Fear over cat bug risk to humans

4 September 2012 Last updated at 08:14 ET By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online

Experts say more research is needed into a disease spread by cats after figures show an estimated 350,000 people a year in the UK become infected with toxoplasmosis.

Although only a minority of people - between one and two in every 10 - has symptoms, advisers say extra measures to control the disease may be needed.

The disease is spread by direct contact with cats or eating contaminated food.

The Food Standards Agency has released an official report.

It says there is a lack of data on the condition, making it difficult to estimate the real burden of the disease.

And it says the current consumer advice should be reviewed.

FSA Chief Scientist, Andrew Wadge said: "This thorough and detailed report points out key gaps in our knowledge about this parasite and suggests areas where more research is needed which will help us in estimating how much infection is due to food and which foods might be the highest risk.

"The report also suggests we look again at our advice to vulnerable groups and ensure that it reflects current scientific knowledge."

In about 80% of cases, a person who is infected will not be aware and will have no symptoms.

Others will develop mild flu-like symptoms, but will not need treatment.

But toxoplasmosis - the disease in humans - can cause serious complications in people with weakened immune systems, such as those with HIV and cancer.

And in pregnant women it can result in the baby being born blind or with brain damage. Three babies in every 100,000 are born with the condition in the UK.

Toxoplasmosis is a notifiable disease in Scotland but is neither a notifiable nor reportable disease in the rest of the UK.

Gloves advice

The culprit parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, can get into the food chain via cats faeces causing contamination of soil, water and plants.

Humans may catch the infection from eating undercooked meat from animals harbouring toxoplasma or from contact with cat litter or contaminated soil.

Once infected, a person is immune from further infection for life.

The best way to avoid infection is to make sure you wear gloves when gardening or changing your cat's litter tray, wash fruit and vegetables before eating and cook meat thoroughly - although it is possible to still enjoy it rare, says the Food Standards Agency.

Pregnant women should also avoid contact with sheep and newborn lambs during the lambing season because there is a small risk that an infected sheep or lamb could pass the infection on at this time.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19474612#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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U.S. Worker Skills Gap is Real but Reversible

The skills gap is real, and it's a key driver behind the historically high level of structural unemployment in the U.S., a new study says. ?More than 12 million Americans of working age were unemployed in 2010, yet the nation experienced a shortage of 7 million skilled workers that year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And the situation is not getting any better; that shortage is expected to balloon to 21 million skilled workers by 2020.

A lack of educational achievement sits at the root of the mismatch between jobs and available workers, experts say.

The average education of the American work force is expected to decline over the next 10 years, further widening the gap between the skills demanded by an economy changing at warp speed and the skills possessed by the labor force, according to interviews with approximately 250 North American employers in a study sponsored by The EvoLLLution, an online higher-education newspaper.

The vast majority of midlevel professional jobs in the U.S.? ?? 93 percent? ?? require an associate's degree or higher, yet only 38 percent of working-age Americans have attained that level.? This skills deficit will contribute to a decline in the average per capita income during the next 10 years unless more Americans attain the necessary level of education ? a level of education that is continuously upgraded over the duration of a career, according to the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.

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Businesses recognize this critical need, the study found. Seventy percent said employees need continuous education just to keep pace with the demands of their current jobs. And almost all the employers interviewed (95 percent) said they financially support employee education through various means.

There is clear evidence from the study that employers are willing to reward employees for their educational efforts: Seventy-eight percent of employers said ongoing education has a positive impact on career advancement, and 87 percent said education positively affects compensation and salary.

But employees rarely take advantage of these opportunities, the study found; an employee participation rate of 10 percent in a tuition reimbursement program is considered "very high," according to a study by Bersin and Associates, a research organization. Employers suggested that the most common factor for the low participation rates was poor employee motivation.

"Education gives corporations a way to improve their productivity and reduce costs while also giving employees a way to increase their income and advance within the company," said Amrit Ahluwalia, managing editor of The EvoLLLution. "The question that remains is how to increase corporate and individual participation in professional development education."

This story was provided by BusinessNewsDaily, a sister site to LiveScience. Reach BusinessNewsDaily senior writer Ned Smith at?nsmith@techmedianetwork.com. Follow him on Twitter @nedbsmith and BusiessNewsDaily @bndarticles. We're also on?Facebook?&?Google+.

