UK health workers stage ‘biggest NHS strike’ in history – DW – 02/06/2023

Nurses and paramedics had been striking separately since last year, but thousands downed tools together in England on Monday, ahead of a week of disruption in Britain’s health service.
— Read on www.dw.com/en/uk-health-workers-stage-biggest-nhs-strike-in-history/a-64626660

Did You Know – Broken Rice

In Dianes Kitchen

Have you ever heard of Broken Rice? It was a new kind of rice, for me, as I had never seen it in the grocery store but to be honest I never looked either. I had to do a little research to see what it is exactly. I was expecting it to be something really different.

According to Wikipedia, broken rice is fragments of rice grains, broken in the field, during drying, during transport, or during milling. Mechanical separators are used to separate the broken grains from the whole grains and sort them by size. Broken rice is fragmented, not defective; so there is nothing wrong with it.

Because the rice is broken, it will most likely cook quicker, absorb your sauce better, be less firm and more of a mushy texture.

So there you have it, it is just rice that is broken and sold as is. I was…

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Neo-Nazi leader among 2 arrested in plot to attack Baltimore’s power grid, feds say

The FBI captured two people, one a nationally known neo-Nazi leader, before they could launch an attack on Baltimore’s power grid that could “completely destroy this whole city,” authorities said Monday.
— Read on www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-arrests-2-suspects-accused-planning-attack-baltimore-power-grid-rcna69324

jwz: Facebook fires worker who refused to do ‘negative testing’

Facebook secretly killed users batteries, worker claims in lawsuit: The practice, known as “negative testing,” allows tech companies to “surreptitiously” run down someone’s mobile juice in the name of testing features […] “I said to the manager, ‘This can harm somebody,’ and she said by harming a few we can help the greater masses,” said Hayward, 33, who claims in a Manhattan Federal Court …
— Read on www.jwz.org/blog/2023/02/facebook-fires-worker-who-refused-to-do-negative-testing/