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Inspections, Compliance, Enforcement, and Criminal Investigations
Merits Health Products Co., Ltd 11/29/11
Department of Health and Human Services | Public Health Service Food and Drug Administration |
10903 New Hampshire Avenue |
Larry Cheng
President and CEO
Merits Health Products Co., Ltd.
9 Road 6
Taichung Industrial Park
Taichung, Taiwan
Dear Mr. Cheng:
During an inspection of your firm located in Taichung, Taiwan, on July 11, 2011, through July 14, 2011, an investigator from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determined that your firm manufactures powered wheelchairs, stair chair lifts, and electric scooters. Under section 201 (h) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act), 21 U.S.C. § 321(h), these products are devices because they are intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, or are intended to affect the structure or function of the body.
This inspection revealed that these devices are adulterated within the meaning of section 501 (h) of the Act (21 U.S.C. § 351 (h)), in that the methods used in, or the facilities or controls used for, their manufacture, packing, storage, or installation are not in conformity with the current good manufacturing practice requirements of the Quality System regulation found at Title 21 , Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 820.
We received a response from you dated July 27, 2011 , concerning our investigator's observations noted on the Form FDA 483 (FDA 483), List of lnspectional Observations, that was issued to your firm. We address this response below, in relation to each of the noted violations. These violations include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Failure to adequately ensure that, when the results of a process cannot be fully verified by subsequent inspection and test, the process is validated with a high degree of assurance and approved according to established procedure, as required by 21 CFR 820.75(a). For example:
a. Your firm conducted (b)(4) however, is no approval documentation of this protocol. Your firm's management was unable to provide documentation that the protocol had been approved prior to conducting the study.
b. Your firm 's management was unable to provide documentation this protocol was approved prior to conducting the IQ/OQ/PQ studies.
We reviewed your firm's response and conclude that it is not adequate. Your firm provided its updated (b)(4) which included an area for "Reviewed By" and "Approved By" signatures. These revised documents now also include an approval date. Your firm also states that, for "future new process validation items or re-evaluation, all protocols need to be adequately approved and recorded prior to conducting the process validation." However. the approval dates documented on the validation report and validation protocols for the welding robots reflect dates prior to the date of this inspection. Additionally, your firm has not provided evidence that supports its understanding of the requirements of this part and how it intends to ensure that all documents and procedural changes go through the appropriate approval process, prior to implementation.
2. Failure to establish and maintain adequate procedures for implementing corrective and preventive action (CAPA), as required by 21 CFR 820.100(a). For example, during a review of the Device History Record (DHR) for P326A powered wheelchairs, six occurrences of rework were performed. When asked whether rework activities were captured in your firm's CAPA system, your management stated that rework data is only captured in the CAPA system when the same issue occurs in 5% of devices of the same lot. However, when asked for a procedure that describes the use of this 5% threshold, your management stated that there were none. After review of the CAPA, rework and P326A inspection procedures, no documentation of the 5% threshold was found.
We reviewed your firm's response and conclude that it is not adequate. It is not clear whether your firm understands the requirements of 21 CFR 820. Additionally, your firm did not provide evidence that demonstrates that rework activities are captured in your firm's CAPA system to help identify and correct quality problems. Your firm provided its updated CAPA procedure, "Control of Corrective & Preventive Procedure." The original conditions for issuing a "Quality Nonconformity Disposition Sheet" (CAPA) were revised to include: manufacturing shut down; critical quality issues; and if the per-batch quality defective rate is over 5% and the same nonconformity event occurs more than five times. Your firm stated that quality assurance (QA) personnel will have to increase their confirmation of the evaluation of rework statistics and follow the new rules for issuing a Quality Nonconformity Disposition Sheet, and they will review the performance of the CAPA procedure in monthly quality meetings. Additionally, your firm conducted training of its corrective and preventive action procedure for QA and Final Quality Control personnel. Your firm provided the training record for this training.
3. Failure to establish and maintain adequate procedures for finished device acceptance to ensure that each production run, lot, or batch of finished devices meets acceptance criteria, as required by 21 CFR 820.80(d). For example, (b)(4) establishes the acceptance criteria for speed at (b)(4) km/hr for powered wheelchairs. However during a review of the DHRs for P326A powered wheelchairs, (b)(4) DHRs were found to be approved with out-of-specification results for speed:
We reviewed your firm's response and conclude that it is not adequate. Your firm did not provide a correction that addresses the use of these devices found to be out of specification, nor did your firm provide justification for the approval of these devices. Your firm conducted training on its final inspection and rework activities for the P326A powered wheelchairs and provided a copy of this training record. However, this training only addressed the P326A model of powered wheelchairs. It is unclear whether final inspection and rework activities for the P326 and P326C models were also addressed, as well as all devices that your firm manufactures. Your firm also revised its "Final Inspection Sheet" to add a "final inspector column. (b)(4)
4. Failure to establish and maintain adequate procedures for rework, to include retesting and reevaluation of the nonconforming product after rework, to ensure that the product meets its current approved specifications, as required by 21 CFR 820.90(b)(2). For example:
a. Rework performed on P326A powered wheelchairs is not documented in the DHR. (b)(4) DHRs reviewed included a description of an issue requiring rework. However, none of these records included a description of the rework conducted:
b. The initial speed test for (b)(4) was out of specification and lined out. A result conforming to the specification was documented; however, there is no documentation of retest.
We reviewed your firm's response and conclude that it is not adequate. Your firm did not provide a correction for the lack of documentation in the DHR of the rework activities performed on the above lots of P326A.Your firm conducted training on its final inspection and rework activities for the P326A powered wheelchairs and provided a copy of this training record. However, this training only addressed the P326A model of powered wheelchairs. It is unclear whether final inspection and rework activities for the P326 and P326C models were also addressed, as well as all devices that your firm manufactures. Your firm also revised its "Final Inspection Sheet" to add a "final inspector" column. (b)(4) Additionally, your firm did not address how it plans to ensure that rework activities are captured and documented in the Device History Record.
5. Failure to adequately define the type and extent of control to be exercised over the product, services, suppliers, contractors, and consultants, as required by 21 CFR 820.50(a)(2). For example, your firm's (b)(4) However, there is no documentation that these certificates are reviewed on a regular basis.
Notably, the quality system certification maintained for (b)(4) According to your firm's management, suppliers are to be reviewed every six months. However, your firm's management was unable to provide documentation that these reviews were conducted when asked by the investigator.
We reviewed your firm's response and conclude that it is not adequate. Your firm states that it plans to conduct a thorough review of all quality certificates for all qualified vendors and to update any missing certificates in the database. Your firm provided a list of quality system certificates for its qualified vendors and the updated quality system certificate for its (b)(4) However, your firm did not provide evidence that this corrective action has been implemented. (b)(4)
6. Failure to establish and maintain an adequate Design History File (DHF) for each type of device to demonstrate that the design was developed in accordance with the approved design plan and the requirements of 21 CFR Part 820, as required by 21 CFR 820.30(j). Specifically, the DHF for the P326A powered wheelchair is incomplete. For example:
We reviewed your firm's response and conclude that it is not adequate. Your firm provided its revised (b)(4) However, these approval signatures are dated for the year (b)(4) and lack any reference to the actual date to which these documents were approved or reference to the deviation. The firm provided an updated Bill of Materials and the original owner's manual for the P326A powered wheelchair to be filed into the DHF. Additionally, your firm conducted training on its document approval process and provided a copy of the training record. The firm did not provide an approved version of its "P326A Power Chair Products Developing Plan."
