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Salmonella is America's most common cause of food-borne illness and sickens up to 1.4 million people every year.
28 years for salmonella: Peanut exec gets groundbreaking sentence
Stewart Parnell once boasted processing the "finest" peanut products, but on Monday, the former company executive was effectively sentenced to life behind bars for knowingly shipping out deadly food.
A federal judge handed Parnell a 28-year prison sentence, the toughest penalty ever for a corporate executive in a food poisoning outbreak. Parnell is 61 and unless he wins an appeal, he will have to serve out most of his term.
His brother and food broker Michael Parnell received a 20-year sentence, and the plant's quality assurance manager, Mary Wilkerson, was given five years
.....follow the story: https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/21/us/salmonella-peanut-exec-sentenced/index.html
Salmonella is America's most common cause of food-borne illness and sickens up to 1.4 million people every year.
28 years for salmonella: Peanut exec gets groundbreaking sentence
Stewart Parnell once boasted processing the "finest" peanut products, but on Monday, the former company executive was effectively sentenced to life behind bars for knowingly shipping out deadly food.
A federal judge handed Parnell a 28-year prison sentence, the toughest penalty ever for a corporate executive in a food poisoning outbreak. Parnell is 61 and unless he wins an appeal, he will have to serve out most of his term.
His brother and food broker Michael Parnell received a 20-year sentence, and the plant's quality assurance manager, Mary Wilkerson, was given five years
.....follow the story: https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/21/us/salmonella-peanut-exec-sentenced/index.html
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The United States is pulling spies from China as a result of a cyberattack that compromised the personal data of 21.5 million government workers, a U.S. official said Tuesday.
The U.S. suspects that Chinese hackers were behind the breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, which exposed the fingerprints of 5.6 million government employees.
Because the stolen data includes records on State Department employees, the hackers could, by process of elimination, identify embassy personnel who are actually intelligence agents.
Employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency assigned to China are at risk of being exposed, U.S. intelligence officials determined in recent months. The Tuesday that the CIA has pulled a number of officers from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
The hack is expected to have a major impact on U.S. national security, in part because the stolen data includes information from U.S. government forms used for security clearances, known as SF86 questionnaires.
The forms contain sensitive private information on current, former and even prospective government employees, as well as their family members and associates, U.S. officials said.
The concern now is that Chinese intelligence could use the OPM data to help determine the identities of future U.S. intelligence employees that may try to enter China. Beijing is known to scrutinize visa applications of people with U.S. ties, based on travel patterns and other data.
Even before the hack, technology advancements in biometrics made it difficult for the CIA to infiltrate operatives pretending to be someone else into China and other countries.
The CIA is now pushing to improve its technological spying capabilities to fill the void.
In Washington on Tuesday, Republican senators pushed Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to explain why the Obama administration hasn't responded more firmly to the hack.
Clapper acknowledged that one reason the U.S. hasn't responded is because the U.S. engages in the same type of espionage. "We're not bad at it," he said.
Beijing has long denied it is involved in hacking, and often claims to be a victim of similar attacks. Hong Lei, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reiterated that position on Wednesday.
"The Chinese government firmly opposes any forms of hacking," he said, noting the U.S. and China agreed just days ago not to conduct cybertheft of trade secrets and intellectual property against one another for commercial gain.
https://money.cnn.com/2015/09/30/technology/china-opm-hack-us-spies/index.html
The U.S. suspects that Chinese hackers were behind the breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, which exposed the fingerprints of 5.6 million government employees.
Because the stolen data includes records on State Department employees, the hackers could, by process of elimination, identify embassy personnel who are actually intelligence agents.
Employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency assigned to China are at risk of being exposed, U.S. intelligence officials determined in recent months. The Tuesday that the CIA has pulled a number of officers from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
The hack is expected to have a major impact on U.S. national security, in part because the stolen data includes information from U.S. government forms used for security clearances, known as SF86 questionnaires.
