More than the minimum of scrapey-scrapey stuff, multitudes
of lack of warm, maximum lack of atmospheric movement and Dawn’s crack is a
welcome sight at the Castle this morn.
According to “experts” the UK is lagging behind progress by
similar countries on many indicators for ill-health, and that although average
life expectancy has risen by four years since 1990, the UK needs to increase
its strategies for tackling preventable problems such as heart disease and
stroke.
‘Elf secretary Jezza CHunt has a cunning plan though; he is
going to announce things which aim to cut deaths from major diseases by, for
example, increasing screening for people with possible heart problems.
So if we give up the fags, take the pledge and spend a
fortune on “approved” grub we could live a long, healthy and thoroughly
miserable life until we are put on the Liverpool Pathway and die of starvation
and thirst.
About 4.7million people are now in food poverty, a
report claims today.
The poorest people are forced to spend significantly more
than ten per cent of their income on food and non-alcoholic drinks, researchers
found.
The very poorest households spend even more of their gross
income, almost a quarter, on food.
Many people on low incomes may even be at risk of
malnutrition with the poorest households cutting back on fruit by 20 per cent
and vegetables by 12 per cent.
The study, carried out for Kellogg’s by the Centre for Economics
and Business Research, comes as the food giant pledges to provide Trussell
Trust food banks with 15million portions of cereals and snacks over the next
three years.Since the financial crisis began, the number of people fed by Trussell Trust food banks has risen from 26,000 in 2008 to 280,000 last year.
And alien reptile in disguise George (I wish I was WBanker)
Osborne is orf to the place where sprouts come from in an effort to reverse the
European Parliament's proposals to curb bankers' bonuses.
He will of course fail miserably as is his way, and as he
has failed more than miserably to “manage” the economy.
But at least he is sticking up for those that have much and
still ignoring we who have fuck all as is his wont...
Photo: Guzelian
The Church by the Sea at Tampa, Florida, not only resembles
a chicken, but a chicken with attitude.
Couldn’t resist it....
The man and woman aboard the Inspiration Mars mission set to
fly-by the Red Planet in 2018Movie Camera will face cramped conditions, muscle
atrophy and potential boredom. But their greatest health risk comes from
exposure to the radiation from cosmic rays.
The solution-line the spacecraft’s walls with water, food
and their own faeces.
Allegedly solid and liquid human waste products would get
put into bags and used as a radiation shield – as well as being dehydrated so
that any water can be recycled for drinking. “Dehydrate them as much as
possible, because we need to get the water back,” Taber MacCallum, a member of
the team funded by multimillionaire Dennis Tito said. “Those solid waste
products get put into a bag, put right back against the wall.”
Food too, could be used as a shield, he said. “Food is going
to be stored all around the walls of the spacecraft, because food is good
radiation shielding,” he said. This wouldn’t be dangerous as the food would
merely be blocking the radiation, it wouldn’t become a radioactive source.
The details of Inspiration Mars’s plans have yet to be
clarified, but the team has said it will be using “state-of-the-art
technologies derived from NASA and the International Space Station”. One idea
that is already under consideration by the agency’s Innovative Advanced
Concepts programme which funds research into futuristic space technology, is a
project called Water Walls, which combines life-support and waste-processing
systems with radiation shielding.
Good luck with that...
And finally:
A Finnish toilet
paper maker has removed quotes from the Bible, including the words of Jesus
that it inadvertently placed on its rolls after protests from some Norwegian
church leaders.
Metsa Tissue was
trying to convey messages about love but accidentally included lines from the
Gospel of Matthew and First Corinthians on toilet paper sold in Norway, Denmark
and Sweden.
The firm selected
the quotes from Facebook submissions, including one from Jesus: "For where
your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
It only realized
its mistake when it received feedback.
"People like
to read small, happy messages while sitting on the toilet," Christina von
Trampe, a spokeswoman for Metsa Tissue, which produces the Lambi brand, told
Reuters.
"The vast
majority of the feedback has been positive. Our intention was to spread love
and joy, not religious messages."
Laila Riksaan Dahl
the Bishop of Tunsberg in protestant Norway was apparently not amused.
No bleedin sense of
humour these religious types...
That’s it: I’m orf to get a self-sketching whiteboard
And today’s thought:
Angus
