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Mining supply will diminish by half again in the next 8-9 months with the 4 year cycle halving coming up. Get buying while you can. Not financial advice of course. 😁

While for some who bought at the top in 2021 they are currently still underwater, however the majority of holders are in profit. Bitcoin & Traditional Assets ROI (vs USD) Bitcoin Gold S&P 500 1 year: +30% +16% +15% 2 year: -0.19% +10% +6% 3 year: +226% +9% +40% 4 year: +189% +39% +52% 5 year: +311% +61% +63% 6 year: +995% +58% +85% 7 year: +4,447% +50% +110% 8 year: +10,826% +81% +116% 9 year: +4,774% +52% +130% 10 year: +35,001% +50% +169% 11 year: +349,681% +25% +236% 12 year: +218,636% +24% +239% 13 year: +54 million% +67% +311% 14 year: +4.0 billion% +108% +372% https://casebitcoin.com Data Source: Messari.io, bitcoincharts.com What is it: This shows bitcoin's ROI vs other potential inflation hedge assets. Why it matters: As with the historical bitcoin price table, we see bitcoin's extreme outperformance vs other assets here as well. Bitcoin's relatively small size, plus fundamental properties, yield extreme outperformance when even relatively small funds-flows find their way to BTC. Data Source: Messari.io, bitcoincharts.com

Found this. May or may not shed some light on JD'S post. https://ahdb.org.uk/knowledge-library/pre-harvest-glyphosate-best-practice-in-cereals

As others have suggested get yourself seen by the gp, most times these thing don't turn out to be anything of a significant concern but best to be checked for other causes that are rare but can give sciatic symptoms.

Hi MM Sorry to hear you predicament. If you have been removed from your old dentists books and they not taking on any new NHS patients (which many do not appear to be) you may be very lucky and be able to register with a new dentist for an acute visit in the first instance and be seen as a NHS patient. You may or may not be charged. If you cannot get registered and seen promptly,most counties in England have a emergency dental service for times such as these. Ring NHS 111 and they can advise of the nearest emergency dental services to you. I would surmise a trip to the emergency dentist will end up in a cost to yourself. There are some exemptions from paying emergency dental services such as low income benefits, some students, maternity and some older adults on low income. Your gp won't touch it if it is dental as dental is a specialism and not trained or commissioned to assess or treat dental. Hope you get sorted.

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I cannot see how it would directly migrate to the heart as it would have to enter the circulatory system which is already a closed system in mammals. The middle ear in humans and canines are not directly linked to the circulatory system. I suppose in a very rare but unlikely circumstance a foreign body could migrate through an artery wall, but arteries are made to be very, very strong and keep almost everything out as it is absolutely imperative that the blood is kept super clean, foreign body and pathogen free. The seed would first have to penetrate the ear drum via the outer canal, then into the middle ear, it would have many structures to pass through until it could access an artery or the outer muscle of the heart. I can understand from what you say Lloyd how some seeds and thorns can end up deep in the outer outer canal causing distress and infection which can also spread into the middle ear and beyond causing complications. Must be poor misery for animals when they get one. I am asked to remove foreign bodies on a fairly regular basis from childrens and adults ears and they come in all shapes and sizes. The foreign bodies range from plastic beads to lego, blue tac, sweets, pasta to ear buds that have come off headphones and hearing aids and also the occasional insect and seeds. The organic ones without doubt give rise to more inflamation and subsequent risk of infection. In work we see plenty of foreign bodies from metal, wood and glass injuries and would say to have seen a small amount over the years that have migrated from from the original site. Once removed a glass foreign body from the back of a hand which to all knowledge had entered the palm several years before from a glass injury and was about 5cm distal from the entry scar if I recall. It had virtually broke the skin on the dorsum aspect of the hand and was smooth in texture and had lost any sharpness that it once had. Fascinating! Had some one in who had said they rang spec savers as the spec saver hearing aid bud had come off in the ear, alleged was quoted £95 for urgent appointment to remove it. I soon had it out and on their way. I should start charging. LOL! As you say Lloyd seeds like many forieign bodies can migrate through tissue

