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Percents don't matter in this case - actual numbers do.Alistair said:Percentage of each race that voted so far in Florida but didn't vote in 2012
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Paul ( the farsighted octopus) was born in Weymouth. He was English to the tips of his many toes. He worked in Germany of course.Black_Rook said:
IIRC the German octopus sadly went to the great aquarium in the sky some years ago :-(williamglenn said:
What does the octopus(sy) say?Black_Rook said:NEW: Highly reliable futurologist predicts victory for Donald Trump
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Adds up to we'll over 100%. Some must have voted twice.Alistair said:Percentage of each race that voted so far in Florida but didn't vote in 2012
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There's more to publishing than books. And you can publish on multiple platforms.NoEasyDay said:
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
Any UK company that does a lot of business in the single market will be seeking to ensure they stay in the Single Market. It would be negligent to do otherwise.
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That's basically what liberal capitalism entails: freedom of capital, labour and trade.perdix said:
Your definition of liberal capitalism seems to be a form of blackmail where in order to trade you must accept that anyone from anywhere can move into your neighbourhood.tyson said:
I know....I never thought someone with my political leanings could be one of the few here championing liberal capitalism.AnneJGP said:
One of the most fascinating outcomes of the EU referendum is the way it has almost broken the time-honoured political division of left & right.TOPPING said:
As an aside I thought it was telling by Watson on Pienaar that quite obviously he and Jezza hadn't discussed Jezza's no single market no A50 Mirror article.Black_Rook said:(snipped)
What a state Lab is in. Plus who has the authority? Media is reporting Lab won't obstruct A50 evidently taking Watson's as the authoritative version.
Indeed, if things do go very badly wrong economically for Brexit, then it is almost credible that the Lib Dems, as apparently the only Remain/Rejoin flag-bearers still standing, could pick up massive numbers of votes if the electorate really do change their minds under economic hardship.
I fundamentally agree with the single market and free movement of labour...both are vital to our future prosperity......
I really do not give a monkeys about the EU Parliament, or who makes the laws. I couldn't care less. It seems to be very important to people here though...
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Which is why a GE is needed soon. i.e. within 6 months.JosiasJessop said:
At the moment. I would not bet on that remaining a stable situation in the medium- or long term.TCPoliticalBetting said:
Whatever "chaos" is said to exist in the Conservative Govt, is a fraction of the chaos in the Labour party.Black_Rook said:
I heard that Corbyn had backpedalled on the single market caveat earlier today, but it could also be the product of wider discussions with the PLP. The vast bulk of Labour MPs outside of London represent Leave-majority seats. Presumably wish to limit the potential for an electoral cataclysm.TOPPING said:As an aside I thought it was telling by Watson on Pienaar that quite obviously he and Jezza hadn't discussed Jezza's no single market no A50 Mirror article.
What a state Lab is in. Plus who has the authority? Media is reporting Lab won't obstruct A50 evidently taking Watson's as the authoritative version.
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Makes a change from blaming 'Fatcha'TOPPING said:
No way. For years if not decades, every government will blame Brexit for anything that goes wrong in any policy sphere.NoEasyDay said:
I think the problem with that if, is that it would be very hard to prove any catastrophe was actually down to Brexit.JosiasJessop said:
*If* it all goes belly-up (and I hope it does not), then the Lib Dems can claim to have been right on two of the biggest issues facing the UK since they were formed: the Iraq War and Brexit.AnneJGP said:
One of the most fascinating outcomes of the EU referendum is the way it has almost broken the time-honoured political division of left & right.TOPPING said:
As an aside I thought it was telling by Watson on Pienaar that quite obviously he and Jezza hadn't discussed Jezza's no single market no A50 Mirror article.Black_Rook said:(snipped)
What a state Lab is in. Plus who has the authority? Media is reporting Lab won't obstruct A50 evidently taking Watson's as the authoritative version.
Indeed, if things do go very badly wrong economically for Brexit, then it is almost credible that the Lib Dems, as apparently the only Remain/Rejoin flag-bearers still standing, could pick up massive numbers of votes if the electorate really do change their minds under economic hardship.
If.
They have already damaged their credibility on that score.
Immediate recession
Year long recession
Etc etc.
And the longer you get from June 23rd the harder it will be to link catastrophe with Brexit, especialy as there will be a hundred other things going on that can be blamed.
Far from making UK politicians accountable to themselves, Brexit is, rather, the ultimate get out of jail card.0 -
National Tracker of Latino Voters - Latino Decisions - Sample 500 - 24 Oct - 6 Nov
Clinton 76 .. Trump 14
http://www.latinodecisions.com/files/1514/7839/2130/Wk8_Full_Tracker.pdf
or .... Clinton 45.8 .. Trump 42.4 if you prefer the LA Times tracker ....
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@NoEasyDay"
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.'
Exactly, my son's company has gone digital & actual printing of books has virtually ended in the EU.With major publishers switching to Hong Kong & China several years ago.
