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ATTICA, Ohio (AP) -- A northern Ohio school district and fire officials are raising money so that they can give out hundreds of smoke detectors after a fire killed three children and their parents last month.
The fundraisers want every family from the children's Seneca County elementary school to have a smoke detector.
The board president of Seneca East Local Schools says the fire that killed the family of five hit the community hard and that school leaders want the students to feel safe.
Fire investigators say the family's house had smoke alarms, but it's not known whether they were working.
The Blade newspaper (http://bit.ly/12gxsSV ) in Toledo reports that the smoke detector donation efforts will be combined with fire prevention and safety training for students.
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UNC professor hopes to study flood victims using his own experiences as inspiration
January 26, 2014
Jeff Houser first viewed the September flood, or at least the rains that were causing it, as an inconvenience.
The rains that came on that Wednesday night and pounded the Big Thompson Canyon and many other parts of Colorado may delay their flight, he thought to himself at the time. His wife of 24 years, Kathy Giesige, was supposed to do a reading at her niece's wedding.
But those rains came hard and fast, and there was water over Road 43, which was the only way to drive from their home in Glen Haven to U.S. 34 and the airport.
The next morning, on Sept. 12, he viewed the flood as a jailer, as the river raged over Road 43 and anything that seemed to dare to get in its path. They may not make it to the wedding, he thought. They may not make it out at all. Those thoughts were confirmed when he received a emergency notification system call warning them not to attempt to head down 43. When they printed out their boarding passes, out of a desperate hope more than anything, the power went out minutes later.
"We've already looked at the physical failures of disasters such as this flood. But what are the social ones?
— Jeff Houser
By this point, living in Glen Haven had prepared them for an unusual tolerance of disasters. They'd been evacuated twice in the last two years because of wildfires.
But they accepted the risk. They couldn't afford a vacation home, so they lived in a place that felt like one.
They loved the mountains, and those mountains led Houser to apply for a job at the University of Northern Colorado as a sociology professor.
Yes, the never-ending storm had them concerned. Older neighbors told him the rains reminded them of the 1976 flood that crashed down the canyon, leaving it in shambles. That couple lived on the edge of the North Fork of the Big Thompson.
The Housers, at least, lived above the floodplain.
When they hopped on an ATV at noon Thursday, just to see how far they could get, they made it a quarter-mile, one loop around a track. If the rains didn't relent, they really were trapped.
By now you know what happened next. The rains didn't relent.
Massive ponderosa pines were tossed like toothpicks. Propane tanks holding 500 gallons floated downstream like toys in a child's bathtub. Road 43 crumbled like a cookie. The Housers, like the neighbors they knew and loved, had no way out.
The first helicopters came Saturday. Houser and Giesige waited until Monday, letting the older or disabled residents leave first, then hopped on a Black Hawk helicopter with their black Newfoundland they adopted 10 days before the rains started. His name was Noah.
When they landed at the Timberline Church in Fort Collins, they had to charge their phones to let people know they were OK.
As Houser walked through the parking lot, he saw a neighbor with a mental disability who looked lost.
Houser wondered how this disaster, and others like it, affected the disabled.
Houser didn't study disasters, and he didn't have much interest in them, but he did study the sociology of physical and mental disabilities. That was a personal choice.
His own disability, in fact, led him from managing nightclubs to his career as a sociology professor.
"We've already looked at the physical failures of disasters such as this flood," he thought to himself. "But what are the social ones?"
That was when Houser saw the flood as more than one of the state's worst natural disasters. He saw an opportunity.
After Houser lost almost all of his hearing to Meniere's disease, he went to a vocation counselor to find another career other than working in nightclubs and restaurants and hotels. The counselor suggested he would make a good plumber or postal worker.
Why did she suggest those occupations? He didn't need to hear to do those jobs.
"She was seeing my disability before she saw me," Houser said. "I wondered why she was doing that."
Working on an accelerated plan of fury and curiosity, he completed his bachelor's, master's and doctorate in seven years, wrapping up in 1997. He taught at Bowling Green before coming to UNC in 2005.
In 2008, he got cochlear implants and, they worked so well, his voice reverted to the deep registers he spoke in before he began losing his hearing.
It was those implants, along with the man wandering the parking lot, that led him to probe the effects of disasters on those with disabilities.
He had to leave his house, after all, and he wondered if his batteries were going to hold up.
During his own experiences in recovering from the flood, Houser found many potential snags for victims, and that's partly what he wants to study through phone surveys.
A simple trip to the post office to get a P.O. Box so they could get their mail took an aggravating two hours.
There was no cell phone reception in Glen Haven, leading residents to scale the top of the tallest hill and wave their phone around in the hopes that a text message may bust through.
He wondered how income played a part in who got help, and to what degree?
When he completes his report by this summer, agencies could use the information to prepare for the next flood, fire or tornado.
It also could help neighbors, friends or relatives of those hit the hardest be aware of disaster trends.
Houser calls one of those "compassion fatigue." Everyone tends to want to help at first but, over time, the desire fades.
"People move on," Houser said. "Yet as these things go, the needs may be greater as time goes on, much more than the immediate needs. You discover more and more needs. We will be dealing with this for a year. Maybe several years."
Houser and Giesige spent three weeks living in the basement of a fellow faculty member. Then UNC offered to put them in University Apartments at the cost of their assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which was a bargain.
If it wasn't for their Newfoundland, who took up two-thirds of the living room, they might have thought they were back in their college days, where the two met in a residence hall.
"It's been weird living here," Houser said and laughed. "The students know I'm a college professor, and when they make eye contact, some look away fast like we don't exist here."
Over the Christmas break, he and Giesige moved back to Glen Haven.
They'd been back to their home a few times by hiking on a rough path to winterize it and grab more clothes.
Driving up and down the canyon is still tough, as it's impossible to turn away from all the piles of debris by the river or just off U.S. 34.
But there are comforts that only being home can provide, like finding a favorite pair of socks.
Houser calls those tiny victories and, after something like a flood, small things can loom large.
Houser is now back to work at UNC.
"It really was like moving three times in four months," Houser said. "It was a lot of chaos and confusion."
