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05/10/2013 09:37 AM EDT
Krinos Foods, LLC. of Long Island City, New York is voluntarily recalling its TAHINI sesame paste, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections (i.e., infected aneurysms), endocarditis and arthritis.
 
05/10/2013 08:53 AM EDT
Dairy Fresh is voluntarily recalling a specific batch of IGA Brand “Vanilla & Chocolate” Ice Cream (1.75 quart, 1.66L) with the plant code “3783” and a SELL BY date of 08-13-13 because it incorrectly contains Heavenly Hash ice cream, which contains almonds, coconut, and soy, which are allergens not declared on the carton. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to almonds, coconut, or soy run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume this product.
 
05/09/2013 05:28 PM EDT
Bimeda Inc., on behalf of the manufacturer, Bimeda-MTC Animal Health Inc. is voluntarily recalling one lot of Calcium Gluconate, one lot of Dextrose 50%, and one lot of Hypertonic Saline, all of which are in the form of injectable fluids, to the user level. These injectable fluids are being recalled as a precautionary measure; because of departures from customary sterility procedures, sterility cannot be entirely assured.
 
 
05/09/2013 05:35 PM EDT
Today, Pure Herbs Ltd., Sterling Heights, MI is voluntarily recalling the 4oz and 1oz bottles of Protein Extract because they contain undeclared allergens – milk and soy. This labeling error was discovered during a routine Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspection when a review of the ingredients found that milk and soy allergen ingredients were not listed on our main label.
 
 
05/09/2013 07:36 PM EDT
May 9, 2013 – CAMBRIDGE, MA. – Whole Foods Market is recalling bulk curried chicken salad and bulk vegan curried chick’n salad because in some stores these items may have been sold with reversed labels causing undeclared soy and egg allergens. Due to the label mix-up, allergens were undeclared; the vegan chick’n salad contains soy, and the curried chicken salad contains egg.
 
 
 
05/08/2013 05:19 PM EDT
Nutraceutical company XYMOGEN in Orlando, Fla., is recalling artriphen, a product recommended for the support of healthy joint function, because it contains traces of the undeclared allergens soy and milk.

Immigration : An American Story


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Cecilia Muñoz Director,

Domestic Policy Council

The White House

Hi, everyone —

This is the start of a national debate. Across the country, we’re having a serious discussion about how we can build a fair and effective immigration system that lives up to our heritage as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.

And we need your help to make sure that genuine, personal perspectives are part of the conversation. The truth is, that if we go back far enough, nearly every American story begins somewhere else — so often with ancestors setting out in search of a different life, carving out a future for their children in this place that all of us now call home.

We want to make sure that idea isn’t far from the minds of policymakers here in Washington as we work to reach an agreement to reform immigration.

To kick things off, one of the President’s senior advisors sat down to share his story with you.

Watch David Simas tell his American story, then tell us yours.

When Americans from all over the country — each with different backgrounds, each from different circumstances — all speak out with the same voice, it’s powerful in a way that’s hard to ignore. We’ve seen it again and again, in debate after debate.

And this is the kind of issue where putting a face on the push for reform takes an abstract concept and makes it real. So share your American stories with us, and we’ll put them to use.

We’ll publish them on the White House website. We’ll share them on Facebook and Twitter. We’ll do everything we can to make sure they’re part of the debate around immigration reform.

Get started here:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/immigration/stories

Thanks, Cecilia

Cecilia Muñoz Director, Domestic Policy Council The White House

Calling All Healthy Recipes


The White House

Calling All Healthy Recipes

Let’s Move!, First Lady Michelle Obama‘s initiative to raise a healthier generation of kids, is thrilled to announce the Second Healthy Lunchtime Challenge & Kids’ State Dinner — a nationwide recipe challenge just for kids.

We invite parents or guardians and their kids, ages 8-12, to create and submit an original lunch recipe that includes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, or low-fat dairy foods. The creators of the winning recipes will have a chance to come to the White House for their very own Kids’ State Dinner.

Submit a recipe for the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge here.

Submit a recipe

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the Franks bill is bad for D.C. women


NARAL Pro-Choice America

Does Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona think he rules D.C.?

Stand up to Trent Franks

Rep. Franks doesn’t speak for D.C. and shouldn’t get to ban abortion for women he doesn’t represent.

Help us stop Rep. Franks by taking action!

As we await the verdict in the trial of Kermit Gosnell, Rep. Trent Franks and his colleagues in the House are quietly pushing a bill that could ban abortion after 20 weeks for women in Washington, D.C. – even if the pregnancy puts a woman’s health or ability to have children in the future at risk.1

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to connect the dots. A bill like this will block women in desperate circumstances from getting abortion care they need and could force women to seek help from dangerous, back-alley predators like Gosnell.

Rep. Franks pushed this bill before, and we managed to beat it. He already has the backing of scores of other anti-choice members of the House and the National Right to Life Committee.

 pro-choice people like you need to make your voices heard if we’re going to block it again. Even if your lawmaker is anti-choice, we need you to speak out against this bill now.

I’m really concerned about what Rep. Franks’ bill could mean for low-income women in our city.

Congress bars D.C. from paying for low-income women’s access to abortion care – even for women who rely on the city for their health care. This means that low-income women must find a way to come up with the resources on their own, which is extremely difficult and too often delays them from getting an abortion early in pregnancy.

