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12pm - 4:30pm
THIRTY ONE Tasting Rooms / Sept 7-30
at The Tasting Rooms inside the Wineries of Santa Clara Valley https://www.sfstation.com/the-tasting-rooms-inside-the-wineries-of-santa-clara-valley-b38997744 (12pm - 4:30pm) Saratoga, Morgan Hill, San Martin, Gilroy, Hollister
7pm doors, 8pm performances, 10pm music
The Comedy Cypher (presented by Au Lounge)
at AU Lounge https://www.sfstation.com/au-lounge-b38992030 (7pm doors, 8pm performances, 10pm m)... 2430 Broadway
Bay Dinner Cruise with Hornblower
at Hornblower Cruises & Events - Pier 3 https://www.sfstation.com/hornblower-cruises-and-events-pier-3-b11576 (6:30pm-9:30pm) Pier 3
2PM and 7:30PM
The Phantom Of The Opera - SF Orpheum
at Orpheum Theatre https://www.sfstation.com/orpheum-theatre-b845 (2PM and 7:30PM) 1192 Market Street
2PM and 8PM
On Your Feet - Golden Gate Theatre
at Golden Gate Theatre https://www.sfstation.com/golden-gate-theatre-b841 (2PM and 8PM) 1 Taylor St
Metallica, Janet Jackson to Headline Ninth Annual The Concert for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals
at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium https://www.sfstation.com/bill-graham-civic-auditorium-b3877 (8:00 PM) 99 Grove Street
All Killa No Filla
at Cobb's Comedy Club https://www.sfstation.com/cobbs-comedy-club-b1732 (08:00 PM) 915 Columbus Avenue
7pm - 10 pm
MATATU: Saul Williams @ Grand Lake
at Grand Lake Theater https://www.sfstation.com/grand-lake-theater-b4042 (7pm - 10 pm) 3200 Grand Ave
at August Hall https://www.sfstation.com/august-hall-b2909 (08:30 PM) 420 Mason Street
Bookswap at The Bindery: Banned Books Edition
at The Bindery https://www.sfstation.com/the-bindery-b38991148 (7:00-9:00pm) 1727 Haight Street
The Presets
at The Regency Ballroom https://www.sfstation.com/the-regency-ballroom-b422 (9:30pm) 1290 Sutter Street
Eleanor Friedberger
at The Chapel https://www.sfstation.com/the-chapel-b38598992 (08:00 PM) 777 Valencia Street
BEAK (Album Release), Bad Luck, Grex - Geomancy Label Launch
at Elbo Room Jack London https://www.sfstation.com/elbo-room-jack-london-b38994889 (9:00pm) 311 Broadway
SF Comedy Cellar: This is the end
at The Beer Basement - Ales Unlimited https://www.sfstation.com/the-beer-basement-ales-unlimited-b38985604 (08:00 PM) 222 Hyde Street
Paint Night At Zeppelin
at Hotel Zeppelin https://www.sfstation.com/hotel-zeppelin-b24999521 (06:00 PM) 545 Post Street
Painting & Vino Classes at Hotel Zeppelin's Rambler
at Rambler https://www.sfstation.com/rambler-b1357 (3:00 pm - 9:00 pm) 545 Post St
You're invited to the Le Conte Neighborhood Association meeting
at The Art House Gallery & Cultural Center https://www.sfstation.com/the-art-house-gallery-and-cultural-center-b24551911 (7-9PM) 2905 Shattuck Avenue
Sep 12-Nov 15, Sun-Thurs, 12-5PM
Project Space Exhibitions
at Headlands Center for the Arts https://www.sfstation.com/headlands-center-for-the-arts-b598 (Sep 12-Nov 15, Sun-Thurs, 12-5PM) 944 Fort Barry
Take Only Memories/Leave Only Footprints
at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts https://www.sfstation.com/mcevoy-foundation-for-the-arts-b38993583 (September 21, 2018 - January 19, 20)... 1150 25th Street
Polythene Pam @ Milk Bar!
at Milk Bar SF https://www.sfstation.com/milk-bar-sf-b2337 (10:00pm) 1840 Haight Street
Open Mic Wednesday at Harvest on Geary
at Urbana on Geary https://www.sfstation.com/urbana-on-geary-b38988346 (06:00 PM) 4811 Geary Boulevard
Wednesday Night Drawing Series 6-8pm *Fall*
at ARCH Art and Drafting Supply https://www.sfstation.com/arch-art-and-drafting-supply-b2860 (07:00 PM) 10 Carolina Street
Makers' Month at GGBCsf.org
at Marines' Memorial Club & Hotel https://www.sfstation.com/marines-memorial-club-and-hotel-b1953 (07:00 AM) 609 Sutter Street
Mindfulness and Parenting by Connection
at Natural Resources https://www.sfstation.com/natural-resources-b1467831 (10:30 AM) 1367 Valencia Street
SB Bryant Fun Run
at Sports Basement - Potrero Hill https://www.sfstation.com/sports-basement-potrero-hill-b20325801 (06:30 PM) 1590 Bryant Street
Cellspace Alternative Milonga Wednesdays
at SOMArts Cultural Center https://www.sfstation.com/somarts-cultural-center-b413 (08:10 PM) 934 Brannan Street
SB Presidio Fun Run hosted by San Francisco Road Runners Club
at Sports Basement - Presidio https://www.sfstation.com/sports-basement-presidio-b3897 (06:30 PM) 610 Old Mason Street
Community Yoga at Westfield San Francisco Centre
at Westfield San Francisco Centre https://www.sfstation.com/westfield-san-francisco-centre-b3052 (05:30 PM) 845 Market Street
Classical Workshop: Weekly Late Night Live Classical Music + Cocktails
at Monroe https://www.sfstation.com/monroe-b24898361 (09:00 PM) 473 Broadway
Networking at The View Lounge
at The View Lounge https://www.sfstation.com/the-view-lounge-b38983091 (06:30 PM) 780 Mission Street
11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Free-For-All: A Free Public Performance
at Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (JCCSF) https://www.sfstation.com/jewish-community-center-of-san-francisco-jccsf-b3886 (11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.) 3200 California St
Buy Tickets | FREE
ROYALE-TY CHECK
at The Royale https://www.sfstation.com/the-royale-b38984144 (08:00 PM) 800 Post St
Rx: A Graphic Memoir: A Conversation with Rachel Lindsay and Ivy Tiegel
at California Institute of Integral Studies - CIIS https://www.sfstation.com/california-institute-of-integral-studies-ciis-b237299 (07:00 PM) 1453 Mission Street
MindTravel SilentHike Across the Golden Gate Bridge
at Golden Gate Bridge https://www.sfstation.com/golden-gate-bridge-b38973321 (06:00 PM) Golden Gate Bridge
School Board Candidate Forum
at African American Art and Culture Complex https://www.sfstation.com/african-american-art-and-culture-complex-b3571 (06:00 PM) 762 Fulton Street
Bay Area Now 8
at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) https://www.sfstation.com/yerba-buena-center-for-the-arts-ybca-b353 (11am - 6pm) 701 Mission Street
Curiously Grim: The Art of Eric Kelly
at Art Works Downtown https://www.sfstation.com/art-works-downtown-b1252671 (10 am - 5 pm) 1337 4th Street
Trace Evidence: A Cross-Cultural Visual Dialogue on Climate Change
at Minnesota Street Project https://www.sfstation.com/minnesota-street-project-b257753 (9AM - 6PM) 1275 Minnesota Street
Greenbar Distillery and The Burrito Project Partner this September to Help Feed the Hungry
at Thee Parkside https://www.sfstation.com/thee-parkside-b24507831 (all day) 1600 17th Street
Tesla Factory Tour, exclusive!
at Tesla Factory https://www.sfstation.com/tesla-factory-b38997884 (1:30pm) 45500 Fremont Blvd


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Monsanto: More testing will follow GM maize release in SA
The new drought-tolerant maize trait, MON 87460, has been approved by the Executive Council of the GMO Act for conditional general release in the Republic...
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Outrage greets Mosanto GM maize deal in South Africa
Non-governmental and farmer organisations from South Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique, Kenya and Uganda have condemned the go-ahead given by the South African GMO authorities for Monsanto...
Civil society, farmers oppose US human trials of Uganda-bound 'super banana'
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), a Pan African platform comprising civil society networks and farmer organisations working towards food sovereignty in...
Michael Simire - December 10, 2014
'Africa can feed Africa without GMOs'
Experts at the Africa Climate Change conference in Marrakech, Morocco have restated Africa's capacity to feed itself now and in the future without genetically...
Michael Simire - October 10, 2014
'How GM foods advocates promote poverty, dependency in Africa'
The recent article, GM scaremongering in Africa is disarming the fight against poverty, published in the Guardian's PovertyMatters Blog on 21 July 2014, is...
Michael Simire - July 27, 2014
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At 33, Zik was at the forefront of anti-colonial nationalism. At the age of 30, Anthony Enahoro initiated the...
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On January 20, 2023, the County of Vihiga in Western Kenya signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with The...
