Views: Visits 10 Srinrat Wuttichaikitcharoen/EyeEm/Getty Images You twist and turn every night, trying to get to sleep. Nothing seems to work – and you get more and more stressed. You snap at the kids, snarl at your partner and you can barely get through the day. It is estimated that a lot of the population is prone to insomnia with women more likely to suffer than men. All sorts of factors can affect our sleep – medical conditions like sleep apnoea, lifestyle issues such as poor diet, or the stress of bereavement, divorce or losing your job. But if insomnia is ruining your life, remember that your family may be suffering too. “However supportive your partner may be, seeing someone at your worst for much of the time is hardly a recipe for a happy domestic life”, says Lynda Brown, author of the Insomniac’s Best Friend: How to get a Better Night’s Sleep. And if you are an insomniac with kids, normal family life might seem impossible at
EU-banned pesticides are harming farmworkers in SA
9 May 2021
Poison pen: A report by German NGOs has criticised duplicity in the global trade in pesticides, which may be developed in the EU but sold elsewhere. (Paul Botes/M&G)
The active ingredients in hazardous pesticides, developed and brought to market by German agrochemical firms Bayer and BASF, are damaging the health of farmworkers and farmers in South Africa.
Six of eight active ingredients that have been deemed carcinogenic (cancer-causing), reprotoxic (interfering with human reproduction) and mutagenic (capable of inducing heritable genetic defects or increasing their incidence), can be found on the South African agrochemicals market four from Bayer and two from BASF according to a new report by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, the Inkota Netzwerk and Pan Germany.
Widow of lead plaintiff in landmark case turns 100
May 8, 2021
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The widow of the lead plaintiff in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case that led to school desegregation has turned 100. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Leola Brown Montgomery celebrated her birthday on Friday.
Montgomery’s husband, Oliver Brown, became the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit after attempting to enroll their daughter, Linda, in an all-white elementary school near the family s Topeka home in 1951. Oliver Brown was told she had to instead attend the all-Black Monroe School two miles away.
As a result, the NAACP filed a legal challenge to segregated schooling in Kansas. Cases from the District of Columbia and three other states were consolidated into Brown v Board of Education.
There will soon be a new spot for outdoor dining and picnicking in Bradford Square.
The City of Haverhill has agreed to license a parcel of land between the Sky Dragon restaurant and the Oh Daddy’s building in what is formally called Central Square, Bradford, for use as a small public park over the summer.
Councilor Timothy J. Jordan said this week the idea came from longtime Haverhill resident Eric Sahagian of the Better World Club who approached him about cleaning up the spot. He said additional efforts by the mayoral Chief of Staff Allison Heartquist and Lynda Brown from the city’s Brightside group turned the idea into a reality.