OneGuyFromBarlick

Tize… Photo’s Of The Week. It’s good to see what is happening in the World, as long as I don’t have to be part of it.

Stanley wrote: ↑01 Dec 2024, 04:14 Did I see a trail for a programme based on 'Dull Men' and presented by James May?
(On reflection I think I might qualify...... )

You did, it's on Quest.

Cathy wrote: ↑01 Dec 2024, 09:14 Tize… Photo’s Of The Week. It’s good to see what is happening in the World, as long as I don’t have to be part of it.

Cathy, I agree with you. The past is more interesting and less dangerous to me! However I guess the following incident could have happened in the recent past (don't look if you are frightened by snakes!)...
`Venomous snake slithers up driver's leg on Australia motorway' BBC

What got my attention is that due mainly to opposition from manufacturers and oil producers, the world has failed to curb the production of the plasics which are gradually choking us.
We aren't fit to have a planet.... It's a disgrace.

These people have a more immediate thing to worry about - 30 homes have been evacuated...
`Homes evacuated after sinkhole opens on estate' LINK
Stephen Regan, 55, moved into his house, which is right next to the sinkhole, a year ago and said he feared he could lose his home. "It was very scary, you could hear it rumbling and collapsing when it was happening," he said. "I just want to get back in the house but we don’t know what the situation is at the moment. "My fear is my house could go... I’ve never seen anything like this in my life." Mr Regan estimated the hole was between 50ft and 60ft (15 to 18 metres) deep, adding: "The culvert has collapsed and water has just washed it all away. "It’s an older generation on this street so they are scared."

Many happy returns to Mick Brett over there in Oklahoma - where as we all know -

There's a bright golden haze on the meadow
There's a bright golden haze on the meadow
The corn is as high as an elephant's eye
An' it looks like its climbin' clear up to the sky

Oh what a beautiful morning
Oh what a beautiful day
I've got a wonderful feeling
Everything's going my way

Happy Birthday Mick, three days behind me>

I think I'm catching you up, Ian

Thank you everyone o/

Morning Mick, many happy returns....

I hope you had a great birthday Mick.
Do you remember Typhoo tea?
`Typhoo takeover: Who is CEO Sandy Chadha and how did Supreme start from a single van?'InsiderMedia

I think his father GS Chadha was a Sikh migrant and Look what he did from a small start-up. My mind then went to the number of small shops and businesses that have been started or taken over by migrants who are natural risk takers, they have to be to be migrants! Then I think of the number of migrants we have who are forbidden to work or trade. We may be missing something here....

The Barlick Raj has picked up another award
https://www.lep.co.uk/community/barnold ... 5WPvr1ae3A
A Barnoldswick eatery has been named the Best Indian Restaurant in the North West at a awards celebrating the nation’s finest curry houses.
Barlick Raj Balti, in Station Road, won the impressive title at this year’s Euro Asia Curry Awards.
The annual event honours the very best curry houses in the UK and the hardworking and talented people behind them.

They seem to have cracked the secret of making good food!

This is worth reading just to understand the scale of the gang operations and the number of people being caught...
`Russian criminals helped UK drug gangs launder lockdown cash' LINK

I have a question..... Does it do any good if we understand these things?
What got my attention was a small life lesson that cost me £4.80. That's what I paid for guaranteed morning delivery of a parcel by DHL. It came at 15:00. The moral of this story is don't bother paying the premium!

Later at 05:00. See THIS report from Amnesty International.....
Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, the organization said in a landmark new report published today. The report, ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza, documents how, during its military offensive launched in the wake of the deadly Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel on 7 October 2023, Israel has unleashed hell and destruction on Palestinians in Gaza brazenly, continuously and with total impunity. “Amnesty International’s report demonstrates that Israel has carried out acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention, with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza. These acts include killings, causing serious bodily or mental harm and deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction. Month after month, Israel has treated Palestinians in Gaza as a subhuman group unworthy of human rights and dignity, demonstrating its intent to physically destroy them,” said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International.  “Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is genocide. It must stop now. “States that continue to transfer arms to Israel at this time must know they are violating their obligation to prevent genocide and are at risk of becoming complicit in genocide. All states with influence over Israel, particularly key arms suppliers like the USA and Germany, but also other EU member states, the UK and others, must act now to bring Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza to an immediate end.”

Will this statement of the bleeding obvious trigger any action? Don't hold your breath.

See THIS report in the Sun on a dog attack.....
A MAN has been killed after being attacked by a dangerous "fighting dog" as cops charge a woman over the fatal mauling. The 42-year-old victim was rushed to hospital after the horror on Shirley Road, in Stratford, London, at around 4:50am on Wednesday.A woman has been charged with owning a dog dangerously out of control causing injury resulting in death Credit: PA

In the jokes thread there's a cartoon about the `Silly Ministry of Working From Home'. That struck me because I've just read somewhere that 97% of council staff are now working from home. Can that be true? Tim Hartford, where are you?