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A multi-disciplinary group of experts from Ghana and Switzerland is undertaking a study to develop new methods to address...
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News ReleasesCategory| December 5, 2021
Hilton Effect Foundation Announces 2021 Hilton Effect Grants, Pledges $1.5 Million to Organizations
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14 grants awarded to organizations supporting groups disproportionately impacted by COVID‑19 and climate change worldwide
MCLEAN, Va. - The Hilton Effect Foundation announced today its 2021 Hilton Effect grantees, comprising multi-dimensional organizations hyper-focused on restoring and strengthening communities impacted by two of the biggest crises of the modern era: the COVID-19 pandemic and the increasing threat of climate change. Serving as Hilton's primary philanthropic arm, the Hilton Effect Foundation has awarded $1.5 million through its 2021 Hilton Effect Grants to organizations driving sustainable change across the globe.
"The Hilton Effect Foundation exists to help build resiliency and a sense of community when and where it is needed most," said Kristin Campbell, executive vice president, general counsel & chief ESG officer. "Against the backdrop of the last two years, and across 2021 especially, people and organizations around the world have come together in incredible ways to support one another and to drive real progress in addressing major global challenges. Our grantees are doing meaningful work to create solutions that restore and strengthen our communities for future generations of travelers, and it is our honor to support their efforts."
Hilton established the Hilton Effect Foundation on the belief that it can create a "better world to travel" by investing in the people and organizations that are fostering change. The organizations were selected based on their positive impact on the environment or providing opportunities for communities in travel destinations around the world.
The combined pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change have had a dramatic effect on people around the world, especially in underserved areas. These modern world crises are catalysts for hunger, unemployment, lack of clean water and other health and societal issues. Foundation grants were awarded to the following organizations:
Clean the World (United States): Providing mobile hot shower units for homeless individuals to improve their health, wellness, and ability to find employment
Grid Alternatives (United States): Creating solar energy projects and solutions for low-income families
Team Rubicon (United States): Supporting displaced Afghan refugees and families that don't have access to critical resources and lifelines
The Memorial Foundation (United States): Supporting the next generation of social justice leaders by teaching leadership and advocacy skills, personal development, community volunteerism and instilling Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s vision for our shared humanity
The Nature Conservancy (Ecuador): Working with indigenous communities in the Pastaza province to promote the cultivation of two native fish species and to train local communities to produce their own food to reduce the dependence on commercial products
Direct Relief (Various countries in the Middle East): Delivering medical supplies and other essential items to support local health systems
Lebanese Food Bank (Lebanon): Providing food and security for Lebanese citizens after their country was excessively affected by the pandemic and its ongoing economic crisis
Springboard (United Kingdom): Creating opportunities for young people as well as a community hit hard by drops in tourism due to the pandemic
WaterAid (Tanzania and South Africa): Providing clean water solutions and empowering women to be actively included in projects to best meet the needs of their communities
Rise Against Hunger (Philippines): Building organic community farms in urban areas dedicated to alleviating hunger through sustainable agriculture
The Bread & Butter Project (Australia): Supporting better livelihood opportunities for asylum seekers and refugees through on-the-job training and employment readiness support
The Nature Conservancy (China): Creating renewable energy project for China Yunnan's rural villages — includes energy-saving stoves, solar water heaters and other means
Sungai Watch (Indonesia): A community river cleanup organization that has the mission to protect waterways, starting in Indonesia
To learn more about the Hilton Effect Foundation and this year's grantees please visit HiltonEffect.org.
About Hilton Effect Foundation
The Hilton Effect Foundation is Hilton's primary international philanthropic arm. The Foundation is a nonprofit established in the U.S. and is a registered 501(c)3 charitable organization. The Foundation awards grants, in alignment with Hilton's Travel with Purpose 2030 Goals, that have a positive impact on travel destinations around the world. Foundation grants are awarded throughout the year in accordance with tax and legal requirements. Learn more about the Hilton Effect Foundation at HiltonEffect.org.


Summer is almost here, and more San Diego residents are using the warmer months to enjoy boating trips on various bodies of water in Southern California. However, boating accidents can result in serious and fatal injuries. Indeed, according to a recent article in the Havasu News-Herald, a 28-year-old man sustained severe injuries in a boat propeller accident in Lake Havasu's Copper Canyon. Officers from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's office have reported that the victim is now in stable condition, but his injuries could have been life-threatening ones.
Bengard emphasized that the victim was lucky that his injuries weren't worse. To be sure, suffering a severed artery in the leg could have led to significant—and potentially life-threatening—blood loss. The deputy described the accident as "the most serious his agency responded to" over the recent Memorial Day weekend.
Just a couple of weeks after the serious accident on Lake Havasu, the Havasu News-Herald reported another boat propeller accident on the lake near Copper Canyon. This time, a 24-year-old man suffered life-threatening injuries to his chest after coming into contact with a boat propeller. A fire department boat reportedly brought the victim to Havasu Regional Medical Center where emergency responders were able to "bring the victim into stable condition." He will require further treatment and transfer to a hospital in Las Vegas.
More than 4,000 boating accidents occurred, which resulted in 2,620 injuries and 560 fatalities.
The boating accident fatality rate has actually decreased from previous years, showing a 13 percent decrease between 2012 and 2013. The total number of accidents also decreased by 10 percent.
Nearly 80 percent of fatal boating accidents were classified as drownings, and 84 percent of those victims weren't wearing life jackets.
Small boats are most frequently involved in serious accidents. To be sure, eight of every 10 drowning accidents occurred on a boat fewer than 21 feet.
The five primary causes for boating accidents include operator inattention, operator inexperience, improper lookout, speeding, and machinery failure.
If you or someone you loved has been injured in a boating accident in Southern California, you should discuss your case with an experienced San Diego accident attorney as soon as possible. Contact the Walton Law Firm today to learn more about how we can help with your case.


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Hue Royal Cuisine Delights
Hue Royal Cuisine Delights - 3 Days
Vietnam · Private Tour · 3 Days
Leaf Steamed Cake
Food Tour with Ms. Nhu Huy
Thien Mu Pagoda, Hue
Soak in Vietnam's royal past in its former Imperial capital of Hue. Enjoy a meal at the former home of a princess, sample street food and cook with one of the gurus of Vietnamese cuisine: celebrity chef Nhu Huy.
Day 1 - Hue
Upon arrival at Phu Bai Airport, your guide will come to meet you up and transfer you to hotel.
Hue garden houses
Garden houses are an important heritage of the lives of former aristocrats in Hue as most garden houses have a connection with the Imperial Court. Some are the descendants of royalty or mandarins; others received patronage from the royal family. Visit An Hien garden house, situated 30 minutes out of town and originally the residence of Emperor Duc Duc's 18th daughter. The house is an excellent example of traditional Vietnamese architecture. Massive pillars support a large tiled roof, with the family altar in the middle. A large rectangular lily-pond separates a screen, designed to keep out evil spirits, and the house.
Dinner at Princess Ngoc Son's former home
Another classic example of a garden house is the former home of Princess Ngoc Son, a classic structure with three bays and two wings. The highlight is a small artificial rock garden. The present owner also has a fascinating collection of artifacts and mementos from the days of the former Royal Empire. Princess Ngoc Son was a daughter of Emperor Dong Khanh - when she married, her father granted her the land to build a home. Today, it is one of the best garden houses and has been maintained largely in its original form. The house is a classic structure with three bays and two wings. The highlight is a small artificial rock garden. The present owner also has a fascinating collection of artifacts and mementos from the days of the former Royal Empire. Enjoy a lunch of traditional Hue specialties prepared by the family at their historical home while you unearth Hue's fascinating past.
La Residence Hue Hotel & Spa
Cooking class with celebrity chef Nhu Huy
After breakfast, our guide will meet you at hotel and take you to the venue for this class. To describe about this celebrated gastronomy artisan, there are simply not enough words. She is well-known in the country as well as in UK, France, Belgium, and the rest of Europe. Being the head of professional cooking department in several Universities, author of several cooking books, cuisine presenter for Vietnam and London television and receiving the most precious prize of most talented Vietnamese Woman, Ms. Nhu Huy has great culinary treasures to share with you. What better way to experience a fascinating culinary tour than to have the artisan take you out for a stroll around the market to enjoy the tantalizing sights, smells and flavors of local produce? Then get to her home for a private hands-on cooking class of traditional Hue cuisine. Share her life and experiences, and enjoy what dishes you have made.
Cyclo city tour of Imperial Citadel & Thien Mu Pagoda
Hue served as an imperial capital to the Nguyen Lords, a feudal dynasty which reigned from the 17th to the 19th century. With splendid emperors' tombs, ancient pagodas and the remains of the Citadel, the city retains its royal charm. Start from your hotel with a 10-minute cyclo ride from your hotel to the Imperial Citadel, a UNESCO listed site. Enter through the towering main gate and you will appreciate the magnificent architecture and gardens while your guide explains about the events and the intrigue of the former royal court. Despite being bombed heavily, there are some incredibly well preserved sections still intact and others which are being lovingly restored. From there, your driver will pick you up and drive to visit Thien Mu pagoda, Hue's best-preserved religious monument. Standing on the riverbank with its seven-storey tower, the pagoda is a sight to behold.