But he, like many victims of the flood he hopes to talk to once the study's approved by UNC, seem to be piecing their lives back together.
It comes down to absorbing the big blows and making changes.
House and Giesige made one of those changes as they prepared to move back to their home over Christmas.
They changed the Newfoundland's name. He's no longer Noah. His new name is Hitchcock.
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The 19th Annual Essence Music Festival, summer concert series, once again will be held in New Orleans! This series has continued to shatter records. For ONLY the fifth time in 16 years, the Super-dome was SOLD OUT in 2013.
So you know the stakes are high for the 2014 celebration!
Join the thousands of Essence faithfuls as we celebrate the success of one of the most popular concert series. The Essence Festival will be held on July 3th - 6th, 2014.
What is the Essence Festival?
The Essence Music Festival, known as the party with a purpose, is one of the nations largest annual African-American events and gathering of musical talent in the world. This multi-generational Festival offers concerts by night and free Empowerment Seminars during the day. The nightly concerts present Festival goers with the opportunity to dance and sing along with the biggest names in entertainment, rhythm and blues, jazz, classic soul, hip-hop and neosoul, within the Louisiana Superdome.
The daily Empowerment Seminars feature renowned speakers, authors and national leaders and are held in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. The Convention Center is also home to the Essence Marketplace.
In the Essence Marketplace artists from throughout the country offer an array of quality arts and crafts that mirror the rich cultural heritage seen throughout the African Diaspora, as well as Louisiana cuisine, sponsor activities, festival souvenirs and a book fair with author book signings.
The Festival Staff normally announces the artist throughout the year. So when you sign up for the newsletter we will email you as the lineup is announced. However in the past artist like Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliott, LL Cool J, Beyonce, Gladys Knight, Frankie Beverly & Maze have appeared in the past at the Essence Music Festival.
When I wait until the lineup is complete before I book my hotel room?
If you do you will be out of gas! One thing to know, this event is a sell out every year! Some people attend for the concerts other attended because of the family reunion appeal. Either way you need to book your hotel (at least) now. We offer the famous $39.99 booking option to help with the planning.
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Disconnects in the distracted-driving blame game
WASHINGTON – In 1930, former Massachusetts state senator George Parker tried to ban car radios because they were too distracting. He invoked the ire of both the Radio Manufacturers Association and motorists, who loved driving to music, even though early radios were expensive and sometimes burst into flames. After consumers protested at his office, Parker dropped the effort and decided to focus on drunken driving instead.
Drivers today are similarly attached to their cellphones and in-car technology. But unlike the drivers of the 1930s, they're conflicted over efforts to regulate them. While a survey by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found 94% of drivers consider texting while driving "a serious threat" and 87% favor texting bans, more than a third admitted reading a text or e-mail while driving in the past month. Nearly 70% of drivers reported talking on their cellphone while they were driving.
The disconnect doesn't end there. There's disagreement among safety experts over whether there even is a distracted-driving crisis and just who should have to solve it — the auto or cellphone industry. As car- and phonemakers work together to reduce distractions by better linking mobile devices with cars, some safety advocates and federal officials say that's also too risky.
Car safety regulators and investigators have been transfixed by distracted driving since Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood made it a key priority in 2009. State legislators, with the apparent support of constituents, have been moving at a speed believed unprecedented in highway safety history to enact laws banning texting and, less speedily, handheld cellphones. In December, the National Transportation Safety Board called on states to ban both handheld and hands-free cellphone use while driving.
Meanwhile, there is scant research on the role cellphones and other visual and cognitive distractions play in crashes — largely because police reports are unreliable in this area. NHTSA says cellphones were a factor in about 13% of fatal crashes last year. But the agency proposed guidelines in February that would first deal with potential distractions from navigation systems and other in-car technology.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety questions whether the federal efforts are premature or at least misdirected. The institute, funded by insurers, thinks there should be more focus on technologies that help motorists avoid crashes — such as automatic braking and lane-departure warnings — because those would help prevent crashes no matter what distracts drivers.
"Distracted driving is a problem, but it isn't new, and the data don't show that it has gotten worse during the rise of cellphones and the use of other electronics by drivers," says IIHS spokesman Russ Rader. "While all the studies clearly show cellphone use is a distraction, the use of phones by drivers hasn't resulted in an epidemic of crashes."
Who should so something?
Despite the questions, Peter Kissinger, CEO of AAA's safety foundation, says both the auto and cellphone industries need to do more on distraction.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration "and the industry both seem to agree that the primary focus should be on ensuring the safety of integrated communications technologies, and seem to assume that if it is integrated it will be safe. I don't," Kissinger says. "And, clearly, the missing player is the mobile device suppliers … since many more of these devices are being carried into the car."
At an NTSB distracted-driving forum last month, safety officials for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and Global Automakers testified, along with auto industry consultants and other safety experts. The cellphone industry sent handouts.
"We did encourage them to participate if they wanted to, but we can't require anyone to do it," NTSB Chair Deborah Hersman says of the cellphone industry.
CTIA spokesman John Walls says, "We were pleased to attend and distribute safe-driving tips related to appropriate wireless use while you're behind the wheel."
Cellphone industry representatives also dropped out of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers' efforts in the early 2000s to develop voluntary guidelines to prevent distractions, according to Rob Strassburger, alliance safety vice president, who hopes they will "once again join us as we move forward."
Now, carmakers are fighting NHTSA's plan to tighten those industry guidelines and turn them into federal guidelines before the wireless industry gets its own standards. Among the changes proposed: locking out functions, such as the ability to input an address into a navigation system while the car is moving.
"We strongly fear that lockouts on systems we tested as safe will entice some drivers to pick up a handheld," says Tom Baloga, BMW engineering vice president. "This will have a terrible unintended consequence. Small screens, tiny keys, fonts and touch-screen targets on portable devices are clearly less suited for use while driving."
Cellphone makers and service providers are "answering the bell" on distracted driving, Walls says, citing apps that drivers can download to turn off their phones while driving. Asking his industry to meet distraction guidelines could slow the introduction of these and other advancements, he says.
