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Snoring, tiredness are signs of dangerous sleep apnea
Enrique Menchaca Jr. was well on his way to becoming another statistic.
For 10 years, the 41-year-old El Paso sous chef would sleep eight to 10 hours a night but still wake up exhausted. "I was tired all the time," Menchaca said.
"I had a fever, and the doctor checked my tonsils and he told me I had some really big tonsils. He asked if I had a sleeping problem, and my wife said yes. I knew I snored, but I didn't think it was that bad."
He went to the Sierra Providence Sleep Disorders Center, where he was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea. People with apnea stop breathing for short periods during sleep, and they have a greater risk of sudden cardiac death.
According to a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, an estimated 12 million American adults have obstructive sleep apnea, and many of those cases are undiagnosed.
"I exercised a lot," Menchaca said. "I thought it was normal. I have high blood pressure, so I was taking pills for that."
His snoring was so loud that he and his wife slept in separate rooms.
"It was so bad that I had to turn on the fan and the TV and close the door and I could still hear him through the wall," Erica Menchaca said. "It was scary. I knew he wasn't sleeping at night because he would snore and then he would stop for a few seconds to try to catch his breath. He would wake himself up. I can't believe we waited so long to get him tested."
In the study, funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, 10,701 people who participated in sleep studies were followed for an average of 5.3 years.
In that time, 142 patients died from sudden cardiac death. The most common predictors were an age of 60 or older, 20 or more apnea episodes per hour of sleep, and an oxygen saturation below 78 percent during sleep.
"When you snore, that means there is airway obstruction," said Dr. Gonzalo Diaz, the medical director at the El Paso Sleep Center, the Sleep Disorder Center at Providence Memorial Hospital and at Del Sol Medical Center.
"Nobody should snore. If you snore, it's definitely abnormal. Studies show if you snore, you have a higher chance to have high blood pressure and a higher chance to have a stroke."
Sleep apnea creates several problems, including long interruptions of breathing during sleep, frequent waking from sleep (even though you may not realize it) and light sleeping.
People with obstructive sleep apnea sleep lightly to try to keep their throat muscles tense enough to maintain airflow. That can strain the heart.
"When males snore, they obstruct the airway, and when they obstruct the airway, you can stop breathing for a few seconds and your oxygen drops," Diaz said. "When this happens, the brain senses that you are not breathing and wakes you up."
When the brain wakes a person up, it releases stress hormones.
"Those hormones don't allow you to fall asleep," Diaz said. "Those high levels of hormones increase your high blood pressure and increase your cholesterol and your risk for heart attack or strokes."
Sleep studies at Sierra Providence Sleep Disorders Center take place at night in private rooms where the brain waves, eye movement, heart rate, oxygen level and breathing patterns are monitored and recorded.
"If you've tried to treat your hypertension and can't get your blood pressure down, we need to do a sleep study," said Joseph Arteage, the clinical coordinator at the sleep center. "If your neck is over 17 inches, you need a sleep study. If you just got diagnosed with diabetes, you need a sleep study."
People who have been diagnosed with sleep apnea are often fitted for a CPAP -- a continuous positive airway pressure mask. The mask uses mild air pressure to keep the airways open during sleep.
CPAP treatment involves a CPAP machine, which has three main parts: a mask or another device that fits over your nose or your nose and mouth (straps keep the mask in place while you're wearing it); a tube that connects the mask to the machine's motor; and a motor that blows air into the tube.
"There was a study where a patient with diabetes whose blood sugar level was registering at 200 (normal is 70 to 100 in the morning or 135 to 150 after a meal), without any change except treating the sleep apnea with a CPAP, it went from 200 to 120 without a change in medicine or exercise," Diaz said. "You can control diabetes much better with the use of the CPAP."
Diaz, who opened the first sleep disorders center in El Paso with Dr. David Brines in 1985, said the most common cause of hypertension is sleep apnea.
"When the patient wakes up and they don't feel well, it could be because they didn't sleep well," Diaz said. "Anybody who wakes up unrefreshed or who feels tired and sleepy during the day or anybody who wakes up with a headache in the morning or has a hard time losing weight, it could be related to a lack of sleep."
Erica Menchaca said her husband's sleep apnea was affecting the entire family.
"I feel like we're a married couple now because we are sleeping in the same bed again, the way it should be," she said. "He is much better. He doesn't make a sound at all."
She said the family's quality of life has vastly improved, especially for the couple's two daughters, Madison, 7, and Bella, 3.
"He doesn't come home and fall asleep on me anymore," she said. "Now he helps out around the house, and that's important for me. He has enough energy at the end of the day to play with his girls, so they win, too."
Common sleep apnea symptoms include:
--Waking up with a very sore or dry throat.
--Loud snoring.
--Occasionally waking up with a choking or gasping sensation.
--Sleepiness or lack of energy during the day.
--Sleepiness while driving.
--Morning headaches.
--Restless sleep.
--Forgetfulness, mood changes and a decreased interest in sex.
--Recurrent awakenings or insomnia.
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I'm trying to use a memory shared (memory mapped files) mechanism to transmit a window handle (HWND type) from C to C#. I've successfully used it to transmit strings.
In the case of handle, I get a system run-time error (build is fine) at the shared memory buffer copy (CopyMemory) of the window's handle (I write below all associated code):
The HWND's length is 4 bytes (tested also with sizeof(parentHandle)). The debugger (VS2010 Beta) brings me to the assembler code where a mov operation, inside CopyMemory, is corrupted.Code:HWND parentHandle; // This is initialized elsewhere by creating a simple window LPVOID pBuf; .................... // Create the shared buffer (Memory Mapped File) hMapFile = CreateFileMapping( INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, // use paging file NULL, // default security PAGE_READWRITE, // read/write access 0, // maximum object size (high-order DWORD) BUF_SIZE, // maximum object size (low-order DWORD) szsharedBufferName); // name of mapping object if (hMapFile == NULL) { DisplayLastError(L"Could not file mapping object"); return 1; } // Create a view into the created shared buffer so that can read/write access it //pBuf = (LPTSTR) MapViewOfFile(hMapFile, // handle to map object pBuf = MapViewOfFile(hMapFile, // handle to map object FILE_MAP_ALL_ACCESS, // read/write permission 0, 0, BUF_SIZE); if (pBuf == NULL) { DisplayLastError(L"Could not map view of file"); CloseHandle(hMapFile); return 1; } // Write the handle into the shared buffer CopyMemory((PVOID) pBuf, parentHandle, 4);
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Like his teammates, Benten is obsessed with becoming powerful by gaining vast wealth with the Tsuchigumo clan's kinjutsu. Despite his villainous status, he seems to be somewhat reluctant to hurt women when he told Chūshin to take it easy on Hotaru. However, Chūshin has also brought up that Benten can be "scary" when he is angry.
