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Health-care management: How to save lives

October 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Five simple rules for running a first-class hospital

MEASURING good health, in patients and hospitals alike, is one thing. Finding the causes is harder. Medical professionals in Britain know that Hammersmith Hospital in west London, for example, is one of the best in the country—Tony Blair received treatment there for his irregular heartbeat and it is one of only a handful of places to which London ambulance crews take people with suspected heart attacks. From America to Sweden, the best hospitals in a rich country outperform the rest. But how?

Stephen Dorgan of McKinsey, a consultancy, and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics have tried to answer this. They studied almost 1,200 hospitals in America, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden, using techniques more commonly applied to identify excellence in manufacturing industry. …

Police restore French fuel supplies

October 20th, 2010 | No Comments

Police in France have broken blockades at three fuel depots at Donges, La Rochelle, and Le Mans, restoring supplies, euronews reports. But all of Franceâ€™s refineries remain shut down.

France gets EU reprieve on Roma

October 20th, 2010 | No Comments

The EC has lifted its threat of legal action against France, saying Paris has responded “positively” to its concerns about expulsions of Roma (Gypsies).
The commission says it “will now, for the time being, not pursue the infringement procedure against France”.

Medvedev joins friendly talks in Deauville

October 19th, 2010 | No Comments

It is being billed as a brain-storming session ahead of next monthâ€™s NATO summit. The leaders of France, Germany and Russia are holding two days of informal talks to cement recently improved relations between the threesome.

Gene Simmons Hacked

October 18th, 2010 | No Comments

The philosophy of “I Sue” has tossed one classic rocker at the center of web shutdown…. KISS bassist Gene Simmons has become the target of online hackers after he urged musicians to use legal remedies to battle fans who illegally download music. Over the weekend, two of Simmons’ official websites, SimmonsRecords.com and GeneSimmons.com, were hit [...]

Lance Armstrong Welcomes Baby No.5, Olivia Marie

October 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Lance Armstrong became a father for the fifth time this week when his girlfriend Anna Hansen gave birth to a baby girl. Armstrong, 39, announced baby Oliviaâ€™s birth early Monday morning on Twitter. “Olivia Marie Armstrong has arrived!” the Tour de France champ — a testicular cancer survivor –wrote. Prior to making her big debut, [...]

France: Strike chaos on roads

October 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Lorry drivers have added their weight to the industrial mayhem gripping France by slowing down motorway traffic or by blocking key roads. After days of rail disruption, unions are putting on the pressure before Wednesdayâ€™s Senate vote on President Nicolas Sarkozyâ€™s unpopular pension reforms. He is refusing to back down over a two-year retirement age hike, but so too are the unions.

Pad tie

October 18th, 2010 | No Comments

The price of Apple’s tablet computer, before sales tax, varies significantly between countries

IF YOU fly from Hong Kong to Frankfurt or Paris and look suspiciously like a gadget lover, chances are that you will be searched by customs officers: an iPad with Wi-Fi and 16 gigabytes of memory costs $200 less in the former British colony than in Germany and France. Given the risk of having to pay extra duty (and the price of the flight), potential iPad buyers in both countries ought to consider a trip to nearby Luxembourg, where Apple’s popular device is $35 cheaper. The sales tax is only one reason for such differences in price. Consumers in Hong Kong also get a better deal because iPads are assembled in mainland China. Buyers in Switzerland have to pay more because there is less competition between retailers. In China and Mexico, the device may be cheaper because people are poorer. Incidentally, if income is taken into account, consumers in Luxembourg get the best deal: they only have to spend about 0.8% of the city-state’s GDP per person on an iPad.

More Daily charts …

Saudis warn of fresh al Qaeda threat

October 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Saudi intelligence services have warned of fresh terror threats against Europe and France by the Yemen-based wing of al Qaeda. The French interior minister said that based on the information, “the threat is real.”

Million people protest in France

October 17th, 2010 | No Comments

For the fifth time since early September, over a million people took to the streets of big French cities in protest to the announced pension system reforms. In addition, France is facing a complete traffic blockage due to the gasoline shortage, caused by the oil refineries being on strike for several days.

French strikes a refined art

October 15th, 2010 | No Comments

It’s all getting a bit feisty in France at the moment with a rolling series of national strikes paralysing the country to various degrees.

The French have been a bit behind their Greek cousins in this respect – both protesting against the current wave of austerity measures sweeping Europe in a bid to drive down government deficits – but have now apparently caught up with their customary gusto.

A wave of walk-outs has now embraced the petrol refineries it appears, with queues of motorists jamming station forecourts as consumers start to panic-buy fuel.

The potential fuel shortages are also now starting to threaten French airports, although apparently Paris Orly and Charles de Gaulle are insisting they have enough for 17 more days.

However, as the UK showed in 2000, when it went through a similar if less noisy protest, as much as governments exhort citizens not to empty the shelves or petrol stations, they generally do in the end.

