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By Julie Muhlstein Herald Writer
EVERETT — X-ray technician Lynda Billings was ready to make a purchase. Surprised to see a trio behind the counter in the Twig Gift Shop, she did a double take.
"Are you guys triplets, or what?" Billings asked. "I thought I was seeing things."
Her eyes weren't playing tricks. Three teen volunteers in the shop at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett's Colby campus are a matched set.
Identical triplets Michaela, Krystal and Rebecca Kishline, 17, finished their training to work in the shop last week. All proceeds from the hospital gift shop sales benefit charitable programs supported by the Providence General Children's Association.
Nancy Tilschner, an association member who organizes shop volunteers, said the Lake Stevens triplets have joined about 45 other helpers who keep the Twig Shop going with no paid staff.
The volunteers, who must be at least 16, help customers, stock items and handle transactions. Tilschner said the teens will be a great help, especially by working Sundays when the shop is busy with hospital visitors. "We have a real need for Sunday shifts," she said.
Along with supporting the hospital, Providence General Children's Association makes donations that support Camp Erin, which helps children coping with grief, and other programs that boost literacy and wellness for kids. The group awards annual scholarships. And earlier this year, the children's association board of directors voted to pledge $250,000 to the Dawson Place Child Advocacy Center. The Everett center serves child victims of sexual and physical abuse.
"It's really nice to be helping others," Krystal Kishline said.
In 2012, the Twig Gift Shop and the Pavilion Boutique at the Providence Pavilion for Women and Children, both run entirely by volunteers, netted $165,000 for the association's efforts.
The triplets plan to work their four-hour shifts together, which is how they have spent most of their lives.
All three are enrolled in the Running Start program at Everett Community College, where during spring quarter they were in the same three classes. Along with volunteering at the hospital, they will be back on EvCC's campus together this summer, taking chemistry and astronomy.
"We're always together. People pretty much know us as a three-pack," said Michaela Kishline, the eldest sister by two minutes.
They are accustomed to the second glances and questions that come with their striking similarity. Their mother, Kristen Kishline, who works in human resources at the Everett hospital, said her girls have drawn comments and curiosity since they were born Dec. 26, 1995, nearly three months before their due date.
Kristen and Mike Kishline didn't find out they were having triplets until six weeks before their girls were born. The triplets were conceived without fertility treatments, their mother said.
They were hospitalized their first two months of life at the University of Washington Medical Center where they were born. At birth, they weighed 2 pounds 4 ounces, 2 pounds 2 ounces, and just 2 pounds. Michaela was largest, Rebecca smallest.
Early on, Kristen Kishline said, a common response from people seeing her three identical babies was "I'm sorry."
"It was physically hard the first few years," she said. Today, she is delighted and proud. After earning associate's degrees next year, her daughters plan to attend a university together. They are interested in Gonzaga University in Spokane or the University of Great Falls in Montana.
Their togetherness extends to career goals. With hospital gift shop experience and college training in business, they want to have a clothing shop of their own someday. It wouldn't be their first entrepreneurial venture.
As kids, they ran a lemonade and candy stand in front of their house.
"It was Triplets' Treats," Michaela Kishline said.
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SaaS TCO Calculator
E-Sourcing Forum
|SaaS TCO Calculator
by David Bush
May 21, 2007
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I recently came across a document which was created by the Software & Information Industry Association- SIIA. From the executive summary:
"According to Gartner, a global IT research firm, the annual cost to own and manage software applications can be up to four times the cost of the initial purchase. As a result, companies end up spending more than 75% of their total IT budget just on maintaining and running existing systems and software infrastructure.1 With the introduction of computers, companies have accepted this as a cost of doing business. The number of software applications that a company may need are infinite. The resources to operate these applications however are finite.
The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) revolution allows companies to subscribe to software applications and outsource operating the back-end infrastructure to the SaaS vendor. In most cases, the SaaS vendor can do this much more cost effective; providing overall cost savings for the company. As a result, companies can spread their IT budget across many more applications to support and grow their business operations which will in turn contribute to the bottom line.
This document educates end-users and decision makers on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), where it differs from traditional software, and what the key benefits are when deploying SaaS applications. In addition, this document also provides the reader with a comprehensive look at the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis any decision maker should complete before making a choice between a SaaS or a traditional software deployment."
Key Arguments in Favor of SaaS Applications
There are many arguments that can be made in favor of SaaS applications but there are four key arguments that make a surprising but resounding case for deploying SaaS applications. These four arguments are:
- Making the IT budget go further
- No underestimation of people services
- SaaS allows better growth management
- Accountability of the SaaS vendor
I am not going to copy the actual breakdown/calculator into this post but the criteria used are:
- Comparable Cost Analysis
- Capital Expenses
- Hardware
- Software or License costs
- Support and Maintenance
- Upgrades
- Facilities/Datacenter Expenses
- Management and Operations
- Design and Engineering
- Integration/Implementation
- IT and Helpdesk Staffing
- End User Training
- Scheduled Maintenance
- Unscheduled Maintenance and Outage Recovery
- Monitoring and Security
- Legal/Purchasing and General Administration
- Intangible Costs
- Reliability and Availability
- Interoperability
- Extensibility
- Security
- Scalability
- Performance
- Capacity
- Opportunity Costs

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We have a tradition of awarding a swimmer of the meet after each home meet. This award goes to the swimmer who had an outstanding performance. On Friday night first-year Jack Ruble (Woodridge, Ill.) claimed his first swimmer of the week award. Jack impressed us all in the 200 fly, turning in a time of 2:04.93 and claiming first place. Victoria Parker (Columbus, Ind.) nabbed the women's award for not only taking home first in the 100 Free, but also for a personal best performance so early in the season.
On Saturday Courtney Carani '14 (Lake Bluff, Ill.) was the swimmer of the meet for the women. We gave her a real challenge on Saturday by asking her to swim the 1000 Free and then get right back on the blocks for the 200 Free moments later. She ended up on top in both events – impressive! For the men, Ted Hutchison '12 (Sudbury, Mass.) and JB Easley '13 (Cincinnati, Ohio) shared the award. Teddy dominated the competition in the backstroke events all weekend and JB staked his claim in the 200 Free.


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A US man picked up an unusual jogging partner when an emu began following him.
A Virginia Beach animal shelter supervisor said residents contacted the city after the tall, gangly bird showed up.
It turns out that the bird had merely wandered away from home. Emus are legal to own in the area.
Animal shelter supervisor Wayne Gilbert said that animal control officers located the bird, which was returned to its owner.
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As minorities lose ground in Colorado, state faces challenges
January 20, 2013
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View a video that highlights the main point of the series, or to check out interactive graphic depicting census data and an interactive timeline of the history of the civil rights movement.
Losing Ground
I-News analyzed U.S. Census Bureau data from 1960 through 2010 to calculate the Latino, black and white demographics for high school and college graduation rates for adults 25 years and older, poverty of all people in each group, median family income and homeownership rates for households occupied by each group. Median family income was used as a measurement because median household income was not a category in 1960 and 1970.
For 1960 and 1970, I-News used the 1 percent Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) unweighted from the Minnesota Population Center website at the University of Minnesota. This allowed us to distinguish black numbers from the total non-white category used in the published Census tables. We also used the PUMs to retrieve poverty information for whites, not Latino. For several states, including some in New England and some in the Intermountain West, the black and Latino populations were very small in 1960 and 1970. There were major, self-acknowledged problems with the Census Bureau's 1970 attempt to count Latinos. There was, for example, confusion in the Midwest and South over the Latino question that had many white residents mistakenly identifying as Latinos. In addition, residents in several Mideast states were only asked if they were from Puerto Rico. The PUMS data mitigated these problems, but did not eliminate them entirely.
» 1980: I-News used the PDF version of the published Census tables on the U.S. Census Bureau website.
