NEW year - NEW Windows On Your World!
Here is gallery 36
37, 38, and there are three more here, here and here.
Once the Festive Season is over (though it already is for some of us...) we will sort the various broken links, and organise the gallery numbers so they make sense. But the galleries above are now available so I thought you'd want to see them as soon as possible. Happy New Year! On that point, since the weather meant the new year wasn't welcomed in in some parts of the UK - will the New Year feel snubbed and angry?
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I see someone in gallery 34 was so determined not to have his face shown that he's up there 3 times!
Still haven't spotted mine, which may be my fault not yours. Since the images seem to be stored under the name of the sender, is there any chance some bright IT type could create a search utility so we can find our own by name?
I'm still waiting as well Anne * SOB *
and this made me laugh:
Thanks for that, Eddie!
A moratorium on the future sounds like a wonderful idea, especially considering its , as seen by the .
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ed
The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of global household wealth according to a released today by the Helsinki-based World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER).
The most comprehensive study of personal wealth ever undertaken also reports that the richest 1% of adults alone owned 40% of global assets in the year 2000, and that the richest 10% of adults accounted for 85% of the world total. In contrast, the bottom half of the world adult population owned barely 1% of global wealth.
The research finds that assets of $2,200 per adult placed a household in the top half of the world wealth distribution in the year 2000. To be among the richest 10% of adults in the world required $61,000 in assets, and more than $500,000 was needed to belong to the richest 1%, a group which — with 37 million members worldwide — is far from an exclusive club.
Now, hold up your hands and don't be bashful. How many of us aren't in that top 10%? (it's denominated in dollars, mind)....What with mortgage-paid home and all, I only escape by sharing it with SO and adult kids....
Sobering thought, eh?
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ed
P.S. on the following basis, most of us are in the 1% on one count or more....
Whoops! I didn't escape the top 10%, and only scraped out of the top 1% by adding in my family. More of us than should be proud of it are included in that disgraceful 1%.
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ed
Yesterday afternoon, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio said the Edinburgh Hogmanay do was 'definitely going ahead'.
Why? Knowing how the weather works up here, I was pretty circumspect at this statement.
Leaving it until 9pm to tell everyone that it was cancelled was outrageous. It was obvious ALL DAY that the weather was going to be awful. Too many English folk running things up here etc etc. :)
Can anyone explain to me why in 2007 it is necesasry to strip a boxer of his MBE for dangerous driving whilst at the same time leave a Member of the House of Lords still enobled even though he is a convicted criminal.
good question Christoff. the unseemely thought intrudes, - could it be because he was poor and is someone of colour. This is a digustingly hypocritical country at times.
Christoff (8) You wouldn't happen to be referring to the liar J Archer, would you? :-)
and a happy new year to you to Eddie,
looking at the WOYW pictures it is interesting to note that not one that I have seen features anyone traveling on public transport, who, therefore are all those enduring life on the "misery line"? Surely theres got to be a radio 4 listener among that crush of humanity?
Good point Christoff (8).
I wonder if Eddie can get the Queen to answer on this one... c'mon Eddie, she won't be preparing for the 6 o'clock news or anything...
Btw Eddie, I loved the link! Those crazy French! Imagine if people over here tried cancelling New Year! ha.
Couldn't happen I tell ya!
och...
Eddie, I saw that link too. I wouldn't have thought the French would've come up with such a wonderfully silly idea, but well done to them! I love it!!
fascinating reading:
Ah, diego, the fun of laughing at Jeffrey :-) It always brings a smile to my face...
Nope - mine hasn't turned up either....
Loved the Archerlink btw :o)
Ed (5) You are too sobering.
David (11) There was ONE pictue of a lady on the tube,. and there must have been A.N. Other to take the picture... Ah, but that was, of course, in London. They have public transport there.
Ed (5);
Since my divorce was finalised in late September I have no assets worth the name, apart from my camera equipment and the love of my family and friends. I've descended to the depths and had to rebuild my life all over again at age 43. In all likelihood I would not be here now without the saving love a my wonderful SO. At times I was close to suicidal even so.
So I'll place my self in the upper 50%, but a long way short of the top 10%.
Si.
Simon:
My SO had a similar experience. We went through it all together, and have rebuilt a life together from very little to something more. I hope your ex is capable of behaving with more dignity than SO's still does, 6 years on. Especially if there are children involved (as there are for SO).
