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Coming late.
I'm currently going into this bussines.
Good overview. Thanks Charles, Rich, Digi-Key and Design News!
Comms: Serial, USB, Ethernet, Wireless
Yes, interested in developing devices for tele-health market.
Currently involved in vitals monitoring...
I'm interested in developing medical electronics/devices.
Dowloading slides...
Catching up on some of the archived courses.
Hello from Beaverton, Oregon.
hello all from Edmonton, Alberta.
what a nice presentation, now, i have learned about medical electronics, which is out of my sight or don't have any ideas all about. but because of this lecture, another learning i have comprehend in medical industries.
excellent, much appreciated for the lesson today...
it's almost finishing now, moving slide 18...
GREAT presentation sir chales, appreciated very well..
i am movin to slide 11
i am now at slide 4
i am now about to begin the lesson from sir charles...
this will be another great lecture concerning Medical Electronics...once again, thanks sir charles
good evening once again and to our lecturer, sir charles...
i am here to complete the lesson and to earned as well the credit as part of continuing education.
thanks once again to digi-key and design news...
Thank you, very good overview
i2c, usb, RS232, ethernet
embedded platform development
Past: HW development / medical platforms. Current: MES /development
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Hi all. Here from Reeves County Hospital in Pecos, TX.
Great intro to medical electronics, thanks Charles. To answer some of your questions I currently work with ARM A core devices communicating to sensors via Zigbee (Continua) and Bluetooth interfaces. Looking forward to the rest of the week.
Hello from OR
Better late than never
interesting session, thanks
@bbdchris: You can listen to the archived version by clicking on the play button in the audio player above
C.J., would you advise where I could hear the audio content of this class, is there a link or something, as I missed it, sorry and thank you?
Nice show Thanks Charles. I;ll see you guys tomorrow :)
Thanks very much
Simon: Given the progress in chemical sensors being developed for everything from environmental monitoring to bio-terrism, I believe a basic sensor platform could be a marketable device. The sensor suite would be taylored to the needs of the patient. For example, creatine in urine. I saw the same discovery program, BTW. Also came across this concept in a science fiction novel by Greg Bear.
sorry to be late attending the lecture, as I made a mistake calculating the time zone:I thought it might be 3:00 early in the morning locally in China, however is there a 13 hour time difference between US EST time and Beijing time.
Have a great rest of day!
I'd like to thank Design News and Digi-Key for the chance to do these, and Rich Nass for being our host today. See you tomorrow!
Well, neither will DSL or cable... if the monitoring is time-critical, I would consider an alternative or backup. That could get dicey...
The problem with cellular service is that AT&T (for example) will not guarantee that IP service will be available at all, 100% of the time. The device can verify but can do nothing if cellular service is completely unavailable.
Any more?
AH - missed the cellular service question! The way to assure it is to wrap a layer around the packets that get sent via the service - much like UDP gets used for some critical TCP/IP functions, but with a handshake OUTSIDE of the protocol (as opposed to TCP which is guaranteed). These are actually in the 11073 and Continua protocols and could be applied to something that uses cell service as the level 1-3 of the OSI model
Simon, the digital toilet may have definite applications. For diabetics and congestive heart failure and others, urine output monitoring is critical.
Did you see my question about cellular service.
Did I miss any pressing questions?
THANKS everyone for all the great feedback!!! I will work on tweaking the rest of the week to address as many of the areas etc that you have asked or commented on. This is YOUR class and we love to make the class meet YOUR needs!
in a Discovery Channel programme last week, i saw a Japanese toilet with built-in urine monitor, blood pressure gauge, etc. do you think that such toilet devices will take off in North America? i have seen no sign at all so far...
The post from jcline about the need for fall monitoring is a huge case of deva vu. I invented one ca 1986 - no eldercare center would do the clinical trials!!! Their lawyers would not allow them to have documented proof (including the g-force vectors etc) that a patient ever FELL!!! I kid you not. Product never made it past prototype...
Thanks Charles!
Thanks Charles. Nice presentation.
Fitbit is in the class of telehealth but it is not part of any formal telehealth protocol. But it may...
The reports of devices failing are scary and indicative of the need for new devices!!! I heard about the CBG meter recall - that BP monitor with the bad segment goes to prove that segment fail is a BIG issue!
informtive :)
Thanks Charles for the presentation.
Now I see my own posts again so I guess there is a race condition in your javascript, or server gets too busy, Hmmmm
3-d dentist - there are some very good tools for visualization for these protocols - I will include a slide on one on Thursday!
What Twitter hashtag?
amansano - Sub ghz UWB may have apps, but no one has addressed this for the bottom OSI layers. It is a possibility
Digital Angel - I agree but the detail for that level may need to go to another week's series. I cover these in my live classes where we have hours at a time.
@SIMON ... what is your background / experience in Patent Research ...
@ DESIGN NEWS ... it would be nice to have a separate area for pre and post class discussions that may get lengthy and detailed or that may be slightly off topic or only peripherally related to the class discussion ...
Question about Cellular service - how to guarantee it is reliable? Cellular service providers do not guarantee this.
Strange, now I am not seeing my own posts, but I did previously.
