The Dittmar Deliverer

Find a news report about a public meeting or a press conference by a governmental organization. If it was a meeting, get the agenda. If it was a press conference, get the press release. Compare the news report with either the agenda or the press release. What choices did the reporter make in crafting that news story?
EPA:
I analyzed the press conference in which Barak Obama announced he would be giving federal aid to the Environmental Protection Agency. In the Washington Post, the reporter choose to take a more objective angle in stating the exact facts of where the money is coming from and what projects will be completed. The story also included other scientific agencies that would be granted aid, them as the "winners" of Obama's favor.
"The agency is among the big winners, slated to receive $10.5 billion under the proposed budget, a 34-percent increase."
The EPA press release announces the federal aid as well, though uses it to promote activities within the agency. "With these proposed resources, and the president’s strong environmental agenda, it should be overwhelmingly clear that EPA is back on the job.” The press release also goes into greater detail as to where the money will be placed. It uses jargon and other information the general public might skim over if in a newspaper.

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President Obama's plan to address global warming and produce a green economy was laid out in The New York Times on Friday.
The White House established a goal of cutting U.S. carbon emissions by 14% than what they were in 2005 by the year 2020 and 83% of what they were by 2050.
Finances to complete this goal will be delivered through the cap-and-trade program that is estimated to produce $150 billion over 10 years beginning in 2012.
Another $65 million will be reserved to pay for middle class tax credits.
Under this program pollution permits will be auctioned to companies who will directly pay taxes for their greenhouse gases emissions.
The budget will also give an increase in spending to the Department of Energy from 24.1 billion last year to 3.9 billion.
Obama's other plans to raise the green economy include an increase of green jobs available to middle income citizens.

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President Philipe Calderon said Thursday he would win Mexico's war against drugs by the year 2012 and end United States accusations that the country is out of his control, according to a USA Today.
Calderon said that the number of deaths from violence last year, approximatly 6,290, are from the turf wars and are related to pressures from the military and police.
Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora said the number of deaths that have doubled in 2008 is a result of increasing control.
"It is reflecting how they are melting down," Mora said.
The first day Calderon stepped into office he sent military and police into the streets to gain control over Mexico's drug industry that annually makes $10 billion. Assassinations, beheading, and attempts to control national governments were all used in trying to manage the industry.
According to a report by The New York Times, interventions in cities and states that were once controlled by drug traffickers are now the responsibility of military officials.
Increasing security efforts also lead to increasing funds.
Mexico is has spent $6.5 billion more on top of its security budget to asses drug problems.

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Attention to ash pond pollution is growing as damages continue from the crash of a damn spilling over a billion tons of sludge through Knoxville Tennesee, that occurred two years ago according to a report by USA Today
The incident at a Tennessee Valley Authority plant caused contaminated drinking water for the small community of East Mount Camel and caused damages to a nearby wildlife sanctuary for endangered birds.
USA Today said that clean-up efforts for the ash ponds, ponds filled with ash waste, are still in the process.
Problems such as those that occurred in Tennessee have drawn attention to environmentalists who are now calling for legislation in handling ash and coal combustion wastes.
Many want ban the ability to use ash ponds, that is known for polluting water, altogether.
We need a national regulation that gets rid of that practice," said Jeff Stant, director of the Environmental Integrity Project's effort to address coal combustion waste. "What happened at Gibson shows why."
According to the Ethical Traveler, ash spills will threaten wildlife for years by trace amounts of arsenic, cadmium, mercury, thallium, and other toxins in the coal ash.

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RNC protesters marched through the streets adorned in Mardi Gras attire on Wednesday according to a report by The Minnesota Daily.
The march, from the Capitol building towards St. Paul City Hall, is a start to the process of suing the city of St. Paul for alleging misconduct during the National Republican Convention.
Attorney Robert Kolstad said police brutality, including the use of pepper spray, was used against protesters while practicing their freedom of expression.
The Pioneer Press said that 35 protesters were present at the march with sparkling opera masks, sequin hats and kazoos.
"The action today is primarily symbolic, to put the state on notice that we're not going away," said Rick Kelley, of the Coldsnap Legal Collective.
So far there have been varied lawsuits asking anywhere from an apology to $2 billion as payment.

