Drizzly amounts of skywater, doubtful amounts of lack of
warm, draughty amounts of atmospheric movement and doubtful amounts of solar
stuff at the Castle this morn, the ring of agony has finally subsided but the
left elbow has flared up in retaliation and I am orf later to test out my old
farts bus pass.
And reckons that “Sir” Dave Nicholson is “partly” to blame
for the Mid Staffs massacre, speaking in the Commons during a debate on NHS
accountability CHunt admitted that “Sir” David, the NHS chief executive, was
partly at fault for the failings that led to Mid Staffs, where up to 1,200
patients died needlessly were killed.
Allegedly Jezza attempted to divert some of the attention
away from Sir David by insisting the he does not bear "personal"
responsibility for Mid Staffs and that the deaths there would have happened
with or without the NHS chief overseeing the trust.
It comes after it emerged that senior Government figures are
considering a plan for “Sir” David to “pre-announce” his retirement.
“Sir” David (otherwise known as Teflon Dave) would then step
down later this year or early in 2014, having managed the NHS through the first
months of major Coalition reforms starting next month.
Walking away with a nice fat pension and no responsibility-as
usual...
Traffic wardens in Germany left a parking ticket - on a
full-sized snow sculpture of a Volkswagen Beetle.
Pranksters had
built the car overnight in a no-parking zone in Aachen, complete with outlines
for its headlights, windscreens and even the distinctive VW badge on the
bonnet.
But the prank has
received a frosty reception from local police.
A spokesman said:
"We can take a joke as well as the next person and it was a very
convincing prank.
"But whether
it was made of metal or snow it was still obstructing a road that should have
been clear."
No sense of humour those Germans....
A Regina man is gaining a name for himself as a builder of
'useless machines' — devices which serve no practical purpose but are
enormously popular among fans of gadgets.
"The concept of a machine that turns itself off has been around a long
time," Coulthard explained. "I saw a video online [and] I had to have
one, so I made one."His first version was made about three years ago using items found at a dollar-store.
He takes particular pride in noting his machine is actually turning itself off, pointing to a mechanical finger that flicks a toggle switch.
Coulthard went on to design a number of useless machines and his devices have become so popular that he devotes himself to making them, full-time, and selling them around the world.
Coulthard has been selling a plastic machine and is currently working on one made of wood.
He created a business, the Frivolous Engineering Company, to market his gadgets online.
"It turns out that on many different levels, it is a useful machine," Coulthard said, talking about the success he has enjoyed. "To me it really is the ultimate machine. It's going to sound corny but it's changed my life."
And it is even more useless when the battery dies...
Dwi Nailul Izzah and
Rintya Aprianti Miki won first prize in the country's Science Project Olympiad
with their alternative and environmentally-friendly air freshener.
The air freshener is said to have a natural fragrance of
herbs and is good for human health because it doesn't contain any harmful
chemicals like other freshener products on the market.
The girls collected cow dung from a cattle farm in Lamongan
regency of East Java and left it to ferment for three days.Secondly, they extracted water from the cow dung and mixed
it with coconut water.
Then the liquid was distilled to remove any impurities; the
end product is a liquid air freshener with a natural aroma of herbs from
digested cow food.
Can’t wait for that....
With the recent confirmation of a Higgs Boson discovery,
many physicists were at least a little disappointed. That's because all signs
point to it confirming the Standard Model, the nearly 100-year-old theory that
explains the tiny bits of matter that make up the universe.
But some physicists still hold out hope for results that
could provide a bigger shake-up, looking for the Large Hadron Collider and
other experiments to reveal other hidden particles lurking in the universe.
From gravitons to winos, here are five bizarre things that may exist beyond the
Higgs.
If a theory called supersymmetry
is true, there could more than a dozen particles out there awaiting discovery.
The theory holds that every particle discovered so far has a hidden
counterpart.
In the Standard Model, there are two types of particles:
bosons, which carry force and include gluons and gravitons; and fermions, which
make up matter and include quarks, electrons and neutrinos, according to
Indiana University physicist Pauline Gagnon's blog Quantum Diaries.
In supersymmetry, each fermion would be paired with a boson,
and vice versa. So gluons (a type of boson) would have gluinos (a type of
fermion), W particles would have winos, photons would have photinos, and the
Higgs would have a counterpart called the Higgsino.
Will it ever bleedin end.....
And finally:
Dead people would be buried standing up under a city
council plan to make better use of space at cemeteries.
Darwin
City Council has asked the NT Government's Local Government Department to
investigate if people can be buried feet first, The NT News reports.
"Vertical positioning of the body in the ground is a good use of space," Alderman Gary Lambert said.
The council also wants to see if up to three people can be buried in a grave in a "horizontal stack".
"Vertical positioning of the body in the ground is a good use of space," Alderman Gary Lambert said.
The council also wants to see if up to three people can be buried in a grave in a "horizontal stack".
Does that mean that all coffins would have to have a “this way up” sign attached?
That’s it: I’m
orf to dig up the car park-just in case
And today’s thought:
Shove a ticket on that you misery.
Angus