I'm sure that anyone in any business that Tyson meets is going to exit the UK because of Brexit ,at least that's what he thinks they should say.0 -
Obama won California by 23% in 2012, New York by 28% so Trump is making a little progress there. He is making even more progress in Pennsylvania, which Obama won by 5%, Michigan, which Obama won by 10%, Minnestota, which Obama won by 8% and Wisconsin which Obama won by 7%. However for all his progress in these big blue states Trump is unlikely to obtain even one additional electoral vote. He is also likely to expand Romney's lead in the rustbelt and deep South, again without gaining any more electoral votes than Romney didweejonnie said:
12% of the population live in California and clinton has a 22% lead - thus 2.5% of the entire electorate is being wasted from Hillary's point of view.HYUFD said:
RCP has Hillary's average national poll lead down to just 1.8%MikeL said:20 highest weighted national polls per 538:
- Clinton leads in 17
- Trump leads in 2
- One tied
If polls are anywhere near right then surely Clinton must win pretty comfortably.
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/national-polls/#now
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
6% of the population live in New York and Clinton has a 20% lead - thus 1.2% of the entire electorate is being wasted from Hillary's point of view.
Hence the reason why democrats bus voters between states the night before the election, so they can show they were domiciled in the more marginal state.This is not illegal.
Fortunately for Trump - Florida is surrounded by red states, so it stands or falls on its own merits.0 -
In the 1970s, people were saying that cinema was doomed, over-ridden by TV. Then Spielberg and Lucas came along.NoEasyDay said:
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
Books and publishing will continue; perhaps not in paper form (except as specialist fripperies, in the same way vinyl has). But it will continue.0 -
It's % of each subgroup, not % of the electorate.gettingbetter said:
Adds up to we'll over 100%. Some must have voted twice.Alistair said:Percentage of each race that voted so far in Florida but didn't vote in 2012
https://twitter.com/electionsmith/status/795106645558837248
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Does anyone have the slightest idea who's going to win on Tuesday?0
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"Print it out ..." !!!!!!!!!!williamglenn said:
Hillary herself has instructed her maid to print it out so she can peruse it in the comfort of her bed.JackW said:Good Evening .....
I hope PBers have advised their butler to instruct the footman to polish the silver cutlery ahead my little ARSE4US announcement at 9:00am tomorrow morning ....
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I have a vellum scroll sent by private jet provided by the Clinton Foundation and sponsored by the Saudi royal family .. 0 -
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
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This is hilarious: They took trumps twitter away from him, as they didnt trust him with it!
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/us/politics/donald-trump-presidential-race.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur&_r=0&referer=https://t.co/PMELwhyrQz0 -
I was too narrow in using the term book.SouthamObserver said:
There's more to publishing than books. And you can publish on multiple platforms.NoEasyDay said:
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
Any UK company that does a lot of business in the single market will be seeking to ensure they stay in the Single Market. It would be negligent to do otherwise.
Certainly you can publish on many different platforms but it is one of those industries where it really doesn!t matter where you are based. You can have one man and a dog in an office where you want your registered business and your authors, contributers any where in the world.
And if you need an ofice because you are publishing on paper....younare facing a quick business death.0 -
Post of the year ....tyson said:
And bloody close on 2015, and called a NOM in 2010, and called the London mayoral elections, and various bye elections.....JackW said:
Cough ....tyson said:Just to say JackW...you were spot on in 2012......so, no pressure on those cheeks......
And 08 ....
I can't recall what your ARSE was up to in 2005....but it has always been most lucrative.... 0 -
Perhaps a few long odds punts on potential Spanish speaking candidates for 2020 would be a good investment...JackW said:National Tracker of Latino Voters - Latino Decisions - Sample 500 - 24 Oct - 6 Nov
Clinton 76 .. Trump 14
http://www.latinodecisions.com/files/1514/7839/2130/Wk8_Full_Tracker.pdf
or .... Clinton 45.8 .. Trump 42.4 if you prefer the LA Times tracker ....0 -
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https://twitter.com/steveschale/status/795350877523628034gettingbetter said:
Adds up to we'll over 100%. Some must have voted twice.Alistair said:Percentage of each race that voted so far in Florida but didn't vote in 2012
https://twitter.com/electionsmith/status/795106645558837248
https://twitter.com/steveschale/status/795351410254737418
Noticias Telemundo poll of Latino voters
76% for Hillary Clinton
14% for Donald Trump,
a 62 point margin0 -
Yes ..foxinsoxuk said:
Is it going to be map illustrated?JackW said:Good Evening .....
I hope PBers have advised their butler to instruct the footman to polish the silver cutlery ahead my little ARSE4US announcement at 9:00am tomorrow morning .... ..
I shall be on tenterhooks along with the rest of the political world! 0 -
Ireland is majority English speaking, also official in Gibraltar and Malta.tyson said:
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.0 -
You are correct, but it will be Accrington Stanley.JosiasJessop said:
In the 1970s, people were saying that cinema was doomed, over-ridden by TV. Then Spielberg and Lucas came along.NoEasyDay said:
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
Books and publishing will continue; perhaps not in paper form (except as specialist fripperies, in the same way vinyl has). But it will continue.0 -
Did your ARSE cope with EURef?JackW said:
Post of the year ....tyson said:
And bloody close on 2015, and called a NOM in 2010, and called the London mayoral elections, and various bye elections.....JackW said:
Cough ....tyson said:Just to say JackW...you were spot on in 2012......so, no pressure on those cheeks......
And 08 ....
I can't recall what your ARSE was up to in 2005....but it has always been most lucrative....
