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Sawyer Sweeten of 'Everybody Loves Raymond' dead at 19, reports say
Hollywood uses them, discards them and doesn't prepare them for life after the screen or tube. Sad story. - TGFP.
Sweeten was best known for his role as young Geoffrey Barone on the former CBS sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond," on which he starred alongside his twin brother Sullivan and older sister Madylin.
Former child actor Sawyer Sweeten has died at the age of 19 at a family member's home in Texas, media reports say.
Sweeten's death is being considered a possible suicide, the actor's manager, Dino May, told Variety.Sweeten was best known for his role as young Geoffrey Barone on the former CBS sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond," on which he starred alongside his twin brother Sullivan and older sister Madylin.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Avian flu kills fish, reindeer, turtles around world. Video.
Hello, Linda Moulton Howe ?
Birds, swans, turtles, crabs, reindeer all dead.
Bird flu confirmed at Iowa farm and in Illiois. Millions of chickens to be destroyed. Expect prices to rise.
The farm in northwest Iowa's Osceola County has nearly 10 percent of the state's egg-laying hens. Iowa is home to roughly 59 million hens that lay nearly one in every five eggs consumed in the country.
Egg industry marketing experts say it's too early to predict the impact on prices, but say it's unlikely to immediately cause a spike or a shortage, because number of chickens that are to be euthanized is a little more than 1 percent of the nation's egg layers.
"Don't panic. Let's wait and see," said poultry industry consultant Simon Shane, who also teaches poultry science and veterinary medicine at North Carolina State University. He added that if 20 million to 30 million hens are infected, consumers could start seeing prices rise.
"It may not have a direct effect on shell egg pricing but any time you take production out of a marketplace there's likely to be some consequence," Iowa Poultry Association Executive Director Randy Olson said. "I anticipate the market and production will recover, but right now we're reminding people that this is not a food safety issue and it's not a human health issue."
Olson said he's confident authorities have identified the extent of the outbreak and have a plan to control it.
It's the first chicken farm in Iowa to be affected by the virus, which was confirmed at a turkey farm in the state last week.
The chickens on the large operation reside in more than 20 houses, said Dustin Vande Hoef, a spokesman for Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey.
"It's a huge challenge for this producer and highlights the importance of biosecurity and other producers trying to take steps to limit the spread of this disease," he said.
The Center for Disease Control and the Iowa Department of Public Health considers the risk to people from these infections in wild birds, backyard flocks and commercial poultry, to be low. No human infections with the virus have ever been detected.
Blue Bell Creameries issues voluntary recall of all products after positive listeria test. 2nd time this has happened. Videos.
Blue Bell's chief executive said in a statement that he "cannot say with certainty" how the bacteria was introduced to the manufacturing line.
"We're committed to doing the 100 percent right thing, and the best way to do that is to take all of our products off the market until we can be confident that they are all safe," Paul Kruse said.
The latest recall includes ice cream, frozen yogurt, sherbet and frozen snacks distributed in 23 states and international locations because other products "have the potential to be contaminated," according to the statement.
The first recall in the family-owned creamery's 108-year history was issued last month after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention linked ice cream contaminated with listeriosis to three deaths at a Kansas hospital. Five others in Kansas and Texas were sickened with the disease, which can cause fever, muscle aches, and gastrointestinal symptoms.
The recall extends to retail outlets in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wyoming and international locations.
A manufacturing facility in Oklahoma where operations were suspended earlier this month for sanitizing will remain closed as Blue Bell continues to investigate the source of the bacteria, the statement said.
Blue Bell is also implementing a process to test all of its products before releasing them to the market, with plans to resume limited distribution soon.
The company said it is also expanding its cleaning and sanitization system, beefing up its employee training, expanding its swabbing system by 800 percent to include more surfaces and is sending daily samples to a microbiology laboratory for testing.
Listeria primarily affects pregnant women and their newborns, older adults and people with immune systems weakened by cancer, cancer treatments, or other serious conditions.
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