I?m actually getting more than a bit fed up ? almost said pissed off, but remembered myself just in time ? by the all-pervading Uriah Heepish admissions about how awful the NHS is. It all started with Stafford, of course, and there?s no doubt that the situation there was unacceptable and had to be addressed (although we?re still waiting to see evidence of those ?hundreds? of avoidable deaths trumpeted in the media).
Equally, I don?t doubt that there are other corners of the NHS where the target-obsessed culture and associated under-resourcing have produced similar results.
But that doesn?t mean that the whole of the health care system is a heap of ordure, staffed by uncaring and incompetent wasters. That?s the impression you get from reading the papers though, and if this goes on, we?ll be caught up in a self-fulfilling cycle of despondency. The fact is that surveys reveal high levels of public satisfaction with the health service, and the NHS is consistently demonstrated to be one of the most efficient health care systems anywhere in the developed world. And we do all this with fewer hospital beds and fewer doctors per capita than mainland Europe, not to mention fewer than half the number of MR scanners, and a third the number of CT scanners as our French and German counterparts. Not that availability of beds and imaging equipment is the only factor contributing to good outcomes, but it does suggest that we are doing a pretty good job with the resources at our disposal.
We certainly deliver better care, and more of it, than the American model that this government seems hell-bent on emulating, while spending only 40% as much.
I don?t know about you, but when I look around me, I see highly-skilled colleagues delivering good care to patients, frequently working beyond their contracted hours and in the face of significant resourcing restraints.
I?ve been on the receiving end of medical care over the past couple of years, and although ?yes?, I was a consultant in my own hospital, I?ve been retired for a while now, and the departments dealing with me had?seldom had to call on my undoubted skills as a nuclear medicine specialist. So most of the staff I met had no idea who I was, but both I, and the other patients I met on the wards and in the clinics, received nothing but polite, kind and efficient care, and I suspect that the same would have been true in most other hospitals around the country.
Now, I?m not stupid. I know that waiting times in A&E are rising again, and that we are going to have to deal with that, and with the many other problem areas, while coping with a real-terms decrease in spending. But that?s a challenge that we won?t be able to meet if the staff responsible for delivering the necessary changes in working practices are bowed down by media-induced guilt, and feel that whatever they do they will be maligned for not doing more.
Neither will we do it if the senior managers and the politicians responsible for the health service (yes Jeremy, I mean you) seem to feel that their role is to denigrate the efforts of hard-working NHS staff.
We need a bit more celebration, and a bit less humility. Perhaps we could swap Jeremy Hunt for Danny Boyle? ? he must be at a loose end after the Olympics.
Apr. 23, 2013 ? A Western Illinois University faculty member who published a study about Facebook and narcissism last year has authored another study about Facebook and romantic relationships.
WIU Department of Communication Assistant Professor Christopher Carpenter, with his co-author Erin Spottswood (Cornell University), have authored, "Exploring romantic relationships on social networking sites using the self-expansion model," which will appear in the July 2013 journal issue of Computers in Human Behavior. According to Carpenter, in the study, the co-authors found the more past romantic relationships the participants had, the more interests they listed in their Facebook profiles.
"I predicted this relationship because other research suggested that part of romantic relationship development involves adopting new interests and behaviors from one's partner," he said. "I also found that people who report appearing in more photos with their partners on Facebook and who regularly tag their partner in their status updates tend to have closer romantic relationships."
In humans, the self-expansion model -- per a seminal study authored by State University of New York, Stony Brook, Psychology Professor Arthur Aron and Elaine Aron, author of the book, "The Highly Sensitive Person" -- asserts the desire to grow is a key motivation. One of the key sources of this need to expand one's self is derived from romantic relationships.
Carpenter said he studies humans' interactions on Facebook and social networks because the online networks offer a unique window into people's lives.
"We can't follow people around with a tape recorder getting a record of what they say all day. Facebook, on the other hand, offers us the chance to see one part of that record. We can see how often people interact with their romantic partners on Facebook, what they say to each other and how they present themselves on their profiles," he explained. "As for this specific study, I had read about self-expansion theory and I began wondering if we ever truly cut ties with someone when we break up. We might not see that person anymore, but when we develop a relationship with someone, we take on some of their interests and traits and, in many cases, hang on to them long after we break up. Facebook offered a unique way of examining the extent to which those traces of past relationships remain in our profiles."
Carpenter said the study's sample included 276 respondents who answered questions about their relationship histories and social networking sites uses, while a subset of the sample (149 participants) answered additional questions about their current romantic partners.
