text: Pinnacle Bankshares Corporation (OTCBB:PPBN), the one-bank holding company (the "Company") for First National Bank (the "Bank"), reported net income today of $212,000 or $0.14 per basic and diluted share for the quarter ended June 30, 2012, and $690,000 or $0.46 per basic and diluted share for the six months ended June 30, 2012. These 2012 net income levels represent an improvement over net income generated of $107,000 or $0.07 per basic and diluted share and $233,000 or $0.16 per basic and diluted share, respectively, for the same periods of 2011. Quarterly consolidated results are unaudited. Profitability as measured by the Company's return on average assets ("ROA") was 0.40% for the six months ended June 30, 2012, which is an increase over the 0.14% generated during the first six months of 2011. Correspondingly, return on average equity ("ROE") for the six months ended June 30, 2012 improved to 5.04% as compared to 1.75% generated for the same time period of the prior year. "We are pleased to report improved earnings for the first half of 2012 as net income rose 196% compared to the first half of 2011. The increase was primarily due to lower provision for loan losses, which was made possible by a significant decrease in net charge-offs associated with problem loans," stated Aubrey H. Hall, III, President and Chief Executive Officer for both the Company and the Bank. The company produced net interest income of $5,848,000 for the first half of 2012, which was below the $5,904,000 generated for the same period of 2011. Interest income decreased approximately 5% or $391,000 to $7,847,000, while interest expense was down an estimated 14% or $335,000 to $1,999,000. The decreases in interest income and expense were attributable to decreases in yields, as loan and deposit volume are up slightly from 2011. Consequently, the net interest margin decreased nine basis points to 3.60% for the first half of 2012 compared to the first half of 2011. Over the past twelve months, the cost to fund earning assets has fallen 23 basis points to 1.22% while yield on earning assets has fallen 32 basis points to 4.82%, resulting in a slightly decreased net interest margin and net interest income. Per Mr. Hall, "We continue to focus on achieving a balance between being fair to our loyal deposit base, while managing lower yields on loans and investments available in this environment."


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Sorting out the claims after pipe break: Who pays?
Hundreds of cars submerged below murky water. A landmark basketball court, newly refurbished, showing signs of buckling. Soaked and stained carpets. An athletic track coated in mud.
Damage costs have yet to be pegged from the rupture of a pipeline that spewed more than 20 million gallons of water in the midst of California's worst drought in decades. But officials Wednesday were beginning to assess its soggy aftermath at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Rich Mylin, associate director of events and facilities, led a tour of affected areas for Los Angeles Department of Water and Power workers in hard hats, who snapped photos and took notes.
UCLA officials said six facilities were damaged and about 960 vehicles remained trapped in garages, with many below water left behind by the roiling flood.
DWP spokesman Joe Ramallo said people who suffered damage from the flooding can file claims with the agency, which will work with UCLA on settling losses.
If a claim ends up in court, a plaintiff would have to show negligence by the agency to establish liability, said Loyola Law School law professor John Nockleby. For example, if someone could show the aging steel pipe should have been replaced long ago "that could be an indicator something should have been done about it."
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Football on Broadway? This bio-drama about the legendary Green Bay Packers coach at least deserves points for original playcalling. Yet one could hardly imagine a more tepid or uninteresting take on one of football's most fascinating figures. What was the nature of Lombardi's genius? Was he a strategic mastermind, a great motivator or just the luckiest guy in football? Don't expect any answers here. Eric Simonson's play is told through the eyes of a Look magazine reporter who spent a week with Lombardi during the 1965 season, providing an excuse for lots of irrelevant talk about editors and deadlines, but almost no useful insights into Lombardi (played, just adequately, by former Wonder Years star Dan Lauria), aside from the fact that he apparently yelled a lot. Instead, we waste a lot of time with Lombardi's wife (Judith Light) and three Packer stars Paul Hornung, Jim Taylor and Dave Robinson who don't act as though they could tell the difference between a safety blitz and a safety razor. The play can't even generate any routine football drama: After a weeklong buildup to a crucial late-season game, footage of the contest is projected on video screens, with play-by-play from an announcer who refers to the Packers and "the opposing team" as if naming it would have violated the show's aura of cluelessness.


