Poison in the Frying Pan

The Frying-Pan

a number of interviews carried out by the author with the permission and co-operation of the Home Office at their only psychiatric prison, Grendon Underwood. Interviews were mainly with prisoners but also with members of the staffThere is an air of authenticity about the whole work. The characters stand out; one has met them> from 'Good Hearted Harry', the prison officer who believed i? people,...

[From the frying pan into the fire].

From the Frying-pan to the Fire.

F ood on the stove and grease fires are common responses for fire departments in off-campus housing communities. Like most fires and the associated responses, many could be prevented with a simple awareness to cooking basics – or Cooking 101. The Fire Problem: Cooking fires are a leading cause of fires in any household, but several factors increase the frequency of off-campus cooking incidents;...

List reversal: back into the frying pan

More than thirty years ago Rod Burstall showed how to do a proof of a neat little program, shown in a modern notation in figure 1(a) [4]. The program, which was well understood by programmers even before Burstall’s efforts, reverses the order of a straight-line linked list of cells in the heap using only three variables and without moving or copying anything in the heap. An algorithm which does...

Foodborne disease in the new millennium: out of the frying pan and into the fire?

About four million cases of foodborne infectious disease occur annually in Australia; new foodborne pathogens, such as enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli, are emerging. Climate change, combined with changes in how we produce and distribute food and how we behave as consumers, have the potential to affect foodborne disease in the coming century. Foodborne disease outbreaks are now more far-reac...