Smoke Without Fire

The Smelter explosion in the early hours of Aug 8th 2000 became a watershed moment for the company, its employees, family members and all residents of Flin Flon. Like 9/11, nothing would ever be the same again. We must always be open to rethinking the way we do things. Change must be constant. To go to work each day without getting hurt has to be an expectation we all have. In Flin Flon, the last fatality prior to the smelter explosion had been five years earlier. That had been the longest period between fatalities in the company's history. There has not been a work - related fatality in the 19 years since the explosion, but that is not to say the battle to create a harm-free workplace has been won. We could so easily have had fatalities many times over the years. Sometimes the outcome was a question of sheer luck or twist of fate, a matter of inches, or seconds making the difference between life and death. It is all the more important to revisit and communicate the important lessons learned from them. I have included many of them in the second part of this book under "Work Shouldn't Hurt" along with other examples I have experienced in my 49 years in the work force. Lessons can be learned every day. They can apply to everyone who goes to work. It doesn't matter if you are a CEO, Manager, supervisor or worker, everyone is an important cog in the wheel. Examples given and discussions throughout this book are not intended to demean or point a finger at any individual, group or company. They are purely used as learning opportunities to help people recognize and understand that sometimes it is only incredible luck or good fortune that they don't end up seriously injured, or even killed. The examples are mostly centred around heavy industry, but many similar occurrences lay dormant in many workplaces, and even outside the work environment. To reiterate, this book is not about blame or finger pointing. It is an attempt to capture and understand the circumstances that led up to the explosion and what goes into a recipe for such a disaster. Seldom is anything made from one ingredient. Similarly, a disaster is usually triggered by more than one single event or "ingredient". The fatality list that is included in this book demonstrates the tremendous sacrifice employees have made over the history of Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting. Many workplace safety and health regulations have been implemented as a direct result of lessons learned. The list does not cover the tremendous number of accidents that did not result in death but did inflict life-changing injuries. Every name on the list represents a son, brother, uncle, husband or father, and many represent every single one of those relationships, which left wives without husbands, children without dads.

You can't run forever... Celeste has been running from her past for seven years. But now her past has found her. For seven years, Celeste has battled her guilt and shame over the tragic events that led to her little brother's death. But when her high-school boyfriend comes back into her life just as she gains a stalker, she wonders if there's more to the story than she realized. Celeste is determined to discover the truth – but she's about to find out that when you play with fire, you get burned... Perfect for fans of The Silent Patient, Sleep and Whisper Man.

A retired professor spends Christmas in a not-so-peaceful English village in this wryly witty mystery with “a surprising and satisfying conclusion” (Publishers Weekly). Andrew Basnett does not have very good luck with Christmas. Most recently, while visiting friends in Australia for the festive season, he wound up with a front-row seat to some rather extraordinary family strife. And this time around, his plans for a peaceful English-village holiday get blown up when. . . . well, when his hosts’ neighbor, Sir Lucas Dearden, gets blown up. This is England in the 1980s; everyone shudders, blames the IRA, and moves on. Except, of course, for Andrew Basnett. Who knew, he wonders, about Sir Lucas’s last-minute change of plans? Why had Sir Lucas meticulously removed one page of the (rather stunningly dull) memoir he was writing? And could the bomb possibly have been intended for someone else? “Ferrars has published more than sixty books and the craftsmanship of this one shows why her popularity endures.” —Publishers Weekly “There are few detective-story writers so consistently good.” —Sunday Times

This is the Third book in the Dalton Family Trilogy, following on from Vengeance in the Sky. Craig Dalton - a successful English vet, pilot, accomplished polo player, inveterate womaniser - enjoys an enviable lifestyle in Africa. When he falls in love with a beautiful American girl on safari, his world seems complete. But everything disintegrates when Craig's past re-emerges to haunt him. Distraught, he returns to England where a serial killer, known as the 'Bristol Beast', is murdering young prostitutes. Craig becomes involved. Yet this exciting story begins in Rhodesia and ends in today's Zimbabwe, with a brutalised girl playing a pivotal role in Craig's life. Seemingly unconnected events entwine into a complex story involving rejected lovers, obsessed policemen, teenage prostitutes, a brilliant barrister, an American philanthropist and a journalist with a sinister past. This gripping saga of love, hatred, injustice and revenge is set in Africa, America, Belgium and England, places the author knows well.

This book deals with apostolic responsibility, which is to recover the welfare of God's people. The Spirit of the Lord revealed this message. It brings restoration to thousands of souls who are manipulated, tortured and confused by the enemy called the devil.

Are you a smoker, but still concerned about your general health? Kicking the smoking habit is very difficult. Studies show that addiction to tobacco is stronger than the addiction to either heroin or cocaine. While quitting smoking is certainly a worthwhile objective, it can be extremely difficult or even impossible for some people. However, fear not. This book by Dr. Health & Fitness can show you how, as a smoker, you can become healthier than many of today’s non-smoking Americans. As Dr. Health & Fitness points out, becoming healthier as a smoker can make the future transition to non-smoker much more realistic by gradually reducing the body's need for niсоtinе and the many оthеr addictive chemicals found in сigаrеttеѕ. Everything is easier when you are healthier and feel better. Following the guidelines in this book, such as keeping tabs on the levels of oxygen and antioxidants in your blood, taking a few natural supplements such as green tea extract, detoxing regularly through saunas or a massage, and adding a few vegetables to your diet can affect a real improvement in your general health and the health of your lungs. You will be happier, healthier, and perhaps in the future, readier to quit smoking completely. Following the guidelines in this book would be a great place to start.

2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Winner, Silver (Political and Social Sciences) Winner of the Montaigne Medal, awarded to "the most thought-provoking books" The first book to explore a shocking yet all-too-common type of wrongful conviction—one that locks away innocent people for crimes that never actually happened. Rodricus Crawford was convicted and sentenced to die for the murder by suffocation of his beautiful baby boy. After years on death row, evidence confirmed what Crawford had claimed all along: he was innocent, and his son had died from an undiagnosed illness. Crawford is not alone. A full one-third of all known exonerations stem from no-crime wrongful convictions. The first book to explore this common but previously undocumented type of wrongful conviction, Smoke but No Fire tells the heartbreaking stories of innocent people convicted of crimes that simply never happened. A suicide is mislabeled a homicide. An accidental fire is mislabeled an arson. Corrupt police plant drugs on an innocent suspect. A false allegation of assault is invented to resolve a custody dispute. With this book, former New York City public defender Jessica S. Henry sheds essential light on a deeply flawed criminal justice system that allows—even encourages—these convictions to regularly occur. Smoke but No Fire promises to be eye-opening reading for legal professionals, students, activists, and the general public alike as it grapples with the chilling reality that far too many innocent people spend real years behind bars for fictional crimes.