U.S. Department of Labor Fixes Error Dating to 2016 Implementation of “Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses” Regulation

April 30, 2018 Contact: Office of Communications Phone: 202-693-1999

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U.S. Department of Labor and Association of Energy Service Companies Renew Alliance to Keep Texas Oil and Gas Employees Safe

April 27, 2018 U.S. Department of Labor and Association of Energy Service Companies Renew Alliance to Keep Texas Oil and Gas Employees Safe

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Statement by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Loren Sweatt on Workers’ Memorial Day 2018

April 27, 2018

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Statement by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Loren Sweatt on Workers’ Memorial Day 2018

  April 27, 2018

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U.S. Department of Labor and Florida Roofing Contractor Settle Lawsuit on Whistleblower Allegations

April 26, 2018 U.S. Department of Labor and Florida Roofing Contractor Settle Lawsuit on Whistleblower Allegations

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3 Ways to Improve Blood Circulation

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Poor blood circulation can cause a number of other problems that you’ll surely hate dealing with. Varicose veins, numbness, exhaustion, and dizziness are only some of the common symptoms you’ll experience, unless you do something to improve your blood circulation. Try any of the following:

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Soak in a whirlpool bathtub
The combination of warm water and massage jets in a whirlpool promote better blood circulation. They help your blood vessels dilate, or open up, allowing more oxygen and nutrients to flow to major organs. This is particularly beneficial to those who have arthritis. Improved circulation can encourage better movement and less pain and stiffness in your joints. Source: LiveStrong

Don’t forget your roots
Ginger, onions, and garlic are three items that you’ll definitely want to add to your grocery list – not only they stimulate and improve the health of the circulatory system – but also because they’re just good for you.  Fresh ginger root is anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, improves digestion, and can soothe all forms of nausea.  Garlic and onions contain organosulfur compounds which help the body to fight off infection, eliminate toxins from the liver and blood, and can even keep biting insects away. Source: NaturalLivingIdeas

Stay active
Anything that aids in general fitness should boost your circulation. When you work out, try both:

• Cardiovascular training. Swimming, biking, running, playing sports, etc. Aerobic activity will improve heart and blood vessel function.
• Strength training. Strength training (lifting weights) will help you build muscle, which in turn increases the effectiveness of cardiovascular and lymph circulation.
• Every hour, get up and try 3 to 5 minutes’ worth of stretching or small exercise. This is especially handy if you’re at a desk all day and barely get a chance to walk around. Try doing little arm circles, touching your hands to your toes, kicking out your feet, or performing small, slowjumping jacks (enough to get your heart rate up). Source: WikiHow

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U.S. Department of Labor, Georgia Tech, and Georgia Department Of Public Health Form Alliance to Reduce Lead Exposure

April 23, 2018 U.S. Department of Labor, Georgia Tech, and Georgia Department Of Public Health Form Alliance to Reduce Lead Exposure

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U.S. Department of Labor Proposes Penalties for Farm Supply Company For Operating Damaged Forklift at its Ohio Facility

April 23, 2018 U.S. Department of Labor Proposes Penalties for Farm Supply Company For Operating Damaged Forklift at its Ohio Facility

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Ed, Rhoda and Allan

In The Wall Street Journal this week, I interviewed actor Ed Harris on growing up in Tenafly, N.J. (go here), and why he gave up football at Columbia University to move to Oklahoma. His new film is Kodachrome. [Photo above from YouTube]

Here's the trailer...

SiriusXM. I will be joining Nik Carter and Lori Majewski on Feedback (Ch. 106) this Thursday (April 26) to talk about my recent go-go-dancing article in the WSJ, with a focus on the music and the evolution of the outsized mid-1960s beat. Tune in from 9 to 10 a.m. (EDT). I'll be on from 9:15 to 10a.m.

For those who may have missed my last visit with Nik and Lori a couple of weeks ago to talk about my "Anatomy of a Song" column on Rocket Man, here's a link to the show: go here.

