I'm a rather television bound Liverpool supporter but I'm happy to see Everton do well also, so most Liverpool and Everton fans will not view me as a supporter at all! Liverpool did exceptionally well in the pre Sky / money days. 25 years ago the Liverpool manager (Bob Paisley) lived in a modest semi in Woolton, Liverpool (current value <£250k

Lot of emphasis on that precision [picture] frame assembly! Graham

[quote user="Puncher"] Earlier I mentioned socio-political reasons for maintaining a manufacturing industry. An interesting side question that arises is - Is a publicly traded company's primary responsibility to it's shareholders or it's customers? [/quote] Doesn't really matter. In the long run if customers are not satisfied

[quote user="elephant"] Which is the 51st state ? Australia ? [/quote] Liverpool's US links made it known long ago as the 51st State. This film adopted the name, but it's renaming for the US market suggests that the Liverpool connection wasn't recognised elsewhere! Graham

[quote user="Seanie"] hello i have done some reading on the main site under products and BV1 It says that the BV1 is availible in LS version also. is it correct that the normal bv1 is controlled by a beo1 and a BV1 LS is controlled via a Beo4. can the BV1 be controlled by a beo4? also it says the BV1 LS cannot have the STB controller installed

[quote user="Jandyt"] [quote user="elephant"] No problems here, but then the Australian day sort of matches your nighttime -- one reason I always the Wednesday night evenings :(( [/quote] Hope the missing wors was "miss" and not "avoid" [/quote] If Elephant gets up early he can keep the Wedthred going as Thursthred

Anyone who gets involved with repeated postings and sometimes checking who's on line (eg 'wedthred' on Wednesday evenings) will note that the server sometimes seems to stop recording who is on line or has some sort of reset. In this situation lots of people know they are on line but the system doesn't show it correctly. Then, over the

[quote user="Puncher"] I don't doubt it's a good TV but almost 1/3 of the text sounds awfully like marketing spiel - it could almost be a press release! [/quote] Found this review today (and then found it already reported here!) Have to agree with Puncher, but I think they've just padded out the review by weaving a lot of the B&O

[quote user="beocool"] Bernie Ecclestone has teamed up with Genii Capital and they've made a bid! [/quote] Now a report that Genii/Ecclestone may also put in a joint bid with Spyker, but that story has just been denied here . If it's a question of money or resources for the long-term, you'd think they would actually pool their

Not many authors risk putting out current works as pdf for obvious reasons. (I published something in pdf form with a password, only to find that some helpful colleague had managed to convert it to a Word document and had then altered it!) Much of the 'Collecting B&O' content is covered by the Beocentral website, and although it's not