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eskilstuna eskilstuna is a town in the county of södermanland in sweden it is the seat of eskilstuna municipality equation of state in physics chemistry and thermodynamics equations of state are used to describe the state a dynamical system is in equations of state are commonly used to describe the state of gases and fluids in the real world equations of state are approximations they can be quite complex to write down and usually they are solved using numerical methods variables there are certain variables such as pressure volume or temperature that can be used to describe such a system so in its simplest form an equation of state is a function that takes these dependent variables as input the state can then be as simple as saying that in its current state the function has the numerical value zero formula1 where p ist the pressure v is the volume and t is the temperature ideal gas the simplest of these describes an ideal gas it is the ideal gas law this law can also be used to describe the state of real gases in certain conditions such as with a low pressure and high temperature rissos dolphin the rissos dolphin grampus griseus is the only species of dolphin in the genusgrampus bucine bucine is acomunein the province of arezzo in the italian region of tuscany chagatai language chagatai language is one of the extinct turkic languages spoken in central asia chagatai was a member of the eastern turkic branch of the altaic languages family and was a literary language from the timur period and the timurids until the early twentieth century
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accusative case the accusative case is the grammatical case which marks the direct object of a transitive verb this is best explained with examples forms in the sentencehesees the womanheis the subject of the sentence in the sentencethe woman seeshimhimis the object english so in english we use different forms of the pronoun hehimhimwould be the accusative case if we use a noun there is no difference in english we use the same wordman the man sees the womanandthe woman sees the man in many languages different forms of the word are used depending on what function it has in the sentence subject or object latin for example in latinthe man sees the womanvir feminam videt whilethe woman sees the manfemina virum videt forman latin usesvirfor the subject andvirumfor the object also in the same sentences we havefeminafor a subject andfeminamfor object the form used for the direct object himvirumfeminam is known as theaccusative case while the form used for the subject hevirfemina is known as the nominative case german in some languages like german the accusative case is applied to the definite article and not to the noun in germanthe caras the subject of a sentence may beder wagen this is the form in the nominative case whenthe caris used as the object in a sentence it becomesden wagen the accusative strict weak ordering strict weak ordering is a binary relation on a set such relations define a strict ordering but they contain several elements of the same type an example might be the relationcosts less than oris cheaper than for any two elements that areof different types the relation holds on the other hand there are some elements that cannot be ordered that way because they are of the same type an example for such a relation may be the relationcosts less than milk maycost less thanbread and bread may cost less than cake two items of different types may cost less than another but they can otherwise have the same price two different algorithms that sort words by the number of letters in the word may not give the same ordering of the words with the same number of letters but they will always give an ordering where the fourletter words come before the fiveletterwords and after the threeletterwords time will give a strict weak ordering too events that are equivalent in the timeframe happen at the same time rain and snow mixed rain and snow mixed is known as sleet outside of north america and some parts of canada it happens when some of snow that is falling melts into water causing precipitation that is not quite snow but not quite rain the name may be shortened to rasn bulletproof vest a bulletproof vest also calledbulletproof vestbody armororbody armour is a protective piece of clothing that covers the torso chest abdomen and back of a person it protects the wearer from most pistol and revolver bullets and from fragments of explosive devices such as grenades bulletproof vests are worn by police officers soldiers security guards and people who are at risk of being shot such as the leader of a country how do they work bulletproof vests contain many layers of tightlywoven fabric such as kevlar or hard strong materials such as ceramic or titanium which can stop the metal pistol or revolver bullets or metal shell fragments from going into a persons body how much protection does a bulletproof vest provide when a bullet hits a bulletproof vest the forceful impact of the bullet can seriously hurt or even kill the person wearing the vest even if the vest stops the bullet a bullet from a strong sniper rifle or machine gun can pierce a bulletproof vest if a bullet hits a body part that the bulletproof vest does not cover the bullet can hurt or kill the person wearing the vest types of vests the bulletproof vests worn by most police officers and security guards are made with many layers of tightlywoven fabric such as kevlar bulletproof vests for soldiers are heavier and stronger than the bulletproof vests worn by police officers and security guards because soldiers need protection from rifle and machine gun bullets bulletproof vests for soldiers often have flat pieces of ceramic material or a strong metal such as titanium these materials can stop bullets from many rifles and machine guns argument from nonbelief the argument from nonbelief is a philosophical argument that says that god probably does not exist if god did exist and wanted humans to know it he would show himself or make it otherwise clear to all that he existed since he has not yet done so he probably does not exist an argument from reasonable nonbelief a formal argument is as follows
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amignyrouy amignyrouy is a commune it is in the picardie region in the aisne department in the north of france the inhabitants of the commune are known asaizyjoisoraizyjoises deb creator deb creator is a program to compile programs from source code to createdeb packages saint james barbados the parish of saint james st james is in the western part of the country of barbados st james is known as theplatinum coast there are many rich people who visit or live here the parish is home to the queens college alton utah alton is a town in kane county utah united states delta junction alaska delta junction is a city in alaska in the united states
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wellington missouri wellington is a city in lafayette county missouri united states eileithyia eileithyia was the goddess of childbirth and midwifery in greek mythology she is the daughter of zeus and hera king and queen of the gods while she is not a prominent deity in ancient greek religion eileithyia does feature in a number of myths her roman counterpart was lucina important cultural properties of japan is a list of items made by the japanese agency for cultural affairs these are places and things that are especially important to the japanese people types of cultural properties japans government made a law for the protection of cultural properties a to protect its culture it chooses important items and names them as cultural properties the law sets rules about changing repairing or exporting these items there is also which sets a lower level of protection and support for registered cultural properties than for designated cultural properties there are different levels of designation designation can be at a or level designations of a different level can coexist for example sankeien a traditional japanesestyle garden in naka ward yokohama owns both city designated and nationally designated important cultural properties fattail scorpion fattail scorpion or fattailed scorpion is the main name given to scorpions from the genus androctonusandroctonusis one of the most dangerous groups of scorpion species in the world they live in the semiarid and arid regions of africa and the middle east they are a moderatesized scorpion they have lengths of near 4 inches stings from theandroctonusspecies are known to cause several human deaths each year geographic range the fattailed scorpion is seen widely in armenia turkey morocco egypt saudi arabia and israel many countries nearby also see the fattailed scorpion frévincapelle frévincapelle is a commune it is found in the region nordpasdecalais in the pasdecalais department in the north of france
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ramicourt ramicourt is a commune it is found in the region picardie in the aisne department in the north of france we have received apologies for absence from er from er mr are there any other apologies which weve received thank you the minutes of the meeting held on the twentieth of october have been er distributed there is one modification er which has been drawn to our attention that is mr ian was present on that day subject to that er amendment is it your wish that i should sign those minutes as a true record of that meeting agreed thank you er public petitions none have been received er other business none has been notified questions none has been received we therefore move to item one on the agenda which is the local management of primary and secondary schools and i call upon mr christopher to introduce the report thank you chairman the home manual school panel meeting erm on erm for sometime now and i think for those people who dont get to see the government it is an illustration of how it can and should be done because once the vigorous discussion rarely does anyone sit and accuse us of having had clearly party political discussions we had a job of work to do and as a result of that job of work is in front of you now in items one and two item one deals with further delegations and aspects of further delegations er to primary and secondary schools the officers on part of the panel have consulted schools very carefully about the last remnants of possible delegation which might arise and the recommendations are as presented to us in red set out in section three section three point one gives aspects of further delegation which the panel considers after consultation with schools should not be proceeded with in nineteen ninety four ninety five and justification for that is in the papers which is attached to agenda item one it should be realised of course that this does not close the door on further delegation each year should indeed there be indication from the schools that they would so wish section three point two deals with funding for non pupils with special educational needs we suggest that this present system which i think many of us have doubts about should continue for practical reasons for nineteen ninety four ninety five only and for ninety five ninety six we will have the benefit of the audit three point three has been rather involved er aspects of examining average teacherssalary costs basically will fall down given that weve had a sixty five percent return from schools and we will be able to use this year coming year the actual mandatory points in determining how delegation of salaries should be proceeded with three point four is a small matter of deputy head whilst it would be inappropriate of course to er schools indefinitely should there be reduction in numbers certainly we do need a mechanism by which small reductions in numbers dont lead to a tragic and drastic loss of staff section three point five is banking needs that er there was quite a lot of current by arrangements but opt outs use erm thats an unfortunate word in terms of education and will be allowed for those who are wishing to have alternative arrangements the panel is still considering the divisional schools library service erm the theyre very clear is at to whether these costs to the library is a fixed cost or a variable cost or perhaps even more to the point that it will need to reach the cost of libraries are fixed and variable and the differing views both within the panel and schools about that and the panel is continuing deliberating research on that basis i have pleasure in moving the in section six of this report as shown on page five thank you is there a seconder on that motion well further i further question the policy erm which erm just mentioned the average salary issue is that we want erm thats thats gonna cost us a million pounds next year but we are doing it so theres a million pounds in growth in everybodys er budget and basically everybodys budget when we come to later erm on school libraries were thinking of maintaining school library service and be as be as fair as possible for schools that are different sizes that i have erm that i have erm erm doing that agreed agreed agreed agreed thank you we move then to item two the management of the schools nursery and special schools erm this is er mostly by thank you erm the speed with which we dealt with item one is encouraging or rather its somebody might be but item two again maybe if proposals which perhaps er a little controversy there are two separate issues involved here first of all there is the issue of nursery education we have no statutory obligation er to devise scheme for the delegation of nursery schools nevertheless failure to do so would cause them problems first of all nursery schools would be dealing with the county council on a different basis from the vast of of the schools population and that will give rise to anomalies and complications which would be undesirous and secondly there might be problems particularly if they are considering expanding nursery provision between nursery schools and nursery classes in primary schools both of these can be avoided by delegating nursery schools on a similar basis to the delegation which was made for ordinary schools and again you consulted about that and the proposal laid in this report and as for all special schools there is an obligation to provide a scheme for local management of special schools with effect from april this year er we consulted there was a little bit of chasing which had to take place in which you can see in section four of the report but following that chasing we now ascertain meeting schools on favourable proposals for or against and once a week that a view of and also undertaking as you know on that basis i will propose happily to suggest that those in in section six of this report and i second agenda and erm we ask for your attention to para three point four er which is the financial part of this budget really and it says that some contingencies in nursery schools should be increased erm that it is actually allowed for in the later budget erm the tax payer budget will be er mr yes chairman erm im i should like to draw attention to the paragraph three two and wonder what happened to three three because er we see it goes from my copy goes from three two to three four so er i dont know whether there is anything in three three that i have forgotten but i i assume now that i which theyre are two other erm may in fact find in reading the application of formula rather difficult to cope with because theyre very special circumstances and of course the small nursery schools erm if theres if theres a query then indeed i i three three might be one of them the effective speech is there an added speech in what you are referring sorry yes i i i im a very im two appendix b appendix b b er c er but there isnt three three erm other than clairify the erm all solutions were made available to members of the panel as an appendix to the reports to the policy panel er but that they wont to all members efficiency but were made available thats not the point there appears to be a in as much as there is a a section there is appendix b as the three two o three three typographical error next business i am assured that it is just a typographical error they would say that wouldnt they we are after all teaching these children to count which children money that motion has been added to agreed thank you very much it seems that you all want to hurry on to item three a erm as far as the timetable is concerned erm is going to make certain clarifications which well start with and is going to introduce the report and then to give some explanations after that we shall move to the three motions and there will be one debate on all three motions chairman er i have a petition that i have been asked to present er at what point do you wish me to do that i suggest that that is er brought maybe before the motions immediately before the motions are put erm after the motions after the debate as one debate i am proposing not later than twelve forty five to call for the winding up erm speeches by the three movers of the motions and to take the votes erm prior to lunch if necessary lunch will constitute an adjournment thank you er may i then ask if would er give clarifications on certain items thank you mr chairman i just want to cover three areas the first one has already been mentioned and relates to the actual average salary the second one is in relation to the sheet in front of you headed school meals and third area erm is the typographical errors on some resolutions to to take you through as far as the actual average salary is concerned if you look at page nineteen paragraph k a white page on your report page nineteen paragraph k and there you will see that youre promised an audit report on the position relating to teacherssalaries i can confirm that the position is consistent with the remarks that that were made earlier on cos you have within the budget here sufficient money to provide for our current estimate of next years actual earning salary in these schools we have returns so far from sixty five per cent of the schools and we expect to have the remaining schools before the end of the month i wouldnt expect it to change from where we are at the moment but if there was a significant variation then i will be in a position to report back to the policy committee at the end of the month but im im not expecting that need be the case the second area relates to erm school meals and you have in front of you an erratum sheet the sheet outlines two areas of er change relative to erm in the main report firstly i am reporting to you that there has been in the current year additional efficiency savings over and above those that previously anticipated er at the level of two hundred thousand pounds and so we are assuming in the budget erm that those can continue into ninety four five and thereafter and then well see the resolutions have been amended to take that into account and the text of the erratum sheet explains how thats been done appendix ten which is attached to the erratum sheet its the seventh page youll see there that youve got in front of you all the figures that were really erm concerned with in favour of the and amend er the report on lines fifty four a and fifty four b showing two hundred thousand pounds savings on school meals and you will see that reflected in the columns headed conservatives labour and liberal democrats and those are consistent with the resolution papers that are in front of you another aspect of this change is the erm the change in line fifty eight where the business and saving in the current year carried forward has been increased to seven nine one from five nine one you can see in the report and you will see that operated in the new appendix ten the second aspect of the school meals changes are with that alternative meal saving and would best be introduced erm if members were to decide that this is the way we wanted to go from april ninety five rather than in sept september ninety four as suggested and attached to the report and that delays the savings but achieves the same saving but not until nineteen ninety six seven and you will see that the figures have been amended and to take that into account and thats on line fifty four b appendix ten the third area i need to take you through is some erm typographical amendments to the resolutions that you have in front of you so if you just bear with me i proposed to go through those and perhaps if you want to mark them on the sheets as i go through and if im going too fast erm just wave the first erm resolution sheet that you have in front of you is a pink one erm so the labour group there are no typographical errors on the pink sheet i have to say these these are documents in terms of the addition erm the next erm feature is the yellow one for the liberal democrats theres one liberal democrat typographical error and thats on the second page page four of the resolutions and youll see that in the second column theres a total three three three five that should be amended to sorry three three three five that should be amended to three one five five and then where it says nine the resource budget immediately below that nine four five ninety four five o its three hundred and sixty thousand three hundred and sixty million six hundred thousand that stays the same the figure that is three six one nine two o should be changed to three six one seven four o yes is everybody with me on that one again the appendix ten figures reflect the the actual position all were doing is amending the resolutions and turn to the blue sheets there are dozens and the first typo typographical error on the blue sheets is erm item six f the first figure for section eleven should be three three eight rather than three three four and the two totals at the bottom of paragraph six should read three one o eight and two nine three zero theyre academic anyway turn over the page to page six paragraph eight item d eight d strategy the figures is a hundred and six and it should be one five six god and the total should be one three three six in that column crap and thats it thank you very much thank you er paul erm im now ask er to introduce county chairman im pleased to present to the committee the report of the head of finance and myself on each resource budget in nineteen ninety four i think i should start by stressing the process through which we have gone in order to prepare this report has been somewhat different this year from that which we followed in the past and on on past experience there has been more expensive consultation with head teachers and the governors than has been possible er before and i hope the result of that it is reflected in the pages that you have in front of you i am grateful both to the education spokespersons who put a great deal of time in in order to carry out erm their preparations towards this report and to and to take part in the consultation exercises and to my own colleagues erm the fruits of that work will be revealed in the decisions that are made er later on today i am not intending to go through the report in detail erm but i hope that i we will now need to draw attention to one or two issues erm which are of particular concern and which emerged through the consultation process first of all the issue of increasing pupil numbers i am sure that we are all delighted that numbers in schools are now rising because it can be a very difficult situation in which to work when er a head teacher and governing body find themselves trying to manage a continuous decline at the same time that does create pressures upon the school and in particular it creates pressures upon you in terms of finding the money in order to ensure that those pupils are resourced adequately you have therefore erm a proposal for a figure of over five million pounds to meet the demands of increased pupil numbers er next year and of course that will be a continuing pressure for the future secondly i know that this committee has over a time been concerned about the resource needs of primary schools weve all been aware of the extent to which the local management formula er has made clear erm the rather er significant difference between the resourcing of pupils in their families primary education and their early years of secondary education i hope you it will give particular attention to that issue er in your del deliberations later this morning nursery education is an issue which is being drawn to your attention i know over again a number of er months and years hertfordshires position on nursery education is a good one by comparison with very many other local authorities including many counties it is an area to which the county council has given priority in the past that does not change the fact that as far as parents are concerned if there is no nursery school or nursery class available to them then for them there is no provision at all and i know that you will want to address the question of whether you can find additional resources for nursery education er in the course of the debate i would also i think put in a word for the work of the joint po policy panel erm which is shared between this committee and the social services committee because it seems to me that it is not for us to be thinking that there is a group of children for who nursery education is necessary er or desirable and a different group of children for whom something else erm is necessary and desirable largely because of their parentsposition we do have to look at all our preschool children as a group who have similar means as they grow and they learn and they develop and i hope that we can continue to push for a coordinated approach to the whole range of services that we are o offering to that group of children and to their families thirdly special educational needs has been an issue for this committee in the past and will no doubt continue to be an issue in the future we are continuing to experience a significant er pressure from schools in terms of requests for form assessment and statementing of children with special educational needs in the current term we are receiving requests at the rate of something like twenty five per week and of course that has the implications both in terms of handling them through the through the assessment and statementing process and it has implications in terms of finding the resources to support those children once the statements of provision are are drawn up you will not therefore be surprised to see a number of items in er the budget report which relates to special needs issues it is an attempt to ask you to consider to maintain the sort of progress that we have been making erm in past years but its a problem is not going to go away at the present time it is being compounded of course by the er effects of nineteen ninety three education act with all that that act implies or tightening up er many of the processes and procedures that we follow in dealing with special educational needs we have a host of new draft documents for consultation from the department for education many of them received just over christmas and parents and schools are looking to us to give them help er in providing for what is a very rapidly moving situation section eleven grant you have discussed with this committee on a number of occasions i know that the concern is shared right across the committee about the implications of the reductions which the government is proposing in section eleven grant i think i told you some months ago that i would be asking you to consider that in the course of your budget debate and er true to form ive brought it in front of you this morning the need to prepare schools and help to help schools prepare themselves for the erm review of the national curriculum the changes that they will have to deal with and in particular i think erm to help secondary schools to come to terms with changes in key stage four and the likely erm opportunities there will be for a more diverse curriculum including eventually er the opportunities for more vocational programmes in schools and to assist schools to build on their own interest and commitment to erm deliver improved pupil attainments at sixteen and and at eighteen nineteen in response the national education and training targets is an area which should not be forgotten a number of these things that i have already raised this morning are perhaps are er primary phase issues rather than secondary but we must remember that the pressures on secondary schools continue as in the primary phase and finally another concern which you are all very well aware of and which particularly if youre governors you will have drawn to your attention constantly is erm the continuing concern about our educational building stock both in terms of its adequacy as regards the size and the capacity of the accommodation at where some schools are concerned its need for repair and maintenance work and its need for adaptation to meet the new demands of the curriculum er you have er a substantial er appendix within your er agenda papers which set out proposals from the buildings policy panel which would help you to deal with some of those issues i shall be very brief and simply mention that a number of the savings erm and the increased income that is available to to avoid savings are the result of your own policies developed over a number of years and i hope implemented with a degree of further manage managerial action which has actually given you some money to spend erm which will avoid you having to make er painful cuts in order to fund a new growth and in particular i would highlight the significant movement that has has now taken place children from special educational needs provision outside the county back into the county erm th the reduction in the cost of discretionary awards which is partly the result of the policies that are partly also changing the in the national situation and increased recruitment funding and in an area into which officers put in a great deal of time to try to make sure that we do the equivalent they should be getting it is a relief i suppose today that i am able to speak to you on the basis erm of financial output which is a good deal more favourable than we expected even six months ago indeed i think we frightened some schools six months ago erm not by any means er wi malice aforethought if er because we all thought that the financial situation might be very much worse than it is even so the range of pressures that this committee faces and the need to try to balance out the sufficience of needs across a wide range of interest groups and a wide range of of er pupils and schools means that your decisions are never easy you need also a course to be provident for the future in terms of ensuring that you will be able to continue to discharge your responsibilities in years to come it wont be easy erm but the decisions are now for you to make thank you chairman thank you er erm the john is now are going to explain certain aspects of the er thank you chairman i just want to draw attention to three major components within the committee report erm the first is the base resource budget which is set out on page four table one the base resource budget started with the ninety three four budget of three hundred and forty two and a half million and er through the addition of certain growth items most notably that requires the demography for the additional pupil numbers we establish a base resource budget there of three hundred and fifty nine and a half million a seven million growth over the current ninety three four budget the second area of the report which i would want to draw your attention to is that area concerned with growth and savings and a number have put forward in sections seven eight nine and ten of the report that on pages six seven and eight and its got within those growth and savings that we can work to the target set by the policy committee the high target of three hundred and sixty two point two million and the low target of three sixty point six million then thirdly i would like to draw your attention to the report of the capital programme er policy programme where theyre putting forward a recommendation for a number of minor and major building projects within the capital guidelines and those are set out in appendix er appendices five and six finally attached to your report er theres appendix ten which is the a three sheets the first sheet has not been changed and the first sheet shows the base resource budget which you are being asked to recommend on line twenty one and then it shows a number of savings which can be achieved through efficiency and volume changes if those are then accepted you have a second sheet to appendix ten which has been er modified and which has been circulated just prior to the meeting that sets out the growth of the savings and which it contains in the report with paragraph and appendix reference numbers on them and it sets out for each of the groups their proposed budgets it is from that sheet that the figures were transcribed on to the erm on to the pink and the the the the erm blue and the yellow sheets which have been circulated and which have been amended so that the figures now correspond on both sheets thank you next i was going to ask before erm are there any questions of fact i dont want anybody anticipating the debate but are the any questions on fact mr martin erm er chairman may i ask a question on paragraph four four and appendix three thats on page four and appendix three on the increased percentage on school milk charge i see that percentage is quite high way above the in the in the inflation figure er at seven point five per er percent and i wonder if i could have an explanation for the reason for that very high increase the er percentage is identified at the top of appendix three annexe one of appendix three er let me come back on that issue the er right well the e e c have cut their grants of all school milk i think youll find certainly on that being discovered i would imagine that its similar to the county council thank you may i ask er er mr that it would whether she would now er pass forward the petition erm i gather you wish to just present the petition yes at this stage but you wish to speak during the debate tha that is right chairmani i have a petition from the watford indian association containing seventy five signatures er it is about the future provision of section eleven which appears in the main report you will no doubt appear as part of the budget debate i think you can see if you look at the er er around the chamber at the amount of interest that this er has aroused and the the header referred to the number of other petitions and er er letters that have been received therefore this time i will just hand it to you chairman and er er reserve my rights to thank you very much thank you i acknowledge this er receipt of this petition and im glad to see the er er support of the present will change er i understand that er mr is now ready to respond to the questions yes well erm it it isnt the effect of the changing er e c grant thats elsewhere in the budget and legislative changes item with the increasing cost there er if you can change the grant or for instance where were getting less grant from the e c what it is is reflecting the intervention crisis of milk oh oh the cost of milk undoubtedly going up it is increasing the price in line the increase in cost of milk so just that further clarification if i may we are passing the increase er cost of milk on in the charge that were making yes thank you right now to read er we first call upon labour er bob to move the motion standing at the erm give them some wellie but i dont think ill do that erm sorry erm this budget has a very long gestation period er im on version twelve i think at the last count and i hope there isnt gonna be a version thirteen erm i ought to thank everybody erm officers members head groups service groups unionistspetitions and all whove written to us weve taken all this into account erm im not sure all groups have tried to do that erm but we have tried to please everyone we do have some particular priorities and we do want to make significant improvements in service where we can and not necessarily looking for cheap publicity by increasing in lots of places as some people are supposed to of done so where one concludes sometime a significant amount of money in but will have a noticeable difference to their essential service i am going to go through the pink sheet i think thats easiest if i do that erm on the top of your pile first the base budgetan this and return to give increase the expenditure is the five million pounds or so needed for the increased number of pupils now were meeting that in full and im glad to see that all three fiscal groups er proposing to meet that in full of course last year that didnt happen and last year hidden away in the first part of the er the budget papers was this cut in the amount of money going to each pupil erm in education in secondary school so this year we are not doing that were going to meet the full cost of so in that sense the formula will be unchanged and of course theres growth er later in the budget and both primary and secondary schools in terms delegated budgets weve have already mentioned the million pounds extra for salaries theres another cost of a million pounds which results from a change in government policy of the cost of government policy now this is including the er unfair funding of g m schools and including the loss of that was just just mentioned now another of those things will be increased service thats stand still thats the best way to stand still there are other elements later which which imp improve the coordinated pension for each pupil erm well that base budget is rather higher than we are expecting and the time when the policy committee set its targets for each of the service committees its about eighty million pounds higher than we were expecting it so whereas the policy committee were allowing us three point five million grant maximum on top of the er base budget now course thats reduced because with cash limited to the total on to the base plus so getting a lot less than with the group so they might say increase to about two and a half million rather than the figure we had earlier so in net terms we can have maximum we wont go to this in the current till next year erm two and a half million pounds of growth thats roughly about the same hours as the governments just decided to spend on sending the parents charter to every household in britain i think thats gonna cost over two million as well erm the governments there are telling parents what they ought to do this hypocritical exhortation er which is government policy these days erm is costing them same amount of money theyre actually spending intending increasing erm education division i use the phrase hypocritical exhortation because i know jim is sitting there with a tape recorder and taking note of all the words we are using today our dictionary so i think the phrase hypocritical exhortation i said three times in relation to in relation to the conservative partys current policy back to basics and all that i think is the appropriate expression to bear in mind erm okay let me go on now to er the next section of the the er resolution which follows the report in terms of savings erm in para seven of that seven and para eight now all groups have savings erm another piece of that service on the great wall of justice around this morning erm i the officers to take certain elsewhere moving on to the row on paragraph eight again all three groups are agreed er on this except with one i think exception of a certain group er no one exception it is to not allow appropriate expenditure on section eleven erm both the labour and the liberal parties erm think its extremely important that we maintain this provision for the curriculum pupils who might wish to have petition early and we will maintain in full so the current level of provision under section eleven will be may next year which puts a large sum on the money into that this is growth in expenditure the making up of government cuts increasing the money were spending its not increasing service its simply continuing the current current policies but it will continue as it is now er against the cost of government changes so this last part of this budget is actually the cost of making up for government cuts and section of and were disappointed that conservatives decided to cut the section they were funding for next year i dont know how much theyre cutting it but the figures change again today no doubt er so let me move on then to erm the growth areas well the growth area section in ten part of that is again again maintaining this level of service er so if i move on to er the savings under paragraph nine bottom of the pink sheet im going to say a word about the efficiency savings on school meals and the proposal from the conservatives bringing this alternative meal system now we couldnt do it anyway next year well have to do it the following year as weve heard earlier erm now im interested in this proposal so i tried that on my daughter last this is erm the menu this is the menu of which erm is being used in some exp as an experiment in some schools you have fish fingers one day monday beef stew then hot dogs wednesday battered fish thursday and turkey jackets on friday erm with very little choice now i gave this to my daughter whos sixteen and also her school mates and she said well wheres the beef burgers wheres the beef so so im dubious about this in terms of quality of nutrition in terms of choice being offered and i think we need to look a lot more closely at this before we jump into agreement change or in the system it couldnt happen anyway in the next financial year itd have to be the following financial year now i think that the whole school meals issue not just this but also the way in which cost savings are being achieved at the moment in schools erm needs looking at by members we need members need to get a grip on what is happening and my wife suggests this that the panel erm rather than setting up a new panel look at the whole issue of school meals this and other issues ill get a load of erm in some ways as long as the nutrition is kept as long as choice is available as long as theyre popular with kids then erm it might not be the okay so i was on savings at the bottom of erm the sheets er we are grateful to the education department for finding this two hundred thousand and er the the certain departments save as well one of the payments im sure and again its not a direct cut in the short places so growth savings in terms of erm provision in educational service direct so i can now move on to the next page which is the growth were proposing given the saving given the splendid things that are allowed by the erm by the now there are four significant areas first theres total here of a million pounds in the er next financial year when er part inland revenue and part of which will find well in excess of a thousand extra nursery places now all is quite clear in the consultations certainly the one we have with the the heads whilst that they didnt want to continue the previous policy of expanding their tradition by increasing class sizes we are absolutely clear on that it came over quite clearly from heads the previous policy of increasing class sizes and therefore not spending any more money but claiming were doing a lot for nursery education the previous policy erm was not one which they wanted to support if were going to increase nursery provision weve got to do it by putting putting money where our mouths are huh putting our money where perhaps some conservative government peoplesmouths are as well and theyre all very keen to will the ends but theyre not so keen to will the means anyway this is the means theres a million pounds here erm next year we we effect and other members can speak about that and the work that they first have erm i do notice that that the latest report from the erm commission on on education and the book we all had to read does give us this first priority er provision in nursery education particularly in areas er deprived areas if you read that er book er from the commission you will find their very first goal is in relation to nursery education in deprived areas and the panels looking at that looking at indicators of of deprivation as well as erm the moving on lets have a talk about the primary school budgets were proposing a million pounds here for primary school delegated budgets er we assume that the schools have used that largely by noncontact time for the teachers er we cant tell them how to use the money we presume they will do that erm this is a significant increase on the amount that the conservatives seem to be suggesting which is just i think deputy heads so there are a hundred and forty thousand er deputy heads to go er moving on swiftly er the next big area again theres another million pounds in total for special educational needs erm and provision for pupils so if you add up section c thats the to schools of budgets and the included that comes to another million pounds sum of budget now we notice that whilst the other groups are agreeing the officers that we actually buy sports theyre not putting money into delegated budgets now i i i was a teacher a head teacher and i was told that the erm the essential the educational departments finding more money for devices and to give advice to school now theyre all unnecessary as it is i would say we are the ones that carry out the job were on the ground weve got to do it huh its not good helping us to do it we need money to to do it within schools so we are proposing an increase in the delegated budgets of both primary and secondary schools special educational needs thats about five per cent on the current six million pound allocation which alone is based on free school mealsshould make a future upon the special needs audit moving down i am not going to comment on the conservative resolution erm theres all sorts of cuts in there and lack of growth i am going to ignore it actually the tories are so far out of touch huh on erm both nationally and locally totally out of touch with what people think and that the government will obviously untouched we all know that but im surprised and disappointed the conservative opposite are also out of touch and the figure is way out from both the liberal and the labour way out and with all the consultations its had the theyre cutting everywhere and theyre growing erm i am not going to bother with a certain group like attack i dont necessary erm so if i move on then now to eight d which is forty the fund we have written into the resolution huh lets be clear about that erm how we want that fund to be distributed we discussed this at the panel and they proposed that we should in effect give the money to erm a non county body involved in this to allocate to work out both the basis of the allocation and the allocation funds in this order we think thats inappropriate if were putting up money then we should also have the responsibility for allocating them among a until the done and the done so im at all or whether our council or something to be set up in the future should have equal control of that that money erm ive given a zero for all the effects because they of money erm if it i if if this idea works well then we consider that growth next year as well but to be prudent wh why didnt you justify the service environment rule to be prudent erm i i have assumed that will be a proper effect and therefore im not assume the potential of next years base budget i would like to think mr that you are coming towards the end oh yes here here can see im erm the next item is similar to that education which i shall speak to you later and then erm at the moment on a couple of programme we put some money into this er together er more er we notice that the conservatives havent i think thats all i want to say on on that erm now in general terms this budget keeps within policy guidelines and i am grateful to environment committee for sticking to their lower level and help us out as mentioned yesterday the labour group will keep within the government capping limits obviously we will and therefore the council tax increase is getting no more than about four percent so you cant claim all this growth is gonna well it certainly cant count all this growth is going to er with this ma massive increase in council tax the average council tax payer the council tax cant be more than around four percent erm which reminds me of the last miracle budget we had ninety eighty nine i think it was again a labour budget which i think was three point nine per cent increase then and the lowest rate of increase for twenty years erm and the highest level of growth erm erm again if any of the the increases under the tories cut it as soon as they got back in power were putting it back again and this time were gonna make it stick yeah just to conclude this is the best budget educations had for many years its good news for schools its good news for council tax payers and mostly importantly its good news for pupils and i hope youll accept that thank you is er anyone prepared to second that thank you and now we call upon er paul to present the er liberal democrat er yes thank you chairman i hope to be slightly er more brief erm in proposal of the liberal democrat budget of er er three six o point six million which i would remind with your permission is the er the minimum target er er suggested by by er i think we must remind ourselves that er this years as i say is by no means er generous and for that reason were not aiming higher not because we wouldnt like to but because we recognize the the restrictions placed from elsewhere i think this is one of the chairman because there was so many horrendous forecasts in the summer and autumn about the s s a that when it was announced you know we thought it was goods news and of course it wasnt erm so this is why theyre trying to be prudent and we have kept in our proposals to the erm has already mentioned that er thank god the er democratic growth has been covered this year and so on erm plenty of other things that we would like to see erm to comply with the governments own legislation erm but they where with all i would like to extend my thanks also to the officers who have worked er very very hard er both sides of the christmas er i think i am on version ten i dont know whether thats one or two more than but er the officers have worked worked very hard and im very grateful to them erm im also very grateful to the primary heads secondary heads their own staff associations and the representatives of the governors for whom hilary bob and i have met and er weve listened very carefully to what they have to say and weve done our modest best to er to er use their priorities as well as our own perhaps political one weve looked at the educational value er i suspect more than the other two groups erm than the political sum erm i have thought that the same is listed in paragraph seven er and the growth of paragraph eight were non noncontroversial and er would have received all party support but i er but of course i i must say something about section eleven funding this whole section under funding er is er featured in in in this section and er er im not too sure what the tories are playing at er unlike bob i am not going to condemn them out of hand now being a democrat i want you to hear what they have to say and then well roast them this afternoon erm and while were talking about er er conservatives this government has perpetrated some dastardly things in recent years but among the worst must be the reduction by the home office of taxable funding here here here not because they granted its continued necessity your sanction will continue providing someone else pays they say they cant afford it we say that we must afford it not from the space of pity of certain members of our community or even of generosity but purely from investment and common sense if we fail to help these children now they will not be able to contribute to the social economic wellbeing of the nation and may cost us in time more social and financial in in in the future so its good investment were friendly with them we we do sympathize them but its only common sense and good investment that we fully recompense that the to the level it shouldnt be er by the home office that is to replace fifteen percent o of seventy five i think seventy of assuming there is a majority if not unanimous approval for savings in both in paragraph seven and nine analysis in paragraphs eight and ten ill try to make it brief because bob has er mentioned this and has pretty well er all party support to to the savings er the reduction of two percent in the erm its not quite devastating but following the er drastic restructuring of the of the department in the last two or three years is quite significant erm er i i and i think that er we must thank the the director of and and er volunteering if you like because ins report erm thth these erm the the savings erm theres enough i think enough has been said on school meals its those theyre only in in the both were identified with efficiency savings of er joanne erm in school meals without i hope because in the content or the the nutritional value of the basic meal here again ive got to reserve comment er on on what the tories are proposing for for for next year erm you know once you condemn it out of hand we like bob says hes got an open mind and im glad to hear it er we also have an open mind on this but we wed like to hear more er of whats in the debate before we before we comment er so with these three measures plus the seven hundred and one thousand estimate er underspent th this year to carry forward we have er about a million and a half to use against er further grant and of the options listed in section ten er ours are not dissimilar from the er from and i best pick the erm we have we the liberal democrats have made no secrets in of the fact locally and nationally that er within the nursery places are our top educational priority er mr major pretends its his but mr patten if i understand mr patten rightly says the country cant afford it so here again if they cant afford it i certainly cant county county must afford er at least the six hundred and thirty five thousand which is in our proposals er that will be nine sixty five in a full year to find nine hundred and twenty extra places weve been precise on this because this is if you look at your agenda papers er quite detailed suggestion one of the quotas one of the options er in fact that we the same about officers erm nine twenty er the basis er er is is erm a very near to the thats thirty five including capital er we had to go fur further obviously and but we picked the labour figure er and i wonder a little because the advice we have is that once we go over nine twenty places become much more erm unfortunately costly our next priority like er labour says like a the different degrees is er the primary schools er many of which as we all know that weve been struggling and to cope with inadequate budgets we propose therefore to increase delegated funding fund the schools by one point one million er er approximately four and a half thousand per head average per school er coming next to our priorities on special educational needs erm i attended a a and conference as recently as last saturday and i didnt know it all already i did er i am now determined that we will do all we can for well especially at the centre and while whilst acknowledging the need for it to resource at the schools at this conference the voluntary agencies parents and even teachers admitted the greater need for specialists at the centre that is we want more education psychologists advisors of all sorts and er therefore supporting options er at ten one c small roman one and small roman three on the agenda but er that is reluctantly not er not small roman two this means that erm four hundred and ninety thousand extra in addition to nine hundred thousand in in in paragraph eight erm i know the conversatives have also has gone for one three and not for two er i assure you theres been no conclusion on this and i am sure will agree with me here here erm the rest of arbitrary proposals maybe considered small comparison in in financial terms at least but er differ a little if any in in educational value thats two hundred thousand to boost the fourteen and nineteen strategy er i think there must in the present climate in which we have to regard the vocational content of education as well as the academic two hundred thousand to improve the provision for extra pupils here again er lots come out of er the the but er ministers wax eloquent about what we should er do about this mounting problem of erm of er truancy exclusion discipline in general erm they tell us what to do they tell us er we must have er referral units and what have you but then dontgive us any funds to do the job but im glad to say that all three party agreement that er that two hundred thousand or so it to improve the er the the service for extra pupils erm we must recognize that the to cope with the expression on that there that erm we we must fund fund this referral unit erm coming last to capital erm many of school buildings are in an abysmal and dilapidated position through neglect over many many years before er weve given perhaps erm but our meagre a hundred and ninety thousand er ive i admit wont go very far er there and er its therefore er the best use we can make of it not specifically for any particular school in any particular circumstances as i read in the that the that the tories proposals have been in on on on the issue erm i dont think i need to say any more but i promise to come back later when ive heard what other have have to say has already said that the tories dont seem to have any provision for capital and im dying to know why they have as much to say about the additional buildings as anyone else er id be interested to know what they say so finally mr chairman i i command this modest liberal democrat budget to your committee in the hope not too optimistic er receiving all party support but i feel it would be considered too modest by one and too extravagant by the other which suggests to me that the moderate unprejudiced er will got this about right i move thank you may i ask for a seconder for that motion yes ill second it er and i reserve my rights thank you i have now of course gone er mrs birmingham er to present the conservative motion thank you chairman erm im delighted to be the last person to present a set of budget proposals as it gives me the opportunity to draw attention to some facts that seems to have been overlooked by the representatives of the other two groups indeed i believe theres a distinct possibility that the force of persuasion in my arguments will bring the other two groups over to the conservative point of view optimistic mr may not attack conservatives but of course that doesnt leave me much to talk aboutbecau however he managed to go on for about ten minutes that all because the labour and liberal democrat budgets as far as i am concerned are tweedle dum and tweedle dee very little to choose between them labour make proposals and the liberal democrats in effect say now clearly we are not going to join the need to exercise because chairman no one has mentioned or drawn attention to the fact that the preamble to the budget paper contains a very distinct warning that in addition to the estimated resource gap in nineteen ninety four whether its nineteen ninety ninety five which is relatively small it widens to a potential sixteen point five million fourteen point five million minimum in ninety five ninety six and to twenty seven point two million in ninety six ninety seven even if those figures are reduced by the two million each year that leaves a very large financial mountain to climb in the years ahead and i apologise for beginning with that gloomy prognosis but it does get better thanks to our proposals the chief education officer sorry director also contain these warnings in her introduction she reminded us that we would have to discharge our responsibilities in the years to come she reminded us that decisions are never easy and she reminded us that we need to show that we are capable of firm managerial action now i see no evidence in the er proposals of the other two groups of those qualities there i do not see coherent form of covering for the contingencies that we could face and i see a real unwillingness to indicate how they would tackle priorities that has always been the case we have always been criticised for doing it but i find it outstandingly noticeable this year our budget reflects our commitment to our schools it aims to improve the level of service to our schools particularly in the area thats been identified the schools themselves by the schools themselves as one of their highe their highest priorities that was special needs we also aim to prepare more four year olds for fulltime education and we aim to provide incentives to schools that wish to diversify the fourteen to nineteen curriculum we are also able to fund this year this very substantial increase in pupil numbers this isnt always possible as we saw last year and as we have been reminded that was not an easy decision and in fact its one of the reasons that we havent put extra money into the primary schools this year first of all we couldnt find it and secondly the secondary schools had a defacto decrease last year given our commitments to the programmes that weve set forward and given our commitment to the council tax payer remember that person again not mentioned today the question may well be asked how are we going to fund it first regretfully we do not feel we can enter into an openended commitment to fund the shortfall in section eleven we believe that we do we believe that a shame shame review of the service should be undertaken immediately with a view to perhaps reducing the number of bases and perhaps rationalising a certain tier keeping the teachers and assistants who are actually in the schools as our top priority and maintaining a careful balance between schools with very high needs and schools with isolated children who are actually even more in need of support and know how we are committed as was as weve decided last june to retain the programme until september nineteen ninety four thereafter we would wish to phase in the reduction in staff to match the home office funding half in ninety four ninety five and the rest in ninety five ninety fi ninety five ninety six it is reasonable to expect with a re an extensive programme like like section eleven that there has been a build up of expertise hat there has been a build up of educational resources and why should one area of the service be exempt from examination or assessment weve done a review of the service we did a review of field centres we really do not accept that one area no matter how worthwhile and ive talked to you on many occasions to the excellent work done by and the section eleven team but we do not believe that any area is entitled to automatic exemption here here practice we dont think to have the sixty to ninety transport debate yet again this route remains committed to a policy of reducing the amount we spend on transport because that ultimately benefits our schools and with this in mind we will reintroduce our grace in favour charge of sixth formers and college students the existence of the hardship fund make absolutely sure that economic considerations need not deter pupils from attending college or sixth form rubbish but to introduce a blanket free charge when some are willing and able to make a contribution to us is a nonsense members of the committee will see that savings continue to come through on the school meals service and this is to a very considerable extent the result that the ethos of the previous conversative administration which ran a tight ship and positively encourage deficiency a number of the savings in this report come into that category i believe that we must look very closely into the alternative meal it uses modern technology to provide an extremely cost effective meal and its substituted with fresh items every day i spoke not to an individual child but to the head of school in hatfield where the scheme was piloted and i have to say he was he neither rhapsodised nor condemned he had an open mind and said there were pluses and minuses and for it i think if it was pointed out in future years that an extra mil one point four million pounds could be available for school budgets he would look at it perhaps a little differently maintenance allowances for college students well we signalled fairly clearly last june that we feel that maintenance allowances for college students should be the concern of the f a f c there has been no positive response to our representations so perhaps its time to be more firm to the extent of phasing out funding and putting the f a f c on the spot my colleague chairman of the youth and community panel and policy panel will speak on our proposals in that regard so chairman just to in conclusion we continue we are proposing to continue this daily expansion of nursery places our half a million pounds this year would be divided up roughly three hundred and fifty one thousand pounds on revenue and a hundred and fifty thousand pounds on capital and would gain us over four hundred new places thats in line with the type of expansion that we achieved last year and we believe that that type of steady growth is very is is is desirable special needs again weve highlighted we have put in a token on the er in the primary sector erm its a notional amount clearly we cant tell the schools how to spend their money but it seemed to us that the increasing in managerial role of primary deputy heads they would welcome er a small increase in non con in non contact time thats an area of course that we would wish to increase eventually but looking at the protected figures a large increase in the primary schools delegated budgets this year could result in in a de facto cut to the secondary schools next year some of the decisions clearly are easier at than others because we get a certain concensus on the easy ones while weve gone to some of the more difficult ones to exemplify behind the changes that need to come about that it will not have a direct impact on schools and their school budgets and the children but will promote the services weve always done this is a budget chairman that builds on the achievements of the last four years the care for our schools and it takes into account that the future will not be as rosy as we would like and allows for contingencies in harsh numerical terms we didnt accept the policy committee guidelines we felt that they in some ways were over generous and we aimed for we purposely deliberately set ourselves lower targets with point were two point six million below the liberal democrats for nineteen ninety four ninety five three point five million below labour but if you look savings in the pipeline of four point three million against the liberal democrats and four point eight million pounds against labour let me remind the committee its not too late to cross the political divide and its not too late to vote for common sense and careful management thank you er do you have a seconder formerly seconded but i reserve my right to speak thanks very much i would like to at this point to review the timing that we set earlier on who said that who said that we could pass straight to that and er sort of go to lunch erm what people wish to do perhaps if we stick to the original proposed target wed only be now some twenty five minutes for general debate and i would be this is probably therefore a serious issue yes one of our serious of the year we should er extend that debate er we could extend as late perhaps half past one for lunch or we could bring it to half way between half past one so the feeling in respect of that would you stick stick to twenty five minutes of debate and then close yes yeah absolutely i would like then to draw your attention to standing order c page paragraph four all speeches shall be concise and relevant to the matter in hand pity you didnt do that do that a bit earlier chairman relative to the matter in hand i take it to mean that it is to do with the budget er to prepare for this county and do not er to be the irrelevancies of machination in other places i would hope that they will people will not will be speaking primarily on the variations of the previous speeches that have been made we should not be having the same speech from the same group on the same issue at any point and also i would hope that where there is agreement between the groups that there is not time spent in debating the agreement finally i propose to call no person more than once to accept that the movers will have the opportunity of winding up at the end and i would please ask you to wait until you have been called i have an indication from mr that he wishes to speak thank you chairman for this after the behaviour yesterday someone claiming to be spokesman for the tory group on the environment backed up vocally by these minions i said to my group today no more mr nice guy but i neednt have bothered because it is becoming increasingly difficult to be nice to the conservatives particularly when you produce something like this look at some of the points here oh shut up look at some the points ive heard ive been heckled yesterday dont heckle me this week the section of level funding what sort of misguided speech was that were they dance about it or trim here what theyre saying very simply and this is relevant to the people who are listening to us today is that they are not prepared to restore the cuts made by the government which they have got elected they are taking responsibility either they agree with their government or they do not agree with their government but to pretend that somehow we can not at all some of the cuts that are made that the f the other does not convince us im sure it does not convince the people on our right and even less more convincing than the people who are listening to us today over the page it gets rather worse child under sixteen to nineteen a saving is one way of looking at it or profiting from education is another way apparently what the conservatives would wish to do they wish to make people pay for education and there is no other way of looking at it reducing staffing in the need of community services its only seventy five thousand pounds but why what possible justification with rising grants rising private sector etc etc you know the problems out there what possible justification can there be for that given the fact the actions are reasonable as they stay this year increasing nursery provision you know its very amusing actually the press release that had early this year er from er earlier mid last year in fact from the conservatives saying that they believed in nursery education its rather late for the press releases on some months later the press release coming from my group and coming from the labour group it was a late conversion but not much of a conversion lets face it the word tokenism springs to mind thats what ive written next to the conservative line there totally and i dont believe in nursery education but they know there are votes in it we actually put it down in our own manifesto because we thought it was a good idea oh there increasing primary schools delegated budget a hundred and forty thousand pounds frankly one of your a hundred and forty pounds because at a hundred and forty thousand pounds that is an insult that is three pence per child per week its hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme couldnt see it actually when i looked for it first time had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts now were not as generous as wed like to be but at least we try no capital expansion now i wonder where and this maybe unduly cynical but it is difficult to be unduly cynical with that lot over there this is something to do with grant maintained schools dont repair schools government comes along and lovely mr patten if hes still there well whos nexttoday john patten tomorrow chair said heres some money heres some money and a point of order you just go has the debate moved on i thought we were debating a the we are debating a b and were debating altogether yes thats the the same yes but not d charles because d is our d is our resolution on capital right verdict rather like it in er section eight of indeed if there voting on then its traditional point of order during the speech thank you very much and what took me so long i thought the conservative budget is a contemptible budget the people in the people voting or an increase in nursery provision increase in educational provision this is what we are trying to give the conservative party are trying to claw back to cutting our budget by two point six million pounds that is not what people voted for and is not what people want no further discussion necessary on their budget lets get on with the serious business of funding real education in hertfordshire which we asked and in this particular case the labour party good i you have stepped out of the debate by a ludicrous budget the conservative and briefly the labour party we have certain doubts over certain lines there are similarities good perhaps two sets of people do actually agree on education these may need to be debated as they were before compromises may need to be rich but im afraid it looks as though its gonna be a compromise only between two parties but this isnt a thank you thank you er mrs thank you chairman er tell very quickly as er my voice is going so im going to be very brief on it for er two for about two points the first one is the question on special educational needs yes of course we will increase this er better support and better advice for schools but i agree entirely with what says its no good having the best advice in the world if we cant deliver the er er the the recommendations and one of the things that er has been borne in on me when i was sitting on the panel looking at special educational needs that the early identification of the early intervention when there are difficulties which start to arise in schools can save you a lot of money later on and unless the schools have the resources to er er to meet with the er recommendations which are being made on particular children then we are asking for trouble there so that im very concerned about the fact that er the like like the early one which was er increase that er provision on section eleven yes we are along with the liberals we are trying to maintain the budget against the government cuts but dont anybody get away with the impression that that is going to maintain the service as it is at the moment because we are really to pick up extra pupils section eleven was confined to er people of commonwealth origin the categories have been increased but the funding has not so that er although this is in as a growth item and although it is being presented as a standstill item in fact it may not have been a a a a reduction in the service section er i was very surprised indeed that er hilary asking for a review of the service because in fact all ones experience and i am sure as well tells us that this is a success story it is something that petition after petition that weve asking to keep it that way shows that it is one of the services that the county provides which is very much appreciated by the recipients and we cant say that in all county councilsservices but you can say it about er the section seventeen and i think you ought to acknowledge that chairman thank you mrs pauline thank you chairman i appreciate that erm prudence isnt flavour of the month in the current majority at this county council and that indeed has been proved by several speeches from the opposition parties that were made this morning you must however in the other parties the other parties we must take heed though chairman of the warning in the report and that was mentioned by mrs hilary that its the responsibility of this council to plan the future needs on the basis of the estimated shortfall in resources that have been forecast the problem is it seems that the both the liberal and the labour budgets do precisely the opposite theyve obviously decided to adopt an approach of spend spend spend now and hang the consequences for the future now im a governor of two schools and from this perspective in particular im very pleased to see that as a result of the legacy of previous conservative administration and the generous s s a proposals for this year that the conservative group have been able to put forward a budget which enables schools budgets to be increased fully for demography and inflation and certainly i know that was a great worry this year in many of our schools that that might not be possible so its good to see that it is possible the conservatives were also putting forward of course prudent growth in important areas and one of the areas that i would particularly like to mention is that of nursery education following on from the last administration the conservative proposals and that it would enable something like four hundred and fifty extra nursery places to be provided that follows on a steady increase in nursery provision over the last few years but obviously it must be necessary to waive the statutory sectors versus the non statutory so it isnt er possible this year perhaps to put in as we might do if were to be as imprudent as the opposition parties what bob said of course was totally untrue with respect to what the conservatives did in the past it is true we did increase the pupil to teacher ratio to one to thirteen in line with the f e er guidelines and that of course did provide some extra nursery places but last year we did put in real resources and actually increased the number of nursery places by about four hundred which involved the development of several new nursery classes so it is completely untrue to say that the conservatives attempted to increase nursery education on the cheap we put in real money into this area i would also like to nail the lie that the conservatives dont care about nursery education as put forward by chris as mrs already said this morning hertfordshire county council has one of the best records of nursery education in the whole of the country something like seventy five per cent of the client group currently have part time nursery places these figures are in the report we are an authority that has an extremely good record on nursery education and i hope that no one will believe the attempt to try and black the good record that the conservative and that have the conservatives had have in this area the budgets of course proposed by the liberal and labour groups have some aspects which would be desirable the problem is as 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arghakhanchi district arghakhanchi is a district in nepal it is in the lumbini province the district headquarters of this district is sandhikharka tonight as the lottery bill becomes law in britain in america theres growing concern about how lottery companies win contracts worth millions of dollars but first flying in the face of the worst ever recession in air travel virgin atlantic is doubling its fleet and adding new routes a high risk strategy but can richard branson land safely i would put pretty well everything into making sure that er that virgin atlantic is here in twenty yearstime okay im off