Django at Carnegie Hall. If you're in New York on Tuesday, May 1, Pat Philips will present in association with Leonardo and George DiCaprio an evening of Gypsy jazz. Passing the Family Torch will feature the Django Festival All Stars Dorado, Samson and Amati Schmitt (guitars), Ludovic Beier (accordion) and Pierre Blanchard (violin). Plus Philippe "Doudou" Cuillerier (guitar), Antonio Licusati (bass), Francko Mehrstein, (guitar) and Gino Roman (bass). Special guests are vocalist Melody Gardot, clarinetist Ken Peplowski and vocalist Veronica Swift. The concert starts at 8 p.m. For tickets and more information, go here.

Here's a taste...

The concert is dedicated to Maestro Ettore Stratta.

Gene Ammons's daughter, Lila Ammons, is trying to raise money to produce a new album. She has an absolutely beautiful voice. Go here to listen and donate toward the stretch goal of $14,000. Here's her Kickstarter video...

Denny Zeitlin, live. On May 2-5, pianist Denny will be at New York's Mezzrow. At the club, he'll be playing solo on some nights and with bassist Buster Williams and drummer Matt Wilson on others. For more information on his run as well as directions and other information, go here.

If you can't make it or you're out of town, stream Denny's gigs live at the Smalls Live site. First check the dates and times above at the Mezzrow schedule. Then dim the lights, pour yourself a cup of tea and watch and listen here.

Birthday radio extravaganza. WKCR-FM has three 24-hour jazz birthday-broadcast radio specials coming up:

Charles Mingus—Sunday, April 22, airing from Saturday night at 11:59 p.m. through Sunday at midnight.

Ella Fitzgerald—Wednesday, April 25, airing from Tuesday night at 11:59 p.m. through Wednesday at midnight.

Duke Ellington—Sunday, April 29, airing from Saturday night at 11:59 p.m. through Sunday at midnight. 

You can access WKCR-FM from anywhere in the world on your computer and smartphone by going here.

In France, or going to be? Organist Rhoda Scott, who lives in France, is touring extensively to celebrate her 80th birthday (on July 3). She will be in concert with her Lady Quartet and the Ladies All Stars in France and Belgium now through the end of the year and into 2019. For information about her schedule, go here. Here's Rhoda in action last year with her group...

To read my 2011 JazzWax interview with Rhoda Scott, go here.

Brazil break. Clark Wurzberger sent along this marvelous clip of singer-songwriter and guitarist Dori Caymmi playing Hurricane Country...

What the heck. Here's comedian Allan Sherman in 1965 singing a parody of Petula Clark's Downtown on Australian TV. The expressions on a fruging Jacki Weaver's face are priceless. Still a riot!...

Oddball album cover of the week.

Music for a while...until they evacuate your neighborhood? Until your roof blows off? Beautiful cover image though, despite the windy title.

       

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Crocuses: Plant The Earliest Flowers Where The Snow Melts First

This is the third in a series of posts encouraging you to plant the earliest-blooming flowers where the snow melts first. When it comes time to plant these flowers, you won’t remember where the snow melted first unless you take photos as it’s melting. If your snow is gone, write down what you can remember of the early-melting locations and use these suggestions if all else fails. Today I present everything I know about crocuses.

To look at American bulb catalogs, you’d think there were only two kinds of crocuses–big ones (Dutch crocuses) and little ones (species crocuses). Turns out there’s so many different kinds of crocuses, an entire book was written about them (my review here). Sadly, not all of them are hardy in my climate. But I’ve found some that are, and as a bonus, they bloom earlier than the Dutch and species crocuses commonly offered here.

The crocuses with dark centers are Crocus korolkowii ‘Black-Eyed Beauty’. The slightly paler blossoms without the dark eye are Crocus x leonidii ‘Early Gold’. My previous “korolkowiis” became rodent snack a winter or two ago and I’ve missed their early appearance.

Those very early crocuses whet my appetite for the main show, which is in the lawn. By planting in the lawn, I avoid most of the predations of voles, who can’t be bothered digging in the unamended rocky clay.

I’m thankful for the crocuses in the lawn, but they somehow seem lacking. In the second planting, the big crocuses are blooming before the little crocuses, leaving big gaps in the planting. I think it’s time to plant another 400 corms. You can see the stump of the maple we recently had cut down, and if you click on the image to enlarge it, you can also see snowdrops in the top left of the image.