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text: I'm not suggesting that this *needs* to come off of minotaur now, I'm just hypothesizing how we could make it even more awesome and reliable. On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote: > I think minotaur has been doing a fine job for two years or so. Any > computer will eventually fail if its hard drive or RAM start to fuck up. I > think the solution is to replace the failing component rather than start > from scratch. That's exactly my point: we've added a lot of moving parts to minotaur, when really all we're doing with the keypads is super simple. Looking for certain combinations of keypresses and sending several bits of state back to the keypad. Running this on something more solid state and less-consumptive should make it easier to add battery backups, and isolate the few components that are needed to make the door work. > As for the holding the door buzzer on thing, i think that was a rare fluke > (it must have crashed up while it was opening the door?) and i doubt it will > ever happen again ever. If it does, i will certainly install a diode, a > resistor, and a capacitor at the place where the USB parallel port plugs > into the door-open button of the intercom, and it will be a fail-safe in > case the computer goes nuts. But i doubt it is needed. Probably a good idea. It's still just attached to the Parallel port, right? Something is latching down those pins, or the UART goes offline, uncontrolled or something. > so i'll say again: minotaur crashed a couple times. Let's fix whatever > caused it and move on. I still have no idea what's causing the lockups. We'd need to see what's getting logged on the kernel's console. Any idea what's wrong with it? --j


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Progress in talks to avoid a fiscal crisis appeared to stall on Wednesday as President Barack Obama accused Republicans of digging in their heels due to a personal grudge against him, while a Republican leader called the president "irrational."
Obama and House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, the top Republican in Congress, have been negotiating a deal to avert harsh tax hikes and spending cuts scheduled for January that could trigger a recession, and Obama said he was puzzled over what was holding up the talks.
"It is very hard for them to say yes to me," the president told a news conference. "At some point, you know, they've got to take me out of it."
The rise in tensions threatens to unravel significant progress made over the last week in the so-called fiscal cliff talks, which aim to slow the growth of the country's $US16 trillion debt. It also unnerved investors.
Ahead of the close, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 63.01 points, or 0.47 per cent, to 13,287.95. The S&P 500 lost 7.77 points, or 0.59 per cent, to 1439.02. The Nasdaq Composite dropped 4.97 points, or 0.16 per cent, to 3049.56
Obama and Boehner have each offered substantial concessions that have made a deal look within reach. Obama has agreed to cuts in benefits for seniors, while Boehner has conceded to Obama's demand that taxes rise for the richest Americans.
However, the climate of goodwill has soured since Republicans announced plans on Tuesday to put an alternative tax plan to a vote in the House this week that would largely disregard the progress made so far in negotiations.
Obama threatened to veto the Republican plan if Congress approved it.
Boehner's office slammed Obama for opposing their plan, which includes a Republican concession that would raise taxes on households making more than $US1 million a year.
"The White House's opposition to a backup plan ... is growing more bizarre and irrational by the day," Boehner said through his spokesman, Brendan Buck.
Boehner later told reporters he had enough votes in the House to pass the legislation, known as "Plan B," and urged Obama to "get serious" about a balanced deficit reduction plan.
US stocks extended losses on Wednesday after Boehner's comments.
Voting on the plan would provide political cover for Republican lawmakers who could afterward tell constituents that at least they voted for it and, in doing so, did their best to try to block Obama's agenda.
It would also be a litmus test for Boehner's concession to raise taxes, which is opposed by party orthodoxy. In a sign conservatives are coming around to Boehner's position, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist gave his blessing to the Republican leader's bill.
Obama and Boehner appear to have bridged their biggest ideological difference but remain hung up on the mix of tax hikes and spending cuts that would close the budget gap.
"What separates us is probably a few hundred billion dollars," Obama said.
The White House wants taxes to rise on incomes above $US400,000 a year, also a concession from Obama's opening proposal for a $US250,000 income threshold.
If a deal is not reached soon, some $US600 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts are set to begin next month. The measures could throw the economy back into recession.
Senior administration officials described negotiations as at a standstill and Obama warned he would ask everyone involved in the talks, "what it is that's holding it up?"
Still, the top Republican in the Senate said resolution could come by the end of the week.
"There's still enough time for us to finish all of our work before this weekend, if we're all willing to stay late and work hard," said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
Any deal by Obama and the Republican leadership would need the support of their parties' rank and file.


