Prompted by Scooploop's quietness of late, I thought I would google about non-posting members of forums, and came across this blog about the different types of members. Warning, it contains rude words: https://bit.ly/3qKo3EN

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Date in the current year: December 10, 2020

International Animal Rights DayEvery year International Animal Rights Day is celebrated on December 10. This observance coincides with the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declared in 1948, and this has been made deliberately.
On December 10, 1948 the UN General Assembly adopted and declared the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to prevent the repetition of World War II and concentration camps. But some years ago activists demanded expansion of the Declaration, stating that animals also have rights not to suffer pain and die because of human activity. At that time the term of speciesism was coined in order to talk about discrimination of the sentient beings due to the species they belong to. Animals can't protect themselves from people, who think that they are superior just because they were born like this.

Observance of International Animal Rights Day draws public attention to the issues of speciesism and discrimination. Annually numerous campaigns are organized on December 10 in order to recognize animal rights, stop deliberate cruelty and killing animals.

There's also a number of other days dedicated to protection of animals. These are World Animal Day, World Day for Laboratory Animals and International Homeless Animals Day.

Norfolk News. Outbreak of bird flu on two big farms. Have you heard about any outbreaks in your area?

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/nigella-lawson-baffles-viewers-weird-23134801

Scam --- phone number: 07593894296 - Who called me?
A lady called Mrs k Adams messaged me and said 'a new payee has been added to you HSBC mobile banking . If this was NOT you then please press the website below'

Be careful and never "press on the website".

I honestly can not see why this post was closed .

https://www.scooploop.com/thread/will-you-accept-the-vaccine-inoculation-when-its-offered

I certainly will, if it's good enough for the Queen, it's good enough for us all!

I was extremely embarrassed to be confronted by this advert; where will it end?

Edward lighting the Christmas star, Pip more interested in the baby Jesus!

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Found out last night an old friend [ boyfriend at 16] has died from the virus, last in touch a couple of months ago.
He was in hospital for a month and no visitors allowed, RIp Phil [ Rabbit].

International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development Date in the current year: December 5, 2020

International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social DevelopmentInternational Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development is observed on the international level every year on December 5. This day was designated by the United Nations General Assembly in 1985 to encourage spreading the information about volunteering for economic and social development.
International Volunteer Day is celebrated to draw public attention to the work that volunteers do and their contribution to the achievement of special goals, called the Millennium Development Goals. Volunteers around the world make it possible to combat poverty, environmental degradation, illiteracy, hunger, diseases and discrimination against women. Thanks to their work numerous foundations, faith groups, media, sports and recreational organizations are often involved in the volunteering.

The United Nations Volunteers annually awards the Online Volunteering Award to recognize the contributions of online volunteers towards achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. This program also demonstrates the efficiency of the work that volunteers do.

The Coronavirus injection plan has changed. Instead of all front line staff first they starting with the over 80tis mentioning if the front line staff is present they will not be refused.

Does this mean: We see first how the more vulnerable get on, might drop dead.

Barking and Dagenham Council certainly isn’t afraid of trying new ways to stop people dumping and fly tipping on the borough’s streets and starting from this week residents will see the council’s ‘Don’t be a tosser’ campaign on council vehicles.

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Philip Green’s company Arcadia - that owns high street chains like Topshop and Dorothy Perkins - has collapsed and gone into administration. 13,000 long-serving employees look set to lose their jobs. And thousands of staff pensions are at risk.

MPs and trade unions are calling on the boss Philip Green to use his vast £930 million personal fortune to plug the £350 million shortfall in the company’s pension scheme. So thousands of hardworking employees don’t lose out on the retirement income they deserve.

All that’s missing is the voice of the public - potential customers he’ll want to keep on side. Imagine if hundreds of thousands of us come together to demand Philip Green does the right thing and plugs his company’s pension shortfall. It could be enough to make him act.

So will you sign the petition calling on Arcadia boss Philip Green to use his personal fortune to make sure his employees’s pensions don’t suffer?

https://bit.ly/39qhCR4

World Computer Literacy Day Date in the current year: December 2, 2020

World Computer Literacy DayWorld Computer Literacy Day is observed annually on December 2. It was originally launched by NIIT, an Indian skills and talent development company, in 2001.
NIIT is an abbreviation for National Institute of Information Technology. The company was established in 1981 by Rajendra Singh Pawar and Vijay K. Thadani, two alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi. They conceived a franchising model in IT education, setting up nine educational centers by 1987. Currently, NIIT Limited offers learning management and training delivery solutions, while its subsidiary NIIT Technologies offers IT, business consulting and outsourcing services.

NIIT launched World Computer Literacy Day to mark its 20th anniversary, and in response to research suggesting that the majority of computer users around the world were male. Although the situation has changed since then, World Computer Literacy Day still strives to encourage the development of computer and technological skills among women and children in India.

Among its other goals are to celebrate computers and their role in people’s lives, improve IT education, and raise awareness of the importance of improving digital literacy in underserved communities worldwide.

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Does it end tonight or tomorrow night?

