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> Some people are scared of food that DOESN'T come in a box. Reminds me of this piece of modern-day half-joking phobia, from Woman's Hour, 29 October and 3 November: interview with an author of Cook on a Shoestring. Interviewer first: "fish ... but it is very expensive. Is there any way of getting round that?" "Well what I tend to do is buy whole fish." "Now that sounds a bit scary." "It does sound a bit scary but, I mean, you're paying for a premium if someone's preparing it for you ... filleting, especially a round fish, is very very straightforward." [interviewer, laughing] "That's not so sure." "It _is_ straightforward. You just need a good knife ... something that people often don't have in their kitchen, so go and invest in a decent knife, fillet your fish, or get your fishmonger to do it. Take the bones home ..." http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p010d2x7. Piece starts at 26'18" in.

I dreamed I saw St Augustine just by the processed peas.

A search on her name, Tracy Thier, brings up a Wikipedia article on Beltwood House which concludes: "In November 2011 the property was again put on the market...". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltwood_House There's a photograph of it here: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2254261/.html

Here's an account of the sentencing: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2012/11/16/judge-tells-christopher-mcgee-georgia-varley-paid-with-her-life-for-your-actions-100252-32247466/2/. There's a good cross section of readers' comments too. There are several other reports in that paper, each with links to some of the othrs. Here's one. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/2012/11/07/friend-of-tragic-wirral-teen-georgia-varley-tells-court-of-her-final-hours-100252-32180383/ I find it difficult to know what to make of the sentence without having seen all the video evidence. I do wonder whether the knowledge that there _was_ a death might possibly be an influence on the assessment of the level of risk of the guard's action; but I really don't know. I wouldn't in any case be surprised to see an attempt to appeal against at least the sentence. It's also very difficult to make comparisons, but here are some details of sentences in other convictions on the same charge. These I found from online press reports.. I wasn't able to find this degree of analysis in any of the online sets of official statistics. 2008, 3.5 years, DP Johnson, Roofing contractor. Homeowner died day after work done, from CO fumes from a boiler that now had no effective flue after chimney rebuilding. 2011, D Bell, pub landlord, repeated failure to ensure a cellar door secured. A customer fell into it, and was found dead there three days later. Two years. 2006, "hands on" company director, often worked on factory floor. Worker killed using a machine, one of three whose safety cutouts had been disabled on installation. Mitigating factors led to two years, suspended. Court of Appeal replaced this with 15 months immediate. 2012 Gas fitter incorrectly secured flue when installing domestic boiler. 3 years. 2003 Misra and Srivastava, two SHOs. Negligent post-operative care of a patient led to death from SA infection. Each, 18 months suspended. 1998 Hospital doctor administered adrenaline injection, against strong advice of three colleagues, to a Px in intensive care after septic shock. Px died from a heart attack. 6 months suspended. 2004 Narendra Sinha, Locum GP administered gross morphine overdose. 15 months. [Edited: para.3 "the jury's assessment" -> "the assessment"]

Saturday 17/11 Replacement buses will run between: * London Bridge and West Norwood calling at South Bermondsey, Queens Road Peckham, Peckham Rye, East Dulwich, North Dulwich and Tulse Hill. * Crystal Palace and Beckenham Junction calling at Birkbeck. * London Bridge and London Victoria calling at South Bermondsey, Queens Road Peckham, Peckham Rye, Denmark Hill, Clapham High Street, Wandsworth Road and Battersea Park. Sunday 18/11 * Replacement buses will run between London Bridge and Streatham Common calling at South Bermondsey, Queens Road Peckham, Peckham Rye, East Dulwich, North Dulwich, Tulse Hill, West Norwood and Streatham. * Replacement buses will run between London Bridge to London Victoria South Bermondsey, Queens Road Peckham, Peckham Rye, Denmark Hill, Clapham High Street, Wandsworth Road and Battersea Park. * Trains between London Blackfriars and Sevenoaks are diverted to start / terminate at London Victoria and will not call at Elephant & Castle. Above copied from: http://www.southernrailway.com/your-journey/improvement-works/

> fireworks used to be let off at midnight every week - I think it was on a Saturday night. Oh yes, I remember that. I think it came from somewhere pretty near the station.

> Harsh? I think so. The prosecution? The charge? The verdict? The sentence?