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The U.S. pump manufacturing industry has enjoyed a long history unfettered by federal regulations. As the DOE develops new regulations for pump efficiency, that will change. Mandatory pump rules are expected to take effect in 2016 and will begin to be enforced in 2019. Taking the lead in representing the pump industry, HI has communicated with the DOE since learning about the new rulemaking and, in December, met with its members to officially approve a new negotiated rulemaking process under the rules of the Appliance Standards Rulemaking Advisory Committee.
As DOE pump efficiency regulations are formulated, pump manufacturers should pay close attention to the direction in which the rules are headed and even begin defining actions that will ensure future compliance of their affected products. While the levels of pump efficiency defined by new regulations are uncertain, they will most likely involve design improvements. If the DOE models its regulations after the European Union (EU) standards, pumps not inherently efficient in their peer group across all companies that manufacture the same types of equipment will either be removed from the market or must be redesigned to meet higher efficiency levels.
While the outcome of these pump efficiency regulations is still uncertain, the DOE made it clear that Congress authorized them to set minimum efficiency standards for commercial and industrial pumps in 1977.
As the DOE regulatory process matures, it follows two paths—a traditional and negotiated approach (see Table 1)—that merit the attention of pump original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and its future impact on their market.
HI Responds to the DOE
Since the DOE first announced its pump rulemaking plans three years ago in the Federal Register, HI members and staff have advocated for sensible regulations. Recognizing that regulations were inevitable, the group has been realistic in mitigating the impact on the pump industry, while supporting DOE energy savings and efficiency improvement goals.
Within days of learning about the potential pump efficiency regulations, a delegation of HI members and staff met with the DOE to better understand the regulatory process and, as best as possible, begin to help shape its outcome. HI members also met with the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and staff on the House and Senate Energy committees. These meetings helped the pump industry better understand the DOE rulemaking process and become formally engaged with regulators, energy efficiency advocates and DOE consultants.
In 2011, HI responded to a formal DOE request for information with three lengthy letters that outlined its views on regulations, leadership role with technical standards and guidelines, and the benefits of end-user education that provides knowledge on proper pump selection, pump/system interactions and how pumps can be operated at or near their best efficiency points.
The Need for DOE Education—an Ongoing Opportunity
Through its interactions with DOE regulators, consultants and members of energy efficiency non-government organizations (EENGOs), HI realized that this audience was mostly unfamiliar with pump and pumping system operations.
HI staff and members organized several briefings for all involved individuals to provide a better understanding of the complexities of pump operations, pump hydraulic design, and pump and system interaction. HI also offered day-long training on the HI and Pump Systems Matter course, "Pump Systems Matter: Energy Efficiency and Bottom-Line Savings."
In addition, HI met with energy efficiency non-government organizations and DOE consultants in Washington, D.C.; Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colo.; and Parsippany, N.J., to explore common ground and reach an agreement on regulatory approaches to energy savings regarding pumps and pumping systems. HI advocates a product scope similar to that adopted under EU pump regulations, along with a method of recognizing the pump system optimization potential to achieve the greatest energy savings.
An independent agreement with EENGOs, which might have led to a DOE sanctioned rule, remained elusive during 2013. The possibility of rulemaking based on direct negotiations with other stakeholders, under DOE established rules, was then explored as the traditional rulemaking process advanced.
The DOE's framework document was released in January 2013, and HI members presented testimony during a day-long public hearing in Washington, D.C., at the end of February. A week later, HI delegates and staff attended the first meeting of the DOE's Appliance Standards Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ASRAC).


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SLED: 13 arrested in SC dogfighting raid
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More than a dozen people have been arrested and 19 animals have been seized as part of a dogfighting investigation in Rembert.
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division says state and local officers raided a home on Thursday.
Officers found a dogfighting arena in the backyard.
In all, 13 adults were arrested and one juvenile was detained. Officers say they seized 19 dogs, seven vehicles, and about $3,000. They also found guns and marijuana.
The people who were arrested were being held at the Lee County jail, and it wasn't known if they had attorneys.
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Making a difference – Maintaining trails as work and fun!
Adopting a trail helps maintain the beauty of West Virginia
Preserving the unspoiled beauty of West Virginia State Parks, Forests or Wildlife Management Areas through volunteer service is a goal of the Adopt-A-Trail program. Over 800 miles of hiking trails in the state park system are available for state residents and guests to enjoy and share with family and friends. Visitors and guests say hiking is a favorite outdoor activity.