Hi Charles, could you provide a list of the specific regulatory and safety issues that you will be covering tomorrow? I think it would be beneficial to have our quality people sit in for your presentation tomorrow, but I'd like to give them some incentive to do so ;)
Am woeking on Low Frequency vibration sensin and effect on people/hearing etc. Using ARM platform now. Did start with ATMEL AVR. Have used TI ARM and now probably Atmel MCUs for senor apps.
If you will bear with me, I will be 'popping off the stack' rather than FIFO... last asked, first answered, so that I can work through the chat window...
Do you think sub-GHz UWB can be a tendency for medical communication?
Thanks Charles!!
Thank you Charles and Rich.
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Thank you for the lecture Charles
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thanks charles,
Thanks ... good presentation ... again, would like to see more on MEDICAL application, approaches, algorithms, architecture and communications (less so) ... will be interested in particulars of communications, but you had a good class on Zigbee, there was a good class on USB and Industrial, Medical, Scientific band in general ...
Thank you. The lecture was VERY informative. I am looking forward to tomorrow.
thank you Charles
thanks Charles
Problem with USB, Bluetooth etc is the lack of visualization capabilities. This protocols are design to transmit all kind of data but they are not aware of the Data Visualization capabilities of your system and require software engineers to manipulated the data too hard.
Good afternoon from sunny Mazatlan, Sinaloa -- at least I caught half. :-)
Bluetooth Low Energy and ANT/ANT+
Mainly USB
Ethernet, GPRS/SMS and WiFi
Zigbee and WiFi
I am thinking about bluetooth for smart phone interface as a com medium.
looking at the Synapse SNAP protocol on top of an 802.15.4 radio for a future implementation.
A previous nurse call system communication device I developed for a competitive project used zig bee to communicate
ZigBee/WiFi primary
communications is and has been a good topic for its own class ... I would like to see more on the medical process and processing issues as well as application approach examples ... will still look forward to any particulars of communications you have to share
usb, i2c
I would like to continue using cable ethernet
Classic Bluetooth
QUESTION - What about Z-wave ?
GSM, Zigbee, WiFi
what is the best way to do inter board communications ? I2C/ SPI ??
I am currently using UART to interface with a BLE module, although I am thinking of changing the design over to SPI.
yes, WiFi, ZigBee, KNX
We will delve more deeply in communications protocols Wednesday and Thursday - what communications modes are you using or considering? Serial? USB? ZigBee? Wired Ethernet? Others?
MC 8, 16, Atmel SAM5.
i have been in a hospital and observed a blood pressure machine with a segment defective, giving false readings. i told the nurse.
Most of my products were microprocessor-based. Many were simple PIC devices, although some were complex SOC, FPGA, and ARM-based systems. The sensor inputs spanned pressure, ultrasonic, strain, accelerometer, myoelectric, etc.
Audio Feedback is important
uP and uC 8 & 16 bits and MSP 430.
Microchip 8- and 16-bit, but looking at ARM for future.
How ironic.... I just got a letter that my blood glucose meter has been recalled. It shuts down if the reading is too high.
Cortex-M4 now
Dialysis Machines has been used for home application for long time.
Toilet monitor. Various chemical tests could be done to determine health issues.An intelligent toilet reporting directly to your primary care giver could track numerous issues.
ARM Cortex-M3
in the pass I used Microchip
adamjkuhlman: no one has ever asked that before. Yes, I see your posts
TI MSP430 (16 bit)
Microchip PIC
I see your posts!
Freescale IMX
What architectures are you looking at or using? 8/16/32bit, ARM, others such as PowerPC, IP Core?
I don't see my posts, could someone confirm that they are being posted?
One of the products that can be made home based is peritoreal cavity dialysis devices
Insulin,glucose,etc..any internal monitoring systems. blood pressure
As a biomedical engineering student, I am looking to develop a real time monitoring device for athletes so they know how their body is reacting when they are performing at peak performance.
"Fall Detector" is needed now. Currently marketed devices do not work well.
You could do a simplifed stress test with the user on their home treadmill.
iPad & iPhone apps as devices?
does fitbit fall into telehealth category?
Infusion pumps, particularly insulin
I deal with mainly Class 3
Programmer for implanted devices
Will you be reviewing what encompasses each class?
Can you think of any other devices for the home health market (including fitness)?
I worked at Lohmeier Medizin Elektronik which now belongs to B.Braun Medical in the Hardware Development...
telehealth - not yet personally, colleague is
I am working with Chome last version and i don't have audio interuptions
I am primarily interested in the development process so that I can improve safety and reliability of the products I develop.
pacemaker monitor reading and transmission as tele-health
Yes, some of our products are envisioned for telemedicine applications
not for now
We have customers working in that area.
not me
@richnass - not currently
I am developing a telehealth device now. It is in production.
I worked on a telehealth product to monitor physical therapy using biomechatronic interfaces
Are any of you developing (or looking to develop) devices for the telehealth market?
Raj from Orlando, FL
medical electronics for low power handheld devices
@dhuang218 - your internet connection?
As always with these Design News webinars, the audio doesn't work. This problem doesn't occur with other sources of webinars. When will they get a clue?
What kind of wireless protocol used on these portable devices?
could be working with glucose monitoring devices in the future
interruptions on the sound or not sound maybe is bad browser plugin or older plugin, please download upgrade plugin for audio player and read posted notes
why audio is so un-stable, interrupted many times?
In 3D Dental Devices Im building better radiology devices and image processing algorithms to build 3d models of a tooth.