An update. I've just found the original story in the Telegraph and it's a bit different to the headline I saw...
Councils are allowing staff to work from home despite cutting public services, a survey by The Telegraph has found. Employees at 97 per cent of councils are allowed to work from home at least one day a week, data obtained by The Telegraph suggests. Nearly a third allow staff to spend three days a week at home. Telegraph

The cartoon about civil; servants working from home was triggered by the news report that more are doing this than was thought or expected. Traces of this can be seen in Starmer's recent comments about the Civil Service.

THIS got my attention this morning......
An alternative healer has been jailed for 10 years for the manslaughter of a 71-year-old diabetic woman who stopped taking insulin at his slapping therapy workshop. Danielle Carr-Gomm died in October 2016 while taking part in the Paida Lajin therapy event, which sees patients being slapped or slapping themselves repeatedly. Hongchi Xiao, of Cloudbreak, California, was convicted by a jury in July at Winchester Crown Court of manslaughter by gross negligence after he failed to get medical help for Ms Carr-Gomm at the event in Wiltshire. He was also sentenced to a further five years on extended licence after his time in prison. The judge told Xiao he was "concerned history may repeat itself"
The 61-year-old was extradited for the trial from Australia, where he had previously been prosecuted after a six-year-old boy also died when his parents withdrew his insulin medication after attending the defendant's workshop in Sydney. Mr Justice Bright added Xiao will be liable to be deported to America after serving his sentence.
All I can say is that anybody who falls for alternative crap like this has a brain wired up differently to mine....

THIS caught my attention.....
Since it was legalised in the UK, the number of medicinal cannabis prescriptions has surged. With demand showing no signs of slowing, one company has ambitions to take production of the drug to a new level. The BBC has been given access to the factory on the condition the location remains secret. To enter, we need to prove our identities, go through two secure gates, and finally, pass through a bulletproof door. The security team is ex-military. "We have hundreds of CCTV cameras around the place - all infrared," says James Leavesley, one of the founders of Dalgety. According to the company, this hi-tech facility is the first in the UK where cannabis can be grown, packaged and sold directly to pharmacies from a single location.

Interesting to see what is happening to the walk thru/slip thru from Ellis St to Rainhall Rd. (Barnoldswick Talk - David Whipp). 3 of us attended Rainhall Rd School and our maternal Grandparents owned and lived in a house on Ellis St.

It's being widened to cater for wheelchair users. Drop kerbs are also being installed in the area.

The thing that grabbed me is the fact that my electric kettle is leaking. Good job we have a dry morning, looks like a trip to Garlicks is indicated!

The new kettle which has transformed my life! Sad isn't it but we rely on these small adjuncts to modern life which make things so much easier.

See THIS for a surprising result of a review.....
Victims of child sexual abuse were treated in a heartless, hostile and cruel way by monks on a remote island, a safeguarding review has found. One survivor says the way she has been treated since her time on Caldey Island has made the effects of the abuse "a million times worse". The review said frequent allegations of abuse had been made but not followed up on or reported to police, and the lack of challenge had enabled a monk to abuse children over four decades "in plain sight". Caldey Abbey commissioned the report, and its new abbot apologised for the pain and suffering caused. Rebecca lived on Caldey Island, off the coast of Tenby in Pembrokeshire, for the first five and a half years of her life. The island and all the property on it are owned by a group of Cistercian monks and tens of thousands of tourists visit each year. As well as the monks, there are lay people who live and work there. Between the late 1960s until 1992, a resident monk, Father Thaddeus Kotik, sexually abused children who lived and visited the island, a review said.
There is much more in the article and it reveals a horrifying story of how predatory abuse was condoned by the monks.....

Later....
See THIS BBC report about a new quantum computing chip from Google.
Google has unveiled a new chip which it claims takes five minutes to solve a problem that would currently take the world's fastest super computers ten septillion – or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years – to complete. The chip is the latest development in a field known as quantum computing - which is attempting to use the principles of particle physics to create a new type of mind-bogglingly powerful computer. Google says its new quantum chip, dubbed "Willow", incorporates key "breakthroughs" and "paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer." However experts say Willow is, for now, a largely experimental device, meaning a quantum computer powerful enough to solve a wide range of real-world problems is still years - and billions of dollars - away.
A small cloud on the horizon, 'no bigger than a man's hand'. This could be a lot bigger that AI.......

The fact that despite my disabilities I managed to clean the paths, quite heavy work cutting clumps of grass with the Dutch Hoe....

THIS caught my eye in the BBC news feed....
Police investigating crimes linked to the Post Office Horizon IT scandal are looking at "dozens" of potential suspects, but don't expect trials to begin until 2027. Police are investigating possible crimes by Post Office and Fujitsu employees and external lawyers, following the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of subpostmasters after faulty Horizon software said money was missing from their Post Office branch accounts. Three suspects have already been interviewed under caution and there are plans to interview others next year, according to police. But no one will be charged until officers have read the final report from the separate public inquiry, almost 30 years after concerns were first raised.
I am not holding my breath.... It is in the nature of such matters that they take so long to investigate that the Crown Prosecutors distrust the evidence and say it was all so long ago. It is a disgrace that we can't sanction crimes like this quicker and more effectively.
(If you've failed to pay for your TV licence that's a different matter altogether.... )