Then head to a local market to observe the evening trading activities. Your guide will walk with you through the local streets and stop at the food stores to taste some specially selected traditional street food such as rice noodle soup with fish, Hue cakes, grilled pork chop, and Hue hot and spicy noodles soup - one of the most typical cuisines of Hue. You will also have an opportunity to taste another important branch of Hue's cuisine, vegetarian dishes, which are inherited from a long and strong Buddhist background in the area. Wrap up your interesting food tour with a sampling of Hue-style desserts such as sweet soups, yogurt or Sugarcane juice. Transfer back to your hotel later in the evening
Hue traditional culinary tasting
Hue is famous not only for the thousand-year- old history but also for its diverse traditional food culture. Today immerse yourselves in this interesting culinary tasting tour around Hue city. Your first stop will be at Me Xung sweets workshop. Me Xung is a perfect combination of sesame, crushed peanuts and handmade malt, and is one of Hue's famous desserts. Then drive to Ba Do's house to learn how to make some other Hue's specialties such as banh beo (small steamed rice cake), banh nam (steamed rice cake wrapped in banana leaves), banh bot loc (clear shrimp and pork dumpling). Enjoy the dishes you have made while chatting with the owner to understand more about Hue's food culture. Complete your day by tasting Hue royal tea. Once served only to the Royal family in ancient times, royal tea has now become widely enjoyed throughout the country. The royal tea includes a variety of herbs such as: artichoke, chrysanthemum, sweet grass, kudzu, ginseng, apple, liquorice, jasmine, and more. Learn from the host who will explain the benefits of drinking royal tea, and learn how make a cup of royal tea yourself before returning your hotel.
Then you have time for free at leisure until your transfer to the airport for your flight back home.
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5 Common Environmental Hazards in the Workplace
No matter how small or large, every employer needs to create a safe working environment. This obligation not only stands as a moral imperative and a legal obligation but also makes financial sense.
Thanks to efforts by government agencies like the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the U.S. has made considerable strides in workplace safety over the last few decades. Since 1970, the nation has seen the daily workplace fatalities drop from 38 to 14, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Additionally, worker injuries and illnesses have gone down, from 10.9 incidents per 100 workers in 1972, to 2.8 incidents per 100 workers in 2017, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
The nature of certain industries makes them particularly vulnerable to incidents. Construction, for example, accounts for 1 in 5 worker deaths in the private sector. Other vulnerable industries include transportation, manufacturing, health care and warehousing.
Whether safety incidents result from falls or overexertion, they cost industries over a billion dollars a week, according to a recent study by Liberty Mutual. This is in addition to potential legal expenses. However, organizations can protect employees from environmental hazards in the workplace by taking strategic precautions that address air circulation, slips and trips, ergonomic hazards, natural disasters, and electrical safety.
What Is Environmental Health?
Environmental health refers to limiting health hazards in the workplace. This involves examining an environment to identify potentially hazardous agents and putting measures in place that protect workers.
Types of Hazards
In a work environment, employees can face numerous health risks, including those outlined in the following sections.
Biological hazards come from organisms, including people, animals and plants, and threaten human health. Examples of biological hazards include mold, sewage, blood and bodily fluids. These dangers can result in diseases and allergic reactions and limit employees' ability to carry out their work.
Chemicals can be toxic, corrosive, flammable and combustible. As such, they can pose health risks to workers and become hazards if workers inhale, ingest or absorb them through their skin. Chemical hazards can cause acute harm, such as burns, irritation and vomiting, or create chronic health issues, such as asthma, liver damage and cancer.
Physical hazards include activities or natural substances in a work environment that pose health risks. Extreme temperatures, poor air quality, excessive noise and radiation in the workplace can all harm workers, potentially causing respiratory problems, hearing loss and cancer, among other problems.
The Dual Purpose of Environmental Health
Environmental health focuses on preventing illness and injury in a workplace, but it also strives to promote worker health and well-being. Organizations can create opportunities for workers to practice healthy behaviors. For example, by providing a pleasant break room or a cafeteria serving nutritious food, a business can encourage healthy social interactions and eating habits for its employees.
Some businesses have fitness centers to help employees stay physically active. Others have bulletin boards that post information about wellness programs and other information that promotes health. These efforts can not only build morale but also reduce poor health that can affect productivity.
The Role of Safety Managers
Those charged with mitigating the effects of environmental hazards in workplaces engage in the following:
To locate workplace dangers and assess their risks, safety professionals examine the materials in a work environment, such as cleaning supplies and equipment, and the safety of the work environment itself. They consider questions such as:
Are there chemicals that need special handling?
Does a workspace have proper ventilation?
Can workers exit safely and quickly?
After measuring and sampling materials in a work environment or investigating the characteristics of a work environment, safety professionals must interpret the data collected. In this way, they can gauge the risks and prepare reports or summaries of their findings. Their analysis involves using scientific evidence to determine how the environment can affect workers' health.
Following analysis, safety experts develop protective interventions that prevent health hazards. This involves establishing guidelines, procedures and policies that control hazards. It also involves creating educational materials and communicating with workers about how to stay safe.
The Importance of Air Circulation
Air quality affects employees' comfort and health. Several factors can impact air quality, such as humidity level, lack of outside air, poorly controlled temperatures and remodeling projects. Additionally, air contaminants, including fumes from cleaning supplies, pesticides or dust from construction, affect air quality.
Poor indoor air quality has been linked to:
Irritation of eyes, skin and nose
Poor concentration
Air circulation plays a key role in air quality. Without proper circulation irritants remain in the air. However, proper air circulation can help eliminate the contaminants that lead to health problems.
Another potential danger of poor air circulation in a workplace includes easier disease transmission. Ventilation helps remove exhaled airborne bacteria and viruses from the air and reduce the risk of transmitting airborne diseases from long range. This has become of vital importance with the emergence of epidemics like SARS and MERS, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some work generates potentially dangerous substances in the air including noxious fumes, unhealthy vapors, smoke and other irritants that can cause serious health risks. For example, nail technicians may breathe in chemicals from the products they use, construction workers often come into contact with dust and fumes, and health care workers can be exposed to biological hazards.
By inhaling or coming into contact with dangerous substances in uncirculated air, workers can develop:
They may also experience damage to their nervous and reproductive systems.
Tips for Improving Air Quality
OSHA requires ventilation in buildings that ensure that workers have clean air to breathe. OSHA standards put limits on the amount of pollutants allowed in the air and mandate sufficient ventilation to ensure toxins remain at safe levels.
To meet and exceed OSHA standards, employers and work facilities can do the following:
Address Carbon Monoxide Issues
Work areas can't have carbon monoxide levels that average higher than 50 parts per million within an eight-hour period. Employers must regularly test carbon monoxide levels and provide ample ventilation to meet this standard.
Ensure Ventilation System Safety
Uncovered ventilation systems pose health risks. Make sure that the intakes and belt drives of these systems, particularly portable blowers, remain covered to prevent accidents. Additionally, make sure that the ventilation systems operate correctly: Regularly inspect their hoods, ducts and pressure gauge. Also check fan housing, pulley belts and air cleaner components.
Monitor Solvent Vapors
Some solvents have flammable vapors that can become explosive at high concentrations. To reduce these risks, employers must keep these vapors at levels well below their explosive concentration limits. Safety management experts must know the explosive levels of the solvents they use and ensure that their vapor levels meet OSHA standards. Using exhaust systems that improve ventilation can help achieve that.
A Look at Slip and Trip Hazards in the Workplace
Data from the National Safety Council (NSC) shows that slip and trip accidents account for more than 1 in 4 of all workplace injuries, and according to recent BLS data, they cause 792 workplace fatalities a year.
Causes of Slips, Trips and Falls
Any number of simple, fixable problems can result in slips, trips and falls. Some slip and trip hazards include the following:
Damaged or slippery flooring
Exposed cables
Cluttered walkways
Missing handrails
For example, an employee restroom might have a leaking sink. Upon being made aware of the problem, the business might assign a custodian to regularly mop the area, but on one occasion, the mopping doesn't happen, the water accumulates and an employee slips and breaks an ankle. In this case, the business not only failed to fix the leak but also failed to post the appropriate sign and perform routine mopping.
While the trip hazards mentioned above can cause fatalities, deadly falls also result from the improper placement or use of ladders and scaffolding, unprotected sides or exposed holes, and unsafe working surfaces.
Aside from these more obvious slip and trip hazards, other less-apparent factors can contribute to falls. For example, obstructed views and poor lighting can also lead employees to slip or trip and injure themselves.
Tips to Prevent Slips, Trips and Falls
The No. 1 violation of OSHA standards pertains to fall protection. However, organizations can prevent these incidents by keeping in mind the following:
Slip Prevention
Slips often result from a lack of floor traction caused by spilled substances, such as soaps, oils or solvents. Prevention involves:
Quick cleanups after spills
Use of mats and other nonslip materials
Proper drainage
Proper signage
High-traction treads on stairs
Trip Prevention
Any number of objects can result in tripping. To avoid trips, employers can:
Ensure that rugs and mats are anchored
Keep aisles and pathways clear
Maintain flooring
Three steps can help prevent falls:
Organizations should assess all potential fall hazards on a project, especially those that require working from heights, and then carefully plan the tasks and safety equipment needed.