Carbonara wrote: > That Galway hospital is notorious for bad treatment of women. I saw something linked by Ben Goldacre - the professor of Obs and Gyn > is very old, 85 I think, was educated by the Brothers, and has published a paper asserting that there is no circumstances under which it > would be necessary to terminate a foetus to save the life of the mother. His name is Prof Eamonn something. The Goldacre blog is here: http://bengoldacre.posterous.com/irish-miscarriage-case. According to the Irish Times article he links to, http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0910/1224323797477.html dated 10 September, Eamon O?Dwyer is a professor emeritus. The article does not mention any paper by him. It concludes: [start quotation] Prof O?Dwyer and a panel of speakers also formally agreed a ?Dublin declaration? on maternal healthcare. It stated: ?As experienced practitioners and researchers in obstetrics and gynaecology, we affirm that direct abortion is not medically necessary to save the life of a woman. ?We uphold that there is a fundamental difference between abortion and necessary medical treatments that are carried out to save the life of the mother, even if such treatment results in the loss of life of her unborn child. ?We confirm that the prohibition of abortion does not affect, in any way, the availability of optimal care to pregnant women.? In a statement, Prof O?Dwyer also said no treatment should ever be withheld from a woman if she needed it to save her life, even if that treatment resulted in the loss of life of her unborn child. [end quotation]

The Fireworks Regulations 2004 don't generally permit use of fireworks during night hours, except on permitted fireworks nights, defined as below: 7(3) In this regulation, ?night hours? means the period beginning at 11 pm and ending at 7 am the following day and a ?permitted fireworks night? means a period? (a)beginning at 11 pm on the first day of the Chinese New Year and ending at 1 am the following day; (b)beginning at 11 pm on 5th November and ending at 12 am the following day; ©beginning at 11 pm on the day of Diwali and ending at 1 am the following day; or (d)beginning at 11 pm on 31st December and ending at 1 am the following day.

"May 2013 "Platforms 14, 15 & 16 at London Bridge close to enable redevelopment work. This means platform changes and the retiming of some Southern train services. "Spring 2014 "The first two redeveloped platforms open at London Bridge (14 & 15) with new longer canopies to protect passengers from the rain." [ copied from http://www.thameslinkprogramme.co.uk/about#keydates ]

> I heard they have caught the guy who raped this poor girl. Does anyone have any confirmation? If anyone has been arrested, the case is sub judice, and any comment about a person concerned, if likely to be prejudicial to the trial process, might be deemed a punishable contempt of court. The proper thing is not to speculate in public, and to leave the decision about anyone's guilt to a jury. And then there's the question of potential libel ... Another good reason for a little self control.

Ask to see a copy of their licence. http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/200127/apply_for_a_licence/356/charity_collections http://www.met.police.uk/charities/housetohouse.htm

> login failed, even though the pop server and password are what the site's telling me. The site doesn't tell you the password; you decide it. Who is is the mail service provider? Is it your ISP? Is it a definitely established email account that you can, presumably, also access via a web page?

> However, I wonder what would have happened if the executors had been more fleet of foot and already distributed the money? I've seen one media report of a solicitor saying that it would still then be potentially recoverable, but I'm not accepting that on trust. I don't think any court has yet been asked to exercise its discretion to allow the hearing of any claim against the estate. A claim for personal injury would normally have had to have been made within three years of the claimant's eighteenth birthday. Here's an article on the discretion issue: http://www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk/jimmy-savile-the-final-cost/ .

Nothing to do with ED. Similar ads on mumsnet, avforum, studentroom, ... I'm out anyway. Don't loathe it passionately enough.

Here's one of many articles about the process, with some video as well, showing what to look out for. They get into the car, plug a device that looks much like a TV remote into the diagnostic port under the dashboard, and do some reprogramming operations -- takes a couple of minutes. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/132526-hack-the-diagnostics-connector-steal-yourself-a-bmw-in-3-minutes

Check, via the configuration menus, that your devices are still set for RGB input/output and not S-video.

Is it steel wool or sheepy wool?

Do you not remember reading cereal packets and sauce bottle labels?

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I've just tried out the SFC scan on a Vista laptop. The simplest way to access it was via Start > Programs > Accessories, then the RIGHT click on Command Tool and select Run As Administrator. It took less than half an hour.

I don't think experimentally un/re/installing different versions of the runtime library is likely to be hazardous, but may be rather tedious, and slow to provide any useful feedback if this is, as you say, an intermittent problem. I doubt that it'll resolve the problem anyway. If this were something that happened on startup I'd say follow all of Mouneshwar's advice at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-performance/microsoft-visual-c-runtime-library-error/72d434c0-887a-4f17-904e-bf16fb42a0f8 . But as it's not, I think I'd simply check what your event logs report of any such occurrence: see eg http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/What-information-appears-in-event-logs-Event-Viewer .

Do these lifts onto flatbeds involve an electric hoist? Not in your area, I'm afraid, but I was half woken from sleep recently rather early in the morning by an electric motor noise that I assumed to be a rather early rubbish collection, but which turned out not to have been. If I'd thought that it might have been a theft, I would at least have got up and had a quick look.

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Did you know that the timestamp on postings (at least, the one I made at 19:14) is five minutes slow. I'm posting this at 19:17:10