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CDRH Enforcement Trends: Back to the Future
As Winston Churchill said, "Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
If you analyze CDRH's enforcement actions in 2015, you'll get a pretty good idea of what to expect when they come knocking this year. But that takes time. So we've done it for you.
Take a close look at the warning letters the agency sent last year, and you'll see the usual suspects — GMP lapses, poor CAPA practices, quality audit issues — but you'll also find a more laser-like focus on device makers who don't seek premarket approval for alternative uses of their products. Also raising its head — a lack of or inadequate employee training and an old standby that can't be possibly be ignored — lack of or inadequate procedures.
Your SOPs need to be simple enough to follow yet complete enough to satisfy intense scrutiny. It's better to have a simple flowchart that you follow than a 30-page tome that looks great on paper but has dust settling on the cover due to lack of use.
The bottom line is that warning letters tend to cause a drop in company evaluation and a drop in company revenue – your executive team, your shareholders, and your patients don't want to see a warning letter with your company name on it.
If you're a candidate for inspection or you just want to be prepared in case an FDA inspector has you on a list, you'll want to join the presentation which will detail exactly what FDA enforcers were focusing on last year. It will also project forward to let you know what you're likely to see from them when they come and visit your facility this year.
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John Avellanet is an award-winning FDA compliance expert known for his business-savvy, pragmatic advice and engaging speaking style. Mr. Avellanet was the lead author of several certification courses on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Quality System Regulation (QSR) supplier management for the US Regulatory Affairs Professional Society.
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Pauline recently visited & spent some time with Miss Glover and the pupils of St. Joseph's College, Belfast. Most of these students are already active members in their school and parish communities but they want to contribute further so they have all signed up to take part in the Pope John Paul II Award. Thanks for the lovely welcome and the lively discussion.

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Two years will soon have passed since the British people voted to leave the European Union. Since then the EU has itself changed radically enough to make renewed UK membership more unattractive and less likely. Most obviously, active steps have been taken to form a European army and President Macron has advocated greater fiscal integration, with the possibility of EU-wide taxes. Opinion surveys have shown that the key issue in the referendum debate was "who governs Britain?". If there are to be a European army and European taxes, an application to rejoin the EU would — undoubtedly, and with much greater clarity than before — be an attempt to end the UK's existence as an independent, self-governing nation.
Nevertheless, Tony Blair and others are plotting a campaign to hold a second referendum and reverse the tide of history. They aim to operate on a cross-party basis, with George Osborne a natural ally. Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010 to 2016, has become editor of the London Evening Standard and uses it to spin a pro-EU line. Blair once told the Andrew Marr show that Osborne was "a highly capable guy". Famously or notoriously, one product of Osborne's capability was Project Fear in the run-up to the referendum. It pushed alarmist forecasts about how the economy would behave outside the EU, capturing many headlines and provoking much comment. Osborne cited detailed and allegedly rigorous research from the Treasury (in a White Paper, Cm. 9292, no less) on what would happen in the first two years after a vote to leave.
Time is now almost up for the predictions. We must ask, "How did Project Fear perform?". Two cases were explored in Cm. 9292: a so-called "cautious" scenario in which a trade agreement with the EU would be negotiated, and a "severe shock" alternative where the UK would quit the single market and trade with our European neighbours on the same basis as other World Trade Organisation members (that is, just as the US or China trade with the EU). Talking in these terms was actually a bit odd. Ahead of June 23, 2016, it was well-known that a two-year negotiating period under Article 50 would be the inevitable sequel to a Leave vote. By implication, the precise trading relationship between the UK and the EU might still be undefined even in early 2019. (Indeed, the precise relationship is still undefined at the time of writing.)
Anyhow, the Treasury did analyse its two cases, and it did not beat about the bush. The two years from a Leave result in the referendum would be a major setback in the "cautious" case, with a drop of 3.6 per cent in gross domestic product, and a disaster in the WTO case, with a tumble of 6.0 per cent. (Both these figures are relative to what would otherwise have occurred.) Jobs would be lost on a massive scale. Unemployment would jump by 520,000 in the cautious projection and by 820,000 in the situation where only WTO rules applied.
Osborne had no compunction about presenting these numbers on television and other media. In a visit to B&Q's head office on May 23, 2016, he warned that voting to leave the EU would be "a do-it-yourself recession". Specifically, Brexit would lead to a repeat of the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009, ruining all the subsequent work "to get our country back on track". In other announcements the British public was told that the two years after a vote to leave would see falling house prices and a marked deterioration in the public finances. Indeed, the prospective deterioration was so severe that pensions might have to be cut and taxes raised.
Let us make a comparison between the Osborne/Treasury view ("the Project Fear assessment") and the outturn. Even provisional numbers are not yet available for the first two quarters of 2018, but again we have a recent official forecast of the
quarterly profile from the OBR. (Both quarters are to see GDP rises of 0.4 per cent.) The box below gives the outcome of the exercise.
The failure of Project Fear raises wider constitutional questions, particularly about the role of the Civil Service in modern government. In 2013 Anthony King and Trevor Crewe wrote a book, The Blunders of our Governments, which surveyed a list of cock-ups of various kinds from the poll tax to the Millennium Dome. The list included mistakes in economic policy, notably the Treasury's complicity in the fiasco of UK membership of the European exchange rate mechanism in the early 1990s. Was Project Fear yet another cock-up? One interpretation is that civil servants operated so closely to politicians that they lost their objectivity and saw themselves as serving those politicians. This should not have happened. An obvious risk is that serving one particular set of politicians slides into favouring one or another political party. The constitutional position is that the UK Civil Service is not political and answers to the Crown, understood as "the Queen in Parliament", where it is made effective by parliamentary questions, select committees and the like. If the Civil Service has been politicised and corrupted, Project Fear could be regarded as uninteresting. On this view it was never to be seen as high-quality, seriously-intended analysis. Rather it was the result of the hijack of the Treasury's resources by an unscrupulous Chancellor of the Exchequer.
