Photo Credit: aol.comThe recent black widow in grapes discovery prompted Aldi Supermarkets to remove all the red, green and black grapes from stores in Milwaukee, the largest city in the state of Wisconsin. The company has promised to strengthen inspections on their products after an unsuspecting shopper spotted a black widow in a clear container of red grapes that was on sale, according to a Nov. 22 report from Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel.

As reported by Aldi in a statement, the company is committed to providing products of high quality and regret any inconvenience this situation may have caused.

“At Aldi, we are committed to providing high quality products,” the statement read.”We sincerely regret any inconvenience or concern this situation may have caused.”

Yvonne Duckhorn, the customer who made the horrifying black widow in grapes discovery, told MWJS that she was shopping with her ​​4-year-old daughter at the Aldi store in W. Burleigh St. when the incident happened.

Duckhorn was examining the container for mold and to verify the level of quality of those grapes. During her inspection, she noticed that the top of the package had been opened a bit and she noticed something moving.

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Photo Credit: naturalnews.comIt’s not just “fringe” types and end-of-the-world religious prognosticators; more and more “everyday people” are sensing that something is wrong with their country and the world, and are taking steps to prepare for turbulent times.

Yes, technically they are “preppers” in today’s lexicon, but they are far from the kind of people that that term engenders. In fact, some of these “newbies” might even be your neighbors.

As reported by Fortune/CNN:

More and more Americans are spending money to get ready for an uncertain future — gathering food, water, tools and skills to help them weather anything from a hurricane to a pandemic.

Contrary to images of deluded or gun-obsessed “lone wolves,” many preppers are average consumers reacting to concrete worries, and their way of thinking is spreading, fueling an emerging lifestyle trend. That lifestyle is generating demand for a broad spectrum of products offering survival — or even comfort — when large-scale systems go down.

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Photo Credit: ocearch.orgAround this time last year, one of the Atlantic’s most famous great white sharks entered Southern waters for the first time since the crew at the non-profit OCEARCH tagged her.

Mary Lee, as the 16-foot, 3,500-lb shark is known, has since shown a clear affection for the South. Though she spent the early part of the year exploring the waters off New England, then circling Bermuda and the mid-Atlantic, she has spent the summer and fall off the coasts of the Carolinas. According to the most recent pings from her tracking device, she spent last night nestled in the shallow waters of St. Helena Sound, just south of Charleston, South Carolina, and has now moved back offshore.

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Photo Credit: RambergMediaImagesA breakthrough in genetics – described as “jaw-dropping” by one Nobel scientist – has created intense excitement among DNA experts around the world who believe the discovery will transform their ability to edit the genomes of all living organisms, including humans.

The development has been hailed as a milestone in medical science because it promises to revolutionise the study and treatment of a range of diseases, from cancer and incurable viruses to inherited genetic disorders such as sickle-cell anaemia and Down syndrome.

For the first time, scientists are able to engineer any part of the human genome with extreme precision using a revolutionary new technique called Crispr, which has been likened to editing the individual letters on any chosen page of an encyclopedia without creating spelling mistakes. The landmark development means it is now possible to make the most accurate and detailed alterations to any specific position on the DNA of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes without introducing unintended mutations or flaws, scientists said.

The technique is so accurate that scientists believe it will soon be used in gene-therapy trials on humans to treat incurable viruses such as HIV or currently untreatable genetic disorders such as Huntington’s disease. It might also be used controversially to correct gene defects in human IVF embryos, scientists said.

Until now, gene therapy has had largely to rely on highly inaccurate methods of editing the genome, often involving modified viruses that insert DNA at random into the genome – considered too risky for many patients.

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