We have the Beufort scale for wind. I am proposing a new measurement model for this type of nonsense and It will be known as the Wokefort scale. Surley this example must be 11 on the scale. When registering with the midwife from now on, I can see it on the birthing plan for preference delivery options: For pregnant persons: Home Birth: Tick Yes or No Birth Type: Cesarean Cervix Bonus hole You could not make this up, the NHS will be lapping this up, probably coming to a birthing plan near you as we speak. We're all doomed!

No problem. Happy to give some general advice. Fine hair growth is initially an encouraging sign with this condition. 👍 Make sure you protecting the area from the sun with either headwear or a good high factor sunscreen. 👍 If unfortunate regression of the fine hair happens and your gp goes with topical steroids, these may take up to three months or so to start re-growth. When prescribing steroids for this very condition it may take many weeks for the steroid to show any benefit. Before prescribing steroids for this condition I tell patients it may be unlikely to expect expect growth within very short weeks and there is a possibility for some that the treatment fails to produce any hair at all. Also this in the presence or absence of risk of developing side effects from the steroid. Not all go on to develop side effects but it is important to be made aware of them. As with all steroids they carry a risk of side and adverse effects and the higher the dose, the higher the increase of risking side effects and adverse reactions and your practitioner should discuss the benefits and risks with you. Developing Alopecia can be linked to other conditions such as autoimmune conditions, thyroid dysfunction, diabetes etc , however note that the risk of developing these is very low. The opportunity to discuss any concerns at a consulatation should be born in mind and your doctor may wish to investigate further with blood tests if other clinical signs and symptoms are present of the aformentioned conditions. atb 7diaw

Alopecia like many skin conditions the aetiology is still poorly understood. It's thought to be caused by hairs not undertaking a maturing phase, another way to put it is the hairs go from being juveniles to older adults in a very short time and die off quickly, sometimes in such as short time such as, overnight or short weeks to months. Autoimmune factors are also thought to play a significant part of the causation with the condition, stressers may also a part. The condition affects about 1 in a 1000 and there is a increased risk of developing it if there is a family history. Remission occours for around 30-50% of affected people within a year, however, recurrence can still happen at any time thereafter. There are several treatments available, but note there are currently no cures for the condition and recurrence may occur. Ultimately the options for how the condition is managed will require several factors taking into account. The amount of hair loss, area of thje hair loss, is it a large area or is it a small inconspicuous area. If there are hairs which are new growth then may be a no treatement and a watchful wait over 3 months to see amount of the growth with advice that should the affected area increase then to return for review by gp/clinician. No hair growth. A potent or very potent topical corticosteroid preparation for 3 months then review. (This cannot be used around the eyesbrows or the chin and is prescrition only) There are some specialist treatments such as subcutaneous steroid injections to the site every few weeks, however they have shown to in general not to give subsatnsive sustained hair growth. Other topical treatments such as Minoxidil and Dithranol are genrally not indicated for Alopecia but are for such conditions as MPB Male pattern baldness, which yours does not appear to be and is more in keeping with Alopecia from the picture you have posted. Just giving you a heads up in case you have already googled them. They offer limitations in efficacy and have some undesirable side effects which may worsen the Alopecia. With that said they are still considered as a tertiary treament at times by specialists when other treatmens may have failed. An appointment with your gp would be the first call for the assessment. Re specialist medications these would generally be initiated under a specialist such as a dermatologist or a GP SI, a gp with a 'specialist interest' in that area so to speak. Some treatments may or may not be prescribed as part of NHS and may require a private prescription payment that would not be met by the nhs. Hope you get sorted.

UBI will stand for ULTIMATELY BIGGER INFLUENCE when aligned with a CBDC.