The forms contain sensitive private information on current, former and even prospective government employees, as well as their family members and associates, U.S. officials said.
The concern now is that Chinese intelligence could use the OPM data to help determine the identities of future U.S. intelligence employees that may try to enter China. Beijing is known to scrutinize visa applications of people with U.S. ties, based on travel patterns and other data.
Even before the hack, technology advancements in biometrics made it difficult for the CIA to infiltrate operatives pretending to be someone else into China and other countries.
The CIA is now pushing to improve its technological spying capabilities to fill the void.
In Washington on Tuesday, Republican senators pushed Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to explain why the Obama administration hasn't responded more firmly to the hack.
Clapper acknowledged that one reason the U.S. hasn't responded is because the U.S. engages in the same type of espionage. "We're not bad at it," he said.
Beijing has long denied it is involved in hacking, and often claims to be a victim of similar attacks. Hong Lei, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reiterated that position on Wednesday.
"The Chinese government firmly opposes any forms of hacking," he said, noting the U.S. and China agreed just days ago not to conduct cybertheft of trade secrets and intellectual property against one another for commercial gain.
https://money.cnn.com/2015/09/30/technology/china-opm-hack-us-spies/index.html
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Study reveals Mealworms can digest Styrofoam all-plastic diet and not die
Researchers have finally found some solution to tackle the ever growing plastic waste which is considerably impacting the environment.
Nowadays, one is sure to find plastic almost anywhere and everywhere as it mainly helps to make life much easier and cleaner.
Plastic is a combined form of synthetic or semi-synthetic polymer which is malleable into any shape and form with heat.
Though there are umpteen benefits of plastic, one major drawback of this product is it degrades at a very slow rate thus posing a big threat to the environment.
However, for the very first time, a joint study conducted by the researchers at the Stanford University, US and Beihang University, China has shown that meal-worms have certain microorganisms in their gut which helps them digest plastic!
Surprisingly, Wei-Min Wu, a senior research engineer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, found that the meal-worms which is the larvae of darkling beetle have developed methods to digest plastic and they can even subsist on a diet exclusively made out of Styrofoam and other kinds of polystyrene.
Earlier, plastic was thought to be non bio-degradable and hence these substances would be used as landfills or dumped in oceans where they would just accumulate for decades and severely impact the environment.
This recent study by Stanford researchers is of considerable importance because it seems meal-worms have developed certain bacteria in their gut which can biodegrade plastic as a part of their digestive process.
Wu said in a statement: “Our findings have opened a new door to solve the global plastic pollution problem.”
According to the study, the process of plastic bio-degradation is extremely slow. It was seen that 100 meal-worms together can eat around 34 to 39 milligrams of Styrofoam per day which is equivalent to the weight of a pill.
Researchers also found that during digestion, almost fifty percent of polystyrene would get converted into carbon dioxide and the remaining would be excreted by the meal-worms in the form of bio degraded droppings which is safe to be used as soil for crops.
In addition, the plastic eating meal-worms remained healthy just as a normal worm would do eating a non-polystyrene diet or a natural diet.
Researchers are now studying the gut bacteria of meal-worms to understand and develop better plastic waste management which would help them to find means of recycling plastic; however currently there are very few facilities which have the capacity to do so.
Its a fact that the total amount of annual plastic waste which is added to the garbage across the world is much higher to what the mealworms can process. Hence, researchers are engaged in an extensive study which can help them generate much more powerful enzymes that can degrade various varieties of plastics including impervious plastics, polypropylene, microbeads and bio-plastics.
Mealworms are generally found in the gut of animals. As already mentioned every year hundreds of thousands of tonnes of plastic is being dumped in the oceans worldwide which is a big threat to the environment and hence researchers are now also checking if there exists a marine equivalent of the meal-worm which can really help to digest plastic accumulated in the oceans.
