Its a real shame the UK still does not have a national identity card system-
A huge problem in every city centre late night shopping area and public spaces is the amout of binge drinking by youths.
The ID chip on the card can provide a a partition for your Statutory Drinking Licence -
If you wish to enter a Licenced Premises you must swipe your card to gain entry.
To Purchase Any Alcohol The Statutory Drinking Licence Card must be swiped at Point Of Sale:
Age 14 Provisional Licence - Personal Use Only
Age 18 20 min formal Test & issued DRINKING LICENCE
Age 21 Advanced Licence (Licensees, Trading, Bulk Bulk buyer).
Drunk and Disorderly automatically loose licence 3 months (Can be imposed on the spot by police officer).
Any Provisional Licence holder found guilty of a drink related crime Licence revoked until 18th birthday
Any licence holder selling alcohol to a Non-Licence holder will pay a statutory fine PLUS loose Drinking Licence for a fixed period set by the court.
Treat people like adults they will behave like it.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Mahler 8th Symphony at St. Paul's Cathedral, London with the LSO
imagine living a life and not discovering Mahler - they would have to invent reincarnation just so you get another shot at it
Friday, June 27, 2008
TV & PVR REVIEWERS missing 8 million users .....
I wish all reviewers would start testing Subtitle performance
When deaf people rely on Subtitles or the many thousands of users that put it on as an English teaching aid subtitles are really important, sadly sky platform can be appalling, sometimes its down to weather, or dish alignment is not spot on, or subtitles lag so you can be reading what happened five mins ago.
Worse offenders are advert breaks, a big splash across your screen imploring you to BE KIND TO YOUR BOTTOM - Andrex … and it stubbornly remains there 5 mins into the next programme until your forced to change channel and back.
The Font and Big Bold helvetica font has not changed in 30 years. Its awful, time has moved on when will at least one manufacturer at least try to offer an alternative.
choose a font, a colour scheme, transparency, with or without background.
We want real subtitles, not something dreamed up in the days of CEEFAX time has moved on.
Deaf and hard of hearing adults in the UK *
These are the latest estimated figures for the number of deaf and hard of hearing adults in the UK. There are:
* 8,945,000 deaf and hard of hearing people
* 2,474,000 deaf and hard of hearing people aged 16 to 60
* 6,471,000 deaf and hard of hearing people aged over 60
* 8,257,000 people with mild to moderate deafness
* 2,366,000 people with mild to moderate deafness aged 16 to 60
* 5,891,000 people with mild to moderate deafness aged over 60
* 688,000 people with severe to profound deafness
* 108,000 people with severe to profound deafness aged 16 to 60
* 580,000 people with severe to profound deafness aged over 60.
*RNID
Friday, June 20, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Hearing Impaired
don't ya hate terms like "hearing impaired unit" it congers up visions of CP30 screaming at R2D2 saying "Speak Up Dear!"
if Deaf - not fucking impaired in any way
if Deaf - not fucking impaired in any way
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Earthquake Cyclone Tsunami - Where the hell were International Rescue ?
I am 54 this year and I'm living in my own future, the brave new world, populated by real life Dan Dares, Space travel, the Atom, satellites, LASER beams, and wall sized televisions, To me the future represented by shows such as International Rescue offered me an optimistic view of a future society where intercommunication cooperation and a world view solved all our problems.
As a young child I was told by the generation that survived German bombs that things like the United Nations and the EU have come about by the desire of some men to put away their need for wars, to cooperate and democracy would prevent tyrants.
As you get older you soon realise politics money and power shape our world.
We are indeed living in amazing times, Video phones can shows us live events happening in the remotest parts of the world and see them flashed up on our wall sized TVs.
We have seen within living memory dreadful human tragedy's - these are not unexpected, we know that every single year some people somewhere are in desperate need of highly specialised help delivered fast and a helping hand to recover surely the time has come for us to ask we still don't have a real International Rescue.
The internet , the UN should have vast resources stored around the world that SHOULD automatically swing into action at the first sign of a natural disaster.
Instead of these scenes of pathetic squabbling about VISAS at borders while people may be in urgent need of vast field hospitals International Rescue front-line first response teams should have full UN diplomatic status and pre agreed access in times of natural disasters.
Its going to cost, and often the poorest countries have the more devastating time after the natural disaster has struck simply because the local level of infrastructure may be very poor.
Natural disasters occur naturally - its part of life - they are generally hard to predict but that should not stop us preparing for them, its the most natural thing in the world outside your own home, you get in trouble and dial 999, heads would roll if the emergency service did not respond without question.
We should expect nothing less for any child any where any colour any religion any place.
Calling International Rescue ... International Rescue .... Come In Please !!! hello ..... is there anyone ...
As a young child I was told by the generation that survived German bombs that things like the United Nations and the EU have come about by the desire of some men to put away their need for wars, to cooperate and democracy would prevent tyrants.
As you get older you soon realise politics money and power shape our world.
We are indeed living in amazing times, Video phones can shows us live events happening in the remotest parts of the world and see them flashed up on our wall sized TVs.
We have seen within living memory dreadful human tragedy's - these are not unexpected, we know that every single year some people somewhere are in desperate need of highly specialised help delivered fast and a helping hand to recover surely the time has come for us to ask we still don't have a real International Rescue.
The internet , the UN should have vast resources stored around the world that SHOULD automatically swing into action at the first sign of a natural disaster.
Instead of these scenes of pathetic squabbling about VISAS at borders while people may be in urgent need of vast field hospitals International Rescue front-line first response teams should have full UN diplomatic status and pre agreed access in times of natural disasters.
Its going to cost, and often the poorest countries have the more devastating time after the natural disaster has struck simply because the local level of infrastructure may be very poor.
Natural disasters occur naturally - its part of life - they are generally hard to predict but that should not stop us preparing for them, its the most natural thing in the world outside your own home, you get in trouble and dial 999, heads would roll if the emergency service did not respond without question.
We should expect nothing less for any child any where any colour any religion any place.
Calling International Rescue ... International Rescue .... Come In Please !!! hello ..... is there anyone ...
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Do Not Buy Rice! - Its not ours.
Viral Marketing - CYCLONE VALUE Nargis Myanmar Rice Tesco Boycot AppealClick Here for A4 Version http://www.flickr.com/photos/daviddb_uk/2477083210/
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Sylvester
Tribute to Sylvester - By the time Sylvester died on December 16, 1988 of AIDS-related complications, he had firmly cemented his reputation as one of the most original and talented musicians to come out of the disco arena. While Sylvester represented to mainstream America the Black and gay cultural origins of disco music, his body of work included not only crucial contributions to the disco songbook, but also ballads that proved he was a versatile stylist who brought a realness and depth to all his material.