mike carey

The sequence for calculating this is first (X-Y) then divide by 5 and then add Y (which is 20). If you're over 20, X-Y and therefore (X-Y)/5 will be positive, so the answer will always be above 20.

Remember, the question here was Are people actually leaving not are they talking about it.

Well, you could be both. GGG is a willingness to participate, not about level of experience.

I knew from dozens of lovecasts and Savage interviews what it meant but couldn't remember the specific words.

GGG - first time I've seen that Dan Savage-ism in here!

Or was he Al Dente?

'Tired museum feet'! Exactly. Isn't it great when you can rest them by doing what it says on the tin, rather than having to sit in front of a work pretending you're studying it in detail!

Finding it was serendipitous - I was doing a reverse Marie Kondo, finding posters who might bring me joy, and Nigella Lawson had reposted this in her time line.

@susiedent.bsky.social on Bluesky BSKY.APP Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and... Just joined this and starting to find my way around.

Well, you wouldn't have had any idea what sort of art (or 'art') they had at some airport that's on the other side of a river. That said, it's interesting to see what use some artists are making of light, both artificial and natural, in their work. I should catch one of those hourly planes to check it out. And the art work at LaGuardia.

Until 25/1/25, I guess I won't get to see it.

He's been on my list for a while now for one of my trips to Sydney but I haven't tried to set anything up yet.

A few, a few more are unreliable, but for the most part they are probably representative of the man being reviewed. Doesn't mean the ratings aren't slightly (or more) inflated or that you will have a comparable experience.

His WhatsApp number is from Norway but he's using an Australian mobile phone number.

There are already threads on Zürich (and Barcelona) over in the Europe Forum. Let's keep discussion of them in those threads and keep this thread for Mexico.

Are you sure that wasn't three manhattans ago?

After the ceremony, Her Excellency and the Prime Minister announced that His Majesty the King had approved the award of the Victoria Cross for Australia to the late Private Richard Norden, for most conspicuous acts of gallantry in action in Bien Hoa Province on 14 May 1968. Private Norden was killed in a motor cycle accident in 1972 while on duty as a police officer in the Australian Capital Territory Police Force. May he rest in peace.

Today marks the 106th Anniversary of the Armistice that was signed in a railway carriage at Compiègne, and which came into force at 11am, drawing a close to the 'War to End all Wars'. I am just watching the broadcast of the National Remembrance Day service at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. The Address was given by Her Excellency Sam Mostyn, the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. Here in the small town where I grew up, the Eleventh Hour was marked by the siren at the local fire station sounding for one minute, a commemoration that I had forgotten occurred. As the hour for commemoration approaches around the world, I wish all those who served and those who love and care for them the peace of a period of quiet reflection on the sacrifice that they and countless others made. The optimism of those who 106 years ago dared to hope that the memory of what they had witnessed would make further wars unthinkable has sadly been unfulfilled. We can but hope that those who follow us will continue to strive to achieve what we and those who came before us have not. Lest We Forget

A summary usually is that buying or holding shares should be influenced by market fundamentals first and foremost, but also on prospects and predictability. We all have our own reasons for how we assess the predictability of the shares of any company, and our reasons and assessments change over time. ESG is still a thing for some investors and that might include character assessments of CEOs and management. And yes, certainty in market conditions can be affected by external factors, and this appears to be such a time. In this forum, we need to keep some of our reasons for our assessments to ourselves and we all know what to keep to ourselves here.

It's easy to dismiss Whoopi as clueless but doing so assumes that she is sounding off on her theory of life, the universe and everything. Maybe she is, but more likely on any programme like the ones she appears on there are researchers and producers who are setting the topics she raises, to air a bigger story that the network wants to promote (or provoke) discussion of (and appears in this case to have succeeded in doing). So it's potentially naive to dismiss something as just her uninformed opinion. The role of corporations in setting grocery prices is such an issue as it's part of a wider concern about inflation. It's not a perfect market, so supply and demand are not the only things in play. Retailers, processors and food producers all have a stake in the market (in some cases a single corporation may own producers and processors in the same commodity). The bigger the player the more they can be a price setter, and the closer to a monopoly or an oligopoly there is, the greater control over either the prices they pay for inputs or that they charge for their product. A hypothetical 'Big Egg' would be able to set what it pays farmers, and set what it can charge wholesalers and retailers (a Walmart may be able to force some change but smaller players may not). Does it happen in the egg market? Who knows. And in any other grocery line? Maybe. But does market power allow some corporations to set prices without regard to costs. Of course it can.

Mauritius is in the Commonwealth, so the sovereignty transfer of the Chagos doesn't reduce the scope of the organisation.

That said, I'm happy to pay any way the provider prefers, I have cash ready but am more than happy to use PayID (bank-run direct payment) or credit/debit card (never happened). In the US card or cash would be my only options.

At the risk of keeping this thread off topic - remember, the question is about why clients want to pay only in cash, not a general Lounge appropriate discussion about whether cash still has a role - in this country cash is a fading payment method but, unlike cheques is not dead. Cash is legal tender but that doesn't mean you are always entitled to use it. A contract trumps the right to use cash and can specify how you have to pay. A sign in a shop saying 'No cash' is part of your contract to buy something there. You can always decide not to patronise them, but if they only lose say 1% of their business they may not care. Some politicians chasing publicity have caused a momentary fuss (that usually lasts for about a New York minute) but Parliament usually only passes things the one of the major parties want it to.

Arrest him. Now his rig is stopped it's no longer moving air. Calm air isn't sailboat fuel.