» 1990: I-News downloaded the Census information from the U.S. Census Bureau. The white, not Latino population was calculated by subtracting the Latino, black, Asian and American Indian totals from the total population.
» 2000 and 2010: I-News downloaded the data from the U.S. Census Bureau webpage using American Fact Finder. For 2000, the Census long form data for income, poverty and education was used. For 2010, the 1-year American Community Survey was analyzed.
Martin Luther King Jr. parade
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be remembered in a community march in Greeley on Monday, also the day America's first black president will take his second oath of office.
» The parade begins at 10:30 a.m. at Greeley Chamber of Commerce, 902 7th Ave.
» Ends at Union Colony Civic Center, 701 10th Ave.
» Ceremony begins 11 a.m. at Union Colony Civic Center
» Wade Davis available for photos and autographs following events
» All events free and open to the public
By some of the most important measures of social progress, black and Latino residents of Colorado have lost ground compared to white residents in the decades since the civil rights movement.
Minority gains made during the 1960s and 1970s have eroded with time, an I-News Network analysis of six decades of demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau found. In other categories, the gaps between whites and minorities have steadily widened since 1960.
The analysis focused on family income, poverty rates, high school and college graduation and home ownership. Health data and justice records examined also revealed disparities.
Similar racial and ethnic inequities appear nationwide. But one glaring fact about Colorado is that it went from a state that was by most measures more equitable than the national average in the first decades covered by the analysis to one that is less so now.
According to most experts, racial and ethnic inequality will pose a significant future handicap for a state in which minorities are a rising population.
"I was actually shocked," said Eric Nelson, vice president of the Aurora NAACP, after examining the data analysis. "You would think we, as a nation, would have overcome a lot of things since then. It's like, 'Wow. We're spinning our wheels going in reverse.' "
There are important caveats, of course, including the decades-long rise of professional classes among both blacks and Latinos and striking examples of individual wealth and achievement. Minorities have made gains in a number of categories as well, but in most have not kept pace.
By the broad gauge of the Census measure, recent decades have not been kind to aspirations of equality by the state's minority residents. Almost 50 years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his generation-defining "I have a dream" speech, income and education gaps have remained stubbornly high:
» In 1970, for example, black families earned 73 percent of white family incomes and Latino families earned 72 percent. By 2010, those numbers had fallen to about 60 percent and 50 percent, respectively.
» Almost 60 percent of Latino households were owner-occupied in 1970; now it's just below 50 percent. Most experts attribute an immigration influx with pulling down Latino numbers.
» The gaps among adults with college degrees have steadily widened since 1960, with the percent of whites with college degrees three times higher than the Latino rate and double the black rate. Those disparities are the nation's worst for both Latinos and blacks.
Among more positive trends, 86 percent of black adults had graduated from high school in 2010, up from 31 percent in 1960. Latinos have also improved high school graduation rates through the decades, but still lagged badly at 65 percent, compared to 95 percent for whites, in 2010.
For other minority groups in Colorado, their numbers were too small to statistically compare, particularly during the early decades of the analysis.
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Poverty, income and education gaps in the state parallel other important disparities outlined in many studies that show blacks and Latinos lagging behind whites in one critical measure of health after another.
The U.S. Census Bureau only began tracking data about health insurance in recent years and does not collect other information about overall health. But data compiled by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment over the past 15 years shows that the state's ethnic minorities do not fare as well as white residents when it comes to disease and death.
Blacks and Latinos, for example, experience significantly higher rates of infant mortality and deaths from diseases such as diabetes than whites in Colorado.
"The general statement that I make is, we're sicker than most and dying sooner than we should," said Grant Jones, founder and executive director of the Center for African American Health in Denver.
The implications of inequality for the future are enormous: The number of minority babies being born nationally recently eclipsed that of whites, and, in Colorado, 46 percent of children younger than 1 year old in 2011 were minorities, the Census Bureau reported.
That holds economic consequences in the future for all Colorado residents.
Latinos are the largest minority group, comprising 21 percent of the population in 2011, compared to 4 percent for blacks and 70 percent for whites.
I-News explored the social phenomena behind the numbers with community activists and politicians, researchers from liberal and conservative think tanks, educators, church leaders and people on the street. The reasons given for the gaps were myriad and complex. They are rooted in history and intergenerational in nature.
Among those cited:
» The civil rights era policies that provided a boost to minorities in the 1960s and '70s, such as affirmative action, have been diminished or dismantled.
"For all intents and purposes, affirmative action has been wiped out," said former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb. "There is no longer a desire to assure that minorities are being placed in jobs."
Affirmative action programs, first envisioned by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 and strengthened and expanded by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, have been narrowed or eliminated by U.S. Supreme Court decisions and, in individual states, by legislative action or by voters.
» Many thousands of Colorado's good-paying, blue collar manufacturing jobs — think of Pueblo's CF&I Steel, Denver's Gates Rubber Co. or Montbello's Samsonite Corp. — have disappeared, hurting minority families disproportionately.
"CF&I Steel once had 13,000 employees," said former State Sen. Abel Tapia of Pueblo. "That used to be a path toward middle-class prosperity. Pueblo took a really, really big hit in the '80s when the steel company downsized. In a community of 100,000, when you are talking 13,000 jobs, that was a big hit."
» Support for K-12 education has diminished. The cost of attending college has skyrocketed.
"We seem to be leading the way in the country on how not to fund education," said Jim Chavez, executive director of the Latin American Educational Foundation.
» The percentage of single-parent families and the number of births to single mothers has soared among black households, exacerbating the gaps, and immigration and teenage births in the Latino population have also led to widening disparities, experts said.
"You have a majority of children, particularly in the African-American community, growing up in single-parent households," said Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, who is black. "There's nothing that impacts those issues — issues of economics, their education, their quality of life — more than the economic challenges faced by single mothers."
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Apart from the Census numbers, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that in Colorado 45 percent of black infants, 35 percent of Latino infants and 18 percent of white infants are born to single mothers.
That corresponds to a dramatic surge in the past five decades of children raised in single-parent homes, but the rate is particularly striking among blacks — 50 percent of black households with children in Colorado were headed by a single parent in 2010, compared to 25 percent of white households. Among Latino households with young children, 35 percent were headed by a single parent, according to the I-News analysis.
In a stark way, that boils down to ongoing economic disparity and impacts general prosperity, said Alan Berube, senior fellow and research director for Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program.
"In part, it's about how many adults you have and the income-generating power these different households have," he said.
"From an economic standpoint, one plus one equals two," said Christelyn D. Karazin, an Internet activist striving to reduce the birthrate to single mothers. "Even if two people are working at McDonald's, that's two McDonald's salaries right there."
Census data shows that single motherhood is a greater indicator of poverty than race. Children living in a female-headed household in Colorado are four times more likely to grow up in poverty, the I-News analysis showed, than children in married-couple households.
"If you wanted to announce a systemic assault on the African-American community, that's how you would do it," said Barry Fagin, a senior fellow with the Independence Institute, of the rate of births to single mothers.
In addition, the incarceration of a highly disproportionate number of minority men is a significant factor in numerous problems, including the single-parent family, said Denver Mayor Hancock, among others.
"There is one area where I think that many members of the African-American community would agree that the drug war is basically a war on black men," Fagin said.
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Regardless of which way the causal arrow runs, poverty and education are intertwined across the range of societal distress. Several experts said the state's pullback in funding education over the past two decades has narrowed the path for escaping poverty.
Between 1992 and 2010, according to Census data, Colorado plunged from 24th to 40th in overall state spending per student for K-12 education. When compared to per capita personal income, Colorado ranked 45th among the states on K-12 spending.
Public school funding, very much dependent upon property taxes, is "inherently unequal" from district to district, said Corrine Fowler of the Colorado Progressive Coalition. And even within the same district, schools in affluent neighborhoods have the ability to fundraise in ways that schools in poor neighborhoods do not.
