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I think you can install Snow Leopard on the Mac you describe. Snow Leopard requires an Intel processor (which you have) and 1GB of RAM (which you have). Assuming your Mac also has a DVD drive you should be able to get a Snow Leopard disc and install it on your Mac. If you want to do that do you need advice on how to do it? I think you should be able to install Lion on the Mac you describe but Lion has not been sold on DVD like previous versions of OS X. You can buy it on a USB drive but it's more expensive so I think most people have bought it as a download from the Mac App Store and to do that you need to be running Snow Leopard and have updated it to at least version 10.6.6 (and 10.6.8 is recommended). So if you want to get Lion I think you will need to get Snow Leopard first.

If you have a tracking number you should know who has been carrying the parcel for at least part of the way and it should work wherever it goes, although sometimes a country code at the end of the number may change when it arrives in another country (I've had parcels with numbers that changed to end in GB). As for the delivery attempt at 2.03am that may be when it arrived at a delivery office or was put on a delivery vehicle.

I would expect items sent via USPS to be delivered by Royal Mail.

Rather than backing up on to CDs why don't you back up on to a USB flash drive? If the back up will fill 9 CDs if you get a big enough flash drive it should fit on. Off the top of my head 8GB should be enough for 9 CDs worth of data but you can get bigger flash drives than that. How much music have you got in your iTunes library in GB (the amount should be shown at the bottom of the iTunes window) and where does it come from? Ripped from your own CDs? Downloads from the iTunes Music Store? Downloads from elsewhere?

I think the issue of standing at football matches is worth discussing but it's not really a local issue and there are plenty of national and local sports programmes on which it could be discussed. One of the things I dislike about BBC Radio Sheffield is its over-reliance on football. I believe that it should cover football but when the station decided to have a football phone-in every weekday I thought that was wrong. I think they did it because it's cheap, easy and lazy radio and all you need to fill an hour of airtime is a presenter and about a dozen football obsessives to ring in and drone on about bad referees, bad players, bad managers, bad chairmen and bad clubs until someone else rings in to do the same. They could have done something better with that time and money but they didn't.

Save the evidence and report it to the police. At the very least it's threatening behaviour or harassment and arguably it's making a threat to kill.

There has been at least one prosecution of someone who posted threats on Facebook which led to the person involved being sent to prison so the police, the CPS and the courts may take such behaviour seriously. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208147/First-cyberbully-jailed-Facebook-death-threats.html

When I was looking through BBC News Online there were no murders committed in the county in January and there were only two in February.

I've just searched for news reports about murders in South Yorkshire on BBC News Online published in 2011. There were 27 reports but some of them were about the conclusion of trials for murders committed before 2011 and some of the reports were updates on investigations into murders committed in 2011. I counted eight murders which have been committed in 2011 (2 in Barnsley, 2 in Doncaster, 1 in Rotherham and 3 in Sheffield). The website of The Star used to allow you to narrow down searches of its archive by year but they recently changed the website so I don't know if you can do that now.

There was a thread about Mac laptops recently, although that was more about the ordinary Macbook and the Macbook Air rather than the Macbook Pro which has changed since that thread was started. http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=716125

What's wrong with the wags on Sheffield Forum? They've missed an obvious gag. "No-one been murdered in Darnall for over a week."

I saw a brief clip of "Fashion Crisis Hits New York" by The Frank And Walters on TV recently. Could it be that?

Google tells me that "Paramount City" used this theme tune. http://www.tvcream.co.uk/?category_name=p-is-for

This story has been raised has been a thread in Entertainment called "BBC centralising Local radio ?" which was about the new Leeds-based lunchtime show broadcast on BBC Radios Sheffield, Leeds and York. I don't know if the threads should be merged but that thread goes more into the background of BBC Radio Sheffield which may explain why the BBC thinks it should cut Local Radio. http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=711839

Institutions like the bank you describe exist: they are called building societies. A few decades ago there were more of them but some of them ceased to be building societies because their members voted for them to become banks and received a windfall when they did so. Some of those former building societies include Northern Rock (nationalised), the Halifax (taken over by Lloyds which was part-nationalised) and the Bradford & Bingley (nationalised).