Mick Mac

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > At least Tom Watson for all the flak he's getting > will never out do Nick Faldo as the worst Captain > ever. Yes and I was there in 1993, the last time USA won in Europe - the captain then was Tom Watson. It was rarely mentioned this week that he's already a successful captain. I cant quite believe Mickelson said what he said at the press conference, he might regret those comments - at the end of the day the US lost and that doesn't mean that if they did things differently or chose different pairings that they would have won - it most likely means they just didn't play well enough, especially in afternoon foursomes.

Wish I could have joined you HMB. Looks good for Europe now though. Nevertheless the final day always throws up a period when the result is in the balance. Hope it does tomorrow.

Rose and Stenson are Europe's rock...

Great days golf yesterday but the players found the breeze tricky and today the birdies are absolutely flying in with perfect calm conditions. Amazing weather for Perth in late September HMB ?. The fans there are getting a real treat. Poulter the postman is not delivering this morning though and possibly will be rested again for the afternoon, unless Stenson back problems flare up. Rorys on fire as are a number of others. Really warning up nicely. Ryder Cup BBQ and a few beers may be a good idea tomoz.

Right lets skip the bollocks about viewers. Tournament starts tomorrow. Europe 15 USA 13. Some great moments ahead.

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- It's not a case of which pre-dates the other. Private Schools drain the state system of talented > teachers, pupils and parents. Private schools are the original schools, so the order does matter. State schools entered a world where private schools already existed so the battle and the problems you refer to were formed by the state schools creation.

Like you Quids, I think a bet on USA would be a good value from a financial perspective - but would ruin my enjoyment so cant go there, but it will be close again I reckon, seems to have a way of working out like that.

This thread has not started well.

I tried to help an old woman with her shopping in Clapham once and she started edging back and shouting at me. Clearly she was mad and it was a bad choice for me on whom to start my good Samaritan apprenticeship on. I do help as often as I can but some people have huge suitcases. A motto for travel might be: if you cant carry it yourself don't bring it.

Golf?s biennial festival of partisanship, the Ryder Cup, commences on Friday (26th September) at Gleneagles in Scotland. The event stands alone in the sport in its capacity to attract not only casual golf fans, but viewers who would not spend a single minute watching golf elsewhere in the calendar. In fact, it stands only behind the World Cup and the Olympic Games in terms of television audiences.

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Private Schools drain the state system of talented > teachers, pupils and parents. The state system > loses a great deal when parents decide to withdraw > their children, their energy and talents and > instead invest them (along with considerable > financial resources) in to competing with it. It's > about giving your own child a competitive > advantage in the world, by ensuring that all > schools are not the same. Fair enough perhaps, but > it seems disingenuous to pretend it's something > else. > Your point would make sense if it were true that Private Schools came in after state schools, hence draining a state system of already established quality. However private schools pre dated the state school system by a number of centuries, hence it already had established its role providing quality education with quality teachers. That should not die away as a result of state education. Was the state system ever intended to match up to the level of private education? probably it was not originally but has become an aspiration of the state system over time. Some state schools out perform some of the private schools - nothing wrong with that.

mikeb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sounds like VAT exemption could be reasonably > material > > http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/CHARITIES/vat/intro.htm > > I think the trading profits would probably mean > taxable profits, albeit there would be some future > tax relief on the investments they make with those > profits > > Not sure I would pay much heed to the historical > point that these were charitable gifts - Alleyn's > original gift predates the Civil War ... The origin of the (15th century) charitable gift is important in it sets the original context of the school as a charity before the creation of state education. The VAT exemption may be valuable - but its given to golf clubs etc so long as they are not for profit, so its the standard for not for profit organisations and not dependent on charitable status.

It's the most watched sporting event after the world cup and olympics. Europe quoted as big favorites but the wind is set to blow. The scene is set for heroes and villains.

All sounds about right. At the end of the day its the fact that they are not profit making that is the relevant driver for the charitable status and perhaps the historical point that many were formed from charitable gifts before state schools existed.

Miacis Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Remember having charitable status means they are > subsidised through tax breaks. They are funded through parental schools fees. Where's the tax break there? Dulwich schools were originally set up by an Edward Alleyn charitable gift. They generally aren't supposed to make a profit, so there is no tax to pay. Charitable donations from benefactors may receive a tax credit but that's it I'd imagine on the charitable side.

Media reporting that Wembley is to host the 2020 European Championship semi finals and Final.

How will the hosts get on? Ps. I expect this thread to run and run.

I think I can do the 1st October.

Gingerbeer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just missed the Jr. induction this evening MM! ;) Yes - Think I saw you outside the EDT.....

Is there one in September Mikey?

I'm with AnotherPaul. I think it's a local public information issue and I think Foxtons should comment. If it's legal and just an admin issue then fine but I'm sure they are not intending to have kids info on their database and should at least apologise.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/leaguetables/11050518/A-level-results-2014-Independent-schools-results-table.html 2014 update: Alleyns at number 30