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Minneapolis Muslims have invited the public to attend a prayer session and dinner regarding the concern of young Somalis leaving the city to return to their homeland militias according to The Star Tribune on Thursday.
The Community Open House and Dinner is scheduled for 5 to 8 p.m. at the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center, 2824 13th Av. S.
Though commanders of the local police department were among the individuals specifically invited, the event is open to the public.
“We invite our neighbors of all faiths to come and learn more about the Somali Islamic community and to see that Muslims share the same challenges and concerns as other Minnesotans,” said CAIR-MN Communications Director Jessica Zikri.
Suspicions of Muslims leaving the country were heightened after Robert Muller believed a suicide terrorist bomber involved in an attack in Somalia had started his extreme beliefs while living in the Twin Cities in the 1990's.
There have also been reports in The Star Tribune denying local Somalis from leaving airports with specific names on a "no fly list."
Zikri hopes that the event will help the public to "see that Muslims share the same challenges and concerns as other Minnesotans."

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Look at a news event that has a first-day story and then a follow story the next day. How do the leads in the two stories differ? How is the main news summarized? How does the second story advance the news? Is the second-day story a response to a report from a competing news organization? How has that shaped the follow?

The two stories in USA Today "California law makers send Schwarzenegger bills" and "Schwarzenegger signs bills to close California deficit" are two examples of first-day then follow up stories.
The two leads were very different. The first day story lead was longer and contained more of the five W's including how they didn't know when Schwarzenegger would sign the bills. The second day story lead is one sentence stating that he signed.
The only new information in the second story is the lead and then the nut graff which states that the California Governor signed the bills on Friday.
The first day story gives the reader all of the background information and important news about the bills. The second day story advances it with the new information and then summarizes the main points of the first story in three more sentences; its very short and to the point.
The Washington Post, a competitor of USA Today, did not have an advance on the story.

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According to a report by USA Today, Obama is siding with the Bush Administrations policies regarding U.S. rights and detainees at Brigam Airfield in Afghanistan.
There are over 600 prisoners at the military base that will be refused the right to challenge their imprisonment.
Though similar rights were given to those held in Guantanamo Bay last summer, the Justice Department argues that Afghanistan is a war zone in which "the prisoners are the result of continuing military action."
According a The New York Times, other policies supported by Obama nominees include detaining terrorist suspects without a trial, or transferring detainees across country boarders where they can be denied a trial.
"They've now embraced the Bush policy that you can create prisons outside the law," said Jonathan Hafetz, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union.
Many human rights attorneys are concerned about the direction of Obamas policies an foreign prisoners.

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Elk heard feeding is drawing attention of environmentalists that say the practice has become overused, according to a report by The New York Times on Tuesday.
There is currently a law suit being filed against the Federal Fish and Wildlife service that says feeding practices are degrading the landscape and creating monocultures that danger the areas biodiversity.
Also, with so many Elk in an area it is argued that diseases such as chronic wasting disease is easier spread.
The feeding originally started by the federal government in response to the population's dwindling numbers from overhunting and settlement.
Though there are many complications within the decision to feed or not to feed.
The elk head in Jackson, WY., is a tourist attraction that draws in revenue for the town. It is estimated that 25,000 people tour the elk refuge each year.
Also those involved in oil drilling local to the area and farmers wish to keep the elk herds contained.
“It’s like a tar baby — nobody can figure out how to let go of it,” said Bradford Mead, a Jackson rancher.

