Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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The population in custody across England and Wales...
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110218140638/http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/populationincustody.htm
The statistics above are given in PDF and Excel formats, and are sourced through this page...
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/release-calendar/index.html?newquery=*&uday=0&umonth=0&uyear=0&title=Population+in+custody%2C+England+and+Wales&pagetype=calendar-entry&lday=&lmonth=&lyear=
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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It appears that, " Daniel Roque Hall was sentenced to three years in jail after drugs were found in his wheelchair."
Then there is this...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/sep/09/prison-no-place-disable-manIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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By way of a thank-you, dear reader, for all your hard work...
The spoon:
A lesson on how consultants can make adifference in an organization.
Very Impressive!
Last week, we took some friends to a new restaurant, 'Steve's Place,' and noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his shirt pocket.
It seemed a little strange.
When the busboy brought our water and utensils, I observed that he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket.
Then I looked around and saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets. When the waiter came back to serve our soup I inquired, 'Why the spoon?'
'Well,' he explained, 'the restaurant's owner hired a Consulting-Firm* to revamp all of our processes.
After several months of analysis, they concluded that the spoon was the most frequently dropped utensil.
It represents a drop frequency of approximately 3 spoons per table per hour.
If our personnel are better prepared, we can reduce the number of trips back to the kitchen and save 15 man-hours per shift.'
As luck would have it, I dropped my spoon and he replaced it with his spare. 'I'll get another spoon next time I go to the kitchen instead of making an extra trip to get it right now.' I was impressed.
I also noticed that there was a string hanging out of the waiter's fly.
Looking around, I saw that all of the waiters had the same string hanging from their flies. So, before he walked off, I asked the waiter,
'Excuse me, but can you tell me why you have that string right there?'
"Oh, certainly!' Then he lowered his voice.
'Not everyone is so observant.
That consulting firm I mentioned also learned that we can save time in the restroom.
By tying this string to the tip of our you-know-what, we can pull it out without touching it and eliminate the need to wash our hands, shortening the time spent in the restroom by 76.39%.
I asked quietly, 'After you get it out, how do you put it back?'
'Well,' he whispered, 'I don't know about the others, but I use the spoon.'
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Edit:It is probably not necessary to name any particular firm. :)
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i love the defence bit about his client not expecting such action to be taken and how he has been traumatised.
oh dear, how sad, never mind.
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"What I am doing here is the most conservative thing possible. I am getting the biggest bang possible for the bucks of taxpayers and achieving something positive for society at the same time."
So says, "Robert Francis, the Texan judge closing America's jails"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/30/robert-francis-texas-judge-jailsIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Thank you for the restaurant story Tom. As my son works for KPMG Consulting, I have passed it on, appropriately edited.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Peter, tsk-tsk. The story was "appropriately edited" on the same day as it was posted.
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