Ricky

For me Drummer Boy is a weak single to go Top10 without a lot of support. Is it being heavily promoted this week somewhere?

All about the carry trade based on debt, debt guaranteed by governments which is called sovereign debt. wFzUR1k3ku4

It's to do with a signature image. I don't detect it as malware however, but perhaps best to be safe. Could an Admin/GM remove the image from Dino-2pacalypse's signature. http://blog.themavenreport.com/wp-content/..._shakur_575.jpg

Mars FM

4ECi6WJpbzE The upcoming financial collapse

Kylie, Enya, Diana Ross, Gloria Estefan and Kate Bush all missed. :o female artists or female artist? Either way, can't find any to add to the list.

By direction I meant like north east south west etc.

One-hit wonder a laughable concept to apply here. Lena had three singles in the German Top5, a national record. Next music article by this journalist will be entitled 'Beatles where a one hit wonder'.

Morgan Stanley Says Governments Will Default Ask Not Whether Governments Will Default, but How http://www.scribd.com/doc/36402437/MS-Default Another wake up call for many.

Interesting Mark. One tip, get something in the picture to act as a reference. You can't tell if the object or camera is moving in your video. Could you tell us time of day(obviously it's after dark but exact time would be useful). Also what direct are you facing the camera? Are you indoors or outside? O and the approximate place - I imagine that was Birmingham?

The law hasn't changed, you still have to keep to the speed limits. It's just that fixed speed cameras are no long the choice to enforcement. Was monitored by a Speed gun earlier this week, so know that is still being used.

It's a negative vote against the treatment of K.Rudd.

About time we thought of this in the UK. I don't have 1Gbps. I know of others who have dial-up. I believe some people can't get any connections.

Yes, and rightly so imo. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7938786.stm How ignorant!

Less then 0.4% of total spending so it's not huge and that includes BBC world service, UN subscription, embassy's and foreign diplomats. Edit:correct calculation

The tougher you treat them the more they are immune. All you are doing is creating more hardened criminals.

I think you have a rather extreme punishment view there. I don't know anyone else that comes near that thinking. This is your crime culture where you have a knife under your pillow because you are so paranoid? I do however know several people who worked in prisons and they are of the opinion that it should be 100% reform and 0% punishment. That way you get few repeat offenders, and costs a lot less to society directly and less prison costs also.

I was going to comment on the NHS part but didn't however I do know that NHS bureaucracy has improved internally at the top levels. Nothing has been shown externally yet but it is on it's way. What do you think can be done with foreign aid and why is that an issue now? First deal with the big things and get into the minor things later.

True. It's not saying much given the stupidity and corruption that has been dished out from the previous decades. But who would of thought that moves could have gone this far in 100 days already? Very few I expect.

Really agree this was a great move. One of few ideas I had not thought about myself and so find it quite amazing it was acted on within the first 100 days. Shows that things can happen fast when good ideas come together with political will.

Coalition Programme Economy This is the biggest subject for this government and one that will dominate all things. A very unassuring start. There seems some understanding of the issues but intense denial of the magnitude of the situation (http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/government-urged-to-reveal-true-national-debt-of-4-8trillion-tele-90432ba7b93d.html) and a lack of ability to sort it out. The planned increase in VAT from next year is likely to tip the economy back into recession even without considering likely recession in other countries, especially the US - our largest trading country. Opportunities have been missed to reduce defence spending, reduce bank liability, reduce NHS spending, reduce pension spending, stop Bank of England devaluing money (an issue preventing much investment). There are reviews underway but no obvious political weight to make tough decisions. More problems are likely ahead in many areas. It adds up to an awkward economic outlook for several years ahead, where the UK is being blown around by the tides. Downgrading of credit rating looks likely in the future. Let's hope that finally means p*ssy footing defence cuts actually happen in this parliament. Grade: D Civil liberties - The most refreshing government change in civil liberties. The 1984 scenario of the previous government, is being turned around at last. Has a way to go, but huge changes so far. Civil liberties take a battering under a poor government, clearly there is some way to go yet especially if the economy can't swim to shore. Promising start anyway. Grade: A- Crime - Some really good stuff here especially in police reform, but more required,. "We will ensure that people have the protection that they need when they defend themselves against intruders.". What I'd like to see brought forward now is the end of the litigation culture, the 'No Win No Fee' stuff and let people take responsibility in a balanced way. Grade: B+ Tax/Welfare/Employment - Capital gains and income tax getting into balance, but a mistake to reduce corporation tax. The Welfare and Employment reforms seem sane. Grade: C Health - Basically not doing anything but a spending review at the moment. Unsure until thing become clear, but massive saving can be made here. Grade: C Education - Reforms going on are very good. I have a number of close contacts in various situations in education and despite the totally differing situations the feedback has been superb. Teachers, heads and other educators have widely accepted a positive move in the right direction. Grade: A Immigration - The cap is stupid as it can't include European citizens, but I think that policy was politics anyway. It's the economy that effects immigration numbers the most. Thankfully our dire economic situation will mean that things will improve here. The coalition seems a bit empty on ideas in this area. Grade: C- Political reform - Perhaps the most amazing thing to come out of a government for centuries. Set parliament times. 1 in 1 out bills. An AV referendum. It would be an A+ if it was not for issues around constituency sizing. Grade: A Others: Devolved areas and local government. Grade A- Consumer protection: Grade B Culture and media: Grade B Defence: Grade F Energy and Environment: Grade C Europe: Grade B International development: Grade B- Spending Challenge initiative: Grade A+ Conclusion Strengths: Full of ideas, lots of potential. Weakness: Unsure start on the economy Easily the best 100 days by any government in my lifetime. Overall Grade: B-

Remember Q2(Quarter 2) is April, May and June. The coalition budget was on 22nd June. So these figures are from previous policy.

%5

Figures of 24,649 for Q2 of 2010 are below 25,513 of Q2 in 2004 and after adjusting for inflation, current figure is 24% below 2004.

Thanks. Here is the original document http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/oec0810.pdf