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The government will be announcing its defence review next week The budget for the Ministry of Defence has been finalised after a personal intervention by Prime Minister David Cameron, the BBC has learned.
Defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt said the MoD expected a 7% budget cut, but the Treasury raised this to 10%.
However, the final figure is thought to be below 10% following Mr Cameron’s intervention, our correspondent added.
Mr Cameron felt defence chiefs should have “enough money to do their job”, BBC reporter Adam Fleming said.
Details of spending cuts are due to be published next week.
According to BBC politics reporter Adam Fleming, a senior Number 10 source claimed the review would not see any substantial cuts made to the number of Army personnel.
The source said it would also see £750m saved over four years on Trident, although was not clear how those savings would be made.
Mr Cameron had the “highest respect” for his defence chiefs, and had an “excellent relationship” with Defence Secretary Liam Fox, the source added.
There has been intense debate inside government about where the cuts should fall within the defence budget.
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Initial demands by the Treasury were for reductions of between 10% and 20%, with many options put before the National Security Council.
Earlier this week it was believed at the MoD that a settlement was close at about 7%, but the Treasury came back demanding cuts of 10%.
Military chiefs said that would damage the front line in Afghanistan, something Mr Cameron had previously made clear he was not prepared to do.
Caroline Wyatt says that although the exact settlement figure has not been revealed, it is something the defence secretary “can live with”.
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Troops from The Royal Scots Borderers are due to receive Afghanistan Campaign Medals after marching down Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
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The Charlatans will be performing alongside Edinburgh’s Hogmanay headliners Biffy Clyro at the Concert in the Gardens.
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Pink Floyd put aside their differences to perform at Live 8 in 2005 Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has said the legendary rock band may get back together to play concerts for charity.
The group, who have sold 200 million albums, last performed at the Live 8 concert in London in 2005.
“I think all of us would like the idea of repeating the Live 8 concept,” Mason said.
He said the group could do “something that’s not necessarily for us, but do something for the right reasons and enjoy doing it.”
“That’s what I’d like, and I think the others might well see eye to eye.”
His bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour famously fell out in the 1980s but charity recently brought the pair back together for the first time since Live 8.
They performed three Pink Floyd classics for the Hoping Foundation, which helps Palestinian children, in Oxfordshire in July.
“I think it would be a very nice way for a band to gently move towards retirement”
Nick Mason
After the show, Waters wrote that the performance was “great. End of story. Or possibly beginning.”
Gilmour will also be a surprise guest during one date on Waters’ forthcoming tour, where Waters is playing the band’s album The Wall in full.
Speaking at the In The City music conference in Manchester, Mason said Live 8 could provide a “template for something we would do again”.
“I think it would be a very nice way for a band to gently move towards retirement, by doing shows absolutely for charity rather than for more income,” he said.
He told BBC News any such shows would be likely to raise money for a charitable foundation that distributed it to a variety of good causes.
“In a way the best thing would be to do a number of shows and have some sort of foundation,” he said.
“We all individually have pet projects and what we did at Earls Court [in 1994] was we pooled the money and each of us decided which particular things they would like some of the money to go towards, which was brilliant. That’s the way to do it.”
In May, Waters said: “A one off thing, for some kind of charity event, I could see that happening again. I guess three [original members] is enough. I would be up for it, for sure.”
The band’s keyboardist Richard Wright died in 2008.
Mason appeared at In The City in his capacity as co-chairman of the Featured Artists’ Coalition, a body that was set up two years ago to fight for musicians’ rights.
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The Scottish government confirms it will abolish prescription charges next April, despite huge funding pressures ahead.
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One of five US soldiers accused of the premeditated murder of Afghan civilians is to face a court martial, the US army says.
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A strong showing by traditionalists in synod elections means they seem likely to block current legislation to introduce women bishops.
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Dr Neumann said the miners were sent home under high security
A further 28 rescued miners have been discharged from hospital in Chile in secret, a health official has said.
Paola Neumann, head of regional health, said their release was not publicised in order to protect them and their families.
Just two of the 33 men who were freed in an operation that was viewed around the world remained in hospital, she told reporters.
They would be transferred to different hospitals, she added.
Dr Neumann said one was suffering from a dental infection and the other had vertigo.
She described vertigo as like a dizziness that made it difficult for the patient to maintain balance and walk properly.
The first three of the miners were allowed home late on Thursday, and Dr Neumann said a decision had been taken to discharge the others on Friday without telling the media.
“This is not necessarily because of the media. Please don’t take it personally,” she told reporters.
The 33 miners spent 69 days trapped deep underground after a cave-in at the San Jose mine, near Copiapo in northern Chile’s Atacama region.
For 17 days no one knew if they still lived, until a probe lowered through a narrow bore hole made contact with them.
They had survived by eking out rations meant to last only a few days.
