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Yes, a bottle of red wine a day with my main meal was standard procedure for me, even when I got here 18 years ago, however now I've cut it back to half a bottle per night, followed by a small glass of Portuguese port. I don't suffer in the morning, and maybe it's to do with my genes because my birth father lived to be 88 years old and was a regular pub goer, and my birth mother 84 or thereabouts. In summary, I don't see myself giving up the red wine, and try to stick to the quality wines, even though occasionally I will imbibe on one of the cheaper wines if my evening meal is a spicy/Thai/Indian meal. A little story for you – – around 2002 I did a tour of French vineyards along with a French wine merchant and we were in the cellar, near Beaune, of a wine producer M Bocqanet, tasting some of his wines, and they were delightful. Then an older portly man with the traditional French beret came into the cellar and helped himself to a large glass of wine and lit up a cigarette! When I asked about him, M Bocquanet told me he was his father and at the age of 75 (or was it 78?) was still working in the vineyard and loved his red wine and cigarettes and he looked in "rude health". I know everyone is different, but that gave me some hope for the future!!!!!

Trump campaigned as a populist defender of the American working class, but he has put some of his richest donors in commanding roles in the top reaches of Government. A number will oversee the very industries that produced their fortunes. “These are really rich people,” said Kara Swisher, a journalist who chronicles the tech industry and is a former opinion writer for the New York Times. “As much as they like to have an image of not being spendy, they’re all really spendy. They all have private planes, they all have assistants, they have people who get them the kind of nuts they want.” A few of the billionaires will presumably not need homes in Washington. Charles Kushner, a real estate executive whose companies are worth US$2.9b, according to Forbes, is to live in Paris as the US ambassador to France. Trump pardoned Kushner, a major donor to Trump’s 2024 campaign, in the last days of his first term. In 2004, Kushner pleaded guilty to tax evasion, retaliating against a federal witness and lying to the Federal Election Commission. This is very apt.....even if posted previously. And the poor folk and average working folk fell for it:-

He can't stop lying, but then again it's in his nature.............. · When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, near Paris, in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true. Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed. · Mr. Trump resisted supporting an official funeral and lowering flags after the death of Senator John McCain of Arizona, a Vietnam War hero whose military service he had disparaged. And Mr. Trump’s assertion on Friday that “I never called John a loser” was belied by video and Twitter recording him doing just that in 2015.

Multivitamin supplementation slowed cognitive decline in older adults, the study showed. Compared with placebo, participants who took a daily multivitamin/multimineral supplement had significantly better immediate recall at 1 year (P=0.025) and across 4 years of follow-up on average (P=0.011), reported Adam Brickman, PhD, of Columbia University in New York City, and co-authors in the American Journal of Clinical Nutritionopens in a new tab or window. Multivitamins improved memory performance above placebo by the equivalent of 3.1 years of age-related memory change, the researchers estimated. The effect was more pronounced in people with underlying cardiovascular disease. Also of course is the fact that many people don't have what is called a "balanced" diet and when that term was first introduced (I think it was in the 30s) additives like MSG and the various colouring agents in food were not prevalent in our diet. Also in the Thai diet there can be too much salt, sugar and other unhealthy ingredients Not only that, drinking alcohol depletes B vitamins amongst others........"Not only is alcohol devoid of proteins, minerals, and vitamins, it actually inhibits the absorption and usage of vital nutrients such as thiamin (vitamin B1), vitamin B12, folic acid, and zinc. Thiamin (vitamin B1) is involved in the metabolism of proteins and fat and the formation of hemoglobin". So although I'm not a heavy drinker, just red wine in moderation, I still take a multivitamin tablet every day.

I agree with your post and also agree that processed meats are likely to be the most harmful to the human body, whereas grass fed/grain fed beef are not and provide a good source of protein. As an example one may wish to look at the diet of the South American gaucho which consists almost entirely of meat, mainly beef, and every part of the animal is eaten, from testicles for breakfast to brains for dinner! And the average lifespan of the gaucho is around 76 years......not bad for someone who eats an entirely meat diet!

As is my wont these days, I watched a couple of "older" movies and one of them starred Dustin Hoffman in, "Little Big Man" and it was entertaining enough, if a little long and I seem to recall some rave reviews about it when it first came out, but now?? This movie is not that old, and it's called, "Brimstone" and stars Guy Pearce (one of my favourite actors) and Dakota Fanning, both of whom turn in great performances in this somewhat meandering, confusing yet enjoyable movie, which has been described as: – "An excellently made film and a gripping tale expertly told, incredibly acted out by a great cast".

