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CiteSeer: "Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age."
- James Buchan
Mariposalong: I remember loving The 39 Steps, so I got an anthology of James Buchan stories, and discovered that the British believed that the "round headed Celts" (i.e. Irish, i.e. ME) were degenerates. And Then There Were None is nothing.
Indiana_Buchan: Joe Carr
George Preston Marshall
Curly Lambeau
George Halas
Tim Mara
Bill Dwyer
Edwin Simandi
Charles Coppen
James Dooley
Peter Laudati
Dan Blaine
Jack Depler
Dutch Sternaman
David Jones
John Dunn
Val Ness
allpartycycling: From the FT:
We should regulate SUVs out of existence
NoraBWhyte: The full title of the report is 'Recover to Rebuild: Investing in the Nursing Workforce for Health System Effectiveness' by authors James Buchan and Howard Catton. Congratulations!
SimianDon: Money is incarnate desire.
-James Buchan (Frozen Desire)
Money is not a dollar bill or a check or a penny, nickel, or dime. Money is not gold or silver or copper, nor is money cowrie shells or gems or salt blocks or cattle.
cyberalgo: “Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.”
—James Buchan
DrSimEvans: NEW ANALYSIS
Repeated fuel duty cuts & freezes over the last 13yrs have not only cost the UK exchequer at least £80bn…
…they've also left UK CO2 emissions up to 7% higher than they would have been, if duty had gone up in line with inflation
oke69237758: Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.,James Buchan,Great, Financial, Fall ,
rgtrendsetter: Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
-James Buchan
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SachinK1606: Because bankers measure their self-worth in money and pay themselves a lot of it they think theyre fine fellows and dont need to explain themselves. -James Buchan
amormeza45: The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.,James Buchan,Thought, World, Military ,
Carolyn55937178: Book Review: The 39 Steps by James Buchan
RoughlyDaily: “Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop”
- James Buchan
mariaaaaask: “omg u met lewis buchan/ james marriott? i’m so happy for you! ”
kiwiwit: So now they've turned their attention to James Bond. Good thing I've got some first editions. Wait until they see Evelyn Waugh and John Buchan!
GPONursing: Listen to Prof James Buchan (WHO/World Bank), U.K
discuss Nurse workforce policy: UK reliance on international nurse
RoyalCentral: Princess Alexandra, as Deputy Colonel-in-Chief of The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths' Own), will present awardees of the Buchan Medal at St James's Palace.
RedDevilRome: Manchester United Old Trafford August 1975. Back row (left-right): Holton, Roche, Stepney, James, Houston. Middle row: Loughnane, Albiston, Forsyth, Nicholl, Greenhoff, Grimshaw, Jackson, Macari. Front row: McCreery, Pearson, Buchan, Daly, Coppell.
CiteSeer: "Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes."
- James Buchan
CityOnACard1: James Buchan, 165 apps & 10 goals between 1905-11.
Cards from the Taddy sets of Prominent Footballers are rare & very sought after.
NurseStandard: ‘The answer is not to encourage those who have left to come back, it is to support those who are at work to stay on’
With NHS strikes and nurses thinking of leaving, James Buchan argues that solutions to the staffing crisis need to focus on retention:
SNPPeterhead: 1) A lot of rubbish has been put out about SNP membership numbers nationally and locally.
We can't access national numbers, but across Banffshire & Buchan Coast it has risen by 10% and has been stable over the last few years.
IamRealAR: Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
-James Buchan
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Godgift64107811: Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
-James Buchan
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NurseStandard: ‘The answer is not to encourage those who have left to come back, it is to support those who are at work to stay on’
With NHS strikes and nurses thinking of leaving, James Buchan argues that solutions to the staffing crisis need to focus on retention:
priyankit_fatej: Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
-James Buchan
"IamRealAR"
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NurseStandard: ‘The need to sort out nurse understaffing pre-dates COVID-19, but is now more urgent than ever’
‘The absence of a reliable approach to determining minimum safe staffing levels in England is a major driver of nurse discontent,’ says James Buchan.
NurseStandard: ‘The absence of a reliable approach to determining minimum safe staffing levels in England is a major driver of nurse discontent’
Professor James Buchan argues that nurse-to-patient ratios give staff the certainty they crave.
