Cold enough to freeze the nuts orf a frozen squirrel at the
Castle this morn, more than touch of scrapey-scrapey stuff, not a glimmer of
solar stuff and nary a whimsy of atmospheric movement, the butler has had to
install a second conveyor belt for the furnace and fat, carbon neutral
teenagers are becoming hard to come by because of the lack of warm.
I spent an hour or three yestermorn trying to sort out
fucking Bloggers’ lack of progress on the IE/ blogger lack of picture
insertion, downgraded IE from 9 to 8 ‘repaired’ IE, did a diagnostic on Office,
threw some chicken bones on the altar, danced around the laptop anticlockwise
all to no avail, so I will have to continue to waste what is left of my life
using HMTL editing.
Has decided that Millions of confidential medical histories
will be shared between hospitals and GPs despite fears that patients’ privacy
could be breached.
Allegedly thousands of staff working in council social
services departments, private health firms, and nursing homes are also expected
to have access to the health records of patients on their books.
Apparently knob head CHunt is going to set a 12-month
deadline for all hospitals to computerise their patients’ records, ready for
details to be shared with clinics and GPs across England.
By 2018, all records and communications inside the NHS will
be “paperless” in a reform that Mr CHunt said could save more than £4 billion
and “thousands of lives”.
Oh Har-Fucking-Har, “they” can’t even mange to deliver water
to patients let alone get the right set of details on a piss poor computer
system.
Consumers will have to pay for new plans for new roads, rail
lines and power stations through higher bills, as well as the taxes, the public
spending watchdog says.
A report from the National Audit Office said that ministers
had not thought through the possibility that the huge investment would have to
be paid for by consumers.
It said that “there is the possibility of a failure to take
into account the cumulative impact on consumers of funding those infrastructure
projects where the costs are recovered by charging users.
The NAO criticised the Government for failing to carry out
an “overall assessment” on the “full impact of spending on economic
infrastructure in the years ahead”.
Alien reptile in disguise George (I can afford it-you can’t)
Osborne unveiled plans at the autumn statement last month to spend £310billion
over the next two years and beyond on new infrastructure projects such as
energy, rail, road, water and flood defence schemes.
Two thirds of this investment likely to be funded by private
companies “the burden of funding [is] likely to shift towards the public as
consumers rather than taxpayers”.
It warned that train users could have to cover the cost
through higher fares, while vehicle and road tax could go up to pay for new
roads. Of the £310billion, more than half - £176billion is being spent on
energy projects, with £123billion due to go on electricity schemes.
Apparently the Treasury’s proposal to issue guarantees to
encourage new finance will need careful monitoring to ensure the taxpayer does
not get hit with extra expense.”
No shit; here’s an idea why don’t we live within our means
and only build what we can afford to keep all this “infrastructure” in the
public domain...
It seems that we should say “neigh” to their dobbin burgers,
investigations are under way to try to
find out how beef burgers on sale in UK and Irish Republic supermarkets became
contaminated with horsemeat.
Irish food safety
officials, who carried out tests two months ago, said the products had been
stocked by a number of chains, including Tesco and Iceland stores in the UK.
They said there was
no human health risk and the burgers had been removed.
Tesco said it was
"working... to ensure it does not happen again".
The Food Safety
Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said the meat had come from two processing plants
in the Irish Republic - Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods - and the Dalepak
Hambleton plant in Yorkshire.
The burgers had
been on sale in Tesco and Iceland in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, where
they were also on sale in Dunnes Stores, Lidl and Aldi.
A total of 27
burger products were analysed, with 10 of them containing traces of horse DNA
and 23 containing pig DNA.
Horsemeat accounted
for approximately 29% of the meat content in one sample from Tesco, which had
two frozen beef burger products sold in both the UK and Ireland contaminated
with horse DNA.
In addition, 31 beef meal products, including cottage pie,
beef curry pie and lasagne, were analysed, of which 21 tested positive for pig
DNA.
Now I know why I have had this urge to eat grass and piss in
the garden...
A 31-year old Bronx man fell to his death while having a crap between subway cars on a moving number 6 train, cops said.
The man fell onto the tracks and was run over by the northbound train as it was leaving 125th Street station shortly after 4 pm, police said.
Around the same time on the opposite platform, a bloody and extremely battered man crawled up from the tracks — just as the northbound 5 train was pulling in — with a broken pelvis, severe buttocks injuries and cuts.
