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Breaking in My New Whisper Creek Stealth LX Bow
Got my new Whisper Creek Stealth LX rig in the post (from Hunter's Friend in KY, super outfit. I like to buy local but the local pro shop has limited selection and pretty spendy). Observations:
1. The bow is teeny-tiny. Looks like a youth bow. Does not shoot like a youth bow. Pretty speedy, just under 300 fps with my current arrow weight, bow at 65# at 29.5". Great fit and finish. Whisper Creek is an American company but manufactures in China. Not wild about the Chinese manufacture but you'd never know it by shooting the thing.
2. I can see the pins better on the Razor sight with the light on, but if I'm honest with myself it's still a bit of a challenge. Thinking about swapping out for TruGlo's single pin sight.
3. I am a terrible, terrible shot. Couldn't connect from 20 yards. Shot a one inch group from 10 yards, last flyer spread it to 2". (Shooting the Rinhart 18-1 target). The bow tech at Hunters Friend shot some killer groups. This bow can do it alright, this is user error. I need a lot of practice, especially given that I am right handed but left-eye dominant. No open-eyes shooting for me.
4. I need to brush hog, bad. Lost an arrow in the thick stuff. Glad I bought an even dozen. Maybe I'll find it tomorrow. Black shaft, black and purple fletching, not real eye-catching. I should have bought some Zebra arrows from the Nuge. :D
5. I will not get discouraged (though I'm feeling a bit of the sort). I expected better shooting on my first go round. I am a dang good rifle and pistol shot, but this is a whole new world.
Congrats on the new bow!!!
At this point, don't worry about being a terrible shot. Work on your form, first and foremost. Hit the same anchor point(s) EVERY time.The more you have, the better off you'll be! I put the knuckle of my index finger right behind my ear (1st anchor point). Then, I make sure my nose is on the string (2nd anchor point). I also like to feel the serving at the corner of my mouth (3rd anchor point). Finally, I tuck the fletch in the crease that's between my chin and bottom lip (4th anchor point).
You will continue to build muscle memory every time you shoot. Hitting your anchor points and good muscle memory are vital to shooting consistantly. I'm sure you're aware by now that you use different muscles to shoot. :D If I shoot a lot, I really feel it in my back and my ribs!
The next thing to work on is following through. Just like throwing a ball, you have to follow through when you shoot. Once you release your arrow, don't move until you see the arrow hit. If you drop your bow arm before you arrow hits, chances are that you'll throw off the flight of that arrow.
I have no doubt that you're a strong guy, but you should consider dropping your draw weight to 60 or even 55. Starting out, you want to work on your form and that's hard to do if you're worn out after 20 shots. Remember, a 35 pound bow will drop a deer in it's tracks!
I'm wondering how tall you are. Your draw seems long. Although, there is a guy, tall as the day is long, that goes to the same shop I go to and he uses 32 inches!! :eek: You want to shoot your bow kind of like you shoot a gun; with a slightly bent elbow. It offers more support, you get more consistant groups and most importantly, you don't smack your arm!
On your eye dominance, you can get an eye patch. It'll take a few weeks, but you can train your right eye to become dominant. I know of several people who shoot with an eye patch. They say it's easier than trying to close one eye. lol
Ok, I'm done rambling...for now. :D
Congrads on getting a New Bow!!
I'm not sure if brush hogging will help you find your arrow. I've lost some in an open field and couldn't find it!
65# is actually not that challenging to draw, and let-off is 80% on this particular bow. I'm 6'1", and arm span is around 74". What should I look for that would indicate whether my draw length is set too long?
I'll try the bent arm and eye patch. I'm also going to get with the local 3D range and have one of the employees give me some good beginner's lessons, watch my form and so forth. I'm going to get this bow thing down one way or another.
Just curious??
If you consider all that you've just put on here rambling...I'd sure like to hear you get serious!
In the short time it took me to read these pointers, I learned what I've been doing wrong.
It'd have been great to have you around when I decided to start hunting with a bow again.
Ott, Hope I didn't just jack your post!
