Green-build Expo 2013 takes place on 8th & 9th May at Manchester Central, opening from 09:30-16:00 both days and is FREE to attend.
You can download a seminar programme here or visit the conference pages to see what’s going on.
Well, worth the visit, last year was very good, even if you are not building, some fantastic ideas for every day use.
I all, since sounding out one or two people regarding a Community Champions Choir, I think the time as come to ACT!
Aside from singing in the shower, not many of us get the chance to sing in a group etc, choral groups offer abundant performance opportunities for the amateur vocalist. Its great fun, Relaxing and more importantly creates friendships with others who like singing.
It’s not about competitiveness its about making yourself and others listen to your wonderful melodiousness tones and making the audience smile.
Before you say you cant sing, you can! If you sing in the bath, good. With the right choirmaster in place we can be as good as the Army Wives!!. Although I can’t promise Gareth Malone I will try to find the next best thing, but before doing so we need a choir,
As soon as we get enough people interested. a meeting will be arranged for taking the choir forward.
A bunch of ordinary people entertaining brilliant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE
You will get a lot out of the out of the experience:
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PLEASE PLEASE SIGN UP CHRISTMAS NOT FAR AWAY! Those interested could contact myself, keith.mcmanus@ntlworld.com or karanbuller1@hotmail.co.uk
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Here is food for Thought…
Believe it or not in order to cut unnecessary spending it is proposed that free meals for schoolchildren of low income families will be axed in the forthcoming cuts. What have these children done to deserve these cuts, nothing other than the class they were born into? Yet the Government intends to punish them by taking away what is for some the only meal or only hot dinner they have each day.
Last year the Lords and your MPs spent £1.5 billion on their own free dinners which are funded by you – the tax payer, (otherwise known as Free Meals for the Rich!) So you may not be in a position to pay for your own child to have a hot meal each day, but fear not because you will be safe in the knowledge you are paying for a Lord or an MP to enjoy a luxurious lunch.
I dare you all to ask your MPs and Lords to cease their expense claims for free meals and for them all to insist that the annual “MPs and Lords dinner money budget in the UK” is handed over to feed these needy school children instead. It is not as if the Lords and MPs cannot afford to purchase their own lunch, is it?
Picture in your mind the child sat in a classroom, confused and unable to concentrate properly simply because the lunch that child used to rely on is no longer available. Contrast that with the Lords and MPs sat at a table in a five star hotel or restaurant, spending on average £100 per person per sitting. In the right hands, that £100 can feed 40 hungry children in our schools instead. Question, do you feed one adult or 40 children for the same sum of money?
Feed one adult or feed 40 children … please support us – Vote “Feed the Children” – they have committed no crime, please not let’s not make them pay
Hi all
Anyone interesting in attending please sign up. I have room for 4 in my car if you are stuck for transport.
| Event: | Conference: How Corrupt is Britain? conference |
| Date: | 10 May 2013. 9.30am to 5pm |
| Organised by: | The conference has been organised jointly by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and the University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice. |
| Location: | University of Liverpool |
| Contact: | `How Corrupt is Britain?’ is a one day conference which will bring together campaigners, academics, key public figures and journalists to explore how we should tackle the corruption of public life in Britain. There will be an evening showing of the film `Who Polices the Police?’ by Ken Fero.
To find out more about the conference. click here. To register for the conference please go here. |
Hi All
Not the normal posting but a warning to all users of Windows 7 as I learned to my cost.
Normally Installing the latest security fixes from Microsoft as soon as they are released is usually recommended. Once the patches are in place, you are protected from the latest security threats to hit Windows.
However, it seems that a fix Microsoft released in the last round of patches might be more trouble than it’s worth.
After a raft of complaints, including mine. Microsoft have withdrawn the download links for fix MS13-036 while they investigate the problems that it is causing.
Unfortunately many Windows users who installed the fix have reported that their PC no longer boots once it is in place.