On June 28, 2016, Paul Johnson, then and now the Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, wrote a piece for The Times in which — with less than a week of evidence in support — he said: "We economists were collectively right about the economic consequences of leaving the EU. Sadly, as events are already proving, those consequences will be bad, possibly very bad. The UK economics profession had a good referendum." The trouble — in Johnson's view — was that either the public was not listening or it was too dim to follow the debate properly. To quote again, "Economists' warnings were not understood or believed by many. So we economists need to be asking ourselves why our near-unanimity did not cut through . . . We need to understand the abject failure of our profession to persuade the public about the consequences of a Leave vote." (The minority of economists favouring Brexit was later described by Johnson as "disappearingly [sic] small", consisting of "a few mavericks". Dear reader, you may have guessed that I am one of them.)
The only possible verdict on Johnson's article is that he believed the Project Fear analysis hook, line and sinker. He really did think in the days following the Brexit vote that the next few years would be followed by a deep recession, just like most Treasury mandarins and such commentators as Martin Wolf on the Financial Times (whose position I discussed in my Standpoint column last September). The truth about contemporary economics and economists cannot be escaped. So many of these people — belonging to what they term "our profession" — were parroting each other, and persuading themselves of doom and disaster ahead, that Johnson's reference to a "near-unanimity" has to be taken at face value. By extension, Osborne may not be a Svengali who corrupted the civil servants around him, but the innocent dupe of utterly incompetent and useless advisers who were carried away by their own tosh.
Project Fear was a gross miscarriage of government. I do not know which of my two explanations is right. It may be that Osborne breached the conventions of our unwritten constitution and abused the authority of the Treasury to give substance to lies. Or it may be that the only advice Osborne (and Cameron for that matter) received came from a "near-unanimity" of official economists who had no idea what they were talking about. Perhaps there was a mixture of malice and ignorance, of wicked politics and trashy economics, and that — as usual with other policy blunders in recent decades — it was more cock-up than conspiracy. At any rate, the debate about the long-run benefits and costs of Brexit is open. Some of us, whether disappearingly [sic] few in number or not, will remain optimistic.


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I was referred to see a psychiatrist by my family doctor a few years ago now. After seeing him for about a year he finally sent a letter to my family doc about my diagnosis and treatment plan. Of course by that time I had already filled her in. I didn't know that he had finally wrote a letter until my next appointment with him and by that time he had already sent it. It took awhile but I had finally started to share a bit of my history with him. In this letter he wrote about some of the bits.
One thing I like about my pdoc is that he always informs me when he has sent letters and he always reads them to me or lets me read them. He will also give me a copy if I ask for one. With the first letter that he had written he read it out loud to me before he gave me a copy.
I'm not sure what I was expecting but I was totally unprepared for what I was about to hear.
When he started reading it I think that I became numb to what I was hearing. It felt like I was hearing about someone else. In my somewhat stunned state I vaguely heard the words 'trauma' 'kidnapped' 'guns' 'abuse' 'post traumatic' etc. I asked him why he used such strong sounding words. For example I told him that instead of the word kidnapped I would have preferred the word detained because I wasn't really kidnapped.
All the while as I was having this discussion with him, I was thinking this couldn't possibly be me he was writing about. This sounds bad. My life wasn't as bad as that sounds. He must have me mixed up with someone else.
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By Mercy's Tina Rockhold
Caring for people extends far beyond Mercy's bricks and mortar. And thanks to $600,000 in Mercy grants, well over 100,000 lives will be touched and enriched within the next year.
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Following a root-and-branch strategic review in 2010, Derby Museums commissioned consultants Rippleffect.com to work with them on a digital engagement strategy.
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Set in the picturesque Exe Valley, not far from Exeter but deep in the countryside, Pynes House is believed to be the inspiration for Barton Park in Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility. We've now opened the doors to this very special house so your wedding can find its home here. Imagine wandering through our woodlands on long summer days, taking your vows in our fabulous Drawing Room or enjoying a cosy winter retreat with those you love most in the world.
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As you have exclusive privacy at Pynes House, you can unwind and enjoy the fabulous surroundings with your house guests before the big day. So, before the rest of your guests arrive, you might have already adopted Pynes House as your own.
From curling up in the Morning Room with a cup of tea or sipping cocktails in the Drawing Room, to strolling through our formal gardens, terraces and woodland, Pynes House is the perfect home from home.
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On any wedding day, the ceremony is the most important element and, at Pynes House, you'll have a wonderful choice of locations for your vows.
Several of our state rooms are licensed for civil ceremonies and each has its own attractions and special features. The largest will seat 130 guests in splendid comfort and the smallest will be the perfect backdrop for the most intimate occasion. Or for an outdoor feel, marry on the Entrance steps, framed by the huge ornate doors.
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Enjoy drinks and nibbles on our delightful terrace, or relax on the lawns, perhaps with some croquet or garden games for additional entertainment.
Dinners and wedding breakfasts are always a highlight of any wedding and rightly so. Pynes House can accommodate everything from large, lavish wedding breakfasts to refined and intimate dinners in style.
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We've a long tradition of welcoming guests with warmth at Pynes House and it's always such a treat to see everyone unwinding and settling in as soon as they arrive. From breakfasting together, exploring the estate or enjoying cocktails and a pre-wedding dinner, the time you spend at Pynes House will be unforgettable.
All twelve bedrooms at Pynes House have their own charms but our Bridal Suite is spectacular. As with all the rooms, it's decorated in a classical yet contemporary style. Its size and outlook (not to mention the stylish four poster bed) make it the ideal haven for the morning of the wedding and it's undeniably a superb room to retreat to at the end of your day.
Our prices are very clear and transparent and are set out for you in our brochure.