I didn't shoot beyond 10-15 yards until I was reasonably certain I was gonna hit the target! When I started shooting further back, I set up a couple of peices of 3/8 plywood, to stop any "fliers"(uhhh, I've had more than say...3 or 7 or so), on either side of my target. Glad they were there more than once!
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Your arrow, not including your point/broadhead, should extend about an inch past you rest. As far as the bent arm goes, here's what you're looking for:
The arrow fit seems right. I've been anchoring with my knuckle behind my ear, nose on the string, fletching touches the edge of my mouth. I'm grouping three arrows in an inch (ruined some fletching) at 10 yards. I'm working on the bent arm thing, seems more natural, or at least easier, to hold full draw with a straight arm.
I know what you mean about the straight arm thing feeling natural. I felt the same way, until I tried bending my arm, like my bow tech advised. I shortened my draw to where I felt the most comfortable. My groups really tightened up after that! I had to switch from a single spot target to a 5 spot target, because I kept messing up my arrows. One Robin Hood...holy cow! :eek: Two Robin Hoods...cool! :cool: Three Robin Hoods...now I'm getting mad!! :mad: I just lost 20 bucks in arrows! :mad::mad:
lol...give the bent arm a try. Have your bow tech shorten your draw an inch or so and see how that feels. Believe it or not, most people are overdrawn. When I first started I was at 29 inches!! Yikes!! I am now at 28 1/2 inches which is much better for me. I'm more stable. The half inch really made a diffeerence.
I found another local pro shop hiding in the woods, and they have a 3D course. I'll have them check my draw length and make the change.
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Immediately after the termination of former City Manager Leon Churchill's contract March 5 for using his city-issued credit card for personal charges, the City Council instructed the city staff to conduct a thorough review of the city books to see if there were any other problems.
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Those practices included the city issuing 160 different credit cards and store cards to city employees and allowing some of them to make personal charges and repay the city the amount charged.
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Jenny Haruyama, city administrative services director, is leading the review with police Chief Gary Hampton, who is the acting interim assistant city manager. They have hired Chavan and Associates of San Jose to audit their records and findings.
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"Department directors really have that autonomy to determine who in their department gets a credit card," she said. "Anybody that makes a credit card purchase under a department head, that department head is responsible for sanctioning those, authorizing those."
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After a public records request Jan. 8, the Press reviewed five years of records for every credit card and store card maintained by the city. The records show 54 US Bank credit cards and 106 cards from stores including Costco, Chevron, Home Depot, Orchard Supply Hardware, Sears, Staples, Radio Shack and Walmart.
"I think that list you have is accurate," Haruyama said. "In my preliminary discussions with an external auditor, (the number of cards is) too high and it does need to come down. When you have a number like that, you need to look at your risk and your exposure."
That risk includes the potential for internal and external fraud.
"I do not have data on any fraud per se," she said. "My guess is that it's very reasonable, but in this day and age, as you've seen the identity theft and all that increase, you're going to have that regardless."
The administrative services director said she agreed with a recommendation from the auditor to immediately reduce the number of cards underwritten by the city.
"Think about it, if you're a homeowner and you've got seven credit cards, you are setting yourself up for potential fraud, identity theft. Anything could go wrong, the more exposure you have. So the fewer cards you have, when you're strategic on who has those cards, the better you can control some of those potential issues," Haruyama said.
Tuesday night at the City Council meeting, Haruyama and Hampton reported that they had already cut the number by more than half, to 75 cards citywide.
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The review of city records by the Press found that Churchill was not the only city employee to use his city-issued card for personal reasons.
The former cultural arts manager for performing arts at the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts, Jeffrey Haskett, submitted at least two credit card statements with handwritten notes in the margin about personal expenditures.
A charge on Haskett's card on Feb. 7, 2012, included an addendum that he had repaid the city for the item with personal check No. 2025. Further personal expenses were marked on an April 2012 statement for charges March 28 and April 1.
One charge made by the executive assistant to the city manager, Sharon Davis, was on behalf of Mayor Pro Tem Michael Maciel for a conference he attended Sept. 5-7, 2012.