now floya flies with virgin atlantic perhaps europes best known independent airline tonight shes on the flight to new york although virgin atlantic flies to seven international cities and is now the biggest part of the virgin group across the u k this is virgin twelve fifteen virgin radio is one of the latest additions phil collins the megastores computer games publishing and even airships all trade under the virgin name its become one of the most famous brands in the world but increasingly its the airline that fascinates the man who built all this hes one of britains most popular businessmen richard branson its completely addictive i think an anybody that gets involved in the airline business will say the same i think for me i love erm er er er i love a challenge and er i suspect the fact that before i went into it people said it was erm something which was erm absolutely impossible er er and that the their was no way that one could make a go of it erm made it made it made it perhaps all the more challenging to try to prove them wrong for the crew this is just another new york flight but its been a rough ride for virgin atlantic having won a libel case against british airways over the much publicized dirty tricks its set to announce losses exceeding fourteen million pounds for nineteen ninety two and all airlines have been tightening their belts in the recession anybody whose ambitious at this point in time is taking a risk in the last three years the worlds airlines have lost between them about ten billion u s dollars now at first people thought that was because of the gulf crisis an and the downturn in traffic but actually its the economic recession which has cut off demand er and which is lasting much longer than people expected drinks courtesy thank you first class service at less than first class fares has become something of a slogan for virgin atlantic but thats put it on a collision course with big international airlines especially british airways virgin wants to make itself less vulnerable and it thinks it can do so by offering even better service to more passengers flying to more places trouble is competition for passengers has never been so fierce and virgin is still a tiny airline thats losing money but richard branson is so determined to win hes now betting with his own fortune to put more planes like this one in the sky it could be his biggest gamble yet the picture looks very different from virgins early days in the record business in nineteen seventy richard branson was making waves as a young businessman even then he had aspirations to take on the giants virgin records is t starting up new groups who ac you know have been scorned by some of the big companies he took a risk with the sex pistols and landed up in court then came the city branson floated virgin but soon went private again with every new stunt his boyish enthusiasm hyped the companys name and of course his own then nearly ten years ago virgin bought its first plane as money from boy george and culture club poured in the airline really took off and then last year branson sold the music business to thorn e m i for five hundred and sixty million pounds so he could focus on the airline which was losing money well obviously one would like to make money rather than lose money erm i mean theres the there are quite a few factors why erm virgin er lost money last year er first of all you know we had er the very well publicized er dirty tricks campaign being waged against us er we believe that cost us many many millions of pounds secondly there was the worst recession that the airline industry has had thirdly has been er a you know were a growing company were investing we built this model and asked professor john an airline specialist to explain virgins commercial problem running an airline is an expensive business at the best of times during a recession it can be a way of using up money really quite quickly now virgins particular problem was that they began this recession with relatively little in the way of capital and reserves only about thirty six million in nineteen ninety one so what would have happened last year when they lost over fourteen million pounds well that has to come out of their capital and as you can see it takes out quite a large chunk how bad is that well that can be very serious if you lose the same amount of money for a second year youre down to a position where one small slip would take the business into insolvency so what can virgin do to turn this round and start trading profitably well what most airlines have done has been to try and trim back their scale of operations but what virgin are doing is using richard bransons personal money to try and expand out of trouble we can reveal he plans to invest about a hundred and fifteen million of his own money without going to the bank much of its for planes staff and facilities but we discovered hes just used forty five million to buy out saboo saison the airlines japanese shareholder we have erm er just bought saboo saison out so er the twenty percent share holding they had in the airline weve now bought back inhouse so does this mean you actually want to be in control of it yourself er or not i think for the time being i id id id id id i think that it makes sense to be fully in control of it i think that i you know have great faith in virgin atlantic erm i think that it erm its got a great future erm but erm er i dont think it would be that easy to to erm you know to to i dont think wed have partners falling over themselves to get into the airline business in in in this recession this may look like drinks for the passengers but its actually part of virgin atlantics expansion plan great lovely lisa if youd just like to stop it there that was lovely can you remember when we did the classroom training mm which passenger would you normally serve first the window seat and today what should you have done well thats right these trainee hostesses our among nearly five hundred new recruits being taken on for flights to up to eight additional cities starting in the new year youre all looking very smart celebrations as the new recruits graduate some of them will be flying the new nonstop service between london and hong kong which had been a duopoly for british airways and cathay pacific with steeros were both going to miami and back oh which one i quite like it experience suggests that fares to hong kong will fall once virgin arrives the danger is that in flying to new places virgin may reduce the money in it for everybody virgin will not pull it off if they add too much capacity in too many routes in a very short period of time because filling capacity is becoming increasingly difficult to fill the seats you have to drop the fares theres a price war going on especially in the markets that virgins involved in price wars mean very low fares fares which in many cases will not cover the cost of flying the aeroplane what would you say to the criticism that by opening up new routes you simply add to the problem of over capacity and so theres less money for everyone i dont think the consumer would ev say that and i think sometimes one forgets er people forget the consumer i mean the erm er but obviously by us going onto the hong kong route we are going to reduce british airways and cathay pacifics profits on that route considerably we we think that because our costs are considerably less than british airways and i suspect considerably less than cathay pacific that the player that er could be around in thirty or forty yearstime is virgin atlantic to open up new routes virgin needs more planes and its come here to airbus in the south of france for some of them airbus is building four a three forties like this to fly on virgins long distance routes in fact this one will soon be off to hong kong virgin may only be a small airline but so far this year its airbuss biggest customer thats because many bigger airlines struggling in a tough market either cant afford new planes or are cancelling their orders virgin says that by expanding aggressively and bucking the trend its been able to get some really hard bargains ah wonderful richard branson has come magnificent to see his new planes for the first thank you very much time very first delivery yeah were going to be using the first plane on hong kong on february the first itll cost virgin an estimated five million pounds a year to lease each new plane with six on order then the others including two from boeing thats over thirty million urgh and then there are other things to pay for like new inflight gambling systems seventeen this isnt im not going to no good im not playing with this thing any more virgin argues its new planes what else do you have are much cheaper to fly but simply having more of them will push up costs so itll need about twice as many passengers well we know that they plan to have fourteen planes in operation by nineteen ninety six and i reckon that will raise their cost of operations to something over six hundred million pounds and how many passengers do they need to make that kind of money well to make that sort of revenue they will actually need to fly rather more than two million passengers a year and in the present state of the world aviation market i reckon thats quite a tall order in fact if they fell short of it by five percent in a particular year that would be capable of using up the kind of capital and reserves which weve been talking about well this looks fine alan how about the summary well the new survey for travel group o a g on what business passengers want whilst they only fill a tenth of seats they bring in a lot more income in virgins case almost half ian formerly virgin atlantics marketing manager says business passengers do value good service but increasingly cost matters too we discovered that the significance of value for money is creeping up the scale particularly for the corporate buyer the person in a company thats in charge of buying travel services they are becoming increasingly more important as they want to er and try to impose policy on travellers and therefore price is becoming much more of an issue with them this man is a corporate travel buyer the sort of customer that virgin atlantic most needs his name charles his job director of the city bank merrellynch his task to decide which airline staff here can fly his annual budget for this is six million pounds okay pilot ready for take off with special services like this bike to airport escort virgin hopes to tempt big wheels to send business travellers onto its flights such gimmicks have helped to make virgins upper class service tempting to business passengers but virgin knows the real business is done by men like this and theyre not just looking at service but also cost hello hello good afternoon good afternoon a lot of companies actually er reviewed there there policies and have down graded we for instance use mid class on virgin as well as upper class for some er levels of staff and departments prices are coming down because discounts are being raised and its got very keen in the market place so to stay in the frame is virgin going to have to get in there and yes they are indeed there going to have to compete on price as well as on service and value added clearly corporate buying habits matter to richard branson morning all everybody at his house for lunch is a corporate travel buyer he has lots of these lunches branson wants feedback from people like these the erm crucial questions id like to ask is that of cost he assures them virgin atlantic can and does compete on cost as well as service but he claims british airways isnt playing fair and has complained to the european commission that b a is offering anticompetitive deals virgin claims its losing business as a result if they can go around for instance and pick off all our key accounts and use their dominant route structure to effectively take all our principle clients away er we wont have any anybody flying on our planes so er so weve got to strike quickly erm you know relatively soon after they started this new attack to make sure that it erm it er it doesnt get doesnt get out of control sir colin british airways chairman rejects accusations of foul play thank you very much what we are doing is what is being done er in the market generally there is nothing unique about british airways position in this regard in the event the european commission er should find against er our interest in this respect er they are in effect going to find against the interest er of the er european airlines as a whole and that would be very detrimental to the interest of european business and travellers most corporate buyers we spoke to agreed that b as doing deals much like those from other airlines indeed merrellynch said theyd just dropped b a having got a better deal elsewhere i think british airways offer a fair deal erm but its not necessarily the largest deal they invest a lot in in their service and what they do and i think erm virgin do offer generous deals right so is there anything unfair in your view about the kind of deal british airways is offering erm in my experience erm i dont think so this flight simulator virgins lofty lady is part of another row with b a which is just as important in the battle for business passengers inside virgins pilots are landing on runway twenty seven at heathrow in the simulator they can take off and land as often as they like at this the worlds busiest airport but in real life virgin says it has to fight for slots to take off and land at the times to suit business travellers it blames b a b a says it doesnt allocate slots or monopolize heathrow airport b a er had a very clear dominance at heathrow erm it was a dominance that erm has effectively been erm given to them on a plate by the government or successive governments over the last fifty years erm and which in effect saw off you know laker b cal dan air air europe erm and er and er and er its its them having that dominance and then being able to erm er effectively misuse that dominance by er by using the dom the dominance on say the routes which say virgin atlantic dont fly to er actually damage virgin on on on the routes that erm that we do fly virgins determined to fight on thursday it began legal action here in the united states virgins filed this complaint against british airways here in the federal court of new york the central allegation in whats certain to be a bitterly contested case is that b a has a monopoly based on its dominance of heathrow which its abusing in a bid to force virgin out of the market for transatlantic travel in establishing this virgin finally hopes to win compensation for the dirty tricks affair and damages awarded here could easily run to one billion dollars in bringing its fight to the streets of new york virgin also hope to win an injunction restraining b a b a say theres no basis for the claim it all hinges on b as share of slots at heathrow which is about forty percent the complaint is really a litany of er a whole host of the old grievances there that we have heard several times er before and we will be dealing with the matter in the proper place through our u s council in the u s courts in terms of er suggestions that it is that it surrounds the question er of monopoly we certainly er do not accept that thirty eight percent of slots at heathrow in any way constitutes a monopoly it certainly does not according to antitrust lawyers independent of both sides most successful antitrust cases involve market shares of over sixty five percent irving sher who recently acted in another aviation antitrust case says they often last three to five years and cost millions dollars and this case looks tough it would seem from what youve told me that the market share is on the low side of a monopolization case and that kind of case to begin with is always a complicated and long drawn out case how sure can virgin atlantic be of winning this case do you think i dont think they can be extremely confident if there basing it on a forty percent market share so with a fight on two fronts in the market place and the courts what are virgins chances of success its certainly a tall order to win both courts and market battles and we have to recognize that the background is one in which number two scheduled airlines in the u k have not been successful look at british caledonian look at air europe look at dan air so how do you rate their chances well it might be that this turns out to be an extremely successful gamble and branson has expanded virgin into a world recovery or it may be that this airline runs into more serious financial difficulties in the middle of the decade and it either contracts or it sells out to either an american or a continental european carrier bransons already ruled out bank loans so if there is serious need in future will other virgin companies fund the airline no fortunately the other companies are stand alone companies erm making erm you know making their own way and they dont have to fear erm richard coming and stripping them of their hard earned earnings to put into the airline erm because erm you know because fortunately weve got resources elsewhere to look after the airline and see its development through its here in the channel islands that most of richard bransons money is held it may seem curious given virgins talent for publicity that the full details of its financial affairs and ownership are actually intensely private st peterport here in guernsey is one of the offshore tax havens through which richard branson and his family control most of virgins shares many of them are held through trusts with names like jupiter venus and mars registered here at morgangrenfell its hard to tell how much moneys in these trusts because theyre not open for public scrutiny but they may indeed be the main source of funding to expand the airline our research suggests that after the sale of the music business to thorn the trusts would have got about four hundred and fifty million pounds even after paying off debts and setting aside money for the initial expansion of virgin atlantic that would still leave about two hundred and fifty million that sounds a lot of money but its not difficult to spend it on an airline neither branson nor virgin atlantic as a private company have to make such matters public using offshore trusts like this is entirely legal it also frees up extra money and that may be needed in future i would have had to pay tax unless id set up trusts er by setting up trusts i could then effectively delay paying the tax er use that money to invest in new companies youve told me that youre putting in about a hundred million pounds for this initial expansion is that the limit i suspect that erm er that erm er a sane person should say yes definitely thats the limit erm but er i dont live my life erm er just with a profit motive in everything i do as i said at the beginning i love a challenge and i would put pretty well everything into making sure that virgin atlantic is here in twenty yearstime but the future of this airline could be decided much sooner than that and with it the levels of service and fares we can all expect on long haul flights in the end it may all depend on the depth of richard bransons pocket in moments of nostalgia even he may wonder if he sold the wrong business with annual sales worth four billion pounds the british lottery is expected to be the biggest in the world as lobbying becomes fierce for lottery licenses here across the atlantic how companies win contracts is under investigation saturday night is lottery night here in the streets of dublin where irelands game of chance is engrained on the culture grab a hold of that please and give it a good hard tug everyones hoping for that dream ticket and tonight theres a big win five four three two one thirteen thousand pounds now its britains turn with the granting of royal assent on friday the lottery is finally on its way millions of people undoubtedly will gain great pleasure from their weekly flutter targeted revenues could top four billion pounds a year and provide a war chest for good causes such as sport and arts the treasurys cut will be twelve percent of proceeds leaving a honey pot of six hundred million pounds of turnover a year for the operator four consortia have already declared their intention to bid the great british lottery company comprising of granada vodaphone hambrose bank carlton communications and associated newspapers n m rothschild and tattersalls of australia the rank organization and camelot comprising of g tec de la rue reikel cadbury schweppes and i c l installing computers and ticketing machines will be a key part of the job for any lottery operator world wide there are only two major suppliers and the question of how those crucial contracts are awarded is now under scrutiny across the atlantic california the richest and largest state in america here the state lottery is big business with annual sales of more than one point seven billion dollars it helps fill the federal coffers through taxation and provides about one percent of the states education budget hello california state lottery this is nicol can i have your retel i d number please federal government officials run the california lottery and equipment is supplied by g tec the company has experienced meteoric growth it now runs lotteries in twenty six of the thirty six u s states which operate them today g tec boasts world wide sales of over five hundred million dollars im gonna need three shops like this sell lottery tickets all over california these machines link directly to g tecs mainframe computer g tec has supplied the lottery with equipment since nineteen eighty six its contract expired earlier this month but last year an independent consultancy recommended california replace its existing system it had already purchased it outright from g tec for sixty million dollars sure i hope so sharon director of the california lottery since nineteen ninety one was appointed by the state governor a former nurse she used to run the illinois lottery last february acting on the report she recommended that a new four hundred million dollar contract be awarded to g tec for a replacement system there were no other bidders the lottery business is basically a very very small business with limited competition and for a state the size of california it makes it very difficult to have large competition because only a certain number of companies can actually put in a system of this size the decision created ripples throughout california joanne is a computer expert she was head of the technical division at the california state lottery until her firing earlier this year after a period of sick leave she has argued for more competition in state lottery tenders why did only one company bid for the contract in california i think there was a perception from other vendors that the bid itself had specifications that could only be met by g tec that it was unfairly biased towards the incumbent vendor and therefore chose not to participate it is very costly for companies to put together proposals to bid for an online game these concerns were reflected in memos like this gordon head of the state lottery finance department was part of the team charged with evaluating g tecs bid he warned on november the third last year if we are accused of structuring a massive bid proposal to expressly favour g tec and if g tec end up being the only bidder we should expect to encounter major public relations and or legal problems and we could end up paying far more than we had anticipated for the needed goods and services three weeks later in another memo he wrote i continue to have graver concerns that four months is simply not enough time for any vendor other than g tec to implement a turnkey online gaming system it was memos like these that concerned politicians like state senator tom better known as jane fondas exhusband he teaches at a religious college in oakland he dislikes gaming but he is also concerned about the way in which the contract was awarded the largest er state contract in the history of the state of california something like four hundred million dollars was let to g tec and competition er i believe was suppressed why we dont know and that happened not once but several times leading to er er er a good ne honest professional members of the lottery commission er to warn in internal memos er that this was going to raise legal and public relations problems sharon defended the decision she argues that few companies have the resources to undertake the hefty capital investment needed for instance to er to put in this lottery and put in the new system that we just converted recently a couple of days ago err takes tens and tens of millions of millions of dollars and most companies who come in and work on a percentage of sales dont get their capital investment back until several years into the contract the contract was probed by the governors office last march as a result pete wilson sanctioned the go ahead of the g tec deal but said that the state lotterys bidding process needed amending processing scratch cards like this needs a central computer system last year a hundred and fifty million dollar contract to do the job was awarded to a smaller rival high integrity systems in april mrs cancelled that contract after the company says sixty five million dollars had been spent on the project hisy is currently suing the california lottery no luck but a third much smaller contract twenty three million dollar contract for scratch card machines brought things to a head at two public hearings sharon recommended the contract should be awarded to g tec without any competitive bid there was a public outcry ten days ago she was forced to change her recommendation to the state lottery commission and opt for a tender there was a lot of controversy involved a lot of name calling if you will erm a lot of accusations none have merit ill put that right up front none have merit i would recommend that you go out to bid to satisfy those concerns that was after joe hisys lawyer had claimed at a previous hearing that yet another g tec rival scientific games had been told not to bother bidding by lottery officials it is our understanding that were it not for the contact that was made by the state lottery with scientific games that they would be a bidder the scientific games system is a good system g tec say the allegations are unfounded and the companies representative robert was dismayed at the loss of the contract we are beginning to wonder what it what it takes to engage in good faith negotiations as a business with the state of california if all it takes is one person to get up make some kind of scurrilous allegations and throw the entire bidding in into cast some kind of doubt upon it but its not just contractual procedures that are under scrutiny in california here at the sacremento federal court the trial of a lobbyist clay is now under way has been indicted on twelve counts of racketeering and offering bribes to elected officials to advance the interests of his clients one of whom was g tec state senator allan was a regular recipient ofs patronage im not going im not prepared to in any manner er discuss er the case of the proceedings senator is now serving a jail sentence for racketeering and tax fraud in an affidavit at his trial he said as part of my agreement with i received campaign contributions totalling thirteen and a half thousand dollars from g tec in october ninety eighty six the campaign contributions were in return for my agreement to and actually taking official action ats request this is where senator sold his vote to big business when a g tec rival scientific games sponsored a lottery bill detrimental to g tecs commercial interests agreed to vote it down in a new development on thursday the court heard a conversation between clay and senator secretly taped in november nineteen ninety one as part of his cooperation with federal prosecutors during that conversation the lobbyist clay boasted to his one time crony that sharon newly appointed by governor pete wilson was our girl pete wilson put a new gal in whos our gal yeah the woman from illinois she ran the illinois state lottery sharon was unavailable for comment this weekend but her spokeswoman joanne described the recording as a bunch of boasting rantings in london this weekend robert described the revelations from the clay trial as media sensation mr who is still on the payroll he said has not lobbied for g tec for more than a year i think the bottom line of this issue frankly is that the u s er attorney the governmental er investigating authorities in this matter have had this information at their disposal for several years now had there been any question of g tecs behaviour er we would certainly be the subject of something that we are not right now and that the bottom line is we have been assured from the outset that g tec has not been a subject of this investigation that g tecs behaviour has been above reproach and as far as his comments go we we dont really know what context to put them in they certainly werent speaking on behalf of the company and appear to be frankly incomprehensible ramblings what is the relationship between er your company and mrs sharp our relationship between any lottery director and g tec as a company has always been professional and above reproach and as far as our relationship with the current director in california weve had instances were weve been successful in california in gaining business while she was a director and weve been unsuccessful but doubts about g tec have spread beyond california in baltimore maryland the company also operates the state lottery here too the awarding of contracts is being scrutinized a forty nine million dollar contract to provide a popular computerized casino game called keyknow is being investigated by a grand jury leon is a local maryland politician he dislikes gaming and was instrumental in triggering the current federal investigation in california there was no competition in maryland there was no competition every place that g tec operates they go in they hire the highest price talent they hire the most politically connected talent and they end up getting the contract now what we have to know is whether or not they are in fact getting these contracts because they are the best and the cheapest or whether they are getting it because they have the best connections and they are paying the most money what do you personally believe i believe its because they have the best connections and theyre paying the most money i i cant comment on on comments that you are referencing however i will say that in maryland er we displaced an incumbent vendor who had been there a long time er that vendor was a bit upset as you might imagine with being displaced as a vendor and in maryland we had a situation that kind of evolved into the same kind of political row you would expect when a company loses a long time business what are people in britain to make of this as you come here to present yourselves as a a future er lottery operator what people have to keep in mind and what people really should be very concerned about here in great britain is the fact that this is a very contentious industry that there are a number of competitors out there who have taken to slinging innuendo around as if it were mud er frankly these investigations at any level are very thorough we depend upon the very thorough investigations in probity of all the government jurisdictions in which we operate the government announced on friday the appointment of peter as the national lotterys director general hes to ensure the propriety of the national lottery our preoccupation er straightforwardly is that we have a lottery which is run with probity and without impropriety and the director general has very widespread powers fact to investigate the backgrounds of any bidders a flutter for the punter is the battle cry but much will ride on how the burgeoning industry is regulated 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has increased and ive got some er some numbers here erm so it says before the first world war agricultures share of world trade was over fifty percent today it is less than fourteen percent okay so agricultures share in world trade is declining and has been declining er essentially over the the last sort of seventy years or so right okay any other features about world trade its been growing in volume er composition has changedanything else how about the prices of agricultural goodsare there any characteristics as quickly as the manufacture of goods right okay yeah the produ there in actual fact theyre theyre relati yep you youre correct in that they they may well have risen right over that period erm but relative to manufacturing prices they have fallen erm lets just see if there might be some data in there er erm i thought i had some i thought i had some information here on prices i cant seem to find it no no cant find it nevernever mind ive got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in tradeer its quoting it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alrighthowever that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but its rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices at the same time so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percentt by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that were looking at ermagricultural prices probably havent fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century agricultural prices probably havent fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay so what can account for er this changing composition of trade why for example are as manufactured trade increasing in importance can this be just because er incomes have risen tt right yeah incomes have risen throughout the world and that impacts both on the demand for agricultural products and also the demand for manufactured products but what do we know about demand elasticities for those two products income elasticities whats the income elasticity of manufactured goods greater than one less than one yeah thats right income income elastic manufactured goodsas a result manufactured erm sectors will be growth sectors simply bec because as income per capita rises people spend proportionately more of their increased income on manufactured goods and as a result we witness a marked increase in trade in manufactures we would only need to witness a marked increase in trade and there will certainly be an increase in demand why do you think trade has increasedand trade isnt a necessary condition its just that trade has tended to grow at the same time as erm as demand is growing why might trade be growing because of transport okay yeah better transport technology a hundred and fifty years ago it was impossible t erm to transport meat across the atlantic its er very straightforward now so the advent of different types of er transport technology and improved transport technology erm has made tr facilitated trade okay any other reasons the increase in trade in manufactured goods has taken a particular form of trade there was intra industry trade yeah good so what is intra industry trade yep its as yeah the simultaneous import and export of a similar good or the good of as of the same industry right so we could think of erm cars for example erm you know we both export cars and import cars okay why do you think that intra industry trade has risen say over the last fifty years then why arent we self sufficient in car production people want more choice unclear right thats right as people get wealthier right one of the they not only demand more goods but they demand a wider variety of what is essentially or what can be classified as the same good clearly a skoda is markly different from a jaguar right but as far as er classifying trade goes theyll both go under automobiles right okay one of the main reasons why intra industry trade has risen right is not only that consumers want to purchase different varieties and different qualities of the same good erm that it its very easy to differentiate the product in manufactured goods right weve only got to put a go faster stripe on a skoda and chan change the wheels and weve got a different product weve got a diff yes weve got a fast skip as opposed to a slow onealright so because we can differentiate manufactured products very easily and because consumers want differentiated products alright get increase in demand for manufactured goods right the reason why trade has risen one reason is because erm transport costs have declined in real terms and secondly w why can you think of anything else that may have increased trade in manufac manufactured goods better technology in production mm okay so what what are you er hitting on about there adrian better use of machinery and tractor and erm farmers are at risk of i know that manufacturers who could have to progress these capital to get better returns thats right i mean we weve got decreasing erm oh sorry increasing returns to stay off decreasing costs right now with manufacturing er in manufacturing there are economies of scale huge economies of scale this is why we find look at cars again that toyota plant in derby produces all the toyota corollas or whatever for the whole world its not just for the u k market alright so cars produced in derby are exported back to japan right cos all the all the er production of that one car is focused in one plant why is that the case its because there are economies of scale alright now if there are gains to be had from specialisation right and consumers want specialised products and the best thing to do is to erm focus production in a single location right for lots of different variants of this product right so we see massive car plants right why are they so large because their economies of scale to be reaped right companies are trying to erm to accrue those economies of scale right cos if they dont theyll go out of business because their competitors alright will produce erm a superior or a lower price product okay so thats been very important economies of scale are very important in the erm the growth of manufacturing trade which is essentially an increase in intrain intra industry trade as as opposed to inter industry trade which is erm the simultaneous import and export of er products from different industries like produce capital goods so cars and in return you will import erm food products but the majority of the increase in world trade has come from this intra industry variety can i just turn over lets look at th the other side of that coin right because it has all the explanations er as to why agriculture agricultural trade has declined in relative terms right lets just think about well first of all the incoming elasticity argument right manufactures greater than one agriculture less than one right thats one reason why agriculture is a declining sector right its also a declining sector in world trade for the same reason that it has got a low income elasticity whereas manufacturing had a high income elasticity now consumers like variety in food just as much as they like variety in manufactured goods alright but whats the problem with agricultural goodstheyre essentially homogenous alright wheat is wheat sugar is sugar now although we can differentiate the products er agricultural products we can only do that at the very final stage in processingby and large where theres much less scope after product differentiation right at the er the raw material erm level which is where most agricultural trade continues er most trade in agricultural products is in the raw commodity not the refined commodity the refining there might be the processing and the manufacturing tend to occur in the country of consumption and not in the country of production a number of complicated erm political reasons erm alright but the but because there isnt the scope for product differentiation alright we havent witnessed an increase in intra industry trade in agricultural goods whereas we have done for manufactured goods because there is scope for intra industry trade er yeah scope for product differentiation okay what about economies of scale are there economies of scale in agriculture are they in to the same extent or lesser extent than manufacturing experience the optimistic small thats right i mean why di why have we got the structure of agriculture as we have you know why why do we still have an atomistical industry right its not just a a freak of nature there are economic laws ermand opinion that s that structure the industry and its because you just dont get economies of scale staying in agriculture if you did get economies of scale then we wouldnt see small ermsmall independent producers right we wed see a an increase in the concentration of the industry like we have witnessed in virtually every other sector not like the population grows faster than the food so mhm the population would demand more manufactures because food cant keep up say that againmarthus marthus said that food production cannot keep up with the population increase right mhm and so the population increase would they wouldnt be able to thats right thats what you said in in you saying that populations were going growing geometrically agricultural production was going arithmetically as a result a population crash is inevitable alright but we know that isnt true right because what when marthus was writing erm marthus was writing just before in the agricultural revolution in the u k so agricultural technology hadnt improved very much in sort of five hundred years right but in the next hundred years agricultural production erm or productivity grows far faster than ermthan population marthus didnt actually foresee this erm this leap in from technology and as a result he was basing his predictions on past trends so if past trends had continued would have been he w he would been correct but because erm agriculturalists started to erm use technology and at that time it was a very sort of low technology but nevertheless it would wouldve production dramatically you know you dont think of drainage as being particularly high tech but it can increase the the yield on a crop sort of four or five times and so si simple drainage systems would be introduced erm ro rotations were being introduced again rotations you think of being fairly straightforward but erm prior to the agricultural revolution rotations werent used rotations can improve the fertility of the soil and er yields as well right okay so agriculture produces a homogenous product by and large and er as there isnt the scope the product differentiation and there isnt the scope for specialisation because wed need a farm the size of europe to feed the world withw with wheat now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the toyota corollas in a three hundred acre plant erm near derby right but we cant employ the same techniques in production er when were making agricultural why not well essentially were using land were using land intensively alright and there comes a point when erm you reach diseconomies of scale and start er accruing diseconomies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product youre making but you know there arent many farms over five thousand hectares now five thousand hectares is a huge farm its massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of say u k output cos theres several million hectares of erm but the reason why you dont see these very large farms is that you just dont reap the economies of scale alright because essentially we need land erm and youre farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the the other side of th your farm just to erm to harvest the the wheat right hasnt there been a move into much larger farms now oh yes there ha i mean there are economies of scale in agriculture its just that theyre the scope of them er is less than er the scope in manufacturing so i mean farms used to be a lot smaller and throughout this century this last century weve witnessed an increase in farm size alright but the i think the optimal the optimal farm size is erm i think its about three hundred hectares okay er erm with three hundred hectares youll produce a a pretty squit proportion of erm total output but farms used to be sort of one two three ten hectares in size as weve gone through the farms have amalgamated and increased in size and thats primarily due to economies of scale but there are a great deal of economies to be reached once youve got a combine harvester once youve got big machinery alright you cant really improve your productivity much beyond that so if you just look at this the arguments for er manufactured or the increase in manufacturing er trade alright are exactly the opposite to erm that explain the decrease in erm the relative decrease in agricultural trade okay any other one other factor that might be important in er explaining this relative change composition of trade between agriculture and manufacturingsomething thats in the news at the moment mm yes get us at a much more er er effective role in reducing tariffs on manufactured goods than it has on agricultural goods and its only in this last round of g a t t talks the uruguay round that agriculture has been brought into the frame alright prior to erm uruguay round negotiations agriculture was always excluded from the negotiations right whereas manufactured goods have been in there from the start and as a result weve seen a reduction in tariffs right on manufactured goods thats not to say that ermprotectionism on manufactured goods has fallen it has in certain cases but not in all cases whats happened is that policy makersve shifted the emphasis instead of protecting tariffs theyre protected using long long tariff barriers right which are a lot more invisible to er to g a t t dont come under erm g a t t regulations what those tariffs do nevertheless tariffs have have come down in manufactured goods right erm since the second world war when g a t t was er was established but because agriculture hasnt been in g a t t or up until recently hasnt been in g a t t agricultural protectionism has grown throughout that period right why might protectionism diminish trade increases confidence okaywh what do you mean there helen erm okay so that will inhibit consumption consumption essentially thats right this is the this is the effect whether ther theres a theres a t two pronged effect the first of which is that high tariffs consumption because prices are higher and therefore consumption will fall and secondly if high prices are also charged farmers to domestic farmers right then theyll increase their output now if they increase their output alright that will displace imports alright so protectionism leads to self sufficiency and by and large self sufficiency is protectionisms raison detre thats why its there right its to increase domestic output of this particular product does anybody know why agriculture wasnt in erm the g a t t its nevert discussed in the g a t t why it hasnt er included in like manufacturing is reason why that is too political yes youre right what do you what do you mean by that adrian thats right its a poli politically sensitive erm er sort of industry right not only is there the element of strategic theres a strategic dimension right which political importance right erm and also ers an electoral specifically electoral dimension theres also this thing which is called agricultural fundamentalism right and the most developing c most developed countries most of the population live in urban areas and the they see erm er rural areas as being sort of the backbone of society sort of the salt of the earth type of element in society that although they dont participate in themselves would like to maintain right and so even consumers may well be would not want see erm agriculture obliterated from er from their country right because they like the products that erm that agriculture produces and they think that you can of erm destroying of the agricultural industry would would pose an unacceptable burden on the fabric of rural society and as a result are quite happy to see protectionism er fo for that industry now whether thats true or not i dont know i think erm the tide is changing to a certain degree er on that point but agricultural fundamentalism as its called ermtt is quite an important er aspect is political erm is political motivation for a support or for protectionism okay erm right so because trade in er trade in agricultural goods has fallen one one of the reason for that is because theres been a lot protectionism on er agricultural goods the other side of that coin is that protectionism in manufactured goods has has fallen okay right why should we be bothered about protectionism yknow why is g a t so important presumably there must be gainers as well as losers from protectionism so the gainers and the losers domestic farmers gainers or losers gainers good theyre the gainers domestic consumers right losers okay tax payers losers yep losers sorry yeah it depends yeah it depends wh what type of system of support you actually employ er some systems of support burden tax payers other him er the general say the tax payers er also lost erm third country exporters losers yep theyre losers big losers erm third country importers no they theyll probably benefit in actual fact right there are som there are third countries dont all suffer right exported third country you will suffer but if youre an importing third country you will benefit right now agricultural erm one of the reasons why agriculture hasnt been included in the g a t t is because governments right from all sorts of countries have said hands up why agricultural policy this is a domestic policy its got nothing to do with international trade right theres no international dimension to it right you cant come in here and t tell us that were erm disbanding these protectionist measures right its a domestic policy hands off right and this was one of the arguments one of those potent arguments that theyve used in the last forty years right but its incredibly naive because any domestic policy will have an international dimension i remember the about european community right but it wasnt for the operation of the common agricultural policy countries in the european community would be net importers of agricultural goods as we were ten years ago bec because er of protectionism weve now increased our self sufficiency to the point where were a net exporter of agricultural goods what implications has th does that have for international trade well if were producing more of our own goods we are importing less of somebody elses alright and if we actually become a net exporter then weve erm closing down the markets of third country exporters right so not only do we er consume less of er new zealand lamb than we might do otherwise right because were er a net exporter of lamb were also u erm try enter into the the markets where new zealand is er is exported to australia alright so domestic policies will always have an international dimension to them alright there are a large number of beneficiaries and losers erm to this policy er to protectionism alright now just to give you some numbers erm on er who gains and who loses right erm right for the world as a whole right erm the study conducted by right nineteen eighty nine i looked at the cost of some benefits from agricultural support alright in nineteen eighty six to nineteen eighty seven in just one year one crop year alright now it says on average for and then essentially we looked at the three main support of erm protectionist powers like the e e c u s a and japan right and they said that on average alright for every one dollar benefit alright for every one dollar benefit one agricultural supportright it actually costs right one one fifty dollars of the general statistics in order to give a pounds worth of support to domestic farmers we er have to find one pounds fifty right with any protectionism right when you when you when you protect something that youre doing youre erm youre introducing a distortion a distortion in the system which leads to a misallocation of resources alright that is effectively were paying this extra fifty pence right resource misallocation we there is always whats called a dead weight loss right to intervention right its an inefficiency loss or an efficiency loss due to the fact that were asking t in this case farmers right to using use resources but farmers arent the most efficient people in resources but in to erm high tech computer companies alright and if we gave pounds worth of support to a high tech computer company they would be able to produce more value as a result of that pound er than if we gave one pound to a farmer simply because erm that sort of the high tech industries are more productive theyre more efficient agriculture isnt particularly efficient economic sense technically efficient but not efficient right so lets just get back to some numbers erm looking at the european community right the producer benefits alright the european community common agricultural policy produces benefits thirty three point three billion dollars presumably yes billion dollars thirty three billion dollars of support goes to erm er european farmers right consumers a thirty two point six billion dollars right this is every year this is nineteen eighty six eighty seven right so consumers foot the bill right to the extent of thirty two point six billion dollars yeah into consumers in terms of higher product prices right why consumers pay er in the european community its because we paying them two or three times more for our food than we would do if we purchased it on the world market erm however tax payers are also involved right net cost to tax payers is fifteen point six billion right although we do erm get some revenues from er import tariffs as agriculture is increased its production and weve become more self sufficient right were importing less right so we get smaller and smaller tariffs right and tax payers pay erm yknow your v a t for examplewhere do you think your v a ts going seventy per cent of it is going into farmers pockets right even on goods like m m manufactured goods we pay v a t on er manufactured goods and that v a t pays for our contribution to the european community and most of that contribution about seventy per cent of it goes to farmers tt erm right so the next economic costs to european community right are fourteen point nine billion alright thats the size of the dead weight loss thats the inefficiency right of agricultural support right losing fifteen billion dollars a year right just going down the er the swanny okay just a couple of point just before we er before we close what effect does agricultural support have on world prices does it increase world prices reduce world prices make them more stable or more volatile well t in general i mean there are some types of support er more susceptible to but in general reduces yeah it reduces world prices why why does it do that erm it allows domestic farmers to produce their so they go on to the world market and theyve got everybody else these things thats right thats right you know we as consumers hav consuming more of our own products more of our own agricultural products therefore were importing less right as a result supply supply is increasing right in the face of re falling demand right demand falling off because prices have are high simple supply and demand right now but this is the demand who say european community as is the supply term erm what we call excess demand occurred rest of the world are we slap a tax on tariff on there that reduces consumption right what with world prices world prices they used to be here theyre now down here alright effec essentially supply we weve got over s over supply and that brings down agricultural prices erm and so wor world prices tend to be a lot lower than they would would have been in the absence of support now just to give you some figures i mean same tariff thats the world price supplied the rest of the world in fact the tariff on it show them that the operation of a a tariff can affect erm world prices and just to give you some idea erm ah can we just you know when we were talking about the net economic costs well theyre within the european community those costs we can add also to the fact that fifteen billion dollars a year right is lost by er third country exporters alright so we still add another fifteen on there per year that is erm errr oh yes same study again erm suggest that in nineteen eighty six eighty seven the year they look looking at over forty percent right of support to u s farmers forty percent nearly half of all support to u s farmers quote merely offset the losses created by policies of other industrialised countries alright so nearly half of the support given to farmers in the u s alright we t to get them to stand still in in er in numerative terms right because the european community have been heavily heavily subsidising its farmers right they were having in order farmers were too successful weve had wine lakes we had erm er butter mountains we had to get rid of that that was subsidised on the world market as a result of that world market prices would come down right and that induced the agricultural government sorry the er american government to support its agriculture right and these chaps estimate that nearly half of the support given to the u s farmers merely offset their losses caused by essentially european community and japan subsidising their farmers prices are also made a lot more volatile right simply because the world market becomes a residual market instead of everybody buying and selling through the world market right if virtually everybody becomes self sufficient the world market becomes a bit of a misnomer right there isnt such a thing as a world market in that in that particular case it it may just be a few very small countries trade on the world market it becomes very small market and therefore prone to supply erm fluctuations in any one country and as we know supply fluctuations on inelastic demand causes price volatility so prices have tend to have fallen on world markets for agricultural goods because of support right and theyve also become a lot more volatile and that and that is the er the source of the international frustration with erm the common agricultural policy and this is why weve got agriculture er being introduced into the g a t t not only does it impose huge costs on domestic tax payers and consumers it also in incurs erm a large cost on third country exporters right now if you think that most of those countries may well be developing countries and agricultural output is their only source of foreign exchange erm then er the policies of the rich countries in the west are erm a actively erm hindering the development prospects of developing countries alright and that may not be the desired intention okay thanks very much alliance nebraska alliance nebraska is an averagesized city in the panhandle of nebraska the community consists of mostly farmers and ranchers
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tern terns are seabirds in the family laridae they are normally found near the sea rivers or wetlands they are slender lightly built birds with long forked tails narrow wings long bills and short legs most species are pale grey above and white below with a contrasting black cap to the head but some have dark plumage for part of the year terns breed in noisy colonies and lay their eggs on bare ground with little or no nest material marsh terns make floating nests from the vegetation in their wetland habitats and a few species build simple nests in trees on cliffs or in crevices most species feed on fish caught by diving from flight but the marsh terns are insecteaters and some large terns may take small land vertebrates many terns are longdistance migrants and the arctic tern may see more daylight in a year than any other animal villefranchedallier villefranchedallier is a commune it is in the allier department in the center of france châtillonsuroise châtillonsuroise is a commune it is found in the region picardie in the aisne department in the north of france wadi fira region wadi fira is one of the 23 regions of chad its capital is the town of biltine subdivisions the region of wadi fira is divided into three departments each is listed with the name of its capital or main town and a list of subprefectures amyloplast an amyloplast is an organelle inside a plant cell that stores starch it is only found in starchy plants such as tubers and fruits
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brief law in law a brief is a formal written argument submitted to a court it is in a format required by that particular court system in civil law a brief generally contains the legal arguments in a lawsuit in a criminal procedure briefs involve the state prosecuting one or more defendants for breaking one or more laws in general briefs contain references to the statutes legal precedents and arguments applied to the facts for this particular case when an attorney writes a brief they are implicitly promising to give the court good reasons for ruling in favor of their client an appellate brief is a brief prepared for an appellate court anamicus curiae literally afriend of the court is a third party not involved in the case but who has a strong interest in the case they may ask the courts permission to file an amicus brief in support of one of the parties pahariwood pahariwood is the name of a kashmiri movie industry that is based in the city of kotli paharipothwari are the native tongues of the ethnic population of kotli mirpur and other area of azad jammu and kashmir references founder name is is saleem ahmed qureshi this industry also work on urdu english languages as well sundar nagar sundar nagar also spelled as sundernagar is a town and a municipal council in the mandi district in the indian state of himachal pradesh it was a princely state known as suket body modification body modification or body alteration is when a person changes their body in a way that lasts forever or for a long time there are many different kinds of body modification like piercing circumcision or tattoos almost all cultures do some kind of body modification arguments people who do not like body modification sometimes call itdisfigurementormutilationthey believe that if someone changes their body it is wrong and they are doing something dangerous or unethical why people do body modification body modification is done for different reasons religions might tell people that they should change their bodies to look a certain way other people with body modifications might just like the way the body modifications look or how they feel good during sex varsinaissuomi parliamentary electoral district varsinaissuomi also called finland proper or southwest finland is an electoral district of finland
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tbone steak the tbone and porterhouse are cuts of beef they are steaks that are cut from the short loin the smaller part of a tbone is called a filet mignon they contain meat from two of the most expensive cuts of beef and are said to be one of the highest quality steaks artsakh dram the artsakh dram is one of the currency used in the republic of artsakh limited recognition it is legal tender but is not as widely used as the armenian dram picard theorem in complex analysis picards theorem named after émile picard tells about the range of a function in brief they state that a flat function cant transition into a nonflat function if a function is zero at two neighboring points ie flat then it must be zero everywhere alternatively sufficiently near to a zero a function must have nonzero values caroline islands the caroline islands are a group of tiny islands in the western pacific ocean they are north of new guinea and east of the philippines they are part of micronesia the western islands are in palau and the central and eastern islands are in the federated states of micronesia the islands stretch across from west to east cranston rhode island cranston is a city in rhode island it is near providence
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creoles of color the creoles of color are a historic ethnic group of creole people that developed in the former french and spanish colonies of louisiana especially in the city of new orleans mississippi alabama and northwestern florida in what is now the united states french colonists in louisiana first used the termcreoleto refer to whites born in the colony rather than in france it was also used for enslaved people born in the colony national anthem of colombia thehimno nacional de colombia is the national anthem of colombia lyrics generally only the chorus and the first verse are sung saintétiennedebrillouet saintétiennedebrillouet is a commune it is found in the region pays de la loire in the vendée department in the west of france montloué montloué is a commune it is found in the region picardie in the aisne department in the north of france bibsys bibsys is an administrative agency run by the ministry of education and research in norway they help organize research data and library metadata bibsys works with all norwegian universities and university colleges as well as research institutions and the national library of norway
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xgender xgender is a thirdgender that is not m male or masculine or f female or feminine the term is used instead of nonbinary and genderqueer in japan riverview estates missouri riverview estates is a village in cass county missouri united states venus disambiguation venus is a planet in the solar system it may also mean thors aube thors is a commune in the aube department in northcentral france diners driveins and dives diners driveins and dives is an american food reality television show created by guy fieri it is shown on the food network and follows american cook guy fieri as he searches for americas best diners driveins and dives
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nußdorf am inn nußdorf am inn officiallynußdorf a inn is a municipality in rosenheim a districtlandkreisin upper bavaria nußdorf consists of 23 boroughs bischwiller bischwiller is a commune it is in grand est in the basrhin department in northeast france alaqsa tv al aqsa tv is a television station run by the palestinian political group hamas which is from the gaza strip the television station broadcasts news promotional material for hamas cartoons such as tomorrows pioneers which promoted antizionism and violence against israel and usa and religious programs the television stations current director is fathi ahmad who holds membership to the palestinian legislative council and is the interior minster of the gaza strip the station is named after the alaqsa compound in jerusalem thangjing disambiguation thangjing may refer to vatican city national football team vatican city national football team is the national football team of vatican city
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work hardening the work hardening also known as strain hardening is the strengthening of a metal or polymer by plastic deformation the plastic deformation of the metals is made below the recrystallization temperature in most cases such cold forming is done at room temperature the major coldworking operations can be classified basically as squeezing rolling bending shearing and drawing the coldworking process uses the pressure and speed of a mechanical or hydraulic press the press takes a metalblankand shapes it using apunchanddieset basically the punch is the tool used for shaping and thedieis the clamp that holds the metal when these metals are cold worked permanent defects change their crystalline makeup these defects reduce the ability of crystals to move within the metal structure and the metal becomes more resistant to further deformation the resulting metal product has improved tensile strength and hardness but less ductility cold working can be used on a variety of metals including aluminum copper brass steel and stainless steel voiced velar implosive the voiced velar implosive is a sound used in some spoken languages it is not in english uss somerset usssomersetmay mean list of comuni of the province of pesaro and urbino the following is a list of the 59comuniof the province of pesaro and urbino marche in italy list of astrophysicists an astrophysicist is a person whose profession is astrophysics
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mozilla web browser mozilla was a web browser that was made open source it was developed by mozilla foundation it was the base of mozilla firefox analytic language an analytic language is a language that organizes words and grammar by a strict word order instead of inflections or word endings that show grammar examples of analytic languages include chinese english vietnamese thai khmer and lao in chinese sentences are mostly in the svo subjectverbobject word order so the sentence must bei eat noodles noti noodles eatoreat i noodles in chinese this is written as the verb pronouncedchīmeaningeat does not change based on the subjectior the objectnoodles and likewise the subject pronouncedwǒmeaningi and object pronouncedmiàntiáomeaningnoodlenoodles do not have any special word endings based on its role or number what is important is that all the words are in the correct order modern english does have some inflections based on the subject the verbeatbecomeseatswhen the subject is a third personhesheit and number noodleis singular whilenoodlesis plural but aside from that there are almost none therefore modern english is mostly an analytic language modern english has far fewer inflections that almost all other indoeuropean languages such as spanish german and russian old english was an inflectional language and content words could have several different word endings much like german today however england was taken over by speakers of other languages especially french danish and latin and since the new rulers became second language speakers of english the grammar simplified to what it is today marquise pasdecalais marquise is a commune it is found in the region nordpasdecalais in the pasdecalais department in the north of france hello hello well what can i do for this day see if you could give me some doctor to it no its the tablets and that im were you still waiting for that now right mm thats healed really bad and weeping i cant walk right well thats needing healed up again aye right but i admit matter you still on mhm okay alright now ive given you some cream to put on as well anne right now put that on three times a day and you put the tablets you take the tablets four times a day what the tablets for its an antibiotic stuff to clean it from the inside ah right because theres inflammation round about the inside of the pin its that thats weep and its starting to come out aye its starting to come out mm onto the skin and trouble you do you yes oh aye i am oh aye mm oh aye more or less see doctor see my toes ive seen them going kind of black you know yes thats okay is that alright dont dont worry about that i maybe no no no no no youve no youre not going to come to any harm with that see these tablets you gave me theyre no use i prefer to keep are they not with the mhm that ive got right because you gave me ten milligrams and t the fives not very strong but im not very well with them and i just think theyre terrible save on the right but er if you havent heard how long have the pins been in now anne two year a year and a half if you havent heard within the next two or three months come in and see mhm again and well get onto the mm hospital because thats i know i mean ive skin aye but er twice so i didnt get right and then i i was at doctors but he er he hasnt sent me a letter right because he cant doing it i it seems it seems quite a long time and er at times at spells ive got to put on the pink bandage at times you know to get the swelling back down right aye sounds as though the pins are needing to come out oh aye definitely need to even the nurse said she could see it oh well hmm hmm aye right er thats the strength or possibly three or right well well get right that well get that organized for you thanks okay very much right cheerio cheerio now a letter to mr at the surgeon at district hospital about anne of dear mr you may have already saying that mrs attended recently she has a black and she asking about turned septic shes quite worried crusting and discharge but shes having in fact been treatment with antibiotics and cream however she i feel that she would garrett wyoming garrett is an unincorporated community in albany county wyoming united states
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authie somme authie is a commune in the somme department in hautsdefrance in northern france the river authie begins in coigneux list of heads of government of algeria this is a list of heads of government of algeria hersincoupigny hersincoupigny is a commune it is found in the region nordpasdecalais in the pasdecalais department in the north of france army ranks and insignia of the russian federation the army ranks and insignia of the russian federation are the ranks of the armed forces of the russian federation the ranks has changed very little since the breakup of the soviet union dubberly louisiana dubberly is a village in webster parish louisiana united states
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flag of monaco the national flag of monaco has two equal horizontal bands red top and white bottom rob renzetti robert john renzetti is an american animator and author betaucourt betaucourt is a commune it is found in the region bourgognefranchecomté in the hautesaône department in the east of france the ship of the dead the ship of the dead is the third novel in rick riordans trilogy seriesmagnus chase and the gods of asgard based on norse mythology bar business a bar is a building or business where alcoholic drinks such as beer wine or liquor are served bars are also found in pubs and nightclubs they may also serve snack food in most countries bars are regulated and licenced by the regional or local governments which establish laws regarding the opening hours and serving policies in canada and the united states a liquor tax is placed on the sales of alcoholic beverages drink coasters are used in bars and restaurants to protect the table surface from alcohol
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saigneville saigneville is a commune it is in hautsdefrance in the somme department in north france yaeyama islands the yaeyama islands yaeyamashotō also yaeyamarettō yaeyamayaimaokinawaneema are an archipelago or group of islands in the southwest of okinawa prefecture japan they cover the islands are southwest of the miyako islands they are part of the ryukyu islands archipelago the yaeyama islands are the remotest part of japan from the main islands they contain japans most southern hateruma and most western yonaguni inhabited islands the city of ishigaki serves as the political cultural and economic head of the yaeyama islands the yaeyama islands have numerous species of subtropical plants and mangrove forests the islands produce sugarcane and pineapples coral reefs around the islands are ideal habitats for dolphins sea turtles and larger fish such as manta rays and whale sharks before being wiped out by humans whales and dugongs were common yaeyama once had the largest population of dugongs in the ryukyu islands on aragusuku island there is autakiwhich has laid to rest dugongs with their skulls nonresidents are not allowed to enter unless they get an okay from the locals it is said that any aliens without permission will be driven out by force geography the islands form the southern part of the volcanic ryukyu islands the administrative division of yaeyama district covers all of the yaeyama islands except ishigaki and the disputed senkaku islands culture people the native people of the yaeyama islands are the yaeyama and yonaguni peoples both of whom are subgroups of a larger ryukyuan ethnicity languages the yaeyama language is the native language of the entire yaeyama island chain with the exception of yonaguni which is home to the yonaguni language instead because japan suppressed both the yaeyama and yonaguni languages in the past they are endangered meaning there arent a lot of speakers left the younger generation mainly speaks japanese instead mushaama festival 14 julymushaamafestival on hateruma island this harvest festival is celebrated duringobon it features a parade of the local fertility godmirukuand his children the local childrenshishilion dances and staff dances other the undersea yonaguni monument is on the island of yonaguni the yaeyama islands are home to the production of traditional yaeyaman textiles céline céline is a french female given name that comes from greek it may refer to st marys ohio st marys is a city in auglaize county ohio united states indian classical dance the indian classical dances are the dance forms representing the exemplary standards within the traditional and longestablished forms or styles of the indian culture according to the encyclopedia britannica there are six classical dance forms of india however the number of classical dances vary in accordance to various sources bharatnatyam bharatnatyam is a classical indian dance form that originates from that originates in the temples of tamil nadu the dance form is a reconstruction os sadir the art of temple dancers devadasis lord shiva as nataraja is considered the god of this dance form today it is one of the most popular and widely performed dance form practiced by male and female dancers all over the world the original name of bharatnatyam was sadir chinnamelan and dasi attam a possible origin of the bharatnatyam is that it comes after bharata muni the author of natya shastra another popular etymology explanation of the name holdsbhavanmeans expressionragammeans melody andtalammeans rhythm finallynatyammeans dance so the dance which has bhavan ragam and talam is called bharatnatyam aspects of bhratnatyam bharatnatyam is a solo dance with two aspects lasya the graceful and feminine aspects associated with goddess parvati and tandava the masculine and rigorous aspects associated with lord shiva training of bharatnatyam the bharatnatyam training has been given its present shape by the tanjore brothers it begins with the practice of adavus and then the students are taught the margam from pushpanjli kautvam alarippu jatiswaram sabdam varnam padams tilina after many years of training a student can perform anarangetram the first solo performance by a student bharatnatyam compositions are based on carnatic music system of ragams and talams it features graceful and assertive movements that are performed imaginary lines and geometrical patterns kathak kathak is a dance form that originates from uttar pradesh north india it is said thatkatha kahe so kathakwhich means thathe who tells a story is a kathak the kathak or professional storyteller had a thorough knowledge of the epics and mythology village legends and local beliefs it is said that the kathak was so adept at this art that he often kept a whole village absorbed while he sat entertaining them dancing style of kathak kathak is characterised bt graceful movements subtle expressions and sophisticated use of rhythm technical virtuosity and flamboyance is complimented by subtlety in the depiction of moods and emotions pure dance is the predominant feature of kathak in kathak the dancer addresses directly to the audience the knees are not flexed outwards or forwards as in the other classical dance form of india the feet with ghungroos around the ankles beat out a whole range of rhythmic sounds skill in rendering intricate beats is fundamental to the style history of kathak although kathak was an established tradition as a medium of worship during the vaishnava age it started being performed in courts with the coming of the mughals the dancer moved from thr temple courtyards to the palace durbar and this brought changes on the presentation as we know it today kathak saw a great period of glory in the 19th century during the reign of wajid ali shah the last nawab of awadh it was under his patronage that the lucknow gharana was established the two other important gharanas in kathak are the jaipur gharana and the banaras gharana