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90% Compliance

Despite a fantastic lead performance, COMPLIANCE, which sparked controversy at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, is a one-note trial to endure. Basically, the famous Milgram Experiments brought to life, COMPLIANCE is a real-time look at how far we're willing to go to please authority figures. When a fast food manager is asked by a calling police officer to detain one of her employees for a possible theft, things escalate quickly on the discomfort scale. Had the story developed further than just one long phone call, I would have liked it better, but as it is, it's completely monotonous. The officer keeps asking the fast food employees to detain, question, strip search, and more the seemingly innocent young woman, and everyone pretty much complies, because they don't want to look bad in the eyes of the law. This is a completely valid premise for a film, making us question our own naivete. But it just goes on and on, hitting the same drumbeat each and every time. Ann Dowd, however, deserves special mention for quite the bravura turn as the manager. A cog in the wheel who just wants to do the right thing, she's at turn needy, brazen, and heartbreaking. This veteran actor knows how to keep you riveted. I believed every second of her performance while not believing much of anything else, and this is a film based on true events! Most scenes drag on too long, especially a pointless, endless shot of a police officer driving to the scene in one, long extended take. WHY? WHY? WHY? I admire that this film wants to explore a vulnerable part of human behavior, but without much in the way of a story, this whole thing would have been better off as an article in Psychology Today. It's clearly intended to be a screw-turning, intense experience, but it's mostly sad and numbing.

August 28, 2012

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/compliance_2012/

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Lycans

All lycans are allergic to silver. When it comes into contact with their skin, it causes a painful rash. If the silver gets into their bloodstream, no matter how little the amount of silver or how small the contact, it will poison the bloodstream. Eventually, the poisoned blood travels to the heart, and the lycans die a painful death.
Lycans are bigger than normal animals. They can transform at any time, although the transformation is inevitable during a full moon. Lycans heal quickly, but it depends on the extent of the damage. If the damage is too great (i.e. an explosion), there is no way to repair it. Lycans do not die natural deaths. Lycans' minds, when in human form, can shift along the scale to being more animal.

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"Being a [lycan] isn't an either-or-thing. It's not the Jekyll-and-Hyde dichotomy. It's more like a scale, with [lycan] at one end and human on the other. Some days were a little more wolf than others. Some people were a little more [lycan] than others."

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The only things that hold vampires back are sunlight (it burns them), holy water (it burns their skin like acid), protective magic, and anything associated with Christianity (i.e. stakes, crossses). Vampires do feel pain, but they can usually walk out of it alive. To die, vampires have to be staked through the heart. They have superior strength, and can mess with light particles, which explains their disappearing from view or not showing up on cameras. Most vampires like to bring a human along with them, as a blood source. Like lycans, vampires do not die natural deaths.

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Nigeria Cadbury's H1 pre-tax profit jumps 50.46 pct

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium, Sept 3 (Reuters) - The FormulaOne title remains a long shot for McLaren's Jenson Button but heis determined to give it his best shot after his pole-to-flagBelgian Grand Prix victory on Sunday. The 2009 world champion, with Brawn GP, had made clear allweek that he would not be giving up his championship hopes untilforced to and winning at the classic Spa circuit only made theBriton even more up for the fight. He is still 63 points behind Ferrari's Fernando Alonso witheight races remaining, but this season has been nothing if notunpredictable. ...

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Former Burundian rebel leader launches new group

An ex-leader of Burundi's former rebel National Liberation Forces on Monday claimed responsibility for a weekend attack near the capital and announced the creation of a new FNL faction.

"We have decided to take up arms against the government under the new banner of FNL-Ubugabo burihabwa," Aloys Nzabampema, the group's "chief of staff", said in a statement.

His statement claimed responsibility for a Sunday evening attack on a military base on the outskirts of Bujumbura in which, he said, rockets were fired towards the airport.

Burundi army spokesman Gaspard Baratuza acknowledged an attack "far from the airport" but said it was done by a "group of bandits" who were quickly repelled.

A diplomatic source told AFP that the 300-500 fighters who have taken to the bush pose a threat to the country's stability and that "they may not worry Bujumbura, but they have the power to destabilise."

As the last active rebel group in Burundi, the FNL laid down its arms in April 2009 after a 2006 ceasefire agreement that ended 13 years of civil war in the tiny central African country.

The conflict, in which 300,000 lives are believed to have been lost, pitted Hutu rebels against an army that was then dominated by the Tutsi minority.

In 2010, former FNL leader Agathon Rwasa withdrew from the country's electoral process, disappeared and was soon followed by Nzabampema.

In Monday's statement, Nzabampema claimed he was taking up arms again because of "a policy of extermination of FNL members" by Bujumbura's CNDD-FDD regime, a former Hutu rebel group and now a political party, that has been in power since 2005.

Rights groups as well as the UN's Security Council have voiced concern over a series of "extra-judicial killings" in the country since 2010.

Observers have feared that Burundi could slide back into full-blown civil conflict.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/former-burundian-rebel-leader-launches-group-173751038.html

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