By monitoring and maintaining a specific trail, individuals or groups are saying "We make a difference" and "We support our state park (or forest)" by keeping trails in good shape.
Through volunteer efforts, public trail adoption is a tremendous benefit to the quality of our state image and the important role that trails provide.
Adopt-A-Trail Guidelines
Before doing any trail work, always meet and discuss the trail selection, clean up dates, and other related information with the area superintendent. He or she must be aware of your involvement and the day you are working.
Current groups, organizations, or individuals making a difference
The group or individual may elect to have their name posted to this webpage. When you post your involvement in this program, it is an opportunity for WV State Parks to recognize your work, and it encourages others to become part of this program. We understand that many individuals and groups do not want recognized and participate in Adopt-A-Trail as a personal reward for helping parks and forests in keeping trails well maintained.
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Posting only includes the name of the group or individual as provided on the application form and the name of the adopted park or forest where a trail has been adopted. Posting to the web is an option of the group to be recognized.
How to submit trail work
After completing trail work, either complete a report form available at the park office or download the report (bottom of this page), complete the requested information and present to the area superintendent.
When you adopt a trail, you are making sure trail users will always have a well-maintained trail to hike or walk. Thank you for your participation and for making a difference.
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Michael Cera Gets Run Over By a Bus! (VIDEO)
Apparently, Michael Cera is a lot stronger than he looks. He's even capable of getting run over a bus and walking away from the experience unscathed.
Cera and his Scott Pilgrim vs. the World co-star Jason Schwartzman did double duty on Good Day Atlanta on Tuesday, promoting their new comedy and presenting the weather report. The day's forecast? Sunny with a 100 percent chance of hilarity!
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Pretty funny, but Cera and Schwartzman aren't the only entertainers to try their hand at predicting the weather with gut-busting results. Check out this clip of party-positive troubadour Andrew W.K. (if you haven't already entered our contest to win a date with him, do so now) breaking things down for the good people of Tulsa below:
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INVESTORS wiped almost $2.5 billion from the sharemarket value of the Commonwealth Bank after a faltering second-half performance took the gloss off a record $6.1 billion annual profit.
Market jitters about the bank's ongoing operations were fuelled by comments from the chief executive, Ralph Norris, about the immediate economic outlook in which he admitted the stuttering global recovery had affected its bottom line.
The bank's shares dropped $1.56, or 3 per cent, to $51.19 which is nearly $9 below their high for this calendar year.
Although CBA's traditionally strong second-half 2010 cash profit of $3.1 billion was 7 per cent ahead of the first six months' figure of $2.94 billion, it was not as healthy as some industry watchers had expected.
That was a consequence of the group's main profit powerhouse, its retail banking division, going backwards by 2 per cent to $1.21 billion in the six months to June 30.
The division, which turned in $2.4 billion for the full year, is responsible for 40 per cent of CBA's annual earnings. In the group's latest half BankWest incurred a small loss due to higher bad debt charges, wealth management dropped 11 per cent and business banking increased its contribution by only 3 per cent.
The institutional banking arm and the New Zealand operation helped bridge the gap, both increasing their profits in that period to lift the group's preferred measure of continuing profits for 2010 to $6.1 billion and its reported post-tax figure to $5.6 billion.
Mr Norris said the group's overall annual result was a good one, helped as it was by a $1.3 billion reduction in bad debt charges to $2 billion, and an increasing share of income from a market now dominated by the big four banks.
The outcome for the year to the end of June was up 42 per cent from the global financial crisis-ravaged figure of $4.3 billion for last year.
Nonetheless, while shareholders gained from a 34 per cent lift in earnings per share to $3.95 and a 27 per cent increase in the full-year dividend payout to a record $2.90 a share, analysts were disappointed by a fall in net interest margins half on half. That is the money the bank earns on its loans once all costs are stripped out.
But it was the prospects for the forthcoming year that added to investor worries especially as credit growth remains low and consumers are reluctant to spend - factors which are big drivers of the banking industry's earnings.
Mr Norris said the fragile consumer and business confidence was weighing on the domestic economy while the global picture was being mired by the slow pace of recovery in the US and Europe.
