Andy Millne

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49jKeGyUCJE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp9Gm-aRe5A

Bird on a crossed wire.

No but I know one that does quite nicely out of their eurofighter orders or did until they started ordering F-16s at least. Maybe that'll help persuade the yanks. $3bn I think that order is/was worth.

The thing is Malcolm, after reading through the Wansbeck candidate's campaign literature it's just more of the same. The stuff is full of "We need more jobs", "I'll help tackle crime & anti-social behaviour" This is all just stuff to get people nodding their heads and is all blatantly obvious (which is obviously the point). I can't find any real evidence of anything they are actively proposing to do and I fear we are going to have another term of the area not moving forward. I say moving forward in relative terms to the rest of the country of course, maybe I should have said move less backwards.

If we are going to languish as a dormitory town as is often suggested. Where are the B&Qs and Homebases?And why are we opposing housing development? It's a case of make our mind up time I think.

So what are our strengths as a town? Where should we focus this development effort? Other towns are playing their cards quite well at the moment. Morpeth is taking a retail approach, Blyth an industrial and technology based one. Perhaps entertainment? Maybe the "Night time economy" as previously suggested is the way to go for this or is the lure of "The Gate" and the "Metrocentre Qube" too great?

Has anybody got any old fashioned red/green 3D specs, there's a little 3D toggle now.

Here's that Where's this?

Somebody's been doing his homework We may or may not use md5, if I told you that I'd have to kill you. MD5 would create something along those lines yes but a more secure method would be to use SHA1 and provide a salt.

+1 on that! Everything seems to be ill thought out with regards to future development. If the planning departments of old had been more focussed on that rather than the colour of shop shutters and protecting eyesores in the conservation area we would have been a lot further forward than we are. If there is so much historical significance within the conservation area then why hasn't/isn't this exploited by attempting to attract tourism to the area? So what is the plan now? Do we have one?

You could start in the galleries here. http://www.bedlington.co.uk/community/gallery/category/4-places-gallery/ there's quite a lot particularly from Cympil and Carole. There's also a few on the county council website somewhere. Anybody can submit to the galleries here but they could probably do with a bit of reorganising.

There is lots of land but once you get into the details a lot of it becomes unsuitable. The presentation next Thursday will show all possible sites in Bedlington and whether or not they could support a leisure centre.

I think 3g's point is that there was more than one manipulator as somebody was trying to influence my point of view by giving me negative rep. I'm not sure why they were trying to manipulate a viewpoint that I'd already confirmed several posts earlier though Don't think he was suggesting you negged the post Cympil.

Most dog training things I've read and trainers I've talked to advocate training your dog to go in the garden before you take them for a walk.Unfortunately a lot of owners think that is the purpose of the walk and do the opposite and bring them home as soon as they've "been".

Yep, Happy Birthday, have a good one Brian.

As I said I'm not a fan of the neg option either but I can see how it can have it's uses in certain situations. This not being one of them.

A quick search through the members list reveals several .gov.uk email addresses so the fact they are reading is at least somewhat encouraging.

Are we not already paying out for litter pickers and street cleaners? If that's the case why is the stuff still lying about and accumulating? I realise the graffiti on the seats and tyre marks are a different issue though and I agree that those causing the damage should be made responsible for their actions.

Yep removing as we speak

What if neg was restricted to 1 a day and positive 10?

I agree that is true in a lot of cases, but in my experience, of the several boards I use regularly that is not necessarily the case. It all depends on subject matter, audience and implementation. Here the negative aspect is obviously causing conflict for the reasons you mention and is very badly implemented. Look here for some more usable patterns that are designed to encourage collaboration and a more positive approach. http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/social/people/reputation/ So in summary........Failed experiment now lets move on.

Bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy then isn't it. Also, Ironic that the two biggest users of negative rep historically (By a huge margin I might add) are the two that are so against it. This is such a ridiculous argument really but it's looking like it'll be removed tomorrow in any case. It possibly could have been a useful addition but I think you've made your point that it will only case animosity here. Like Mr D says it works well on other boards I am admin of but they tend to be about a common subject matter not the wide variety of topics discussed here which have the potential to flare up.

I think some people might be reading a little bit too much into it and perhaps making a little bit of an issue out of nothing. I don't see any disruption since it's been reintroduced and it certainly hasn't affected the level of discussion. Just don't make an issue of it and it'll be fine. That being said if most users want it removed so be it but no need to get so worked up about it. It's only a very minor aspect of the site