I will keep on reading comments and try to go along with the slides, I have no sound..
Hi all. Here at Reeves County Hospital in Pecos, tx.
I am getting too many interruptions on the sound....
Interested in developing medical electronics in the distant future. Intested in immediately buying/developing simple medical electronic monitoring for 92 year old father, as well as myself, my wife, and my children.
UK? Britain?
SBP, The audio bar should appear under the class title, above the picture. Press Play button. If you don't see the audio bar, refresh your browser.
disease monitoring and management
Why is UK not listed in Slide 7
For both.
Wellness first, chronic second ... glad you mentioned the preventative aspects early on ...
wireless communication in med devices, specifically 802.15.4 and Zigbee
For those of you developing or preparing to develop products, are you looking at a device for monitoring or treating of disease or illness - or are you developing a device for the wellness market - or BOTH?
SBP: restart your browser if you're not getting sound
SOC Design and Implementation
right under May 6 - DAY 1: Executive Overview: Introduction to Medical Electronics there should be a flash audio player
Engineer in Electronics with 15 years of experience in software development interested in developing Medical Devices.
How do we get sound?
Charles, I am a CTO in a medical device company that is bringing Substitotional Sensory Device to assist blind people to navigate and to identify objects around them. It uses IR detection, patern recognition and translation to provide the patient with the information that they need to generate a mental image of their environment
we are developing diebetic systems low cost
Hybrid Scientist Working on MD development. Doing new development on a new device now
Getting over FDA hurdles ... experimental medical electronics vs. commercial products.
Mainly the Safety, Reliability, Reg Issues. We specialize in developing Human-Machine interfaces for medical devices, but are being called on to produce more of the system, requiring more knowledge of these areas.We are always working on new projects.
Main interest in Medical Devices industries as I am in job transition from the printing industry. Over 15 years experience in product development and design as a Mechanical Engineer
Product Development - implantable generators
30 year real time embedded process control with 3 years in medical devices.
Lots of work on Medical equipment, Nuclear emaging systems and Lab Instruments.
Just interested. Provided windows only to medical device supplier only to date.
@Tim: No the audio is still playing
Neuroscientist making brain training software, but interested in hardware and devices
worked with medical device OEM for more than 10 years.
R&D enginneer in many sector including medical industrie
Product Developmet - surgical intstruments -
Mechanical Engineer interested in Medical Electronics
Have developed medical devices. Just interested now.
communications and storage are sort of back end processing aspects of medical electronics ... as opposed to, what we have already covered in sensors .. but less so in medical device design ...
Hello, we're involved in active orthoses and robotic surgical equipment
I've designed cardiovascular dopplers and medical strain gauge devices. currently not designing any medical product.
audio gone off?
EE with focus on connected devices. currently developing devices
Electrical engineering PhD student, focusing on low power medical instrumentation and portable device design. Currently, I am working on cardiac devices, but am interested in startup companies in the future.
Elec engr with 20 yrs in Medical
independent systems and software consulting engineer. Currently developing embedded sw for medical device.
Lots of software experience, 10+ years in Medical (insulin pump), currently unemployed
Please tell Charles if you are currently develoing medical devices, will do so in the near future, or are just trying to get an education.
Absorbably Medical Devices here, but possibly getting into medical electronics as well
where do I get the slides?? I have audio...
just interested
Electrical Engineer who wouldlike to work on medical electroncs
Worked on CellSeach cancer cell enumeration at Johnson & Johnson OCD.
Audio coming.
patent review of medical devices
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My audio is good and clear.
Jack Ganssle once told a story about .. A DOCTOR, LAWYER and ENGINEER, all sentenced to the guillotine. If any malfunction were to occur however, it resulted in an automatic pardon.
The Doctor is called first to the platform, head positioned in place ... the guilotine is set, and then released, the blade comes flying down ... and just an inch or so short of the doctors throat it stops - stuck ... the doctor is pardoned ....
next up the Lawyer is called to the platform, head positioned in place ... the guilotine is set, and then released, the blade comes flying down ... and just an inch or so short of the doctors throat it stops - stuck ... the lawyer is pardoned ....
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A new medical device that can be demonstrated to be "substantially equivalent" to a previously legally marketed device can be "cleared" by the FDA for marketing as long as the general and special controls, are met. The vast majority of new medical devices (99%) enter the marketplace via this process. The 510(k) pathway rarely requires clinical trials.
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What are the goals ... e.g. close ten percent of the hospitals, cut 40 percent of Federal Research funding ... etc ... for example ...
Take the top ten chronic and infectious diseases and look at their etiology/epidemiology and what some might call the behavioral and/or 'social determinants of health' ... what apps can assist, plan, warn, notify, monitor such behaviors ... to take the power of the Big Pharms and transfer it to the people ...
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I work for 3d dental devices and I would like to develop a Digital Glass Dentists can use to create a 3d model of a Tooth by just blinking. Any ideas.
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@Dimitar Iron -- RE: but for my surprize most solutions for e-health was either doctor to doctor (hospital to hospital, hospital to insurance companies, etc.) or quite specific (like Iphone glucose measurement). Not much about general or personal e-health hardware and software, nor any interest when I was asking the exhibitors.
Perhaps a lot of opportunity for a multitude of preventive and monitoring and scheduling health apps still available out there -- do you have a take on it?