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Being a part of the Magaki Group, he specialises in cooperative techniques and, alongside Nangō and Chūshin, plays the role to transfer his chakra to Akaboshi in order to increase the deadliness of his attacks. In combination with his teammates, he can use a supplementary techniques like a team transformation, shattering barriers or restraining enemies with a shadow-rope, but also a variety of aggressive techniques like a restraining technique in a small and a larger scale, a pyramid that explodes by will, killing the one's trapped inside and also a deadly Lightning Release attack. The team's strongest technique is the Impermanence of Worldly Things, which creates a shard that breaks up into multiple shards and impales the opponent. Yamato hailed the technique as being quite formidable.
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Akaboshi, Benten, Nangō, and Chūshin make for Mount Katsuragi in search of the Tsuchigumo clan's kinjutsu. They manage to destroy the barrier around the mountain and make their way up. They could not find the jutsu anywhere and ran into Tonbee, whom the group defeated quickly. They discover that Hotaru has the technique and they begin searching for her.
Later, Benten and his comrades are seen receiving new orders from a mysterious man. After meeting with their leader, the four-man team encountered Utakata, who single-handedly bested the group until they caught him in their barrier technique.
After this, the group headed to the Tsuchigumo Village, where they ambushed Hotaru with the help of the villagers in the hopes of getting the kinjutsu. However, the scroll that Nangō hands Akaboshi turns out to be a rigged trap, which explodes, allowing Hotaru to escape. Benten and the team pursue Hotaru, and, just after catching her, are interrupted by Utakata, who claims to have business of his own with Hotaru.
After Utakata escaped with Hotaru, Benten and the rest of his squad were confronted by their leader, who showed them that Utakata was a missing-nin from Kirigakure with a bounty of 50 million ryō. Akaboshi asked their leader what they should do, to which he began to muse about.
Later, when Naruto Uzumaki sought out Shiranami, the Magaki leader, who believed the latter was an ally, Benten and his comrades ambushed Naruto and used Infinite Embrace to drain his chakra. While Chūshin beat Naruto, Benten almost revealed their plan before Akaboshi silenced him. Angered at being deceived, Naruto unleashed his Nine-Tail chakra and broke out of the Infinite Embrace. Though shocked at Naruto's strength, the Magaki used their Multiple Infinite Embraces to crush Naruto. Much to their shock, however, Naruto was still able to resist. Before they could do anything else, Utakata appeared and performed Acid Permeation. He angrily demanded that the Magaki tell him where they took Hotaru, while intimidating them with his Six-Tail chakra. Sensing that they were at risk, Akaboshi ordered Benten and the others to retreat and regroup with Shiranami at the Tsuchigumo village.
At night, when Utakata and Naruto returned to the Tsuchigumo village, it was revealed that the Magaki had taken control by hypnotising all the villagers. Benten mocked them for falling for the trap so easily. Just before things got worse, the rest of Team Yamato arrived while hunting for Hotaru. Benten and the others than engaged them in battle. Benten and his group try to kill Team Yamato with their Impermanence of Worldly Things, but fails and Benten ends up getting knocked out by a punch from Sakura Haruno.


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I have problems understanding my disk space usage. I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I am recently going low on disk space and I cannot understand why. Here is the result of du (only largest folders).
716.0K Videos
1.1M giorgio2.pdf
1.7M 2011_Thesis_Caroline_Ferdinand.pdf
2.1M 031022_1.pdf
2.4M dgfem
29.7M aux
362.6M Papers
479.3M Desktop
588.6M Documents
1.8G vtk
3.0G Dropbox
38.0G Pictures
105.9G Music
Here is the result of df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 322G 304G 1.4G 100% /
udev 3.9G 4.0K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.6G 940K 1.6G 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 3.9G 736K 3.9G 1% /run/shm
What I don't understand is where the 304G used come from. The result of du does not sum up to that amount. That make me difficult to free space (as you see I have only 1.4G available). What am I missing here?
I add an image of Disk Usage Analyzer. The point is that the first 10 largest folders sum up to less than 165G. But still my home folder uses 312G.


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A Los Angeles police officer killed in a traffic crash was remembered Thursday as a mentor and loving father at a downtown service that drew thousands of mourners, including Gov. Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris.
Nicholas Lee, 40, was the "quintessential police officer," said Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, speaking to the more than 3,000 people that packed into the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles.
"He was one of us," Beck said. "He was the best of us."
PHOTOS: Funeral for LAPD Officer Nicholas Lee
Lee, a 16-year veteran of the LAPD, was killed Friday in a collision between a police cruiser car and a truck in Beverly Hills. Lee's partner, identified only as Stephanie by LAPD officials, was injured in the crash.
The investigation is ongoing, but some believe the truck, which crushed Lee's cruiser, may have lost its brakes.
During the 90-minute service at the cathedral, Beck addressed the rows of officers in blue, recalling Lee's work at the Hollywood Division, where he trained young officers.
Beck also spoke directly to Stephanie, a trainee who attended Thursday's memorial after being hospitalized because of the collision. In a rare, personal moment, Beck recalled he, too, lost a partner in a traffic crash years ago.
