Brodie

Does anyone use Strava and if so, can anyone tell me how to upload rides now? I've wasted hours on this the past few days

Is it on your phone? Should automatically update when you either have a good internet connection or wifi after you've saved ride. You did save the ride?

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Can't see the bikes you've linked above, and it might be a bit late now, but just be aware that the big manufacturers are starting to bringout new 2015 ranges at he moment so you can get some good deals for 2014 bikes. I know the giant store in town has knocked 20% off all last years models.

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So how do I get through to virgin retentions?

I chose the option that I was thinking of leaving and got through and played dumb saying I must have chose the wrong option.  They were able to sort me out with a deal that sales were not allowed to.  Only thing is you've got to ring bit earlier as I think retentions department closes at 6 or 7

The best I have seen so far is virgin

 

Unlimited minutes, unlimited texts, and unlimited data £15 per month and no 12 month contract just 30 rolling days.

 

Dunno about their coverage though

If you play hardball with them they'll do it cheaper than the £15 which is the standard price.  I've just signed up my missus to that deal, but am only paying £7 a month for that package. I did 'accidently' get through to retentions instead of customer service though.

Got an old PS3 (fat) 80GB, thats just got the RSOD tonight.  Spoke to Sony who can offer a replacement 160GB slim for £110, but was not looking to spend that much. Gutted cos only bought GTAV at weekend, does anyone know anywhere local (LIverpool) that repairs them? 

I did it a few years ago, paid about £35 a month for a year, effectively paying for bike minus tax.

At the end my discretionary payment was another £35 - great deal!

My contacts up next month and I've had enough of blackberry. Costs me about 25 quid a month. Had a call today and told the bloke I would stay with o2 if they sent me an iphone 4s he said they couldn't do it for less than £35. I told him I will be fucking them off. Ok he says and that was it.

 

I was under the impression that they are desperate to keep customers and would pretty much give you any handset you want to keep your business.

I will prob ask for my pac code and see if that makes them move but does anyone have any experience of screwing these people over?

Was given a tip by retentions in O2 back in December. When renewing sign up for 2 years and add all the bolt ons on,... and they will reduce the price of your phone, after one month you are able to adjust your tariff to one that is more to your liking / needs by removing the bolt ons. I saved about £100 on the cost of my handset (was the 4 not the 4s though) doing this, and then reduced my tariff by £10 a month removing tariffs.

Good Luck

Hadnt checked my emails for a few days, either on phone or mail client on PC. Now when I try on PC getting a message saying my IMAP connection has timed out, and wont download newer messages and phone just not connecting.

Been on webmail and able to access the account, any ideas on how I can re-start my IMAP connection?

My mate's a teacher and is of the genuine opinion that the Tories want to show schools in as bad a light as possible so they could open them up to be 'rescued' by the private sector, he mentioned some changes to scoring and Ofsted etc which I didn't entirely follow.

To over simplify the changes in ofsted - I've been teaching for 3 years and worked in 2 inner city schools in Liverpool, whose students come from very deprived areas. The standard of teaching, ethos, disclipline, safeguarding, results, support in both schools are almost identical. So much so that it made my transition from one to the other really easy.

School 1 Ofsted inspection last year using old criteria graded them oustanding. School 2 inspection this year using new criteria - graded Good.

In my opinion there is nothing to choose between the schools, and both do everything they can to assist, develop and model the students. The only difference between them is the criteria they are graded against, and oustanding school is now good, and as such it is easier to show just about any school in a worse light.

My kids teacher took the two weeks before easter off as unpaid leave as well as the easter fortnight. Reason being Australia is too to go for a fortnight. One of the other teacher husbands came in as a relief teacher he retired from the school last year. Kids love him he plays guitar and sings to them all day I am told.

In fairness our school is a very small close knit unit.

And thats the way it should be, with the school and community working as one together.

It could be argued that the changes the tories are bringing in are actually seeking confrontation with teachers, and the propaganda being spouted in the press about teachers, are helping make schools a scapegoat for the state of society today, as well as opening up the door for the government to private education. They have already said they are happy for free schools to make a profit, lets see how society looks with privatised education system.

For all the parents on here moaning - just another thought to add to this.

Four week summer holidays would mean the travel companies would increase the costs of a holiday in this period even more. And for those of you that take them on holiday during term time, the government are bringing in legislation that means schools will no longer have the ability to approve these holidays and you will be fined.