"I went to San Diego for the League of California Cities convention and had the option of taking my wife, at my expense," Maciel said in an interview Tuesday. "I don't book those directly, so the city manager's secretary said, 'I'll book the flight, but you have to pay me.'"
At the time, Maciel thought nothing was amiss with the practice.
"I didn't know they were doing it with a credit card. She just said, 'Here's my cost, here's what it's going to cost, bring me a check.' I brought her a check," he said.
When asked if repaying the city for some personal charges was accepted practice in years past, Haruyama, who was hired in August 2012, said she did not have enough history with the city to say for sure.
"I couldn't say that," she said, adding, "I could reasonably guestimate, based on some of the patterns that we see, that that's a possibility."
Hurtado, who has been with the city eight years, said personal credit card use had never risen to the point of being a problem.
"I have not heard of any of those personal things," she said. "What I can tell you is that what we have found with this preliminary review is that although there are several examples where some charges were done in the spirit of the policy, it wasn't really to the letter of the policy."
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The city of Tracy adopted an administrative policy Jan. 12, 1996, governing the use of city credit cards. The use of those cards for personal charges is mentioned only once, in Part 3 of Section 2: "City credit cards are the property of the City and the individual charge cards are issued and intended for City business related expenses only."
The policy does not overtly discuss a prohibition of or penalty for personal charges. The city did not update the policy until January 2013, and it did so then only after the City Council was made aware that the city manager had used a city card for personal purchases.
The council reprimanded Churchill on Aug. 22, 2012, for credit card misuse after an independent auditor, Moss, Levy & Hartzheim LLP, found the personal charges and told the city attorney.
Churchill was disciplined again Dec. 17, under the new policy, for using his card for personal charges at an unspecified time in 2013. Press research found two charges that year: one on April 18 for $110.88, which he repaid by check May 1, and the second on Aug. 22 for $244.17, which was repaid Sept. 13 by check.
That policy states in Section 4 that "personal use of a city credit card by an employee under any circumstance is strictly prohibited."
The interim city manager said the data gathered so far had not revealed any criminal intent on the part of any city employee, including a finding from San Joaquin District Attorney James Willett about Churchill's actions.
"I personally don't feel that there is intent and wrongdoing throughout the organization," Hurtado said. "I really do feel, given our preliminary review, that there are a couple of isolated cases, and we're going to address those. For the rest of the organization, what the preliminary review has shed light on is that there is just this lack of understanding of what the policy is."
Other issues
The city's overhaul of its financial policies will also respond to some issues that came to light in the records reviewed by the Press.
Several statements throughout the records from 2009 through 2014 showed past-due balances. In one example, from a Costco American Express card issued to Director of Development Services Andrew Malik, the card carried a $105.66 balance that was 30 days past due on a statement dated Dec. 1, 2011. That same card showed an $89 past-due balance on a May 1, 2012, statement.
Haruyama, who said Tuesday that the city was responsible for paying off all 160 city cards, explained that those late balances were the result of a lack of communication with the finance department.
"That's something we're also looking at. Sometimes departments will not get the information to Finance in a timely way," Haruyama said. "That's kind of an efficiency issue that we need to explore. When we don't get it, that's what happens. Clearly there are some processes that we need to work on."
The problem, she said, might be a direct result of recession layoffs of more than 100 city workers in 2009 and 2010, including many whose job it was to monitor credit card use.
"You really lost a level of accountability in the organization," Haruyama said. "Those were a lot of managers, a lot of supervisors."
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Hahah my neighbor did the same thing and stole 500 iphone 4's when they came out but got caught these dudes will too unless they dont spend any of the money too quick kudos to them
Uhh, 3,600 iPad minis is $1,188,000 MSRP, which is MUCH closer to $1,000,000 than it is to 1,500,000. Yes, you could factor in an estimated sales tax to get something closer that can be rounded up, like $1,283,040 at 8%, but that is never part of the value. The thing is, we know these are probably going to be sold on the street for less than wholesale so rounding up smacks of hyperbole.
Once they hook it up online. Apple will be able to track it. Everything is barcoded
You have to give whoever did this credit, that's some James Bonds crap lol. I mean they used the places forklift? Stories like this amaze me lol. But I have an odd feeling that they won't get caught.