"Mine died in my arms," Beck said, his voice shaking with emotion. "He will never leave you. He will always be in your heart. Your challenge is to live up to his expectations, your challenge is to be the cop he wanted you to be."
Lee leaves behind a wife, Catherine, and two young daughters, Kendall and Jalen.
The officer was born in South Korea, and came to the U.S. at age 6 with his parents, according to a brochure provided at the memorial. Raised in Koreatown, he graduated from University High School in West Los Angeles in 1991.
He met his wife at Cal State Fullerton, officials said.
Speaking to mourners at the cathedral, Archbishop Jose Gomez suggested Lee's legacy would endure, through the lives of his wife and daughters, and the love he brought to the world.
"The key is transforming what is mortal into the immortal," Gomez said. "Transforming what is transitory into the eternal."
The 3,000-seat cathedral was at capacity as the ceremony drew hundreds of law enforcement officers from across Southern California Officers arrived in uniform from Ventura County, Long Beach and Beverly Hills.
Mayor Eric Garcetti, who represented the Hollywood area as a city councilman, cited the lives Lee saved and protected during his time on the force.
"We look up to Nicholas, and see an angel, soaring over this city of Angels," Garcetti said.
Lee's assignments included the Van Nuys, Wilshire and Hollywood divisions, and he received numerous commendations throughout his service, police officials said.
Craig Cox, a manager at a homeless shelter for at-risk youths in Hollywood, said Lee was different from most cops because he took the time to interact with the kids. He was frequently called to the shelter when the youngsters acted out, Cox said.
"He treated them with the utmost respect and courtesy, knowing their circumstances," said Cox, who wasn't able to attend Thursday's service. "He seemed like a very compassionate person."
After the ceremony, family members and officers traveled to a graveside service at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale. Hundreds of law enforcement cars sped under a tent of raised America flags, held aloft by a group of Patriot Guard Riders, a national organization of motorcycle riders.
Politicians from Washington, D.C. to Sacramento also remembered Lee.
Speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives Thursday morning, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Burbank, said Lee "selflessly served his community" and asked his colleagues to join him in sending condolences to the Lee family.
In Sacramento, the state Senate adjourned in memory of Lee, according to a tweet by state Sen. Kevin DeLeon, D-Los Angeles. "Our thoughts & prayers go out to his family," DeLeon wrote.


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JamPlay introduces Nashville session player Guthrie Trapp! In this first segment, Guthrie talks a little about his influences, style, and how his upbringing influenced his playing. He also provides an overview of what he'll be teaching in his series.
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Been a fan of Guthrie's playing since the Nick Branch and the Filthy Rich days on the coast of Alabama. Any idea when the rest of this series is going to be posted. I learned a couple things from what's here but mostly things I already knew. What I was hoping for by joining was a few solos from Guthrie to dissect similar to the Brent Mason lessons. Thanks.
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JamPlay introduces Nashville session player Guthrie Trapp! In this first segment, Guthrie talks a little about his influences, style, and how his upbringing influenced his playing. He also provides an...Length: 3:45 Difficulty: 0.0 Members Only
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To get his lesson series off the ground, Guthrie provides a lesson on the basic rhythm types and picking techniques he utilizes. He'll build on these topics and techniques as his series progresses.Length: 27:25 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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In the fifth lesson of his artist series, Guthrie Trapp detours a little and talks about fundamental funk ideas. Specifically, he talks about rhythmic features of the genre and how he attacks them.Length: 14:53 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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In lesson six of his artist series, Guthrie begins an in depth discussion of the hybrid picking style. This technique forms the foundation for many of the rhythm and lead parts associated with the Nashville...Length: 18:55 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Guthrie is back with another Nashville style lesson in his artist series. In this lesson, he takes a lick-based approach to double stop ideas and a few country kick-offs.Length: 17:01 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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One of the staples of the Nashville sound is the use of open ringing strings in licks. In lesson eight, Guthrie discusses open string ideas and demonstrates several licks to get you started.Length: 15:27 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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The Memphis style borrows heavily from the soul and R&B genres. In this lesson, Guthrie covers some typical licks you'll find in this style and discusses how to translate these licks across the fingerboard.Length: 8:27 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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It's fairly easy to get lost on the fretboard when trying to play low or high. Using familiar chord shapes, Guthrie discusses how you can orient yourself on the fretboard and keep from getting lost. This...Length: 14:04 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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In lesson 11 of his artist series, Guthrie Trapp explains how to play steel type bends on the guitar. He discusses the techniques and provides some exercises that will help you bend in tune.Length: 14:34 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Nashville session player Guthrie Trapp is back with a look at several country kick-offs that you can use in your playing. These phrases happen shortly after the beginning of traditional country tunes and...Length: 25:40 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Guthrie Trapp returns to his artist series with a look at how he tackles improvisation and solos on the guitar.Length: 20:44 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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In this artist lecture, Guthrie Trapp talks about the Nashville session scene and what it takes to cut it as a session musician. He discusses how gigs are pulled together and some of the knowledge you'll...Length: 10:04 Difficulty: 0.0 Members Only
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Guthrie Trapp is back with a short lecture on how he has his rig setup, what gear he uses and what's necessary to be a successful Nashville session player.Length: 14:34 Difficulty: 0.5 Members Only
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Now that you've learned some of the tricks Guthrie uses in his solos, it's time to apply what you've learned. In this lesson, Guthrie provides a solo over a rhythm track and discusses how he created the...Length: 23:15 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Guthrie Trapp is back with another practical solo application. This time he's playing over a country groove with a bit of funk in there as well.Length: 6:04 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Guthrie Trapp touched on some funk soloing in his previous lesson. For this one, he's taking a look at the funk genre specifically. He also discusses how to build a solo and some things to think about...Length: 15:02 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Guthrie is back with another take on soloing over a comping pattern. In this lesson, he takes a look at more soulful playing and the use of minor tonalities.Length: 8:21 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 22
For Guthrie Trapp's next demonstration on solo technique, he discusses how he gets around the neck when the underlying track requires a fast paced solo.Length: 9:08 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 23
To wrap up his solo technique lessons and the series, Guthrie takes a look at his approach to soloing in minor keys.Length: 8:49 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Jacksonville and dozens of other communities received Governor's Home Town Awards at a ceremony Tuesday in the Crowne Plaza hotel.