ThomasKleimann: Because bankers measure their self-worth in money and pay themselves a lot of it they think theyre fine fellows and dont need to explain themselves. -James Buchan
maishatz: to own the future in money right now – that cannot tolerate even the notion of futurity – that dissolves the speculator into the psychopath” James Buchan
HealthFdn: How far can international recruitment help the NHS meet its target of 50k extra nurses by the end of 2023/24, and is it ethical?
James Buchan discusses the UK's reliance on international recruitment ⤵️
HealthFdn: How far can international recruitment help the NHS meet its target of 50k extra nurses by the end of 2023/24, and is it ethical?
James Buchan discusses the UK's reliance on international recruitment ⤵️
marindatanow: Until mid-20th century, Smith was broadly regarded as a "socialist"
His work was willfully misinterpreted post-WWII by Milton Friedman et al, and US-ians still believe the lie
The shift is covered in books including James Buchan's very brief and funny "The Authentic Adam Smith"
IamRealAR: Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
-James Buchan
~IamRealAR
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TrueQuotation: Imagination is but another name for super intelligence. — James Buchan
KemnayC: Funeral for Mary McPherson Buchan -
KemnayC: Funeral for Mary McPherson Buchan -
TCurry_Himself: "Had I remained in power, the Russians would not have dared invade Afghanistan." So said Mohammed Reza, the shah in exile. (from Days of God, James Buchan's very good book about the Iranian revolution)
lhamtil: "The great stock market bull seeks to condense the future into a few days, to discount the long march of history, and capture the present value of all the future."
-James Buchan
riverpatrimonio: "Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required."
— James Buchan
mark395625: So for all those going on about rail fares, lets break this down...
Fares up by
2.7% in 2020
2.5% in 2021
3.8% in 2022
5.9% in 2023
At the same time rail staff wage increases were
0.0% in 2020
0.0% in 2021
0.0% in 2022
0.0% in 2023
LUHCAnswers: A question on 'Private Rented Housing: Ombudsman' tabled by James Wild on 09-12-2022 has been answered by Felicity Buchan.
WomanToday2: The castle was given to James Stuart, 1st Laird of Traquair, who was an illegitimate son of James Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan and a cousin of James III of Scotland, in 1491. 8/
John__Phipps: A little tip in here for my favourite novel of 2022, James Buchan’s ‘A Street Shaken by Light’
DavidCranmerUn1: Evelyn Hilda Stuart Erskine (1883–1939), third daughter of Shipley Gordon Stuart Erskine, 14th Earl of Buchan.
During his adult life, Moyne was a director of the brewing firm Guinness, established at the St. James's Gate Brewery by his great-great-grandfather Arthur Guinness
GorDunc44: James Buchan - A Street Shaken By Light
LtColFranklin: Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. -James Buchan
ownbusinesses: Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. -James Buchan
DarylDoc22: Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. -James Buchan
ScriptCards: Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. -James Buchan
DavidCranmerUn1: 6 November 1944) married Lady Evelyn Hilda Stuart Erskine (1883–1939), third daughter of Shipley Gordon Stuart Erskine, 14th Earl of Buchan.
In 1961, Jacob Rothschild married Serena Mary Dunn, a granddaughter of the Canadian financier Sir James Dunn, and they had four children.
nugetwisdom: THAN THEY FIND, AND ARE THUS IN THE THROES OF LIQUIDATION. James Buchan
AuldYear: Feast of St Fergus, C8 Pictish bishop. His staff was preserved at St Fergus, Buchan, and was said to calm storms; his head, kept at Scone, was one of Scotland's most venerated relics, and James IV provided a silver reliquary for it.
nugetwisdom: ANY NEW FINANCIAL ORDER FOR THE WORLD MUST TACKLE THE THREE CHIEF CHALLENGES OF OUR AGE. James Buchan
RU_Unforgiven2: in money right now, that cannot tolerate even the notion of futurity."
- Frozen Desire, James Buchan
TrueQuotation: The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out. — James Buchan
PechayNiGail: Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
-James Buchan
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PechayNiGail: Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.
-James Buchan
RALPHGAIL TEENCLASH YORN
CIOTNews: Further to this, we also have a new Exchequer Secretary (minister for environmental and transport taxes, excise duties, etc) – James Cartlidge MP.
Felicity Buchan has moved to DLUHC.
Baroness Penn will be Treasury minister in the Lords.