Haha I already know what company may be involved in this since I work in JFK.
Not to condone theft, but there's always that part of me that enjoys hearing/reading about crimes that took a lot of intelligence to accomplish the task. There are some very ingenious criminals out there!
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This was organized by Apple to give them popularity, and news in the media. Who cares if Apple loses $1,000,000?! Nice move Apple, nice move!
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Award-winning artist Ed Young illustrates, with characteristic flair and energy, the ancient Chinese version of the favorite fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood". Young's vibrant, yet delicate, pastels and watercolors add drama to the deftly translated story. "An extraordinary and powerful book".--Publishers Weekly. Full color. 1990 Caldecott Medal book.
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Ten years ago no one would have thought of Capital One (NYSE: COF) as a bank. It was a pure play on consumer credit with a focus on credit card lending. It had the backing of Wall Street, raising funds from the credit markets with debt issuances to make money available to its credit card customers.
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American Express raises funds via the commercial paper and credit markets, and also from deposits. The company's deposits came in at a cost of 1.3% in 2012, nearly twice as much as Capital One.
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Sourcing funding with deposits allows for a much lower cost of financing. Capital One's $190 billion in deposits make up a substantial portion of its asset base of $232 billion as of the first quarter 2013.
Capital One's financing sources position it for perfection.
If Bernanke & Company go through with tapering, long-term rates will rise. Higher long-term rates will affect American Express and Discover, which use longer capital market debt financing, but Capital One's short-term deposit costs are unlikely to move on changes on the long-end of the curve.
Bernanke will pull from his $85 billion long-dated U.S. Treasury and MBS purchases first. That affects the debt markets. The federal funds rate, the short term rate, is likely to go unchanged. Capital One's deposit costs are closely tied to federal funds rates, which are stuck at 0 to .25%.
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The Chicago Blackhawks turned a 2-0 third period lead into a 3-2 shootout victory over the Florida Panthers on Tuesday. If blowing a third period lead seems like a rerun by now it is, but the Blackhawks keep picking up points.
In some ways it's difficult to criticize the Hawks, they can win games with a less than stellar effort. The Panthers worked hard, stayed determined, and seemed to wait for the Blackhawks to grow complacent. A two goal lead in hockey was always considered dangerous and when a team can't get a three goal advantage trouble has a way of happening.
It is a long season and it is full of distractions. The Blackhawk players are accompanied on this swing through Florida by their mothers. Maybe that's a distraction, maybe not. Many teams seem to have trouble beating both the Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning on the same road trip as losing focus in Florida is easy to do.
Frequently the Blackhawks appear to be bored at times. Realistically they haven't scored enough goals to be able to zone out for parts of a contest without blowing leads. As the game wore on the Panthers were hungrier than the Hawks, and it doesn't take very much to turn a two goal lead into a tied game. A nice scoring play and a bad turnover was all it took Tuesday night to even the score and send the game to overtime.
Tuesday night's contest was difficult to watch from start to finish, the game didn't have much flow. That's going to happen as many clubs will do whatever it takes to clog up the Chicago attack. For the Hawks to succeed they have to stay engaged with the process and stick to their game plan.
Corey Crawford made some good stops but the second Panther strike looked like one that could have been saved. Jonathan Toews scored on a nice pass by Duncan Keith and Bryan Bickell lasered a wrist shot past Tim Thomas for the Chicago tallies.
It was a nice effort by forward by Ben Smith as he blocked four shots in 10:55 of playing time. The Hawks were effective in the faceoff circle led by Toews winning 71% of his draws. Two of three shooters were successful in the shootout which was an improvement. There were good things but the best part of the night was picking up the win.
On the downside, some players seemed to disappear in the second half of the game. For as much as the Blackhawks possess the puck and outshoot opponents the goals haven't been flowing. Nine games is a small sample and although blowing third period leads isn't good, picking up points will cover up some blemishes.