Using the proper equipment. Organizations must provide the right types of safety gear, ladders and scaffolds, and regularly inspect them.
Training workers. Organizations must train workers to use equipment safely and recognize job hazards.
Ergonomic Hazards: Key Symptoms and Dangers
Poor ergonomics in the workplace can lead to health issues for employees, such as cumulative trauma disorders, repetitive motion injuries and musculoskeletal disorders. Often, ergonomic hazards arise due to workplace design.
Possible ergonomic hazards include the following:
Poorly adjusted chairs or workstations
Repetitive movements
Regular lifting
Incorrect posture
Whether employees sit at desks that are too short for them, overuse their thumbs on laptops with centrally positioned track pads or strain their eyes looking at screens all day long, poor ergonomics can lead to debilitating symptoms. Sore joints and muscles; tingling in the hands, fingers and limbs; and pain and stiffness in the neck and back can all result from ergonomic hazards.
Tips to Address Ergonomic Hazards
Organizations can turn to several solutions that help address common high-risk behaviors and elements related to ergonomics.
Assess Ergonomic Hazards
An important first step to addressing this problem involves locating where it exists. Ask questions such as:
Do workstations consider an employee's height?
Do workspaces encourage proper posture?
What repetitive movements do workers perform?
Make Adjustments
After identifying ergonomic hazards, employers can properly counteract them. This might involve redesigning aspects of workstations or modifying employee routines. When employers can't remove ergonomic hazards, they can implement controls that reduce their negative impacts. For example, they may break up tasks to reduce exertion, increase break periods, or rotate employees engaged in repetitive tasks.
Natural Disaster Safety and Role of Emergency Management
Organizations must prepare themselves for natural disasters and emergencies. Should a tornado or an earthquake hit, how will employers keep their workers safe? Those in safety, security and emergency management play key roles when it comes to preparing a workplace for hurricanes, fires, floods and other natural disasters.
Ways to Ensure Emergency and Natural Disaster Safety
Organizations can take several actions to protect their employees in emergencies and natural disasters. They include the following:
Developing Emergency Action Plans
OSHA regulates that companies must document their emergency action plans according to specific standards. Additionally, employees should go through practice drills that familiarize them with emergency procedures and be provided with copies of emergency action plans.
Preparing Emergency Kits
Survival kits include basics such as water (a gallon per day for each employee), nonperishable foods, first-aid kits, flashlights and battery-operated radios. Other items to store in stormproof rooms might include blankets, maps and cellphones.
Establishing Evacuation Plans
Employees should know the location of the nearest exit, as well as alternatives. Additionally, evacuation plans should indicate the best routes to exit a building and where to meet after exiting a building. Organizations should have evacuation plans posted in visible areas throughout work areas.
Managing Disaster Recovery
Recovering from disasters and emergencies requires thoughtful management. Security and emergency managers help a workplace recover in the aftermath of a disaster in several ways.
First, they perform a damage assessment, examining property to determine what requires repairs or replacement and to identify areas of a building that pose safety threats. After damage assessment, emergency managers work to help an organization return to normal operations. They also reflect on what aspects of their emergency action plans need revision.
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Workplace
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted another threat to safe working environments: communicable disease. As a result, employers are considering different ways to protect their employees from exposure to the virus and others like it.
COVID-19 poses a greater risk to older people and those with certain preexisting conditions. As such, employers are examining ways to accommodate workers in high-risk categories and set up remote working arrangements for all workers when possible.
When remote work isn't an option, employers are assessing sources of exposure and implementing controls that reduce exposure. Additionally, they're promoting or requiring behaviors that emphasize infection prevention, such as social distancing and frequent handwashing.
Electrical Safety in the Workplace
In 2018, 160 workers died from electrocution while on the job, an 18% increase from the prior year. That same year, 1,560 workers suffered electrical injuries. While electrical hazards pose a danger to workers across every industry, those most likely to suffer electrical fatalities or injuries work in construction, which is responsible for 52% of electrical fatalities. Such numbers highlight the importance of high standards for electrical safety in the workplace.
Electrical hazards can result in burns, shock, fires, explosions and death. Some common electrical hazards include the following:
Overhead power lines carry deadly voltages of electrical power. Failure to maintain a careful distance from them can result in electrocution or severe burns.
Damaged Equipment and Tools
Tools or equipment with damaged cords and wires or other defects can pose dangers to those using them. Additionally, untrained workers shouldn't use tools.
Improper Wiring
Different electrical currents call for specific types of wiring. Using the wrong wiring can cause overheating and fires. They can also occur from using the wrong type of extension cords, overloading outlets and using improper circuit breakers.
Exposed Electrical Parts
As potentially dangerous levels of electrical power surge through electrical components, they must remain safely covered. Temporary lighting, power distribution units and power cords with exposed electrical parts all pose electrical dangers.
Wet Conditions
Water makes electrocution more likely. Using electricity in wet environments, particularly when equipment has damaged insulation, poses significant safety risks.
Strategies to Improve Electrical Safety in the Workplace
Safety, security and emergency management professionals can help minimize the risks of electrical incidents in several ways. Many electrical accidents result from a failure to recognize energized sources and the incorrect use of extension cords. However, by implementing the following strategies organizations can protect employees from electrical hazards.
Understand and Follow OSHA Regulations
OSHA outlines standards that promote electrical safety. Organizations must understand and follow the guidelines, which deal with:
Avoiding the use of hot equipment to avoid electrical hazards
Disconnecting conductors or circuit components from energized parts to ensure electrically safe working conditions
Establish Electrical Safety Programs
Electrical safety programs can bring awareness to electrical hazards and provide the training employees need to remain safe. They can also develop safe work procedures and identify electrical safety principles.
Identify and Assess Electrical Hazards
By locating and assessing risks, organizations can best address electrical hazards and properly inform employees.
Organizations that commit to addressing environmental hazards in the workplace can best create and maintain safe environments for their employees. Safe working environments not only prevent injuries and illness but also reduce costs, improve productivity and increase employee morale.
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The Shootings: What Can We Do?
Two shooting within hours of each other. The first, on August 8th, took place in El Paso Texas. An individual murdered 22 seemingly random individuals and wounded 24 other (the police identified one shooter while many of the witnesses said there were as many four. The next day, another individual, this time in Dayton Ohio, killed ten people while wounding 37. The tragedy, as with most, is almost beyond words.
We've already heard stories about some of those who died, acts of bravery, sheer fear, anger, pain, and I'm sure we'll heard hear many more such stories over the weeks and months to come, especially how those who survived attempt to cope with the senseless acts of violence and begin the slow arduous road to at least some form of recovery, although their lives will never be "normal" again.
But the dual tragedies didn't end there. Almost immediately, there were other reports of similar acts of attempted violence. On the same day as the Dayton shooting, there were four other shootings. Two took place in Chicago. One involved a single death with seven being wounded while the second had seven wounded and no reported deaths. In Memphis Tennessee one person was killed and three were wounded.
On August 5th, in Suitland Maryland, there was five shootings, resulting in one death and four injuries. On the 6th, we had four wounded in Detroit and the following day, in St Louis, two people were killed and two others were wounded. Of course, I want to mention the mass shooting which occurred in Gilroy California, at a Garlic festival on July 28. Four were killed while 15 were injured.
Thus far, based on what law enforcement classifies as "mass shootings", there has been 248 incidents. There has been 246 deaths and 979 injured. Of these, two deaths occurred in a school and one at a place of worship. Sadly, August has just begun and we have four more months to the year left.
Granted, the majority of these "mass shootings" were gang and/or drug related. Nevertheless, within a matter of hours following the El Paso shooting, there was a carefully orchestrated effort to somehow blame the shootings on President Donald Trump, complete with scripted press releases (written, taped, and live interviews) and even paid commercials calling for the banning of guns, ammo, and so forth.
Even Hollywood got in on it by going not just after President Trump, but especially Trump supporters (an obviously attempt as isolation and intimidation). Some as gone as far as to encourage people to attack or even kill Trump supporters (a couple have actually called for Trump's assassination. Once upon a time that would earn you a visit from the Secret Service or FBI). Obviously the "managed media" does its best to reinforce this anti-Trump rhetoric as well.
The overwhelming majority of these individuals and lobbyist groups responsible for the ads all blame a so-called "climate" of "hate" and "anger" promoted by the President and/or his supporters; often cherry picking Tweets, comments at events, and so forth. Lastly, they claim that Trump caters to "White Supremacy" and promotes "White privilege".
As usual, they all call for an immediate ban on guns of all sorts, but particularly "assault" rifles, which are simple semi-automatic rifles with military looking stocks, along with various add-on features. There is also a new call for so-called "Red Flag" laws.
