Football officials
HELP!? (This is almost gross).
Hi all;
What causes this to happen?
XOXO
Me
Financial Firms Face Subpoenas on Tax Strategy - NYTimes.com
Do the click kids, above- It's about damn time this all happened!
XOXO
Me
Spent all day at the hospital with CaseyAnne- She is [now] being treated for C-Diff; although the tests won't be back until Monday. He felt there were more than enough signals that couldn't be ignored. He also firmly believes that she has the stomach flu virus as well. Good grief. All this and no spleen. Yes, we went to a different hospital. (She is way too bright to go back to where the Dr refused to collaborate with Minnesota). Love to all. Will blog later, or tomorrow, or... XOXO, Me
Additional Cantaloupe, and Honeydew Melons RECALLED

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm315248.htm
Recall -- Firm Press Release
Note: *The FDA does not endorse either the product or the company.
Burch Equipment LLC, North Carolina, is expanding its recall to include all of this growing season's cantaloupes and honeydew melons that may remain on the market because they may possibly be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. There have been no illnesses reported to date.
- In pregnant women, the infection can result in miscarriage, premature delivery, serious infection of thenewborn, or even stillbirth.
Healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea.
The incubation period (the length of time between consuming a product and becoming ill) for Listeria monocytogenes can be 1 to 3 weeks, but may be in the range of 3 to 70 days.
The whole cantaloupes are identified by a red label reading Burch Farms referencing PLU # 4319. All cantaloupes involved in the recall were grown by Burch Farms, however some of the cantaloupes may have been identified with a "Cottle Strawberry, Inc." sticker referencing PLU #4319 (note: Cottle Strawberry, Inc. did not grow or process the cantaloupe involved in this recall). Cantaloupes from Burch Farms were shipped in both corrugated boxes (9 cantaloupe per case) and in bulk bins.
Honeydew melons involved in this recall expansion do not bear any identifying stickers and were packed in cartons labeled melons.
Consumers who may have purchased these honeydew melons should contact the store where they purchased their melons, for information about whether those melons are part of this recall.
The cantaloupes and honeydew melons involved in this expanded recall were sold to distributors between June 23rd and July 27th, in the following states: FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, SC, and VA, VT and WV. The melons may have further been distributed to retail stores, restaurants and food service facilities in other states."
Burch Equipment LLC is requesting any consumer that may have one of these cantaloupes or honeydews to discard the product.
There have been no illnesses reported to date. FDA and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services are working with Burch Equipment LLC following a random sample of a cantaloupe testing positive for Listeria monocytogenes.
This recall expansion is based on FDA's finding of Listeria monocytogenes on a honeydew melon grown and packed by Burch..
Questions can be directed to Burch Equipment LLC at 910-267-5781 Monday through Friday, (9:00am to 4:00pm) or email burch@intrstar.net.
Contact
Consumer:
910-267-5781
burch@intrstar.net
FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties.
"Burch Equipment LLC Expands Recall to Include Additional Cantaloupe Shipping Dates and to include Honeydew Melons"
Casey- Liver Biopsy
| Start: | Aug 10, '12 08:00a |
| Location: | Hospital |
Liver biopsy - Results
Alternative Names
Biopsy - liver; Percutaneous biopsy
Normal Values:
The liver tissue is normal.
What abnormal results mean:
The biopsy may reveal a number of liver diseases.
[These include] cirrhosis, hepatitis, or infections such as tuberculosis.
It may also indicate cancer.
This test also may be performed for:
- Alcoholic liver disease (fatty liver, hepatitis, or cirrhosis)
- Amebic liver abscess
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Biliary atresia
- Chronic active hepatitis
- Chronic persistent hepatitis
- Disseminated coccidioidomycosis
- Hemochromatosis
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis D
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Primary biliary cirrhosis
- Pyogenic liver abscess
- Reye syndrome
- Sclerosing cholangitis
- Wilson's disease
Linda J. Vorvick, MD, Medical Director, MEDEX Northwest Division of Physician Assistant Studies, University of Washington, School of Medicine; George F. Longstreth, MD, Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, San Diego, California. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
References
Lomas DJ. The liver. In: Adam A, Dixon AK, eds. Grainger & Allison's Diagnostic Radiology: A Textbook of Medical Imaging. 5th ed. New York, NY: Churchill Livingstone; 2008:chap 35.
Liver. Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. Sleisenger & Fordtran’s Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:section IX.
Related Articles:
- Liver disease
- Cirrhosis
- Hepatitis
- Pulmonary tuberculosis
- Alcoholic liver disease
- Amebic liver abscess
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Biliary atresia
- Delta agent (Hepatitis D)
- Hemochromatosis
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Primary biliary cirrhosis
- Pyogenic liver abscess
- Reye syndrome
- Sclerosing cholangitis
- Wilson's disease
Read more:
http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/003895res.htm#ixzz2393aV3L4
Tea Party extremists
If we want to defeat Tea Party extremists in November, there's only one thing we have to do: make sure constituents know the truth about their representative's extremist record.
But here's the thing: A lot of folks still don't know the facts.
Check out these poll results1 that just came out in New Hampshire's first district, represented by Tea Party Ten extremist Frank Guinta:
On Guinta's favorability, it's an even split. 42% favorable, 42% unfavorable, 15% undecided. Yet a whopping 70% of people say they wouldn't want to vote for a candidate who has worked to restrict access to birth control — that's Frank Guinta, too. A lot of folks just don't realize it.
We have to make sure voters are putting two and two together. If we do, it'll add up to the end of these Tea Party extremists' time in Congress.
Chip in $5 to help build our grassroots campaign to get the truth out about Tea Party extremists.
It's not just Frank Guinta's district. This is the case in congressional districts all over the country.
We've already made great progress bringing attention to Chip Cravaack's attacks on seniors, Sean Duffy's attack's on women, Dan Lungren's attacks on equality, even Steve King's attacks on animals!
If people know this stuff, we win. But we've got a lot of work to do, and less than 100 days to do it.
We're up against a lot of money being spent on deceiving ads, and the little time most people put into thinking about who they'll vote for Congress.
Thanks for everything you're doing.
Mudcat Arnold, Campaign Manager
CREDO SuperPAC
1. New Hampshire 1st Congressional District Survey Results
Letter to my Aunt...
Me
Hi Anne:
________________________________________
| Dear Aunt Marlene; I would have replied sooner, but I did not receive this note until right now. I see it was sent on Tuesday?!? Wonder what's up with Yahoo now. |
Anne
Medical Cure-All (Dead Babies from China).