The shootout will likely be around for awhile but my choice would be to make it disappear. At the very least the scoring system or overtime format needs to change but NHL kingpins seem to like the status quo. As odd as it seems for some, having shootouts happen on a consistent basis takes away from whatever excitement they could provide.
Playing Michal Handzus at center with Patrick Kane was hard to watch last season and it isn't any better this time around. Kane and Patrick Sharp aren't as threatening with Handzus alongside. On the positive side of the ledger Toews, Marian Hossa and Brandon Saad have been doing just fine.
The players will enjoy more time with their moms and prepare to face Tampa Bay on Thursday night. Word around is Nikolai Khabibulin will get the start against one of his former teams.
The best news is the Blackhawks can be better and as it stands now there are only two teams in all the NHL with more points. Not too shabby for a club that has appeared complacent at times and hasn't hit their best stride.
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Press Pass: August Roundup
August is usually a slow month in the gaming press, with journalists easing down from E3 and gearing up for the impending holiday season. That hasn't seemed true this year, with Leipzig's Games Convention, a slew of high-profile Xbox Live Arcade titles and the upcoming Penny Arcade Expo keeping gaming newsrooms humming. The introspective month of August has also been a busy time for game journalists talking about game journalism itself. Some highlights and commentary from around the Web:
Why game critics aren't elitist snobs (and why this is a bad thing)
Kieron Gillen (whom you may remember as the controversial coiner of the term New Games Journalism) has once again focused his critical eye on game journalism with a recent Rock Paper Shotgun piece on the march towards more "elitist critics" in the games press. Gillen argues that game criticism, where critics tend to heap praise on the most commercially successful products, differs from music and movie criticism, where critics are more likely to call attention to obscure but well-made works that are well outside the mainstream. While other media critics seem to revel in their eclectic tastes, game critics tend to mimic their audience's thirst for predictable, popular pablum.
Gillen sees this as a problem, but one that's beginning to change thanks to the increased accessibility of indie games (through direct downloads) and an increasing focus on a game's emotional impact among game critics. I agree that this problem exists, but I'm not as optimistic as Gillen regarding it getting solved any time soon. A lot of game critics, I feel, are perfectly fine with games that maintain the status quo. These critics got into the business because they had played a lot of very similar games and manage to avoid getting tired of them. This is good in a way -- you don't want someone who plays 100 games a year to get bored with of the medium -- but it's bad because it can lead to critics who are too set in their tastes and too satisfied with games that are just like what has come before. These are the critics who are ecstatic every time a new first-person shooter comes out with a few new weapons and a nice graphical sheen. Something that goes outside their nostalgic comfort zones is going to confuse and trouble these critics.
It's not solely the critics' fault, though. The audience for this kind of criticism has been trained by years of hype to reward outlets that give glowing praise to these more-of-the-same franchises, while heaping scorn on those who don't play along. Just witness the outrage that falls upon any outlet that deigns to give a big-name game a score less than 9.0. The result is a circular feedback loop between audience and critic that means the scores for most new games can be predicted even before the first preview is written. This may slowly be changing with a new generation of critics that aren't as easily satisfied, but I think it's going to take a good long while before the set of critically acclaimed games diverges wildly from the set of popular games.
Behind the Scenes at EGM and 1UP
I was pretty shocked back in April when Dan "Shoe" Hsu quickly and unceremoniously ended his 11-year career at EGM/1UP publisher Ziff Davis. Hsu has been reluctant to talk about the specific reasons for his abrupt departure, saying initially that "it's just time for me to move on." That changed with a recent frustration-venting post on his Hsu's new blog, Sore Thumbs. In the post, Hsu details the frustrating experience of watching UbiSoft allow a trio of positive Assassin's Creed reviews leak out early, all while 1UP's 7/10 review was forced to wait patiently for an embargo to expire. What's more, Hsu reports Ziff wouldn't let him write a story explaining the situation and the reason for the late review to his audience, for fear of pissing off a major advertiser. According the Hsu, the incident "was one of the reasons (but not the only one) why I resigned."
