Watch out for Those Lead Contents in Your Hot Sauce. Do you cook with hot sauce? You might want to be cautious the next time you pick out a salsa bottle from your local supermarket shelf. Researchers at the Universtiy of Nevada Las Vegas recently found worryingly high levels of lead in four Mexican salsa brands that are available in some parts of the U.S. The brands include El Pato Salsa Picante, Salsa Habanera, Salsa Picante de Chile Habanero and Bufalo Salsa Clasica. Researchers at UNLV said that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration currently has no benchmark that determines which levels of lead are "unsafe" in hot sauces. But they said that these four brands had lead levels which exceeded 0.1 parts per million, which is the current FDA standard for "safe" lead levels in candy. So what does salsa have to do with candy?
The UNLV research team said that it actually began to study levels of lead in Mexican salsa because back in 2006, it had found unsafe quantities of lead in spicy candies imported from Mexico. Cyclo-What? A Nasty Stomach Bug Spreads In The Midwest : Shots - Health News. Hide captionCyclospora cases have been recorded in 14 states, with Iowa, Nebraska and Texas hit the hardest Cyclospora cases have been recorded in 14 states, with Iowa, Nebraska and Texas hit the hardest It seems like the Midwest is a hotbed for medical mysteries these days. Earlier this week, scientists traced a brand-new virus to ticks in Missouri.
Now disease detectives are hot on the trail of another puzzling pathogen in the heartland. A stomach bug has sickened at least 321 people across 14 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. The source of the outbreak is still unknown, though the parasite that's causing the outbreak, cyclospora, is usually found in food. hide captionCyclospora is a tough parasite that can survive for weeks outside the human body. About 90 percent of the cases have been reported in Iowa, Texas and Nebraska. Health officials say they still don't know how cyclospora is making it into people's meals. "It's a tenacious critter," Dr. China Traffic Jam Enters 9th Day, Spans Over 60 Miles | Junk Car Nation. And you thought your commute was bad.
A 62-mile-long traffic jam on a highway leading to Beijing has now entered its ninth day, with no relief in sight, according to Chinese state media. The gridlock on the National Expressway 110, also referred to as the Beijing-Tibet expressway, began on August 14 due to a spike in truck traffic heading toward the capital, AFP reported. The problem was exacerbated by a construction project on the roadway that began five days later, a spokesman for the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau told the Global Times. Small accidents and broken-down cars have also been a factor since the congestion started. While state media reports noted that Beijing drivers are accustomed to such delays, having suffered through similarly epic gridlock in July, they may have to be especially patient in this instance as the construction project is not scheduled to end until mid-September.
Marriage and Anxiety The Effects of Patriarchy on Womens Self Worth. Massachusetts figured out a simple solution to prevent domestic homicide: Target abusers. Photo by Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images In theory, domestic homicide should be easy to prevent, since men who kill their wives or girlfriends (85 percent of victims are female) generally give us lots of warning by beating, stalking, and even raping their victims, usually for years before they finally kill. In reality, it's surprisingly hard to stop someone who really wants to murder you, especially if he has easy access to a gun.
Restraining orders don't create a magic force field around the victim. Shelters help, but they are underfunded and depend on the victim giving up substantial rights to hold a job (which gives the abuser the ability to find you), have a social life, or even speak to family members. And trying to figure out which abusers are just run-of-the-mill woman batterers and which will actually kill is surprisingly hard to do. Rachel Louise Snyder, writing for the New Yorker, details one solution that's being implemented in Massachusetts. How do they do it? Mom denied food stamps shoots kids, kills self.
Crime Scene tape is posted at the main entrance to the Texas Health and Human Services Offices in Laredo, Texas, Tuesday, Dec., 6, 2011. AP Photo/The Laredo Morning Times, Cuate Santos SAN ANTONIO - A Texas woman who for months was unable to qualify for food stamps pulled a gun in a state welfare office and held a seven-hour standoff with police that ended with her shooting her two children before killing herself, officials said Tuesday. The 10-year-old boy and 12-year-old girl remained in critical condition Tuesday. Authorities identified the mother as Rachelle Grimmer, 38, and children Ramie and Timothy. When the family entered the office on Monday shortly before it closed, Grimmer asked to speak to a new caseworker, and not the one whom she worked with before, Texas Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Stephanie Goodman said.
Grimmer was taken to a private room to discuss her case, then she revealed a gun and the standoff began, Goodman said. Forgetting 'Little Syria' at 9/11 memorial - Features. New York City, United States - One of Carl Antoun’s favourite things to do in Manhattan’s financial district is to ask passers-by, “Did you know that you’re standing in Little Syria right now?” Less than 100 years ago, New York City’s renowned commercial district was home to the largest Arab community in the Western hemisphere.
Since the 1880’s, Arab immigrants from what was then known as Greater Syria - and later divided into present-day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine - settled in this neighbourhood, the first stop in New York City after Ellis Island. Streets that are now lined with skyscrapers housing the headquarters of world financial institutions were instead lined with low-rise Arabic coffee shops, Middle Eastern restaurants and shops. Men in traditional fezzes poured coffee for passers-by on the streets. Antoun’s family, like many others, were merchants who brought their trade from present-day Lebanon to New York City.
Remembering'Little Syria' ‘A sentence or a photograph’ You Carry the Cure In Your Own Heart by Andrew Vachss (Parade Magazine): The Zero 5.0laf - The Official Website of Andrew Vachss. You Carry the Cure In Your Own Heart Emotional abuse of children can lead, in adulthood, to addiction, rage, a severely damaged sense of self and an inabilityto truly bond with others. But—if it happened to you—there is a way out. by Andrew Vachss Originally published in Parade Magazine, August 28, 1994 The attorney and author Andrew Vachss has devoted his life to protecting children. I'm a lawyer with an unusual specialty. Emotional abuse is the systematic diminishment of another. Emotional abuse can be as deliberate as a gunshot: "You're fat. Emotional abuse can be as random as the fallout from a nuclear explosion.
Emotional abuse can be active. It also can be passive, the emotional equivalent of child neglect—a sin of omission, true, but one no less destructive. And it may be a combination of the two, which increases the negative effects geometrically. Emotional abuse can be verbal or behavioral, active or passive, frequent or occasional. That assumption is dangerously wrong. Judge orders Detroit to withdraw bankruptcy filing - Jul. 19, 2013.
Detroit might have to drop its bankruptcy case if a state court judge's order Friday afternoon is upheld on appeal. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) But Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said in a statement soon after the decision that he intended an immediate appeal to the Michigan Court of Appeals and would seek to block this latest order from taking effect while the appeal is heard. The order came in response to motions by lawyers for retirees and pension funds for city workers, who argue the state constitution prohibits cutting pension and retirement benefits, as has been proposed in the bankruptcy case. Related: Detroit files bankruptcy The order was from Ingham County Circuit Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, the county that includes the state capital of Lansing.
Aquilina had been ready to issue an order Thursday that would have blocked the filing in federal bankruptcy court, but the hearing on the motion to do so started five minutes after the bankruptcy case was filed.