And though NHTSA says 17% of all crashes involve some type of distraction, just 3% involve devices or controls integrated in the vehicle. "There's no question it's safer if (communication) is brought in through the vehicle," says Bryan Reimer, a research scientist studying cognitive distraction at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AgeLab. "Stumbling for the falling phone is problematic."
While there's some friction in Washington between the two industries, they are under more pressure than ever to work together and are doing so. About 99% of new cars have Bluetooth capability to link phones with vehicles, according to car shopping website Edmunds.com.
Even secretive Apple is working with car companies before its phones come out. After all, no company wants an "Apple executive with a new phone that won't charge" in his car, Baloga says.
BMW sends a mobile test bed known as "the suitcase" to phone companies including Apple and gets about 80 phones a year to test with their cars. This suitcase includes a radio receiver and Bluetooth module and is used by phone handset makers to test their devices. It helps phonemakers see "how this new phone would work in a BMW without having a BMW present," says Doug Claus, BMW's product requirements and development manager.
Car Connectivity Consortium
Toyota also works closely with Apple out of its own Silicon Valley office near Apple's Cupertino, Calif., campus.
Most car- and phonemakers are also working together in an effort dubbed the Car Connectivity Consortium, which is developing open standards for what smartphones linked to cars can do. When vehicles and phones meet the group's MirrorLink standard, it should eliminate the need for per-device, advance testing for compatibility.
"There is a need to bring the two industries together," says CCC President Mika Rytkonen, who is also phonemaker Nokia's director of industry collaboration. The group's goal, he says, is to make "use of smartphones more convenient and safer."
It is certainly in the interest of both industries to do so. IIHS has been one of the only voices to dismiss suggestions that cellphones are causing far more people to crash and to suggest anti-texting and handheld cellphone laws have had little effect. But they aren't alone in their contention that hands-free calling is likely no safer than handheld phone use. That could lead states to follow NTSB's recommendation to ban all phone use in cars, a blow to efforts to integrate phones as well as Internet and social-media usage into vehicles.
Talking on the phone and driving is "something consumers have become used to," says Alfred Tom, chairman of the consortium's ecosystem work group and a General Motors advanced "infotainment" researcher. "We think that there's a way to feel connected, while keeping primary focus on the driving."
Making synching work
The consortium has 60% of phonemakers and 70% of automakers, with the most notable exceptions being Apple and Nissan. The group says it started with phone- and carmakers as they were the most important to have on board to make synching work. The service providers shouldn't be a problem, says Tom, as they "want people to be able to use phones in all places. The more people use their phones, the more revenue they get."
Meanwhile, the National Safety Council's David Teater says data on cellphone-related crashes is so bad, it would almost be better for the distracted-driving cause if there were no crash data at all. Teater has a very personal reason to want data collection improved: His 12-year-old son, Joe, died when Teater's car was struck by a young woman who ran a red light while talking on a cellphone.
Efforts by police to subpoena phone records from service providers have been unsuccessful, he says, because of privacy concerns and problems getting search warrants to justify subpoenas.
While Teater says he agrees with "99%" of what IIHS does, he couldn't disagree more with the institute's take on distracted driving. He says crashes are down in part because of safer vehicles and roads, although IIHS says that wouldn't reduce the number of fender benders, which are down along with all other types of crashes. But the institute does agree there's a problem with police data. One California study that concluded the state's handheld cellphone ban was working was based on what drivers told police they were doing at the time of their crashes. IIHS' Rader notes, "When you make something illegal, people are less likely to tell police they were doing it."
Mike Riggs, writing in Reason magazine last month, used former senator Parker's efforts to ban car radios as an example of the kind of bureaucratic overkill he thinks LaHood is guilty of.
"American drivers will continue to adjust to in-car features, just as they learned, almost a century ago, to hunt down (a radio show) on the AM dial while chugging along in their Studebaker Phaetons and Ford Model A's — without crashing," wrote Riggs.
MIT's Reimer, whose research is funded by automakers, government and foundations, says it's impossible to say whether regulators are overreacting because the data are still so sketchy.
"In some sense, there is a distracted-driving problem," Reimer says. "But how dangerous is it? We don't know yet."
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Beck Perplexed Jews Giving Obama "A Pass" Following "Absolute Betrayal"
After months of documenting what he claims are the Obama administration's evil plans [1] for Israel, Glenn Beck today showed exasperation at the Jewish community for seemingly not believing his ludicrous theory [2] that Israel "is being set up." Discussing President Obama's recent speeches on the Middle East, in which Obama called for a two-state solution "based on" the 1967 borders "with mutually agreed swaps" to arrive at a "viable Palestine" and a "secure Israel," Beck stated:
BECK: We just played this audio here where [Obama] says this policy, it's no big deal. It's not really any different than, you know, the -- than all the other presidents. I've never heard a president say the 1967 borders.
Though co-host Pat Gray and producer Stu Burguiere cited a 2002 speech by then-President George W. Bush in which he "alluded to a UN resolution or something" referencing 1967, Beck went on to agree with both that "it wasn't a direct reference to it," as Gray put it. Burguiere, citing Glenn Kessler's piece [3] in The Washington Post, also said that it's "sort of a reach" to claim Bush was referring to the 1967 borders in his 2002 speech, adding that Bush was "not exactly saying" that.
Beck then stated: "Yet ... the Jewish community seems to be giving him a pass yet again," asking, "How is that possible?" He then called Obama's reference to 1967 an "absolute betrayal," echoing remarks [4] by New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman.
For months now, Beck -- who has said [5] "there is no one more pro-Israel or more pro-Jew than I am" -- has [6] been [7] alleging [8] that the United States is "no longer [8] an ally" of Israel and that it will eventually "mount [9] a campaign against" that country because of the administration and Obama's supposed [10] anti-Semitism. (This is of course puzzling given Beck's record [11] of pushing anti-Semitic stereotypes and promoting the work of anti-Semitic authors.) Indeed, during the same show, Beck claimed [12] that Obama's borders proposal is aimed at "destabiliz[ing] Israel even more." Last week, Beck had warned [13] that Obama's policy toward Israel ends with that country's "destruction" and the destruction of the "Western way of life."