Red Flag laws allow an individual or member of law enforcement to petition the local court to issue an order to "temporarily" remove all firearms from an individual and/or prohibit their ability to purchase any guns on the basis that the person in question is a danger to himself or others. The order remains in effect until the individual is evaluated by authorities (including a psychologist) and determined to be otherwise. Failure to comply is considered a criminal offense subject to jail time and/or a hefty fine.
At present 17 states, mostly the West Coast and New England have some version of the Red Flag law currently in effect. Many of those who are demanding greater restrictions on gun purchases and ownership are calling for a national version of the Red Flag law. While the overwhelming majority is coming from the Left, many Republicans are also warming to the idea, especially as the 2020 election cycle approaches (imagine that).
Of course, the Right isn't quite ready to throw in the towel by a long shot. Many point out the need for gun ownership not just as a means to protect family, friends, or self, but as a "inalienable" right bequeathed to us by the Founding Fathers; a means to defend ourselves from a corrupt government intent on enslaving its citizens. The Founding Fathers, who had just finished a bloody and costly revolution with Great Britain as well as watched several failed revolutions throughout Europe, felt so strongly about this that it was the second right bestowed on the citizens of this new nation just behind freedom of speech and expression.
They also like to point out how totalitarian regimes love to confiscate guns in the early stages of their authoritarian takeover. Specifically they like to point to Soviet Russia, Communist China and Cuba, Fascist Italy, and of course Nazi Germany (as an aside, some are wacky enough to claim that Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany are actually "Leftist" forms of government, or even types of Communism). In short, both sides demonize the other. So what are the facts and what is the usual partisan rhetoric aka "propaganda"?
At least two and possibly as many as four of the recent events (including an attack by a machete and gun toting individual just recently) were either mass murders or attempts at mass murder. Is this Trump's fault or that of his supporters? No. Yes, Trump has made some comments and Tweets that makes one cringe, but none of them encourage violence or racism in any way (and by the way, while there are likely bonafide racist on the Right, there are also bonafide racist on the Left too).
In fact, those on the Right have been remarkably civil (and certainly non-violent) overall when compared to Antifa which looks more like Hitler's Brownshirts than anything on the Right. We also have college student demanding that individuals be denied the opportunity to speak (even after being invited to do so by the university), and have even stormed the stage, pushing the speaker either aside or off the stage! Where has that occurred on at conservative schools? The answer is nowhere.
The claim that these attacks are Trump's fault is simply without merit. Under President Obama there were 32 officially declared mass shootings, but no one seemed to think Obama was somehow responsible. Perhaps the most infamous of which was the Mass shooting at the Mandalay Casino in Las Vegas which resulted in 59 deaths and 851 injuries, including 422 by gunfire. We could consider San Bernardino in 2015 for instance. 14 people were murdered and 21 injured. How about Orlando Florida in 2016? 49 died while 53 were wounded or injured. Want more?
In Binghamton New York, 13 were killed and four were wounded. In 2010, eight were killed in Manchester Connecticut and two were wounded. In 2012, a total of 67 were killed and 68 were wounded. In 2016, 71 were murdered while 83 were wounded (Orlando Florida saw the worse of it). We can't forget the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity in 2017. That's where an individual targeted Republican members of Congress during a practice game. Fortunately, only six were wounded (two critically), the only death was the shooter. I could easily go on, but I think you get the point.
Was any of these the result of President Obama or his followers? Was the result of the atmosphere he created through his comments? I certainly recall a lot of hostility during his two terms. Was this it then the result of "black supremacy" or "black privilege"? In my opinion, no to all of the aforementioned. It was the result of some very twisted minds just as it is now. They were able to take advantage of our existing freedoms such as gun ownership or the ability to freely by fertilizer or other supplies which could be used to make explosives or rent trucks capable of delivering their deadly cargo.
By the way, regarding claims of "racism", let's remember that blacks, not whites, Asians, or Hispanics, are the ones responsible--- by far--- the killing of fellow blacks; about 92% according to the FBI. In fact, blacks as whole are actually responsible for violent crimes against other races than any other group (likely the result of economics and social pressure such as gang influence). Meanwhile, on the other side of the spectrum, Asians have the lowest crime rate of any race. Perhaps, again, the result of economics and social norms, but also due to culture which places a high value of conformity.
Now, let's take that same fact and reinterpret it another way, we find that those of a particular race are much more likely to murdered by someone of the same race simply due to association (ie: about 84% of whites in 2016 were murdered other whites, etc). See how that changes our perception of the same information? Yes, in the case of mass shootings, many of the perpetrator(s) are usually white or Hispanic. Why? I don't know, but I seriously doubt it has anything to do with their race. It could the result of specific social norms which affect one group over another just like overwhelmingly mass murderers are male rather than female.
The fact is that evil will always find away. In the UK, which has extremely restrictive laws pertaining to gun ownership, extremist Muslims use machetes and butcher knives to commit their mass murders. Should we outlaws those? What about clubs, bats, slingshots, bows and arrows? Perhaps we could restrict boards, pipes, sticks, and maybe rocks while we're at it. Bad guys don't care about your laws. They will find a way to get their hands on one. Then, faced with an unarmed public, it will be like a pack of hungry wolves on sheep backed against a cliff.
Some of these mass murderers were/are mentally ill. Better access to mental care could have prevented a few killings. More aggressive enforcement of existing laws pertaining to gun purchases would have also cut down on the number of incidents. I agree that some form of "Red Flag" law would have also helped. I would also like to see mandatory gun safety training with periodic updates. As for restricting certain types of weapons based simply on how they look, that's ridiculous. Any gun, regardless of what it looks like or its caliber can kill in the wrong hands.
Lastly, we have to look at the media and current climate of hate and anger, not caused by President Trump per se, but the result of the virulent partisanship in Washington where rarely a civil word is exchanged between parties is ever hear. Part of this is the result of the Left not being able to get over the fact that Hillary Clinton failed to get her coronation. That seems to be what stunned the Left and the win by an outsider like Trump is what pushed them over the edge and into a never-ending vendetta.
The media, which, along with the government, is controlled by the ruling Oligarchy (90+% of all media, including entertainment, videos, radio, newspapers, magazines, TV, and internet content are controlled by just six corporations), has played a large part in contributing to the atmosphere is hatred. When was the last time you watched the "news" (perhaps excluding Fox) in which something was directly or indirectly derogatory toward Trump or his supporters? Even our nightly lineup of TV shows often include some sort of negative comment about Trump. Gone are the days when we got non-partisan reporting. We miss you Art, Walt, Chet, David, Howard, John, Frank, and Harry.
So, what can we do? The first thing, perhaps the most important thing, is to at least agree to disagree; to accept our differences along with our commonality. We won't agree on everything, or even most things as a country. Heck, we don't even do that within a family unit most times. We don't always get our way either. But we can respect each other's opinion and right to voice them, whether we agree or not. We each have that right.
We also need to consign the notion of race hatred, supremacy, privilege, or whatever, regardless of where it comes, to the proverbial "dustbin of history" where it needs to be. That means removing quotas, restrictions (including association), and so forth. It also means treating and respecting each person for who they are individually, not the color of their skin or any other manufactured differences.
We need to step up and enforce existing laws pertaining to background checks. Too often that's the first real break in the chain of responsibility. We do need to enact some form of "Red Flag" law, as well as impose mandatory gun safety training with periodic updates. We must do more---much more---to identify and treat those with mental disorders. Those are the most likely to be our serial killers and mass murderers.
Trying to remove certain guns based on their appearance makes absolutely no sense. Outlawing guns in general make zero sense. As I said, evil will always find a way around any law or restriction. Criminals are, in general, cowards. They tend to hide behind violence and prey on the weak. Someone who is properly trained to use a gun is much less likely not to become a victim than someone who is unarmed. We need to remember that in going forward.
Finally, we need to recognize that the ruling Oligarchy is all about control, be it assets, resources, or us. To do that, they will wage wars using us as their pawns. They will buy and toss politicians like yesterday's fruit. They literally own both parties and the government's bureaucratic infrastructure. Their interests are well protected through their well paid lobbyists and palms are always greased. But to completely control us, they must divide us, and they try in as many ways as possible.
They formulate hatred, division, envy, jealousy, and most of all, anger until we beg for their intervention. As long as we're fighting each other, we're ignoring them and that's the way they want it. We must fully understand this and approach it with eyes wide open. We must accept our few differences while embracing our much larger commonalities. Once we stop playing their games, then we can focus on what really matter to us. Then, and only then, can we truly become a "United" States of America.
Finally, as a side note, I intentionally did not mention the names of any of the mass shooters, past or present. I also chose not to use any of their pictures or descriptions. I decided that I would not give any of these individuals free publicity on this site.
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Sacred Works: Volume 52, Issue No. 1
Culture	by Anonymous September 7, 2019 September 7, 2019
"Everythings For Real" by Grace Wales Bonner (2015)
Seeking authenticity in the art I consume carries many challenges for me. To relate deeply with another person's message in art is to believe their message deserves to be given life the way the artist has chosen. Achieving the wholeness that connection requires is what is most difficult for me. I've come to find that connecting to someone else's work—beyond a superficial understanding—requires an alignment of personal taste and known experience. To truly identify with a message intimately drawn from art is to experience the art so viscerally, it's as if the artist is speaking directly to you. I really never understood that until I encountered Grace Wales Bonner's debut fashion collection and corresponding zine.