In addition to receiving wide media attention about his 2012 study, "Narcissism on Facebook: Self-promotional and Anti-social Behavior" (published in the journal, Personality and Individual Differences, March 2012), Carpenter served as an invited Oxford Union Society speaker on the motion, "This House Believes Social Media has Successfully Reinvented Social Activism," in England in May last year.
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There's one aspect in which Lee Smolin's newest book is less irritating than his previous book, The Trouble With Physics: the main purpose of the new book isn't to mindless attack and lie about the best results of the contemporary theoretical physics research. Instead, if we ignore the mega-arrogant and super-dishonest subtitle "From the Crisis of Physics to the Future of the Universe", "Time Reborn" tries to attack physics from the times of Newton and "constructively" present Smolin's own ideas about physics ? or something he apparently calls "physics" ? and it's a stinky junk of the most despicable kind, indeed.
You may read some reviews before you decide whether you want to buy this tome or not. But let me summarize some basic points and some characteristic elementary mistakes that may serve as examples of what this pile of paper is all about.
If one suppresses the actual atrocious content of the book, its main thesis may be summarized by the slogan "time is real". What does it mean? Smolin opposes the idea that time may be emergent or the spacetime is doomed ? without offering a tiniest glimpse of evidence for his prejudices. Everything must be a slave of time. You may recall his delusions about time-dependent laws of physics ? this preposterous and ill-defined concept is given some attention, too.
You might think that the book is therefore a sequence of inconsequential quasi-philosophical babbling that is entirely disconnected not only from the advances in physics of the last 40 years ? which was the case of "The Trouble With Physics" ? but it is also unrelated to the physics research of the 20th century and probably physics as we have known it for 300+ years. And you would be mostly right. Most of the book is composed of scientifically meaningless words of the author who knows nothing about science but who can't resist to preach about his medieval philosophical prejudices.
But it would be just a part of the truth.
In fact, he does mention some things related to modern physics but almost always negatively so. He makes it very clear that he wants physics, science, and Nature to obey the prejudices of this super-arrogant would-be thinker and he wants to pay no attention whatsoever to what Nature and science research are actually telling us. He is clearly the polar opposite of a good physicist ? or an honest human being, for that matter.
Off-topic ? surely unrelated to Smolin because related to experiments: LHCb published its paper on the first observation of CP-violation in the decay of \(B_s\) mesons. Via Joseph S. Dark matter: Some new papers incorporate the three highly persuasive events from CDMS. Frandsen et al. use a Kundera-inspired title to make the remarkable claim that this light dark matter is not ruled out by XENON, thus strengthening the "dark matter is seen" alliance in the dark matter wars. Del Nobile et al. are more negative in their halo-independent analysis. See also an older 2010 paper by Fox, Liu, Weiner. Via Neal Weiner's tweets.
How does it influence his proclamations about physics? For example, he predecides that time has to be fundamental but he also predecides that space is not. He seems to think that he is being told such insights directly from Heaven. However, we've known since the 1905 discovery of the special theory of relativity by Einstein that space and time are related by a symmetry ? the Lorentz symmetry ? so when it comes to certain properties such as their being "real" or "fundamental", they must have the same properties. How does Smolin deal with this fact?
He simply ignores (and spits on) all the evidence in favor of relativity. The scientific evidence ? empirical facts and/or credible observations ? never play a role in decisions about his portrait of the world. Well, more precisely, they do play a role ? a negative one because Smolin seems to be obsessed with writing gibberish that contradicts the maximal possible number of scientific results.
It's not just relativity that gets spitted upon in this way. All these negative statements are being extrapolated to downright pathological dimensions. So you will find an almost literally endless tirade attacking the concept of symmetries in physics. Symmetries has to be destroyed, Smolin preaches. Every theory that has too many symmetries in it has to be banned. Given the importance that symmetries have played in physics for a century, we can only say one thing: What an amazing imbecile!
Needless to say, Smolin ? who has no clue why relativity is not only right but an important finding about Nature ? has no chance to understand quantum mechanics which is arguably much more inaccessible to the eternally hopeless laymen such as himself. So there's another endless tirade in which we "learn" that quantum mechanics has to be wrong as well and it will surely be replaced by a hidden variable theory. There isn't a glimpse of evidence supporting this bold claim, either. And all the evidence proving that this statement by Smolin is demonstrable bullshit are completely suppressed.
Even this theme isn't enough for Smolin so it gets generalized. Everything about physics has to be wrong. Moreover, he seems to assume that as soon as he convinces you to agree that something about the current picture of physics will be modified in the future (which is conceivable), you will have to accept his delusions instead (which is not conceivable). No suggestion that his delusions could be wrong as well can ever be found in the book. He behaves like a fungal cell that conspires to eliminate the good bacteria from your guts and instantly wants to occupy their place. Fungi may be hard to fight with but at least some imperfect fungicides and fungistats exist. I am not sure whether there exist efficient enough Smolinocides. At least in the institutions that are supposed to do science, they're badly needed.