Hire includes the exclusive use of the state rooms in the house, the grounds and either six or twelve bedrooms from Friday until Sunday. If you are considering a marquee without use of the house (other than for overnight guests), then we can offer a further discount on the prices – just get in touch to discuss your needs.
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Ethical food company championing the South West, specialising in private dining and bespoke catering.
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Things have been a bit crazy for the last few weeks, obviously we had the wedding, then the shock of a job offer at the start of the half term holidays. Thankfully it helped take some of the pressure off and lifted everyone's spirits.
Half term was a mixture of homework and fun days.
We started with a cinema day on Monday, 2 films, once again a freebie from Odeon, and lovely comfortable seats too. A lovely mum and son day.
Tuesday was another interview day for me, Oscar had an easy day, Wednesday we caught up on homework and had a minecraft building session.
Thursday we changed our plans a few times, we were supposed to be bowling but I forgot to book the lane and when we got there it was full of pensioners. We didn't fancy hanging around for an hour so went to Spaceport at Seacombe ferry. We haven't been here for a long time, although not much has changed, it was very interesting and the planetarium/space dome theatre was really good.
Friday we spent the day in Liverpool, first stop was the world museum to see the animal mummies exhibition. A quick bite to eat then a walk down to the Albert dock and Tate Liverpool to make our own piece of art and see the famous Tracey Emin 'bed', Oscar said 'she's very unhealthy because she drinks too much alcohol and smokes' To be fair it was a pretty fair statement from what we could see.
The weekend was tidying bedrooms, sorting clothes and uniform, kits and generally getting ready for school and work !!
Monday was my first day, only a few hours but so much to do and learn. It went very quickly, everyone was lovely but I don't think I'll ever learn all the names or the computer system.
Today seemed quiet still waiting for all my required authorisations to come through but I think tomorrow I might be let lose on real people and the computers, thankfully with a shadow and lots of support.
I can honestly say I am enjoying being back doing something useful, even if it's only a few short hours a week, fingers crossed the hours increase in the near future.


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|Palmyran funerary relief in the Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C.
Last Tuesday night, September 29th, I went to a seminar held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art titled: "Conflict Antiquities, forging a public/private response to save the endangered patrimony of Iraq and Syria". The title and program warned me that this was likely to be an exercise in blaming the antiquities market for the cultural destruction in the Levant, and it was. It was co-sponsored by the US Department of State, here is a link to the press release on it.
Thrust of the speakers, who ranged from assistant secretaries of State, representatives from Homeland Security, agents of the Justice Department and high end attorneys for major museums and auction houses, was that the market for looted antiquities was the GREATEST threat to Syria and Iraqi's cultural patrimony. They went over the extensive looting taking place with aerial photographs of sites pillaged since the unrest in Syria and Iraq, and the rise of ISIS.
However, their case is unconvincing to those involved in the antiquities business in the US and Europe, myself included. Showing images purportedly showing a receipt book taken in a raid on an ISIS compound showing taxes collected on antiquities sales in Arabic, they attempted to make the case that ISIS is funding itself largely through the sale of looting objects form the territories under their control. However, the images they showed, screen grabs from online market places in Arabic, were of low end antiquities of very minimal value, small coins, bronzes and Roman glass, and a few Palmyran reliefs that were of higher quality. There was not one dealer among the panelists, and the one dealer who spoke up in the Q&A period, Randall Hixenbaugh, made the point that even the more attractive Palmyran reliefs are of modest value and hard to sell.
My issues with this symposium are several fold. The first issue is that neither I, or the dealers I know, are seeing "conflict" antiquities being sold on the market. The second issue is that the antiquities market in the US has been educated about cultural patrimony issues for well over a decade, since the 1990's. The trade has gotten so restricted with museums and major auction houses requiring so much documentation of provenance that a class of "orphan" antiquities has been created; that is pieces with a long history of ownership here, but who lack the documentation to prove it. The symposium is going over old ground for us here, but attempting to address a new threat, which is ISIS.
And here is my real problem with the symposium, the utter disregard for the destruction of objects and sites. Oh, they spoke about it as a bad thing, but then equated looting as the same as being blown up. There was no recognition that at least a looted object sold onto the market is one that survives, unlike those blown up or destroyed. The real difference with the situation in the Levant and that in other parts of the Classical world is that there, looting is market driven, but in the Levant, it is not. Rather it is religious zealotry, and while ISIS might be happy to profit from the sale of antiquities, it not profit that motivates. ISIS would rather destroy things than sell them. One story I read researching for this blog concerned an attempt to smuggle Palmyran reliefs (link to the blog, Conflict Antiquities) In this story a smuggler driving a vehicle was smoking when passing an ISIS checkpoint, and the guards got suspicious because smoking is a sin and stopped him and searched the vehicle. When the Palmyran funerary reliefs were found, they destroyed them. They weren't interested in selling them for the money.
The effort to make "conflict" antiquities valueless, may well guarantee their destruction, since that is the primary aim of ISIS anyway. Antiquities are by their very nature fragile, only the perception of their value, whether monetary or culturally motivates people to preserve them. While we might decry the loss of context that looting inevitably entails, the objects at least have a chance of survival. If they have no value, no one is going to preserve them in that part of the world. There is no good solution to the problem of the loss of cultural patrimony short of destroying ISIS, and re-establishing the rule of law in Iraq and Syria. That requires much more than lecturing law abiding citizens of the US, who the government can threaten. It requires action, military and diplomatic where the damage is being done. And the US and the UN have proven unable and unwilling to really address ISIS and the instability in that region. The humanitarian and cultural cost of this ineffectiveness is enormous and continuing. The symposium was a waste of time, it is window dressing, an attempt by the State Department to show they are doing something to address the real destruction taking place, by placing the onus on the antiquities market, rather than addressing the real threat. However well intended, it was a remarkably one sided prescription for a problem that is, it was like decorating the hallway while the house burns.