A south London-native born to Jamaican and British parents in the early 90s, Wales Bonner graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2014. She released her first menswear collection as a presentation for Fashion East during A/W 2015, along with the three-part zine "Everythings For Real" for reference. Recognizing her heritage is integral to understanding how Wales Bonner has created a cross-continental and cultural zine on what she titles "Reflections on Black Rhythm." The clothes and zine demonstrate a deep influence of Indian, Jamaican, and West African fashion and culture. The zine, however, ties the project together through poetry, prose, and photography in a way that evokes greater meaning and detail. Having grown up in a similar setting, I consider this book to be one of the greatest depictions of Black identity in high fashion to date. I too am the daughter of Jamaican parents, navigating the art world in a Black female body. Her work for this collection shows thorough representation, with its focus on images of Black people around the world—in war, in embrace, at leisure, and at work. Visually, it brings about a sense that there is a personal calling from the artist to her cultural identity, which I share and feel. The pages are adorned with collages of bodies and landscapes, harmonious in colour and shape. Methodically, she tells a story through combined imagery and text that shines upon the African diaspora, West Indian identity, and a vast well of Black art.
Wales Bonner also features selected works by James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Aimé Césaire, Amiri Baraka, and other Black thinkers and writers. By combining the words of these authors in their respective mother tongues and placing them alongside her collages, she gathers a unified sense of pride and energy from each voice she borrows, piecing them together in abstract conversation. In establishing a connected and interactive experience through clothing and print, Wales Bonner's "Everythings For Real" demonstrates a sense of self-awareness absent from many works I've seen and admired in the past. It shares a range of feelings and memories that, by no coincidence, remind me of my own. — Tamia Thompson
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi (2013)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Americanah is a love story about identity and culture, told through the experiences of two young lovers, Ifemelu and Obinze, as they leave their home in Lagos and emigrate abroad. When Ifemelu is accepted into America to attend Princeton, Obinze's visa is denied and she leaves without him. Her experiences with racism as an African immigrant in America cause her to alienate Obinze as she builds a life around new rules and issues. After Obinze is denied entrance into America, he moves to London where he eventually overstays his visa and struggles as an undocumented immigrant. Despite the systemic barriers that both of them face, they manage to make space for themselves in their chosen paths and eventually find their way back to each other.
Americanah is the first book I read that asked me to think critically about feminism, race, privilege and power. Ifemelu recounts her experiences with an outsider's perspective as an African immigrant experiencing new systems of oppression and racism that she hadn't encountered in Lagos. This is illustrated by her struggle to find work to pay for her college tuition, and the imbalance of power she feels in her workplace. Ifemelu's position as a nanny for a rich young white couple who identify as liberal and volunteer in Africa was particularly jarring. The couple makes casual comments based on stereotypes and generalizations about Africa and Africans, and when Ifemelu responds to these comments, she's the one who often ends up blunting her words and apologizing to not upset them. Later in the book, Ifemelu states that "she advises not to be bitter when talking about racism to white liberals, or they won't be sympathetic."
These scenes helped me start to understand how black folks are expected to sugar-coat injustices for white comfort. Another passage from the book that stuck with me was Ifemelu's employer apologizing for the racist comments uttered by her sister: "Ifemelu finds these apologies 'self-indulgent,' as if she could fix everything wrong with the world just by saying sorry." This emphasized how the act of apologizing often only serves to soothe white egos.
Despite Americanah being a social commentary on the power dynamics of race in America, it made me look at racialization in Canada critically and examine how I benefit from white privilege. I am white in Canada, a white woman, and was born here. Ifemelu's oppression is also threefold: She's black in America, a black woman, and a black immigrant woman. Her experiences in Americanah taught me how the post-racial North America is a myth built on the erasure of race and culture. — Megan Amato
The Valkyries by Paulo Coelho (1992)
Every person, Paulo Coelho writes, creates a space. There's a fifteen-foot-radius of attention around them, enclosing all objects, things, people and the way they change. But if you lift your eyes to the horizon, this space gets better: you feel bigger.
On the red sands spanning the Mojave Desert in the southern U.S., soul-tortured philosopher/writer Coelho rides to find (if only to prove the myth reality) the Valkyries: a tribe of leather-clad, elusive but magnetic warrior women riding steel stallions into the desert's horizons.
Coelho retells an episode from his own life: a time when he realizes that as soon as he begins an artistic pursuit, he loses inspiration and quits, only to find something else to occupy his passions before quitting again. Wanting resolution to this fateful cycle and his failing marriage, Coelho takes a hiatus from writing and travels with his wife to find the Valkyries. Along his journey he meets mystics, strangers, and angels, who help him reform his own capricious thinking patterns.
The story incorporates elements of magic, spirituality, religion, but in essence, Coelho writes about an experience that feels universal to all artists: losing your fervour and succumbing to the anxiety that comes from this loss.
I'm going to Joshua Tree National Park, adjacent to Mojave Desert. The searing heat scorches skin and asphalt. We take a hike during the cool, late hours of the day, and I bring The Valkyries with me. I'm not quite out of my own world. Unresolved problems at home and uncertainty of the future shadow my steps, making me fearful and uncreative. I look out at the horizon. I notice the immovable mountains, the way the evening drapes its stillness over life. These mountains have existed long before I was born, and they will survive me. These things don't change. This horizon is bigger than whatever is in front of me. My vision expands, a sense of peace sets in. A thought comes in: I can be bigger than what's in front of me. I see myself differently, I feel bigger. I read the book but it lives alongside me, like a helpful stranger accompanying me on my own journey. — Lena Orlova
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
When I first read Vladimir Nabokov's novel, "Lolita", I was fourteen and absolutely mesmerized. I read it over the course of a month, taking the prose in small sips to appreciate every nuance of detail. I was endeared with the aesthetics of it: the flowery language, a road trip across America, a man who loves a girl so much that he would die for her—that he would write an entire book to defend his affections.
I didn't initially grasp the reality behind Nabokov's mask of beautifully convoluted language: the story is about Humbert Humbert, a man who kidnaps and assaults twelve-year-old Dolores Haze over the course of a year. Because the novel is from Humbert's point-of-view, the reader never gets insight into Dolores' perspective.
I was a young girl just like Dolores when I first read Lolita. Like Dolores, I was charmed into believing that Humbert's words were truth. I trusted his authority because he wrote with eloquence. When I reread the novel at twenty, I became aware of the imbalance in power dynamics between Humbert and Dolores that Nabokov had created.
I realized that what I held in my hands wasn't a love story. Obsession isn't love. Abuse isn't love.
My reading of the novel has changed in the six years since I first picked up the book. I see now that Humbert manipulates and overshadows the truth, but Dolores' life and strength bleeds between the lines, waiting for recognition, if only we search for her. — Andie Bjornsfelt
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Christian Wolmar is a writer and broadcaster. He's the author of 20 books, mainly on transport history, including a series of eight classic books of railway history published by Atlantic Books. These cover the London Underground (The Subterranean Railway); Britain's railways (Fire and Steam); the spread of railways across the world (Blood, Iron and Gold); the ways in which railways changed the nature of warfare (Engines of War); the building of the US railroad (The Great Railway Revolution); the history of the Trans-Siberian railway (To the Edge of the World); the story of rail in India (Railways and the Raj); and, in 2020, the building of London's major terminus stations (Cathedrals of Steam).
His book on rail privatisation, Broken Rails (2001), is regarded as the standard work on the subject. His latest book, to be published by Michael Joseph in mid-2022, covers the story of British Railways. He also wrote The Crossrail Story (Head of Zeus, 2018), which was published to coincide with the opening of the line. As the completion of the project was delayed, a second, much updated paperback edition of the book is scheduled for the new opening date of Spring 2022.
Books by Christian Wolmar


Flyfour and I found these Polar Bear heads hilarious. I don't think I could have them on my wall at Christmas time, but I do think that it makes my husband look rather handsome!
Further round the store, we found some Reindeer heads. Top Ender found these hilarious and was telling Rudolph what happened to Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Dunder and Blixem after they poked fun of his nose!
Top Ender also found the Polar Bear Heads hilarious and walked around the store with one under her arm, stroking it and saying things like "there there, bear, there there."
Dan Jon Jr was most pleased with his find, an electronic light thingy. It's the sort of thing that you can get at the Panto each year and Dan Jon thinks they are great.
We did buy the new Christmas lights for our front garden (and thank fully our neighbour has said they don't mind the slight overlap onto their home seeing as it is Christmas) which look FABULOUS!
Do you like to wander around the Christmas aisles like I do? Let me know your favourite Christmas traditions that are slightly.... odd shall we say, in the comments!


