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California Supplier Recalls 1,600K Lbs of Imported Beef Products | Food Manufacturing

BC Food LA, LLC., a South El Monte, CA firm doing business as B & C Food Co., is recalling approximately 1,643 pounds of Chinese style hot pot base products containing beef tallow. The products were imported from the People’s Republic of China, a country ineligible to export beef to the United States, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced March 24.

The Chinese style hot pot base products were imported on or around June 24, 2020. The following products are subject to recall: [View Labels (PDF Only)]:

  • 10.5-oz. (300 g) Plastic vacuum wrapped packages containing a “Lee’s 52° Da Zhuang” Hot Pot Base and a best before date of 10/12/2021 on the label.
  • 10.5-oz. (300 g) Plastic vacuum wrapped packages containing a “Lee’s 45° Da Zhuang” Hot Pot Base and a best before date of 10/12/2021 on the label.
  • 10.5-oz. (300 g) Plastic vacuum wrapped packages containing a “Lee’s 36° Da Zhuang” Hot Pot Base and a best before date of 10/12/2021 on the label.

The product labels are written in the Chinese language. Refer to the label link here for additional product information. The products do not bear an establishment number nor a USDA mark of inspection. These items were shipped to retail locations in California, Nevada, and Oklahoma.

The problem was discovered when FSIS received an anonymous report of ineligible beef tallow products imported from China.

There have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions due to consumption of these products. Anyone concerned about a reaction should contact a healthcare provider.

FSIS is concerned that some product may be in consumers’ homes. Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume them. These products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase.

Source: California Supplier Recalls 1,600K Lbs of Imported Beef Products | Food Manufacturing

COVID: Germany′s 3rd wave could be ′worse′ than last 2 | News | DW | 26.03.2021

There are “clear signs” that the third wave that Germany currently is in “could be even worse than the first two waves,” said RKI president Wieler.

Speaking at a joint press conference with Health Minister Spahn, Wieler appealed for people to reduce their social contacts over the Easter holidays.

Although 10% of the German population has now received a first dose of the vaccine, the gains from vaccinations are being eaten away by the high infection rate, he said.

Spahn also cautioned that the current trajectory of infections could overwhelm Germany’s hospitals in the next few weeks.

“At the moment, the figures are rising too fast and the variants are making the situation especially dangerous,” he said. “If this continues unchecked, we run the risk of our health system could reach its breaking point in April.”

Source: COVID: Germany′s 3rd wave could be ′worse′ than last 2 | News | DW | 26.03.2021

New York City Council ends qualified immunity for NYPD officers | TheHill

The qualified immunity measure was one of five measures adopted by the New York City Council aimed at police reforms.

The City Council also voted to allow the Civilian Complaint Review Board to investigate police with a history of bias and racial complaints, issue quarterly reports on traffic stops and to transfer the authority of granting and suspending press passes from the NYPD to the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. 

Source: New York City Council ends qualified immunity for NYPD officers | TheHill

Why Cuba Is Making Its Own COVID Vaccine : NPR

Developing a new vaccine usually takes a decade or more, but Eduardo Ojito, the head of the Cuban Center for Molecular Immunology, says the country should have enough doses of Soberana 2 to immunize the whole country by the end of summer. This is assuming the vaccine candidate sails through phase 3 trials and wins regulatory authorization.

“We are preparing to produce between one and two million doses each month,” Ojito says. Despite being in the midst of a foreign currency crisis that’s limited imports of vital raw materials for vaccine production, he says the country is on track to have 1 million doses available in April.

Cuba’s government is already talking about distributing the vaccine in Iran, Mexico and Venezuela. Officials say they hope to produce enough of the vaccine to be able to distribute in other parts of the world, too.

The big question: Does this island nation of 11 million people have the capacity to pull this off?

“Yes,” Helen Yaffe says definitively, “Cuba has the capacity.” Yaffe is a Cuba specialist at the University of Glasgow. She has written about the country’s pharmaceutical sector and its previous success developing its own vaccines.

Source: Why Cuba Is Making Its Own COVID Vaccine : Goats and Soda : NPR

Black Man Sues Chicago After 60 Police Stops in 15 Years

On Thursday, Cole filed a lawsuit against the city of Chicago stemming from his allegation that Chicago police officers have stopped him at least 60 times over the past 15 years, all due to a case of mistaken identity that no one in the system has seen it necessary to correct.

According to Cole, there appears to be an open-warrant in the police department’s database for someone who shares his name and his date of birth. As a result, since 2006 and as recently as December of last year, every time Cole drives a vehicle in the city he is at risk of being stopped and detained by police. Cole alleges in his lawsuit that during those encounters cops have verbally and physically assaulted him, punched him and pointed guns at him—but they have never ended up charging him. He says the mistaken arrests happen so frequently that when he is taken into police stations, other officers will point out to their colleagues that the warrant isn’t actually for him.

That hasn’t led police to update their database to reflect that he isn’t the Darren Cole they are looking for, however. The man who the warrant is meant for is reportedly wanted for driving on a suspended license.

Source: Black Man Sues Chicago After 60 Police Stops in 15 Years

Flowers against bullets Belarusian women are turning everyday objects in protest symbols — and facing persecution for it — Meduza

On March 25, Belarus commemorated Freedom Day — an unofficial holiday marking the date in 1918 when the Belarusian Democratic Republic declared its independence. Traditionally, this day is an occasion for opposition marches and rallies, making it a thorn in the side of dictator Alexander Lukashenko (Alyaksandr Lukashenka) and his regime. Ahead of Freedom Day 2021, Meduza asked a photographer known by the pseudonym Volya to photograph Belarusian women involved in the country’s ongoing protest movement, alongside the everyday objects they have used to express their political discontent. Since these women are under threat in Belarus, their stories and commentary remain anonymous.

Source: Flowers against bullets Belarusian women are turning everyday objects in protest symbols — and facing persecution for it — Meduza

Sweyn’s Vengeance

English History

Book 2,Chapter 9, Edward 975 AD to 1016 AD – Sweyn’s Revenge

It was, however, an impolitic revenge, and but that its authors were blinded to all reflection, it might have been foreseen that sure and fearful retaliation would be provoked. Among the slain in this massacre was Gunhilda, sister to Sweyn. This princess had embraced Christianity, and had married Palig, an English earl of Danish descent. Her husband and children were killed before her eyes, and she herself was put to death by lingering tortures, declaring, amidst her agony, the swift retribution which her brother would inflict.

No sooner did the news reach him than he prepared to take dire vengeance. He collected a large fleet, greater than any which had before invaded England, and manned it with picked soldiers from among those who flocked to his banner from every part of the north, instigated by the prospect…

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The Moon

From The Quill

I had sworn. I had sworn I will never write about the Moon.

It did. It made me gasp at its beauty each time I looked at it; filled me with endearing wonderment for the silver it spilled; had me looking for a braveheart who had the courage to bring it down for me; 
I kept looking,
I kept running,
I never found,
I never wrote.

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A deep black cloud, the wrath of a thousand thunders, scents of far-fetched rain-drenched soils, and me… I sat under the sky- naked, poisoned, cloaked, and redeemed.

Magic for the hearts who wander, set camps at nights, travel afar in the days and wish for homes at dawns; magic unbound, magic unfound- the magic of the phases of the Moon.

It waxes and wanes, grows upon the darkness of each heart, only to fade away later.
Sorcery for the lone…

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