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The battle brewing over carriage fees paid to television networks by cable providers picked up steam Wednesday with Viacom Inc. VIA, +0.00% saying its popular networks such as Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon will go dark on Time Warner Cable Inc. TWC, +0.00% after midnight unless the two sides reach an agreement.
Under pressure to boost its revenue amid an advertising slump and threats to its business model posed by the rise of the Internet, Viacom is seeking fee increases of between 22% and 36% per channel from Time Warner Cable, which is the fourth-largest video distributor in the U.S. after Comcast Corp. CMCSA, +0.45%, DirecTV Group Inc. DTV, +0.30% and DISH Network Corp. DISH, -0.03%.
Cable companies are fending off similar bids from broadcast and cable networks throughout the industry. Stations owned by broadcaster LIN TV Corp. TVL, -1.82% went dark on Time Warner Cable for four weeks in October as the two sides wrangled over fees, and Univision Communications Inc., CBS Corp. CBS, +43.75%, NBC Universal, Hearst-Argyle Television Inc. HTV, +0.00% and Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. SBGI, -0.27% all are engaged in similar negotiations.
"As advertising dollars continue to shift to the Web and DVR viewing increases, both broadcasters and cable network owners need the contractual flow of affiliate fee revenues to be an increasing contributor to the business model," said Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Michael Nathanson. "Viacom's cable networks are materially underpriced relative to their peers, which we believe represents an opportunity for Viacom in the future."
Shares of Viacom closed Tuesday at $19.26, down 56% for 2008, while Time Warner Cable shares were down 21% for the year at $21.76. The two sides were holding high-level negotiations on New Year's Eve in an attempt to head off a threatened service disruption after midnight.
Viacom's bid to get higher fees from Time Warner Cable is perhaps the highest-profile negotiation yet, since its networks are among the most popular on cable television, with shows like "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart". According to Nathanson, its cable networks account for 25% of total cable network viewers every day and 20% in prime time.
Both sides in the dispute are accusing the other of acting at the expense of the viewing public, and Viacom is launching a marketing blitz featuring animated characters like SpongeBob aimed at demonizing Time Warner Cable.
"[Viacom is] asking for huge increases, and we don't know how we are supposed to sell this to our customers in this economy," said Alex Dudley, a spokesman for Time Warner Cable. "Their content is no more valuable on the first of January than it is today, especially because they are putting most of their top-rated content on the Web for free."
Meanwhile, Viacom spokeswoman Kelly McAndrew said Time Warner Cable is overreaching in a bid to prop up its profitability, and viewers will find the company's behavior "outrageous."
"The renewal we are seeking is reasonable and modest relative to the profits Time Warner Cable enjoys from our networks," said McAndrew. "Throughout the country, we have negotiated equitable license agreement renewals, or are in the final stages of renewals, with virtually every cable and satellite carrier. Nevertheless, Time Warner Cable has dismissed our efforts at a fair compromise and has effectively chosen to deny its customers some of the most popular TV shows on the air."
Nathanson estimates that Time Warner Cable is paying Viacom about $300 million in annual license fees, which equals roughly 2% of Viacom's total revenue. The license fee represents 2.8% of video revenue for Time Warner Cable, or 1.7% of total revenue.
Profit margins for the cable company, which is a leading cable provider in major media markets like New York City and Los Angeles, are under pressure as it ramps up marketing expenses to compete with competitive threats from phone companies such as Verizon Inc. VZ, +0.61% and AT&T Inc. T, +0.03%. Also, Time Warner Cable is about to shoulder a roughly $6 billion debt burden at a time when credit markets are nearly frozen in order to pay a one-time dividend of more than $10 billion in return for a completed separation from its corporate parent, media giant Time Warner Inc. TWX, +0.00% - a chief competitor to Viacom.
Nathanson said he expects "a settlement - terms undisclosed - in a relatively quick manner, as both sides may not want to see if this battle results in mutually assured destruction, as Viacom loses ad dollars and Time Warner Cable loses subscribers."
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Student Explores Passion, Prospective Career with History Internship
Kenneth Souders was no stranger to Washington Crossing Historic Park when he decided to put what he's learning in the classroom to practice. He worked with the park and Danielle Dalton, a Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) internship administrator, to convert a volunteer position into a credited history internship.
Though the online BA in History degree program at SNHU does not require internships, Souders wanted to complete one anyway. "I just thought it would be a good opportunity to gain field experience and to network for future employment," he said.
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Washington Crossing Historic Park is located in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, and is where General George Washington's famous voyage across the Delaware River happened during the American Revolution. Tours feature Bowman's Hill Tower, commemorating the hill used as a lookout, the Thompson Neely House, which served as a hospital, and a gristmill that made flour and cornmeal.
Souders' direct assignment was to assist the education director and his co-workers in the daily operations of the visitor center, which included interacting with guests, answering phone calls and stocking the park's gift shop.
He also had the chance to dabble in numerous roles that keep the park operating, which led to varied work environments. Souders assisted during tours and youth programs and even worked with the park's curator, an area he especially enjoyed. "I loved all parts of the internship and truly had a great time," Souders said.
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There were many educational opportunities Souders encountered at the park. When interacting with visitors and assisting during tours, "I learned that I still have some stage fright," Souders said. He used the skills he developed in a public speaking course he recently took to help him conquer his fears.
By simultaneously taking courses, he could relate the information he was studying in class to his internship and vice versa. In his coursework, Souders learned the terminology used in the history field and how to gather sources properly. During the internship course, he had time to reflect on his experiences through discussions and essays.
Souders' overall experience reaffirmed his passion for historical interpretation. In this context, interpreters immerse themselves in characters from different time periods, offering stories from their perspectives.
