
The Daily Tulip — International News From Around The World
Monday 10th July 2017
Good Morning Gentle Reader…. Good Morning my good Friend where ever you are on this little blue planet as I sit and write this morning, and as we each take our allotted journey through space and time.. each of us experiencing life in our own individual way, Yesterday, I experienced happiness as I spent time on the beach with my family and of course Bella was included, the mayor has designated a beach called Perro (DOG) Beach (Which I spoke to you about Last year) and we as a family went to enjoy the ocean together, and boy!!! did Bella have fun interacting with all the beach loving perro’s and their families, swimming in the warm waters of the Mediterranean, rolling in the sand, and being a dog, she had fun and it was infectious.. I smile every time I think about it… Warm again this morning, but what can you expect it’s summer in Spain..
WHO’S A BRIGHT SPARK… TESLA TO BUILD WORLD’S LARGEST LITHIUM ION BATTERY IN AUSTRALIA…. An Australian state will install the world’s largest lithium ion battery in a “historic” deal with electric car firm Tesla and energy company Neoen. The battery will protect South Australia from the kind of energy crisis which famously blacked out the state, Premier Jay Weatherill said. Tesla boss Elon Musk confirmed a much-publicised promise to build it within 100 days, or do it for free. The 100-megawatt (129 megawatt hour) battery should be ready this year. “There is certainly some risk, because this will be largest battery installation in the world by a significant margin,” Mr Musk said in Adelaide on Friday. He added that “the next biggest battery in the world is 30 megawatts”.
The Tesla-built battery, paired with a Neoen wind farm, will operate around the clock and be capable of providing additional power during emergencies, the government said. “It will completely transform the way in which renewable energy is stored, and also stabilise the South Australian network as well as putting downward pressure on prices,” Mr Weatherill said. Mr Musk’s 100-day pledge will begin once an electricity grid interconnection agreement has been signed.
ONE OF AFRICA’S BEST KEPT SECRETS — ITS HISTORY…. Africa has a rich and complex history but there is widespread ignorance of this heritage. A celebrated British historian once said there was only the history of Europeans in Africa. Zeinab Badawi has been asking what is behind this lack of knowledge and looking at the historical record for an African history series on BBC World News.
The Great Pyramid of Giza in Cairo is rightly considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. But travel further south along the River Nile and you will find a thousand pyramids that belonged to the Kingdom of Kush, in what is now Sudan.
Kush was an African superpower and its influence extended to what is now called the Middle East. The kingdom lasted for many hundreds of years and in the eighth Century BC, it conquered Egypt and governed for the best part of a century. What remains of the kingdom is equally impressive. More than 300 of these pyramids are still intact, almost untouched since they were built nearly 3,000 years ago. Read More:
CHINA’S FIRST OPERATIONAL AIRCRAFT CARRIER LIAONING ARRIVES IN HONG KONG…. China’s first operational aircraft carrier Liaoning has arrived in Hong Kong. Its first trip outside mainland China is part of the events marking the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover from Britain to China. Its follows Xi Jinping’s visit last week, his first as Chinese president. During his trip, which was marred by protests, he warned that any challenge to the Beijing central government was “impermissible”. Hong Kong’s political climate has grown tense in recent years with increasing calls for self-determination and even independence. In 2014, Beijing said it would allow direct election of the city’s leader, but only from a list of pre-approved candidates. That led to mass protests — known as the umbrella demanding universal suffrage. Mr Xi’s visit to the city came amid tight police security. Following his departure on Saturday, thousands of people marched in an annual event calling from more democracy.
ASHUTOSH MAHARAJ: FOLLOWERS WIN FIGHT TO KEEP GURU IN FREEZER…. An Indian court has granted permission for the followers of a long-dead spiritual guru to preserve his body in a freezer. Ashutosh Maharaj, founder of the sect Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan (Divine Light Awakening Mission), died of a suspected heart attack in January 2014. But his followers insist he is only meditating deeply, and will one day return to life. They have kept his body in a commercial freezer at his vast ashram in Punjab. The judgement by Punjab and Haryana High Court ends a three-year-old dispute between the guru’s disciples and Dalip Kumar Jha, who claims to be his son.
Mr Jha had sought permission to cremate the guru’s body, in line with Hindu rituals. In rejecting his plea, the court set aside a 2014 judgement that had ordered the guru’s cremation after doctors confirmed him clinically dead. Mr Jha’s lawyer told AFP it was unclear whether the court had agreed with the sect’s argument that its founder was alive.
MS SHEILA MICHAELS: FEMINIST WHO POPULARISED ‘MS’, DIES AGED 78…. Sheila Michaels, an American feminist who brought the honorific “Ms” into mainstream use, has died aged 78. Ms Michaels did not invent the term, but is credited with rescuing it from obscurity after she saw it used in an address, thinking it was a typo. “Ms” did not convey a woman’s marital status, unlike the traditional options “Mrs” or “Miss”. “I had never seen it before: It was kind of arcane knowledge,” she said. Speaking to the New York Times in an interview last year for her own obituary, she said the honorific resonated with her, both as a feminist and as the child of unmarried parents. “[I] was looking for a title for a woman who did not ‘belong’ to a man. There was no place for me,” she told The Guardian newspaper in 2007. “I didn’t belong to my father and I didn’t want to belong to a husband — someone who could tell me what to do.”
Born in St Louis, Missouri, Ms Michaels spent some of her childhood in New York City. She was a lifelong feminist activist, biblical scholar, and collected oral histories of the civil rights movement later in life. In her professional life, she worked as a ghostwriter, editor, and even ran a Japanese restaurant — but her obituary in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch notes her favourite job was being a New York City taxi driver.
Well Gentle Reader I hope you enjoyed our look at the news from around the world this, Monday morning… …
Our Tulips today are Flowers of the African Tulip Tree (Spathodea campanulata) and what a beauty…
A Sincere Thank You for your company and Thank You for your likes and comments I love them and always try to reply, so please keep them coming, it’s always good fun, As is my custom, I will go and get myself another mug of “Colombian” Coffee and wish you a safe Monday 10th July 2017 from my home on the southern coast of Spain, where the blue waters of the Alboran Sea washes the coast of Africa and Europe and the smell of the night blooming Jasmine and Honeysuckle fills the air…and a crazy old guy and his dog Bella go out for a walk at 4:00 am…on the streets of Estepona…
All good stuff….But remember it’s a dangerous world we live in
Be safe out there…
Robert McAngus