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A new apartment building for the homeless is being built for young adults in Dakota County, according to a report by The Star Tribune on Friday.
The building is being going to be an appartment complex constructed by non profit agency Link and the Dakota County Committee Development Agency ifor 18 to 24-year-olds.
The complex, will open the spring of 2010 at Cedar Grove Parkway and Gold Trail and.estimated to cost $4.71 million. Payments will mostly come from state bonds and the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency.
The facility is not only designed to put a roof over the heads of the homeless. The building will also have offices for on site help from the Link organization in which there will be offered counseling, support groups, and workforce training.
According to a report by the National Health Care and Homeless Council, young adults are especially at risk of homelessness and national rates of these individuals is increasing.
There is an estimated 750,000 to 2 million individuals currently in the nation and the number is believed to be increasing annually.

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Unexplained explosions in the night have citizens in South Minneapolis concerned, according to a report by The Star Tribune on Friday
About 100 blasts have occurred since summer. Mysterious blasting has been taking place on and off for three years.
In 2006 and 2007 police attributed the commotion to fireworks. However, now officials say half they can be explained by this.
"For the rest, we just don't know," he said. "We can't explain it." said Lt. Dean Christiansen
There have been many theories about who or what is behind the explosions. For example for a time it was thought that a chemical reaction was occuring from the city's water treatment program.
The latest is from individuals only trying to cause a disturbance.
"There's one theory that competing groups of some kind are trying to see who can come up with the loudest," said Christiansen.

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China has changed its climate on Tuesday by chemically producing snow in order to help with drought conditions, according to a report in The Independent on Friday.
The process is called cloud-seeding and was completed by Chinese government officials to end China's three month drought, which has been the most extreme in the last fifty years.
Officials are hoping the snow will bring moisture into the soil to end the drought.
"More than 500 cigarette-size sticks of silver iodide were seeded into clouds from 28 weather rocket-launch bases in the city," said Zhang Qiang, from the Beijing Weather Modification Command Center.
Though this is not the first time cloud seeding has been completed. In the 2008 Summer olympics, Chinese officials blasted chemicals into the air to prevent rain from falling during opening ceremonies.
According to the Times Online China fired 313 more sticks of silver iodide last night to make the snow heavier and thicker.

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Lance Armstrong will return to professional road cycling in the US on Saturday at the Amgen Tour of California with other goals than a victory, according to a report from USA Today.
Armstrong, 37, has three motives to get back in the saddle on Saturday: to prove his innocence of performance enhancing drugs, to draw more attention to his international anti-cancer campaign, and to help a teamate to win the race.
Armstrong has claimed to be one of the most accused characters of drug doping in sports history.
"Cycling's at the end of that dark spot," Armstrong said Thursday at a press conference. "But at night we can sleep well knowing that we've been tested more than anyone."
In October Armstrong said he would create a program with anti-doping scientist Don Catlin, that would test him every three days and report all findings online, to finally put an end to accusations.
However, Catlin said the program would be unlikely to complete as it would cost up to $1 million.

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A female suicide bomber targeted a tent of women and children Shiite pilgrims in Iraq on Friday killing 30 and wounding 80, according to a report by USA Today.
The attack took place in the holy city of Karbabla, which is not the first time the city has been targeted.
Procession Mussa al-Kadhem, said he noticed a "suspicious-looking woman" enter the womens tent right before the blast.
Though no organization has been proven, the woman was believed to be associated with al-Qaeda, known for terrorist attacks against the Shitte people.
This incident is thought to be the deadliest so far in a number of attacks against the Shiite people marching to the holy cities after the from the fall of Saddam Hussien.
According to The New York Times, several attacks have occured under the newly developed security measures of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, who now faces criticism.
Soliders and police line the highway to Baghdad and there are checkpoints set up every few miles.
Though Sheik Sabah al-Saeidi, the head of the anticorruption committee in Parliament, said there have been problems with security agencies gathering information.
“You can’t really control a woman that walks with thousands of marchers,�? al-Saeidi said.
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A continental commuter plane crashed into a Buffalo suburban home Thursday killing all 49 passengers and the resident of the house, according to a report by USA Today.
Continental Connection Flight 3407, traveling from Newark, N.J. and was five miles away from its destination at Buffalo Niagara International Airport when witnesses heard the aircraft sputtering and from fall from the sky to come crashing directly into the house.
The plane was carrying 5000 pounds of fuel and immediatly exploded after the crash creating flames 50-100 feet high.
Though one resident of the house, not yet named, died, two survivors of the incident escaped from the house, Karen Wielinski, 57, and her 22-year-old daughter.
County Emergency Coordinator David Bissonette said it was surprising that more damage was not caused on the ground.
"It's remarkable that it only took one house. As devastating as that is, it could have wiped out the entire neighborhood."
The cause of the crash is under investigation as there wasn't an emergency call before from the pilot before the crash. Though after listening to air traffic control messages, one of the pilots said they were collecting ice on their wings since 20 miles south of the airport.
The NY Times said that the boxes are being analyzed by the National Transportation Safety Board this afternoon.

