Category: Health

-Be careful next time you’re at an event and someone fires up the laser show! Lose of vision from laser reflections!-
Attendees at the July 5 Aquamarine Open Air Festival in Kirzhach, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Moscow, began seeking medical help days after the show, complaining of eye and vision problems, health officials told Reuters.

“They all have retinal burns, scarring is visible on them. Loss of vision in individual cases is as high as 80 percent, and regaining it is already impossible,” Kommersant quoted a treating ophthalmologist as saying.

Attendees said heavy rains forced organizers to erect massive tents for the all-night dance party, and lasers that normally illuminate upwards into the sky were instead partially refracted into the ravers’ eyes.

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The Utah Department of Agriculture has started advising local grocery chains and food distributors to start pulling certain kinds of tomatoes because of a nationwide Salmonella outbreak.

The Food and Drug Administration(FDA) says to be safe, stay away from eating certain raw tomatoes including red Roma, red plum or red round tomatoes.

The Utah Department of Agriculture is now putting out the warning as well. Several restaurant chains are pulling the produce. McDonald’s, Chipotle’s Mexican Grill and Taco Bell have stopped serving sliced tomatoes.

We’ve been in contact with a number of non-chain local restaurants. Some hadn’t heard anything about Salmonella tomato problem. Others where still deciding what to do.

Kroger officials made the voluntary decision over the weekend to pull certain tomatoes from the shelves in Utah. They removed the Roma tomatoes and the large round tomatoes. They stress that those that are left on the shelves in Utah have NOT been implicated in the outbreak.

According to the Utah Department of Health, the following types of tomatoes listed below are NOT likely to be the source of this outbreak.

• cherry tomatoes
• grape tomatoes
• tomatoes sold with the vine still attached
• tomatoes grown at home

Chase is no longer a fan of sleep. So I was thinking… maybe Pace and I just need a little of this good stuff:
(click on link below)
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/12/sleep_deprivation

What do you think? 😉

As if Joy posting twice last night after she found out how easy it was to post pictures wasn’t enough… I just wanted to share with you this video. It helps us all remember, sometimes the old fashioned way of doing things is a lot healthier.

Oh and Joy is using Windows Live Writer to post those pictures to the blog. I would and I believe Joy would too, HIGHLY recommend it for anyone that finds it too hard to post photos with your text.