(Reuters) - A Kansas meatpacker has recalled 50,100 pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said.
The USDA said late on Wednesday that routine monitoring had confirmed the presence of E.coli O157:H7 in the meat produced by the National Beef Packing Co of Liberal, Kansas. It said there had been no reports of illness.
The potentially deadly bacterium can cause bloody diarrhea, dehydration and, in the most severe cases, kidney failure. The very young, the elderly and people with weak immune systems are the most susceptible to foodborne illness, the USDA said.
The products were produced on July 18 and shipped in 40-pound to 60-pound cases to retailers, wholesalers, and food service distributors nationwide.
The recalled meat carries the number "EST. 208A" inside the USDA mark of inspection, the department said.
The news had a negligible impact on Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures early Thursday.
"It's nothing. It's so small compared to what we produce and nobody was sickened," said K&S Financials analyst Jack Salzsieder.
"Packers are careful about what they do. Even if there was the slightest hint of a problem, they'd recall it," he said.
USDA data for the week ending July 27 showed the industry produced 508.4 million lbs of beef and 14.5 billion lbs year to date.
At 8:35 a.m. CDT (1335 GMT), CME live cattle for August delivery gained 0.150 cent at 121.600 cents per lb. October was at 125.600 cents, or up 0.125 cent.
(Reporting by Jane Sutton in Miami and Theopolis Waters in Chicago; Editing by John Wallace and Sofina Mirza-Reid)
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After going through a year-long rigmarole of summonses and interrogations to find out why Australians are being overcharged by as much as 66 percent on digitally-distributed Apple, Microsoft and Adobe products, and how the practice of "geo-blocking" prevents customers from seeking fairer prices elsewhere, an Australian parliamentary committee has finally hit on a solution. In the words of committee chairman Nick Champion, speaking to ABC News:
"What we want to do is make sure that consumers are aware of the extent to which geo-blocking applies to them and the extent to which they can lawfully evade [it]."
Now, if you were hoping that the Australian government would somehow force these companies to drop their prices down to US-equivalent levels, then this quote may admittedly sound a bit weak. It might also seem impractical, since geo-blocking is designed to be difficult to evade, by binding a customer's IP address, credit card or other details to their home market. Then again, things start to make more sense when we factor in the committee's other suggestions.
In particular, it proposes that the country's Copyright Act be amended to make it clear that an Australian won't be prosecuted just because they annoyed a multinational tech company by circumventing its geographic restrictions -- and, indeed, the population as a whole should be taught "tools and techniques" to achieve this wherever possible. The committee even recommends that Australians should have a "right of resale," such that they could legally remove locks on digital content that limits it to one user or one ecosystem. We have no idea how seriously the government will take these ideas, or how quickly it may implement them, but the committee's defiant tone makes for some good reading at the source link.
In the survey, which covered 9,114 four to 16-year-olds in 10 provincial areas or cities, including Beijing, 93.2 percent of 13-16 year-olds have used the internet, reported Xinhua citing The Beijing Times Saturday.
The report put the proportion of seven to nine-year-olds and 10 to 12-year-olds accessing the internet at 58.6 and 77.1 percent respectively.
It showed that 57.5 percent of the respondents use mobile phones, 26 percent use Twitter-like microblogs, and 17.9 percent use tablet computers.
China's netizen population, the world's largest, continues to grow and reached 591 million at the end of June, according to the China Internet Network Information Center.
Contemplation increases willingness to follow up with the doctorPublic release date: 30-Jul-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Lucy Hyde lhyde@psychologicalscience.org 202-293-9300 Association for Psychological Science
Some studies of at-risk populations suggest that up to half of the people tested for HIV never return to the doctor's office to find out their test results. While many of these people may simply forget to return or deem the results unimportant, it is likely that a portion of people don't return because they don't want to know the results.
In three studies, Jennifer Howell and James Shepperd of the University of Florida investigated whether prompting people to contemplate their reasons for seeking and avoiding the health information would make them more willing to receive their medical results.
The results of these experiments are published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
Participants filled out a motives questionnaire intended to make them think thoroughly about the reasons underlying their decision to seek or avoid their results. Questions included: "Learning that I am at high risk for diabetes would be distressing," or "I would regret not learning my risk for diabetes."
All participants also filled out a diabetes risk calculator and received the opportunity to learn their risk. Those who filled out the motives questionnaire before deciding whether to learn their risk were more likely to choose to see their results than those who filled it out after deciding whether to learn their risk. The same trend emerged when participants generated their own reasons for seeking or avoiding their risk for cardiovascular disease. Together, these two studies suggest that prompting people to contemplate their reasons for seeking or avoiding health information makes them more likely to seek out information about their own health risks.
