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El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > embed, link, whatever. But you were encouraging embedding, as did Admin in the "How to upload and embed a photo:Guide" sticky thread, and its use has been building up since then. Properly it's perhaps in that thread that I should really be querying the practice. I've nothing against the use of an external image repository to lighten the forum server load; probably a good idea, if Flickr or whoever can tolerate it and it can be managed if necessary. > Given the recent spat on the CGF thread, I reckon it's sensible. Is that one of the picture threads? I tend to avoid them if I remember them. > Plus moderators can always edit the worst offenders Do they really want the work and worry? > This forum really does sap one's will to live sometimes, with it's wellspring of negativity. I do sometimes find avoiding reading the forum at all quite therapeutic, for a number of reasons, but I'll keep quiet rather than risk being accused of negativity, and stick to the current straw. I just don't see why, in most cases, the polite and helpful provision of a link, such as Dispproving baby photo, isn't preferable to having my screen gratuitously filled with whatever someone thinks I should be viewing, and having my reading of a thread made correpondingly less easy.

:-) > click on the share button of the photo and copy the code in the Grab the > HTML/BBCode box (you can set the size and everything) [post-smiley ed:] and then a moderator has to waste five minutes to come along and change it to something more reasonable. Do you really want to encourage the embedding of photographs within threads? It's a pain to consume, and an encouragement to nuisance hot-linking. [Afterthought 8/11] Isn't this, in proposed form, a non-starter anyway? The Flickr account seems inaccessible to me, presumably because the Flickr username is associated with a single (El Pibe's) Yahoo account. Would Flickr even countenance the creation of an account meant to be accessible by anyone? Even if they did, wouldn't it then be liable to attacks by trollers, spammers, pirates, vandals, porn merchants, the bored, ..., for all of which the nominal account holder would be liable to be held responsible.

Here's a 2007 Usenet uk.transport.london post that includes a letter from TfL about Volvo B7TL buses - which I think includes the 176: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/uk.transport.london/YrEmfvSNzCA

Re cyclehoops: I emailed the council in September 2010, after seeing the mentions in this thread, to ask how I could distinguish them on the interactive map. After a reminder, I got a reply in November 2010, from which: We do indeed have some trial sites for this particular type of cycle parking. A couple of sites that I am aware of are Union Street by the Palestra building and Cathedral Street by Borough Market. I believe that the interactive map has been removed from the website pending an up to date audit of cycle parking across the borough. I'm also aware that these stands have not proved to be very popular with our engineers and our Streetscape Design Manager and so will most probably not be used within the Borough in the future. Please contact me should you require any further details.

> Anyone use FLUX software ? I heard this mentioned on a radio programme yesterday. Just for disambiguation (there seem other prroducts with the same name) I assume you're referring to this: http://justgetflux.com/?

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I emailed Southwark Council about the Lambeth Hangers. Apparently they have not discounted there > installation in the Borough, but are in fact looking at 300 possible locations as part of a pilot! Thanks very much for (1) your asking the council clearly (2) their quick response (3) relaying it here. Now we're all better informed. That's the way to do it. I see btw that the Lambeth Bikehangars are a different animal from the cycle hoops, of which ISTR Southwark trialled a few several years ago.

What are the actual current perceived hazards? What are the "Cycling to School Partnership" and the "Schools Partnership", both mentioned in the above copy and in http://www.southwark.gov.uk/news/article/1449/285_000_of_funding_awarded_to_support_cycling_in_dulwich_and_herne_hill?

Some Southwark information about cycle parking here: http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/200123/cycling/442/cycle_parking_and_security

If you are in position to usefully guess, make good use of surveys of PIN choices. In particular, try using the holder's birthdate or other significant date information that's available to you. http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2012/02/20/how-hard-are-pins-to-guess/

edhistory Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This is Jack Hopkins of Lambeth Council? Yes. It appears to be a Lambeth council matter: http://lambethnews.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/bid-to-introduce-londons-first-blanket-restriction-on-nightclub-booze-sales/ Lambeth Council will be consulting on an Early Morning Alcohol Restriction Order (EMRO) for the corner of Wandsworth Road and North Street, Clapham. It will affect four currently licensed venues and proposes midnight as the terminal serving hour for alcohol seven days a week.

I know that quotation is from a police web site, but the actual Act is a more reliable source. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/section/170

> also word woarnign the text number on bus stops is charged at multimedia rate by orange/ee cpst ?1.50 a text. The SMS text charge is said to be "12 pence per text over your standard network rate" according to http://www.tfl.gov.uk/termsandconditions/20914.aspx. It is just a text message, isn't it? The only other thing I can think of is the free web service, which costs whatever you have to pay for data downloads.