"Right now, today, I can almost predict where you're going to be, based on your mother's educational level and your family income," former Denver school board member Nate Easley said in an interview with Colorado Public Radio. "And until we correct that, our democracy is in jeopardy."
Said Fowler, "Education should be the great equalizer. It should not be that just because your parents have more money or you come from a more affluent background that you should then get better educational opportunities. That is completely unjust."
A separate report last year by the State Higher Education Executive Association found only New Hampshire and Vermont spent less per full-time college student than Colorado's $3,316.
"Almost every one of those (disparity) trends, the underlying cause or factor is education," said Chavez of the Latin American Educational Foundation. "We've seen the financial resources the state spent to help families with students go down dramatically the last 10 years."
Said former Denver city councilman Sal Carpio, who also served as head of the city's housing authority, "The biggest single factor is all the effects of poverty. It's like a funnel. … A few trickle out. The funnel has gotten bigger. It still trickles, but there's just more people in there that can't get out."
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The widening gaps in Colorado are related to national political swings through the decades, both liberals and conservatives agree, but they disagree substantially on just how that has worked.
The civil rights era begat President Johnson's war on poverty, a host of society-altering civil rights laws, financial support to the poor and many other programs aimed at leveling the playing field.
Some said the opposite happened.
"What we've done in America is design a system that rewards people for not working and locks them into poverty," said former Republican Colorado U.S. Sen. Hank Brown. "It's a tragedy of the first order because the vast majority of people who are in poverty don't want to be on welfare. They want jobs."
Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the historical narrative is complex, but has much to do with the nation's changing political will and policies.
"Almost all of the efforts in the sense of positive impetus were abandoned by or shortly before the Reagan era," he said. "We had a narrowing of the income gap for a long time in part because we taxed higher income people pretty heavily, and we had an increasingly generous set of social policies for disadvantaged people. We did just the exact opposite in the Reagan tax cuts and the Bush tax cuts. And there were simultaneous cuts in programs and services and dramatic reversals on civil rights policies.
"It just isn't any kind of big surprise," Orfield said. "It is quite clear there was an intentionality both about the narrowing of the gap and the growing of the gap."
The widening gaps, in most appraisals, do not bode well for Colorado's future.
The Brookings Institution's Berube noted that more and more of Colorado's younger than-18, school-aged population is Latino and black, growing up in households that are economically disadvantaged, "which all the research shows places a negative strain on their educational potential."
Racial inequality poses a threat to the future economic viability of the state, Berube said, if in 20 years disadvantaged minorities are the majority of the workforce.
"You still have on balance an aging white population and a young minority population. There are only so many white people you can pull from the rest of the country to help adjust for that imbalance and the challenge it is bringing," he said.
For others interviewed by I-News, the inequities are a moral, as well as an economic, issue. If left unchallenged in the coming decades, they threaten Colorado's future.
For more information, go to http://www.inewsnetwork.org. Contact Burt Hubbard at firstname.lastname@example.com or (303) 446-4931. Contact Ann Espinola at email@example.com. I-News intern Leia Larsen contributed to this report, which was made possible, in part, by grants from The Colorado Health Foundation and the French-American Foundation. I-News used the Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) unweighted from the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota to do parts of the Census data analysis.
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Inspections, Compliance, Enforcement, and Criminal Investigations
Instratek, Incorporated 8/23/12
Department of Health and Human Services
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Food and Drug Administration
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4040 North Central Expressway
Dallas, Texas 75204-3128
August 23, 2012
Ref: 2012-DAL-WL-30
Mr. Jeff Seavey
lnstratek, Incorporated
4141 Directors Row, Suite H
Houston, Texas 77092
Dear Mr. Seavey:
During an inspection of your firm located in Houston, Texas, on April 2 through 24, 2012, an investigator from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determined that your firm manufactures several orthopedic implant systems and associated instruments for surgery of the hand and foot, such as Sub-Talar Lok™ Arthroereisis Implant System, Michelangelo Bunion System, CMC Cable FIX™ Carpometacarpal Fixation System. 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 (CGMP) requirements of the Quality System regulation found at Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 820.
We received your responses, dated May 4 and 15, 2012, June 15, 2012, and July 17, 2012, concerning our investigators' observations noted on the Form FDA 483 (FDA 483), List of lnspectional Observations, which was issued to your firm. We address your responses below, in relation to each of the noted violations. These violations include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Failure to establish and maintain adequate procedures for validating the device design to ensure that the devices conform to defined user needs and intended uses. The design validation shall include risk analysis, and the design validation results shall be documented in the design history file (DHF), as required by 21 C.F.R. § 820.30(g).
a. Specifically, your firm has not validated the pre-vacuum steam sterilization cycles in your instructions for use (IFU) of product labeling for the SubTalar Lok System and Michelangelo Bunion System (MABS) supplied to customers. Also, your firm validated different parameters for the gravity displacement steam sterilization cycle than are indicated in the MABS IFU (e.g., full cycle/exposure time).
Your responses are incomplete. You responded that your firm has completed pre-vacuum steam validations for both the Sub-Talar Lok System and the Micheangelo Bunion System (MABS), that the validated parameters have been placed into the instructions for use (IFU), and that the IFU have been updated with current sterilization information. You have not provided documentation of the revised IFU and validated steam sterilization parameters of the Sub-Talar Lok System. In addition, your responses have not specifically explained the status of the gravity displacement steam cycle validation in the IFU for the MABS device.
b. Your firm's Risk Analysis in the DHF, dated May 15, 2008, did not address the risks associated with any of the implant instruments provided with the Sub-Talar Lok Implant System. Your firm also did not have a design validation plan/protocol with the acceptance criteria.
Your responses are partially adequate. You responded that the root cause was due to the design control procedure lacking specific details of the requirements in the design validation and the requirements for surgical instruments intended for use with higher classification devices (i.e., implant devices). You further responded that the design validation summary of the Sub-Talar Lok Implant System has been reviewed and updated, and the risk analysis has been updated to include references to surgical instruments. Your firm has not provided documentation of the updated design validation summary and risk analysis for our verification.
2. Failure to establish and maintain adequate procedures to ensure that the design requirements relating to a device are appropriate and address the intended use of the device, including the needs of the user and patient. The procedures shall include a mechanism for addressing incomplete, ambiguous, or conflicting requirements. The design input requirements shall be documented, reviewed, and approved, as required by 21 C.F.R. § 820.30(c).
Specifically, your firm's Design Input Device Record for the Sub-Talar Lok Implant System, dated September 12, 2007, did not include the technical specifications and any measurable requirements used to design the device (implant) and the four accessories (dilators, k-wires, hex driver, and rescue driver) required to implant and extract the device. For example, the following design requirements documented in the Design Input Device Record are incomplete or ambiguous:
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Your responses are incomplete. You responded that as with Observations 1, 2, and 3, your investigation concluded that the lack of specific detail and requirements in the design control process and the lack of more than design review caused this to occur. You further responded that your firm revised the design control procedure to include multiple reviews and add a memo to file in the design history file of the Sub-Talar Lok device. You have not explained how the memo to file will retrospectively correct the design input requirements that are incomplete or ambiguous. For example, you have not defined the "human factors" and technical specifications for (b)(4) and what the individual components of the device
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 C.F.R. § 820.80(d). Specifically:
a. Your firm's receiving/final inspection procedure for all Sub-Talar implants states in Step 5.3.2 to measure the (b)(4) per print". Your firm measured the wrong (b)(4) of the test samples as it measured the (b)(4) instead of the major (b)(4). For example, a review of the Device History Records for the (b)(4) released lots of 8 mm Sub-Talar Implants (Lot (b)(4) dated September 12, 2011 and Lot (b)(4) Dated January19, 2012) revealed that your firm actually measured the (b)(4) and did not perform the inspection of the lots to the correct major (b)(4) specification of (b)(4) as defined in the Device Master Record (print).