Well according to the blurb, it does contain some facts and indeed the Mormons were responsible for the killing of native Americans, primarily because they wanted the land and the following took place: – The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857 resulted in the deaths of at least 120 members of an immigrant wagon train. The massacre was carried out by settlers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Battle at Fort Utah. In 1850, Brigham Young ordered his militia to "go and kill" the Timpanogos people of Utah Valley. This order resulted in the bloodiest week of Native American killing in Utah history. LDS militiamen siege a wagon train In 1857, LDS militiamen dressed up as Native Americans and besieged a wagon train of white pioneers traveling through Utah. In effect, whatever land the Mormons wanted, they took irrespective of the Native Americans living on it.

Thanks for your interest and you are not annoying me in the slightest! I seem to recall trying the pelvic floor training when this started, and racking my brains now, I think it started soon after I had a bladder neck incision here because of a poor stream??? However it didn't seem to help, but I'm willing to give it a try as I've got nothing to lose. As I said previously I did have many tests done at Bumrungrad and nothing was recommended apart from CIC (clean intermittent catheterisation) which is what I practice now, but as I said previously, it is a pain, literally and figuratively. So I will give it a try, and if I do how long before I can expect any results??

Thank you and I managed to find it on 1337x.to thanks to @giddyup

No problem with being open on my problem, especially if it helps somebody else in a similar situation. When this first started at age 30 or thereabouts, I was playing a good standard of amateur football, training twice a week and also playing in a Sunday league, so I was fit when all this was occurring. I played football up until I was 45 and thereafter played a good standard of tennis, finally stopping when I moved here (Thailand) when I was 58 years old, so as you can see I was pretty fit when all this started and now I'm 77 and free of this cursed condition, I'm not keen on doing any more training (lol). My main concern now is to try get my bladder working and I had all the tests done at Bumrungrad and I got no answer, just that my detrusor muscle was "underactive", meaning it didn't work!! Hence the reason I'm trying the stem cell treatment, because I'm extremely tired of having to push a catheter down the "old fella" every night in order to drain out the urine. According to the urologist there, this usually happens as a result of an accident/paralysis or illness which affects the neural system – – none of which I've had?

Initially I was tested (back in the 80s) and diagnosed with non-specific urethritis, which as you know is a term which really means "they don't know what's causing it/they can't isolate the cause". However this kept re-occurring and when I moved to NZ, I visited a couple of top urologists and two fabulous doctors and was put on a 90 day course of doxycycline (yes, 90 days) and this stopped it for a while, until it re-occurred. The symptoms were burning in the urethra and a testicle ache, but nothing else of any note. I was put on a months course of ciprofloxacin and that stopped it for a while as well, but again it re-occurred and I had no idea why. Prostatitis was the diagnosis, but maybe this was just a shot in the dark, so to speak. When I contacted the two professors I spoke about previously and looked at their research (they sent me the papers they had published) it became clear to me that I had bacteria in the prostate which couldn't be reached because of the biofilm and the fact that the prostate is designed to protect itself from bacteria, so along with the biofilm, no antibiotics were able to reach the culprit. However I did try their recommendation of Monural and doxycycline, and that combination worked and I haven't suffered from that for many years now. The episode with the E. coli was separate from the above and was a result of my neurogenic bladder. In summary, I went to the best urologists in New Zealand along with two great doctors, and two urologists here and it wasn't until I got in touch with the professors (already mentioned) that I was able to be free of it. As for your question "what kind of prostatitis", well I was never given a clear explanation of what I had, however I don't suffer from it any more so am pleased about that, now got to try and find a way to activate the detrusor in my bladder, so I'm going to try stem cells as nobody seems to be able to cure it, so it's a long shot and there's nothing much else I can try I'm afraid. Sorry to have gone off track a little.

Is it available on any Torrent sites like 1337x.to or Pirate bay.....haven't been able to find it on these or YTS??

I am looking at a multivitamin and mineral tablet for someone who is "senior" and as far as I can see at the moment, Swisse is the one I am leaning towards because of its extensive range of ingredients.

