The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first US law to provide federal inspection of meat products and prohibit adulterated food. Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle had unintentionally increased public support for this law. Today, the CDC estimates 48 million cases of foodborne illness annually in the US, resulting in over 3,000 deaths. Outbreaks in the 1990s sickened hundreds and led to increased public pressure and policy changes to improve food safety. However, outbreaks continued into the 2000s, showing that more work was still needed to build an even safer food system. Stakeholders from industry, government and the public need to continue collaborating to make further reductions in foodborne illness.
2011 IAFP Meeting Speech with Bill MarlerBill Marler
Food safety advocate and leading food poisoning attorney Bill Marler's presentation on the progression of food safety in America at the 100th annual 2011 IAFP conference in Milwaukee, WI.
2011 GMA Conference: A Bit(e) of HistoryBill Marler
Food safety attorney Bill Marler's presentation at the 2011 Grocery Manufacturers Association Foodborne Illness Litigation Conference in Chicago in which he reviews the history of foodborne illness policy in the United States and how the culmination of numerous factors ultimately lead to the passage of The Food Safety Modernization Act in 2010.
Food Safety History with Expert & Attorney William MarlerBill Marler
From Upton Sinclair's The Jungle to the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), foodborne illness attorney William Marler gives an overview of how food safety has evolved in the US in his 2012 speech at Washington State University.
Can Civil Litigation be Used as a Tool to Change Policy & Behavior?Bill Marler
Bill Marler discussed 20 years of foodborne illness litigation and how it has impacted food policy and behavior as part of a conference at the University of Washington.
Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak and Recall: The Good, the Bad, and the UglyBill Marler
Food safety expert and attorney William Marler gives an in depth presentation on a 2011 Listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupe produced by Colorado-based Jensen Farms. Killing over 32 people, the outbreak became the deadliest the nation has seen in decades.
2011 IAFP Meeting Speech with Bill MarlerBill Marler
Food safety advocate and leading food poisoning attorney Bill Marler's presentation on the progression of food safety in America at the 100th annual 2011 IAFP conference in Milwaukee, WI.
2011 GMA Conference: A Bit(e) of HistoryBill Marler
Food safety attorney Bill Marler's presentation at the 2011 Grocery Manufacturers Association Foodborne Illness Litigation Conference in Chicago in which he reviews the history of foodborne illness policy in the United States and how the culmination of numerous factors ultimately lead to the passage of The Food Safety Modernization Act in 2010.
Food Safety History with Expert & Attorney William MarlerBill Marler
From Upton Sinclair's The Jungle to the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), foodborne illness attorney William Marler gives an overview of how food safety has evolved in the US in his 2012 speech at Washington State University.
Can Civil Litigation be Used as a Tool to Change Policy & Behavior?Bill Marler
Bill Marler discussed 20 years of foodborne illness litigation and how it has impacted food policy and behavior as part of a conference at the University of Washington.
Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak and Recall: The Good, the Bad, and the UglyBill Marler
Food safety expert and attorney William Marler gives an in depth presentation on a 2011 Listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupe produced by Colorado-based Jensen Farms. Killing over 32 people, the outbreak became the deadliest the nation has seen in decades.
Can Civil Litigation be Used as a Tool to Change Policy & Behavior?Bill Marler
Bill Marler discussed 20 years of foodborne illness litigation and how it has impacted food policy and behavior as part of a conference at the University of Washington.
What has Changed since Upton Sinclair? A contemporary view of food safetyBill Marler
What’s behind the shiny abattoir walls of contemporary slaughterhouses? After all the regulation, safety protocols, worker initiatives, and animal rights action, we still have millions of pounds of beef recalled every year due to contamination with deadly pathogens like E. coli O157:H7 and its toxic cousins. Hundreds are sickened, many are permanently injured, and there are still deaths. Why can’t we get it right?
Food safety attorney Bill Marler will address the many challenges facing the meat industry and the consumers who eat their product. Climate, industry pressures and protocols, regulatory successes and failures, and consumer behavior all play a part. In addition to the discouraging list of what isn’t working in the system, he will present a list of proactive steps that can be taken to improve the safety of the American meat supply.