Tired of gazing at the numerous blank and unappealing walls on buildings in downtown Jacksonville, officials there sought some visual pizzazz.
By working with volunteers and an international group of sign-painters called the Letterheads, they got nine murals spotlighting Jacksonville's history. One mural, for instance, depicts Civil War hero Gen. Benjamin Grierson, who spent part of his life in Jacksonville.
The murals, the product of the "Wall Dog Extravaganza" held in June 2006, created a walking tour for visitors to the city.
"It was a great opportunity for our entire community to come together," said Judy Tighe, executive director for Jacksonville Main Street. "We had residents bringing (the artists) baked goods and letting them borrow tools... It was just a really great thing to watch everybody come together, and then at the end, see the final product."
The volunteer-driven effort garnered a state award for Jacksonville's Main Street Program. The Morgan County seat and dozens of other communities received Governor's Home Town Awards at a ceremony Tuesday in the Crowne Plaza hotel.
The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity administers the Home Town Awards program, now in its 26th year. It recognizes efforts in various categories, such as Youth Involvement, Senior Citizen Involvement and Parks & Recreation.
Jacksonville, competing with other communities with populations of 19,001 to 26,000, won a second-place award in the Clean Up/Beautification category.
Other award-winners included Rockford, Princeville and tiny Ellisville, a Fulton County community with fewer than 90 residents.
Members of the Ellisville Goal Getters, a group of civic-minded women, set their sights on raising enough money to install a warning-alert system to notify area residents about tornadoes or other dangerous conditions.
"Everybody was interested in the project, number one," said Bonnie Powell, who with Kay Van Tine helped spearhead the effort. "They thought it was a worthwhile project. And they were willing to get behind it and work."
Fundraising help came from throughout Ellisville, including the local fire department and senior citizens club. Those funds, along with a $16,000 federal grant, enabled Ellisville to get the new siren installed earlier this year.
The Ellisville project took a first-place award in the General Category among communities with a population of up to 2,500. It also was a finalist for the Governor's Cup, which is the top Home Town Award.
The city of Rockford picked up a first-place plaque for its Rockford in Bloom program, a beautification initiative featuring gardens and hanging baskets. The prize came in the category of Clean Up/Beautification among communities with population exceeding 75,000.
Ruth Miller, who directs the Rockford Park District's City of Gardens program, said the initiative has grown "in leaps and bounds" since its inception in 1999. This year, thanks mostly to private donations, 250 hanging baskets were placed in strategic locations throughout Rockford, she said.
"Whether you're a school kid or whether you're a person that's a senior citizen, this is something that brings the community together," Miller said. "It makes our community a better place."
Also winning Home Town Awards this year were:
-- The city of Assumption, in eastern Christian County, for beautifying the GFWC Assumption Woman's Club Railroad Park. The club worked with Boy Scouts and others in the community to update flowerbeds and redo landscaping. The project took second place in the category of Clean Up/Beautification among communities with populations up to 2,500.
-- The city of Carlinville, for the Carlinville Christmas Market. Unpaid volunteers staff the Christmas Market Foundation, and they plan every aspect of the event. The festival, now in its 18th year, attracts as many as 10,000 people and generates about $1 million in revenue. This took second place in the General Category among communities with a population of 2,501 to 5,900.
-- The village of Princeville for the Akron-Townhouse School. Local volunteers decided somebody needed to preserve the last remaining one-room schoolhouse in Princeville. They worked with the Historical Association of Princeville and eventually moved the schoolhouse to a new spot. They restored the building and furnished it with desks appropriate to the time that the schoolhouse operated.
Modern-day students now visit the site to get a taste of what education was like long ago. This project took first place in the Clean Up/Beautification category among communities with populations up to 2,500.
-- The city of Pontiac for its storm sewer stenciling/e-waste program. The project aims to reduce water pollution by stenciling warnings on storm sewer drains. This took second place in the Clean Up/Beautification category among communities with a population of 10,001 to 17,000.
-- The village of Viola for its 2006 Sesquicentennial. More than 700 volunteers participated in the project, which took first place in the General Category among communities with populations up to 2,500.
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The journey home from the West Bank for residents of Nabi Samwil is a difficult one. They must take a taxi through Israel's Qalandia checkpoint near Ramallah and into Israeli controlled east Jerusalem, down a highway and finally into the village.
This difficulty in accessing the village lies in the fact that it is located in an area known as the seam zone. The seam zone is a strip of land located in the area between Israel's separation wall and the internationally recognized Green Line. There are approximately 6,500 Palestinian residents living in the seam zone, an area which makes up 9.4% of West Bank land, according to statistics from OCHA.
Israeli law dictates that anyone with a green ID, the ID provided by Israeli authorities to all Palestinian residents in the West Bank, is barred from crossing into Israeli occupied Jerusalem without specific permission from Israeli authorities. Most of Nabi Samwil's 300 residents hold green IDs. They are West Bank residents yet they live on the opposite side of Israel's wall and are forced to drive along Israeli only roads to reach work, school and family members.
This unjust situation has been created because of Israel's illegal practice of building its separation wall almost entirely inside the West Bank, circumnavigating and de facto annexing many of the illegal settlements on the other side of the Green Line along with Palestinian villages like Nabi Samwil.
There are 16 other villages similar to Nabi Samwil in the Jerusalem area, according to the UN, although the very existence of green ID holders on the other side of the wall is illegal according to Israeli laws.
"Israel refuses to believe there is an Arab history here," said Aeed Barakat, a resident of Nabi Samwil, while showing the Palestine Monitor the home in which his father grew up.
Israeli authorities have recently declared the area in which Nabi Samwil is located to be included in a 14,000 acre national park. This means that no construction whatsoever can be carried out in the village. Building fences and even planting trees are forbidden, and every single house but one has a demolition order placed on it.
