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Most of the FA are a bunch of simpletons Ed, many are also freeloaders who queue up to go away Business Class on jaunts with England teams, often when player’s families are in Economy, if they are not barred from going . Some rarely go to games at other times, their interest in the game is positional, hierarchical and free from any financial contribution from themselves.
The Wembley Sale is an indication of the financial and business acumen possessed by the organisation. The national stadium should be somewhere in the Midlands, where the real fans from the North and Midlands can get easier access. Contrast the atmosphere at England’s games in London, with Leeds the other evening.
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I'm out.Oh right I see: I had the wrong impression. You could only receive DVD audio and video, if the car was stationary.
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I'm out.My guess is that the external DVD feature will be for those who have DVD players in the rear, for families, Nolan. Glad your mum likes the 500.
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I'm out.No offence to the Londoners here, but every football supporter in the North, Midlands and I suspect the West and Southwest, regards Wembley as “That London”. Everything to the rest of the country, is done for London. It is almost like a state itself, soaking up resources and money just to keep the place going and those who live and work there, traveling around it. Take the current Crossrail building programme: standing at £14.5 Billion and rising atm by an estimated £1Billion. Up here in Lincolnshire, and East Yorkshire, we don’t have an efficient transport structure, to handle the massively increasing traffic to and from the Humber ports. The Humber traffic from and to the Western ports like Liverpool is constantly delayed and obstructed by poor infrastructure. The answer to this will be another huge expense: HS2, which was originally estimated at £32.7 Billion and has risen to a new projected estimate of £56 Billion. It will link London to Sheffield, Leeds Birmingham and Manchester. This totally isolates the Eastern side of England and does nothing for us whatsoever.
We have very few dual carriageways and the worst road surfaces in the country. It’s a Third World up here. And we are the region that grows most of the country’s food.
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I'm out.The younger players are bypassing that Steve, most having been brought through the England Youth setup from schoolboys, Under 17, etc. A lot were coached by Darren Southgate and staff at Youth level and look what they all did: Junior World cups and Euro winners. So he knows the younger guys and they already know him, inside out, and his system. There is a lot of very good young talent coming through all the time now from the better club academies, passing through the England Youth setup. They know each other’s game before they make senior club sides. A few are loaned out, some are snapped up by other clubs, but that previous knowledge has been tracked by the England setup. I think it’s more important that they do know each other’s play: it must make for a more ‘together’ team, which really showed against Costa Rica and should carry on: “the more we are together.” As the song goes. We are slowly approaching something like the German method, by another route. The PL TV money is so important to the finances of clubs, that it has turned out that way. Maybe the future is brighter than we think, time will tell.
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I'm out.Well the complaints are still coming in Ed, so something is still wrong.
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I'm out.For me it’s this back 3: Cahill, Stones and Jones. Phil Jones is the old-fashioned English centre back, honest and mostly dependable. Point is that those 3 are the stock answer: there will be times when Southgate picks a different formation for different opposition and others will play across the back. That is how he has developed the squad: he knows now that all the squad know each other’s heads and can all work together as a team, whoever plays. Southgate is a bit different to most managers we have had: gives players a certain amount of freedom, but can be ruthless when necessary and allows the media to talk to his players: on his terms. Look how he removed Rooney, who was bitterly disappointed but was told there was no way back. Look at this fact: 8 of the 11 who played in the first Qualifying game, are not going to Russia. That is a sign of a guy who knows exactly what he wants and how to go about trying to achieve it.
And I still think Fabian Delph is our best play maker, ball winner and accurate passer. Think about him playing to Sterling just in front of him and running through the centre. Rashford is slightly behind Sterling, who for me is our most talented, fastest forward player, breaking from deeper. Dele Alli on the right, Lingard on the left. I watched most of the game again later and have to admit that Henderson deserved his chance. Straightforward, ball winning, mostly good passing, did nothing wrong. He doesn’t catch the eye because what he does is in the engine room. I put him before Dier, who appears to be going backwards. What was interesting, is that they did very well without Harry Kane. Food for thought – nobody is bigger than the team.
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I'm out.The PV Solar Business is currently stuffed with cowboys and chancers. There are many complaints on MSE about various companies, some taking deposits and either doing carp work then demanding payment, some doing carp work after taking deposits, then being unreachable when not returning to finish up. Others not surveying roofs properly, because they won’t employ qualified surveyors. The resulting problems are often horrifying and customers who are the victims struggle to get legal help to resolve it.
Government needs to get more involved in this by regulating it properly. That’s where a requirement for all new builds and after builds to have soalr built in would be valuable but need to work properly Steve, but with more teeth than some of the current Regulatory Offices have. The sticking plaster that is Utilities Regulation in this country, is mostly ineffective and weak.