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Taking away the java is the cause for a stir in Stillwater, said a report Thursday from the Star Tribune.
Kevin Thode will lead a rally at noon on Saturday to protest the closing of the mainstreet Starbucks in Stillwater.
The Tribune said that Thode's efforts include passing out fliers, sending e-mails, and recruiting others to join his cause.
He hopes to get as many as 200 people present at the protest to demonstrate the coffee shop's popularity.
"I thought that that Starbucks would be impregnable," said customer Tom Loom in a report by the Pioneer Press. "Aesthetically, it's a gorgeous location."
Starbucks branch has announced they will be shutting down 300 of the stores in the nation that have been "underpreforming." The execution date for the Stillwater cafe is set for Feb. 27th.
"It may be a fools errand said Theode, who is not known for causing political unrest, said his demonstration may be "It still will be fun no matter what the results are."

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The wolf population of Minnesota is estimated to be high enough to be removed from the endangerd species list, according to a report by the Minnesota Daily on Thursday.
A panel of experts decided that when the population reached 1250 in Minnesota, the wolf population would be stable enough to be delisted. David Mech, world known wolf expert and a professor of fisheries and wildlife classes at the University of Minnesota, was on this panel and estimates the wolf population is at least 3000 in Minnesota
“ The endangered species list is meant to keep a species from going extinct,�? said Mech. “When you have 4000 wolves in the Midwest, you don’t have to worry about them going extinct.�?
Wolves were originally placed on the List in 1968 because their numbers dropped to an extreme low as a result of the government paying bounties to those that killed a wolf.
Delisting the wolf allows farmers to shoot at those that kill livestock and also opens the possibility of a hunting and trapping season.
Though Mech believes the population will remain stable as wolves are naturally elusive. Many of those that killed wolves in the 50s and 60s hunted from planes, a practice that is now illegal.

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In the story, 'Idiotic': Sheriff disappointed in Lake Erie fishermen' in USA Today there were seven different sources used.
The article successfully covered all of the different possible angles.
There were three victims of the incident interviewed as well as a resident that lived near the scene. The wheather and ice conditions were given from a meteorologist, though he was not directly quoted.
From an official perspective, a representative from the Ohio Division of wildlife as well as the Sheriff were directly quoted regarding the fishermen's actions and appropriate precautionary procedures.
All of these sources were spread throughout the story to keep interest.
There was often an introduction that would lead into an interesting quote.
For example, here the writer indirectly stated the fisherman's thoughts, then followed with a direct quote.

Hasty, 65, admitted the possibility of melting ice was in the back of his mind when he set out Saturday morning.
"I thought we could get away with it for today," he said. "When you're crazy for fishin' I guess, and the fish are biting, I just couldn't resist it."

This was quite effective as it builds up anticipation and helps the flow of the story.

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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is looking to remove the California Conservation Corps program to help with the state's $42 billion budget deficit according to a story in the NY Times Sunday.
Currently the government gives $34 million dollars to keep the Corps running, giving many young adults jobs and opportunities to help the environment.
The corps works on restoration services, creating trails, and clearing highways of brush.
Eliminating the program would take away these services from California and also make as many as 1300 individuals unemployed. Most come from poor neighborhoods and as many as half haven't graduated from high school.
“To cut off the opportunity for disadvantaged kids to get their feet on the first rung of the ladder to future green careers is criminal,�? said Van Jones, author of the best-selling “Green Collar Economy."
This would also be an opposition act of the Obama administration and its Congress Stimulus Package as it is working to provide more of these types of jobs for youth.