But it turns out that this effect was only applicable for conditions that are treatable. In the last experiment, some participants were told that TAA deficiency a made-up condition was treatable, and some were told it was not. Contemplation made participants more likely to seek out their test results when they thought the condition was treatable, but not when they thought it was an untreatable disease.
As medical treatments become more advanced, early detection and intervention will become increasingly important. Simply asking patients to contemplate the reasons they would seek or avoid their screening results may make them more likely to follow up with their doctor, thus reducing the public health burden.
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For more information about this study, please contact: Jennifer Howell at jenny.howell@ufl.edu.
This article was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to J. L. Howell under Grant DGE-0802270; by an Intergovernmental Personnel Assignment Agreement between J. A. Shepperd and the National Cancer Institute; and by National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research Grant U54DE019261-0, funded through the Southeast Center for Research to Reduce Disparities in Oral Health, to J. A. Shepperd.
The APS journal Psychological Science is the highest ranked empirical journal in psychology. For a copy of the article "Reducing Health-Information Avoidance Through Contemplation" and access to other Psychological Science research findings, please contact Lucy Hyde at 202-293-9300 or lhyde@psychologicalscience.org.
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Contemplation increases willingness to follow up with the doctorPublic release date: 30-Jul-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Lucy Hyde lhyde@psychologicalscience.org 202-293-9300 Association for Psychological Science
Some studies of at-risk populations suggest that up to half of the people tested for HIV never return to the doctor's office to find out their test results. While many of these people may simply forget to return or deem the results unimportant, it is likely that a portion of people don't return because they don't want to know the results.
In three studies, Jennifer Howell and James Shepperd of the University of Florida investigated whether prompting people to contemplate their reasons for seeking and avoiding the health information would make them more willing to receive their medical results.
The results of these experiments are published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
Participants filled out a motives questionnaire intended to make them think thoroughly about the reasons underlying their decision to seek or avoid their results. Questions included: "Learning that I am at high risk for diabetes would be distressing," or "I would regret not learning my risk for diabetes."
All participants also filled out a diabetes risk calculator and received the opportunity to learn their risk. Those who filled out the motives questionnaire before deciding whether to learn their risk were more likely to choose to see their results than those who filled it out after deciding whether to learn their risk. The same trend emerged when participants generated their own reasons for seeking or avoiding their risk for cardiovascular disease. Together, these two studies suggest that prompting people to contemplate their reasons for seeking or avoiding health information makes them more likely to seek out information about their own health risks.
But it turns out that this effect was only applicable for conditions that are treatable. In the last experiment, some participants were told that TAA deficiency a made-up condition was treatable, and some were told it was not. Contemplation made participants more likely to seek out their test results when they thought the condition was treatable, but not when they thought it was an untreatable disease.
As medical treatments become more advanced, early detection and intervention will become increasingly important. Simply asking patients to contemplate the reasons they would seek or avoid their screening results may make them more likely to follow up with their doctor, thus reducing the public health burden.
###
For more information about this study, please contact: Jennifer Howell at jenny.howell@ufl.edu.
This article was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to J. L. Howell under Grant DGE-0802270; by an Intergovernmental Personnel Assignment Agreement between J. A. Shepperd and the National Cancer Institute; and by National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research Grant U54DE019261-0, funded through the Southeast Center for Research to Reduce Disparities in Oral Health, to J. A. Shepperd.
The APS journal Psychological Science is the highest ranked empirical journal in psychology. For a copy of the article "Reducing Health-Information Avoidance Through Contemplation" and access to other Psychological Science research findings, please contact Lucy Hyde at 202-293-9300 or lhyde@psychologicalscience.org.
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hello i'de buy an ewaygps ew40 for volkswagen golf 6 i had first a lot of problem in android with gps, clock, playstore etc... The company send me the firmware and i solve a lot of problem but still the problem of external-sd. i did a video to show the problem so :
- In first step, restoring the external sd-card with instructions of ewaygps site with positive feedback. - In the second step I try to download blackmart-alpha with android's internet-browser and it give me the usual message refers to the external sd-card (please note that for any downloaded file with the internet-browser or the emails I get always the same error message) - In third step I try to download the maps of Navfree (regularly downloaded from playstore) but system gives me the same error with sd-card (i have same error with all programs of playstore that requires external sd).
*P.S. i'd root device with root_gapps_signed.zip with positive feedback but i tryed all way to change internal nand with external cause i see that a lot of users bypass the problem in this way but i have negative response. howhever i see that sd card is present with stereo's file manager and in settings ----> storage but when i go in settings ----> application and try to moove apk on sd card system send message :" sd card is full" and i see that the dimention of sd card is 0 kb
how could i do to solve the problem ? please help me cause i can't install sygic or tom tom cause after install system say "sd is not present"
*i give an attachment of my vold and update.zip that company give me
vold.fstab.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/1207104132/update.zip thank u
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