More than a smidge cooler at the Castle this morn, it is a
mere 76f in the kitchen and a nice cool 84f in the master bedroom, no
atmospheric movement and not a white fluffy thing in sight which means that I
will be staggering about with the watering can to moisten the pots, hanging
baskets and wall boxes this pre-noon.
And U-Turn Cam is vomiting his usual spin doctor sound bites
about how much the Piss Poor Policies Millionaires Club Coalition is doing for
the not very healthy kiddlies by selling orf oodles of school playing fields he
may like to take a look at what is happening up Norf in Leeds.
Where an area of what
is now scrubland, an abandoned swimming pool and sports centre – left to
crumble behind a high security fence when fee-paying Leeds Girls' High School
upped sticks and joined the middle-class flight to the city's northern fringes
to merge with the boys' establishment in 2008.
If developers get their way the site could become the home
of a new supermarket-owned convenience store and 25 houses.
The plan has been signalled for approval by Leeds City
Council officers next week
But Martin Hamilton, a local councillor, said young people
in his ward needed all the help they could get. "It leaves a bitter taste
in the mouth when you are having all this success in the Olympics and you are
stopping all these kids from less privileged backgrounds from playing
sport," he said.
A spokeswoman for Leeds City Council said the development
would not give rise to any unacceptable consequences for the environment,
community or other public interests.
Yeah right, strange thing is Leeds council has a Labour
majority....
Allegedly Doctors are failing to record accurately the cause
of up to a quarter of hospital deaths, a study suggests.
A pilot scheme designed to prevent a repeat of the Harold
Shipman murders found that one in 10 death certificates did not even have the
correct category of disease.
It also means that families are often told the wrong cause
of a loved-one’s death.
Dr Alan Fletcher, a consultant at Sheffield Teaching
Hospitals, was appointed Britain’s first “Medical Examiner” to check the
accuracy of death certificates as part of a move to tighten up procedures in
the wake of the Shipman case.
He checked 8,000 death certificates from the Sheffield area
against detailed medical notes and case histories but found inaccuracies in
about 2,000 of them.
Often doctors had listed the immediate trigger for a
patient’s death, rather than the root cause.
Examples included patients with terminal cancer who were
classed as dying from pneumonia as that was the condition which caused their
final deterioration.
In about 40 per cent of those – or a tenth of the overall
total – the cause of death given on the certificate was a different category of
disease.
For example a patient who was bed-bound with severe dementia
which led to pneumonia was classed as dying as a result of respiratory illness
rather than a neurological condition.
He said doctors were failing to read the “story” set out in
patients’ records.
"I don't believe there is someone of murderous intent
patrolling hospital corridors,” he told The Guardian.
Well he would wouldn’t he-being a Doctor.....
The latest
prescription for extreme ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who shun contact with the
opposite sex: Glasses that blur their vision, so they don't have to see women
they consider to be immodestly dressed.
In an effort to
maintain their strictly devout lifestyle, the ultra-Orthodox have separated the
sexes on buses, sidewalks and other public spaces in their neighbourhoods.
Their interpretation of Jewish law forbids contact between men and women who
are not married.
Walls in their
neighbourhoods feature signs exhorting women to wear closed-necked,
long-sleeved blouses and long skirts. Extremists have accosted women they
consider to have flouted the code.
The ultra-Orthodox
community's unofficial "modesty patrols" are selling glasses with
special blur-inducing stickers on their lenses. The glasses provide clear
vision for up to a few meters so as not to impede movement, but anything beyond
that gets blurry - including women. It's not known how many have been sold.
For men forced to
venture outside their insular communities, hoods and shields that block
peripheral vision are also being offered.
The glasses are
going for the "modest" price of $6.
Apparently a
minister in India's most populous and politically crucial state, Uttar Pradesh,
has said bureaucrats can steal a little as long as they work hard - sparking
national outcry in a country whose ruling class has long been mired in
corruption scandals.
"If you work
hard, and put your heart and soul into it ... then you are allowed to steal
some," Shivpal Singh Yadav told a gathering of local officials in comments
caught on camera. "But don't be a bandit."
Uttar Pradesh, which is bigger than Brazil by population,
was earlier governed by 'Dalit Queen' Mayawati. She has been criticized for
spending millions of rupees on building statues of herself and buying diamond jewellery
despite widespread malnutrition and poverty in her state.
Now why does that sound so familiar?-you got to pick a pocket or
two.....
Nissin, famous worldwide for it Cup Noodle products, will be
introducing an interesting new product: cold instant noodles.
This new product is prepared by mixing ice into the noodles,
giving you a whole new instant noodle experience.
The noodles are a bit chewier and the usual salty flavour is
lessened.
The release is supposed to be in response to the summer
season and recent electricity problem Japan faces.
Cold instant noodles are an alternative way to cool down.
Instead of using air conditioning, one can simply eat and at the same time beat
the heat.
Or you could have a cold nice glass of glowing water...
And finally:
Folks having a summer dip and catching some rays on a beach near
Kaliningrad, Russia got a bit more than sunburn when a convoy of military tanks
hurtled through the sands.
The reason, it is claimed, is that Russian authorities
instruct the military, where possible, to transport their tanks and other
heavy-duty vehicles on the sand so not to damage the country’s road network.
So how do they get them to the beach then?
And today’s thought:
Think I’ll miss this one-Olympics
Angus
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