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At Ask! restaurant in Durham, where we went on Saturday night with friends, the toilets are more discreet than most.
Earned Value Management is not a new concept -- it's been around, but often not properly implemented, since the 1950s.
In the run-up to the general election, all the political parties trying to win your vote using the NHS card. They make all these wild promises, but what is going on behind the scenes? Labour -- Gordon Brown's health team is promising something for everyone: the public can have whatever they want
So Scottish MP's are concerned we will lose an ancient Scottish tradition? Alcohol unit pricing at 40p per unit only hurts those who buy very cheap alcohol, the people who buy alcohol to get drunk. The tradition that MPs get misty eyed about is the Scottish whisky industry, and I for one, have never heard of whisky at less than 40p/ unit.
I took my daughter to see the film Avatar the other day. In some ways it’s a predictable film, given the director. His film Titanic was about how much happier the poor are, dancing round their fire - I ask you? A fire on a transatlantic liner? Whereas the rich are portrayed as nasty and with petty problems.
Avatar is about how much happier people are when they live in harmony with the forest, than the “other” people constantly chasing money.
Key performance indicators (KPI), targets by another word, seem to be here to stay.
We need to consider what we, as organisations and individuals, can do to reduce our own carbon footprints. It’s all very well to talk about it, but this winter, this extreme weather, shows just how close global warming could be. For Britain, global warming doesn’t mean getting warmer, it means getting colder – we’re on the same latitude as Alaska, and we should expect that sort of weather.
So what is Christian about Christmas? The date? By all accounts Jesus was born sometime in March not December. The decorations and festivities? Far more likely to be connected with the Roman feast of saturnalia. In this feast, women dressed up as men, saved as masters, and in the British versions (Lord of Unrule, and Abbott of Unreason), the law courts were closed for 20 days which meant that any law breaking would go unpunished.
Did you read Windmill 2009?
it makes really fascinating reading. The Windmill series of Exercises gets experts from a whole variety of backgrounds: different parts of NHS, local authorities, independent providers, patients, users and Trust governors, Department of Health, all to play themselves in a scenario looking at "what could happen if"
Should you take advice from a drug-dealer? Depends what advice he's giving! If he can tell you how to do your job better, in a way that you can follow, then it's probably good advice because he's literally risked his life to test whether it works or not (and the bad advice died with the people who didn't make it).
this is a book that's well-worth reading. So good, i reviewed it twice