The entire Sore Thumbs blog (which Hsu cowrites with fellow escapee Crispin Boyer) has been an excellent look at the behind-the-scenes goings-on at a major videogame journalism publisher. Check out the sample argument over what game goes on a magazine cover, some candid talk about how journalists handle bribe attempts, and a discussion of the sometimes delicate relationship between journalists and publishers.
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Just when I think the world of print gaming journalism is D-E-D dead, along comes a completely unique title that gets me to rethink the whole market. Guitars and Games is a one-issue special edition that takes an in-depth look at the wide variety of guitar-based gaming on the market these days. Official Xbox Magazine's Dan Amrich handled the gaming content while the team behind Guitar World magazine added interviews with real rockers and information on transitioning from virtual guitar player to real guitar player.
I have no idea how successful this experimental rag will be, but I'm excited by the prospect of game-centric magazine content reaching past the traditional hardcore gaming crowd and towards broader audiences. I could definitely see this type of concept working for other industries. Why not publish a racing magazine about how the real world of cars relates to the virtual. Or how about a fitness magazine offshoot that looks at using interactive entertainment to bulk up? The possibilities are endless, and could do a lot to bring new people into the audience for games and game journalism.
Movers and Shakers: Geoff Keighley promoted
Congratulations to the Geoff Keighley, host of Spike TV's GameTrailersTV (formerly Game Head), for his recent promotion to the new position of "executive of game publisher relations." That title might sounds little too cozy for a guy who will still be working as host of a show focused on analyzing games (rather than just promoting them) but Keighley explained that there's no reason to think he's been co-opted. "It's an editorial role," he wrote in an e-mail. "Much like an editor-in-chief decides on which games to put on the cover of a magazine I will be focusing on which games to cover ... There's lots of analysis still going on inside of GTTV, the Bonus Round show I do on GameTrailers.com, etc. ... The publishers have no control over what we say about the games, but of course we're selecting them BECAUSE they look great. (Much like a magazine wouldn't put a crappy game on the cover)."
In an interview with GameDaily, Keighley also promised to use his new role to transform the Spike TV Video Game Awards into something more "gamer oriented and less Hollywood." All I can say to that is: Amen.
Bits and pieces
I stumbled upon the existence of "The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy" through a recent RipTen mini-interview, and I have to say, it seems like one of the more interesting game-related books to come down the pike in a while. I've read "The Simpsons and Philosophy," from the same publisher, and if this new title is anywhere near as accessible and interesting, it should provide a valuable new angle to the world of games writing.
From the "mainstream journalists should not play videogames on live TV" file, I direct you without further comment to video of NBC's "Today Show" crew gamely attempting to play Rock Band.
Speaking of painful video, GamesRadar recently ran a couple of entertaining features about the endless wasteland that is most online video reviews of games. Try as we might, we can't all be Yahtzee.
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"This is, without doubt, the cheapest cop-out in journalistic history. If the reader doesn't like the game that you're so blinkered about you can't comprehend that other people might not like it, then it means you've f***ed up the review."
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Brandeis University is on FIRE's Red Alert list for its disregard of the free speech, academic freedom, and due process rights of Professor Donald Hindley, a nearly 50-year veteran of teaching. Brandeis declared Hindley guilty of racial harassment and placed a monitor in his classes after he criticized the use of the word "wetbacks" in his Latin American Politics course. Hindley was neither granted a formal hearing by Brandeis nor provided with the substance of the accusations against him in writing, and a letter was placed in Hindley's faculty file regarding his allegedly "inappropriate, racial, and discriminatory" statements. Brandeis's faculty reacted to Hindley's mistreatment with outrage, and the administration's actions were condemned by Brandeis students, the media, and the general public. Rather than apologize or act to clear Hindley's record, Brandeis attempted to sweep the matter under the rug by informing Hindley that it "considers this matter closed," despite the disturbing lack of due process in Hindley's case, leaving the punishment on his record while closing off his appeal.
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The objective of this study is to assess the long-term safety and quality of life improvement of the Sonitus SoundBite Hearing System.
