution btw? Did it announce itself? I think it might have been that inference that influenced me.
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What makes East Dulwich special - your input needed!
ianr replied to eastDAG's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
How is the East Dulwich Action Group constituted? -
What makes East Dulwich special - your input needed!
ianr replied to eastDAG's topic in General ED Issues / Gossip
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viz: "Javon Coulter was 14 when involved in the shooting death of Suliman Ahmed Abdul-Mutakallim two years ago. Now, the victim's mom wants to help both Coulter and his mom."
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Repetition. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,619450,1871419#msg-1871419
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> Who's fence Could of been.
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kate7 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > From internet appears that indeed Bonnie's is officially permanently closed. > Attachments: bonnies florist.docx (37.3KB) For those who couldn't read it in their browser, it contained just the attached. What was the source webpage?
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If I were touring and looking for cheapish non-central hostel accommodation I'd be inclined to choose the YHA Thameside hostel at Rotherhithe https://www.yha.org.uk/places-to-stay/london rather than this one. . More spacious for a start. Even quite primitive YHA hostels, afair, had a common lounge area, distinct from the kitchens for self-cookers. I don't remember three-tier bunks in the YHA either.
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>> How informative of the broader issue can the story of any single >> house be; however interesting, telling or instructive? > Very! That does sound alarmingly self-confident.
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Just to draw attention to this, as deadlines are approaching. Briefly, more than twenty selected UK charities doing work overseas run a specific UK Aid Match campaign over a period of not more than three months between September 2016 and March 2017, and the Department for International Development matches contributions to them 100% (but excluding the Gift Aid benefit). I'd not been aware of this before, even though there seem to have been various rounds of it since 2013. I only learned of it from Sightsavers, whose own campaign runs until 8 January. But they're clearly all of limited duration, and nearing their deadlines if not already there. You can see more details and a list of the charities involved in this round at https://www.gov.uk/international-development-funding/uk-aid-match. I'm a little annoyed I dodn't know about it earlier. It's a lot more beneficial than the Gift Aid scheme (which I trust also applies). If donating, note that it's only contributions given to an appeal clearly advertised as participating in UK Aid Match that will benefit from the matching.
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> I want to tell its history and report on its current > emptiness in a way that sheds light on the broader issue. How informative of the broader issue can the story of any single house be; however interesting, telling or instructive?
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> but a strange 15-17 minute gap both ways late in the peak (morning 08:38-08:53) It's just the standard roughly equally-spaced half-hourly services from W. Croydon and Beckenham Junction, that would make for four 15 minute intervals, augmented until 09:32 by the half-hourly Thameslink Sutton-Wimbledon loop trains diverted from their usual route through Herne Hill. So you still get two fifteen minute gaps per peak hour, and four shorter ones.
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I was going to put these in the New Benches thread at http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1866377, but here seems more apposite. The two benches at the bottom of Greendale, vandalised to the point of uselessness. I took some photos of them on 20 October. A week later they'd been removed. That's all I know.
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If the whole thing is less than 150m in height and more than 6km from an aerodrome or airfield it doesn't seem to require any light as a matter of regulation. The single red light is a CAA recommendation of what they think is judicious for a crane up to 90m tall, https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/33/CAP%201096%20In%20Focus%20-%20Crane%20Ops.pdf, and Kier and the crane suppliers seem to concur. If the thing's less than 300 feet in height - which is quite possible, given that the jib length seems to be 45m - it doesn't even have to be reported to the CAA to be included in a Notice To Airmen. The Vauxhall crane had a tower that was 563 feet tall, and the jib was raised to a total height of 723 feet at the time of the accident, according to the AAIB accident report. https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/aar-3-2014-g-crst-16-january-2013 The following is from the Lambeth approval of the planning application for the helipad: "10.5 Helicopters would approach and depart from the hospital in a westerly and easterly direction on the same flight paths that existing helicopters take to/from Ruskin Park. ... The CAA will have the final ?sign off? prior to the helipad becoming operational. Ruskin Wing is on the existing flight path helicopters use to land in Ruskin Park and the applicant has confirmed that the flight paths would not change only the landing zone. Therefore the helicopter route is already identified and operational" https://moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/documents/s61618/ Don't the signs in East Dulwich Road have a contact phone number? With whom, I'm not sure. Anyway, it seems to be on again tonight.
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I really must get a hippotherapist. https://punch.photoshelter.com/image/I0000Z5IwBbvW7q4
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Energy saving light bulbs, what a waste of time, throwing out
ianr replied to malumbu's topic in The Lounge
Yes, I've still got several boxes of them (CFL-Compact Fluorescent Lightbulb) all got free from utility companies. Unfortunately they contain small amounts of mercury, so shouldn't be put in household recycling, but taken to a dump that comes within the "WEEE compliance scheme". You can search Southwark's list of such available sites in the area at https://www.southwark.gov.uk/bins-and-recycling/recycling/recycling-centres/recycling-locator. It includes Devon Street. -
Or parakeets. Noisy domineering *s.
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Do you have any dog or cat petitions?
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There's a new 'on time' metric been brought in from July 2017, which looks at accuracy of arrival time to the nearest minute at all stations, rather than the 'right time' one which looks just at endpoints. Its coverage is currently 80% of stations but rising, and it seems to be scheduled for introduction (ie 100%?) in 2019. There are announcements and an example of some preliminary figures using it at https://www.raildeliverygroup.com/media-centre/press-releases/2017/469773044-2017-07-18.html and https://www.networkrail.co.uk/who-we-are/how-we-work/performance/public-performance-measure/punctuality-national-rail-network/. I've not seen it stated explicitly, but the reporting year seems to me to run from 1 April, and is then further split into 13 periods. "Control Period" is another entity entirely; CP6 reportedly covers 2019-24. If Network Rail have access to the source data (they already summarise to TOC and sub-operator level: see eg https://www.networkrail.co.uk/who-we-are/how-we-work/performance/public-performance-measure/) then conceivably a breakdown by station, route, or time-of-day might be obtainable now or in the future, via an FoI request if necessary. Thee are also oodles of statistics published by the ORR, http://orr.gov.uk/statistics. I was surprised to see that the East Dulwch estimated entrances-and-exits fell from 1.71M in 2015-16 to 1.33M in 2016-17. The figures for Denmark Hill and Peckham Rye for both years were 7.00M->7.18M and 7.52M->7.46M respectively.
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fines for dropping cigarettes in Brixton, near the station
ianr replied to Jules-and-Boo's topic in The Lounge
> The fines for dropping cigarettes have been around for at least a couple of years now. Since at least 1991, by virtue of ss.87-88 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/43/part/IV. Section 98(5A) was added in 2005, to leave no doubt: 98(5A) "Litter" includes (a) the discarded ends of cigarettes, cigars and like products, and (b) discarded chewing-gum and the discarded remains of other products designed for chewing. There are archived articles in Newsbank featuring complaints about FPNs for cigarette ends well before the 2005 amendment. I also came across and downloaded an Independent On Sunday feature article of 4 July 2003 entitled "Fighting the dirty war - What will it take to keep Britain tidy? Perhaps you'd think twice about flicking that cigarette butt out of your car window if you knew it could result in a pounds 50 penalty. JULIA STUART patrols the grimy streets of south London [southwark, to you and me] with the man they call the Enforcer". Access via http://infoweb.newsbank.com/signin/LondonBoroughSouthwark or Southwark libraries webpages, https://www.southwark.gov.uk/libraries/elibrary/emagazines-and-enewspapers (have your Southwark library card number handy). -
Peachpie, could you perhaps check whether his meter reading has been registered or not, and let us know.
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