Thanks to BBC News Online from Jersey for the Headline
The dog population in Jersey has increased by 25 % in the last ten years. So with such a significant increase it was thought that it would be good to help children in a classroom environment understand a little about dog behaviour so both them and the dogs would be safe.
I think this is an excellent idea and one of the exercises they do is to show the children photographs of the faces of dogs at the beginning of the class showing various dog behaviours such as teeth baring, smiling ( yes dogs can smile), resting, yawning and curiousness and ask them to say whether the dog is friendly or not.
At the end of the lesson , they are shown the photographs again and there is a noticeable improvement of their recognition of warning signs and understanding dog behaviour.Such a good approach .
Which recipe from which book should I use? Where is my favourite whisk? Why does the blender smells of sour cream? I need to google how to make my own mayonnaise and my phone is out of charge. I don’t have enough eggs or limes so will have to go back out to the shops again. No I am not pre-heating the oven, it’s gas and reaches it’s temperature in minutes and I won’t be ready for hours.The washing up is mounting up as I cannot use the same spoon or knife due to cross contamination of flavours. Where is my tupperware container with the couscous? Is it safe to reheat this? Is it mould or just a skin?
Oh really my favourite thing is just to be able to cook.(safely)
Thank you to Lyndal Rowlands and News Agencies Aljazeera for the Headline
Panama’s Supreme Court has ruled that the Hong Kong based shipping Company C K Hutchinson (such a British Name) will no longer have the right to control the entry and exit to the Panama Canal and as an interim measure the running of the ports will be taken over by Maersk the Danish Shipping Giant.
In terms of the employment of local Panamanians working in the ports this will mean significant insecurity. Who will be responsible for paying them and will their conditions of work change significantly. Will more automation be introduced? Who cares, at least it’s not in Chinese hands anymore?
“Shadow tankers” supplying oil to Countries that have had worldwide sanctions applied to them have been the bugbear of the United States and puts into perspective the actions of the United States recently with the kidnapping of the President of Venezuela and the agreements now in place to allow Venezuela to produce and ship oil in partnership with the United States. The control of the Panama Canal is now in Danish hands, not sure if this has anything to do with Greenland, maybe it’s some kind of concession. Here you have the Panama Canal and we can have Greenland. Watch this space.
Either way the Chinese aren’t very happy about it but Victor Li the President of CK Hutchinson has experience of being kidnapped himself while a young man in Hong Kong, his father paid a ransom 1 billion HK$1 to get him free , he was held for one night. The Hong Kong gangster responsible for the kidnapping was later executed by Mainland China , which would not have been possible under the then Hong Kong jurisdiction, so it is probable that there is a close relationship between the Hong Kong Company and the Chinese Authorities.
Panama itself was caught between a rock and a hard place, but perhaps it was a bit strange not to review the contracts and the working of the canal with more care and they shouldn’t have just been automatically renewed for long periods without any bidding process.
I think it shows a lack of interest in technology, but I really can’t remember my first computer. To me it is a tool. I seem to remember a lot of IT departments whose support varied and were regarded as God Like if successful or as reliable as “Mystic Meg” if not.
Advice to turn it off and back on and check the printer is plugged in became second nature and listening to the bored support assistant at the end of the phone resetting your password for the fifth time in a week was to be avoided
.” Yes, perhaps I am stupid , but this is not what I want to be spending my whole day doing, you felt like saying but never would.”
With all that’s going on in America at the moment I am relieved that the Law has been able to stand up and say that in the case of Luigi Mangione that the Federal Case does not warrant the “Death Penalty”.
Mainly because I’m totally against the “Death Penalty” as too many mistakes have been made by Governments who use it as the ultimate punishment.
Thanks to Craig Buchan from BBC News Online for the Headline
Sad to say at Westminster Magistrates’ Court six border officials – from Berkshire, Kent, Surrey and London have been charged with thefts of property from migrants arriving at Dover between August 2021 and November 2022. They have been bailed ahead of a further hearing at Southwark Crown Court on 26th February 2025
The case follows work done by the Home Office Anti-Corruption Investigators.
Shocked? I was. Not something that has a high profile in the News, didn’t even know that the Home Office had a department of Anti- Corruption Investigators. Are they still getting funding?
AI generated image of a case in a magistrates court.
Thanks to Angela Rafferty and Heather Burman from BBC Online News for the Headline
Beechings cuts of the 1960’s of local railway lines and stations in the British Isles has had a devastating effect both on the environment and the way of life of British towns and villages.
There is a little light being made in a very dark tunnel where a local Labour MP Amanda Hack is looking for funding to restore what is called ” The Ivanhoe Line” which connects Liecester and Burton-upon-Trent through North West Leicerstershire and South Derbyshire.
There is an existing line to carry freight , so a passenger line would make a lot of sense reducing congestion on the roads and buses.
The money was made available by the previous Conservative Government, but due to so called savings that the new Labour Government wanted to make the improvements were cancelled. This is so short sighted it is painful. There is an opportunity to do a small right to the big wrongs of Beeching, this is absolutely a no brainer. The money could be funded by HS2 as they have housing stock which once the work on the high speed train is finished the houses will be sold. Why not for the “Ivanhoe line”?
This has been a tragedy of unfathomable magnitude for Rhiannon Skye Whyte’s family. They have been dignified and have not resorted to taunts and cries that asylum seekers are all potential criminals. They have said that the man who killed Rhiannon was basically pure evil and from the photograph and the actions of the murderer I think they are right and no one can know why the man developed that way or if he will ever or should be ever be released.
Leave it to the politicians in the form of Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philip to say ” Crimes like this are the consequence of mass illegal immigration”. Absolutely not Mr Philip and I don’t think you will find any experts in criminal behaviour that would agree with you.
This crime is a consequence of not following up on warning signs that were present. The murderer had shown behaviour that was a concern, intimidating the women in the hotel facility he was staying and where the women were working. That, with the combination of Somali being a war torn Country where atrocities of unimaginable cruelty have occurred, then there should have been more care taken to see if the man was a danger to others. Investing time and effort into assessing his backround and state of mind.
That to me is the tragedy, it’s almost like a lack of interest by those who should know better and who should have taken more action. The warning signs were there. The man needed more than a hotel room.
The article featured a very scary photograph of the man, and I wonder if the article was geared to getting a knee jerk reaction to asylum seekers, hotel accommodation being used for asylum seekers and immigration in general.
When in reality it was about the murder of an innocent woman who wasn’t given adequate protection from an evil force that despite the warning signs was allowed to carry out this despicable act.
I’m most scared to do algorithms, am I right? I don’t know. To be a computer programme generating all this stuff, sending out the same questions once a year , just to fill time. Not really caring what the answers are, but building a database of information to be regurgitated in a nano-second to help users with their website. What would it take me to do it , probably money, it wouldn’t be love that’s for sure. That’s not to say algorithms aren’t lovable. I suppose one day they will be.
There is a Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage known as the Vienna Convention, which the African Country Burkina Faso’s transitional assembly has voted to sign.
This paves the way for Burkina Faso’s first Nuclear Power Plant which is being supplied by Russia. This will give energy security and boost energy capacity for the Country.
It’s important to know that this is one of 20 nuclear energy partnerships that the Russians have signed across the African Continent to date. Africa, clearly doesn’t that think the fossil fuel route is a good one.
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