A wee video of me in Glenfinnan.
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Information has begun to seep out that UK mobile phone networks are to about to begin to sell information to other media companies on the web sites that their clients visit while surfing using the web. Information that has been gathered over the past year will be passed on and used to generate more advertising income. Needless to say, this breach of privacy is causing a lot of waves amongst the independent bodies established to oversee this kind of activity. The GSM Association (GSMA) representing the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry announced at their conference currently taking place in Barcelona that that by providing potential advertisers with better information about what people do online, they will help create the sort of advertising ecosystem seen on the fixed-line internet. In the current economic climate, where even online advertising growth is slowing dramatically, many in the industry fear companies will abandon mobile advertising altogether. After much haggling and apparent indecision the Royal Bank of Scotland, 70% UK government-owned, eventually announced yesterday that it will be awarding their staff bonuses worth up to £950m for only making twenty billion pounds of losses during 2008. With the public up in arms on the news, UK chancellor Alistair Darling softened the blow by announcing that only the “absolute legal minimum” of £175m was too awarded in with the balance to be paid out in “deferred awards”. On the FTSE, real estate stocks were down on fears that the sector’s liquidity will be increasingly under threat. Special attention appeared to being paid to Workspace whose stock fell below its underwriting price of 10p on Tuesday, making for a total fall of 60 per cent since announcing its cash call last month. The Brixton company also saw their shares tumble 28.4 per cent to 48p on reports that the company\’s largest shareholder, Singapore’s GIC sovereign wealth fund, were about to announce losses of $50billion for last year. One of the UK\’s key property companies Land Securities also closed down by 8.5 per cent lower at 568p against long drawn out expectations that the company would be soon announcing a £750million rights issue. The FTSE 250 index dropped a smidgeon0.11% or 7.15 points to 6258.56 while the FTSE 100 finished the session up a mere quarter percent 3.9 per cent, or 10.67points higher at 4,044.80. Sterling fell slightly against the dollar and the Euro and rose slightly against the Japanese Yen and the Swiss Franc: Pound/US dollar 1.4166
Pound/Euro 1.1232
Pound/Japanese Yen 130.88
Pound/Swiss Franc 1.6584 Wall Street shares had a bad day on trading with the Dow Jones Average dropping 297.81 to close at 7552.6. The Nasdaq also fell 63.7 points to 1470.66 As if there was a shortage of scandals on the US money markets, a new one emerged yesterday. And it looks like being a biggie! The announcement issued on Tuesday that the Securities and Exchange Commission have charged Sir Robert Allen Stanford, the billionaire Texan businessmen with fraud involving Stanford International, his Antigua-based offshore bank. This article was written by eCommerce Associates for Bank — Accounts and our Finance Blog
the cuckold scene is one of those swingers lifestyle that true is not for everyone but those cuckold Scotland that do get off playing whilst the hubby watches are a group of people that are growing in number and the rate they taking over the UK cuckold scene will soon dominate this I really don’t know what has the sudden massive increase in Scottish cuckoldry, maybe its down to some article in one of the Scottish papers and people are thinking probably like most “whats cuckold” and you’d be really surprised just how swingers know nothing about this despite the amount of members we have To further help couples we have now added some dedicated forums sections, chatrooms & now a cuckold blog section just to further assist although from looking at the profiles finding contacts is the least of their problems, why? Well ask yourself this what does any swingers site normally have lots of couples! and single males! and in the past the single guy to certain extent always had a bit of a rough old deal on the swingers websites, after all most couples that join a contacts website will be looking for other couples or females but few would be after those single guys and certainly for a long time those were being left a bit out in the cold, well not anymore. Now it seems like the single guy or bull as he’s referred to in the cuckoldry genre is as popular as the single girls are and this is down to one thing alone the cuckold lifestyle as now they are in demand One thing to think about before you hit the join button is cuckold is not for everyone after all you do have to remember that the hubby is going to be watching over everything you do to his wife and whilst in the vast amount of cases thats all he will do is watch some hubbys may want to get involved So if you live in Scotland and think this lifestyle is for you then join up and you can be pretty sure of finding some couples that will be more than happy to hear from you
From 18 August 2008 drivers who cause death by careless driving or by driving while unlicensed or disqualified may go to prison. In Scotland you can expect to be tried on indictment before a Sheriff and Jury and get up to 5 years inside! This is for something you had no intention of doing. You may have even tried very hard not to do it! Lets not get confused here. If you kill someone because of Dangerous Driving you can already go to jail. The distinction is that if it was a genuine error, a moment of inattention then you can now go to jail for a long time! In the past Scottish courts have been unable to take the consequences of careless driving into account in their sentencing- For one obvious reason. “The driver didn’t mean it and his driving did not fall far below what a reasonably competent driver would have done in the same circumstances” I have been practising law in the courts of Scotland for 24 years and there is no doubt in my mind that this is a poor piece of legislation drafted by those who are more concerned with placating the tabloid press than justice. How can it be just to jail a person for being involved in an accident caused by poor driving. We are none of us perfect and can all from time to time experience a lapse in concentration or make a momentary error in judging a speed or a distance. Do we need to be crucified because another family has been devastated by our error? “Killer driver jailed” may be a good headline but does it make sense where for instance we learn that the careless driving amounted to a driver who swerved to avoid a collapsed drain cover causing his car to roll over and crash into another vehicle causing death? There but for the grace of God go you or I. Believe me when I tell you that the stress of knowing that you are facing conviction and jail for accident could drive a decent law abiding motorist to suicide. The ‘Don’t drive distracted’ announcement from Justice Secretary Jack Straw is supposed to highlight a range of new careless driving laws but seems to refer to those people who choose to drive while putting on their makeup, host a conference call on their mobile or chomp down their Big Mac and fries as they scald their legs with coffee and drive to work. THAT IS DANGEROUS DRIVING and we have a law that protects us all. If you cause a death whilst doing so I have no doubt any reasonably minded jury would find you guilty of causing death by dangerous driving and off to jail you could go. We do not need a new law extending “careless driving”. If the consequence of your careless driving is a death the court say it must be taken into account does this therefore mean that if the consequences are not death but injury that must also now be taken into consideration. I would suggest that the answer is now, yes. In Scotland we will have to see what the High Court makes of our new laws and how to interpret same. Changing the law in relation to those idiots who cause death whilst deliberately driving without insurance or a licence has been a long time coming but again it does open the general public to a level of judicial jeopardy that they have never been in before. If you haven’t checked your insurance company direct debits I suggest you do so today! (If you have any questions about this blog piece you may want to Ask A Lawyer
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September 4, 2010, 6:16 pm
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current pressure: 1019 mb
humidity: 49%
wind speed: 3 m/s S
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sunrise: 6:24
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