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Yeah he's appealing. He'll fight it to the end.

America can go and fuck itself.
it is already, and its going to take us and the EU down with it too. Thanks Uncle Sam your the best xx

ChainBreaker is needed here:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24027642-huggers-need-help-to-clinch-world-record.do

How do these stories older than the internet itself get dregded up by the Daily Mail and rebranded as news...one of today's 'top' stories on Mailonline

http://tinyurl.com/8yt5yj5

The latest Local Transport Today mag page.5 states that Mayor of London Boris Johnson has decided to permanently allow motorbikes in 478km of TfL's 580km bus/cycle lanes.

The first 18 month trial showed collissions rose. So Boris added another18 month trial which concluded with a 23% rise in motorbike collissions around bus lanes. Also the numbers of cyclists rose from 10 cyclists in the first 18 months to 25 for the second 18 month trial.

:(

2 18 months trials running one after the other isn't a very fair comparison, as one may include two summer periods (lots of cyclists - high risk) and the following period may include 2 winter periods (dark, wet, slippery - high risk).

My argument is arse, but it was a nice idea

ChainBreaker is needed here:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24027642-huggers-need-help-to-clinch-world-record.do
I don't see any licking being mentioned though.

Nice. I see all the bums and layabouts have been moved from Parliment Square. Hope they do the same to St Pauls soon

The latest Local Transport Today mag page.5 states that Mayor of London Boris Johnson has decided to permanently allow motorbikes in 478km of TfL's 580km bus/cycle lanes.

The first 18 month trial showed collissions rose. So Boris added another18 month trial which concluded with a 23% rise in motorbike collissions around bus lanes. Also the numbers of cyclists rose from 10 cyclists in the first 18 months to 25 for the second 18 month trial.

:(

I was riding in pretty late along CS7 this morning and I got buzzed no less than 10 times by motorbikes trying to overtake at various pinch points in the traffic by gunning it past at the last second as I approached a hazard and had began to move around it.

Idiot policeman leaves policing plan for the Olympics on the train you couldn't make this shit up! Why the hell people are allowed to take hardcopies of this kind of thing home with them is beyond me.

Idiot policeman leaves policing plan for the Olympics on the train you couldn't make this shit up! Why the hell people are allowed to take hardcopies of this kind of thing home with them is beyond me.

2 words, drop box.

1 word, Dropbox.

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/pedantmode

1 word: cum.

http://www.premierfoods.co.uk/our-brands/ - I hope you don't like any of these brands...

Premier Foods owes over £850 million...

Out of all of those brands I only buy from 2 of the occasionally. It's probably all my fault then.

One of my clients... They are struggling with loads of supply chain problems - comes from buying loads of really old English firms and not managing to incorporate them well

I was chuffed till I saw Angel Delight, then my heart sank.

I use it as posh icing sugar for my coffee granita and cream.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jan/17/michael-gove-inspection-school-academy

A colleague of mine is on the board of governers of a school they are trying to force to become an academy, its a disgrace that they are using the poorly performing schools in areas with very challenging pupils as an experiment and they have no choice in the matter!

from todays telegraph the chat under the goldman sachs bonus story

Here's some more food for thought:

Incredibly, just four financial institutions have gambled 600 trillion dollars’ worth of money they don’t even have – so this bailout was still not even close to being enough to protect them.

Even if they had all the money in the world at their disposal, they’d still need ten times more to bail themselves out:

http://moneymorning.com/2011/1...

In 2009, five banks held 80% of derivatives in America. Now, just four banks hold a staggering 95.9% of U.S. derivatives, according to a recent report from the Office of the Currency Comptroller. The four banks in question: JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C), Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS).
The world's gross domestic product (GDP) is only about $65 trillion, or roughly 10.83% of the worldwide value of the global derivatives market, according to The Economist.

I don't understand financial anythings.

I am a bear of little brain.

It's worth reading the comments to that piece. There may be $600tn of these products out there, but they're not all betting on the same amounts, they'll be hedged against each other.

Basically, it's not like 4 banks have bet $600tn at the bookies that a certain horse will win, they'll have balanced their bets so that the odds of making 0.5pc are good, but in the worst case they'll lose 0.7pc, or something similar. It's incredibly unlikely that all those bets would lose at once. Much of it would be mutually exclusive.

Clever stuff.

It would be interesting to see what the balance that is at risk is, but measuring that is tricky, which is why bankers can make money from betting on it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jan/17/michael-gove-inspection-school-academy

A colleague of mine is on the board of governers of a school they are trying to force to become an academy, its a disgrace that they are using the poorly performing schools in areas with very challenging pupils as an experiment and they have no choice in the matter!

Oof, it's all a sham by the Pob lookalike isn't it?

I've just been practically summoned to meet the Head of Education Lambeth next week; despite cutting the funding for the local Early Years Centre - where I'm a governor - by 20-30% they're now appear to be suggesting that unless we take over a) 1 failing nursery that the private sector couldn't deliver and b) existing flexible early years provision delivered by a charity we could have further cuts.

Their current offer is to split staff across 3 sites and won't listen to any argument that we'll need more staff to deliver it. They seem to think we have invented teleportation.

Oh Shane

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/warnes-hate-worrying-cadels-wife/story-e6frf7jo-1226247774191