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The NY Times has announced Sunday the Iraqi journalist that threw a shoe at former President George W. Bush will go to trial Feb. 19 on the charge of assaulting a foreign leader.
Though Muntadhar al-Zeidi, 30, was originally going to face the court in December, a defense team attempted to change charges of from assault to insult, pushing back the trial date.
He has been held in custody since the news conference on Dec. 14, in which Bush and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki addressed a crowd of media officials. According to the New York Times Bush dodged the shoe throw from al-Zeidi who was immediately placed under arrest.
The Times said that since al-Zeidi's act of protest Iraqis and Muslims against the U.S. invasion of the Middle East have considered him a hero and have been demonstrating for his release.
An earlier report from USA Today, said there was a sculpture of a shoe constructed in Saddam Hussein's hometown to honor the journalist.
However, the trial date is set and judicial officials have said "it's up to the court," to determine al-Zeidis consequences if convicted.
Though family members have expressed concerns of his treatment and that he may face the death penalty.
'This court works according to orders from the Cabinet,'' the brother of al-Zeidi. ''He has been deprived of his simplest rights.''

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A 56-year-old became the first to swim across the Atlantic Ocean after she touched sand in Trinidad on Thursday according to a report in USA Today.
Accompanied by a sailboat, Jennifer Figge of Colorado started her 25 day trek on Cape Verde Islands on Jan. 12 and swam for approximately 700 miles.
Figge's longest swim was 8 hours and shortest 21 minutes. She would fuel her swim with energy drinks thrown to her by ship crew members. At night she would rest and replenish the 8000 calories she lost in the day. At 7 a.m. the next day she would wake and return to the water.
The 30 ft waves, icy temperatures, and many Portuguese man of War were never enough to make her turn around. "I was never scared," Figge said. "Looking back, I wouldn't have it any other way. I can always swim in a pool."
Figge first imagined the idea of swimming across the ocean when she was on a trans-Atlantic flight in the 60's and thought if the plane crashed and she had a life jacket she could swim to her destination.
She will finish her journey by continuing from Trinidad to the British Virgin Islands ending in late February.

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A 51-year-old male war protester will payed $5000 by the city of St. Paul after he was arrested last June from handed out leaflets outside the Excel Energy Center according to a report in the Star Tribune Saturday.
Mick Kelly was protesting the RNC when he was issued a citation and taken by Minneapolis Police in a squad car away from the center.
Kelly brought the arrest to the attention to the press and filed a lawsuit.
After a police investigation it was announced "that he had been improperly detained and that the citation would be dropped and Kelly would be issued an apology."
A report from Minnesota Public Radio announced Saturday that Kelly sought $75,000 originally in damages.
Though the city did not admit to being wrong, they offered to pay Kelly $5000 or $50 per each sheet of paper that was confiscated.
Kelly says he will place the money towards "movements for peace, justice and equality."

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The University of Minnesota is working to increase its diversity of its student body, according to a report by the Star Tribune on Friday.
The University hopes to more than double the percentage of international students in their undergraduate classes from 2%, the lowest percentage in the Big Ten Conference, to 5%.
Recruiting efforts include University faculty and alumni traveling around the globe to visit high schools in foreign nations as well as sending out e-mails to "promising" students in different countries.
However, some parents and students are concerned that this new initiative will take away positions for local students in state.
Though officials said they will continue to admit just as many or more of Minnesota students as well as foreign students.
"The point is, increasing the number of our international undergraduates is not going to displace Minnesotans," said Meredith McQuaid, associate vice president and dean of the Office of International Programs. "It's going to change the mix of students that Minnesotans go to school with."
According to a report by Minnesota Public Radio, the University of Minnesota's graduation rates of students of ethnicity were also lower than most. University President Robert Bruininks said in 2005. "If they're students of color, it's about a 20 percent rate. We need much higher levels of success for the students who enter the University of Minnesota."