7. Failure to establish and maintain schedules for the adjustment, cleaning, and other maintenance of equipment to ensure that manufacturing specifications are met, as required by 21 CFR 820.70(g)(1). For example, no maintenance schedules have been established for the (b)(4) used in the manufacturing of powered wheelchairs and scooters. The (b)(4) There is no documentation that these preventive maintenance activities have been conducted. When asked by the (b)(4) investigator whether your firm established a maintenance schedule for the your management stated it did not.
We reviewed your firm's response and conclude that it is not adequate. Your firm has indicated that it has developed a preventative maintenance plan and forms to document the maintenance required and conducted for the (b)(4) This plan will be included in the annual review of the production department. Your firm provided a copy of the new maintenance plan and forms. Your firm also stated that an on-site chief would conduct periodic audits to determine whether preventative maintenance is properly performed and documented. Your firm's corrective action, however, only addresses the maintenance of the (b)(4). Your firm did not address the calibration and maintenance of all production equipment or how it intends to ensure that all production equipment is properly maintained in order to meet their specified requirements.
8. Failure to establish and maintain adequate procedures to control all documents, as required by 21 CFR 820.40. For example:
We reviewed your firm's response and conclude that it is not adequate. Your firm stated that its (b)(4) However, your firm has not demonstrated adequate knowledge or control of who is authorized to (b)(4) Your firm also provided a copy of its weekly audit checklist, to which it has added instructions for staff to (b)(4) Additionally, your firm states that it would revise and amend the "information security management practices" to (b)(4) Your firm also indicated that these instructions would be added to its weekly audit checklist. Your firm did not provide the revised "Security of MIS Management SOP" to support this corrective action, nor has it indicated when this corrective action will be implemented. Additionally, your firm plans to (b)(4)
Given the serious nature of the violations of the Act, powered wheelchairs, stair chair lifts, and electric scooters manufactured by your firm are subject to refusal of admission under section 801 (a) of the Act. 21 U.S.C. § 381 (a), in that they appear to be adulterated. As a result, FDA may take steps to refuse these products known as "detention without physical examination," until these violations are corrected. In order to remove the devices from detention, your firm should provide a written response to this Warning Letter as described below and correct the violations described in this letter. We will notify you if your firm's response appears to be adequate, and we may need to re-inspect your firm's facility to verify that the appropriate corrections and/or corrective actions have
been made.
U.S. federal agencies may be advised of the issuance of Warning Letters about devices so that they may take this information into account when considering the award of contracts. Additionally, premarket approval applications for Class III devices to which the Quality System regulation deviations are reasonably related will not be approved until the violations have been corrected. Requests for Certificates to Foreign Governments will not be granted until the violations related to the subject devices have been corrected.
Please notify this office in writing within fifteen business days from the date you receive this letter of the specific steps your firm has taken to correct the noted violations, including an explanation of how your firm plans to prevent these violations, or similar violations. from occurring again. Include documentation of the corrections and/or corrective action (including any systemic corrective actions) that your firm has taken. If your firm's planned corrections and/or corrective actions will occur over time, please include a timetable for implementation of those activities. If corrections and/or corrective actions cannot be completed within fifteen business days, state the reason for the delay and the time within which these activities will be completed. Please provide a translation of documentation not in English to facilitate our review.
Your firm's response should be sent to: Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Office of Compliance, Field Operations Branch, White Oak Building 66, Rm 2609, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20993. Refer to CMS case #228954 when replying. If you have any questions about the contents of this letter, please contact: Matthew Krueger at 301-796-5585 or via facsimile at 301-847-8138.
Finally, you should know that this letter is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the violations at your firm's facility. It is your firm's responsibility to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations administered by FDA. The specific violations noted in this letter and in the lnspectional Observations, FDA 483, issued at the close of the inspection may be symptomatic of serious problems in your firm's manufacturing and quality management systems. Your firm should investigate and determine the causes of the violations, and take prompt actions to correct the violations and bring the products into compliance.
Sincerely yours,
Steven D. Silverman
Office of Compliance
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Your Phone Knows Reading B - Section 2: Your Phone Knows...
Cell Phone Towers
Lesson 4 of 14
Objective: SWBAT describe the properties of a (segment) bisector. Students will understand how lines and circles can represent possible locations in space.
Lesson Opener
Team Warm-up
Using the Slideshow, I display the Warm-Up prompt for the lesson as the bell rings. As I take role and check for homework and required materials, I watch to see that students are following the team warm-up routine and that scribes write a High Quality Answer.
The warm-up asks students to draw and label a point equidistant from two points, which they draw in their learning journals. Most students will probably draw a point midway between the two points, but any point on the bisector of the segment defined by the given endpoints will be equidistant. If students are finished quickly, I may challenge them to come up with a second point. I do not spend much time on the warm-up, only promise that it has something to do with a problem we will solve today. I make sure that every student understands the meaning of the term 'equidistant'.
Displaying the Agenda and Learning Targets, I tell the class that today we will be learning about one of the properties of a bisector, an object that comes in handy in many geometric modeling situations. In particular, it can be used to narrow down the location of your cell phone.
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Your Phone Knows...
To motivate the next activity, I show a 1 minute news clip about cell phones and privacy. The hyperlink to the CNBC website is in the slide. At the end of the clip, I ask if anyone knows anything about cell-phone tracking. Students will have various experiences. One student told me a sad story about being in a car accident on a rural road: the 9-1-1 dispatcher kept asking the callers to turn their cell phones on and off in order to get a better fix on their location.
During the news clip, I distribute the handout for the reading activity. I put the readings--Reading A, Reading B, and Reading C--on a counter for students to pick up.
Team Reading
Displaying the instructions, I tell the class that they will be working together to find out more about cell phone tracking: why it is done and, especially, how it is done. I ask them to begin by having one student read the instructions in the handout. Once they have done that, they may retrieve the articles and decide how they will divide them up.
I give students 10 minutes to read the articles and answer questions 1 and 2. I tell them that I will cold call on students to share their team's answers with the class. No one should be concerned, since everyone should make sure that all their team-mates are prepared. If they finish early and have answered those questions well, I ask them to go on to the remaining questions.
Placing a Call
At the end of the time limit, I review the answers to questions 1 and 2 with the class. I tell the class that we are going to focus today on one of the most common methods of tracking a person's location, which was introduced in an earlier lesson.
I ask students to get out Portfolio Problem 2- Placing a Call, which they started working on during the second lesson of the unit. My goal now is to get students started on a productive plan of solution which will lead them to discover that the points on the map which are equidistant from any two cell phone towers form a line: a segment bisector.
