Fair Warning to Employers

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A hazard in an office may be small and infrequent, but if you fail to take action, it can cost you.

This story comes from Australia. An office manager was responsible for various functions that pulled her away from her desk. She was also responsible for answering phones. She requested a wireless headset so that she didn’t have to run for the phone, which the owner refused on the grounds that calls were infrequent. And of course, one day, running to pick up a call, she falls and gets hurt.

The headset would have cost $27. The court settlement was $91,000 plus legal fees.

In the US, the lawsuit would also have impacted workman’s comp insurance rates. Talk about pain. The average workman’s comp settlement is $21,800.(2) That’s still a lot more than a $27 headset.

And if you think this can’t happen in the US, we have a workman’s…

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The Evolution of Jamaican Music: From Revivalism to Reggae (Part I) — Repeating Islands

Earlier this month, Caribbean National Weekly examined “Evolution of Jamaican Music: From Revivalism to Reggae.” Part I focused on “Revivalism, Mento, Ska.” Here are excerpts; see full article at Caribbean National Weekly. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens.] Jamaica is traditionally described as the “land of wood and water,” but that description would be more accurate, […]

The Evolution of Jamaican Music: From Revivalism to Reggae (Part I) — Repeating Islands

Rev. William Barber: The Fight for a $15 Minimum Wage Is a Fight for Racial Justice – In These Times

We cannot get this close and then fall back. We say to President Biden, to Democrats, to Republicans, to senators, to all of them: don’t turn your back on the $15 an hour minimum wage. Listen: 55% of poor, low-wealth people voted for this current ticket. That’s the mandate. The mandate is in the people who voted, not in the back slapping of senators and congresspeople. It’s the people who voted. And if we turn our backs now, it will hurt 62 million poor, low-wealth people who have literally kept this economy alive, who were the first to have to go to jobs, first to get infected, first to get sick, first to die. We cannot be the last to get relief and the last to get treated and paid properly. Protect us, respect us, and pay us.  Source: Rev. William Barber: The Fight for a $15 Minimum Wage Is a Fight for Racial Justice – In These Times

Go Update Your Passwords Right Now

Fine advice, except when you have several hundred passwords and you wonder what would happen to automatic passwords if your password app crashes or gets hacked??? bvg9us7oj0mizqcqxvj9.jpg

Hey, you, casual internet user. Why not go and update your passwords right now? I’m not trying to boss you around or anything, but semi-frequent password changes are widely considered a great way to avoid getting hacked and having your information spilled all over the web.

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Golden Trump statue turning heads at CPAC was made in … Mexico | Donald Trump | The Guardian

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Now the artist behind the huge statue of Trump – Tommy Zegan – has revealed that the object was made in Mexico; a country that has been the target of much Trump racist abuse over his political career, and somewhere he has literally sought to build a wall against.

“It was made in Mexico,” Zegan told Politico’s Playbook newsletter. Zegan, who lives in Mexico on a permanent resident visa, described the transport of the monument to CPAC in full to Playbook.

Politico reported: “Zegan spent over six months crafting the 200lb fiberglass statue with the help of three men in Rosarito. He transported it to Tampa, Florida, where it was painted in chrome, then hauled it from there to CPAC.”

Source: Golden Trump statue turning heads at CPAC was made in … Mexico | Donald Trump | The Guardian

Drive-Thru Polio Clinic in the Early 1960s ~ Vintage Everyday

In the early 1960s, medicine borrowed a page from the drive-thru window’s concept of fast, “don’t-even-need-to-leave-your-car” convenience in a radical effort to eradicate polio – a crippling disease that sicken tens of thousands of Americans in the early 20th century.
Most people infected with the polio virus had no symptoms; however, for the less than 1% who developed paralysis it resulted in permanent disability and even death.
Henry Ford Hospital was one of many hospital across the nation to host a drive-thru polio vaccination program in the 1960s. The Oral Polio Vaccine Program was directed by Dr. Edward L. Quinn, founder of the hospital’s division of Infectious Diseases.

Source: Drive-Thru Polio Clinic in the Early 1960s ~ Vintage Everyday

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