mike carey

Yes, I have some like that. Blue base that has a blue strobe LED in it. Perfect! Bought them in the Reject Shop or Dollar Shop, or some such. Also perfect for camping, and I use the word advisedly!

I think it would be reasonable for a guest to ask if you had wine available (especially if it were a guest who you'd previously offered wine), but I would equally see 'No' as a reasonable answer. I'd be more concerned about serving any drinks in clear glasses at such a party, but especially in thin, relatively fragile wine glasses.

No problems at all, it's easy enough for a search to miss its targets and come up blank. No apology needed. (I don't require ass (for the obvious reason), grass or gas for doing searches!) I only remembered him because he's a Sydney boy.

Or perhaps under the same name. And no, I haven't tried him in Sydney! Yet.

Good grief, tell us what you really think!

There's less than a week to go until the kick-off of the World Cup in Australia and Aotearoa. A couple of days ago FFA flew a little girl called Matilda into Melbourne from around the country for each of the members of the national team to present them with their match jerseys. A bunch of little Matildas to present the grown up Matildas with those jerseys. Tonight on the DW news they showed the German team at their winter training ground on the NSW Central Coast in brilliant sunshine at 20 degrees, with the comment that going for a swim at the beach seemed totally in order. Tonight Australia played France in a friendly in Melbourne in front of a sell-out crowd of 50,000, a record for the Matildas. Next week, 80,000 are expected at the opening game of the tournament in Sydney when Australia play Ireland. In case you were wondering, AUS 1 FRA 0.

I certainly saw the flashing satire lights and heard the klaxon. Well, perhaps not satire but at least deliberate 'here is a ridiculous idea that sounds like it will work right up to the moment you give it the briefest thought'.

But you're a dead set legend, Ace. That doesn't mean you couldn't have regrets, but I'm not surprised you don't!

Finally, a moment of self-awareness!

Nice images, in your inimitable style. And in studiously sailing past the point I was making, you caught me out, I have never been to Canada in winter. Siberia and elsewhere in Russia in December, and Norway and Sweden in winter yes, but never Canada, so I defer to your far greater wisdom on such things. Heaters were an adaptation drive in theatres in Canberra made to extend the season in which they could operate. I didn't suggest, nor would I, that they could provide a way to permit year-round operation in Montréal. Few, apart from you, would have inferred that from what I wrote.

It was a joke. Back in the day, when there were two drive-ins in Canberra, where the temperature can quickly drop to zero (32F) after sunset in winter, they had heaters to hang on the car window as well as the speaker.

Tell that to young people these days, and they just won't believe you. But in MY day, it were absolutely true..

More than one. I suspect though, that the day is rarely in January, which as I have known all my life is when summer holidays fall.

Indeed, 'Welcome to this year's Darwin Awards, and our first contestant is ...'

Meanwhile, it has been snowing in Jo'burg (26°S, 1753m elevation), for the first time in a decade! Johannesburg residents enchanted by once-in-a-decade snow - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU Residents of South Africa's biggest city Johannesburg are stunned by the first snowfall in over a decade.

You've spelt 'simplistic' incorrectly.

The information linking the escort name to the alleged felon is taken from the article and uses the police as a source. That does nothing to link a particular escort to the alleged offences. Providing a link to an escort ad that appears to be of the 'Bruno' in the report would contravene forum rules against disclosing personal information about escorts. Members are free to do their own research but not to post the results here. MC Mod.

Indeed! Delete the diagonal red bits for the original union flag.

That's a perfect example of what I said earlier. You need to understand why the spin-off happened. In this case the spin-off was unambiguously successful. It threw a bad business division out of the parent company, just what it appears it was aiming to do. In a sense, a conglomerate spinning off a poorly performing division is the equivalent of a mutual fund selling a poorly performing stock. If you stay with the conglomerate, or with the mutual fund, you benefit from a diversity of its holdings and lose the dead weight of the poorly performing division or stock. As long as, in the case of the spun-off entity you divest yourself of its stock forthwith.

Yes, there are people who disagree with statements of objective reality. Whether gender neutral programs are confusing is not an objective fact, it is a subjective assessment that each individual makes.

Yup!

Lol, I have to check myself and remember to say RT in here rather than talk about a return fare!

The penny just dropped as to why the TV report I saw today on this event had a chyron referring to it as 'gelatinous'. AI strikes again.

Not confusing at all.

It's worth bearing in mind that you can't (or rather shouldn't) judge whether it's been 'successful' only on what happens to the entity that was spun off. You need to consider the total value of the spin-off and the parent company and also what the stated (or perhaps unstated) aims of the board were in splitting the company. The spin off may have operated in different market segments or had a different risk profile to the main company. Either of those could have made it difficult to manage the combined entity. If the proposal to spin off a division into a new company is touted as increasing the value of the residual company you can reasonably be cautious about what that means for the spin-off. Still, it's possible for both to do better apart than they would together. After any split, you still own the same proportion of the total assets of the separate companies as you did of the original combined entity. BUT they are now separate companies and you should consider their place in your portfolio on their separate merits, and not let their history of being the one company influence you.