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petrichor petrichor is the name of the scent of rain on dry dirt the term was created by two australian researchers for an article in the journalnature artesia california artesia is a city in southeast los angeles county california liverscazelles liverscazelles is a commune it is in occitanie in the tarn department in south france ismael balkhi sayed ismael balkhi was a poet political activist and cleric in afghanistan during the twentieth century he was one of the thinkers and pioneers of the islamic movement of afghanistan skirwith skirwith is a village in cumbria england it has a church called st johns church
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united states national economic council the national economic council nec of the united states is the principal forum used by the president of the united states for considering economic policy matters separate from matters relating to domestic policy which are the domain of the domestic policy council cap sport in sport a cap is a players appearance in an international game the term comes from the practice in the united kingdom of giving a cap to every player in an international match of rugby football and association football in the early days of football the concept of each team wearing a set of matching shirts was not commonly used instead each side would wear a different type of hat to appear different than their opponent colors kannada colors kannada is an indian television channel etv kannada frikandel a frikandel is a dutch fast food it is often a snack eaten with french fries it has the appearance of a sausage with flat ends frieze in architecture the frieze is the wide central section of an entablature and may be plain or in the ionic or corinthian order decorated with basreliefs
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samern samern is a community in the county of bentheim in lower saxony germany geography place samern is between nordhorn and steinfurt on the boundary with north rhinewestphalia the community belongs to the joint community samtgemeinde of schüttorf whose administrative seat is in the likenamed town ali ibn husayn ali ibn husayn also known as zayn alabidin and imam assajjad was the fourth imam in shia islam he was the son of husayn ibn ali and the grandson of ali ibn abi talib he survived the battle of karbala and was taken to the caliph in damascus eventually he was allowed to return to medina his life was devoted to spiritual and religious teachings mostly in the form of prayers and supplications his famous supplications are known asassahifa assajjadiyya hickory mississippi hickory is a town in newton county mississippi united states longboat a longboat was an open boat used onboard ships during the age of the sailing ships the original name wasshallopbut was changed to longboat in the 18th century a ship or vessel would carry several ships boats for various uses the most important would be a longboat an open boat to be rowed by up to eight or ten the longboat had rowing benches designed for up to two men to an oar a longboat was designed for use in rough water and could be rigged for sails one of its main uses was as a pulling boat another was to when a ship was at anchor longboats carried people and supplies between ship and shore ocellated turkey an ocellated turkey meleagris ocellata is a turkey a large bird that is named for the eyelike spots on the tail feathers ocellatedmeans having eyelike spots it is similar to the wild turkey that is found more to the north in north america
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catskill mountains the catskill mountains also known as the catskills are part of the larger appalachian mountains they are in southeastern new york the catskills are generally defined as those areas close to or within the borders of the catskill park a forest preserve forever protected from many forms of development under new york state law the catskills form the northeastern end of the allegheny plateau also known as the appalachian plateau pontoise pontoise is a commune of the valdoise department in the northwestern suburbs of paris france it is from the centre of paris in thenew townof cergypontoise twin towns pontoise is twinned with dress shirt a dress shirt is a shirt worn by men with a necktie in order to have a professional appeal and to look dignified in a crowd in england this is a term for a shirt that is worn with a tuxedo miracle a miracle is an amazing beneficial event that goes or at least seems to go against natural laws some people say that a miracle is always an act brought about by god or other supernatural force such as an angel others say that there can always be another explanation for it and thirdly some say the event is myth and never actually even happened in the first place according to the bible in the bible a miracle is an act by god where gods presence is shown they can be an act that affects one person or a gigantic disturbance of nature that changes the world examples in the bible here are seven types that can be found these are just some of the many miracles in the bible in other books other religious books like the quran mahabharata and the avesta contains many references to this definition of miracle an example of a miracle in the quran is when muhammad splits the moon into halves steel azin fc steel azin football club is an iranian football club based in tehran iran
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mcrae arkansas mcrae is a city in the us state of arkansas shill a shill may also be called aplantor a stooge they are people usually paid who promote something they pretend to be independent shills publicly help or give credibility to a person or organization with which they have a private relationship shills operate in media journalism marketing confidence games or other businesses a shill may also discredit opponents or critics of their client by character assassination or other means usuallyshillrefers to someone who purposely gives onlookers ormarks the impression of an enthusiastic customer they pretend independence of the seller marketer orcon artist for whom they are secretly working the shill works forthe manwho does the tricks to extract money from the onlookers the tricks can be as basic as a street threeshell game or as complex as a massive stock exchange fraud all it takes is someone who looks like a fellow player to show big appreciation of the sellers product the shill and his client the man rely on crowd psychology to encourage other onlookers or audience members to do business with the seller or accept the ideas they are promoting with a big audience such as a magicians show or a political rally people are often placed in the audience then the shill is called a plant or stooge what the shill does is similar or identical to what advertising and public relations do however it is more obvious that the latter have a vested interest because everyone knows they are being paid for their work another place for shilling is auctions münchsteinach münchsteinach is a municipality in neustadt aischbad windsheim in middle franconia bavaria germany great famine great famine may refer to jovençan jovençan is acomunein the aosta valley region in italy
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lasseubepropre lasseubepropre is a commune in the gers department it is in southwestern france a brush against the freckles that i hated oh so much a small flicker thats all and then i heave a little sigh the heavyweight love that i once shared with you miraculously dissolved with the sugar cube the little prick that i feel on my bosom that has shrunken from the little thorn really hurts me now i guess i cannot trust those silly horoscopes after all i wonder what it would be like if we could go further away right id be so happy just because of that memories i have are always beautiful in my mind but they cant feed me they cant fill up my stomach in reality tonight was supposed to be somber i really do wonder why i just cant see how all of the tears were streaming down his face that night i just cant see it anymore the kamiya school has started the path to reconstruction along with our boarder kenshin himura the swordsman weve added yahiko myojin my first apprentice so on our third day of training well start with a deep breath as usual close your eyes its the first step of the kamiya kasshin style bleah nyah yahiko wait im sick of this kasshin style already when are you gonna teach me how to beat enemies up thats the wrong way to think ive told you that the kasshin style uses a sword to protect people protect people kenshin i came here to get stronger not learn a style that protects people i want to learn your sword style that defeats enemies i dont intend to pass my style on to future generations that i dont why your teacher is miss kaoru that she is wwait here have a riceball riceball sheesh kenshin is so hes so cruel yeah after telling me to get stronger hes making me deal with a brat like you why dont you eat the ones you made because the ones kenshin made taste better you know your spirit sort of reminds me of myself i feel like i have a delinquent younger brother li really do think youre strong but after seeing kenshin but its strange whats such a strong guy doing at a noname school like this hey kaoru what is kenshin anyway ddunno how he fought felt like hes killed a lot of people i know maybe in the past he was a gangster and im sure the cops are still after him how cool thats true why is he wandering anyway he was an imperialist who made the meiji revolution possible its a mystery why kenshin disappeared in the chaos at the end of the tokugawa regime rumors say it was because he had slain someone he shouldnt have or because he knew too many secrets and is wanted by the new government officials thats thats miss kaorus lunch that it is youll bring it back here that you will that moron why is he keeping it a secret people are worried about him too now confess the truth i shouldnt pry into peoples pasts but um you know i probably shouldnt be asking this but can you tell me a little what is it wheres kenshin he just went to buy some tofu tonight will be a feast hes making enough for my family as well li see wwhat do you want bring us the headmaster of this school you should introduce yourselves before asking for favors wwhy you tthats me assistant master kaoru kamiya what is it youre awfully rude we are the police even a baby would know that just by looking at you chief kenshin himura the battousai has to be here battousai do they mean battousai the manslayer kenshin is many suspects in the falsebattousaicase confessed that the real manslayer is at this school hiding him is considered a crime against the government what what are you saying kenshin has done that is a government secret that only the man waiting outside knows allow us to investigate wait do you want to be punished by death along with the battousai yahiko go tell kenshin that hell be caught if he comes back kaoru hurry ggot it hey wait hey wait stop stop freeze freeze kenshin soon i found you soon i will see you himura the battousai hurry hurry me too if you fret the tofu will crumble it will look hes still got a sword you have some nerve to break the sword prohibition in broad daylight in front of police swordsmen no less how about a match well let you go if you win there are children here so i rather would not besides this is a reverseblade sword a reverseblade sword you couldnt slay a mouse with that thing wimp not even worth mentioning ken its all right now that it is theyre bad people you have to say youre sorry when you spill something you have to you are right you are out of the way make way for the police swordsmen who keep kids from crying in fear police swordsmen you shoplifter youve got this coming please forgive me it was all spur of the moment shut up pplease forgive him he did shoplift but it was only one handtowel the police swordsmen do not have to take part in a small affair like this we can handle it now is a small town cop trying to tell us what to do are you saying this knowing that we are officers from satsuma nno i get lost are you all right hey you look like you want to say something we are an elite group the police swordsmen unlike you wimps we are allowed to carry swords thus we are authorized by the government to slay people come on fight us were sure to chop you up kenshin kenshin kenshin where are you pplease wait why my father too he sided with a criminal father dammit youre in the way someone someone please help us my father is innocent please arrest the girl too stop it i dunno whats going on but you guys are messed up are you all right teach them a lesson execute them all we have to kill occasionally so we dont dull our instincts as swordsmen dammit let go of me an execution impossible theyre all innocent people this is for the public peace by picking out evil in its infancy we prevent crimes from happening you are the ones who are evil stop theyll kill you too so where is that spirit from earlier dammit do it right sstop hey stop it stop wait kenshin dont kenshin run theres a bunch of people out to get you who are you name yourself kenshin himura all those who are restrained here if they truly have committed crimes i will repent for all of them oh so you are dissatisfied with us in this area of tokyo you must be very sure of yourself to carry a sword this guy is just a wimp no are you sure i smell blood from him there he is i found him red hair and a cross shaped scar on his cheek someone that looks like himura is fighting the police swordsmen ow wait get her this may hurt i wont let the likes of you have kenshin wwait now draw your sword i decline kill them off one by one right this is oppression we cant stay quiet anymore even if you are the authorities dont let it go to your head you all have guts insulting the police swordsmen i invoke the government opposition crime law arrest every last one of them i authorize the use of swords i dont care about people who resist arrest slay them dont even scratch these innocent people with your blades if you need an opponent i will fight you if you want to be forced to crawl on the ground attack selfdefense has now been established kill him then there was one you will swear to these townsfolk never to be oppressive again you will afterwards you can arrest me using the sword law or for assault stop kidding do you think id ever do that kenshin out of the way out of the way just get out of the way oh this is that man himura the battousai that stance the strongest style in satsuma the jigen style which is said to never need a second strike the jigen style is a strong style that is truly unique however chest facing himuras hiten mitsurugi style it is completely useless that was great man i cant believe it you defeated all of them without killing anyone youre our hero kenshin you dont have time to loiter run the cops are coming for you you youre a fugitive from the government and you even fought police swordsmen arrest him yes stop wait yyour excellency judging by the crowds reaction it is obvious who was serving justice release those people and severely punish those men for their oppressive acts yes yes himura we finally meet again ive been searching for you for ten years now you grew a mustache mr yamagata bbe respectful who do you think this do you still not understand himura is a hero who saved the lives of many imperialists with his sword behave accordingly yamagata aritomo yamagata what so you mean that hes important or something you mean you dont know aritomo yamagata lord of the imperial meiji army the politician that stands at the top of japan i have a carriage waiting over there i have something that i must speak with you about cant you tell me here its just like you to say that himura without you the revolution probably would not have happened as one who helped form this country i want to welcome you as a key officer in the imperial army your comrades from the revolution are waiting for you please lend your powers to the meiji government himura unfortunately i have no wish whatsoever to be given a key position as a reward for manslaughter as i thought your disappearance was a show of determination to never kill again you say you killed people but it was a noble aspect of the revolution for those who cannot admit this i will use my authority to put them down that train of thought is what creates conceited men like them we once fought with our swords not for power or glory but for a world where people could live in happiness and if you forget that youre just an usurper but himura times have changed it is the meiji era now there is a sword prohibition and the samurai have died out you cant do anything in this meiji era with just one sword without power even if its just the people that i see as i walk by i can protect them with one sword that i can i wont give up himura even if its just the people that i see as i walk by i can protect them with one sword that i can a sword which protects others huh whats wrong yahiko kenshin what you are going to learn is not the sword style of a manslayer it is a sword that protects other people become stronger using the kasshin style to protect other people oh all right ill be one of kaorus students whered that come from youve been my student from the beginning dont treat me like a kid you are a kid why you today i found out a little bit about why kenshin is a wanderer to not be trapped in anything to live life as it flows by to protect others freely with his sword thats the kenshin that we know when seeing those eyes of yours with that gleam my heart skipped a beat that lazy afternoon my whole body felt nervous and verv stiff as if you were testing my love for you feeling the point from the air and from you i shivered all over from my love for you a crunch on the sand i bite down the grit i aim at your will as the day turns to night i am hoping soon you will use your delicious lips and let me have some of that good wine thats over there when they are united under the bright full moon a man and a woman will find true eternity passionate lady ah gimme your love mysterious lady i need your love the lonely eyes you show once in a great little while i cant tell if its the truth or just a lie honestly lady ah gimme your love now feel it coming lady i need your love im always thrown right around by all the things you always do the fervor of passionate love crazily dances within my heart life has been anything but calm since kenshin started living here this time the rough sanosuke challenges kenshin and stirs things up he really doesnt look like such a bad guy next episode of rurouni kenshin please look forward to it isleaumont isleaumont is a commune of the aubedépartementin the northcentral part of france linwood new jersey linwood is a city in atlantic county new jersey united states aglyptorhynchus aglyptorhynchus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish it has the following species
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occluded front an occluded front is a weather pattern it brings cold weather and leaves cold weather it happens when a cold front overtakes a slowmoving warm front the cold front is heavier than the warm front and will push it up the warm front slides over the cold one cloud and rain form along the occluded front until temperatures become equal as the cold and warm air mix some occluded fronts make tropical cyclogenesis followon in cricket a team with many more runs than another team can make the latter team play multiple innings in a row this allows the team that isenforcing the followonto complete fewer innings than the other team and still win in a game where multiple innings were scheduled for each team so long as the team with fewer runs completes all of its innings chemical energy chemical energy is the energy produced in a chemical reaction in the form of heat using hesss law it is possible to calculate the amount of energy an exothermic reaction produces graford texas graford is a city in the us state of texas oily fish oily fish is the name for several species of fish which have a lot of fat and oil in their muscle tissue oily fish commonly have ten percent or more fatoil in their tissue some species have over 30 the other kind of fish is called whitefish whitefish only contain oilfat in tissues around the liver common fish that are calledoilyinclude atlantic herring european sprat salmon atlantic mackerel tuna eel greenland halibut and different species of catfish
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mr chairman ladies and gentlemen were all aware that for th for their number patients with superficial bladder cancer provide an enormous amount of our workload and for reasons partly of husbanding our precious resources and also because lots of these patients come up with negative checks reducing the amount of irritation and upset to them it would be useful if we could do less than we do many people have looked at this before and theyve come up with various prognostic markers some of which are extremely complicated but perhaps the erm the simplest erm prognostic routes were suggested by the m r c working parties which general urology which was mentioned in the last presentation they combined erm the four hundred and fifty odd erm four hundred and seventeen sorry patients in er several m r c studies and looked at them from the point of view of erm prognostic markers for occurrence and they came up with two factors which overridingly were more important than the others the first one was the result of the three month check cystoscopy either positive or negative and the second one the number of tumours at presentation either single or multiple and from these two factors you can erm form three prognostic routes a low risk route will have a single tumour at diagnosis and a negative three month cystoscopy an intermediate risk group with multiple tumours at diagnosis or a positive three month cystoscopy and a high risk group multiple tumours at diagnosis and a positive three month cystoscopy the suggested protocols for these patients were as follows the low risk category one patients would go straight onto annual check cystoscopy following the first three month check the intermediate risk group would have a three monthly cystoscopy for a year and then go onto six monthly for a further year and then annual thereafter and the high risk group would have three monthly check cystoscopies for two years and then go onto annual check cystoscopies any patient who recurs after the three month check cystoscopy is reassessed going back to the beginning and they may be reassigned to one of the the o o one or other of the groups erm depending on that one of the criticisms or possible criticisms of the m r c figures was that these were all patients who had been entered into superficial bladder cancer studies and they dont therefore re represent all because people are selected to go into the trial and perhaps they are lower risk patients than others and in fact i believe that the recurrence rate in the m r c studies are lower than you would expect for er superficial bladder cancer in general and so we did a sort of what if analysis looking a at the impact of implementing erm these er prognostic categories on our patients now this was a retrospective analysis bit it was done on prospectively recorded information hundred and fifty nine patients all come as presenting with superficial transitional cell carcinoma of the blood and they all have prospectively followup date for more than twelve months following the first check cystoscopy youll see that there is a mix er er of grades and stages and because its the the real world erm in some of the tumours a a precise t category was not erm decided by the pathologist again a mix of single and multiple tumours when you look at er the arrangement of these patients in the prognostic groups youll see that the information from the er the number of tumours at presentation and the the result of the threemonth check cystoscopy is quite independent of grade and stage er theres no well there looks to be a trend towards higher grade er in in category three patients an and again more er more t one tumours i the differences are not statistically significant now this is a a sort of cost benefit benefit analysis based on what would have happened if wed followed these protocols ourselves youll see that the majority of patients fall into the low risk group with progressively smaller numbers in the intermediate and high risk group erm four patients erm fro from the group overall subsequently developed cancer if we look at the actual numbers of cystoscopies performed you will you see that there were the vast majority of work was done in the lower and intermediate risk group patients er and the positive er cystoscopy rate erm was much lower in the lower risk group as you would expect than in the higher risk group if we had followed the m r c protocols er the numbers er would have been much smaller in the lower risk group and erm the erm there was more effort placed in the high risk group than erm there would have been we actually did and a as a result of that our positive cystoscopy rate was more comparable across the three groups than it was previously you can only say whats what this a doctor in this policy would have done in terms of delaying diagnosis in the lower risk group patients because clearly the other groups of patients are actually having more cystoscopies performed but because its a retrospective analysis you cannot say that you are advancing the diagnosis of er of more frequently occurring tumours there were thirty tumours from patients that had their diagnosis delayed by a mean of four months if we followed the rules er the m r c rules strictly one of the lower risk group of patients was a g three p t one tumour and that patient er progressed and in fact all the patients who progressed all the four out of the hundred and fifty nine patients who progressed erm from the total group had either g two or g three p t one tumours at diagnosis and i think theres a very strong case for making these a totally separate group of patients erm for follow up that just shows graphically what the change in the workload would have been this is our actual workload and this is what it would have happened if wed followed the m r c er protocols there would actually be a two percent increase in the number of cystoscopies done but the work would have be been much better targeted er than we actually we actually did so in conclusion adoption of the m r c follow up follow up policy would have resulted in targeting of cystoscopic follow up to higher risk group patients a two percent increase in the cystoscopic resources required and delayed diagnosis of tumour progression in one patient and as ive said i i think that g three p t one tumours should be excluded from er this type of protocol perhaps other uses of er this type of erm protocol would be to use flexible cyst er flexible check cystoscopy early in the lower risk group patients and perhaps give the intermediate and higher risk group patients prophylactic chemotherapy thank you er i think it would be useful to have er mr back and we could er discuss both of these papers together questionsmicrophone number one p k from lincoln a question to both the speakers do you consider the smoker as a high risk group and do you change your attitude in checking them erm i think it j just adds a little bit of complexity t to it i think trying to keep something very simple erm you know a simple rule for everyone to follow and all that that following this protocol requires is that er that the urologist is at least partially sighted it doesnt depend on a pathologist or any oth other information yes i id agree i i think if youve got a moderately or well differentiated tumour and i its solitary and its small and theyre clear at three months tell them to stop smoking by all means can i just ask you both er are you unwilling to modify the standard follow up er cystoscopy for g three tumours and for t one tumours or is it just for the g three t one i think steve you were you were suggesting that it was only the g three t one erm well all the patients who pr progressed had either g two or g three p t one tumours at diagnosis they seemed to be a very high risk group of patients right and a a g three p t a erm well there quite a few of those and none of them progressed microphone three chelmsford if i come to you at three months with a p t a tumour thats grade one or two how long would you be er willing to accept that i should have a recurrence before you treat it how but you sorry a g two a a g one g one p t a tumour how how soon should i get it treated does it matter i think it probably it probably doesnt i mean the r the risk of progression is i i i would think is minuscule erm and erm youre only talking about changes in size not risk of of erm muscle invasion and i think therefore so if its not causing me any symptoms i should no what im say what im saying is that that leaving it for a few months probably isnt going to do you any harm i mean clearly it will continue to grow and therefore any that you do will be will be greater the longer you leave it i do think answer for that one er erm im not aware of any paper thats published presenting that and we came as close as we could to answering that but nobody really knows for sure catane catane is a commune in dolj county romania saintjuliendeconcelles saintjuliendeconcelles is a commune it is in the pays de la loire region in the loireatlantique department in western france list of awards and honours received by nelson mandela this is a list of awards and honours given to nelson mandela the nobel peace prize bharat ratna izieu izieu is a commune it is found in the region auvergnerhônealpes in the ain department in the east of france it lies on the rhône river between the cities of lyon and chambéry
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ternas ternas is a commune it is found in the region nordpasdecalais in the pasdecalais department in the north of france beccles railway station beccles railway station is a station in suffolk england for beccles trains are currently run by greater anglia golden mole golden moles are small insectivorous burrowing mammals native to southern africa they form the family chrysochloridae they are taxonomically distinct from the true moles they look alike because of convergent evolution the golden moles bear a remarkable resemblance to the marsupial moles of australia they live almost exclusively underground beneath grassland forest swamps deserts or mountainous terrain like several other burrowing mammals with similar habits they have short legs with powerful digging claws very dense fur that repels dirt and moisture and tough skin particularly on the head their eyes do not work and covered with skin and fur the ears are just tiny openings and like the marsupial moles they have an enlarged leatherlike pad to protect their nostrils their main sense is that of touch and they are particularly sensitive to vibrations that may indicate approaching danger hominin hominini is the tribe of african apes that comprises humans homo and all ancestors ofhomo sapiensback to the split from the apes this branching is now dated at five to eight million years ago withsahelanthropusas a key fossil a less frequent usage includes the two species presentday of the genuspanthe common chimpanzee and the bonobo in this case the subtribe hominina is thehumanbranch including genushomoand its close relatives but notpan all species in this tribe carry the same four bloodtypes which can be exchanged between species genera subtribe panina subtribe hominina welford road stadium welford road is a rugby union stadium in leicester england and is the home ground for leicester tigers
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saintremysousbarbuise saintremysousbarbuise is a commune of the aubedépartementin the northcentral part of france clypeus the clypeus is one of the hard parts that makes up the face of an insect the clypeus is often welldefined by grooves along its horizontal and vertical margins and is most commonly rectangular in overall shape crew a crew is a group of people that work as a team within a common organization and perform similar activities crews can be found in places like ships and airplanes it is common for members of a crew to have a special role different positions within a crew are commonly organized on a scale of power like a hierarchy so that there is a clear chain of command aboard a ship for example every member of the crew has someone else above them and this chain of power ends at the captain who is in charge of everyone below them teams who work backstage in theaters on movie sets and in television studios are also called crews such crews are distinct from the cast sandnes sandnes is a city and a municipality in rogaland county norway o k ill go from there the effect of the course is a team focus course for t n t express erm right what i would like you to do and what weve agreed is that just introduce your partner o k and id like you to be able to tell me not only something about him her but also obviously the three things that you dont currently know now where will we begin well begin with er john come on were all laughing at you shall i stand i dont have to stand do i no you dont jenny shes worked for express for three and half months and she previously worked for a n c er on their pallet service in sheffield and south yorkshire area er shes got quite tough at t n t being quite new to it but er shes got it even harder because she has to work with me but er she doing very well with b m a system er shes been at the well something i didnt know shes been at the depot the shortest time of all our indoor but shes the first one to get the first day to percent so thats good well done the second thing i didnt know she er she worked eighteen she worked for eighteen months in london arrived there for a holiday and er from being eighteen so sh this now will explain why shes quite mature as i said shes still very young and that er we have the largest territory in in the depot it very like in all ages in existing customers and customer base the problem of the assault course of whether shes actually fitted in in three months anyhow thats what we ought to write that in but er she travels she travels most weekends playing hockey for yorkshire and has done that for four years and shes all over where were you wrexham she was at wrexham not so long back like so shes er quite a sporty type er shes a good sporty model coupe she was quietly in a place called peddeston shes chucked a travel ticket its a bit much for her to do big tough training and that sort of thing but hopefully shell pass her test in the near future and all she needs to be able to do is get her rise so she can afford to make up right thats it brief and exciting right thats lovely so er quite an hockey player eh thats excellent so what about playing for the country good chance not that good not that good right alright well done thats it right o k go on matt o k erm david age fifty one hes been with t n t since his erm daves hobbies he goes to car rallies and hes very involved with politics he also likes going down the pub and playing darts and having an hes been married thirty years hes got three children erm nick whos twenty six caroline whos twenty two and christopher fourteen er three things i didnt know about dave dave used to be the chairman of the young conservatives at thirty two er he was also a local councillor in nineteen seventyfive to nineteen seventyeight in his home town of erm and he used to be rotarian for two years he goes to raise money for charities right erm his son nick hes a computer programmer for i c l but i believe its now changed its name to d two b carolines at essex university taking a masters degree in art and christophers still at school previously to t n t dave was in the steel industry and he worked in that for thirty years er doing and one or two other things one of which was g k n thats it how long have you been in dave er june thats right yes yes have you settled in yes thank you i think it was a bit strange i think at first wasnt it yes yes thats right yes but we had problems making it thats right but you were a councillor for instance dave yes right so thats the sort of political thing thats right yes good yes so why why did you stop doing that did you get is that because you moved away did erm what was it four years well when youre elected as a councillor youve got provision for three years thats right i got reelected after three years after three months there they changed their minds and decided to put er a labour council in so i mean right yes you cant really understand why theyd do that can you they all they all think its so unfair dont they thats right yes oh well at least youve stood again and and and on your feet thats alright o k the only chance id got of staying on er a couple of people dont know this its quite vital sometimes to become what they call an alderman thats right but to qualify for that youve had youve actually got to be a councillor for six years so i got half way there thats right yes of course you could have become lord mayor then if youd been an alderman no you can become the mayor the mayor not the lord mayor thats thats right no not a lot to that thats right yes and build more houses more council houses thats right yes i think it does something really nasty you know you could have got in again and just been sort of whiter than white just doesnt work with the er er i think the reason the main reason weve got that tower was before castle lets up no i mean thats very stupid isnt it i mean i mean youd need to do something really awful but if you did something really awful like for being good but having said that erm you could have got elected again erm yes yes erm mary do you want to tell us about mark this is mark erm three things i didnt know about mark but this is one i learnt yesterday ah thats alright lets here this good mark asked me how old he was and i said about twenty nine right it was meant to be thirty six i didnt know id have said thirty five he signed for liverpool when he was sixteen years old and he was going to be a footballer right thank you a season oh right and he did train he actually trained for five years and instead of holiday he got and something hed like to have done is learnt to compete in the whitbread round the world oh right hed like to have a go at that hes married to amanda hes got two boys bryan and daniel two four and natalie at six hes a kate bush fan not domestic at all he needs ironing lessons and weve worked five w weve worked for five weeks together to go over territory and before he joined er a large part of his career was in contract services and projects and business development in exarmy right yes yes you didnt fancy moving from liverpool then and apply to some other secondrate football centre then why i er said that was because twenty years ago we werent a secondrate football team oh id forgotten that yes its this sort of tendency that liverpools always been good but i remember go on roy tell us about jane er well this is jane erm my colleague we both work for the depot erm janes been with us now for eight months and this is her how many the sixth outfit shes worked in she recently changed erm to come and work for me on the warwickshire area about four weeks ago we are in fact top of the charts so were quite pleased with the progress weve made within those four weeks erm some strange things that i didnt know about jane erm steady one is shes very interested in the occult erm she actually practices tarot card readings and what she calls the crystal oracle and she gave me a brief explanation which is throwing a load of rocks up a cloth er but im not going to push me im not going to push me luck on i dont fancy finding little problems so early in the morning she does a lot of horse riding erm she hasnt got her own horse any more but she uses a local stable and gets to ride once once a week or once a fortnight erm shes lived most of her life in the cambridge and northampton area but shes spent six months down in plymouth and erm her previous job before working for t n t was she actually helped set up a baby unit in a private nursery but claimed she only prefers other peoples children erm once she walked into w h smiths and saw her father the only difference was that he was on the front page of a magazine so she got quite a shock because she didnt expect to see him erm and thats about it really erm she lives in at the minute and this was a gentleman called in the sky ski oh sorryin skiside yes well oh go on and shes a sagittarius which im sure has some links with the occult somewhere it certainly has some links with something if shes a sagittarian shes so bloody pedantic er right why was your dad on the front of a magazine is it embarrassing or can you tell us no it was just a business magazine ah damn right o k it wasnt anything it wasnt the top shelf or anything ah its dreadful isnt it ah yes it does seem bad news does come on jane whore you going to tell us about sorry erm about jack jack good old jack right hes an outdoor sales manager hes been with t n t eleven years erm previous to being with t n t he was on two sales for seven years and previous to that he sold diaries business cards business gifts erm hes married to margaret and they have one daughter jane erm jack actually sets up all the all of our equipment and everything for us right erm jack does gamble erm with his with the dogs but he but he also breeds them as well and he goes to the dogs two or three times a week erm and he also used to own a and all right so there are some things you didnt know about him yes i didnt know that either some of the other things were good right ah thats good right right yes david come on tell us about matt right this is matt he hates being called matthew his actual real name is arthur matthew and if you put those initials down a m d it sounds like a transport company yes hes a bill sales how long have we been in the indoor sales or territory four nine one in manchester depot which covers the greater stockport area he started at t n t in nineteen eighteight hes now twenty two years of age he started off at ramsbottom depot er a few things i didnt know about him i knew he was very very keen on football but he tells me hes also keen on fishing cricket and baseball and also i knew hed booked a holiday to go to antigua but me being totally ignorant about cricket didnt realise he was going to watch the antigua versus england test match in april so thats where hes off to in april erm actually he could probably get a game we had to start again hes single and lives at home with his parents he has two sisters erm one thing some people do know that are in this room and others dont and hes quite embarrassed about this on the way home from the conference matthew and i had a very very bad accident on the motorway and were both very very lucky to have survived actually erm but erm unfortunately during the course well after the accident matthew was breathalysed and found to be over the limit and hes in court actually in the birmingham area on the twenty second of february and were hoping that he gets off with a very light sentence but er were both very very lucky to be here today yes and erm im very sorry about it er because if theyd breathalysed me i would have failed as well yes and i think that perhaps weve all learned a lesson from it plus the fact that youve er had to climb out of an horrendous accident but the fact that if you are still drinking at half past four in the morning the last thing you should do at nine oclock in the morning is get in the car and drive the damn thing people never used to years ago why did it happen like that now its crazy i i im i am absolutely mortified because i have to say i think that erm i got in the car i dont have very far to drive from the n e c erm twenty minutes and im home but i go on the m 1 motorway and er and i never gave it very much thought and on monday when i was told dave what had happened erm there but for the grace of god is that a fair comment yes and er i also hope that the the brummie magistrates whoever they are are er decent to you i doubt if they will be if thats any consolation but er whatever happens lets hope it comes out good and were delighted that you both survived erm but of course that but it was a bad accident wasnt it my car was a total writeoff thats right yes it was a blowout though wasnt it i mean you didnt hit anything it was blowout on the drivers side and erm well we just lost it the wheel was snatched out of his hand when the tyre went and the next thing we just slammed into the barrier and then got catapulted into a concrete wall thats right yes actually it was lucky that we went right over all three lanes of the motorway there was a lot of people behind us but luckily they saw the tyres and they backed off but we could have finished up in a real thats right in a real mess well yes everybody drinks that time in the morning going to work and you know yourself that youre that youre not really here thats right i drove back friday afternoon three and half hours after conference so you didnt stay for the evening no oh right i mean its crazy why dont they have the conference time at ten oclock in the morning and have the conference and everybody go home at a decent time its silly well erm i think its going to certainly erm create one or two thoughts and i think we have to recognise that yes erm you can come down the night before conference cant we so aye we could have loads of young people together and you could get loads of old people together er anyone anyone or of of mixed age group lets put it like that er i only mention it because things are going to fall over and go to bed erm and everyone else stays up again you know and if it is just the way it happens particularly when you get a er an envelope with says here you are have free drinks you know that some people they dont drink at all so they can go to somebody else and say here you are er its a shame because er to be honest i thought it was an excellent conference it was good about everything good salesmen erm but i think we do have to take er jacks thoughts on that that really perhaps we are begging the question when we just forget ourselves and keep going till three four oclock in the morning whatever it is and then well get in the car and drive home o k done that bit erm come on jane tell me about roy right this is roy hes twenty nine years old hes been with t n t for fifteen months he doesnt want to cover the warwickshire area and hes hoping soon perhaps to get promoted to senior executive good in his spare time this it what i didnt know hes an avid which i am also so well be swopping games in the near future erm he gave his job up when he was twenty two years old to tour the states for six months and when he came back he got a job in marks and spencers on the shop floor erm something else i didnt know hes in the theatre his favourite is musical yes musical yes show my ignorance les misérables and hes in love with a woman called lindsey who played in that particular play roy said he would be in joint forces on the territory probably at the beginning of this quarter erm so far so good well you made him sound really really boring why and this really exciting life hes had and you made it sound very boring they didnt know jane asked him well done wed best come over here now i think hadnt we linda come on tell us about whoever im introducing jane who works with us on the same telephone team with jack erm shes worked with us shes worked with t n t three and half years erm she covers the durham gateshead and bishop auckland area the reason being is that i look after our certain areas and jane looks after certain areas and we both make appointments for jack cor jacks so we have certain days right so like one week ill take three days out of that week and jane only has two the following week jane has three and i have two right but it doesnt work out like that most of the time no i was just going to say that sounds like a wonderful idea until you try it i go i go in her days and she goes in on mine but never mind jane has erm one sister and two brothers her sisters got two two kids erm one boy one girl erm unfortunately one of thems in hospital at the moment erm janes twenty six and before that used to be a hairdresser as you can tell erm i found out today that i didnt realise shed actually passed a c a beauticians course so i dont know why shes taught me out of all hasnt taught me how to go on erm has recently been teaching a little girl that lives nextdoor she actually lives on a farm sorry erm a little girl nextdoor to ride erm and has recently been going to dressmaking classes but she nothing to anybody at work erm and shes just getting a new car erm unfortunately about two year ago she had an accident in a nova well her mam was driving and they havent had a car for two years so shes just recently getting an orion erm one point eight diesel all the body kit and very very nice erm she keeps going cruising for babes as she keeps saying erm unfortunately lately shes erm stopped drinking because i think she had a drink problem no shes just being trying quite to cut downno shes being really good its a good job were recording all this for posterity and thats it really alright yes o k right who whove we got left mark you better tell us about mary right this is mary shes twenty four years old shes the indoor sales partnership with me for oxfordshire bucks and berkshire at bracknell previously she used to work for british telecom in telemarketing shes married with two little girls shes married to graham her husband and he trains race horses and he had a winner last weekend yes three things i didnt know about her one shes painted a kids playroom in primary colours red yellow blue and green thats gloss on walls etcetera she used to sing at parties and school discos when she was ten years old and wishes shed made a record and shed like to take part in the advanced driving course so she can spin other peoples cars instead of mine and pass them thats amazing well done yes o k right go on you tell us about john yes heres john and hes worked for express for nearly four years erm before that he was the northern sales rep for a large controls company he is an amateur erm he lives with his wife and eighteen month old son and his wifes expecting another child next month erm three things i didnt know about john before he was very mo modest in pointing out that he was the top salesman twice before last years award he was very quick to tell me that erm when john was sixteen he had an offer to turn professional at snook snooker its obviously a misspent youth there and also erm im not sure if this is wind up or not but john informs me that his middle name is russell and his dad wanted to call him jack russell his mum made him some instead and ill pour it on you after you said that one is that it you were going really well then i was looking forward to some more about that actually he got the dog and he called it thats right that bit theres only one thing more ive got to say about john hes the worst hes renowned for being the worst in the country but he er got a bit of encouragement from john mills and chris ackland and hes now doing so thats a good achievement oh yes they asked me if i wanted me p forty five framed or unframed so how can you view the fact that somebody else is er typing or doing a transcript of er what were actually saying on this tape we should explain what grotting is its most probably you know something that you do on a computer screen rather than if you look it up in the dictionary what grotting actually means its not something that we do two hundred times a week but most of us would like to try erm its and its you jack now i think yes linda linda indoor sales in durham erm lindas been with the company for seven years she came across erm t n t in the overnight days erm and ive had the pleasure of working with linda right the way through the seven years through overnight and express erm shes twenty six years of age erm she came from a company called mail com who was a major customer of t n texpress unfortunately erm its a promotion company linda has always in the seven years ive known her spent fortunes on clothes and makeup as you can see and shes married shes been married for two and half years to glen her clever husband built a conservatory for myself on my house last year the year before its never stopped raining you realise shes got no children she was telling me last night in bed theres none on the way either its interesting what some people say when youre in bed erm i wasnt aware that linda erm was a good cook shes been tell me shes a good cook i wasnt aware of that because in one her drawers theres normally half a tea cake a scone or whatever you like shes eats junk food nothing else you cannot it but weve er got a little van pulls up called grumpy manor every morning and shes first down the stairs to get two or three sandwiches or what have you phone in one hand and sandwich in the other thats linda but she tells me shes a good cook and erm shes also told me theres only shes only ever been with one guy in her life oh god find hard to believe but no no no no but erm thats linda and er as i say ive known her for seven years you can have a bit of fun she can take a joke shes got a good sense of humour and nice to work with and shes nice to work with thats right good o k so now we know more about one another its nice to know that junk food doesnt just put weight on you know on on everybody else i dont know you eat junk food and there you are as skinny as a rake its not on sometimes but there you are o k so now we know something about one another what i would like to do now is to just pass round the the agenda for for the for these two days er id like you to have a look at this erm er then ill ill just talk you through it erm if i could just pass those around cheers a coachs pulled up have i got enough for them erm the point perhaps of of of the thing is its called the team focus and hopefully for that very reason what were trying to do is to look at the way in which you can improve your performance together if you like erm and it would be very interesting to see what jack and linda can contribute to this in that people whove worked together for sort of six or seven years erm ought to be able to show us something so thatll be quite interesting ill be interested in seeing all your contributions to this erm what we have to do is to look at if you like the way in which a we can improve what we do erm and see if we cant get more out of the two of you than we do currently im sure youll enjoy what were doing erm the programme if you like you will know that er those of you whove been here before is that that certainly when im running the course there is an agenda and thats what we actually do erm now on this occasion i think i will try and cover as much of the agenda as i can because frankly this is it is a good course if anybody comes to say and you tend to sort of say well what do you really want to talk about er and do that erm im on this occasion ill keep as close to this as i can possibly go does anybody want to make any comments about this i i would normally say to you now right whats your objectives for the two days but to be honest if we do that er i dont think it helps very much erm but if anybody wants to make any comments about any specific part of it er then ill try and just talk you through it so if you sort of see something then say what the hells that all about er ill try and talk you through it and take away any fears that there may be is everybody o k with that o k youll see at the er towards the end it talks about personal action plan erm really its much more a team action plan than a personal one erm i want us to get to a stage by the time you leave tomorrow afternoon where we actually have and you have agreed a plan for your team erm now i will give you as much help as i can with that but not the actual subject of it erm you can determine what the objective is yourselves erm and then well sort of talk it through and make sure weve got it right and well get it typed up for you erm and make sure you take a copy of it away with you er and i will also say one thing and that is when you take it away with you i keep a copy of it and thats our little secret o k it doesnt go anywhere else right so nobody else will see that its something for us to discuss thats what im saying so so if you commit yourself to something and balls up erm the general manager doesnt get a copy of it and nobody else does just you and me o k i want to before we we go any further to let us have a look at something that is on this agenda which is called commercial awareness now we have in the room here a tremendous amount of experience of people whove been in the industry people whove worked with this company for many many years and weve also got people with us who have not been with us very long and id you to know we may have covered certain aspects of this on sales skills courses just to talk through what the point of the exercise is i e what we do for a living ive only been in the industry ive only been with this company for two and half years and when i joined and had a look at what the industry was about there were thirty express overnight carriers the sort of prices which people charged and ive been speaking with jack only this morning the sort of prices people charged started way way way down and then went way way way up and we by our very definition were always i suppose going to be in inverted commas the most expensive i e we charged more than most of the others today there are twenty eight national overnight express carriers because two of them stopped trading one federal express just decided it wouldnt do it any more and other other one elan a couple of weeks ago or last week or whatever it was decided it couldnt afford to do it any more and what i think it would be helpful for us to talk about is where we sit in this business just for half an hour where does t n t sit in the industry now youre much closer to the pointed end than i am i dont sell anything im just a cost and if you dont make a profit i get fired dont i theyll say we cant afford you so its in my interest really that you make a profit erm but id just like like you to take a look at the the sort of commercial awareness bit and and to look at what were looking for what sort of business are we looking for as a as a group as a company youre all out there doing it on a daily basis its quality traffic with a a yes go on sorry quality traffic with a with er a good rate right so were actually looking for jack is parcels yes and were looking for parcels quality traffic being ill do the talking today parcelsparcels right sorry were looking for parcels at the right price yes right so were looking at the right price as well o k and what else are we looking for it has to break certain capacities store yes and iron premiums right and now were looking very much more arent we at overnight next day business and so very the onus would be would they not the three things that were looking for most of the time although i joined the company only two and half years ago the contracts which we had then had a two day three day price on them o k weve still got some now yes but but its we dont encourage it do we most of the what has happened i think over the last two and half years that im aware of erm is basically happening a long time before that i i cant say yes or no but during the course of the recession i think what happened was that most companies stopped keeping stocks didnt they and so if you went out and you bought er i dont know weve if a microwave as you left the store with your microwave the salesman calls his supplier and says i need a microwave because he only keeps three now whereas even up to three or four years ago he would have several in the back store now he doesnt keep them and one of the things thats happened in our business i think erm is that is the fact that during the recession people stopped keeping stocks and now they do need a fairly quick delivery of of their products and thats helped one of the things we were talking about earlier this morning was from our point of view anyway what a super january we had is that a fair comment for everybody i mean you may not have that much to compare it with but certainly in my experience is that january if i took people round the in january erm you sort of made excuses for it you know its a nice quiet time of the year were up to peak and busy up till christmas but in january we are a bit quiet and this year it hasnt been a bit quiet not in the hub anyway erm weve found that you know the parcels are still flying through and so from that point of view erther theres a lot of strength isnt there one of things that well never be though is i think perhaps i can use the i dont want to use the word cheap because thats not right but well never be less expensive than the others will we and why not well it can if you believe in quality yes if youre thinking this is what this companys all about then you cant cut your costs because you cant give quality if you reduce costs no i i ive only got this company to compare with you see so there are others whove worked for other companies in in the industry i cant compare with the other companies in the industry and i would like to think that other companies in the industry have a training suite like this and i wonder if they do if they saw the state of you youre going to get pay day i dont think its got a staff room well er thats alright i i wouldnt i look at the things which we do very well erm and a lot of people say a lot of people see t n t even though theyre expensive they are what most people ex appreciate theyre a little bit exclusive as well with the service that they offer the image they portray yes a lot of people think they cant afford t n t yes you get that youre always getting an an impression that i dont need that quality of service but what theyre really trying to say is i dont want to pay that price right then is that fairly common well i dont know you can also get the ones when a lot of them like some companies if they depending how much business theyve got some companies actually think that they might have only got fifty pound a week a hundred pound a week as they havent got young businesses do you get me you know what i mean i think the bigger it is i think the bigger yes thats right yes yes right the one who did captain walked down the road all the action ones you know oh my business because theyre not going up er come the last in team now thats interesting you were going to say i think theres a lot of the co er the smaller companies feel that way but the bigger companies have tried the smaller ones and i think we were not likely to lose the bigger ones as easy as lose the small ones they need t n t the big accounts backup service in the offices and so on and so on erm but the small accounts yes and they frighten t n t off too expensive t n t before they even look at the price even when youve been in a you know i think weve that nobody keeps us weve had a name over the years that were an expensive carrier and its just sort of keep going and educating them that weve come down in the market or even when youre ringing them you know somebody thats got two parcels a week theyre sort of thinking why are you ringing me do you know what i mean why are you wasting a phone call well they may well have only two parcels a week but you know yourself them two parcels a week is more important to you than you know what i mean i tell you what if we had every company that sent their two parcels a week if we carried them all wed be doing well wouldnt we but that that thats right because im sure there is that attitude isnt there yes there is yes thank you for that because that helps helps us in here there there is this thought then out there from a lot of people that they really aint big enough for us we are very big and therefore were only looking for big business is that is that fair comment mm thats right it its also a chain from what youre going on about people regarding the service i mean everyones had a bit not just the erm it its the purchase managers more than the er people who pay our premiums they are just in time and we stood up to be shot at if we dont pay the service or put a big ones maybe theyll have half a carton of raw material left for that machine so theyll order an item for tomorrow morning well theyre not to blame for the service t n ts to blame for the service if we dont get it erm yes get it to them so so that service puts a bit of pressure on operations and so on does it i mean weve got to pay for good the way the way that the business is at the moment because everyones going next day now noone wants three day thats right you know i mean we revert a lot of trade here to next day so the quality of service has got to be good or we lose them and weve educated them to go onto next day and if were not performing we lose them right so the interesting thing from weve got a lot of experience there weve got some people in the room whove got a lot of experience in the industry and in business is that one of the reasons why were looking for parcels if you like is because of that that if you like er and ive used this example before but ill use it again it was quite interesting i think anyway is that one of the examples we used on one of courses is that somebody calls into the depot and says i need help ive got to get this delivered by tomorrow and collections or you or whoever takes the call is very excited because this person says its three hundred and fifty kilos and i need it today its durham well use durham were starting from here in durham tomorrow morning and everybody gets very excited because three hundred and fifty kilos in durham tomorrow morning sounds like a good pay day and then what happens when the guy turns up for it is thats its alright thats the wheel there eh its dropped off and its got a right there and the it must be carriage free said to these fell on superman well they had to do and everybodys got here that hes a hes engaged and there and i mean i know ive used doing my scribble but heres a little spout here like that and its got a tap on it and thats what it is and of course our guy turns up doesnt he and hes seen vino and all hes got to do now is load it doesnt he and when he gets it on the the c and d truck it sets off what happens when he stops at the first set of traffic lights or turns out it cuts through the back doors well that thats what im saying is that i think what we have to start doing and im not suggesting youre not doing but i just want to talk about this in before we practically kick off on the course proper i think what i mean that comes off and then the oil starts dripping out of it and the minute the oil starts dripping out then we become quite a good artist arent we so when this oil starts dripping out of here not in here now where does it all soak up into in the waste truck thats after the wheel pollution well thats right even with help from upstairs i mean if it had four wheels on rightalright it shouldnt have its not completely true what im saying is that and then what happens of course you get over to the hub with with with the sales virgins whove just joined the company virgins and you say today were tonight were talking you over to the hub and were going to show you all this and i take them and get over there about ten oclock and we go along there to to look at the the slats and the trays and there are all these masters flying around being terribly excited about this terrific noises and they say god this is great but how many parcels will go through tonight and you say oh about sixty thousand so its best not to look i bet sixty thousand and you know what people in this particular bar and they say what did you say was being good how many people work here and you say oh about ninety eight thats why ive been seen for and you say come with me and you go back to light a sandbag and there they all are and theyre all a bit hot its aboutits like hades and theres forklift trucks flying everywhere and youve got pretty girls who in in in the team when you get down there and they start showing off thats alright dont mind that and and youve got all these fork lift trucks flying everywhere and youve got men carrying rolls of carpet and youve got you know all this yes those of you whove seen the customer care film they oh yes theyre certainly the classic lamppost yes i cant believe it erm you know you cant blinking hear and i the thing is its alright for us to laugh in these four walls because until what you think is what were really trying to do and i think one of the things that we hopefully might be able to think about and might be able not learn because you know it already you dont need to learn it is how we can increase our contribution to what the depot doing by perhaps having a really close look at what were actually carrying three hundred and fifty kilos for tomorrow morning is very exciting until you realise that oil is the last thing on gods earth we ought to be carrying and we are the last people on gods earth then wed be carrying it the checkouts a lovely example this morning you talking about those pallets that were going to euro something delivering pallets to germany with a trailer eighteenhours theres a man putting twenty pallets on the truck three hundred and sixty quid to germany i mean we couldnt move from one end of the hub to the other for that and they are the people who are excellent at doing that sort of business arent they you know its not even a is it its not even what we want to do ive got some figures which you might find quite interesting some of you may have seen a bit of these before or similar ones but it doesnt matter because its worth looking at again that every month what it is issued is some statistics which talk about a s sort of service analysis for the company now we get to look at these every month and i want them to keep them to talk to them to classes about it every month and so this one alright it goes back about but it doesnt matter because what it does i hope any way is gives us some thoughts let me just show you what it says just get it straightright thats the service analysis for september nineteen ninetytwo alright so were going back a few months can you see by the way right o k now what it does hes said right in september this is what we moved and then what it does is divides it by four o k this is what we did therefore in a week now what is actually talked about he splits down into two he splits it down into express which is next day not all next day and general which is two day and three day and in september ninety two if i took you back to sort of september ninety one figures were quite different well in september ninety two eighty nine percent of our business was next day and therefore by definition eleven percent was two day three day and then he got on to explain what the items were seventy five percent of the items went next day and ninety thousand went im sorry and er and twenty five percent went two day three day and if you divide one into the other what it means is that two point one consignments two me sorry two point one items per consignment went express and six items per consignment general and with this go ive just got to go on through this the average weight of an consignment express or on next day is twenty eight kilos and if youre talking about two day three day it was ninety nine kilos so there theres a pattern the good stuff is here where youre talking about sixty six percent of you trailer as being express youre talking about the consignments on a trailer the items on a trailer and then that the revenue per trailer why do you want to move it next day more money because you make four times as much money dont you erm that is whats happened to the business isnt it now some of you if youve only been with the company a few months or whatever it was may not have noticed too much of a change er but ive noticed a bit of a ch ive noticed a tremendous change in two and half months two and a half years and theres some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes tremendous changes over the years in fact i mean you can remember overnight or you know before before overnight actually existed and so weve got away havent we from the the being a carrier if you like to the stage where we now transport parcels really is that a fair comment i think its from being a haulier to being a parcel carrier now peter a haulier we were a hauliers right yes can i just speak for a minute bill always used to say i remember talking to bill one night at er at a conference and his ambition was to walk into every depot at nine oclock on a morning and not see a parcel i mean im going back well into the haulier days then three days end of side one yes i mean you think the others would learn but obviously not its like six six foot frames of ten kilos next day there are only two carriers thatll take that on ive been staggered now it doesnt even make commercial sense and i think thats the the worst part you can make an assessment of the commercial yes bring back the express so it doesnt sort of highlight it because they dont have tiers of borrowed storage all over the place you know yes i mean we all pay our electricity bills you know what it costs dont you yes you know what it costs to run switch the lights on you know what it costs to run a conveyor belt for goodness sake and yet it and if if you if you lose money on on shifting one parcel i know if you shift a hundred thousand you might make something but the chances are high that you wont and and i mean there are people shifting more parcels than us i know that they cant make any money out of it i mean it just appalled me i think that we are all of us if you like to a degree tarred with the same brush arent we so that when you introduce yourself you are seen as a haulier was the phrase you used er and we wed all need to spend an awful lot of time and an awful lot of effort into raising ourselves above that image i mean theres nothing wrong with being a haulier all im saying is that we have to raise ourselves above that image o k i just wanted us to to do that erm because erm one of the things that i suspect when youre getting down to doing your plan tomorrow is that with the best will in the world even though i say but this is for sales course one of things you will want objectively to look at is either your revenue or your trading base or something er i just wanted to carry that through this course is about teams its about teams of people erm and we have in the room one team two teams three teams four teams and one the right we have a team of three and i wondered if perhaps we could look before we go any further at why teams work again without being boring when i first joined the company telesales people made telephone calls and made appointments and the outdoor went out and did it we used to have twenty five appointments to make a week twenty five appointments a week i i dont think i knew the figure er linda but if thats the the figure im not a bit surprised and during the sort of formative weeks or months of my joining the company the b m s was introduced and the rules were that the telesales people will now become sales people and that was one of my briefs if you like that what you are going to get in front of you peter is a is a load of people who are currently working whats called telesales and what they actually do is make appointments what youve got to do now is make them into salesmen forgive me again for using the phrase salesmen i appreciate that all of you are not men and and some of the people couldnt take it could they some of the people who had suddenly become saleswomen they had to go because they couldnt cope with that they were pretty good at making appointments but they couldnt cope with sales and theres been a tremendous change in that over the last two years and the other thing thats happened of course is that the tw the the indoor and the outdoor have had to start spending more time working together and think together and indeed being measured together because youre now measured as a team arent you yes youre given a target as a team and youre measured as a team let me try and give you an example one of the first questions you get asked of anybody when they first come on a training course here er certainly a sort of foundation course is that somebody writes up on the board there t n t and says what does that stand for transnationwide transporters thomas transport before i came here i thought that t n t was something you make bombs with and i knew what it stood for now what it does stand for tri nitro toluene its what you make bombs out of and if you like that bit is short for nitrogen whats nitrogen its a gas its a gas where is it where is it yes where would you find some then in the earth yes its all round us now isnt it right breathe it in breath it out very harmless gas and in fact you could do with and leave nitrogen where it is and it wont do anything where would you find this thing toluene whats that where do you get toluene do you know alright toluene comes out of the ground it comes out as oil it is actually distilled from oil and its a fairly heavy liquid and its to be honest not inert but it doesnt do much if you filled this room up with toluene it would stop here for the rest of its days something like that you know what i mean and yet if you join those two inert things together in the right ratios they go off with a very big bang and its called apart from a chemical reaction but it measured by something called synergy now synergy is where two and two becomes five where what you do is take something that is capable of doing that and you take something thats capable of doing that and you join them together and between them you get so much more than they could do individually there are examples all the time of a im not going to use football as an example or a team as an example in football and if you suddenly get a new member to the hockey team or a new member to the football team or whatever and the whole team is transformed just by this one extra person this one person joining in the reason why mansell if you like can drive a similar car to some other man and make it go that much faster is he adds something to it to the mixture and this is what i want us to do during our two days together i want us to learn something more about one another i want to us to get in the nicest possible sense closer to one another i want us to learn what were good at and what we aint very good at what we cant do and what we can do and see between you if you cant determine a specific plan of action which is going to improve that which you do ive