"This fragility manifested itself in a slowing in the underlying momentum of our business at the end of the 2010 financial year," he said. "As a result it is appropriate to maintain a degree of caution about the prospects for our business for the coming year."
His comments overshadowed a healthy 11 per cent year-on-year growth in income as the bank benefited from growing market share across its business.
It also increased its level of Tier 1 capital - the main measure of a bank's financial strength - while the earnings boost saw its return on equity rise to an impressive 18.7 per cent. Those gains earned praise yesterday from one of the main credit rating agencies, Fitch, which reaffirmed CBA's AA status and retained its position as one of the world's strongest banks.
Nonetheless, continued uncertainty caused by the global financial crisis, including regulatory demands for banks to keep more cash on their balance sheets, meant CBA increased its levels of liquidity to $89 billion by the end of June.
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One of Australia's most respected chemical weapons experts raised concerns about political interference in the search for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction at the highest levels of government.
John Gee resigned from the Iraq Survey Group last year and raised allegations about the preparation of the group's reports with his department head, Defence Minister Robert Hill confirmed yesterday.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer also admitted he had requested a 20-minute meeting with an Australian who resigned from the group last March. Mr Downer refused to name the official or detail his concerns.
He denied that the official raised concerns about prisoner abuse or interrogations in Iraq.
Dr Gee's resignation and complaints about CIA censorship of reports on Iraq were detailed by Rod Barton, a colleague who also resigned in protest, at a Senate inquiry this week.
Dr Gee served as Australia's special adviser on chemical and biological disarmament, then headed the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the body responsible for overseeing the international Chemical Weapons Convention.
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Marvel releases alternate cover for Astonishing X-Men#12. You can still check for this issue's 5 page preview, it will be released in August 31st.
Aye, hopefully it will be a payoff regarding who Emma Frost was talking at the end of issue 6(?).
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The Designers
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During the assembly process we assign one supervisor for every six builders in an effort to keep close watch on each critical phase. Our engineers also keep tabs on the construction process, and actually visit the assembly line regularly.
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The end result? A hand built Mercer product is a more dependable product.
We guarantee it!
A History of Product Success
There's been a lot of changes in 130 years. And Mercer has come a long way since we started manufacturing mason jar gaskets and other small molded products in 1866. After the turn of the century we moved on to conveyor belting, customized industrial hose, and ultimately, expansion joints.
Eventually, our association with our sister company, Mason Industries, showed us the advantages of working with an in-house engineering department, and a complete machine shop and steel fabricating facility. Through this partnership we saw the opportunities in customizing product design and upgrading equipment on a regular basis. Ultimately, this paved the way for Mercer's move to our present, ultra-modern manufacturing facility in Hauppauge, New York.
One thing that hasn't changed is our product line. We still produce expansion joints, duct connectors, and flanged or built-in nippled hose. It's how we manufacture that's made the difference. We often customize, design and build our own manufacturing equipment. We do most of our own tooling in-plant. And, our quality control testing capability is second to none.
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Hypalon® and Viton® are registered trademarks of DuPont Dow Elastomers.


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Inspections, Compliance, Enforcement, and Criminal Investigations
Clem's Seafood & Specialities, Inc. 20-Sep-05
Department of Health and Human Services
| Public Health Service
Food and Drug Administration
|Cincinnati District Office
Central Region
6751 Steger Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45237-3097
Telephone: (513) 679-2700
September 20, 2005
Harmon Clem, Jr., President
Clem's Seafood & Specialties, Inc.
4505 Mattingly Road
Buckner, KY 40010-8830
Dear Mr. Clem:
We inspected your firm, located at the above address on June 24, 2005. We found that you have serious violations of the seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulation, Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 123, and the Current Good Manufacturing Practice regulation for foods, Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 110 (21 CFR 123 & 110). In accordance with 21 CFR 123.6(g), failure of a processor of fish or fishery products to have and implement a HACCP plan that complies with this section or otherwise operate in accordance with the requirements of Part 123, renders the fish or fishery products adulterated within the meaning of Section 402(a)(4) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act), 21 U.S.C. 342(a)(4). Accordingly, your oyster products are adulterated in that they have been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby they may have been rendered injurious to health. You may find the Act, the seafood HACCP regulation and the Fish and Fisheries Products Hazards & Controls Guidance through links in FDA's home page at www.fda.gov.
