More than a whimsy of lack of heat at the Castle this morn,
the butler has returned from his Crimbo hols looking like he spent the week in
Syria and is begrudgingly shoving fat teenagers into the furnace, the study is
overflowing with busted bodge-ups and his Maj has discovered the joy of diving under
the duvet and biting my feet.
Police officers have been banned from charging their mobile
phones and MP3 players at work in an attempt to save money.
Sussex Police is attempting to save £50m in total by 2015.
Bloody hell! I didn’t know Leccy was that expensive.....
High levels of depression are costing the country almost
£11bn a year in lost earnings, in demands on the health service and in
prescribing drugs to tackle the problem.
The extent of the economic damage caused by the illness
emerged as new figures showed that the use of anti-depressants and sleeping
pills is soaring. Last night charities said the economic turmoil, increased job
insecurity and mounting unemployment have contributed to growing levels of
depression over the past three years.
According to research by the House of Commons, people unable
to work because of depression lose £8.97bn of potential earnings per year. The
cost to the NHS of treating depression is put at more than £520m a year. This
comprises £237m for hospital care, £230m for antidepressant drugs, £46m for
doctors' time and £9m for outpatients' appointments.
But the best bit is “The loss of earnings from people who
commit suicide is estimated at a further £1.47bn.”
Allegedly the number of NHS patients who have to undergo
emergency readmission to hospital within a month of being discharged has
increased by more than three quarters in the last decade, the Daily Telegraph has
disclosed.
More than 660,000 people were brought back to hospital last
year within 28 days of leaving, statistics show, sparking allegations that patients
are being “hurried through the system” so the NHS can meet waiting-list
targets.
The official figures show that some NHS trusts have seen
their emergency readmission rate rise more than three-fold over the past decade
– while some hospitals have seen only a modest increase.
Hospitals have been accused by ministers of treating
patients “like parts on a production line” after official figures suggested
that hundreds of thousands of people every year are being sent home before they
are well enough.
Now I know why the BUPA using Piss Poor Policies
Millionaires Club Coalition wants to up the private income to 50 percent in ‘Orspitals.
A man in China recently
spent $16,000 for a virtual sword on a game
that has not even been released yet.
"Age of
Wulin," by California-based company Snail Games has not even
been released on mainland China but that isn't stopping some from spending
serious cash on the game.
The game is a
role-playing one that is set in ancient China and is a massively multiplayer
online role-playing game, or better known as MMORPGs.
The man is not
alone in his purchases. A study released earlier in the year valued the virtual
economy for MMORPGs is $3 billion.
MMMind blowing....
Apparently according to the 1,500 year old “Takenouchi
Documents,” JC visited Japan between the ages of 21 and 33,
and spent this time studying the native language and culture, before returning
to Jerusalem.
And he didn’t spend a rather bad Easter there but it was his
younger brother Isukiri, who took his place on the cross.
After legging it to Siberia he travelled via Alaska and
arrived at the port of Hachinohe, 40km from the village of Shingo. He lived the
rest of his life in the village, where he married, had three children and died
at the age of 106.
The Tomb of the son of what’s His/Her name is at the top of
a wooded hill overlooking the rice fields, there are two graves, each a mound of earth marked with
a wooden cross. The grave to the left has the ear of Isukuri along with a lock
of the Virgin Mary’s hair. The one on the right is where the bones of Christ
himself are buried.
Discuss......
Researchers at Japan's Advanced Institute of Industrial
Technology have developed a car seat that carefully scans a driver's backside
to verify their identity before the car will start.
Researchers insist the method is less intrusive and more convenient than current fingerprint and iris scan technology. And drivers don't have to drop their drawers for it to work.
Researchers insist the method is less intrusive and more convenient than current fingerprint and iris scan technology. And drivers don't have to drop their drawers for it to work.
The system embeds 360 incredibly precise sensors
within the driver's seat, the foundation of a system that is 98 percent
accurate, according to researchers.
Scientists hope the sensor-filled seats will start
rolling off the arse-embly line in two to three years.
And finally:
Toshiyuki Nakagaki, a professor at Future University
Hakodate, northern Japan, cultivates slime in Petri dishes and has discovered
how the brainless organism is capable of finding its way out of a maze.
The brainless organism is able to “organise” its cells to
create the most direct route through a maze in order to reach a source of food,
according to his studies.
The findings highlight how slime mould possesses information
processing abilities shared by humans which are more sophisticated than the
most advanced computers, according to Professor Nakagaki.
Unfortunately we only have the unintelligent form of slime
in Blighty-it’s called Parliament.
And today’s thought:
Angus