taken over the last few months when weve done our sales training here talking to certainly on advanced sales skills courses and so on ive tried to bring an air of realism to their world when you get people on to a sort of noddy goes selling course which is the first one you come on you are expected to believe that when you leave here anybody who doesnt use t n t express would be absolutely crazy and that everybody youre going to talk to is going to bite your arm off as long as you stay with your boyfriend but thats part of the occupation thats part of the part of the part of business that were in when you get a bit more wool on your back you know it doesnt work like that does it and what i would like us to do is to be able when we leave here tomorrow to say that by what weve learned about one another and by what weve actually decided that we can probably improve what were doing by something between five and ten percent not doubling it not trebling it but to improve it by something like five or ten percent and then the next time we go to a sales conference youll be the ones winning the prizes instead of the people whove to be winning the prizes because youll not have to improve it by much to win the prizes do you if you look at as you did at the conference the teams that were winning prizes they werent that much better than you were they its not worth winning the prizes but they werent that much better than you they were just that bit better than you and theyre that bit better than you because theyre able to organise themselves and they do more in day and do it longer and so and so forth what were going to do is were going to plan it does that suit everybody yes does that sound like a good idea for a couple of days yes i can promise you the phone wont ring well it might ring but we wont answer it and er nobody will phone you and say that youve got to be here there and everywhere nobody will try anything on the desk in front of you and say i need that now well i might but i mean that would be part of the game what weve got for the first time i suspect since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well is that the time you spend two days together and actually find out what it is that makes you go and i dont suppose that happens often dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time and probably even less than that now i think of it two hours thats quite a long time isnt it peter thats right it doesnt work like that so thats what were going to be doing o k something different in one sense that brings us to quarter past ten i suspect that theres tea and coffees out there then and if it is i think well have the break just a bit earlier and then we can get into it when right well that tea and coffee have actually turned up whats happening here now erm its now quarter past ten so well be back in at half past yes o k tape turned off time taken like euroexpress isnt it finding out whether theyve used it no they dont theres another thing what wed have all said when we got youd have said it over the years yourself erm well just ring in and well give you the price you know and if we kind of touch up to contract or flat rate or whatever is the way to get ahead or you get whatever ring linda or ring jane and she says right and weve said that for years and shes getting them to ring you you know and you cannae get away from it you get a lot of business from them things thats right yes right so what were saying really i i know weve got three other people to come to but what comes out of the first one is alright youre saying youve got an organised day and im sure you have and i dont have any problem as such one of the things that youre saying is wrong not so much an organised day one of things which causes us a problem and thats the major one er er one of the things that not causes a problem but every day is different we could improve on a little bit was er the time spent on incoming calls and queries which is hard to get away from absolutely so what else does it show you that i mean the the appointments what jane and linda do make me ill be honest theyre quality appointments not all of them but i would sixty seventy percent of them are good quality appointments right and theres been a lot of them lately weve i dont know if everyones worked the same system but were back on the old appointment system yes which d which works in durham depot but it might not work in or milton or wherever but it works in durham depot right so thats the way were working together now jane and linda who work and youve all shared havent you yes three years on lindas earned her badge and the following week thats three years on janes badge and two on lindas you know so thats the way its worked its worked very well thats right well thats takes up a good deal of time yes but sometimes it doesnt work like that you know sometimes im having to go in janes area i mean like for instance we got a phone call last week about the alarm we were straight in there ringing people you know have you got any problems listening you know to this and that and the next morning we were in ringing and jack would ring in and wed say look at know youre at gateshead but can you go to newton aycliffe thats right which is totally the wrong but if we didnt go there we wouldnt get it who wouldnt to that so maybe that afternoon hed only get two calls done but at least we gain more business out of it super so we we need to recognise dont we that its a very immediate business its sales driven o k were not going to say that nobody else is important we need all the other members of the the company but it is sales driven o k its what its made of its very immediate we need to be able often to change tack at a a half a days notice sometimes a minutes notice sometimes half a day so theres that little problem as well one of the points youre making there which is an excellent one and a very strong point is the fact that you get a lot of incoming calls which we encourage yes thats right its part of the companys image were not saying that you dont like that you may say that we wed like to do away with the incoming calls but to a degree it encouraging them so what else does it show jack or is that the two main points well er it shows three hours erm every morning cold calling cold calling cold calling right yes and thats obviously where shes getting were getting new business from yes its a must really isnt it erm the break downs good customer care b m s obviously erm a few hours spent and erm mailshots an hour spent or so on mailshots but er i cannae really fault the two girls ive worked with but i were not trying to no no i know how busy they are when i come off the road off a night and i know busy because they are before i go out on a morning and erm it seems like theyre never likely to get stuck from time to time though dont get me wrong on this this is not in any way shape or form meant to be a criticism what were trying to do here is to sit down and say that by tomorrow night can we organise ourselves any better if we cant then o k then thats no problem but can we organise ourselves any better and if we can were only looking to improve ourselves by five percent were not looking to improve or increase double sales next week are we what were trying to do is say look you are senior people in this company because although youve only been here a short period of time but youre still very senior people and in the depots when you are in the depot people are cutting them and if thats the case we all of you just remember what we did right just being as critical as we can of one another to alter the way in which behave but its not meant in any way shape or form to be a criticism thank you for your honesty there is is is that four or is that i i i think this must be the hardest business to plan around in the market place peter because at the end of the day youre chasing business you youre looking for business and if ive got an account ill be honest with you if ive got an account tomorrow or that rings in and its in for sort of friday yes and that should be there and im out of the area friday ill go across and get that business id go out of my area and get that business thats right and and its hard to plan around it you can try if you if you make yourself but if youre trying to stick to a yes were going to see as part as part of our time together were going to see a couple of films and youre going to enjoy those im sure erm theyre called the unorganised manager erm and the one there are in fact four in the series but we only see two of them the first one is called damnation erm and it shows a very unorganised person the second one is called salvation by then of course the person is very much better organised as a team and one thing we will learn from it i think if were honest with ourselves and we put and try and save up and have a piece on the end there but the one thing i think we will perhaps come to and the one conclusion we may come to is the fact that whilst we we do live in this world and i absolutely agree that if somebody says look i need to see a new as well i need to see you now or i need to see you tomorrow thatll be difficult o k and thats the immediacy of the business the fact that if somebodys got parcels they want moving they havent got parcels they want moving next monday theyve got parcels that want moving today its results orientated absolutely so what we need to do is to recognise that as a witness of that of the way in which we work because it is we aint going to have an organised workload we are not computer operators what we are is salesmen right very busy so thats what we do its got to be recognise that as a as a strength and a weakness in what we do we can get quite a lot out of this club today what what about you then er you two roy and jane well it its really to say that you the very obvious thing is that theres only a sort of a certain amount of quality hours in a day whereby selling is perhaps better right what are they well obviously nine until ten ten until eleven eleven until twelve right so youve got sort of nine to midday yes alright yes i mean i havent done it like that ive got to analyse it through green when i actually was aware that i was stopping doing my b m s and had to do something else for whatever reason i think the main thing is theres about six hours sort of realistically speaking of really good quality hours to be on your b m s set during the day and just to sort of add up the hours that you are actually on the phone making outgoing calls sort of brings it home to you i mean one day i mean i was in a customer care meeting for three hours on monday so obviously i lost some there but you know that particular day i was on a just on the phone personally on my b m s for just over three hours and just looking at the other things that i had to deal with you know i was on the phone to a customer for fifteen to twenty minutes because theyd had a bad experience and i was actually making an appointment for roy to go in and that twenty minutes is a long time and i think really if anything its just brought to me really how little time sometimes its not always the case it does vary that depending on the incoming calls depending if youve got got through the emerging paperwork for whatever reason how little quality time perhaps you do actually spend on the phone making outgoing calls to sell just added it up and sort of like if you take twenty if you take an hour as being seven days ermtwetwe twenty one hours and what have you got the total there three eight eleven eleven and a half hours selling out of the whole of that actual selling on your b m s well theyll give the things that we both disagree are important and then you do get chance to do the selling what were predominately it its organising yourself really its not easy that heres this discussion with you before i know some of you but the very nature of the salesman doesnt lend himself very well to being organised if if you like the characteristics which you will show most of and well do a little team characteristics test a bit later this morning but the characteristics which you will show most of are one that you are fairly gregarious person you like being the the salesman is a a loner and be quite a lot more to life so youre fairly gregarious people and even though there are degrees of it youre all fairly extrovert people as well and those two characteristics dont lend themselves very well to being organised now if you are an extrovert and gregarious person like jane and a sagittarian then perhaps we have something going for us but its very very unusual for people to be organised and sales orientated it doesnt happen very often if you if you wait for a report from a salesman you can wait for a very long time the only piece of paper he really likes filling in is called an expense sheet and and most of the other bits of paper are very very very different we we do find it as a as a group very difficult to organise ourselves and for us to have some time to sit down together and feed off one another and talk about it so this is quite thats quite hopeful and i think that does show erm something the same as er im sure jack would say the same thing like here we are you know weve got all the incoming calls weve got all the other stuff to do and what were actually doing when were trying to make appointments and so on is we we fit it in because were half way through even though you got to youve to do those things theyre an important facet of the job itself well yes theyve got to be done yes theyve got to be done peter can i just say one thing ive er erm jane dont get me wrong im not nitpicking right but obviously erm it must be er the ideal time to cold call nine to twelve because janes got cold calling down and linda from nine to twelve but surely general managers should use a little bit of initiative within in the planning as well hes put hes put a customer care meeting on from nine oclock till twelve i would have wanted one thirty for one and half hours no its eight to eleven sorry its eight to eleven some of them were yes eight to eleven you get out there and sit down in your choice time well it was really meant to go on from eight till half nine ten oclock which wasnt quite so bad yes i mean and it doesnt happen very often it was more a oneoff but it was also very necessary because of the different types of jobs it it wasnt just sales people sitting in there its was people different departments cab drivers from outside and we had yes we had the engineers up but we had everyone but ours started at one thirty yes we had drivers that had to do sort of timed deliveries or whatever in the morning and they so basically that was the time i think i think its a good point though so i mean all i all im saying is weve all had drivers there and depot managers and operations managers and the the people but you would be the one that got it wrong at the end of the week if you didnt you see the problem again is that is the same as it is for anybody next week is just planning as it were you know this is what its about why did the general management not sit down and say oh thats peak time to have them out we cannot have all them indoors in there from thats a full morning i wasnt going to finish until now im on this no exactly exactly alright no weve got er i dont a bit down game thats wrong you know your territory do you just have one territory jack yes no we have two yes you have you have a territory each yes because its er er its we weve got quite a large territory havent we were like we account for probably over nearly forty percent of revenue from the depot this well you drive to hull before you start with well i i no id never get anywhere local actually just send me to grimsby or somewhere like that but no ive got but derbyshire all of derbyshire are they sort of civilised there yes yes and then barnsley so i can still get a bit of a rough oh barnsley but because we we sort of account for just our territory its core territory and our territory accounts for forty percent of revenue theres an awful lot of accounts registered so jenny doesnt get any hardly any time at all to actually go off and and do any cold calling or anything like that its all b m s yes right so a lot of the time you know it its good in one respect that theyre all in you know and that sort of thing so if any leads come they sort of come together you know that sort of thing but it means that quite a lot likeroutine on b m s it does thats right but also you can get you know you you sometimes you can fall lucky and get quite a lot of prices from cold calling as much as reviewing this one little renewing every every six weeks and trying to think of something to say that you havent said before like i hadnt told you or pete you know things like that but as far as aim is with on a typical day say if i get out of the depot at quarter to nine if you like and look at todays string i go to derby er it takes me an hour to get there if im lucky now at roadworks and charging time in one day is like an hour to patch then youre out on to the patch in between appointments running about because derbys quite a big area er again if youve got to cover an appointment in matlock and youre in derby in the morning youre talking a good forty five minute run to get there er then back to depot in forty five minutes because you work your way back up you know towards back towards the depot youre talking three hours forty five minutes and exactly half your time is just spent on the road you know if it depends on what area you cover manchester might be a bit more condensed it doesnt what what we will prove to ourselves if we want to is it doesnt matter where you work the amount of time that a salesmen spends driving about in his car is almost exactly the same regardless of where he works that if you work in the big city you might only have seven miles between calls but it still takes you three quarters of an hour yes er and and it one one of the things which i hope that we can agree upon is that the is is that one of the things we can do by organising our time better is get an extra sales call in a day mm we can do it and if you do i dont know say five calls a day let us say because im not making any rules erm if you could six calls day without any doubt it would increase your sales by twenty percent itd be good that and one of the things that we do need to look at is that is almost every salesman that ive ever measured and almost every bit of research ive ever seen suggested that every salesman in the world spends at least a third of his time driving about in his car and you dont have to improve that by much thats what im saying you know cutting down on your lunch time dont do it but er and i take the point that you you made jenny which is an excellent one that here we are weve got this great swath of companies that this great swath of companies and the amount of time that we can actually spend er doing cold calls or other things that wed like to do er is governed by something else and theres no way that we are going to be in a position to change your world but were going to be able to change it slightly not change it totally yes i mean just say going back to ive actually got a map now included in the diary and a picture of where i live and where the depot is and so i change my journey by day and quartered it down quartered it its in four quarters a bit like the buzzard thats right yes and we do sort of on each day sort of nuneaton we do one a day right yes it is important you see isnt it because one of things that happens also i think is is that we tend to see a motorway and we tend to see a call one side it and a call the other side and work on the assumption that we can actually get across the motorway there or under the motorway there but sometimes you cant can you and so youre er have actually youre at or whatever erm it would be nice to think and im not exactly sure my geographys not that good at that particular part but you you sort of tend to look at it and say right if hes in and out and its ten oclock and somebody says they can see him at eleven you know and theres this tendency to say well erm o k yes weve all done that one havent we its the subject what the indoor sales didnt take its to do with the geography jack let me tell you ill tell you a story shall i on the first foundation course that people do in this company the one thing that i do is i give them a map of the united kingdom and its got thirty dots on it oh yes and it is i put up on the screen there where the depots are so they know what theyre looking for and i say now what i want you to is tell me where the depots are you know the depots where you are its absolutely terrifying it is i mean its no wonder they cant find their way out of london where shall we go its no wonder you cant find a sales rep on their way round birmingham because they dont even know where bloody birmingham is some of them and and yes and er its absolutely terrifying that you know the the geography they know where is but er but birmingham please can we not use oh yes yes you know where you work in the derbyshire peaks i had a guide here a few weeks ago and i kept it its upstairs and it actually put the english channel going up there the peak district i said theres been a lot of flooding in norwich well thats right particularly the pennines but erm its its terrifying and when we get as and jacks made a good point and and it is a good one that perhaps if we spent only half a day when somebody joins the depot and said to them this is the geography of our depot and this is where everywhere is and this is how you get from one side of it to the other i know theres a motorway running down the middle but you cant over or under it for thirty miles there so if youve got to get across there you have to do this come all out you know and that is an hours run and i wonder if our world would improve if we did that i think a lot of it is a case of pressure peter you know if the girls want to make twenty five appointments that week if theyve got an appointment yes ill have it in regardless of where it was they would that wouldnt bother me honestly is that er its the targets you dont want to be in a position where you cant pick and choose exactly and once you get that appointment on the phone that you wanted erm theyll look at the day youll take it regardless yes you see the thing is one appointment can cock up your whole system because if it like you said if one if a customer does happen to call in and say look i need somebody in here desperately when do you want it when its smack in the middle its not the other side of the world but you know hes in nuneaton or something well you still have to go out and see him right ive got to see him thats right rightthats right and yet you see if this guy desperately needs to see you and you say i cant be there until five oclock hed still see you at five oclock yes he might dohe might say that he might not but what we do because we are the people we are and er it happens every time weve got salesmen and im talking about salesmen who will get over to see somebody and get something signed up they called you or whatever it was whatever that one was and and coming rushing out of the place waiving your hand and nothing ever happens the guy never sends is you know but were ever so excited it because weve sold some or we get him a and we get excited by this and he knows were after that go on thats it see that weve got an appointment you know well i know hes in i know hes in birmingham at ten well hell make it to stafford by half past half past or quarter to eleven wont he hell do that over the top of birmingham round here round there oh hell do that easy could have done it in couldnt he and and if youre right its pressure all the time isnt it we aint got time to think about it i havent got time for all that ive got a classic on the t v in a few in perhaps a hours time i havent got time to plan it id better get on with it ive got to laugh sometimes youre called in that many times in the i mean they put the phone down y on you do you know what i mean and its actually getting to speak to the person is just a total shock thats right thats right i mean i actually had somebody last friday they told me what to do a four letter word they told me what to do and put the phone down yes right yes that was our depot that no she did she i didnt even say who i was she just knew the way i spoke she said youre from t n t arent you ive got two words to say to you and she said them and put the phone down she said are you going to leave she said yes yes thats right she i said we may not ring them back come come back to the appointments and ill ask you girls from here i think what weve got to do in our depot and i mean everybodys doing it but what erm ive asked jane and er linda to do is try and get the appointments i know its hard to to a m or p m yes yes its always its timed appointments what beats you youve got to be over there for eleven oclock and youve had it after that to get anywhere else yes yes thats right you need to time it and i really you see it becomes tougher you see it becomes tougher it becomes tougher the more successful you become yes you see when you first start youve only got three appointments anyway so you can do one at ten oclock and one at four cant you because you know exactly what youve got but as you become more successful and you know you youre team are more successful you know then that you could in fact if you like get doing er a sales interview every hour an half during the day every hour sometimes er and you start pressurising yourself all day and its the old story i havent got time for planning id better get on with it and er and and hopefully well discuss it ill take down whats his name to be fair you start cramming calls in you start thinking oh i can do that one yes because its its what is it i know er exactly what you do you cant you know i do i mean i do that when i ermy youre so excited about getting a gain on the appointment and you think why hes got about five in there and then you think theres a big space between them but you think no im not going onto next week because you might not be interested then but you do you end up putting it down so they so its still in their mind and thats the the way i work and its probably wrong its probably wrong i mean i dont thats right its different for different people over there i mean mark over there who hasnt been with the company very long erm i mean my existing calls i mean i i know them sort of to to drink with more or less you know but i know them i mean i can sit and have a conversation i know their hobbies and what have you right sit down and they they swear to me when theyre talking to me and what have you you know but we can go into them without appointments you know we can work them in between yes thats right where if youre fairly new you dont know them people you might be thinking you have to have a timed appointment to go in with where youll save a lot of time by just building up and working on your existing like that thats a case of it happens in all walks of life isnt it the guy whos been in the business or been in the same patch or whatever it is for a long time thats where you begin thats right thats how you become very successful erm and you become very successful because of the fact that the people know you are there to solve their problems you are known as the team yes i was just going to say you can do that with like if you go it takes you a long time to do it with prospects they know you over the years so you can just walk in oh yes i used to be known in in in in my area as the kitchen man you know and sort of people used to talk in the pubs and theyd say oh well you know my missus wants a new kitchen why dont you talk to people in the streets youre the parcels man aint you yes they all know him you all know johnny dont you part of part of the furniture yes what do you want theres no problem with parcels and so again it becomes far less difficult to discuss erm a business conversation and sometimes its a conversation about football and theyre all a load of complete because thats part of er thats one of the joys of er er having been doing something for long enough to have got known within the within the patch what have you got mary er what does yours show right since ive taken over my territory the first thing ive seen ive got to educate my customers as in paperwork right they ring me up and say all we have is ten boxes to go er to all those different places heres all the addresses thanks love bye right and they leave me to sign the post the paperwork run up and down the stairs doing this that and the other talking to my things across here are training sessions incoming tea card collection because my collections are usually like theyre a parttimer and phone calls from reception oh you can take it right yes i can problems and queries paperwork customer are sending out paperwork at the end of the day and like faxing the appointments contracts fill out the appointments forms etcetera so youve got all these bits done right yes so im spending just exactly as much time on incoming and tea card collections as erm as i am on my training its frightening i think what were doing im the same erm i spend as much as time driving as i do sitting in stock tell me about it and theres another and its frightening but i i mean i know from my days at british telecom id say i was on that phone really oh yes of course you are three and half hours but looking at the time log and itll say i was on there for an hour actually speaking on the phone yes thats right because after that you might you are because you cant really yes because you didnt realise and thats what makes thats how it is thats the only only step i had on the way you know what youre doing you go thats where it rose and that rose six ive been on the phone since nine oclock this morning thats right nowy you know very well some of you again forgive me if im repeating something weve talked about before but weve actually used this as an example havent we that its almost impossible for the human brain to concentrate for more than ten minutes of time on any yes because what it does it just gets fed up of doing it yes and you just and so what it does after the first ten minutes it says look ive had enough of this whats the grey haired old bugger on about now oh and often you forget and your brain flies off somewhere to do something else i fancied that bird last night god the beers rough in that bloody hotel i wonder what that i wonder how theyre doing up at the depot hey i wonder if that calls come through and so on and all these things happen if things dont give way before tomorrow im going to have to its bloody half past seven when i get home and i want to be in the pub you see but whatever all these things happen god i havent done filling in these expense accounts i havent done me course i havent got the look that will happen to everybody in this room and everybody outside its not an exact ten minutes its not an exact six hundred seconds but what it is is round about that period of time after about ten minutes what you do is you switch off and you go and do something else now in this room i see it happening all the time and if youre doing something important then i can bring you back into it cant i jane oh janes she said that because i havent got enough time only i havent im not listening to what hes saying oh this is important and then you go off again thats alright i hope if you can cope with that but if if i would be a just a little bit upset if all thirteen of you went off together or eleven of you if you all disappeared together that would be that is a fair criticism of the training department but if its just the fact that all youre doing is switching off then thats o k because you cant help it anyway now it happens in your working day unfortunately it happens at seventy and eighty and ninety mile an hour of motorway you just switch off dont you you dont even think about it oh nothing happens until the red lights go on do they until you realise god am i here yes thats right i mean its that most of you most of you can most of you can arrive at work in the morning and if somebody says what the traffics like you wouldnt know because you dont know how you got there thats the car actually doing that is it yes well this paper how many of you have read a chapter of a book and when you got to the end of it thought what the hell was that about yes yes yes because youre thinking about other things youre doing something else now it happens all the time and there is absolutely no way at all with the best will in the world and im sure that we all mean it that we get on the phones at nine oclock and we get on the phones at eleven oclock you just dont work like that that what happens after the first ten minutes you have to go and do something else then what happens you physically get up and do but you will do something else now thats just observing people who are stationary if you observed the outdoor salesman then the same thing happens of course it happens it happens within ten minutes of the start of the sales interview you switch off the guy says something to you you dont even hear it yes now the tragedy is of course is its happening the other side of the table as well isnt it youre saying something really amateur dramatic he dont even hear it hes somewhere else and its the reason why often salesmen will come in and theyll say this guys visiting on this day of the week and he sited that he never said that at all you heard him say it i never said that i wonder how many letters we get in the course of a monthchris and chris colin andrew i wonder how many letters they get in the course of a month which start of with the famous words your salesman said because this is what they go out to say its not that he didnt say it but he was somewhere else at the time and he just heard the bit of it he heard the back end of it its also making clear isnt it as well and then you say oh ill ring before them before ten thirty but you dont say ring but it costs you more than that thats right they say oh right or they thats right and then of course theres the jargon isnt there you know all the preening that you do we all have our preening its not as though its you thats thats wallpapering im not going to go into that but what im saying is we need to recognise this because if you do recognise it it makes life that much easier does that that will suit you or it aint happening it cant what else have you got have you finished your course because you were making appointments on that yes what did you do erm switched off well weve all done that well we were talking about timing for people youre the same time in your car as you are in thats right yes thats right its we jumped onto i spend four hours just under four hours a day seeing customers you know out of a nine or ten hour day i find that frightening i wonder how much time out of that four hours is actually spent selling one hour yes yes its got to happen i bet its less i bet its less yes ive broke mine down to some of the actual presentations in and most of the time is is either raising fact finding or problem solving look how much time you actually sit in the reception for them twenty five minutes thats right you know im three hours with the best will in the world but you do you see where were working whats against that total yes yes with the best will in the world it doesnt matter how organised we are we can improve it a bit but we cant improve it not unless we know where the problems are and some of the problems are caused by the by the very nature of the business and thats a problem area the very nature of the business says you cant have a nine till five job or whatever it is you dont work i dont think its also standards like the poor receptionist she says you know like yesterday shes trying to put a call through and it didnt get through she says ive got to try and answer that phone within four rings thats right and shes got five holding and shes absolutely panic stricken you might just oh right buzzyou know thats right and you know oh its work but what do you do with what do you do well er its not what you cant youve got to exactly and i and i think that in in most depots there aint that much fat is there well some people that are like me but there aint that much fat that says right we can now afford to you know that persons er er you know got a lot of free time there aint any of them any more is there no and and so what weve got to do is organise ourselves so that we spend more of our time ensure actually doing the things which actually do what the business does and what the business does is what what does t n t express do it delivers parcels it delivers parcels and guarantees overnight what we have to do is start looking at all the things that make that possible and try and do something else for all the things that dont help you fill it now that is its easy from here to pick a case sat here and try and undo it but thats what were going to talk about during our time right thanks for that well well come back to that what does the likelihood be perhaps first off i could give you all er youve all filled in one of these evaluation sheets before on a course havent you yes right so if i can give each of you one of these because thats what i want to use these so just put the the course name in team focus your own name if you know what that is the date is the the tenth the tenth of february and where it says objectives if you have any specific objectives then you can write those in but i should have worked out how to do this i should think now
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bald knob arkansas bald knob is a city in the us state of arkansas ambleny ambleny is a commune it is found in the region picardie in the aisne department in the north of france master of divinity in the academic study of theology the master of divinity mdivmagister divinitatisin latin is the first professional degree of the pastoral profession in north america it is the most common academic degree in seminaries and divinity schools in many christian denominations and in some other religions the degree is the standard education for ordination to the priesthood or pastorship or other appointment ordination or licensing to professional ministry bischofshofen bischofshofen is a municipality in salzburgerland austria it is famous because of the ski jumping competitions in the city flap steak flap steak is a type of meat cut it comes from the bottom sirloin it is a thin piece of beef this cut can also be used to make ground beef flap meat is usually confused with cuts from the plate meats sometimes it is sold as skirt steak even though it does not come from the plate preparation like most steaks the flap steak can be cooked with different methods
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holy week in spain holy week in spain is a holiday mostly celebrated by the spanish speaking countries that celebrate holy week for catholics arnad arnad is acomunein the aosta valley region in italy egglkofen egglkofen is a municipality in mühldorf in bavaria in germany archduke of austria an archduchess or archduke was the sondaughter of the emperor or kaiser of austria facepalm a facepalm sometimes also facepalm or face palm is when someone places their hand flat across their face or puts their face into their hand or hands this gesture is found in many cultures it can be done as a display of frustration embarrassment shock or surprise
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y y or ÿ is the twentyfifth number 25 letter in the english alphabet its name in english iswypronounced in words likeyearyell andyes the y is a consonant in words likecryfly andsky the y is considered a vowel where it came from semitic phoenician greek and latinyhas appeared as the semitic letterwaw this was the first time it appeared in an alphabet f u v and w also come from the semitic alphabet the greek and latin alphabets used the phoenician form of this early alphabet there are similarities to the old english letter yogh ȝȝ the table shows where the letterycame from civitella paganico civitella paganico is acomunein the province of grosseto in the italian region of tuscany santantonino di susa santantonino di susa is acomunein the metropolitan city of turin in the italian region of piedmont moÿdelaisne moÿdelaisne is a commune it is found in the region picardie in the aisne department in the north of france ketu mythology ketu dev is an important deity in hinduism who as the god neptune word thats meanings is also know as appears
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frătăuţii noi frătăuţii noi is a commune found in suceava county romania chesterfield county chesterfield county is the name of two counties in the united states kirchheim lower franconia kirchheim is a municipality in würzburg in bavaria in germany siliștea crucii siliştea crucii is a commune in dolj county romania list of cities in texas the following is a list of cities in the state of texas in the united states by letter
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intrusive thought intrusive thoughts are obsessive repeating unwanted thoughts that someone has that make them feel sad angry annoyed embarrassed depressed or even suicidal that led them to feel anxiety or sometimes even panic attacks it is normal for everyone to have intrusive thoughts though some people find it very hard to move on from them because they feel so real intrusive thoughts are most common in obsessivecompulsive disorder ocd which is when someone with ocd gets intrusive thoughts that give them extreme anxiety and cause them to do the same ritual over and over again because they feel like bad things will happen if they dont do it the difference between someone who has ocd and someone who does not is most people without ocd are able to ignore the thoughts but people with ocd feel like they are holding them back and will not leave them alone intrusive thoughts are also associated with depression body dysmorphic disorder posttraumatic stress disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder histamine histamine is an organic nitrogenous compound involved in local immune responses it also regulates physiological function in the gut and acts as a neurotransmitter histamine is involved in the inflammatory response where tissues get red swollen and painful as part of an immune response to foreign pathogens histamine is produced by basophils and by mast cells found in nearby connective tissues histamine increases the permeability of the capillaries to white blood cells and some proteins the cells get through the walls of the tiny blood vessels to get at pathogens in the infected tissues histamine in water exists as two tautomers in equilibrium differing by the position of the hydrogen atom lathrup village michigan lathrup village is a city in oakland county michigan united states honkawagoe station honkawagoe station is a railway station of seibu in kawagoe saitama prefecture japan this station is the neareset station of armentièressurourcq armentièressurourcq is a commune it is found in the region picardie in the aisne department in the north of france
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jamaican americans jamaican american or jamerican are an ethnic group of caribbean americans who have full or partial jamaican ancestry seiko seiko holdings corporation better known as seiko is a japanese company that makes watches clocks and electrical components seiko is one of the three main companies of theseiko groupwhich are the seiko holdings corporation seiko seiko instruments inc sii and the seiko epson corporation epson pero disambiguation pero may refer to haryanvi language haryanvi is a dialect of panjabi languagespoken in haryana india it is also spoken by muslim haryanvis who settled in karachi hyderabad and other cities of pakistan who call it rangri stegastes variabilis stegastes variabilis commonly known as the brazilian cocoa damselfish is a species of damselfish in the family pomacentridae they live on coral reefs in the western atlantic ocean and off the coast of brazil they normally do not live with other fish taxonomy the genus name is greek forstegastosit means covered in the past the caribbean cocoa damselfish was believed to be in the same species as the brazilian cocoa damselfish this is not true the population from the caribbean is genetically different description the brazilian cocoa damselfish is in the shape of an oval that is pressed in at the sides it grows to about long the top of the head and the snout have many blue stripes the top of the body is generally dark brown blue or brown it has shades to yellow on the lower body the sides have bars of vertical dark lines they have two small black spots on their bodies one is above the pectoral fins the other on the top of the caudal peduncle the large dorsal fin has twelve spines and between fourteen and seventeen soft rays the anal fin has two spines and between twelve and fifteen soft rays the caudal fin is forked and has rounded lobes distribution and habitat brazilian cocoa damselfish are found near brazil in the western atlantic ocean they do not migrate these fish have a depth range of ecology and behaviour feeding adults mainly eat benthic algae they also eat sponges ascidiacea and anemones the young of the species eat invertebrates such as harpacticoid copepods and nemerteans breeding in the breeding season the female lays eggs on the seabed the eggs attached to empty shells stones or other objects they are then fertilized by the male he then guards them aerates them and chases away intruders the fish are aggressive when they are breeding there is also a distinct pairing during the breeding
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saintlégerduventoux saintlégerduventoux is a commune it is in the region provencealpescôte dazur in the vaucluse department in the south of france pegram idaho pegram is an unincorporated community of idaho in the united states carpen carpen is a commune in dolj county romania wardner idaho wardner is a city in idaho in the united states lake aluma oklahoma lake aluma is a town in oklahoma in the united states
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convenience food convenience food is a type of food this kind of food has been made so it can save the consumers time to prepare it usually such foods just need to be heated they are made for a long shelf life so that they can stay in the store for a long time one thing to remember is that you may have to pay for the convenience as this food is often expensive many people criticise these products because history before modern times most men worked in the open often in fields agriculture was before the industrial revolution the biggest employment for men in most countries they usually took their midday meal with them and ate where they worked many kinds of food types were invented for this purpose the cornish pasty from the uk is one which survives to the present day other kinds have vanished and their names forgotten the bedfordshire clanger was a baked suet dumpling and there was also a bedfordshire roll this was savoury at one end and sweet at the other it was eaten from the savoury end to the sweet end there used to be many other varieties and version many have commented on the way convenience foods are heavy on calories they were meant to be for work then was usually manual labour and men used their muscles continually as they worked the modern sandwich is a relatively recent invention since it dates back only to the 18th century it has become a standard way of taking food to the school or workplace stp stp usually refers to stp may also refer to kamatamare sanuki is a japanese football club which plays in j3 league clint texas clint is a town in el paso county texas united states voiceless linguolabial plosive the voiceless linguolabial stop is a sound used in some spoken languages it is not in english
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haillicourt haillicourt is a commune it is found in the region nordpasdecalais in the pasdecalais department in the north of france därstetten därstetten is a municipality of the administrative district of frutigenniedersimmental in the canton of bern in switzerland scotland texas scotland is a city in archer county texas united states moment of inertia factor the moment of inertia factor is a dimensionless quantity where the mass distributes inside a planet or satellite the moment of inertia factor is defined as formula1 hamid nasir chattha chaudhry hamid nasir chattha urdu is a pakistani politician he was born in lahore
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centerville minnesota centerville is a city in anoka county minnesota united states rio rancho new mexico rio rancho is the largest city in sandoval county and third largest city in the us state of new mexico a suburb of albuquerque it is part of the albuquerque metropolitan statistical area thor band thor is a heavy metal band from vancouver british columbia canada propulsor a propulsor is a mechanical device that gives propulsion the pumpjet is an example so that what we did was first of all when you filled in your initial choice and then we got a a team choice and now perhaps what would make a lot of sense is that if we have the first few er team answers one member of this team er and then well go through the others and alright the one thing we will certainly mark is that the answer which you get does depend on the way in which you read some of the statements or some of the principles erm but what i wanted us to do is to start getting some discussion going and so that youre actually getting a bit closer to one another lets go through this team here you can do it mary if you like what what did you get for the fir or what did you reckon the first set of claims you decided wanted to be accomplished truth everybody agree with truth yes yeah yes yes i think so erm and thats not just in selling is it i mean thats in everything er you getsa instructor and they say that if a training course which is gonna start at half past eight on february the tenth erm yeah well thats what we gotta do then you gotta start looking to the planning towards havent you and you gotta there when you gotta there and so on and so on so he gets the first and decide what you wanna get to but if you dont do that any roadll get you there and i think thats something that well certainly discuss tomorrow on thursday if you are what i want you to do is to to create a a team plan and the first thing we need to decide in that team plan is where do we wanna get what do we wanna do not we wanna increase sales because everybody wants to do that but if weve gotta increase sales by what is it five percent ten percent thirty percent we wanna get more you know theres ththi thi this er there is no point really in saying things like what id like to do is to improve the quality of the appointments because that dont tell you anything it has to be some solid reason some absolute measurable thing okay any any customers been another customer at all all of us all of us yes i think so i think so otherwise wed have all the id be be discussing what it is right means testing theyre sort of sales for sales sake yeah oh im erm just being awkward i well theres nothing wrong with that as you know theres nothing wrong with that i mean weve all weve all seen the results of any customer whos a bit of a nervous so sort havent we well thats putting that well i think we have dave i think as sorts yeah you dru you draw up one arent you mm mm yeah thats right yes i mean its er its wo thats one we refer to as the donnis mobile cos we can use that when the american express comes through erm but the er yes any customer know knows when youre talking a load of nonsense erm thought so didnt they true a salesperson should never abandon hope of winning an account which is really great woo hoo thats a good one isnt it well you have to something there does anybody everybody think true no yeah yeah times change dont they yeah buyers change companies change attitudes change markets change our yep yes they go off what about this one well ask linda this time when it says good plans sell require retain i put false yeah yeah yeah i think that has to be the chain yeah because it might be a good plan today mm but i wonder how good it is tomorrow you know with things changing and that and that ah heres a nice one hmm erm mm right the effective sales person puts most of his or her effort into prospecting for new accounts false false true i put true true somebody else er youre prospecting rather than using your current what about your time plan this morning the sheets the sheets this morning proved that yeah three hours prospecting on the b l s and three hours prospecting from from nine oclock till twelve yeah thats six hours prospecting i put true im im with you lads yeah er you did er have sort of fair factual discussion then i were only one yeah who put true right these put yes id have thought it was true erm true id have thought that what is what is im not saying obviously if somebody existing based on that that is that is right you have to look after your existing customers of course whether they are well you see most of us dont do this it doesnt say time peter it says effort thats right effort yeah yeah but you put you must be putting about five hours effort of a day into prospecting accounts three hours nine till twelve prospecting or cold calling whatever you wanna call it another two three hours of doing but this yeah but you look when youre receiving the trade from the prospecting when you receive your trade from a prospect you have this amount of trade in and this amount of prospect and your telling me if i have half trade in and half prospect id like to see the difference in how much time you spent on yeah but on each one yeah but the thing is you dont do it its a you dont have a you dont have a se se so you prospect yeah but if you did yeah but its a very difficult question effort and then a prospect an area where you want yeah to youve got time there yeah but you do well you do actually measure a regular more distance at the end of the day you do need to get business well i put in yeah but theres no point in losing business for new business thats true but were not saying that but its yeah but if if actually time spent prospecting its not time if yeah then then even though its not its not well i think thats i think you can categorize you can say right e the effectiveness is if you spend seventy five percent of your effort getting prospect accounts on but you still use twenty five percent of it to to yeah exactly to retain existing then youre still gonna be paying the business on and youre still gonna be able to look after er right the existing you just its just i dont know whether you get that one percent what dya think a fortnight sorry it makes no what dya think difference what do i think yeah but john when you say the word what dya think effort you want i think if tom was sat there it would be ninety percent you know because he he didnt he just really wanna be in on anything else but except business right once you shared the time honestly number six then im happy to be maximizing sales volume is the most important task of the sales person oh solely false you put here i put false here well i think you need to recognize that really sales volume is it it takes us back again to the fact that any customer is better than no customer at all we were saying we were just saying maximizing sales as in more otherwise its sales potential rather yes than er er er what were what maximizing what weve got what we are about or what every sales company should be about is making money yeah and er er and just increasing sales volume or maximizing sales volume aint gonna do it ah we ought to more or less max maximize the yeah sales figures right its its maximizing the sale of the revenue and and rising the revenue is what we talked about oh yes that one whats it called so a resistance can be used with that and of course it indicates interest in the product true true all the time that thats what yeah an objection is mhm and i think thats theres something which we most of us fear i hope not so the resistance is diminished by stretching the novel features of a new product jane mm what do you think agree we had a i think discussion about this as well i think we misunderstood novel features as a bad thing to be honest yes we were saying we we can no but you we we were asking about you can novel features you can overcome objections novel is the word there by offering the benefits of a product not necessarily novel though is it no no thats what im saying novel thats why novels the key word novel what have you got the one right wing here nothing at all yeah but well i had well i had er er false at first and then we had a big discussion about it yeah right we had false particularly until we new product coming out i would think that was false to be honest yeah er its the novel that did it and well yeah yeah i think what happens all the time i understand why if you put true you me you you put it was that the one thing that sales people always desperately want is something new okay erdifferently thats not new erm and i think that probably er i think thats false but its er interesting discussion yes er when a sales person closes he though i suppose i should say that he or she should use that closing technique which is most suited to his or her personality this is the one we were debating yeah i had true but i got outnumbered i had true so i put a false in that one you got outnumbered right i had true i had true said false me and david said false true what what should we be co considering the customer at any time you see in my view each each customer is different you dont close the same way with every customer right so is it the fact that the that what th th th the close should be most suited to the customer yeah yeah rather than ourselves yeah thatd be fair i think because you close with your own personality anyway dont you really right i think and also hes buying you as well as hes buying the product yes i think so i think that is of course i i think that erm that the close which you use yeah has to be geared to the customer er and not your personality and this is a nice one then isnt it the direct close the most successful technique because its the most honest dont ask us dont ask us no pretty good was it yeah we got anti thats right thats right what about this side well we got true but i true would say false i would say false as well he said true and we said true hes well we start off with that oh ill let you off its an interesting one because er er really the thingth the sentence goes or the the principle works very well until you get to the word honest yeah thats right exactly thats what were laughing at bingo thats what were arguing on what the hells honesty got to do with it ah i i think er the most obvious yes thats right im not sure that honestys a word which i would er dont get me wrong im not suggesting that a salesmans dishonest dont think that what i am suggesting though i think is that you know a close which is referred to as being the best of course is th the most honest is the yeah the well well peter can cant you remember espinear formula yes where we were dru the spi the espinear used to be drummed down for about five six seven years thats right so he would have known thats right assuming the actually you could have gone to the a m express conference and heard it i played a cowboy actually talking about espinear close espinear assuming that it is question physical action judgements trapped the narrative closeand ask for the order thats right so how did you memorize that because thats the way you learnt it used to be in all the quizzes thats right ever heard yeah of a espinear close thats right what do they all can after you everybody can remember what it stands for but they cant do it thats right well ask for the order it is yeah thats right they all er ask for the order its thei the di they used the word honest no ah sure well thatth th thats thats what but anyway as long as it created discussion that was the point of it and good product of service will sell itself false no no no thatll be the day wont it false yeah false that one is a knowledge of human psychology is important when false again selling now then thats only one of the seven up here we all said true true but bear in mind shes you know shes walked out of the thats right so what do you think of that i think we all feel thats true dont we i do apart from the odd er fact and most of research we dont need erm we dont need a degree in it but some other peoples problems its a yeah i do cos last time im going anyway with the exact same sheet that i did to start with you said we didnt need anything because i social skills true last time right and it was were not getting rid of that now social skills are relatively unimportant for a salesperson false i think we need certain social skills dont you yes erm and more so on the telephone than we ought and more on the telephone than some sometimes we do er erm face to face a person does not buy the product but rather buy what itll do for him or her true yes thats right a former customer one who no longer buys anything is of little value false false yeah i think so cos he changes doesnt he and er okay right well lets generate the do discussion and er get you all er involved in something else for three quarters of an hour right i want now to show you this er film then and theres no point in having alright were taking on everything doing far more than we can reasonably do and if you like doing it by very definition badly or worse than it could have done right thats one message that comes out of it what else slow no effort right theres no thinking time at all is there no right okay no theres no planning or nothings diarized everythings all no plan mm no diary theres theres no concentration yeah no concentration with the job in hand everything looks like me and jack distracts him from what hes doing and he the distraction the what no plans no details never saw one job through mm mm he kept on doing one job yeah instead of instead of from one from the other from start to finish he didnt just finish one job at a time finish one job in which yeah it would one job less to do so this fact that theres no plan or appeared to be no diary although there was a diary wasnt there he had stuff wrote yeah down on it yeah and he didnt he didnt listen to any of the people yeah what the people ha had to say he just just said yes yes all afternoon yeah he just right kept saying yes to everything just to barge them off he didnt listen did he no no no not at all he had too many interruptions hmm er we said the said ignoring the needs mm where was that well his secretary when he was on yeah the phone yeah and he kept checking up and he the guy in sort of hung up on him the guy in the car park when he forgot to ring him back about some important business the managing director he kept ringing yeah the managing director spoke from the car and he never followed it up and he kept thats right he wanted to be the decision maker and he wanted to make the decision on every single thing himself and then he was turning round and saying to his secretary well cant you do anything do i have to do everything whereby he had obviously made it clear from the start mm he was the only one with the authority he kept checking up on erm not that he trusted anyone either because when they were doing the wages kept checking up on peoples like erm capabilities as well instead of getting on with his own job he kept checking up on their them all as well so hes checking up on everybody yeah even if he lets them do something mm mhm the wages he didnt trust her with the wages he messed about on the calculator thats right youd expect a wages clerk to be able to handle it wouldnt you yeah er and also that er when he went into hmm appointment he erm he let he let the client take over the the call because he wasnt erm prepared enough when he werent there right so when he went in to see somebody he had thats it done no preparation at all no had he no he he didnt know why he was there did he he wanted five percent discount didnt he told him selling a million pounds worth of flour e er flour a year and he had his twenty first coming up and apparentlyhe starts spilling the beans good on how much he had really thats right er he doesnt a great deal with the the guy cos he so when he says no plan here so its not only no plans in the day it filtered through to his work yeah everything his his everyday work as well yeah mm he just pu he just kept putting off important things as well thats right and end end up with er yeah i think i think its this stress that he felt he was under which led him to panic you could just see him getting more and more het up but if he just sort of sat down and wrote things down what hed got to do and do try and do them in a set order mhm mm yeah that mr was a and i i mean that was the root problem really thats it but mr mm the director had him wrapped round his little finger for that five percent didnt he yeah mm what did he say tha then because he really believes what was that bit well he was just telling er mr the person was telling him or or or the th no he was telling the customer he was selling a million pounds worth of flour a year and that and i ive got a twenty first birthday er you knowwi coming up party well after that aha hes not worried about that he just yeah wants his five percent yeah thats right thats right so theres no no preparation a at all oh no on that er particular er interview was there he didnt he also didnt let people know what he was doing as well didnt keep staff informed did what didnt keep his staff informed of what was happening just just expected them to know didnt tell them when he met those three people he didnt so so yeah he didnt tell anyone about that he didnt and the guy didnt ask him but why didnt he tell anybody about cos he was scared embarrassed he was embarrassed wasnt he yeah didnt wanna tell anybody about it cos he knew they they they could say well cant you organize things better than that whats the real sub total now of this guy of ours right so theres he had no organization none at all i mean he he when he saw john cleese on that erm computer said whats that he didnt know way behind it he was really sort of ignorant about things like that thats right he was way behind with the technology he thought he was helping everybody and doing everything for himself but he werent he was stopping he was just like a hindrance wasnt he what are we doing yeah he was causing more problems yeah yeah thats what happens hes trying to be all things to all men isnt he yeah yeah and doing its not so much that youre doing everything wrong its just the one thing which being done right is that the other way of putting it that the guy because hes so well organized what effect does that have on everybody else then it snowballs doesnt it it throws everyone out theyre like chasing their tails cos theyre the ones who yeah theyre not as stressed as he is at the end of the day because well it it throws everybody else around you thats right they linda yes linda cos he keeps starting something and then he shouts something else comes back and then you but you end up doing nothing gets done yes i see what effect did it have on his private life he sa he missed a party and missed a sa a childs party and er what have you he planned to go out for dinner well hes just so organized there he planned to go out for dinner hes even forgot about that as well with he his wife but he lives with this he doesnt really make time for anything yes you see its its very difficult isnt it that that we probably spend a third of our life at work which makes it very important erm by as many definitions we spend a third of our lives at workwhe where you spend the other two thirds bed and and so weve got the other two thirds this between getting to bed and and spending it with the the the family and if you cant organize yourself at work then its a ten to a penny that you cant organize the other bits either and and so what happens is th the whole thing just keep its just compounded worser it just gets worse and worse and worse and worse now im not suggesting for one moment that anybody who has all the problems that dear mr has there but i think we might be able to learn something do you yeah we might be able to pack put one or two things into some sort of order what i want to do today what ive been trying to do today is to spend that time looking at certain aspects of the way the business works the way you work you are very important people you are running one million pound a year businesses and also for all of us to learn something about each other because youre spending all day together and well keep breaking you off into in twos into your groups so that you can learn any more about one another and also of course youve got the sort of social thing between you well i mean you dont have to see so this youve got this sort of social thing there you can actually learn something else about one another by normal discussions between during the course of the conversation now what that will enable to do i hope is tomorrow to spend our time trying to put some of these things right if if right they need to be put if you are already working to maximum efficiency then great all you will have done so far is spent the two days here eat sandwiches followed by said a couple of jokes and come to that friday afternoon we could and well have a look at see what colin would make of that though i suspect that what we will find if we really are honest with ourselves that quite a lot of things which we see here are not always exaggerated from the point of the exercise that we exaggerate things out of all proportion so that we can actually start looking at it and seeing we will come back to that in fact well come back that a bit later this afternoon i want to ask you to do thought you content based on that i just wanna be absolutely sure that you havent made some terribly dramatic changes in your lifestyle which are not justified by what weve done after erm no id like just to go through that if i can erm and then i wanna give you one last exercise before we go not this sort of er this sort of thing erm and what i want you to do tonight please in your teams i want you to make a list tonight in your teams of all the things you have to do at work okay everything lunchtimes as well right it can be yeah we had a stop for lunch we had to have cups of tea we had to go to ou out the back and have a fag cos we cant smoke in the office write all the things you have to do okay now dont worry about it now when you come back to this right you can do that in the bar if you like that okay bearing in mind its a team focus course so im not giving you loads of work which takes you apart from one another what we do is you talk together and spend time together and at the end of last week they had a no actually it was no i think that they er er er what they they might now well you know actually its a bit boring down there now but they they had to put my my explanation of the price of petrol er down theres nowhere to thing cos th the last time i was down there i asked for a pint of bitter and this guy bought it me and said and i wanted two pound thirty or something and i said to him do you know what they have to do a produce a gallon of petrol and he said no and i explained it er you know first of all you created universe and then you then you get all these very important people geologists and they put er satellites and find th this oil underground and then you drill well its usually under the sea anyway so you produce a and this go on and on and on until the guys now wondering what youre talking about and then when you get the to the end of it all you sa you say and they sell that for an eighth of a price that you charge for your bloody beer and you know and theres absolutely no justification whatsoever and but they er you cant do it cos theyre all so bored to death with it now give a brief desista description of where you get a pint of petrol from well then they charge you thirty p for it but it costs two pounds if you find nobody wants it yeah eh just the fact nobody wants to do it but he wants it to go up one percent thats what i thought its like that when i do my victor meldrew bit its er doesnt go down very well right now lookth right so lets just have a look erm at mutton jeff down there what what have yo what have you decided that you your thoughts are now strengths weaknesses or whatever how are you gonna change or can you change er strengths well i think the first gotta be objectives right erm using team resources erm and commanding respect and you do this by enthusiasm right erm were very good at lot of plans practical working and carrying out in a specific way yes and a bit of a change and again with self discipline were realists but we wont look at same thing does the selfdiscipline actually show itself i mean in those those time things that you did those time box did it show the selfdiscipline yeah i think youve got to be i thought it did show up but i mean it wasnt part of its a natural part of right so thats great better for everyone right right so i want having all these virtues and whatever what dya call the whingies then well there has to be the odd one thatll take over peter yeah in the usual way erm analysing problems we seem to be more concerned with the job in hand i e our own team er er and not with the other teams but if theyre struggling then do offer to give them help right okay thats very very gracious of you well i it should be ermco cooperative of ourselves right in order to overcome any weaknesses that we may have that dont recognize well that weve got right now based on what weve talked about so far today can you recognize any that you probably didnt think youd got yeah or did you now recognize something you neednt of got but now somebody else has bought you that you better do something about it aha and if so what are they erm i didnt like i say i know people who erm especially with about ourselves or anybody else right so theres no real sort of company worked out erm in such details like that were were paid to do a job to get the best for everything right and your best to do aha sort of concentrating if you like on that particular effort aha rather than wider things yes and so probably what we need to think about is how you can improve your contributions to the whole thing thats not so you how i perform but how you can improve your contributions there we might have to yeah er er er erm look at that yeah erm we also again i mean as you say we always look at ourselves and say were the best team in the company right jeffs thinking that erm but then we we put that out and get information an d so thats er you know a team game team game yeah and get ourselves right and then we enable us to go on these and get a bit of information from the yeah wed like to see some signs give us a bit more cooperative and then yeah the then then yeah erm sometimes thats thats about it but to be honest well of course it does sort of wandering round with your youll have black eyes by then what ab about you two how do you know hes right how you actually feel well i well i say weve looked at it slightly different because weve only weve only worked together for five weeks right erm so what we wanted to do was weve had were doing quite well with the ov erm the five weeks weve been together but we wanna make sure that you do combat erm a successful pact right so we looked at two areas where weve erm we were both very weak erm and i dont we could even we couldnt even see it with regards this right erm so weve what we we were looking at doing is trying to create an action plan using those two areas each time to create strengths and the other will slot together cos really in the middle the actual communication is there but its not constructive enough yes or perhaps not about the right things at the time or perhaps concentrating on but is that in some ways i mean you cant be too critical about yourselves some of that is because you lack of experience within the in ex the company in that ex you sell yeah chances are so i mean yo but i think that a sort of the time we have perhaps on a could be used a lot more constructively well i do you know erm right really i mean weve both discussed we both know weve discussed things over and weve discussed a counter that were trying look at why all these things happen its really getting things done in in a like a i dunno a disciplined manner like an ordered man so each what to do the we discuss what we what weve got an action plan together and where its fired at so it does work is it based on what you well the case historys there i think i know the the other than in performance but based on that you should be able to do that yeah oh absolutely yeah i think its just having a bit of erm experience and just having the discipline to sit down and make sure that we e do actually work this out and then do cover all the areas alright so what im what im sa saying now is this that based on what we talked about so far mhm is that tomorrow when we start getting into planning prioritizing looking at where the new diaries and all that sort of stuff theres one of the things we will do before you leave tomorrow is you will have to produce an action plan yes thats what right thats what we did and it will be specific it will be measurable will be yeah achievable be renewable be yeah yes mm now if thats the case once weve done that okay and well then type it up for ya and youll take it away and it will be yours right im not asking for money or taking anything from you you could say well jackie took this and you got one leg on this table shorter than the other legs and weve jammed it under there levels the table up now what youll be taking is erm its its erm so what im saying is we need to be very as soon as you get the stuff that if you wanna get anything out of this course at all and what people do get out of the course is the fact that by the time they leave here weve said right thats the way were going thats what were gonna aim for and it is reasonable time mhm yeah cos they were only the real areas lacking and the im quite high on the complete finisher whereby you know by your roads you always go down the right road thats okay alright jus just you fairly true yeah of perhaps my characteristics cos i tend to go in to work at eight oclock just before i write any more in and i do have to clear everything before i even start the day which you dont get any assistance i cant just sort of well i think nor can i i might get the odd done yes i make it the other thats fine way round i shove everything to one side of the desk and everyones gone home and then i start working so its perhaps an area that i could instigate there that side of things to actually get things completed okay thats super thats thats true thats brilliant what about you two oh right yes were both er inquisitive and enthusiastic strong strongwilled er we both top score in that source investigator right yeah thats what i heard pretending thats right thats alright were both yeah were both try and demand respect we both try and help people with weakness as much as possible both selfconfident we try and mould our ideas that we both have together what we get them from other people thats alright im impressed i do i i dont i told you that th that there aint many many players in this world who are who are so so sort of you know started what