text: [Federal Register: March 12, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 48)] [Notices] [Page 11868-11870] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr12mr03-110] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Food and Drug Administration [Docket No. 03N-0050] Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Investigational Device Exemptions Reports and Records AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA), Federal agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of an existing information collection, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on information collection requirements for investigational device exemptions (IDE) reports and records. DATES: Submit written or electronic comments on the collection of information by May 12, 2003. ADDRESSES: Submit electronic comments on the collection of information to http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/oc/dockets/edockethome.cfm. to http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/oc/dockets/edockethome.cfm. Submit written comments on the collection of information to the Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852. All comments should be identified with the docket number found in brackets in the heading of this document. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peggy Robbins, Office of Information Resources Management (HFA-250), Food and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, 301-827-1223. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background Under the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of information they conduct or sponsor. ``Collection of information'' is defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3(c) and includes agency requests or requirements that members of the public submit reports, keep records, or provide information to a third party. Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)) requires Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed extension of an existing collection of information, before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To comply with this requirement, FDA is publishing notice of the proposed collection of information set forth in this document. With respect to the following collection of information, FDA invites comments on: (1) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of FDA's functions, including whether the information will have practical utility; (2) the accuracy of FDA's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques, when appropriate, and other forms of information technology. Investigational Device Exemptions Reports and Records--21 CFR Part 812 (OMB Control No. 0910-0078)--Extension Section 520(g) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act) (21 U.S.C. 360j(g)) establishes the statutory authority to collect information regarding investigational devices, and establishes rules under which new medical devices may be tested using human subjects in a clinical setting. The Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 added section 520(g)(6) to the act and permitted changes to be made to either the investigational device or to the clinical protocol without FDA approval of an IDE supplement. An IDE allows a device, which would otherwise be subject to provisions of the act, such as premarket notification or premarket approval, to be used in investigations involving human subjects in which the safety and effectiveness of [[Page 11869]] the device is being studied. The purpose of part 812 (21 CFR part 812) is to encourage, to the extent consistent with the protection of public health and safety and with ethical standards, the discovery and development of useful devices intended for human use. The IDE regulation is designed to encourage the development of useful medical devices, and allow investigators the maximum freedom possible, without jeopardizing the health and safety of the public or violating ethical standards. To do this, the regulation provides for different levels of regulatory control depending on the level of potential risk the investigational device presents to human subjects. Investigations of significant risk devices, ones that present a potential for serious harm to the rights, safety or welfare of human subjects, are subject to the full requirements of the IDE regulation. Nonsignificant risk device investigations, ones that do not present a potential for serious harm, are subject to the reduced burden of the abbreviated requirements. The regulation also includes provisions for treatment IDEs. The purpose of these provisions is to facilitate the availability, as early in the device development process as possible, of promising new devices to patients with life-threatening or serious conditions for which no comparable or satisfactory alternative therapy is available. Section 812.10 allows the sponsor of the IDE to request a waiver to all of the requirements of part 812. This information is needed for FDA to determine if waiver of the requirements of part 812 will impact the public's health and safety. Sections 812.20, 812.25, and 812.27, consist of the information necessary to file an IDE application with FDA. The submission of an IDE application to FDA is required only for significant risk device investigations. Section 812.20 lists the data requirements for the original IDE application; Sec. 812.25 lists the contents of the investigational plan; and Sec. 812.27 lists the data relating to previous investigations or testing. The information in this original IDE application is evaluated by the Center for Devices and Radiological Health to determine whether the proposed investigation will reasonably protect the public health and safety, and for FDA to make a determination to approve the IDE. Once FDA approves an IDE application, a sponsor must submit certain requests and reports. Under Sec. 812.35 a sponsor who wishes to make a change in the investigation which affects the scientific soundness of the study or the rights, safety, or welfare of the subjects is required to submit a request for the change to FDA. Under Sec. 812.150 a sponsor is required to submit reports to FDA. These requests and reports are submitted to FDA as supplemental applications. This information is needed for FDA to assure protection of human subjects and to allow review of the study's progress. Section 812.36(c) identifies the information necessary to file a treatment IDE application. FDA uses this information