But as we've shown time and again, Beck's persistent claims that Obama is biased [14] against Israel and that he may order an attack on the country are riddled with falsehoods [1]. Moreover, while Beck may "never [have] heard a president say the 1967 borders" before Obama, Obama is not the first [15] U.S. president to do so.
As The Wall Street Journal reported [16] (subscription required) on May 23:
The reaction to President Barack Obama's speech on Thursday has largely focused on one line: "The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states." News outlets from across the political spectrum ran headlines highlighting Mr. Obama's demand that Israel return to the "1967 borders," referring to Israel's boundaries before it took control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip after the 1967 Six Day War.
But Mr. Obama never said Israel should return to the 1967 lines. He said the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps should be the basis for negotiations. As Mr. Obama said yesterday at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference, "it means that the parties themselves -- Israelis and Palestinans -- negotiate a border that is different than the one that existed on June 4, 1967." With this flexibility, Israel could incorporate, in internationally recognized borders, the vast majority of some 500,000 Israelis currently living beyond the 1967 lines. In effect, Mr. Obama met the Israeli demand that a future border reflect Israeli demographic and security concerns.
The concept of land swaps has served as the basis for every serious attempt to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the past decade. For every piece of land beyond the 1967 lines that Israel wants to annex, it would give a piece of land to the Palestinians from within Israel proper.
President George W. Bush's 2004 letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, which current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now insisting that Mr. Obama reaffirm, is based on this premise. Mr. Obama's Thursday speech formalizes into official U.S. policy the working assumption of every U.S. president and secretary of state since the 2000 Camp David negotiations, as well as former Israeli Prime Ministers Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak, Israel's most decorated soldier.
Based on the simplistic media coverage, it's easy to miss the distinction between "return to the 1967 lines" and the president's actual formulation of "based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps." The truth is that the president's vision ensures that Israel can remain a Jewish and democratic state, include within internationally recognized borders the vast majority of Israelis currently living beyond the 1967 lines, and keep its citizens safe.
Additionally, prominent Israelis have voiced support [17] for similar proposals and American Jewish organizations, including the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, approved of Obama's remarks. How long before Beck implicates [18] those groups in this apparent plot to bring about the fall of Israel?
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101 Music Festival Style Essentials
As style director of the Rachel Zoe Studio, Jill Lincoln has contributed to many of Hollywood's most famous red carpet moments. Despite being a former New Yorker, she has had no problems acclimating to West Coast life—especially the shopping. Here, the stylist breaks down how to dress and where to unwind in L.A..
What is most important for dressing in L.A.?
Jackets and sweaters! I have never gone out at night in L.A. without an extra layer. People who don't live here don't realize that it gets really cold when the sun goes down, regardless of the season.
Credits: Shot at The Standard Hotel in L.A.; White sweater by Vanessa Bruno, $215; vanessabruno.com; Printed shorts by Harlyn; Gucci 1953 Loafer, $525; gucci.com; Brown bag by Vanessa Bruno, $740; vanessabruno.com; styled by Dana Goldberg; hair by Cooper; makeup by Harper
What's your favorite area of L.A.?
Venice. I have wanted to live there since I moved here but it is a commitment as my office is in West Hollywood, so I am giving it a trial run for the summer. Venice is what I dreamed California to be. Cool hippy, little surf village. I feel like I am at adult camp on that side of town.
Do you frequent any touristy spots?
Runyan Canyon or the Venice Beach Boardwalk. I go into total sensory overload on the boardwalk.
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The Coregasm?!?
Time to renew that gym membership!
-Mandy Panter
Sometimes it seems like the media exists just to give women more things to feel inadequate about. We read stories about how we need to "have it all," look fabulous, and rev up our sex lives by subsisting on raw foods and colonics. If you were to listen to most women's magazines, you'd think we're all too fat, too celibate, too lazy, too too. Is there anything we women are doing right?
But hey, at least I eat fresh fruit every morning and hit the gym a couple times a week. I can feel good about that, right? Apparently not, according to Women's Health. Because while I'm sweating, swearing and wishing I were anywhere else, other women are actually enjoying their workouts. Enjoying them so much that they're actually – wait for it – reaching orgasm! Because these heights are reached while exercising the lower abs, it's called the coregasm.
"So, when a woman exercises, the release of endorphins and dopamine, which are necessary for orgasm, combined with the tension in the lower extremities, can cause the clitoral stimulation that is needed," claims Victoria Zdrok, Ph.D., a sex therapist and the author of The Anatomy of Pleasure.
Um, what? I have certainly moaned at the gym, but it certainly wasn't a sound indicative of pleasure. I had to see if I was the only one missing out on this hot new phenom. I called my friend Debra to see if she was having an extra-special good time at the gym. Before I could ask, she told me that she'd just lost her job. To cheer her up, I explained the coregasm. Maybe now with all that extra free time she too could be orgasming all over the Y she frequents.
"My life just sucks in every way," she snapped. "Who are these people? These are the same women who squirt."
So I guess that's a no?
"I've taken long bus rides where I've practiced my Kegels for like two hours and I get maybe a twinge," she told me, irritation still evident in her voice. Two hours of Kegels? Note to self – practice kegels on that flight tomorrow.
As neither Debra nor myself could really be called gym bunnies, I decided to investigate further. Fitness magazine assigned a presumably fit freelancer named Charity Shumway to test out the theory. Not only did she not have an orgasm, she – like me – was just tired after doing a bunch of abs works. (Though she did add that a strong pelvic floor is key to a hot sex life.)
However, when Men's Health editor Adam Campbell mentioned the coregasm in his blog, The Fitness Insider, he got tons of feedback from women who knew JUST what he was talking about …
"Seems on my third set of 15 reps, if I crank out a few more reps and go to 20, well, yeah, I can have an orgasm!" one wrote. "And no one notices, trust me."
Another said it worked on a leg-lowering drill: "I have to be lying down and usually put a small towel or pillow under my lower back. I get the best 'coregasm' when I lower my feet close to the floor."
Want to try it out for yourself? Women's Health suggest a leg & core-heavy work-out (obviously) — so some straight leg raises, side crunches and straight-leg crunches should, er, get you in the mood.