Piss of teachers by shortening summer holidays - Check

Raise debate which results in further devaluing of teaching as a profession in the publics perception - Check

Hit the public for extra taxes on overpriced holidays - Check

Hit the public with fines for taking kids on holiday when they can afford it - Check

Sounds like typical tory policy to me.

Thanks, great little app, now downloaded and installed all drivers that were missing and PC working fine. Can somebody through some rep ml's way for me please?

Been given a PC that has been built using parts scavenged from everywhere. It has onboard network and sound on the motherboard but they wont work.

I'm assuming this is because whoever built it didnt install the drivers for the motherboard. Now the problem I have is I dont know how to find out what motherboard model I have, I've opened it up and it is made my asus but dont know where I should be looking to get the model number?

Anyone able to point me in the right direction?

shite again today IMO

 

Gerrard came on and put two balls on a plate for him and he missed both.

 

Clearly his complete lack of game intelligence is pissing off the team aswell, you just have to look at how mental Enrique went at him.

 

Jose ran half the length of the field, got to the box and carroll was just jogging in a straight line with no movement, enrique went fucking mental at him, like he had in the first half when he put the ball along the 6 yard box downing pulled off, and carroll was nowhere to be seen

Try watching again, Carroll makes a run to the far post, Enrique plays it low and hard to near post, Caroll has a go at him and Enrique responds. Thats what actually happened, nowhere near your description of events.

As for the first half, it sounds like you are describing when Carroll laid the ball off 40 yards from goal allowing Enrique to go outside with pace, it was other players not attacking the box then, not Carroll, who was rightly behind play after linking up.

I've read enough of your posts to know you are one eyed when it comes to Carroll, but now I also know you are delusional.

At its heart, this is really a dispute about who pays.

 

Example. 2009/10 teachers' pensions cost £6.8bn. This was made up from £1.5bn of pension contributions from teachers, £3.2bn from employers (ie taxpayers) and a £2.1bn top-up from the Treasury (taxpayer again).

 

In other words, teachers put in 22p in the pound and the taxpayer put in the other 78p.

 

So the question really is, should the line be moved and, if so, how far?

Read somewhere that since teachers pensions started about 70/80 years ago teachers are actually £48 billion in the black for their contributions compared to payout. Successive governments were happy to the use these contributions for their own ends. Now when a significant number of teachers are reaching retirement age and are taking their agreed entitlement suddenly there is a problem!

At the very least, using your figures the £5.3 billion a year defecit could comfortably be paid by the government for the next 9 years without taking any money from any taxpayer using the money already paid in.

Teachers pensions were re-evaluated and adjusted 3 years ago, and there hasnt been a single piece of evidence produced to show the changes made then wont result in a levelling out as planned.

2 question SD, do you think this would even be being looked at if the world economy was a mess? And do you really think this is anything more than a short term attempt to cut costs with no real concern for the long term?

I've just installed XP home edition on an old PC at home, but dont have the product key for it. A friend has given me his fully legal and above board copy as he has upgraded to Windows 7, but he has lost the original documentation that came with the product key on it.

I thought it would be easy to locate one online, but obviously any I found have been over used and wont let me use them to activate windows. Any ideas on how I can resolve this?

The irony is that I only installed home edition as I've lost my disc with xp media center on, although I have managed to not lose the product key for that!!

I'm sure it's not just you. Irrespective of what Thatcher did, it's hard not to feel uncomfortable reading an article which emphasises the need to expedite a public inquiry so we can get revenge against a senile old lady before she dies. It is petty and vindictive, but that's Brian Reade for you.

Hermes trying to discredit the article is not surprising, it seems as if he's actually becoming a parody of his own internet persona. But doing it on this thread is a fuckin disgrace, there is plenty of room on the GF to discuss that fucking witch, without trying to take away the fact that one of the mainstream papers has printed an article so close to the way many of us think of her and what we suspect she was responsible for regarding the cover up.

And SD as others have said its not necessarily about revenge, but making sure the truth is released so people are able to voice their opinion about her before she dies. How do you feel about your taxes being used to pay for a state funeral for someone that was almost certainly responsible for the cover up and was so vindictive towards working classes especially in the north, and specifically the people of Liverpool.

But lets not get away from the main point of the article, and that is just to put pressure on the government to release the documents, unedited, which surely something everyone on here wants.

Glad that it worked out well for you IBG, and there will always be those that do well for themsleves without the traditional qualifications / education, but statistically the more qualifications you gain the higher your wages.

Took this from the bbc:

Median average hourly pay

No qualifications: £6.93

Less than C grade GCSEs: £8.07

GCSE or equivalent: £8.68

A-levels or equivalent: £10

Higher education qualifications: £12.60

Degree: £16.10

Source: ONS. Figures for final quarter of 2010.

