Always luved lose dirt.

Just stay relaxed in your arms and keep you weight back to unweight your front wheel. concentrate on getting side grips really dug in on corners and any drifting should be progressive

Its small ( fist sized) loose rolley stones I hate. Mediterranen islands yurrgh

I work in the NHS. Please let me know if this goes anywhere as it sounds ideal for Community Nurses

Nope

Why is it we “can’t let ISIS win” by fearing terrorists but we can let ISIS win by turning ourselves into a police state.

P.S. Armed police rarely ever arrive in time to prevent these acts.

So its still a “leap of faith” to assume, that arming our police and sending them out with a “shoot to kill” mandate, is going to make the citizens of this country any safer. Innit ?

But I wouldn’t have shown the restraint, that the armed officers showed, in arresting Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale

@ V8

So we already have proportionate shoot to kill policy, its just it’s application can be a bit “random” mmmmm…….ok

Stephen Waldorf, Harry Stanley and James Ashley etc etc.

or is Cameroon wanting to get a bit carried away 007stylie

Jean Charles de Menezes’s opinion would be ?

Cheers

Looking to roll in – jump off, but your reply has get me thinking a jump in will be loads more fun

Hoping to scour the logs enough with a chainsaw to avoid chicken wire. Not much mud around so may work okay

Cheers

Looking to roll in – jump off, but your reply has get me thinking a jump in will be loads more fun

Hoping to scour the logs enough with a chainsaw to avoid chicken wire. Not much mud around so may work okay

Thank god our new friends, the Chinese, are squeaky clean on this

http://images.smh.com.au/2012/07/27/3496651/VD-Swimmer-1994-620×349.jpg

@ chakaping

Nah.
It’s the older diagonal “main line” which has been deleted.

Just had my best cheeky trail flattened by land owners, mostly due to over use, so bit of a touchy subject right now.

New stuff, will be shared, strictly word of mouth.
Even thinking of, some kind of camouflaged gates, top n bottom.

Not my words but worth a read

Elite power and unearned wealth

By now you may have noticed a common theme in these descriptions of how the banking sector and the financial markets make money: they do so not by creating real wealth but by manipulating a virtual-money economy. They can only do this because the banks are able to create money at will. This would be fine if they were dealing in matchsticks or Monopoly money, but they are dealing in the same money that is essential to the process of creating real wealth.

The real wealth they purchase with money so acquired is entirely unearned. Landowners also benefit from unearned wealth, but, unlike bankers and financiers, they have not created an entire industry dedicated to its pursuit. They simply buy land from which they receive the benefit of unearned wealth because, ever since the establishment of private property in land ten thousand years ago, nobody has thought to question the entitlements of landowner-ship in a world where most land is owned by very few people.

Unearned wealth is the principal basis for the exercise of elite power.

Democracy didn’t deliver the current economic and financial system. In a properly functioning democracy the economy would be configured to serve the interests of the majority, not a tiny minority. It is the power and influence of a global elite and the coterie of professionals that serves them which sets the global economic agenda today. Why democratically elected governments are unable to challenge this power is a matter for debate. Perhaps they realize that the only way to curb it is through reforms so radical that the mere thought stops them sleeping at night. Whatever the reason, the path to a just and inclusive economy will not be clear until ways are found to curb the privilege of unearned wealth. The only way to do this is to acknowledge and then tackle elite power and entrenched privilege.

The process by which unearned wealth is acquired is sometimes described as ‘rent seeking’. The concept of rent seeking was first outlined by Gordon Tullock in 1967, and given its name by another economist, Anne Krueger, seven years later. Use of the term can be confusing because it brings to four the number of different meanings ascribed to the word rent. It’s worth, therefore, spending a moment on definitions.

As well as the conventional use of the term – you might rent a flat, or a car while on holiday – economists use the word in three different ways. As we noted, Adam Smith used it to describe that part of income that is distributed to landowners. There is also the slightly different concept of economic rent, which is the amount paid for the use of any factor above the minimum necessary to bring it into production. Confusingly, both labour and capital can command economic rent. If you went for a job interview and were ready to accept a salary of £30,000, but your future employer was so impressed with you that she decided to offer you £35,000, the difference is your economic rent.

In rent seeking we encounter yet another form of rent. It is the business of earning money, not by investing effort and resources in trying to generate new wealth, but by working to secure for oneself a greater share of already existing wealth. Whereas profit seeking describes the process of investing capital in return for a share of the new wealth created, rent seeking is about skimming off a share of wealth created by others.