But – there IS a caveat, according to Debby Herbenick, Ph.D., the MH Bedroom Confidential columnist:
"I would emphasize, though, that as fun as [coregasms] are, women should always maintain proper form during physical exercise so that they don't hurt themselves and so that they get the best physical benefits from exercise. If an orgasm 'just happens' to occur while using good form, that may be an added bonus, but I would advise women not to pursue an orgasm at the expense of proper form. After all, they can always enjoy orgasms later on at home or in the shower."


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At an amatuer level and professional what do people feel is the key to being a good well rounded fighter.
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2) Pornsaneh-because he is an absolute animal
3) Rungraevee Sasiprapa-Hard as fook
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2)Jordan Watson-technically perfect in every way
3) Liam Harrison-proabaly the most determined fighter in UK
4)Tommi Mcormack- similar to Jordan, outrageously talented
1) Lisa Houghton-Smith (retired) purely awesome. will always be my all time fave female fighter
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Fifth Harmony Dish on Chances at Winning at 2014 MTV VMAs
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Fifth Harmony is up for Artist to Watch at the MTV Video Music Awards this Sunday!
Three members of the quintet, Camila Cabello, Lauren Jauregui, and Normani Hamilton, called in to On Air with Ryan Seacrest on Tuesday morning to tell us what they think of their chances at going home with their first-ever Moonman.
When they found out about their nomination (while traveling in a car), "We were so freaked out," they tell us. "Everybody was screaming. Camila was in the back crying."
Also in the fan-voted Artist to Watch category are Sam Smith, 5 Seconds of Summer, Charli XCX, and Schoolboy Q. Do they think they can beat them?
"I feel like anybody in the category is definitely deserving and worthy of the award … obviously, we want to win. Our Harmonizers go hardcore for us and I don't put anything past them, so they could possibly make it happen."
The VMAs are this Sunday, August 24, at 9/8c on MTV. Vote for 5H for Artist to Watch here!
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In the movie Fever Pitch, the main character in his boxers chases down the delivery man in the middle of the sidewalk. His new season tickets are here and he waits for all of his friends to come over so they can open them together. All of them are excited to move on to a new season that is full of hope. They can forget about the heartache of the year before and focus on the new beginning that the dawn of a season brings.
There was a similar scene that occurred yesterday in the basement of a house in North Dakota. One roommate had been waiting all day for the other roommate to get home from work. When he did get home, each of them grabbed their cameras to mark this special occasion. The tickets were perfectly packaged in box full of graphics to get a person excited for Target Field. As they opened the box the sounds of an angelic choir filled the room.
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In addition to discovering the latest and greatest innovations and meeting 1300 exhibitors in 500,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor exhibit space, World of Concrete gives attendees many opportunities to expand their horizons through educational seminars and special editorial events. THE CONCRETE PRODUCER is an official publication of World of Concrete and is the official magazine of the Producer Center in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Turn to page 36 to see products that will be exhibited there.
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Hoover Dam Bypass Tour
Join the editors of THE CONCRETE PRODUCER on an exciting tour of the world-famous Hoover Dam and its new concrete partner, the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, which was completed in 2010. Learn about the history and challenges concrete producers and contractors overcame to build these iconic structures on the Colorado River. Bus transportation and box lunches will be provided. Book early, as this tour always sells out. Sunday, Jan. 22, 12:30-5:30 p.m., and Friday, Jan. 27, 1-6 p.m. Pick-up and drop-off at Door 9 in back of Grand Concourse. Cost: $80 by Dec. 8; $105 after and onsite.
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What is the right decision?
If a fighter gets kneed to the groin and cannot continue after 5 mins of rest? does the offender get disqualified for this?
Does it matter what round it is in?
If a fighter gets poked in the eye in the 1st round and going into the 2nd round he cannot continue due to the poke in the eye from the 1st round? what would be the right outcome? Do scorecards come into play?
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457: Frustration
Title text: 'Don't worry, I can do it in under a minute.' 'Yes, I've noticed.'
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A bra is pictured here, but instead of a traditional clasp, a Rubik's cube is used instead. This would lead to the frustration mentioned in the comic's title, as someone wishing to remove the bra would have to solve the Rubik's cube every time in order to undo the clasp. This would doubtless prove annoying, especially for a partner who may want to remove the wearer's clothing without impediment. A normal bra clasp can be tricky enough for the inexperienced user, but the addition of the Rubik's Cube element is going too far. However, it is possible that this is actually a nerdsnipe bra, as it appears to be a front-clasped bra, making the Rubik's cube a red herring.
The title text is an imagined conversation between someone trying to undo this bra and someone who is likely wearing the bra. The first person explains that they can "do it" (i.e. undo the bra) in under a minute, which is a reasonably impressive skill to have if you are not a professional speedcuber. The second person replies that they've noticed, a sarcastic reply that relies on the alternative, sexual meaning of "do it", implying a complaint about the first person's speedy performance in bed.
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...or "I can do it in under a minute" is taken as a euphamism for speedy performance after the bra puzzle is solved (or ignored). Which doesn't always impress a partner. I've heard. --220.127.116.11 22:20, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
The previous description ended with:
- The second person replies that they've noticed, perhaps sarcastically suggesting that the first person is far more interested in solving a Rubik's cube than actually removing the bra and... everything that follows.
While a subtle perspective, it glosses over the obvious joke about the Rubik's solver's speedy performance in the sack. --MisterSpike (talk) 18:39, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
I think this analysis is off. I think is should not be interpreted as an actual bra with a cube fastener, but rather comparing the difficulty of removing a bra with solving a cube. He says he can get it but opens himself up to the obvious joke by so proclaiming. -anon 18.104.22.168 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
I think it might actually be comparing the complications of sex and romance to the complication of a rubiks cube. 18.104.22.168 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Maybe I'm reading too far into it, but I interpreted the title text as a remark on the fact that the first speaker is so good at solving rubik's cubes that s/he doesn't focus on much else. Their partner picks up on this: "Yes, I've noticed" is a subtle remark implying that the person should focus a little more on sex than solving a rubik's cube. --Mynotoar (talk) 23:54, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
To me, this looks like a front closing bra. Many nerds would look to the difficult solution, only to find that Rubic's Cubes don't come apart when they are solved.--126.96.36.199 19:20, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
"Annoying, especially for a partner?" The partner, when present, can at least SEE the Rubik's cube; the bra's wearer cannot, and so would never be able to remove it by herself. 126.96.36.199 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Wouldn't the Rubik's cube be painful as it is pressing against your back? And wouldn't the sides of the bra be all twisted after undoing it? 625571b7-aa66-4f98-ac5c-92464cfb4ed8 (talk) 21:38, 8 March 2017 (UTC)


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Humboldt scholar's book awards unprecedented
Obscure today, Alexander von Humboldt was once so well known that transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson declared the mid-19th century "The Age of Humboldt."
