Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Received my Elections Canada ballot in the mail today. Voting time back home, so I took some time out from the cleaning schedule to check out some of the candidates. One of them is even a blogger, which I thought was pleasantly surprising. Although she calls herself an ‘avid blogger’, her blog archives only contain 57 entries and date back to August 2005, right about when election speculation was starting to circulate. It’s a start I suppose.
Now, who to vote for…
I’ll be busy for the next few days hosting the wife’s family for Christmas, and then out of town for a couple of days, so probably not much posting until next week.
Hope everyone has a happy and safe holiday season. Best wishes to everyone who stumbles by over the next few days, and hope there are good things in store for you in 2006.
Just found out about this over at the Lab Retriever forum.
This is from the Diamond Pet Food media release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 20, 2005
Diamond Pet Food has discovered aflatoxin in a product manufactured at our facility in Gaston, South Carolina. Aflatoxin is a naturally occurring toxic chemical by-product from the growth of the fungus Aspergillus flavus, on corn and other crops.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have notified our distributors and recommended they hold the sale of all Diamond Pet Food products formulated with corn that were produced out of our Gaston facility (see complete list below). Please note that products manufactured at our facilities in Meta, Missouri and Lathrop, California are not affected. The Gaston facility date codes are unique from other Diamond facility codes in that either the eleventh or twelfth character in the date code will be a capital “G” (in reference to Gaston). The range of date codes being reviewed are “Best By 01-March-07” through Best By “11-June-07”. Diamond’s quantitative analysis records substantiate that Diamond’s corn shipments were definitively clear of aflatoxin after December 10. As such, “Best By 11-June-07” date codes or later are not affected by this notice.
States serviced by our Gaston facility include Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky (eastern), Main, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, Vermont, and Virginia.
We are rapidly analyzing retained samples of all products produced in Gaston so we can isolate specific lot numbers impacted and provide this information to our distributors, retailers and customers as quickly as possible.
Meanwhile, if your pet is showing any symptoms of illness, including sluggishness or lethargy combined with a reluctance to eat, yellowish tint to the eyes and/or gums, and severe or bloody diarrhea, please consult your veterinarian immediately.
Product quality and customer satisfaction are important to us. We pledge to keep you updated as new developments occur.
Additional updates are also available on their main page.
Looks like in preparation for the Jan 6 continuation of Stargate: SG1, Stargate: Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica, SciFi is showing all the episodes from the first part of the season for each show back to back to back.
Monday Jan 2 from 1200 to 2100 is Stargate: SG1. Wednesday Jan 4 from 0900 to 1700 is Stargate: Atlantis, and wrapping up on Thursday Jan 5 is Battlestar Galactica from 0800 to 1600.
Maybe I’ll take a few more days off work…
A seasonal one this time
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