I start with a whole-class discussion. If one or more students have made a promising start on this problem, I want to recognize it publicly. Solutions to math problems should come from students whenever possible, so that students will realize that good ideas for solving problems are within their own grasp. I will suggest that those students continue what they were doing and see where it leads them. I will try to guide the rest of the class using questions and suggestions like the following (MP1):
- How can we make this problem simpler by just focusing on one part of the problem?
- Suppose we just looked at the region of the map that was closer to Tower 002 than to Tower 001. How could we begin to figure out the boundaries of that region?
- Can you find a location on the map that is definitely on the interior of the region we are interested in? A point that is definitely on the outside of our region? What about a point that is not obviously closer to Tower 002 than Tower 001?
- How can we check for certain, whether a particular point is inside the region or not?
- What do you suspect might be true about the points that define the boundaries of our region?
One way to engage the whole class in the discussion would be to display a copy of the map on the front whiteboard using an interactive whiteboard and ask for volunteers to come up to mark locations using the stylus. The strategy might evolve into "guess and check", with students picking points on the map and labeling them 'X' or 'O' depending on whether they are closer to Tower 002 or Tower 001 (or perhaps, they will mark only the points which prove to be equidistant from the two towers). This will eventually lead students to see that the points which are equidistant form a line: a bisector. I show what this might look like in the accompanying Video Demonstration.
Once the class has made a start, I ask students to continue to work on their own for about 5 minutes, then share the work of one or two students who have made the most progress.
I am interested in seeing how students measure distances (MP5). I expect some to measure with a inch- or centimeter- scale and transfer their measurements to the map scale. I am looking to see if students will realize that a compass is a very efficient tool for measuring or comparing distances. I might try to plant the suggestion. My goal is for students to realize that they do not actually have to measure any distances in miles or kilometers, just use the compass to compare distances. This is a powerful strategy that may not occur to students: they often feel that they have to give you a number.
I am also looking to see whether students put the point of the compass on a location on the map and measure to either tower, or they put the point of the compass on the tower locations and strike arcs of equal radius from each tower. I do not try to influence this now, as we will address it in the next lesson.
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If at all possible, I want to leave time in this lesson for students to finish the activity we began in the last lesson, Mystery of the Nazca Lines, and construct a bisector by swinging arcs using ropes of equal length. I have found that students find this activity engaging--and kind of a surprise. It shouldn't take too long for the arc teams to perform their function, but time is required to move the class outdoors and to get things started. The kinesthetic component is important: for some students, this is the best way for them to understand the concept.
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Team Size-Up
Displaying the Lesson Close prompt, I ask students to summarize what they learned from the lesson with their team-mates, then select the best answer to write on the board. This activity follows the Team Size-Up routine, which is basically like the team warm-up we used to begin the lesson.
Homework Set 1 problem #9 provides practice in measuring with a compass and map scale. Problem #10 asks students to recall the properties of a bisector. Problem #11 is algebra review.
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Neat lesson. I can't imagine students not being engaged in this activity.
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Detective Kevin Farley says the fake bills were used mainly at area fast food and convienience stores. The suspects would go into the businesses and either make a small purchase or ask clerks for change for the $20 counterfeits. It was some clerks who led police to suspects.
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Seven people have been arrested. Police say 22 year old James Hayes from Rockford, IL printed the bills at a Chippewa Falls home where he was staying. "His initial reason was another gentleman arrested, Richard Leuck, apparently hired him to print the money for the purpose of making a drug transaction," says Farley.
While executing search warrants for homes in Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls, police also found marijuana, methamphetamine, and other drug paraphernalia.
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text: Why does music move us?Robbie Gonzalez5/08/13 7:30pmFiled to: neurosciencemusicit's okay to be smartsciencejoe hansonevolutionpsychology543EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Ever wondered why OutKast's "Hey Ya!" can put a manic grin on your face? Or why Adele's "Someone Like You" makes you sob like a baby? In the latest episode of It's Okay to be Smart, Joe Hanson takes to the streets of the live music capital of the world to test a recent hypothesis, which holds that our emotional relationship with music may be neurologically related to the perception of body language. Writes Hanson: Humans are the only species we know that creates and communicate using music, but it's still unclear how or why we do that, brain-wise. Is it just a lucky side effect of evolution, like Steven Pinker says? Or is it a deeper part of our evolutionary history, as people like Mark Changizi and Daniel Levitin argue?Some brand new evolutionary psychology research says that we may read emotion in music because it relates to how we sense emotion in people's movements. We'll take a trip from Austin to Dartmouth to Cambodia to hear why music makes us feel so many feels. The connections between movement and music go far beyond dance moves! [It's Okay to be Smart]Reply54 repliesLeave a reply


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MOSHI Vortex
" IMPORTANT: this review must be read from the top till you reach the bottom of this thread. the review is made with updates, certain changes due to mental and iem burn in. please bear some time to understand the feelings and the experience WE want to share. may we find happiness to this journey. most of my reviews are all the same... i know you all guys find it kinda..." --pinoyman
Moshi Vortex Pro
"-- The Moshi Vortex Pro: http://www.moshi.com/audio-earbuds-vortex-pro-mic#silver ~ All Photos Taken By Me, No Stock Material From the Manufacture Were Used for this review ~ *Packaging* For a $150 earphone, the box and presentation is decently designed. *Accessories* - 2 Pairs of..." --BloodyPenguin
Philips SHE8000/28 In-Ear Headphone (Black/Red)
" These IEM's arent the greatest. But these ARE the greatest for $5!! Seperation is great, Clarity is great, Detail is great! Bass is superb! Doesnt muddle out the highs and mids. This is the best buds that ive had for just $5! A reminder, these arent audiophile IEM's, but because if the price, they are probably the best IEM's out there! " --Ezio
MOSHI Keramo Ceramic Earphones
"-- The Moshi Keramo: ~ All Photos Taken By Me, No Stock Material From the Manufacture Were Used for this review ~ This is the 2nd Moshi Earphone I have had the pleasure to review in the last month. You can find my review of the Moshi Vortex Pro here: http://www.head-fi.org/products/moshi-vortex-pro/reviews/14287 The reason I mention the Moshi Vortex..." --BloodyPenguin
MOSHI Clarus
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Of the two Etonians brought into No 10 by David Cameron last week, it was our Mayor's younger brother, Jo Johnson, who dominated headlines. But the more interesting elevation was that of Jesse Norman, a former banker and philosophy lecturer who has just published a scintillating book on Edmund Burke, the Irish father of modern conservatism. Both Norman's book — an elegy masquerading as a biography — and the promotion of its author give vital clues about the juncture our politics has reached.
In creating a policy board, Cameron was partly responding to critics within his party who described him as a political and moral dwarf next to Margaret Thatcher. Such attacks ignore the contingencies of history. Largely because of Thatcher, socialism was the great ideological casualty of the 20th century. But Britain and America responded to the collapse of socialism in starkly opposed ways. In Britain, socialism's death removed what divided the main parties; in America, it removed what united them. As a result, whereas British politics occupies a swollen centre ground, politics in America is ferociously polarised.
