But the fact was you did – that’s what differentiates you from others

It is quite difficult to keep within 50 feet of your altitude because of the cabin crew moving around the back with the meal trolleys. Makes one exhausted due to the concentration required.

Hi Ralph
But the fact was you did – that’s what differentiates you from others who purely go into ‘warp’ mode when instrument malfunction occurs.

Humans write software algorithms, produce software code, produce firmware and computer hardware and all that is still far inferior to your good brain and it’s logic.:D

Just reading a very interesting book I got yesterday –
“Control in the Sky” by L.F.E.Coombs ISBN 1844151484
and it covers the origins and evolution of controls and instruments in aircraft. Fascinating and informative.:)

They hope to appear at RAF Leuchars Airshow Sept 10

Saturday 10 September
They hope to appear at RAF Leuchars Airshow Sept 10🙂
http://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/teamnews/index.cfm?storyid=68CDD94B-5056-A318-A875AB4044958135

Saturday 10 September

1005 – Reds depart JERSEY

1120 – Reds arriver LEUCHARS

1531 – Reds depart LEUCHARS

1533 – Reds display LEUCHARS

1600 – Reds recover LEUCHARS

Sunday 11 September

0915 – Reds depart LEUCHARS

0921 – Reds flypast EAST FORTUNE

Condolences to those bereaved and RIP to the soul lost

Condolences to those bereaved and RIP to the soul lost

Red Arrows resume public displays

Red Arrows resume public displays

The Red Arrows are to perform in public for the first time since one of their pilots was killed in a jet crash.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-14755678

“……The team will fly at RAF Linton-on-Ouse families day in North Yorkshire and at Chatsworth House Country Fair in Derbyshire on Friday….

…..A Red Arrows spokesman said they would be flying in Flt Lt Egging’s memory….

…..A performance at Portrush in Northern Ireland on Saturday has been cancelled.

A return to Chatsworth and an appearance at the Duxford Airshow in Cambridgeshire on Sunday are also off.

The team is due to fly at the Guernsey Battle of Britain Air Display and Jersey International Air Display on 8 September….”

The ICO will help you

Temptation beckoned and I couldn’t resist ! Talk Talk have just written to me citing my correct name and address, going on to mention that they could not because of the Data Protection Act, enter into any discussion regarding my account details until I provided the following:

Full name of account holder
Account number
My address and postcode (see above)
Date of birth
3rd and 6th character of my password
Last four digits of my bank account number known to Talk Talk

They go onto write that unless I provide the above, they cannot enter into any exchange of correspondence which, in any event, must be accompanied by their 12 digit reference number.

I need a drink.

Hi John

You can count on the org in the URL http://www.ico.gov.uk/ to support your arguments and guide you through the mire.

As regards Talk Talk they are completely out of order.
I presume you are a paid customer of theirs.
This means they have your full name, your postal address, your bank details (for DD), your customer ID, your telephone or broadband number, and a whole lot more information you provided them.

What is their problem engaging in correspondence with a bona fide customer to the customer’s known postal address.

They should never ask you for any digits of your password (that is sacrosanct).

My advice is escalate it to a manager level and also ask that they respond in 7 working days.I always get a receipt for posting from the P.O.(indicating so in the my letter) rather than spend on recorded delivery.

In the meantime send a copy of their letter to the ICO and ask if the ICO can guide you.

They will and assign a case officer to your problem.

Talk Talk were in hot water with OFCOM recently over billing and poor service with respect to broadband.

From what you say they are information gathering possibly due to a technical problem on their part. e.g. they may have had a problem on their database requiring a restore from backup media which has been embarrassingly faulty or a ‘roll back’ during a database failure has been incorrect.
These are not your problems and if this is the case they must come cap in hand to you and admit the problem and request submission of your information but not bits of your password.

Hope this helps

A few more

gas, gasoline – petrol
color – colour
eggs sunny side up
room mate – flat sharer or flat mate
college – university
a ride – a lift

Original but maybe he can invest in some model aircraft (drones) with CCTV and ….

Original but maybe he can invest in some model aircraft (noise free micro drones) with CCTV and ability to dial a security company or his mobile if anything untoward is going on and transmit the images. Exception reporting.

Drones will have to land and be replaced by recharged drones (not difficult to organise from any decent security company head office)

Hi PaulF

Hi PaulF

My head of Regulatory Affairs and Lead Internal Auditers would be fried by the FDA. I was a humble research assistant in those days and was happy to conform to very high standards and receive no ‘yellow perils’.

Production lines in Pharma have evolved to be devoid of human contamination hence accidental contamination can be considered a minimal risk.
I would by that same argument suggest that deliberate contamination (in this case apparently at least two other products) was even less likely. Yet it appears to have happened.

Hypothetical but each tablet/capsule has a low plus/minus tolerance in weight/volume and production line systems can be made (if not in place already) to detect any item that does not conform to tolerance levels and even appearance (identity markers/letters not visualised by micro imaging CCTV). This would normally halt the line automatically requiring a manual override after investigation.

How and at what point did contamination occur?

Are there not likely to be event triggered CCTV footage that would now get reviewed. (e.g. if someone vaults over a ticket turnstile at a rail station good CCTV systems automatically mark the event electronically as abnormal hence assisting review later)

What hasn’t been revealed in this case and may never is whether it was individual blisters that were contaminated in several strips, or an entire strip of blisters, …….

I think a lot should be learnt by Pharma by this scare as the technology is all available and they if any have the money to invest to safeguard their own backs.

Let me give you a parallel example from the microelectronics world. A large very reputable computer server manufacturer used home grown automated quality assurance systems in verifying if each mother board was acceptable. The test programs were home authored and it produced excellent results. Every board was checked at each stage of layering (additional components) and failures went automatically into a potential failed line and went through further checks to see where the failures were introduced. They then were able to identify batches of components or material that caused the failure and deal with supplier issues. Quality was very high on any board that left that manufacturing plant and still is.

Microelectronics by its name suggests items and components many of which are far smaller than most Pharma tablets/capsules and if microelectronics can get it right then Pharma can.

I totally agree it is a mindset, screening and standards of employee quality that also must be upped but the errors at manufacturing in Pharma can be reduced to almost zero.

I also agree with you that ticking boxes isn’t my idea of quality and it’s continuously upping the standards and reducing risk levels that gets things to 100% or near 100%.