Aeed Barakat's home, for example, is currently under threat of demolition for the fourth time.
Without any permission to build, residents live in extremely cramped quarters; twenty people share Barak's home.
Historically, most of the residents of Nabi Samwil were farmers, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to generate income as the Israeli military frequently demolishes barns and sheds used to house animals.
The village is also prohibited from extending their one-room school, and is barred from building any health centers. Residents of the village are only permitted to 'import' one bag of groceries each from the West Bank; all food must be registered and approved by the Israeli military before it is brought in. Residents are prohibited from shopping in any of the shops closer to home in Jerusalem because of their green ID's.
Ram Rahat, leader of the 'Park in a Cage' campaign, explained to the Palestine Monitor that the policies are "geared toward creating a situation where it is impossible for people to live here."
No checkpoints stopping residents from entering Jerusalem
Most of the residents of Nabi Samwil hold green IDs, prohibiting them from entering Jerusalem and the rest of Israel. However, there is nothing physically preventing their entry. There is no barrier, no wall, and no checkpoints. While Israeli authorities have physically cut Nabi Samwil off from the West Bank, the state has not offered residents the option of working in Jerusalem or Israel. If caught across the Green Line, green ID holders face fines and prison sentences, both increasing each time they are caught.
Essentially, residents are "living in an invisible cage," according to Daniela Telmon, a lecturer of Middle Eastern Studies at Hebrew University.
Many residents of the village, most often the youth, take the risk in order to work in Israel, a there are extremely limited job opportunities in both Nabi Samwil and the West Bank. In 2013, the unemployment rate in the West Bank was 24%.
"They do not want Arabs here"
On top of this absurd situation, the village of Nabi Samwil is located next the controversial E1 area east of Jerusalem, home to a number of Palestinian Bedouin communities. Although the Israeli settlement enterprise has long been determined to build in the area, settlement construction in E1 has been frozen since 2009 due to international pressure.
Were construction in the area to continue, Israeli settlements would complete a circle around East Jerusalem, essentially cutting off Jerusalem, the proposed capital of any future Palestinian state, from the rest of the West Bank. Furthermore, settlements in E1 would essentially cut the West Bank in two, bisecting large swaths of Palestinian territory between Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
Nabi Samwil is surrounded by settlements, and although there appear to be good relations between Jews and Muslims that pray at the Tomb of Samuel, violence still exists. The small school has barbed wire around the top of the fence to stop Jewish kids throwing things from the house next door. Har Sh'umuel, an illegal settlement located next to the village of Nabi Samwil, confiscated most of Nabi Samwil's agricultural land when the settlement was constructed, leaving the residents of Nabi Samwil with very limited options to generate any income.
"Israel wants the village of Nabi Samwil to move to Ramallah, they do not want Arabs here," explained Manal Barak, Aeed's wife. Many residents fear they will be forced to relocate to the West Bank, sooner rather than later.
Soldiers often come into the village to count the residents, ensuring that no one has entered or exited the village illegally, as well as to monitor any construction work.
As the number of Palestinian villages in the E1 area steadily decreases, Israel's future plans for the area become more and more evident. In order to expand the settlement corridor, Israeli authorities are looking for ways to erase the remaining Palestinian villages in the way of expansion.
Despite the clear attempts by Israeli authorities to make life in the area impossible, Aeed Barakat remains steadfast: "Like a fish in water, I belong in Nabi Samwil."
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Modi targets PM; seeks third term for Raman Singh
Narendra Modi, who is set to be formally BJP's prime minister candidate soon, was today back at doing what he does best, directly blaming Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Congress-led UPA government for ills.india Updated: Sep 08, 2013 02:00 IST
Narendra Modi, who is set to be formally BJP's prime minister candidate soon, was back at doing what he does best on Saturday, directly blaming Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Congress-led UPA government for ills.
Send out a message that he is undeterred by his recent political setbacks, including jailed IPS officer DG Vanzara's outburst against him, he forges ahead in his new role for the 2014 polls.
Breaking a lull in his campaign since the Hyderabad rally of August 11, Modi brought back the focus on himself and his stewardship of BJP's Lok Sabha strategy with his signature style speech when BJP and RSS leaders are to take a final call on declaring him as PM candidate next week.
Modi's aggressive stance on Saturday was in contrast to his "tactical retreat strategy" three days ago when he had declared that he does not dream of occupying the top post (of Prime Minister) and would respect the people's mandate for serving Gujarat till 2017.
On Saturday, Modi virtually turned the concluding day of Raman Singh's vikas yatra into an election mode, seeking third term for his Chhattisgarh counterpart, while citing the Congress as the party displaying arrogance to the hilt.
Sharing the 'rampart' of a replica resembling Delhi's red fort with BJP president Rajnanth Singh in Ambikapur, north Chhattisgarh, Modi blew the poll bugle through a well-scripted show in the poll-bound Chhattisgarh where elections are to be held couple of months from now.
Attacking the working style of the UPA, the Gujarat CM said "Manmohan Singh is a doctor of finance but the rupee currency is struggling while Raman Singh is a people's doctor working for their welfare…While Raman Singh has worked for Chhattisgarh's progress, Manmohan Singh has sent the rupee to the hospital."
He added, "rupee is fighting for its life because of the doctor in Delhi."
Raising the issue of Coalgate, Modi said "not just coal files, but the entire government is missing... There was a debate on missing coal files in Parliament, the Supreme Court is also asking. Parliament is worried but people are asking where is the government...The government is lost, money is lost from the coffers, their honour is lost."
Modi also took a dig at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for his comment on poverty being a state of mind.
"The person on whom the Congress is banking on said poverty is a state of mind," he said. "To say that poverty is a state of mind is making a mockery of the poor in the country," Modi added.
Comparing the three states created by the Vajpayee-led NDA government, Modi blamed Congress for turning the issue of Telangana state into disarray.