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Trains were supposed to be made redundant by cars in the 60s and 70s.JosiasJessop said:
In the 1970s, people were saying that cinema was doomed, over-ridden by TV. Then Spielberg and Lucas came along.NoEasyDay said:
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
Books and publishing will continue; perhaps not in paper form (except as specialist fripperies, in the same way vinyl has). But it will continue.0 -
A new chain of Wikileaks emails alleges Chelsea Clinton used resources from the Clinton Foundation for her wedding to Marc Mezvinsky
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3910746/Chelsea-Clinton-used-Foundation-money-fund-wedding-according-new-Wikileaks-emails.html
Well they do say charity starts at home...0 -
NV is funny - the numbers voting by mail collapsed - and that was usually good for the GOP.619 said:0 -
Nah.NoEasyDay said:
You are correct, but it will be Accrington Stanley.JosiasJessop said:
In the 1970s, people were saying that cinema was doomed, over-ridden by TV. Then Spielberg and Lucas came along.NoEasyDay said:
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
Books and publishing will continue; perhaps not in paper form (except as specialist fripperies, in the same way vinyl has). But it will continue.
Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
In addition, TV and films rarely have enough money to do books justice.
That is why books: whether printed, e-Ink, Audible or whatever - will continue.0 -
Any book I get in electronic form I always print out and comb bind on a tough old German-made comb binder. I've never read a book other than on paper.JosiasJessop said:
In the 1970s, people were saying that cinema was doomed, over-ridden by TV. Then Spielberg and Lucas came along.NoEasyDay said:
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
Books and publishing will continue; perhaps not in paper form (except as specialist fripperies, in the same way vinyl has). But it will continue.0 -
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I could get the RCP average to a Trump lead if I only included the LA Times Tracker, Rasmussen and a few "polls" from Drudge.HYUFD said:RCP has Hillary's average national poll lead down to just 1.8%
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
The reason the GOP inclined RCP average is at only Clinton +1.8 is they don't include some national polls with larger Clinton leads.0 -
Latino Decisions – @LatinoDecisions
If you need a really good laugh in these final days - the infamous USC/LAT tracking poll has Latino vote at +3 Clinton. Final LD has it +630 -
was it more or less than the amount of money Trump used from the trump foundation to buy his portrait?FrancisUrquhart said:A new chain of Wikileaks emails alleges Chelsea Clinton used resources from the Clinton Foundation for her wedding to Marc Mezvinsky
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3910746/Chelsea-Clinton-used-Foundation-money-fund-wedding-according-new-Wikileaks-emails.html
Well they do say charity starts at home...0 -
RCP has Trump up 2% in Nevada, in 2012 they had Obama ahead there in their final poll average. If you vote early just means you don't vote on the day619 said:
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My guess for what its worth is that Clinton will win the popular vote by a modest margin(maybe 3%) but win the EC by a landslide picking up FL, NC, AZ, Col, NV, NM, Penn and probably Ohio as well, all by tiny margins. I personally think 350 is still achievable for her but in reality it will have been a much nearer run thing than that will indicate.0
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Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movieJosiasJessop said:Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good0 -
Comey was stuck between a rock and a hard place...at least now when Clinton wins, she will get something of a clean slate....619 said:
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No e.g 23% of white people didn't vote 2012, bad wording.gettingbetter said:
Adds up to we'll over 100%. Some must have voted twice.Alistair said:Percentage of each race that voted so far in Florida but didn't vote in 2012
https://twitter.com/electionsmith/status/7951066455588372480 -
Trump wins NPA and does better with Democrats than Hillary does with Republicans in most polls619 said:
https://twitter.com/steveschale/status/795350877523628034gettingbetter said:
Adds up to we'll over 100%. Some must have voted twice.Alistair said:Percentage of each race that voted so far in Florida but didn't vote in 2012
https://twitter.com/electionsmith/status/795106645558837248
https://twitter.com/steveschale/status/795351410254737418
Noticias Telemundo poll of Latino voters
76% for Hillary Clinton
14% for Donald Trump,
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Sunil in "INSANE TRAIN GEEK" mode (according to @SeanT !)AndyJS said:
Trains were supposed to be made redundant by cars in the 60s and 70s.
Sunil's Great British Railway Journeys - 2016 Edition. Rail routes that Sunil has done for the first time - Other routes were done for the first time in previous calendar years.
