[Clogeroo]

How about I just give the link to the study.

http://www.cafonline.org/default.aspx?page=12183

[stratos]

ahhh perfect.....

Going to have to do it at home once we get the internet set up, just moved. Cant download stuff via the work computer. Thanks though I'll get it going in a couple days.

[Clogeroo]

Okay I will just paste it then.

USA
UK
Canada
Australia
South Africa
Rep of Ireland
Netherlands
Singapore
New Zealand
Turkey
Germany
France

1.67
0.73
0.72
0.69
0.64
0.47
0.45
0.29
0.29
0.23
0.22
0.14

[GreatBriton]

The Royal Navy's new Type 45's - which include HMS Daring, HMS Dauntless, HMS Diamond and HMS Dragon - are the world's most advanced warships.


16 Nov 2006


HRH COUNTESS OF WESSEX BRINGS HMS DARING TO LIFE



Her Royal Highness Countess Wessex and Paul Wright



Powerering up ceremony



Glasgow, UK; Her Royal Highness the Countess of Wessex has today brought to life Daring, the first of class Type 45 destroyer currently being fitted out for the Royal Navy by BAE Systems on the Clyde.

On her first official visit to the ship that she launched on 1 February, Her Royal Highness switched on the ship’s diesel generators, ‘powering up’ the world’s most advanced warship and breathing life into her for the first time. When fully operational, each Type 45 destroyers will generate a total power output in excess of 45 Megawatts, enough to power TWENTY FOUR Glasgow underground systems.

The Countess spent several hours meeting members of Daring’s first crew, from her Commanding Officer Commander David Shutts to Daring’s first junior rating, Writer Karen Munro. Her Royal Highness then presented the first medal to be awarded to a member of her ship’s company, the Long-Service and Good Conduct medal to Chief Petty Officer Paul Wright, who has completed fifteen years of service, including postings to Croatia, the Falklands and hurricane relief in the Caribbean.


The Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyers will be the world's most advanced warships and will help make the world's second-most powerful navy much stronger.



Commander David Shutts, Daring’s Commanding Officer, said “It is a huge honour for Daring to have the Countess as our sponsor and it is fitting that Her Royal Highness is the first person to bring the ship to life. Her strong interest in and commitment to Daring will be a source of great pride not just for this company but all of those who serve in her in years to come”.

Vic Emery, managing director BAE Systems Naval Ships said, “When the Type 45s enter service from 2009, they will provide the Royal Navy with the most advanced air defence capability in the world.

“The on-schedule, successful start of generator trials is a key achievement for BAE Systems and all of our many partners on the Type 45 programme. It is a major milestone on the road to her first sea trials in summer 2007.”

The Type 45 programme will provide the Royal Navy with a versatile destroyer capable of contributing to worldwide maritime and joint operations for much of the first half of this century. As well as providing a specialist air warfare capability, they will also afford the fleet a general-purpose multi-role platform capable of performing tasks from peace support and defence diplomacy through to high-intensity warfare.

Work on the second in class Type 45, Dauntless is making strong progress and will be launched from BAE Systems’ Govan shipyard on Tuesday 23 January 2007.



baesystems.com

[stratos]

The countess is cute, she married? Got a boyfriend of some kind? does she like married guys? Got her number so I could give her a call and see if she would like to hook up.

Oh the ship sounds perty dang bad ass also

[stratos]

Ok thanks that gives me enough to work with.

[GreatBriton]

Gywneth's 'Brits are more civilised' comment angers the folks back home


4th December 2006



Once she complained about the British weather. Another time she complained about British men.

But it seems American actress Gwyneth Paltrow is finally warming to life in London.

She says dinner party chat here is far more interesting, intelligent and civilised than back at home.

It's a declaration that has gone down rather badly in America. The 34-year-old Oscar winner, who has lived in London since marrying Coldplay frontman Chris Martin three years ago, said: 'I love the English lifestyle, it's not as capitalistic as America.

'People don’t talk about workand money, they talk about interesting things at dinner.

'I like living here because I don't fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilised than the Americans.'

Last night, as her comments were reported in her homeland, Americans called chat shows and radio phone-ins to express their disgust at her 'betrayal'.

'If she feels that way we are far better off without her,' said one commentator. A disgruntled caller added: 'She sounds like she thinks she’s better than us.

'We are better off if she stays across the Atlantic. We don't need her here.'

Miss Paltrow, who once complained at length about the British weather, was speaking to NS, the weekend magazine supplement of daily Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias.

She said having another American – Madonna – living in London had been a great help to her. 'She's like an older sister,' said Miss Paltrow.

'Everything I have gone through, she went through ten times worse and ten times longer. She gives me good advice about how to say no and take care of myself.'

Although Miss Paltrow did not specify what she was saying 'no' to, it is known she favours a strict macrobiotic diet.