Enviromental Social Governance (ESG) I wonder which ones they passed on. Have a look at the video from KPMG in the link below, it states no ESG, no funding. No aligning with cheap money. The Goverment money printer to the bank will no longer says BRRRR for your company. I can foresee some of the ESG compliance getting rolled out but not all and I bet many stake holders are pushing back on parts of esg policy and would have been one of the reasons that more billionaires than ever before attended Davos this year to see how they will be impacted by forthcoming 2025 policy. As with all policy some of it will make it, other bits will take years and some parts never at all. Ultimately only time will tell. https://kpmg.com/uk/en/home/services/environmental-social-governance/sustainable-finance-for-borrowers--esg-debt-advisory-.html

The World Economic Forum (W.E.F) the world central bank, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) naming the most relevant. Re CBDC below is a link I posted in 2022 that links to the proposed CBDC. You can now read the updated proposal by the Goverment. CBDC was THE NUMBER ONE topic at Davos this year and well over 120 countries have now signed up for exploring the implementaion of a cbdc and something akin greater than 60% want to have a active 'BURN MECHANISM' within the ledger so that this has an expiry on a certain amount of money in the account at a certain date. A way to stimulate the economy??, make people poorer??, spreads wealth tier down?? Have a hundred digital pounds and if you do not spend £5 of your account in the next 6 months that £5 will evaporate from your account. Though the prior was an example of a UK burn mechanism, it is not currently touted in the british cbdc proposal, however many countries who are developing a cbdc say they will activate it to stimulate the economy. Take note in the proposed UK Gov cbdc it states the following in the the FAQ: Would I have a digital pound account at the bank of England? 'Not in a traditional sense. So you would not be able to open an account with the Bank of England. The way that you would access digital pounds would be through a digital wallet that would be provided by a private company. The reason that we're doing it this way is because we think that private companies are much better placed at providing innovative products and services to the public.' Would the digital pounds be monitored for what I use my money for? 'If you used digital pounds, the Bank of England and the government would not collect any of your personal data and wouldn't be able to see how you spent your money. You would access the digital pound through a virtual wallet and you would have to share some personal data with your wallet provider. This is because you would have a commercial relationship with your provider and they would require some form of ID in order to prevent financial crime or fraud. Your privacy would still be protected by data privacy regulations and your personal data would not be shared with the Bank or the government.' It does not say your wallet provider (the innovator) will not be able to collect your personal data and how you spend your digital asset. Would the bank of England restrict what I use my money for? 'Neither the Bank of England nor the government would be able to programme your digital pounds or restrict how you spend your money. However, you would have the ability to programme your own payments, if you wanted to. Today, this would allow you to make automated payments such as paying your rent or mortgage on a set day. But in the future, this feature could also lead to exciting innovations in payments.' It does not say the innovator would not be able to programme how you spend your digital pound or restrict this in the future Be sure that all end to end transparency is inbuilt into the ledger and can be implemented under future FATF regulation, ESG regulation by way of the WEF and world central bank. @discobob Always enjoy your posts Bob. 👍

It was a 'monumental' batch. No fun peeling and crushing 64 lemons I can tell you. Bledy torture! You may catch the last of the flowers Paul but you will need to be sharpish, I fear that in a week or so they will be finished. Hope you get some. Here is a picture of a couple of glasses from last years batch that I opened a few weeks back. Very nice indeedy.

THAT WONDERFUL TIME OF YEAR AGAIN! Made with my usual recipe (in the first pages of this thread) Done a very big batch this year 200 litres. Ingredients for the whole batch as follows: 400 elderflower heads 32 kg sugar 64 lemons white wine vinegar nearly four hundred 500ml bottles later now all bottled up. Anyone else made any?

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Some in Gold, some in Bitcoin and Ether, depends on your on your risk appetite. Not financial advice of course. 😁

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Funny how the BBC (the british bashing corporation) conveniently edited this part out of the interview. I also see that this clip has had over four million views in the last twenty four hours and the full interview from the BBC clip has had shy of half a million, however it is showing higher in the youtube algorithm. Bit odd that! Good on Musk for challenging the cretin.