The German naturalist and scholar is earning renewed attention as a result of a book by a University of South Carolina professor who has won an unprecedented trio of top prizes in literature and history.
Dr. Laura Dassow Walls will receive the Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize for her book, "The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America," Jan. 7 at the MLA's annual convention.
The prestigious literary award follows Walls' winning the Merle Curti Award for best book in American intellectual history by the Organization of American Historians in April. In October, she won the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Award for the best book in literature and science by the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts.
An English professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, Walls is the first scholar ever to win both a Lowell Prize in literature and a Curti Award in history.
"Dr. Walls' accomplishment is absolutely unprecedented," said Dr. Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. "Her work is enriching the understanding of literary history, illuminating for us what is gained when literature is not separated from science."
Walls says Humboldt was as iconic to his time as Einstein has been to our own. Her intent for "The Passage to Cosmos" was to share Humboldt's life in America as a scientist, explorer, political economist, ethnologist and spokesman for social justice and to share his idea of "Cosmos" with readers today.


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Year 2000 date and Medical Devices
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Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Food and Drug Administration
Department of Health and Human Services
the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
April 20, 1999
Good afternoon, my name is Dr. Thomas Shope. I am the Special Assistant to the Director, Office of Science and Technology, Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency). I am pleased to be here today to provide information on the Year 2000 date issue as it relates to medical devices. FDA has taken a number of constructive actions to work with manufacturers and provide information to users about medical device Year 2000 compliance.
FDA promotes and protects public health by helping to ensure that medical devices are safe and effective. The Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) is the component of FDA that has responsibility for regulating medical devices. CDRH helps carry out the Agency's mission by evaluating new products to determine if they can be marketed; assuring quality control in manufacture through inspection and compliance activities; monitoring adverse events in already marketed products; and taking action, when necessary, to prevent injury or death. A device manufacturer must comply with all applicable requirements of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act, including, but not limited to, establishment registration and device listing, premarket review, use of good manufacturing practices, and reporting adverse events.
According to the definition in the FD&C Act, a "device" is:
an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article, including any component, part or accessory, which is intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals, or intended to affect the structure or any function of the body and which does not achieve its primary intended purposes through chemical action and which is not dependent upon being metabolized for the achievement of its primary intended purposes.
As this definition suggests, many different types of products are properly regulated as medical devices. Medical devices include over 100,000 products in more than 1,700 categories. The products regulated by FDA as medical devices range from simple everyday articles, such as thermometers, tongue depressors, and heating pads, to the more complex devices, such as pacemakers, intrauterine devices, diagnostic imaging devices, and kidney dialysis machines.
Any computer software which meets the legal definition of a medical device is within the scope of the law and must comply with applicable FDA regulations. Medical devices which use computers or software can take several forms including: products containing embedded microchips which are part, or components, of the devices; devices employing non-embedded software which is used with, or to control, the devices or to record data from the devices; or individual software programs that use or process patient data to reach a diagnosis, aid in therapy, or track donors and products.
Embedded Computer Software
Computer software frequently is embedded as a "component" of devices, i.e., software contained on a microchip to control device operation. Examples of such common, important devices are pacemakers, infusion pumps and ventilators. The majority of these products will not be affected by the Year 2000 problem since almost none of them require knowledge of the current date to operate safely and effectively. For example, pacemakers do not use the current date in their operation.
Non-embedded Computer Software
Non-embedded software is intended to be operated on a separate computer, often a personal computer or work station. Such software devices may be used to control or enhance the operation of another device or devices and, further, may use the two-digit year format. It is possible that non-embedded software devices may rely on date information for proper operation and might be affected by the Year 2000 date change if not designed appropriately.
An example of non-embedded software is a computer program used to plan radiation therapy treatments delivered using radioactive isotopes as the radiation source (teletherapy or brachytherapy). These treatments possibly could be affected if the computer program that calculates the radiation dose parameters uses only a two-digit year representation. The calculation of the length of time since the source was last calibrated could be in error and thus lead to an incorrect treatment prescription.
Other examples of uses of non-embedded software devices include: conversion of pacemaker telemetry data; conversion, transmission, or storage of medical images; automated analysis and interpretation of ECG data; programming or control of rate response for a cardiac pacemaker; perfusion calculations for cardiopulmonary bypass; and calculation of bone fracture risk from bone densitometry data. Since there is a chance that the two-digit format may affect the performance of these software devices, FDA believes that the Year 2000 risk requires that healthcare facilities take steps to identify and mitigate such problems through proactively working with manufacturers.
Year 2000 Database
In order to give the general public, government agencies, and the healthcare and research communities one comprehensive source of publicly available information on the Year 2000 compliance status of biomedical equipment, the Federal Year 2000 Biomedical Equipment Clearinghouse database was established in March 1998 and is available to facilities via the World Wide Web. The Biomedical Equipment Clearinghouse provides Year 2000 product status information in five categories including: products that are Year 2000 compliant; products that do not use a date; products that have a date related problem; products whose status is provided on the manufacturer's website; and identification of manufacturers for whom no information is available (nonrespondents to FDA requests).
The Biomedical Equipment Clearinghouse database is being maintained by FDA on its World Wide Web site at the request of the Interagency Biomedical Equipment Working Group. This Working Group was organized early in 1997 under the Subcommittee on the Year 2000 of the Chief Information Officers' Councils. The database can be found at www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/year2000/cdrh/yr2000/help/y2k-search-helpme.html. Manufacturers also may submit a World Wide Web link to their own website, if they so choose, where the requested information is provided to the public.