to determine if wider distribution of the device is in the interests of the public health. Section 812.36(f) identifies the reports required to allow FDA to monitor the size and scope of the treatment IDE, to assess the sponsor's due diligence in obtaining marketing clearance of the device and to ensure the integrity of the controlled clinical trials. Section 812.140 lists the recordkeeping requirements for investigators and sponsors. FDA requires this information for tracking and oversight purposes. Investigators are required to maintain records, including correspondence and reports concerning the study; records of receipt, use or disposition of devices; records of each subject's case history and exposure to the device; informed consent documentation; study protocol and documentation of any deviation from the protocol. Sponsors are required to maintain records including correspondence and reports concerning the study; records of shipment and disposition; signed investigator agreements; adverse device effects information; and, for a nonsignificant risk device study, an explanation of the nonsignificant risk determination, records on device name and intended use, study objectives, investigator information, investigational review board (IRB) information, and statement on the extent that good manufacturing practices will be followed. The most likely respondents to this information collection will primarily be medical device manufacturers, investigators, hospitals, health maintenance organizations, and businesses. FDA estimates the burden of this collection of information as follows: Table 1.--Estimated Annual Reporting Burden\1\ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No. of Annual Frequency Total Annual Hours per 21 CFR Section Respondents per Response Responses Response Total Hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 812.10 1 1 1 1 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 812.20, 812.25, 600 0.5 300 80 24,000 and 812.27 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 812.35 and 600 7 4,200 6 25,200 812.150 (significant) 812.150 600 0.017 10 6 60 (nonsignificant) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 812.36(c) 6 1 6 120 720 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 812.36(f) 6 2 12 20 240 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOTALS 50,221 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of information. Table 2.--Estimated Annual Recordkeeping Burden\1\ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No. of Annual Frequency Total Annual 21 CFR Section Recordkeepers of Recordkeeping Records Hours per Record Total Hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 812.140 [[Page 11870]] Original 600 0.5 300 10 3,000 Supplemental 600 7 4,200 1 4,200 Nonsignificant 600 1 600 6 3,600 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 10,800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of information. II. Reporting Section 812.10 estimates are based on the fact that FDA has received very few, if any, waiver requests in the past, and estimates that very few will be submitted in the future. Therefore, FDA estimates a minimal burden to account for waiver requests. Sections 812.20, 812.25, and 812.27 estimates are based on the average of IDE's submitted from fiscal years 1995 through 2002. FDA estimates the annual reporting burden for one IDE original application to be approximately 80 hours, and the annual reporting burden for one IDE supplement to be approximately 6 hours. Sections 812.35 and 812.150 estimates are based on the average of IDE supplements submitted from fiscal years 1995 through 2002 for significant risk device studies. FDA estimates the annual reporting burden for one IDE supplement to be approximately 6 hours. The reporting burden for nonsignificant risk device studies (Sec. 812.150) is negligible. Nonsignificant risk device studies are not reported to FDA unless a problem is reported such as an unanticipated adverse device reaction, failure to obtain informed consent, withdrawal of IRB approval, or a recall of a device. In the past, an average of 10 incidences or less annually have been reported to FDA. Section 812.36(c) and (f) estimates are based on FDA's experience with the treatment use of drugs and knowledge of the types of devices that may meet the treatment use criteria. FDA estimates that an average of 6 treatment use applications will be submitted each year. FDA estimates that it will take approximately 120 hours to prepare a treatment IDE and the total annual burden for preparing applications will be 720 hours. FDA also estimates that it will take approximately 20 hours to prepare a semiannual report, resulting in a total annual burden of 240 hours for annual reports. III. Recordkeeping Section 812.40 estimates are based on conversations with manufacturers, industry trade association groups, and businesses over the last 3 years. For significant risk device investigations, FDA has estimated that the recordkeeping burden for preparing an original IDE submission averages 10 hours for each original IDE submission. Similarly, through the same conversations mentioned above, FDA has estimated recordkeeping for each supplement requires 1 hour. The recordkeeping burden for nonsignificant risk device investigations is difficult to estimate because nonsignificant risk device investigations are not required to be submitted to FDA. The IDE staff estimates that the number of recordkeepers for nonsignificant risk device investigations is equal to the number for active significant risk device investigations. The recordkeeping burden, however, is reduced for nonsignificant risk device studies. It is estimated that 600 recordkeepers will spend 6 hours each in maintaining these records. Dated: March 4, 2003. William K. Hubbard, Associate Commissioner for Policy and Planning. [FR Doc. 03-5791 Filed 3-11-03; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4160-01-S


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(CNSNews.com) – Ahead of a summit of developing nations this week, the Indian government has issued a challenge – condemn terrorism without reservation, and stop trying to justify it.
Addressing Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) foreign ministers meeting in Egypt Monday, Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said the bloc must speak out against terrorism when heads of state gather for the group's 15th summit in Sharm el-Sheikh on Wednesday.