And well done mini melons!

Johnson and Flanagan were as much to blame for those goals, it doesn't worry me much, we know Carra will step it up in the competitive games. Adam, Henderson and Carroll looked poor though, IMO, they just had no understanding between each other.

It almost as if they've hardly played together before...

I guess Brazil will soon see the light and understand that even if Lucas is playing for Liverpool it does not mean he is a good player.

 

Brazil will not win anything with Lucas as a regular starter, neither will we for that matter.

yawn............

Hilarious. Do you seriously expect the Government to indefinitely finance the current pension schemes when the life expectancy is going up and up?

 

Without a massive increase in tax it's impossible.

Make you mind up, you're either talking about trying to bale out the economy now - you know the bit about everyone taking a hit - or you're talking about reducing the income of generations of public sector workers to solve a problem now. Two seperate issues unless you can justify taking money off me in 30 years to solve a problem that by then shouldnt be a problem.

And I also never said indefinitely, I've no problem with some of the changes being phased in over time, but I feel its only fair that its not forced upon people that chosen a vocation such as teaching nursing etc.. (because it is a vocation, not a job), and that there is some give and take in the whole process.

I'm talking about the pension, not the job. Everybody is taking a hit to reverse the Labour debt, why should they or anyone else claim immunity?

Because, its not just about taking a hit. Pay being frozen already for 2 years is a hit.

They are talking about significant changes that'll affect people for maybe 30-40 years, or even worse affect some who've planned well for their forthcoming retirements.

I've read enough on here to know you're a poster boy for the tories, but now your either just trolling, or are even less inteligent than you seem.

FG - not answering on behalf of Paul, but speaking as a teacher:

Firstly, I chose this profession only 3 years ago, genuinely because I wanted to try and make a difference (I know it sounds cheesey but cant think of a better way of putting it). I did not consider the pension, the retirement ages etc..., I just looked at how much I'd take home a month and whether I could afford to take a drop of over 10k a year from my previous job. I could, just. Now I am being told that due to a combination of increased pension payments, changes in NI and tax rates I will be £1k a year worse off. With the rising cost of living, I will be in a position where I will be worse off after 2 years after teaching than I was when I started. No matter how you look at it that cannot be right.

Secondly, think about those teachers who are nearing retirement age, and I know a few, they will have based their saving spending etc... over the last 20-30 years, on what they would need to live on when they retire. They are now being told they will get less than they planned, with next to no time to react. I'm sure if the terms and conditions were different when they started they may have but more money away for retirement, now the can't. Again no matter how you look at it wrong again.

Thirdly, from a teaching point of view, I am paid 10k less a year than I was in industry, for a more time consuming, higher pressure lifestyle, with less flexible hours, that I paid over £3k to qualify in. When I started I took the full commitment on. If you expect the best candidiates to enter the profession, then you need to have terms and conditions that appeal to them, and those will never include pay at a levels that you can gain in private sector, so the pension etc... has always been a selling point to some. The way I see it, reduce the overall package, and the best candidates will go to the private sector, which will result in a poorer teaching profession, which is not fair on the kids.

Finally, as Paul mentioned earlier, early retirement in teaching, has allowed the profession to stay relatively fresh, as its allowed a significant intake of new teachers every year. Keep teachers working longer, will mean more teachers in their 60s literally going through the motions, and restrict the intake of new teachers.

I am striking for all the reasons above, only one of them effects me directly as I was 35 when I got my first teaching job, and only paid into the pension for 2 years, but they are all equally valid.

I actually agree with this, and with Wenger determined to strengthen the attack......we will pick enough points to get the top four. But there are other teams like Chelsea with new manager and ageing squad and Man City despite their money are still very dependent on Tevez and now with CL football and more pressure than ever. I just think people take it for granted its gonna be Arsenal

Not saying we will replace you in the top four, but last season being one of our worst for a long time you beat us by only 10 points. Forgetting about who was avialable and who wasnt - just look at the points picked up.

The main difference between the 2 clubs was away form, you picked up 31 points, we picked up 18. Of our 18 points, 14 were picked up after Kenny took over at the half way point (including games against 3 of the top 4). Surely you must admit it is not inconceivable that we could pick up another 3/4 wins out of 10 away games that we through away under Roy? Which would put us very close together?

Oh, and as for you acting all holier than thou, check out the OPs first post - first word was 'IF'.

Can anyone drop me a PM please?

me as well please?