FDA and the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) have worked in partnership to develop a single data clearinghouse for biomedical equipment Year 2000 status information. DVA, as a purchaser of medical devices, collected information from its vendors as to the compliance status of the medical devices used in its facilities. This data, along with data from the Department of Defense, has been provided to FDA and following confirmation by FDA, has been added to the clearinghouse database. Both FDA and DVA are working with private sector associates, mostly professional associations and organizations such as the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the Health Industry Manufacturers Association (HIMA), the Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA), and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) that provide advice and assistance as requested.
March 29, 1999 Letter on Year 2000 Compliant Products
Biomedical equipment users have expressed the need for specific information on all Year 2000 vulnerable products that are compliant and have urged the establishment of a single, comprehensive source for this information. On March 29, 1999, FDA issued a letter requesting that medical device manufacturers submit a complete list of individual product models that are Year 2000 compliant to the FDA-operated Federal Year 2000 Biomedical Equipment Clearinghouse. Many biomedical equipment users have told FDA that a single statement that all of a manufacturer's products are Year 2000 compliant does not meet their need to have affirmatively identified specific compliant equipment. Once information on compliant products is received from medical device manufacturers it will be made available, with improved search tools, as part of the Biomedical Equipment Clearinghouse.
This database of Year 2000 compliant products is intended to provide information on products that biomedical equipment users might consider to be vulnerable to date-related problems because these products could utilize software, a computer or microprocessor control. Accurate Year 2000 status information on these products is critical to these users as they evaluate their product inventory and plan any needed remedial actions.
March 29, 1999 Letter on Interim Inspectional Policy Regarding Y2K Issues.
On March 29, 1999, the Director, Division of Emergency and Investigational Operations, Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA), issued a memorandum to the FDA field instructing investigators to raise the awareness of potential Year 2000 problems to firms during FDA inspections. In this letter, ORA expanded the Year 2000 activities to include asking questions regarding what the firm has done to assure themselves that their computer controlled/date sensitive products, manufacturing processes and distribution systems are Year 2000 compliant, and to include information on this subject in their Establishment Inspection Reports when relevant. In addition, if the investigators encounter serious problems or concerns, or find the firm is not taking appropriate steps to avoid serious Year 2000 problems, this information must be reported to appropriate District and Center personnel.
January 13 and March 3, 1999 Letters on Non-Compliant Products
On January 13, 1999, FDA issued a letter to device manufacturers announcing FDA's intent to expand the product information maintained on the FDA-operated Federal Year 2000 Biomedical Equipment Clearinghouse and requested the continued cooperation of biomedical equipment manufacturers in this effort. The letter requesting this information was issued on March 3, 1999. In this letter FDA indicated that in some of the manufacturer responses to the earlier requests the information on the FDA website was not sufficiently detailed to adequately assist facilities in assessing the impact of non-compliant products. FDA requested that biomedical equipment manufacturers carefully review the Year 2000 status information that they have provided or intended to submit, and, where necessary, provide more specific information on non-compliant products.
June 25, 1997 Notification to Manufacturers
In light of the review of the impact of the Year 2000 on some medical device computer systems and software applications, FDA has been actively alerting the medical device industry through a series of letters to medical device manufacturers for approximately two years. The first alert letter was sent on June 5, 1997, to all CDRH registered medical device manufacturers (8,322 domestic and 5,085 foreign) indicating that manufacturers needed to address this issue and review both embedded and non-embedded software products. FDA reminded manufacturers that, in addition to potentially affecting the functioning of some devices, the two-digit year format also could affect computer-controlled design, production, or quality control processes. FDA requested that manufacturers review the software used in medical devices to determine if there is any risk.
Device manufacturers who identify products that have a date-related problem are required to take appropriate action to remedy the problem. An example of appropriate action in some instances would be notification to device purchasers so that their devices can be appropriately modified before the year 2000.
January 21, 1998 Request for Information
In a letter dated January 21, 1998, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Deputy Secretary Kevin Thurm asked approximately 16,000 medical device and biomedical equipment manufacturers to voluntarily provide information on the Year 2000 compliance status of their products. Included in the mailing were all FDA registered manufacturers without respect to the specific kind of device produced, even though FDA estimates that only approximately 2,000 manufacturers make products listed in the categories which include computerized products potentially sensitive to Year 2000 problems. Approximately 3,000 of the manufacturers included in the mailing are not regulated by FDA; for example, scientific instrument manufacturers. The letter detailed instructions on ways to submit the data requested and explained that to be Year 2000 compliant products must function as intended regardless of the date. Manufacturers also were given the opportunity to certify that their products are not affected, if that is the case, or certify that none of their products use computers or date information.
Targeted Follow-up with Manufacturers of Computerized Devices
On June 29, 1998, FDA issued a targeted, follow-up letter to specific manufacturers of computerized devices urging them to respond to our January 21 request to submit product data. This list was derived from the names of those firms which have registered as manufacturers of devices in the categories where Year 2000 vulnerability is likely.
Then on September 2, 1998, FDA issued a follow-up to the June 29, 1998 letter, directed to the manufacturers of potentially computerized devices who had not responded to the previous requests to specific manufacturers for information on the Year 2000 status of their devices. In the letter, FDA requested that the manufacturers respond to FDA within two weeks with the Year 2000 compliance status of their devices, or at least indicate that a complete response was being developed.
On August 14, 1998, Dr. Bruce Burlington, then Director, CDRH, and on September 2, 1998, Dr. Friedman, then Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, issued letters to HIMA requesting that HIMA take aggressive and immediate actions to encourage and assist medical device equipment manufacturers in providing information to FDA about the Year 2000 compliance status of their products.
In late September 1998, FDA decided that it would be useful to provide an indication of whether a particular manufacturer of computerized devices potentially susceptible to Year 2000 concerns has or has not provided information on Year 2000 compliance. To that end, FDA posted on the website those manufacturers of selected product categories which are likely to include vulnerable products that had not provided a response to FDA's inquiries. FDA will continue to work with manufacturers to obtain this data and report to Congress on the status of these Year 2000 requests.