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Hi, thank you for the slides
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Download the slide before the class begins from the link above.
It's great to be back in the moderator seat. I'm really looking forward to this class. I spent two years covering medical electronics, so I'm excited.
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damenelwahidi: I didn't see a response to your question, and you may have already figured it out, but there is no charge for the course. Thanks to Design News and Digi-Key, all of the on-training is available for free.
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Good afternoon from West Coast, Sweden. Thanks for the slides - seems it will be interesting. E-health is exactly what I am currently interested in. And with 1.5 year boy in my hands, I can tell, e-health is important not only for older, but for infants, too.
Before two weeks, I visit a local exhibition for advanced medical technologies - but for my surprize most solutions for e-health was either doctor to doctor (hospital to hospital, hospital to insurance companies, etc.) or quite specific (like Iphone glucose measurement). Not much about general or personal e-health hardware and software, nor any interest when I was asking the exhibitors.
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Slides please.
Nice to see you again with us ser, but should i pay for this course? can i get a certification to this course?
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Sometimes when I read the Aiken Standard I find the same old contributors turning up, over and over, such as A. G. Blackmon.
Blackmon's latest letter refers to the attack on the U. S. Consulate in Benghazi, where four of our U.S. citizens were killed.
Blackmon states that investigators of this incident will "…perhaps become lost in a drama of epic proportions, when all they need to do is go straight to the White House for answers – we need to know which side our commander-in-chief is on." And, "… he has proven, beyond argument, that he will lie to the world in their (Muslims) defense."
Blackmon needs to tell us why he finds the president of the United States guilty of lying about this incident and, while he's at it, tell us why he thinks that President Obama is not on our side.
Shifting gears, I would like to challenge the Saturday TalkBack writer who suggests that progressives threaten to remove any reference to Jesus Christ in the celebration of Christmas and that any reference to God's word is not permitted in our stores. I'd like to know if you have some proof that God's word is not permitted in any stores, or perhaps store owners use their own judgment in their use of holiday décor or ads. Please get back to us, and do so in a signed letter to the editor next time.
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Time to rejoice and celebrate! My stuff to sort folder has finally been sorted. Hurrah!
This mean that all my notes are now on computer in one form or another and subsequently being backed up.
Also all my original documents, such as birth, marriage and death certificates, which I am not throwing away have been scanned and are being safely backed up to.
It was back on the August 2009 that I first decided that I needed to get my filing sorted out. Nearly four months later I have finished sorting the paper side of things.
Now I need to start on my hard drive. A directory of folders on my hard drive is nowhere near as daunting as a physical folder of paper, and to be honest there is no rush to my digital folders organised.
They are not going to get lost or destroyed (famous last words) and they are not going to get in the way because they don't take up too much space.
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You will no doubt have already heard about the latest release from Ancestry.co.uk, the UK, Railway Employment Records, 1833-1963. I was delighted to see that this release included a collection of records originating from the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR).
The LBSCR were responsible for my local railway, the Horsham to Shoreham Railway (also known as the Steyning Line). The line was closed in 1966 (before I was born) after Dr. Beeching decided it was surplus to requirements. The LBSCR had long since gone by then, it had been merged with other railway companies to form the Southern Railway in 1923, which in turn became part of British Railways in 1948 following nationalisation. If you want to find out more then the Wikipedia article on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway is pretty comprehensive.
I have spent several hours over the last few days exploring the collection trying to get a feel for what is included and found myself getting totally sucked in. I had intended to create a list all the different pieces in the collection for future reference but that fell completely by the wayside as I turned the pages of the various volumes.
I wasn't really looking for people to add to my family tree, instead I was just exploring the lists of names, and not so much the names themselves but the positions they held and where they worked. I was taking my own virtual tour of the LBSCR railway network, seeing what made it work, from engine drivers to accountants, from a large London terminus to a small country station.
There are couple pieces in this collection that are really special, the first is described by Ancestry as the "1862-1863 Operating Staff Black Book" (TNA RAIL 414/759) which contains details of fines (and sometimes suspension or dismissal) for various misdemeanours, such as the unfortunate Mr Trapp an Office Porter at London Bridge who was fined two shillings and six pence "For carrying Passengers luggage down the platform to the train it being against orders & having been cautioned on previous occasions not to do it but to attend to the Booking office".
For me the most interesting piece in the collection is described as "1914-1920 Staff on Active Service" (TNA RAIL 414/791). This is an extremely valuable record of LBSCR employees who served during the First World War, and as such will be of interest to not only family historians, but also military historians. I couldn't quite believe my eyes when I saw the amount of information recorded, we all know that many WW1 service records have been destroyed and this volume may well represent one the few surviving records of many men who served.
Each entry not only covers what the men did whilst employed by the railway, it also includes details of their regiment, rank and number and the date they left the railway. The entries also include details of the men's dependants such as a wife and the number of children they had. Often this will also include the date of their marriage and age and sex of the children.
The most poignant detail however is the bold red underlining of certain names which highlights those who died whilst serving. Many larger railway stations have a memorial to those railway employees that died and this volume may well have been the source of those names. Ancestry probably ought to include this in their military collection if they haven't done so already.
I look forward to spending many more hours looking through these records and maybe even get around to searching for some of my relations. I know there are several railway connections, but most of those connections relate to those building the railway, rather than operating it, and most of these labourers were employed by contractors and not the railway company themselves.