January: Kidsgrove to Manchester Piccadilly, Overton to Salisbury, Ashford to Eastbourne, Manningtree to Harwich
February: Nottingham to Hucknall (NET tram), Alderley Edge to Cheadle Hulme, Manchester Piccadilly to Ashton (Metrolink), Chester to Liverpool via Birkenhead, Newhaven Harbour to Seaford
March: Ford to Bognor Regis, Polegate to Eastbourne, Crowhurst to St Leonards, Petersfield to Portsmouth, Portsmouth to Eastleigh, Derby to Matlock, Matlock to Rowsley South (Peak Rail)
April: Faversham to Dover, Ely to Kings Lynn, Liverpool to Southport, Thorpe-le-Soken to Walton-on-Naze
May: Ely to Norwich, Cambridge to Stowmarket, Stockport to Buxton, Barnham to Havant, Bedhampton to Cosham, Fareham to St Denys (Southampton), Island Line (Ryde to Shanklin, Isle of Wight), Bull Street to New Street (Midland Metro)
June: Ipswich to Lowestoft, Nottingham to Chesterfield, Nottingham to Clifton South (NET), Nottingham to Toton Lane (NET), David Lane to Phoenix Park (NET), Peterborough to Lincoln, Ramsgate to Dover
July: Gloucester to Newport (Wales), Liverpool to Wigan North Western, Southampton to Weymouth, Nottingham to Lincoln, Grantham to Skegness, Gobowen to Chester, Norwich to Great Yarmouth (via Acle), Great Yarmouth to Norwich (via Berney Arms), Sileby to Melton Mowbray, Ipswich to Felixstowe
August: Nottingham to Worksop, Salisbury to Westbury, Winsford to Manchester Airport, Manchester Airport to Piccadilly, Eastleigh to Salisbury, Norwich to Sheringham, Manchester Piccadilly to Leeds (via Huddersfield), Guide Bridge to Hadfield (via Glossop), Hadfield to Dinting (direct)
September: Piccadilly to Bury (Manchester Metrolink), Salisbury to Exeter St. Davids (via Yeovil), Sheffield Station to Halfway (Supertram), Gleadless Townend to Herdings Park (Supertram), Brockenhurst to Lymington Pier, Birkenhead Hamilton Square to West Kirby, Birkenhead North to New Brighton, Reedham (Norfolk) to Lowestoft, Ely to Kennett, Wigan North Western to Preston
October: Pewsey to Newton Abbot (avoiding Westbury and Frome), Stockport to Chester (via Altrincham), Redbridge (Hants.) to Romsey, Sheffield to Doncaster (avoiding Rotherham), Chippenham to Trowbridge, Manchester Piccadilly to Liverpool (via Warrington Central), Huyton to Manchester Deansgate (via Newton-le-Willows), Castle Cary to Yeovil Junction (via Pen Mill), Bruton to Frome, Hooton to Ellesmere Port, Ellesmere Port to Helsby, Bristol to Taunton (avoiding Weston-super-Mare), Langley Green to Smethwick Rolfe Street (engineering diversion!)
November: Stockport to Sheffield
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And your point is? They are both as bent as a nine bob note? The American public deserve better than these two.619 said:
was it more or less than the amount of money Trump used from the trump foundation to buy his portrait?FrancisUrquhart said:A new chain of Wikileaks emails alleges Chelsea Clinton used resources from the Clinton Foundation for her wedding to Marc Mezvinsky
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3910746/Chelsea-Clinton-used-Foundation-money-fund-wedding-according-new-Wikileaks-emails.html
Well they do say charity starts at home...0 -
Well he is about half the size he should be for a start.Scott_P said:
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movieJosiasJessop said:Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good0 -
Time to get yourself a girlfriend.Sunil_Prasannan said:Sunil in "INSANE TRAIN GEEK" mode (according to @SeanT !)
(Snip)
January: Kidsgrove to Manchester Piccadilly, Overton to Salisbury, Ashford to Eastbourne, Manningtree to Harwich
February: Nottingham to Hucknall (NET tram), Alderley Edge to Cheadle Hulme, Manchester Piccadilly to Ashton (Metrolink), Chester to Liverpool via Birkenhead, Newhaven Harbour to Seaford
March: Ford to Bognor Regis, Polegate to Eastbourne, Crowhurst to St Leonards, Petersfield to Portsmouth, Portsmouth to Eastleigh, Derby to Matlock, Matlock to Rowsley South (Peak Rail)
April: Faversham to Dover, Ely to Kings Lynn, Liverpool to Southport, Thorpe-le-Soken to Walton-on-Naze
May: Ely to Norwich, Cambridge to Stowmarket, Stockport to Buxton, Barnham to Havant, Bedhampton to Cosham, Fareham to St Denys (Southampton), Island Line (Ryde to Shanklin, Isle of Wight), Bull Street to New Street (Midland Metro)
June: Ipswich to Lowestoft, Nottingham to Chesterfield, Nottingham to Clifton South (NET), Nottingham to Toton Lane (NET), David Lane to Phoenix Park (NET), Peterborough to Lincoln, Ramsgate to Dover
July: Gloucester to Newport (Wales), Liverpool to Wigan North Western, Southampton to Weymouth, Nottingham to Lincoln, Grantham to Skegness, Gobowen to Chester, Norwich to Great Yarmouth (via Acle), Great Yarmouth to Norwich (via Berney Arms), Sileby to Melton Mowbray, Ipswich to Felixstowe
August: Nottingham to Worksop, Salisbury to Westbury, Winsford to Manchester Airport, Manchester Airport to Piccadilly, Eastleigh to Salisbury, Norwich to Sheringham, Manchester Piccadilly to Leeds (via Huddersfield), Guide Bridge to Hadfield (via Glossop), Hadfield to Dinting (direct)
September: Piccadilly to Bury (Manchester Metrolink), Salisbury to Exeter St. Davids (via Yeovil), Sheffield Station to Halfway (Supertram), Gleadless Townend to Herdings Park (Supertram), Brockenhurst to Lymington Pier, Birkenhead Hamilton Square to West Kirby, Birkenhead North to New Brighton, Reedham (Norfolk) to Lowestoft, Ely to Kennett, Wigan North Western to Preston
October: Pewsey to Newton Abbot (avoiding Westbury and Frome), Stockport to Chester (via Altrincham), Redbridge (Hants.) to Romsey, Sheffield to Doncaster (avoiding Rotherham), Chippenham to Trowbridge, Manchester Piccadilly to Liverpool (via Warrington Central), Huyton to Manchester Deansgate (via Newton-le-Willows), Castle Cary to Yeovil Junction (via Pen Mill), Bruton to Frome, Hooton to Ellesmere Port, Ellesmere Port to Helsby, Bristol to Taunton (avoiding Weston-super-Mare), Langley Green to Smethwick Rolfe Street (engineering diversion!)
