Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

And now for some discussion on the new Alzheimer's blood test recently disclosed in the press....

According to US researchers this blood test can accurately predict the onset of Alzheimer's disease. They showed that testing levels of 10 fats in the blood could predict, with 90% accuracy, the risk of the disease coming on within the next three years.



It is not clear exactly what is causing the change in fats in the blood but it could be a residue of the early changes in the brain which begin to occur when dementia changes kick off.

I got to thinking how it might affect you if you went for the test and the results proved positive. In other words, within 3 years dementia is going to take hold of your brain and your ability to even 'retain full control of just being yourself' is going to diminish.

And how might it affect your relationship with your partner if he/she know the result of the test too?

I've always wanted to know results about medical tests which can tell you important stuff about yourself and have gone for quite a few of them. eg. full body scans and the like.

I must admit to feeling a tadge scared to take this one. I feel absolutely mentally fine now so should I just 'skip it' if the opportunity actually comes along and I get asked if I would like to take it by my doctor? Or would I take from his suggestion, that he is 'making an inference' from what or how I say something during the consultation with him?

Hmmm?

Would you like to know, that in 3 years time you are going to start going demented?

Chris ........kiss kiss kiss kiss

Some say you have got a gay thing for fred. Is this true?. You keep trying to get his attention every couple of days or so.

Fred watch out corks to the ready. Chris Carson is about.(aka the Aberdeen ass licker)

ExecLine - I think I would prefer not to know, it's a different scenario from something like bowel cancer which can be cured if detected quickly enough.

On other hand.

If you know you're going to forget who you are, you might as well go on the piss and spend all the inheritance money chasing wimmin and enjoying yourself.

Whats to lose?

Execline
I have just been through about five years of Alzheimer's with my father in law who died just a year ago. It is all very well having the test done, but the treatments are pretty primitive. The current drugs only work for about a year in terms of slowing things up. I can see that the prospect of early tests is a good thing when the treatment improves, but that is a long way off. There has to be a constant push for earlier diagnosis as it will be important when there is a good treatment path.

It does depend on what type of Alzheimer's is involved. Some types hardly respond to drugs. Once the drugs stop working for a person the recourse is to more of a tranquilizer type of treatment. It also takes people very differently. A family friend's mother developed the disease and became violent and although living with her son and daughter, kept announcing that her children were coming to get her. She was very strong and threw both her children down stairs even though they were middle aged. She tried to stab her daughter and used to run away.

My father in law was better and was not physically violent. His personality did change and he became outspoken from being very quiet. A lot of it was quite humorous. He saw a woman in a burka in the street and shouted loudly, "look at the state of that". He told a very fat woman that she needed two chairs to sit on. He found a new friend in the mirror and used to have long conversations with Jock.

GF,

Who is Christine?

Do I know her.

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Hazy One,

Cameron's futile wish to have an in out referendum after in 2017 is not even a pipe dream. (Although, Dave seems as if he is often on wacky baccy.)

He won’t be in “charge” of his split party and certainly won’t be PM in 2017.

The EU, at that time with a recovered economy will be driving for greater integration on financial, economic, tax and foreign policies in an attempt to prevent the re-occurrences the present economic problems. (Financial services and taxation is what frightens some of the city and motivates the “kippers” philosophy.)

But also, his proposals are as barmy as starting a game of chess and at the opponent’s first move proposing, or boasting how he will play the end game without first addressing the opening and middle game.

Miliband, is sensible to keep his powder dry and at least not rushing to print cockeyed policies.

The U-turn party is fragmenting and in terminal decline.

The UK election may mark the return to more moderate pro-European central positioned government of Labour or Labour/Lib.Dem grouping.

Haze,

I think it time for you to book that check up.

I would be happy to suggest suitable medication!

8~)

Christine!!!!!!!!Fred...........ohhhhh you mean Chris the Aberdeen ass licker.

Gets closer and closer to Hays and manuel everytime he posts here.

Corks to the ready boys.

PMQs excellent today. Clegg gave Labour, in the form of Harriet Harman, a good kicking today. Labour well out of its depth.

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

if that the case god help him when Nigel gets hold of him.

Hays dont forget were going to put your council tax up, your inheritance tax and were going to take away your freebies.

Just think on.

I like to look at Broker Recommendations but am totally mystified by them. I question how it can be that one company I follow had 5 different broker recs on one day, varying from overweight, underweight, buy, sell and hold. Are they using the dart board method to arrive at them?

Talking of Brokers,

Alders O/Topic...re, ABG

Canaccord sees buying opportunity at African Barrick Gold after sell-off
12 March 2014 11:24

The 17 per cent share price slump of African Barrick Gold (ABG) has created a buying opportunity, according to Canaccord Genuity on Wednesday.

The broker kept a 'buy' recommendation and 315p target price for ABG.

Shares fell sharply on Tuesday after parent company Barrick Gold disposed of 41m shares - representing a 10% stake - to lower its holding to 63.9%.

"We believe the magnitude of the price drop was exacerbated by the profit taking following the best performance among UK peers since mid-2013. The fall we think opens up a buying opportunity," said analysts Dmitry Kalachev and Peter Mallin-Jones.

Among their key reasons to buy the stock, the analysts highlighted free cashflow (FCF) which is expected to average $230m per annum between 2015 and 2020.

This translates into a FCF yield of 13% which is the highest among ABG's London-listed peers under Canaccord's coverage. Adding growth projects would see FCF rise to $280m per annum at a 16% yield.

They also pointed to a robust balance sheet, strong production growth and easing upwards pressure on costs.

Addressing recent speculation that Barrick Gold could move to sell-down its remaining stake, Kalachev and Mallin-Jones said ABG now represents only 7% of the parent company's annual production so even a total disposal of the entire 63.9% stake will improve Barrick's costs by only around 2%.

"The sale at any cost in order to improve cost profile looks out of the question and this, we think, reduces the overhang risk from the remaining stake," they said.

The stock, which hit a low of 229.3p in early trading on Wednesday, had trimmed losses to trade just 1.4% down at 246.5p by 11:45.

BC

Related Companies: ABG

electionista ‏@electionista
North Korea election - final result:

All 687 candidates won 100% of votes

Turnout: 99.97%, -0.01% from 2009............ends

Manuel would love that Turnout.

Hays would instigate that result.

Ref : aircraft missing....just a crazy guess : two males both digest explosive cocktails of some kind in nougat paper or similar but it will dissolve slowly in their bodies, they sit side by side and then both of them somehow swallow a small cable that creates a current between the two of them ...a bit like superglue when mixed together and destroys the aircraft.....nuts really....or a pet carries the bomb.....insane...

R F

What drug's are you on ?

haystack

PMQs excellent today. Clegg gave Labour, in the form of Harriet Harman, a good kicking today. Labour well out of its depth



Agree with you one 100% , Harman was pathetic.

goldfinger

ABG share price will recover , but not as much as 315p short/medium term. CEY might be worth a punt.

Rubbish.

If thats all Clegg can do Nigel will have a walk over and the Tories are in trouble.

Alders have you seen that article on ABG?.

CEY id stay well away from. Massive fall 60% plus if it loses legal battle.

Is it worth taking the chance.