Oct. 13, 1884: Greenwich Resolves Subprime Meridian Crisis

October 13th, 2010 | No Comments

1884: Geographers and astronomers adopt Greenwich as the Prime Meridian, the international standard for zero degrees longitude.
The late 19th century was an era of standardization. With the Second Industrial Revolution stimulating world trade, the Treaty of the Meter established the International System of weights and measures in 1875. With railroads linking together entire continents, nations [...]

Palm Pre 2 HP’s First webOS Smartphone?

October 12th, 2010 | No Comments

French carrier SFR advertised a Palm Pre 2 on its Website, raising speculation that the Pre 2 is the webOS-running device HP has slated for early 2011. – Hewlett-Packards first WebOS-running smartphone looks to be a Palm Pre 2.
SFR, the second-largest mobile carrier in France, touted the device
on its Website Oct. 12, before apparently noting its faux pas and
pulling the page though not before PreCentral.net grabbed a screenshot.
The Palm Pre 2…

Katy Perry The California Dream Tour Dates 2011 [Europe]

October 11th, 2010 | No Comments

Katy Perry’s hitting the road on her next headlining tour! In a posting on her Twitter page Monday, the quirky pop tart announced plans to embark on her eagerly-awaited The California Dream Tour early next year. The trek — which will feature Perry belting out charttoppers like “California Gurls” and “I Kissed A Girl” –kicks [...]

Microsoft Bing to Get Archives from French National Library! Posted By : Priyanka Gupta

October 9th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft Bing is going to get the archives from French library which might prove to be very helpful; they are going to launch it soon in France.

Oct. 8, 1582: Nothing Happens â€¦ in Catholic Lands

October 8th, 2010 | No Comments

1582: Nobody does anything, anything at all. In fact, nobody does anything whatsoever between Oct. 4 and Oct. 15, 1582, because the 10 intervening days have simply been declared out of existence by the pope. (This offer may not apply outside Italy, Spain and Portugal.)
Where did those days go?
By the mid-1570s, the Julian Calendar established [...]

10 Hottest Weather Girls Ever

October 7th, 2010 | No Comments

Weather Girls. Youâ€™ve gotta love em. Rain or shine, theyâ€™re always radiant â€“ and how is it they manage to make pointing out whatever weatherâ€™s headed our way so goddamn sexy? A gesture here, a sweep of the hand there, and they may as well be beckoning drooling male viewers quietly to the boudoir. It [...]

Forbes Worldâ€™s Most Powerful Women 2010

October 7th, 2010 | No Comments

First Lady Michelle Obama is the World’s Most Powerful Women, according to the latest ranking from Forbes Magazine. This year’s list of the Most Powerful Women on Earth brands singer Lady Gaga more powerful than the woman who is second-in-line to the US presidency, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Mrs. O joins media moguls Oprah Winfrey [...]

!!! Live Chat Today Rehearsal Vid Premiere, Remix EP

October 6th, 2010 | No Comments

!!! ANNOUNCE NEW Â‘JAMIE, MY INTENTIONS ARE BASS’ REMIX EP;
REHEARSAL VIDEO PREMIERE +
LIVE WEBCHAT TODAY

!!! (aka Chk Chk Chk) will
be premiering performances of tracks from their new album Strange Weather Isn’t It?, out now on
Warp, as well as chatting to fans live, today at www.chkchkchk.net. Check out the video for “AM/FM” off the new album
below.

The fun starts today at 2pm EST / 11AM PST, with members of the band on hand to answer questions and talk fans
through the performance footage which was filmed recently in the intimate surroundings of their New York rehearsal
space.

In addition, the band will release a special remix EP digitally on November 2. Titled Jamie, My Intentions are
Bass, it features said track as well as five stunning remixes of other album tracks by the likes of Bibio,
Canyons and Liv Spencer.

The band also is currently touring North America before heading to Europe – full dates and details are below. On all
UK dates they will be supported by The Hundred in the Hands.

Jamie, My Intentions Are Bass track listing

1. Jamie, My Intentions Are Bass
2. The Hammer (Thomas Bullock Remix)
3. Most Certain Sure (Liv Spencer Remix)

4. The Hammer (Canyons Remix)
5. Steady As The Sidewalk Cracks (Tim Goldsworthy Remix)
6. Most Certain Sure (Bibio Remix)

Tour Dates

06 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
07 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
09 – Paris, France, Factory Â© Festival d’Ile de France, La Cigale

16 – San Francisco, CA – Treasure Island Music Festival

29 – Manchester, UK @ Manchester Academy II
30 – Glasgow, UK @ Classic Grand

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Europe on-edge after terror plans reports

October 6th, 2010 | No Comments

Europe remains on edge, despite police crack-downs on groups suspected of links to terrorist organizations.
A series of arrests in the south of France yesterday came after a flurry of media reports about an alleged al-Qaeda plot for co-ordinated attacks on the continent.