November: Stockport to Sheffield
Seriously though: that's impressive.
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Might a "Lobby Your Electors" movement arise in the next six weeks, saying precisely that?FrancisUrquhart said:
And your point is? They are both as bent as a nine bob note? The American public deserve better than these two.619 said:
was it more or less than the amount of money Trump used from the trump foundation to buy his portrait?FrancisUrquhart said:A new chain of Wikileaks emails alleges Chelsea Clinton used resources from the Clinton Foundation for her wedding to Marc Mezvinsky
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3910746/Chelsea-Clinton-used-Foundation-money-fund-wedding-according-new-Wikileaks-emails.html
Well they do say charity starts at home...0 -
How much money must TSE be spending to keep Ed Balls on Strictly Come Dancing?
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I understand that each member country nominates a language for the official EU business, and since only the UK nominates English, the EU will be obliged to manage without that language once we are no longer a member.tyson said:
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
I'm sure they will manage fine - why not?0 -
Steven Shepard of "Politico" reports on the collywobbles in Camp Trump as taco drivers deliver the numbers for Clinton :
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/latino-vote-surge-donald-trump-campaign-2308040 -
He isnt winning hispanic NPA'S. You see the poll below how he is doing with all hispanics?HYUFD said:
Trump wins NPA and does better with Democrats than Hillary does with Republicans in most polls619 said:
https://twitter.com/steveschale/status/795350877523628034gettingbetter said:
Adds up to we'll over 100%. Some must have voted twice.Alistair said:Percentage of each race that voted so far in Florida but didn't vote in 2012
https://twitter.com/electionsmith/status/795106645558837248
https://twitter.com/steveschale/status/795351410254737418
Noticias Telemundo poll of Latino voters
76% for Hillary Clinton
14% for Donald Trump,
a 62 point margin
He isnt doing better with republican Hispanics either.0 -
They were right on the Iraq war. That's netted them 8 seats. If Brexit goes belly up they could double that eventually.JosiasJessop said:
*If* it all goes belly-up (and I hope it does not), then the Lib Dems can claim to have been right on two of the biggest issues facing the UK since they were formed: the Iraq War and Brexit.AnneJGP said:
One of the most fascinating outcomes of the EU referendum is the way it has almost broken the time-honoured political division of left & right.TOPPING said:
As an aside I thought it was telling by Watson on Pienaar that quite obviously he and Jezza hadn't discussed Jezza's no single market no A50 Mirror article.Black_Rook said:(snipped)
What a state Lab is in. Plus who has the authority? Media is reporting Lab won't obstruct A50 evidently taking Watson's as the authoritative version.
Indeed, if things do go very badly wrong economically for Brexit, then it is almost credible that the Lib Dems, as apparently the only Remain/Rejoin flag-bearers still standing, could pick up massive numbers of votes if the electorate really do change their minds under economic hardship.
If.
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Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?Scott_P said:
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movieJosiasJessop said:Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
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JackW said:
I could get the RCP average to a Trump lead if I only included the LA Times Tracker, Rasmussen and a few "polls" from Drudge.HYUFD said:RCP has Hillary's average national poll lead down to just 1.8%
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
The reason the GOP inclined RCP average is at only Clinton +1.8 is they don't include some national polls with larger Clinton leads.
They mostly do in the 4-way and it is not much different there, a 2.2% Clinton lead, IBID-TIPP today has Trump up 1% for exampleJackW said:
I could get the RCP average to a Trump lead if I only included the LA Times Tracker, Rasmussen and a few "polls" from Drudge.HYUFD said:RCP has Hillary's average national poll lead down to just 1.8%
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
The reason the GOP inclined RCP average is at only Clinton +1.8 is they don't include some national polls with larger Clinton leads.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson_vs_stein-5952.html0 -
No country for old men?JosiasJessop said:
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?Scott_P said:
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movieJosiasJessop said:Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good0 -
Someone page Plato?
"No criminality in Clinton emails - FBI"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37892138
Seems I was wrong in their ability to do this quickly ...0 -
What language does Ireland nominate? And Malta? Sweden?AnneJGP said:
I understand that each member country nominates a language for the official EU business, and since only the UK nominates English, the EU will be obliged to manage without that language once we are no longer a member.tyson said:
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
I'm sure they will manage fine - why not?0 -
Jason Bourne maybe?JosiasJessop said:Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?
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Well, we do B2B and we are growing at double figure rate year on year. We produce magazines, directories, management reports, Yearbooks, news and analysis blogs and email alerts, webinars, conferences and more besides. Most other B2Bs do the same. We will almost certainly be opening an office in the single market when the UK leaves it. Investments we would have made in our London office will be made in the new office instead.NoEasyDay said:
I was too narrow in using the term book.SouthamObserver said:
There's more to publishing than books. And you can publish on multiple platforms.NoEasyDay said:
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
Any UK company that does a lot of business in the single market will be seeking to ensure they stay in the Single Market. It would be negligent to do otherwise.
Certainly you can publish on many different platforms but it is one of those industries where it really doesn!t matter where you are based. You can have one man and a dog in an office where you want your registered business and your authors, contributers any where in the world.
And if you need an ofice because you are publishing on paper....younare facing a quick business death.
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The godfather. Book is good but the film....Scott_P said:
Jason Bourne maybe?JosiasJessop said:Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?