yeah they did they nick everybody elses ideas and turn them into something else so well well like we so we can try and e with regards to the teams were probably a little bit more high profile than a lot of the other teams yeah at our depot because its just the way just the way we are up north a and your reputation well no er ive been there a few times yeah and er so but we have divided it by the weaknesses and things like that are what planning right yes that wont be a strength will it no no yeah thats what weve gotta finish tomorrow right well everybodys we gotta finish tomorrow i know yeah god almighty er were not were not all so selfdisc or disciplined about things right it takes the way things go instead of just making yeah instead of just sitting down and getting on with it well one of the problems you seei if you are perceived as one of the best you tend to be in the top three or four or so on you know the the people know who you are but when you are perceived as being the you know that sort of effort you sort of find it find it pretty difficult and its only the people who become well i mean i was gonna say sort of gold medallists and the olympics who are good at that sort of thing because the best in the world yeah and they dont give them to everybody what you do isth the problem is that you see all thats wrong with the depot yeah now they er you know its a bit of a bloody bloody dowdy operation i mean er one of the things i try and talk to people about here yeah and er i get on the courses is the fact that that is very good attendance sort of thing for you to see t n t express has been rather than a depot you never see a truck here how many times does anybody see them theyre all gone by the time you get into work and they aint back by time you go home do you ever see a truck no have you ever seen the type of thing no well rarely and so that this tendency you see for us to see how well our world has been rather than the depot and in many cases they do it mm they mm now what youve got to do the one thing you really have got to do is to is is to start being critical of yourselves and well look am i doing anything wrong here but rather than have you doing something else mm mm mm and also we we we need to look at strict plans as i say because were not particularly good good at that yeah so youll go away and find that out yeah yeah well you better go and ask stuart yeah and if you just think oh well youre talking to me youre talking to the first one round following a plan and a system many many times alright what about jane cos shes looking at us im a well er er yeah but its but er which is worse thats right the one thing we are gonna do is is aim to do is concentrate on on obviously not now erm its if is a bit awkward bu you know our well our terms because you know how calls so jenny gets to have them she gets an awful lot alright well th th thats thats okay oh yeah lynn does yeah yeah what about jack the lad mm mm er theres theres theres gotta be a distraction between what youre many of the figures made there no thats right erm of the three of us er on the the s e h which is the erm the organizer the short one right we we all came out fairly high on that one and do you think that that fits does that gel with what you see yeah in your company yeah erm where you work i think we we we fairly were fairly organized as a team now and as i say weve been together for a long time and the appointment the changeover of the appointments can i stop you yes was the help helping you pick up body language there they both moved back mm mm together and they both move up one knee was right over left and the other was left over right yeah i noticed that erm i stopped doing that but she that was peter peter you got about seven hours tonight ill tell you about it we slept through that one last time oh very funny who gave you a right go on im sorry i shouldnt have stopped you go on ive slept with worse than that before pete ooh everythings hunkydory and i never hope i ever knock this i dont know whether susan wants to hear this but since we started doing the appointment side it really in our depot its really working and erm i presume so weve got a very very yeah good rapport with each you know we can sort o i mean the girls can sort of say what they want to me i say what i want to them you know we take a joke oh thats nice we got a lot of er we got very good rapport going which is a big thing i dont think the other team in the depot have got such a i shouldnt speak out of school but we have ah thats okay got such a good rapport with the outdoor sales than ive got with er jane and linda right which i think goes a long way yeah so what would what would be the weakness of the team then er well we wrote ta erm a couple of weaknesses down here erm the weakness of the team was erm youre not allowed to say those yeah we need to brush up on on er and ill have these making changes beyond ourselves erm ooh god any ha well based on what that ones we need to brush change that one up on erm yes we need to brush up on on analysing our problems before they get worse and getting them back into shape using our organized organizing skills and teamwork right and has plus that go on plus erm we we sort of erm we need to get together more in the night and be brief wed be briefing i was just gonna say what you need probably is to we er i is to not meet for meetings sake yeah and one of the things we need to talk about tomorrow is how we put together a briefing yeah i think and or a debrief what the hell do we do with this thing erm and that i would have thought would probably do it or certainly helpful as long as you actually do it sort of thing one of the problems yeah with debriefings is that what people do is sit down and say what shall we talk about now thats right or what on the night we have a chat with that area being on on that day right individually but we dont get together enough as a team no oh just sit down the three of us for half an hour the three of us thats what it takes thats what it takes yeah i agree its just me or jack yeah her or jack yeah well it should be the three of us more yes just that since weve come back after christmas we havent never have the time before er oh well lets well to get together all together its we just havent im sure ah but with respect im sure you have had the time what you dont do is make the time because yeah yeah youve got too many other things thats right to do exactly exactly right mm and its er it is one of the problems that goes to the bottom of yes the pile thats right one of the problems you see is that yeah that people tend to see a meeting as having to be really oh its gotta be at ten to five its gotta you gotta say be on a friday yeah or whatever it may be andi no the only reason for having friday meetings is because its friday yeah there aint any no reason for it we a but we are on a regular day er just stopped them sales depot sales meetings so on a regular basis now erm including jeff whos the general manager all teams will go through a meeting about six every eight weeks weve put a lot of erm yeah i think thats what that thats managerswo a lot of ma the managers a lot of the customers now you know can come depot it was said that er you know and its being done and everything wants starting and so on and so on right so er were on now on our last you cant erm comes out each week brought up each week at erm depot meetings right theres a lot of competition at the moment in between our territory team and the other territory team thats good where right erm but thats what weve had the meetings in really about is weve weve listed our major consa customers and then listed theirs and the two gets first one and the most revenue started thats what were having at the moment having a little competition in between us both you know yeah well the great thing that youve and its got going for you now of course is you have a very or a fairly good idea of what youre strong at and what you are weak at or what you one part of the weaknesses is planning things and analysing things thats right erm and so what we need to think about tomorrow were organizing this plan or whatever is how how do we implement that er and i think what you need to do what we all need to do is when weve discussed all this stuff talked about it and im sure youll talk about it again tonight that what we need to do is to recognize that this has to start on monday mm not monday week mhm think that not tuesday afternoon i think that our problem is like that we dont sort of like get together and me and i know what i m doing with jack and linda knows what shes doing with jack but me and linda dont know what each other are doing thats right and i think mm that is i think thats clear i think thats er youre absolutely right mhm but it comes up and ill say oh did i not say that thats right did you aha didnt i tell you that aha didnt i tell you that and i just and it is presumed you know is it going down did you say yeah erm you presume that each other knows when really thats right you dont oh tell me about it yeah right i never worked with anybody like that but i know who you mean come on then oh there are some places where we keep the best till last thanks serves me right for i suppose yes thats right so what what what are now what are we what are we now erm they would ideally like to right i havent said something by the way oh yes yeah marys quite good coming up with new ideas and new lines of thought on various subjects right okay and im supposedly the one that will carry it through i er and do you think thats right yeah yeah i think so and shes also good at support supporting the team right ah erm and her loyalty to the company so shes always saying i think youve all got that its just that er i dont think that yes yeah oh yeah okay right ah ah and and also a good problem solver as well that mary will come across with something that you use on mm mm various ideas the weakness that weve identified is that because were new we havent learnt the game weve gotta learn the game yeah from the yeah type of area to i wish i could live as much in a world where none of you learnt the bloody then we can actually get on with it but erm yes i i think theres the the theres a weakness and a strength there you see and a one of the reasons why mary keeps coming out with good ideas is she dont know the game mm mm and one of the days shell learn the game i mean that in the nicest sense theth th the game and when she learns the game shell stop coming out with ideas then mm well be a and and i think we all do that the erm but most of us are when yo when you first join something you can always see the things that you ought to be able to change and one of the things that is happening and mortified when i first came to this company was i couldnt see a straight line through i couldnt see who reported to who i cant i still dont bloody know now but i mean i i i just couldnt i just thought suddenly i thought my god you know i can change this so its not so much changing t n t it was changing some influences thats effecting mary shes doing spending as much time doing tea and she sees as she is phoning prospects yes i think that shows in time yeah thats what i think one of the other ones is whilst we no its alright to laugh i go round picking up thats right once again we yeah i know debrief every now and then its its not being a full debrief ill tell alison the accountant then and shell tell me what shes sold and how many contracts weve booked and but its done in front of everybody else while everybody why everybody else whos on the phone and we dont talk about problems whos done what how what problems youre having mm mm and they havent done anything in a in a support group in that sense but like just for you to know that i meanat the moment got a slight shortage of staff and us little express girlies are like were all sort of desperate to please them well and because we need to if a customer rings were always there for them and the problem is ive got like two phones on my desk at the moment so i could guarantee the minute i put my phone down if anybody else is on the phone habloody phones still ringing i have got to answer it there is times ive casually picked it up dropped it on the floor and forgotten to pick it up for a while because im on the phone and sometimes it is quite loud in my ear but like looking at this is what did it filling well in this actually sitting there and saying not realizing a few problems that too busy to realize im writing so ive looked at it at the end of day and thought well my god and hes looked at it and just said well look at it dont spend but you see the as much on the phone thth again again you see the strength of this course is that if nobody had actually given you time like youd have never known no this is it you just get on with what youre doing we had a secretary here a fortnight ago and said how good itd been so manic it was oh you wouldnt know you see no and and the the the strength of this particular course amazed with herself she just sort of sat about once a day chatting but the strength of this particular is that we now know an awful lot of about one another mm but we get were getting there faster than we think were getting there faster than we think good thank you for that right im now gonna give you one last exercise then which may take rather more time than weve got and if it doesnt probably wont well be kicking away from here about quarter five if it does then okay finish it off tonight or do it before then i want to give you im going to give each of you yeah if you just wanna just clear up some of the bits of paper then thats alright yeah cos you cant get an old bloke told me that okay one for you and one for you one for you one for you and one for you right what i want you to do and weve used the same two teams as we weve used last time right so its from jenny that way and from matt that way okay all i want you to do ill just read through this youve just been told that you are to take over the job of manager for o a z company limited the previous job holder has resigned and left the country they always do and they th they not only leave the country theyre up in space you cant get hold of them in fact hes not at work and the only key members of the department are away on leave okay it will be the same and you cant get hold of any of them okay so whos down to you you know very little about the job right but understand that your new boss is the production director right mr youve got two chief managers mr and mr and a secretary elma wholl report straight into you ooh ooh youve got forty minutes thats about what youve got its just about thirty minutes okay to clear the items found on your predecess
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standard chinese standard chinese or standard mandarin is the official modern chinese spoken language used in mainland china and taiwan and is one of the four official languages of singapore it is based off the mandarin dialect and should not be confused with other varieties of chinese the man who sold the world songthe man who sold the worldis a song by david bowie the band nirvana covered this song in the live albummtv unplugged in new york shan people the shan peoples shan ipa ipa chinese pinyin shànzú are a tai ethnic group of south east asia the shan live mostly in shan state myanmar these people have close religious ties and similarities with bangladeshs chittagonian peoples montignyengohelle montignyengohelle is a commune in the region nordpasdecalais in the pasdecalais department in north france notuner gaan notuner gaan the song of youth more popularly known after its first line as chol chol chol is the national march of bangladesh lyrics here are the rest of the original lyrics from which the national march of bangladesh came continuing from the last section
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super canal super canal is a dominican television network operating from studios in santo domingo and broadcasting on channel 33 the station is owned by supercanal sa operations super canal also operates an international feed super canal caribe this is seen on cable and satellite systems in el salvador curaçao and the united states dominican view is for the united states with a focus on news and sports programming tele el salvador is an international channel carrying programs from several salvadorean television networks ghotki district ghotki district is a district of sindh province pakistan administration the district is administratively subdivided into the following talukas enemies a love story enemies a love story may refer to claves claves spanish word second e is sounded are percussion instruments they are small wooden sticks made of tropical hardwood they are used in pairs they are traditionally heard in cuban music eg salsa in cuban music they often repeat a special rhythm calledclavepronounceclahve the usual way of playing claves is to hold one clave lightly between the thumb and the fingertips with the palm of the hand facing upwards or to cradle the clave in the hand the other held with the other hand hits it buffard buffard is a commune it is in bourgognefranchecomté in the doubs department in east france
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manasbastanous manasbastanous is a commune in the gers department it is in southwestern france mokole language benin mokole is a language of benin étavesetbocquiaux étavesetbocquiaux is a commune it is found in the region picardie in the aisne department in the north of france east londonderry uk parliament constituency east londonderry is a constituency of the united kingdom it is in northern ireland ottange ottange is a commune it is in grand est in the moselle department in northeast france
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halftime heat halftime heat is a series of professional wrestling shows by world wrestling entertainment wwe it plays on tv at the same time as the halftime of the super bowl bread and butter bread and butter is a dessert that was usually made from bread and custard scatter graph a scatter graph also known as a scatterplot is a type of graph or diagram it plots two variables of data along the x and y axes it is used to show the relationship between two quantitative variables bligny aube bligny is a commune of the aubedépartementin the northcentral part of france saudemont saudemont is a commune it is found in the region nordpasdecalais in the pasdecalais department in the north of france
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horse chestnut a horse chestnut aesculus hippocastanum also known as the horsechestnut buckeye conker tree or spanish chestnut is a large deciduous tree it is native to southern europe in the balkans it is often grown in temperate climates it can grow up to 36 metres tall the name of the tree and the whole genus of similar trees is because its fruit the conker was used to treat horses against cough and some parasite worms horse chestnuts are not edible for humans the trees are not closely related to sweet chestnuts black oak arkansas black oak is a town in the us state of arkansas gruiformes the gruiformes are an order with many living and extinct bird families and a widespread geographical diversity gruiform meanscranelike the gruiformes evolved early long before the passerine songbirds which are the most common birds today the gruiform radiation in the palaeocene and eocene produced a large variety of medium to largesized birds many of them still prefer the watery habitats which were so common early in the cainozoic era cranes and rails are the core of the gruiformes also often added are a large number of difficulttoplace birds like the hugediatrymaandphorusrhacos port alexander alaska port alexander is a city in alaska villylebois villylebois is a commune in the aube department in northcentral france
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er ive got two ive just just been two schoolkids who are not doing very well and they the end of term theyve you know the teachers said theyre sort of very far behind and they need to do some work during the holidays now normally over each break theres not that much theres ive had a few students who say they want lessons through the holiday cut normally not that much but this mm this holiday everyones saying ooh yeah i need some more lessons you know im going away on monday so i havent allowed for all this so im trying to yeah rearrange everything to fit them it lets have a look at this week then yeah this is what wanna i i just got onto like the first lesson of it okay erm notes you see they were just er exercise that we done out of the book right erm that was week eight we started on that yeah youre okay on trig arent you n n no this is one no no this is erm where bearings and that come into it mm i sort of was a bit lost on me trig so thats really what i want to get to go through a bit of trig right okay so are you happy with sine cos tan you know which ones which and how to sort them out i could do with it going over okay these theyll be on the front of the paper erm youll have sine youll probably have a triangle with a b c marked on it mm and its say sine is a over b or something the best thing to do with that are you youre more used to erm youre more used to opposite over adjacent and things like that arent you or yeah well we what i normally think you see is when weve got ninety degrees there yeah thats the opposite the hypotenuse is the long one right and thats the adjacent okay so is that in every case easy way to sort them out this with with trig or with pythagoras youre only working with a right angles triangle so find the right angle which is usually pretty obvious and the side opposite that the longest side is the hypotenuse which is a long word yeah so its the long side okay so the longest side is so the hypotenuse the longest side the biggest side is always opposite the biggest angle mhm thats the hypotenuse and then depends on which angle were working with well if were working with this one down here okay lets say thats forty degrees or something the next easiest one to sort out after the hypotenuse is the one thats opposite mhm so thats opposite the angle that were working with and the one thats left is the adjacent must be the adjacent okay so thatll work for every triangle yeah if youd been working with this angle instead we didnt know that and were trying to work with this one or we say were interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent mhm and thats where the confusion comes in that it it varies depending on which angle so just go over that again so first of all go for your right angle mhm and the hypotenuse thats the biggest yeah thats always going to right be true the next thing to do is which angle am i working with so this one youre working with that thirty five degrees mhm this is the angle were interested in yeah so if were going to work out sine tan or cos of this angle thats its opposite yeah and the one left is the adjacent right same with all of these mhm now if we were looking at these the other way up right if somebody gave you the triangle yeah and they said i want to work out this angle mhm well theres you right angle thats still the hypotenuse which one would be the opposite now if were dealing with with this angle er for dealing with that a thatd be the opposite yeah thats it thats opposite and the one left is adjacent okay same yeah if we were working with that so the opposite is the one opposite the angle right right just write that down for us so its the one opposite the angle first of all go for the right angle sort out the hypotenuse okay and then work out which angle yeah youre going to deal with right which angle has the sine cos or tan right and then thats two if you like two a work out the angle and then two b work out which is the opposite mhm the opposite is always opposite the opposite the angle angle yeah okay work out the opposite and then three the adjacent sorts itself out then yeah the adjacent is the one left over mhm thatll work for thatll work every time right so you wont you know you know you wont be mm ah now which one am i supposed to be using here yeah okay okay so front of your sheet you will have things like sine is a over b or things like that just write on the front of your sheet and convert it so that youve got sine is equal to what do you know what sine is sine erm no i should really brush up on it i mean i i know its so c mixed up it doesnt matter cos itll be there so c so something silly old cow or something like that some people remember it yeah er so so ca ill just get this in one of these i think you had it near the front of your notes actually yeah lets see pythagoras on this first one no no i itll be on one of these see i do i get them right in the class good but er it tends to go a bit out of your head right lets have a look at another one at pythagoras as well as there was a i mean ive also been given a couple of ways to remember it but right you cant remember the ways to remember it ive got it written down somewhere but there you are soh soh cah toa okay japanese isnt it soh cah toa okay so what would what would sine be from that then what would the sine be right so erm which one are we on so thats the first one sine the sine is the opposite over the hypotenuse good and the cos is the adjacent over the hypotenuse yep and tan is the opposite over the adjacent okay but they they will be on the front of your sheet they wont be written like that in terms of opposite not even with this new change thats happening well at the moment theyre putting them as just label the sides a b c and theyll say mm sine is a over b yeah cos is c over b right like that erm its just that it throws you a bit if youve learnt them that way so mhm just label the triangle that theyve got opposite over opposite and hypotenuse and adjacent and translate what theyve got written there and use those mhm so if we just do one yeah erm cos i wouldnt mind doing one working out with the with the right just just so i can er brush up on so theres a triangle and were interested in this angle here is forty degrees say mhm okay so right all have gotta add up to a hundred and eighty hasnt it right so if youd like to label that triangle label it right erm thisd be the opposite okay thisd be the hypotenuse and thisd be the adjacent thats it right okay so thatd be ninety thats the ninety yeah okay which would so we know that erm were standing lets say were standing a hundred and twenty metres yeah away from the bottom of this building right now we know that the angle from where we are up to the top is forty degrees yeah right how would you work out the height of the building i dont know erm well lets lets call it h or call it opp if you like mhm the height of the building is opp now can you see any of these oh i see so you want to find the height right and youre calling it opp right so its going to be the cosine isnt it which ones got the opposite and which which two sides which o because that hasnt got the opposite which ones do we which one do we know oh i see yeah we know the adjacent right we know the adjacent and we know the opposite and were trying to find out the opp so we want something that ties up opp and adjacent which one is that tangent okay right so weve got tan forty degrees equals opp over adjacent which is equal to well we dont know opp so well just leave it as opp over a hundred and twenty okay so if you find the tan of forty degrees now how do i do that do i just oh okay you just put forty degrees in forty f forty and then press tan and then the equals thats it do i press that no makes no difference thats nought point eight three nine one okay leave leave that in so its nought point eight three nine etcetera mhm okay and weve got opposite over a hundred and twenty at the moment and we want we just want opposite so what would we do to both sides of the equation what would we do to that side to turn it into opposite instead of opposite divided by a hundred and twenty dont know right if think of a number any number you like yeah okay multiply it by ten and now divide it by ten back to the number you thought of ten okay yeah think of a number multiply it by two now divide it by two back to the number you though of mhm so think of some number right divide it by a hundred and twenty now we want to get it back to the number we first thought of so what mhm would we multiply it by we thought of some number divided by one twenty now we want it go back to the number we thought of er what would you make it one twenty so thats it we just multiply it by one twenty now any number you like divided by one twenty then multiplied by one twenty comes back to that number mhm so that will just cancel out and well have that now we do it to one side of the equation so there thats one twenty write it out again nought point eight three nine etcetera is equal to opposite divided by a hundred and twenty multiply that side by a hundred and twenty so we must do the same on the other side of the equation mhm right so we multiply this by a hundred and twenty so what if i just go times it times one two o okay equals one hundred point six nine so weve got on this side one hundred point six nine six nine equals opp so thats the height so the height is a hundred point six nine metres now youll then have to look and see if they tell you to give it to the nearest metre or the nearest maybe the nearest maybe the nearest point one of a metre or three significant figures or three decimal places mhm and make sure that you give it the way they want now what would that be to the nearest metre a hundred would it no a hundred and one right okay watch that watch the rounding if its mm point five or more you round up mhm so opposite is equal to the the height of the building which is equal to a hundred and one metres to the nearest metre yeah now if thered been i dont know the length of this or something yeah then youd use its what you do is you work out which ones do we know well we know mhm the angle and we know that so how can we it up so this slightly different than looking for angles isnt it cos say i was looking for angles and that wouldve just been fifty up here wouldnt it right that would be fifty yeah so lets do but then you wouldnt need the erm pythagorass theory would you for that if weve got if weve got the angle usually we g going to use trig mhm if weve got two side but we havent got an angle then well just use pythagoras mhm okay have a look at this the other way up we didnt know that angle but we mhm yeah knew this one was fifty right well this time we want thatll become the well get opposite well get thats the thats going to be the opposite thatd be the thats still the hypotenuse that never changes but this one would be the opposite and this one now would be the ad adjacent okay thats the one looking at fifty degrees yeah so this time what do we know well we know the opposite and were trying to find the adjacent mhm so which one of these uses opposite and adjacent tan so itll be tan again but his time well have tan fifty is equal to one twenty over the adjacent which is what were trying to find right multiply both sides by adjacent so on this side we get adjacent weve got fifty tan havent we fifty tan okay thats one point ni one nine one point one nine nine okay equals a hundred and twenty over adjacent now multiply both by adjacent adjacent times one point one nine is equal to a hundred and twenty yeah we multiply adjacent there and adjacent here now divide both sides by one point one nine adjacent times one point one nine over one point one nine equals a hundred and twenty over over one point one nine okay mhm they cancel out so the adjacent is going to be that so if you do if you just press ah one two o divided by divided by one point nine now if you just put in fifty divided by fifty put fifty and then tan and now equals now weve divided it by the tan of fifty because you see well that comes to a hundred and sixty nine if you round up half way through the way you were going to do then mhm and just call it one point one nine mm you lose quite a bit of accuracy mhm so again that comes to a hundred point six nine so it doesnt matter which way you do it and which way round you do it yeah and which angle we work with it still come to the same thing so you can mhm do it either way yeah and usually youll work with the angle that youve been given rather mm than working out the other one so some of them will be given and some of them wont and youll work out which ones can i fit in here opposite adjacent or that now on is that okay yeah or do you think well could do with another one yeah i could do with another one i think okay er lets see if weve got you see these ones i suppose lets pick one out of there then erm all hes been doing here is getting me to find the sides see opposite hypotenuse adjacent opposite adjacent this is what youve been talking about the a the angle isnt it okay its only just dawned on me now how hes got to that right hypotenuse is the longest side and the opposite is opposite to the angle angle and the adjacent is the one left over which makes that the adjacent thats it yeah and youve got these written in here sine mm cos and tan weve been using the words soh cah toa to help remember these each angle has its own unique sine cosine or tangent this means they can be stored in a scientific calculator er theyre usually not stored theyre calculated inside the calculator the calculator yeah has a little program that goes chuntering away mm working it out mm oh there are silly old howard kendal and his team of amateurs okay can can you remember that what silly old howard kendal and his team of amateurs er the maths teacher in school didnt like that cos hes an everton supporter ooh right can you remember that as i say it will be on the front of the sheet so you can id probably remember that easier to be honest soh cah toa mm soh cah toa i mean having found you know this sine is the opposite over the hypotenuse tan is basically what youve got to find i suppose is which two sides of the triangle youre using thats it yeah and so youll look for sort of these two combinations to find out whether itll be a tangent a cosine or a sine exactly thats it yeah that thats all there is to it what sides have i got here right and lets say in this one we had opposite and adjacent so we said where does that come there it is opposite and adjacent so itll be tan now if it had been opposite and hypotenuse which one would you have used it would have been sine and if youd had adjacent and hypotenuse it wouldve been cosine thats it mm thats thats thats all there is yeah to it once youve sort of spotted that which you have you you mm shouldnt have any trouble at all yeah so lets just try one to sort that out erm here yare weve got a lad with a kite its fixed on the ground well lets say lets say its fixed on the ground first of all and erm were trying to find out how high it is and its directly over this point which is erm and we dont we dont know we know its at an angle of ooh lets use forty degrees again the kite string is making an angle of forty degrees there and its got a hundred metres of the line payed out and he wants to know how high it is mhm so the first thing is what whats the first thing you do find the sides okay so the first thing to go in which is pretty obvious thats it which would make this the opposite right this the adjacent and this the which is the one you really did first isnt it hyp what in fact you really did the hypotenuse first i think yeah cos you put the right angle in you though right yeah okay so what do we know and what are we trying to find out well we know weve got an angle of forty degrees okay erm a hundred metres we want to find the height so we want to find the opposite right and what do we know which of the other sides do we know the adjacent mm we dont know that do we no oh er the hypotenuse is at forty thats thats the hundred metres thats the length of his string theres his kite on the end of that mhm okay theres a hundred metres of string out so you know yeah the hypotenuse so weve got opposite and hypotenuse hypotenuse and opposite which one ties those up the hypotenuse and the opposite erm have a have a look cos they will be on the sheet okay well its opposite over hypotenuse is sine right so just write the equation as youve got it there sine equals opposite over hypotenuse so all yeah you need to write is sine of sine of forty equals what equals the opposite over the hypotenuse which is equal to a hundred well whats the opposite we dont know thats the one were trying to find out so we just put we dont know do we yeah you wouldnt put ninety degrees would you we dont know no opposite that angle yeah we dont know we want the height that side so okay its just and just put so just write opp and well find it later mhm and the hypotenuse is a hundred yeah right so if you calculate the sine of a hundred of forty degrees now and leave it in the calculator for doing that you go forty thats it forty and then sine helps if i put the calculator four o sine sine and you dont need to put press the equals do you do its nought point six four two so weve got nought point six four etcetera mm is equal to opposite divided by a hundred well we dont want opposite divided by a hundred we want just opposite so what would we multiply this thing by to turn it into just opposite a hundred thats it so we multiply by a hundred on that side so we must multiply by a hundred by a hundred on the other side to keep mhm it balanced yeah whats a hundred times that come to so ill go times one nought nought equals sixty four point two sixty four point two seven which is nearer point three yeah sixty four point two seven nine eight seven eig eight oh sorry two seven eight seven six yeah two seven eight seven six etcetera is equal to thats fine so thats opposite and it depends on what they want if they want it to three decimal places with this yeah they probably want it to about the nearest metre yeah how high is it to the nearest metre so what would that be to the nearest metre itd be sixty four wouldnt it excellent sixty four metres is equal to the opposite right height now can we to the nearest metre okay erm it might be this might be the paper actually no i dont think it is i dont think its the one i was thinking of erm what was i thinking of yeah could we do number twelve okay i mean ive not done it before this is right a paper that i a straight section of motorway motorway midway between p and q so this is this is drawing a scale diagram mhm this this isnt calculating it using sine and cos or anything oh isnt it oh well but they havent it looks as if its a right angle there mm it might not be you cant take it that it is you have to draw your scale diagram yeah now how would you draw this diagram i havent read read the question so okay the diagram below shows a s straight section of motorway mhm nine hundred metres long p to q is nine hundred metres long and a church c which is seven hundred metres from p right and five hundred metres from q b is a bridge over the motorway midway between p and q mhm using a scale a one centimetre representing a hundred metres so thatll be nine centimetres right draw round like the point p thatd be nine centimetres erm five centimetres and seven centimetres okay so how would you go about doing that diagram id erm i wouldnt have thought of using a compass but youre right arent you okay have you do you do you want a ruler ive got one somewhere okay so you decided on your scale and you decided it was nine centimetres along there okay and f the way to do it fairly accurately is just draw a line thats a bit longer than nine mhm and the measure off nine on it give yourself a starting place get the zero on that nicely mhm and then nine right now ive done the hard bit there straight line yeah what are we going to do about this church how are you going to find out where that church c is erm well its seven centimetres okay if i just put a point then i measured up to there mhm and see if i got five centimetres five so just say if that was seven and mm er thatd end up seven i dont know er maybe i should do it on graph paper no cos your graph paper wouldnt show you the s at an angle no you could do it with two rulers couldnt you if you put one ruler on here and kept sliding them about until it was yeah seven from there and five from there mhm but theres a much easier way of doing it right what what is it well use your compass and just draw thats p show me all the points that are seven hundred metres from p draw the draw the path of all the points that are seven hundred metres from p an idea here hey that there so er thats seven hundred right okay and this is p right right so if we sort of went like that okay thats the thats the path isnt it right and if we set this on five brilliant thats it okay youve got it like that and set it on q right right where it meets which is there thats it so anywhere along there is seven from p anywhere along this one is five from q and that place where they meet should be five from q and seven form p should be just right then shouldnt it yeah so well go simple when you know how innit its like a lot of things if you if you do know how to do them you think whats the problem if you havent yeah done them before oh lovely thanks very much have you had your hair cut then yes oh you dont like it do you ive ive no comment no comment no i i prefer longer hair for women yeah yeah yeah my wifes always saying shes going to have her hair cut yeah yeah and then measure that angle it says right now wheres wheres the question oh here it is up here isnt it use that one or another one now how do you measure an angle im not used to using this on a circle ah hang on right you gotta get it somewhere like that havent you mhm or has it gotta be on this line here well the angle were measuring is this one here what angle are we going to measure find the angle p c q so p c q so were measuring this angle here it looks very much like a right angle mhm so we need this on one of the lines yeah yeah and that little cross sometimes its a little hole on the corner on the angle itself mhm now we can measure it and its not ninety not ninety its eighty five what have we got have a look i mean we dont know that weve draw this completely accurately looks about ninety four yeah right right yeah ninety four how could we check if it is actually ninety and weve got it wrong that was seven wasnt it and this was er sorry that was nine that was nine no that was nine that was seven and this was five thats seven and thats five how could we check if that was if thats really supposed to be ninety and weve and the drawings not quite right cos that line youve drawn there its just slightly off yeah doesnt doesnt go to that point at all so that would make see how much difference that makes to the mm angle yeah so measure that angle again now its looking like about ninety one yeah ninety two ninety one ninety two see and thats not quite on on that there and thats not quite on so that would bring it a little bit it might be about ninety two or something it might mm be ninety how can we check if it is ninety erm from the numbers weve got there by using one of the pythagorass theorem okay good so if that if thats a right angle only if its a right angle cos pythagorass theorem doesnt work if its not then weve got the easy way to remember pythagoras is long equals medium plus short mhm i mean its not just the long its long squared equals medium squared plus short the the medium and the short sort of would add up to give the long mhm thats one way of thinking of it so the long one squared does nine squared equal seven squared plus five squared so whats nine squared nine nines is eighty one okay yeah and seven squared erm forty nine alright and five squared twenty five right whats forty nine and twenty five come to well it doesnt seventy four it doesnt come to seventy four yeah seventy four it doesnt come to eighty one no so its not a right angle triangle but you look at the diagram theyve given you which is not exactly the scale and they do this quite a bit see its about like that its a little bit its its ninety and a tiny bit yeah and you look at it and you think ooh must be a right angle mm and a lot of people answering that question will just assume its a right angle yeah and theyll do that and sort of get very few marks on it so watch mhm that when youve got one that looks like a right angle and they mhm dont say it is yeah but that way for doing pythagoras erm lets have a look at a couple using pythagoras lets say weve got erm this one is if thats thirteen and this one is twelve right mm with a bit of luck that should be a right angle ish its not exactly a right angle its not drawn to scale but thats a right angle call it x or whatever you like want to find that side and we know thats thirteen centimetres and thats twelve centimetres and thats a right angle how would how would you go about finding that and you want to find that side well we get the right way wouldnt it lets see that would sort of tell me that that was the hypotenuse and that was the adjacent right okay so thats the hypotenuse adjacent ah now you havent got an adjacent or an opposite with pythagoras oh no youve got all youve got really youve got the hypotenuse but you dont need to bother with you just can call it the long one mhm and remember your equation long squared equals medium squared plus short squared mhm okay right which is the long one which is the longest one thirteen thirteen so we get thirteen squared equals and whats the medium one one three times one three equals one six nine okay whats the medium one and the medium one is x is it mm on no no sorry thats the short the medium one is twelve yeah it doesnt matter if we get them the wrong way round itll still work out which is a hundred and forty four plus the short one squared so and the short one is x if we subtract twelve squared form each side thirteen squared minus twelve squared equals short squared okay mhm so if you work out what thirteen squared minus twelve squared so its a hundred and sixty nine minus a hundred and forty four isnt it mhm twenty four twenty twenty five right sounds okay centimetres thats what i thats what i got yeah equals short squared so five is the short side five is equal to the short side mhm so that will be five centimetres right okay so if you get on an exam something like that and theyre and theyre saying to you a to b is sixty mile to london mm whats the bearing between london and glasgow ah like how does it okay so well fini well finish up with right angles first if youre looking at triangles youre first thing youre looking at is has it got a right angle is there a right angle in it somewhere if it hasnt well you probably youve got problems mm so thats your first one has it got a right angle if it has yes we go do they give you an angle right lets say they do have they given you have they given you the length of two sides yeah mhm two lengths given yeah yeah if so you can use pythagoras which is long squared equals medium squared plus short squared to find third side okay yeah if it isnt if you havent got the two lengths given youve got youve got one length plus one angle that one angle is apart from the right angle right yeah apart from the so if youve got one length and one angle then depending on which one youve got youre going to use sine cos or tan to find the side the length you want mhm thats if youve got an angle and a length a length and an angle youll use the trig yeah but otherwise youll use pythagoras right so if they give you two s two lengths to fine a third length the easiest way and the most accurate way is use pythagoras mhm if they give you one length and an angle then youd use either sine or cos or tan to find the other one right sometimes on this one they might give you erm two lengths and they might ask you to find an angle can we do one of them right er they might sometimes so thats to find a side and this actually comes off here right given two sides plus right angle mhm find an angle again youd use trig yeah right opposite not opposite but opposite page mhm so lets say weve got a hill and erm we know that we went along this hill and we went along fifteen kilometres okay yeah and when wed gone along fifteen kilometres wed gone up by four point eight metres mhm right what we want to find is how steep is the the hill we want to find that angle x degrees how would you go about that erm maisonponthieu maisonponthieu is a commune it is in hautsdefrance in the somme department in north france linghem linghem is a commune it is found in the region nordpasdecalais in the pasdecalais department in the north of france fast food fast food is the term for a kind of food that people eat from a restaurant cafe or takeout where food is prepared and served quickly it is massproduced food it is often western pattern and preprepared and delivered to the shop ready for frying or boiling there is a strong priority onspeed of service the restaurants that sell fast food are calledfast food shopsorfastfood restaurants some of the more common fast food restaurants are mcdonalds wendys burger king culvers taco bell and kfc all these chains have a limited short menu and serve the same kind of food in all their outlets the shops are subcontracted by the supplying company and tied absolutely by contract to that single supplier however the same kind of criticism could be and is directed at some other kinds of restaurants the problem is seen by many critics as being one of overeating rather than one of the specific food types criticism fast food is often considered unhealthy due to it being loaded with calories sodium and unhealthy fatoften enough in one meal for an entire day it also tends to be low in nutrients and almost totally lacking in fruit vegetables and fiber eating too much fast food can cause a human to have poor quality health which is linked to a higher risk of obesity depression digestive issues heart disease and stroke type 2 diabetes cancer and early death beilstein database the beilstein database is a database in the field of organic chemistry organic spectroscopy compounds are uniquely identified by their beilstein registry number brn
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isola mississippi isola is a town in humphreys county mississippi united states sauviac gironde sauviac gironde is a commune it is found in the region aquitaine in the gironde department in the southwest of france carrot the carrot pronounced careot is a type of plant many different types exist the latin name of the plant is usually given asdaucus carota the plant has an edible orange root and usually white flowers wild carrots grow naturally in eurasia domesticated carrots are grown for food in many parts of the world carrots are grown in the ground and carrots roots are a common edible vegetable after cleaning the roots may be eaten raw or cooked they are served as part of many dishes in portugal carrot jam is a speciality nutrition carrots are a moderate source of beta carotene biotin vitamin k1 vitamin b6 and potassium along with betacarotene carrots also have carotenoids another antioxidant helpful to enhance immunity functions and decreased risk of cardiovascular diseases degenerative diseases and different types of cancers aqdas the aqdas is the central holy book of the bahai faith it was written by baháulláh the founder of the bahai faith and it deals with various topics including ethics prophecies and devotion wake wake could mean several things
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cagny calvados cagny calvados is a commune it is in the region bassenormandie in the calvados department in the northwest of france higginsville missouri higginsville is a city in lafayette county missouri united states oboe an oboe is a woodwind instrument with a double reed it looks very similar to the clarinet and may be confused with it while the clarinets shape remains cylindrical the oboes body is conical the sounds produced by clarinets and oboes are very different an oboes sound is produced by blowing air through the double reed at the upper end of the instrument which forces the two reeds to vibrate together which produces the sound the oboe has four parts the bell lower joint upper joint and the reed a person that plays the oboe is called an oboist a typical orchestra employs between two and four oboists one of which also plays the cor anglais which sounds a fifth lower than the oboe the oboe is part of a family of double reed instruments that includes the piccolo oboe oboe damore cor anglais bass oboe and heckelphone the oboe came from the shawm which was a medieval and renaissance instrument it became popular in the baroque period bach and handel both used it in most of their orchestral music many italian composers such as antonio vivaldi wrote concertos for the instrument and it is used in a lot of chamber music at this time it hardly had any keys but over time more keys were added which made it easier to play the sharps and flats later composers to write for the oboe as a solo instrument include mozart weber richard strauss vaughan williams and francis poulenc the principal oboist in an orchestra to plays the pitch a for the rest of the orchestra to tune their instruments to before a performances the nameoboecomes from french languagehautbois meaninghigh wood a highpitched woodwind instrument list of large temple tanks this is a list of temple tanks in terms of area suzette suzette is a commune it is found in the provencealpescôte dazur region in the vaucluse department in the south of france transport road the d90 road passes through suzette
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soon find out cos you do it all the morning and stuff have you started it yeah oh dont see that was so easy you dont need to work it out you just sit thats alright all i i sat down and visualized and then did it and now i still se need to do a couple more drawings you go youre going so slow besides if you didnt understand how to work out that questions are asked straight away hes seriously deficient in what he should be learning cos he should know that at least but shit ive gotta do another registration what i mean not another registration ive gotta do another yeah but youve got the cards havent you mm yeah i havent ive gotta finish one as well weve gotta finish a wo a gotta finish the work on a book and then do the test and answers and then do a whole when for when for friday not yeah for next week i got ive got a we ive got ten days to do that in ive gotta bring it in on tuesday where dya get on you dickhead yeah thats my top ah alright yeah and where were you this morning then for work you werent in geography when just now wellwell some people didnt bring their coats in today cos were so tough a coat though but ive ive still got about two hours at least er to do ive gotta right ive gotta do at least erm are you sure yeah what day is it thursday i like the way you just well this advertising yeah but the humanities sa two asa assignments i got an extension extension an extension i have i asked for an extension because like in in light of my present mathematical ne need for seriousness for seriously doing a hell of a lot of maths homework mm so that i can do my exam they told me to do our exams early id like you know a year early shut up such a tosser what so what so you just look at it and do look at the the grade eight rubbish on that sheet that were doing basically the secret is to do what youre asked to do two plans and and choose one of them with a reason for why you chose it yeah thats you need that thats crap to get an a in that thing erm i dont reckon ill get all as this time no i might do but i doubt it the thing is you youll get them er hes not gonna give it to you twice though is he cos i dont reckon he would di give it to you twice he dont he dont give it to you twice what dont you reckon no he could but hes not gonna want to is he i hope its worth as but i dont think it is next time thats on that should its best not to notice it all these are smashed you know what all these are smashed and theyve only been here what two weeks not even two weeks what that no not that one its a new one yeah i know yeah but this hasnt it sho it first put it up with no glass so they put the glass in then it looked like a mirror mm and then it got and then it got smashed but all of them i know are smashed cos theres one at two or three bus stops back you know by lisas an by lisas house thats what yeah wheres the fucking bus theyve smashed it smashed up the bus stop its entertainment bus stop shut up ah ive left my music homework as well i shall have to go to the house yeah ive gotta do music homework because whats that ah ive gotta invent a a melody ill probably ring up james and ask him what hes done ive got to invent a melody about erm all of minor scales which isnt actually hard but i have to write it down as well and i ho i would have done this on tuesday when i actually worked out a melody but i didnt manage a bit of paper so i couldnt write it down mhm which is a major bummer why havent yous got a part in why are you are auditioning for west side story what why are you auditioning for west side story i dont have time why didnt you audition er oh erm er did you have the music did you have music homework josie i cant hear her what she say well youre not gonna tape anything i am all through music non fucking stop my only thing in life will be for the next hour and forty minutes fuck i live to tape okay but its gonna be boring my conversation will be a lot more interesting wont they our registrations are funny lo la la la our registrations are funny peter yeah but if he lends it out hell yeah exactly exactly you know and this is so weird hearing yourself talk and cos er if you tape cos ill if your voice comes in the conversation ive got it all on tape now you stupid cow josie erm have you erm erm there it is hello have you erm done any did you have music homework yeah i didnt do it no dont peter it hurts me or you do i really care whether it hurts you honestly do you really reckon oh no my dad used to work erm and this bloke used to like a pint of erm oh i cant remember export export yeah i cant remember what its like right and theres a little dog with a so thats why he likes a drink right oh yeah and his dog yeah likes it as well yeah they used to leave a tray out for him every night yeah when it was closing time the dog knew every time it closed it wo i mean if they closed at lunchtime it wouldnt come down it would only come down when they closed up at night and it goes on it goes on every night right if you put a pint of beer out for him he wouldnt drink it you put a little drop of lemonade in it hell drink it and until you if you just lemonade wouldnt drink it but if yo if it was bitter and a bit of lemonade it would drink it nothing else er you know the same thing they tried down at yeah got my dad erm er just drink pints after pints of guinness he just sits there lapping up all these like bowls of he does guinness the dog yeah but this this this dog will only drink it if it had a little bit of lemonade in its so funny the dogs permanently drunk it sits there going the dogs like oh yeah what are you doing yeah it attacks anything any fizzy drink what no what about spirits no she doesnt no she doesnt actually eat anything thats actually bad for her oh and guinness isnt bad for you pints and pints of guinness oh what it doesnt drink alcohol how does it know how does it know if its bad for you or not i dont know its jus its like anything thats bad she doesnt seem drink get some lemonade right and it just to yeah but she wont she wont you get some lemonade with cyanide in it and some coke with cyanide in and see what she drinks she doesnt like the gas flat lemonade she still wont drink it why not i dunno i try giving her coke all the time because she looks like shes begging for my coke yeah if i pour her some coke she wont drink it but the guy is an arsehole also but hes just hes just hes like hes so you can read what hes done i mean you can understand him so easily it started off acts like a complete dick to try and get attention and then he went slightly relaxed and now hes being a dick again like you know this morning in erm language he jumps off a table screaming ow ow ow no for a start he shouldnt have been on the table secondly he doesnt need to thats just stupid the one that youre youre youre taking right just means that you you yes no oh oh you cant no i thought you said she did it mm mm wo oh right and the other thing sorry but he also reckons hes god about girls he reckons he knows everything hes not i dont like elsa either why not ah shes just so irritating shes just so fuck would be good one everythings come out my bag bloody way aargh come on peter get on the bus ah shit my sister really needed that she cos like cos you know like these interesting lighters when she went to france yeah yeah in in the science museum she saw these really nice lighters and she comes back and my mums in the same room and she says i nearly bought you a lighter thanks ma you know i really want my mum to hear that well and she lost my fucking camera make her pay for it no ill get a ill get a replacement off my parents but sorry she changed the film cos sixteen pictures of it were my ones cos i hadnt used the film yeah but some of them some of them might be of spain of spain i hate her ah no ah no no but she changed the film before she lost it so its alright did she its like one day developing right and she hasnt got round to collecting them yet its been like a week what is the point of paying for one day developing yeah but er you pay you pay so much for twenty four exactly hours and if you go if youre not gonna pick them up the next day its like my mum she paid to get them developed right and about two weeks later she goes in thats how much it costs for a week i went oh no about six costs six quid to develop overnight yes so he said he no she said and she had to pay six quid for no she paid five seventy five that was all why because she it would have been twenty four hours yeah but you said it was six yeah five seventy nine though you know erm ah almost six you know yeah she collected it a week later mm one hour time one hour developing next year but alex alexs family the s they are weird i am sorry they are a slightly weird family no theyre always late actually whats weird about being late no they actually listen listen like all their films came like alexs film of er spain empties the camera basically puts it in this pile they keep in a drawer somewhere of films okay every now and then when they feel like it take a handful of films and get them developed its like the re most latest ones have been from like six years ago just bloody irritating i couldnt i cant yeah really the week before every now and again i wanted to stick just the way we were still alright darren are you going in town sally oh yeah but miss have you ever had miss no youre so lucky right she didnt believesh well drop our theory off round for tomorrow night her the er she believed noncompetitive how can have noncompetitive it doesnt work the whole thing the reason you go do so well in it yeah is cos you compete against other people so you do loads of matrices but she had er the noncompetitive version so how did you work that out well she didnt want it competitive cos youll be doing it against yourself not everyone else which is alright as a theory but it doesnt work cos you dont get any work done see what im saying what she wants to talk about everyone has to do matrix or learn more of the crap no it was just she didnt want you to be competitive about it so she didnt expe you know the ma matrix system of levels and stuff i didnt fully understand that until the fourth year when i went with miss cos she never explained it because she didnt reckon you needed to know shes a bitch see ya i was walking to school right cos saw this in the shop is that back on cos sp sp the bus strike but i thought that was friday no its today i think ah saw it saw it in the window i had to buy it worgh just couldnt resist it why did you buy that ive no idea i just got youve got a recording the sound again what gotta go out oh what on c d yeah but i want no i dont want tape i want oh my god my did you bother i do really its just that i dunno i just saw it and thought i have to buy it oh look spikey look here he comes tom youre late mr has done hes gone home sort of he i was walking in hiya tom i was walking in and he comes past on my bike on his bikenot my bike whats the bastard doing with my bike do you ha do yo is the seventy three running i dunno do you go to seventy three you had to walk from yes home i what what you had to walk i had to walk sa whats all this then tom what can you try and work out why hes at school what can you try and work out why hes at school cos he baffles me he just wants to come where is he er dunno so i gave it to him only he came past on his bike did you sa you say darren came but i dont want to go home how did you get here er bus and walk when dya do it let me see does that mean cassie got here at half ten yes andand and patsy although im not matchsticks squares did you do matchstick squares again no oh am i brilliant then yeah i i can hear ya ill be up there besides ive got to see oh well why not trying to ha i handed in matchbox cos for some reason i still had it bloody lucky i did cos a thats the only mark scheme i had was my matchbox look what i bought today in the shop oh oh youre a bit sad i just saw it i thought i must buy that could just leave it on his desk but he might not come up here mm mm theres no one in the staff room yeah might as well look in first look in first and if he ask miss ask miss now i know its hard cos sh he might be in there mr cos he came yeah hello right thank you lovely that is alright then while im here okay alright then alright well done thank you very much what do you wanna do now well i gotta wait till ten thirty why give this back and then i and erm probably go shopping go home and watch good morning vietnam do my science oh thats good do my science work sheet and geography work sheet while im watching that do some tidying up maybe ta sort the clothes if i can be bothered watch nuns on the run if the guy across the road erm gets back in time erm and sleep what else you gonna do dunno what dunno cos ive gotta make up for the sleep i lost erm yesterday what so i jus i just didnt do it i justi started yesterday about eight oclock and was up till one doing it what ma er match yeah i dunno if thats open ha well how far away does james live why well hell the first place hes li he says he up till about one two in the morning on thursday night yeah doing finishing off all the erm course work thats a good point actually i just dont know wha just dont know what to say its not its not as if hes got a oh havent they got a game no theyre playing here today because erm hugheys got to do maths homework who oh sure phillip im going now ill see you then if youre lucky youll be home at twelve yeah we might go through some of them see ya then yeah bye why are you in what why are you in drama what you gotta do ive got an exam thursday and you gotta rehearse why are you in oh gotta hand in had to hand in some investigations for maths hey you feeling better yeah well it had to i suppose handed in my maths well you had to to go then oh god yeah thats probably why oh is that peter oh hes got school is that oh yeah yeah yeah oh god here they come oh fucking hell l block i thought someone else must be going arent you home no ill wait for you oh alright ill converse right converse i wanna go im going up town go up to miss thingy what go on go on who miss missy what dya call her miss miss hitler miss or or miss who had an affair with the drama teacher miss i just said miss over and over yeah again yeah cos theyve gotta be in as well are you still conversing with that yeah okay theyve gotta be in today as well what theyve all gotta be in today as well er er you know i told you that thingy what erm where you go in to it completely and you yeah and me not being able to say the word basically yeah dya dya wanna talk in here or talk outside i dont give a fuck well its just probably people can hear well you cant see them coming they wont hear the thing is i sa i dont fancy any more of this you know talk not bothered ive got well done its locked what are you here for what is it you know the lot well all the other girls have gone upstairs said stay down for a minute what are you doing here handing in maths course work hey hey eh eh erm mica mico yeah erm whos ideaha merco whos idea was the parrot sketch what ha is anyone in your year doing the parrot sketch for the entertainment ah no i dont think so i dunno we dont know what were doing yet you dont you decide nope we had to work ourselves we did the parrot sketch we had to write up the parrot sketch in english and this french translated in french for us no youre upstairs then yeah erm cos all the other girls are still up out of the whole says on the letter its wri it said l block did it so i have to go upstairs then yeah weve gotta up only done one si tape its amazing what you tape sir what are you i should be mm im telling you why am i well are you what why am i not trying to go out cos its important ah what i dunno oh come on dont i dont know thats it but he couldnt work out why i was in school what because you like her do you like her yeah well theres no problem i wanna sit down do you find her attractive relatively well thats no problem then shes got to except when it its not well its not fair when close your eyes who her its her hi hi wheres the french exchange group i dunno whether shes gonna come dunno i think its in the hall oh come on thats where everyone else seems to have gone what is it muhammad ah no leave him alone better let go else hes gonna get really hes got hes got my money hes got my money here he comes with a black eye must have yeah so i dont wanna see her i dont like it so close your eyes ye no her ears i wonder where shes gone hiya hello peter what are you doing here maths course work tt oh oh have to hand it in well fair enough cos where yo whats happening today is it baker day or like insect day or ah yeah insect day alright ooh god i hope she has fun i hope she breaks her neck thats nice the question is are you actually interes attracted to her enough to want to you know what are you i suppose why no problem for a start is she interested in you or she is going with you cos they force her no not particularly no erm oh i didnt have time im getting trainers boy wo we dont need you for two weeks what we dont need to for two weeks why we havent got p e for two weeks i know that i can start on the on the changing room sad you are why am i sad when im getting some new trainers oh here comes short arse whos short arse the dick i do not wanna see right i do not want muhammad so why dya come to school okay you knew the french exchange kids were gonna be here i didnt know no you did i forgot i forgot no you so i forgot no yeah you knew originally fuck off i forgot its not my fa so is that is that my fault are you going that film when today i dunno are you i want to well tt i could but theres certain problems such as such as i hang on what wheres the french exchange er l block am i late yeah you were supposed hes a tosser be here at nine thirty hes a tosser dont believe what he says well whats the you better run you know eh theyre all sitting down and stuff we looked in the window in the hall theyre all in the hall hes gonna get well pissed off yeah yeah yeah yeah i know hes gonna storm out of there you bastard peter you bastard what you bastard peter you bastard no cos the thing is my dad wants to go and see a film sometime near my birthday so erm which i dont mind cos what film dunno but i dont wanna see a film that my parents are gonna watch with me i wanna watch well just tell them what one you want i mean see i wanna see accidental hero please that looks good i know but i mean come on well what else is on actually theres the jungle book yes we could take warner no whos that dunno looks like sarah driving who is driving oh my it does doesnt it god its probably little sarah who is that whos that who is she that that girl i mean the woman driving looks like looks like sa sarah so much my god its frightening has that just come on what has that just come on no its not going the wrong way that could be her no cos erm i need to do some stuff today like i need to get some rope rope what dya mean suicide oh right no such thing as a much maths course work actually no handing it in oh yeah but ive gotta return this right why is she wearing sandals why not oh theyre not sandals theyre flipflops flipflops same thing are you coming shall we walk no i need to get some rope cos can we walk please shall we walk why as in i i cant be bothered to go down for like half an hour where are you walking though i dunno just i need to walk that way and and that way i was gonna wait for josie and that lot why josie and cassie yeah theyre theyre fucking gonna come at theyre not gonna be in theyre gonna be in till ten until about ten thirty five yeah i know jesus come back at ten twenty then but ee if miss comes in i dont have to do it i just hand it over to miss and bugger off whos that aargh aargh run for it where you gonna walk then i really havent a fucking oh ye clue hang on we could go and see your what might as well go and see janet nah why not nah too dangerous what dya mean too dangerous ah i dont wanna bugger up the what plan what i dont wanna bugger up the plan what plans the plans weve got with her as in right you mean you can go out with her but youre not allowed to talk her only zang is otherwise you might jeopardize the situation nah nah no no no jeopardize the situation im not going out with her at the moment ah but i should be by around tuesday night you said by monday last time did i well i lied yeah you did well i lied smells nice though well can you prove that yes you can smells yeah i can actually yeah can you listen to a plonker nah actually it depends when you said it when did you say it ah probably said it while i was like yeahwe you know while you were at the i dont think so i might have yeah oh shit you dont tell me you havent done any dubbing no i havent ah you cunt problem yes its a problem i wanted to have some hyper copies of her voice oh really oh well is there any da dubbing sort of place anywhere yeah tamsins french french is french open and is there no i mean on mondays what i mean on mondays french could go to tamsins yeah we could do you want to no no not particularly could go to lisas has she erm recovered from malaria oh shame exactly what i thought i lau i laughed you know i laughed hard and ii i its fucking sad shes pretty sick sounds rough but i can probably look good with a hang on hang on youve only just gone off ro erm tamsin and trying for janet yeah try and keep contso co some control of your hormones no i cant ive realized that ive never been out of love oh good for you but youve never been loved true so well walk in the general direction of tamsin alright okay has what she got a though has she got a though ah but whats the i dunno we might decide to go to her house ah well ive gotta come back for ten so stay ah yeah well i gotta leave start coming back at ten alright stay for ten minutes and thencan come back hang on i think yo in england or in erm where they what go tunisia tunisia in tunisia in hospital oh shit thats pretty good no no no no no no she shes in hospital here i think so she came back with malaria yeah im not im not sure i only saw her sister why didnt she have jabs i dont have a clue balls its balls thats why i laughed balls look you laughed i laughed right when i went to turkey i had three jabs before i went away and every two days i took two tablets ma antimalaria tablets oh bless her what well dont say thats overreacting cos i dont give a fuck dont give a fuck cos you could say thats overreacting but i havent got malaria and lisa has so theres the proof for it ah shit so that is so fucking sad shes got malaria yeah but it can be treated in this country what but cant they treat it in this country yeah they probably can yeah erm cos then theyre doing tests to see if she has got it but its highly highly likely that she has so who have you phoned up then nobody zang told me oh zang phoned you how did zang find out zang phoned lisa oh christ he doesnt waste time does he why just cos he phoned her well we know he fancies her right no he doesnt he doesnt he doesnt oh theyre friends do you want a werthers original yeah please i could roll this through the mud spit on it and put it through dogs dirtisisism and most people would still say yes please true true that was so funny ah god im ill how come im bloody ill sore throat great ha aargh these really help yuk but blame john no on the letter though it did say er wha no i had to ring sasha you know i rang sasha for my sister yeah funny thing was alex answered the phone and he knows my voice on the phone easily see yeah alex answers the phone hello hello can i speak to sasha please which i thought was quite funny and i presume that he didnt i dont think hes didnt say anything he was probably crying though but they got oh fuck that they gotta be there from nine thirty till one do you believe that well they must use a i wouldnt mind just one up there oh shut up look at muhammad i feel fine there is a limit to how much i can take no there isnt there is actually because and youre coming bloody close to it dogs the only thing i dont like oh tt shall we erm have an excuse by saying you wanna co converse she might be still asleep though yeah probably alex is mm mm at a rough guess i think hes definitely asleep we dont need we dont need the laws of erm we dont need the laws of physics as proof alex is is still in bed i havent got anything of talking to my parents right cos i just dont really oh yeah i dont hold conversations with my parents mhm ha did you see good morning vietnam mm mm no no missed it i saw a bit i would have watched it if i didnt have maths good morning vietnam i i watched the first ten minutes which was really funny cos as theyre going along in the truck ah look at that woman ah yes oh what a lovely body and and he goes no we cant can we stop please please stop stop stop and the guy driving the truck says no we cant weve got an important meeting okay so the driver actually speeds up okay and then another woman exactly the same clothes aha same hat so it looks like the same woman so he says oh my god there she is again shes shes got this fa how the hell did she get in front of us come on please the driver says i know i know speed up lets test her stamina stopped her dead oh oh did you see that robin williams thing acting funny no oh it was quite interesting i actually cos basically robin william films are either a film with a character and robin williams is the character takes over the film and robin williams comes through and its funny okay okay now you know erm good morning vietnam mhm what it is is its a what what aha what it is er its a film and basically its a film with spaces in it for robin williams just to say jokes mhm basically to do a routine mhm but the problem is its a serious film around that mm okay and it doesnt work very well mm because yeah you know the structure is is its still a good its a fi still a good you know the strui er most people will be perfectly happy to watch erm two hours of robin williams being a funny d j mm mm but putting it around the well apparently doesnt work and then things like some of the stories like yeah the fisher king ah that was good that was apparently excellent it was good which i never saw but im sure it is which you will be opening to public on channel four yeah probably yeah do you reckon theyll put toys on nah thats a likely possibility actually muhammad i dont reckon we should go this way why cos i dont reckon we should go and call on her cos thats a bit out of order its fucking early and also what time is it then what what time is it i dunno i cant reach my watch quarter to ten also if we co we only have to walk down also if we no because if we walk down there and right they look out their window and see us you know so what the fuck so i dont want anyone thinking what the fuck just come round this way muhammad no what the fuck i dont give a fuck fine fine right you go and make a complete prick of yourself why but im i dont particularly want to oh come on no youre not gonna be a rosa isnt gonna not gonna do it tamsins not gonna do it right youre gonna help me out about that cassie we dont give a fuck about cassie cassies oh she has shes seen cassie yeah well is that cassies car mm mm well not cassies its somebodys though cassies yes it is but its not cassie i dont think erm do you wanna or not no not particularly ah come on nope take a risk no if you if youre game right and the entire field is full of mines and you need to get the last base shut up youve gotta take no a fucking chance muhammad i have no objective of trying to reach here oh damn what obje i dont have an objective here i was just im just running through a field of mines okay except there isnt another base at the end of it whats in there now ive past the last base and you want me to just run through a minefield okay and screw you what what its a terrible thing what you on about whats sarah oh oh no it did look er like her have you got a bus pass hop on a bus what ah sounds alright actually you got any money how much about a pound yeah thats enough no cos i dont wanna make a big thing of it cos if it was today wed have to go before sesame street or after the sesame street and i said id be back for around one cos i wasnt actually planning on doing much ah but you going to judo five half past five innit no next tuesday or next monday yeah sure what go before and get there no but we can go before or after yeah well the point is if she if its a bank holiday then she probably wont be open she will be no cos of school no it wont be its a bank holiday ha ha ha ha i just wanted to see yeah well i havent really got time but erm i need to get some rope cos im doing finally im doing that act for my cousins birthday whos nearly two she is nearly two can she put up with that erm erm im supposed to do a show for like her birthday which is easy cos kids are easy actually you just exaggerate like this is my opening routine i got this out of a book actually you come okay and go im a bit shy you see erm well im a bit shy and tell the truth i have to admit im a bit shy so i when i come on im gonna say hello and then you say hello back to me okay and then no one has to be shy then i go off okay and i come on and basically theyre all gonna shout hello right yeah no no thats not right no i say hello first here ill show you go off i come on i go and wait about for a min half a secha you know just wait for about ten seconds ive forgotten what im supposed to say wha can you remind you and they all shout hello so i erm one more time i go off i come on hello and they say hello and thats that its good innit that is a bit shit well no its not a bit shit no well i wasnt planning on to you know i wasnt planning on to do everything i wasnt planning to use it on oh alright oh calm down i just didnt wanna see her you just cant defy the logic of you cant just what other shops do you want well i dunno what do you wanna buy shops what shops i got it on my bus pass you sure oh you know the k two k two yeah no k two yeah what sarah no k two k two ah yeah saw her this morning ah ah cos of the bus strike i went the way i normally go though yeah when i got off the bus she was at hackney cen central with all her friends ow ow so you went and pulled her to one side no i didnt actually i just ignored her and went on i didnt have time to talk cos i had to be here for nine oh screw you i only got off the bus to catch the bus that was in front and i missed that oh yeah i was gonna catch it at the next stop ah have you smashed it no a d to j d a d to jack dee its okay mm j a d a d whos j b janet yeah a aaron oh whos a d were all rebels aint got no ca were all rebels aint got no cause total anarchy and gang wars kill the pigs there aint no laws lets all go out and score some whores terminate your cat and liquidate your assets don some mirror shades and eat some bertie bassetts liam er erm bonnie surprising it sounds more liam yeah janet wants a valentines card from muhammad janet wont a valentines card until next year what wait till next valentines and then shell kate get one kate wanted a valentines from pierre and she got it stupid cow ooh is that a bit of hate i hear no not particularly then what was it i ask then i dunno oh so did you get an a d for j b a d for j b here a d for j b there a d for j b there yeah i know and there i reckon i like the second verse better terminate your cat and liquidate your assets don some mirror shades and eat some bertie bassetts oh i dunno cos this ones a bit shit oh shit dya know what i watched last night what inspector allen mysteries surprisingly strange its really confusing pop artists with pop art hasnt he why cos pop art is basically taken stuff out of popular medium yeah i e if you were doing yeah and youd fit them together but if it didnt fit youd have to do something to youd have to get them from som from somewhere else yeah but with a computer right scan it and i if take erm picked a note or whatever you wanna do to it youve done it yeah so that is all technically so dont use computers you do what they do yeah fine see if i care cos that is going to eventually pop up you just youve got i think hes a contact wrong you know the big motherfucker said what did she say talking of that have you got teletext no well on on fourth oracle the new four thing weve got that what four seven you said you didnt have it i know i dont have it oh but people tell oh well i look at this quiz thing called bamboozle and the quiz masters called bamber boozler which i thinks a bit sad but they sa you send in youre supposed to send in twenty questions and they put them on right well this is the first question okay what does the b stand for in b b c basic is it beginners basic yeah b b c or british beginners yeah question two was something like er yeah question two prime minister of crimea the chairman of the council of ministers of the republic of crimea is the head of government of the republic of crimea previously the autonomous republic of crimea located in the southern region of ukraine séméziescachan séméziescachan is a commune in the gers department it is in southwestern france nirmalendu goon nirmalendu goon is a bangladeshi poet and journalist he was won by government of bangladesh and bangla academy literary award crouzetmigette crouzetmigette is a commune it is in bourgognefranchecomté in the doubs department in east france