Ariel Ticona’s baby girl Esperanza was born while he was trapped in the mine Supplies were then lowered to them while they waited for a rescue shaft to be drilled to them, 624m (2,047ft) below ground.
There have been scenes of jubilation in Copiapo as the miners released from hospital have returned home to be greeted by relatives, friends and neighbours.
Ariel Ticona and his wife Elizabeth Segovia hugged their baby girl Esperanza, born while Mr Ticona was trapped underground.
None has given a detailed account of their time trapped in the mine, but Juan Illanes described the first 17 days of the ordeal as a nightmare, before they were discovered by rescue workers.
Richard Villarroel thought he would be entombed forever.
“We were waiting for death,” Mr Villarroel, 26, told the Washington Post.
“We were wasting away. We were so skinny. I lost 26lbs (11.8kg). I was afraid of not meeting my baby, who is on the way. That was what I was most waiting for.”
“I’m afraid in three months, when the interviews are over, it may be difficult for me and my colleagues to find a job. I may end up selling sweets in the town square”
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The government has promised the men it will help find them new jobs although their salaries are only due to be paid for another month.
Health Minister Jaime Manalich said the miners would all be closely monitored over the next six months and he predicted that tough times lay ahead of them.
“They have to adapt to a new life. Therefore we are prepared to stay with them and to work at least in the next six months,” he said.
Edison Pena, who was released from the Copiapo hospital on Thursday, has expressed his anger about the accident, saying that when they were trapped he thought they were going to die.
“Why do these things have to happen? Because the employer wants to make money,” Mr Pena said.
Speaking to reporters outside his home, he said he was worried about what the future had in store for him and his colleagues.
“But I’m afraid in three months, when the interviews are over, it may be difficult for me and my colleagues to find a job. I may end up selling sweets in the town square,” he said.
The men have reportedly had offers ranging from invitations to attend football matches in Europe, to holidays, to television appearances.
They have even been invited by President Sebastian Pinera to form a football squad and play a team of government officials.
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Jan Collins says faulty work endangered her health The cost of fixing botched work done by illegal gas fitters is costing customers up to £100m a year, according to the Gas Safe Register.
It said 250,000 illegal jobs were carried out annually and one in five of those inspected are found to be immediately dangerous.
The register replaced the Corgi registration scheme in April 2009.
It is urging customers to check that recommended engineers have the right qualifications.
Jan Collins from Cheshire tried to save money when she hired a fitter to install a gas fire in the dining room of her converted barn.
“If it had been a standard room with an eight-foot ceiling and a door then I absolutely would not be alive today”
Jan Collins
He worked for a registered gas engineering company, but he was doing the job for them on the side, more cheaply.
However, he was not qualified to put in a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) fire and installed it incorrectly.
”I started getting very bad headaches and very bad nosebleeds and was really quite lethargic,” Mrs Collins said.
“The chimney sweep was the first to alarm me when he did a test showing that 50% of the carbon monoxide was coming back into the room.
“The only thing that saved me was the size of the room. If it had been a standard room with an eight-foot ceiling and a door then I absolutely would not be alive today.”
A gas inspector confirmed the fire had five major defects, all of which were potentially fatal.
Jan Collins’s gas fire cost her thousands of pounds to fix Mrs Collins’s fitter was eventually prosecuted.
It is a legal requirement for gas engineering businesses and individual fitters to be on the register.
About 120,000 engineers are on it and a sample of their work is assessed to make sure they are safe.
The register also has a record of which appliances each fitter is qualified to work on.
”What we want people to do is take a little bit of care and check they are using a registered person,” said Paul Johnstone, chief executive of the Gas Safe Register.
“Ask for ID at the door and even before they arrive it is very simple to check they have the right qualifications by going onto our website or phoning us.
There are warnings that even registered gas fitters may not always offer the best level of service.
Which? says it has been contacted by people who have used gas engineers but who have had continuing problems for years before they have been identified and corrected.
”Being on the Gas Safe register is no guarantee in terms of cost effectiveness, although it may be good in terms of competency,” said Matt Bath, a Which? spokesman.
“To make sure you are getting the best possible deal and are not locked into an unnecessary contract the best thing to do is to get three good quotes from qualified fitters.
“Each quote should show a clear breakdown of what the engineer will deliver as part of the service,” Mr Bath added.
Jan Collins still regrets not making the right checks on the engineer she hired to do her gas work.
She wasted thousands of pounds, but could also have lost her life.
Paul Johnstone of Gas Safe register said that 18 people died last year after gas appliances were installed or repaired badly, adding: “That’s 18 deaths too many’.
“The cost of fixing botched jobs has also soared,” he added.
“Customers may spend thousands of fitting appliances and when they’ve been fitted incorrectly, it costs on average an extra 25% on top of the initial cost to put it right,” he added.
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The guidance is informed by cases in the High Court recently Consumers in the UK are being encouraged by a watchdog to stay clear of firms claiming to use a legal loophole to clear debts.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said that some debtors are being misled by firms claiming to use the Consumer Credit Act to get debts written off.
