Slave by Lucky Dube

I came across this interesting reggae song from South Africa recently. Apparently Rastafarian Dube was murdered in 2007 in Johannesburg by carjackers. He was 43.

Americano

I was going to mention how in Paris I asked for an Americano and they brought me one of these

Conrad and Peter, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>,
via Wikimedia Commons

That's a cocktail (see more here). What I wanted was one of these (see more here)

Just showing my ignorance I guess.

Alcohol problems

My attention was drawn to an article here highlighting the deleterious impact drunkenness is having on our society. The article begins

For the first time, researchers have calculated the number of deaths from conditions such as cancers, accidents and heart disease which are related to drinking but not wholly caused by alcohol.
It means previous official figures, which put the number of deaths caused by alcohol at 8,386 in a year, vastly underestimate the full impact of drinking on health.
The new statistics show that 15,000 people died as a result of their drinking in 2005 accounting for three per cent of all deaths in that year.
It is 80 per cent higher than had been thought.

I had not realised there was such a strong link between alcohol and cancer.

More here.