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brienzwiler brienzwiler is a municipality in interlakenoberhasli in the canton of bern in switzerland damage in english the word damage has different but related meanings where did they come from there was no indication on the long range scanner still no reply from the planet nothing at all keep trying this is moonbase alpha calling on all frequencies theyre hawks theyre mark nine hawks certainly looks that way alan theyre war machines and thats enough for me get going alan red alert this is moonbase alpha calling on all frequencies we are people from the planet earth please acknowledge this is moonbase alpha we are people from the planet earth please acknowledge attention all sections alpha alien ships are approaching the base their intentions are not known eagle flight one will intercept flight two move to back up positions relief crews to launch pad area crash units stand by rescue with casualty eagles manned and ready main motors priority one to technical section and launch pad area priority two to medical centre and stand by to receive casualties activate meteorite defence screens and seal primary bulkhead doors theres still no reply commander alien ships approaching at speed fourteen point two thats nearly twice the speed of our eagles get on their tails alan they have just thirty seconds commander twenty seconds were locked onto them commander fifteen seconds its an attack john still no signal nothing ten seconds we cant hold them commander alphas wide open five seconds fire good on you alan uhs too easy commander a new contact position orbital reference three four eight flight two on the lifts now commander flight two cut all checks lift off weve gotten ourselves a war you all right yeah all right back to your posts lets go all three eagles destroyed commander damage control units to pad four explosive decompression in the end section area sealed off i want damage reports on launch pads and maintenance section kano minimum countdown i want to know exactly how long it will take to get the last laserequipped eagle off this rock helena give me a casualty report apart from the eagle crews weve lost all technicians on launch pad four we have eleven other casualties and two men unaccounted for its bad john were at war positions eagles at reference three two six hawks at three one nine and closing interception laser range at two minutes five alan theyre heading towards you at three one nine within range in two minutes wed try to send you all the help we can but right now right now youre all that stands between us and them were relying on you alan well take care of you good luck leader to flight one select your opposite number if any of them get through we wont have a home to go to right here we go split eagle two good alan weve been hit main motor were breaking up reduce power a sitting duck lets hope they take us for a dead one ive lost contact with alan the last eagle is it ready for launch the lifts still jammed evacuate all non essential surface areas secondary bulkheads will be secured in thirty seconds paul sandra kano you stay with me the rest of you get below you too victor you all right yes auxiliary lights a leak help help weve got an atmosphere leak john do you hear me john weve got an atmosphere leak its under control at the moment but i dont know how long its gonna hold sandra you hold on here paul kano you come with me bob come on lets go we have to get everybody out of here lets go everybody here we go come on come on hurry it wont hold paul helena come on bob leave that come on bob bob bob bob yes i know i know its stopped i think its over paul kano stay here help out commander well theyre going by the book first they eliminate the fighter defences then they send in the bombers theres nothing we can do nothing alphas got one laser equipped eagle left if they can get it launched somehow someway pete this ones down to us head up the target display give us all the power weve got pete laser at maximum rate sandra take computer alpha to eagle one alpha to eagle one do you copy yes alpha we copy alan that was terrific it was the big one i reckon they meant it for alpha im sure they did didnt know you were still alive we were just playing dead how are all of you anyway pretty bad you well were down to auxiliary power i reckon we can make it back to alpha what do you think theyve got next were relying on you to tell us alan out victor how are things down there oh were alright what on earth was that their doomsday weapon it was intended for alpha but alan got in its way alan is he hes alright but weve got a lot of casualties victor its one hell of a mess up here sandras at the computer now shell give you a safe route back to main mission travel tube to door nine corridor nine is safe and from there you can enter through the commanders office all right helena lets have the bad news hundred and twenty eight dead mostly theres no trace of them sucked out into space explosive decompression survivors those that made it below are pretty much all right those who didnt theres just no half way house well we still have emergency power and for the moment at least the attacks been called off maybe that bomber was their last fling i dont think so alan anyway were still alive the question is how do we stay alive about the emergency power commander were running off solar batteries with minimum requirements theyll be exhausted within eight days main generators the least badly damaged will take a minimum of four weeks to repair anti gravity units in all areas are smashed beyond repair too most of the casualties were in the technical department that is not all commander the food production and recycling plants have been very badly damaged the water is heavily contaminated how long to repair nine weeks minimum but then it would be at least two more months before we could begin cropping ah we shall only be within range of this planet for four days beyond that the um nearest star system would be at least six months too far alan i want you to put an unarmed reconnaissance eagle on a functional launch pad helena you and i are going down to that planet i dont think you just a minute id rather thought that theyve been trying to tell us to keep away victor the only reason theyve stopped firing is because they dont need to bother alpha is dead now unless any of you have a better idea the only course open to us is to go down there meet them face to face on their own turf and try to persuade them to talk do you think theyll believe were unarmed who knows what theyll believe this is moonbase alpha calling on all frequencies please acknowledge the ship now approaching your planet is unarmed our commander john koenig requests permission to meet and to discuss our situation with your leaders we ask for mercy to be shown to the survivors of this base this is moonbase alpha calling on all frequencies please acknowledge casualty list has increased to a hundred and thirty one the ship now approaching your planet is unarmed why has all this happened to us professor the gods using us for their sport perhaps they have the same weapons as ours and they fight by the same book of rules weve got to show them that theyve no need to be afraid of us i think they know that already paul no response from the planet still nothing commander maybe theyre a race of deaf mutes why should they talk when they can keep us guessing compensators at earth gravity as computer predicted and theres still no sign of alien ships its beautiful were veering off no computer malfunction correction has no effect thats strange all systems check out fine hello alpha alpha do you read me come in alpha this is koenig weve lost contact switching to manual were still moving off course i cant correct it alphans you are under ground control relax and stand by for touch down what do you make of it i wish someone would show a face say a word anything the lights the colours maybe theyre part of their language they spoke to us hello is there anyone here we can talk to speak earthman state your case speak why why did you attack us why weve been transmitting messages to you ever since weve been in range we wanted to land on this planet you refused to answer when you did reply you did so with guns war machines and bombers if theres some reason that you dont want us to stay here some basic incompatibility we could understand but were not here by choice we cannot control the course of our moon were looking for a place to live we wont use force all we want is peace answer damn it you asked me to state my case all right here it is we came in peace you waited till we were in range then you launched a surprise attack you killed half my people destroyed my base and left us without the means to live you cannot stay here we cannot live on alpha you have no place in space at all you deny us our future you have no future you carry with you the seeds of your own destruction you are a contaminating organism a fatal virus a plague of fear your presence on this planet would destroy a civilization that has survived for billions of years you think were no more than a virus ever since we were blasted away from earth weve been fighting for survival we have survived now how i dont know theres no rational explanation but what i do have is an absolute faith in the strength of the human spirit and the belief that someone or something is looking after us god if you like and we will survive the death struggle of inferior species is very often the finest hour of their existence but the end is nevertheless the end i refuse to believe we have no future extinction may take a little time that is all helena this equipment whatever it is they depend on it its very fragile john violence is not the answer i cannot accept their judgment earthman helena down earthman still no word from the commander no i think we should make a start anyway launch pads one and five are operational at least enough to get the eagles away if thats what we want to do nothing else we can do start operation exodus no no doctor russell do not be afraid keep back you will not kill us doctor russell the power of your weapon will be turned against yourself do not be afraid in our world there can be no fear john he was a victim of his own fear you can share our power giving substance to your wish that he should live helena helena all personnel should proceed to the technical section where the eagles are now loading close down of all servicesin the residence section will begin in fifteen minutes all equipment in maintenance five should paul i have a contact its the commanders eagle hello alpha hello alpha do you read me commander we read you paul we could live on this planet but well have to fight for a foothold quiet please alan yes commander i want you to bring up the last of the laser equipped eagles well rendezvous at this position then ill transfer to your ship right commander victor yes john as soon as alans clear i want you to evacuate alpha i cant guarantee what youll find here but at least its all right john everyones prepared to take the chance good if im not there to meet you land on open ground and consolidate your position victor say goodbye to alpha for me say hello to the planet the last eagles ready for lift off theyre just waiting for us you have three minutes professor thank you paul recording now ah umm we are mankind we came from planet earth and we built this base called alpha to learn more about space but human error blasted this moon out of the earths orbit and so we have traveled the universe searching for a place to live now we can no longer live here and we go to face an uncertain future on the planet that has nearly destroyed us you whoever you are who find this empty vessel of alpha come and seek us out if we still exist come and teach us all you know because we have learned many things but most of all we have learned we still have much to learn goodbye alpha a penny for them oh just wondering if theres any future at all am i a prisoner you are free to walk where your mind has the will to take you am i free to walk out of here if your mind can find the way john koenig has taken your eagle he has called to alpha for reinforcements he believes he can rescue you and win space on this planet by force will he will he succeed he is very much afraid that we will stop him will you no right pete off you go you fly her alan head for the planet ill brief you as you go right it looks like their defence is fully alert commander force fields closing down main motors fire retros full power theres no going back antigravity screens at maximum we cant do it shell break up weve got to do it its our only chance shes breaking up eject alan you speak of life beyond death yet all around is a world i see touch feel the tactile world around you now is a brain unlike your human brain this will never die it has been developed over generations and grows with each life that is lived in it but why life and death if the brain is permanent we are not we are but tenants of the brain for a span of a thousand years the people on this planet feed the brains with life and defend them with bombers and hawks like those of the planet earth we have no fighting machines of our own why should we we have no fear you do you used them to destroy alpha didnt you mankind is full of fear come fearlessly into our brain and see did you answer my question come our world is in perfect balance differences have been resolved restless desires of individual flesh and communal ambition are fulfilled and accommodated they are as spiritual impulses in this great combination of brains that is our harmonious world we have no fear its beautiful john ninety seven minutes of life and then no oxygen hallucination a slow and peaceful drift from dream to real eternity or just nothing the ultimate negative poison pain and yet more pain until nothing this body a piece perhaps for some future archaeologist to fit into an historical puzzle john koenig from planet earth ninth and last commander of moonbase alpha john come back he has faced death he has conquered his fear i want him back as he was i want him here i am afraid of death i dont want your world if you bring him back he will have to face the agony of his own fear i want him as he was with all his faults and fears he would destroy us all we are what we are john john john helena helena helena helena helena paul do you read me yes commander we read you turn back paul turn back if youre gonna die you might as well die on alpha twenty seconds fifteen seconds its an attack john still no signal nothing ten seconds we cant hold them commander alphas wide open five seconds four three two alan hold your fire commander thats an order alien contact lost alan yes commander return to base alan cancel red alert bob false alarm everybody relax john i dont begin to understand but ah does this mean we can go down to the planet no we trust you will stay away because you are so primitive and unstable so governed by emotions like fear that you would destroy our perfect world the spaceships that appeared to attack you were created in your own mind by your own fears our only defence was to make your fears appear real in a moment of time we have shown you the possible consequences of a decision we hope you will not make ive almost forgotten forgot what i cant remember i remember a world without fear it was very strange beautiful weve lost it chatham chatham might refer to nri haadsa nri haadsa is a crimebased episodic show inspired by true stories of crimes involving nonresident indians in india the 14part series showcases stories of kidnapping murder a faux marriage proposal and many other crimes aired by colors tv voot and mx player the series is hosted by rushad rana
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bourne end buckinghamshire bourne end is a village in buckinghamshire england it is near where the river wye meets the river thames batchtown illinois batchtown is a village in illinois in the united states pashtun archery mukha or makha is the traditional pashtun archery sport played in khyberpakhtunkhwa province of pakistan the game is played with a long arrow ghashay and a long bow leenda the arrow has a saucer shaped metallic plate tubray at its distal end the archers play in teams and attempt to hit a small white wooden target calledtakaisurrounded by a circular ring calledkwaara the target is secured in fresh clay placed at some height a few meters away from the archer belvoir doubs belvoir is a commune it is in bourgognefranchecomté in the doubs department in east france villeneuvelesbordes villeneuvelesbordes is a commune it is in îledefrance in the seineetmarne department in northcentral france
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okay a course on presentation skills how many have been on a on a training course before i know has so several of you have already been on a training course so youll know the sort of er way in which we work and the way things happen erm let me just let me just ask you first of all what is the value for you and for the company of of developing skills on presentations whats the value respective clients indeed indeed so thats what you might use yep whats the value i mean what does it do what does it do for the company first of all promotes it promotes it so its about image isnt it its about because the company after all is you its a group of people and so er its about putting over the right image so quality presentation to a client the image whats the value to you as individuals more confidence it gives you more confidence yeah whats it do for you within the company pushes your standing up oh thats what i thought yeah yeah yes well i mean youre right in a way bob those people who seem to get on within a company some of them are people who seem to be able to say the right words at the right time dont they they seem to be able to put their point of view over they theyre able to by by the way they present themselves theyre able to demonstrate their value within the organisation and as bob says hopefully then it increases your status yeah although the tapes on ill still say ill still say i mean there are people within the company as within any company im sure who you when you get to know their technical ability or lack thereof you think well how have they managed to get where they have but they just seem to be able they seem to have this ability to be able to be in the right place at the right time well yes but also say the right words at the right time yeah yep so being able to present effectively and put your point of view across is very important within within the company context for the company in order to to project the right image and also to pro project your own right image to show your value to demonstrate your worth for the organisation now as you probably know this is a level nine course its a its a course on which a platform is erected for other courses as gordon said then the the introduction to management you have to make a short presentation dont you but it doesnt concentrate just on this this concentrates on it but builds builds the platform on which other courses on advanced presentation skills and negotiation skills team presentation skills are all founded and so youre able to er continue through er the courses now we we just mentioned tarmacs tarmacs objectives lets just go through them er after the course you should be able to make clear logical and well organised case presentations fine er you should be able to display more confidence i mean thats what mike suggested it gives you more confidence to be able to do this to make more effective preparation for speaking to maintain a higher standard of discussion at all times and to display a more positive reaction to questions okay so those are the objectives that tarmac have now i hope that by tomorrow afternoon youre able to say yes all those objectives have been met but it may well be and im sure it is that you as individuals have other objectives you have other issues that you want to address er or put more emphasis on during these two days so what id like you to do if you just turn to page one sort of a couple of pages in the first one thats numbered youll have the opportunity to write down your objectives you see towards the bottom er we pose a few questions there im going to ask you in a few minutes to introduce yourselves and to say what what sort of presentations you make at the moment now dont think in terms of presentations just as standing up in front of an audience it may well be that you dont actually do that it may be that you have one to one meetings with people or group meetings er which could be when you have to put across your point of view those could be classed as presentations so when was the last time you made a presentation and then what id like you to do and there are three lines there you may only have one you may have two three four objectives just spend a couple of minutes now and jot down what it is you would like to get out of this course by tomorrow afternoon what you would like to say youve achieved on this course just just er pop those down right erh what id like to do then is er i say could you just introduce yourself or what youre working on at the moment where you work and then the sort of presentations that you make er and then give us one of your objectives so that by the time weve got right round the room well er hopefully have everybody tony would you start us off erm i work for alright erm which is quite management at right erm i suppose one of the er things id like to er get out of this would be a bit more okay so putting all the that positive yeah sort of ums and ahs oh right okay okay so i mean are are you saying thats about confidence is it or well maybe maybe maybe thinking ahead too much er right okay okay so better preparation so that when you make the presentation its more effective yeah yeah i mean youre trying to think ahead youre umming and ahing so effective preparation yeah effective preparation so that you so that when you you stand up here youre more confident youre more yeah good do you do you make present any sort of presentations well i meet clients quite a bit erm the last one i actually made was last week oh really to tarmac financial directors directors how do you how do you feel it went it went pretty well actually the feedback i got from my immediate boss fairly pleased with it was pleased with it good obviously right yeah good okay good so effective preparation mike im a senior with south west i management course i cover site planning right the way through erm been in the game now for something like forty years started as an apprentice and worked my way through to management erm this course or mainly my presentations are written okay er we in fact have a tender mm frequent the main discussion er was in fact erm internally with our director right information or what have you right and also to our site teams cover successfully the job and explain to them how the teams were built up right okay the main thing i suppose this was dropped on me out of the blue i must admit this course was it okay right erm would be more confidence in presentation okay how to deal with how to project and verbally how to give how to give an image of confidence yes okay verbally not written written yes sure yeah written yes yes absolutely oh yes this this course is entirely about verbal presentation yep great thanks jeff erm my name is and i work for my objective of this really is to reappraise my presentation skills i did this course erm about ten years ago right so this is very much a refresher course okay so youre youre wanting some some feedback yes er right was that with with jeremy yes yeah fine okay great thanks sarah i work my main aim on this course is to gain confidence right i dont do many presentations mainly because i work in a small team right right so its about confidence great thanks bob senior midland area and ive been working on a job in coventry which is basically work er what i hope to get mainly out of this course is an increased level of personal confidence so i can overcome basic nervousness when speaking how to handle the nerves ill say right now and half of you may want to walk out of the room i dont have a magic wand i do not have a magic wand that you know take three deep breaths turn round twice and your nerves will disappear yep so if thats what wanting weve got problems straightaway erm but certainly we will discuss what to do about that yes and to recognise them and to understand why yes fine but i dont have a magic wand id id be a millionaire if i did wouldnt i rob senior engineer for midlands area im er presently on seventeen million pound office development the jobs completion erm my presentations are basically from site labour to erm professional engineers and architects yep on a one to one basis or or to small meetings mm what i hope to gain on the course is to be able to speak more confidently and to get over the nerves right great thanks gordon senior engineer for midlands region currently been working on the developments which is design built and development gangs of which yep erm i have er one to one dealing with subcontractors engineers the architects and site meetings not a great preparation but there is more or less every day to day right erm i hope to get out of this more personal confidence and more talk more clearly so its to be clear in what youre saying to be able to explain yourself clearly so its about clarity right the need to make it clear so that people understand without having to sort of keep coming back and asking again and again yep great thanks john im im the senior south west i currently work schemes my main aim on the course is er to gain more confidence right okay what sort of do you make presentations now meetings yep so its its about meetings yep great thanks tom erm my names from edinburgh a couple of jobs one which is the sort of presentations i do tends to be one to one the hardest one for me as i say meetings with quite a lot of people there right erm i think i want to try and improve my presentation right so its the actual presentation skills themselves thats right and what we actually do when were standing up so that it becomes more effective yeah great my names im from tarmac construction plant at depot im office manager and im also in charge of the stores hiring all the plant and equipment for all the sites in our area right i also as many stores as possible of course erm i dont make presentations as such but erm i do have one to one discussions with on the sites on what plant they need and stores right yep basically i hope to be more effective in talking to as i can right so its about persuasion isnt it yeah rightmike im im a site agent for tarmac construction at erm i attend quite a few erm presentations really tender interviews often going to the clients management meetings site meetings and then like a lot of you the one to one situation sure apart from most of those right erm id like to be able to present something in front of me which prompts me a bit better than i do at the moment i tend to get lost in whats in front of me right right so thats thats partly to do with you your preparation isnt it but its if i put the word script yeah well i know what we mean yep how do you prepare what what you physically have in front of you so that youre able to put the point over effectively yeah right yep great dave morning im im a site agent for tarmac refurb based in birmingham yes erm the bulk of my presentations are obviously site based site meetingsmeetings meetings i have been involved in meetings right for a variety of different contracts er my last presentation was a site meeting last thursday right last week and er what i want to get out of course is obviously increased confidence and skill at sort of maintaining the aims of the meeting or the presentation so its getting your point across and achieving your objective keeping the meetings as precise because i tend to my meetings wandering and ah okay now thats thats keeping to the theme of the meeting yes okay now thats about meetings as such isnt it which is a which is almost another subject but i know what you mean its about timing in a way yes thats what youre saying were not gonna get into anything about chairmanship of meetings on this course there is a meetings course that does that so i dont want to promise you something that im not gonna im not gonna be able to deliver i know what you mean certainly in terms of timing of your presentation keeping t time with your presentation well be looking at that and help you achieve that so can we can we keep it to that yep fine okay i ju as i say i dont want to promise you something that that i know im not going to be able to achieve in these two days because thats not yep certainly if you want to talk about that you know as a separate thing outside the time then then well be able to help you do that okay okay yep as i say i dont want to promise you something and and then and then at the end you say well hang on we didnt look at that because thats not within the agenda of of these two days okay so what were looking at over these two days and what in order for you to be able to say yes weve achieved the objectives er by tomorrow is how to use that time that we have to prepare to to the most er efficient and effective so that e the preparation you know when youve prepared it that yes when i stand up to speak im gonna be able to put these points over effectively and make the presentation memorable confidence and in a way that attaches to also nerves how to be able to stand up and appear confident appear that you know what youre talking about and you are you can confidently put your message across some feedback now jeff said okay hes done this course before and hes looking for feedback to to see the level of his competence at this point but everybody er im sure you will agree by the end of tomorrow will have got feedback feedback on how effective you are and how your effectiveness has increased over the two days because when all said and done if at the end of two days you dont feel that youre any better at making a presentation then when you started then why have you been here for two days so certainly in terms of feedback erm and how to deal with these nerves what to understand to understand what theyre about to make sure that were able to put our point across clearly so that we speak in a clear way so that people dont have any er doubts as to what you actually mean when weve prepared how do we then effectively present what are the skills we need to stand up and be able to present effectively how to put a point over persuasively persuasion is about changing peoples minds so how to put over a point that supports the point of view that you have when you want to change something what to do in terms of scripts what do we physically have here that were going to read from or not read from as the case may be erm and how we can speak to time and how we can control that time and make sure that even with interruptions which is what in a way what a meeting is about a discussion that were able to stick to the time that weve allocated for the particular meeting or presentation that weve got so if by the end of tomorrow we can say yes weve achieved all that have have we got a course yep okay these these are a measure arent they theyre a measure of the quality of what were going to do over the next two days and therefore i will come back to these tomorrow afternoon i will check through them and if everybody can say yes yes im satisfied with that then weve achieved what we set out to achieve today okay now as those of you who have been on a course will know er on a training course one thing i particularly ask you and we all do is to be open minded were here for two days and im going to present to what to some of you will be some new ideas some new concepts that youve perhaps never come across before so i ask you to be open minded they may seem a little bit off the wall to start with but everything that we do is done for a purpose to achieve er what were wanting to achieve and what i do want to achieve is by the end of tomorrow is to have given you a system now you might think presentation and a system do they go together what ill do is give you a system whereby even at the drop of a hat you will be able to put together a few words and speak with clarity speak coherently and be able to put your point of view across you know the situations where youre in a i dont know a meeting in some presentation and somebody wants you to give a vote of thanks have you ever had thati had that birmingham university one time im a member of the institution of electrical engineers and er because im by background an electronics engineer and i was at a meeting there where a chap was giving a talk on design express lifts you know at northampton and the chairman stood up and introduced doctor whoever he was sat down turned round to me in the second row and said could you give a vote of thanks at the end so im hoping that this system that i give you will allow you to do that anybody been a best man at a wedding what do you say at a wedding oh dear me so im hoping that the system that i give you will allow you to deal with all those situations as well as make a longer presentation where you do have some preparation time so be opened minded i take on board these ideas for these two days at the end of two days you say well fine but its not for me i cant do anything about that when you walk out the room but i hope my objective is to convince you that here is something that like lots of other people in time i can its a very very useful system try it out when you leave here try it out in the meetings and the presentations that you have to make i encourage you to do that to try it out in your day to day working and for those people who have either already been on this course or are coming on this course after you that you meet encourage them to do the same because theres nothing like encouragement and feedback from each other to be able to use these new ideas and of course if youve got any questions in the two days im not just going to er at you all the time you know its participation is this so any questions that you have any comments you want to make please feel free to make them at any time its not going to throw me you have a set of notes here now im not gonna start at page one and work right through to page whatever it is erm they are there for you to take away for you to make notes during these two days er and for you to take away so that theyre theyre for revision and er there are as bobs just discovering pages where a ill ask you to make make specific notes er that ill supply to you as we go along okay then let me just by way of er introduction er to the concepts and the content of what were going to do over the next two days let me just put a very small fraction of a picture up here i dont know if anybodys seen this before anybody want to stake a months salary on what this is a picture of a church a church possibly yeah i think as i as i reveal a bit more youll get it tower bridge tower bridge right absolutely yeah gives it away doesnt it now a daft question in a way but how do we know its tower bridge seen it before youve seen it before yeah thats right you you recognise it from the shape and and er because youve either seen pictures of it before or youve been there anybody like to guess roughly when this was drawn fifties sixties forties seventies seventies you think sixties fifties to sixties possibly something like that yeah how do we how do we guess that mike i mean because knowing london and knowing tower bridge those buildings over the far side arent there any more right absolutely so its about the horizon isnt it so we we we recognise by the horizon possibly when when this was drawn if you went and stood in the same place now then obviously it would look different in that sense wouldnt it so the background if you like would be different wouldnt it with high rise and maybe a different so the horizon the background would be would be different but what would be the same the bridge the bridge itself wouldnt it the two towers and the bridge itself would be the same and in a way that thats what we can look at an analogy to do with er presentation skills weve got two towers two things that are fundamental and dont change theyre the same now as they were in the fifties when making presentations and thats about the skills you need when you stand up to speak and the skills you need in the preparation phase so the two towers of presentation skills are about the preparation and the presentation itself the design and the delivery the background changes and in a way the background is about things like the visual aids flipcharts and er the use of video and er even these peripherals you can put on a on a overhead projector now that plug into a computer i dont know if anybodys ever seen those but you can actually have a computer at the side and a thing that sits on there and you can change and up on the screen it will appear whats on the screen on the computer things like that so those are all if you like the background the things that do change but the fundamentals that stay the same are the design and the delivery and although well look a little bit although weve er i have to say with the numbers weve got here today it will only be a little bit about things like question and visual aids and because of the time factor if you think about it if weve twelve people to make four presentations or weve eight people to make four presentations time is a little bit different and with with twelve we dont perhaps have the luxury of time that we would with eight people which is what the course was originally designed for so but nevertheless we will look at a little bit at those peripheral things but were going to concentrate mainly on the design and on the delivery of a presentation so thats what we want to what we want to look at over the next two days but of course if were going to do that we need somewhere to start and where were going to start is that im going to ask you to each to make a presentation a very short presentation so what id like you to do if you havent got some paper theres stacks of paper here and what id like you to do is grab a piece of paper and write down what im going to tell you okay im going to ask each of you to speak for three minutes so you might like to jot that down a three minute presentation okay okay here we go then well the first question i want to ask you is how do you feel you got on in those presentations got it over and done with got it over and done with yes yes somebody somebody dried up did they nobody sort of er i wish it was true well okay the the first question is this is this thing about nerves isnt it because thats the first feeling you have when you got up get up here is and as said im dry already and i havent even been up there and done it yet the voice is dry and you know then you feel a bit shaky and all that sort of thing and why do we why do we feel nervous a fool of ourselves sorry in case we make a fool of ourselves well thats right its that fear isnt it of of getting it wrong lack of confidence getting it wrong its a lack yes thats right thats right its its probably a slightly unusual situation as well isnt it here you this isnt something you do every single day is to stand up quite so its about feeling youre going to make a fool of yourself i mean whats the feeling when you come in and you sit down first thing in the morning you look all round at the other eleven people you dont want to stand out thats right you want to blend in but whats the real feeling whats the thought in your head theyre all cleverer than you are everybodys better than than yeah are we i mean you know youve seen youve seen twelve presentations well youve seen eleven presentations plus youve done your own now there is that fear isnt there everybodys bound to be better than i am yes theres some sort of standard that we think we ought to have in order to do this thing right and were were below everybody else yes isnt that true is that yes the real feeling and we feel weve got to come up to some sort of a standard now when somebody else stood up here if somebody had totally dried up or been so nervous they couldnt do it what would you have felt sorry for them absolutely we all want want each other to do well dont we and its its true in any presentation theres nothing more uncomfortable is there than somebody in the middle of a presentation that youre watching struggling thats right you really feel sorry for them so standing up here there arent eleven twelve people ready to shoot you down are there they all want you to do well thats right theyre all with me yeah thats right because you know that youve just been there or youre going to be there yourself but this this nervous thing is a very primitive instinct and im just coming up to a word i never can pronounce so youre going to have to help me with this one this is where i get nervous because i know ive come into a word i know i cant pronounce in the br at the back of the brain there is the pi pituitary thank you pituitary gland biology well done i never can get that word out i stumble with it every time and that gets a signal from the brain that says this is a difficult situation this is something im not used to this is some i its very primitive its its from the days in the jungle or whatever er a fear of fright over absolute its fight or flight and thats why you start breathing quicker because the blood wants more oxygen because its ready to run or to fight because the muscles it is its true its absolutely true and this shaking is the limbs are ready to spring into action one way or another and this gland injects adrenalin or sorry it sends a signal to the adrenal glands which sit on the top of the kidneys yeah and pumps adrenalin into the blood which again is something that makes you ready and thats what all these things about about a dry throat a wonky voice a shaking limbs is all about a very primitive instinct of fight or flight now trying to think of a situation where you might come up here and have no nerves whatsoever i mean i know its difficult when nobody else is here sorry when nobody else is here when nobody else is here but i mean one definition of that is that youre asleep yeah if theres no sort of arousal of any sort yep lets just plot a graph when we stand up here were wanting to perform right were wanting to do an activity we have some level of anxiety now weve just said there needs to be some level somewhere if youre right down this end of the curve here youre either asleep or dead so theres some peak performance at some level of anxiety or arousal and as the anxiety increases the performance drops off okay but you have to have some level of arousal has to be something pumping round you round your blood your brain has to be working in some way to be able to perform so we have some peak okay at which we are performing right down this other end of the curve the level of anxiety is so high that performance is zero thats when you freeze i mean there was a classic case a couple of years ago of a lady who was pushing a baby in a pram across a zebra crossing and as she was half way across out of the corner of her eye she saw a truck thundering towards her which was quite clearly wasnt going to stop and that you know a sort of fairly anxious situation and she froze she could not move she absolutely could not move because her level of arousal was so high she had no performance her performance being walking in that case well but i mean thats an example and as i say at this end where youve no arousal youre either asleep or dead theres no sort of performance performance of any sort and we talk about having those butterflies in the stomach dont we we talk about the butterflies and that thats to do with this this effect of the the adrenalin in the system now the professional presenter is the one who can get them to fly in formation its its not about being able to get rid of them totally and we agree that we need some sort of level of arousal its being able to perform despite them to use that arousal to put into an effective presentation and thats what this two days is about is getting those butterflies for you to fly in formation to be able to actually present effectively whilst still having those butterflies whilst still having that that slightly anxious feeling i get it i get it every time i come into one of these but i i hope that ive got it in got them in formation now the purpose of therefore of this training course and any any training course is to do this is to be able to handle the arousal and increase your level of performance and even get the peak to move that way so for any level of arousal youre getting better performance but youre also able to handle a bit more butterflies a bit more of the nerves in order to perform effectively and apart from a training course like this how do you achieve that experience experience which is based on practice practice doing it yep so when i said to bob this morning was it bob i said dont i dont have a magic wand thats gonna get rid of them but what i hope im gonna give you over these two days is a system whereby you can use that and can support you so youre able to effectively present despite having the nerves and be able to put over your point of view effectively yeah how do you feel about that yeah okay yeah everybody everybody happy well i you just sort of went like that and i wasnt quite sure whether you was sort it was an early morning oh sorry so thats thats what its what its about so what we want to do then over these next two days is to develop the skills of design and delivery and will allow us to do that allow us to improve our performance despite the fact that we do have the nerves and by practice by doing it by putting yourself in the situation where you have to make a presentation and almost as one chap said one time sitting there actually with your sitting there remembering he said actually volunteer to make presentations to the other people there but its its about about doing that and about being able to practice and use these skills and techniques so that we can improve performance so lets lets look at what we can do then well okay this morning what id like to do in the half hour or so that weve got before lunch is to talk about the skills we need when we actually come up here to deliver then this afternoon well look at that feedback from the video and what you did and then well move on to the skills of design the preparation skills so when we come up here to make a presentation lets put aside at the moment the content of what we actually say what do we what do we need to think about what are the areas that we need to think about the skills that we need to develop the way you look the way you look your appearance in a way is what youre saying yeah your stance your stance the way you stand thats right those sorts of things body language body language yes well talk a little bit about body language and take that just a little bit further the people who youre delivering to delivering the presentation to and whether they understand right okay whether they understand yes so how you get the contact with them yes how you maintain their interest and how you get feedback from them okay lets lets put those sorts of ideas you turn to page three in the notes youll see theres a proforma there okay so were going to concentrate on the left hand side for the moment the delivery skills thing okay now we talked about things like as tony said body language er we talked about things like er contact with the audience but what fundamentally are we doing when we stand up here talking talking right so whats that about well i mean whats er what do we have to think about communication yeah communication in general possibly about breathing about the way we use the voice yes and of course the words we actually use accent accent possibly yeah well well talk about that because joanne you and i er have accents dont we yeah that are not the standard english shall we say something like that so lets think of all first of all then about the voice now theres a word im going to use right now which is a technical term in a way and that is is er the technical term for the study of language and how we speak the word what we say and how we say it it goes under the lovely title of paralinguistics para yeah thats right yeah paralinguistics is is the study of the words we say and how we say them so quite obviously the how we say things is all to do with the voice isnt it now ive got four letter ps to do with the voice er and what i want to do is is think about the comparison of aspects of the voice when we have a normal one to one conversation and compare that with the same aspects when were making a presentation standing in front of a group first of all power the power of the voice how do we need to adjust the power when were making a presentation to the size of the audience to the size absolutely to the size of the audience so if we say a one to one weve got a certain level of conversational power if you say so with a group like this it has to be just raised slightly doesnt it yes and obviously if youve got fifty people and you dont have a microphone or anything then it becomes even more so you get much above about fifty people you perhaps do need a some technical assistance with the power so the power needs to be just slightly slightly raised okay now another p anybody think of other ps to do with the voice pitch pitch thats thats yes now pitch is to do with er technically to do with the frequency isnt it the the high or low pitch like on a piano from high notes to low notes what do we need to ensure in terms of pitch when were speaking to a group of people variety sorry variety variety thats right there has to be variety because because if you talk in a monotone all the time then it all becomes rather boring doesnt it so theres got to be variations in the pitch power pitch theres one i want to squeeze in between but i mean it doesnt matter pace pace pace yeah in a way projection is sort of with power pace thats right youve been cheating and looking on looking on the next page thats right the pace okay the speed at which we speak okay yeah power and pace and pitch and pause yes okay lets just go back to the pace then how does the pace want to be compared with normal con one to one conversation perhaps slightly slower slightly slower just so that the words come over a bit clearer yes so so people can actually take in what you say okay now the pause how about the pause to get attention you do dont you it gives emphasis it attracts peoples attention sorry pregnant pause pregnant pau thats right a pregnant pause isnt it i mean but its perhaps one of the most difficult things when you start out doing presentations isnt it because you get that silence in the room and mmm you want to fill it so but youre right the use of the pause effective and particularly with a variation in pitch that gives that emphasis the two combined together can be very very effective okay so the power the pace the pitch and the pause all to do with voice and slight variations on those compared with normal one to one conversation okay so thats about the voice itself now under paralinguistics also comes that the concept of words words are are i mean what are words a simple thing to say but what are words expression yes er but what do they express then sorry feelings could express feelings yes facts thoughts facts feelings yes thoughts absolutely there there there a code arent they i mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog chien hound theres probably an italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea so thats what words are about now brr any anybody here like me from yorkshire no youre from slightly further north youre from yorkshire sometime ago sometime ago right so you may catch this and youre from slightly further north than that i think right okay anybody from the liverpool area no no okay if i said to john and joanne erm that i saw a boy running up the ginnel no you understand you do you do yeah i know what you said but i dunno what a ginnel is okay a snicket i dont know what a snicket is either no no yes but i know what youre saying alright yeah okay you see the point that that its its words what the hecks he talking no no i know exactly oh you did yeah its its er no but i mean in terms of the actual word you dont know what it is no er its its about geography isnt it er coming from different areas of the country right let me just explain then just just for the sake of completeness erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country i guess but but where i come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they couldnt get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry i think youd probably call it in scotland dont they we talking about this and i was saying about coming from construction i says ive says ive to go up the cut like oh the cut yeah where i call the cut and hes going the cut what cut thats the canal i says up the cut between the two the two buildings she said no thats the alley thats the alley yeah or the ginnel or the snicket you know or in liverpool they call it a jigger or the cut yeah so you see the point if youre making a presentation and you use words like that based on where you come from the geography you know your regional variations then its a bit its a bit difficult for er effective communication isnt it so we have think about making sure that we use or if we use a word and people dont understand it explain it explain it absolutely now so thats about words based on geographical variations or regional variations within the country er er something to be avoided but what about in the industry youre in jargon jargon absolutely yeah now theres a word that covers that and that the the choice of words based on on getting it right for the audience particularly in terms of jargon is what is called wordsmith cho choosing words in if if you think of a parallel with blacksmith a blacksmith takes base metal and sort of bends it and shapes it to the appropriate shape choosing the right words for the audience particularly based on jargon is whats called wordsmith now somebody said they got involved in prequalification meetings yeah mike who might you have as an audience in a prequalification er hang on er prequalification everybody understand prequalification lets make sure we didnt use any term that everybody understands yeah understand what right exactly because you might you might have the client or a representative of the client as well as architects and people who would so you have to be careful dont you in terms of using the right words so your presentation would be simplified simplified thats right where the jargon might arise would be perhaps in response to questions from an architect for instance yes technical yeah the technical people but you have to ensure dont you that with with your audience that you understand who they are but if you dont then you have to keep it to a common denominator yeah and thats about wordsmith choosing the right words for the for the appropriate to the audience and of course jargon the industry jargon erm is the thing youve got to watch okay so thats about paralinguistics about the way we use the voice in a presentation and the way we chose the words so that we have effective communication with our audience okay now was it tony who said about body language yep yep now body language if we move on to that if you read books on body language then erm that says erm im not quite sure what im talking about yes im not being truthful and that means that that im really not being really very sincere or again im unsure but what could it also mean itchy ear youve got an itchy ear or an itchy chin absolutely yeah that it exactly that so body language if you read a lot of the books on body language it takes one single action and it interprets it based on that now if we take it just one step further there was a lady well there still is a lady called and she did some research what she was trying to look at was the the sort of body language if you like the actions that people er use and associate that to their personality and she looked particularly at people who were open positive communicators truthful i suppose but people who were open communicators and looked at the sort of things they did and also at people who perhaps werent quite so honest and open and truthful and she didnt take individual actions what she took was what she called clusters clusters of actions so she looked at things like the use of the hands the use of the feet the use of the eyes erm and what she called the centre line the bodys centre line and she equated that and what she said was in terms of the hands that people who were open and positive communicators used on average more symmetrical open palm gestures than individual or closed palm gestures nonsymmetrical and if you look at there are certain er types of people in history who use very nonsymmetrical hand gestures who perhaps you might say were not the most open communicators in the world and if you take a film of of erm hitler and er people of that ilk in the second world war and you analyse almost frame by frame youll see that and count the number of nonsymmetrical hand gestures you will find that theyre quite high as a percentage now im not saying that we stand here and all we do is that because when you want to emphasise a point then sometimes a a single nonsymmetrical a single hand gesture is more appropriate but on average you will find er and you look at people in the pub you look in the bar tonight at the people having conversations and see how many symmetrical hand gestures there are its quite interesting what im talking about here are not things that are unnatural but things that er will come naturally as you relax into your presentation are you suggesting that absolutely and you will find when we look on the video the number of people who held up a piece of paper if you hold things up and im holding this now because im about to write but if if you stand here and hold a piece of paper then its very difficult to make symmetrical palm gestures open palm gestures so that is one thing as i develop this theme youll youll see so of course the next question comes well well how do you manage to put it down i guesshands well come on to that okay now another thing as i said that she looked at in terms of clusters was the centre line now ladies and gentlemen we all know that there are certain parts of the body that it is quite natural that we like to protect such as a direct free kick erm and and ladies perhaps would tend to do the same sort of thing now what that does of course is close off the centre line and what found was that people who were positive communicators as they spoke to somebody they presented the centre line to them now if im presenting my centre line to tony and speaking to him that feels fine yeah but if i talk to you dave over my shoulder like that i mean how does that feel talk to you and tell you something you know it feels as though i dont care lack of interest lack of interest thats right so presenting the centre line and okay were going to come on to the eye contact as well in a moment presenting the centre line with eye contact means that it feels much more positive for the audience in terms of the delivery so the centre line is an is an important aspect of now if youre holding your notes yeah i i mean thats not a very open sort of centre line is it because ive got this as a barrier in a way this standing behind and its unfortunate we have to have something as big as this table er and if i stand behind it then you know gordons not getting my full centre line yep so standing behind a barrier is another thing the third aspect the third aspect that er noticed was movement of the feet whilst in this sort of a situation in any communication and mike used that term and this is what this is about in communication there is a gap it doesnt matter whether its you know writing a letter making a phone call or just standing this sort of distance away theres a gap over which these words have to flow yes theres a gap in this communication now if i stood here all the time for two days and presented to you just standing here do your eyes move have to move if youre watching me all the time your eyes are fixed arent they in one position yeah and the problem is that that because you have to look in one position it means that that the whole thing becomes boring and and your interest starts to drift but if im moving around slightly like this and youre having to follow with your eyes as im making my presentation it brings variety to it brings that bit of variety like you said earlier that it brings some interest to it so just just small movements of the feet im not talking well theres a classic one i had when i was at college we had a lecturer imagine a big lecture theatre you know two hundred people and there was there was a board and he presented his lecture like thisplenty of foot movement but he presented his lecture like and he just walked up and down well i mean what do you end up doing if somebody makes a presentation like that give up watching you either give up watching or you keep a score dont you yeah how many times hes gonna walk in the next minute you know lets time you dont listen to what hes saying because you know just it just becomes so it takes your attention away but but small movement a little bit of movement around and some people did as well see when we look at the video this afternoon but some people you know grew roots er it becomes that way again its part of the nervousness yeah im gonna put me notes down there and im not gonna hold them i you know i dont want to be anywhere away from them so its all tied up with the preparation as well but some movement of the feet er is important to keep variety so thats what er worked on connection between the cluster of movements and sort of advanced body language if you like and the personality so someone who is perceived as using ja symmetrical palm gestures and open centre line and some movement in the feet is seen more as a as a positive communicator a more open communicator and it enhances the quality of the presentation now there was one other thing that was mentioned the third aspect was contact with the audience yeah audience contact why is it important to have audience contact in your presentation just to make sure that they think that youre talking to them absolutely so they feel involved dont they they feel involved as part of the presentation that helps the audience feel involved but what does it do for you as a presenter what can it do helps you get your point across yes indeed it also gives you some gauge the reaction yeah gauge the reaction some feedback gauge peoples reaction you know as i said to you earlier are you with that mike because of all i had contact and i thought i saw you i dropped off and you dropped off well that that is the other important thing isnt it because part of the feedback is you know am i interesting everybody you know are they with me on this or am i boring the pants off them yeah and you may then want to adjust the presentation so audience contact whats the whats the primary method of of getting contact with the audience well the method eyes looking at them yeah using the eyes yeah okay both to to to feel to make them feel involved and to er gauge the reaction gauge how things are going so you can er get some feedback on how youre doing okay you need to keep their interest dont you oh absolutely yes i mean i mean the effect sure erm no amount of audience contact will compensate for a boring subject yeah oh yes i erm erm im not saying that and thats when we come on to the the design and the content that we put in yeah youre absolutely right very important point yeah no amount of eye contact is going to compensate for something that that doesnt hold their interest okay what else then what other methods do we have besides having eye contact what else might we do to involve the audience to make them feel involved questions yes absolutely so questions er a very definite way of involving the audience and again it gives a measure of feedback doesnt it because if you get the right answer you know that they are with you and you know they are understanding what you have to say but obviously if theres some hesitation over it then perhaps you just need to step back a stage in what youre saying and er er go over it again to for clarity and tony whats another way of involving the audience well youve got to get them to participate but i suppose you would do if you question them well yes i guess you would jeff whats another way that you might make the audience feel that theyre involved mike well yes okay thats a possibility and thats something that well come on to tomorrow but in terms of audience contact sarah jokes well yeah yeah a bit of humour a bit of humour smile at them smile at them well yeah okay bob another way of involving the audience making them feel part of it ask them to relate their experiences yes okay but that in a way comes under questions doesnt it yes ask them yes look directly at them well yeah thats eye contact well well done thank you i got it with the fourth one yeah thats right thats right you were just waiting for me to say tom werent you yes yes thats fine and some of you some of you did that this morning although you may not have realised it er but you said well well like rob said and er just just making people feel part of it by by using their names and thats exactly the purpose of having these plaques in front and why i asked you to to use erm to put your name on them is so that we can do that so that we can use peoples names as part of the presentation and yeah yeah you know he actually noticed what i said and that sort of thing so they feel really part of er part of it sometimes ive er okay so it seems like it seems like a terrific amount to think about while youre standing here doesnt it as well as thinking about what youre actually the content of what youre actually going to say but a lot of these things come quite naturally er i hope well see on when we look at the video that really i dont think anybody had a major problem with the voice er and the words as well when youre talking about two million pounds so in terms of the voice i dont believe anybody has any major problems there may be one or two when we might just say well perhaps just a little bit more volume but its not perhaps just er slacken off on the pace a little bit so i dont think in terms of paralinguistics anybody here has a major problem but when we come to look at the cluster and the and the audience contact then then you know we may see something a little bit different okay but er those are the important aspects things like things like whoops the use of the hands you know several people put their hands in their pockets or put them behind their back or something like that now that is you know what do you do with these things i mean theyre a nuisance when it comes to making a presentation the secret i find and you may over the next day or day and a half to a couple of days you may well see me just do that occasionally ill just throw my hands back down to me side if they get in if they start getting in the way the best thing to do is just let them relax to the side and try and forget about them i know its difficult to forget about them but just to the conscious effort with the hands is just to put them at the side then as you start to make the point youll find your hands will come up naturally and bend from the elbows it sounds crazy to say but if if you suddenly go coo ive got everything in me pocket but just do that that thats what i find is the best thing to do and then carry on with what you have to say and then the gestures become quite natural because all of this this is is not im not trying to six pairs of opposites and then expanded by okay now that thats fine but how do you move on and where do you move on to in order to get that structured thought pattern if youre going to come and stand and present something to somebody theres got to be a reason for it yes there must be be a reason and as im sure i mean like like the objective and then what you can do at this stage in the design process is once youve got the objective then you select those themes or ideas from your what youve done just now to support that objective so that when you come up my objective is to convince you or my objective is to inform you then the information that youre going to give out supports that objective so one thing that was mentioned this morning was somebody wanted to be able to be more persuasive in order to put a point of view across if you can clearly state what your objective is what youre trying to persuade the audience to then everything you say supports that and you stand a better chance of being persuasive yes it seems fairly obvious so what do we do well weve got to select a number of themes to support a given objective how many themes do we select so what youve got there is a mass of youve got six twelve words on the first circle and then youve got twenty four words on the outer circle are you gonna dump all that information on to the audience to try and persuade them of your objective theres only so much that anybodys brain can handle at any one time so lets just do a little experiment because there was a chap called george miller an american psychologist who worked on this idea of what is the capacity of the brain how many bits of information can the brain hold on to at any given time if you turn to page eight whats that john im useless at this i know whats coming you you know whats coming george miller called this the span of conception the capacity of the brain to conceive or hold on to any information youll see there weve got three boxed a six number a ten number and a twelve number what im gonna do is just speak out a six digit number what i want you to do is try and hold on to it in your brain then when ive finished write it down in the appropriate box and see if you can hold on to it long enough to do that so the first number listen to this the first number and try and hold on to it three eight one five six two just write that down okay lets try and ten digit number then listen to ten digits try to hold on to them and then write them down seven four two nine eight one three four seven six ive gone wrong okay try a twelve digit just for the experiment try and hold on to twelve numbers here we go listen to these nine o five one six two four seven three eight two seven now thats its interesting what joanne said that you you lost it in the middle somewhere yeah i mean er lets just read them just see how you got on three eight one five six two okay seven four two nine eight one three four seven six ive got the mixed up yeah and nine o five one six two four seven three eight two seven say that one again nine o fiveone six two four seven three eight two seven nearly got it so but i mean where was it was it generally in the middle or at one end or the first the first two numbers yeah okay after the first five numbers thats it because what you well you either hold on to the first five or six and then you lose the rest or sometimes you remember the beginning and the end and you lose the bit in the middle ah its like that game that they used to play on crackerjack for those of you old enough to remember crackerjack crackerjack crackerjack pencils yeah erm thats a cabbage there was a game wasnt there that they played cabbage so long as you got the question wrong you got a cabbage if you got it right you got a prize right thats right and thats what the brains like youve got to try and hold on to cabbages all these cabbages yeah youve got to try and hold on to so much information that something eventually has to drop because some people do get the ten and some people can get to twelve but guess how they do it they chunk it up into pairs or groups of three or something like that so four groups of three or two groups of six or whatever because what miller actually found was the span of conception was and is seven plus or minus two people can hold on to seven plus or minus two bits of information and the plus or minus two he called the local factors which are you know whether its warm out whether you feel warm or cold or whether or what time of day it is have you just had a heavy lunch whatever