The result is that our politics, as I have written elsewhere, is sequential rather than adversarial. This is where Burke comes in. He was a member of my party, the Whigs (forerunners to the Liberals), and fought over his career for five great causes: the emancipation of the Commons from George III, the emancipation of the Irish, American, and Indian colonies, and opposition to the French Revolution.
Only in the last of those did he elucidate a conservative disposition. Three sentiments captured it. First, a scepticism towards reason, and a preference for knowledge gained through experience rather than abstract theorising; second, reverence for the "little platoons", including family, that command our affections; and third, his vision of a social contract not only between the living, but between the living, the dead, and the unborn.
David Willetts once told me that what he most admired about Burke was he got all the big calls right. Indeed, surveying his career as a whole, in which he constantly fought for the oppressed, perhaps liberals should be reclaiming him for their own. The 19th-century historian Lord Acton ranked him alongside Macaulay and Gladstone as the greatest of liberals. Gladstone called his writings a "magazine of wisdom".
In harnessing both liberal and conservative tendencies, our Coalition is a Burkean project. This is a point made lucidly by Norman.
Norman's erudition and rebellious streak — he kiboshed Lords reform almost single-handedly — has led to chatter about his potential as a Tory leader. He has something of Polonius about him. Just as with an earlier pamphlet called The Big Society, he has now, under the guise of history, articulated much of what our Government stands for.
It is therefore an unmissable document, which presents its author — in an inversion of Burke's role — as someone the Left could do business with. That, I think, is the real significance of last week's shenanigans in No 10. The Norman conquest is a metaphor for something little understood and long overdue: a Whig recrudescence.
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Dress up Maxima
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Name: Princess Máxima of the Netherlands
Profession: Dutch Princess
Birthday: May 17, 1971
Princess Máxima was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as Máxima Zorreguieta. She married Prince Willem-Alexander, the heir to the throne, in 2 February 2002. They have three daughters, Princess Catharina-Amalia, Princess Alexia and Princess Ariane.


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View Liz Berg's profile |
Fist-pumping, air-drumming freeform mayhem. Caffeinated rock, experimental pop, oddball beats, and novelties.
Also available as an MP3 podcast. More info at our Podcast Central page.
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Listener comments! | |
Mon. 5/10/10 12:11pm
dc pat:
sean daily, woo hoo! | |
Mon. 5/10/10 12:11pm
Hiya Liz. | |
Mon. 5/10/10 12:15pm
Hi Liz, You're rocking, and I am part of it! (Headphoned photoshop monkey at Black Rock!) | |
Mon. 5/10/10 12:17pm
Liz B.:
Hi everyone, welcome and happy Monday! Shout out to Black Rock! | |
Mon. 5/10/10 12:19pm
Wonderful luncheon music. Thank you so much, Liz. play what you will, it is all quel swell. | |
Mon. 5/10/10 12:27pm
dc pat:
this Magnecious tune is what life is all about | |
Mon. 5/10/10 12:28pm
dc pat:
oops I think I meant 1400 Points De Suture is what life is all about. But whatever.. | |
Mon. 5/10/10 12:36pm
Rob W:
This some crazy huanyo music! I'm headed for the FMA right now! | |
Mon. 5/10/10 12:38pm
Liz B.:
Check it out, Rob, good stuff! Very similar to some music I heard performed live up in the Andes of Peru a few years back. | |
Mon. 5/10/10 12:38pm
que buen huaynito! | |
Mon. 5/10/10 12:50pm
As much as I'm a fan of the rest of the show, I always really get a kick out of the talkover music too. Weird, I know. | |
Mon. 5/10/10 1:05pm
nice set here. thanks for making work fun liz! | |
Mon. 5/10/10 2:08pm
Digging this! | |
Mon. 5/10/10 2:32pm
heh just reading how Jobs has to SUCK the android love http://www.marketwatch.com/story/android-shakes-up-us-smartphone-market-2010-05-10?reflink=MW_news_stmp | |
Mon. 5/10/10 2:46pm
Thanks for the ragelicious set Liz...thrashing and making pizza to it right now | |
Mon. 5/10/10 2:48pm
loved loved loved the show today Liz! had it on while doing a photo shoot. thanks!! | |
Mon. 5/10/10 2:50pm
Hey, come check out Mark McGuire DJ at Port D'or in Brooklyn this Saturday night. | |
Mon. 5/10/10 2:52pm
Liz B.:
Thanks for the nice words, everyone, and thanks for the heads-up on the Mark McGuire DJ set this Saturday, Steven! | |
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A weekend shooting in Montgomery County still has authorities there baffled.
According to a resident on Crockett Martin road, multiple gunshots were fired about 5 o'clock Saturday morning. When deputies arrived on the scene, they found a man who had been shot, lying in the grass.
The victim is said to be in stable condition.
No charges have been filed.
Montgomery County Shooting
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[RCSE] USA F3B Team Special Challenge
The US Team just received a 'Jacket Level' donation from Dr. Dan Williams,
who not only made a generous donation, but has laid down a challenge for others to follow. Dr. Williams will throw in an additional $100.00 for every other jacket level donation that we receive this month. We are very grateful for this and all other contributions we have received. It is very rewarding to get help from within the soaring community. I realize that the Jacket Level donations are quite steep, and not in most peoples budget, but if you can swing it we sure can use the help, and you get a cool $200.00 jacket. See the website Sponsorship page for more info: usaf3b.com We have a F3B practice coming up the 24th and 25th of this month in San Jose. Team practices have been going exceptionally well and the US Team is looking good! Thanks again for all the support Gavin RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to firstname.lastname@example.com. Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. |


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The Horse Forum
- Horse Training
- - How do you ride with your legs?