The Food Movement, RisingJUNE 10, 2010Michael Pollan.docxarnoldmeredith47041
The Food Movement, Rising
JUNE 10, 2010
Michael Pollan
Getty Images
Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
by Joel Salatin
Polyface, 338 pp., $23.95 (paper)
All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America?
by Joel Berg
Seven Stories, 351 pp., $22.95 (paper)
Eating Animals
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Little, Brown, 341 pp., $25.99
Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities
by Carlo Petrini, with a foreword by Alice Waters
Chelsea Green, 155 pp., $20.00 (paper)
The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society
by Janet A. Flammang
University of Illinois Press, 325 pp., $70.00; $25.00 (paper)
1.
Food Made Visible
It might sound odd to say this about something people deal with at
least three times a day, but food in America has been more or less
invisible, politically speaking, until very recently. At least until the
early 1970s, when a bout of food price inflation and the appearance
of books critical of industrial agriculture (by Wendell Berry, Francis
Moore Lappé, and Barry Commoner, among others) threatened to
propel the subject to the top of the national agenda, Americans have
not had to think very hard about where their food comes from, or
what it is doing to the planet, their bodies, and their society.
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Michelle Obama at a farmers’ market near the
White House, September 17, 2009
Most people count this a blessing. Americans spend a smaller
percentage of their income on food than any people in history
—slightly less than 10 percent—and a smaller amount of their time preparing it: a mere thirty-one
minutes a day on average, including clean-up. The supermarkets brim with produce summoned from
every corner of the globe, a steady stream of novel food products (17,000 new ones each year) crowds
the middle aisles, and in the freezer case you can find “home meal replacements” in every conceivable
ethnic stripe, demanding nothing more of the eater than opening the package and waiting for the
microwave to chirp. Considered in the long sweep of human history, in which getting food dominated
not just daily life but economic and political life as well, having to worry about food as little as we do,
or did, seems almost a kind of dream.
The dream that the age-old “food problem” had been largely solved for most Americans was sustained
by the tremendous postwar increases in the productivity of American farmers, made possible by cheap
fossil fuel (the key ingredient in both chemical fertilizers and pesticides) and changes in agricultural
policies. Ask.
ReadWSJ - We Do Not Spend Enough on Health Care and write a .docxniraj57
Read
WSJ - We Do Not Spend Enough on Health Care
and write a 1 page analysis, based on what you currently know about the health care industry.
Follow this format -
1. The paper should be 1 page, double spaced, Arial 11 font, 1 inch margins.
2. Begin the paper with a BRIEF summary of the article - about 1/4 of the content.
3. The rest of the paper should be your analysis of the author's point of view - 3/4 of the content.
4. Address these issues -
Should we be concerned that health care is 15%+ of the US GDP? Explain.
What impact has today's health care system had on the health status of most Americans? Substantiate.
Find out who Jack Benny was, & say how you would answer his question.
note:
i am supporting the writer opinoion
on time
only one page
answer the qustions
follow the instructions
the wall street journal
OPINION
AUGUST 17, 2009
We Don't Spend Enough on Health Care
By Craig S. Karpel
Americans are being urged to worry about the nation spending 17% of its gross domestic
product each year on health care—a higher percentage than any other country. Addressing the
American Medical Association in June, Barack Obama said, “Make no mistake: The cost of our
health care is a threat to our economy.” But the president is mistaken. Japan spends 8% of its
GDP on health care—the same as Zimbabwe. South Korea and Haiti both spend 6%. Monaco
spends 5%, which is what Afghanistan spends. Do all of these countries have economies that
are less “threatened” than that of the U.S.?
No. So there must be other factors that affect the health of a nation's economy.
Mr. Obama has said that "the cost of health care has weighed down our economy." No one
thinks the 20% of our GDP that's attributable to manufacturing is weighing down the economy,
because it's intuitively clear that one person's expenditure on widgets is another person's
income. But the same is true of the health-care industry. The $2.4 trillion Americans spend each
year for health care doesn't go up in smoke. It's paid to other Americans.
The basic material needs of human beings are food, clothing and shelter. The desire for food
and clothing drove hunter-gatherer economies and, subsequently, agricultural economies, for
millennia. The Industrial Revolution was driven by the desire for clothing. Thus Richard
Arkwright's water frame, James Hargreaves's spinning jenny, Samuel Crompton's spinning
mule, Eli Whitney's cotton gin and Elias Howe's sewing machine.
Though it hasn't been widely realized, the desire for shelter was a major driver of the U.S.
economy during the second half of the 20th century and the first several years of the 21st.
