December 2011
Recalls, Market Withdrawals, & Safety Alerts Cal Fresco, LLC Recalls Jalapeño and Serrano Chili Peppers Due to Possible Health Risk →
fda.gov
Had to throw my stuff out. Heads up, y’all.
Wednesday by the Numbers (or, TMI Tuesday, 24hrs later)
Number of miles traversed: 3
Layers of socks: 2
Number of pairs of pants worn: 2
Numbers of shirts & jackets combined: 7
Number of other accoutrements: 5
Number of degrees Fahrenheit: 32
Number of conscious children when I arrived home: 1
Number of unconscious children laying half-in, half-out of bed because he started to wake up and decided it was too much work to finish: 1
Number of coffees drunk: 3
Loads of laundry done: 3
Numbers of times I referred to cyber-stalking as “research”: 1
Number of times I have had to watch/listen to this: 3
Number of times I have seriously discussed Mittelschmerz: 1
Number of times I have mentally sent high fives over the internetz to a fellow mom/writer who sold a project: 1
Number of times I have mentally sent a double-bird and loud “EFF YOU” people who have said, “So, you just stay home with the kids all day? You don’t really do anything?”: 2
Number of times I have mentally cursed Craigslist communicators for starting then ditching negotiations on my stuff for sale: 3
Number of times Mr Masala asked if I packed his lunch today “with love, or did you just slap it in there?”: 2
Number of times I realized that euphemism too late: 2
Number of times HE realized that euphemism at ALL: 0
Number of current, active projects: 2
Number of projects in the mental outline phase: 1
Number of times I’ve thought, “Wow. The tumblr sure is chatty today.”: 1
Number of slow cooker meals currently processing: 1
Number of 1lb bags of frozen mixed vegetables eaten as a snack, post-nukeage: 1
Number of times my 3 year old requested to watch cat videos: 4
“Having, then, cleaned his armor, turned his steel cap into a visored helmet, baptized his nag and confirmed himself, he realized that the only remaining task was to find a lady of whom he could be enamored; for a knight errant without a lady-love is a tree without leaves or fruit, a body without a soul.”
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Cervantes, Don Quixote (via brandedbyflips)
SWOON
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Announced overnight: Big ground-beef recall for drug-resistant Salmonella (FSIS) →
fsis.usda.gov
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2011 - Hannaford, a Scarborough, Maine-based grocery chain, is recalling an undetermined amount of fresh ground beef products that may be contaminated with a strain of Salmonella Typhimurium, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The products subject to recall are any size package of the following:
- “73% Hannaford Regular Ground Beef”
- “75% Hannaford Regular Ground Beef”
- “80% Hannaford Regular Ground Beef”
- “85% Hannaford Regular Ground Beef”
- “90% Hannaford Regular Ground Beef”
- “80% Taste of Inspirations Angus Ground Beef”
- “85% Taste of Inspirations Angus Ground Beef”
- “90% Taste of Inspirations Angus Ground Beef”
- “85% Nature’s Place Ground Beef”
- “90% Nature’s Place Ground Beef”
This recall was initiated due to concerns about illnesses caused by an outbreak of salmonellosis that may be associated with use and consumption of fresh in-store ground beef prepared in and purchased at Hannaford stores. The PFGE pattern associated with this outbreak is reported rarely in the U.S.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have reported 14 ill persons with an indistinguishable PFGE pattern, and 11 of those individuals reported consuming ground beef. Seven individuals were hospitalized and no deaths have been reported. Ten of the 14 case-patients reported purchasing ground beef at Hannaford stores in Maine, New York, New Hampshire and Vermont between Oct. 12 and Nov. 20. No other product description is available at this time.
As a result of on-going epidemiologic and traceback investigations, as well as in-store reviews, FSIS, working with the CDC and its state health partners, determined that there is a link between the Hannaford ground beef products and this illness outbreak. FSIS is continuing to work with CDC, public health partners in the affected states and the company on the investigation. FSIS will continue to provide information as it becomes available.
The various ground beef packages bear sell-by dates of Dec. 17, 2011 or earlier and were sold at Hannaford stores throughout Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. FSIS and the company are concerned that some product may be frozen and in consumers’ freezers. When available, the retail distribution list(s) will be posted on FSIS’ website at: www.fsis.usda.gov/FSIS_Recalls /Open_Federal_Cases/index.asp.
The outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium has initially tested resistant to multiple commonly prescribed antibiotics, including drug classes such as beta-lactams, aminoglycosides, and cephalosporins. Additional information on drug resistance will be made public as it becomes available…
FYI…sciencing and non-sciencing folks.
“The show went on sale at noon on Saturday, December 10th. 12 hours later, we had over 50,000 purchases and had earned $250,000, breaking even on the cost of production and website. As of Today, we’ve sold over 110,000 copies for a total of over $500,000. Minus some money for PayPal charges etc, I have a profit around $200,000 (after taxes $75.58). This is less than I would have been paid by a large company to simply perform the show and let them sell it to you, but they would have charged you about $20 for the video. They would have given you an encrypted and regionally restricted video of limited value, and they would have owned your private information for their own use. They would have withheld international availability indefinitely. This way, you only paid $5, you can use the video any way you want, and you can watch it in Dublin, whatever the city is in Belgium, or Dubai. I got paid nice, and I still own the video (as do you). You never have to join anything, and you never have to hear from us again.”
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A Statement From Louis CK on the success of distributing his latest comedy special online for $5.
Good job, internet.
(via ryeisenberg)
Live Tweeting a vasectomy →
scientopia.org
See kids? Not so bad. Not bad at all.