How do you ride with your legs? Silly question to most of you I suppose, but I'm really clueless about it. I've been riding since I was a small child, but my first 5-10 years were mostly bareback since I couldn't always find someone to saddle my horse for me. As I got older, I've had people tell me that I ride "like an Indian," meaning that I'm always holding on with my legs even when I've got stirrups. Sure, I use the stirrups too, but if a horse spooks my first instinct is to get into my seat and move with them.. not grab the horn or brace in my stirrups. I've been reading up on training and such, and I do understand using your legs to apply pressure to aid in a turn, or to have your horse bend around your leg but that's about it. I'm way out here in the middle of Montana and have never had a lesson in my life... I'm just curious what riding with your legs means to you? Thank you!! :D |
I think you're bragging. Sounds like you have a very good seat already. If you research you'll find that the Romans didn't have stirrups. They were introduced from east Asia. Hungarian Cavalry rode a saddle without a girth. Most of us train ourselves to ride better by schooling without stirrups. What you don't know is the finesse of using your lower leg to cue your horse. Ideally, you should squeeze your calves to cue forward, then maintain soft contact. You move your inside leg forward and your outside leg back to cue for the inside canter lead. You squeeze calves, deepen seat and sit back at the same time closing on the reins to halt or half halt. "Kicking" a horse in non-productive and can destroy your balance. I always school with prince of sales spurs for light horses. Sounds like you've been riding for a long time, but it wouldn't hurt to look for a barn that teaches English and get some schooling on cues. Ken McNabb is in Wyoming. You might think about spending 3 weeks with him. He's an excellent horseman. |
730 Attachment(s) I don't hold on with my legs the entire ride, but I do keep my legs stretched around my horse to keep them steady and just incase I need to use them to cue. I take english lessons. |
384 Attachment(s) You don't hold with your legs, you get deeper in your seat. Different parts of your leg, thigh, calf, ankle are used against the horse's side for different responses. You can grip with your legs if you feel like you are losing your balance, but if you do that constantly, you will get some nasty welts on the inside of your knees until you toughen that area up. Good sign of incorrect riding. |
Some of riding with your leg depends on how your horse was trained. A trainer I worked for who specialized in western pleasure horses taught almost all of her cues as leg or spur cues. The bridle was used almost exclusively for head set(getting vertical flexion) and collection. Lateral movements, turns, backing, lowering head, ect. were all done with spur or leg cues. I'm sure not everyone trains that way, but for her riding with leg was a very complicated proposition that took her students years to master. |
Personally, I was brought up by a Brazilian GP trainer who specialized in show jumping and his own brand of equitation, so I was trained slowly and steadily one area at a time. Seat first, then leg, bridle last. Rhythm, control, anticipation, and feel were the main focus. Not so much looking fancy or getting the horse to do anything special, just a big concentration on my feel and awareness of the horse's body and mine. So, I ride with my seat first and then my leg, last my hands. The horse I was most often paired with is now my own horse, and she's sensitive to the aids, so if I ever did hang on her in any way she'd let me know! I like to keep a classical seat, in the beginning years I didn't really pay attention to the technical terms and just did whatever my trainer set me up for and told me to do, so when I think back I can remember doing a jumper seat sometimes and a classic seat others. It was all about making sure I knew what "right" felt like. Nowadays, it's been a long while since I had a trainer at his level, so everything I do is by myself with a little help of the camera and some friends that generally know about riding. The horse is the best trainer when you know how to listen ;) So, I like to ride with my lower calf muscles extended so that my leg is long and my heels are level, and keep my heels off the horse. The lowest part of my calf doesn't touch her. The largest part of my calf does. It's more like my muscles are working to stay still and extended, not gripping. I like to ride in shorts sometimes when my horse's hair is longer, and focus on keeping my lower leg just close enough to feel her hair tickle me, and not touch her skin. Toes forward, level. When I want her butt engaged, I put the entire leg on with a little or no heel. When I want a gait picked up or a higher speed, I add heel or pluck her sides with my heels. For lateral, I put weight into one stirrup or put my heel on her side. THIS is a great video for the classical seat and how to fix problems, it really helped me when I got a chair seat and pinched knee when my horse's arthritis first showed up: |
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Carlton: Oklahoma's problems look 'an awful lot' like Texas' from 2010; could Bob Stoops bench Landry Jones?
Big 12 beat writer Chuck Carlton joined the Chip Brown Show to talk Big 12 football this week. Here are some highlights:
On the problems along Oklahoma's offensive and defensive lines:
It's a little shocking to say that Oklahoma doesn't have the talent, but you look at it and on that offensive line, they've started, in July, they had 102 returning starts, one of the biggest numbers not only in the Big 12 but in the country. But then Ben Habern basically ends his career because of lingering injuries, there goes 30 starts out the window. Tyler Evans, returning All-Big 12 guard goes down and that's another 29. So you go from having 102 to 43 and two people having to step in and start for them without planning on having to do so. And a defensive line where not only isn't there a Gerald McCoy, there isn't a Frank Alexander. In some ways, this looks an awful lot like the issues Texas went through two years ago.
On if Bob Stoop could move toward starting backup QB Blake Bell over Landry Jones:
People wonder if he can throw, but the question is at some point does Oklahoma have to find out if Blake Bell can throw. It was interesting with Landry Jones because it is a love-hate affair. He has moved into 6 place in all-time yards in NCAA history of that game. This is a remarkably prolific quarterback, but at the same time, on some of the mistakes, it wasn't booing but you could kind of hear the audible gasp or the feeling that these fans have seen it before. The fumble at his own goal line that K-State fell on – two years ago in Dallas, the Red River Rivalry, Oklahoma has the game wrapped up and all of a sudden, Landry Jones drops it on the carpet up in Dallas. … Last year, Oklahoma State under pressure, the same kind of thing. And there's a feeling that this might be as good as it gets for Landry Jones. And Bob Stoops has been one of his biggest defenders, he's called the critics of Landry Jones "crazy," but at the same time, if things don't go well over at Tech, and then you've got Texas staring you in the face, I just don't know how long Stoops stays with Landry Jones. That's a goofy thing to say. I'm sure there are some Sooners who will hear that and say, "How can you say that?" After K-State, I think the dynamic has changed.


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Thank you (Brad Hansen)
I told Scott a few days before the ride was over that this was my best ride of the three I have completed. I can't put my finger on just one or two things that made it different. It was a fantastic ride from start to finish. We had a great bunch of guys. We met great people across this country, we saw beautiful country and we had a mixture of good and bad weather. When we return from our trip we always get the question, "are you going to do it again?" The previous years' answer has been "ask me again in a few months." This year my answer is you bet I am going next year.
I am sometimes called the "stat man". It has nothing to do with my smarts because that is fairly limited or much of what I knew is no longer there. It has more to do with I like to surf the internet and when I hear different questions from the guys, I write them down, look it up that night and report the answer sometime the next day. It comes in pretty handy on those days when we begin to tire and the 5-hour energy is not working as well as we would like, so we strike up conversations on the CB. My final bit of information for the guys this year is based on my 70 fuel receipts. We used 2,580 gallons of fuel between the 12 bikes and the highest we paid was $4.899 in Stamford, Ct.
$210,000 in donations! Are you kidding me? There are so many people to thank for the success of this years' ride. Everyone that gave, everyone that helped spread the word of the Childrens Miracle Network, the hospital staff, our spouses, all the people who saw us off and the fantastic crowd who were downtown at our return. I want to give a special thank you to McCauley Propeller Systems for their sponsorship and bike wrap that I got to show across the country.
Thank you everyone.
Brad Hansen


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Taste in decor is so subjective. White vs color, minimalism vs opulence, glamorous vs rustic, the list goes on. You may lean toward one particular style or mix a few together – either way, everyone is sure to have their own unique interpretation. One of the easiest ways to make a statement no matter what your style is to incorporate a pop of jewel toned color. Jewel tones can be a dramatic accent for any interior; whether it's the color of every wall in a room filled with equally saturated tones or a single chair set against pale neutrals, there's something warm and inviting about these elegant and dramatic hues. In honor of Color Month, I combed the Sneak Peek archives in search of interiors that convey the aesthetic impact vibrant jewel tones can create, and here are some of my favorites! -Shannon
Image above: The emerald and citrine tones in the painting above pop against a dramatic sapphire wall in the home of Kate Schintzius.
Image above: Paige Morses's unexpected pairing of framed art layered on top of this wedding blanket creates a striking focal point in her Texas home.