About one-third of the new jobs created during the latter period were directly or indirectly related
to housing, as the stupendous ripple effect of the bursting housing bubble should make painfully
obvious.
Once these material needs are ...
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Acute hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).
Post-diarrheal hemolytic uremic syndrome (D+HUS) is a severe, life-threatening complication that occurs in about 10 percent of those infected with E. coli O157:H7 or other Shiga toxin-producing (Stx) E. coli (STEC).
The cascade of events leading to HUS begins with ingestion of Stx-producing E. coli (e.g., E. coli O157: H7) in contaminated food, beverages, animal to person, or person-to-person transmission. The bacteria rapidly multiply in the gut, causing inflammation and diarrhea (colitis) as they tightly bind to cells that line the large intestine. This snug attachment becomes a route for the toxin to travel from the gut into the bloodstream, where it attaches to weak receptors on white blood cells (WBCs). From there, WBCs carry the toxin to the kidneys and other organs.
To induce toxicity in target cells, Shiga toxins must first bind to specific receptors on their surface (Gb3 receptors). Organ injury is primarily a function of Gb3 receptor location and density. They are found on epithelial, endothelial, mesangial, and glomerular cells of the kidney, as well as microvascular endothelial cells of the brain and intestine. Because this attachment causes these organs to be susceptible to the toxicity of Shiga toxins, this distribution explains the involvement of the gut, kidney, and brain in STEC-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).
Within the target organ, Shiga toxins disrupt the cellular machinery, resulting in cell injury and/or death. Within the intestine, infectious bacterial lesions cause derangements in the intestinal lining, disrupting the structure of the villi, affecting absorption in the gut, and eventually leading to watery diarrhea. Damage to the intestinal endothelium also causes mucosal/submucosal edema and, hemorrhage, introducing blood into the diarrhea.
Within the circulatory system, Shiga toxins are directly involved in platelet activation and aggregation (clot formation). The thrombotic microangiopathy that characterizes hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) occurs when platelet microthrombi (tiny clots) form in the walls of small blood vessels (arterioles and capillaries) causing platelet consumption. This pathologic reduction in platelets is called thrombocytopenia and is one of the hallmarks of HUS. Within the microvasculature of the kidney these clots disturb blood flow to the organ, causing acute kidney injury and kidney failure.
Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) chris edits 7.31.23.pptxBill Marler
Acute hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).
Post-diarrheal hemolytic uremic syndrome (D+HUS) is a severe, life-threatening complication that occurs in about 10 percent of those infected with E. coli O157:H7 or other Shiga toxin-producing (Stx) E. coli (STEC).
The cascade of events leading to HUS begins with ingestion of Stx-producing E. coli (e.g., E. coli O157: H7) in contaminated food, beverages, animal to person, or person-to-person transmission. The bacteria rapidly multiply in the gut, causing inflammation and diarrhea (colitis) as they tightly bind to cells that line the large intestine. This snug attachment becomes a route for the toxin to travel from the gut into the bloodstream, where it attaches to weak receptors on white blood cells (WBCs). From there, WBCs carry the toxin to the kidneys and other organs.
To induce toxicity in target cells, Shiga toxins must first bind to specific receptors on their surface (Gb3 receptors). Organ injury is primarily a function of Gb3 receptor location and density. They are found on epithelial, endothelial, mesangial, and glomerular cells of the kidney, as well as microvascular endothelial cells of the brain and intestine. Because this attachment causes these organs to be susceptible to the toxicity of Shiga toxins, this distribution explains the involvement of the gut, kidney, and brain in STEC-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).
Within the target organ, Shiga toxins disrupt the cellular machinery, resulting in cell injury and/or death. Within the intestine, infectious bacterial lesions cause derangements in the intestinal lining, disrupting the structure of the villi, affecting absorption in the gut, and eventually leading to watery diarrhea. Damage to the intestinal endothelium also causes mucosal/submucosal edema and, hemorrhage, introducing blood into the diarrhea.
Within the circulatory system, Shiga toxins are directly involved in platelet activation and aggregation (clot formation). The thrombotic microangiopathy that characterizes hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) occurs when platelet microthrombi (tiny clots) form in the walls of small blood vessels (arterioles and capillaries) causing platelet consumption. This pathologic reduction in platelets is called thrombocytopenia and is one of the hallmarks of HUS. Within the microvasculature of the kidney these clots disturb blood flow to the organ, causing acute kidney injury and kidney failure.