Your significant violations were as follows:
1. You must have a HACCP plan that at a minimum, lists the critical limits that must be met, to comply with 21 CFR 123.6(c)(3). A critical limit is defined in 21 CFR 123.3(c) as the maximum or minimum value to which a physical, biological, or chemical parameter must be controlled at a critical control point to prevent, eliminate, or reduce to an acceptable level the occurrence of the identified food safety hazard. However your firm's HACCP plan for oysters lists a critical limit, "Certificate accompanying all lots received indicates that the oysters were not harvested from waters that were so contaminated by chemical as to make it reasonably likely that the levels in the oyster meat would be in excess of established tolerances, action levels or guidance level" at the "Receiving" CCP that is inadequate to control the hazards of pathogens and natural toxins. FDA recommends that your firm monitor the various molluscan shellfish products you receive for the presence of either tags or labels that provide the necessary information required by the shellfish control authority. In addition, all finished product shellstock intended for raw consumption must bear a tag that instructs retailers to inform their customers that consuming raw or undercooked shellfish may increase the risk of foodborne illness, especially for individuals with certain medical conditions.
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Labels that should be affixed to all containers of shucked molluscan shellfish should identify the name, address, and certification number of the packer or re-packer of the product. Again, your monitoring activities should assure that this information is present.
2. You must have a HACCP plan, that at a minimum, lists monitoring procedures and their frequency for each critical control point, to comply with 21 CFR 123.6(c)(4). However, your HACCP plan for oysters lists a monitoring frequency of "One a day at start-up" at the "Storage in Cooler" critical control point that is not adequate to control for pathogens. FDA recommends either continuous monitoring of storage temperature or periodic checking of the adequacy of a coolant such as ice to control pathogen growth during the storage of products that will be consumed without additional cooking.
3. You must monitor sanitation conditions and practices during processing with sufficient frequency to ensure compliance with current good manufacturing practice requirements in 21 CFR Part 110, to comply with 21 CFR 123.11(b). However, your firm does not monitor employee health conditions and the labeling, storage and use of toxic compounds as evidenced by the fact that your master sanitation schedule does not list either of these categories.
These three observations had been listed on a FDA-483 that was issued in June, 2004 and addressed in a letter that we sent to you dated January 25, 2005. You have not yet taken any action to correct these items.
We may take further action if you do not promptly correct these violations. For instance, we may take action to seize your product(s) and/or enjoin your firm from operating.
You should respond in writing within fifteen (15) working days from your receipt of this letter. Your response should outline the specific things you are doing to correct these violations. You should include in your response documentation such as HACCP and verification records, or other useful information that would assist us in evaluating your corrections. If you cannot complete all corrections before you respond, you should explain the reason for your delay and state when you will correct any remaining violations.
This letter may not list all the violations at your facility. You are responsible for ensuring that your processing plant operates in compliance with the Act, the seafood HACCP regulation (21 CFR Part 123) and the Current Good Manufacturing Practice regulation (21 CFR Part 110). You also have a responsibility to use procedures to prevent further violations of the Act and all applicable regulations.
Please send your reply to the Food and Drug Administration, Cincinnati District Office, 6751 Steger Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45327-3097 Attention: Attention: Stephen J. Rabe, Compliance Officer.
Carol A. Heppe,
Director Cincinnati District


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Aironet 1130AG, home use WPA2, help
I have a Cisco Aironet 1130AG. I am trying to set this up for very basic home use. I want to use WPA2. I could of swore I'd done this before, but I can't for the life of me get it to work. Keep getting errors about requires of Open Authentication, EAP with WPA2, etc.
Either way, I'm frustrated with the GUI.
Does anyone have an example of a very basic config for an 1130 using WPA2?
On consumer wireless, it's WPA2 Personal (considering I'm not authentication against a server).
Thanks for any help.
Hello Scott,
In order to configure WPA2 on your autonomous access point using the GUI and only one SSID (no VLANs), you have to follow the following steps:
- Go to Security > Encryption Manager > Select Cipher > AES CCMP from the drop down menu > Apply
- Go to Security > SSID Manager > Select (or create) the SSID > Link the SSID to the radio that you want
- Open authentication should be selected
- Key Management should be set to Mandatory
- "Enable WPA" needs to be checked
- Enter the Pre-Shared Key on the "WPA Pre-shared Key" field.
