All posts by nedhamson

Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

FOTD 8th March 2024: Tulips | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss

My tulips are still thinking about it, so I borrowed some from the local store.

Source: FOTD 8th March 2024: Tulips | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss

Florida passes ‘cruel’ bill curbing local water and shade protections for workers | Florida | The Guardian

The Florida legislature passed a bill on Friday that prevents any city, county, or municipality in the state from adopting legislation aimed to protect outdoor workers from extreme heat, prompting many to call out lawmakers for being “cruel” to the “most vulnerable workers”. Efforts to ensure potentially life-saving water breaks, rest and shade for construction and agriculture workers have failed largely due to industry pressure, a growing trend across south-western states, where heat related deaths are on the rise.

Source: Florida passes ‘cruel’ bill curbing local water and shade protections for workers | Florida | The Guardian

Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum – Cambodia – 100CountryTrek.com

2011 -I am haunted by this place. I wish I had never gone there. and I wake up sometimes in the night and think of some of the tragic things that I saw and learned here. The trauma of that knowing is still with me.

For some horrific reason the Khmer Rouge deemed it was necessary to photograph each victim before they were killed. Their faces line the walls in the museum and we visualize the shameful, and sad time of the past.

Source: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum – Cambodia – 100CountryTrek.com

Yulia Navalnaya against Vladimir Putin · Global Voices

Alexey Navalny and Yulia Navalnaya hugging after his release from the custody, after an appeal from the prosecutor’s office. Date 19 July 2013. Image by Evgenii Feldman, Novaya Gazeta. CC BY-SA 3.0.

However, on February 19, only three days after the death of her husband, Yulia Navalnaya stepped in. In her first ever video posted on both her husbands and her own new X account and YouTube account, she said:

Hello, this is Yulia Navalnaya. Today, for the first time on this channel, I want to address you. I should not have been in this place; I should not have been recording this video. In my place, there should have been another person, but Vladimir Putin killed that person three days ago. Vladimir Putin killed my husband Alexei Navalny. Putin killed the father of my children, the most precious thing I had, the closest and most beloved person. But Putin also took Navalny away from you, somewhere in a colony in the Far North, beyond the Arctic Circle, in eternal winter. Putin killed not just a person, Alexei Navalny; he also wanted to kill our hopes, our freedom, our future. All these years, I was beside Alexei. I was happy to be with him and support him, but today I want to be with you because I know that you have lost no less than me. Alexei loved Russia more than anything else, loved our country. He believed in you, in us, in our strength, in our future, in the fact that we deserve better. He believed not just in words but in deed, so deeply and sincerely that he was ready to give his life for it. His immense love for us is enough to continue his work as long as it takes. By killing Alexei, Putin killed half of me, half of my heart, and half of my soul. But I have the other half left, and it tells me that I do not have the right to give up. I will continue Alexei Navalny’s work, continue fighting for our country, and I call on you to stand with me. To share not only the sorrow and the endless pain that has enveloped us and does not let go, I ask you to share my rage, anger, hatred towards those who dared to kill our future. I address you with the words of Alexei, in which I strongly believe: it’s not shameful to do little, it’s shameful to do nothing. A free, peaceful, happy, beautiful Russia of the future that my husband dreamed of is what we need. I want to live in such a Russia. I want our children with Alexei to live in it. I want to build it with you, exactly as Alexei Navalny envisioned it, full of dignity, justice, and love.Source: Yulia Navalnaya against Vladimir Putin · Global Voices

Kraft Heinz Venture Launches Plant-Based Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs | Food Manufacturing

Screen Shot 2024 03 08 At 10 52 19 Am
Business Wire

PITTSBURGH and CHICAGO — The Kraft Heinz Not Company LLC on Wednesday debuted NotHotDogs and NotSausages, the first ever plant-based Oscar Mayer offerings and the first plant-based meat innovation from the joint venture between The Kraft Heinz Company and TheNotCompany Inc.

With its mission to create mouthwatering plant-based foods for all, The Kraft Heinz Not Company’s Oscar Mayer NotHotDogs and NotSausages offer the savory and smoky experience that brand fans have known and loved for more than 140 years.

Source: Kraft Heinz Venture Launches Plant-Based Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs | Food Manufacturing

#1 – Coisas da SIL

Number 1  could be everything.
You choose where to place it.
It may not only be the first
Second or third.
You can be the first
The middle one
Or the end.
It could be the start of everything.
Or the end of too.
Beginnings should be called first too.
Everything in life has the first, the most special, the most important, the most memorable…
Always the first.
Start of project, start of career.
Beginning of reading, writing, and life too.
By: Things from SiL

Source: #1 – Coisas da SIL