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Friday, April 25, 2014
A Georgetown girl, Pat Strickland has devoted her life to her hometown and in doing so, made a world of difference for many in Georgetown County.
On June 30 she will step down as CEO of the United Way in Georgetown after 21 years of service.
Under her guidance, the United Way has grown and prospered benefiting county residents in ways unimagined 20 years ago.
Strickland (neé Mallard) graduated from Georgetown High along with her brothers Bobby and Ricky.
Her dad worked for 30 years at the paper mill and her mom worked for many years at Georgetown Memorial Hospital.
After high school she moved to Florence and worked in insurance at the C&S Bank for 10 years. There she met her first husband and they had two daughters Amanda and Shanna.
In 1980 she met and married Dean Strickland. Together they had Dean Jr. and Mary Lou. In 1981 they moved to Litchfield Beach to be near her parents who were not in good health.
Her children attended Waccamaw Elementary and Middle schools and Georgetown High.
Her husband and she worked together, hanging wallpaper, for 13 years. She handled not only the hanging of wallpaper, but the bookkeeping and customer relations. Perfect preparation for her next job.
I was in my 40s and knew that at 60 I wouldnt be able to hang wallpaper and if I wanted a career I could work in until retirement I needed to do something, she laughed.
Nell Jackson, her best friend throughout school, was the executive director of the United Way.
In 1993, Jackson told her there was an opening at the United Way and Strickland jumped at it. At that time there were only two employees the executive director and a bookkeeper. Strickland became the bookkeeper.
That was back when we did everything by hand.
Strickland worked with Jackson for eight years.
As the United Way grew and expanded, I began working in all different aspects of the organization, she said, including fundraising and allocations. I learned the United Way from the ground up.
Then, in 2000, tragedy struck. While in Charleston at a S.C. Association of Non Profits Org. meeting, Jackson suffered from two aneurysms that ultimately left her unable to return to work.
It was still just Nell and me and a part-time person, said Strickland. For six months we operated on a wait and see how Nell would recover but in the end she couldnt come back and the board asked me to be the executive director.
I had mixed emotions, she continued. Nell and I were best friends since high school and it was a personal loss and well as a professional loss.
Strickland asked the board for training through the United Way of America and getting its approval she accepted. She also took the first course ever offered in nonprofit leadership at Francis Marion University.
The boards wisdom was soon proven and 14 years later she leaves a legacy of service, strong programs and exceptional work in and for the community.
Strickland notes how the United Way as an organization now United Way International (UWI) has changed over the years.
It began to raise money and distribute it to nonprofits, she explained. It had the ability to organize workplace campaigns which the nonprofits did not have.
But, she said, in the last 10 years the donors have changed. They have begun demanding evidence of community impact.
They want to see results.
Each United Way is autonomous. This enables it to assess its community, determine its communitys specific needs and help bring in programs to address those needs.
If no one is providing [a service] we will.
After assessing need on a national level, UWI determined the needs common to the majority of communities were education, financial stability and health.
If you have these three building blocks of life, Strickland explained, you will be a stable, productive citizen and able to take care of your family.
Locally, the board has determined Georgetown Countys greatest need is early childhood education and has decided to focus on that.
To that end, in June, a pilot program is starting at Sampit Elementary School in the form of a summer enrichment program for 40 students. Eventually, the program may expand to all the county schools.
But thats not all Strickland and her dedicated staff have accomplished.
The United Way also operates the AmeriCorps-Vista Program with funding from federal grants and the Bunnelle Foundation providing seven Vista volunteers to local nonprofits; Get Connected, an online program that is a virtual volunteer center connecting the interests of people with like-agencies; they instituted the 2-1-1 hotline system for citizens in crisis situations; they implement the Dolly Parton Imagination Library through funding from Bunelle Foundation, putting books in the hands each month of children; and they expanded the United Way into Williamsburg County.
Quite a legacy.
Board chair Paul Gardner said Pat Strickland, for more than 20 years, has been an absolute champion for the causes of our partner agencies in Georgetown and Williamsburg counties and her care and compassion are evident in everything she does.
Strickland credits her staff Yolanda McCray, community impact director; Philip Keilin, resource development consultant and Mary Wright, financial director for the success of the United Way here.
It has grown, she said, but not enough we need a full time fundraiser.
So much of what I do is a little of all of it you have to oversee all aspects as well as work on fundraising and impact.
Pat has been an enormous help to me since I moved to Georgetown County three years ago and joined the nonprofit world, said Anne Faul, executive director of the Smith Medical Clinic. Her knowledge of this area and its history are invaluable to our community. My favorite thing about Pat is how excited she gets about new ideas and new ways of doing things. Her enthusiasm and optimism are contagious.
She really loves this community, said Geales Sands, executive director of the Bunnelle Foundation, and her work has made a difference.
In addition to all this, Strickland also manages to find the time to serve on the United Way Association of South Carolina board, Bridge2Bridge (its annual fundraising event) half-marathon committee and the Early Learning Council of Georgetown County.
Pat has a heart for the citizens of Georgetown County, especially those who are the most vulnerable, said Betsy Marlow, executive director,
Miss Rubys Kids. She is a wonderful person and I wish her well in her retirement.
I am 63, laughed Strickland, and I think that in everyones professional life there comes a time to step aside and bring someone new and fresh into an organization. I have taken it through change and brought it to where it is ready to take off it is positioned to move forward successfully.