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I do agree with you Scully and the litigation budget is over 2 billion the last time I looked. As there are plenty of genuine litigation cases, many others are successful in gaining compensation as the law is hugely skewed on the duty of care to the provider and not the individual as you point out. I am in no way exagerating that on a daily basis in work I see or directly deal with some form of aggression from patients and sometimes relatives, thankfully less rarely violence, though it does happen. In the last couple of years I will give you a handful of incidents that I have been involved with. A colleaguge getting spat in their face, a heavily pregnant colleage getting punched in the stomach, another having a metal drip stand smashed across their face, non of these resulted in a serious prosecution and all claimed mental health issues as the reason for the violence. These were not patients in a mental health unit or learning difficulties unit but people within our daily society that were deemed to have capacity at the time. As far as I am aware these individuals can still access any emergency aed in the country. I work for a large trust and there are hundreds of incidents of violence and aggression each year and I suspect many incidents go unreported. Only yesterday evening I was swore at twice by two different patients. Daily, I see frustration from patients and this is nothing new, sometimes this is a result in a lack of communication which is regrettable or a longer wait and this is only to be expected when delivering a patient facing public service dealing with society. What is glaringly more evident since covid to myself and all my colleagues, and I know many from a wide range of services is that there is more violence and agression towards all staff than there ever was before. This includes hospital staff, paramedics, police and fireman as we get to see many of them for different reasons. Frusration I accept this as daily occurence from a patient facing service and the pressure of waits, and it is to be expected to an extent. Aggression and violence is another matter. It is generally accepted that once an individual enters a healtcare setting by appointment or self presentation aed etc and books in that to a larger extent that a duty of care is owed. For example a patient enters a aed department books in and is triaged, is there a duty of care to maintain the safety of that person whilst they are in the department, in most circumstances there is. A person wanders into the ground of a hospital and breaks into a back corriodor into a non public area of the hospital and is injured or found dead, was there a duty of care, probably not. Under the mental capacity act all people are deemed to have capacity until proven otherwise. If someone becomes agitated the carer, practioner or medic is asked wherever to undertake a dynamic risk assessment of the situation which can be difficult at times. We are told that despite the assumption that an individual may not have capacity and they begin to exhibit aggression or violence that as a care giver your safety should always be paramount and you do have the legal right to withdraw from the patient to a safe distance and inform the police. Obviously this is taken on a casa by case risk assessment, 85 year old frail Martha with a UTI who has become acutely confused and aggressive may be owed a greater duty of care as from the Steve who has booked in with cut to the hand and is systemically well and has become agressive because he does not want to wait any longer. To legally discharge your duty of care you are required to act within the 'relevant standard of care', this is generally evaluated as the standard expected of the practioners profession performing that role or task and a failure to discharge that duty could be regarded as negligence. The nhs says it has a zero tolrenace for agression and viloence, in my personal experience this isn't always the case. Myself and my colleagues have been held to account for refusing to treat individuals that have capacity and have continued to display agrressive threatening behaviour for a deemed risk to ourselves and others. This has come off the back of a complaint from the individual via a solicitor, stating that a duty of care was failed and the individual has gone on to have experience or developed harm or mental ill health issues. I haver known cases to be paid out despite that agression being well documented and the reason of refusal of care. It would make you cry if you could hear of some of the things that go on are beyond disbelief. The nhs does not always not have a great track record for supporting it's staff in some situations and it is not unfounded that many nurses, doctors and health care professionals feel to be made that they were at fault and this has been widely documented in the public domain. If an individual is assaulted whilst in work in the nhs it is 'the responsibility of the individual' to press for a criminal charge and nhs trust policy is to 'support' them in this. I have known patients who have every comorbidity under the sun who have chronic alcoholism, diabetes, vascular