Oodles of sunny stuff, just as much windy stuff, quite a lot
of ex skywater and not a lot of lack of cold at the Castle this morn.
Just returned from the stale bread, gruel and his Maj’s food
(which has gorn up again from £3 to £3.69 since Monday) run dahn Tesco, on the
way out I popped into the go juice pump place and purchased a couple of cupfuls
for twenty squids, it hardly registered on the go juice gauge (14.44 litres @ £1.389 pl).
Apparently
the “new” health minister wants to help along the Piss Poor Policies Millionaires
Club Coalition with their plans to privatise our dear old NHS.
Norman Baa Baa has backed greater private sector involvement
in the NHS in his first public appearance since taking on the role.
Asked about greater private sector involvement in the NHS,
he said: ‘I’m not a great fan of monopolies, in either the public or the
private sector. If there’s never any challenge to the structure provided
there’s a danger people can become complacent.
‘There is innovation from new insurgents. We need to embrace
that.’
Mr Lamb went on to say that he hoped he could provide the
‘oomph’ from the centre of government to embed integrated care. He hoped to get
a round table of experts together to advise him on how best it could work.
Who does he think he is-King bleedin Arthur?
Hospitals in
England could be on the brink of collapse because of rising demand and the
increasing complexity of patients' conditions, doctors warn.
The Royal College
of Physicians' report said the number of beds had been cut by a third over the
past 25 years.
It said at the same
time emergency admissions had started rising and hospitals were seeing older
patients with a wider variety of conditions.
And that standards
were slipping in hospitals throughout England.
It cited the way
older patients were repeatedly moved around wards, the lack of continuity of
care while in hospital and tests being done during the night as some of the
examples of how care was suffering.
The college also
highlighted the results of feedback from its members, which showed concern
about discharge arrangements and workload.
It’s taken them long enough to notice; standards have been “slipping”
for years in hospitals, there are more consultants on the golf course and working
in private hospitals than on NHS wards on a daily basis, and when the inevitable
cock ups happen the medics, managers and the GMC rush to protect their own,
their colleagues and their very well paid jobs.
A woman is behind
bars after police allege she was stopping motorists in Uniontown and offering
to strip for money.
City police Officer
John Kauer said Jackie L. Hatter, 35, was charged before Magisterial District
Judge Randy S. Abraham with possession of marijuana and disorderly conduct
following the incident at 8:40 a.m. Sunday.
Kauer said Hatter
was flagging down motorists near the intersection of North Gallatin Avenue and
Lenox Street for a report of a woman, later identified as Hatter, stopping drivers
and offering to take off her clothing for cash.
Never happens to me at a junction...
According to new research published in Nature Neuroscience,
scientists have invented a method to induce memories in brains for the first
time in history.
The study—published by Case Western Reserve University
School of Medicine’s Professor of Neurosciences and Physiology/Biophysics Ben
Strowbridge, PhD, and MD/PhD student Robert A. Hyde—shows a method to store
different types of short-term memories, which they have successfully tested in
brain tissue stored in vitro.
Titled “Mnemonic Representations of Transient Stimuli and
Temporal Sequences in Rodent Hippocampus In Vitro”, their paper describes how
they used a piece of mouse brain tissue to form the necessary circuits to
record a short-term declarative memory. This type of memory can be something
like names, places and events.
These neural circuits—located in the hippocampus—retained
the memory from different stimuli for ten seconds. The researchers were able to
observe the recording of these artificial memories by tracing the activity of
the brain cells. According to Hyde, “the type of activity we triggered in
isolated brain sections was similar to what other researchers have demonstrated
in monkeys taught to perform short-term memory tasks. Both types of
memory-related activity changes typically lasted for 5-10 seconds.”
About as long as my short term memory then....
A new recycled cardboard bike has been created which can support riders
up to 220kg and costs just a tenner.
Over
three years designer Izhar Gafni created a number of prototypes of what would
eventually turn into the bike that he has named the Alfa using the fundamental principles
of origami.
While the
average bike weighs around 14kg the Alfa weighs less than 10 and its
belt-driven design requires no maintenance. It could even be adapted to house
an electric motor to make those hills even easier to tackle.
But what do you do when it rains?
The Bavarian town of Poppenhausen, translated as 'Bonktown',
has decided to turn itself into one of the sexiest sightseeing spots in the
country.
It has rebranded itself as a dirty weekend resort after town
hall officials voted to start embracing the 'saucy' title.
Officials in Poppenhausen have now decided if you can't beat
them, join them.
'We had lots of people coming to the town because of its
name, because in German 'Poppen' is a slang word for making love,' explained a
town hall spokesman.
'In the end we decided if you can't ban them, at least make
them comfortable.'
Day trippers are encouraged to take a stroll through a one
mile long love lane situated in the middle of romantic woodland.
Should they get tired; couples can take a rest on one of many
heart shaped wooden seats.
Alternatively they can test out the woodland's specially
made sloped double benches for couples to do what comes naturally.
Other exhibits to get visitors in the mood include a notice
with how to say 'I Love You' in 100 different languages and a giant four leafed
clover to bring newlyweds luck.
Chance would be a fine thing...
And today’s thought:
What bicycle?
Angus