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"A 20-year-old southwestern Colorado man has been indicted on charges of threatening to kill President Obama and blow up the Mall of America in Bloomington."
Colorado man charged in threat on Obama, mall - Star Tribune
This is an example of a direct news lead that addresses the most important facts immediately in the story, usually including several of the five W's. For example, this article places "the Who" "the What" and "the Where" because the author thought they were the most significant and most effective to grab the readers attention.
The Who would be the 20-year-old Colorado man. Though he is important in the story his name is not given immediately because he is an unknown citizen. His age also helps to give the reader a clearer picture of the prosecutor.
The What is the charge of the threatening to kill the President. This is a hot topic because he was inaugurated into the White House only recently.
The Where is important because the Star Tribune is a Minneapolis paper and the location of the threat is local, at the Mall of America.
The author was very concise in this lead and did not include an abundance of information that would bore and lose reader attention. I thought it was very effective to not include all of the five W's because it serves the purpose of a lead through pulling me into the next paragraph. I am left unsatisfied and still want to know the Why and more details of the story.

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The New York Times reports that the growing acidity in oceans is proving an imminent danger to shellfish and coral reefs according to an international panel of marine scientists.
The group issued a statement last October that declared the decrease in shellfish weights and the loss of coral reefs because of the increasing salt content called the Monaco Declaration.
Officials believe effects will be detrimental to all forms of marine life because of the heavy dependency on coral reefs.
As C02 levels in the atmosphere rise, the problem becomes worse. The ocean absorbs over a quarter of the earths carbon gases and dissolves them in its oceans to produces carbonic acid.
A doubling of the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which could occur in as little as 50 years, will make some marine ecosystems uninhabitable, according to The Nature Conservancy in the Honolulu Declaration on Ocean Acidification and Marine Management.
“The chemistry is so fundamental and changes so rapid and severe that impacts on organisms appear unavoidable,�? according to James Orr, who headed the symposium’s scientific committee.
The group, composed of 156 scientists from 26 countries, calls for "urgent action" to internationally decrease the amount of carbon dioxide outputs.

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A march in response to the recent hazing of hate crime vicitim Kristen Boyne was held on the corner of Bryant Avenue South and Lake Street West Thursday reports The Minnesota Daily
Boyne, 32, was hospitalized last week after she was verbally abused and attacked in Uptown by two grown men.
In response to the hate crime, Boynes friends organized a gathering in which 200 students and concerned citizens congregated at Dunn Brothers to listen to women speak out against violence on both gay and straight females.
“I think it’s pretty cool that something could get mobilized this quickly; it definitely is a positive … I hope that we can continue to have that kind of motivation,�? communications studies major Samone Derks said.
Afterward they organized and marched east on Lake Street toward Fremont Avenue South for the cause of drawing support towards the queer community in the cities.
The Star Tribune reported that http://www.startribune.com/local/38430199.html?elr=KArksUUUUThe peaceful demonstration will show that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender women will not tolerate victimization.

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A criminal investigation is being conducted by the Food and Drug Administration regarding the salmonella outbreaks found in peanut products issued from the Peanut Corporation of America according to a report issued Saturday by the NY Times.
The organization has admitted to sending the products being aware of the contamination.
However, this is not the first occasion in which the company has been proven of peanut product contamination. Metal shavings were found in a shipment from Canada and was refused entrance into the United States last April, according to the F.D.A.
This caused the agency to ask officials in Georiga to inspect the company's plant in Blakely to ensure its safety.
Previously, products suspicous of contamination were only those sold in bulk to schools, nursing homes, and hospitals.
However, as of Friday the recall of PCA products was expanded to include all products made in its Blakely plant that were produced in 2007 and the first half of 2008 says a report from USA Today
Currently more than 400 products have been recalled.
Though Stephen Sundlof of the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition ensures the safety of the peanut butter sold in jars in grocery stores. "We don't have concern about the national, name-brand peanut butter that's sold in jars at supermarkets and retail outlets."

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