Your responses are incomplete. You responded that the print does not identify major (b)(4) by name and there was confusion over which (b)(4) was considered to be the "major" (b)(4) You responded that the cause was due to an unclear instruction related to the print, and that personnel performing inspections have been retrained. You further responded that the existing inventory of the Sub-Talar Lok implants has been re-inspected, and inspection records have been updated. You have not provided the results of your firm's re-inspection of the inventory.
b. Your firm did not use a Receiving Inspection Form to document the nonconforming inspection results to justify why you rejected all lots of 7 mm, 8 mm, 9 mm, and 10 mm Sub-Talar Lok Implants that your firm received on November 30, 2011, and rejected on December 5, 2011. This functional inspection relates to step 5.3.4 in your Receiving Inspection Form used for the devices. For example, your firm's NCMR 11-003, dated December 5, 2011, documented that you had returned all of these lots of the Sub-Talar Lok implants to the supplier because the "(b)(4) was not good on all parts. Did not mate well with (b)(4)
Your responses are adequate. You responded that a record has been created retrospectively to document which inspection failed in relation to the supplier returns associated with NCMR 11-003 and that the nonconforming material procedure has been revised to state that an incoming inspection form is required.
4. Failure to establish and maintain adequate procedures for implementing corrective and preventive action, as required by 21 C.F.R. § 820.100. Specifically:
a. Your firm's Corrective and Preventive Action Record, CAPA 11-001, opened on January 19, 2011, in response to customer complaints of obturator handles separating from stem has not been updated or completed to provide the results of the corrective action. For example, the CAPA documented a design change was made to the (b)(4) but the effectiveness of the design change was not documented and the supplier's CAPA (CAR 294) was not referenced in your CAPA.
Your responses are incomplete. You responded that your CAPA 11-001 has been updated with current information, that the supplier's corrective actions have been placed into your CAPA with appropriate explanation, that (b)(4) meetings will be held to review CAPA, and that affected employees have been retrained. You have not provided the results of CAPA 11-001, opened on January 19, 2011, to demonstrate whether and when the design change was actually implemented and verified for its effectiveness. You received another complaint of the same issue (Complaint# 12-001) on January 17, 2012.
b. Your firm has not analyzed quality data from customer returns, including product return codes, complaint codes, and action codes in the Return Good Authorization (RGA) log to identify existing or potential causes of nonconforming product and other quality problems.
Your responses are partially adequate. You responded that your firm will revise the CAPA procedure to include a reference to customer returns as an input to the corrective action that will be reviewed (b)(4) and is conducting a summary of customer returns for the past (b)(4) as an input to the first CAPA meeting. You have not provided a for revising the CAPA procedure and completing analysis of quality data, and the results of your review of the quality data.
5. Failure to establish and maintain adequate procedures for receiving, reviewing, and evaluating complaints by a formerly designated unit, as required by 21 C.F.R § 820.198(a). Specifically:
a. A customer notified your firm in RGA #1203-004 on March 26, 2012 that four of their ECTR obturators, Part # 2031, Lot (b)(4) broke in half at the base. As of April 4, 2012 during the inspection, this RGA was not reviewed and documented as a customer complaint on the same day you received the RGA in accordance with your firm's Customer Complaint Handling SOP.
b. Your firm did not document an adequate evaluation or failure investigation for Complaint #12-001 (reported on January 17, 2012, investigated on March 20, 2012, and closed on March 29, 2012) regarding an obturator, Part #3031, Lot (b)(4) returned under RGA #1201-003 that described "Obturator shaft broke off of handle." Your firm's complaint investigation did not document whether an investigation has already been conducted or a CAPA has been implemented for similar complaints. This complaint documented that your firm inspected obturators in stock for defects, but the results of your firm's inspection was not documented.
c. Your complaint records did not document the nature and details on how the problem with obturators breaking at the base or obturator handles separating from the stem was noticed by the user facility.
Your responses are partially adequate. You responded that these complaints associated with obturators bending and breaking were not filled out on time due to the fact that these complaints were related to an existing issue, that a corrective action had been opened, and that the personnel completing the complaints did not include enough detail to provide a complete record of what happened. You further responded that the complaint handling process has been revised, that complaints will be reviewed formally (b)(4) at the CAPA meeting, and that affected personnel have been retrained. You have not explained the results of your firm's inspection of the inventory of the questionable obturators at your firm and your supplier and their disposition status.
Your firm should take prompt action to. correct the violations addressed in this letter. Failure to promptly correct these violations may result in regulatory action being initiated by the FDA without further notice. These actions include, but are not limited to, seizure, injunction, and civil money penalties. Also, 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 violations 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, as well as 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 actions (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. Your firm's response should be comprehensive and address all violations included in this Warning Letter.
Your firm's response should be sent to: Thao Ta, Compliance Officer, Dallas District Office, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, HFR-SW140, 4040 N. Central Expressway, Suite 300, Dallas, Texas 75204. If you have any questions about the content of this letter, please contact Mr. Ta at 214-253-5217.
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.
Reynaldo R. Rodriguez, Jr.
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Essential Spanish for the Bilingual Student II
SPAN104 (Liberal Arts) Essential Spanish for the Bilingual Student II 3 hrs. 3 crs. A continuation of the study of basic Spanish grammar and reading integrating the use of audio and visual materials. Designed for students who wish to acquire more knowledge of the language and for bilingual and native speakers who have basic knowledge of Spanish syntax. Preq: SPAN 103 or placement by department.


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Prakhar Sri
My School Uniform.... - Poem by Prakhar Sri
Every morning I have to wake up early than the cocks
And get ready by wearing the school dress and pulling up the socks
As I have to reach the school on time
By walking down the lane singing the school rhyme.
Everyone in the school has to wear the same dress
And this idea makes me very distress
Why can't we wear dresses of our own choice
This is a huge problem against which we all should raise our voice.
I shared my problem with my class teacher
Who solved my problem and explained it to me like a great preacher
'It brings unity among all the children' she said
'And this unity will help you in your life to go ahead'.
' Our school uniform is a symbol of equality'
' It makes us all equal no matter our nationality'
Then I realized the importance of the school uniform
And now every morning with sense of pride I wear my uniform.
I just love my uniform....................I just love my uniform..............................
- By Prakhar Srivastava
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Gangadharan Nair Pulingat (2/22/2015 12:17:00 AM)
A good poem with moral teaching tips from the respected teacher. nice to read. (Report) Reply
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- 1 small red onion, cut crosswise into 4 thick slices
- 1/2 medium cauliflower, cut into 2-inch florets
- 3/4 pound medium asparagus, trimmed
- 1 large yellow bell pepper, cored and quartered
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for brushing
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- Four 8- to 10-ounce New York strip steaks, cut 1 inch thick
- 1 cup Garlicky Olivada
Light a grill. Secure each onion slice on a toothpick. In a bowl, toss the onion and vegetables with the 1/4 cup of oil; season with salt and pepper. Brush the steaks with oil; season with salt and pepper. Grill the steaks over high heat, turning occasionally, about 8 minutes for medium-rare meat. Grill the vegetables, turning, until crisp-tender and charred in spots, 8 to 10 minutes.
Remove the toothpicks from the onion slices. In the large bowl, toss the vegetables with 1/2 cup of the olivada. Transfer the vegetables to plates and set the steaks alongside. Spoon the remaining 1/2 cup of olivada over the steaks and serve.


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Events In Unst
There is always something going on in Unst and visitors are welcome to participate in most events.