"I learned that my love of history and the preservation of it and its archives is a deeper love than I had known," he said. Though the Civil War is his passion, the internship at Washington Crossing Historic Park led to an increased interest in the Revolutionary War.
"The internship itself helped shape me into a better person," Souders said. "... It also taught me to take (the) initiative in my duties." Because of the internship, Souders developed new leadership skills.
A Future in the Park
His passion and dedication throughout the 8-week internship did not go unnoticed. Souders was encouraged to seek a full-time position once he earned his bachelor's degree. "I really like it at Washington Crossing Historic Park and hope to gain employment there," he said.
Though his internship has ended, Souders continues to volunteer with the park as a historical interpreter. "History is a great passion of mine, and I feel honored to pass that to future generations," he said.
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The National Archaeological Park of Tierradentro is well known for its pre-Columbian hypogea, which were found in several excavations and in various archeological locations.
The typical hypogeum has an entry oriented towards the west, a spiral staircase and a main chamber, usually 5 to 8 meters below the surface, with several lesser chambers around, each one containing a corpse. The walls are painted with geometric, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic patterns in red, black and white. Some statues and remains of pottery and fabrics can be seen scarcely due to grave robbery before the hypogea were constituted as protected areas.
The precolumbian culture that created this funeral complex inhabited this area during the first millennium A.C. Tierradentro Archaeological park features hypogea dating from 6th to 9th centuries AD. The details in the sculptures and pictoric patterns are similar to the San Agustín culture.
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Zoë Sheng
It's worth coming here even though the roads are horrible for the last section and if you plan on continuing north/west be ready for a looooong bumpy ride. Slips are constantly ruining travel plans in this area.
On arrival you get the typical booklet for the site and a visit to the museum. There are two parts of the museum and one is not related to the caves and I skipped out quickly. You are then ready to ascend to the actual sites, no guide necessary, with local guards taking care of you as you arrive at each one.
One would think the site is so big and should be explored fully in a day, but I think that is a little wasteful. It is big but I thought it was jading to see the first cluster at Segovia already, each time you descend a horrible twisted set of stone slabs ("stairs") to see very little. Some have art and carvings but then I find it just so-so, and you descend one of these to see some broken jars - no thanks. Try to get the guide to ONLY show you the mui grande ones so it doesn't become too boring quickly. With the weather acting up I decided to return the same way rather than making a long circle to see the rest. There were also forest fires but they didn't seem to care about it so I take it they were managed fires (I'm still suspicious about that). Definitely not healthy for the lungs.
2 days after visiting San Agustin we found ourselves hiking along the much quieter and muddier trails between the sites in Tierradentro. We didn't mind though as Tierradentro is much more rural and scenic and worth the effort. There are 5 scattered sites to visit and while it is possible to visit all in a long and hurried day, the entry ticket is valid for 2 days and if you have the time it makes more sense to break it up. In our case we only had the one day and failed to make it to the fifth and final site, Aguacate, as we ran out of time and the afternoon rains started up and scared us off. We were told it is more for the views than for the archaeological sites there anyway.
There is a little collection of guesthouses across from the official entrance to Tierradentro but we stayed in the village of San Andres de Pisimbala 2km away uphill. Some of the sites are quite close to the village but there are guards at each site to check tickets and unlock gates so you have to start at the main entrance to get your ticket. This is better anyway to first visit the small museum (no english signage) before hitting the trails in one big loop. The trail is straightforward but a little deceiving because to the first and best site, Segovia, it is an easy paved trail but after that it gets narrow and muddy up to the others.
The guard at Segovia opened up 10 tombs for us. They are much bigger and more impressive than the small tombs associated with San Agustin. We saw nothing else like it in South America and felt like this site would easily fit in somewhere in Europe or the Middle East instead.
The 2nd site, El Duende, had 5 more tombs to show us, all more damaged than those in Segovia. The 9 statues at El Tablon were bigger than those in San Agustin but in a worse state of decay and generally underwhelming having just come from San Agustin. After a break for lunch we made it to the 4 Alto de San Andres tombs. One of the tombs there was easily the most impressive single tomb with the best preserved display of patterns and paintings on its walls. Most of the tombs are dimly lit but a torch will help you to see the details better. If you don't have or forget to bring one, the guards were friendly and offered to lend us theirs as well.
Overall, despite the comparisons to San Agustin we found the 2 to be quite different. Tierradentro has simpler facilities and infrastructure for a visit and is harder to reach but we enjoyed it more in the end.
Jarek Pokrzywnicki
Visited Tierradentro just recently (November, 2011). Visiting all 5 places (Segovia, El Duande, El Tablon, San Andres and Aguacate) requires at least full day on foot or riding a horse (although I am not completely sure about the latter possibility as the road are occasionally stopped by fence accessible by man only). All thirst four sites are protected and most of tombs are locked. They can be opened during visiting hours only (no additional cost except of entrance ticket). Aguacate is more remote (requires 500 meters climb and some 1,5 - 2 hours of mountain walking), very impessive (photo attached)
Iain Jackson
I visited Tierradentro, which is set in beautiful and spectacular mountain scenery, in November 1996.
Two days earlier I was in San Agustin and spent the intervening day getting from there to Tierradentro in 4 different vehicles, including my only ride on a chiva (goat) the open sided bus, brightly painted clay models of which are one of the commonest souvenirs of Colombia.
I stayed at the Hospedaje Los Lagos in nearby Pisimbala. I thought it excellent.
The description at the top of this page gives a good brief description of the site.
I began my visit by going first to the attractive and informative museum to learn something of the culture that flourished here about 1300 years ago and, upstairs of the areas present day inhabitants, the Paez Indians.
It is possible to visit most of the best tombs on foot. I walked first to Segovia where there are more than 30 tombs, of which about 6 are lit and visitable, then to El Duende (more tombs), then El Tablon, where there are statues like those to be seen at San Agustin, and finally down and up again to Alto de San Andres. By this time I decided not to make the effort required to climb to El Aguacate.