This cute miniature wall plaque was designed by Michael Macone in Shell Lake, Wisconsin. He developed a unique process of etching his designs into the clay rather than just on the surface with glaze or a decal giving the plaque a dimensional quality than can be appreciated by the hand as well as the eye. All the colors are hand glazed by artists in Shell Lake. Each piece is kiln fired twice to nearly 2000 degrees resulting in a fade-proof, weather-proof work of art that will last a lifetime indoors or out. Plaque measures approximately 2.25" x 3.25" x 1/4". Made by Spooner Creek Designs.
Plaque reads "There is always a reason to Dance"


Finished! Short sleeved, knitted jacket!
At last I've finished this short-sleeve jacket! In one way it's only taken me about 2 months to make but I bought this yarn - a lovely Noro lamb's wool, silk, and cashmere blend - in a Tokyo wool store with a friend, in 2009.
I thought I'd never like the heavy stripe in the yarn but once I decided to try a geometric pattern in the knitting itself the stripe worked as a feature (at least I think so). After 37 years knitting this is the first thing I've attempted without a pattern (other than a scarf or hat etc...) and only the 2nd thing I've knitted for myself!
Bring on Autumn weather so I can wear it!


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Books, music and films about the Somme
Socialist Worker recommends books, music and films about the battle and the experience of the First World War
Published Sat 1 Jul 2006
Kirk Douglas in Paths of Glory
Set before and during the First World War, Birdsong is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. His life goes through a number of traumatic experiences, from a love affair that tears apart the family he lives with, to the brutality of the war itself.
War Requiem
Britten composed this requiem which combines the Latin Mass for the Dead with nine poems by the British war poet Wilfred Owen. It is a public statement of Britten's anti-war convictions and a denunciation of war.
The Trench Experience
at the Imperial War Museum
This is one of the main sections of the London Imperial War Museum's First World War exhibition. It is a walk-through re-creation of a front line trench on the Somme in the autumn of 1916. It is brought to life with special lighting, sound and smell effects. Go to www.iwm.org.uk
This classic anti-war book follows a young German soldier and his friends fighting on the French front. The 1930 film version is also very powerful.
This recent film starring Audrey Tatou is set in France immediately after the First World War. It tells the story of Mathilde's relentless search for her fiancee. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialled under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into no man's land.
Life and Nothing But
In this film the French government commissions Major Delaplane to find a body to be buried under L'Arc de Triomphe after the First World War. Irene de Courtil is looking for her husband's remains. Their relationship develops as they try to piece their lives back together in a world devastated by war.
Director Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece about French soldiers who are ordered to go over the top and then blamed for the fact that their attack doesn't succeed. Kirk Douglas is the officer who tries to defend them from the hypocritical generals.
Across the Black Waters
Mulk R Anand
Novel about Indian soldiers who fought for the British in France. Coming to Europe for the first time in their lives they are shocked by the abundance of food even in time of war, and can't understand why there is fighting in Europe.
The Regeneration Trilogy:
Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road
Acclaimed and haunting historical fictional trilogy about British soldiers traumatised by war.
Observe the sons of Ulster marching towards the Somme
Frank McGuinness's play on the experiences of eight men who volunteer to serve in the First World War. It reaches a climax at the start of the battle of the Somme, the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne in 1690. The Somme has come to have a sacred place in the Protestant consciousness in Northern Ireland. In this context the Somme Heritage Centre in Clandeboye Estate outside Newtownards is well worth a visit.
Sat 1 Jul 2006, 00:00 BST
Slaughter at the Somme
Was Germany to blame for the First World War?


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How to save Humpty-Dumpty
Jennie Phipps @jennielp
February 7, 2012 in Retirement
Sarah Toevs, director of the Center for Aging at Boise State University, calls the baby-boomer bulge "Humpty-Dumpty," after the egg-shaped population bulge all those births caused. She sees Humpty as a retirement-planning problem of major proportions.
For at least a millennium, the population has been distributed with a large base of young people at the bottom capped by a small cluster of adults at the top. But that is changing rapidly because over the next 19 years, 10,000 people will turn 65 every day. "This will make it difficult to enjoy life as we know it," Toevs says.
When Social Security and later Medicare were conceived, there were five working people for every recipient of these retirement programs. But that number has diminished and will continue to shrink. "In 15 years, there will be just 1.5 people working to support Humpty," says Toevs. "We're living longer, and we haven't adjusted the system."
How would she fix it?
Provide incentives — probably tax incentives — for people who don't need their Social Security to delay taking it — preferably forever.
Enact legislation that would encourage people to keep working until they are at least 70 or 72 — and employers to keep them on the job.
Give younger people more access to preventive health care, so they stay healthier longer.
Encourage end-of-life planning, so more people embrace the idea of dying gracefully. According to the National Institutes of Health, about 30 percent of all Medicare dollars are spent caring for people during their last year of life.
Spend more money on services that keep older people living in their homes and connected to the community — nursing homes are costly.
"We have to figure out how to shore up the supports, or life will be very, very different in the next 15 to 25 years," Toevs says.
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Middle East|White House Weighs Terrorist Designation for Muslim Brotherhood
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White House Weighs Terrorist Designation for Muslim Brotherhood
Egyptians prayed in celebration of the election of a Muslim Brotherhood member, Mohamed Morsi, to the presidency in 2012.Credit...Khaled Desouki/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
By Peter Baker
WASHINGTON — President Trump's advisers are debating an order intended to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, targeting the oldest and perhaps most influential Islamist group in the Middle East.
A political and social organization with millions of followers, the Brotherhood officially renounced violence decades ago and won elections in Egypt after the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Affiliated groups have joined the political systems in places like Tunisia and Turkey, and President Barack Obama long resisted pressure to declare it a terrorist organization.
But the Brotherhood calls for a society governed by Islamic law, and some of its former members and offshoots — most notably Hamas, the Palestinian group whose stated goal is the destruction of Israel — have been tied to attacks. Some advisers to Mr. Trump have viewed the Brotherhood for years as a radical faction secretly infiltrating the United States to promote Shariah law. They see the order as an opportunity to finally take action against it.
Officially designating the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization would roil American relations in the Middle East. The leaders of some American allies — like Egypt, where the military forced the Brotherhood from power in 2013, and the United Arab Emirates — have pressed Mr. Trump to do so to quash internal enemies, but the group remains a pillar of society in parts of the region.
The proposal to declare it a terrorist organization has been paired with a plan to similarly designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, according to current and former officials briefed on the deliberations. Leaders of the corps and its Quds Force unit have already been put on a government terrorist list, but Republicans have advocated adding the corps itself to send a message to Iran.
The Iran part of the plan has strong support within the White House, but momentum behind the Muslim Brotherhood proposal seems to have slowed in recent days amid objections from career officials at the State Department and the National Security Council, who argue that there is no legal basis for it and that it could alienate allies in the region. Former officials said that they had been told the order would be signed on Monday, but that it had now been put off at least until next week.
In One Facebook Post, Three Misleading Statements by President Trump About His Immigration Order
President Trump and his aides have repeatedly suggested that his travel ban is an outgrowth of Obama administration policy.
The delay may reflect a broader desire by the White House to take more time with executive actions after the chaos associated with hastily issued orders, like the temporary ban on visitors from seven predominantly Muslim countries. But it also underscored the complex dynamics involving the Muslim Brotherhood, whose chapters have only loose relationships across national lines.
Critics said they feared that Mr. Trump's team wanted to create a legal justification to crack down on Muslim charities, mosques and other groups in the United States. A terrorist designation would freeze assets, block visas and ban financial interactions.
"This would signal they are more interested in provoking conflict with an imaginary fifth column of Muslims in the U.S. than in preserving our relationships with counterterrorism partners like Turkey, Jordan, Tunisia and Morocco, or with fighting actual terrorism," said Tom Malinowski, an assistant secretary of state under Mr. Obama.
The Brotherhood has long been a source of alarm on the right, especially at Breitbart News, whose chairman, Stephen K. Bannon, is now Mr. Trump's chief White House strategist. A 2007 summary for a film Mr. Bannon proposed making on radical Islam in America, obtained by The Washington Post, called the Brotherhood "the foundation of modern terrorism."
Sebastian Gorka and Katharine Gorka, two Breitbart contributors who have long warned of Muslim extremists in the United States, also joined the new administration. Mr. Gorka is a deputy national security assistant, while Ms. Gorka is working at the Department of Homeland Security.
Frank Gaffney Jr., founder of the Center for Security Policy, who once asserted that Mr. Obama might secretly be a Muslim, urged Mr. Trump on Breitbart's radio show last week to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. He has argued that the Brotherhood's philosophy mirrors that of groups that are already on the list.
"The goals of the Muslim Brotherhood," Mr. Gaffney said in a recent interview with The New York Times, are "exactly the same as the Islamic State, exactly the same as the Taliban, exactly the same as, you know, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Al Nusra Front, on and on, Al Shabab. It's about Islamic supremacism. It's about achieving the end state that is their due."
Some congressional Republicans reintroduced legislation last month calling on the State Department to designate the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization or explain why it would not. "It's time to call the enemy by its name," Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who sponsored the measure with Representative Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, wrote on Twitter.