Knowing well the crucial Sangh-BJP meet to be held a day after for taking a final consultation over Modi as PM candidate, he avoided making any remark on his future political ambition that might be inconvenient to him later.
He joined BJP chief Rajnath Singh on sharing the people's concern over rising prices as they praised Chhattisgarh's food law, welfare schemes and appealed the people to offer another chance to BJP led by Raman Singh.
The BJP leaders felt the UPA's food act is deficient and can never become a game changer.
Modi's high praise for Chhattisgarh CM more than he extended to any other BJP chief minister as he appreciated Raman for transforming the state to be among the most progressive one despite challenges.
"He accomplished development merely on the basis of people's trust and available resources", he said.
Raman justified his vikas yatra: "It aimed to generate awareness about the development and the welfare programmes launched by the government during the last 9 years. The yatra offered me valuable feedback".
Covering some 6000 km the Chhattisgarh chief minister addressed over 90 public meetings across the state during his yatra, which was flagged-off by veteran BJP leader LK Advani from Maoist-affected Dantewada district on May 6.
With an eye on elections, Singh dedicated and performed bhumi poojan of various welfare and development works worth over Rs 6500 crore during his 29 days of yatra accomplished in seven phases.
Amid a huge turnout, the state police ensured the extensive security arrangements deploying nearly 1,500 security officials and personnel besides the CCTV cameras.
The team of NSG, special task force and Gujarat police force also were present in and around the venue.
Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh who was in Chhattisgarh took a dig over Modi addressing from 'Red Fort' in Chhattisgarh.
"We wish Modi should continue hoisting a flag from such 'Lal Qila'.
Earlier, he has done the right thing on not to dream to be the PM taking a lesson from LK Advani who remained PM-in-waiting".


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AMD started Radeon HD 7990 sales 24 April 2013 at a recommended price of $999. This is GCN 1.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 3 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 6 GHz are supplied, and together with 384 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 288.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is Dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 307 mm. Two 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 375 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 24.17 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090.
General info
Of Radeon HD 7990's architecture, market type and release date.
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Release date
24 April 2013
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Technical specs
Radeon HD 7990's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 7990's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
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Core clock speed
950 MHz
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Boost Clock
1000 MHz
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Transistor count
4,313 million
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
375 Watt
of 900 (Tesla S2050)
Texture fill rate
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Floating-point performance
2x 4,096 gflops
of 3462 (GeForce GTX 980M)
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Information on Radeon HD 7990's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Supplementary power connectors
2x 8-pin
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 7990: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
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Maximum RAM amount
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Memory bus width
384 Bit
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Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
288.0 GB/s
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Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 7990. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
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1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
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APIs supported by Radeon HD 7990, sometimes including their particular versions.
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Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon HD 7990. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)
459 Mh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)
44 Mh/s
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Overall Radeon HD 7990 performance compared to its nearest competitors.
NVIDIA equivalent
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Your analysis of your local problem should give you a better understanding of the factors contributing to it. Once you have analyzed your local problem and established a baseline for measuring effectiveness, you should consider possible responses to address the problem.
The following response strategies provide a foundation of ideas for addressing your particular problem. These strategies are drawn from a variety of research studies and police reports. Several of these strategies may apply to your community's problem. It is critical that you tailor responses to local circumstances, and that you can justify each response based on reliable analysis. In most cases, an effective strategy will involve implementing several different responses. Law enforcement responses alone are seldom effective in reducing or solving the problem. Do not limit yourself to considering what police can do: give careful consideration to who else in your community shares responsibility for the problem and can help police better respond to it.
No federal law prohibits minimum security standards to protect ATM users;§ several states and a few cities have passed their own laws mandating minimum security standards for ATMs.§§ Most of these laws set minimum standards for lighting, landscaping, visibility, security reviews, and customer safety tips. The state of New York's law requires, in addition, surveillance cameras and locked vestibule doors that require an ATM card to access. Some laws provide for fines against ATM operators for violations of the standards. Some require annual compliance certifications for each ATM. If securitystandard laws are enacted, adequate resources must be dedicated to inspection and compliance enforcement.§§§ Under some state laws, ATM operators who comply with the security standards are statutorily protected from civil liability. Some laws apply retroactively to all ATMs; others, only to new ATMs.
§ Federal law would probably preempt state and local law, and state law usually preempts local law. Some legal commentators believe that current federal law already preempts state law, but as yet, no court has made such a determination (Knapp 1996).
§§ The state of California (Cal. Fin. Code §13000–070) and the city of New York (N.Y. Admin. Code §10–160) pioneered minimum security standards for ATMs. Among the other states that have enacted similar laws are Nevada (Nev. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§660.115–.235), Washington (Wash. Rev. Code Ann. §19.174), Oregon (Or. Rev. Stat. §714.280–.315), Georgia (Ga. Code. Ann. §§7–8–1 to 8–8), Louisiana, Maryland (Md. Code Ann., Fin. Inst. §1–207), Florida (Fla. Stat. Ann. §§655.960–.965), Illinois, New York, and New Jersey.
§§§ New York City documented poor security conditions through a careful survey of ATM sites before enacting its legislation (City Council of New York 1991). City legislators have expressed concern that when the state assumed responsibility for enforcing the minimum ATM security standards in 1996, it failed to adequately fund the monitoring and enforcement function (City Council of New York 1998).
There are both positive and negative implications for specific security standards. Highly specific standards leave little room for debate about compliance, but they also inhibit technological innovations that could provide more security than mandated by the minimum standards.72. Using civil liability. Although police do not play a direct role in civil lawsuits resulting from ATM robberies, you should understand that ATM operators and premise owners carefully consider their civil liability when deciding where to place ATMs and what security measures to adopt. Much of the published literature addresses ATM security from a legal-liability perspective. Statutory and case law on liability for injuries sustained during ATM transactions varies across jurisdictions, so you should consult local legal counsel if you wish to know how the law applies in your jurisdiction. As a general proposition in the United States, courts take into account the knowledge that ATM operators had, or should have had, about the risk of robbery at particular ATMs when determining their liability for victims' injuries. Consequently, ATM operators are advised to consult frequently with local police about reports of crime around ATMs. Courts will usually hold ATM operators to the industry standards for basic crime prevention measures, although establishing liability also turns on other legal issues.§
§ Among the legal issues concerning ATM operators' civil liability are the foreseeability that the crime would occur; the standard for determining foreseeability; the victim's expectation of protection; and the various liability of the institution operating the ATM, any ATM network involved, the owner of the premise where the ATM is located, and the victim.
