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.

Net migration total up by a fifth

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/paul-vallely-dont-moan-about-supermarkets-ndash-act-2333125.html

What is it about Austria?

Police in Austria have arrested a man suspected of imprisoning and sexually abusing his two daughters in his village home over 40 years.

The man, now 80, denies the abuse, which allegedly began when one girl was aged 12 and the other four.

Police say the case was reported in May, when the daughters escaped after one reportedly knocked over the father as he tried to rape her.

Now aged 53 and 45, they were both found to have "mental deficiencies".

He is suspected of imprisoning, beating and sexually abusing his daughters in the village of St Peter am Hart, near the north Austrian town of Braunau.

Police believe he repeatedly threatened to kill them with a pitchfork and a stick.

The women were apparently allowed limited contact with the outside world but intimidated into not speaking about their alleged ordeal.

They were kept in the kitchen and made to sleep on a bench.

They are now receiving help from the authorities.

The mother of the house, who died three years ago, was allegedly also abused.

Residents of St Peter am Hart spoke of their shock at the news of the alleged abuse to the Austrian newspaper Krone.

Fresh air and strudels?

Tracking Hurricane Irene

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One August, on vacation in Florida, we got a knock on our room door at around 3am.

It was the Resort Manager, who said, "Sorry folks, but everyone has to evacuate to the mainland becasue of the hurricane." So off we went to spend two nights sleeping at a school desk inside Sarasota High School to watch the palm trees flattening through the windows.

His visit wasn't entirely unexpected because, as we had gone to bed, the Sarasota area had gone from 'Hurricane Watch' to 'Hurricane Alert'. We were staying at a resort on the beach and outside the Gulf of Mexico sea was as as rough as hell and totally unsafe to even paddle in, never mind swim. Also the sky was absolutely full of individual 'cotton wool ball clouds', which were streaming along all ina whole sky full of parallel rows. This was quite an amazing sight.

We had intended to travel north and go up to the Orlando area for the second week of our holiday and we didn't come out of the high school until one day later than we had originally scheduled to leave the area.

We noticed there were still lots of parallel streams of cotton wool ball clouds, but they were now streaming the exact opposite direction. If you think about it, this meant that the spinning hurricane, with its 120mph winds, had by now travelled over the area and moved on somewhere else. It had actually gone north west out over the G of M.

We left the high school to go on our journey and the whole place was littered with damage and debris and occasional uprooted trees.

As we travelled north on highway 'I-75' we were just about the only people on the road. When we arrived in the Orlando area there had been hardly any experience in that area of any hurricane, other than just quite strong winds and yet we had been quite necessarily detained for good safety reasons back down in Sarasota.

This was about 30 or so years ago and my memory is now fading of the experience. I am a bit annoyed with myself because I can't even remember the name of the hurricane.

However, I can remember very clearly that it is just about totally impossible to walk in the open air, when the wind is blowing at around 120mph. I can also clearly remember, that even if you could, it wouldn't be a very good idea, because you are highly likely to get whacked around the head by a flying tree.

List of historic tropical cyclone names

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IiarVvZguY&feature=player_embedded

Very funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw

Anybody know why they don't post the weekend newspaper share tip's ?

Very funny videos. Just forwarded them on to several people.

Aldwick,

I think its because they don't have many on over the week-end.

I was walking in the street this afternoon in the Highbury area after the Arsenal game and there were Arsenal fans chanting "we want our old Arsenal back".

I wondered what this meant until I got home. Then I saw today's result!

Manchester United 8 - Arsenal 2

Beer and Ice Cream Diet

As we all know, it takes 1 calorie to heat 1 gram of water 1 degree centigrade. Translated into meaningful terms, this means that if you eat a very cold dessert (generally consisting of water in large part), the natural processes which raise the consumed dessert to body temperature during the digestive cycle literally sucks the calories out of the only available source, your body fat.

For example, a dessert served and eaten at near 0 degrees C (32.2 deg. F) will in a short time be raised to the normal body temperature of 37 degrees C (98.6 deg. F). For each gram of dessert eaten, that process takes approximately 37 calories as stated above. The average dessert portion is 6 oz, or 168 grams. Therefore, by operation of thermodynamic law, 6,216 calories (1 cal./gm/deg. x 37 deg. x 168 gms) are extracted from body fat as the dessert's temperature is normalized. Allowing for the 1,200 latent calories in the dessert, the net calorie loss is approximately 5,000 calories.

Obviously, the more cold dessert you eat,the better off you are and the faster you will lose weight, if that is your goal. This process works equally well when drinking very cold beer in frosted glasses. Each ounce of beer contains 16 latent calories, but extracts 1,036 calories (6,216 cal. per 6 oz. portion) in the temperature normalizing process. Thus the net calorie loss per ounce of beer is 1,020 calories. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to calculate that 12,240 calories (12 oz. x 1,020 cal./oz.) are extracted from the body in the process of drinking a can of beer.

Frozen desserts, e.g., ice cream, are even more beneficial, since it takes 83 cal./gm to melt them (i.e., raise them to 0 deg. C) and an additional 37 cal./gm to further raise them to body temperature. The results here are really remarkable, and it beats running hands down.

Unfortunately, for those who eat pizza as an excuse to drink beer, pizza (loaded with latent calories and served above body temperature) induces an opposite effect. But, thankfully, as the astute reader should have already reasoned, the obvious solution is to drink a lot of beer with pizza and follow up immediately with large bowls of ice cream.We could all be thin if we were to adhere religiously to a pizza, beer, and ice cream diet.

Happy eating!

School of Physics, University of Sydney

Warning - If you receive an email saying two free Arsenal tickets attached, on no account open it. It DOES contain two free Arsenal tickets.

Am I right to be worried.

Over the last few days I have read several articles re lack of housing coupled with reports of population figures for the UK.

We continue to hear/read that there is a lack of housing. Then we read that 25% of births in the UK are born to the 10% of residents none UK born.

So within the next 30 to 40 years the population of our country is expected to double with white residents becoming the minority, with Islam becoming the main religion.

I have nothing against good Muslims or in fact any other religion that believes in good (I am an atheist) but as we know, there are many Muslims who believe that none Muslims should be persecuted and killed.

So by about 2040 2050, we will live in a country that is even more over populated than it is now, with most areas covered in concrete, with any white indigenous British being the minority group.
Civil unrest will be common, as the only way to stop it will be draconian measures, both very frightening scenarios.
When will we call a halt, or are we destined to grow our population none stop.
The UK will start to resemble one big city similar to those you see on Sci-Fi movies, where to only way to build is up.

As a 63 year old, I am very concerned, not so much for myself, but for my children and grandchildren.

So stop building, and start dramatically reducing immigration, only allowing the very few who can contribute far more than they take out to enter the country.

If anyone can see a different future and give good arguments to counter my views, I would be very interested.

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Hi Mnamreh,

Great idea, as I suppose that as I am 63 it would mean I am not included as they would be too late.
But seriously, can you see any better future than my scenario?