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I'm out.My No.2 G’son has a girl Mate (not GF granddad!) who is about to go into Uni for a Mechanical Engineering degree, with the emphasis upon Civil Engineering. He says she uses some sort of complex CAD programme which baffles him: he is in the last year of study in Electrical installations, they have been mates since Primary school and she has always said that she values and respects him as a mate and wants no BF’s, she is totally career-fixated. From the beginning of school, and Nursery, they helped each other. He is severely dyslexic but very practical and ‘hands-on’: she is the exact opposite. In one person, they would probably be the biggest Polymath! She continues to help him and says that she will do so after going to Uni: he says that she has taught him as much as College, she says he taught her more practical stuff than college. I still think they may wind up together in a few years, they have their own private language and way of working.
Anyway, that’s my usual tortuous path around asking him to supply the name of this programme. I’ll pass it on if it’s useful.
I have complicated, all very different grandchildren. They continually astonish me, often they puzzle me, always they delight me.
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I'm out.Horses for courses: more different preferences.
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I'm out.You lot are spending some cash, Steve. Hope it comes off for you. ??
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I'm out.Jones was quite good Lee, played very well, as did every player except Rashford, who scored a fantastic goal then became totally impressed with himself. Tried to beat 3 or 4 players continually, lost the ball almost every time, instead of passing to another red shirt in a better position. Best England player for me was Fabian Delph, who has become a great play-maker: wins the ball, beats one 0r two players, makes an accurate pass to one of his own team mates. If he wanted to keep the ball, no Costa Rican seemed to get it from him. That looks like his best position, hope Southgate didn’t miss that. I thought we missed Kyle Walker somewhere alongside Delph, helping break up attacks. Sorry, Steve, but I would prefer him there to Dier or Henderson.
It was good team display and the best move was a typical English direct play: out of defence, good pass to Dele Alli and a perfect low cross to Danny Welbeck, who went to Alli straight away, both having a laugh. In fact the whole squad are getting closer, they are all obviously comfortable together, all looking good mates. It’s a good sign and they dealt with one of the surprise teams from the last Finals very competently, working for each other. Are they becoming a squad that makes up a TEAM? They should play in red when possible. IMHO.
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I'm out.Steve’ I once carried out a strike with the L42A1 on a Middle Eastern terrorist leader at a distance in clear air later calculated at 1,472 yards. (I was not metricated then) which was not bad, as my spotter and I estimated 1,375. Aiming for body centre at that distance to be ‘safe’ but fall of shot was a little over and the strike looked just above the sternum. Enough to get it done. An RHA battery of “longer-range snipers” covered our withdrawal, we just had to make sure this guy was history before his camp was trashed, might have been a few Russian ‘advisors‘ in there as well, never found out. Never go without Arty cover! Taken back by AAC Scout heli, which I was later in the week working on. Variety was good, I lived for Adrenalin then. Who expected an AAC Tech to be a sniper? It made me smile in the NAAFI Bar to hear some of the “Warry” ones boasting about stuff. To quote some infantrymen, you would think there could not be many of the enemy left in the desert. Not all useless: the RNF were a good mob, great soldiers most Geordies made. 45 Commando were in and out of the Radfan all the time, many with beards as sun protection.
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I'm out.The old SLR was made to work in all conditions, with the right oil (or none, in the desert *) and regular cleaning to remove carbon build up. It was heavy old barsteward, but we loved it and a 7.62 mm round would travel a total of 9 miles. I could hit most stuff at 750 yards accurately with it, but with the 7.62 barreled L42 A1 (old Lee Enfield) I could go over 1,000. Wish my eyesight was half as good now!
* we learned that the oil clogged it and scored the barrel/created stoppages, with too much heat. I also made a bag to keep mine sand-free, out of officer’s split golf club bags!
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I'm out.Look carefully at the graphics card and do a little research on compatibility with the software used by the company. Autodesk used to be awfully ‘picky’ about graphics hardware. Try this link for examples.
I took a good look at that, having once used another programme for graphic design. Very good advice Ed, if Dave is not aware of it. So much has moved on, so much help available today that I could have used!
EDIT: regarding new builds, my hands shake now and general health is not good enough to put parts together with accuracy. Strangely, my IT engineer gson still likes me to be there when he builds a new monster system. Says nobody can show him how to tidy and hide cables as well. Makes me feel useful!
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I'm out.Can’t add much to that last, except to say that my choices were all paper-publication based, and agree that colour is personal.