If you would like find out about other events on Shetland please visit http://visit.shetland.org/events
Regular and Recurring Events
Unst Music & Dance Club (UMDC)
Focusing mainly on music, these nights take place weekly and visitors are always welcome to listen or take part. You can catch the UMDC in Saxa Vord Lounge Bar and we usually try and arrange this on Thursday, but please contact us to check:
Peerie Dances
Peerie Dances are held every fortnight on Unst in June, July and August. "Peerie" is small in the Shetland dialect, and in this case it means that the dances are intimate, sociable affaires with warm and welcoming atmospheres. Visitors of all ages and abilities are always made extremely welcome and there are plenty of locals on hand to demonstrate the steps and guide people through the dances. Once bitten you will be completely smitten – they are great fun.
"Foy" translates roughly as gala or feast – though they can be musical feasts as well as gastronomic – and they are very popular in Shetland.
Chief among them is the Johnsmas Foy. Johnsmas originally marked the arrival of the Dutch herring fleet in mid summer (see History), a hugely important event in the Shetland calendar. Today, the Johnsmas Foy is Shetland's festival of the sea – a celebration of Shetland's connections to the sea and also of its food, crafts and culture, especially musical culture. It lasts from the 20th to the 29th of June and is a major celebration throughout Shetland. See the Johnsmas Foy website for details.
Foys take place in other parts of Shetland, including Unst. Details to follow.
Up Helly Aa
Shetland's Viking fire festivals. The largest Up Helly Aa in Shetland takes place in Lerwick on the last Tuesday in January each year and is the biggest fire festival in the world. Up to 1,000 Viking "guizers" march through the streets in full costume with flaming torches before ritually burning a longship; after which its party time with music, dance….and much, much more.
Unst has two of its own:
Uyeasound Up Helly Aa
Celebrating the approaching spring, a Viking "Jarl" (earl) leads his guizers through the streets before the ship burning on the shore, followed by the compulsory celebrations to follow! It takes place in mid-February
Norwick Up Helly Aa
The Norwick Up Helly Aa takes place a fortnight later, in early March, and is the most northerly in Shetland
Unst Fest
Provisional dates for 2012 are 12th - 22nd July
This week-long event is great for the whole family. With a variety of events planned there's everything from bannock workshops, fishing, guided walks, live music and much more. Details for the 2012 event will be confirmed soon.
Farmers' Markets
Farmers markets, focusing on the finest of locally grown produce, are held once a month and are an excellent opportunity to buy the freshest of food and to meet the island's people.
Angling Competitions
Unst Angling Club holds competitions throughout the season – both loch and sea angling.
Sailing Events
Sailing is another very popular pastime and regattas are held throughout the summer – in both conventional dinghies and in Shetland yawls.
Village Hall Chip Nights
Fish & Chip Nights are regularly held in village halls on Sunday evenings. Local volunteers fry the fish and chips - and a range of other foods besides - and the bar is also open. Very popular with locals, this is a great opportunity for visitors to mix and experience another side to island life.


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John Keker and Jan Nielsen Little were awarded the NACDL's White Collar Criminal Defense Award in 2014.
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The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure will attempt to accomplish what the U. S. Congress has failed to do for forty-five years – reveal the facts surrounding the most important issue of this or any other time.The last time the US Congress heard evidence about UFOs was in 1968 at a symposium held before the Committee On Science And Astronautics, which comprised 30 members of the U.S. House Of Representatives. The Congressional Committee heard evidence from six scientists, and accepted written statements from a further six scientists including Stanton Friedman, M.Sc. who will be a presenter at the 2013 Citizen Hearing on Disclosure.
All will conduct themselves in the same manner appropriate to a Congressional hearing. To the extent possible the protocols for congressional hearings will be followed. Committee members will receive written statements from witnesses, hear oral statements and ask whatever questions they wish about the subject matter at hand.Witnesses include former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, former Canadian Minister for Defense, Paul Hellyer, and witnesses/researchers from Brazil, Uruguay, Peru and China. I spoke today to Stephen Bassett, Executive Director of the Citizen Hearing, about what he expects to emerge from the Citizen Hearing. He said that no report is expected from the former members of Congress who will simply hear witness testimony, receive reports, ask questions and maintain a suitable congressional model for the Citizen Hearing. The main intention is to have the evidence presented for follow up. In this regard, he explained five main goals:
- Send a message to the U.S. Congress that it is not doing its job, by having the Citizen Hearing gather evidence about UFOs and extraterrestrial life that deserves further investigation by the Congress.
- Reply to a White House claim in an official response to an earlier petition that there is no evidence supporting the extraterrestrial hypothesis.
- Stimulate Citizen Hearings in other countries by having the Citizen Hearing translated into the five most important world languages.
- Draw attention to the tremendous number of witnesses, researchers and activists working on disclosing the evidence of an extraterrestrial presence.
- Create a 501(c)3 organization that can gain funding for future Citizen Hearings.
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October 19, 2009 BY Aaron Kr.
Back in August, around the time of the official Air Max LeBron VII unveiling, we also brought you a look at some other upcoming colorways of the shoe. In addition to the Red Carpet and Black/Metallic Gold versions, we also gave you a nice sneak peek at this White/Midnight Navy/Red edition. The color scheme of this LeBron VII has a definite Olympic feel which was punctuated by their appearance in LeBron's Nike Pro Combat commercial, in which he is suited up in his full USA Basketball uniform. In addition to the USA colors, these also make a good match with the Cleveland Cavs' color scheme, so don't be surprised to see these on LeBron's feet when the new NBA season starts up in a few weeks. There is no specific release info at this time, but with the White/Black/Red version about to finally hit stores, these will likely be following close behind. Via FC.T.
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Antique and Vintage Mice
Mice entice us with the secretive lives they lead, the contrast between their resourcefulness and diminutive size, and their undeniable cuteness. We love to root for the little guy; mice give us lots of opportunities to do just that. Maybe that's why there are so many stories about these miniature-scaled animals. Beatrix Potter's tales of an English farmhouse frequently included mouse characters, and provided subject matter for a long line of ceramic figurines by companies like Royal Albert and Beswick. First editions of American author E.B. White's illustrated children's books featuring the audacious Stuart Little are also highly desirable.
The Mighty Mouse cartoon character, developed in the 1940s as a Superman parody, gained widespread popularity after his television show debut in 1955. Subsequent merchandising included everything from costumes to comic books. Of course, Walt Disney also gave the world a few favorite mice, from Dumbo's buddy Timothy to Cinderella's crowd of little friends. In the animated short "Ben and Me," a bumbling Ben Franklin gets all his best ideas from his mistreated mouse pal, Amos, while in "The Rescuers," a team of adventure-seeking mice solve mysteries and save lives. And, of course, the mouse who needs no introduction, Mickey, has been promoted on everything from wristwatches and lunch boxes to still banks and cookie jars.
Mouse figurines are a perennial collector favorite, from Steuben's giant slice of cheese topped with a golden mouse to Lladro's detailed porcelain animals. More abstract were the mice figures from producers like Royal Crown Derby and Swarovski. Figurines depicting mice wearing clothing and performing human activities are also common, although the Vienna bronze mice created at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, standout examples of this style, are quite rare. Vienna bronze mice were individually hand-cast and hand-painted, and often portrayed characters from classic fairy tales.
Other companies made household products decorated with mice, like enamelware containers with mouse patterns or candy dishes with mice perched on their rims. Particularly sought are Thomas Minton's majolica vases showing mice in nature, as well as mice-shaped Japanese netsuke carved from ivory.
From Aesop's fable "The Lion and The Mouse" to contemporary duos like Tom and Jerry, cat-and-mouse pairings have long fascinated children and adults alike. Early wind-ups toys such as Schuco's cat and mouse holding hands captured the great dichotomy of this odd couple. More recently, the twosome was taken to violent extremes on "The Itchy and Scratchy Show," a bizarre and disturbing cartoon within the animated universe of "The Simpsons."
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Teach a Child to Save
Each year as part of the State Bank of Alcester's commitment to the community's children, several bank employees put on a program for the Alcester-Hudson Elementary School students for "Teach a Child to Save" day. This event, sponsored by the American Banker's Association, works to promote the value of saving at an early age. Thousands of banks nationwide spend the day with local schools and children. The program includes hands-on activities to teach the children how to save and the importance of saving so that saving becomes a lifetime habit.