In addition to the website and the letters, CDRH has been conducting extensive outreach to the device industry and to other consumers on this issue. CDRH's Division of Small Manufacturers Assistance provided an article entitled "Biomedical Equipment Manufacturers Urged to Share Year 2000 Information" to 12 medical device trade press contacts and to 65 U.S. and 35 foreign medical device trade associations in order to facilitate the dissemination of information to their members regarding the website database and to encourage the posting of data by manufacturers. The website and database were mentioned in the FDA Column of the June 3, 1998, Journal of the American Medical Association and in an article in FDA's Medical Bulletin that was sent to approximately 700,000 healthcare practitioners this past summer.
In the Spring of 1998, CDRH developed a Guidance Document on FDA's expectations of medical device manufacturers concerning the Year 2000 date problem. The guidance is available on the FDA website. The guidance was published in the Federal Register on June 24 for greater dissemination. The guidance re-emphasizes the provisions in existing regulations that require manufacturers to address any date problems which may present a significant risk to public health.
FDA also developed an article addressed to the users of radiation treatment planning systems regarding the need to assess these systems. The article was published in the newsletters of relevant professional associations. Staff of CDRH have participated in numerous conferences and video teleconferences devoted to the Year 2000 problem in healthcare in order to communicate with healthcare facilities regarding the Biomedical Equipment Clearinghouse and the need to address the Year 2000 issue with devices.
Although most devices are regulated by CDRH, FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) regulates blood bank software, which is of particular concern for potential Year 2000 problems. In January 1998, CBER posted guidance for industry entitled "Year 2000 Date Change for Computer Systems and Software Applications Used in the Manufacture of Blood Products" on the FDA website. The guidance provided specific recommendations to assist industry in its evaluation of computer and software systems used in the manufacture of blood products and to assist in evaluating the impact of potential Year 2000 problems.
As indicated above, FDA believes that approximately 2,000 manufacturers may produce equipment that may be affected by the Year 2000 problem. As of March 30, 1999, FDA has entered a total of 4,305 responses from the 16,000 manufacturers originally contacted. The data from all of these manufacturers who have responded have been entered into the database on the FDA website. These numbers change daily as data are entered, corrected or even removed at the request of manufacturers. Of the 4,305 manufacturers who have responded, 3,153 have reported that their products do not use date-related data or are compliant. Six hundred seventy-three manufacturers have reported one or more products with date-related problems. Four hundred manufacturers have provided World Wide Web links (URLs) to data provided on their own manufacturer-operated websites. There are a few submissions in which the data were incomplete or unclear in some manner. FDA is communicating with these manufacturers to obtain clarification before entering the information into the database. FDA will continue to post additional responses as they are received.
In reviewing the data received from the manufacturers so far, FDA sees no indication of widespread problems which will place patients at risk, if and only if the solutions being developed and offered by manufacturers are implemented as they have indicated. Of course, FDA can not make assurances about manufacturers who have not reported product status. FDA believes that the information received to date confirms our original expectation that the Year 2000 problems with medical devices will not be significant or widespread if facilities take appropriate actions to address this issue. There will be specific problems which need correction; however, the current assessment is that they are much more likely to disrupt patient care rather than be of direct danger to patients. Nonetheless, such disruption could be serious and the potential for it to happen certainly merits rigorous attention to the problem.
One indication of FDA's belief that Year 2000 problems are not significant or widespread has been borne out by DVA in their testimony and responses to questions before the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. The DVA indicated that they had received answers from manufacturers on all of the critical care device components and they expected to be ready for Year 2000.
Legal Authority
FDA's Quality System Regulation (QSR) (21 CFR 820) places on manufacturers an ongoing responsibility to take corrective and preventive actions that may include recall for problems with current production. Devices automated with computer software are subject to all requirements of Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 820, unless expressly exempted by regulation. The regulation puts in place a system whereby manufacturers must incorporate a set of procedures and processes in their design and manufacturing activities to assure that products being manufactured are safe, effective finished products. The QSR regulation does not require the submission of any reports to FDA, however, it does require firms to maintain internal procedures and documentation of corrective and preventive actions (21 CFR 820.100).
The Removals and Corrections Regulation (21 CFR 806) requires manufacturers to submit reports to FDA. In order to be reportable, a Year 2000 problem must pose a "risk to health" as defined in section 806.2(j). Many of the problems reported in the Biomedical Equipment database or on manufacturers' Year 2000 Web pages concern date recording or display problems that are readily apparent to the user and are unlikely to pose a risk to health. In the Year 2000 context, a decision to correct a problem may occur long before the correction itself is actually announced to customers. Once the decision for action is made, however, and if the action is to correct a risk to health, then the firm has 10 working days to notify the Agency through a report of correction or removal. A firm that previously notified FDA about a removal or correction through a Medical Device Report (under 21 CFR 803) does not have to submit an additional report under 21 CFR 806.
FDA will continue to emphasize to manufacturers the importance of reporting on the Year 2000 compliance status of their products and take additional steps to boost the response rate. Healthcare facilities need information from all manufacturers to properly prepare and plan for any actions they need to take to assure their devices needing corrections or updates receive these well before the Year 2000.
Thank you for the opportunity to update you about the issue of the Year 2000 and medical devices. Let me assure you that FDA takes this issue very seriously and is committed to a scientifically sound regulatory environment which will help provide Americans with the best medical care. In the public interest, FDA's commitment must be coupled with a reciprocal industry commitment: that medical device firms will meet high standards in the design, manufacture, and evaluation of their products. FDA recognizes that this can only be attained through a collaborative effort -- between government and industry -- grounded in mutual respect and responsibility. The protections afforded the American consumer, and the benefits provided the medical device industry, cannot be underestimated.
FDA will continue to provide any assistance it can to address specific problems that any other agency, such as the DVA, identifies. FDA also is working with other agencies, patient groups, medical associations and industry to optimize data collection and information sharing. FDA will continue urging manufacturers to ensure the continued safety and effectiveness of their medical devices by ensuring that their devices can perform date recording and computations that will be unaffected by the Year 2000 date change.
Thank you for the opportunity to testify.


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