Thanks to Brittany Miller of the Independent Bulletin Online.
A brand of frozen fruit juice ” Minute Maid ” which was first introduced in 1946 is being discontinued, consumers will no longer be able to purchase it as Coca- Cola, the owner now of “Minute Maid”, has decided due to declining sales and competition from other drink products that they will stop producing it.
I’m sad to see that name Coca-Cola, as it seems to be a pattern with them to close down businesses that consumers are fond of. In the UK , there was a chain of Coffee Shops called Costa Coffee, and they used to be very good. Now due to lack of investment and poor management since Coca-Cola took them over in 2019 they certainly don’t seem as popular and of good quality as they used to be. I suspect they will go the same way as “Minute Maid”. It’s just another erosion of choice.
Thanks to CNN World News and Jomana Karadsheh and Nadeen Ebrahim for the Headline
I just find it extremely frustrating that Big Government’s like Iran feel the need to imprison people who speak out against them.
Narges Mohammadi represents freedom of speech and the human rights of people all over the World. She is one clear voice and now she feels her only option is to starve herself to death because it is her only option to be heard.
I worry that the conditions that she and other political prisoners are being detained in are appalling, does she feel now she has no option as she is being so badly treated?
Big Government is a bullying Government.
A viscious bully who cannot stand any criticism or anyone having a different thought or opinion from them. By their very nature they cannot rationalise their standpoint so they have to shut down anyone who disagrees .
They are authoritarian but weak minded, in this case hiding behind religious doctrine which over many centuries and it seems today has been used by bullies to subjugate others who wish to live their lives in Peace and Harmony.
I wish Narges Mohammadi well and hope that she is allowed to live and thrive, it is I fear a forlorn hope.
Yes, I remember this prompt from last year and for me the answer will always be Sir Tim Berners- Lee who invented what we now know today as the Internet .He has continued to promote his original thought ,the Internet’s role is to improve communication of ideas.
Unfortunately , it also enabled the worse aspects of the human psyche to have access to an audience. This has had some tragic consequences and the Law has intervened in trying to control the Dantes Inferno of content. The lesson is perhaps that it is uncontrollable and that every individual has a responsibility to look and learn and be tolerant and respect each other. Only we can do that , outside forces cannot.
Thanks to BBC Online News and Maia Davies for the Headline.
Aw it’s gone now, painted over in white by the man who originally did the restoration. It attracted hordes of people into the Chapel of the Basilica of St Lawrence in Lucina, unfortunately for purely secular reasons and not to practice their religious beliefs.
The fresco itself was fairly modern,and it’s retouching lead to it having an almost photographic resemblance to the Italian PM Giorgia Meloni in full angel mode. Bless the Italian PM , she found it very amusing and quipped that she was “no angel”
Of course the chap who did the “retouching” denied it was deliberate and persisted in his story that the resemblance was just a coincidence. The Cardinal in charge and the Church Hierarchy thought differently and more or less said that it was bringing the Church unwanted attention. So it is gone.
As usual for such an expansive prompt, I resort to a definition of Ideal.
“Existing only in the imagination; desirable or perfect but not likely to become a reality .”
How hard is that? Your ideal day is about as likely as winning the lottery, but perhaps that is just as well. We: if lucky enough to have a choice ,have many days to fill and we aren’t always so self aware as to make good use of them or perhaps because of others’ demands we do things for either money or necessity.
That’s life and it’s not ideal, nevertheless it can be interesting or fun, so let’s not get too much in a tizz about it.
Thanks to Nottingham City Council taking a Company called H35 (Housing Plus 35) to Court to ensure that they comply with the essential safety and management standards required for running housing for multi-occupational (HMO) properties of which H35 run about 70 in the local area, HMO properties nationally will now have to comply to the Housing Standards rules.
It was Nottingham and their Safer Housing Team that took the lead on this and it will now apply Nationally , that any company running a multi- occupational housing network must comply to Housing standards that keep people safe and able to live in suitable conditions.
The said Company, H35 claimed that their Company only needs to comply with the Financial Conduct Authority being a mutual benefit cooperative society and thus fulfilling it’s statutory housing requirements by being registered with the FCA.
How the Law let H35 hide behind this ridiculous claim that the FCA would know or care about their standard of housing is beyond belief seeing as the Council fined H35 nearly £30,000 for breaches and the Council had to appeal to establish the argument that H35 needed to comply with statutory Housing Regulations . They won the case and I believe that people will be safer and better housed because of it. Well done Nottingham!
I’m sure everything has an impact on a person but depending on the situation and the personal qualities of that person , the effect can range from being barely noticed to totally life changing. I suppose it depends on their perspective at the time and whether other experiences over time have changed or developed. There are so many variables.
Looks remarkably like the current Mayor of Manchester but is actually an AI generated image
You can choose your friends but you can’t choose your relatives. Poor little Tulip, still as Sir Keir Starmer PM and ex Director of Prosecutions has said that the court cases are not valid as Tulip has not been given any opportunity to review the charges against her or indeed be represented in the Bangladeshi Court and let’s face it Sir Keir must know a thing or two about the Law.
What really interests me about this debacle is that the ex Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina (Tulip’s Aunt) attacked for many years the founder of the Grameen Bank, Professor Muhammad Yunus after he fell out of favour with her for considering forming his own political party in Bangladesh. She accused him of corruption and nuturing poverty not solving it, her main target being the Grameen Bank.
The Grameen Bank enabled the “poor” mainly women to borrow small amounts of money to start businesses and work their way out of poverty in Bangladesh. It is a model that was taken up by many other countries and eventually won Professor Yunus the “Nobel Peace Prize”. My impression is that the Grameen Bank is a success and that Sheikh Hasina’s attacks on it were vindictive, apparently she is another Politician that believes she should have been awarded the ” Nobel Peace Prize”. I really feel sorry for the Norwegians having to put up with these gainsayers.
In reality it was very much tit for tat and after the resignation of Sheikh Hasina, Professor Yunus was appointed the” Chief Adviser of Bangladesh” and since 2024, has been part of the interim Government .
Professor Yunus has put in place many improvements such as improving communications and introducing a digital legal aid system which enables those on a low income to take legal address without having to incur large fees. Yes Professor Yunus knows a thing or two about the Law too and seems not very interested in buying up real estate.
I was reaching into my handbag while I was out shopping , which I know was definitely on my to do list when a gust of wind from one of our recent storms, might have been the French one, blew my “to do list” straight out of the little nesting place it had found in between my phone and my purse. Why, you may ask, did I have a handwritten note? Yes, guilty, sometimes I scribble things on pieces of paper.
Anyway the” to do’s” disappeared into the stratosphere and for the life of me I cannot remember any of the tasks I was supposed to do. I know we still don’t have a spare key for the lock up garage, so that must have been on it as the hardware man in town does keys. The rest I haven’t got a clue.
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