This was clearly an advanced culture, with time to spend on their elaborate funerary monuments and rituals. These required that bodies be buried first with tools and personal possessions in a simple tomb. Some time later the remains were exhumed and placed in the excavated chambers which this site now preserves.
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Top surgeon reveals how the Queen made him pet her corgis at palace lunch to help with his trauma
A top surgeon has revealed how the Queen invited him to help feed her corgis after he suffered a traumatic episode while having lunch at Buckingham Palace.
David Nott, who has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone, met the Queen in 2014 just 10 days after flying back from Aleppo, where he had been helping at a war-torn hospital.
He revealed he visited the Queen to talk about what he had seen, including children with perforated bodies and torn-off limbs, but said he could not find the words during an interview, which will be broadcast on today's episode of Desert Island Discs.
"It is not that I didn't want to speak to her, I just could not say anything," he told the Radio 4 programme.
He said the Queen offered to help before her courtiers suddenly brought her corgis into the room. Dr Nott said she then asked: "Why don't we feed the dogs?"
The pair spent 20 minutes stroking and feeding the corgis. "She did it because she knew that I was so seriously traumatised," Dr Nott said. "The humanity of what she was doing was unbelievable. She was so warm and so wonderful, I will never forget it."
Dr Nott, who admitted he has suffered from an "almost psychotic" post-traumatic stress at times, also revealed he wanted to be a pilot when he was younger but was persuaded to be doctor by his father Malcolm Nott, an orthopaedic surgeon.
He studied at universities in St Andrews and Manchester before qualifying as a doctor in the early 1980s. He attended the Royal College of Surgeons before becoming a consultant surgeon in 1992.
Dr Nott has worked across three different London hospitals, performing general, vascular, trauma and reconstructive surgery. He also takes unpaid leave to visit conflict zones around the world for Médecins Sans Frontières and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
In 2016, he and his wife, Elly, set up the David Nott Foundation, which funds the training of doctors in conflict zones and hostile environments.
Dr Nott's chosen songs include Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven', which he said reminds him of a time during his first year of university when he invited girls to eat pancakes by candlelight before setting fire to his halls of residence. The Rolling Stones' 'Gimme Shelter' and 'Fix You' by Coldplay will also be played.
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Francesca Spidalieri, 28 | Cyber Leadership Expert
The National Security Administration�s snooping scandal has made it clear that our secrets aren�t safe on the Internet. But a threat to our privacy isn�t the only harm lurking in cyberspace. There is the risk of theft � one�s identity, money, intellectual property or national secrets � even the danger that your computer could become a zombie in a coordinated attack against a particular state or other target, as happened during the Russia-Georgia War in 2008. But even the best universities aren�t preparing future leaders to deal with persistent cyber threats, says Francesca Spidalieri, who recently authored a report addressing the need for better strategic education for Salve Regina University�s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy. The Italian scholar is currently a cyber leadership fellow at the Pell Center.
What is cyber leadership?
Cyber security is a hot topic at conferences and symposia, but the focus is always on technology � the next firewall, encryption, using technology to create cyber warriors, things like that. But there is a gap. Beyond the technological solutions, what are we doing to train the leaders of our critical institutions? That�s the focus of my work at the Pell Center.
Why is it important to train those who aren�t in IT-related disciplines?
Because we are only as strong as our weakest link. You can have the best IT department and the best technologies in place, but if your employees are not aware of the best cyber hygiene, they are going to click on the wrong link and download malware. The threats from insiders and outsiders are incredible. We need a more comprehensive approach that also includes legal, policy, sociological, economic and operational aspects of cyber security.
Would you give us an example of what you mean?
The South Carolina hacking scandal this past fall was a breach at the state�s Department of Revenue, resulting in the theft of the records of 3.8 million taxpayers. It was the largest known cyber attack against a state in U.S. history. How did this happen? The state�s leadership failed to take information security seriously, from the department�s decision to opt out of the state�s free intrusion-detection-monitoring program, to the lack of encryption and strong access controls on the state�s revenue system, to a vacant job posting for a cyber security officer, to the DOR employees who clicked on the malicious e-mail link that allowed the attack to succeed. There emerges a string of reckless choices and poor leadership. Major cyber intrusions could be avoided or mitigated with proper training and policies, but only the leaders of institutions have the authority necessary to implement those fundamental overarching strategies.
Your research found that the top 10 ranked graduate schools, even Harvard Business School, don�t offer the curriculum to adequately prepare future leaders for issues of cyber security. Why is that?
Computer science and engineering programs began to build up cyber security programs as early as 10 years ago, but they don�t necessarily collaborate with other departments. There are departmental turf wars over funding. Even the best programs in the country are falling behind in providing a cyber component in their studies. If they do have some components of it, none of them require students to take them. Students who have a personal interest in cyber issues and how they affect their sector have to seek out those courses.
Now that you have completed your study what is the next step?
At the Pell Center, we are building a cyber security working group specifically for the private sector, for local business leaders. The goal of this group is to share information about cyber threats and to identify and support best practices. We are creating a multi-disciplinary group and we are targeting 30 of the fastest-growing companies here in Rhode Island. There will be lectures, cyber security tabletop exercises, and training. We want to develop those leaders.
What did we learn from the Stuxnet virus, which disabled Iran�s nuclear program a few years back?
Attribution is the hardest thing to pinpoint in cyber crimes because the attacks are often launched, unknowingly, by the infected computers of individuals. The New York Times said Stuxnet was probably a joint effort of the U.S. and Israel to stop the nuclear capabilities of Iran, but we don�t know for sure. It was scary because it represents a blueprint for a large scale way of attacking a social infrastructure without personal involvement. Without sending an army or a bomb. That�s what the future might look like. It really showed the world a new phase of 21st century warfare: invisible, anonymous and devastating.
