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Post by notanimby on Mar 5, 2014 21:26:06 GMT -1
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2014 22:32:26 GMT -1
I'd imagine BBC Scotland are learning pretty fast which side their bread's buttered on.... Some would say music and politics don't mix. I wouldn't be one of them. A considered piece by Ricky there and I believe history shows that his views have a great deal of merit. Re his reference to the Berlin wall coming down: it wasn't just Germans that clawed bits off it. As it happens band and crew were in Berlin at the time. I keep these fragments close to hand, as a reminder of what's possible. And fortunately we were out of there before The Hoff made his appearance...;-0 Attachments:
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Post by ozneil on Mar 6, 2014 3:22:29 GMT -1
When I was there, in UK, they did away with the separate Scottish Conditions of Contract for building. The dooomsayers said we were doomed I say , doomed all the English companies would oust the poor little Scottish ones. You were doomed!! Laing, Balfour Beatty And Crudens to name but a few went YAHOO shot over the border and made a killing in the best traditions of the Reivers
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Post by notanimby on Mar 6, 2014 6:32:07 GMT -1
I'd imagine BBC Scotland are learning pretty fast which side their bread's buttered on.... Some would say music and politics don't mix. I wouldn't be one of them. A considered piece by Ricky there and I believe history shows that his views have a great deal of merit. Re his reference to the Berlin wall coming down: it wasn't just Germans that clawed bits off it. As it happens band and crew were in Berlin at the time. I keep these fragments close to hand, as a reminder of what's possible. And fortunately we were out of there before The Hoff made his appearance...;-0 But the Hoff was "instrumental" in the fall of the wall, he says so himself.........if it wasn't for him you can imagine what it would be like now?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2014 18:46:32 GMT -1
Probably just means he too clawed a bit off of what was left of it (by the time he got there...) Likely the first and only time I'll have something in common with The Hoff Oz, there's so much disquiet going on about how 'certain' financial institutions are giving out 'warnings'. If you go into the detail, it's actually not as black and white. All companies, in their annual returns-- as you will know-- have to demonstrate they're mitigating whatever risks might face them. For example, check out the BBC bias on this report from yesterday: Lloyds had seven risks on their register and 'independence' was not the most risky risk on their list. But you don't find that out till you read halfway down the piece. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-26452423It's also true to say that Shell (who also 'warned' the other day...) deal with governments all over the globe, some of them very unsavoury indeed. So post-YES, in reality I doubt very much whether they'd pull out of Scotland somehow, don't you? Westmonster Chancellor George Osborne's father in law, btw, is chair of a quango that is jointly funded by BP and guess who.....SHELL! Coincidink? I think not....
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Post by notanimby on Mar 6, 2014 19:33:21 GMT -1
Probably just means he too clawed a bit off of what was left of it (by the time he got there...) Likely the first and only time I'll have something in common with The Hoff Oz, there's so much disquiet going on about how 'certain' financial institutions are giving out 'warnings'. If you go into the detail, it's actually not as black and white. All companies, in their annual returns-- as you will know-- have to demonstrate they're mitigating whatever risks might face them. For example, check out the BBC bias on this report from yesterday: Lloyds had seven risks on their register and 'independence' was not the most risky risk on their list. But you don't find that out till you read halfway down the piece. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-26452423It's also true to say that Shell (who also 'warned' the other day...) deal with governments all over the globe, some of them very unsavoury indeed. So post-YES, in reality I doubt very much whether they'd pull out of Scotland somehow, don't you? Westmonster Chancellor George Osborne's father in law, btw, is chair of a quango that is jointly funded by BP and guess who.....SHELL! Coincidink? I think not.... Noting a risk, is just due diligence for any business, plus as you say, including any mitigation in the note too. It is a legal requirement for such announcements Unfortunately in my line I have to deal with risk and mitigation every day, most never happen, if they do they become an issue.. I once worked on a large scale IT migration for a large bank in Clydebank, no names no packdrill Anyways their main risk for that was a plane crashing into the building - the mitigation - none as there would be to much to worry about if that actually happened. but it was a risk..........oooooh! The worry of it all As you say, the real information is in the loading of the risk, mitigation, probability, worst case scenario and cost of mitigation. The mitigation could even cost more than just riding it out.............
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2014 19:43:55 GMT -1
Precisely, Nota. I have to do the risk thing for my company, it's just due diligence and good governance. Same at T, this pipeline thing is a good example. We've been onsite at Balado for 17 years but 'risk' means we have to mitigate HSE's 'concerns' (or rather, the means by which they justify their own jobs....) by reconfiguring the site. Even though the bloody thing runs under homes, schools and------Aberdeen Airport runway!