The diversity of "obviously right and important" insights of science that Smolin can't resist to attack because they contradict his medieval dogmas is unbelievable. For example, he tells you ? without any apologies ? that electrons in the Universe are not indistinguishable. To "prove" this point, he says that one electron may be on Earth and another electron may be on the Moon so they're distinguishable.
He both misunderstands what the identical nature of particles means; and why it's true. Or he at least pretends to misunderstand both of these things. Location may effectively distinguish two or several electrons but the point is that if two or several electrons share the same region or come to occupy "states" that are not separated from each other by a "gap", e.g. during a collision or in the atom, we can't say "which one is which one" and connect the electrons in the initial state with those in the final state. For example, in terms of Feynman diagrams, we must sum over all the histories including the possible permutations of all the electrons to get the right result (the right probability amplitude). He can't possibly understand any of this basic undergraduate physics about (anti)symmetric wave functions. Or he understands it but finds it OK to hide all the evidence known to him that unequivocally implies that this whole book is a pile of shit.
If someone writes hundreds of pages of an incoherent text that dismisses not only the Lorentz symmetry, quantum mechanics, and (of course) quantum field theory and string theory (the only other known framework that is capable to reproduce and surpass the successes of QFTs: all these essential facts are totally censored in the book) but also any symmetry and probabilities and almost every other important result of the 20th century physics ? such as the indistinguishability of particles ? don't you agree that a "hardcore crackpot" is a very accurate description of the person? I don't believe that there exists a competent physicist who doesn't agree that Lee Smolin is a hardcore crackpot ? although there may be folks who, probably for egotist reasons, try to hide this understanding of theirs.
The last three chapters resemble a speech of an Islamic fundamentalist preaching before the execution of a heretic who is being stoned to death. There isn't a trace of science in those chapters. It's pure religion and screaming that everyone must act to agree with Smolin's unscientific delusions. Lots of the book is dedicated to would-be arguments that physics shouldn't be studied using mathematics which is apparently "limited" for him.
The book is so terrible that it got a very negative review from Smolin's other most notorious fellow sourball, too.
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Terror suspect Dzhokhar "Jahar" Tsarnaev was charged on Monday with two federal counts of using a weapon of mass destruction to kill, injure and cause widespread damage at the Boston Marathon a week ago. If convicted, the 19-year-old could face the death penalty.
Three people were killed and more than 200 others wounded when two powerful homemade bombs exploded near the race?s finish line.
The bed-ridden Tsarnaev was informed of the charges and read his rights in his hospital room Monday morning. The college student is in serious condition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he is under heavy police guard.
Tsarnaev, who is sedated and unable to speak, suffered apparent gunshot wounds to the head, neck, hand and legs during firefights with police before his capture Friday night, authorities said. His older brother Tamerlan Tsanraev, who investigators say was part of the terror attack, died in a firefight with police during their escape attempt.
In a 10-page criminal complaint against Dzhokhar, an FBI agent says investigators have overwhelming photographic evidence showing the brothers placing two backpack bombs in the crowd at the race finish.
A large pyrotechnic and clothing Dzhokhar wore during the terror attack were later found in his dorm room at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, according to the charges.
The federal complaint sheds no light on a motive for the attack. Miriam Conrad, Dzhokhar's public defender, also asked the court to appoint two more attorneys who are, ?learned in the law applicable to capital cases.?
[Related: Attempts to link Boston bombing influence immigration reform]
Investigators say the Tsarnaev brothers began preparing for an apparent escape attempt just hours after the FBI sought the public?s help by releasing photos of them at the bombing scene.
Shortly before midnight Thursday, one of the brothers carjacked a man at gunpoint, according to the criminal complaint.
?Did you hear about the Boston explosion?? the complaint alleges the carjacker said. ?I did that.?
The complaint goes on to allege that the brothers threw improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at patrol officers who spotted them in the stolen car and gave chase. Bomb-making materials similar to what was recovered in the marathon aftermath were later found inside the abandoned getaway car, according to the charges.
?The presumption of innocence is pretty tough in this case,? said Jimmy Ardoin, a veteran criminal defense attorney who read the criminal complaint at the request of Yahoo News.
?On its face, it seems pretty strong,? Ardoin said. ?Although once you get into court, you never know what will be admitted into evidence and what won?t.
