Not even the national Food Safety Summit is immune from food poisoning. More than 100 people who attended the meeting earlier this month in Baltimore were stricken by a possible outbreak of gastroenteritis that left attendees suffering terrible bouts of diarrhea and nausea, reports NBC News. Try the veal.
The conference was attended by 1,300 of the nation's "top food safety officials" including employees from the Food and Drug Administration, McDonald's, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of those sickened might be even larger than the reported 100, since event organizers have only heard back from a third of those who attended. The rest were too sick to do anything.
"We are working on evaluating possible exposures and doing testing at the Maryland state public health laboratory to attempt to identify an agent," officials said in a letter addressed to attendees Maybe a Russian agent. It certainly wasn't 007.
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[Xinhua] The White House announced fresh sanctions on Monday against Russia, targeting seven government officials and 17 companies.
These people, among them two from Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... 's inner circle, and entities were hit with a visas ban and asset freeze in response to what the White House called Moscow's "continued illegal intervention in Ukraine and provocative acts."
The B.O. regime also took steps against high-technology exports to the Russian defense industry, White House front man Jay Carney said in a statement.
In response, Russia vowed on Monday to deliver a "painful" response to the fresh U.S. sanctions.
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[DALLASNEWS] Toyota plans to start moving people to its new U.S. headquarters in Plano starting this summer.
The headquarters relocation -- confirmed Monday afternoon -- will bring about 4,000 jobs from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Kentucky and New York.
The worldwide automaker said it will consolidate its three separate North American headquarters for manufacturing, sales and marketing, and corporate operations to a state-of-the-art campus to be built in Plano.
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Rick Perry's hunting trips are making an impact.
Irving, TX (Dallas Suburb) - "Las Colinas Area - Mustang Plaza Above" - Home of 2,000 corporations.
Plano, TX (Dallas Suburb) - Home of Northern Telecom, Erricsson, up the freeway from Texas Instruments, in Richardson. Tx (Dallas Suburb)
Frisco, TX (Dallas, Suburb) - Booming with numerous big name corporations.
DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit rail, bus system, hov) and TxDOT highway system is expanding tremendously.
Mammoth freeway under construction below (LBJ Freeway Dallas):
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Governor Perry appears to work hard for his constituents and get things done. Quite a contrast from what we've seen for the past 5 years coming out of the White House. Perhaps he is focused on ALL Texans.
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With all of the politics capturing the headlines, Perry took advantage of this and made things happen for his state. Good one on him. The article was a bit misleading to me. It seems most of the jobs will move from CA. The Kentucky site is manufacturing, maybe they are taking a little of the leadership to TX. Moving the manufacturing from KY would not go well. They are the largest employer in KY and they have been the FLOT against the unions. They have held the line against all unions and pulling stakes would come with some repercussions.
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Irving, Plano and Frisco Texas are not suburbs of Dallas. They're cities in their own right. And Frisco, isn't even located in Dallas County. It's in Collin and Denton counties.
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ERLANGER, Ky. -- Northern Kentucky faces a $3 million nosedive in tax revenue as a result of Toyota's decision to relocate its North American manufacturing headquarters and 1,600 workers from its 44-acre campus that carries an Erlanger address and spreads into Boone County.
By all accounts, state and regional leaders from the governor's office to Erlanger's city hall were blind-sided Monday morning when Toyota officials met with Gov. Steve Beshear to break the news.
Now they're scrambling to come up with plans to retain as many of highly-skilled employees as possible and covering the economic gap.
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Do you really WANT all those libral types arriving?
No!
Will 4000 New Democrat voters bee nought to swing the Dallas elections?
Not all of the 4000 jobs will be filled by employees moving to Dallas. Some won't move. Besides, due to Dallas demographic mix, most of the city and some of the county seats are usually held by democrats.
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most worked for the Toyota hive. It's not likely they're liberals
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[DAWN] The Sindh Assembly on Monday passed the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2013 prohibiting marriage of children below 18 years.
The assembly is the first provincial legislature in the country to approve a bill to curb child marriages.
Under the bill, the minimum for marriage is 18 years. Those found violating the law would be punished in line with the penalty suggested in the legislation.
According to the law, in cases of underage marriages, those involved can be sentenced to three years in prison and they can also be fined.
The bill was first presented in the assembly in 2013 by Sharmila Farooqi and Rubina Qaimkhani.
The passage of the bill comes on the heel's of controversy that was ignited after the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) had ruled in March that prohibition of under-age marriage was un-Islamic.
The CII had ruled that children of any age could get married if they attain puberty.
Chairman CII Maulana Muhammad Khan Sheerani had stated that the laws related to marriage were unfair.
"The laws limiting the age for both the segments of marriage are un-Islamic and needed to be rectified," Sheerani had said.
The Sindh Assembly in response rejected the ruling of the CII and passed a resolution calling for the body to be disbanded.
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The Indian Navy had to politely refuse an unusual request from the Chinese navy chief, Wu Shengli, when he came aboard one of India's frontline stealth warships, INS Shivalik this week and wanted to be shown the Combat Information Centre (CII) or the all-important tactical room of the frigate.
It was learnt that Indian officers declined Wu's request--considered a major break from established protocol followed by navies around the world -- saying since the ship was in the harbour, the room was locked and was not open to outsiders.
But Wu insisted on seeing the room and his aides attempted to convince the Indian side that the Chinese admiral, member of the powerful Central Military Commission, headed by President Xi Jinping, was particularly keen to see the CIC. At this, Wu was told that he was welcome to visit the CIC during the exercise, which was slated for the following day in the Yellow Sea.
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Ah, the Chinese love of thuggish 'diplomacy'.
the Chinese officers... was surprised that it had sailed all the way from Port Blair without any escort vessel or any other supervisory officer on board other than Captain Das himself.
An interesting bit. Port Blair to Shanghai is roughly 2000 miles. A suggestion that the whole blue water thing is still a novelty to the Chinese? (no disrespect to Zheng He)
"...more than enough power to meet the demand of the island's roughly 10,000 residents and its energy-hungry water desalination plants." ?! How many of these plants are required for a population of this size? Per Wiki: Energy consumption of sea water desalination can be as low as 3 kWh/m3 - is that a lot?
We have been given a glimpse of our future, but with technology?
A Montclair State University student was arrested yesterday for filing a false report of an assault he pretended to be assaulted for being moslem
This is the second time this month that a student has been charged with falsifying a report about an alleged attack; on Feb. 7 two students were arrested after claiming that their dorm room door was defaced with racist graffiti. That incident came on the heels of anti-gay death threats discovered outside the campus LGBT Center, which prompted a campus-wide Day of Unity...the MSU chapter of the student activist group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) will participate in the National Day of Action to Defend Education, aka "M1." isn't the big news here is that SDS still exists
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[DAWN] The Sindh Assembly on Monday passed the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2013 prohibiting marriage of children below 18 years.