- Scroll down and click on the first apply (not the bottom one).
After this if you want to broadcast the SSID then you should select the SSID from the "Set Single Guest Mode SSID" drop down menu found at the bottom of the case.
When everything is configured, you have to turn on the radios on Network Interfaces > Radio0 802.11G or Radio1 802.11A > Settings > Enable > Apply.
The issue that you may be having is that is that the access point will not let you enable WPA until you configure the encryption first so please make sure that the encryption is cofigured before enablind WPA.
Here is link that explains this very well:
Since you want to configure a pre-shared key you just have to go to the "Configure in Personal Mode" on the previous document.
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Posted by bugman on March 22, 2003 at 22:39:12:
In Reply to: Re: WATER BUGS IN MY KITCHEN posted by P. Gary Murdzia on February 02, 2003 at 18:45:20:
What folks refer to as "waterbugs" are, in fact, Oriental Cockroaches. Ovoid...deep dark brownish...usually basement to 1st floor...rarely above 1st floor.
While we're on the subject... the other roaches that are pests in dwellings in the US are:
American Cockroach - the monster of all roaches here...also usually not above the 2nd floor. Adults fly readily.
German Cockroaches - small...less than .5 inches. The squarish area behind the head (when viewed from above) is called the pronotum. In this speciaes there are usually 2 small parallel bands...one on each side. These guys are the real dispersers! You can see them walking in streets/sidewalks/bewteen buildings in summer. High-rises won't help you with them...they're often found up in higher floors. Tough to keep controlled.
"Palmetto bugs" - another roach found along gulf coast areas of the us.
That said...control? You can spray...but you'll do it the rest of your life...each time they return. You can also pay people to poison you and your house. With pest control compaies though...the name of the game is to generate repeat business. So they pay unskilled people very little (usually) who hose down very visible areas where they can generate some casualties. Why? Because if you see dead bodies, you know the applicators delivered as promised. But it really isn't in their best interest to give you any sort of permanent help.
First... it is a LOT of work to war with pests...what you put into it, you get returned to you. The #1 best thing you can do? First, survey all entry points...where gas/water/cable lines come into the house are easy. Then there are areas behind cabinets in the kitchen, poorly closing windows, old fireplaces (if they're no longer used), etc. You'll need a cauk gun, plenty of tubes of clear drying (non-shrink) silicone cauk, and some copper wool (steel wool if you're on a budget...but it will rust and eventually you'll be replacing it). In lieu of the wools... you can use hardware cloth (thick metal screening with .25 inch square holes). You'll have to cut it to fill areas around where pipes enter the house...and also where they run from basement/crawlspaces to house. You'll need to cover the holes and leave room to shove in a mess of filler compound (a compound you can paint over). The purpose for the metal wool/scrrening is that just in case you have mice, they won't be so eager to chew their way through a patch over their old entry hole. The cauk is used around all wall cracks, window seams, cabinet/wall seams, etc. Be a detective...if you can slip a quarter in the crack (by thickness), a roach can slip into it. It's a lot of cauking. Just use a tube or 2 a day/week/whatever, and eventually you'll get there. Don't rush it...do it right. If done right, you'll not have to redo the job down the road. Also, you're better off removing molding at the bottoms of the walls, cauking the wall/floor cracks, then reinstalling the molding.
Now...in the case of "waterbugs" a.k.a. Oriental cockroaches... you see them usually in areas like garages, basements, kitchens and sinks...places with drains. After you cauk these areas you limit pathways. Don't forget to unscrew basement and garage floor drain covers and liberally sprinkle in some boric acid powder. Then screw the cover back on. Make sure you don't spill any that pets or kids can get to.
For other roaches...especially the German cockroaches... you need to go postal. Visualize being a roach. No...I'm not daft. you need to think about where a roach could go, and how one might get a meal. Look at places you've never thought about. First, seal ALL foodstuffs in plastic/metal/glass containers. Make sure no food is smeared on the outside. A little smudge is a meal. Clean out the condensation/drip tray under your fridge. Clean out the crumbs that fall in your regular oven and ESPECIALLY the toaster oven. Want another check? Wait until night time, get a flashlight, and shine it UNDER your toaster while you look under it with eyes at cabinet level. Each of those little crumbs is a meal. Meals translates to health translates to breeding...and these guys breed QUICKLY. Females carry around an egg case on their abdomen. When the eggs are ready to hatch inside, she deposits them in a crack, under an overhang, etc. Shortly, the case will split and out come the newborn. Roaches are VERY well adapted to hiding and eating. They've been known even to feed on soap scum when nothing else was available.