Can Civil Litigation be Used as a Tool to Change Policy & Behavior?Bill Marler
Bill Marler discussed 20 years of foodborne illness litigation and how it has impacted food policy and behavior as part of a conference at the University of Washington.
What has Changed since Upton Sinclair? A contemporary view of food safetyBill Marler
What’s behind the shiny abattoir walls of contemporary slaughterhouses? After all the regulation, safety protocols, worker initiatives, and animal rights action, we still have millions of pounds of beef recalled every year due to contamination with deadly pathogens like E. coli O157:H7 and its toxic cousins. Hundreds are sickened, many are permanently injured, and there are still deaths. Why can’t we get it right?
Food safety attorney Bill Marler will address the many challenges facing the meat industry and the consumers who eat their product. Climate, industry pressures and protocols, regulatory successes and failures, and consumer behavior all play a part. In addition to the discouraging list of what isn’t working in the system, he will present a list of proactive steps that can be taken to improve the safety of the American meat supply.
The Food Movement, RisingJUNE 10, 2010Michael Pollan.docxarnoldmeredith47041
The Food Movement, Rising
JUNE 10, 2010
Michael Pollan
Getty Images
Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
by Joel Salatin
Polyface, 338 pp., $23.95 (paper)
All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America?
by Joel Berg
Seven Stories, 351 pp., $22.95 (paper)
Eating Animals
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Little, Brown, 341 pp., $25.99
Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities
by Carlo Petrini, with a foreword by Alice Waters
Chelsea Green, 155 pp., $20.00 (paper)
The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society
by Janet A. Flammang
University of Illinois Press, 325 pp., $70.00; $25.00 (paper)
1.
Food Made Visible
It might sound odd to say this about something people deal with at
least three times a day, but food in America has been more or less
invisible, politically speaking, until very recently. At least until the
early 1970s, when a bout of food price inflation and the appearance
of books critical of industrial agriculture (by Wendell Berry, Francis
Moore Lappé, and Barry Commoner, among others) threatened to
propel the subject to the top of the national agenda, Americans have
not had to think very hard about where their food comes from, or
what it is doing to the planet, their bodies, and their society.
Font Size: A A A
The Food Movement, Rising by Michael Pollan | The New York Review ... http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/jun/10/food-movement-r...
1 of 11 6/18/2013 2:10 PM
Michelle Obama at a farmers’ market near the
White House, September 17, 2009
Most people count this a blessing. Americans spend a smaller
percentage of their income on food than any people in history
—slightly less than 10 percent—and a smaller amount of their time preparing it: a mere thirty-one
minutes a day on average, including clean-up. The supermarkets brim with produce summoned from
every corner of the globe, a steady stream of novel food products (17,000 new ones each year) crowds
the middle aisles, and in the freezer case you can find “home meal replacements” in every conceivable
ethnic stripe, demanding nothing more of the eater than opening the package and waiting for the
microwave to chirp. Considered in the long sweep of human history, in which getting food dominated
not just daily life but economic and political life as well, having to worry about food as little as we do,
or did, seems almost a kind of dream.
The dream that the age-old “food problem” had been largely solved for most Americans was sustained
by the tremendous postwar increases in the productivity of American farmers, made possible by cheap
fossil fuel (the key ingredient in both chemical fertilizers and pesticides) and changes in agricultural
policies. Ask.
ReadWSJ - We Do Not Spend Enough on Health Care and write a .docxniraj57
Read
WSJ - We Do Not Spend Enough on Health Care
and write a 1 page analysis, based on what you currently know about the health care industry.
Follow this format -
1. The paper should be 1 page, double spaced, Arial 11 font, 1 inch margins.
2. Begin the paper with a BRIEF summary of the article - about 1/4 of the content.
3. The rest of the paper should be your analysis of the author's point of view - 3/4 of the content.
4. Address these issues -
Should we be concerned that health care is 15%+ of the US GDP? Explain.
What impact has today's health care system had on the health status of most Americans? Substantiate.
Find out who Jack Benny was, & say how you would answer his question.
note:
i am supporting the writer opinoion
on time
only one page
answer the qustions
follow the instructions
the wall street journal
OPINION
AUGUST 17, 2009
We Don't Spend Enough on Health Care
By Craig S. Karpel
Americans are being urged to worry about the nation spending 17% of its gross domestic
product each year on health care—a higher percentage than any other country. Addressing the
American Medical Association in June, Barack Obama said, “Make no mistake: The cost of our
health care is a threat to our economy.” But the president is mistaken. Japan spends 8% of its
GDP on health care—the same as Zimbabwe. South Korea and Haiti both spend 6%. Monaco
spends 5%, which is what Afghanistan spends. Do all of these countries have economies that
are less “threatened” than that of the U.S.?