Among those objecting is the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which describes itself as the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the United States. Mr. Gaffney and others have accused it of being a front for the Brotherhood, which the council denies. It said such an order by Mr. Trump would be a brazen attempt to repress Muslims.
"We believe it is just a smoke screen for a witch hunt targeting the civil rights of American Muslims," said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the council. He said that, given what he called false attempts to link Muslim Americans to the Brotherhood, a terrorist designation would "inevitably be used in a political campaign to attack those same groups and individuals, to marginalize the American Muslim community and to demonize Islam."
It is unclear what form a presidential order would take. Presumably, Mr. Trump could direct Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson to review whether the Brotherhood should be designated. At his confirmation hearing, Mr. Tillerson grouped the Brotherhood and Al Qaeda together as "agents of radical Islam."
But officials may try to narrow the scope of such an order to avoid affecting Brotherhood affiliates outside Egypt, or they may shelve the order in favor of waiting for legislation from Congress.
Founded in 1928 in Egypt, the Brotherhood used violence for decades in pursuit of its Islamist goals, but officially renounced it in the 1970s and embraced democracy as its means.
In recent years, offshoots have joined the political system, including Ennahda, a party that belongs to the governing coalition in Tunisia and has eschewed extremism. Even in Turkey, a NATO ally, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party has long supported the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Brotherhood's most successful period ended in 2013, when President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt, who had succeeded Mr. Mubarak, alienated other sectors of society and, after protests, was removed by the military. The general who took over, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, has cracked down on the Brotherhood and lobbied the United States to designate it as a terrorist organization
From 2013 through mid-2015, a former American official said, every interaction with Egyptian leaders included pressure on the issue. At one point, a senior Egyptian intelligence official personally brought a dossier to Secretary of State John Kerry, though it had no new information, according to the former American official. The State Department decided the Brotherhood did not meet the legal requirements for the designation because there was no evidence that its leaders had systematically ordered terrorist attacks.
A similar review released by Britain in 2015 found that the Brotherhood "selectively used violence and sometimes terror in pursuit of their institutional goals," and that it emphasized engagement in English but jihad in Arabic. Its leaders have defended Hamas's attacks on Israel and justified attacks on American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, the review said. But it did not recommend that it be designated as a terrorist organization, either.
In his short time in office, Mr. Trump has already come under pressure from Arab allies eager for such a designation. He had phone conversations with Mr. Sisi; Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi; and King Salman of Saudi Arabia. But he also spoke with Mr. Erdogan on Tuesday.
A top Arab official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity according to diplomatic protocol, declined to discuss what was said on the calls, but added, "It's safe to assume since U.A.E., Saudi and Egypt have all designated the M.B. as a terrorist organization, that decision would be welcome by those countries and several others in the region."


Unlike roast chicken, for which I have no fewer than twelve favourite recipes, I genuinely thought I had salmon all sewn up. Completely satisfied with my fail safe method of cooking a whole side of fish to feed a crowd (and then to be be used in a few midweek meals) there was no need to look any further.
But on several middle-of-the-night-surfing exercises, Alison Roman's famous Slow Roasted Salmon that first featured in Bon Apetit kept popping up. While lauded all over the internet, my skepticism kicked in around the benefits of cooking a naturally oily fish with a relatively large amount of olive oil and at a low temperature. So in all my ignorance, I skipped past the recipe, never attempting to see what all the fuss was about.
And then, Dining In, Alison's new book hit the proverbial shelves of that famous internet bookshop, and landed on my front door mat. With, yes, a simplified version of her acclaimed recipe. I relented. I made the low and slow salmon and there is no looking back. I am not giving up on my old trusted favourite recipebut I have made this more than a few times in the past few weeks.
For anyone who also thinks they have found salmon nirvana, I invite you to add this one to your repertoire. Just to shake things up a little.
Do not balk at the amount of oil in this recipe. It keeps the fish ridiculously moist, and if you serve the fish at room temperature as part of a salad, it will act as the built in dressing.
I like to make this fish in a snug fitting ceramic dish, and then roughly break it up back into the dish to serve soaking up the citrussy oil covered with herbs. If you don't have a ceramic dish to suit, use a rimmed baking sheet, but you may need to increase the oil amount so that the fish is almost halfway submerged.
Feel free to add fennel, freshly sliced or dried chilies, fresh herbs or any other flavour base of choice to permeate through the oil while the fish cooks.
I always make a whole side of salmon, as this makes superb leftovers. But if you want to make it for 4-6 people, reduce the oil to 180-250ml depending on the size of your dish.
Season salmon well with salt (I use Malden) and pepper on both sides and place on top of the aromatics.
Drizzle the olive oil over everything and put it in the oven.
Cook until the salmon is just opaque and still slightly pink inside 25-35 minutes depending on the size of your fish and your baking dish.
I like to serve this salmon broken up into large pieces and tossed back into the citrussy oil and topped with torn herbs.


Game Informer, via PC Gamer, is providing new details on the Return of Shepard.
Providing they survived the previous games, Wrex, Mordin, Legion, and Anderson will be in Mass Effect 3, though not as members of your team. The Illusive Man will also return. Cerberus have turned against you again in the third game, and will be hunting you across the galaxy as you try to stop the Reaper invasion.
Bioware say they've beefed up the levelling mechanics to offer a greater choice of abilities. Skill trees will be larger, and powers can be evolved several times.
There have been some tweaks to the weapons systems, too. All characters can use any weapon, but different classes will have a limited number of weapons slots. Only the soldier class will be able to carry all of them at once. Weapon mods will let you add scopes and different barrels to your weapons, changing the look and effectiveness of each gun.
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Oyster shell or "Spiny Oyster Shell" earrings and jewelry have a rich history within Native American jewelry. One of the most famous styles of beaded jewelry from the Native art of Heishi beaded necklaces incorporates oyster shell and seashells, almost exclusively. These stones are believed to harness the power of the ocean where they come from and provide a sense of connectivity to nature in a much more broad sense as well.
The coloration of oyster shell earrings vary drastically, as with most mineral deposits. Depending on the chemicals and elements in the area that the oysters use to form their shells, the colors can be from the darkest hue of purple to a beautiful and vibrant orange. The shells then are refined even further until they have a clear glossy finish, leaving the shell smoother than any natural stone.
Native Americans have taken advantage of this fact by creating pieces that utilize the array of colors to make their pieces. Many incorporate sterling silver with these pieces, just as they do with most other gems, like turquoise.
Many use oyster shell in place of coral, because of its abundance and the variation of color to create truly stunning pieces of jewelry.
As far as shapes go, the Navajo and many other tribes that use oyster shell quite frequently stick to basic geometric shapes because of the difficulty in cutting these pieces. Many will see simple triangular or oval shaped earrings and jewelry pieces.
People that are looking into oyster shell earrings should take advantage of the vast amount of coloration that is typically seen in oyster shell earrings to mix and match as you see fit. The art of crafting jewelry from seashells and oyster shell stretches back thousands of years and was popularized by Native American trade to settlers.
Oyster shell earrings and other jewelry pieces are truly something to behold and available through multiple tribes and their artists in the Southwest region.


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Castela spinosa är en bittervedsväxtart som beskrevs av Arthur John Cronquist. Castela spinosa ingår i släktet Castela och familjen bittervedsväxter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Eric, Olivier and Davy, specialists in paddling and outdoor sports, are among the pioneers of rafting in the Southern Alps. They have come together at Aquareve to share their passion for whitewater sports with you!
Whether you want to go for a discovery or a thrilling sporty excursion with friends or family, you will find what you need with Aquarêve!
On the river, Aquareve provides you with activities like rafting, canoeing, kayak-rafting, hydrospeed (whitewater swimming) and canyoning, on the most beautiful rivers of the Alpes-Maritimes near Nice, Monaco, Cannes, and the Verdon Gorge.
On the French Riviera coastline, they also offer sea kayaking and Stand-up Paddle (SUP) excursions. The Mediterranean Sea in all its splendor between Ventimiglia (Italy) and the Esterel massif!
In the river or the sea, come paddle with the professionals of Aquareve!
Aquareve: Au top, professionnel et très sympa ! Je recommande.
Great guy, super interesting, aligned the activity perfectly with our abilities, or lack of!


Now and Later's are bite-size pieces of taffy that last a long time... some for now and some for later.
Assorted Now and Later Original 18-piece bar. There are 6 pieces of 3 flavors which are Cherry, Blue Raspberry and Strawberry.
The pieces are just under an inch square. Each bar has 18 chews, weighs 2.75 oz. each bar is 6" long.
These Soft Assorted Now and Laters are a little larger than the Original Now and Laters. A 38.1 oz plastic tub contains about 120 individually wrapped squares which are about 1.25 inches across. The flavors are Apple, Banana, Cherry, Grape, Strawberry & Watermelon.


leaves : chiefly ill. ; 15 x 22 cm.
by Derry Down Derry [i.e. E. Lear].
Title from pasted down brown paper cover. Title page lacking?
"Published Feb. 10, 1846, by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket" cf. Cover.
No. 4145.2 in: Shaw, J.M., Childhood in poetry.