Financial education is not only the responsibility of the school and the bank. Parents and guardians should also be instilling the value of money. Below are some tips to help you continue the learning process at home
- Encourage Your Child to Earn Money. Doing the laundry or other housework, performing odd jobs at home and around the community or getting a job is a great way to teach children the value of money. After all, earning the money is much harder than just asking for it.
- Have Your Child Set Savings Goals. Having a goal gives the child a reason to want to save money. Visibly track goals using charts or reward the child for achievements on the way to attaining his or her goal.
- Teach Your Child About Budgeting. Planning ahead makes saving easier. Have children use four jars to save their money for different items. Put 10 percent in a jar for charity, 30 percent in one jar for instant gratification items like baseball cards and candy, 30 percent in another jar for medium-term savings to buy more expensive items like bikes and video games and 30 percent in the last jar for long-term savings such as college. Once the long-term savings jar gets full, open a savings account at the bank.
- Play Board Games. Pick games that show how money is used to purchase goods and services, such as "The Game of Life", "Pay Day" or "Monopoly."
- Introduce Bank Products to Your Child and Teach How to Use Each Product. Open a savings account for young children. Older children can open a checking account, create certificates of deposit, and get check and credit cards. Go through the statements each month with your child and explain what each item means. By teaching children while they are still at home, they are less likely to have financial problems when they have to handle their own finances.
- Involve Your Child in Financial Planning. Let your child help you develop your own budget. Include your child in planning vacations and major financial purchases in order to understand the trade-offs that must be made. When children are older, have them sit in on informational meetings with financial advisors or pick a stock to track weekly.
Opportunities to teach values about money come up regularly in the course of the day. Remember to take the time to teach your child when an opportunity arises to make him or her a better adult.
Fees may reduce earnings on savings and checking accounts. A penalty may be imposed for early withdrawal on certificates of deposit. Credit cards subject to credit approval, and fees and limits may apply. Fees and limits may apply on check cards.
Product descriptions herein do not take the place of required disclosures under federal and state regulations. Please contact us for disclosures appropriate to these accounts."


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Somanathan Iyer
The Pilgrimage - Poem by Somanathan Iyer
My stay at Tirucchi short and hectic
Only one day to go round the temples
The list was long time was short
My friend cum relative was of great help
He works for Government used his influence
Car with driver and a guide he arranged
Sri Rangam was the place topping the list
Lying on his right side leaning over hand
Lord Vishnu graces the world
Avoiding longer queue we went
through a row for a special view
After seeking His grace we went to Samayapuram
Goddess Durga grace the world in the form of Mariyamma
Her compassionate eyes, glowing face
made me forget everything
Obtaining her grace we proceeded
further to Thiruvaanaikkaval
The abode of Lord Jambukeswara
famed for His benevolence
Worshipping Him for a while,
we stood before His consort
Akhilandeswari the ruler of this Universe
in search of Her grace to seek her blessings
Next and final we went to Vayalur,
the abode of Lord Subramanya
Who grace with boons to those
who surrender with sincere devotion
Unlike the other temples here
the worship was peaceful
With no crowds to jostle with
and no guards to push away
All these temples mentioned above
not only divine and serene
But also of historical importance
built by kings centuries back
The sculptures speak of age old culture
that is unique with rich heritage
A must visit places to all those devout
to seek the grace of God in many forms
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Tirupathi Chandrupatla (12/15/2013 3:03:00 AM)
You are blessed by your trips. With all the grace that you carry, I must see you when you are back. (Report) Reply
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- Timothy Sullivan reviewed 1 year ago
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Background of the Carver Community Center Inc.
The Carver Community Center is a nonprofit organization. It represents the efforts of a number of individual advocates and human service agencies that joined forces to fill gaps in community services. Agencies involved in the Carver Community Center partnership include:
Our Mission
The Carver Community Center is a partnership initiative in Cumberland, Maryland established to supplement existing services and to foster systemic change in the greater Allegany County community. Poverty, chronic unemployment, and a workforce that is inadequately trained for the information-age economy are key economic drivers fostering change in the area.
Carver Community Center strives to:
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Remembering the Past - Shaping The Future backpack tag. Colorful, laminated paper tag features an affirmative message by Marian Wright Edelman. Comes with a 4" beaded chain for attaching to a backpack or book bag.
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YPSILANTI - Internationally known novelist Loren D. Estleman will deliver
the keynote speech for Eastern Michigan University's commencement ceremonies
Saturday, April 27.
Estleman, an EMU graduate, will speak at both the 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. ceremonies.
EMU President Samuel A. Kirkpatrick will preside over the ceremonies.
Estleman, who has written 48 books and won 15 national writing awards, is best
known as the author of the Amos Walker, private investigator, series, now in
its 15th installment. His latest novel in the series, Sinister Heights, was
published in February 2002.
Considered an authority on both criminal history and the American West, Estleman
has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and England's
Silver Dagger Award.
More than 2,600 students are eligible to graduate at Eastern Michigan University's
winter commencement ceremonies.
Five candidates are eligible to receive a doctor of education degree in educational leadership: John Barrett, Patricia Devlin, Lori Tubbergen Zahrt, Katherine Ellis and Ernest Terry, Jr.
Commencement ceremonies for the College of Arts and Sciences and the College
of Technology begin at 10:30 a.m. Doors open at 9 a.m.
Commencement ceremonies for graduates of the Colleges of Business, Education, and Health and Human Services begin at 2 p.m. Doors open at 12:30 p.m.
Tickets are available through the Convocation Center box office (487-2282).
All guests must have a ticket to be admitted. Handicapped seating is available
and there will be a signer to aid those with a hearing impairment.
Thomas Hennings and James Devers, professors emeritus of English language and literature, will serve as grand marshalls for the morning and afternoon ceremonies, respectively.
Eastern Michigan University (www.emich.edu) is a four-year, comprehensive
metropolitan university committed to the needs of its students and communities
through teaching, research and service. EMU offers more than 200 programs in
the arts, sciences and professionals through traditional classroom settings,
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Some days are better than others. At times filming doesn't bother me at all, and others it takes a lot of focus to get anything done. Honestly, when I film I can become pretty crazy. A different person for the time it takes to film a move. Or even for the entire winter. It's all i think about. It's just how I operate. A pretty dramatic approach i guess. But, its worked for me so far.


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Women's football is booming worldwide. We find out how to get involved here in Dubai
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As the world goes Wimbledon crazy, Amy Mathieson and Chris Maxwell find out how you can perfect your game
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The action is being broadcast via a Wimbledon stream on Twitter
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Ras Al Khaimah's new adventure tourist attraction unveiled
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Bad News: Bigfoot Might Be Real & Running Around Vermont
Stay on your toes, Frisky readers in Vermont: a "self-described Sasquatch researcher" claims he has video of Bigfoot ravaging his apple orchard … on the same day scientists say that Bigfoot may actually exist. Spoooooky.
First, the alleged Bigfoot sighting in Vermont: Frank Siecienski of Hubbarton, VT, claims to have video of Bigfoot and its young scaring away a coyote in his apple orchard. Siecienski thought
deers deer were eating all his apples, so he set up a videocamera to tape the orchard overnight. Instead of hungry deer, he claims his new video depicts a seven-foot-tall Bigfoot. (The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, party poopers that they are, say his video footage just looks like an owl. Which is also kinda true. I vote for a possible Bigfoot Hoax redux.)
You can read all the blah blah blah details about Bigfoot DNA, but the crux of the issue is this: BIGFOOT IS COMING TO EAT YOU.
Also, "American Horror Story" season three now has its new plot.