Start your day laughing (I hope the whole video plays)

is a popular phrase used by sport commentators when sports people start pushing and shoving each other but no punches are thrown Nobody watching gets offended. Until now.

A BBC radio commentator for BBC Lincolnshire has been sacked after complaints by woke llisteners. Describing an incident during the Lincoln v Accrington Stanley game, he said, "the players have their handbags out. One is a real drama queen and should be wearing a skirt".

https://www.facebook.com/photographersorensolkaer/videos/648657209136298

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can open next week but can we have home hairdressers?

Recent comments have now got underneath them other posts/comments from the same poster.
If this is a new thing I don't like it because they are already seen posts.

1. D.C. has been asked to switch on the Christmas Lights - WHERE?

2. What is the TOPMOST ITEM on D.C.s CHRISTMAS LETTER TO SANTA?

Just signed the petition "Give NHS staff free hospital parking" and wanted to ask if you could add your name too.
When visiting hospital I would be happier to pay the parking charges if hospitals would benefit but in most cases some big company lining their pockets.
To pay for parking at your work place is the last straw.
So please sign.

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/give-nhs-staff-free-hospital-parking?bucket=email-blast-20_11_2020_segwidernhspark&share=a875bc6d-5ce8-4763-aae0-5e6f00d271dc&source=&utm_campaign=20_11_2020_segwidernhspark&utm_source=

Covid vaccines could save millions of lives -- but there's a catch.
The vaccines are owned by Big Pharma giants and they can’t produce enough for everyone fast -- the world's richest countries have already bought most of the doses, leaving poorer countries facing a massive shortfall.
But it doesn't have to be like this. In days, governments will vote on a global plan to suspend all patents for Covid-19 vaccines, allowing production to be massively scaled up. Even the poorest could have access!
Let's make it happen! Add your name to demand vaccines for all, starting by scrapping the patents, and then pass this on -- when we reach 1 million signatures, Avaaz will deliver our call to the crucial summit:
Sign now: Share the vaccine with the world!
Pharma giants argue they need patents to reward their research with exclusive profits. But these vaccines were developed with billions of dollars of public money, and countless lives hang in the balance.
Patents must be lifted -- and it's happened before. In 2001, after years of public pressure, the countries of the world agreed to free HIV/Aids treatments from patents, allowing affordable, generic versions to be made, saving millions of lives. Now we must do it again.
India and South Africa, supported by many developing nations, have just tabled an emergency proposal at the World Trade Organisation to temporarily suspend the patents for Covid-related vaccines and treatments, until the pandemic is over.
Governments will vote in days - so let’s create a huge wave of public support to help pass the emergency proposal, and make Covid treatments available to everyone! Add your name and share with your friends:
Sign now: Share the vaccine with the world!
Throughout the pandemic, our movement has fought for those hit hardest. We’ve pushed for global cooperation and debt relief, and donated millions to help the most vulnerable. Now, with vaccines arriving in record time, let's show up again to ensure no one is left behind. We have a once-in-a-life opportunity to see the world coming together to fight for one shared goal. Let's grab it!
With hope and determination,
Spyro, Risalat, Marie, Anneke, Patricia, Muriel, Marta, Luis and the whole Avaaz team

Hope links works this time.

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/share_the_covid_vaccine/?tfLKjlb&v=501610804&cl=17763642212&_checksum=e0d1a318c6dc8613592f7f2b9325dd9dc93e8e1ca0443f81d9151c47e319af0a

Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds is such a light weight compared with Rishi Sunak. Why do labour think by having a person with no commercial experience they can do the job.

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If you are a capable user of iPhones/iPads/Macs/Android tablets etc, please come and join the group to help other members, or get help yourself. Help is currently needed on Secret Facebook groups, Apple laptop and smart light bulbs: https://www.scooploop.com/groups/it-non-techie-help

Pip's not up yet! Edward is enjoying some fresh mango for breakfast, he's in need of something sweet after his All-bran!!

At present there is a formula.
Fouling an opposition player once is noted by the referee.

The offender stays on the pitch.

Commit another bad foul on an opposition player, and the same offender gets a yellow card, but stays on the pitch.
[ and may be substituted so another team member can come on and carry on fouling ].

Suggestion:

Any football player receiving a yellow card receives a 10 minute sending off to the "sin bin" and may not be substituted.

So once he/she comes back on, one more foul and he/she is sent off.

“Cricket is a gentlemen’s game played by gentlemen,

Football is a gentlemen’s game played by thugs,

Rugby Union is a thug’s game played by gentlemen,

And Rugby League is a thug’s game played by thugs.”

Rules of this post are no biting, no fighting...please.

The above quote was, after all, made humorously.

And insights into Netball, Hockey, Snooker and the rest.

When did you play? Were you any good or rubbish!

World Television Day Date in the current year: November 21, 2020

World Television DayWorld Television Day is one of the UN international observances. It is celebrated by all member states on November 21.
The date of the celebration was chosen to commemorate the first World Television Forum, that was held on November 21-22, 1996. The leading and the most influential representatives of the mass media participated in the forum, that was organized by the UN. They gathered to discuss the increasing importance of the television in the modern world and the possible ways of strengthening their cooperation in this sphere.