She has a vision that includes more focus on retirees. If we can do that the United Way can grow. If the financial piece grows then everything else we have set up will grow thats what I want to see it blossom into what it can be.
What will she do with her free time?
I am going to spend more time with family, which includes five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren and her husband, who builds custom oyster roast tables.
I enjoy working with him and I plan to help him with that.
She also hopes, she said, to do something part time in the community but I dont know what it is yet!
I have been in nonpropfit for 21 years it is where my heart is, what I care about.
But, she concluded, whatever I do it has to be something meaningful and fun.
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Perhaps these seven Aiken County School Board Members will be voted out of office to make room for some rational thinking members. In my opinion, it is not rational to tie up much needed school taxes when the County cannot even keep up the school building quality. Aiken County schools need to be brought up to par and additional schools built. This is what the Aiken County School Board needs to be spending our school taxes on.
Now, the vote comes to the Aiken County Council. I trust this governmental body will realize that to build something in North Augusta means absolutely nothing to the tax payers outside of North Augusta. For this reason, a county-wide referendum must be performed to give every tax-payer a voice in this non-rational Project Jackson.
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Frustrated Singles
May 14 2006, 03:46 PM
Post #981
Hardcore BUSTie
Posts: 647
From: NYC
weekends do suck greenbean, all of a sudden your source of entertainment is gone and that SUCKS
There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.-François de la Rochefoucauld
May 14 2006, 01:36 PM
Post #982
Hardcore BUSTie
Posts: 487
From: Boston, MA
Yup, weekends COMPLETELY suck for me now... but after having been broken up with my ex for 2 months now, it finally begins to sink in... though this weekend was much less sad than last weekend. I just stayed in while rain has been soaking when I live and watching movies and reading books and having a nice, quiet time! I never thought I would get back to that place again.
I'm still semi-involved in a fairly unhealthy emotion/physical way with my ex which might be preventing me from totally moving on, but in some others ways, it's actually helping me find closure, too, as I am constantly exposed to the reasons why we broke up. I'm also hanging on a bit for the sex because I am VERY picky who I sleep with and am totally afraid it's going to be YEARS before I sleep with anyone else.
All my friends are coupled up, too, and it's frustrating. Greenbean, if I were you, I'd wait a little while longer... there's NOTHING saying you can't date, meet people, but you may want to try just being alone for awhile.
May 14 2006, 01:25 PM
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Greenbean, since you're single for the first time in four years, I think it'll take awhile to settle in. That bad weekend you talked about is probably your mind finally beginning to accept the breakup. I'm sorry, that sucks.
May 14 2006, 12:55 PM
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Hardcore BUSTie
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Bummer! I'm clear on the other end of the country in San Francisco. and I'm soon to be 27 yrs old.
I dont know why I just cant relax! I'm freakin' gonna be in Europe in a month! I'm bound to meet some guy to hook-up with. I guess I'm just having a bad weekend because its really hitting me like, "holy shit! I'm ALONE!"
I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.--John Waters
May 14 2006, 12:36 PM
Post #985
Hardcore BUSTie
Posts: 647
From: NYC
Hey greenbean. I can tell you are independent even when in part of a relationship, but, if you are, as you say "always part of a couple" maybe you do need to give it more time. I dont think there is anything wrong with going out and dating though, bc you might find it harder than you even expected to actually find someone you want to date exclusively. but dating in and of itself, just a few guys here and there, is much different then a relationship.
I don't really think it is a question of your emotional ability to be attached to someone else, bc as you said, it felt like it was over a long time before it actually ended (which is totally what happened with me !). but, the fact that it was drawn out long after it ended kind of points to the fact that maybe you just like having a BF around for the sake of entertainment, and you didnt want to lose that, regardless if the love was gone or not.
Although, I understand how having fun as a single girl is really hard if all your girlfriends are attached. In fact, it may seem just impossible. But, you CAN have fun on your own as well. Part of the reason that hated being in a relationship is that i could never seem to just go off and do my own thing during the day, especially on the weekends. and "by my own thing" i mean, without ANYBODY, even friends. Also greenbean, maybe try and find new groups to join where there will be single people. I just think that if you are always in a relationship, that maybe its time to take longer than a month before you get back into a new one. Also, I dont know where you live or how old you are, but i realize these things can all be more difficult depending on those issues. If you do happen to be in the nyc area, we can hang out!
There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.-François de la Rochefoucauld
May 14 2006, 11:53 AM
Post #986
Hardcore BUSTie
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Hello y'all. I have been single for exactly one month now, after dragging out a four year relationship. The break-up was mutual and while at first it was liberating and I relished my alone-ness, its starting to get dull. I have friends but they are all coupled so I dont have a gaggle of single gals to hit the town with.
I am interested in the conversation y'll were having a month ago, about serial monogamists, cuz I think I kinda am one. I dont consider myself a dependant person per se cuz I've never lived with a guy (yup, even in the four year deal, I just couldnt give up my own place) yet I am usually part of a couple.
I like to have it both ways I guess: my own independent life AND a boyfriend to love and play with. I'm starting to want a new one already (not that I have any lined up) especially cuz eventhough I just got out of a relationship, I feel like we were out of love way before the break-up, so really its felt longer than a month....BUTTT,...I guess I want to know how long y'll think I should be alone before I venture out into the dating world? (if I can remember how to flirt again) And, Katie I do mean with an emotional component not just sexual, because I'm a hopeless romantic I guess.