"Street briefing Start: Fri 01 November 2013, 12:30 PM End: Fri 01 November 2013, 13:30 PM Location Outside Dulwich Islamic Centre, 23 North Cross Road, London SE22 9ET Description An outdoor meeting that any member of the public can attend held outdoors." http://content.met.police.uk/Event/Street-briefing/1400018667101/1257246745828

The above extract seems to be from "East Dulwich priorities and promises", downloadable from the ED SNT page http://content.met.police.uk/Team/Southwark/EastDulwich, original date March 2011, last updated March 2013.

Houseoflego Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi, > > I just got a penalty charge notice my car for being still on Hasler road for under 4 min. The > picture shows a car infront of me blocking the road and it looks like i am in the car. I never > get out on that road so its nuts. Anyone else had anything like this What were the exact words on the PCN of the alleged contravention? Would you like to append a copy of the photograph to a post here? It could be edited to paint over number plates or faces?

There's a French media channel, Equidia, that provides live coverage of races via several routes, including Equidia Live Direct web TV. Unfortunately they don't seem to be willing to provide their web stream to UK subscribers. http://www.equidia.fr/L-Univers-Equidia/Equidia-Live-Equidia-Life/Comment-recevoir-Equidia-Live-et-Equidia-Life They do also have a large multiply-indexed archive of videos of races that looks accessible and cheap. Here's Silver Treasure's last appearance, for example: http://www.equidiavideo.fr/Courses/GRAND-VIVIER.

> but does it really mean we need to come to a standstill? Have we? Trains can't run on obstructed lines, of which there have been dozens across the country, nor traffic on blocked roads, but apart from that, things are happening. > We can't use the argument, as we do with the snow, that our country isn't prepared for it I don't think anyone is using that argument. Let's see how many of the blockages remain this afternoon or evening. I see the ED rail service, at least the West Croydon branch, is getting back into operation now. http://www.southernrailway.com/your-journey/plan-your-journey/live-running-information/EDW/departures/

> but does it really mean we need to come to a standstill? Have we? Trains can't run on obstructed lines, of which there have been dozens across the country, nor traffic on blocked roads, but apart from that, things are happening. > We can't use the argument, as we do with the snow, that our country isn't prepared for it I don't think anyone is using that argument. Let's see how many of the blockages remain this afternoon or evening. I see the ED rail service is coming back into service now.

It looks as if they're being phased back in now. First one on ED Live Departures page with a firm departure time is the 10:51 to London Bridge. http://www.southernrailway.com/your-journey/plan-your-journey/live-running-information/EDW/departures/ But still no Beckenham Junction branch?

xcweather reported 45mph, gusting to 66mph, at London City Airport for the half hour to 06:50. No idea if there are any more bits of the tail to pass through in the next hour or so, but they have it a lot quieter at 09:00. It looks to me as if the forecasters and National Rail got it just about right: several surface sections of the underground are reported halted because of fallen trees.

The Met Office has been and still is predicting gusting to at least 52mph for the area around 6am. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/se/london_forecast_weather.html Not nearly as bad as the 70-80mph mentioned, but still capable of damage, and for all we know still liable to change. And possibly accompanied by a lot of water (though judging from the icons they may currently be forecasting less of it, in rate and duration, than previously) A very recent post from a special interest forum: "Ok here we go.. Hurst Castle now gusting G64Kt .. 74mph.. Winds veered SW & increased here in Brighton now.. !" http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/100054-monday-28-october-2013-potential-storm-chat/page__st__400 See also http://www.xcweather.co.uk/.

Otta Wrote: > bawdy-nan Wrote: > > Are you aware that there are no local authority secondaries in all of southwark? > No way? Really? That's pretty bloody shocking IMO. "As of 3 October 2013 there are 3,364 academies open in England." [source: http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/leadership/typesofschools/academies/b00208569/open-academies] Schools in Southwark (my counting): 18 Academy 37 Community - most have 'primary' in their name 8 Community Special 4 Free School 5 LA Nursery School 10 Other Independent 1 Pupil Referral Unit 1 Secure Unit 27 Voluntary Aided School - most have 'primary' in their name [source: Edubase database of all schools; public portal http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/home.xhtml]

[The redactions are my own] Online Representation To Penalty Charge Notice Receipt ******* Please do not reply to this email ******* Dear xxxxxxx Penalty Charge Notice Number: xxxxxxxxx Vehicle Registration Number: xxxxxxxxx Your representation against the issue of the penalty charge notice (PCN) above has been received. The case will be put on hold until you receive a reply from Southwark

Close :) TY. 16:36:04

The regulations specifying the standards legally required of an independent school such as an academy appear to be The Education (Independent School Standards) (England) Regulations 2010 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/1997/made. See paragraph 25 of Schedule 1 to those regulations for "Manner in which complaints are to be handled", and paragraph 2(3) in the Interpretation section about what "making available" of a document means. (To cross the t's, there are some minor 2012 amendments to the regs at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2962/made). The proprietor of the school is the governing body.