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When we get the age breakdown of the Presbyterian Church's General Assembly, it's nothing short of horrendous. 91 percent of the laity are 50 and older. 67 percent of the Clergy are 50 and older. A mere 23 percent of all commissioners are under 50. What can we do about it?
Born Again Again
Carol Howard Merritt on reclaiming faith
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The cost of tuition has has gone up 1,200 percent in 30 years. The odd thing is that when a person takes full advantage of the educational system and earn a Ph.D., then the very same universities that have been trying to convince us that education is worth that much inflation, turns around and tells the Ph.D. that their hard work is worth about . . . 1-3K per class for an adjunct teaching position. So the value of education is being cut by the very same people who are trying to sell us an education.
The General assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) starts this week in Detroit, Michigan. I have a friend, Rev. MaryAnn McKibben Dana, who's standing for Vice-Moderator, so I wanted to write a bit about Rev. Dr. John Wilkinson, who is standing for Moderator.
John Green was enrolled at University of Chicago Divinity School, preparing to become an Episcopal priest. He was doing his CPE, working as a chaplain when he conceived of The Fault in Our Stars. The book hit the top of the NYT bestseller list and Green didn't go to Div School. Though, the book might be assigned reading in seminary now. At least Katherine Willis Pershey thinks it should be.
It's hard to know what to do and what not to do on the Internet. These are new forms of communicating, so we're trying out different rules of engagement. Often our social behavior forms by what gets on people's nerves.
God Complex Radio is back in action. We have a lot of wonderful guests coming up, including Tony Kriz, Grace Ji-Sun Kim, and Jason Byassee. While our Producer, Rob Dyer, is busy mixing up those episodes, you can listen to my interview with Brian McLaren.
The thing about preaching and pastoral care is that we often recognize our own problems in everyone else. I suppose that's why pastors are so often hypocrites—we're always preaching about our own issues. Then we have to live with the words that we doled out.
We're making up the rules of Internet engagement as different platforms evolve. So I figure it's always good to check in with some experts to find out how things are developing. Conventions usually come about when irritations arise, so I asked a few friends what vexes them.
I frequently encounter rudeness on the Internet. When I do, I want to say, "Didn't anyone teach you any manners?" And then I realize that the rules of engagement are all different on the Internet. In fact, we're kind of making them up as we go along. So, I asked a few friends for advice.
I'm not writing a book on the Gospel According to the Fortune 500 any time soon. Do you know why? Because churches have a much more sustainable business model than businesses do.


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UNICEF and its partners respond to a resurgence of malaria cases in Chad
Near doubling of malaria-related deaths over same period last year
AM-TIMAN, Chad, 26 September 2013 – In response to a resurgence of suspected cases of malaria in several parts of Chad , UNICEF in collaboration with WHO, is implementing an integrated response to support efforts already made by the Government in areas where the resurgence is highest.
As of 22 September 2013, more than 618,000 cases of suspected malaria with 1,678 malaria-related deaths were reported nationally as compared to 412,000 suspected cases with 870 malaria-related deaths during the same period in 2012. In response, UNICEF provided medicines and diagnostic tests to support rapid control and to help treat approximately 140,000 cases of malaria. An additional emergency government order of approximately 215,000 treatments is underway through UNICEF's support.
This week, more than 126,000 Long-Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) were provided by UNICEF and distributed to health clinics and posts in the most affected areas. Emergency stocks of bed-nets have also been distributed and made available to health districts in some regions. An additional 200,000 LLINs were provided by UNICEF to government counterparts to carry out a mass LLINs distribution campaign over the next few weeks in the Batha region of Central Chad.
These LLINs were provided by UNICEF thanks to contributions by the Government of Japan, the UN Foundation and the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
"In Chad, children under five and pregnant women are the most at risk and vulnerable," said Bruno Maes, UNICEF Representative in Chad. "Health centres will serve as bed-net distribution points to ensure that the intervention package will reach the most vulnerable populations and affected-persons will receive adequate care."
Thanks to Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria support, UNICEF has also mobilized 43 paramedics and five medical doctors to support health authorities at the district level to strengthen interventions against malaria, through prevention, treatment, monitoring and management. These recently mobilized health professionals will cover 43 health districts in Chad, as part of UNICEF's collaboration with the Government to revitalize Chad's health system.
Over the past three weeks, the health districts of Kelo (in southern Chad) and Am-Timan (in central Chad) reported the largest number of cases including a large proportion cases with complications. In line with the Government response plan, UNICEF is implementing an integrated response in these districts.
In addition to providing treatment and distributing bed-nets, the UNICEF intervention package includes screening and management of severe acute malnutrition among children under five, strengthening of antenatal services (immunization, intermittent preventive treatment , deworming, iron supplementation and folic acid), and the distribution of soap.
Malaria remains a major public health problem in Chad. According to the Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) 2010, malaria prevalence in the general population in Chad is at 29.8 %. Prevalence varies by age group and it is as high as 35.8 % among children less than 5 years, 39.3% between 5 and 14 years of age and 15.2 % for those over 15 years of age.
Note for editors
In August 2013, the Support Fund for Population Activities and Fight against AIDS (FOSAP – "Fonds de Soutien pour les activités en matière de population et de lutte contre le Sida") signed an agreement with UNICEF to organize a mass-campaign to distribute 5.3 million LLINs in 13 regions of Chad. This is done in support of the universal use of LLINs and will be conducted by the Government in 2013 and 2014. This agreement is part of the Transitional Funding Mechanism and New Funding Model of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. UNICEF has been selected as a secondary recipient of this funding for the implementation of this programme. Overall, Chad has benefited through this mechanism of a grant totalling more than 25 million euros from the Global Fund.
About UNICEF
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The Colossal Stupidity of Calling Hillary Clinton 'Too Old' for the White HouseBy
On Sunday the New York Times ran a front-page article previewing what appears to be the emerging consensus in GOP circles on how to stop Hillary Clinton from winning the White House in 2016: by portraying her as too old for the job. Clinton will be 69 on Election Day. In the piece, the Republican Senate leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, likened the Democratic field to "a rerun of The Golden Girls," since it may also include Joe Biden.
This is a terrible political strategy. Anyone who is married, or has a girlfriend, or a mother, can probably spot the weakness: Calling a woman "old" is guaranteed to enrage, and thereby motivate, legions of women of all ages, because the charge carries deep psychological and gender implications of which the architects of this strategy are somehow unaware. A nation of angry, motivated women would be horrible for Republicans' electoral prospects. Last year, President Obama won female voters by 11 points (55 percent to 44 percent), an increase from his performance in 2008. It stands to reason that Clinton would do even better. Republicans have exacerbated this trend by saying a series of appalling things about rape, deepening a perception pushed by Democrats that the party is waging a "war on women."
How do I know this would be a terrible political strategy? Partly because it would force Republicans to explain why age is a problem for Clinton but wasn't for the sainted Ronald Reagan, who was also 69 when first elected in 1980. This is impossible. But mostly because building a strategy around the physical characteristics of a woman would be, for Republicans, like handing a box of matches to a curious toddler—certain to quickly engulf everyone in flames. Some Republicans wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to say something impolitic or downright misogynistic—or, even likelier, wouldn't recognize that they were doing so. The race would become a referendum on gender. That's a race Republicans can never win.


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So I recently joined a freezer meal group in my neighborhood- once a month we will be getting together and each person prepares 5 meals of the same freezer meal. We then swap meals, sending each lady home with 5 different meals, ready to eat in a matter of minutes! Brilliant!
Baked Ziti
- 1 pound dry ziti pasta (or really any kind of pasta would work- I actually used Penne pasta)
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 pound lean ground beef (season with pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and minced garlic)
- 2 (26 ounce) jars spaghetti sauce (I added a zucchini to my sauce just for more veggies!)
- 8 slices provolone cheese
- 1 1/2 cups sour cream
- 6 ounces mozzarella cheese, shredded
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add ziti pasta, and cook until al dente, about 7-8 minutes; drain.