I had prostatitis symptoms for decades and took doxycycline for many years, which would clear it up, until the next time! It wasn't until I got in touch with a couple of professors of urology (one in Sydney and one in London) and they had been studying this for quite a few years and recommended Monural (fosfomycin), every three days and with the addition of doxycycline if it didn't appear to be getting any better. They also studied the activity of bacterial biofilms which in effect shield the bacteria from the likes of antibiotics, which is why some antibiotics don't work at all. So my days of prostatitis were over, that is until I got an E. coli infection and the hospital recommended an IV Carbapenem, so I had to go to the hospital every day for seven days (or was it 10 days?) and that cleared it up, but it was very expensive, with the full treatment costing just over 50,000 baht. Now I have to be very careful and because I have a neurogenic bladder which doesn't empty, I am susceptible to infections of one form or another, although the Monurol has cleared up the majority of the infections and I haven't had to have the Carbapenem treatment again (thankfully). Before I was prescribed Carbapenem, the urologist at the hospital kept giving me different antibiotics without taking a sample/culture, however it kept getting worse and I was feeling really bad, yet he persisted with other antibiotics and I became very sick because of the E. coli infection. It wasn't until I saw another urologist that I was able to get on the Carbapenem treatment. This original urologist put me on just about every antibiotic I could think of, including a fluoroquinolone (ciprofloxacin) which affected my Achilles tendon, so I could hardly walk. All in all it was a very unpleasant experience and I never went back to the original urologist. In summary, I now keep Monurol on standby just in case I get another flareup.

"All the more reason to get him confirmed ASAP". Let me change that for you:- All the more reason to get him confined ASAP.

Rewatched the movie, "Dead Calm" starring Nicole Kidman, Sam Neil and Billie Zane and as I couldn't remember anything about it, I enjoyed it!!

Newsflash: A hole has appeared in a Melbourne main road and workmen are said to be "looking into it".........

Swisse do have a good range of products as well as multivits for the 50 and 60 plus folks and these contain many vits, minerals and herbs.

Decided to watch an oldie the other evening, "The Long Good Friday" starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren, and also Dave King and was pleased that I did as it was an entertaining movie. Now one for those of English extraction amongst the posters – – on BBC iPlayer there is a series called "Lucy Worsley investigates" (or something like that!) and I decided to watch the one where she covers the Norman conquest of England, called "1066" and was surprised that what I learned. I say that because at school we were never really taught the full story about the Norman invasion, and because I was born in Sussex and have a cousin who lives in Battle (near Hastings) I was particularly interested. Furthermore just alongside of my birthplace of Horsham, there is an area called "Doomsday Green" which, believe it or not, is mentioned in the Doomsday book, so I've always been interested in both of those aspects, and this documentary solves a lot of the mystery. If you are interested in that sort of thing (I mean the Norman conquest of England and its more detailed history) then this documentary is well worth a look. PS. Also watched a good move called, "The Burial" starring Tommy Lee Jones and well worth a look if you haven't already seen it and it is based on a true story

Thanks for the update, it always helps to know what the latest "requirements" are, although I have to say that my visit in September to renew my retirement extension went very smoothly and the younger staff were more helpful than the older ones have ever been! Although I didn't have the Google map, they accepted my hand drawn map and also the pic of my apartment block, even though I didn't have my actual apartment number on it!! Next time may well be different. What I'm really trying to say is that they were much more lenient/flexible than they have ever been in the past, so let's hope that continues.

I have no problem in engaging with people whose opinions differ from mine, but I do have a problem in trying to engage/converse with posters whose views are totally nonsensical – – like the Earth being flat, for example, or the anti-vax/conspiracy theory mongers who will gladly ignore decades of research, expertise and medical breakthroughs to follow numpties like Alex Jones and others. I don't need my horizons broadened by such nonsense and as the saying goes, "follow the science" and that's what I do and I'm perfectly happy doing that, broadening my horizons whilst I do so.

Thanks for the heads up YT I will pop along and check out the price in Makro here in Patong because it is great for an "everyday drink" and to complement spicy food! A good standby wine IMO.

The biggest loser here is truth, but then sensible folks already know this, because trump had next to no input in writing the book, "The Art of the Deal" ......... "Trump did not write any of the book, choosing only to remove a few critical mentions of business colleagues at the end of the process. Trump responded with conflicting stories, saying "I had a lot of choice of who to have write the book, and I chose Schwartz", but then said "Schwartz didn't write the book. I wrote the book." Former Random House head Howard Kaminsky, the book's original publisher, said "Trump didn't write a postcard for us!"[4] The book was published with the authorship given as "Donald Trump with Tony Schwartz". In 2019, Schwartz suggested that the work be "recategorized as fiction."[12] Trump is a compulsive liar and is only interested in himself/his ego..........god help the USA with this clown in charge.

I did post regarding my comments on the newly priced Jacobs Creek wine, and just last night I tried the Shiraz/Cabernet by JJ McWilliams (2022) and I was pleasantly delighted by this wine as it was not unduly tannic, but was smooth and very well made, showcasing the "black fruits" that are often mentioned, so this will be my every day/go to wine, and at 395 baht a bottle it is a steal......so I can definitely recommend this wine for those folks looking for a wine which is great value for money IMO. Mind you, I will still be sticking with my Appassimento and Gnarly Head wines as my favourite wines – – to date anyway!

Have seen it and thought it was a good movie.