ATM operators should consider security as well as marketing in deciding where to install ATMs. The most commonly mentioned ATM robbery prevention measures in the literature are those that will be familiar to crime prevention through environmental design practitioners—lighting, landscaping and location.§§ ATM sites should be inspected regularly to ensure that safety features have not become compromised. ATM operators, police and bank regulators all should share responsibility for monitoring compliance.
§§ For a review of the crime prevention value of street lighting and closed-circuit television (CCTV), see Painter and Tilley (1999)[Full text].
Lighting and placement enhance security of ATMs
§§§ Typical minimums are 10 foot-candles within five feet of the ATM, and two foot-candles 50 to 60 feet away from the ATM, measured at three feet above the ground (Ellis 1996; CUNA Service Group 1999; Illinois Office of Banks and Real Estate 1999[Full text]).According to lighting designers, however, most minimum lighting standards do not address all the factors that affect visibility. Shadows, light types, light colors, light-source direction, light uniformity, glare, and obstructions all affect visibility for the observer.8 A qualified lighting designer should plan ATM lighting. Lights should turn on automatically via photo sensors rather than by manual or timer switches. Light levels, once set properly, should be monitored regularly to ensure they do not fall below acceptable levels. Long-lasting light bulbs should be used. Automated light-detection monitors can alert the ATM operator if light levels drop. Light fixtures must be adequately protected so that offenders cannot disable them.
§ Anne Arundel County, Maryland, installed ATMs in all its police stations in response to a rash of ATM robberies (Morgan 1997).
ATM users should further be advised to close any vestibule doors securely and not to open doors for others. In addition, signs at ATMs should state that the site is being surveilled by cameras.
Some victims resist during robberies either to protect their valuables or because they believe the offender is about to get violent. Some succeed in preventing the robbery through resistance, while others get injured or killed. Offenders want to get the crime over with quickly so they can escape. Any delay increases their nervousness and, therefore, the likelihood they will become violent. 17 Robbers are usually highly agitated and easily perceive the victim's actions as threatening.18 Drug and alcohol use will obviously influence their emotional state. Some use violence immediately to preempt any resistance. In cases with multiple offenders, the risk of violence increases because each offender is also concerned about appearing tough and in control to the other(s).19
As with other violent crimes, victims should assess the particular situation, taking account of nearby assistance, weapons they are threatened with, offenders' behavior and emotional state, their own defensive abilities, and their own psychological need to resist. Given an imperfect understanding of why robbers become violent, compliance is usually the safer course of action for victims, and the best advice for police to offer.20 Widespread victim compliance, however, undoubtedly leads some offenders to perceive lower risk and, therefore, increases their ATM robbery rates.
§ For a thorough discussion of the principles of repeat offender programs and descriptions of model programs, see Spelman (1990). See also Problem-Solving Tools Guide No. 11, Analyzing and Responding to Repeat Offending.There are limits, however, to what arresting, prosecuting and incarcerating ATM robbers can do to prevent ATM robbery. Most street robbers are so highly motivated to get quick cash that they discount the likelihood of getting caught and sent to jail.31
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Colorado Firm Recalls Meat and Poultry Products That Were Produced Under Insanitary Conditions
Congressional and Public Affairs
Catherine Cochran
|Editor's note: This release is being reissued to include an undetermined amount of product produced under additional brand names and to clarify that the establishment is not operating at this time.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2013 – Yauk's Specialty Meats, a Windsor, Colo., establishment, is expanding its recall to include an additional product that was produced under insanitary conditions, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The products being recalled today are in addition to the various meat and poultry products that were recalled on Dec. 9 and Dec. 12, 2013.
The products subject to today's expansion of the recall can be identified by the establishment number "Est. 20309" inside the USDA Mark of Inspection and include:
- "Corner Post Meats" brand hams and bacon.
- "Old Style Sausage" brand Smoked Andouille Sausage.
- "Old Style Sausage" brand Smoked Kielbasa Sausage.
Products previously included in the recall expansion on Dec. 12, 3013 can be identified by the following brand names and bear the establishment number "Est. 20309" or "P-20309" inside the USDA Mark of Inspection. Products that do not bear the establishment number "Est. 20309" or "P-20309" inside the USDA Mark of Inspection would not be included in this recall. Brands affected by the Dec.12 recall expansion include:
- Four Sisters Farm
- Heart Rock Bison
- High Point Bison
- Luc's Pizza
- Mountain States Poultry & Meats
- Open A Bar 2
- Rocky Plains Quality Meats
- Schmidt's Bakery & Deli
- Wag's Livestock
- Wayne's Specialty Meats
- Windsor Dairy
- Wyoming Pure Beef
- Yauk's Specialty Meats
The following products are subject to the recall announced on Dec. 9:
- "Colorado's Best Beef" brand various fresh, smoked and shelf-stable meat products.
- "James Ranch" brand jerky and summer sausage.
- "Rocky Plains Meats" brand hams, bacon, raw and smoked sausage, jerky and raw poultry.
- "Long Family Farms" brand smoked pork products (product description has been corrected in this expansion).
- "Horned Beef" brand jerky.
- "Mile High Hungarian Sausage" brand fresh and smoked bacon and sausage.