Newsflash 2020: Scots stuck on low road Iain Martin 10 Sep 2014 Edinburgh, September 18, 2020: The sixth anniversary of Scotland?s historic vote to leave the United Kingdom passed off relatively peacefully in Edinburgh today. Newsflash 2020: Scots stuck on low roadWhile demonstrators demanding a return to the Union had to be prevented by riot police from clashing with Nationalists outside the Scottish parliament building in Holyrood, elsewhere the anniversary offered a moment for quiet reflection on the consequences of Scotland voting in 2014 to go it alone. From his retirement compound in the Outer Hebrides, where he was sent by the Scottish government following his replacement as First Minister in 2018, Alex Salmond issued a statement hailing ?Freedom Day?. He claimed that Scottish independence has ?not been as bad as everyone is saying?. Government ministers, however, played down the anniversary, fearful that any worsening of already fragile market sentiment could jeopardise their bid to restore stability by joining the euro next year. The new government in Edinburgh, a coalition of fiscal conservatives who were once members of the old pro-Union Tory party, and moderate nationalists who split with Salmond over his failed bid to make himself President for Life, is struggling to restore the Scottish economy. It has been a rocky ride since voters decided in September 2014 to break with the UK, with the country still mired in the slump that followed the Yes vote six years ago. The shock referendum result triggered an economic crisis. It had been presumed throughout the campaign to save the UK that the Union was safe. But with only ten days to go, the polls crossed and Alex Salmond?s Yes campaign gained momentum. A last-minute offer of greater devolution, announced by the UK chancellor George Osborne, was seen as a cynical Westminster response to the change in the opinion polls and it angered just enough Scottish voters to tip the scales against the Union. The morning after the knife-edge vote - 50.5% to 49.5% - sterling crashed. UK prime minister David Cameron sacked Osborne and convened emergency meetings with the Governor of the Bank of England in an unsuccessful bid to calm the markets. Any hope of stability was dashed by Salmond?s confrontation with Cameron over the UK debt, despite calls for restraint by many of the leading figures in the failed No campaign, who switched sides in the days after the result. Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling, Douglas Alexander and a host of other senior Scottish figures from Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems promised to ?go home? to help ensure that Salmond did not attempt to dictate the new country?s constitution to his own advantage. But Salmond, bolstered by his majority in the Scottish parliament, took full control of the talks with a weakened Cameron at Lancaster House in London. It had been claimed by the Nationalists ahead of the vote that Whitehall was bluffing when it said that there would be no currency union post-independence. It turned out that London had been telling the truth all along. In response a furious Salmond held true to his pledge not to honour any of the UK?s ?1.4 trillion debt. The Nationalists were jubilant, declaring that Scotland was now ?debt-free?. But the markets did not fancy ?kilt-edged? debt much, and the Scots soon found themselves after Independence Day in 2016 being charged a large premium to borrow. The Scottish economy has also been hit by the departure of many leading financial institutions. Most Scottish banks - owned by the Rest of the UK taxpayer ? have moved almost all of their remaining operations out of Scotland. After shifting its headquarters to London, the state-owned RBS renamed itself NatWest and offered to sell the Scottish government its branches in Scotland under the old Royal Bank of Scotland brand. A bank with the word Scotland in its name had little resonance in England following the twin blows of the financial crisis of 2008 and the Scottish vote to leave the UK. Standard Life, with most of its customers based in England, also left. In Scotland capital flight and a ballooning deficit meant public spending cuts and much higher taxes, which annoyed both those who had been promised a socialist paradise and those assured by Salmond that he would run a government dedicated to promoting wealth creation. Since independence both Scotland and the Rest of the UK have been starved of foreign investment, which has been scared off by the protracted uncertainty about their relations with the European Union ? fears that Scotland would not get in and the Rest of the UK was about to get out. Salmond?s assumption that EU entry would be almost automatic proved wrong, as EU leaders fearful of encouraging separatist movements in their own countries raised endless obstacles to Scottish accession. Meanwhile English nationalists campaigned hard to leave. Only a Scottish pledge to abandon Scotland?s own hastily established currency and to join the euro clinched admission. Meanwhile, Boris Johnson, the Rest of the UK Prime Minister, secured only very limited Eurosceptic concessions in a renegotiation with Brussels. He has promised a referendum on EU membership next year. Anglo-Scottish hostility was exacerbated by the English drought in summer 2018. As much of England sweltered in unprecedented temperatures the Scottish government was accused of attempting to blackmail the government in London. English water supplies ran low while Scottish reservoirs overflowed thanks to another typical summer north of the border. Then Salmond tried to charge sky-high rates when he was asked to send emergency supplies. Amid anti-Scottish protests south of the border, a special ?Mock the Weak? tour of England by Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle, in which he jeered that independence had been a ?Highland Spring? and doused his English audiences with bottled water, had to be cancelled. The latest governments in Edinburgh and London have moved recently to try and improve relations. There is an acceptance that trade links need to be rebuilt and cultural ties strengthened in the 2020s. Johnson recently sent Nigel Farage, the Rest of the UK Foreign Secretary, on a peace mission. Following a visit to an Edinburgh pub, Farage offered to re-open Hadrian?s Wall and relax passport checks. The greatest irony of the entire independence experiment so far may soon be provided by oil, on which the SNP promised independent Scotland?s fortunes would be based. True, the fall in price as ever more shale gas came on stream was reversed by Islamic State?s conquest of Baghdad, which choked off Iraqi exports. But there has been growing resentment in England as it became clear how badly Scotland taking 90% of the UK?s oil had affected the Rest of the UK's balance of payments ? and Scotland may soon know how it feels. Next month the Shetland Islands vote on whether to leave Scotland by Christmas 2020. If the Shetlanders do vote to go, a large part of Scotland?s remaining oil reserves will go with them.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Good to see England haver gone from World Cup > donkeys to be on track for 100% qualification to > the Euro Finals,... in just 4 days. Love the > Media. The old clich? of you don't become a bad team overnight must work the other way too.

Don't know much about Heber. But Goodrich has improved significantly in recent years and is our choice.