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.

i'm a 7-stone OAP weakling :-)

TANKER ........IONA..............you OWNA what.............anti aircraft missile launcher. Bring them bloody muslims down to earth, LOL.

Nu scare on the block.....




Middle-aged people to be told 'brain age' to help cut rates of dementia



Ian Johnston

Monday 03 November 2014



Middle-aged people are to be told how fast their brain is ageing in an attempt to cut rates of dementia.


A computer program has been developed to enable GPs to give an estimate of someone’s “brain age” after finding out about how much exercise they take, whether they smoke, how much they drink and other factors.

Dr Charles Alessi, who leads on dementia for Public Health England, which designed the new screening system, told The Daily Telegraph: “Dementia is going through that phase where people are very scared of it - but you can use the fact they are willing to change their behaviour because they are scared of it to enable to make that change take place.

“It’s become clear that actions to tackle smoking, drinking, sedentary behaviour and poor diet could really reduce the risk of dementia in later life.

“The tool compares the rate of brain aging compared to the actual age of the individual. We would have something that would assist people in managing their own behaviour.”

He added that despite being 60 years old he could achieve a brain age of 96 if he adopted a particularly bad lifestyle.



More shit here: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/middleaged-people-to-be-told-brain-age-to-help-cut-rates-of-dementia-9834563.html

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/

Polling report website now showing a hung parliament with Labour 1 short of a majority.

lol - nice T-shirt, shame about the face. Harriet Harman would look equally as bad, stupid woman.

‘Third world’ Europe is finished, says Ecclestone
F1 chief joins other business leaders in giving up on the continent, as main economies slump
Mr Ecclestone’s cutting critique of Europe’s economy follows recent comments from Andy Street
From Telegraph.co.uk(Sport)
By Christian Sylt10:10PM GMT 02 Nov 2014

Bernie Ecclestone has become the latest high-profile business leader to write off the stagnating economy in Europe, which he says has made it a “third world” place to do business.

“Slowly but surely what I predicted about Europe is happening. What I said 10 years ago is that it would soon become a third world economy,” Mr Ecclestone told The Daily Telegraph.

“Europe was built on Germany and France. That’s how it all started. France is gone and Germany doesn’t look good. Even with my help they are still in trouble.”

Mr Ecclestone is referring to the record £60m ($100m) he paid to a Munich court in August to settle charges that he bribed a German banker to steer the sale of Formula One to the private equity firm CVC in 2006.

F1 is based in London but it has been gradually pulling its races out of Europe. This year eight of the 19 races are in Europe compared to 69pc 15 years ago. In 2007 Germany lost one of its two F1 races while the following year the Grand Prix in France was dropped and has not returned. Ecclestone has replaced the European races with ones in countries which are prepared to pay more to appear on the F1 calendar, where annual hosting fees rise to more than £40m.

This year’s new addition is a Grand Prix in Russia which took place in the ski-resort of Sochi in mid-October. Mr Ecclestone signed the deal directly with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and was pictured with him at the race. He has been quoted praising Putin but, in contrast, says that politicians in Europe “have got policies they would like to implement but they get into power and find that they can’t.”

This is not the first time Mr Ecclestone has been critical of the continent, however. He has long been opposed to the euro because industries in European countries are too diverse to operate under a single currency. In 2012 he said “from the moment the euro was introduced I said it was a mistake. It was a political decision where Germany and France thought they would be able to control Europe. You can’t blame them for trying. At the time it seemed a good idea.”

Mr Ecclestone’s cutting critique of Europe’s economy follows recent comments from Andy Street, the managing director of retailer John Lewis, who said that France was “finished.”

Mr Street described the French nation as “sclerotic, hopeless and downbeat”, adding “I have never been to a country more ill at ease… nothing works and worse, nobody cares about it.”

In a London speech, which he later apologised for, he also described Paris’s flagship train station, Gare du Nord, as the “squalor pit of Europe”.

The comments reflect what critics see as the economic malaise in mainland Europe. Germany’s exports have hit the buffers leading to concerns that it may be teetering on the brink of recession.

However, Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, and other leading figures in the country have pointed the finger of blame elsewhere as one of the country’s most highly regarded economists has warned that France could “bring down” the euro by refusing to get to grips with austerity.

In a recent interview Hans-Werner Sinn, the president of Germany’s Institute for Economic Research think tank, said that “French industry has been dying for decades” and added that “hiding the unemployed in government offices is not a healthy solution”.

A total of 3.4m people are out of work in France and the OECD predicts that economic growth in the country will come in at just 0.4pc this year.

And the music played on

Come to Momma!

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/11/goodnight-darling-alistair-darling-leaves-milibands-sinking-ship/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2817379/No-Miliband-brothers-Ed-busy-David-looks-likely-stay-New-York-BLACK-DOG.html

Ed Miliband seems resigned to fighting the next Election without his brother David.

A Labour activist who innocently said to him at a party function: ‘I am sure your brother will find the time to come over from his job in New York to boost your election campaign,’ was surprised to receive the awkward reply: ‘Er, I think he’s busy.’

Sounds like a no.