Rent seeking can take many forms. It might involve lobbying politicians to enact legislation that will make it harder for new producers to gain entry to a particular market. The pre-crash craze for private equity takeovers of perfectly viable businesses is another form of rent seeking. In such cases, the distribution of income between wages and capital is altered substantially, even though the new ‘capital’ supplied makes no contribution to wealth creation. The income earned by rent seekers often comes in the form of land rent. Russian oligarchs, for example, owe their immense wealth to the fact that they were effectively given free use of vast quantities of natural resources after the fall of communism.

Rent seeking always has a cost in terms of resources that could otherwise be applied to the creation of new wealth. Not only is it a legalized form of economic theft, but it also diverts resources from the real economy. And of course, the only people able to engage ‘successfully’ in rent-seeking activities are people who are already so well off that they don’t need to find work in the real economy.

To clarify, legitimate economic activity does not have to involve the conversion of the resources of nature into something physical for consumption. There are thousands of activities, employing millions of people, which produce services for exchange in the marketplace which are perfectly legitimate. This book is printed on paper that began life in a forest, but you didn’t buy the book for the paper, you bought it for what is printed on its pages. The Four Horsemen film that accompanies this book makes even less use of the resources of nature, but thousands of people have paid at the box office to see it, or bought the DVD. Many vital and necessary service industries exist to facilitate and support the exchange of goods and services in the marketplace – retail is perhaps the best example. Income derived from non-tangible service activities is perfectly legitimate as it’s part and parcel of the process by which genuine wealth is created. It’s quite different from the rent-seeking activities of bankers, landowners and speculators. Regardless of the propaganda, none of these activities generates any new wealth or adds any real value to society.

The Greek philosopher Plato said the ratio of earnings between the highest and lowest paid in any organization should be no more than six to one. In 1923, banker J.P. Morgan declared that twenty to one was optimum. Today the earnings ratio between the highest and lowest paid in large corporations can be as much as a thousand to one. Herman Daly has a clear insight into the problems this causes: “when you are up in the range of five hundred to one inequality, the rich and the poor become almost different species, no longer members of the same community. Commonality of interest is lost and so it’s difficult to form community and to have good, friendly relationships across class differences that are that large.”There is a further form of rent seeking, driven by more established methods, that has recently become rampant and which negatively impacts the labour market. If, with the proceeds of their rent-seeking activities, top executives of banks and financial institutions pay themselves huge salaries and bonuses, the labour market dictates that senior execs in firms that do create real wealth should be similarly rewarded. This skews the market mechanism because it doesn’t distinguish between the CEO of a rent-seeking investment bank and the CEO of a wealth-creating firm: both end up earning inflated salaries. In order to justify these, they have to keep their shareholders happy. They do this by rewarding them with higher dividends. As a result, a disproportionate share of revenue is taken by shareholders at the expense of wages. Within the distribution of wages, a similarly disproportionate share goes to senior executives at the expense of the rest of the workforce. This doesn’t reflect any change in the contributions of capital and labour, or within the relative contributions of different sections of the workforce; it is a direct result of the impact of rent-seeking behaviour on the labour market. It explains the massive increase in the pay multiples earned by senior executives compared with other employees over the last three decades.

And it gets worse. By shifting incomes from people who would spend most of what they earn on things they need, to people who already have everything they could possibly want, the prospects for future wealth creation are further damaged. The over-paid use their additional wealth to drive up the prices of non-productive assets like land and housing, expensive jewellery and fine art. Looted rent spoils are exchanged for things that represent real wealth. Even the best wines in the world are no longer available to be enjoyed by wine lovers, because they’re appropriated as investment assets. Claret and Burgundy chips are now traded in all the best financial casinos.

There can be no doubt that the economy as currently arranged promotes a totally unfair distribution of wealth. Bankers, speculators and landowners engage in activities that extract wealth created by others. In companies that do create real wealth, the factors of production are rewarded unjustly. The rich are getting richer at the expense of those who do most of the work. The hangover of empire that has shaped the western economies means that rent-seeking activities are still regarded as entirely legitimate.

Excerpt from Four Horsemen: The Survival Manual.

Tell me about capitalism again !!

http://demonocracy.info/infographics/eu/debt_piigs/debt_piigs.html

“There is plenty of food in the world today to feed everyone, but the fact of the matter is that food is part of the world’s economic system and only available to those of us that can afford it.”

How the other half dies 1977

Behind .. Meeh

How does she know when it craps ?

Re. Trail Dog – it’s a dog

Nope, Sorry – Trail dogs have to be trained. So they are therefore something more

like a Sheep-Dog, Guide Dog or Sniffer Dog

P.S.