These women don’t even have a lawmaker who can vote to protect their interests. So it’s up to us. Tell your member of Congress that banning abortion at 20 weeks in D.C. is dangerous for women’s health.

Rep. Franks may say he is concerned about the conditions that would lead a woman to seek help from someone like Gosnell in the first place.

But we know his true motives. Rep. Franks wants to ban abortion. Period.

Franks’ bill contains no exceptions for situations where continuing a pregnancy will place a woman’s health or ability to have children in the future at risk. A woman would have to be on death’s door before a doctor could provide the abortion care she needs.

Making abortion harder for a woman to get doesn’t actually change a woman’s mind. It only makes it more likely that she’ll consider taking desperate measures.

I believe that we can convince enough members of Congress that abortion bans will drive more women to underground, dangerous abortion providers if enough of us speak up. Tell your lawmakers that the Franks bill is bad for D.C. women.

Thank you for making choice real for all women,

Ilyse Hogue

Ilyse G. Hogue President, NARAL Pro-Choice America


1 – “D.C. Anti-Abortion Bill Introduced By GOP Congressman Trent Franks…Again,” Huffington Post, April 29, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/dc-anti-abortion-bill_n_3180578.html

URGENT: Cancer Patient About to be Evicted!


MAKE THE CALL

Ocwen CEO Ron Faris: 561-682-8560  ronald.faris@ocwen.com  Make these points:

  1. Please stop the impending eviction.
  2. Please suspend the foreclosure process
  3. Please offer a deal Jacqueline Barber can afford in order to stay in her home (she’s already offered $160,000 for her own home).

 

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I wanted to share this story of Jacqueline Barber with you. Our Allies at the Home Defenders League and Occupy Homes asked us to get involved to stop the imminent eviction of a very sick woman and her family. Your action could help tip the balance.
People like Jacqueline Barber are the reason we are taking the fight to Washington for the May 18- 23 Week of Action to end “Too Big to Jail”. We just can’t allow heartbreaking stories like this to continue.
Here’s the story. – Brian K.
Dear Carmen,
20-year Atlanta Police Department veteran. Grandmother of four. Car crash survivor. Bone cancer patient. Foreclosure fraud victim. Jacqueline Barber is all those things, but most importantly, she’s a fighter. And right now she’s fighting for her home.
Jacqueline Barber spent 20 years on the Atlanta police force, only retiring when injured by a car in the line of duty. In 2009, the predatory loan on her house caused her payment to go up $1500. Then she was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer and had to undergo aggressive treatment to save her life. She fought back against the disease, and spent months filling out forms and asking for modifications to her mortgage. When her loan was sold to Ally Bank and its servicer GMAC, she started the fight again, and was close to victory when nearly 21,000 supporters signed a petition to Ally to finalize their negotiations and end Jacqueline’s eviction.
We thought we’d be writing you soon with good news, since the banks and servicers (including GMAC) had started what we thought were good faith negotiations as a result of your actions.
Then the unthinkable happened: Ally admitted to Jacqueline her loan was now in control of A DIFFERENT company. 

Yesterday Jacqueline Barber got a call from Ocwen, a financial institute she’s never heard of, informing her that she had 2 days to vacate her home. She had just gotten out of the hospital after having a procedure done on her back, leaving her walker bound when not bed ridden. The news from Ocwen was not the news a cancer patient fighting their second bout of multiple myeloma would want to hear.

Jacqueline Barber found out that her mortgage has transferred from GMAC to Ocwen Financial Services, and Ocwen is refusing to honor any of the deals arranged with GMAC over the last 6 months.

Call Ocwen CEO Ronald Faris at 561-682-8560 and tell him to make a deal that Jacqueline can afford, or have her blood on his hands. (sample script below). To make sure he gets the message, also send him an email at ronald.faris@ocwen.com

Ocwen Financial services is a company notorious for shipping jobs overseas, creating tax havens in the Virgin Islands, and defrauding customers. The stress of an eviction would not only leave Jacqueline, her daughter, and four grandchildren homeless, it would also serve to accelerate her cancer.

Call and email Ocwen CEO Ronald Faris at 561-682-8560 and ronald.faris@ocwen.com and tell him to make a deal that Jacqueline and her family can afford, or have her blood on his hands. (sample script below)

Script: “Hi, my name is _________ and I’m calling on behalf of Jacquline Barber at 160 Stearman Road in Fayetteville, GA 30214. I understand that Ocwen aquired GMAC in February and will not honor the negotiations that have kept Jacqueline and her family in her home to this point as she undergoes chemotherapy. I demand that you offer Jacqueline and her family a deal they can afford to keep them in their home, and relieve Jacqueline of the stress of eviction while she bravely fights bone cancer.

Jacqueline worked hard in her professional life to keep people safe through her work as a police detective. She was even injured on the job. Now, facing a recurrence of bone cancer and an eviction foreclosure, she’s on the verge of having her home stolen by the same bankers who destroyed our economy, put 16 million homeowners underwater and 7 million families into the foreclosure process.

Please make the call. You can report what happened on the call by clicking here and leaving a comment on the blog post.
Also please take a moment to sign our petition in support of Jacqueline’s fight.
In solidarity,

Brian, Campaign for a Fair Settlement

http://www.campaignforfairsettlement.org/

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