Hearing Loss
Unilateral Hearing Loss
Single Sided Deafness
Device: Sonitus SoundBite System
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Endpoint Classification: Safety Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Long Term Safety of the Sonitus SoundBite System
- Determination of the safety of the Sonitus SoundBite System. [ Time Frame: 3 months and 6 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Subjects will be examined at each time point by a dental professional to ensure the proper dental fit and by an audiologist for device calibration if necessary. These safety checks will include:
- Comprehensive Medical evaluation at Enrollment and at study termination.
- Comprehensive Dental evaluation at Enrollment and at 3 and 6 months, with interim dental checks in between if necessary.
- Comprehensive Audiological evaluation at Enrollment and at 6 months.
- Determination of the quality of life improvement of the Sonitus SoundBite System [ Time Frame: 3 months and 6 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The subjects will complete an Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit (APHAB Form A New Format) questionnaire at day one at 3 and 6 months. This questionnaire assesses the extent of communication problems in everyday life. An SSD questionnaire will be filled out at 3 months and 6 months to measure subject satisfaction with the device.
|Study Start Date:
|April 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Device: Sonitus SoundBite System
The Sonitus Bone Conduction Device (BCD) is a bone conduction device for single-sided deafness (SSD). The Sonitus BCD consists of an Oral Appliance (OA), an external microphone component, worn behind the ear (BTE), a calibration interface cable and a PC-controlled calibration software for subject calibration. The Sonitus BCD picks up sounds from a microphone located within the ear canal of the deaf ear, capitalizing on the acoustics of the natural pinna and ear canal. The signal picked up by the microphone is then transmitted wirelessly to a removeable bone conduction oral appliance located on the upper molars. The oral appliance receives the acoustic signal from the BTE and applies an equivalent vibratory signal to the teeth that reaches the skull via bone conduction and routed transcranially to the contralateral cochlea.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 80 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Must be >18, <80 years old
- Must be fluent in English, as determined by the PI
- Must not be a member of a vulnerable group (IRB defined)
- Must remain in geographic area during duration of the study
- Diagnosis of acquired SSD (Section 3.1), time since onset (≥3 mos)
- Must have a minimum of 6 posterior teeth remaining in the upper arch (3 teeth per side),third molars are acceptable if healthy, fully erupted and substituting for second molars
Exclusion Criteria:
- Must not be current users of devices such as Baha, CROS or TransEar
Must not have known active medical causes of SSD
- Active middle ear pathology
- Conductive HL (Otosclerosis, otitis media, otitis externa and others)
- Sudden hearing loss that is not stable
- Must not have known medical problems that might be life-threatening or is a contraindication for elective dental or medical procedures
- Must not have a history of seizures
- Must not have known problems that may interfere with the impression procedure, such as inability to breath through nose (e.g. severe flu, allergies or cold)
- Must not have allergies to polymers
Must not have known dental abnormalities
- Temporary crowns or undergoing dental treatment
- Poor oral hygiene and/or rampant decay
- Current orthodontics
- Active caries in one or more of the possible abutment teeth for the device
- Active moderate to severe periodontal disease around abutment teeth for the device
- Suspicious oral/facial lesions or swelling of any type
- Severe pain on palpation on any area of mouth, face or neck
- Moderate to severe heat sensitivity on any of the upper teeth
- Subject currently being treated for temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJ), pain, full mouth reconstruction or posterior dental implants
Must not have known Audiological conditions
- Conductive hearing loss (air-bone gap >10dB HL at more than 3 frequencies)
- Word recognition scores inconsistent with pure tone averages
- Fluctuating hearing loss
- Must not have known psychological factors that interfere with their ability to comply, comprehend, consent and cooperate
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01108406
|United States, California
|Camino Ear Nose and Throat
|San Jose, California, United States, 95123
|Principal Investigator:
|Michael Murray, MD
|Camino ENT
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Sonitus Medical Inc
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01108406 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|April 15, 2010
|Last Updated:
|June 12, 2012
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Keywords provided by Sonitus Medical Inc:
Hearing Loss
Unilateral Hearing Loss
Single Sided Deafness
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hearing Loss
Hearing Loss, Unilateral
Hearing Disorders
Ear Diseases
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
Sensation Disorders
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
Signs and Symptoms
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