Furthermore, researchers also aim to follow the plastic eating worms up the food chain and find out the health of the animals which are dependent on the Styrofoam eating meal-worms.
Craig Criddle, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, also supervising the research said: “There’s a possibility of really important research coming out of bizarre places. Sometimes, science surprises us. This is a shock.”
The details of the study has been published in the scientific journal Environmental Science and Technology.
https://www.techworm.net/2015/10/sc...an-safely-eat-the-plastic-in-our-garbage.html
Researchers have finally found some solution to tackle the ever growing plastic waste which is considerably impacting the environment.
Nowadays, one is sure to find plastic almost anywhere and everywhere as it mainly helps to make life much easier and cleaner.
Plastic is a combined form of synthetic or semi-synthetic polymer which is malleable into any shape and form with heat.
Though there are umpteen benefits of plastic, one major drawback of this product is it degrades at a very slow rate thus posing a big threat to the environment.
However, for the very first time, a joint study conducted by the researchers at the Stanford University, US and Beihang University, China has shown that meal-worms have certain microorganisms in their gut which helps them digest plastic!
Surprisingly, Wei-Min Wu, a senior research engineer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, found that the meal-worms which is the larvae of darkling beetle have developed methods to digest plastic and they can even subsist on a diet exclusively made out of Styrofoam and other kinds of polystyrene.
Earlier, plastic was thought to be non bio-degradable and hence these substances would be used as landfills or dumped in oceans where they would just accumulate for decades and severely impact the environment.
This recent study by Stanford researchers is of considerable importance because it seems meal-worms have developed certain bacteria in their gut which can biodegrade plastic as a part of their digestive process.
Wu said in a statement: “Our findings have opened a new door to solve the global plastic pollution problem.”
According to the study, the process of plastic bio-degradation is extremely slow. It was seen that 100 meal-worms together can eat around 34 to 39 milligrams of Styrofoam per day which is equivalent to the weight of a pill.
Researchers also found that during digestion, almost fifty percent of polystyrene would get converted into carbon dioxide and the remaining would be excreted by the meal-worms in the form of bio degraded droppings which is safe to be used as soil for crops.
In addition, the plastic eating meal-worms remained healthy just as a normal worm would do eating a non-polystyrene diet or a natural diet.
Researchers are now studying the gut bacteria of meal-worms to understand and develop better plastic waste management which would help them to find means of recycling plastic; however currently there are very few facilities which have the capacity to do so.
Its a fact that the total amount of annual plastic waste which is added to the garbage across the world is much higher to what the mealworms can process. Hence, researchers are engaged in an extensive study which can help them generate much more powerful enzymes that can degrade various varieties of plastics including impervious plastics, polypropylene, microbeads and bio-plastics.
Mealworms are generally found in the gut of animals. As already mentioned every year hundreds of thousands of tonnes of plastic is being dumped in the oceans worldwide which is a big threat to the environment and hence researchers are now also checking if there exists a marine equivalent of the meal-worm which can really help to digest plastic accumulated in the oceans.
Furthermore, researchers also aim to follow the plastic eating worms up the food chain and find out the health of the animals which are dependent on the Styrofoam eating meal-worms.
Craig Criddle, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, also supervising the research said: “There’s a possibility of really important research coming out of bizarre places. Sometimes, science surprises us. This is a shock.”
The details of the study has been published in the scientific journal Environmental Science and Technology.
https://www.techworm.net/2015/10/sc...an-safely-eat-the-plastic-in-our-garbage.html
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papasmerf said:
Do you think we can get him a contract to clean up the local dumps?
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peace said:
No..............That is how you tell if someone is a witch..............you strap them in a metal chair and drop them ito the lake.......if he float they are a with and should be burned and if they sink you can bury them in Hallowed Ground.
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Did you know that you can buy health insurance for your pet but not yourself?
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Canadians can buy supplemental insurance for things not covered by the province health plan.
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