So today in the UK we’ve gained an hour it’s really eleven O’clock but all the clocks that change automatically (like the one on this computer) say the correct time and now the race is on to change the ones that don’t change themselves.
To be honest the car clock takes me about three weeks to change and I get used to it being an hour ahead, until I get fed up and sit down and read the manual .
Still it will be light tomorrow morning and will get darker about five or earlier until December when the days will start getting longer.
I’ve linked this video to the American US Congress successfully making a step towards making daylight saving time permanent.
I wish we would do the same, it messes with my body clock , the dog’s body clock and suddenly it gets dark so quickly at night.
Though if there is evidence that road traffic accidents are reduced then I think we should stick with it as I suppose the roads are busier in the morning.
Thanks to James Delaney and BBC News Online for the Headline
The Kelvingrove and Hunterian museums in Glasgow have removed the remains of Egyptian mummies from public display as it is now viewed as disrespectful for the remains to be seen in a public viewing.
In the Hunterian musuem’s case they have covered the remains of Lady Shep-En-Hor’s body in specially designed textile to protect if from being seen by visitors. (this is also complicated by the fact that it might not be her body at all , as 19th Century excavators of Egyptian Tombs often switched more intact remains into ornate sarcophagi)
The latest guidelines though from the International Council of Musuems revised code of ethics, recommends that the “inherent dignity ” of human remains be upheld.
Both museums also said that they would consider repatriation of the remains if a request was made.
Thanks to Jason Arunn Murugesu and BBC Online News for the Headline
Nurdles are small plastic pellets which are transported around the world for use in industry by ship. Unfortunately there was a container spill and a whole load of them were released into the sea along the Coast of North of England. The clean up has been going on to remove them from beaches in England.
However, sea conditions in the North Sea and the circulation pattern of the sea has lead to the nurdles reaching Danish and German Beaches also. So the clean up of Danish and German beaches has started. Tragically it is believed that only 28% of the released nurdles have so far turned up, which means these plastic beads which en masse look very unsightly will turn up elsewhere or perhaps after circulating in the ocean will end up on the sea bed.
Plastic pollution in the sea can now be tracked with drones and also following records of spills and subsequent ocean movements.
Thanks to Kayla Epstein and BBC News for the Headline.
The gentlemanly and womanly agreement , by the American Justice System , which avoids major actions involving lawmakers, candidates or other electorally sensitive matters in the weeks before an election has been blown to the wind.
Now the midterms vote are underway with the actual vote on the 3rd November , Democratic state Senator L Louise Lucas and six of her family members including her daughter who is running for the city council of Portsmouth , Virginia have had various charges thrown at them including racketeering, conspiracy to distribute cannabis and maintaining drug involved premises.
I was surprised to read that Senator Lucas ( who is not standing for re-election as she is 82) has for a long time ran a legal cannabis dispensary which she has talked openly about and also has campaigned for cannabis to be legalised. She has also been critical of the Trump administration.
I think it would be strange for her to actively take part in illegally supplying cannabis when she has taken the trouble to own a legal dispensary and had campaigned for cannabis to be legalised, it sounds to me that she wanted to stay within the Law.
It also seems strange for the Justice Department to bring charges against the Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar , as well as agreeing for a raid to be made on her home and investigating her immigration status, right in the middle of an election campaign. Definitely the answer is blowing in the wind.
Thanks to Millie Bowles and Kent Online for the Headline.
Living close to Cotswold Wildlife Park , it is really good news that the “crash” of six Southern white Rhino’s from the South Lakes Safari Zoo which closed in 2024 are being rehomed at Wingham Wildlife Park and will be part of the expansion of the parks exhibits while also playing an important part in educating the public about these beautiful animals.
Thanks to Paloma Chavez and People Online for the Headline.
John Steinbeck’s famous Novel “Cannery Row” is trumped by a real life story .
A sardine cannery which was opened in 1917 and became the largest cannery in Monterey on the famous “Cannery Row”.
Due to the decline in the sardine population, despite switching to packing squid the cannery was forced to close in 1973.
However a group of Marine Scientists felt the site would be suitable for an Aquarium that would help educate people about the local marine ecosystem in Monterey Bay. A project that Steinbeck himself would have enthused about being fascinated himself by Marine Biology.
The money for the project came from the parents of two sisters who had also studied Marine Biology, Nancy Burnett and Julie Packard. In 1984 the Monterey Bay Aquarium opened it’s doors in October of that year.
The Aquarium has not only boosted Monterey’s economy by attracting visitors , it also has made landmark achievements in the field of Marine Biology being the first aquarium to feature a living kelp forest. It is also the first aquarium to successfully display and release juvenile great white sharks and also they have a Sea Otter Programme to study the threats to their habitats and reintroduce stranded pups to the wild.
In 38 years the Cannery Row Aquarium has introduced more than 70million people to the ocean nearby to Monterey and also further afield.
When Politicians spout their own rhetoric particularly at a an event organised for United States Military Cadets ( in this case in Tennessee). They end up not only looking foolish but causing upset by their lack of respect to those who fought and gave their lives side by side with Americans.
The Secretary of US Defence Hesgeth took a pop at the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) which as a serving US Army Officer based in Afghanistan he was part of.
In what only can be described as “bar room bravado” by saying in his speech to the young Military Cadets that the US got no support from the over 50 Countries that were part of the ISAF in Afghanistan and that among the American’s the joke was that ISAF stood for I Saw Americans Fighting.
Rightly so this upset the Polish Government as they suffered heavy losses in the Ghazni provence .
Why Secretary Hegseth believes his own rhetoric is unquantifiable, but there definitely should be some control over what he says to Military Cadets who in the future may have to work with NATO Allies.
Or is this a concerted political effort to say America doesn’t need to work with other Countries, if so it is misguided.