Have you become more afraid since doing your research?
I am more concerned, but I don�t wish I didn�t know about it! My first objective was to get educated. I was able to take courses at the Naval War College. Professor Chris Demchak is one of my mentors. Because it is not tangible, a lot of people feel removed from cyber threats. They feel it can�t happen to them. But these are the most frightening threats we face today. If you take one lesson from this, it�s that the Internet is not secure. There is nobody in charge of controlling it.
What can individuals do?
We can all start with simple cyber hygiene. Your computer can be a zombie computer in a botnet, to launch one of those distributed denial-of-service attacks, without you even knowing it. You might have accidentally downloaded a Trojan horse. Make sure that you have a firewall up and running, that you have encryption, and a complex password composed of both letters and numbers that you constantly update. It�s a pain, but it not only saves your identity or money, it prevents you from becoming part of a larger attack. Make sure that when you click on a link you know that it is safe, or better still, go directly to the website.
You are from Italy. How did you end up in Newport?
I got a master�s degree in International Affairs at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. I was originally planning on going back to Italy and joining the foreign service, but I met my husband here. My husband is a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and is currently stationed in Newport. The first year was hard. Immediately after grad school, it felt like a setback to move to such a small town. It was hard to fit in with military life, since that is new to me and my family and I had imagined being surrounded by the intellectual discourse of academia and think tanks.
And now?
It was the best decision I ever made. Not only do I have a job that I love very much and the chance to practice yoga, my other love, my husband and I are sailors. In the summer we live aboard our sailboat on the Navy base. It is just the two of us for now � and our beautiful dog.
Download Spidalieri�s study, �One Leader At a Time: The Failure To Educate Future Leaders For An Age Of Persistent Cyber Threat,� at www.academia.edu/3137267.


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This is my first blogathon but already it has introduced me to many other movie bloggers and fanatics such as myself and I'm glad to be a part of it. Thanks to Rae of Cutting Edge Creativity for introducing me to the idea and to Shah Shahid of BLANK PAGE BEATDOWN for passing the baton.
Now, lets just hope I don't drop the baton…
The Movie Jail Relay Race was started by Nostra from My Filmviews & The Focused Filmographer, and below are the official rules:
"It's time to put some movie people in jail. The object is to give a prosecutor's argument as to why these movie people belong in "Movie Jail" whether it be for violating the integrity of the content source of one their films, or being a sell-out, just making bad movies overall, getting worse as time goes on or not being in a good movie for many years.
The baton will be passed to another blogger who will have to do the following:
In order to free someone from Movie Jail they have to do 2 things
1 – Give a defense attorney argument defending the plaintiff
2 – Pay bail: the cost of which is another case for the court and a prosecutor's argument against the actor/director of their choice that will replace the one set free.
There must always be 10 people in Movie Jail."
The Current Inmates:
Michael Bay
Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer
Raja Gosnell
Katherine Heigl
Shia Labeouf
Eddie Murphy
Kristen Stewart
Jennifer Lopez
Damon Lindelof
Rueben Fleischer
The Participants (so far):
1. My Filmviews / The Focused Filmographer
9. …let's be splendid about this
10. Lime Reviews and Strawberry Confessions
11. Aziza's Picks
12. Flixchatter
13. i luv cinema
14. Public Transportation Snob
15. The Warning Sign
16. 3 Guys 1 Movie
*Court is now in session*
After much thought and given the current inmates the decision being made has been a very difficult one. Most of the inmates have only one or two gems on their resumes. Some don't have any at all! And the rest haven't made a great movie in over a decade. Clearly, there is no obvious answer for this one. Nevertheless, a decision has to be made. Therefore, I present to the court my client, Mr. Michael Bay.
Loud groans and commotion breaks out in the gallery.
*Order in the court!*
Yes, the man who ruined the memory of every little boy who grew up in the 80's of the awesomeness that was Transformers and destroyed it three times over and plans on doing it at least one more time. The man that plans on doing the same exact thing to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise next (as the producer). The man that pretty much took the formula of Titanic and spit out Pearl Harbor. So why am I giving him a pardon? He has been locked up since the 8th round. Defiant Success made excellent points as to why he should be behind bars. All he cares about is showing how hot hot chicks are and blowing stuff up. Story is not much of a concern for him but he has been locked up for more than half of this Movie Jail Blogathon and although there are others that have been locked up longer than him they deserve to be locked up for life; at least Michael Bay has given us at least three gems for any action junkie.
As you might be able to guess, I grew up an 80's kid which is why I'm so offended by the atrocity that is the Transformers trilogy. And after Mr. Bay said that he is done directing Transformers it turns out that he is churning out another one starring Mark Wahlberg. (SMDH) To top it off, as I've mentioned already, he plans on tackling another of my favorites as a kid; the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Although, he says for now that he will not be directing it, just producing. There is no point in debating whether it will be good or bad since it's still in pre-production. He produced the first remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and that was a pretty good remake but then again the sequel to that was awful. I digress.
Since I grew up in the 80's that means I was a teenager in the 90's and, as most teenage boys were, I was an action junkie. This coincided with Michael Bay's first three movies which were right up my alley. In 1995 he came out with Bad Boys, followed by The Rock in 1996, and in 1998 Armageddon. At this juncture of his career no one was complaining about Michael Bay's exploitation of hot chicks and big explosions. Mainly because at least these three movies had good stories to go along with them. So before Pearl Harbor, The Island, and Transformers these three movies were constantly playing on my VCR with all my friends right there with me. There are those movies that you look back and just remember how awesome they were. In retrospect, they may not actually be as good as you remember them but you'll never forget how much you loved them. I know a lot of people would feel the same way about those movies especially The Rock in particular.
