biglad

Pretty big subject. Examples include options and futures. An Option is instrument that gives someone the option to put or call (sell or buy) a security for a set price within a fixed expiration date - have to pay a premium for the right, but don't have to action the trade. A future is nearly the same, but those involved in the contract must perform the trade.

Hopefully the following makes sense: The borrower, person performing the short, will take the rights of the securities they have borrowed. Entitling them - this bit is probably wrong - to the voting rights, dividends the securities carry - in other words they own the shares for the period they borrow them. The one who has lent the securities are paid a premium for the borrowing, which covers the cost of the shares they own. So, as long as the shares devalue then the shorter profits from the losses - hence why people are moaning about shorters benefiting from companies going down the toilet. I think the above is along the right lines – I used to work on a trading platform - , but I’ll do some digging and find a few links.

"Shorting" is a term used when someone sells finanical instruments (securities such as HBOS") without owning the instrument. So, if a HBOS are selling at £10 then the person shorting the shares would borrow 100 at £10 (pay a premium), costing £1000, sell them at £1000, and when the market falls, say to £6, they would buy them back at £600 and give them back to who they borrowed them from, making £400.

Coming Up for Air - George Orwell -is an excellent read. i was going to say why , bt it has takrn ages to type the above using the onscreen keyboard so bollocks . kite runner is good as well

Portal - I'm not one for games, but this is really good.

I've had a couple beers, so sorry if the following makes little sense. You should be able to access each Excel spreadsheet via the Excel COM API using powershell, vbs or any other windows based scrpting language - there is quite a lot of documentation out there - but you need to make sure the machine accessing the excel documents has Excel installed. Have a search on google for vbs and excel and you should find plenty of examples: Justkez.com » VBScript and Excel Microsoft Excel VBScript Script samples Drop me a PM if you need any help. Rich.

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the bean shop - the best gourmet coffee beans

Cold glass of Augustiner

Give me a bye to the semi if you want :)

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National Anthem - Radiohead Yesterday - Beatles Deserted Cities Of The Heart - Cream Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones I Am The Resurrection - Stone Roses

The following only applies if you live in Wakefield - I think you mentioned you work or live there: There's a Thresher in Horbury and one near Sandal.

Does the same for me.

One of your favourite sayings is "1. .by cheap,buy twice."?

Have you read your post?

I'm currently trying to decide between a French Red or a Munich Hells. * that's two posts in one day - last time I did that was the when I won the TLW chess comp.

What does that mean?

I've spent ages thinking about this and I hate to say it, but Rafa has to ensure his team, not any other team, collects more points, yes points - 3 for a win, 1 for a draw, and NOTHING for getting beat - than any other team in this Premiership - not the world, nor Europe or the Welsh league.

Van Helsing closely followed by Pearl Harbor

1) Benny Noon 2) Mascherano 3) Voronin

What's that like compared to the old 983K?

Good quality sausages with bubble and squeak and proper beef gravy.

Not sure if there are many British tripe dishes, but slow cooked tripe with garlic, tomatoes, and haricot beans takes some beating - make sure it's not bleached tripe.

Delia's book are an excellent starting point - inform you about what things do, why you do them and how to make pretty decent food.