I listed the bulbs from my first planting here. The second planting was 25 of Crocus vernus ‘Twilight’, 200 of Scheeper’s species crocus mix and 100 of their large flowering mix. (The plant lists for the Crocus Bank at the old house are here.) Since some of the bulbs were from unlabeled mixes, I don’t know all their names, but I have been able to identify some of the crocuses.

Crocus sieberi ‘Firefly’ is always one of the first to bloom.

Crocus angustifolius ‘Cloth of Gold’ is another early one.

Crocus chyrsanthus ‘Snow Bunting’ is early and fragrant.

‘Queen of the Blues’ is an older variety that’s getting hard to find.

‘Gaudeamus’ is not in the lawn, yet. There is a gap between the first and second lawn plantings. I’ve started planting some crocuses in a garden bed so that I can transplant them into the gap when I can see where it is. ‘Gaudeamus’ is a recent introduction from Odyssey Bulbs.

A few more things about crocuses

Crocuses come from areas of the world where it’s hot and dry all summer. If your lawn gets frequent irrigation or you use chemical weed-killers on it, crocuses won’t do well in your lawn. Old House Gardens has some further tips. These lawn crocuses were planted in the root zones of an old oak and maple that have since been cut down. Those trees helped keep the area dry in summer, so perhaps my crocuses will decline without that extra help. I hope not!

Now, about those rodents. There are squirrels and chipmunks around here, but they don’t bother the bulbs in my very unpampered lawn. Let’s face it, it’s easier for them to eat the bird seed from the feeders. Also, it’s not easy digging, for them or for me. Now the garden beds are a different story. Before the chipmunks and squirrels can eat them, the voles have already been there. I have thwarted them for several years by surrounding the bulbs with grit. (Read more about using grit here.) That gave me three years of blooms before suddenly there were none. But that’s long enough to get them from the garden to the lawn, where they are not eaten.

Finally, you should know that not everyone has as much trouble planting crocuses as I do. Carol Michel of May Dreams Gardens plants a thousand crocuses in a couple of hours. It’s a public service to the whole neighborhood, so I hope you will consider it for your own garden. Of course I’ll understand if the squirrels have other ideas.

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April 20, 2018

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U.S. Department of Labor Cites Ohio Plastics Company, Proposes $261,454 in Penalties for Workplace Safety Hazards

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Snowdrops: Plant The Earliest Flowers Where The Snow Melts First

This is the second in a series of posts encouraging you to plant the earliest-blooming flowers where the snow melts first. When it comes time to plant these flowers, you won’t remember where the snow melted first unless you take photos as it’s melting. If your snow is gone, write down what you can remember of the early-melting locations and use these suggestions if all else fails.

Snowdrops are tied with winter aconites for the prize of very-first-bloom. They usually emerge from the ground well before the aconites do, millimeter by millimeter, but won’t actually open their flowers until the temperature reaches 50°F. Winter aconites are jack rabbits by comparison, emerging and blooming in the space of twenty-four hours when conditions are right. Of course you should grow both!

Snowdrops have become quite the “it” flower and single bulbs of rare cultivars can go for breathtaking prices. But save your breath and your pocketbook and invest in the varieties that multiply quickly, such as those described below. Buy a few and pretty soon you’ll have enough to make a patch. And a patch will be visible from inside the house. Just sayin’.

The first snowdrops I ever got were given to me by a gardening friend. She had found them growing “in the wild,” presumably where a house had once stood. I later learned they were the common snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis, and they did very well for me.

I divided up that original clump of snowdrops and planted them singly along this path (pictured above). The singletons multiplied and eventually became a river of snowdrops 50 feet long.

I transplanted some snowdrops from my former home to my new Secret Garden. These were also planted as single bulbs six years ago. Photo ©Talitha Purdy.

I was content with these sweet little things until I found out there were other snowdrops that bloomed earlier.

That got me planting ‘S. Arnott,’ a hybrid snowdrop that blooms earlier–and bigger–than the common snowdrop. It’s also fragrant, and while it doesn’t multiply quite as rapidly as its common cousin, it bulks up fairly quickly. I heartily recommend it!

Then a friend gave me the double form of the common snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis ‘Flore Pleno’, whose blooms are perhaps slightly more visible from a distance and certainly more amusing up close.