My very best wishes to you for 2007. Your SO sounds lovely, and I'm sure you deserve each other.
Hey BigSis (20);
Sounds like your bloke and me could start a club!
I knew I was better off without the ex. Only I'd no idea how much better until she found out that I'd started seeing someone else a few months later. She told the kids (two girls, aged 10 & 8) that I'd left them for someone else. With the immediate result that my oldest doesn't really want to know me and I haven't seen my youngest since February last year.
No dignity at all. And there are kids involved.
She dragged out the divorce for well over a year and left me close to bankruptcy, then settled for pretty much what I'd suggested at the start of it all.
Sadly I still have to deal with her, becase I'm trying to rebuild my relationship with the girls. But it's a long hard process and no light in sight yet.
Si.
Si,
Baest wishes to you and yours, and Good Luck in climbing back up the slippery heap. Even at your lowest, your photographic assets and the clothes on your back probably put you well within the top 20%. Most of our pets live better than one third of the world's children.
Now where are those antidepressants.....?
xx
ed
Simon:
Yes, it sounds horribly familiar. SOs daughters (he has three) were all over 21 at the time he left his wife, who had been bullying him horribly for at least 20 years, including physical violence (from her, not him). Not only did she spin the line to their daughters that he had left THEM - which he emphatically had not - but involved them in the intricacies of the whole matter, including all the divorce proceedings, to a point where their loyalties were made a point of honour with her, and they were obliged to lie in order to see their father. And this when their mother was forcing them into promising never to lie to her. A dreadful predicament for them, and terrible anguish to us all.
She will have nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with me. Even when their youngest daughter was seriously ill, over a period of two years, her feelings had to be put before any consideration of the practicalities of looking after said daughter. One daughter married five years ago - needless to say, I could not even attend the service. Daughter wanted me there, Mum would not have it. Another daughter will marry in the next couple of years, we think - And it is highly unlikely that I will be able to attend that service either. SO and I have been married now for nearly five years, and together for nine years. I hate to say this, but I think you may have a very steep mountain to climb, based on our experiences.
I'm glad to say that I don't have a vindictive bone in my body, and I am ashamed at those of my sex who can behave in this way. At the end of the day, the ones who should not be suffering when marriages break down are the children. Yet, sadly, they very often do. For everybody's sake, the best outcome is to try to make the best of the matter and move on.
Don't, whatever you do, allow the battles which lie ahead of you to damage what you now have.
Ed (22);
I'd estimate my net worth in negative territory.
The value of my assets is probably around,
ooohh, lets say $20k, since you quote dollars, most of it cameras, lenses and all the photographic paraphernalia. The value of my debts is around $70k (cash debts to loan and credit card companies, not a mortgage). Savings, nil. Pensions, not great and not due for another 20+ years anyway. It wasn't even worth knocking myself off, since my Life insurance lapsed when I lost my job a year ago and couldn't afford to keep paying the premiums!
Actually when I think about it, I'm probably in the lower half of the worlds population based on net dollar worth. Technically I am bankrupt, since my debts exceed my assets. That's a sobering thought.
Who needs anti-depressants? My biggest asset is that I am loved, and for the first time in over ten years I feel like my life has value. That's the biggest high out there!
Si.
Cheer up Si,
Your creditors can't afford to lose you! You have real value to them!
;-)
xx
ed
David (11)
I'm sure I've seen other public transport photos, but the first one appeared early on:
/radio4/news/pm/galleries/757/2/
Glad other people haven't seen their WOTW photos yet. Perhaps I didn't do anything wrong when sending it to you. Just how many photos did you get?
Perhaps if you do it again you could do it by area, or photographer's age or something to cut down the numbers.
I realise that that this comment is probably in the wrong section, but here goes:
I listen to PM on my drive home from work an was heard the comments about making the driving tesy harder because of the accidents suffered by new young drivers.
Please can someone apply a bit of logic to this problem. Dont make the driving test harder,make passing a driving test only valid for one year.
After 12 months from passing a test you apply for your full license and providing that you havn't had any reportable accident or had any traffic violations then a full license is issued or alernatvely having not driven carefully then another test should be required.
Stuart Bowles
Doncaster