Me
Enjoy your brunch.
Thousands of pills filled with powdered human baby flesh discovered by customs officials in South Korea
- More than 17,000 pills smuggled into country have been intercepted since last August
- Pills viewed as a 'miracle cure' for all ailments - but unsurprisingly they are harmful
By RICHARD SHEARS and ROB COOPER PUBLISHED: 05:44 EST, 7 May 2012 | UPDATED: 06:49 EST, 8 May 2011
Thousands of pills filled with powdered human flesh have been discovered by customs officials in South Korea, it was revealed today.
The capsules are in demand because they are viewed as being a medicinal 'cure-all'.
The grim trade is being run from China where corrupt medical staff are said to be tipping off medical companies when babies are aborted or delivered still-born.
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Dead baby pills: This is ground baby powder which tests discovered is 99.7 per cent human last year. South Korean officials have stopped 17,000 dead baby pills being imported since last August
The tiny corpses are then bought, stored in household refrigerators in homes of those involved in the trade before they are removed and taken to clinics where they are placed in medical drying microwaves.
Once the skin is tinder dry, it is pummelled into powder and then processed into capsules along with herbs to disguise the true ingredients from health investigators and customs officers.
The discoveries since last August has shocked even hardened customs agents who have pledged to strengthen inspections.
Chinese officials are understood to have been aware of the trade and have tried to stop the capsules being exported but thousands of packets of them have been smuggled through to South Korea.

