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And....Robot Vacuum 'Eats' Sleeping Woman's Hair

FB got there first: Virgin Atlantic sacks 13 staff for calling its flyers 'chavs' - Home News - UK - The Independent

The "hearts and minds" idea goes back at least as far as the Malayan emergency, not that there were too many smartphones in Malaya at the time.....

New one. At that age, even a reasonably premium brand is past its sell-by date. From recent experience of good service, have a look on ao.com. Or invest far less in a pair of Marigolds?

Schools that do this need to be careful. As I remember, if the school arranges guardians, it needs to be registered as a children's home. All we do is to provide a list of guardian agencies plus AEGIS, and a requirement to have guardians. The guardians then go into the MIS as another adult contact for the pupil.

Must be the agnostic insomiac with spelling problems who lay awake all night wondering if there was a Dog.

I suggest you also check your title deeds (which may be in your possession or may be on the Land Registry site): there may be restrictive covenants on the land as well. Just been looking at one set of deeds and they would prevent you putting in a container to act as a workshop or dwelling(!) but you'd be OK to use it for chickens..... And if you are in, for example, a Conservation Area, or have listed buildings nearby, things will be different and more restrictive. As suggested in the thread, a chat with the Council will settle this for you.

The City pages say that the company has been bleeding money. RMT are up in arms: perhaps they'd like to invest their pension fund and put their money where their mouth is?

I agree from experience. Become a No Bell Prize Winner (apologies, but couldn't resist...)

When our bell programming expert left, the bell system didn't get programmed and everyone used the clock and some common sense. Cheapest system known to Man: and it works!

What a mixture of news - great to hear that you are surfacing with some resounding hopes and excitement. On a practical note, check whether the school is a member of CLEAPSS - if not, get them to join. Best source of expert advice and support for science techs and teachers.

Just used Amazon's "deliver-to-the-corner-shop" service, Collect+. Magic. Email to say it's been delivered, shop is open all hours, pop round and collect it when convenient. Beats waiting in for a delivery. Our local Sainsbury's has a ByBox unit - might be another useful way of getting deliveries,though I've not investigated. I have some sympathy for some of these delivery drivers - in our small village there are no street name signs; houses are numbered in random batches or only have names; some have no name or number showing. And in the dark many of the names and numbers are simply invisible. Satnav will help but won't solve the problem! Years ago I had to call on lots of different houses and found that some were simply not discoverable - long roads with no numbering at all, just house names.

From the ever-helpful and usually accurate Wikipedia: 'Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." '

One item from VSO's website brings it all home: Sierra Leone has one health worker for every 5,260 people. Compare this to the UK where the ratio is one to 77 people.

A different experience recently: got a big delivery from Appliances Online - cooker, fridge, washing machine - and the last thing the delivery team did before leaving was to photograph the items in the house so that they had evidence of delivery. Excellent service, ordered 1 a.m. on a Wednesday, delivered on Thursday morning, phone call from driver to confirm arrival time......

Interesting blog on the National Archives site. I suspect that most people in schools are far too busy think about the archiving process in this way, but it's food for thought. Finding a path through the email forest | The National Archives blog

Well.....the local papers have been publishing pictures like these for years. The new classes at the primary schools, the primary school leavers group photos, nativity plays, the lot. I am a lot less worried about this than many things.

Long ago, Year 9 lad on field trip: "Sir sir sir we must look at this under a microphone....."

May I post a slightly sideways comment? I've been following this thread here, and a matching one on TES Online. The discussion here has in the main been much more professional and concerned much more with the effects on the people involved. I am as impressed by the professionalism here as I am disappointed with some of the posts on TES. My views: my heart goes out to the victim's family, to her friends and colleagues, to the staff who will be picking things up as I write, and also to the pupils who will have been witnesses to the attack. Nothing much else matters at all. Our thoughts are with them as they try to rebuild and come to terms with it all.

Long running? Only 86 years, though perhaps it's the longest-running laboratory experiment....the Broadblak experiment on wheat at Rothamsted has been running since 1843 (or 1852 if you want to be purist about it!). That's a good few researchers' working lives......

There have been times when I would have been sooo grateful for this, including in older Landys with the spare on the bonnet: forward visibility as you go over a crest is negligible. I imagine someone will devise an aftermarket gadget sometime soon?

Marginally off topic: BBC News - Excitement hope for Boring, Oregon, and Dull, Perthshire

Let's eat, granny! Let's eat granny!

502. I remember going on a speed reading course many years ago: they had a machine that exposed about three lines of the text of a paperback at a time, and moved down the page to force you to keep up with it; the speed was adjustable. Over two days' course my speed nearly doubled; some of the sixth-formers managed to quadruple their speed. Eye muscles very sore from tracking back and forward at such speeds. If I remember I got to 800+ on the course; seem to have got rusty since!

I think we have a perceptions issue here. For research purposes, being able to link medical histories and treatments of very large datasets should enable a lot to be discovered that isn't already known. The promise of anonymity of the data - assuming it can be kept technically - would mean that the value of the data is not lost.