For many years I was content with those three. But three years ago, I had a gift card for Brent and Becky’s Bulbs in my hand, and decided to order whatever snowdrops they sold that I didn’t already have.

You can tell Galanthus woronowii from other snowdrops because one leaf is tightly clasped around the other. They can tolerate drier soil (and perhaps warmer temps?) than many other snowdrops.

This is Galanthus nivalis ‘Viridi-apice’. Viridi-apice means green peak in Latin, except the peaks are actually the tips of the petals. The green marking is pretty faint on some, but it multiplies just as rapidly as its non-green-tipped cousins.

‘Magnet’ was selected out of a batch of common snowdrops for its especially long pedicel (the part that attaches the flower to the main stem). The outer petals are twice as long as the inner petals, and on a nice warm day (not warm when this picture was taken) the outer petals are almost horizontal. I imagine a magnet on a string for a child’s fishing game when I see this flower.

The fair ‘Hippolyta’ is a double whose inner petals are more neatly arranged and whose outer petals are wider and perhaps not as long as G. nivalis ‘Flore Pleno’. Elegant, rather than amusing. It is one of the Greatorex doubles, a hybrid of ‘Flore Pleno’ and G. plicatus, named after a Shakespeare character.

Now I always check my usual bulb-shopping haunts for whatever snowdrops they may offer, never spending more on a single galanthus bulb than I would spend on a colchicum corm. (That’s my own personal rule to stave off galanthophilia.) In subsequent years I have added these snowdrops to my garden:

Galanthus plicatus ‘Straffan’ is one of the oldest snowdrop selections still in existence. Baron Clarina, owner of Straffan House, brought back snowdrops when he returned from the Crimean War, and this snowdrop was picked out from those original ones.

‘Primrose Warburg’ was the gift of a generous friend, because she still belongs to the “breathtaking price” clique. Her golden ovary and inner markings are what set her apart. This is her first year in my garden, so I don’t know how fast she will multiply, but if my friend had enough to share, I suspect she multiplies freely.

Galanthus plicatus has pleated leaves. This is its first year in my garden, and it had the misfortune of blooming just before we got a big dump of snow, and then alternating snowfalls and thaws. I would like to say it has seen better days, but I think all of its days this year have been pretty miserable. It’s a good picture of the pleat in the leaf, however.

Maybe the differences in those snowdrops don’t seem different enough to you, but I enjoy picking out the details in each variety, especially when Spring moves at a slow pace, as it is doing this year. If you want to learn more about snowdrops, a good place to start is the Snowdrops in American Gardens Facebook group.

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April 17, 2018

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Winter Aconites: Plant The Earliest Flowers Where The Snow Melts First

This spring has tested the hardiness of my hardy soul. I bet it’s tested yours, too, especially if you live in the Northern Plains and parts east that were bombarded by “Winter Storm Xanto”. In light of what my fellow cold climate gardeners are enduring, I’m not going to complain about my weather, which seems like it’s finally done with snow accumulation, even if it can’t string two mild days together. Yes, Spring has been slow to arrive, but it is arriving, one treasured flower at a time.

A slow spring highlights the need to have as many early flowers as possible. Remember: take pictures of where the snow melts first, and plant your earliest-blooming flowers there. As a cold climate gardener, this concept is so important to me that I decided to write a series of posts featuring the earliest blooming flowers. We have such a long winter; by the time it ends we are just hanging on by a thread. The sooner we have some flowers blooming, the sooner our spring fever eases. Yet so many gardeners are unaware of how many flowers bloom during mud season, that nebulous period which fluctuates between winter one day and spring the next. In this series I’m going to discuss them one genus at a time, starting with winter aconites.

Winter Aconites

Perhaps, like me, you’ve been frustrated by winter aconites (Eranthis spp.).

Oh, how I love the sunshine of winter aconites! (Eranthis hyemalis)

After successfully growing them in high school, I never could get them established in my garden until a kind friend sent me some “in the green”. Later, when my sister moved to the Finger Lakes, they were growing like weeds at her new home–seeding into the lawn from the flower beds–and I begged some off of her. I’m at the point now where I really should get brave and divide them. I do see some seedlings as well, but they often get killed by naughty chickens scratching in my garden beds–or by the gardener who insists on planting one more thing.