Danger: The Chinese Ministry of Health has launched an investigation into the alleged production of pills made from dead babies
There is a huge demand for alternative Chinese remedies - which include ground up rhino horns.
The Chinese have historically consumed human placentas to improve blood supply and circulation.
ENDANGERED SPECIES IN CHINESE MEDICINES

Chinese alternative medicines contain traces of endangered species, a study has found.
Many of the remedies are more than 2,000 years old - and claim to be alternative methods for curing disease.
The use of rhino horns in Chinese medicines has been widely criticised.
Despite the claims the 'cures' can treat everything from broken bones to headaches, there is limited proof they actually work.
A team of Australian scientists discovered that some of the medicines contained traces of black bears and antelope.
The Murdoch University team used DNA sequencing to work out what the plants and animal ingredients are.
Health authorities in Asia are concerned that if the powdered foetus trade is allowed to continue the capsules will find their way onto the internet and be sold to gullible or sick desperate people in other parts of the world.
The South Korean Customs Service said today that it had heightened its searches of suspicious packages being brought into the country by travellers from China in an attempt to stamp out the sickening trade.
According to customs agents, 35 smuggling attempts have been made since August last year involving more than 17,000 capsules disguised as 'stamina boosters'.
Hospitals and abortion clinics in China reportedly pass the remains onto drugs companies when a baby is stillborn or aborted, the South Korean SBS documentary team reported last year.
The San Francisco Timesreported that tests carried out on the pills confirmed they were made up of 99.7 per cent human remains.
The tests were successfully able to establish the genders of the babies used.
There is a huge demand for the pills which are thought to enhance stamina. Microwave-dried placenta is also sought after for its alleged 'medicinal' benefits.
However, in reality the human flesh capsules contain super-bacteria and other harmful ingredients.
A number of smugglers who have been detained by the South Korean authorities have claimed they did not know what the ingredients were or the manufacturing process behind them.

Crackdown: Chinese officials, pictured confiscating thousands of illegal tablets, say they will clampdown on the massive herbal medicine industry which has seen dangerous bacteria an human remains added to seized pills
'Ethnic Koreans from north-east China who now live in South Korea are those who were mostly intending to use the capsules or share them with other Korean-Chinese' said a customs official.
'They are normally brought into South Korea in luggage or posted by international mail.'
The capsules were all confiscated but no one has been punished because the amount was deemed small and they were not intended for sale, a customs official added.
Chinese newspapers have identified the north eastern provinces as the source of the human flesh capsules, in particular the Jilin region which is close to North Korea.

Smuggling: More than 17,000 capsules disguised as 'stamina boosters' have been intercepted as they were smuggled into South Korea last year (file photo of Seoul airport)
There have been disturbing reports that some babies were those who had perished in China's notorious 'dying rooms' where youngsters are deliberately left to die because they were born into families that already had the limit of one child in country areas.
In order to keep its population down, China performs 13 million abortions a year - mainly because mothers sacrifice their newborns to avoid punishment such as severe fines or even a beating by the authorities.
The Chinese authorities have confirmed that 38 per cent of women of child-bearing age have been sterilised - but the babies that are aborted do not go to waste because of the sickening trade in using their corpses for purported medicinal purposes.
Despite their disgust at discovering packets of the so-called rejuvenation pills being brought in from China, South Korean officials have refused to confirm where the babies came from or who made the capsules.
Sources said this was because they were not prepared to create diplomatic friction with Beijing, preferring to leave it to Chinese officials to do something about the horrific trade in powdered babies.
What's Mitt Hiding?! ;-)
Earlier this week we asked MoveOn members to tell us the funniest things Mitt Romney might be covering up and thousands of you responded. Thousands more took time to rate the responses. And the result? This hilarious graphic of the top five things Mitt could be hiding.
The Romney campaign wants this issue to go away but we're not going to let that happen so easily. Can you share this graphic to help keep his troubling secrecy on the minds of everyday Americans? And because it's hilarious? Facebook, tweet it or email it. However you do it, share it today.

Casey's Liver. (And a little about me).
- "occurring in people who are overweight or obese"
- "Only a liver biopsy can establish a definite diagnosis and determine the severity of the condition."
The pompous bastard apparently forgot who works for whom!
With that, he was completely irate! She did not mean to anger him further- But like any one else on earth, and in almost any given situation, people respond IN KIND.
For the last 3 nights I have barely slept a wink. More like extended naps. (About 2 hours each night). I do nap sometimes during the day, but am not real good at that. But I enjoy the heck out of shutting my eyes and trying to hypnotize myself to sleep/nap.
Might be a different story if I was worse.
They want to do an EGD.
May you all have a 'wunnaful' weekend!
My love to all.
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