When you install this update you may find that your system will fail with STOP Error 0xc000021a, and you are not able to access the desktop.
According to the company’s spokesman:
“Microsoft is investigating behavior wherein systems may fail to recover from a reboot or applications fails to load after security update 2823324 is applied. Microsoft recommends that customers uninstall this update. As an added precaution, Microsoft has removed the download links to the 2823324 update while we investigate.”
The problem doesn’t affect all systems that the patch is installed on, it appears to be limited to Windows 7 systems with certain applications, such as Kaspersky Anti-Virus, installed.
It sounds like the cure is worse than the disease in this case.
If you haven’t already installed this patch, I’d recommend that you avoid doing so until Microsoft have resolved the problems.
Microsoft have released a couple of pieces of advice on how to deal with the problem.
First of all, if you’ve installed the patch but haven’t yet re-booted your PC, you can quickly remove the update before it causes any problems. To do so:
Click Start > All Programs > Accessories, right-click on Command Prompt and choose Run as administrator.
At the command prompt, type Psexec -d -s \remotemachine wusa.exe /uninstall /kb:2823324 /quiet /norestart and press [Enter].
The update will be removed.
If you’ve installed the update already and find that your computer will no longer boot, you’ll need to use the Windows Recovery Environment to launch System Restore and undo the changes made.
After a re-boot you should find that your PC works again.
If Windows Update offers to install fixes for you after this, make sure that update 2823324 is not amongst those offered, or the problem will reoccur.
Hopefully Microsoft will track down the cause of the problem and issue an updated version that works perfectly.
On a another note support for widows XP will cease around August and Microsoft are getting some stick. It appears Windows 8 is a complete failure in terms of people upgrading so they have extended support for windows 7 until 2016 hopefully by then a new windows application will be available without the errors and mistakes learnt from Windows 8, Remmeber if purchasing a new PC ask for windows 7 installation and not windows 8
Have a great weekend! Keith
This ‘non-medical assessment’ was introduced in 2008 by the Labour government, and was identified as a ‘medical examination’ to be used to identify genuine claimants for long term sickness and disability benefit. However, what was unknown at the time was the fact that the WCA was a continuation of the planned agenda of the previous Thatcher government, whose ultimate goal was the destruction of the Welfare State.(1)
The WCA was promoted as a ‘fitness for work’ assessment for claimants of what was once known as Incapacity Benefit, now re-named as the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).
In reality, in order to reduce the welfare budget, the WCA was designed to resist as many sickness benefit claims as possible regardless of confirmed and identified permanent illness or disability. By 2010 the planned DWP welfare budget reduction was deemed to be too slow. The new Coalition Government enhanced the WCA and, following the previous Labour Government’s lead, it became much more difficult to qualify for the ESA(2) as the WCA totally disregarded diagnosis, prognosis or limited life expectancy.
Aided and abetted by the national press, using insidious press headlines to manipulate public opinion(3)(3b), the Coalition Government successfully introduced tyranny, fear and despair to the nation’s most vulnerable people, using a disability assessment model as designed in consultation with Unum [Provident] Insurance; one of the most discredited corporate insurance giants in the world.(4)(4b) At the same time, reported disability hate crimes in the United Kingdom(UK) were rising to record levels.(5)
Today I heard the shocking news that since the welfare reform changes took place 74 suicides are taking place per week! Please if you know anyone that is vulnerable please direct them to the council services, advice centres etc, We dont want residents of Rochdale to become victims.
Although welfare reform advice is available from the Rochdale Council, Community Champions and other agencies, for quick reference the following link will put you in touch with a welfare reform expert. Also plenty of advice and guidance on the Bedroom Tax. The site is updated on a daily basis so any changes or advice etc will be first issued via the turn2us.org.uk site as and when it takes place.
http://www.turn2us.org.uk/about_us/media_centre/news_archive/ask_an_expert_benefit_chang-1.aspx
Remember we don’t want any victims off the welfare reform to become a statistic in the Borough of Rochdale.
