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
Monthly Archives: February 2023
Did You Know – Broken Rice

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
Monotony Won’t Cut It

You didn’t come this far to only come this far. Break the monotony, change up, and then live.
Monotony Won’t Cut It
I’ve stopped saying I ‘have autism’ – for me, being autistic is brilliant, not a burden

By Nick Ransom | Why I quit Autism I want the language I use to describe myself to celebrate all the things my neurological difference has given me …
I’ve stopped saying I ‘have autism’ – for me, being autistic is brilliant, not a burden
Japan | September 1945

Dai Ichi Building in Tokyo flying both the American and United Nations flags Soon after the official surrender of Japan, General MacArthur moved his …
Japan | September 1945
British Social History: Photos By Thurston Hopkins

In the 1950s, immigration from the West Indies was becoming a political issue. At the same time, many people all over Britain were still living in …
British Social History: Photos By Thurston Hopkins
Aviation could cut climate impacts in half by doing this one thing

Guess what the biggest contributor aviation has on the climate. Most of us would say aviation fuel. Apparently we’re wrong.
Aviation could cut climate impacts in half by doing this one thing
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/
The New York Times’ first article about Hitler’s rise is absolutely stunning – Vox
“Several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler’s anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent,” the Times correspondent reported.
— Read on www.vox.com/2015/2/11/8016017/ny-times-hitler
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