Image above: Ruby red and illustrated wall decals sets a playful tone in the bedroom of Carolyn Gavin's daughter.
More jewel tone inspiration after the jump…
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Image above: Amethyst and citrine add to the glamour of Gemma Ahern's boldly hued living room.
Image above: Here is a completely different take on citrine. This time it adds to the bright and sunny mood of Judith de Graaff's French home.
Image above: This Sneak Peek of Wonderfactory showed us that you can be as adventurous as you like with color in the workplace.
Image above: Reiko Kaneko opted for a more subtle use of jewel tones in the form of hand blown glass on her windowsill.
Image above: These rich gemstone-hued curtains complete the luxe look of Katie Graham's living room.
Image above: Rym of Mademoiselle Bagatelles displays an impressive combination of colors, textures and patterns in the pink and red toned seating area in the living room of her Parisian home.
Image above: Vibrant sapphire, aquamarine and ruby tones enhance the old world elegance of this room in Frederic Coustol's Portugese home, creating a look so striking against the natural light that it looks like a study for a Vermeer painting.
Image above: Pink tourmaline hued fabric on this vintage armchair in Merav Sade's Israeli home provides just the right amount of color against the neutral tones of her living room.
Image above: Another view from the home of Kate Schintzius, she's not afraid to let emerald hued malachite take center stage in her hallway.
Image above: Ruby tones in the Brooklyn home of Brin Reinhardt and Nathan Ursch.
Image above: A peek into the sumptuous jewel tones of Caitlin Moran's bedroom.
Image above: Cathy and Robin of Heath Ceramics embrace emerald for a monochromatic tiled bathroom.
Image above: Sapphire and turquoise in the Glasglow home of Fiona Douglas.
Image above: This Persian rug is the focal point with its dazzling jewel tones in Jamie Lawson and Jacqui Oakley's Canadian home.
Image above: Megan Price + Robert Shadbolt choose a bold amethyst for their fireplace.
Image above: The shocking gem-like hue of these French doors was transformative for Emily Hensen's dingy garage turned art studio in her Los Angeles home.
Love all of these. We don't have a lot of color in our home except for the Haitian art work my husband inherited. So it's a nice balance between the vibrant folk art paintings and the cream interior.
Thank you for bringing back these wonderful colorful posts. While I appreciate the all white Scandinavian look, I truly miss seeing color in your recent posts. Maybe a mixture of the two is in store for the future?
Oh goodness these colors are absolutely divine!
Bwaaahhhhh! That doggie's room is almost as cute as she is!
This was all right up our alley. Color is a window to the soul, baby.
I could really live here!
colors is my favourite (:
Absolutely exquisite and has given me ideas for my home, many thanks!
Gorgeous home! Hot Pink Coffee table!
I'm a color junkie and this post was great. Life is too short for beige.
These are brave, bold, and absolutely stunning!


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Tyson Foods was ordered by a judge Thursday to cease a false multimillion-dollar ad campaign promoting its claim that its chickens are "raised without antibiotics." The key question centers on the word raised and whether the egg stage can be considered to be outside the process of raising chickens.
The Washington Post:
Poultry giant Tyson Foods has 14 days to dismantle a national multimillion dollar ad campaign centered on the claim that its chickens are raised without antibiotics, a federal appeals court in Richmond ruled yesterday [Thursday].
The ruling is a setback for Tyson in its ongoing battle with two of its competitors Sanderson Farms, based in Laurel, Miss., and Perdue Farms, based in Salisbury, Md. The two companies jointly sought an injunction to stop Tyson's ad campaign, arguing the "raised without antibiotics" claim misleads consumers by making it appear Tyson's chicken is safer or more healthful.
Then during trial in federal court in Baltimore, Tyson officials acknowledged they also inject eggs several days before they hatch with antibiotics that are approved for use in humans. Dave Hogberg, Tyson's senior vice president for consumer products, said it is a common industry practice.
Hogberg said injecting eggs with antibiotics did not undermine the "raised without antibiotic" label because the term "raised" is understood to cover the period that begins with hatching.
Tyson Foods, the meat and poultry slaughter giant, thinks injecting antibiotics into an egg, left, is different from injecting a chicken, right.


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Kay E. Mahoney 3/26/2012 2:52:51 PM
Very cute. Adorable dog. #1452337Scott A. McDaniel 3/28/2012 4:40:06 PM
Thanks Kay #10063685Michelle L. Frick 4/4/2012 5:07:34 PM
Found the perfect patch of sun! Great light Scott!!! #10075410Lorna Shutter 4/11/2012 4:42:59 AM
This is too cute!!! CONGRATULATIONS on your EP & POTD Awards, Scott! Your Gallery is AWESOME! You have an incredibly creative mind ... and a wonderful way with the camera! Keep up the great work! :) #10085381Joy Rector 4/11/2012 4:45:16 AM
congrats on the POTD #10085386Kathryn Wesserling 4/11/2012 4:53:36 AM
BP is sure going to the dogs this week! And, this little adorable critter is why. Between you and Terry Cervi, I've been smiling and awwwwing all over the place. Congratulations for your POTD. #10085399Usman M. Bajwa 4/11/2012 5:11:38 AM
Great POV and so cute and well lit, Scott. CONGRATZ on the POTD.UB. #10085433
Angie Sidles 4/11/2012 5:20:18 AM
Congrats on your POTD Scott! It is absolutely deserved. Love this!!! :) #10085448Scott A. McDaniel 4/11/2012 5:28:33 AM
Thanks everyone. It means a lot. #10085454Nancyj E. Hovey 4/11/2012 5:30:38 AM
C O N G R A T U L A T I O N SMary K. Robison 4/11/2012 6:19:21 AM
Congratulations on your sweet POTD, Scott! #10085524Julianne Bradford 4/11/2012 6:44:19 AM
Adorable POTD..Congratulations! #10085578Katarina Mansson 4/11/2012 6:49:52 AM
Wow - so well framed and captured! Excellent image with high impact. Congratulations on your POTD! #10085584Amanda D. Austwick 4/11/2012 7:08:52 AM
What a cute animal portrait! Congratulations on your POTD! #10085614Sara B Coffey 4/11/2012 7:21:42 AM
Great POTD Scott... you lucky dog!Michele Peterson 4/11/2012 7:23:38 AM
Oh too cute, what a capture!! Congratulations on the POTD!! #10085632Heather Loewenhardt 4/11/2012 8:01:41 AM
Aw fantastic lighting! Congrats on POTD! #10085674Marilyn Cornwell 4/11/2012 8:13:20 AM
What a wonderful spotlight with this amazing pose! Congratulations on POTD! #10085684Steve Pinzon 4/11/2012 8:36:47 AM
It's not surprising that you got a POTD. Congrats, you do great work! #10085724Barbara J. Eads 4/11/2012 9:37:01 AM
This is adorable! Wonderful lighting. Good Job! #10085770Phyllis H. Burchett 4/11/2012 1:04:38 PM
How cute, congrats on your POTD! #10086002Scott A. McDaniel 4/11/2012 2:11:35 PM
WOW, thanks everyone. And to think I almost didn't take the picture cause I didn't want to disturb the old guy. #10086116Datha Y. Thompson 4/11/2012 2:57:59 PM
How ADORALE!!! Love it!!Ellen Hodges 4/11/2012 3:07:36 PM
Congrats on a wonderful and very cute, POTD, Scott!! #10086180Bunny Snow 4/11/2012 6:01:52 PM
Excellent POV. You are right down at the level of the dog, just where you are suppose to be. Did you disturb him with the flash? I'd think he'd sleep right through the ordeal.Congratulations on your POTD!!! #10086436
Cindy Bendush 4/11/2012 8:15:54 PM