The man — who sources said was Manuce Dulcio, 50 — might have been hit by the train, cops said.
It’s unclear why he was on the tracks.
Dulcio was “very intoxicated,” a police source said.
Officials had initially said that the men had been involved in a fight. But they now believe the bizarre incidents were totally unrelated.
Riders were stuck on the 5 train for 45 minutes after the incident.
“They told us the brakes weren’t working, but we all knew it was something else,” said Angel Torres, 17.
Maybe the brakes weren’t working because they were covered in shit....
Fancy a nice weekend getaway? Blue Hole Bay, a 180-acre Bahamanian property is up for sale listed for $24 million, apparently in this "remotest part of the Bahamas," as Bob Simon of "60 Minutes" described it in a segment Sunday night, "you'll have trouble finding it on any tourist map today."
He continued: "The jet set doesn't come here, because jet planes don't fly here from America or Europe. There are hardly any hotels, no golf courses and no frozen margaritas."
But what you do get is 663-foot-deep Dean's Blue Hole, the
deepest saltwater hole in the world and therefore the world's "Mecca of
free diving," to test out their ambitious, body-contorting breathing
exercises: a diver on last night's show descended to a record-breaking 410 feet
using only one fin.
And less than one brain cell……
A Boeing 787 Dreamliner headed for Tokyo made an emergency
landing Wednesday morning in Takamatsu, Japan after error messages indicated
there was a problem with the plane's batteries and smoke in the plane.
An "unusual smell" was detected inside
the cockpit and the passenger cabin, according to a news conference held by All
Nippon Airlines, whose plane was grounded. Fire trucks were deployed after the
plane landed, but there was no fire to put out.
This adds to a slew of recent problems with
Boeing's new Dreamliner aircraft. Another 787 -- the world's first mainly
carbon-composite airliner -- had two fuel leaks, a battery fire, a wiring
problem, brake computer glitch and cracked cockpit window last week.
The two Japanese airlines -- ANA and Japan Airlines
-- said they would ground the 21 Boeing 787 jets currently being flown for
further safety checks.
Both Japan and the United States have opened broad
and open-ended investigations into the plane after a series of incidents that
have raised safety concerns.
ANA said instruments on the early Wednesday
domestic flight indicated a battery error. All passengers and crew evacuated
safely by using the plane's inflatable slides, ANA said.
Still at least the emergency chutes work....
Photo: Community Press, Heidi Fallon
A former high
school teacher has sued the school district where she used to work, saying
administrators discriminated against her because she has a fear of young children.
Maria
Waltherr-Willard, 61, had been teaching Spanish and French at Mariemont High
School in Cincinnati since 1976.
The retired
educator, who does not have children of her own, said that when she was
transferred to the district's middle school in 2009, the seventh and
eighth-graders triggered her phobia.
The fear caused her
blood pressure to soar, forcing her to retire in the middle of the 2010 school
year, she claims.
In her lawsuit, Ms
Waltherr-Willard said that her fear of young children falls under the federal
American with Disabilities Act and that the district violated it by
transferring her in the first place and then refusing to allow her to return to
the high school.
The lawsuit seeks
unspecified damages.
Gary Winters, the
school district's attorney, said that Ms Waltherr-Willard was transferred
because the French programme at the high school was being turned into an online
one and that the middle school needed a Spanish teacher.
"She wants
money," Mr Winters said of Ms Walter-Willard's motivation to sue.
"Let's keep in mind that our goal here is to provide the best teachers for
students and the best academic experience for students, which certainly wasn't
accomplished by her walking out on them in the middle of the year."
You think?
And finally:
A meeting of the American Astronomical Society was held in
California to expose the unexpected results of the work to determine the mass
of the Milky Way Galaxy. According to scientists, the mass of our galaxy is
twice as less as was previously assumed.
Determining the weight of an entire galaxy is apparently
quite difficult. It consists not only of the weight of all stars in the galaxy,
but also of the weight of the invisible dark matter, which provides most of the
mass.
As a rule, in the calculations, researchers proceed from the
speed of rotation of galaxies at a distance of about 45,000 light years from
the centre. Afterwards, they compare the results with theoretical concepts
about the location of the dark matter.
The scientists, having made the public statement on the new
weight of our galaxy, added that the new data did not claim to be definitive. The
reason is simple. To date, all calculations are approximate, containing a
number of assumptions.
And today’s thought:
NHS computer system
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