Why would David come back to help?

I concur with this bit:

"Darling’s decision doesn’t surprise me: there were rumours that he was thinking this way ahead of the last election.

He is perhaps the only finance minister in Europe serving at the time of the crash to have come out of it with his reputation enhanced (which is why he has other career options to think about)."

He is a truly nice bloke. Let's agree what a sensible decision he has made and all of us wish him, 'All the best for the future' .

Microsoft stops selling Windows 7
Friday marked the end of sales of PCs with consumer versions of Windows 7 pre-installed
Windows 7 was released in 2009
From: Telegraph.co.uk
By Sophie Curtis12:42PM GMT 03 Nov 2014

Microsoft has discontinued sales of computers running consumer versions of Windows 7, effectively pushing people onto the less-popular Windows 8 operating system.

As of 31 October 2014, Microsoft will no longer provide licences for Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Premium, and Windows 7 Ultimate to PC makers – like Dell, Lenovo and HP.

This means it will only be possible to buy a PC with Windows 7 pre-installed until existing stock runs out. All new Windows PC models will run either Windows 8 or Windows 8.1.

The only exception will be business computers running Windows 7 Professional, which will continue being sold for at least another year.

Microsoft will continue to offer mainstream support for Windows 7 until 13 January 2015. Extended support is also guaranteed until 14 January 2020, according to the company's Windows lifecycle fact sheet.

Microsoft has also stopped selling boxed retail copies of Windows 8, which launched in 2012. However, the operating system will still be sold pre-installed on some Windows PCs.

Windows 7 currently accounts for 53 per cent of the desktop operating system market, up from 47 per cent this time last year, according to the latest figures from Net Applications.

Windows XP now accounts for 17 per cent (compared to 31 per cent last year), while Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 together account for 17 per cent (compared to 9 per cent last year).

Windows as a whole accounts for over 90 per cent of the desktop operating system market, compared to around 7 per cent for Apple's Mac OS X operating system, and around 1.5 per cent for Linux.

The next version of Windows, called Windows 10, is due to be released in the middle of next year.

Bernie's talking bollocks imo - Europe isn't finished. The frogs may be taking it in the neck right now, but that's the time the hedge funds go bottom fishing as they look towards the yield. Buy when the cannons are thundering as Mr Rothschild used to say....

In fact my husband and I have just spent a rather pleasant last week on the south coast picking up some plots and distressed stuff up on the cheap. It was 24 degrees on Thursday, and we even went paddling in the Med which was pretty nifty for the end of October. And, fwiw, there's a load of stuff that's sold over the last few weeks since we were last down there, so we're not the only ones who are sniffing around.

Tax avoidance – the latest from Twitter 2/11/2014

This infographic appeared on Twitter yesterday. At a time when it has been revealed that the richest people in the UK doubled their income between 2009 and 2014, proving that the Coalition government lied about sharing the burden equally, it seems appropriate to share it.

Supporting information on the £120 billion figure can be found here and here.

The HMRC figure is harder to pin down but a claim that it amounted to £32 billion can be found here.

The claim that £16 billion in benefits goes unclaimed every year seems to date from 2010 and may be lower than the actual amount.

Benefit fraud and error is enumerated in this DWP report which shows that the infographic is mistaken about overpayments due to error – these stand at £2.4 billion, not £1.4 billion.

Information showing that the 1,000 richest people in the UK doubled their incomes between 2009 and 2014 can be found here.

David Cameron has vowed (yet again) to crack down on tax avoidance. A report is here…

But you can safely leave any words he has to say on the subject here:

'I have to check her teeth': Footage shows ISIS fighters attending slave girl 'market' where they barter for young women... with green-eyed teens fetching the highest price
Terror group recently boasted it had enslaved women from Yazidi sect
Men explain it is 'slave market day' and they will have 'their share'
But the price they pay depends on looks, eye colour and good teeth
And the seller reveals he is happy to exchange his slave for a Glock pistol


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2818598/Footage-shows-ISIS-fighters-attending-slave-girl-market.html#ixzz3I17V5Sot
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Regular law abiding, God-fearing Muslims, Tanker?

Or raving, lunatic, scum bag, fanatic, terrorist Muslims, Tanker?

There is a difference.

Good idea?



How the biggest chunk of your hard-earned tax goes on welfare: Average worker pays £1,100 towards the bill
Government is to send letters to taxpayers breaking down tax spending
Ministers believe it will strengthen their arguments for welfare reform
Welfare is single biggest item, accounting for almost a quarter of all tax

By Jason Groves for the Daily Mail

Published: 23:53, 2 November 2014 | Updated: 10:26, 3 November 2014



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The average worker pays more than £1,100 a year towards Britain’s bloated welfare bill, according to Treasury figures to be sent to voters.

From today, millions will be sent letters showing how much income tax they pay – and what it is spent on.

The initiative is intended to promote ‘transparency’. But ministers believe it will also strengthen their arguments for welfare reform.





more graphs and stuff here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2818168/How-biggest-chunk-hard-earned-tax-goes-welfare-Average-worker-pays-1-100-bill.html