All products being recalled are packaged in retail-ready packaging of various sizes. Each package bears the establishment number "Est. 20309" or "P-20309" inside the USDA Mark of Inspection. The products were produced between April 1, 2013, and Dec. 5, 2013 and can be identified by four-digit Julian dates ranging between 3091 and 3339. The products were sold at the wholesale and retail level in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
FSIS began a food safety assessment at the plant on Dec. 5, 2013, and discovered that product was being produced under insanitary conditions, including rodent activity in the production, storage and retail areas of the property. FSIS has suspended the assignment of inspectors at the establishment, and the establishment currently is not operating. It was discovered during the ongoing investigation that additional products should be removed from commerce.
FSIS and the establishment have received no reports of illness due to consumption of these products. Anyone concerned about an illness should contact a healthcare provider.
FSIS routinely conducts recall effectiveness checks to ensure that steps are taken to make certain that the product is no longer available to consumers. When available, the retail distribution list(s) will be posted on the FSIS website at www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls.
Consumers and media with questions about the recall should contact Wayne Yauk at 970-686-9080 .
Consumers with food safety questions can "Ask Karen," the FSIS virtual representative available 24 hours a day at AskKaren.gov or via smartphone at m.askkaren.gov. "Ask Karen" live chat services are available Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET. The toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854) is available in English and Spanish and can be reached from l0 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday. Recorded food safety messages are available 24 hours a day. The online Electronic Consumer Complaint Monitoring System can be accessed 24 hours a day at: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/reportproblem.
|USDA Recall Classifications
|Class I
|This is a health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death.
|Class II
|This is a health hazard situation where there is a remote probability of adverse health consequences from the use of the product.
|Class III
|This is a situation where the use of the product will not cause adverse health consequences.


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Observers are hopeful that Costolo will transform the service into something useful and appealling. Before coming to Twitter, he was the CEO of Feedburner, a service that allows websites to syndicate content and track subscribers -- sort of like a Nielsen rating for websites' news feeds.
Those tools to measure readership and reach are exactly what Twitter lacks. Messages on the site are quckly absorbed into an ever-growing miasma of tweets, with little opportunity to reveal trends.
Costolo's plans for the site are still unknown, but the Internet is beside itself with speculation: monthly micropayments, better integration with third-party software, more personalized recommendations, and a fundamental shift in how people subscribe to information online.
Or he could just be milking the job for laughs: Costolo is known for his side gig as a standup comic.
Right now, the primary method for subscribing to vast amounts of information is RSS, a syndication technology that, despite its limitations, is robust and heavily-used. Or is it? With better Twitter tools potentially on the horizon, tech watchers are starting to smell death on RSS's breath.


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That life had its origin when Dean Martin's father was born in the Abruzzi region of Italy in 1894 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1913. He Americanized his first name 'Gaetano' becoming barber 'Guy' Crocetti who would marry Angela Barra the following year on October 25, 1914. Dean's mom was born in Fernwood, Ohio in 1897 and met Guy while she was studying to be a nun! Dean is quoted in a 1967 'Look' article as admitting, "She was in a convent. She met my father, and fell in love at first sight. She left the convent, and she married him two weeks later." The Crocettis' first child, Bill, was born on June 24, 1916. His brother entered the world as Dino Paul Crocetti less than a year later on June 7, 1917. The family lived at 319 South Sixth Street, Steubensville, and Dean was baptized at St. Anthony of Padua's Church on September 16th of that year. He didn't speak any English until the age of five.
Dean's childhood was filled with fond memories as he remembered during an interview with the 'Saturday Evening Post' in April 1961. "We Crocettis had everything we wanted. I had a bicycle. We had a car and good food. As a cook, my mother was the greatest. Her specialties were spaghetti and meat balls, veal and peppers or sausage and peppers."
Dean attended Grant Junior High and Wells High schools and was a Boy Scout in Steubenville's troop ten. He quit school in the tenth grade because, as he noted, "I thought I was smarter than the teachers." A succession of jobs followed, including a stint when he boxed in the welterweight division as 'Kid Crochet'. This left him with a permanently split lip, crooked hands and a broken nose.
While in his teens, Dean worked in Ohio's steel mills bundling hot coils.
"We had big platforms half a block long; hot coils of steel wire came down on them," he recalled in 1961. "They cooled as they came because there was water splashing on them. At a certain point a buddy of mine and I would bang the end of a coil with a hammer, I'd pull a lever and the coil went into a boxcar." When he narrowly avoided being hit by a falling bundle, Dean decided to try his hand at another profession.
In the 1930s, Steubenville was known as 'Little Chicago' due in large part to its gambling houses. During the Depression, Dean delivered bootleg whiskey throughout Ohio and across the river in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. He also worked as a clerk at the Rex Cigar Store on Steubenville's Market Street, which was a front for one of the town's gambling centers. He dealt poker and blackjack in the back room and expertly handled the stick as a croupier, raking money off the gambling tables. Dean elaborated, "I learned to roll the wheel, how to shoot craps, how to deal blackjack... my salary for working the chips and the dice tables was eight bucks a day. Tips brought that up to fifteen or twenty dollars. Also, I did a little knocking down. During the course of a day I could steal maybe as much as five silver dollars."
But Martin wasn't just a good croupier, he was also good looking. He admitted to 'Look' magazine in 1952, "I was the kind of guy who'd walk down the street and people would turn around and look after me." And from a very early age, he discovered another talent: singing.
In the September 18, 1965 issue of 'TV Guide', Dean's first cousin Mary related the following: "Dino somehow... acquired a record player, an old one, the kind that you had to wind up after each record. He collected records of singers; I can't remember all of them, but I do know that his favorites were Bing Crosby and Russ Columbo. He'd play their records over and over, and sing with them."
Throughout the years, Dean always acknowledged his debt to Crosby. In 1961 he told journalist Pete Martin, "I copied Bing Crosby 100%. Frank Sinatra and Perry Como did too." Six years later, he confided to Oriana Fallaci, a reporter for 'Look', "When a Bing Crosby movie came to Steubenville, I would stay there all day and watch. And that's how I learned to sing, cause it's true I don't read a note. He was the teacher for all of us." And in the September 1969 issue of 'Billboard' he remarked, "We all sound a little bit like him because he didn't strain when he was singing. He just let it flow naturally."
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