Drusas

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

A 2014 report by US non-profit Consumer Reports found that 97 per cent of 300 American chicken breasts tested contained harmful bacteria, including Salmonella, campylobacter and E.Coli.

Around half of the chicken breasts tested also contained at least one type of bacteria that was resistant to three or more antibiotics.

Meanwhile, if you ate a large amount of chlorinated chicken – the equivalent to 5 per cent of your body weight in one day –you could be exposed to harmful levels of the chemical compound known as chlorate,

Yeah, I'd suggest holding out on this one. The way US farms raise chickens is deplorable and leads to the spread of disease.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Thanks again! Glad you had such a good experience and I'm looking forward to going there myself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

I always want to pet the dogs. Even when I think that I don't, I notice that I am already petting the dogs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Women who are assertive in the workplace are described as aggressive, bitches, things of that nature. Men who are assertive in the workplace are described as confident or having leadership skills, that sort of thing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

To be fair, this is actually normal in Japan.

In cities, many businesses will advertise by putting a little marketing ad inside a small pack of tissues. People will be hired to hand these out at busy street corners. It's not uncommon for restrooms to not have toilet paper, so you use the tissues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Thank you for sharing. The language barrier is mostly the thing that has held me back. I know some vocabulary related to food, but that's about it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Little late for that for most of us. I guess it matters to people with kids.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

I had been hoping that there would be a second season of The Haunting of Hill House and that it would be set in the past.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

So like...everything?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

How well can one get by as a tourist without speaking Vietnamese? Vietnam has been around the top of my list for places to visit for ages.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Interesting. My experience was the opposite; I couldn't practice German at all because everybody would switch to English.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Why would people even want to hunt doves? They're tiny--not exactly much of a food source. And their plumage is unremarkable.

 

Imperial College project could lead to less invasive testing and combat increase in antibiotic resistance

Jodie is a canine with special ­powers, scientists have discovered. The golden labrador can smell and ­identify ­particular bacteria and could soon play a key role in helping researchers develop a programme in which dogs could sniff out individuals infected with dangerous microbes.

The project, recently launched by scientists at Imperial College London, could be vital in the battle against antibiotic resistance as well as the treatment of patients with lung ­disease and other conditions, they say.

“We believe Jodie and her fellow medical detective dogs point to a new way to spot infected individuals, just by having a sniff of their socks or shirts,” said Professor Jane Davies at Imperial College.

“They could become a major help in tackling antimicrobial resistance and conditions like cystic fibrosis.”

Cystic fibrosis is one of the world’s most common inherited illnesses. A defective protein allows mucus to build up in lungs and other organs, triggering chronic infections that worsen through life.

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I spent a few years living in the international district (Chinatown, Japantown, Little Saigon) and people would set off fireworks and firecrackers in the neighborhood for days or even a couple of weeks after New Year's. And then again on Chinese New Year's. And there's also this group that likes to go and bang on drums while marching around the neighborhood at those times. It was awful and it made my dogs so stressed out.

Now that I live in a mostly Vietnamese neighborhood outside of the international district, I only hear fireworks on New Year's Eve and Chinese New Year's. It's great not having to worry about whether or not I should drug my dogs for days on end.

I personally enjoy fireworks displays, but I don't think they should be allowed by unlicensed people at their own homes.

 

About 4 years ago, I watched a movie which I enjoyed but can't for the life of me find. It involved a white couple getting lost in deep rural Appalachia and getting taken in by a cult-like small family in the middle of nowhere.

I don't remember the details very well since it was a few years ago and I watched it pretty late at night. I think it involved the woman being drawn in while the man wasn't, and there being murder (in a shed?), but that could be me mixing different movies up.

Does anyone know what it might have been?

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