it might be something that effects even the time of the year all sorts of things so the maximum is nine that people can hold on to and the thing about nine of course is it splits up into three threes and thats why i say some people will group a twelve number into four threes or something like that or three fours because theyre all well within this span of conception so as it says at the bottom of page eight theres a golden rule for presenting is use three themes okay so the number of themes you use to support your objective is three and then for each of those themes you divide it into three subthemes remember what i did there i got three themes and for each one i got three subthemes so that what you put over to them to the audience are those three themes theyre able to hold on to that for the duration of the talk and be able to understand them as concepts and therefore it helps to put over the ideas so well have a coffee break and then what i want you to do when you come back is ill give you an objective for the talk that youre going to give based on that youve just done and then i want you to select three themes and three subthemes that will support the objective that youll then be able to use okay right start again yes the aldershot method it goes under the nice little saying tell them what youre going to tell them then tell them and then tell them what youve told them now you think about news at ten bong you get the headlines yeah and you get the headlines and so it prepares you it emotionally prepares you for whats coming give you headlines and then they start and they go they expand on each headline dont they and then at the end they give you the headlines again they summarise it absolutely and it does because it a it what dave says its an emotional whole and you start off and you come back to where you started its a whole a complete and so it it emotionally prepares with the headlines tell them what youre gonna tell them then you tell them it and then it satisfies them by coming back to where you started so in other words its about an introduction an expansion and an end now as ive said tomorrow ill fill in a bit more detail on those so if you leave some some gaps there between those three sections so an introduction do you remember what i said about the the er structured thought pattern youve now got in front of you let me go to mine which is all blank the introduction is good afternoon ladies and gentlemen my name is id like to talk to you about flying and i hope to persuade you to come along on saturday and take part in some flying and im going to talk to you about three things about the safety of flying about the cost aspects of flying and the enjoyment that youre going to get out of it when you take part and thats my introduction ive told you what im gonna tell you and then expand on it and so i go into each of these and i go to the and i say a few words about each of these particular themes i wont go all through that again and when ive expanded and ive told you then i then come back to my ending and i say okay so what ive done ive told you about three aspects of flying about the safety of itab about the costs involved in taking part in flying and about the enjoyment youre gonna get out of flying and i hope that ive persuaded you that you will come along on saturday to take part and thats the ending so its use the red obviously the title and the reds for your introduction to say what youre going to say then say it by using your greens and then say what youve said by going back to the red and coming back to your objective now coming back to the objective i say it leaves you on a high note then rather than the and thats all im gonna say tell them what youre gonna tell them then tell them then tell them what youve told them okay so that in a nutshell is is what its about so youve all got your structured thought pattern now yeah yeah right erm three minutes again so you can spot your timing now its under a minute on each of those red things because youve got your introduction and your ending as well okay so three minutes set the clock again as you did before and er one other thing id like you to do is as you come up is do something that athletes do huh and that is to er give an affirmation now you may see athletes you know when you see the olympics theres the the lady with er erm javelin javelin thank you theres the lady with the javelin then you see or somebody you know looking at the long jump and theyre muttering away to themselves well therere not normally saying will you get out the way before i throw this thing or ill stab you with it what theyre actually doing is theyre affirming to themselves theyre verbalising the performance improvement or the performance theyre going to give remember i asked you this morning to just just after lunch to jot down what it was that you need to improve on just as youre setting the clock just say something like by the end of this talk id like you to congratulate me on having moved around a bit more having not put me hands in me pockets whatever it might be yeah so just an aff an affirmation of of what you intended okay morning everybody morning lets a what are we going to be doing today then as daves already observed because hes seen my notes its going to be a very full day er so we need to crack on what id like to do first of all is just to summarise wha what we did yesterday just very quickly summarise that and what id like you to do is take notes in the new form that weve got now with er a thought pattern so if you morning okay excuse me okay weve only barely started if you take a a fresh piece of paper then a fresh sheet of paper and and er the orientation that you now know we need to do if were going to do if were going to do a thought pattern this morning tom were jus just gonna summarise what we did yesterday by means of a a thought pattern so if in the middle of the page you write day one lets just summarise er what we did yesterday well it was twenty three hours i was going to say twenty four hours ago but twenty three hours we started off with er some introductions and er the introductions you introduced yourself and we discussed the the objectives that the company have and also the objectives that you have for the course the objectives give us a way of er measuring at the end of the course whether the course has achieved for you what you wanted from well come back as i said to those this afternoon and and just review them to see that you got out of the course what you okay having done that we discussed what the content of the course was going to be and then i asked you to make a first presentation pres presentation one and it was to last three minutes and the subject was what would i do if i won two million pounds and we recorded that er on the c c t v for later playback having done that we then talked about the problem that we all have on these sorts of occasions which is the problem of nerves and we talked about the symptoms of dry voice and the shaking limbs the the wonky voice and the reasons why we have er these nerves and we also talked about the causes of the the primitive instinct of fight or flight er how we get get our body ready to handle this unusual situation and we we discussed the the difference between anxiety and arousal and how we can turn our anxiety into arousal to ensure performance and i plotted a little graph if you remember of performance against arousal levels and we agreed that the the purpose of training like this and also putting these principles into practice is to be able to handle more and more arousal er more and more nerves and still and still be able to perform in a confident manner we then talked about the first of those two towers of tower bridge if you remember which was about the skills that we need for er delivery what are the skills that we need when we stand up in front of people to actually deliver what we have to say and there were three aspects we looked at i wonder why it was three i wonder why it was three erm three aspects first of all there was that little word i gave you er to describe pa paralinguistics thank you the voice and and the words that we said paralinguistic is correct the study of the voice what we say and how we say it i then introduced you to if you like advanced body language and based on the work that marion north did and rather than take an individual movement of the body we took a cluster and how many aspects where there to cluster i wonder there were three werent there hands feet centre level okay so paralinguistics the cluster and the other one was the need for audience contact the way we get feedback from the audience the way we ensure that we involve the audience as well through the use of the eyes the names er and asking questions and then we had the moment that a lot of you er werent looking forward to which was playing the video back yes and this gave you an opportunity to see yourself to see others and to take part in some coaching something that we did again yesterday and we shall be doing again today we then talked about the the design aspect first of all we talked about er the way the brain is involved in this communication and some of the aspects of the brain so the brain we talked about the two hemispheres the left and the right hemisphere the fact that the left is very much involved in a a linear way whereas the right is involved in spatial way anybody remember the relative contribution of the two halves yeah ten for the left and ninety for the right and the reason we talked about this and the way thats involved in communication is that we said well if theres a lot more power or a lot more contribution to the design of what were doing of a spatial nature and that is how the the audiences brain work more powerfully in the spatial nature lets present what we have lets design it and then deliver it as close to a spatial nature as we can okay that was the purpose of talking about about the brain and the two the two aspects of it and of course the left brain is very much involved in the words the right brain with the ideas so thats the creative side okay then we used this er in a way that were using it right now to er produce our design for what we were going to say through thought patterns now nice abbreviation for thought patterns is thop t h o p when we talk about thought patterns or thops a method of gathering ideas a meth a method of getting things down on paper so we dont lose them but not in a linear way in a spatial way a right brain activity and what we did we created a framework first of all with six pairs of opposites pairs of opposites and er if you remember this happened in a fairly slow and methodical way very much a left brain activity saying well okay is this a valid pair of opposites to do with that so that was that was a very much a left brain activity we then moved on and expanded we expanded we brought with with a minimum of two words to do with each of those twelve words that we generated and we did this in a much faster way a much more creative way a right brain activity when i say a right brain of course it doesnt mean that the left brains just shut down completely but its predominantly a a right brain activity its the the creative part and then we use this method to then go a stage further to prepare for the second presentation so i gave you a topic sport or a hobby or an interest that you had and you produced a thought pattern for that just as wed done in the practice one with the subject of water but then we moved on a stage further to get what are called a structured thought pattern structured thought which had as its main attributes three themes of course before you had that you had to have a clear objective which helped you to choose what those three themes were and why why did we choose three as a based on yeah yeah yes verbally yes if were writing wed actually be six but it was it was the span of conception wasnt it the capacity of the brain the span of conception says that if you deliver your presentation in groups of three in three themes and three subthemes then the audience is able to hold on to that and the way in which we set up the delivery or the way in which we delivered the structured thought pattern was through method aldershot aldershot method yeah which goes under the little the little rhyme words can anybody remember thats it thats it as dave described it its an emotional whole its its er satisfying er to the listener its complete in itself and er people by human nature like things to be complete or whole it is it is emotionally satisfying so basically that was er an introduction an expansion and an ending the aldershot method got through quite a bit yesterday didnt we quite a bit there er when you lay it out like that in a pattern a thought pattern which shows just how much er we did actually get through er from where you started at ten in the morning or just after with the presentation right through to the second presentation there were a lot a lot involved there er and some of you actually found that that there was quite a lot that you really had to almost worry about and think about and and er yesterday for the first time of doing it with this this new method it does take quite a bit of thinking about and as we agreed practice is is whats whats important incidentally everything im im doing here whoops everything im doing here with you all the two days here is in thought patterns so it does get used ha ha in a practical way it would be very strange if i stood here saying dont use a linear script use thought patterns and yet i was reading everything off a linear script wouldnt it you sort of wouldnt really believe that er i was serious about it okay right what id like you to then select red on your pen now in a way what you could say what we have here is a trunk of a tree and the branches and then the leaves and the fruit at different levels on this what id like you to do is put put a rectangle round three words it doesnt matter where they are on on the whole thought pattern three words that are the highlights what were the three things that were the highlights or the most important thing for you yesterday for instance i might go erm that one that one and er that one okay just a rectangle round three three er things that were the highlights for you yesterday the most important things that er came through to you yesterday so he knows whats coming the eyes dont ya some a lot of you said yesterday that you dont always get in this formal situation having to stand up in front of people but what if you have sort of meetings one to one or even even in three or fours so you know when you get in a meeting sometimes youve got a point of view on an agenda item and you think how where am i gonna get support for for my point of view on the meeting or you know youre in a meeting and the chairman whats your opinion john on this where you what do you think about this a good way of doing it is the aldershot method how to your put your point across very very clearly but also succinctly you know short and to the point so if somebody said to me what what were the highlights for you yesterday aldershot method tell them what you tell them just list them so what are the three important things for me yesterday were the aldershot method the arousal curve and the need for audience contact so i told them what im gonna tell them now i tell them why if youre gonna tell somebody why why your opinion is something the word because is bound to come into the sentence soon so ive said ive listed them well the important points for me were the aldershot method the arousal curve and the need for audience content the aldershot method was particularly important for me because i realised that its something we use every day or we see every day er and it emotionally prepares the audience the listener for what im going to say tell them what youre going to tell them before you tell them and then summarise it at the end and tell them what you told them its emotionally satisfying its a very important method to get a point across the need for arousal thought well should i be absolutely calm when im giving a presentation but i never am so is it right and now understanding that you need a certain level of arousal to be able to perform at all is is satisfying for me because at least i understand the situation now and able to work with it rather than against it and audience content when youre making a presentation i feel thats very important because you need to have feedback as to how well things are going if you dont look people in the eye if you dont involve them then theyre not with you and if the audience arent with you then the presentation doesnt so for me the three points were the aldershot method er the importance of understanding arousal and the need for audience contact do you see the aldershot method there you list then expand on each one saying why and then just summarise by listing again yep so can we try that just to from a seated position not from from up the front the best thing to do because having said that then i might say mike whats your opinion what was important to you and and pass it on so obviously if mikes been chosen once or hes done it he doesnt want somebody asking him again so just jot down at the side of the page the other eleven names in the room okay everybodys tony mike jeff sarah bob rob gordon john tom joanne mike dave just jot the other peoples names down and then obviously when theyve been theyve said their piece just strike their name through so you dont go and tony mike jeff sarah bob rob gordon john tom joanne mike dave you should have eleven names down there are you alright can you see where have you got to rob rob yeah gordon rob gordon john joanne mike and dave okay right lets the meeting so youve youve got your three points so remember the er the aldershot just list what they are then expand briefly on them then list them again and then invite somebody else to to give their er their opinions okay morning everybody erm the three points that were important for me yesterday were the aldershot method the the arousal curve and the need for audience contact i particularly found the aldershot method important because what it gives you is a clear structure to what you have to say when you stand up if youre going to introduce by saying what youre going to say before you expand and then at the end summarise and bring it all back to a nice conclusion it actually gives you a framework on which to to base any any few words or any talk that you you have to give arousal curve well understanding the need for arousal for me helped because i now understand that having nerves while youre speaking is not unnatural it isnt something that youre able to get rid of but you need to be able to work with it and practice to improve performance and the need for audience contact i found particularly important because if you get feedback from the audience looking them in the eye involving them then youre able to know how your talk is progressing and whether you need to modify it in any way to be able to maintain the audiences interest so in summary the three points for me were the aldershot method the arousal curve and the need for audience contact bob what did you find yesterday the cluster i found particularly er important and so like yourself the aldershot method and structured thought patterns er the cluster was important er because as you say when people have got nerves they need to get some basic guidelines for overcoming the problem er we all tend to put our hands in our pockets and stand rooted to the spot and all the rest of it but there are ways of overcoming it its just a matter of practice erm the aldershot method is er obviously a very effective method erm if you get into the habit of doing it in threes er erm you see every day you use the news at ten news at ten analogy obviously obviously identifiable its a very effective one and also the structured thought patterns idea er before you go into something to actually sit down and prepare something er your thoughts in a developing from there er its a very simple thing to do but very effective those are the three things the aldershot sorry the cluster the aldershot method and structured thought patterns yesterday you were looking at me i knew you were going to say that again the three things that came out for me yesterday were the structured thought patterns obviously the arousal and the need for audience contact i found the erm structured thought patterns and the span of conception is very interesting in the fact that you do things in threes and obviously that gives a certain logic net to everything that you do and the way that you prepare your presentation the arousal ive always thought that er that you shouldnt be nervous but you always are but obviously as youre nervous when you do a whole host of things and nerves as you become more skilled at it go away er and id assume that like most things that the nerves will totally disappear and was somewhat surprised to find out that youre always aroused thats right when when you do that and obviously the need to gauge the erm presentation against audience contact to see that theyre involved and theyre obviously understanding what youre saying and pick them up and grab them so for me the three things were the structured thought patterns plus the arousal and the need for audience contact what did you think sarah i found the three most important things for me yesterday were the span of conception the clusters and the whole subject of nerves the span of conception useful to gather that three is the best number and dividing it up into threes and threes again was simplest and effective way of setting it up clusters and nerves well again i always felt that nerves were supposed to go away when you got good at things now im pleased to discover that isnt true i also found that the clusters was useful for we all said guidelines what to do when you stand up there like an idiot so to sum up that the three most important things the span of conception nerves and clusters erm from yesterday er i think meself personally im very methodical sort of person and i felt what was most important the revelations meself was thought patterns and the use of most structured structured in a presentation and also the importance i couldnt believe how that using them made such a difference actually to yourself when youre standing there and the audience participation erm thought patterns well ive always used that was just a revelation i mean ive never thought it could be so easy to put me thoughts on a piece of paper could help me so much i think thats what i thought patterns structured well yesterday the three things that i felt that were most useful to me was one the delivery two the coaching and the thought patterns erm thought patterns being actually understanding laying it out and seeing the way it works which obviously structured thought patterns but its the basis of and grasping erm actually delivering it your delivery erm of it using the cluster but the coaching was invaluable it was constructive criticism we all know what was wrong and it it just helped yesterday for someone not to be coaching just to help you through it erm and i think all those three things became invaluable really mean because most of those leads on to the other ones structured erm so the sort of thought patterns the coaching and the was very good well things that i learnt yesterday was erm aldershot method the structured thought patterns and the coaching erm the aldershot method is tremendous i liked that a lot for expansion editing summarising and first class and i will use it from now on erm the aldershot method works or appears to work very well with structured thoughts the two merge together very well and erm again thats the putting down on paper i didnt believe that had actually talk at all and yet it works and as you read it things come into the brain and when you combined all that with the coaching and you can see what youre doing wrong the rest of it again thats excellent but its also also to see yourself video erm and realise that no you dont sound quite as bad as you think you might so the three things that really got me yesterday was the aldershot method the structured thoughts and the coaching they all went together very well and rob lets see what he thinks well the three things that er were most significant for me yesterday were the cluster the thought patterns and the aldershot method erm the cluster makes you realise how you presented things to people what you can improve them having things in your hand that it it just makes you erm more nervous because youre fumbling about what makes me more nervous youre fumbling about with something trying to to do something that you dont really need to do erm moving around er feet movement i didnt quite master that yesterday but it its something that er i know that will come with time and er itll itll all come together the thought patterns like joanne and others the the concept of putting a little circle down and one word in it and expanding that out and being able to stand around and talk erm for three minutes or ten minutes or whatever for a significant amount of time erm that that was also a revelation to me and along along with that erm the aldershot method erm an introduction and expansion and an ending all on the same subject erm makes it a nice concise er little parcel erm for you to talk through so the end the three things for me yesterday cluster thought patterns and the aldershot method thank you very much well for me exactly the same as bob sorry robert the aldershot method plus er the thought processes the aldershot method because er it it sort of explained to me the most effect way of getting across whatever you want to say so that made me a feel a bit happier about that it also made me think that perhaps i had more control over the whole presentation generally which is my biggest concern so get up there and just do some and therefore its going to go on to the confidence side of it the cluster erm i was always very aware of this bit so it made me you know aware that there are things you can do and watching everybody just seemed just the answer inside you it didnt look er odd it looked okay so that would make me a bit more confident i think a bit less self conscious but the most important thing i thought was the thought process i mean just just saying this while you were just going on i just jotted down in the same way you could come off with three ideas that around and i felt that was that was ideal it keeps the your your presentation and it stops those pregnant er pauses you know suddenly you realise christ ive forgotten lost the thing so for me aldershot method cluster but most important was the thought patterns gordon er yes there the three things i got out of erm yesterdays course was the thought patterns the aldershot method and the delivery the thought patterns allow me to erm put down what i wanted to talk about expand on it and at the same time break it down into areas and on the other and spend some time on each area the aldershot method erm because it showing you how you broke that subject down allows you to erm introduce it expand on it and summarise at the end er the delivery part it was more the cluster but the overall delivery allowed me to prepare how i was going to be standing er how to get the audience in contact with me the eye the eye contact and also the way i spoke so to summarise the thought patterns the aldershot method jeff the three things that came out of yesterday for meself were the the aldershot method the delivery the aldershot principally because it gave a structure to what i had to say at least went up there fairly confident of what i had the delivery because it gave me what i had to think about when i was up there language body language and then the playbacks i could look at the two things that mike just highlighted as one and two the aldershot method the structure of what i said and the way the delivery had come across the feedback gave me a review of those questions so out of yesterday it was how to put the structure together as the delivery of how it came across and what the audiences reaction was to it morning ladies and gentlemen carry on mike and then to john good morning ladies and gentlemen the three main items i got out of yesterday was the er structured thought patterns the cluster and the playback the structured thought patterns i found that the most important because when i was up at the table on the second presentation i was able to have my thoughts relating to the layout already and with in fact just the single element of the subject shown on my paper i could immediately focus on that and in fact give the details of that right the way through on the cluster erm not having in fact had any erm work on this type of thing before i didnt realise that holding a paper could close you down and in fact without moving my feet i wasnt getting movement i was just static and with no use of the hands you were to express yourself sufficiently with the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact i was doing right and wrong erm ive been on television before once when i was running the london marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and i could in fact see what i was doing and why i was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when i came back for the second one so the main elements for me were the thought process the cluster and the playback now lets john john erm the three things i i er got most out of yesterday were the structured thought patterns playback and the audience contact the structured the structured thought patterns gave me an actual er organisation to my talk be it only just a few words on a piece of paper it was simple yet er gave the organisation to the actual talk while you stood up in front of an audience er the audience contact when you were actually stood up in the front and youre there on your own just getting a little bit of feedback from the audience itself er does help and then the playback which erm i think it helped a lot to see how you faired particularly on that fir first attempt what areas you had to concentrate on to rectify your problems so in summary the three main things i got out of yesterday were the structured thought patterns the playback and the audience contact great thank you all very much indeed so i hope you see that this aldershot method which several people have mentioned is is a very effective way of structuring what you do here it can also be used very simply in in a meeting just to be able to put your point across simply but effectively so thats another situation and as well talk about and i hinted at yesterday er the dreaded vote of thanks situation and the the er giving of the gold watch and er and the being a best man at a wedding or even a bride or groom at a wedding er again is a is a way of helping this aldershot method is a way of helping you to to get your thoughts together and put them across effectively so what else are we going to do today then two things i want to just touch on er fairly briefly er because of the time factor but i do want to touch on before you get into continuing with your er development for your third presentation er the questions of how to handle questions and also the use of visual aids lets do them the other way round lets talk first of all about the visual aids why do we why do we use visual aids like the overhead projector and the flip chart why do we use the things at all about ninety per cent it is it is in a way isnt it well very much so not just in a way its very much because we have whats that saying we say a picture is paints a thousand words yeah if we can put something pictorially it saves probably half an hours explanation doesnt it if you dont have that so very much er the use of the right brain getting the point across visually er gets it across er much more quickly so thats one one benefit of using a visual aid is to is to put a point over er much more quickly what others going back to the same point again you could indeed you could indeed it it reinforces a point doesnt it so i mean i so went back a few times with the flipchart yesterday with things that we need to re reinforce yes jeff youve a lot of experience of doing lecturing what what does it do for you as a presenter ive used it to erm to develop the lecture i let the audience draw their own thought patterns yep that produces something that then moves on to discussions right i call it no notes at all right and they write the lecture for me they write yeah they write the lecture as it takes place yeah yes good preparation well no theres actually theres a lot of preparation in that isnt there well what i do it on is planning oh yes and er control of sub contractors then you get a mixed group from tarmac er different companies and their conception of what planning is and conception of what controlling sub contractor is yeah is totally different so i did the first lecture with what my idea of to find myself talking to a a contract housing guy whose biggest order was two thousand pounds right so ive have them produce the lecture and then weve gone on from like doing yep exactly the thing right pick out three things and well talk about them mm mm and thats how i use visual aids so it can actually be a stimulus cant it so i then find myself doing nothing else but walking around so i go and ask right so it forces me yes out into the audience well thats what you hinted at yesterday as well didnt it i mean if if youre here even now youve got your notes down rather than in your hand and and you stand and read but you dont use that or you dont use that then there is that tendency isnt there to so the focus of attention switches from people looking at me yeah to the visual aid yes to this to actually looking at what theyre producing right yes and thats an important factor that that if you feel everybodys looking at you it is important attention it does it moves attention away just takes takes the little bit of the tension off you so you can do that as well so its it appeals to the right brain that visual aspect it can take attention it can actually make the presenter move around when it switches attention what does that do for the audience then wakes them up er absolutely yeah it keeps the interest going doesnt it so its its an interest thing as well it keeps the interest it changes the emphasis switches the attention makes a break doesnt it it just changes er er a natural break that happens and it changes attention so theres theres lots of reasons to illustrate the point then and another thing of course it does is if its one you use on here it helps you remember you dont have to have that written down because its there already produced if its a preprepared acetate as we call as we call it so and it can break up a long session it can it can maintain interest so two two methods im going to talk about really is is the overhead and the flipchart you may have caught me doing this some of you may have have noticed that i try to force meself not to and its something to remember if im writing something up here and i talk to you while im writing up here then what does it do it loses impact it loses impact doesnt it because a the power of the voice is hit against there b its very rude to talk while ive got me back to you as well so people yes lose interest so while youre writing on the board have one of those pauses now again its oh theres silence in the room but while youre writing what what are the audience doing if youre not speaking watching absolutely theyre reading it with you so theyre with you so youre youre holding their interest even though youre not actually saying anything yeah and again you may you may have noticed well another thing is once youve once youre written put the pen down and the easiest thing in the world to have a but if you want to make a point and you probably noticed once i once i put the red lines around the red boxes round there and i gave you the first demonstration of the aldershot method i stood here okay now if i want to write something i can just turn like that and im not turning me back away okay if youre left handed then then i guess youre probably gonna feel more comfortable that way round erm but while youre using this and while youre making a point about what youve written just just stand to the side of it i usually put me hand up have done there just make the points to be made yes so thats thats the way to use that is not to talk to it but to have a silence while youre writing er and then to stand at the side while you making the points that are that are associated with what youve written up i would recommend for any talk that you give that you dont use more than two types of visual aid i know we used the video but that was for a very specific reason but if you know have you ever been to one of those lectures where theres theres overheads going on here and then they go and they write on there and they you have some slides and then you have a video and then you know its like being at wimbledon er if you stick to just just two as a maximum er ah an overhead and a flipchart or maybe a video and an overhead then it actually doesnt it really helps not to confuse the audience thats actually all i want to say about the flipchart unless anybodys any other comments i mean jeffs youve obviously got a lot of experience in a do you feel theres any anything further than that i know ive covered it very briefly well the only one that comes back to me is youve got the ability to review thats right thats right you can you can yep good it has that creative element about it doesnt it because as you say if you get them to produce it get the audience to help produce it then again its involvement and the whole thing is is erm more spontaneous than than preprepared i mean if if id done that this morning and id written it all up before you came in and then said well what weve done is this and then we did that and then we did that but as as it was generated as we discussed then then you were with me i hope at the way it went its quite important though to do it fairly neatly oh indeed indeed and im not the neatest writer in the world i will say and erm i wasnt no i know you werent getting at me i know i thats right the first time i get up well you see i cheat i have it lightly pencilled in well thats you can do that thats because thats you want to start suddenly you find yourself either i have i tell you ive done that before now and then that one ends up right down in the bottom corner and its its it just it just takes the edge off it so it is a good tip actually its just if youve time beforehand is just even as you were saying producing a thought pattern like this even just doing the first level just in pencil ive actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted hed hed got hed got the odd notes just up there in the corner so again thats something you can do but yes good tips thank you jeff just doing it in pencil lightly in pencil beforehand rolf harris does that yeah he does doesnt he yeah thats right i dont do it on that i do it on a big blackboard thats right thats right yeah there is that but well the way i do it is i i try and avoid the lecture lecturer yes because i assume the audience knows as much about control and sub contractors as i do right but the idea is to to get their ideas so that you can tell somebody else how you do it on your side then you can tell somebody else yeah the need i need to change information yeah it brings out some interesting ideas i bet it does and i the flipchart yeah and thats thats the only way its amazing we ever get any sort of right let me just then talk very briefly about this fella now were fortunate with with this that if i turn it on its very quiet but if any of you had and im sure jeff youve probably seen it where you get some older machines and the fan in there rattles like mad and theres nothing worse than having that thing rattling all all the day so the first point is if youre going to show something show it let everybody deal with it let everybody look at it then when youve finished with that turn it off because you want the centre of attention to come back to you presumably even if youve got a series of slides i recommend that you turn it off between each one so that you know the audience dont see the things being put into position or moved about because that can be a bit distracting so er it does mean that youd obviously need to know where the on off switch is and and this is a nice one because its its right there now this this material that we use technically called acetate and the nice thing about is that you can write on with if you get acetate pens so you can freehand to produce sketches diagrams etcetera obviously you can have photocopies or laser prints copied on to this material but i have here some pens and a box of blank acetates which you will have the opportunity later to use if you so wish now weve got a variety of colours there weve got two four six eight colour okay if you want to make a point if somethings you want to make more emphasis than others then there is a hierarchy to these colours on this transmitted light okay this is light being transmitted through these colours and up on to the screen so i have a list here now it isnt in the notes so you might just want to make a note of this the hierarchy of colours whats the theory behind that its its the brain right brain response to colour and its the response through the eye to the colour some things have more they have more emphasis and they appear more important than others youll be interested in some of these colours i i find the order of these quite interesting so the hierarchy of colour im going to just kneel down there i hope you can all see right at the top of the colours i have here are is purple i often wonder whether that is the reason why royalty is asso or purple is associated with the royalty purple robes etcetera i dont know interesting interesting question but of the colours weve got here in this list purple is the one that has the most impact followed by blue bruceploitation bruceploitation is a martial arts themed exploitation films subgenre after cashing on bruces popularity that are either from hong kong taiwan united states and south korea are plagiarized or ripoff imitations from bruce lee the same was similar to sharksploitation bruceploitation turksploitation 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mahdavia mahdavia mahdawi is a mahdiist movement founded in the 15th century which follows the principles set forth by syed jaunpuri a subsect of mahdavia called zikri is mostly practised in pakistan last week week before i was told a chest infection and throat infection and well i just dont feel no better coughing all the while ive also been sick but er yeah i sto i havent been sick for er about a week right now right youve just finished a course of antibiotics havent you yes and thats fine and before that er yeah do you smoke do you smoke no right okay and nothing coming up no i i i get a bit there every now and then and heave and that yeah makes me feel even worse yeah like cos i yeah what job do you do a miner okay open wide for me stick your tongue out say ah ah yeah it looks pretty good down there okay well lets have a listen to your chest yeah theyll be fine bit cool nice deep breath mm keep breathing for me very deep breaths out well how would you feel if er a if i said sort of describe how you feel on a scale of one to ten er right now im two one two or lower yeah do you get feel really low and out of breath easily yeah are you getting hot sweats yeah do now and then yeah have you been anywhere exotic on holiday in the past three months no past year no and conditions down the pits hot damp water well our pits theres a lot of water but its its mostly body sweat and s i do get some water off a a machine that i drive yeah but er its it is very hot its n no a hundred degrees humid yeah okay previous to this youve been fit and well cos weve yeah yeah hardly seen you at all no okay youve got a nasty chest infection down here the whole of the left side on the back are you getting any chest pain i have been on you know with yeah the breathing i couldnt yeah you know when yeah i i wanted to cough and i couldnt yeah because i couldnt take a okay big breath right every time i took a big breath i were getting short pains all down this side yeah well it it not yesterday the day before i got them under my right shoulder blade yeah like when i took a big breath it were the right okay we erm probably ought to do some blood tests too yeah and a chest xray and some antibiotics are you not fit for work well i should have started back yesterday no but so youre not fit for work youre not fit for work dont often tell people theyre not fit i normally say how do you feel but not in your case i was worried about the the work i i couldnt get in to see you until today yeah and i should have started back yesterday like do you think you can roll your sleeve up have you had blood taken before i think so yeah but a while ago right which sleeve left or right whichever youve got good veins in really just er has anyone else been unwell with anything similar that youre aware of my son was about three week ago but it w it wasnt as bad as this he got a bad cough and yeah things like but he wasnt youre not taking any pills and tablets at all are you no only i have had those what the yeah they obviously havent worked er i keep getting a lot of headaches and i think its with the hacking and coughing im doing i should think so and i just er you know i have paracetamol or aspirin okayone two three im sure youve got one of these really strange chest infections and these are the ones that tend to hit young healthy fit young adults yeah well its rare for me to come to the doctors but last three week ive been here like every week kind of thing mm well theyre not common but every now and again we see someone who looks like theyve got a straightforward problem that doesnt get better yeah and its the not do you want to press over there it tends to be the the not getting better with normal things that gives it away yeah and im sure when we do these blood tests well find that things are not altogether normal now sometimes its actually the way you respond to treatment that gives it away rather than mm doing blood tests but er were going to treat you somewhat differently now well probably need to repeat some of these in about ten to fourteen days the lab really want two samples im going to ask them to run them today to well to run them now theyll still take a week to come back even if they do run them today thats okay isnt it yeah okay the other thing you need is a chest xray and thats very important er to see exactly what degree of trouble is going on because theres an awful lot of rubbish to hear rattling around well find theres a quite a lot to see on a film its isnt it yes thats right now if you nip down to the victoria hospital if you know where that is in mansfield yeah the one its called mansfield community yeah i know which one you mean yeah er you can go to the xray department there any day monday to friday any time between nine and four thirty so its basically all day every day okay if you get yourself down there theyll do a chest xray you dont need an appointment there should be minimal waiting time in and out okay have i go that have i to hang about for the re the recor the no they they send it theyll sort it all out they send the report to me okay yeah okay now its important that we review you you do need to be seen next week really ah unfortunately im not here to follow you up cos im actually away next week sorry about that but you really do need to be seen next week to have a look at the initial blood results the chest xray more importantly how are you getting on thats more important now this stuff is two a day as a single daily dose on an empty stomach okay for i think wed probably better keep you going for how about six da hmm for five days thats actually quite a long course for this stuff cos it lasts an awful long time in the body so thats a these are a pretty hefty dose of antibiotics yeah two a a day as a single dose strictly on an empty stomach so at least half an hour to an hour before food yes okay for five days boom boom boom boom boom its completely different from what youve had before er if it upsets your tummy let us know but thats actually very uncommon this is the stuff i used for my sinusitis its wonderful okay its not quite like domestos by mouth but its not far short if the blood tests show anything specific that we need to get back to you on we will contact you directly are you on the phone yes lovely okay and you need a note im gonna put two weeks cos im sure youre not going to be g fit e you wont feel fit okay to go back that quickly even if your chest is clearing rapidly ill put atypical chest infection we may be able to actually narrow it down to a particular bug and thats what these are for yeah but er we will see okay thank you very much so its very important we get you seen next week even if you feel a lot better er note chest xray do you want me to make an appointment next week while im here blood s yes i youll have to see one of either doctor or doctor im afraid but er if i if i write everything down theyll know exactly where we are and whats going on okeydoke thank you not at all take care of yourself plenty to drink ordinary wise i would avoid alcohol even though they dont actually antibiotics itll probably make you feel more knackered than you already are yeah thanks right right thank you very much then okay take care of yourself right cheers bye now 4a games 4a games limited is a ukrainianmaltese video game developer based in sliema malta the company was founded in kyiv ukraine the company is best known for making themetrovideo game series fordyce arkansas fordyce is a city in the us state of arkansas cel cel can mean
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ammonia ammonia is used as a fuel as a fertilizer for crops and for making many other things natural gas is also converted into monomers to make many plastic products right mr gordon i think the room is now as full as it can get so well kick off todays proceedings er could you start by introducing your team for the record yes of course it will be a pleasure im jack gordon im director general of aircraft one with the ministry of defence im the project manager for the united kingdom er for the eurofighter two thousand project at the international level i also chair the n e f m o board of directors on my left is mr william perry whos the director of finance and secretariat air one in the procurement executive on my right is mr er nick evans whos the head of resources and programmes air and on my extreme right group captain granville white whos deputy director operational requirements air four right thank you very much mr gordon er can i just say at the outset that some of the material well be covering this morning may well be classified yes er when you feel that you cant answer our questions in open session if you could indicate that then we will go into closed session at the end of the morning and cover that ground in that way understood looking first of all then at the operational performance of the aircraft you have told us already in written answers that in the light of the changed security situation you have relaxed the eurofighter requirement can you tell us an indication of how much the changes reduce operational capability in percentage terms erm well perhaps before i answer that question mr chairman i could just briefly skim across the programme and bring you up to date as to where we are and then well go directly on to that point very briefly would yes very brief er well the committee will recall that shortly after it published its report in spring ninety two the new german minister of defence questioned whether the project was still required at that degree of sophistication for our part we had no doubt about the continuing need for an aircraft of eurofighter two thousands broad capabilities this view was subsequently confirmed by a thorough review of the operation requirement which was carried out under the direction of the four chiefs of defence staff the review of the requirement and the options for meeting it er culminated in an agreement between the four ministers of defence in december ninety two to reorientate er the project we provided a note to the committee in january ninety three about this well reorientation of the project has involved a line by line review of the european staff requirement the e s r d to see whether it might be relaxed in the light of the changed international security situation it also involves rescheduling the whole programme so that decisions on commitments to production can be deferred until nineteen ninety five with first deliveries to united kingdom and italy occurring in the year two thousand and to er spain and germany in two thousand and two work by the staffs in the four ministries of defence and by the nato agency n a f m a to reorientate the project in line with the ministers directions is now at an advance stage the revised european staff requirement document has been signed now by the four chiefs of air staff this was done last month a revised schedule for the development programme has now been agreed with industry and this will be taken into the contract the four governments are also resolved to cap their financial liabilities for this programme so negotiations are in progress on revised prices for the development phase these have taken somewhat longer than we anticipated but we are at last making good progress towards agreeing prices for the eurojet contract and we are expecting to receive more acceptable price quotations from eurofighter very shortly for their part of the work the changes to the programme also require a new memorandum understanding with our partners the draft for this is almost complete but it cant be finalised until the costs of the revised programme have been agreed for each of the participating nations all being well this new m o u will be ready for submission to ministers by the middle of this year turning now to the development work itself in general the development work is going well there have been no fundamental technical problems there has been a very considerable delay to the first flight but this is now scheduled for april this year the delay has been due mainly to the need to be absolutely certain about the integrity of the flight control system software before the aircraft takes to the air while the delay to the start of the flying programme has been much longer than anyone would wish much more progress has been made in the ground and rig testing than at the comparable stage of any previous project i have been associated with and we are very satisfied indeed with the results that have been obtained so far there is assessment in the wind tunnels for example is complete and the results are good the structural test programme is also making extremely good progress and the results from the engine test programme are ex very encouraging indeed the performance of the engine on the bench already meets its full specification for thrust and fuel efficiency and even it exceeds it slightly in some respects so overall we remain very confident that the eurofighter two thousand will meet the full operational requirement so now turning to the point which er i think you asked us to address can we quantify or explain the areas in which we have made some relaxation and ill ask group captain granville white to answer that well the specific question i asked is whether youve quantified in percentage terms erm perhaps group captain you could give us an indication of how it has affected it yes certainly yes the point about er relaxations and what impact it would have on its combat capability i think the important point id like to make at the outset is that when the review of the requirement was carried out it was carried out both nationally and on a four nation basis the ministers once that was complete the ministers decided that and stated publicly in december ninety two that we will continue with the existing airframe and engine combination and that each nation er based on a family of aircraft concept could decide from a menu which equipments it would fit according to their individual requirements and their budget and we looked individually at each of the items to see what impact it would have on the operational capability if we were to remove them and what erm was decided in the end and the requirement reflects this was signed last month by the chief surveyors staff is that some nations have decided to remove certain items of equipment but for the u k we felt that it was necessary to keep all the major items and therefore as far as the u k is erm impact on the operational requirement is concerned there is no significant alteration in its operational capability and therefore in overall percentage terms there is no decrease in the capability at all now individual nations whove decided to do without a particular item of equipment clearly that will be developed into the aircraft and therefore they have the option to if they wish to d decide later on to fit it in thank you ill i think at least four particular areas where the united kingdom has decided not to as it were take the full specification er can we have a look at those or or at least has accepted specific changes to those specifications can we have a look at those four and if you could id be grateful if you can tell me what change in the security situation as envisaged by the government has led to our acceptance of those changes now the first one which was mentioned by the minister in the r a f debate er is the reduced requirement to operate on damaged runways what change of perception in the security situation has led to our accepting that diminution of capability yes the there are two aspects really to that one is the length of runway operating er and the other is the surface erm if i could take the first one when the requirement was originally written erm and agreed in nineteen eighty seven all of the nations decided that erm we required a short take off and landing capability and that was based on the sort of the then cold war situation where the prospects of runways and airfields being very severely damaged in a sort of central european type of scenario and therefore the possibility that there might be only very small operating strips available from those runways and that was the basis for the particular length that was decided at the time because of the changed security situation and that type of er conflict not being envisaged in the same way now what we felt was important was to be able to operate er apart from main operating bases but also from sort of general purpose erm strips flying clubs and those type of smaller airfields and therefore rather than looking at the damaged runway situation we looked at the smaller strips and took a length that we could sensibly operate from erm and took that as the yardstick but clearly notwithstanding that there is the prospect of damaged runways and therefore the slight relaxation would also apply to damaged runways but perhaps damaged to a lesser extent i think perhaps if i just add a point to that er although we have as four nations agreed on the revised requirement there i believe its true to say that development has progressed to such an extent that probably we will have the original requirement in practice even though weve no longer specified it thats very encouraging for no extra charge can we then look at the reduced engine thrust erm this presumably would have a significant impact on combat performance er why is there any change in the security situation that would warrant such a a relaxation yes the particular item that was deleted was known as the combat override facility which erm was really a trade off erm to provide extra thrust against the reduced life of the engine and clearly if one operates at the top end of the engine spectrum in er hotter conditions and higher er r p m then clearly the life of the engine will be reduced now we had originally had this extra facility available er so that we could trade off life against the extra thrust in an emergency but there was clearly the possibility erm that that might be used er when it really wasnt necessary and we would end up with extra costs extra life cycle costs shorter engine life and it was felt on balance that with a reduced threat overall that it was sensible to take out that facility and to accept a longer engine life but not theres no reduction in the total normal thrust but its merely its override combat facility i it doesnt speak very highly if i may say so group captain for r a f discipline if what youre telling me and telling the committee that you think that pilots should be using this facility would be using this facility when theyre ordered not to no i wasnt suggesting that mr chairman well why would it be used in circumstances when it was not needed otherwise i was only thinking really of erm particularly extreme situations erm and i would expect it to be used for example in normal training or anything like that and er certainly all the studies show that the normal thrust full thrust that was available was sufficient to meet the threat and this extra capability really was a a sort of an extra that was added in early on and really wasnt felt on any of the combat modelling to be necessary i think i would actually like to pursue that point group captain but i i think id rather pursue it in in the closed session than an open session now can we move on to the reduced quantities of role equipment can you tell us what role equipment items have been deleted yes it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the u k was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come on that point erm as far as the drop tanks are concerned does that have any impact on the range or are you just talking about the numbers that you will have spare theyre purely on on the numbers the same er stand the different sizes would still be available there would merely be fewer of them in total stocks but would you envisage that the numbers er of aircraft actually kitted out with these things have been reduced or are you talking about having spares in case they get lost or damaged no the the very name as the name implies in many cases we would er jettison the drop tanks before entering combat and er therefore there is an agreed rate at which we would expect to use them so that they are a a usable stock in operations and in training presumably do you drop them in training or do you not no not normally no so its only operational yes and can you give an indication of how quickly these things could be ordered in an emergency perhaps i can take that one er group captain once the erm drop tanks have been developed and have entered production in most of the lead time one associates with providing a capability has er has actually been avoided so we could reorder probably within a year very reassuring mr gordon i were not necessarily gonna have a years warning that that were going to need these aircraft in the event of war well that of course er may be true but er as the group captain has has said here in the reduced er spec position which we now face and judgement was taken as to how much we should invest in stocks of reserve drop tanks at this point and the option exists to order more can i ask its absolutely meaningless to me do you mean a month three months nine months eleven months eleven and a half months what do you mean no what i mean is that er once the item is in production if you wish to order another hundred drop tanks or another thousand drop tanks if you make that order then approximately one year later you would receive deliveries of those tanks against that order now that would be the normal peacetime lead time if we could accelerate that in industry and find some way of doing it then it may well be possible to do in quicker time than that so in approximately one year you might be fourteen months or fifteen months i im er quoting a hypothetical situation here that we have entered production with er production line for drop tanks maybe producing two three thousand tanks against a projected usage for the next ten years and sometime during that period we decide you want to order an additional thousand tanks two thousand tanks then you could adjust the rate at which the deliveries occur you could adjust the the the total quantity and with about a years notice industry can get in the materials and produce the goods for you does that answer your question if er there was a crisis and there was a need for a rush order er one would be talking of weeks for something that is predesigned to start coming off the production line experience during the falklands war and during gulf war indicated that once an item was in production tremendous acceleration is possible in the real war situation yes i was discussing a year for a normal peacetime lead time presumably drop tanks arent lost very often in peace time its operations that youve actually jettisoned is that right that is absolutely right correct bruce george thank youi do you feel a little uneasy at changing operational requirements based on er an assessment of a threat in nineteen ninety two ninety three which i presume would have to remain valid until two thousand and twenty so how confident are you that potential adversaries will not have the capability in two thousand and twenty to make a mess of our runways as the soviets would have done during the er the cold war erm im asking this question to e satisfy myself that these changes and reduction in costs are not the result of political expediency as opposed to er a genuine assessment of what the risk in the change environment is likely to be fine that is precisely the background to the study which was conducted by the four chiefs of defence staff they were asking that kind of question and ill now ask the group captain to respond yes er i think perhaps the point id like to emphasis is that the increase er in runway length is really quite a modest one er and therefore it hasnt had an enormous impact well the answer is yes but of course landing and taking off on a road is one thing being able to operate is another one because clearly one needs er fuel weapons ground crew and the like but landing on a road in itself is is not difficult peter my i move to er questions about the er comparison between the erm eurofighter and other fighters it might find itself in combat with well peter im sorry but the notice only said oncewinston is meant to lead us into that im sorry right im sorry winston churchill when you updated er the combat analysis using the latest data on eurofighter did you again compare er eurofighter with alternatives such as an updated f sixteen or f fifteen er previous combat modelling showed that an alternative aircraft er apart from the f twenty two did not approach the capability of eurofighter did the latest modelling confirm this and what is the next best alternative in terms of capability right group captain granville white yes wh when they reported to the committee two years ago erm i explained that there was combat modelling going on at at the time and indeed that was completed by the end of nineteen ninety two and it showed that er of all the alternatives available then eurofighter two thousand was the most cost effective solution to the r a fs requirements and yet it would it would not be able to meet up er to the f twenty two but other than that it was superior to all other aircraft at the moment erm because of the extra time weve got available because production investment has been delayed because of ministerial decisions weve set in train three further studies and they will look collectively at alternatives comparison in combat modelling and also in the numbers and if i could describe those three very briefly because i think theyre the theyre relevant to what were talking about the the two initially there are two studies which will look into numbers one of those is a top downs study which is based on scenarios and will look at erm a variety of different situations around the world from an analytical point of view the second one is erm a bottom up study which is based on todays commitments but projecting them forward into the timescale in which we will have the aircraft and looking in that way to see how many and and in what way we would need them the third one focusing in specifically on the combat modelling is what is known as a c o e i a which is a combined operational effectiveness and investment appraisal and this work is being carried out at farnborough and were comparing in single roles and multirole eurofighter two thousand against different aircraft so for example in the specialist air defence er side were looking at alternatives would be the f twenty two erm the current tornado f three and also an upgraded variant of the f three in the ground attack side were comparing it to the jaguar that itll replace the harrier g r seven and also the tornado g r four and then in the multirole arena for air defence air superiority and attack were comparing our aircraft against the french raphall the american f eighteen e which is the the future variant of the f eighteen the f fifteen e the multirole but primarily air to surface machine and also the f sixteen c those are the ones were currently looking at as the cost of eurofighter increases does there come a point where like the f twenty two i it becomes unaffordable and by how much would the performance of eurofighter have to be degraded before it becomes equivalent to the nearest alternative i wonder if i could answer that in a in a different way because clearly rather theres the option rather than reduction the operational capability which was really the er initiative that had begun in nineteen ninety two there is the option of course of er adjusting the total numbers and that would er have an overall bearing on the total programme cost but cert because certainly the judgement of the er the chiefs of staff was that er as far as the u k was concerned then we we should retain the operational capability as i explained earlier an n and not decrease it in any significant extent because if we did that then we could end up er with an inferior capability against a potential threat during the last year erm when we were working on the requirement we carried out a number of erm comparisons descoping or aircraft in various respects for example taking out the forward looking infrared infrared search and track taking out the the m i d s the multiple information distribution system and certain aspects of the er defensive aids to see what impact that would have and we found that if we removed any one of those erm then we would either come down to parity against potential threat or possibly er inferiority and that was really the supporting evidence to retain the full capability but group captain are you saying that as er a platform it has not been degraded at all theres basically no change in thrust in turn rate or in airframe g loading yes thats correct thank you peter was your question answered or not no in the air superiority role i didnt hear a comparison with the s u thirty five or the fulcrum m e twenty nine s er are there any other aircraft of er perhaps comparable capacity with which you did not compare eurofighter what weve donewon one of the points i think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years weve seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones weve also looked at them as potential threats because its possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those but the question that young pilots would want to know the answer to is this erm are there aircraft anywhere in the world with which you have not made a comparison in terms of air superiority no there are none so you have compared with the and the s u yes weve compared with everything and specifically the ones youve mentioned the s u thirty five and the which is an upgraded s u twenty seven and the m i g twenty nine s yes weve specifically compared against those two and youve been reassured by the responses yes thank you chairman thank you michael colgan yes mr chairman im not clear erm about something that mr gordon said in his opening remarks that id like clarified and that is that he gave the committee the impression that there were er certain of the of the partners that were accepting erm a lower specification in other words omitting from the what is the british best if you like erm certain items of of equipment in order to reduce cost of the aircraft both in development stage and at the production stage final cost of the aircraft unit cost erm we asked the question about the aircrafts reduced operational capabilities as far as britain is concerned we were told that there was no reduction erm there was no percentage figure that could be produced but w now what about the other countries i mean which countries are asking for what to be omitted and by how much is the percentage in percentage terms er is the performance of the aircraft reduced in those cases and further on from that picking up something that that wing com er group captain granville white has just mentioned which i is the question of sales yes erm it does obviously have a bearing on sales to the third countries when the er aircraft is in production do i get the impression that were basically building a a basic aircraft with optional extras or are we building an aircraft which can be to some degree sanitised because obviously there are some parts of the specification of the aircraft we may not wish third cra countries to have its a well known fact that aircraft are sold all around the world this can have a bearing on the capability and also a bearing on their cost and therefore saleability perhaps from those remarks its hardly a question but perhaps you could just clarify yes my er thinking on on the on what you said in opening remarks which dont make it clear to me whether weve got a basic aircraft with optional extras or a fully specified aircraft from which we can dat deleted certain items of equipment erm well i think i can reassure that it is the latter the development programme for the aircraft will provide the broad range of capabilities which was asked for by all four nations originally and er the fact that one or more nations may have deleted its requirement for a particular facility doesnt remove the need for us to complete the development work er because we still have at least one or two customers for that facility so its definitely the latter we are developing a fully capable eurofighter two thousand aircraft and if erm any of our four participating nations do not want a particular facility then we will make provision for them to leave that out in production and if an export customer does not require the full range of capabilities we can also remove them for that export customer but by how much could we degrade the aircraft and still be capable of erm competing with erm other aircraft in in the market well i i i would prefer to perhaps follow this one up in the closed session later but erm we well pursue that er in private neville trotter going to go into service in the next century its going to be around till well into the next century very briefly what would it do that the present generation of aircraft wont how is it a quantum leap ahead fine i will again invite the the group captain to answer that perhaps i could er answer that in er i think there are probably four points that er come out to my mind erm the first one in the airframe engine combination a very high degree of agility the ability to be able to pull nine g which is er generally accepted to be the physiological limit for pilots which is more than any of our aircraft can what can we do now by contrast er none of our aircraft can pull more than seven g normal aircraft theres also a close correlation by not just the erm the size of the number for g but how long can it go on pulling that g given the thrust and the aerodynamic capabilities of the machine and we are essentially building this aircraft so that it can sustain nine g and we are providing the pilot with the sort of equipment he requires to be able to survive in that kind of environment is this for a dog fight yes yes th it has er a considerable negative g capability as well would it be able er pulling that erm g to compete with the with the harrier using the technique erm group captain granville white the simple answer is yes er so i think the first of my four points is the is the airframe agility clearly the the ability to m manoeuvre the second erm is is and perhaps is related in a way er in the air to air weapons where erm in older missiles have had what is known as sort of bore sight capability where they go in the direction of the aircraft clearly to have the combination of an off bore sight capability for a a missile such as a s r a a m the er advance short range air to air missile the combination of the agility of the weapon and the flat platform together has been shown to be really needed you cant have one without the other and that somebody who has only agility in the aircraft or agility in the in the weapon will lose against somebody who has it in both so i think thats the probably the sort of related point moving on into the sort of sensors and the electronics side erm for survivability erm the defensive aid sub system will be er very complex very sophisticated but also integrated so that it has a complete system of protection for the aircraft erm an and finally moving on on the sort of electronics side then clearly with different sensors such as the radar the forward looking infrared infrared search and track the er multiple information distribution system and also certain aspects of the er electronic warfare suite then by having sensor fusion which enables the best information at any one time to be correlated into the system as a whole then that will provide a very good capability and far in excess of anything that we have at the moment thank you very much ill ask campbell to take us on into the question of the role of this aircraft we understand that some new weapons not previously in the specification are to be included are you able to tell us in open session what sort of weapons are envisaged erm perhaps i can invite my colleague from the office of management and budgets to speak to that one erm chairman yes we hope to to erm excuse me to erm that e four will be capable of er sorry e f two thousand will be capable of handling all our erm planned weapons er which are already in our programme the er conventional er the c a s o m the conventionally armed standoff missile the er anti armour missile er twelve thirty eight and the future medium range airtoair missile er whatever that happens to be er as a result of er competition what about the low level laser guided bomb is that also included in this yes it is erm does the fact of erm using the aircraft to er provide a platform for these systems er tell us something about a change in view about the role or operating concept of the aircraft erm group captain granville white thank you erm not not change erm with envisagement widen wi certainly broaden weve weve envisaged from the outset that the aircraft would be both will be multi role capable and that erm all that the primary design driver will be the airtoair air superiority role but the airtosurface role would be almost an equal clearly one has to have a a prioritisation and those particular weapons in the airtosurface side the conventional armed stand off missile along the low level er low level laser guided bomb