It means a large proportion of her diet is made up of wholegrains, vegetables and fish, and she is not allowed to consume meat, dairy products, processed foods, alcohol or caffeine.

Miss Paltrow, who was born in Los Angeles, once found fault with British men, but a year later, married Chris Martin.

And two years ago she told the U.S. edition of Marie Claire that the streets of London were dirty, customer service was ‘just rubbish’ and the weather was 'cold and depressing'.

Despite this, Miss Paltrow and her husband have settled in North London with their daughter Apple, two, and son Moses, eight months. She will be pleased to know that not everyone in America was displeased with her latest comments.

A British expatriate rang in to one programme to say: 'Quite frankly, she’s only stating the obvious, as anyone who has spent a long time in the United States can testify.'
dailymail.co.uk

[xerxes]

This is coming from someone who named her daughter Apple?

[Blue_Nose]

Anyone whose sense of dignity relies on the opinions of celebrities is hurting, to say the least.

[2Cdo]

Blue_Nose Blue_Nose:

Anyone whose sense of dignity relies on the opinions of celebrities is hurting, to say the least.

Well said!

[kathematics]

didn't she say these things like over a year ago? why is it important now?

[BartSimpson]

Blue_Nose Blue_Nose:

Anyone whose sense of dignity relies on the opinions of celebrities is hurting, to say the least.

Amen.

[GreatBriton]

World's richest 1% own 40% of all wealth, UN report discovers.





* First ever study of global household assets

* 50% of world's adults own just 1% of the wealth

* The United States is home to over 33% of the world's super rich people, followed by Japan with 27%. Britain is home to 6% of the world's super rich and France 5%.

* Britain is now the world's third-richest country per capita. Each British person has on average $127,000 in assets with only the Americans ($144,000) and the Japanese ($181,000) being richer. Measuring average assets per head is a more accurate way of measuring a country's per capita wealth than the more common way of just measuring average income per head (people could also own wealth in things such as land, buildings, financial assets etc). Using this method, the Japanese, Americans and British are the world's richest people.



James Randerson, science correspondent
Wednesday December 6, 2006
The Guardian






The richest 1% of adults in the world own 40% of the planet's wealth, according to the largest study yet of wealth distribution. The report also finds that those in financial services and the internet sectors predominate among the super rich.

Europe, the US and some Asia Pacific nations account for most of the extremely wealthy. More than a third live in the US. Japan accounts for 27% of the total, the UK for 6% and France for 5%.

The UK is also third in terms of per capita wealth. UK residents are found to have on average $127,000 (£64,000) each in assets, with Japanese and American citizens having, respectively, $181,000 and $144,000.
The global study - from the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations - is the first to chart wealth distribution in every country as opposed to just income, for which more comprehensive date is available. It included all the most significant components of household wealth, including financial assets and debts, land, buildings and other tangible property. Together these total $125 trillion globally.

Anthony Shorrocks, director of the research institute at the United Nations University, in New York, led the study. He affirmed that the existence of a nest egg provided an insurance policy that helped people cope with unforeseen events such as ill health or a lost job. Capital allowed people to drag themselves out of poverty, he added. "In some ways, wealth is more important to people in poorer countries than in richer countries." It was more difficult in developing countries to set up a business because it was harder to borrow start-up funds, he said.

His team used detailed data from 38 countries, but had to rely on incomplete information from the rest.
The report found the richest 10% of adults accounted for 85% of the world total of global assets. Half the world's adult population, however, owned barely 1% of global wealth. Near the bottom of the list were India, with per capita wealth of $1,100, and Indonesia with assets per head of $1,400.

Many African nations as well as North Korea and the poorer Asia Pacific nations were places where the worst off lived.

"These levels of inequality are grotesque," said Duncan Green, head of research at Oxfam. "It is impossible to justify such vast wealth when 800 million people go to bed hungry every night. The good news is that redistribution would only have to be relatively small. Such are the vast assets of the rich that giving up a small part of their wealth could transform the lives of millions."

Madsen Pirie, director of the Adam Smith Institute, a free-market thinktank, disagreed that distribution of global wealth was unfair. He said: "The implicit assumption behind this is that there is a supply of wealth in the world and some people have too much of that supply. In fact wealth is a dynamic, it is constantly created. We should not be asking who in the past has created wealth and how can we get it off them." He said that instead the question should be how more and more people could create wealth.

Ruth Lea, director of the Centre for Policy Studies, a thinkthank set up by Margaret Thatcher, said that although she supported the goal of making poverty history she did not think increasing aid to poorer countries was the answer. "It's no use throwing lots of aid at countries that are basically dysfunctional," she said.

The UN report was issued as the Swiss magazine Bilan released a list of the richest Swiss residents. Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Ikea, topped the list with an estimated fortune of $21bn.

guardian.co.uk

[BartSimpson]

$1:

The good news is that redistribution would only have to be relatively small.

Gee, where have we heard that before?

[Zoraja]

Does this really surprize anybody??