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The Maggots in Your Mushrooms
"You are what you eat" –right?––After reading this alarming report, I'll never be able to buy packaged / processed foods again! This information is relevant to all of us everywhere around the world, since most packaged foods are made up of 'imported and local' produce.... 415 views | 11 recommendations | 6 comments
Listeria persists for years
My curiousity about how biological outbreaks can be identified and tracked -- such as the recent Maple Leaf Foods listeria outbreak in Canada -- lead me to this abstract. Genome sequencing, or a... Outsourcing aids many data thefts, Verizon says
" NEW YORK (AP) -- The reliance of restaurant chains and retail stores on outside companies to handle credit-card processing and other information-technology functions is partly to blame for a rash of...Moneytalk: $3bn Jazan city, saudi Bin Laden Group builds Economic city
"Saudi Bin Laden Group plan a $3 billion smelter here to help create 500,000 jobs. Jazan will also attempt to build Saudi industries in silicon processing, agri-technology, textiles, food processing, and...India plans to build eight 700-MW nuclear plants
"The country plans to build eight 700-MW nuclear plants to boost its nuclear power generation capacity to about 10,000 MW and is stepping up exploration to uncover new uranium mines, a top Atomic Energy Commission official has said. At present the country has a nuclear...Savings windfall for firm that moved from Microsoft Outlook to Gmail
"Taylor Woodrow, a UK-based construction company, has switched its 1,800 employees' e-mail from Microsoft Outlook to enterprise Gmail. The company is also beginning to use other components of Google Apps, the suite of Web-based applications that includes, in addition to...French experts help develop Sa Pa tourism site
The cooperation between northern mountainous Lao cai Province and Aquitaine, the largest south-western region of France, has yielded initial results."In 2004, 53 botanical species that Aquitaine provided to Lao...Scottish oil refinery resumes operations after strike ends
The strike is over for the workers at the Grangemouth oil refinery in central Scotland. They returned to work today after a 48-hour strike that forced the closure of a major North Sea pipeline system."UNITE,...Tastes like chicken?
"Bosintang. Ever heard of it?Well, it’s Dog Soup. Big item in Korea. I’m not talking about the North Koreans, living on a starvation diet in Li’l Kim’s workers paradise. No, this is prosperous...
created by nukegingrich | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
730 views | 10 recommendations | 4 comments
730 views | 10 recommendations | 4 comments
Baggage halted at new £4.3bn T5
"Flights from Heathrow's new £4.3bn Terminal 5 are departing with hand baggage only after luggage check-in was suspended due to a processing backlog.British Airways, which has sole use of T5, announced check-in of all hold luggage was suspended until Friday.The airline has...Chance to stem campylobacter epidemic missed
" while a small step in the right direction, fails to include some very simple measures to stem the tide of campylobacter contamination of chicken meat being sold to New Zealanders, Safe Food Spokesperson Sue Kedgley says. "Campylobacter is a nasty food-borne illness that...The Sigma DP1 could be an ideal solution for photographers who have problems ...
After a wait of more than a year the Sigma DP1 Compact Digital Camera is now available. Mine arrived on Thursday and I have had some time to play with it. I have uploaded a number of photographs to...IBM Blue Gene Times Three – On The Road To “Petaflop” :: Oblate Spheroid
"Yesterday, IBM announced that its experimental high-speed computer located at the Livermore Labs in northern California just passed by the world’s fastest calculation processing mark. IBM was able to clobber...Alarming TB count at AL poultry processing plant
"All of the employees of Wayne Farms processing, in Decatur, AL have received TB skin tests….the results are mind-boggling. Nearly one-third of the tests came up positive."Wow. Just wow.Correction: Originally identified as Decatur, GA. It is Decatur, AL....
created by nukegingrich | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
810 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
810 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
The great passport gouge
In a year when U.S. and Canadian citizens were more or less forced to acquire passports en masse, there was very little comfort to be offered for the time and money travelers spent papering up. Hours of lines,...
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