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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:17:50 +0000, John Dann wrote:

Ah but even the DT today reports (p6) that 'Temperatures across
southern Britain yesterday did not fall much below 4F...'. They're
obviously preparing us for the forthcoming global cooling but still
glad that it wasn't that cool in my neck of the woods.

Reminds me of an article in our local newsletter about Winter 130
years ago. 19 Dec 1874 newspaper reporting that the overnight low was
2F (-16.6C) a bit later 2 Jan 1875 -1F at 0900 (-18.3C), though it
does also say that the weather was a bit severe.

We are warm today almost up to 2C, gently thawing the 10mm or snow
from this mornings light shower. This is the 4th day were the temp has
struggled to get above 0C all day.

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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:54:34 +0000, Dave Ludlow
wrote:

On 25 Jan 2005 02:25:09 -0800, "BlueLightning"
wrote:


Children will be going to school today

Not on Monday they weren't... well not outside NYC. All schools were
closed in the worst affected areas of New York State and further North
along the coastal areas such as Boston, to allow further snow
clearance operations to take place on Monday


ISTR that schools in the US are bound by law to be open for a certain number of
days per year. If they lose days due to the weather, and it can happen in the
summer as well if the heat is deemed excessive, they must take days from the
school vacation period to make the time up.

Workers who fail to get into work can also lose pay if they don't make it up by
working extra hours, although I guess that would apply here in the private
sector.

Martin

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Hear hear Dave!

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"Dave.C" wrote in message
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Trouble is that this highlights a serious point. Most people will take all
of this as accurate and pass it on. There are lots of other things going
on
in politics and around the world which are reported with the same
disinformation and errors. Control the media and control the masses.
Except
for us lot of course!

Dave

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John Dann writes:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:52:26 +0000, Joe Egginton
wrote:

What do you expect from a comic like the Daily Mirror. It wouldn't have
appeared in a decent paper like the Daily Mail ! ;-)


Ah but even the DT today reports (p6) that 'Temperatures across
southern Britain yesterday did not fall much below 4F...'. They're
obviously preparing us for the forthcoming global cooling but still
glad that it wasn't that cool in my neck of the woods.

It was a good sensible piece apart from that, though, and I think we
could forgive them for what was clearly a typo for 4C.
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pays off now." Anon

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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:23:27 GMT, "Dave.C"
wrote:

Trouble is that this highlights a serious point. Most people will take all
of this as accurate and pass it on. There are lots of other things going on
in politics and around the world which are reported with the same
disinformation and errors. Control the media and control the masses. Except
for us lot of course!

Well said Dave. Whenever I read in the media about something which I
KNOW all the facts about, they ALWAYS, without fail, get it hopelessly
wrong. Makes you wonder if ANY of what they report is well researched
and not deliberately misleading ............

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From what I recall from friends in that area the Schools have a certain
number of "snow days" built into the school year in the expectation that
there will be some disruption during the winter. Not sure what happens
if they don't use them all though.


Chris


ISTR that schools in the US are bound by law to be open for a certain number of
days per year. If they lose days due to the weather, and it can happen in the
summer as well if the heat is deemed excessive, they must take days from the
school vacation period to make the time up.

Workers who fail to get into work can also lose pay if they don't make it up by
working extra hours, although I guess that would apply here in the private
sector.

Martin

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"BlueLightning" wrote in message
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Oh dear, spot the obvious mistake in my first post lol

Ok, it's really Tuesday, so let's just call this Tuesday's Rant

I only had a couple hours of sleep last night, that's my excuse anyway
:)

It's OK. Nice to find someone literate admitting he reads the Daily
Mirror in depth.

I am suprised there is so little for you to rant about though. Just
imagine if you had the ability to read Billy the Goat upside down while
taking charge of a large country.


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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:50:32 +0000, John Hall
wrote:

It was a good sensible piece apart from that, though, and I think we
could forgive them for what was clearly a typo for 4C.

You're right - I should have clarified that I didn't intend personally
to disparage the whole piece because of one error. But I'll need more
convincing that it was simply an overlooked typo. I'm more inclined to
believe that a lazy or ignorant subeditor failed to realise that this
single letter mistake risked lowering the credibility of the article
as a whole.

JGD

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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:54:34 +0000, Dave Ludlow wrote:

Keeping all those ploughs available and men on standby, for a
population of 20 to 30,000, would soon have today's bean counters
waving their calculators in a frenzy.

But... it *can* be done and I suspect that in certain parts of
Scotland, it still is done.

You don't have to go as far as Scotland. We have two gritter/plough
teams on standby from Nov to March, population just over 2,000. They
do a damn fine job as well.

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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:22:57 +0000, JPG wrote:

Workers who fail to get into work can also lose pay if they don't
make it up by working extra hours,

"extra hours" so you loose half a day due to the weather and you have
to work a whole day to get the same pay? Doesn't sound very fair to
me. Loose half a day and work those hours at another time is more like
it, say an hours "overtime" for 4 days.

... although I guess that would apply here in the private sector.

I would like to think it applied to any sector private or otherwise.
Don't do your required hours, don't get the pay.

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