and the future anti armour weapon they clearly erm really take the weaponeering side into the next century we will still have the ability to carry todays weapons such as the the l seven five five cluster bomb unit the thousand pound bomb erm and the c r v seven rocket and things like that but clearly as we move forward into the century its important that as the platform progresses then so does the aircraft are the any weapons er which the aircraft er would not be able to for example the j p two three three closely associated with the tornado er is that a system which you would anticipate eurofighter two thousand to be able to carry no it its too large and too heavy and really that is a different role thats more the role for the tornado g l one g l four and i think you mentioned thousand pounds bombs yes is that the is that the limit could anything heavier than that its no its not the limit er the limit of weight it can carry er heavier ones you may not wish to say in open session i think probably as you in closed session yes its probably more appropriate erm i was rather interested by the comparisons which you explained a little earlier in the evidence erm if youve got an aircraft which is er going to replace as i understand it the jaguar and the phantom which has already been retireder against which youve been comparing the f three er and the g r four of the tornados and the harriers then er that gives rise in my mind to the possibility that this is an aircraft which might replace all of these in which case will that have consequences for the still er publicly declared intention to order two hundred and fifty might we order more for example mr evans erm as you say mr campbell er the plan at the moment is that the f two thousand will replace jaguar and the tornado a d v f three aircraft and the scope er of replacing other aircraft er remains under consideration er provisional off take of two fifty er was declared at the d the start of the development phase and of course our work share in development is based on that number before we seek authorisation for the production phase it will be necessary for each nation to restate or modify its planned off take and that will be done very firmly on the basis of the studies which er group captain granville white has already d described which will factor in er against our military tasks which isy you know we define now fairly clearly er exactly what aircraft are needed to undertake those tasks in what scenarios and in the future er as you say there may well be scope for er adding additional aircraft types to that well i think i understand that answer to be an affirmative that if this aircraft is capable of replacing if you like the suite of aircraft weve been discussing then er that may well result in orders for more than two hundred fifty it could do because obviously there are a number of other considerations not least affordability er within the defence programme which erm from my point of view is a very important consideration but of course if one wants to continue to have the capability into the next century which the present er range of aircraft provides er then eurofighter two thousand may be the only available platform for those purposes indeed and i think the er the point about eurofighter is that its a very flexible er aircraft its a multirole aircraft its a cost effective aircraft and therefore it er as you say may well be able to cover quite a large spectrum can i ask you about er the medium range surface to air missile because er you wont be surprised to learn that er the committees received a number of submissions on this matter er which suggest that er er t to proceed with eurofighter two thousand without the medium range surface to air missile er i mean to be put rather bluntly to us that it makes little sense to proceed with the aircraft without a replacement for blood hound whats your response to that well i think perhaps i can start that and the group captain may want to come in er i think our position is that we provide as you know air defence through a layered system er of air defence aircraft and missiles and the simple truth is that in the light of the changes in the strategic er setting particularly er as it affects u k air defence we have decided that the provision of a medium defensive layer that is the m sound system to which you refer is not a high priority at the moment and the programme is therefore being postponed and i have to emphasise its not been abandoned well erm if i were then to ask you when what was your best estimate to when the programme was likely to be commenced i fancy you would not be able to give me any more precise an answer than one youve just given isnt that right well programmers tend not to be precise in this in this kind of er context er mr campbell but certainly we er as i said the essential point is that we are looking looking at the capability across the board and taking into account the strategic requirement as we see it in terms of the direct threat to the u k in particular which is obviously dramatically declined as a result of the collapse of the warsaw pact we believe that certainly for the time being the combination of the fighter aircraft and rapier will provide an acceptable level er of air defence with a much reduced air threat to the u k er which now exists we will continue to look at er the future programme er we will also as you know look at ballistic missile defence which is another element to this and that must need to be fact facted in as well but i think clearly we are not talking about in the medium term er and longer term we are talking about er a fairly late stage of the programme i mean how do you protect eurofighter two thousand in the absence of the medium range surface to air missile on the i think you you told us about er the aircraft themselves as it were providing their own protection but what else well as ive said we we have as you say y y yourself you have the aircraft itself you have the er the existing er air defence aircraft you have rapier and in in our view er in certainly in terms of the u ks threat er that is er an acceptable er er suite of preventative measures in the light of the threat which we now have i think i have to make the point to you that we are planning to roughly double the size of the er airforce equipment programme er between now and the end of the century a very substantial chunk of that is e f two thousand and its er associated weapon systems and you know one has to frankly take er a view on priorities er in the light of the strategic requirement and given the er extent of the threat as we see it the possibility of using er of taking part in out of area operations in coalitions that kind of thing that was the judgement we took er the medium term priorities were such that we couldnt afford the first er stage of a m s a m w was that decision to any extent er influenced by if i can put it rather er ineptly the state of blood hound when it was taken out of service well as you know i think the committee looked at this erm in nineteen ninety one and er i think it is fairly true to say that by the time it was taken out of service blood hound did not represent a very high level of capability erm and the gap there is a gap obviously between blood hound itll itll now be a rather longer gap between that and any a m s a m replacement er but blood hound itself was judged to be frankly not worth having i remember mr alan clarke who was then minister of responsibility saying rather elliptically in the house of commons that the removal of blood hound did nothing to degrade britains air defence i would not wish to disagree with mr clarke well i wouldnt offer that as a general er proposition neither would i actually in this particular case perhaps we should confine it to the specifics were talking one last matter please erm so far as i understand that youve not yet drafted the separate staff requirement for reconnaissance i beg you pardon reconnaissance equipment for eurofighter two thousand are you able to tell us what the timescale of that is perhaps i can ask group captain yes of the four nations in the programme the u k is the only one that has a requirement for reconnaissance erm and at the moment we are carrying out some studies which er are nearing completion to decided exactly what the r a fs future requirements are for tactical reconnaissance as that work comes to er fruition the staff target will be drafted and in fact work is already begun on that erm but because the reconnaissance capability wont be required until fairly late in the replacement programme then there is no particular hurry to get on with the work what we hope to be able to do is to complete the requirement the staff target this year and set in train some industrial studies to see what the various options are and then once we enter the production investment phase then that would be the time that we would er look to doing the development work are these costs included in the overall estimates which have been given to us f for the reconnaissance reconnaissance er yes indeed they are they are many thanks thank you neville trotter from what youve told us it would be possible for this aircraft to be so multi mission it could replace the whole of the front line er r a f fast jet strain could that be true group captain i i think the the the point i would i wish to make is that in whilst er its multi role capability would have enabled it to replace a number of roles and possibly a number of er aircraft and er as mr evans said earlier thats still being looked at the one role that it wont be able to carry out is as we were talking earlier about the er j p two three three runway denial weapon and also er nuclear so that thatthose two roles er clearly cannot be covered by it i i was also thinking o of veestol and and er the weapons going on and the mistakes anyway on on the developing a harrier replacement is the r a f still interested in that as a feature a short takeoff vertical takeoff i think the r a f would would clearly be interested in in keeping in touch with whats going on there of course the states themselves er the picture is not entirely clear er about er what kind of types are going to emerge in the longer term but we would certainly wish to keep a a close view on what was going on and of course there is a navy dimension to to the harrier replacement as well coming back to what you said about the load carrier we are supposed to no longer be in the nuclear game in the airforce isnt that right coming out of the nuclear role so that would no longer be a consideration i think i think erm its a question mr trotter its the long range penetrator i think which erm is is the distinction its the ability to get through low level longer range and carrying greater level of ordnance than either wh what about er runway lengths obviously depends on what its carrying but er how how does it compare with existing aircraft for that erm its very much shorter because as we were saying earlier on the the short take off and landing capability erm with er id prefer to talk about distances perhaps in the closed session but the er the simple answer is very much only one crew member with all the technology in the world some of us still think that its a comfort to have somebody in the back watching the systems well that particular subject of course is er er still a matter which is discussed with great heat er in the crew rooms all over the royal air force especially the navigators exactly and er we are buying er a two seat version of this aeroplane er our two seat version is aimed primarily at operational training but er we have examined er time and again whether we believe the er the integration of the avionics which is possible in this aeroplane and which is planned for this aeroplane er is going to be able to reduce the pilot work load to such an extent that one man can comfortably do the job and we have arrived at the conclusion that he most certainly can the er work which has preceded at er british aerospace in the the cockpit to bring together all the information displays and controls erm has been tested on er a team of eighteen pilots from drawn from the four nations to see whether they believe they can cope with that sort of pilot work load in in simulated operations and theyre content that this kind of cockpit is ideally suited for the task and they can cope so we are convinced that it is er a cheap one what about spare aircraft do you set out the sum er you must set out some calculation of how many you are likely to to lose over the life of the aircraft is there a percentage figure you could give us for that erm mr evans er will reply to that obviously we we do plan for certain levels yes i think its fair to say at the moment that that that is being looked at mr trotter together with er the broader range of issues on the er the operating concept er for e f two thousand but it is of course standard practice to buy not just the number you need for the front line but to buy sufficient aircraft to keep that front line in field for about twenty five thirty years whatever the life of the aircraft happens to be taking account of er attrition taking account of training requirements and engineering needs and support needs and all that kind of thing and all that work er is has been done is being done at the moment and er final figures will be put to that in in due course thank you mr colgan mr erm bearing in mind it its multi role capability and the fact that the u k is likely to be engaged in more and more out of air operations in support of u n er has any consideration been given to a maritime variant would that be er a practical thing to do or would you have to start redesigning a new aircraft er by maritime variant do you i mean from air to fly from aircraft carriers the short answer is no not at this stage is that because of technical difficulties or for some other reason erm er its basically that there is no stated requirement at present from any of the four nations for this aircraft to operate on ships er back in the early days of the programme when the the french were involved er we looked at the possibility of designing an aircraft er to provide the whole spectrum of capabilities from air defence er ground attack and also maritime operations off ships and er we we certainly experienced some difficulties in reconciling all those things in one design which was adequately capable in each of the areas thank you campbell theres an ambiguity i suspect it its a in my mind rather than yours about the nuclear role did i understand you to say that eurofighter two thousand would not have the capability of carrying for instance the w e one seven seven we know that the is not going to be er taken any further according to recent announcement but will eurofighter two thousand have the capacity to carry w e one seven seven no that demonstrated the point i was making it will not so it in the absence of the tasm and in the absence of the capability then its not gonna have a nuclear role no thank you very much winston churchill would there not be merits er at least putting in the requisite wiring in case at a future date that a c a s o m for instance became dual capable er perhaps i could make er one comment maybe mr gordon will ma wish to make a a technical comment on it but certainly when we began the programme and we discussed with the other nations in the early stages of of the collaboration erm it was really one of the guidelines it was the if we considered doing that then i dont think we would have had a four nation programme or certainly a five nation programme at the start i dont think we wouldve er stayed together it was really one of the basic requirements not to have that capability but is it not an add on capability er to a large degree if the basic wiring is there i think wed find mr churchill that it its rather more complex than that and and the requirements for delivering a nuclear weapon and you refer to the possibility of c a s o m being nuclear capable one has to be fairly careful quite a theres a degree of difference between a missile needed to do the two jobs and i think it would be rather more than wiring which would be er at issue here theres the payload and all the rest of it which i suspect would cause very severe problems with that er well we always start from what does the operator of this aircraft want to use it for this e s r d really is the bible and we have specified the aircraft to meet that e s r d and not anything extra er obviously if one of the four nations wants to build a nuclear role into the aircraft that becomes a very big political question first and foremost and we have just not considered it at the technical level at all because its er its not in the requirement is it a big technical problem or is it very straight forward er i dont think id wish to speculate in in open forum it doesnt require a great bite of imagination to see that the germans for example would have been extremely reluctant to have been involved in a four nation project with a nuclear capability available as part of it well i i i wouldnt er pin point the german attitude on this one i mean after all we did collaborate with germany very successfully on the tornado which has a nuclear role but the the four governments must first of all decide if that is what we want to build into this aeroplane and they decided that they did not at that stage i stand corrected fine if i just er end this this particular item in two brief questions from what you said about reconnaissance equipment it rather sounds to me as if the tornado d r one a is likely to be replaced by in this reconnaissance role is that right i think as a group captain er explained yknow the the operational staff have really got to complete their study into what kind of tactical reconnaissance capability they want in the next century the d r one a is currently an excellent er tactical reconnaissance aircraft all weather at night etcetera and er it will go on well into the next century so theres no great hurry to to make a decision er one of the first points has gotta be decided is whether we carry the reconnaissance equipment in a pod under the aircraft replacing some of the other weapons or whether we try to build it in and er but taking first things first we have to get the requirement sorted out thank you and as far as the jaguars concerned i noted that the jaguar is not being phased out now until two thousand and four that being a three year further delay is that related to the delay in production dates erm mr evans er no i dont think it is mr chairman and do we know what the reasoning behind it is well we do or wed it had already been envisaged that er the jaguars would run out at er roughly that time i think it was three years earlier though wasnt it well er the i mean there has been a slight complexity with the replacement er programme of course because er er e f two thousand was originally envisaged that it would replace the phantoms er as as as as well as the jaguars and now that er has altered with the decision in options to er get rid of er the phantom squadrons weve er been able to adjust the replacement programme such that er the aircraft e f two thousand will replace er the erm er the jaguar and some of the f threes er and the programme will be adjusted such that we get er the most cost effective er mixture of replacement of those two types and there is no problem with keeping the jaguar going until that stage and it may well be it is is being judged to be cheaper that we should er do some f three replacement at the same time again partly for cost reasons because its gonna be more cost effective to do it that way like the jaguar really be able to go on that long given er that er theres an awful lot of errors in the gulf apart from anything else well obviously that factor er was considered carefully by the ministry of defence before our secretary of state agreed that we could safely defer the in service date for eurofighter two thousand and adjust the the er replacement plan er back in december ninety two so we have looked at what is the current rate of consumption of airframe life on the jaguar er what can be done economically and sensibly to keep it flying safely and effectively into the next century and er we have come to the conclusion that we have a viable plan here which can tie up with the planned rate of delivery to service of eurofighter two thousand so are you gonna have to restrict training in er operational flights jaguar at a stretch just to stretch out the hours we understand that that is not necessary but erm my colleague may wish to no but it does sound from what youre telling us now that it is actually directly related and to recall my original question was it related to programme to which i had the answer no erm what you said well i i apologise were not trying to mislead you er mr chairman in any way clearly there is a connection if eurofighter two thousand was available earlier then they the plan for replacing er some of the aircraft in the r a fs front line er could be adjusted accordingly erm but its not a sort of direct one for one er if the part of the programme slips a year the jaguar must go on an extra year because within the r a fs overall plans for its er fleet replacement there is a certain degree of flexibility an and precisely which point the jaguars get replaced is er a judgement between them and their three i think i know what you mean anyway thank you neville trotter two er requirements for the future that er seem to be er er desirable are stealth and what could be stealthier than the present generation of aircraft and secondly to prevent you having to go over your target youre likely to be shot down so that you need a stand up weapon capability er if the payload is somewhat limited can it still carry stand off weapons that are effective er group captain those yes yes erm perhaps i could would it i wonder if you could just expand on stealth exactly what the er have actually already covered them another time and i dont want to get deeper in the stealth now than that theres a limit on the time now available this morning can we deal with the weapon question the stand off weapons i can answer that very briefly mr chairman er yes there will be the capability to carry stand off weapons the conventionally armed stand off missile for example will have a good stand off range that will be carried by that will be carried and er with a shorter range but the advanced anti armour weapon that will also have a stand off capability and that will also be carried go on into the development timescale and costs yes its now going to take two years longer i think than was originally er contended to what extent is this due to technical difficulties and to what extent is it due to one of our partners and germany ones thinking of in particular wishing to slow the programme down for fiscal reasons well erm its a combination of both those factors er as ive mentioned at the outset the development programme has moved ahead a little more slowly than we would wish the main reasons for this were associated firstly with the delay in selecting equipment er and that took longer than our contractor ha had imagined secondly the deliveries of the equipment from the equipment suppliers who had been selected er generally fell behind the promises which they had made so the main reason for the technical delays has been lack of equipment of the correct standard to proceed with the integration programme erm the erm the problems which beset the programme in nineteen ninety two after the german minister started questioning its future clearly had a direct bearing on that because many of the equipment suppliers particularly those in germany suddenly began to think hey this programme is not going anywhere why should we invest a lot of effort and and money into it and they slowed down so that has had a knock on effect in in terms of delaying the total programme and erm the result of all of that has been that the current development programme schedule which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running first flight still going to be in april we are confident it will be in april yes and will that aircraft be less capable in its first flight than youd originally hoped erm it has always been planned that the this er release of the flight control system will be phased through five steps and the capabilities at first flight are more or less what we had been planning er right from the outset the cost is going to be some three thousand four hundred million i think to er to the u k thats er gone up by about thirteen percent four hundred million roughly er over the original estimates half of that is due to programme reorientation because of the extension of the programme by two years as i understand it can you spell out what those costs are and are we having to pay more because germany wants to slow the programme down perhaps i can ask mr perry to er fill in the details on costs yes erm mr trotter er that er apportionment of the four hundred and fifty million between er the effect of programme reorientation and other factors can i just say that i had figured four hundred million it is in fact four fifty four fifty million sorry four fifty million erm between programme reorientation and other factors was an apportionment we made back in the er first half of nineteen ninety three and in the light of later information i think we would revise that now erm we are still negotiating with the contractors on the revised contract price and we do not have definitive costs yet but in fact the cost increase as a result of the rescheduling of the programme directly should be quite modest there are some unavoidable costs er on that count particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which results in extra costs on the engine side are the customers liability erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results i think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that u k industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned okay can you spell out how our share of the cost has increased because our share of the work has increase i thought that presumably the bill was still divided proportionately between the countries no the the bills are met by er on the territorial funding basis so basically we pay for the work done in the u k from which we will get the benefit presumably when production starts in in in in er general terms whether the production work sharing is shots fired shots fired is an american television program about someone from the doj looking into the murder of a white teenager by a black policeman and finding out about a conspiracy to hide the murder of a black teenager by a white policeman lamoine maine lamoine is a town in hancock county maine united states procellariidae the family procellariidae is a group of seabirds it is made up of the fulmarine petrels the gadfly petrels the prions and the shearwaters this family is part of the bird order procellariiformes or tubenoses which also includes the albatrosses the stormpetrels and the 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cant find our ye eun i shouldnt have sent her i should have kept her with me what will i do if we cant find ye eun what will i do if we cant find her what will we do if we cant find ye eun well be able to find her we will find her no matter what i will find her so dont worry trust me ye eun come here my daughter shhhhhh its going to get chaotic again tomorrow morning will you be all right by yourself i am fine its late you should get going let yeeun sleep here tonight and from tomorrow ill take her with me rest then kae hwa im unable to take you home im sorry i am fine please dont go dont go dont go dont go please come back come back to me that person has a hold of me i really loved that person its a lie that im okay without that person a lie a lie its a lie really please dont go dont go please come back okay lets eat breakfast its a bit burnt isnt it okay lets cut it off whew is it yummy aigoo you are beautiful you have to listen to your teacher today too mmmm thats what makes you a good girl here here good looks are definitely in the genes eh uh huh you you just replied didnt you you just spoke didnt you okay my daughter do a good job fighting oh sung min woo has arrived what are you talking about what do you mean a breanch of contract fine when its an uncomfirmed rumor hello they called to cancel the fan meeting and producer kim also asked to postpone the meeting the electronics company that you modeled for says that you violated the contract and want you to pay 3 million dollars including penalties for their loss what are you going to do just pay them out of my money so youre going to pay and go broke is that it fine and we can cleanly sever our relationship as well then you should know that youll have to get out of this apartment too right leave soon subtitles brought to you by team oh my lady of viikii please do not make hard subbed videos using the work of viikii volunteers the investor from western may be generous but hes also very picky with this kind of scandal we cant tell if hell approve of sung min woo being cast how could you have hidden such a huge thing im sorry i didnt know things would come to this im to blame for a lot of this but if we stop and think about it our production came this far because of sung minwoo that was back when sung minwoo was cast because of his status as a top star its a different story now that hes the focus of such a big scandal and this investor came on board without reference to sung minwoo what do you think chief will do youre asking because you dont know chiefs disposition ive already got a hunch you came the theater schedule is supposed to be set today right yes ill follow through on it do it and let me know chief im worried i heard that the investor takes a big interest in the casting then is there a chance that min woo ssi wont be able to perform ill find out when i meet with the investors if you were to come out strong chief wouldnt they be willing to listen to you since theyre investing because of their trust in you did i have a reason to do that you know how diligently min woo ssi has worked until now chief if you were to block it yoon kae hwa ssi you do realize that you are overstepping the bounds of your position dont you you may have been the one to bring minwoo on board but whether or not he remains in the cast is not something that you should concern yourself with be sure to keep work and personalemotional issues separate yes i apologize yeah its sung min woo can i talk to you for a moment whats up whats going to happen to meall that lovessung minwoo are you going to continue using him all the prearranged productions commercials fan meetings even food sponsorships usually get cancelled when something like this happens im curious about what the show co will do i cant give you a definite answer yet as you said your status is different now so well probably have to consider recasting im going to see what the casting directors and the investors reactions are before deciding thats all i can say to you for now all right i understand thank you for making time to meet me what about you id like to know where you stand the circumstances dont make what im thinking very important do they even if your ideas arent important you can still share what they are to someone else these are the keys to the studio there probably wont be anyone there in the evening in any case keep practicing because if you dont keep rehearsing then you wouldnt stand a chance the decision is up to you it will be difficult for sung minwoo to overcome a scandal of this sort look into the public relations papers and bring it back tomorrow yes thank you team leader oh well youve got to watch the kid so theres nothing else we can do this is the rehearsal schedule make sure you pass the information along to the actors yes min woos not on the list he should know too apparently chief already talked to him yes okay lets put our bags down and wash our hands first ill get dinner ready oh mom did you buy crackers hm theres really a lot here minwoo ahjusshi must have stopped by we have to eat dinner before eating those wash your hands first okay mom ye euns clothes got wet oh okay did sung min woo return home he hasnt come in today is that so min woo did you call where are you if your steps take you away we will keep getting hurt i cry without making a sound i laugh without feeling selfconscious i want to tell her not to leave not to leave but i swallowed the words back subtitles brought to you by team oh my lady at viikiinet timing by bemchu please have a seat ive prepared some scenarios for you it may seem like a lot but if you go over it it will give you a sense of what were doing thats fine yesterday yeon hee ye euns mom sent me a package she wrote a letter asking me not to look for her anymore ye euns mom was just one of many girls i dated at that time i dont even have any special memories of her although i thought i loved her a lot at that time after we split up life was bearable she was just another old flame i didnt even know she was pregnant with ye eun and the fact that ye eun was conceived from such a relationship for some reason to ye eun i feel sorry bad i feel really apologetic towards ye eun that she has such awful parents itll be fine if youre good to her in the future thats probably why ye eun was sent to you will i be able to do a good job im scared a punk like me someone who lived a whateverkind of life will i be able to raise ye eun properly my status as a star and all the money that went with it ive lost it all and dont have a thing now will i be able to be a good father i dont know anymore you will be able to do a good job the minwooshi that ive come to know during all this time will be able to do a good job dont be scared everything will work out buck up be strong how did you know i was here you like this place i thought youd be here i suppose we were a couple then since you were able to find me where did we start going wrong i wonder whats wrong with you that youd bring up such a topic people do change your miscarriage i really didnt even want to bring that topic up because of my difficult circumstances you had to take on too much and so thats why it happened how can a man not even take care of his child i felt too mortified to voice my thoughts in any case im the one who lost the child i thought it was my fault i wondered if your obsession with work was because we didnt have a child or if i should be grateful that we didnt have a child since you were naturally a workaholic i dont know what came first but in any case in one corner of my heart i always felt like i owed you something a child a warm family its true that i regretted not having that however i liked that you were the number one choreographer if i wanted both things it would have been too selfish i gave up on the idea of a child but in the depths of my heart it might have been that i never let it go to be honest thats the way it was you are a little strange what on earth makes you bring up all these things so midly talking at length you seem like someone else youre here its choi hyun woo the actor who can sell out all the tickets online in less than three minutes whats with choi hyun woo he will be the lead actor organize his profile and hand it over to public relations how did you cast choi hyun woo this is his first musical this is what the investors had up their sleeves hes fresh and appealed to them they got his agreement starting today have him start rehearsing yes i understand then sung min woosoutits a decision thats very chieflike he doesnt need human relationships and such the important things are work results and the final conclusion the curtain is it yes thats not team manager yoons usual facial expression i am sorry chief im not very good at hiding my feelings because of what happened you must be feeling upset with me from a work perspective i agree that you had to do what you did only min woo ssi has potential too wasnt there any way you could have given him the chance i feel that regret how do you know he has potential minwooshi really worked diligently you see the light in his eyes are different his eyes were full of determination if a person has the determination to do something they can change however much they need to do you know min woo that well well enough to notice a difference in his eyes i believe in min woo ssi you believe in him is that so as the chief of our company your decision is bound to be more important im just saying that thats what i think what did i tell you i told you to get out while you were still a star this is the drama that we tossed aside because the conditions werent good enough this time its not the lead youre the second guy but to begin with lets just do this hyung im not going to work with you anymore what do you have the confidence to do it alone without me no i dont have the confidence i might throw another tantrum and i wont have someone to take care of things for me making me drink making me money so that ide get millions i wont have anyone to do that for me either so i dont have the confidence but i still want to try it alone why are you acting like such an amateur you dont know this industry you think youve hit rock bottom dont you you can fall a lot further if youre unable to get back up and just wander around do you still think youll have done a good job thats true it could turn out like that but if i keep living this way i think ill be too embarrassed now i want to live a bit differently although im scared im going to try it alone this is sung min woo please make some time to meet me this is the place where i first met you chief isnt it saying you needed a star back then i didnt even plan to look at the script just the teacher that treated me like nothing was showing up now because he needed me i just wanted to show off but now i really want to do it not as a star but as an actor i want to do it do you have the confidence whether i do or not i want to try its not that you succed at something because you have the confidence but that you develop that confidence from having done something somebody once told me that and you also said that too didnt you whether i was a star or some runofthemill actor that you wouldnt make the decision until the last rehearsal please keep your promise you sure do make a request arrogantly i guess i still havent been able to get rid of mystarattitude please give me a chance instead of waiting for your reply im just going to get up whatever your answer is im going to do it min woo you are here i am sorry min woo really apart from saying im sorry i dont have anything to say i really just wanted to get close to yeeun thats why i took her really ill apologize with all the words i know sorry min woo its okay i found ye eun thats enough i heard that you had to pay a ton of money in breach of contract fines and that you lost all your roles this all started because of me it was something that was bound to come to light and it had to be revealed its not because of you so dont feel guilty it was my fault for hiding it all this time i lied to you too so i am sorry too see our photo shoot i think for the time being its going to be postponed too i had a feeling it would be you must really love ye eun a lot i thought youd dislike children and consider them a real nuisance for some reason it seems youve changed what should i say like youve become a real adult i wonder but min woo can i ask one thing yoon kaehwa and youwhats your relationship is it just pity for a single mom that is raising a child alone sympathy for her is that it theres nothing else right no no what are you sayingnoto that theres nothing else between us i dont think thats the case im going to rehearsal subtitles brought to you by oh my lady team at viikiinet timing by bemchu hey this is big news the woman who claims to be the mother of sung minwoos child has given an exclusive interview what what are you talking about an exclusive interview i had sung min woos child the woman who was hurt twice by having his child will you tell me the whole truth now its getting even more outofcontrol this is getting dirtier and dirtier that doesnt make any sense those are all lies whether or not they are doesnt matter its sung minwoos image when the scandal keeps growing like this what kind of investor is going to use him now i know why western cut him but thats not it who wrote that article oh yoon kae hwa ssi on that day what the heck do you think youre doing yoon kae hwa ssi are you in your right mind yes im perfectly sane im a lot saner than you reporters who made up a story based on a mother who doesnt even exist as far as i know that childs mother and minwooshi too neither of them are such weird people why do you make up your own interpretations of another persons sincerity just because its someone elses story dont do that like your spit out seeds is it all right for you to spit out whatever you want then what about the parties concerned because of your unforgiveable greed you write false articles what if that ends up hurting the child too what will you do then whos going to take the responsibility for hurting that child also whats wrong with him having a child min woo ssi has been trying so hard to raise that child well isnt that enough then why do you guys have so much to say about his image and his having kept it a secret or whatever its exactly because of something like this that he kept it a secret you guys have even gone so far as to make up stories that dont exist how could he have come out about it dont you think so hey this ahjumma has a point she talks well too what are you doing this why are you taking pictures of me again then who is the childs mother how do you know about the childs mother please tell us please tell us ahjumma hurry hurry go what just go so youre saying you dumped those pails of water on them how could i not get furious when they made up such false stories its because of those articles that you cant even be in the musical min wo ssi dont be too disspirited that you cant be inall that love its not like thats the only production out there im not going to get disspirited do i look like the kind of punk whod get so easily discouraged you still dont know sung min woo thats right eh you wont get discouraged right thats definitely min woo ssi for you min woo ssi think of this as a time to recharge and get lots of rest stars need to take occasional breaks too in order for them to appear even more cool in the next production the wellrested frog can jump farther you know of all comparisons did it have to be a frog but didnt the reporters get mad those reporters cameras are really expensive if they get mad what will we do if they write even nastier articles oh well then next time ill just dump dirty kithen water on them if they write something about ye eun or do something to her then im not going to let them get away but minwooshi now it looks like itll be tough for you to go home again oh well then ahjumma youll have to take responsibility for me what ahjusshi you must have been very hungry thats your third bowl mmmmmm lately ahjusshi hasnt been able to eat a decent meal ye eun youre enjoying your food too right shall i give you some side dishes here eat up ahjusshi you seem like a really good dad huh min ji shall i give you some side dishes too since im not a baby thats unnecessary could you do something else for me instead aiyoo yoo ra drink slowly will you you finished this all by yourself you know why would he have said that i wonder too to be honest your face is prettier that that ladys your figure is nicer your family background is better and you even studied in the us youre even younger than she is why is it that woman instead of you i wonder i dont know that ladys been married before shes even divorced she even has a child too this is totally a case of min woo losing it or going crazy it has to be one or the other ah then do they really love each other theyve lost it or gone crazy then it really must be love it seems so yoo ra are you okay yeah but my heart hurts a little subtitlesbroughtto youbyteam ohmy ladyatviikiinet timing by bemchu were finished right yes chief yoo yes i understand there are a ton of reporters here well there was so much talk going around lets see what they can do how far they ca go lets go yeah and now the show companys musicalall that love we will introduce it to you first of all there will be an introductory statement from the producer chief yooall that loveis a musical that ive been considering since i first started producing musicals i feel great that im finally able to bring it to the stage i request your favorable attention and interest in our performance thank you next we will introduce the cast the female lead lee so young our supporting actress kim mee jung the male lead choi hyung woo and sung min woo what is it please what kind of event is this for the lead role the actors sung min woo and choi hyung woo have been doublecast so chief had this hidden card up his sleeve why are you getting so touched by this looking at you people might think theres something going on between you and sung minwoo hell use thecardthat others have thrown out eh it looks rather classy looks classy my foot in any case this yoo shijoon always manages to do something like this oh how irritating i want to be a cooler man than hyung more talented than hyung better off than hyung when did this ahjumma stop by on his finger theres no ring then just because theres no ring on his ring finger doesnt mean he doesnt have a lover then should i just ask i suppose hed have one i wanted to be a cooler guy than you hyung to be more talented than you hyung to be more succesful than you hyung hyung i wanted to be a cooler man than you truly im a really bad person i didnt see her hurting i didnt know her until it was too late why didnt i although i saw her and lived with her every day maybe her heart has gotten too weary if i take one step forward wed just get more hurt icrywithoutmakingasound i laugh without being selfconscious from behid her dont leave dont leave i swallowed the words i dream about our love i pray so that this will last forever so that i dream about my future i dream i cant stop anymore so that it will lastthis love of ours our dream subtitles brought to you by team oh my lady at viikiinet timing by bemchu you did well min woo min woo let me go what are you doing nothing much with all those obstacles toward the end ultimately we mad a success of this performance i really feel overhelmed it must be for this feeling that you put on a performance min woo ssi today you were really cool i cant wait to find out what the reporters will say tomorrow i dont think it will matter what others say ireally without trembling on this stage even once i was able to do a good job i think in the future ill do even better thats right you will do you really have trust in me yes really kae hwa ssi yes our house will you come back to the house ye eun please be her mother her real mother subtitles brought to you by team oh my lady at viikiinet timing by bemchu please do not make hard subbed videos with the work of viikii volunteers how are things going with you and min woo i dont think i have the confidence to appear as a woman to someone what the heck did you do to yoon kae hwa formally apologize and ask for her forgiveness apologize im requesting this as a man who loves yoon kae hwa i will watch over her fuligny fuligny is a commune of the aubedépartementin the northcentral part of france
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maseru district maseru is a district of lesotho the capital is maseru which is also the national capital massachusettss 1st congressional district massachusettss 1st congressional district is a united states congressional district in the western and central part of massachusetts it is the states largest congressional district by area it is about onethird of the state and is more rural than other districts the district includes the cities of springfield west springfield pittsfield holyoke agawam chicopee and westfield hephaestus hephaestus hēphaistos is the greek god of fire metalworking craftsmen sculpture metallurgy and volcanoes his parents were zeus and hera hephaestus was the blacksmith of the gods he was married to the goddess aphrodite who cheated on him with his brother ares his symbols were a smiths hammer an anvil and a pair of tongs the donkey was his sacred animal the god vulcan is his roman equivalent description when hephaestus was born he was ugly and weak with a broken foot hera did not like the way he looked and threw him off her castle which was on top of the clouds hephaestus fell for one day and one night before falling into the sea the sea animals rescued him and took him to an island called lemnos there hephaestus built his forge underneath a volcano he collected precious metals pearls and pieces of coral to fashion extraordinary jewelry hephaestus built little robots of gold to help him get around hephaestus even worked with the cyclopes one eyed creatures to impress the gods and goddesses he made a set of golden thrones for them hera realized her mistake of throwing hephaestus off mount olympus and wanted hephaestus back hephaestus politely refused saying that he was quite happy where he was hephaestus denied her because he knew that the only reason that hera wanted him back was because he could make her items he then set to work and fashioned a beautiful golden throne and sent it to hera as athank you but not reallygift hera felt delighted by his present the instant she sat on it golden ropes and chains flew out and tied her into the chair hephaestus was still very angry with hera because she threw him off mount olympus because of his disability hera was trapped on the throne three whole days without being able to eat or sleep everyone tried to free hera from the great trap but hephaestusdesign was so clever that none of the gods could detach the ropes so zeus sent his son ares god of war to bring hephaestus back to let hera loose hephaestus made ares run away by throwing firebrands at him and ares made a shameful retreat zeus used trickery next and sent dionysus the god of wine to get hephaestus drunk hephaestus was not a regular drinker and hephaestus got drunk very quickly soon dionysus was making his proud return to mount olympus with drunk hephaestus on the back of a mule hephaestus still refused to let his mother out zeus offered him aphrodite the goddess of beauty as a wife if he let his mother out hephaestus agreed to his offer and finally freed hera he moved back to the forges because he did not like the busy life of the palace but he still refused to forgive hera hera felt very guilty and gave him loads of supplies materials tools and helpers for his workshop hephaestus made the best weapons jewelry and armor some of his greatest creations ever were the silver bows and arrows of artemis and apollo as well as apollos golden chariot he also made the shield of achilles athenas spear and herculesbreastplate in addition to this he made the scepter of zeus and the battle armor of the olympian armies he also made all of the gods and goddesses palaces with help from athena and their unbreakable locks on top of all this hephaestus was and is still credited with the invention of the threelegged stool and the worlds first robots his helpers included a complete set of life size golden maids who helped around the house marriage to aphrodite hephaestus married aphrodite when aphrodite emerged from the sea created by the sperm of the severed member of uranus zeus feared that the gods would battle over her hand in marriage so zeus arranged for aphrodite to marry hephaestus if he let his mother out of the golden throne hephaestus gave aphrodite his best creations and even gave her a magic girdle that made her irresistible to men however aphrodite did not love him as she was married against her will and she didnt like hephaestuslooks she spent most of her time with ares it is said that when his wife aphrodite does something unfaithful he smashes some of his materials through rage and makes the volcano he lives under erupt one time hephaestus caught aphrodite and ares on a bed while they were making love hephaestus out of rage trapped them on the bed and sent them to mount olympus to be ridiculed and laughed at by the other gods hephaestus was well liked by all of the olympians he was not involved in their plots hephaestus preferred to be alone in his workshop hephaestus was also worshiped by the greeks because he proved that those who labor are also noble hephaestus reminds us of the value and dangers of losing ourselves in work tinikling tinikling is a traditional philippine dance which originated during the spanish colonial era the dance involves two people beating tapping and sliding bamboo poles on the ground and against each other in coordination with one or more dancers who step over and in between the poles in a dancethe nametiniklingis a reference to birds close known astiklingthe dance is madeoriginated in leyte an island in the visayas in the central philippines it follows the movement of the tikling birds as they walk between grass stems run over tree branches or dodge bamboo traps set by rice farmers dancers follow the tikling birds legendary grace and speed by skillfully between large bamboo poles legend has it that tinikling originated during the spanish rule of the philippines when natives worked on large plantations under the control of the king of spain manly new zealand manly is a suburb of auckland and is located in the whangaparaoa peninsula it has a primary school an established shopping center and residential areas of big manly beach in the north and little manly beach in the south it was once a seaside holiday location until it became within commuting distance of auckland city
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mynetworktv mynetworktv is an broadcast syndication channel in the united states it is owned by the walt disney company and it is a major network their sisters channels are fox and abc programs list of programs broadcast by mynetworktv ophiuchus disambiguation ophiuchus is the name of a constellation ophiuchus a person holding a snake ophiuchus also may mean chemilly allier chemilly is a french commune it is in the allier department in the center of france la caillèresainthilaire la caillèresainthilaire is a commune it is found in the region pays de la loire in the vendée department in the west of france roseringed parakeet the roseringed parakeet psittacula krameri also known as the ringnecked parakeet is a tropical species of bird with a wide range in africa and south asia the indian subcontinent the roseringed parakeet is sexually dimorphic the adult male has a red or black neck ring and the hen and immature birds of both sexes show little or no neck rings both sexes have a distinctive green colour roseringed parakeets measure on average in length including the tail feathers a large portion of their total length their average singlewing length is about in the wild this is a noisy species with an unmistakable squawk captive birds can be taught to speak it is herbivorous and not migratory
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yazd province yazd province ostāne yazd is one of the 31 provinces of iran its capital is yazd group 6 element group 6 numbered by iupac style is a group of elements in the periodic table its members are chromium cr molybdenum mo tungsten w and seaborgium sg these are all transition metals and chromium molybdenum and tungsten are refractory metals connerré connerré is a commune it is found in the region pays de la loire in the sarthe department in the west of france haridra nadhi haridra nadhi is the largest temple tank in india may be in the world it is in mannargudi thiruvarur district of tamil nadu this temple tank belongs to rajagopalaswamy temple mannargudi the area of the temple tank is the rajagopalaswamy temple is a vaishnavite temple of the main god rajagopalaswamy krishna the tank is also called the sister of river kaveri and is sacred to vaishnavates divi filius divi filius is a latin phrase meaningson of a god it was used by the roman emperor augustus the grandnephew and adopted son of gaius julius caesar
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platt surname platt is a surname and may refer to soconusco soconusco is a region of the mexican state of chiapas it is in the most southern part of the state it borders the republic of guatemala on the southeast the regions costa sierra and fraylesca of chiapas on the east and north and the shore of the pacific ocean on the southwest it is a region of rich lowlands and foothills the economic center of soconusco is tapachula the name comes from the nahuatl wordxoconostle meaning the fruit of the prickly pear cactus it was under the mexican culture the farthest region of trade the area provided jaguar pelts cacao and quetzal feathers for the ruling classes in the aztec capital of tenochtitlan the soconusco region is the main coffeeproducing region in chiapas it has many plantations farther inland in the foothills of the sierra madre del sur valdesprés valdesprés is a commune in the hautesalpes department luzon strait the luzon strait lies between taiwan and luzon which is part of the philippines the island of taiwan used to be calledformosa this is the name used on the old map shown the luzon strait is an important waterway it is at least wide in most places it is about wide there are two groups of islands inside the strait the bashi channel runs between orchid island of taiwan and mavulis island of the philippines navulis is the northernmost of the batanes group number theory number theory is a part of mathematics it explains what some types of numbers are what properties they have and ways that they can be useful topics in number theory are important theorems in number theory are applications a wellknown application of number theory is encrypted messaging encryption data compression also makes use of the field
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danbury texas danbury is a city in the us state of texas takaishi osaka is a city in osaka prefecture japan population from japanese census data archimedesprinciple archimedesprinciple is named after archimedes of syracuse the first to discover this law when he did he ran naked out of his bathtub archimedesprinciple relates buoyancy to displacement principle archimedestreatiseon floating bodies proposition five states for more general objects floating and sunken and in gases as well as liquids ie a fluid archimedesprinciple may be stated thus in terms of forces for a sunken object the volume of displaced fluid is the volume of the object and for a floating object on a liquid the weight of the displaced liquid is the weight of the object briefly buoyancy weight of displaced fluid gold to use the principle to tell the difference between gold and another substance the concept of mass in practice weight must be added apply this formula to a suitably pure piece of gold that gives you the density of the gold sample the only unknown is thedensity of the gold object the density of water is 1 repeat for the experimental object nongold when you get a different and usually lesser density now you can tell what is gold and what is not and collect your reward from the king of syracuse that is why archimedes shoutedeurekasecond thoughts we do not actually know if archimedes used exactly this method an alternative is to use a scale on one side put the object to be tested eg the crown on the other side put gold ofequal weight immerse the scales the gold will go down and the crown up if it is not gold that is because being less dense than gold it occupies a larger volume and receives more buoyancy triglav mythology triglav was an old slavic god the highest mountain in slovenia is also called triglav its name meansthreeheadedin slovene an insurance company also uses the name triglav other myths are related to triglav these includezlatorog zlatorog is an immortal mountain goat it has gold horns it is currently being used as a logo for a brand of beer on a mountain near triglav there is a formation in the rocks of the mountain that looks like the face of a giant girl this is said to be proof of the giants quincysoussénart quincysoussénart is a commune it is in îledefrance in the essonne department in north france
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is that nice yeah i didnt realize how long ago it was till id eaten that but i forgot i had me tshirt on no i mean i opened but i forgot i had to switch it on i thought that would work erm jill can i see please no philip that was nice that was is that the is she alright people dont belch in this house dont they next thing i know youll be telling me people dont fart they dont youre a naughty boy you are jill let me see oh my god oh my god oh my god what did you say youd better have a snog has she has she met anyone has she met anyone mhm aha you know that is the most is it there is it turned off aye that was a nightmare i thought it was because you belched and the house didnt like you thats what i think of the house rachel weve got to be nice to it we didnt wait for very long in the did we when you phone your order and they say twenty past they really mean twenty past dont they i mean we arrived at quarter past and she said oh youre a bit early mm they just dont like even attempt to make it before then really do they mm mind you it was that early so they might not have had everything sort of on the go and stuff youve got oh thats good wasnt it and how much did that cost you can i borrow it a minute yeah blimey what have you got there jill ooh i fancy that shall i nip round there and get some that was do you want any oh no i just wanted to know if you wanted any that was all you would not you would not believe what i ate this afternoon sorry yeah you know like a lasagna tell rachel oh yeah the dish rightthe dish is about this this long this wide thats not that oh yeah it is and its about that deep and i make that on thursdays nice big lasagna and i ate it all by myself all in one go thats yeah yeah its so annoying innit yeah i think i might try it one one night yeah its dead nice you liked it mm what with a walkman is that the microphone im gonna take it to be what are you taping testing one two three oh lee never minds dictionary put that in your dictionary under b for belch shit im expecting a letter they obviously dont teach you manners in somerset i i expect a letter from they do jill cos i have i expect a letter from her saying how nice that belch was and what what perfect notational quality it was youre not coming to this house any more rachel what didnt they get on shes got yeah she has she could look nice thats stupid isnt it going back to wedding bells after it wheyey we should go on that why why yeah but you wouldnt get chosen yeah we would youd set it up and like theyd choose someone else or something i would cos the other two are burks and you wouldnt how old is she fifty cheek on what is madge still on it yeah oh how did you realize wed gone across so early what time did we get across at half seven i dunno i thought it was about half seven eight good grief half seven to eight what do you think jill any different yeah mm i always find the erm confectioners w you know the ones you buy it far sweeter yes because they add er sugars and stuff yeah whereas that is sort of straight from the its got more taste to it the other ones sort of mm its theyre more artificial arent they i mean that is from rape seed weve got a rape seed field behind us yes they yellow stuff it crystallizes what are we watching i dont know what theres a whole one in there no thats mine oh i didnt have a whole one i bought a half one if id bought no there was half yes theres a half one in the bag and there was a little bit left oh im not saying you nicked it im im im thought i bought one so i might have seen yours no i and thought that id bought it you know what i mean when going through the shopping bit no ill see how im feeling the thing is i do want to go to enjoy it whens that in the afternoon yeah go in the afternoon then get a lie in yeah yeah its what youve got is he old quite good looking actually in his erm late thirties hair his hairs thinning well quite short very s smart dresser quite trendy he got he had really interesting ones like erm old people speaking erm what else loads of different conversations here everybodys gonna have the same transcript though arent they theyre all gonna have conversations at home theyre all gonna have lecture conversations thats a good idea is louise alright now the things is though i was saying are you sure i mean you dont know what c contacts made so you dont know how tall she was you dont know how tall john was when he you know and hes really pissed off john who john you know the one who broke his leg well doesnt sarah remember sarah wasnt listening she was the one she was with another guy sarah was talking to john she knew that louise was staying at daves and he said yeah yeah i will do and then she might have been drinking yeah but is a odd girl im just saying that mm perhaps it would be better if well shes because like wed just like to cos shes gonna spend most of her time with dave and the people living with wont she live with dave its so annoying why doesnt she wanna live with dave why doesnt she want to why doesnt she go live round there or something she just wouldnt like it no she standing up against the racial stereotype with purple hair oh is she i dunno perhaps seen her doing programmes and this sort of thing who is she some woman whos got a hangup about racial problems marion hates cathy and angie hate whos is she living with her yeah i heard her say to cathy can i come round to your house tonight i just want to get away from she was gonna come round to ours marion ways gonna come back with me this afternoon oh what a desperate state of affairs sarah and shelley are very quiet they quietened down i thought do want and egg yes please erm the first two or three weeks did they yes they were saying like and what was that about cathy and angie dont get one with yeah corrinne corrinne her and susannah go up into their room lock their door with sally sally corrinne susannah all go up there to corrinnes room to smoke hash all night oh who else is there and whos the other one sally sally corinne sally susannah corrinne smoke hash is susannah the one with dark hair yeah yeah oh cos shes the angies friends isnt she and cathy and angie just dont get on with them or something they just sit up in their rooms and smoke hash and never speak to each other but but apparently and susannah are extremely tight with their money and its like you know she was fussy to begin with wasnt she and she gave up her telly for the lounge but she was offered it and like i said she yeah cos every time they use it she reminds them that its her telly and that she er could have sold it and got the money picky about people who does marion live with er erm lucy and sarah lucys the one oh the one gave you a lift home yeah and sarahs the one with blonde hair oh god she isnt half yeah yeah she would shes about shes alright ruth seems a bit bitchy the pair of them together i should think who else is there you live with three people compared to what you dont have to i here about nine so did nicole after that i went in the shower after you let nicole in yeah oh right cos i they always dont they i just thought she was shes got a cold and shelly was very quiet didnt say a word not exactly talkative i dont know who she is shes got blonde hair and sh oh i know who she is shes quite stylish for her age who is that do i know her she was the one who used to she was the one who used to s sell pullovers he can talk a lot it it really made me furious so she was a bit annoyed about him and she sort of can you be quiet please you know and who was he talking to steve no he dropped his donger on his and then he was singing frere jaques right and i didnt know the words to it so i just sorry i cant remember the words and he goes ding dong dong or whatever its called and that is so she went yeah and she sort of we went through it a couple of time and then she saidi didnt say it and neither did jeff so i dont know where she got it from because we used to sing at schoolschool dinners school dinner concrete chips concrete chips soggy semolina soggy semolina i feel sick toilet quick its too late ive done it on my plate and i never knew there was actually a proper song to it i thought it was one wed made up junior school so she was saying if he was like was trying to speak and he kept sort of saying pardon pardon like this hes done it to me when i was trying to speak come on eileen did you grey skirt and grey jumper well its been there for the past two weeks but now hes gone to l get a house has he got a job yet hes at london poly or something doing two year electric electrici oh yeah electrical h n d h n d or something you could never imagine eileen or catherine getting frustrated like that though can you catherines sister down there flirting in her and reading vogue it was something like laura ashley yeah im surprised she didnt get i know its a horrible thing to say but mm do you suppose they cater for such a range of sizes laura ashley will do louise cos that was a size sixteen and she rejects box it had a mark on it because she took it in shes got rid of the mark i cant remember what she wore now it was green wasnt it no it was a black t black top long sleeves and like a v neck i cant remember i can imagine it being a sixteen cos you know there was a lot of it and then it was just mine was had no sleeves or anything why you looked gorgeous oh it was horrible i liked it well n i hate wearing stuff like that i always have done yeah hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it i had a scarf round my neck and stuff round my shoulders drop one pick up one do this do that yeah ill do some little holes in it as well for you jill i used to love knitting until i used to make loads of mistakes i was gonna crochet a table mat shes doing a striptease denies having any girlfriends or anything he says only one girlfriend ive ever had netball queen and how many other people has he snogged lisa found out about that erm mark was going to and then he was supposed to meet her there he he went there and she wasnt there and then he went to the red lion and she was and erm she was like with him and she said and she said something like oh im going but she said mark said that she was flirting when did you see mark wednesday night because she paid so much for it over fifteen pounds right because she paid so much for it because theyre usually fifteen pounds each and so two would cost you thirty pounds and because those were so expensive so that girl must have paid er twenty pounds for hers she had her dress was slit all the way up you could see everything knickers on cos you like see the line are you sure it wasnt me no it wasnt you oh that must have been what it was then yeah it was i tried to say to him mark i think youre wasting your time but he wasnt having any of it and like ill try to him basically i wouldnt waste your time yeah because but then i thought then i thought well ill heres rachel do you want to and then like its be like oh im spoiling it for him and i sort of said well you know i cant really say obviously cos im not rachel oh gross did i tell you that marks and i was trying to tell him how did you know it was me how did you know it was rachel he said you he said ive only got eyes for one person it was obvious it was maybe its someone else though no he said no jill dont look at me like and yet she openly admitted it the other day wednesday night well hes going a good way of doing it isnt he eh fucking hell hes gonna get far like that he was stood in front of me in the sandwich queue the other day and so what does the purl do cos this is different here isnt it why has it got lines in it like bumps like that thats what it is because purl is but why is only lines like that because ive done two two and then knit two and then you oh right yeah its like its not very good to do it with that because you cant so if you wanna do a knit like if youre doing a purl yeah well hold on right you do it like mhm right you see that stitch there yeah you that that was the other purl stitch because erm you put your needle in front then you just do like the stitch same stitch but backwards oh like that and then you just take it off oh right then erm you just so you have to make sure you keep can i put on be quite your voice is so annoying you seemed a bit distracted last night me mm oh of course shes home i dont understand whats going on prime minister is norman lamont going has he been sacked yes and is he the new he was the exch hes the exchancellor yeah but didnt he say that he was gonna try and tory party i dont think he would because hes done in the past oh steve mcqueen look look who it is hang on is this the one with sylvester stallone in no no no thats erm yeah that ones called i cant remember the one in the shower yeah i love that film its brilliant have you have you ever seen this its absolutely fantastic youve got to see it its brilliant it is just the best did you see where i went today do you know where i went today you go through the other doors at the yeah yeah i would imagine so cos the groups too big because the groups thirty one people its like being back at school why havent they got it in some of the afternoon groups then i dont know because i mean a couple of people have changed cos its the only time that they can have it cos theres been such a timetable mess up this year erm so she said shed rather just have fifteen or sixteen of us and just do an hour cos wed learn a lot more which is very true this is what i hate about politics its just and shes a teacher but she does my mum does shes never voted anything else in her life or my dad my dad should be oh my god it is neighbours no dont arent they both gonna marry the same oh i love hes still in greece gayle robinson oh des who else did des marry he was gonna marry melanie wasnt he wasnt he did he have a romance with melaniehe used to live with melanie educating rita oh this is brilliant have you ever seen it did you watch that thing when he was talking about educating rita he is such an interesting guy he was like came out of school at the steve mcqueen rachel im sorry im leaving this here ill tidy it up who else is in it loads of people its absolutely brilliant common poorwill the common poorwill phalaenoptilus nuttallii is a nocturnal bird of the family caprimulgidae the nightjars it is found from british columbia and southeastern alberta through the western united states to northern mexico the birds habitat is dry open areas with grasses or shrubs and even stony desert slopes with very little vegetation gellért hill gellért hill is a high hill overlooking the danube in budapest hungary latency in engineering latency is the name for the time period that needs to be waited to see a result jerago con orago jerago con orago is acomunein the province of varese in the italian region of lombardy
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fort yukon alaska fort yukon is a city in alaska it is the hometown of alaska congressman don young and is served by fort yukon airport vireysousbar vireysousbar is a commune in the aube department in northcentral france grosse ile michigan grosse ile is the largest island in the detroit river it is the most populated island in the state of michigan it is on the american side of the river and is part of wayne county quingey quingey is a commune and former canton seat in the doubs department in the bourgognefranchecomté region in eastern france courtyard a court or courtyard is a space inside a building that is open to the sky these spaces were often used for meetings which leads to the other meaning of court as in a court of law
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babepakistan the babepakistan is a national monument in lahore punjab pakistan it was built over one of the major muslim refugee camps that came in the aftermath of independence of pakistan capolona capolona is acomunein the province of arezzo in the italian region of tuscany iran mens national handball team the iran national handball team is the national handball team of iran and is controlled by the ir iran handball federation pap test the papanicolaou test also pap test pap smear ae cervical smear be cervical screening be or smear test be is a test that doctors do for women the test tells whether the woman has cancer cells on her cervix which is an organ inside the vagina a doctor collects cells from the cervix using a speculum brush and spatula the doctor puts the cells in a liquid or on a glass slide then the liquid or slide goes to a laboratory for testing the technician in the laboratory looks at the cells under a microscope to see if they are cancer or could become cancer woman do pap tests because if she finds out she has cervical cancer early she can start treatment and she is more likely to live electronic body music electronic body music ebm also known as aggropop is a music genre that mixes together parts of industrial music and electronic dance music it first became popular in belgium
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public company a public company is a company whose shares are sold to the general public the owners of public company are its shareholders sometimes a private companygoes publicso it can sell more shares to more shareholders the dutch east india company is often called the first public company tailor a tailor is a person whose job is to make clothes to fit people a tailor might make a new piece of clothing or change an item so that it fits better they also mend fix clothes a tailor is also called a seamster or a seamstress for a woman scinax crospedospilus the campo belo snouted tree frog scinax crospedospilus is a frog that lives in brazil it lives in the mountains in rio de janiero são paulo and minas gerias dare a dare is when somebody tempts someone else to do something certain types of dares can get the person they dared in trouble however some types of dares do not mean to get the person who did it in trouble there is a game that includes dares called truth or dare some people who accept dares are known as a daredevil list of radio philippines network affiliate stations these are the nationwide via satellitereach tv and radio stations of the radio philippines network rptv rpn stations nationwide rptv network digital rpns upcoming expansion of its digital terrestrial television will be announced soon as possible in other key cities nationwide
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saintromainlavirvée saintromainlavirvée is a commune it is found in the region aquitaine in the gironde department in the southwest of france canadian operational support command the canadian operational support command is the branch of the canadian forces responsible for logistics engineering and health services kamen rider zeroone kamen rider zeroone also called kamen rider 01 is a japanese tokusatsu dramakamen riderfranchise schedule super hero time joinedkishiryu sentai ryusoulgerand latermashin sentai kiramager solomon islands womens national football team the solomon islands womens national football team represents the solomon islands in international womens football gambino crime family the gambino crime family is one of thefive familiesthat controls organized crime activities based in new york city united states within the mafia orcosa nostra it was named after carlo gambino
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