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An Aiken attorney has been disbarred from practicing law in Georgia after he pleaded guilty to 11 misdemeanors, stemming from smuggling contraband into the Richmond County detention center.
Sidney Joe Jones, 59, of Graniteville, pleaded guilty in 2011 to 11 misdemeanors, including 10 violations of statute 42-4-13, which prohibits, among other things, "the carrying of items for an inmate across the guard line at a jail without the knowledge and consent of the jailer," according to a ruling filed June 3 by the Georgia Supreme Court. Jones was sentenced to 11 years of probation.
A special master found several mitigating circumstances and recommended that Jones not be disbarred, but rather suspended from practicing law for six months, according to the ruling.
The Supreme Court sided with the special master, who concluded that Jones' violations involved "moral turpitude" and related to his "fitness to practice law," according to the ruling.
"Apparently motivated by a misguided sense of sympathy for his client, Jones smuggled tobacco or tobacco-related items to his client on several occasions, and on at least one occasion, Jones smuggled packages with unknown content, although Jones believed that these packages contained tobacco as well," the ruling stated. "… When Jones was caught passing contraband to his client under a table in a holding cell, he was dishonest when confronted by law enforcement officers, claiming that he 'did not know where it came from, did not know what it was [and did not know] how [the contraband] got in there.'"
The court ruled that Jones' actions were a breach of public trust in his office as an attorney. Additionally, they reflected a "disregard for the security of the jail and safety of those who work or are incarcerated in it," the ruling stated.
Among mitigating circumstances, the special master found that Jones has no prior disciplinary record and no other criminal history and has expressed remorse for his crimes, according to the ruling.
"As additional mitigating circumstances, Jones urges that he acted without a selfish motive, that he has taken responsibility for his wrongdoing since initially lying to law enforcement officers, and that he already has been punished at the bar by his interim suspension from practice of law in South Carolina," the justices wrote. "We acknowledge these circumstances, but they are simply insufficient, in our view, to mitigate the repeated deceit, dishonesty, breaches of trust and disregard for safety and security of the jail that are reflected in these crimes."
Shortly after Jones was arrested, the S.C. Supreme Court issued an order suspending Jones' license to practice law "until further order of the Court."
Teddy Kulmala covers the crime beat for the Aiken Standard and has been with the newspaper since August 2012. He is a native of Williston and majored in communication studies at Clemson University.


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FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) Ė ďYaíat eeh,Ē George Werito says, greeting thousands of radio listeners across the Navajo reservation in their native language, Dinť.
He has callers on the line, waiting. People want to tell him about road conditions, chapter meetings and church functions.
If you tell him your bit of news, he will report it, but in a fun way. He throws in trivia, games and that sort of thing.
Werito, a radio personality at KNDN-AM radio in Farmington, is considered the Jay Leno of the Navajo Nation, according to some of his listeners.
The news is hardly anything that Leno himself would share: lost turtles, funeral announcements and pow-wow updates. However, when Werito speaks, his audience listens.
And the Navajo language needs the peopleís attention more than ever, according to those trying to preserve it.
About half of the Navajo reservationís population speaks Dinť, but the language is changing with its people.
In some ways, the changes are good Ė a broadening vocabulary, for instance. In other ways Ė fewer people are learning the vocabulary Ė the changes are bad.
KNDN radio, one of three Navajo language radio stations in the Southwest, serves listeners spread across the Navajo reservation, which sprawls across three states: New Mexico, Arizona and Utah.
The listeners are young and old, though the latter makes up a majority of the audience, Werito says. KNDN has about 100,000 listeners each week. The listeners, for the most part, are among the more than 330,000 Navajos who live in and around the Navajo Nation.
Since KNDN became a full-time Navajo language station in 1978, fans have tuned in, some without a break, to hear the news of the reservation.
ďThey donít wait,Ē Werito said, noting that he goes on air at 6 a.m. daily and immediately is flooded with calls.
ďA lot of our people listen. Itís where they get their news,Ē he says.
He announces coal allotments, hay and corn distributions, ceremonial events, school-board meetings and items lost and found.
While other media report on Navajo news, it is often in English, which some elders still do not speak, and it appeals to a different audience. No Navajo-language television shows exist, nor newspapers, though some do use the language fleetingly in their coverage.
KNDN also has small luxuries that most English-speaking media do not have.
The station, for example, has a separate room where it allows people to come in as guests and make death and funeral announcements over the radio so the radio hosts do not have to participate. If the hosts did participate, they later would have to go through special ceremonies since death is such a taboo topic.
ďThe stationís always included things that are unusual,Ē said Kerwin Gober, who manages KNDN and two other area radio stations.
To some, the discussions on KNDNís airwaves may seem trivial, or like clips from town-hall meetings.
One time, a lady called in to complain about her neighborís cow. The cow supposedly was running loose and, to her annoyance, kept turning on her water.
ďHow does a cow turn on the water?Ē Werito chuckled remembering the caller as Gober told the story.
Other stories have more gravity, such as the one about the man who was admitted to the hospital without any indication of his identity, except for an eagle tattoo on his shoulder.