Exceptional! Big congrats on your POTD! #10086619Richard D. Love 4/27/2012 12:21:46 PM
Congratulations, Scott. Perfect timing!Rick #10111638
Chris Ebben 5/1/2012 10:47:28 PM
Congratulations on the finalist. Funny, I was sure I commented on this one before, maybe I shouldn't admit to that!!! Anyhow, very well done=^..^= #10117370Lorna Shutter 5/2/2012 6:33:05 AM
WTG, Scott!!! CONGRATULATIONS on your well-deserved Finalist Award!!!!! Good luck in the next round!!! :)Lorna Shutter 5/2/2012 6:34:43 AM
Oops!!! I copied and pasted a little too much! Sorry about that, Scott ... You can ignore Ms. Val's comment! :) #10118283Inge Linden 5/4/2012 3:19:13 AM
What an amazing Finalist,congratulations! #10122026Inge Linden 5/5/2012 1:51:54 AM
Congrats on your awesome win! #10123862Lorna Shutter 5/5/2012 5:48:54 AM
CONGRATULATIONS on your 2nd Place Win for this super capture, Scott!!!!! Keep up the great work! :)#10124138
Ellen Hodges 5/5/2012 8:05:42 AM
Huge congrats on an adorable winner, Scott!!! #10124470Amanda D. Austwick 5/5/2012 8:29:53 AM
Congratulations on your well deserved GOLD WIN!!! #10124531Amanda D. Austwick 5/5/2012 8:29:53 AM
Congratulations on your well deserved GOLD WIN!!! #10124532Peggy Pfister 5/5/2012 9:09:34 AM
Awesome photo! Congrats on the POTD and gold!! #10124627Merna L. Nobile 5/5/2012 2:12:33 PM
Well here we are, through thick and thin. It is a joy to be able to be supportive and to congratulate each other for another month of magnificent photographs during May, 2012. I send all of you my very best, Merna Nobile #10125118Robin R. 5/5/2012 7:20:39 PM
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Good eye.I love the cold dark area around him vs the square warm sun framed around him. I might guess that this photo was taken a short time after he found this warm sun spot. He is losing the warm sun around his bottom.
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TPG Capital Joins Hong Kong's HS Group to Back Asian Hedge Funds
Bei HuTPG Capital, the private investment company with $59 billion globally, will buy a stake in Hong Kong's HS Group Ltd. to form a partnership that will provide long-term capital to startup and newer hedge funds in Asia.
Tim Dattels, managing partner and co-head of TPG Capital Asia, is joining the advisory board of the HS Group fund that provides long-term capital to hedge funds, according to an e-mailed statement from HS Group. A fund-marketing division of Fort Worth, Texas-based TPG has agreed to refer institutional clients to HS Group, according to the statement.
TPG has struck the agreement as global hedge-fund assets hit a record high of $3 trillion, with investors adding $93.3 billion capital to the industry in the first five months of the year, according to Atlanta, Georgia-based data provider eVestment. Experienced managers are leaving global banks and hedge funds such as Soros Fund Management LLC and York Capital Management LP to set up their own hedge funds in the region.
"Asia's hedge fund industry will see secular growth over the coming years," Dattels said in the statement. "HS Group's relationships with the region's strongest investment talent combined with institutional best practices complement TPG's vision for the industry."
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HS Group was founded by Michael Garrow, formerly of Blackstone Group LP, and Johannes Kaps, previously a managing director of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to provide long-term capital and guidance to startups and other smaller, younger hedge funds in the region.
In April, HS Group announced that it is backing Pleiad Investment Advisors Ltd., a Hong Kong-based hedge-fund company being planned by Kenneth Lee and Michael Yoshino, two former Soros Fund Management Asia specialists.
Asia-based hedge-fund managers are courting seeders such as HS Group to help them build funds with sufficient assets and business setup to gain credibility with international institutions, such as U.S.-based pensions and endowments, which are restricted in investing in small funds.
Fifty-seven percent of the 167 regional equity long-short hedge funds, which began trading with less than $50 million, still manage less than that amount after an average of 5.3 years in existence, according to a Citigroup Inc. report in December, which cited data from Singapore-based Eurekahedge Pte.
Formerly known as Headland Strategic, HS Group counts V-Nee Yeh as chairman of the advisory board of the group's fund. Yeh, a member of the board of the Columbia University endowment, co-founded Value Partners Group Ltd. in 1993 with former journalist Cheah Cheng Hye. Hong Kong-based Value Partners oversaw $10 billion at the end of May, it said in a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange on June 25.


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1996: President Bill Clinton signs amendments to the Freedom of Information Act that help usher in a new age of digital democracy. The new law requires the government to make electronic documents available online.
Clinton said the 1996 FOIA amendments, which for the first time mentioned electronic records, reinforced "an important link between the United States government and the American people."
In signing the legislation crafted by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), Clinton said the package, for the first time "brings FOIA into the information and electronic age by clarifying that it applies to records maintained in electronic format."
Among the most important changes, the legislation required the government to supply information in the requested digital format, if possible. Spreadsheets are easier to decipher than thousands of pages of documents, for example.
What's more, the law also urged the government to publish online as much information as possible. FOIA, first enacted in 1966, now required the government to search its electronic databases to comport with information requests. An "agency shall make reasonable efforts to search for records in electronic form or format, except when such efforts would significantly interfere with the operation of the agency's automated information system," the legislation said.
The amendments, like the original act, allow anyone to request information, but have been especially helpful for journalists seeking information on behalf of the general public. News-gathering in the pre-digital days required burning shoe leather, working the phone and poring over reams of paper files. What little internet data was available was largely through Gopher and FTP. Web retrieval was somewhere between minimal and microscopic.
The 1996 amendments changed things a lot. "The 1996 amendments were very forward-thinking and very important," said Lucy Daglish, executive director of The Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press.
But she cautioned that, notwithstanding the amendments, the sitting president sets the tone of how the Freedom of Information Act will be applied in practice.
"The Bush administration's message to the agencies was: 'If you can figure out a way to delay, revoke or refuse to reveal public information, do it and we will back you up,'" Daglish said.
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*Destruction* deletes stairs
Several months ago I ran across an ugly feature: reading a *destruction* scroll will delete most things; unfortunately for me "most things" includes stairs. Doubly unfortunate for me, I discovered this on level 99 of an ironman game after killing Sauron, which made it kinda hard to go down to level 100 (see http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showthread.php?t=4839 if you care).