The UN calls on member states to organize the appropriate events to celebrate this day. One of UN's proposition was exchanging the TV programs, dedicated to the problems of safety, peace, development and cultural education. Television shouldn't become the means of spreading of the inhumane materials, materials about intolerance and stereotypes. Television has a big potential role in sharpening the focus on many major issues, that is why initiation, as well as celebration of this day, is an important step towards its implementation.

This sounds hopeful for those whose immune system is compromised.
https://apple.news/AWMWozGofQS-SYPjGuKb7ww

A senior manager shouts and swears at staff.
Previous incidents have brought about good people leaving the company.

Should the Managing Director sack the manager on the spot?

If not, why not?

Should both the MD and the senior manager be fired by the shareholders, as unfit to run the organisation?

Monika Wisniewska, suggests that

“The vaccine should be tested on politicians first. If they survive, the vaccine maybe is safe.

If they don’t, then the country is safe”.

Your views please.

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no party will win the next election with that policy

What has changed as he apologised.

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I’ve got an exciting update. The government has accepted changes that will make it harder to sign trade deals that harm our food and animal welfare standards. [1] It’s a step in the right direction in protecting the quality of the food on our plates and our farmers.

Here’s a summary of what’s changed:
The newly formed Trade and Agriculture Commission - a group set up to advise the government on how trade will affect our farmers and the food we eat - has been given legal status. This means its recommendations will hold more sway. [2]
The Commission will be required to produce a report to MPs on how any new trade deal will affect our food and animal welfare standards. This will arm MPs with more information to decide whether to debate or even block any trade deals that threaten these things. [3]
The government has vowed not to 'negotiate to remove that ban [on chlorinated chicken and hormone-injected beef] in a trade deal' - however they haven’t yet backed this up with legal protections. [4]

By working together in our hundreds of thousands, we were able to get the government to introduce better protections for our food and animal welfare standards. So I wanted to take a moment to celebrate all of the work we’ve done together to help make this happen:

Hundreds of thousands of us signed petitions and open letters to Boris Johnson and key government ministers telling them to protect our food and animal welfare standards in trade deals with countries like the USA [5]
Tens of thousands of us got in touch with our MPs, telling them to show up to important votes in Parliament and vote to support protections in law
Thousands of us chipped in for a legal briefing to MPs proving why our food and animal welfare standards are at risk
We paid for digital ad campaigns in major newspapers telling Boris Johnson not to break his promise to ban chlorinated chicken in trade deals
Together our pressure forced 4 major UK supermarket chains - Sainsbury’s, Aldi, Asda and the Coop - to ban chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated beef from their stores [6]

This news is a positive sign the government is listening to the concerns of the public: of 38 Degrees members like you, farmers, consumer and agricultural groups, and food experts who've all been working to make sure our food and animal welfare standards are properly protected in trade deals.

We'll still need to be on the lookout: to make sure that our farmers will never be undercut by lower quality imported food, and products like chicken dunked in chlorine never end up in our supermarkets, because of each new trade deal. But I'm proud of what we've achieved together so far - and I hope you are too.

Jess and the 38 Degrees team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLS4qfapZ2w
The truth: https://observers.france24.com/en/20201021-debunked-viral-PSA-video-1956-coronavirus-fake-news

Watched the Gadget Show.
Liked the parcel box, fixed to an outside wall and operated by mobile phone.
Nice xmas present price £199.00
The delivery driver voted for it.

Spent quite a time with my on-line order, also do some shopping for a neighbour. As soon as I choose one item it was not available. Also happened with milk. Not so long ago read that farmers can not sell their milk.
Is it a question of supermarkets offering price below price producing the goods? or is there a shortage.
One can only freeze so many bottles so I discard bulge buying.

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International Day for Tolerance Date in the current year: November 16, 2020

International Day for ToleranceInternational Day for Tolerance is a United Nations observance held on November 16. It was officially established by UNESCO in 1995 to raise awareness of the dangers of intolerance. In 1996, the UN General Assembly invited the Member States to observe the day.
The date was chosen to commemorate the Declaration of Principles on Tolerance issued by UNESCO on November 16, 1995. Besides, the Constitution of UNESCO was introduced and signed on this day in 1945. The Declaration states that tolerance is neither indifference no indulgence. Tolerance means respecting and appreciating the rich variety of the world's cultures, forms of expression and ways of being human.

People of the world are naturally diverse, and tolerance is the only way to ensure the survival of mixed communities across the globe. Tolerance lies in recognition of the fundamental freedoms and universal human rights. Not only is it a moral duty but also a political and legal requirement for states, groups and individuals.

International Day for Tolerance is marked with numerous events aimed to educate people about tolerance and raise awareness of the importance of fighting intolerance. According to UNESCO, fighting intolerance requires law, education, access to information, individual awareness, and local solutions.

https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/18869166.orpington-plays-central-role-john-lewis-christmas-ad/?ref=fbshr