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The players are under contract, the club doesn't have to sell them - unless the offer is stupidly OTT.

"Que sera, sera"

It's eerily quiet on here - where's everyone gone ?

What's it got to do with them ?

If the post is vacant can I apply ?

Err, no : "These operations can result in a number of potential impacts to the environment, including: Stress on surface water and ground water supplies from the withdrawal of large volumes of water used in drilling and hydraulic fracturing; Contamination of underground sources of drinking water and surface waters resulting from spills, faulty well construction, or by other means; Adverse impacts from discharges into surface waters or from disposal into underground injection wells; and Air pollution resulting from the release of volatile organic compounds, hazardous air pollutants, and greenhouse gases Because natural gas development is increasing rapidly in many regions, prudent steps to reduce these impacts are essential now even as further research to understand potential risks continues. " "As the number of shale gas wells in the U.S. increases, so too does the volume of shale gas wastewater that requires disposal. Wastewater associated with shale gas extraction can contain high levels of total dissolved solids (TDS), fracturing fluid additives, metals, and naturally occurring radioactive materials. In partnership with states, EPA is examining the different disposal methods employed by industry to ensure that there are regulatory and permitting frameworks in place to provide safe and legal options for disposal of flowback and produced water." "...no comprehensive set of national standards exists at this time for the disposal of wastewater discharged from natural gas extraction activities."

The applicable definition depends on whether you are controlling a captive bred herd or a wild population.

Because it's relevant ? If the population of the 3rd world become as consumer obsessed as the 'civilsed' countries, all sorts of resources will be in short supply, China has already distorted minerals and metals markets. Demand for better diet, ( or in some cases a simple demand for food of any sort ), will drive the human population increasingly to encroach into 'wild' areas - after all isn't that what's driving jungle deforestation ? So on one level Packham is correct.

Many a true word......

I take it you include the current Government in that ? https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ipcc-report-key-points-and-questions/ipcc-report-key-points-and-questions#are-humans-responsible "It is extremely likely that human activity is the dominant influence on climate change over the last 50 years and is responsible for more than half of the observed global temperature rise."

Roberto Martinez, Arsene Wenger, David Moyes, Jose Mourinho, and Brendan Rogers are sitting in a bar. Roberto Martinez buys the first round, Mourinho the second, and Wenger the third. When Rogers goes up for his turn he places a drink down in front of Jose, Roberto, and Arsene, but not David. "Where's mine ?" asks the Man Utd manager. "Sorry mate, this is the fourth round" comes the reply.

Depends on how much more of the rainforests is chopped down, and how much more pollution we stick in the oceans. True - ironically methane is quite 'important'.

Was a public holiday until 1859.

How do you reckon that to be the case ? Natural gas combustion produces less, ( about 25% less than petroleum; http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=73&t=11 ), but it's still well over 100 pounds of CO2 per million Btu.

Ultimately fracking is just another short term option - hydrocarbon fuels are getting harder and harder to extract, and whichever you choose they all contribute to carbon emissions. Fracking releases only a percentage of the theoretical 'reservoir' of gas, ( some estimates reckon as little as 10% of the theoretical volume ), and the more it is studied in the States, the more damaging it appears to be - to the extent that, for instance, Dallas has banned it ( http://rt.com/usa/dallas-passes-fracking-restrictions-178/ , http://keeptapwatersafe.org/global-bans-on-fracking/ ). In Europe, the process is banned in France and effectively so in Germany ( in terms of shale gas extraction ), but then again Denmark, Holland, and Poland use it.

Nuclear power generation does not cause the direct environmental damage that fracking does. It is, unfortunately, a necessary stop gap as successive Governments have failed to drive the renewable agenda.

Quite right too. Unlike the Tory, middle-englander NIMBYs who oppose wind farms and other renewable energy schemes because they spoil the view.

Mid way between Blackpool & Lancaster in God's own county.

Clappers rejoice as Cortese's plans for Europe are back on track as Saints rewrite the form guide to defeat the Baggies 1-0, leading MoPo to say "As I predicted, there's one in the eye for all those 'realists' claiming that we need to buy at least 5 quality players to avoid relegation".

You've got more chance with lads of steering them into sensible 'hobbies' - football, Iron Maiden, etc, and this gives you the ideal excuse to indulge in what you want to do. The problem with daughters is that for some reason, probably genetic, they can override all of your natural resistance.

I'd expect to be bl00dy sure of the fact. In the de Menezes case a Police officer admitted deleting a computer log wherein Cressida D!ck, ( Gold Control ), told the teams tailing Jean Charles to back off as he was no longer 'of interest'.

That's OK if the target is visibly carrying a gun, but not when it's just a random bloke sitting on a tube train. What would your first impression be if somebody stood in front of you, wearing jeans and a T-shirt and with no identifying details, and pointed a gun at somebody ?

Still doesn't excuse their actions. Perhaps they should have shouted "SAS - stop !!!", that would have grabbed everybody's attention.

The Police spotted a man allegedly wearing a padded coat. They reckoned the weather was too warm for him to be wearing it and for some reason they thought it might be a bomb vest, - one of them claimed to see wires sticking out of it. They then claimed he jumped over the ticket barriers at Stockwell Tube Station - which the CCTV proved to be false, and they followed him onto the carriage where one of them pulled out his gun, pointed it at the suspect, and fired. None of the witnesses in the carriage supported the officers' claim that a shouted warning had been ignored, it also seems that none of them supported the assertion that the gunmen, in an assortment of plain clothes, had identified themselves as armed Police officers.