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.
This headline caught my eye as I have recently read an omnibus of HG Well’s fiction and was fascinated to find out he was a biologist by training. His writing was influenced by his knowledge of science, in the Island of Dr Moreau, vivisection is described and for a student in the late 1800’s it is fascinating that he should take on the mantle of someone who thought that this was unnecessary and cruel.
So it is with interest that I read that this trillionaire combo of Chan and Zuckerberg wish to cure or prevent all disease as their main philanthropic goal using AI technology. They’ve made their experts in Education and Social Justice redundant and will be recruiting new experts in Biology.They wish to go all in on AI-powered biology for their future philanthropy of which they intend to spend 99% of their future earning power.
In truth curing all disease and preventing anymore disease seems a pretty dystopian goal to me. We are cellular beings and cells misbehave and by natures path there will always be an adaption or perhaps an error that will produce perhaps something unwanted. That is life . In the same way that Chan and Zuckerberg have a goal, nature has a goal too and it isn’t always what humans want.
Thanks to Elaine Mitchell of BBC Online News for the Headline.
Really tragic that people will let their dogs run loose and attack farm animals. This story comes from Northern Ireland. The llama was acting as a form of guard to protect the sheep( I suppose being much larger), but even it was attacked.
We are fortunate to be able to have pet dogs and I’m sure most owners are extremely responsible. It is just sensible if you are near livestock, particularly in the Spring when animals are coming close to giving birth that you keep your dog on a short lead.
Given that I think that these may be feral or poaching dogs , ones that are trained to hunt. Knowing my dog he would be terrified in the dark and cold, though even he given the chance would eat raw meat rather than cooked. If we want to live with animals we need to respect their instincts.
Thanks to Nick Roberts of North Shields and Julie Cush of BBC Online News for the Headline
There is a challenge by the Low Lights Tavern in North Shields to open a very old safe which is located in an ancient bit of wall and has not been opened for decades as the key has been lost . The safe is cast iron with a large handle on it and it needs an expert to “crack” it without damaging the 16th Century wall’s surrounding it. So no dynamite.
I hope you are enjoying my thoughts on the various Headlines I come across in my everyday online life. It’s may way of releasing steam when I see something that I find irritating, frustrating, educational or indeed something to celebrate as being of value. In other words put my ” reactivity ” to good use.
As you may have noticed despite the abundance of stories about the 3million e.mails and redacted photographs that have been released from across the pond I have not chosen to write about them.
This in itself has been therapeutic. I feel if I did I would be swimming in ordure, it is a story way beyond tragic, showing the worst of human behaviour and how false all this billionaire,millionaire love is . Let’s face it they were all pretty unhappy people who increased the world’s unhappiness and did those they wanted to control a lot of harm.
Anyway it’s something I will stay clear of and will continue to look for Headlines that interest me and I hope you find them of interest too.
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