At the time, I promised to write some code to fix the problem, but of course, I never did. I have now (finally) looked into the problem. My original proposal was to add some chrome to convert the stairs into rubble, and then back to stairs once they were dug out. This looks to be a lot harder than I gave it credit for. The FEAT_* definitions in defines.h do not have any gaps in them where something could be slipped in, and the source code has at least a couple of instances of constructs like: "if (cave_feat[y][x] >= FEAT_WALL_EXTRA)" which makes adding new entries at the end somewhat problematic. So I now propose using the simple fix of changing destroy_area in spells2.c to just skip over stairs. And in the course of investigating this, I now see where the bug slipped in: right now, destroy_area checks to see if it should skip a space by using the test "cave_isperm", whereas is older sources, this test was done using "cave_valid_bold". I am fairly certain that this was changed in order to make *destruct* effective at destroying artifacts, so that people could not use the hack of *destructing* a vault and then picking through the remains. But it has the unfortunate and probably unexpected side effect of also allowing the destruction of stairs. The fix appears to be simple: in spells2.c:destroy_area, instead of if (!cave_isperm(cave, y, x)) just instead use if (!cave_perma_bold(x,y)) which will skip over stairs as well as permanent walls, but not artifacts. |
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Totally off topic, but that is an AWESOME function name...
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Many thanks for the fix. I've opened this as #1616, so it should be fixed for 3.4
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Btw in FAangband destrucion does not affect stairs.
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While on patrol in the early morning of December 30, 2008, Holland police officer Troy DeWys observed an occupied car parked on the street; when he returned to issue a parking ticket, there was no one in the car. DeWys determined that the car was registered to Shane Adams, who had several outstanding warrants. DeWys saw a car pulling out of a driveway at a nearby home; the driver got out of his car and told DeWys that his girlfriend, and some minors, were inside drinking alcohol. Asked if Adams was in the house, the driver indicated that he was unsure.
DeWys called for backup; a second officer arrived. Both police officers were in full police uniform. They approached the home, and knocked on the front and back doors; DeWys identified himself as a police officer. Peering through windows, the officers saw about a dozen people running around and hiding. About 15 minutes later, Mandy McCarry opened the front door. McCarry admitted that under-age drinking was going on in the house and that she knew Shane Adams, but denied that he was in the home. She refused to allow the officers into the house without a warrant. At this point, the officers secured the back door to the home; when three other officers arrived at the scene, the house was surrounded. DeWys reported that, when standing at the open door, he smelled a strong odor of intoxicants and burnt marijuana.
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Moreno was bound over for trial on one charge of resisting and obstructing a police officer, and one charge of resisting and obstructing a police officer, causing injury. MCL 750.81d. The statute states that "an individual who assaults, batters, wounds, resists, obstructs, opposes, or endangers a person who the individual knows or has reason to know is performing his or her duties is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 2 years or a fine of not more than $2,000.00, or both."
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Mechanical Ventilation Autonomic Nervous System Diseases |
Study Type: | Observational |
Study Design: | Observational Model: Case-Only Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional |
Official Title: | Variability Analysis as a Predictor of Liberation From Mechanical Ventilation in Patients Admitted to the Respiratory Special Care Unit (ReSCU) |
Estimated Enrollment: | 30 |
Study Start Date: | August 2007 |
Study Completion Date: | March 2008 |
Failure to wean is one of the most feared complications of mechanical ventilation. Prolonged mechanical ventilation occurs in 5-20% of all patients requiring MV in an intensive care unit. The published experience in the Cleveland Clinic in-hospital-weaning unit (ReSCU, Respiratory Special Care Unit) on long-term mechanical ventilation (>14 days) is that on average, 60% of the patients achieve complete ventilator independence.
The identification of factors that predict liberation from mechanical ventilation should improve outcomes and allocation of resources. Several attempts have been done to develop models to identify patients who will wean from prolonged MV; most rely on multiple measurements and their predictive ability is uncertain. Given the complexity of medical problems and the heterogeneity of the patients with prolonged MV, it is not unexpected that in order to achieve a good prediction, multiple variables are needed to encompass the whole population and relevant factors associated with the failure to wean.
Heart rate variability (HRV) is obtained from the measurement of the interval between successive heart beats; its analysis has been used extensively in cardiovascular disease. HRV is interpreted as a manifestation of the neurohumoral and autonomic system influence over the heart. Some researchers think that HRV relates to overall variability and is a manifestation of health in a complex biological system. Interpretation apart, multiple studies have demonstrated that the loss of variability reflects a poor prognosis overall. This phenomenon is seen not only in the heart, but also in breathing patterns, blood pressure, leukocyte count, electroencephalogram, gait, and recently in temperature. Limitations in interpretation and difficulty in acquisition (ventilator influence, respiratory rate influence, arrhythmias, medication) make HRV less practical in the mechanically ventilated population.
Surface temperature is not usually measured in clinical practice; it reflects skin thermoregulatory properties (where the autonomic system has a fundamental role). Recently, a novel marker to describe biological variability in body temperature has been studied. The temperature curve complexity (TCC) was used to predict mortality in critically ill patients. Its performance was comparable to that of scores like APACHE and SOFA, this has been described with HRV, hence suggesting a relation between TCC and HRV. Although no prior study has related TCC or HRV alone or to prolonged mechanical ventilation outcomes, there is reason to suspect that variability is decreased in ventilator-dependent patients.
In summary, the analysis of HRV and TCC has provided prognostic information in critically ill patients. A relation between HRV and TCC is expected but has not been described. Given the multiple influences of MV on HRV, TCC may be a better indicator of of variability in patients on MV. Our primary hypothesis is that the analysis of HRV and TCC will predict failure to wean from prolonged MV. Our secondary aims are: to identify the relationship between HRV and TCC, to describe the TCC in patients with prolonged MV, and to describe the changes in HRV and TCC in patients with successful and failed weaning.
This is an observational study in which measurements of HRV and TCC will be done in patients admitted to the ReSCU and compared to the ability to wean from mechanical ventilation.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Sampling Method: | Non-Probability Sample |
Inclusion Criteria:
- All patients being admitted to the Respiratory Special Care Unit (ReSCU) will be considered for this study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Current pregnancy
- Age < 18 years old
- No baseline temperature measurements
- Second or greater admission to ReSCU
- Patient refusal to participate in the study
- Allergy to adhesive tape
- Pacemaker or implanted electronic devices on the thorax
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01140750
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Respiratory Special Care Unit, Cleveland Clinic | |
Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195 |
Principal Investigator: | Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila, MD | The Cleveland Clinic |
Study Director: | James K Stoller, MD | The Cleveland Clinic |
Responsible Party: | Sr Director Sponsored Research Administration, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01140750 History of Changes |
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Study First Received: | June 8, 2010 |
Last Updated: | June 8, 2010 |
Keywords provided by The Cleveland Clinic:
Heart Rate Variability Temperature Curve Complexity Autonomic Dysfunction Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation Failure to Wean |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Nervous System Diseases Autonomic Nervous System Diseases Primary Dysautonomias |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 27, 2017