[Related: Officials: Boston suspects motivated by religion]
A probable cause hearing is scheduled for May 30. Despite calls from some Republicans to try Dzhokhar in a military court like a war criminal, White House press secretary Jay Carney said he would not be held as an enemy combatant. It is not known if Boston authorities will file cases against him in state court as well.
The federal government has not revealed if it will seek the death penalty. But in a statement, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said, ?We will hold those who are responsible for these heinous acts accountable to the fullest extent of the law.?
?Thanks to the valor of state and local police, the dedication of federal law enforcement and intelligence officials, and the vigilance of members of the public, we?ve once again shown that those who target innocent Americans and attempt to terrorize our cities will not escape from justice,? Holder said.
The Tsarnaev brothers, who were born in the former Russian territory known as Kyrgyzstan and are of Chechen descent, lived in Cambridge, Mass., for several years. Dzhokhar became a naturalized American citizen last year.
According to investigators, the carjack victim told police that the brothers spoke to one another in a foreign language while he was held hostage. The victim managed to escape on foot when the brothers got out of the car at a gas station.
Despina and Pete Patselikos serve New Orleans diner fare at Leni's Restaurant.
New Orleans restaurant culture is abuzz with different flavors, new fashions and even a new lexicon. But then there are restaurants that ignore trends altogether, and in some cases stand apart by essentially standing still.
??One exemplar of this last type is Leni's Restaurant, an unfussy, never extraordinary but eminently reliable diner hidden in plain sight in the Warehouse District. It's a place where taking in the details can be as satisfying as eating the food.
??There's the clanking, vintage cash register ringing up meals that rarely exceed $10 and the stainless steel milk cooler on the counter. Visiting the washroom means edging yourself past the sputtering griddle, and faded New Orleans Saints posters hanging all around the dining room evoke the era when bleeding Black and Gold actually hurt.
??The menu is almost as dated, but unlike many of those old Saints squads, it still gets the job done. Pastel-colored plastic plates are loaded up as if by an indulgent aunt. Paneed veal covers the better part of a plate. Beef erupts from stuffed bell peppers and gets worked into a hamburger steak coated in the same gravy that drips from the roast beef po-boy. Sides like canned beets or hammy greens are wedged in just to make sure you get some vegetables.
??Places like Leni's were common downtown in the past, but their numbers are dwindling. Gregory & Pete's, for instance, was a very similar restaurant nearby on Baronne Street that closed in 2011 after a 40-year run. Its old address is being turned into a pan-Asian restaurant called Lucky Rooster, and a Jimmy John's franchise is opening next door.
??Gregory & Pete's and Leni's shared more than a format. Their owners, related by marriage, are part of a tradition of Greek immigrants who reached America and went straight into the restaurant business. Pete Patselikos bought Leni's Restaurant in 1978 from another Greek man who had run it since the 1950s and claimed it had been a restaurant dating back to World War I.
??Patselikos kept the diner's name, and he's changed little since. He says that's because his customers come for a particular notion of New Orleans comfort food that was codified long before he arrived, and it still runs through his daily specials schedule like clockwork. It's a mix of anywhere-America diner fare, such as meatloaf and chicken noodle soup, and specific New Orleans staples, including hot sausage with butter beans and a Friday seafood platter.
??The kitchen usually gets cracking by 6:30 a.m., stacking up malty pancakes the color of egg yolks, superlative hash browns griddled to crisp sheets of crunch (also available at lunch on Fridays) and grits and biscuits that all arrive buttered by a very heavy hand.
??In the morning and afternoon, most patrons at Leni's look and act like regulars. But then, it's easy to feel at home here even on the first visit.
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The First Lutheran Church of Oklahoma City dug up and opened its Century Chest, a time capsule that was buried under the church 100 years ago.
The artifacts inside the copper chest were remarkably well intact. Credit for that goes to the church's Ladies Aide Society, the group that buried the capsule a century ago. The group buried the chest in double concrete walls and under 12 inches of concrete, according Fox News. It also left guidelines on how to unearth the capsule.
The chest was full of treasures. Among the finds: a newspaper from the day the capsule was buried (April 22, 1913); a dress; a telephone; a flag; a pen used by President William McKinley; a camera; and a pair of women's shoes that still had their shine. Perhaps most remarkable was a phonograph record featuring voices of citizens from the era.
The Oklahoma Gazette reported that the project was the brainchild of Virginia Sohlberg. Her great-granddaughter, Virginia Eason Weinmann, was especially moved by a book that contained family photos and poetry.
Experts from the Oklahoma Historical Society worked with the church to make sure the objects were handled with care. All of the items will be displayed at the Oklahoma History Center.
