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Have you considered talking to the universities about a foundation year? Some of my friends that didn't do so well in their A-levels (they smoked too much), entered universities like Oxford Brooks and UWE on foundation years. That way you can claim the same support you would get if you were entering the degree at the 'higher level', or whatever the correct term is. There's definitely no way you can qualify in the absence of this exam? In terms of costs, without goverment support it was £1500 to do an Access course at the City of Bristol College. If you do three subjects, you're looking at about 14-16 hours a week class time. Many people maintained jobs whilst they did the course, and still passed. An individual with your intelligence wouldn't have any trouble.

An Access course next academic year, or this academic year? Surely there are provisions for missing exams due to extenuating circumstances?

I think that he was being sarcastic and using an analogy of a country that does have the death penalty, and yet still plenty of murder, to illustrate that the death penalty doesn't work. I agree. It's similar to our drug laws, which are well recognised by both experts and the police as being a negligible consideration to people that have or will use drugs. And as already mentioned, ultimately this whole punishment thing is like trying to stop the accident after it's happened - "Now that I've colided into this wall because my brakes were broken, if I fix my brakes, can I not hit the wall?". Nice logic. But then the argument is that the victims relations can be made to feel better through punishment and revenge (which it is a form of, if we are honest). I'm afraid that time would be better spent learning to accept a situation, as difficult as that might sound. Taking the line that killing is deserved, only compacts and justifies ones hate, which ultimately eats away at you. Taking the line of trying to understand and accept, cultivates much more desirable states for dealing with that which is unpleasant. I think really the questions are, what sort of behaviour and feeling do we want to put out into the world? Do we want to cultivate hate and anger? Or do we want to cultivate love and understanding? They all tend to perpetuate themselves. You only perpetuate, in a certain sense, what brought somebody to murder, if you support capital punishment. It's almost like you absorb somebody elses hate and anger (that which allowed them to kill) and then of course you end up expressing it, passing it on in other ways and probably feeding or nurturing the very feelings that contribute to more murder. Capital punishment has an inescapable emotional base, revolving around hate, angery and revenge. How else can we sentence sombody to death? We certainly don't if we choose love and understanding. After all, does the loving kind individual kill somebody he or she loves? No, they don't. And that's the point, the more we give out these latter emotions, the more they exist in our environment. The more we give out hate, anger and revenge, the more they exist in our environment. We can either break the chain, perpetuating a better one, or be a part of it. Join their game, or make your own one. I'm not saying that this is the easy way to be in response to the experience of having a loved one murdered, but ultimately it is better not just for you in this situation, but also in terms of everyone else in the future as a means of preventing what it is that now harms you.

Shame really. Personally, I love his work but then it's probably better that everyone ends up the same. The forum is more functional that way.

I heard that also. I wonder what he did exactly?

On that capital note, where be THE CIRCUS? Is that even his name? Haven't seen him in so long I'm starting to forget.

Does that make me especially adept at rolling down hills? Perhaps I'd make a good frisbee?

Am I a wonky edge then?

Out of curiosity, what does "straight edge" mean, Jon? You don't drink or do drugs? I'm probably way off.

As already stated, Nathan, choose what you enjoy. That's the means to become good at something. In terms of the economy, that may be a different situation by the time you've finished your A-levels; most certainly by the time you've finished uni, if that's what you decide to do. Psychology seems to be a popular choice of subjects, in terms of that which people find interesting.

Given your circumstances and what you are after, I would say go for it. I just looked at the type of degree you gain and it seems to be the same as one you would get studying 'in' a university. How quickly can you study the degree though? Can it be done full time or in three years? My ex was doing over six years.

My ex-girlfriend did two years of an open university degree in general science/envinronmental science but gave it up because her work offered to pay for her to do a masters degree. She really enjoyed it, especially as she liked learning about science. I believe that it's a readily accepted degree - perhaps not quite to the extent of a 'normal' degree but not so much that it really matters. The reason she began studying it was to change career paths though, so I'm sure it had worth. She wouldn't have done it otherwise.

I thought it was lame from the start.

Whay, great job Jon! Any news on the first choice?

Hah, that's why I previously talked of wool. Snooker final was amazing as well

Obviously then it's a kind of personal preference. My electronic and other music tastes are more than catered for but then music from the likes of Massive Attack, Tricky and Portishead have deeply influenced the cities' music scene; this is music I grow up listening to and enjoying. It seems to make sense that Manchester would have a larger rock/indie scene anyway on the basis of their musical roots. But yeah, we all like different things and it would seem in reference to the popularity of Bristol that for whatever set of reasons, we can say a lot of people find it more appealing than other places. I have heard that the public transport in Bristol is a bit crap. In fact they supposedly stopped the bus that takes people from the campus to the uni some miles away. But I cycles so that doesn't concern me much

Windows Media 9 (.wmv) Two passes Variable bitrate 4000-8000kbps 1280*720 Off the top of my head though.

Don't worry about it, my personal humour seems to very personal. I often experience moment of tumbleweed and silence Not that you did here though! On your latter point, I must agree. Yet it is a common activity for us to feel better about ourselves simply because we conceptualize ourselves above people in some sense. I know I find myself doing it at times, but I try to recognise and not engage in it.

I like your reasoning I guess it could suggest several things such as moving 'up' occuring due to merit. Those who score the most 'goals' in terms of senior member ideals. Or moving down because of not scoring enough goals.

How do you do that? Sounds like a worthy process.

I don't get it?

Seriously, what gets achieved by senior membership? Is it not just used as a hierarchical feel good device? - "Look at me, I'm special!!! Better than you, you lower member!". Members usually being chosen as the best liked individuals, rather than perhaps based on some more general virtue. I certainly remember that sort of attitude in the senior member forum (i.e. most annoying members thread). I also remember feeling better about myself for having 'achieved' it.

I'm guessing that is a new camera he's got! Wally, I've just checked and there is a CS4 update here. It might resolve our problems. The other thing is to make sure you've got the latest drivers for your graphics card. I'm also going to give that a try.

Would the company presumably have insurance for this type of event anyway? So perhaps being overly concerned about their suffering isn't so due? Anyway, it's worth doing not just for the sake of yourself but also for other employees. The impact of being sued/somebody claiming compensation is perhaps more likely for them to create conditions where accidents are less likely to happen However, I also respect you if you don't feel the need to try and 'get money'. Sometimes it's good not be motivated by such things and have the capacity to just walk away and move on in life. The 'it happens' mentality can be very effective, in terms of happiness. My family had a case against the NHS for negligence in the death of my dad but decided against it. Although, the idea of taking away money from such an essential service played a considerable role in that decision.

I'm experiencing the same problem. The only option (and a not very practical one) is to render the work area - sequence tab > render entire work area. I'm thinking about upgrading simply because of this avchd problem - I'm currently running an 'intel core 2, 2.66ghz', '2gb ram' and a '8600 GT gfx card' which is around the minimum spec. I suspect though it might relate to adobe having done a botch job with incorporating it into premiere. Perhaps there might be updates at some point to smooth it out a bit. I don't think I'm going to really be able to edit my avchd stuff if it means rendering the timeline every time i introduce a new clip. I may take the same approach as Joe and simply convert it to a better supported standard.