So Michael Bay may have committed a number of sins, but he has done his time and it is obvious that a precedence has been set that a "client's previous body of work, makes him eligible for a pardon right away," (-BLANK PAGE BEATDOWN) so if M. Night Shyamalan can walk so too can Michael Bay.
Hi! I'm an agent with the uh, Federal – FBI. Uh, well my, I'm Stanley Goodspeed!
*Walks to the Prosecution table*
I'm positive I'm going to be taking some heat for releasing Michael Bay but now that there is an empty cell it is time for me to make another bold claim. I hereby present to the court Mr. Bruce Willis…
… for the murder of Lieutenant John McClane.
Like I said, I'm an action junkie. I loved the Die Hard trilogy. Still do. Yes, including part 2. I watch part 1 and 2 during the holiday season every year. John McClane put Bruce Willis on the map! He is hands down his most iconic character. Arnold is the Terminator, Sly is Rocky and Rambo, Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones and Han Solo. These characters are all iconic. Die Hard, Die Hard 2, and Die Hard with a Vengeance are all standout films. I loved them back then; I still love them today. So after twelve years pass since Die Hard with a Vengeance was released you can imagine, scratch that, you can remember how exciting it was to hear that a fourth Die Hard was coming out. I still remember that, that is until we found out it was rated PG-13. That was concerning. Then it came out and it was a huge slap in the face. The story didn't make sense nor did it even fit the character of John McClane. The action scenes were absurd even for a Die Hard movie and the villians were just preposterous. It is never explained why these cyber-terrorists also have ninja-like skills. This movie *might* have been better if it wasn't a Die Hard movie; it just doesn't really fit in with the first three.
So, fine, there is a blemish in the Die Hard series. Then A Good Day to Die Hard comes along. It's back to being rated-R and it's supposed to bring it back to the style of the original trilogy. Now, I will admit that I didn't see this movie and honestly I don't think I'm going to even when it comes out on Blu-Ray. I was very skeptical from the trailers. I didn't like that it took place in Russia (John McClane is not Ethan Hunt) and, to be honest, I didn't trust that it would be good after Live Free. Even after five years it still left a sour taste in my mouth. So when the reviews started coming in on how awful it was I honestly was not surprised. Disappointed? Yes, but not surprised. And the reviews were just brutal. So sad.
Bruce Willis is a smart guy. I would think he would put in more care for his most beloved character. I really can't believe he would do this to his most iconic character. It is such an insult to die hard Die Hard fans. A Good Day to Die Hard? It should have just been called, 'Die Already.'
I now open the floor for the next case of the Movie Jail Relay Race to George Bell aka @CallMeSirPhobos from Knights Of Mars Roundtable.
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When I chat using romaji, Japanese will always use si instead of shi, for example yorosiku instead of yoroshiku, siteru instead of shiteru. Do Japanese actually pronounce shi as si?
2related: japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/4312/… japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/48158/… – Leebo Aug 6 at 13:19
I see it happens with many character pronunciations not only shi/si – JACK Aug 6 at 13:30
Are you sure you're not chatting with a Japanese-speaking Chinese person? – Tommy Aug 7 at 2:48
It's the difference between Hepburn romanization and Wapuro romanizaton. Adults generally use Hepburn system for person names, signboards, posters and such (し =
shi, づ =
zu, じゃ =
ja). But when they need to type ordinary Japanese sentences using romaji, they (almost unconsciously) use wapuro style because it's more efficient and unambiguous (し =
si, づ =
du, じゃ =
ja). You don't have to type
shi to get し when you can get the same character by typing
Please remember that wapuro style has nothing to do with pronunciation. That's just an input method, how they type hiragana/katakana on keyboards. Don't assume anything about pronunciation based on English alphabet.


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Microsoft ramps up fight to acquire Yahoo!
Microsoft is strengthening its bid for Yahoo!, with the appointment of law firm, Innisfree M, to drive a proxy battle to gain control of the internet company. The new tactic follows Microsoft's failed bid to take over Yahoo! earlier this month.
A proxy fight would see the software giant nominate a group of Yahoo! board directors that support the deal and would promote it to shareholders ahead of a vote at its annual meeting. The deadline for nominations is March 14.
The more aggressive strategy is a less expensive route for Microsoft, costing an estimated £15.4m, much lower than the failed £20.6bn bid it had made for Yahoo!.
Earlier this week, it was reported that if Microsoft did not manage to secure a deal with Yahoo!, it could turn its attention to Facebook, of which it currently has a 1.6% stake (MW.co.uk, February 18).


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Announcement: The Red Cedar on Facebook!2
December 10, 2012 by LeVoyageur
In an effort to better connect with regular readers and to reach out to people who may share my interests in genealogy, heritage, culture, spirituality, and identity, I have created a
Facebook page for The Red Cedar. {See instead: Great Lakes French Canadians}
I would like to invite readers who use Facebook to "LIKE" this new page! Alerts for new posts on The Red Cedar will be posted first to this Facebook page and then shared more widely as appropriate.
In addition to new posts, I will share other information on The Red Cedar Facebook page relevant to my blog posts and invite readers to join in conversation about the subjects at hand. Join The Red Cedar Facebook community today!
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rosewater12 says:
I enjoy the way you connect pictures to your RED CEDAR posts. That's one impressive Alphorn in the picture. I think it's a good idea to add Facebook to your outreach. I've finally reached the magic number of 30 "Likes" and it makes me happy to think people might be reading and enjoying my efforts. I just finished reading WALLFLOWER by our mutual FB friend Jennifer Fields. She's a good writer I met via the Internet, somehow, long before WordPress or Facebook. Keep on "casting your bread on the water": who knows what might come of it?
James LaForest says:
Thank you very much Chuck! That's great feedback – I'm currently away from the magic number – hopefully today! : ) I do keep trying to make something of it – and here's to hoping it will remain fresh for people.