Taking NHS data home. Nooooooooooooooo

You really had better be using encrypted USB drive.

HaHaHa.. It just had to be NHS (Massive Reports which are sent to the uncaring, with no Trend Analysis and no expectation of Action)

Still think some decent formula can dramatically reduce your workload.

Basically you want your Template to self populate from the pivot every time which shouldn’t be to hard. Vlookup will work against a Pivot Table for example.

The NHS also really like QlikView and your Trust (?) will probably own a license already. MacroExpress will also handle your data imports overnight from any number of different systems

From your post its obvious that you know you are doing something pretty lame. But if you are stuck with having to do it this way – and we’ve all been there…

Why not create two tables
1: drop-in input table – Feeding the data to template itself
2: an “output” table reading from the template & ready to paste back out from

you only need to some
=Sheet1CellA1
=Sheet1CellA2
=Sheet1CellA3
&
=TemplateCellA5
=TemplateCellB7
=TemplateCellC10
type formulas this way.

Why not walls first ?

Naah .. You want Hopping Hare

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/badger-ales-fursty-ferrett-hopping-hare-1-39-per-bottle-instore-from-aldi-1341646

Great dinner beer @ £1.39 a pint.

Got four of the little buggers ( of various sizes ) myself…

Us blokes have grown used to everything being interactive and responsive. Babies just ain’t that. Let your missus provide the unconditional love, until it learns to say “Daddy” and run down the hall to greet you from work (Heart flip). Until then, they are just, smelly noise machines..

Enjoy. We are all building hogwarts on Minecraft at the moment.

P.S. Your missus now has something she loves more than you

Gusseted – Not Bellowed

http://www.lionop.com/poly-expanding-files-poly-expanding-wallets-and-file-totes/?p=3

or

http://www.viking-direct.co.uk/a/pb/Flexiform-Shelf-Files-40mm/id=ND182339/

Office Depot 230413

http://www.viking-direct.co.uk/a/pb/Office-Depot-A4-Clear-Polypropylene-Document-Wallets-Pack-of-5/id=1430748/

can also buy in different colours, for categorised transport& storage

Don’t pay these prices obvs.

–
If you go down to W*rmley Woods today.
You’re in for a big surprise (or two)
If you go down to W*rmley Woods today, you’d better bring a mattock & pies
For every Trail-Troll that ever there was,
will gather there for certain because,
Sunday’s the day the Trolls have their BigDig.

Years ago, we used to wrap a copper wire round the exhaust then around the washer tube ( with tin foil between ) and finally into the washer bottle. Pretty low tech I know and not recommending you try it.
Just sayin different times, before everthin went “tronic & sensors”

OP

That sounds an awful lot like whooping cough.

Which is perfectly possible to re-catch in middle age..

“although obviously that needs time or local gnarledge!”

FTFY

Flasheart
Does it come in a beaker?

…………… Oooh that was very good

Land of Hope n Glory

Another I’m forty and why I haven’t heard it

Peter Green reliving a “bad trip” to music

or listen to a “clean” studio version if you can’t get “it” from this live version…

I tried to tell ya 6 months ago

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/recommend-some-jazz-funk

Funkadelic – Maggot Brain

For the win !!!

I always fail to understand. How is any of this a surprise ??

The Tories are completely 100% committed to destroying the NHS.
Hunt’s even written books about it FFS. It’s the last bit of socialism left and they want it gone ASAP & it’s all going to plan nicely

Doctor’s striking or leaving is just grist for their mill.

PFI, Agency Staff and £11.3 Billion vapourware systems.. The NHS has no chance….

Re: Nothing worth bothering with though to be honest

Old jumps need love too

Here

The look that says ” I just S*at in a police car”

A couple spring to mind

1: Fire Alarm goes off during a drama lesson. Class carries on regardless

Me to teacher “Sir the fire alarms going off”

“Just ignore it” says he “There is no alarm practice today.”

That’s cause the school really is on fire you D**k. He retired very shortly afterwards

2: Also getting told off for using bright colours on a Dinosaur drawing. Seems the teacher had decided that all of them (across millions of years) were uniformly only black, brown or grey.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dinosaurs/color.html

Dig up the wife and bury her somewhere else !!

Really is worth taking the time to learn Vlookup

It (& Pivot Chart) really makes spreadsheets “come alive”

Sort & Concatenate also dead useful

IMHO

Cheers Chaka appreciated !!

Nothing as big as that – so far

This !! but needing something NEW added

Like the drift thing, though its likely to be “slide” till next spring