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Not read the book, so I'll have to take your word for it.FrancisUrquhart said:
No country for old men?JosiasJessop said:
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?Scott_P said:
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movieJosiasJessop said:Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good
One I've thought of: the Barchester Chronicles. The TV series with Donald Pleasance, Nigel Hawthorne and a very young Alan Rickman was far superior to Trollope's book series IMO. And some say that was Trollope's best series ...0 -
The ShiningJosiasJessop said:
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?Scott_P said:
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movieJosiasJessop said:Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
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They are loads of films people don't realise come from a book...because the book wasn't very good. I think a better question is there a film version of a well known book that is superior to the book.DavidL said:
The godfather. Book is good but the film....Scott_P said:
Jason Bourne maybe?JosiasJessop said:Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?
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I passed a truck the other day that advertised 'doordrop media' as a serviceSouthamObserver said:Well, we do B2B and we are growing at double figure rate year on year. We produce magazines, directories, management reports, Yearbooks, news and analysis blogs and email alerts, webinars, conferences and more besides. Most other B2Bs do the same. We will almost certainly be opening an office in the single market when the UK leaves it. Investments we would have made in our London office will be made in the new office instead.
Better known as Junk Mail0 -
UK physical book sales 2015 £2.75bn. Digital sales £554m. There's life in the old dog yet.NoEasyDay said:
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?0 -
They would I'm sure, but ironically it might even help the use of English as minus the UK it becomes nearly neutral ( Ireland and to a lesser extent Malta, I guess, excluded but they are tiddlers in EU terms ). English has survived and thrived in post 1947 India partly because, once the British left, it was a neutral alternative to the dominance of Hindi.AnneJGP said:
I understand that each member country nominates a language for the official EU business, and since only the UK nominates English, the EU will be obliged to manage without that language once we are no longer a member.tyson said:
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
I'm sure they will manage fine - why not?
Europe needs a real lingua Franca to work well, to get a shared media and culture (look how the U.S. election is so easily and detailedly followed on here because we have "open access" via the language).0 -
Book series? The TV series only covered the first and second books of a six book series.JosiasJessop said:
Not read the book, so I'll have to take your word for it.FrancisUrquhart said:
No country for old men?JosiasJessop said:
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?Scott_P said:
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movieJosiasJessop said:Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good
One I've thought of: the Barchester Chronicles. The TV series with Donald Pleasance, Nigel Hawthorne and a very young Alan Rickman was far superior to Trollope's book series IMO. And some say that was Trollope's best series ...
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Although I wonder how long that will last. If the Latino block vote is now a thing, perhaps we should be watching Telemundo.welshowl said:Europe needs a real lingua Franca to work well, to get a shared media and culture (look how the U.S. election is so easily and detailedly followed on here because we have "open access" via the language).
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eBook sales have stalled in growth over the past 2 years. There is no real sign yet that they are going to kill off print books on the way digital music has done to CDs.Leedsprinter said:
UK physical book sales 2015 £2.75bn. Digital sales £554m. There's life in the old dog yet.NoEasyDay said:
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?0 -
Presumably Irish, Maltese and Swedish!Dromedary said:
What language does Ireland nominate? And Malta? Sweden?AnneJGP said:
I understand that each member country nominates a language for the official EU business, and since only the UK nominates English, the EU will be obliged to manage without that language once we are no longer a member.tyson said:
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
I'm sure they will manage fine - why not?0 -
Breaking News: 2 mins ago BBC saying FBI announce they have found no criminality in latest emails.0
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Get Carter?JosiasJessop said:
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?Scott_P said:
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movieJosiasJessop said:Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
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I don't know - my information comes from a discussion on here some months ago. It was said that, since obviously the UK nominates English for an official language, that allows several other countries to nominate their own less-spoken languages & still do business in English.Dromedary said:
What language does Ireland nominate? And Malta? Sweden?AnneJGP said:
I understand that each member country nominates a language for the official EU business, and since only the UK nominates English, the EU will be obliged to manage without that language once we are no longer a member.tyson said:
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
I'm sure they will manage fine - why not?0 -
Well yes: of the ones they filmed. There was something about the tone of Trollope's writing that irritates me (admittedly I haven't read any recently), and the TV series was so utterly charming.SandraM said:
Book series? The TV series only covered the first and second books of a six book series.JosiasJessop said:
Not read the book, so I'll have to take your word for it.FrancisUrquhart said:
No country for old men?JosiasJessop said:
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?Scott_P said:
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movieJosiasJessop said:Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good
One I've thought of: the Barchester Chronicles. The TV series with Donald Pleasance, Nigel Hawthorne and a very young Alan Rickman was far superior to Trollope's book series IMO. And some say that was Trollope's best series ...0 -
I just bought 2 hardback booksFrancisUrquhart said:eBook sales have stalled in growth over the past 2 years. There is no real sign yet that they are going to kill off print books on the way digital music has done to CDs.
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It is just another step Anne for the UK being parochial.... And why academic and medics and the top brains will choose to go for placements in Europe...AnneJGP said:
I understand that each member country nominates a language for the official EU business, and since only the UK nominates English, the EU will be obliged to manage without that language once we are no longer a membetyson said:
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
I'm sure they will manage fine - why not?