- In a large skillet, brown onion and ground beef over medium heat. Add spaghetti sauce, and simmer 15 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray 2 8×8 inch pans with non-stick cooking spray. Layer as follows in each pan: 1/4 of the ziti, 1/4 of the sauce, 4 slices of Provolone cheese, 1/2 of sour cream, 1/4 of ziti, 1/4 mozzarella cheese and 1/4 of sauce mixture. Top with grated Parmesan cheese and remaining mozzarella cheese.
- Bake covered for 30 minutes in the preheated oven, or until cheeses are melted.


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Mexican American Studies: Documentaries
Los Angeles: Lannan Foundation, ©1988.
"Octavio Paz, the foremost poet of Latin America, reads at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and is interviewed by Lewis MacAdams"--Container. Readings in Spanish with English subtitles. (60 min.) Media PQ7297.P285 A6 1988
Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities, 1979.
Mexican poet Octavio Paz talks about his childhood, his activities as a political activist, and his views on poets, poetry, and language. (29 min.) Media PQ7297.P285 O29
Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities, ©1988.
Paz, dean of Latin American writers and intellectuals, reveals his thoughts on poets, poetry and language, discusses his career as a political observer and activist, and draws sharp distinctions between politics and poetry (and between politicians and poets). (29 min.) Media PQ7297.P285 O29 1988
San Francisco: Xochitl Film Productions, 1989.
Presents a non-traditional look at the ceremonies and rituals observed in the Mexican culture, in both Mexico and the U.S., to celebrate the Days of the Dead (Nov. 1 & 2). (50 min.) Media GR455 .O44 1989
[S.l.]: Phelps Dodge Corporation, ©1993. (26 min.) Media F811 .C77 1993El Otro Lado (The Other Side)
Clintondale, NY: Bleak Beauty Video, 1978, ©1979.
Documentary film about Mexican farmworkers and their struggle to cross the U.S. border into Arizona. Spanish, with English subtitles. (60 min.) Media KF4704 .O87 1978.
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Moving beyond: Transitional justice for the Bangsamoro conflict-A A +A
Saturday, July 26, 2014
WITH the Comprehensive Agreement for the Bangsamoro (CAB) signed, there is hope for peace. That hope, however, will remain on tenuous grounds for as long as the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) does not recognize past wrongs.
The road to peace in Mindanao has been pocked with wars, evacuations, and the corresponding loss of lives and livelihood for decades.
The peace negotiations between the Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) for one took all of 17 years of bargaining while holding on to principles disparate enough as to cause outbreaks of hostilities in between.
There's still a tenuous hold on the peace with the crafting of the Bangsamoro Law, of which has to be tackled by legislators many of whom do not have full comprehension or even a minute understanding about the agreement signed and the history of grievances.
Still, there is the need to move forward. With the CAB, a framework has been laid out on how to, but that framework itself is pocked with almost two decades of conflict that has victimized not just Moro but also non-Moro people, many of them in indigenous communities.
Thus the discussion about transitional justice.
The United Nations defines transitional justice as: "the full range of processes and mechanisms associated with a society's attempt to come to terms with a legacy of large-scale past abuses, in order to ensure accountability, serve justice and achieve reconciliation."
Its definition alone hints at historical abuses and emotions long ignored that have to be addressed in order for the survivors to leave the past to the past and start anew, reinforced in the conviction that the past has been dealt with accordingly.
This is a field full of landmines.
"Pursuing transitional justice faces a fundamental dilemma: while sensitive, contextual mechanisms can address historical injustice and pave the road to reconciliation, a process that is not adapted to local realities may instead deepen the wounds that it seeks to heal," the introduction to the publication "Moving Beyond: Towards Transitional Justice in the Bangsmoro Peace Process" by ForumZFD, a German non-government organization engaged in conflict work in Mindanao since 2008.
The publication containing a collection of articles aimed to provide tools for understanding of transitional justice was launched at the Apo Vie Hotel last July 14, attended by members of peace organizations who were later broken up into working groups to flesh out what transitional justice really means on the ground.
It was a long discussion. We thus get a hint of how difficult this is to comprehend as veterans of peace work and conflict resolution in Mindanao struggle to get their ideas across on what transitional peace can really mean to a vast expanse of land now identified as Bangsamoro land with people of different convictions and principles all made to suffer through the decades long conflict. It become more tenuous considering that majority of those tasked now to draft the Bangsamoro Law barely have a cursory interest on the Mindanao conflict.
We get a hint of this when government chief negotiator Miriam Coronel-Ferrer herself admitted that "significant points of differences" on the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) continue to threaten the roadmap towards the establishment of a Bangasamoro government.
While not saying what these significant points are, she continued to say that, "We will not and cannot move forward in the roadmap towards the establishment of the Bangsamoro unless we hurdle this crucial stage. We wish the MILF to understand the basis for the comments made as part of the review process by the Office of the President."
To this, MILF chief negotiator Mohagher Iqbal was later quoted by Mindanews as saying that the draft made by the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC) for the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) has been heavily diluted and that should this be pushed through, it will be worse than the law governing the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Armm).
"The position of the MILF on the proposed BBL is very simple and straight forward. All those explicitly expressed and provided for in the CAB will no longer be the subject of negotiations. They are finished and settled. It is therefore nonsensical to raise them anew. However, all those, which are not expressly provided but fleshed out by the BTC, as part of its mandate, could be the subjects of subsequent engagement between the Parties. If reasons and consistency prevail, there is no way this controversy cannot be settled," Mindanews quoted Iqbal as saying.
Fr. Joel Tabora SJ in his welcome address during the ForuZFD publication launch recognized this underlying conflict.
"Finding agreement on the nuanced concepts fixed in documents on the negotiating table may be important, but affixing signatures to peace agreements or to a new Bangsamoro Basic Law does not insure peace, nor insulate the future from the evils and wrongdoings of the past. With the excitement of the immanent Bangsamoro political entity which we firmly hope will secure a real and meaningful autonomy for Muslim Filipinos, a temptation may be to think that the past will take care of itself, that we should all simply forgive and forget, and focus on the bright prospects of the future," he said.
"The trouble with this is that with the signing of the Bangsamoro Basic Law, we shall not have solved the subsisting problem in the asymmetric relationship between the Bangsamoro and the Republic of the Philippines, that one is big and the other is bigger, that one is contained and the other contains, that one is secured and that the other secures, that one is autonomous and the other governs," he added.
Ruben Carranza, Director of the Reparative Justice Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice in New York, who is among the authors of articles in the publication, and who also delivered the keynote speech during the launch, cautioned that transitional justice should not be seen "as a separate notion of justice" even as people would often associate justice with going to the court and filing a lawsuit. This, cannot apply to victims of injustice that has transcended generations.
"Do you for instance ask people in the Bangsamoro who were victimized by armed conflict to sue in the regional trial court of Cotabato? How many cases would that entail? It is even possible to litigate these cases, to go to the courts and resolve these questions?"
Carranza thus explained that transitional justice addresses injustices but does not rely solely on courts. It is a prosecution-mechanism that includes truth-seeking, reparations, and institutional reforms along the line of "Nunca Mas" or "never again".
Moving Beyond, Fr. Tabora pointed out is not easy as what is being left behind are personal wounds and losses due to past conflicts in the Bangsamoro Area that may go as far back as the homesteading program of the American regime and the Commonwealth, and the wars and massacres that have occurred from then until now.
Manuel Domes of ForumZFD stressed that the publication only presents transitional justice in its different applications all over the world and in the Bangsamoro context.
"We're not trying to simplify things that are complicated, but we are trying to make things more doable," he said, thus the publication tackles experiences in Aceh, Latin America, and other parts of the world where conflict has reigned for generations.
In the meantime, talking about the past and recognizing the reparations that have to be made is already half a step forward.
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