disease, respiratrory disease who smoke 40 roll ups a day and drink 10 tins a day who go on to develop a presure ulcer who are predominantly mobile and because it was not documented by a nurse visit to home within 24 hours, the patient then goes on to be successful in claiming for negligence and harm despite the patient having capacity. Madness! Plenty of trusts move to paying out as they simply do not have the resources from risk governance legal department to thoroughly build a case against litigation. There is increasingly no accountability owed by the individual towards their own health need despite imparted insights and education on when they should seek attention, accountability is more and more skewed towards the provider in my opinion. I have read a few of Lloyd90 posts and he speaks on many of these points also. Some health boards have a 3 strikes system where if the individual is repeatedly aggresive or violent they can be removed from the gp surgery, the gp has to legally inform the ccg in writing and the reason for doing so. That said, the law deems that a duty of care is still owing, so the individual should not be discouraged from access to health services that would be expected at a service level agreement for all nhs patients. This means they are afforded to be registered with a gp who accepts a patient who has been removed from another surgery for this reason. This individual is free to attend walk in centres, urgent treatment centres and aeds at there own free choice. In some exceptional circumstances we have had individuals excluded from an emergency unit for attending for certain conditions, however these have a standard operating procedure pathway to be referred back to a primary care practitioner, however if they roll up and are acutely unwell or injured, a duty of care is still owing and are required to be seen and a dynamic risk assessment is again to be undertaken. 😣 A patient note in my experience is added to the record or scr that the patient is known to violent so to give staff a warning that they are known to exhibit violence. I have been told that legally the patient has to be informed that a note will be added to the medical records and generally to be seen in two's with another menber of staff when presenting. The people you read about in the paper or the person you see on the street who exhibit these toxic behaviours often come into a healthcare setting and their behaviour does not always change. Some see it as an entiltlement to create 'hell' at times and feel if they start kicking up a stink that they will jump the que and be seen quicker, when they are asked to calm down they become more agressive, see it all too often. Get every walk of life in and across our trust as a whole we are dealing with more and more stabbings, it has become a serious agender for our governance department, more worrying for us who are dealing with more and more mental health and patients directly on the front line like the paramedics in the thread. I feel for the paramedics as it is they that are most often exposed to the threat without any back up or support. Many paramedics tell me that a common theme appears to be told that when they start there training that they are told they be lucky if they last 5 years due to the burnout from agression among other pressures. I worked in primary care out of hours for nearly two decades carrying out home visits from four in the afternoon until midnight on my own, covering the most deprived areas of Merseyside. I could write a book on the situations I have had to deal with and the things I have seen. One of the scariest thing I ever had happen to me was having an axe thrown at me, but that is a story for another time. We get plenty of undesirables in, had someone stabbed in the face multiple times on the doorstep once as I was going in, nasty stuff! I got told off for going under the crime scene tape a bit later on. But I was in charge and having to navigate the post chaos in the unit, scary for my colleagues also and the other patients. It happened as one person was leaving they bumped into the other person coming in and got stabbed, a few seconds more and both of them would have been fully in the reception. Despite patients being stood outside the assailent was apparently not perturbed by the other patients stood outside and the comings and goings of staff and set upon the other with the knife. That is worrrying for us as it happened on the work doorstep. Plenty of genuine people with mental health, physical conditions, alcohol related conditiosn, social issues and comorbidities and I am more than happy to see and support. Some people in our society are clearly unhinged and the worrying thing is that violent behaviour appears to becoming more of an acceptable behaviour for our goverment in society. I feel for them poor paramedics, that must have been terryfying for them. And once agin the individual gets off lightly with no deterrent to society. Some crazy ******* out there. boogers

Wow! Look at that fat layer. Well done rf. Look forward to more of you piggy escapades and keep us posted.

Good stuff rimfire, are they difficult to skin? Pork chops time.

Great stuff! Enjoyed the read.