Something that struck me (us) though lunch....is that we (the UK) are sitting in Europe, we have a say on what goes on, we have a veto..it is a huge trading block, the political ramifications affect us in every single way...from security, to everything.... And as the UK we have extra gravitas, our language, our role in the UN etc..... And we have a central role in what is decided...from global warming, to security, to anything....And we've just chucked all of it away...for nothing....
Who in their right minds would choose to move out of that to what? To throw all that influence away with our neighbours for what?
It's not just the publishers that deal with universities....that talent...the brain drain.....Brexit is so utterly depressing on every conceivable level..
But Brexit is Brexit...and the sooner we move to a hard Brexit, and understand how little we are in the grand scheme of things the better for me. Then and only then will people start to understand what we have given up.....
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Trump dropping out like a stone on Betfair - now 5.3 from 4.9. presumably as a result.JosiasJessop said:Someone page Plato?
"No criminality in Clinton emails - FBI"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37892138
Seems I was wrong in their ability to do this quickly ...
Now 6 - what he was before the e-mail re-opening.
IMHO this is over.0 -
Not sure about that one. Book is genuinely scary. Not one to read on your own. The scene in the bathroom and the hosepipe that may be coming alive...shiver. Brilliant at getting your imagination running riot.MonikerDiCanio said:
The ShiningJosiasJessop said:
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?Scott_P said:
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movieJosiasJessop said:Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
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E-ink technology seems to have stalled as well.FrancisUrquhart said:
eBook sales have stalled in growth over the past 2 years. There is no real sign yet that they are going to kill off print books on the way digital music has done to CDs.Leedsprinter said:
UK physical book sales 2015 £2.75bn. Digital sales £554m. There's life in the old dog yet.NoEasyDay said:
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?0 -
Mr Men books.... Arthur Lowe was brilliant doing the voicesSandraM said:
Book series? The TV series only covered the first and second books of a six book series.JosiasJessop said:
Not read the book, so I'll have to take your word for it.FrancisUrquhart said:
No country for old men?JosiasJessop said:
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?Scott_P said:
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movieJosiasJessop said:Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good
One I've thought of: the Barchester Chronicles. The TV series with Donald Pleasance, Nigel Hawthorne and a very young Alan Rickman was far superior to Trollope's book series IMO. And some say that was Trollope's best series ...
High-brow.... That's me.0 -
English is the global language.
Europeans refusing to use it? Little Europeans.0 -
Scott_P said:
I just bought 2 hardback booksFrancisUrquhart said:eBook sales have stalled in growth over the past 2 years. There is no real sign yet that they are going to kill off print books on the way digital music has done to CDs.
Scott_P said:
I just bought 2 hardback booksFrancisUrquhart said:eBook sales have stalled in growth over the past 2 years. There is no real sign yet that they are going to kill off print books on the way digital music has done to CDs.
Publishers who deal in print are now competing against publishers who source their materials at 30/40% cheaper.....0 -
Clinton 1.2
Trump 6
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Here's an obscure one: I've tried to read CS Lewis's 'The Space Trilogy' before, but not got very far.
Is it worth persevering?0 -
I happily buy novels for my Kindle, and easy read non-fiction. But if it is something that I intend to take notes from, or which I think will require considerable flipping backwards and forwards between pages or chapters, or something where I think I shall be writing my own notes in the margins, then nothing beats paper. Kindle is particularly clunky in jumping from page to page, or for searching for something you read 2 chapters earlier.FrancisUrquhart said:
eBook sales have stalled in growth over the past 2 years. There is no real sign yet that they are going to kill off print books on the way digital music has done to CDs.Leedsprinter said:
UK physical book sales 2015 £2.75bn. Digital sales £554m. There's life in the old dog yet.NoEasyDay said:
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
In fact, anything which I work from, I print up, whether its a web page, an email or an attached document.0 -
So the FBI found nothing so I suspect Comey's career is probably now on life support and it's a case of when not if he's fired.0
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That (as a non Kindle reader) really surprises me. My son uses his IPAD at school and has done for the last 3 years. Being able to note, highlight and link comments to the text seems obviously useful and where paper should be behind.MTimT said:
I happily buy novels for my Kindle, and easy read non-fiction. But if it is something that I intend to take notes from, or which I think will require considerable flipping backwards and forwards between pages or chapters, or something where I think I shall be writing my own notes in the margins, then nothing beats paper. Kindle is particularly clunky in jumping from page to page, or for searching for something you read 2 chapters earlier.FrancisUrquhart said:
eBook sales have stalled in growth over the past 2 years. There is no real sign yet that they are going to kill off print books on the way digital music has done to CDs.Leedsprinter said:
UK physical book sales 2015 £2.75bn. Digital sales £554m. There's life in the old dog yet.NoEasyDay said:
None, they should more concerned that book publishing is doomed. The internet is putting them out of business, quickly.....memo to self find some publishers to short tomorrow.john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
In fact, anything which I work from, I print up, whether its a web page, an email or an attached document.0 -
Game of Thrones.JosiasJessop said:
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?Scott_P said:
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movieJosiasJessop said:Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good0 -
You massively overstate the hit to higher education, particularly research institutes. English is the language of scientific publication. That gives those working in English (which is far easier to do from a country where English is the mother tongue) have a huge advantage over those working elsewhere. This shows up not just in publications, but more importantly to scientists, in citations.tyson said:
It is just another step Anne for the UK being parochial.... And why academic and medics and the top brains will choose to go for placements in Europe...AnneJGP said:
I understand that each member country nominates a language for the official EU business, and since only the UK nominates English, the EU will be obliged to manage without that language once we are no longer a membetyson said:
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
I'm sure they will manage fine - why not?