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Post by notanimby on Mar 6, 2014 20:19:15 GMT -1
Precisely, Nota. I have to do the risk thing for my company, it's just due diligence and good governance. Same at T, this pipeline thing is a good example. We've been onsite at Balado for 17 years but 'risk' means we have to mitigate HSE's 'concerns' (or rather, the means by which they justify their own jobs....) by reconfiguring the site. Even though the bloody thing runs under homes, schools and------Aberdeen Airport runway! I hate doing risk analysis, virtually every time I do it, whilst thinking up how to write it up and provide the mitigation etc, all I can think of ( and this s obviously the port glasgow in me) is this is pure pish and nae fekkin chance of happening in a mullion years but has to be duly noted, mitigated, costed blah blah blah. In my financial services work, risk is paramount ( mostly complete shite but paramount) I know of major projects implemented that hardly work but because someone raised a risk before it went live saying that it was a possibility it wouldnt work, everything is fine n dandy - the system doesn't work but hey so whut, there's a risk been raised so that's it ok - madness
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2014 21:01:35 GMT -1
It is becoming madness, I agree.
As it happens I'm currently writing a funding application to attend a conference in Switzerland this summer. I've completed all the sections enquiring about how I can justify the benefits to the music sector of us going, that's the peasy bit.
It only remains to toil over the Risk Assessments section ; "Identify the risks in undertaking this activity and how you will mitigate them".
Oh, where to start?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2014 21:06:05 GMT -1
Here perhaps? Risk factors in attending conference: Applicant may fatally injure self by slipping on copious amount of dogshit on pavement on way to airport taxi.
Nutjob driver may crash into airport taxi by driving on wrong side of M8.
Given June flightplan, dense fog likely to roll into Glasgow airport, cancelling all flights.
Easyjet captain may be arrested for driving plane under the affluence of incohol.
Masked terrorist (a Scottish parent frustrated with high prices in school holidays) might hijack flight to Geneva and demand imminent landing at Disneyland Paris.
Swiss citizen might fall onto train track from Geneva to Bern due to cardiac arrest triggered by over-enthusiastic intake of Toblerone.
Big rocks might fall avalanche-style onto train track enroute to Bern.
Bern may be hit by falling debris from space.
Adolf Hitler might rise from the grave and invade Switzerland.I might just include some or all of these. And if the prospective funder don’t laugh out loud and gimme the money then feck em.
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Post by notanimby on Mar 6, 2014 21:22:48 GMT -1
Here perhaps? Risk factors in attending conference: Applicant may fatally injure self by slipping on copious amount of dogshit on pavement on way to airport taxi.
Nutjob driver may crash into airport taxi by driving on wrong side of M8.
Given June flightplan, dense fog likely to roll into Glasgow airport, cancelling all flights.
Easyjet captain may be arrested for driving plane under the affluence of incohol.
Masked terrorist (a Scottish parent frustrated with high prices in school holidays) might hijack flight to Geneva and demand imminent landing at Disneyland Paris.
Swiss citizen might fall onto train track from Geneva to Bern due to cardiac arrest triggered by over-enthusiastic intake of Toblerone.
Big rocks might fall avalanche-style onto train track enroute to Bern.
Bern may be hit by falling debris from space.
Adolf Hitler might rise from the grave and invade Switzerland.I might just include some or all of these. And if the prospective funder don’t laugh out loud and gimme the money then feck em. You forgot to mention getting pecked by errant inhabitants of cuckoo clocks? Having to use Ryanair and ending up at a " Geneva" airport, 3 hours away Tripping over a gnome of zurich Forgetting the number of your secret Swiss bank account which will be used to rest the applied for grant funds father ted style
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Post by ozneil on Mar 6, 2014 21:39:37 GMT -1
Jaysus wept!!!! Thank god I never had that rubbish. Bad enough doing Super & tax returns. Oh and financial forecasts for government. They never seemed to twig that the only thing that changed was the date oh and the amount as it was based on the same percentage every time. long my your red tape banner flourish
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Post by bormes on Mar 8, 2014 7:30:03 GMT -1
Eating too much Toblerone? ?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2014 21:30:53 GMT -1
Aaaaaaand, back on topic (that was a laugh back there tho!).. Ricky has decided to withdraw from presenting one of his two programmes on BBC: here's why: " I present Another Country on BBC Radio Scotland and, until recently, Sunday Morning With Ricky Ross but have withdrawn from presenting that programme as I want to speak out more freely about the Independence Referendum in Scotland. I think this is a great time to be alive in Scotland and I have friends and family on both sides of the argument. " Here's his followup piece to the original you posted, Nota. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ricky-ross/scottish-independence-nationalism_b_4947563.htmlI hope folks can spare a couple of minutes to read it. It's a well-written, considered piece, I think, and I recognise myself and so many of my peers in it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2014 20:52:24 GMT -1
DID YOUSE READ IT YET? Absolutely no surprise to me that Lorraine McIntosh (aka Mrs R Ross) has joined fellow Scottish thesps in stating her support for Yes. Her stated reason being she wants to regain democracy in Scotland. I'm all too aware that many believe artists, musicians, actors, comedians etc should not get involved in politics or attempt to influence others via their 'celebrity'. I completely disagree, unsurprisingly. (Because as noted 25 years back by DB: 'Things Are Different From There"...) Attachments:
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