A few drops of sugar water or other suitable food on a kitchen counter and surprise raids pulled on the baited roaches can also be successful. however you can not be bashful. Learn the open handed slap technique or you'll kill few that way. They're FAST. Remember...you can wash your hands immediately thereafter...but each roach you nail is one less breeder.
Now...the best for last... an old professor of mine showed me the gallon jar traps. I still use them to survey roach problems. You basically get a 1 gallon wide-mouthed jar (like the ones pickles come in). Get some vaseline and smear a thin coating about 2 inches high starting .5 inches above just where the shoulder meets the vertical wall and down about 1.5 inches. Stay with me...it's not as weird as it sounds. Then...go eat a bananna...or two. Place the peels in a flat layer on the bottom of the jar. Bananna peels give off ethylene gas (among others) and smell sweet. ...just like a big wad of roach candy. So...place the jar behind your stove/fridge/against a basement/garage wall. Roaches pick up the scent...crawl up the wall and/or glass...jump in from the lip, and fall inside. Once there...they stay there. The little claws on their feet can't get any traction on the vasile layer. So even if the jar maybe has enough dust to allow traction, they get to the vaseline band on the inside of the jar and can't get across it. You can get a good idea of populations with these. Use multiples. The other good thing is that after a week or two (shorter time period if you have a lot), bring some water to heat on the stove. Don't let it boil. You don't want to have it break the glass jar. Then squirt in a healthy squirt of dishwashing liquid. You pour the hot water/soapy mix in the jar. The soap prevents the waxy layer from keeping the bugs afloat and help the water get into their spiracles (breathing holes). Let it sit a while...then let it sit a while longer (in case you underestimate the time needed for actual death). Once done, you can flush them and the soap, sans peels, down the toilet. Cheap and effective. Remember...in order for all this to work, you need to seal the living quarters as mentioned before. you'll never totally stop them (they can walk...come in on a bag...etc)...but you can make it extremely difficult for them to be able to persist if a couple get in. Also, DO NOT use the traps where kids/pets will or can mess with them.
Anyway, I've seen places with so many roaches they walked around brazenly by day. They were treated as above and after a while, none were left.
I'm going to post about fruit flies next...
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We recently raised taxes on the wealthy, and on every worker in America with the payroll tax hike.
The worker slung one bag, and then another, and then another into the back of the truck.
Chuck Schumer (D-NY) bewailed the plight of a worker at JFK Airport who had issues raising her children on minimum wage.
There is one theory that they were both exposed by a Liberian worker in the contamination crew who fell ill.
Mistaking the time, he became a worker for a separate peace with Germany.
He was the blacksmith god, the god of fire, and a worker in metals.
The line is drawn away from the worker, that is, contrary to the way one would draw a line with a lead pencil.
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Darian Dziurzynski hopes his minor league deal paves the way for a major league future.
The former Brandon Wheat King has signed an American Hockey League contract to play the upcoming season with the Portland Pirates, the farm team of the National Hockey League's Phoenix Coyotes.
Chosen by the Coyotes in the fifth round of the 2011 entry draft, Dziurzynski was hoping for an NHL contract with Phoenix, but instead will have to prove his worth to the club first.
"(The Coyotes) have my rights for another year so it was either sign something with them or go to school," the 21-year-old winger from Lloydminster, Alta., said. "I just talked to my parents about it and I really wanted to keep playing hockey so I decided not to do the whole schooling thing and go play pro."
Most drafted players can return to junior until they're eligible to re-enter the draft if they're unable to agree to the terms they want with their NHL team, but the 6-foot-1, 204-pound Dziurzynski's options were limited because he only had one season of WHL eligibility left when he was picked by the Coyotes.
Dziurzynski started last season in the AHL, but was unsigned and returned to the Western Hockey League's Saskatoon Blades without playing a game for the Pirates. He was flipped to the Wheat Kings after only four games with the Blades, finishing his overage season in the WHL with 30 goals, 46 points and 110 penalty minutes 65 games.
He went to the Coyotes' development camp this summer and said contract talks with the club began to pick up after that.
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