No. So there must be other factors that affect the health of a nation's economy.
Mr. Obama has said that "the cost of health care has weighed down our economy." No one
thinks the 20% of our GDP that's attributable to manufacturing is weighing down the economy,
because it's intuitively clear that one person's expenditure on widgets is another person's
income. But the same is true of the health-care industry. The $2.4 trillion Americans spend each
year for health care doesn't go up in smoke. It's paid to other Americans.
The basic material needs of human beings are food, clothing and shelter. The desire for food
and clothing drove hunter-gatherer economies and, subsequently, agricultural economies, for
millennia. The Industrial Revolution was driven by the desire for clothing. Thus Richard
Arkwright's water frame, James Hargreaves's spinning jenny, Samuel Crompton's spinning
mule, Eli Whitney's cotton gin and Elias Howe's sewing machine.
Though it hasn't been widely realized, the desire for shelter was a major driver of the U.S.
economy during the second half of the 20th century and the first several years of the 21st.
About one-third of the new jobs created during the latter period were directly or indirectly related
to housing, as the stupendous ripple effect of the bursting housing bubble should make painfully
obvious.
Once these material needs are ...
Food Inc And Fresh
Food Inc.
Food Inc Reflection
Food, Inc.
Food Inc Essay
Food Inc Film Analysis
Film Analysis: Food Inc.
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Food Inc Essay
Food Inc Analysis
Food Inc. Summary Essay
Essay about Analysis of Food Inc.
Essay about Food Inc
Documentary: Food Inc Essay
Food Inc Summary
Essay On Food Inc
Food Inc Essay
Acute hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).
Post-diarrheal hemolytic uremic syndrome (D+HUS) is a severe, life-threatening complication that occurs in about 10 percent of those infected with E. coli O157:H7 or other Shiga toxin-producing (Stx) E. coli (STEC).
The cascade of events leading to HUS begins with ingestion of Stx-producing E. coli (e.g., E. coli O157: H7) in contaminated food, beverages, animal to person, or person-to-person transmission. The bacteria rapidly multiply in the gut, causing inflammation and diarrhea (colitis) as they tightly bind to cells that line the large intestine. This snug attachment becomes a route for the toxin to travel from the gut into the bloodstream, where it attaches to weak receptors on white blood cells (WBCs). From there, WBCs carry the toxin to the kidneys and other organs.
To induce toxicity in target cells, Shiga toxins must first bind to specific receptors on their surface (Gb3 receptors). Organ injury is primarily a function of Gb3 receptor location and density. They are found on epithelial, endothelial, mesangial, and glomerular cells of the kidney, as well as microvascular endothelial cells of the brain and intestine. Because this attachment causes these organs to be susceptible to the toxicity of Shiga toxins, this distribution explains the involvement of the gut, kidney, and brain in STEC-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).
Within the target organ, Shiga toxins disrupt the cellular machinery, resulting in cell injury and/or death. Within the intestine, infectious bacterial lesions cause derangements in the intestinal lining, disrupting the structure of the villi, affecting absorption in the gut, and eventually leading to watery diarrhea. Damage to the intestinal endothelium also causes mucosal/submucosal edema and, hemorrhage, introducing blood into the diarrhea.
Within the circulatory system, Shiga toxins are directly involved in platelet activation and aggregation (clot formation). The thrombotic microangiopathy that characterizes hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) occurs when platelet microthrombi (tiny clots) form in the walls of small blood vessels (arterioles and capillaries) causing platelet consumption. This pathologic reduction in platelets is called thrombocytopenia and is one of the hallmarks of HUS. Within the microvasculature of the kidney these clots disturb blood flow to the organ, causing acute kidney injury and kidney failure.
Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) chris edits 7.31.23.pptxBill Marler
Acute hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).
Post-diarrheal hemolytic uremic syndrome (D+HUS) is a severe, life-threatening complication that occurs in about 10 percent of those infected with E. coli O157:H7 or other Shiga toxin-producing (Stx) E. coli (STEC).