The hospital called the radio station, asking if the station would notify its audience of the patient and his tattoo in hopes of perhaps finding his family. The very same day, the family called in and was connected with the patient.
ďWeíre probably the only form of communication some of them have,Ē Werito said.
Granted, most Navajo have better access to various forms of communication than they used to. Cellphones, computers, and other technologies are more available with the slow build-up of infrastructure on the reservation.
But even if the information they get from other media is about the Navajo people, it still is not in the peopleís native language. And it is easily disregarded.
Betsy Cook recalls only 20 years ago, when she taught at a community school in Rock Point, Ariz., that the majority of her students fluently spoke and practiced Dinť at home.
Rock Point, a tiny community on the reservation, is not the same today. Neither are the schools.
While the schools still are teaching the native language, they are teaching students who never before learned it. Only a few decades ago, the lessons were only a repeat of what they already learned from their parents and grandparents.
ďThe loss in just 25 years has just been horrendous,Ē said Cook, who now is on the board of the Navajo Language Renaissance, a nonprofit group working to preserve and promote Dinť.
Cook was just one of a handful of people who in 2004 kick-started the effort to make a Navajo edition of Rosetta Stone, a language learning computer program.
The program was released in 2010, though the group does not want to stop there because it only provides two beginning levels. Although not easy, they are not enough for those who have a head start and want to learn more.
ďItís a very descriptive language,Ē Cook said, noting that the pictures were vital for the program because there are multiple ways to say one word. A word can change its meaning depending on how itís used in a sentence.
ďYou canít just say it,Ēí Cook said, noting that the language is tonal. ďThereíre 16 different words for it.Ēí
To explain the tones, the relationships, and the uses of words in just a two-level program does not suffice, Cook said.
The group is ready for levels three, four, and five, especially since many schools are turning to the Rosetta Stone program to help students better learn the language.
The majority of the students interested in Navajo, unsurprisingly, are Navajo, both young and old.
ďI grew up with it, but I didnít study it,Ē said Elton Begay, 35, who is taking a beginnerís Navajo language course at San Juan College in Farmington, the reservationís largest border town.
Though not on the reservation, Farmington has the highest number of Navajo speakers in the country, with about 16.5 percent speaking it, according to the American Community Survey of 2007.
About 12 percent of Gallupís population speaks Dinť, 10.3 percent of Flagstaffís and 5.4 percent of Albuquerqueís, the survey said.
ďI didnít feel like getting made fun of by my grandma anymore,Ē Begay said. ďMy grandma laughs at me.Ē
Begay sees an opportunity to return to his roots.
Speaking Dinť could also give Begay a leg up when applying for jobs, he said, especially since fewer and fewer people can speak it.
Others simply want to take it because they never formally learned the language, which often means they cannot read or write it.
The language originally was not a written one, though American militants and missionaries began to write it down in the late 1700s.
ďIím very fluent in it,Ē said Alethea Denet, 41, who is in the same class as Begay. ďI thought (learning to read and write) was going to be easy, but it isnít. And this is just the beginning.Ē
The older students have a harder time, according to Lorraine Begay Manavi, San Juan College Assistant Professor in Navajo language. She teaches a lot of students who did not see the worth of learning the language in their younger years, she said, and find its value later.
ďMost of them, they go out, travel, and people ask them where they are from. People say to them, Say something to me in Navajo,Ēí Manavi said.
Even if students do learn it, they must use it to retain it, she said.
ďItís just like feeding an animal. If you donít feed it, if you donít take care of it, it will run away and die,Ē she said.
While the future of the Dinť language is hardly clear, it is arguably a survivor among the nationís American Indian languages.
In Dinť, you can talk about sports, politics, technology a whole plethora of topics that other endangered languages would struggle to express.
As has been done in the past with Dinť, such as the invention of words by the Code Talkers during World War II, many of the words come from descriptions, Cook and Manavi said.
The Code Talkers, a group of Navajo embedded with the U.S. military, used their language to create a code that Japanese adversaries could not decipher.
Much of the code involved simply piecing together existing words in Dinť and making new ones that made sense during wartime.
One such word was ďchidi naa naíi beeí eldoo, htsoh bilkaa dah naazhiligii,Ē according to Rosetta Stone content editor Danny Hieber. The word translates to ďcar that one sits up on that crawls around with a thing on it that makes big explosions.Ē In English Ė an army tank.
The same kind of construction is applied today.
Cellphone, for example, has a few interpretations. Some interpret it as ďthe thing you hold up to your ear, others, ďthe thing you run around and around with,Ē and others, ďthe thing you run up to the top of the hill with,Ē referring to the all-too-common bad reception on the reservation.
ďIt depends on what the object is, and what its function is,Ē Manavi said. A computer is known as ďmetal that thinks,Ē or ďbox that remembers.Ē
At times, English is necessary, usually when itís a very specific topic Ė such as medicine. Often, in such cases, the words are too complicated to make it worth finding a new word.
Other times, English isnít necessary, but, for whatever reason, itís easier.
ďOur language is very important,Ē Werito said. ďWe should keep it going.Ē
Saying it, though, is easier than doing it. With more and more youth slipping away from fluency, it likely will be a harder and harder language to maintain.
ďMy grandchildren, Iím sorry to say, I talk to them in English,Ē said Werito, so known for his Dinť voice. ďThe way I see it, it starts at home.Ē


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