"Terrorism threatens democracy and democratic values," he said. "It is also a threat to international peace and security."
"We call upon NAM members to unequivocally condemn terrorism – no cause or reasoning can be used to justify such acts," Krishna continued. "In this context, the early adoption of the Comprehensive Convention on Terrorism being discussed in the U.N. is an immediate imperative."
India in 1996 first presented at the U.N. a draft comprehensive convention on terrorism, a document supporters would like to see become a binding, enforceable instrument of international law.
Thirteen years later, it remains under discussion, mostly because of disagreement over how terrorism should be defined.
NAM, a grouping of 118 developing nations with its origins in the Cold War, includes among its members the remaining four countries listed by the U.S. State Department as state sponsors of terrorism, Iran, Syria, Sudan and Cuba. Cuba is the outgoing chairman of NAM, and Iran is due to take the top position in 2012.
It also includes 50 countries that are also members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a body that has repeatedly blocked attempts at the U.N. and elsewhere to come up with a clear definition of terrorism. The main reason for that stance is its argument that resistance against "foreign occupation" is not terrorism.
(In its own convention on combating international terrorism, produced in 1998, the OIC declared that "peoples' struggle including armed struggle against foreign occupation … shall not be considered a terrorist crime.")
The occupation reference is usually put forward in the context of the Palestinian campaign against Israel, but the fight against coalition troops in Iraq and Indian forces in Kashmir have also been cited.
Kashmir is a majority Muslim area divided between India and its historic rival Pakistan and claimed by both. India has been a major target of terrorism – both in the part of Kashmir which it controls and elsewhere in the country. New Delhi claims that the terrorists draw support from Pakistan; Pakistan has long denied this, saying it lends moral support only to the Kashmiris' struggle for self determination.
India and Pakistan are both members of NAM, and previous NAM gatherings have seen them clash over the wording of declarations on Kashmir, with India pushing for use of the term "state-sponsored terrorism" and Pakistan wanting the inclusion of language like "liberation struggle."
But there has been a shift since the last NAM summit, held three years ago in Havana.
Last November's terror attack in Mumbai, which cost more than 170 lives, were found to have been planned on Pakistani soil. Islamabad, under pressure from India, the U.S. and other governments, and itself increasingly targeted by Islamist terrorists, began to act against militant groups based there.
Earlier this month, President Asif Ali Zardari was quoted as admitting, in a speech to former civil servants, that Pakistan had "created and nurtured" militant groups in years past.
"The terrorists of today were the heroes of yesteryears until 9/11 occurred and they began to haunt us as well," he said. "They were deliberately created and nurtured as a policy to achieve some short-term tactical objectives."
After the Mumbai attack India suspended a peace process with Pakistan that had begun in 2004. It has demanded more action against the group blamed for the assault, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), before the process can resume. LeT was founded in the 1980s to fight against Indian control in Kashmir, and has operated freely inside Pakistan.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is due to meet Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on the sidelines of the NAM summit.
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Christine Dwyer played the role of Elphaba in the Second National Tour and Broadway.Christine joined the 2NT cast in March 2010 as understudy and became standby January of 2011. She became lead in May 2012 and played her final performance in March 2013 alongside Jeanna de Waal as Glinda. Dwyer became standby on Broadway replacing Carla Stickler and being replaced by Anne Brummel. Ironically, Dwyer had replaced Brummel 3 times previously. As understudy, standby and lead in the 2NT. She replaced Lindsay Mendez in February 2014 took on the role full-time. She left in December 2014. Dwyer returned to the show for a limited time while Caroline Bowman had surgery until early March. Bowman had previously replaced Dwyer as Broadway lead.
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SAN MARCOS, TEXAS — While typically a joint collaboration between the Mass Communication and Speech Communication departments of Southwest Texas State University, this year's Communication Week will focus solely on speech communication, with a single-day event later in March for mass communication.
From Feb. 26 through March 2, speakers from around the country will come to SWT to discuss everything from careers obtained with speech degrees to political rhetoric and forms of nonverbal communication.
In addition to SWT professors and distinguished professors from West Virginia University, James McCroskey and Virginia Richmond, SWT will host John Sharp, former railroad commissioner and comptroller for the State of Texas and now an adjunct faculty member at SWT. Sharp will lecture on Political Communication and Political Campaigns from 6:30 to 9:15 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 27 in Evans Liberal Arts Building, room 225. Political communication campaign consultant and senior partner with MGT America, Greg Hartman, will co-host the lecture.