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I'm out.Yes I knew that other manufacturers did this scrappage scheme Steve, but she is fixated on either a Fiat 500 or a Kia. I advised her last night to wait until she is 25 before spending more than 2 t0 4K on a car, when her insurance will drop if she keeps up her good driving record. I know that once she is settled down the South Lincs/Peterborough area, she will be driving back up here whenever she can. Loves her friends and family, always adored her dad, who brought up her bro and herself from 2 and 4 years old. That means travel miles: “But it’s still Lincolnshire granddad!” – Yes, but it’s the second biggest English County and you will probably be traveling from Peterborough, in Cambridgeshire.” Kids: it’s a dot on the map, doesn’t look far! Regular Mileage mounts up.
She is also keen to use the independent garage that she and the rest of the family use, except for Motability granddad. It’s a local Louth place which puts itself out for customers and consequently has a loyal repeat customer base. They have a good range of different cars and would find her anything she needs (as opposed to wants!). Dad or I usually go in with her, not to avoid the patter because the two owners don’t do that, but to OK anything they say that she doesn’t understand. At least she has now taken to checking oil, tyres and levels, after the last tyre episode I showed her how to do that and gave her some of my stock of latex gloves. I also showed her how to turn the wheel lock to lock and check the tread depth, gave her a tread gauge. When our daughter lived at home, I taught her how to change oil, anti freeze and spark plugs. She doesn’t do that now, too fond of her fancy claws fingernails.?
Women and cars: daughter once had a hit and run while parked outside our old Notts house, ran outside as the car was turning and getting away, took a couple of minutes. She was raving at the guy according to my neighbour at the time, I asked the questions when I came home later – “What car was it?” – “A black one.” What reg plate?” – “I don’t know, it was a black car with 4 doors.” – “Did it have a rear door, estate or hatchback?” – “No idea.”
Police caught him, drunk in a hedge a few miles away. Banned, no insurance, uncle’s car TWOC’d. Dad’s insurance took another hit. Guessing you might know several similar cases.
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I'm out.Great piece of business Dave, good luck!
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I'm out.Used to design & print Business Stationery, Entertainment Packs for East Coast resort entertainers and Independent/Private School Prospectuses, Posters, leaflets, you name it. Unfortunately Lee, I never found one theme that suited all and I never got to designing websites, retired too soon. There is no simple answer, but looking at it from paper & card prints, I would classify according to customer suitability from these I picked out:
13: As it says, Classy. I would have used it for a high-fee school which appreciated that.
16: IMPACT! A fairly successful entertainer with a reputation, or one just starting out. I always checked out their shows first and made a choice based on 3 visits to venues. This would have been my No.1 choice for this.
21: No.2 Impact, an entertainer I was a bit doubtful about, but might improve.
62: Classy. Either a good school, or the “Sinatra” type of entertainer, maybe the occasional Swing/Jazz Band.
73: No.3 Impact: might not be here next year. If so, colour choices used in another design with different text, blocks and images.
87: Very Professional and classy. The one school I produced stationery, books and prospectuses for, paid me a healthy sum to buy the copyright and designs, when I retired. They were happy to employ a larger local printer I recommended.
As I say, no simple answer in my case. Consider each customer carefully, check out what they do and think about applications to their business. Totally different applications to my old work I know, but principles are the same.
Hope that helps but doesn’t confuse!
Good luck, Bob.
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I'm out.Nolan, I would be grateful if you could let me know in a week or two how your mum fares with this. My 21 yo g’daughter has a ’55 Picanto which has been a great little motor but is showing its age now: locking calipers, replacement discs, pads and tyres, all due to having added almost 70K miles in slightly under 2 years. She is a big beautiful girl with a large, long term BF and lots of large mates, visits Malls and music venues all over the UK but has just made the life decision to move down to the Peterborough area with BF. He has a great new promotion to work for his company down there, she has applied for and got a post to train as a Commercial banker. She needs to replace her Picanto, but will not be driving such high mileage now and will obviously soon be able to afford something more reliable.
Her situation was complicated this week when she visited a local Tyre company and some idiot cross-threaded a front wheel stud. The garage that she bought the Kia from, sent the tyre company a video of the damage and they used their own CCTV to identify the Bodge artist. They are refunding the cost of tyres and the work needed to repair the hub and renew the stud. Granddad added his own impressions!? I recall a certain lad doing something similar when I was his foreman: neglecting to spin-on the wheel nut by hand, before using a (correctly-torqued) air tool to tighten. I never did that, always used a bar and socket. Torque loading was usually “FT” which is not “Flippin‘ Tight”!
She has always hankered after a Fiat 500, although she is shrewd enough to know that she should not buy new. I think that she would be a bit disappointed with a 500, but style and fashion is everything to the young and she loves the colours!
I also pointed out that the Kia £2,000 scrappage scheme towards a new Kia, may be still too high to aim for yet.
Cheers! Bob.
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