PhdTownTrail: James spent many months in hospital, eventually being evacuated to the Naval Hospital at Haslar, Plymouth. He was later discharged as unfit to serve. He returned home, married Jeannie Buchan West and moved to her home village at Pennan before moving to Macduff.
HistorySemitic: According to the Scottish historian James Buchan, "In speed and extent, the first Arab conquests were matched only by those of Alexander the Great, and they were more lasting."
hzierth: It is his strident demand for everything righ now - to own the future in money righ now - that cannot tolerate even the notion of futurity - that dissolves the speculator into the psychopat.
James Buchan.
NurseStandard: Invest more and smarter: solving the UK’s nurse staffing crisis
Read James Buchan’s comment on the recent WHO report on the healthcare workforce in Europe >
James_A_Adams: PLEDGE DELIVERED
I welcome todays decision to remove the barriers and booking system from the Household Waste Recycling Centre in Fraserburgh and the Banff & Buchan area; I backed the decision at committee. It was a key issue during my campaign and a pledge I promised to deliver.
abmassie: My Dey (ma’s da) wis Peter Buchan, the Peterheid fisher poet.
James’ stories min’t me on Dey’s life at sea, and the wey he used the Doric tae spik aboot it.
My hairt wis gey full and it wis a real privilege tae be involved in sik a project.
Booktimemag: In September & October Booktime, author James Buchan tells us all about how he came to write his new novel A Street Shaken by Light, which follows the life of William Neilson in the 18th century.
denniskiker: ICYMI, Brian Boyle and Andrew Sacks presented an "FTC Mid-Year Review" to the Association of National Advertisers. Other sessions from the one-day conference included speakers Benjamin Mulcahy, Jessie Buchan, Gregory Tulquois, and James Stewart.
SpencerHupp: i think james buchan is the finest English-language writer of our time. THE great prose stylist, without a single smirk or obfuscation.
FlashAlert_me: $APT [15s. delayed] filed SEC form 4: Director Buchan James:
Granted 3,400 of Common Stock at price $0 on 2022-09-23, increased holding by 57% to 9,413 shares
SpookyLib: A Street Shaken by Light by James Buchan review – a ripping yarn
DLA_Piper: In case you missed it, Brian Boyle and Andrew Sacks presented an "FTC Mid-Year Review" to the Association of National Advertisers. Other sessions from the conference included speakers Benjamin Mulcahy, Jessie Buchan, Gregory Tulquois, and James Stewart.
ValaAfshar: In 1985, 8 years before the launch of the worldwide web, James Burke spoke about the impact of technology on businesses, politics and society.
This short video is simply stunning
MtLeopardPress: “A work of thrilling art” Adam Roberts on A STREET SHAKEN BY LIGHT by James Buchan
John__Phipps: A young man in the Bastille becomes friends with a cat. From James Buchan’s ‘A Street Shaken By Light’, which is that very rare thing: a genuinely original book.
MarkSipps: A Street Shaken by Light by James Buchan review – a ripping yarn
FlashAlert_me: $APT [15s. delayed] filed SEC form 4: Director Buchan James:
Disposed 8,333 of Common Stock at price $3.92 and Converted securities 8,333 of Common Stock at price $3.66 on 2022-09-20, holding 6,013 shares
FintelAlerts: Insider James Buchan reports selling 8,333 shares of $APT for a total cost of $32,631.19
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PeterheadPort: Members of the RNLI and Peterhead Port Authority staff pay their respects to Her Majesty the Queen at midday with a two-minute silence at the port's cannon viewing platform. Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire and port Board member James Buchan was in attendance.
sulymanodore5: Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
-James Buchan
UrTweetMyReply: “Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.“ - James Buchan
PetroleumLlc: Food for Thought: "A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water." James Buchan
shollyman212: Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
-James Buchan
GafariumYinka: Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
-James Buchan
NORTHTRENTON: Happy Birthday to Albert A.K.A. Prince Consort of The United Kingdom (d. 1861), Arnold Fothergill (d. 1932), Clara Schoenfeld (d. 1939), Herbert Booth (d. 1926), Arthur James Arnot (d. 1946), Lee De Forest (d. 1961), Zona Gale (d. 1938) and John Buchan (d. 1940).
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EnglishJaun: Book review: A Street Shaken by Light, by James Buchan
cyberalgo: “Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.”
—James Buchan