I acquired this lovely thing a few years ago, but this is the first year it’s shown its semi-doubleness. (Eranthis hyemalis ‘Flore Pleno’)

It didn’t bloom for me until I moved it into a sunnier spot. Not that it gets full sun now, just more sun than it used to. Those seem to be the two key things about growing winter aconites: 1) get some from a patch that’s already doing well and 2) make sure they get enough sun to make a flower for next year. If you don’t know a gardener already growing them, try ordering some from Old House Gardens, which takes special care to make sure the corms don’t dry out. And after you manage to get a patch going, check out these other species and varieties.

Inspired by the words of Elizabeth Lawrence, “We can have flowers nearly every month of the year,” Carol of May Dreams Gardens started Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. On the 15th of every month, garden bloggers from all over the world publish what is currently blooming in their gardens. Check it out at May Dreams Gardens.

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U.S. Department of Labor Cites Nebraska Company For Exposing Employees to Trenching Hazards

April 17, 2018 U.S. Department of Labor Cites Nebraska Company For Exposing Employees to Trenching Hazards

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OSHA Flier Offers Steps to Keep Tractor Trailer Drivers Safe at Destination

April 17, 2018 Contact: Office of Communications Phone: 202-693-1999

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The Eclectic Elek Bacsik

Elek Bacsik was a Hungarian Gypsy jazz guitarist who today virtually unknown. The cousin of Django Reinhardt, Bacsik was born in 1926 and began playing the violin at age 4. After studying at the Budapest Conservatory in the '40s, he taught himself the guitar, playing Gypsy and classical music. In the post-war 1940s, he left Hungary for Vienna and then Switzerland. In Bern, he played in light-music groups fashionable at the time in cafes, returning to Hungary to record in the late 1940s.

In 1949, Bacsik discovered bebop and bought all of the Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie records he could find. Throughout the 1950s, he made his way to Lebanon, Spain, Portugal and Italy. In 1959, he moved to Paris, where he played at many of the city's Left Bank jazz clubs. He also recorded as a sideman on albums led by Art Simmons, Clark Terry, Kenny Clarke, Lou Bennett and others. In February 1962, he recorded his first album as a leader in Paris. That summer, he played with Gillespie at France's Antibes Jazz Festival and recorded on Dizzy on the French Riviera (Philips).

Bacsik moved to the States in 1966 with hopes of making a name for himself as a jazz musician. But without strong brand recognition, his dream was tough to realize. Instead, he disappeared with his violin into the Las Vegas pit orchestras, resurfacing in the 1970s, recording albums on the violin and the electric violin. Those would be his last recordings. Sadly he would never again reach the status as a jazz musician that he had achieved in Paris years earlier.

Listening back to his leadership albums recorded in Paris, one realizes that Bacsik was a forceful, swinging player. He had an aggressive attack and improvised beautifully, letting notes ring. On his first album, The Electric Guitar of the Eclectic Elek Bacsik (Fontana), later released as Jazz Guitarist, he was joined by two different pairings over the two recording sessions:

Pierre Michelot (b) and Kenny Clarke (d) on Take Five, Blue Rondo a la Turk, Willow Weep for Me, My Old Flame, On Green Dolphin Street and Milestones. On the second session, Bacsik was backed by Michel Gaudry (b) and Daniel Humair (d) on Nuages, Angel Eyes, Godchild and Opus De Funk.

Elek Bacsik died in 1993.

JazzWax tracks: Jazz Guitarist is out of print, but you'll find all of the tracks on Jazz In Paris: Nuages here. This release combines Jazz Guitarist with four bossa nova tracks recorded the same year.

As for Jazz Conceptions (1963), you'll find it on Jazz in Paris: Jazz Conceptions here.

Bacsik also recorded a superb album with Serge Gainsbourg in 1963—Gainsbourg Confidential. You'll find the album at Spotify. [Photo above, from left, Serge Gainsbourg, Elek Bacsik, Michel Gaudry]

JazzWax tracks: Here's Godchild...

Godchild

Here's Conception...

Conception

And here's Serge Gainsbourg's Chez les Ye-Ye...

Chez les Ye-Ye

A special thanks to Tom Fine.

       

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