More than a bit of lack of warm, no solar stuff from dawn’s
crack and not even a promise of skywater at the Castle this morn.
Had a day orf yesterday, decided to catch up on some sleep
and managed to get fourteen hours, his Maj wasn’t very happy and in revenge
decided to sit on top of my bladder at two of the am.
And I discovered that my £145.50 TV viewing ransom to Auntie
will not even result in a paper license until 2016.
According to “them” “It would be wasteful to send you a new
license and the same payment plan each year, so instead the TV license and
payment plan below will cover you until 2016”
According to the Independent Jeremy CHunt has ordered a
fresh political assessment of controversial plans to shut hospital casualty
units as one of his first acts as Health Secretary.
Under the plans for north-west London, the number of
casualty departments would be reduced from nine to five.
Ealing Hospital, Chase Farm in Enfield, King George in
Ilford, St Helier in Sutton, Hammersmith, Central Middlesex and Charing Cross
emergency Depts. are at risk.
His move will raise hopes of a reprieve for a number of
accident and emergency departments threatened with closure as NHS Trusts cast
around for savings.
Yippee!
But apparently his plans have “alarmed” many doctors and
hospital managers who argue that merging A&E units into larger, better
staffed departments saves lives and frees up money to improve patient care in
other areas.
Boo!
So one of the Piss Poor Policies Millionaires Club Coalition
finally does something right and the no mates medics and mangers want their
A&Es to close because it will save them money, work and will give them more
time to get out on the golf course.
Only one in six ‘baby boomers’ is retiring in good health,
with most succumbing to a range of conditions and diseases including high
cholesterol, osteoporosis or cancer, a study has found.
Apparently Government Scientists have discovered that the
average baby boomer - referring to those born in the years just after the
Second World War - has two medical conditions.
Just over half have high blood pressure, a third are obese,
and a quarter have high cholesterol.
A quarter have Type 2 diabetes or ‘pre-diabetes’, meaning
they are on the cusp of fully developing the condition.
Almost one in five suffer from a mental health problem,
while 12 per cent have chronic lung or throat disease.
Eleven per cent have cancer, the same proportion that has
osteoporosis. In addition, 11 per cent have suffered from cardiovascular
disease such as a heart attack, stroke or heart failure.
One in six have three or more health problems.
The results are from a study of 2,661 people born in 1946,
from every walk of life, whose health has been followed from birth. For this,
the latest study, they were assessed between 60 and 64 years of age for 15
conditions.
The study found the origins of poor health in one's 60s
could usually be traced back to early middle age.
Interesting-ish, so it has bugger all to do with the NHS, or
being a Boomer, but life style which applies to everyone else in berated
Blighty...
Piles of washing and ironing send Pixie Le Knot round the
bend – but she couldn’t be happier.
Britain’s most flexible woman has crafted a career out of
her ability to contort into eye-watering positions.
She said: ‘I was always the most flexible child in the class
and knew I had a gift as soon as I took up dance and gymnastics as a kid. It’s fun
being able to do something other people can’t. But I really don’t know where I
got the natural ability from – all my relatives are doctors.’
Ms Le Knot, from Leyton, London, spends several hours every
day training her body to cope with the physical demands of contortion before
performing up to five live shows a week.
I’m saying nothing.....
French scientists reckon that passenger jets could be
chomping on straw or flying on fuel extracted from sawdust in coming years as
the search widens for cleaner alternatives to kerosene.
The
"ProBio3" project, started in early July and co-financed by a French
government economic stimulus program, aims to use traditional horse-bedding
materials to develop a new kind of biofuel that can be used in a 50/50 blend
alongside kerosene.
"Tomorrow,
planes will fly using agricultural and forest waste," said Carole
Molina-Jouve, a professor at Toulouse's National Institute of Applied Sciences
(Insa), who is coordinating the ProBio3 project.
Europe consumes
around 50 million tonnes of kerosene per year.
Why not use all the wood to build ships and scrap the noisy
polluting silver birds that are killing the atmosphere?
A young schoolboy
left his family with a £2000 credit card bill after using an app on his
grandfather’s iPad.
Will Smith, six, unwittingly embarked on the spending spree
while playing Monster Island, a popular children’s video game.
The youngster had spent the amount on the special app, which involves
children "collecting" and "breeding" their own online
creatures. Players then battle their way through the different levels before they reach the “Dark Monster”.
Will had racked up the bill after accessing his grandfather’s password to iTunes, the Apple music store, where bought virtual food and coins at up to £70 a time.
Mr Smith, of Redcar, North Yorks, said, when he explained the situation to Apple, officials agreed to refund the amount.
But while the family was relieved to discover they were not the victims of fraud, Will was upset when told he could not play the game anymore.
Buy him a bleedin Meccano set....
And finally:
The earliest known confirmed galaxy has been discovered with the help of cosmic lenses formed out of the warped fabric of space and time, researchers say.
This distant, ancient galaxy may have once helped clear out the murky fog that once filled the early universe, scientists added.
Astronomers estimate that the universe began about 13.7 billion years ago during the Big Bang. Recent findings suggest the first galaxies formed less than 500 million years after the universe's birth.
One tool researchers can use to peer at these galaxies are so-called gravitational lenses, magnifying glasses resulting from the warped fabric of reality.
Gravity curves space-time; the greater the mass of an object in space, the stronger its gravitational pull. This, in turn, bends light around it, affecting how telescopes on Earth view it.
The age of this galaxy reveals it formed during the
so-called "epoch
of reionization" that occurred about 150 million to 800 million years
after the Big Bang. This critical but still largely mysterious event occurred
when intense ultraviolet radiation cleared
the fog of atomic hydrogen that once pervaded the cosmos by ionizing it
into its constituent protons and electrons.
Well; you learn something new every epoch...
And today’s thought:
Daily diary of a Boomer.
Angus