Something that struck me (us) though lunch....is that we (the UK) are sitting in Europe, we have a say on what goes on, we have a veto..it is a huge trading block, the political ramifications affect us in every single way...from security, to everything.... And as the UK we have extra gravitas, our language, our role in the UN etc..... And we have a central role in what is decided...from global warming, to security, to anything....And we've just chucked all of it away...for nothing....
Who in their right minds would choose to move out of that to what? To throw all that influence away with our neighbours for what?
It's not just the publishers that deal with universities....that talent...the brain drain.....Brexit is so utterly depressing on every conceivable level..
But Brexit is Brexit...and the sooner we move to a hard Brexit, and understand how little we are in the grand scheme of things the better for me. Then and only then will people start to understand what we have given up.....0 -
Thank you so much - that is the first really positive identifiable benefit to the EU of the UK leaving that I've come across!welshowl said:
They would I'm sure, but ironically it might even help the use of English as minus the UK it becomes nearly neutral ( Ireland and to a lesser extent Malta, I guess, excluded but they are tiddlers in EU terms ). English has survived and thrived in post 1947 India partly because, once the British left, it was a neutral alternative to the dominance of Hindi.AnneJGP said:
I understand that each member country nominates a language for the official EU business, and since only the UK nominates English, the EU will be obliged to manage without that language once we are no longer a member.tyson said:
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
I'm sure they will manage fine - why not?
Europe needs a real lingua Franca to work well, to get a shared media and culture (look how the U.S. election is so easily and detailedly followed on here because we have "open access" via the language).0 -
MonikerDiCanio said:
The ShiningJosiasJessop said:
Can anyone name any film or TV adaptations which are better than the book they come from? There must be some?Scott_P said:
Which is why The Martian, the book, is better than The Martian, the movieJosiasJessop said:Books have one advantage: the reader's imagination. Whenever you watch a TV program or a film of a book, you have interpreters between yourself and the author. With a book, you have just yourself.
And why no Jack Reacher film starring Tom Cruise will ever be any good
The Shining is too ArtHouse....Too Kubrick stylised....Kubrick's much too much into photography and camerawork that it detracts from the narrative. His work became more obsessive later on, culminating in the ludicrous Eyes Wide Shut.
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The solitary life is Sunil's Permanent Way.....JosiasJessop said:
Time to get yourself a girlfriend.
Seriously though: that's impressive.
Oh, and if the ride was rough on Matlock to Darley South: I might have helped lay the track.0 -
If you found Rolt's Landscape Trilogy turgid, probably not. Similar sort of style and approach especially when it comes to embedded philosophy.JosiasJessop said:Here's an obscure one: I've tried to read CS Lewis's 'The Space Trilogy' before, but not got very far.
Is it worth persevering?
Clinton to take Utah and carry out the first ever public lynching of an ex-FBI director? She's vindictive and she certainly will be plotting her revenge as we speak.0 -
The UK's seat on the UN and Security Council has nothing to do with membership of the EUtyson said:
It is just another step Anne for the UK being parochial.... And why academic and medics and the top brains will choose to go for placements in Europe...AnneJGP said:
I understand that each member country nominates a language for the official EU business, and since only the UK nominates English, the EU will be obliged to manage without that language once we are no longer a membetyson said:
Online......journals...academic journals.......medical journals.......University attached publishers....for instance Oxford University Press is the largest income generator for the University......john_zims said:@tyson
'I've just been out to lunch and encountered some UK based publishers. They all said any serious publisher will be looking at moving their operations to the EU in light of Brexit.'
Strange that's what my other half & son ( both with major publishers) do and there has been zero talk about it.
What would be the advantage ?
People were even questioning about the use of the English language at European conferences post Brexit.
Really very depressing...but I'm very pleased to hear your son and wife will be OK...
I'm sure they will manage fine - why not?
Something that struck me (us) though lunch....is that we (the UK) are sitting in Europe, we have a say on what goes on, we have a veto..it is a huge trading block, the political ramifications affect us in every single way...from security, to everything.... And as the UK we have extra gravitas, our language, our role in the UN etc..... And we have a central role in what is decided...from global warming, to security, to anything....And we've just chucked all of it away...for nothing....
Who in their right minds would choose to move out of that to what? To throw all that influence away with our neighbours for what?
It's not just the publishers that deal with universities....that talent...the brain drain.....Brexit is so utterly depressing on every conceivable level..
But Brexit is Brexit...and the sooner we move to a hard Brexit, and understand how little we are in the grand scheme of things the better for me. Then and only then will people start to understand what we have given up.....0 -
I was talking NPA's more generally619 said:
He isnt winning hispanic NPA'S. You see the poll below how he is doing with all hispanics?HYUFD said:
Trump wins NPA and does better with Democrats than Hillary does with Republicans in most polls619 said:
https://twitter.com/steveschale/status/795350877523628034gettingbetter said:
Adds up to we'll over 100%. Some must have voted twice.Alistair said:Percentage of each race that voted so far in Florida but didn't vote in 2012
https://twitter.com/electionsmith/status/795106645558837248
https://twitter.com/steveschale/status/795351410254737418
Noticias Telemundo poll of Latino voters
76% for Hillary Clinton
14% for Donald Trump,
a 62 point margin
He isnt doing better with republican Hispanics either.0
