Things Noticeable this week

[otokonomidori]

Originally Posted by CARLTON BROWN

Many men of around the same age who live in my street have been treated for cancer in the last two or three years. I have a sneaking suspicion that Chernobyl may have played a part in what's happened. It's over 30 years now, but I wish I'd hadn't been doing an outdoor house painting job when the initial fallout was drifting across Northern Europe and the UK government played down the risks.

One in three people develop cancer at some point in their lifetime - usually after they've reached their 50's.

[CARLTON BROWN]

Originally Posted by otokonomidori

One in three people develop cancer at some point in their lifetime - usually after they've reached their 50's.

Quite so, but I think it's fair to wonder if there are reasons for unusual close age groups, possible regional variations and things like that, when a radiological event of some significance has taken place in the pastm which many have been exposed to. I remember in the early 80s how many of my relatives (who were all heavy smokers) contracted lung cancer at around the same age. In this case, the cause seemed pretty obvious.

Going back further in time and looking at the records I collected while doing genealogy, nearly all my ancestors died from strokes, heart attacks and simply wore out as they got older. There is no cancer.

Where I live in Eastern England and specifically in my neighbourhood, there almost seems to be a pattern with cancer. I'm not claiming to have any real knowledge of these things or suggesting some theory, but this topic came up (by chance) during a discussion with a friend from Ireland who told me that the Irish public were kept very well informed about possible hazards from Chenobyl fallout and given advice, with the warning that future related cancer rates could be significant. In the UK during 1986, it was treated as a matter of little serious concern by HMG and soon forgotten about.

Of course, there might be no connection whatsover, but nobody seems to have any definite idea one way or another.

[AmateurEmale]

I would like to make everyone aware that many of the full-frontal, skimpy lingerie shots of Adriana Lima (former V.S. Angel) make her look like a succubus!

To misquote AC/DC, her boobs resemble "Hell's Bells", and if she really does have a landing strip under there, it would be like the "Highway To Hell" based on fornication with a good, Catholic Brazilian girl. And yes, one of the photos even shows her in a devil's horns outfit... Could it be that she sold her soul for sex and money?

[tsunamiSD]

Challenged Athletes: It's more than just sports

Ellen Brown Scripps Park overlooking La Jolla Cove turned into a veritable mosh pit Sunday of enthusiastic triathletes and disabled sports fiends.The three-day benefit for the San Diego-based Challenged Athletes Foundation featured swims, clinics, auctions, bike races, fun runs and a triathlon.
“Shake and wave your arms, turn around, shake your hands, up, up, up,” Dana Hillstrom called out from the stage to kids limbering up for a fun run on Coast Boulevard. “Who knows the ‘Trolls’ movie? Pull your hair up, up, up, up!”
About 200 disabled athletes of all ages, many of whose travel expenses were underwritten by the foundation, attended along with several thousand other competitors, families and onlookers.

About $2.7 million was raised from the bike, stationary bike and triathlon events, said foundation spokeswoman Laura Stein, with receipts also going for prosthetics and other assistance.

At the Iceland-based Őssur prosthetics company booth, another perspective came from Mohamed Lahna, 35.

Born in Morocco without a right femur, he was later fitted with a prosthetic leg and attended his first Challenged Athletes event in 2009 in La Jolla.
“We don’t ask people who are disabled to do much (in Morocco),” he said, but he hopes to stimulate more production of prosthetics there.
He hopes to stimulate more awareness of the potential prosthetics production in Morocco.
“It’s not just about sport,” he said. “If you do it, it will have an effect on you as a private person.”

[Roubignol]

Originally Posted by tsunamiSD

O’Reilly Settled New HarassmentClaim, Then Fox Renewed His Contract

I'm surprised that a TV presenter can earn 25 to 32 millions dollars for himself.

Presenting a TV show doens't require incredible skills. TV presenters are not like Michael Jordan, Garry Kasparov, Usain Bolt or a virtuoso artist.
They mainly ask questions often written by people that read the books for them. These Superstars TV presenters are really far to be genius.