These businesses can charge an administration fee of hundreds of pounds.
The OFT has published a consumer guide on the issue.
This comes after draft guidance was circulated in January, after thousands of claims were launched against lenders by borrowers trying to avoid repaying their debts.
The OFT’s guidance draws on recent rulings by Judge Waksman at the High Court in Manchester.
Some of these have involved claims management companies claiming that a debt is permanently unenforceable if lenders were unable to produce a “true copy” of the loan agreement within 12 days of being asked.
But the judge confirmed that it was acceptable for lenders to produce reconstituted copies of original loan agreements, for the purposes of providing the borrower with information about their loan.
This information can be requested from the lender for just £1.
‘Right paperwork’
“Consumers have a right to information on debts they owe, but it is important that they realise that these sections of the Act cannot be used to write off legitimately owed debts,” said Ray Watson, of the OFT’s consumer credit group.
“Although the debt can be classified as unenforceable until the right paperwork is provided, people are encouraged to seek advice and help on how they can continue to repay the money they owe.”
He said the borrower could not “sell” a debt to a claims management company. The lender could also add interest and default charges to the loan, and the borrowers’ credit record could also be impacted.
However, in the cases, Judge Waksman did find against lenders on some points. He said that copies of loan agreements, when requested, had to contain the borrower’s name and address at the time it was signed.
And he ruled that if an agreement had been subsequently varied by the lender, then the lender was obliged to supply a copy of both the original agreement as well as the current one.
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Greetings,
I’m looking to have a relatively simple MQL4/MT4 expert advisor produced around a relatively simple custom indicator. This custom indicator produces only one of three different signals (green, red, or gray) at any one point. This particular EA must be fully compatible with ECN platforms and am consequently looking for a programmer with significant experience in MT4/ECN functionality.
-> name: ‘SKYNET’
-> ea activation: every tick
-> number of open orders at once: only 1 per pair
entry criteria:
-> if custom indicator bar is green, then buy
-> if custom indicator bar is red, then sell
exit criteria:
-> if green or red bar is immediately proceeded by gray bar, or turns gray mid-bar, then close current position
reversal criteria:
-> if green bar is immediately proceeded by red bar, or turns red mid-bar, with no gray bar in between, then immediately close current long position and open short position
-> if red bar is immediately proceeded by green bar, or turns green mid-bar, with no gray bar in between, then immediately close current short position and open long position
-> % of equity per trade: 5.00% of real-time equity for each trade
-> mini lots: yes; use mini lots (0.1) to get as close to 5.00% of real-time equity as possible per trade
-> take profit, stop loss, and/or trailing stop: none (positions only exited with indicator bar color change)
-> slippage: 4 pips (include unless ECN compatibility compromised with slippage parameter)
ECN compatibility:
-> number of price decimals: has to support 5 (3 for JPY pairs)
-> order execution: has to support ‘market execution’
-> any other necessary ECN compatibility considerations
account stop loss:
-> if account balance drops below 70%, then immediately send email alert with subject and body of ‘account stop loss triggered’ to personal email address, close all trades, and shut off EA
daily % change email:
-> send daily weekday email (M-F) at 2:01pm Pacific Standard Time (Los Angeles time) to personal email address with subject and body of (daily = ‘X.XX%’), where ‘X.XX%’ is change in account equity over the past 1 day/24hrs; if change is negative, then include minus sign (i.e. ‘daily = -1.23%)
-> if the daily % change in total account can’t be computed and sent via email in MT4, then just the current account balance, as subject and body, at that same time (2:01pm, Los Angeles time, M-F) would suffice
If there are any questions/comments/clarifications regarding exactly what I’m looking for, please do not hesitate to contact. Happy bidding…
I need someone to take a list of emails and re verify them.. I don’t have time to cycle through a thousand of these myself so I’ll pay someone to do it.
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-wordpress driven website
-ecommerce checkout cart for 3 products only, very little customization is required
-paypal payment, & direct credit card payment via paypal
-we have two 3rd party pieces of software that you will simply install for increased backend management, no coding, just installation
-of course install a few simple plugins, such as google analytics, and a 1 or 2 other very minor simple wordpress plugin installs
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An e-commerce website that is developed and not quite completed, I am looking for a programmer who would help to complete the job to full functionality.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE BELOW:
1.) links not working properly,
2.) site needs to be configured for affiliate marketing/publishing
and custom upload for store front AND AFFILIATES display.
3.) Website, to utilize Banners, photos and Links for publishing and all affiliate publishing to integrate product for sale around the pages sides, top of home page.
4.) photo magnifier (enlarged) when roll cursor over or click on, needed
5.) USER friendly simplified admin panel
5.) (About Us) page may be included.
6.) I am open to templates if need be. And suggestions too.
Check out the Site Site. www.nolimitinventory.com and get back to me.
Thanks.