The cascade of events leading to HUS begins with ingestion of Stx-producing E. coli (e.g., E. coli O157: H7) in contaminated food, beverages, animal to person, or person-to-person transmission. The bacteria rapidly multiply in the gut, causing inflammation and diarrhea (colitis) as they tightly bind to cells that line the large intestine. This snug attachment becomes a route for the toxin to travel from the gut into the bloodstream, where it attaches to weak receptors on white blood cells (WBCs). From there, WBCs carry the toxin to the kidneys and other organs.
To induce toxicity in target cells, Shiga toxins must first bind to specific receptors on their surface (Gb3 receptors). Organ injury is primarily a function of Gb3 receptor location and density. They are found on epithelial, endothelial, mesangial, and glomerular cells of the kidney, as well as microvascular endothelial cells of the brain and intestine. Because this attachment causes these organs to be susceptible to the toxicity of Shiga toxins, this distribution explains the involvement of the gut, kidney, and brain in STEC-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).
Within the target organ, Shiga toxins disrupt the cellular machinery, resulting in cell injury and/or death. Within the intestine, infectious bacterial lesions cause derangements in the intestinal lining, disrupting the structure of the villi, affecting absorption in the gut, and eventually leading to watery diarrhea. Damage to the intestinal endothelium also causes mucosal/submucosal edema and, hemorrhage, introducing blood into the diarrhea.
Within the circulatory system, Shiga toxins are directly involved in platelet activation and aggregation (clot formation). The thrombotic microangiopathy that characterizes hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) occurs when platelet microthrombi (tiny clots) form in the walls of small blood vessels (arterioles and capillaries) causing platelet consumption. This pathologic reduction in platelets is called thrombocytopenia and is one of the hallmarks of HUS. Within the microvasculature of the kidney these clots disturb blood flow to the organ, causing acute kidney injury and kidney failure.
31 of the Biggest Recalls in Food Safety HistoryBill Marler
In November 2018 Cheyenne Buckingham and John Harrington wrote “31 Food Recalls That Poisoned the Most People.” Here is the Marler Clark view of the same list.
I will be giving a talk on the 2011 Listeria Outbreak in the US that sickened 147 and killed at least 33. Over 100 have died from Listeria in South Africa in the last year.
2018 Royal Society for Public Health SpeechBill Marler
Later this month I will be giving a talk to the Royal Society for Public Health. The talk will be a bit of history of E. coli and the Jack in the Box case.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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How To Lobby in an Era of Divided Government with Bill Marler
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2. In The Beginning The Pure Food and Drug Act of June 30, 1906 was the United States Federal Law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products.
3. The Jungle’s Unintended Consequences “Pierces the thickest skull and most leathery heart.”Winston Churchill "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”Upton Sinclair
4. Food Safety By The Numbers The CDC estimates that 48 million foodborne illness cases occur in the United States every year. At least 128,000 Americans are hospitalized, and 3,000 die after eating contaminated food.
5. Northwest Connection 1992 and 1993 Over 600 people sickened in six States Mostly children 50 acute kidney failure 4 deaths
6. Impact On Public Policy Jack in the Box today has the highest quality ground beef that I believe is available in North America. … But our products, I will not guarantee, are free of pathogens in the raw state.
9. 2006 – Magic Moment? Spinach –205 sickened and 5 deaths Peanut Butter – 746 sickened and 3 years of product recalled House and Senateparty switch
10. Well, Not Quite So Fast 2007 E. coli-poisoned (hamburger) paralyzed dancer – Front Page of New York Times and a Pulitzer Prize 2009 E. coli-poisoned (cookie dough) mother of six – Front Page Washington Post
11. What About Industry? Tomato, errr, Pepper Outbreak PB 2 - $1 Billion in Recall and Economic Losses
12. 2009 – The Magic Moment Consumers and Industry Coming Together
16. Well, Not Quite Yet "I would not identify it as something that will necessarily be zeroed out, but it is quite possible it will be scaled back if it is significant overreach," said Rep. Kingston, who is likely to become chairman of the subcommittee when Republicans assume control of the House in January. "We still have a food supply that's 99.99 percent safe," Rep. Kingston said in an interview. "No one wants anybody to get sick, and we should always strive to make sure food is safe. But the case for a $1.4 billion expenditure isn't there."
20. Questions? Contact Marler Clark Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm 1301 Second Avenue Suite 2800 Seattle, WA 98101-3808 206-346-1888 Marlerblog.com