7/24/2017 I love rock n’ rollSo put another dime in the jukebox, babyI love rock n’ rollSo come an’ take your time an’ dance with me! Joan Jett and the Blackhearts…….ah, the words and music of one of Rocks’ most notable songs. Simple, crass and unashamedly LOUD! It’s a fact Read more…
5/22/2017 In the latter part of the nineteenth century, Benjamin Disraeli, held the post of England’s Prime Minister for two separate terms. He is credited with the popular saying, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Lots of people have quoted Disraeli since. And while lies Read more…
9/12/2016 Over his Olympic career, Michael Phelps stood on the podium 28 times; 23 of those were for the coveted gold metal. This is an unprecedented accomplishment. No athlete in modern times can boast such a feat. It was during the recent summer games in Rio de Janeiro, that I Read more…
4/25/2016 Note: This SafetyShare was written almost 4 years prior to our Country’s COVID-19 Pandemic Keeping hands clean is one of the most important steps we can take to avoid getting sick and spreading germs to others. Many diseases and illnesses are spread by not washing hands with soap and Read more…
6/10/2013 Just before Alfred Hitchcock’s legendary film, The Birds, hit the silver screen, billboards across the country were advertising the 1963 thriller with the catchy phrase, “The Birds is Coming.” I remember many conversations centered on whether the sentence structure was correct or incorrect (as funny as it sounds, it Read more…
2/6/2012 The year is 1866. The American Civil War ended only one year earlier and life in New York City was returning to its normal pace focusing on urban affairs (New York not only had brigades engaged in battle, but this was also the scene of the great draft riots Read more…
8/31/2015 I once attended a class at an industrial hygiene conference where we learned how to derive methamphetamine from the OTC cold remedy medication, Sudafed®. For years this was the starting ingredient used in clandestine labs. Iodine was used as a reducing agent (this is the opposite of an oxidizer, Read more…
6/12/2017 Coffee has become big money. Companies like Starbucks and Peet’s (made famous by Judge Ito during the OJ Simpson Trail) are Bullish on the NASDAQ stock market. It’s almost like a Renaissance. Communities in South America, Africa and Indonesia, where the coffee plant thrives, now have viable economies where Read more…
4/10/2017 Antimony – during remediation and environmental investigations, it is one of those metals that is frequently on the list of “contaminants-of-concern” or COCs : Yet most of us know very little about this material. Antimony is a chemical element with the atomic number 51. It’s chemical symbol Sb, which comes Read more…
3/27/2017 Earlier this month there was an article in US Today that told of the dangers of many products on the market that have caused more than 66,000 children – toddlers – to go to the emergency room. These products are nursery products, and, based on the latest injury statistics, Read more…