Ken Tone

I bought one of these (not absolutely sure if it was that make/brand actually) before a long haul flight busines journey. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Members-Titan-Cabin-Carrier-Wheels/dp/B0032OAPZQ/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1357737680&sr=8-3 If you're not on the cheapest of cheap airlines , that even ought to qualify as carry-on cabin luggage if you need it to. It is a bit of a squash for 3 suits, and you won't get much else in the case if you do take that many suits, but it's a damn sight better than packing in a conventional case and there's only a little creasing if you pack really carefully.

Don't fall for their propaganda. The islands have never really ever belonged to Argentina, so they can't want them 'back' . They put a semi-officially (lots of corruption involved) backed 'governor' and about 20 men on part of the islands around 1830 , some 70 years after several European countries had separately discovered and claimed them in dispute with each other, before Argentina even existed as a country. Those men murdered that governor, and were expelled as pirates, mostly by the Americans who were annoyed that they had attacked their whaling ships...this only 20 years after America had been at war with Britian, and when they were still far from our friendly allies. The Argentinian pseudo-legal claim is based mainly on the fact that the Pope 'gave' all that part of the world to Spain in the fifteenth century, before it had even been discovered or mapped, and Spain gave up their rights to that part to their ex-colony of the River Plate as they left it. The River Plate state later evolved into Argentina. There was no indigenous population of the Islands before European occupation, and there has never been an established Argentinian population there. In fact I doubt if any Argentinian citizen has ever been born there.

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I wonder how signficant this belated cost cutting by Birch is? In mid(?) February, PFC will have been in adminstration for a year, the automatic maximum for a normal business. They (PKF) will have to approach the court to get permission to carry on beyond that date. That ought to be fairly routine, but not if they are running at an ongoing loss. So, if the HNWs are no longer baling out the losses, Birch will have to jettison everything he can to make the court agree to keep this golden goose going for PKF. He'll have been in no hurry at all to agree a deal with the university, or anyone else, for training facilities for example. Or maybe it is worse (better!) than that ? Maybe Birch sees the end finally approaching and is cutting all the ongoing commitments he can, to finally do his job and save as much of the February parachute money as he can for the creditors. Does anyone know if the payment is due in before or after the anniversary of administration? That could just be significant

Have you ever played rush goalie before?

Depends on the relative size of parachute installments. Are they the same, or might they get more in February than they got last time? If so and they liquidate then, thereby avoiding having to give the football creditors priority, the nmaybe there would be more cash for the creditors as a whole?

Didn't the HNWs only guarantee to carry on underwriting the club until the 15th January hearing ? ...you know , when the trust was still claiming it would be 'taking over in a few weeks'? Before they admitted that the 15th will only be to set a hearing date. BTW if any forum adminstrator reads this, I've paid my £5 for this year again, and filled in a 'contact us' form 3 times over the past 3 weeks or so, but still am shown as only a registered user and have had no reply to my queries. Not good.

Didn't the football league limit the amount of unsecured debt they could carry forward, as part of the golden share conditions? So if the scenario you describe happened it would in effect mean liquidation anyway, becasue they'd be expelled from the league and could not go on financially.

He's one of the players on loan, so he already has a permanent contract, with Swindon. It's no big sacrifice for him to stay on his Swindon wage and not have to move house, rather than move to Bradford. It's the monthly contract ones that will be leaving for permanent contracts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20798561 now confirmed as a fake

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Haslar was so named centuries ago ..certainly by Nelson's time See 'up the creek without a paddle' "This phrase may have come from Haslar Creek in Portsmouth harbour, a 'salt' creek (may be origin of alternative 'up a **** creek'). Wounded sailors during Nelson's time, were taken there to be admitted to the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar to die or recover. The ship's moored up in the Solent and the wounded soldiers were transported up Haslar creek by tramline hence 'Up the creek without a paddle'. They were held prisoner so that they would not desert while being treated, and some tried to escape by going through the sewers to the creek (another suggested origin of the alternative 'up a **** creek'). " Note, even in those days, Portsmouth was considered a **** place to be. Back to the OP. My Dad was in the RNVR throughout most of the war, serving mostly on corvettes ...tiny little ships. He spent months on the Artic convoys, and (rarely) told me a few horrendous stories, when I was a kid, about the things he'd seen. Does anyone know if there will be any posthumous award, or will these new medals only go to the very few veterans still alive?

He's got a couple of bob then!

Lol at the 4-1 comment. I think I saw a post on the News site to the effect that a group of about 20 saints fans had pledged and paid up a £1000 between them, because they don't want PFC to disappear and have no one to laugh at any more!

Very hard to believe that video is not faked ..though I admit that if so, it is a bloody good fake. Eagles are shy of humans, and unlikely to take even their usual prey near to people. (I've spent hours bird-watching and only ever seen them at a distance through a telescope.) There has never been a recorded case of a child being snatched as far as I know. They have been seen to take prey up to and including small lambs, but usually stick to rabbits and smaller. They more usually kill on the ground too, instead of snatching the prey. Their talons are really sharp with a powerful grip, so if that really was a child being attacked it would be injured, with severe puncture wounds. I see that elsewhere on the web some who think it is a fake are questioning the way the bird's shadow appears to disappear for a frame or two. Who knows? That's too technical for me. Fake or real, it is a damn good video! Also worth a look is http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/116233/ --an amazing clip where male capacaillie (basically a type of grouse) are so busy 'lecking' (facing up to show which is the superior male) that they ignore an eagle attacking them and one even tries to out-face the eagle instead of escaping. The eagle is somewhat bemused!

I see the trust's latest piece of desperate propaganda fails to make any mention at all of the property developer --whether he is still on board (as if!) or how they intend to fill yet another funding black hole, caused by his having got cold feet. So that's all good then.

forward planning

Does the 10year old understand that 0.5 = 5/10 ? Because if so , it is a fairy easy step to 0.75 = 75/100, and it easy to demonstrate that 75/100 = 3/4, even if you have to resort to drawing a square 10by 10 and colouring in 75 of them.

They wouldn't like you to speak German in the Netherlands anyway. You'd be better off sticking to English there, even if Dutch and German do have many similarities. i've known Dutch who themselves jokingly call Holland 'germany lite', but woe betide any foreigner who does the same. If you're wanting a language that is spoken by the maximum number of people around the world, then of course yes chinese or spanish are the ones. However , remember there are two distinct forms of chinese ..mandarin and cantonese .. and maybe more signficantly it is diffcult to find lessons or courses in either in the UK. Hardly anyone takes A level for example, except native speakers from immigrant families. Whereas spanish is taught relatively widely.

I'm impressed there are still 10 different people posting on POL. After all of Frattoniser's culls, that must be about the full list surely?

Lol

Have been wondering the same thing. The league has a history of applying deducions when they most hurt, regardless, but they've been so soft on portsmouth so far in comparison to what they did to Luton and others (even bournemouth), that -- who knows?

He also made a complete arse of himself over the Falklands

Is PFC a yogurt brand now? "If this juicy idea gets squashed then the Trust apparently has other flavourable options available"

Was that Sam Simpleton?