Are medias and in particular TV channels nothing else as a kind of mafia?

[Roubignol]

Most EU states in favour of Macron's labour reform plans

Most European Union states agreed on Monday on reforming the bloc's labour rules that poorer countries value for giving them a competitive edge but French President Emmanuel Macron criticises for undercutting his workers.

The issue of the so-called posted workers pits wealthier countries against poorer peers keen to preserve current rules that allow their citizens to work elsewhere in the bloc for salaries higher than they would get at home but still lower than the local labour force.

Macron has put reforming the so-called posting of workers directive high on the EU's agenda and is backed by Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, among others.

After some 12 hours of negotiations among labour ministers in Luxembourg, most of the EU's 28 members backed a compromise that would cap posting workers abroad at 18 months and introduce a four-year transition between reaching a final agreement on the reform and its taking effect.

But Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland said they could not back the proposal, while Ireland, Britain and Croatia abstained over concerns that the new rules would hurt their transport industries.

The Dutch minister praised the agreement, saying all workers deserved protection from unfair competition. His Hungarian colleague said the final text was vague and left too much scope for interpretation.

Most EU countries were taking the floor on the matter throughout the day of negotiations on the politically sensitive reform, with one key point of contention being whether to keep international road transport covered by any new posting rules, as sought by Berlin and Paris among others.

Spain, Ireland, Portugal and several states on the EU's eastern flank wanted that exempted and subject to a separate law. In the latter group, Poland is the biggest exporter of cheap labour force in the EU.

The bloc's executive Commission in the end declared that part of the transport sector, namely transit, would not be regulated by the posting rules.

"It's about fairness on the labour market," said the EU's top jobs official, Marianne Thyssen. "I am all in favour of freedom of movement but it must be organised in a fair way ... The internal market is based on rules, it's not a jungle."

While one camp says cheap workers' easy access to their countries is weighing on salaries and undermining the labour market, the other says tightening rules amounts to protectionism and weakens competition.

Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania and other easterners say they should be allowed to compete with lower wages to catch up with the wealthier west after decades of communist malaise.

EU divided

The 18-month agreement -- written down as a 12-month cap with a possible 6-month extension -- bridged most differences over the maximum period allowed for sending workers abroad under posting rules before they fall under the host country's labour laws.

The ministers gave a green light to opening negotiations on the reform with the European Parliament, which will likely bring more changes to any final agreement.

Apart from the future of transport, other themes still open include exact remuneration rules for the posting of workers, which is profitable for companies because of the wage gap in the EU.

While the estimated 2 million posted workers only make up a tiny fraction of the bloc's workforce, the issue has driven a wedge between the richer states at the centre and their poorer peers on the peripheries.

For Macron, the reform is seen as crucial to convince his voters of a need for difficult economic reforms at home by showing he stands up for their interests in the EU.

European lawmakers last week agreed their own stance on the matter, including by proposing a 24-month limit on working abroad under posting rules, and ensuring that such mobile workers are entitled to the same bonuses as the locals.

[gordian_knot]

An interesting article questioning our belief in the infallability of forensic evidence, particularly fingerprinting.

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-finger...es-robust.html

[Devius]

Labour MP Jared O'Mara has quit the Commons equality committee over online homophobic comments he made before being elected to parliament.

Mr O'Mara also made misogynistic remarks, joked about having an orgy with members of Girls Aloud and posted degrading comments about fat people.

The Sheffield Hallam MP, 36, was elected in June, unseating ex-deputy prime minister Nick Clegg.

Mr O'Mara resigned from the Women and Equalities Committee after apologising.

In posts made on the Drowned in Sound music website in 2004, Mr O'Mara claimed singer Michelle McManus only won Pop Idol "because she was fat" and said it would be funny if jazz star Jamie Cullum was "sodomised with his own piano".

