Cold, calm and cloudy at the Castle this morn, the study
lies empty, I’m orf to Tesco with a pound in my pocket for the trolley and his
Maj has decided that the lack of height in the liquid metal gauge is reason to
stay inside.
I see
that U-turn Cam has decided that the government needs to work "harder
and faster" to bring down energy bills.
The energy secretary has invited the six biggest
power firms to meet consumer groups and regulator Ofgem.
Writing ahead of the meeting, Mr Cameron said they
wanted to work out how to create a "trusted, simple and transparent"
market.
Bollocks.....
And:
Has decided that there is no "immediate prospect"
of repatriating powers from the European Union (EU).
The Foreign Secretary insisted he had "not gone soft
and will never go soft on Europe".
However he said the Government's priority had to be ensuring
the eurozone was stabilised without damaging Britain's interests.
"The repatriation of powers, which is something I
support by the way, is not an immediate prospect because no countries are proposing
widespread treaty change," Mr Hague told the BBC's Andrew Marr show.
He went on: "Our priority is for the eurozone to be
stabilised and at the same time to protect the British national interest."
More bollocks...
A government department facing massive cuts is wasting
thousands of pounds at its new HQ... because the lights cannot be turned off.
Ken Clarke’s Ministry of Justice – which must slash
£2billion from its £9billion annual budget – is throwing away cash every day as
switches at the Prison Service building in London does not work.
Instead, Clive House uses a central timer, meaning the
entire block is automatically lit up for hours whether lights are needed or
not.
A source at the Central London site said: “Every light in
the place is either on or off. As winter approaches, they’ll effectively be on
24 hours a day.”
Bet the “energy” companies are rubbing their hands in glee.
Napier-based Skeinz
Natural Yarn Store has knitters going like the clappers to make penguin jumpers
for the Bay of Plenty disaster.
General Manager
Brendan Jackson told NewstalkZB three to four dozen penguin outfits are likely
to be needed.
The knitwear
prevents the birds from preening their feathers and ingesting the toxic oil
that they've been exposed to.
The Oiled Wildlife
Response Unit is taking care of 91 animals as a result of the spill, mostly
little blue penguins.
Pete, whose life in captivity helped prompt the state to pass new wildlife laws and who received a gubernatorial pardon last winter, died in early September at the Big Rack Ridge in Irasburg while being tranquilized during hoof trimming. But state officials insisted he was alive until Friday, even issuing a photo taken Thursday of a moose it identified as Pete.
Richard Nelson told WCAX-TV that the family misled the
state.
"The blame goes to us," he said. "We're the
ones that didn't say Pete died."
"We said we would take care of Pete, and then a few
weeks later, geez, Pete died," he said. "And so we were mortified,
and we said, `Oh, we'll just sit on this one.'"
Bit odd that-sitting on a dead Moose...
The language of
psychopathic murderers provides a window to their souls, new research shows.
The words they use
"match their personalities, which reflect selfishness, detachment from
their crimes and emotional flatness," says Jeff Hancock, a professor of computing
and information science at New York State's Cornell University. He conducted
the study with colleagues at the University of British Columbia.
Psychopaths were
more likely to use the past tense, suggesting a detachment from their crimes,
say the researchers. They tended to be less fluent in their speech, using more
"ums" and "uhs."
The exact reason
for this is not clear, but the researchers speculate that the psychopath is
trying harder to make a positive impression, needing to use more mental effort
to frame the story.
Taxpayers have forked out for federal public servants to take lessons in
how to get a good night's sleep.
The
Department of Parliamentary Services also pays for its staff - which in 2010/11
totalled 847 - to use the gym in Parliament House.
The Department has revealed in its annual report that
"health-related activities" during the year included seminars on the
topics of diabetes, kidney health, cancer prevention, depression and
"getting a good night's sleep".
Officials told a Senate estimates hearing in Canberra today
that staffers also received free gym membership under their enterprise
agreement.
"We are very concerned about health and well-being,
both physical and mental, of our staff," Department boss Alan Thompson
told the hearing.
Ten of the Department's staff earn more than $170,000 a
year.
$170,000 Aussie dollars-that’s about £7.50 per annum.......
And today’s thought: "Stocks have reached what looks
like a permanently high plateau. - Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale
University, October 16, 1929