Apparently Mr O'Mara stepped down from the committee after it emerged that homophobic posts had appeared under his pseudonym on a fan website for the musician Morrissey in 2002, including references to gay men as “fudge-packers” and “poofters”.

One comment read: “I find it funny how some homosexuals think they have the monopoly on being subject to abuse, they should try being ginger … AND disabled!”

But since then, new claims were made by Sophie Evans, who alleges the abuse incident in a Sheffield nightclub was witnessed by her friends.

Evans told BBC2’s Daily Politics she had first encountered O’Mara on a dating app, and while an initial meeting “didn’t really work out” there were no hard feelings.

She said, however, that O’Mara had abused her in March before he became an MP after encountering him while out with friends. Asked what O’Mara said, she replied: “Obviously, some of the things aren’t broadcastable. There were some transphobic slurs in there. He called me an ugly bitch.”

Details:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-41724540
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...r-sophie-evans

[Puhbear69]

Originally Posted by xyzde69

My friendly 64 years old farmer neighbour died of cancer on last week.
He always worked with pesticides.
What is actually happening to Swiss farmers surely is happening to all the non-biological farmers in the world.

I've once visited in a small village in Bavaria - on a bike-tour - an old graveyard, a disused old/historical graveyard near the church. It has been very groomed and so I made a side trip over it - a bit nosy I have to admit. Those graves were starting at the early 18th century to the mid 19th century. Those wooden plates, they used as tombstones were fabulously restored. Beside the names of the dead at the most were standing one the most also the circumstances of which they have died in very rough sayings (funny to me), like they were obviously usual in those small Bavarian villages (I never noticed such in my homeland) at that time.

Ok, there were sayings like (translated & cleaned from Bavarian ) died of a diarrhoea disease, of alcohol misuse, some were tightly muddled -> Dementia, some were staidly trembling -> Parkinson's disease, and a number of them obviously died of a cancer disease. The most of course of a dotage.

Back in nowadays - it seems to be nothing new.

I warn explicit: If the disease isn't known by it's root, by it's reason, by it's genesis or any combination of it, then physicians tend to use statistics for the probable reasons, they are expecting. And sorry: physicians don't have a clue in using statistics.
Surely they can be right, but also they could be dramatically wrong, appending of the result they do expect.

So I'm tending to be very carefully, to mix up the cause and the effect.

I think no one needs the excessive use of pesticides, like it seems to be usual nowadays in the farming; in so far you are quite right, 'xyzde69'. It destroys the biologically balance.

[tsunamiSD]

(at least it's hot for this time of year...) Right now it is 93 degrees in my back yard, which won't get direct sunlight for at least another 3 hours. I'm only a couple of miles from the coast, not like Santee, which is another 20+ miles inland.

Temperature hits 90 at sunrise in East County as heat wave worsens

The temperature hit 90 in Poway and the mid-80s across East County early Tuesday as the heat wave worsened throughout Southern California.The unusually hot weather spread all the way to the coast, with La Jolla Heights reporting a high of 86 at 7:30a.m., according to the National Weather Service.

The weather service says that the temperatures will reach 100 degrees or more across a wide area of the county on Tuesday, including spots only five miles or so from the coast. The Santa Ana winds are expected to peak in the morning, blowing 25 to 35 mph across inland valleys, foothills and mountains, with gusts to 45 mph or more.

There was broad concern about people’s welfare and comfort.
These temperatures “can be hard for people at the coast who don’t have air conditioning,” said Brandt Maxwell, a weather service forecaster.
There was particular concern about school children. The San Diego Unified School District called for a minimum day at 86 schools Tuesday.
The concern about school children came amid a sense of relief that the weather has not started or spread large wildfires.
At this time ten years ago, the county experienced a series of firestorms that killed 10 people and destroyed more than 1,700 homes.
Much of the destruction was fanned by Santa Ana winds, which are most common this time of year. The dry air flows off the desert and becomes hotter as it squeezes through canyons and mountain passes.