Ron Alves, attorney and director of oversight for the Texas Department of Workers Compensation, will discuss Nonverbal Communication and Legal Persuasion from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 27 in Centennial Hall, room 103.
Students looking for a clearer definition of their career goals can attend It's Not What You Think! Translating Coursework into Career Direction given by Heather Hardeman, human resources generalist from Janus in Austin, and Maria Keys, human resources operations manager from Motorola in Austin. This lecture will be held 2-3:15 p.m., Thursday, March 1 in Centennial Hall, room 102.
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Quotable: Vanessa Paradis Loves Johnny Depp's Loyalty … And Everything Else
"I could make an endless list of all the things I admire about him, but above all I admire his immense loyalty. I love watching him when he's thoughtful or involved in something. I love observing him when he is talking to people. I love seeing how he deals with situations. … I could go on and on, tell you I admire him as an actor, as a father and as the man he is for me. But more than anything, I admire him as a person. Not only when he is talking to me or his mother, but as a person in the world, in all kinds of situations. I think he is magnificent. Truly magnificent."
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"They surprise us with the food," said Jim Clark with the Mesquite Flatts wagon. "You have to try to plan for each one. Most competitions are pretty generalized."
Teams will draw to see whether they have to prepare pork, goat or a cut of beef, and supplement the meal with beans, biscuits and cobbler dishes prepared as if they were on a cattle drive - over an open flame or hot coals.
Though the cooks are talented and competition is friendly, how a team does depends on the judges, said Dale Grubelnik, who is competing at the Lampasas event for the first time.
"It's the luck of the draw and who's judging," he said. "If you know who's judging, you can cook accordingly."
Grubelnik's wagon is a replica of a military escort wagon with steel-lined wheels.
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Justin Bieber, Hollywood drawn to steampunk movement
SAN JOSE – By day, Joel Reid is a flooring specialist at Lowe's, Amy Gibson is a secretary, and James Ridgeway is a commanding officer at the Navy's operational support center in Alameda, Calif. Catch them at night or on the weekend, and you might find them decked out in full Victorian regalia with a twist: bustles and ray guns, top hats and goggles, corsets and clockwork.
They're steampunks, part of an international movement that's a mashup of do-it-yourselfers, ahistorical recreationists and science-fiction aficionados who are happily reliving a past that never was.
The Victorian period was "a wonderful era when people were still being surprised by the world," says T.E. MacArthur, author of The Volcano Lady, about the adventures of a "lady geologist" in the 1880s amid aerial clipper ships and submarines.
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MacArthur was among the 500 or so in San Jose recently for Clockwork Alchemy, a steampunk convention that had workshops on Victorian atomic power, the science of airships and corsetmaking.
The event included a ball, movies, martial arts using weapons such as the Victorian cane and a telegram service courtesy of the Aetheric Message Machine Co.
Tucked into a corner office, its Teletypes, rebuilt by John Nagle of Redwood City, Calif., clattered as if in a 1930s movie. It was part art installation, part hack — in the cool, nifty tech trick sense. Cards instructed guests to text to a certain number. The messages were printed out as telegrams and delivered to areas of the hotel. The faux firm's motto: "Bringing text messaging to the 19th century."
Merging high-tech with old tech is a hallmark of steampunk. For San Jose's Gene Forrer, a state government radiation safety specialist, steampunk is "the history that never was — as if Jules Verne and H.G. Wells wrote documentaries, not fiction." Attired in a pith helmet and 19th-century military leg wraps known as puttees, the 52-year-old finds steampunks "very well-mannered and polite — just a really nice group of people." Pausing to tip his hat to a passing group of ladies sporting bustles that twinkled with lights, he handed out his card identifying him as an "Intertemporal Man of Mystery."
The word steampunk first appeared in 1987 to describe science fiction that imagined a Victorian era in which technology took hold but the shift from steam power to electricity never happened, says Mike Perschon, an Engish lecturerer at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Canada, who writes on steampunk. It's become an international movement of aficionados who craft clothing, build gadgets and make music using anomalous materials and technologies.
Much of the aesthetic comes from films such as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and The Wild Wild West, all of which Perschon calls "Victorian scientific romance."
The literary and aesthetic aspects came together at the turn of this century when some in the do-it-yourself movement started playing with Victorian themes.
Jake von Slatt of Littleton, Mass., sees it as part of a movement that is leading people back to making things. A designer and tinkerer, he loves how steampunk plays with 19th-century mechanics because it's hands-on and accessible while using 21st-century technology. Von Slatt's home business is making steampunk-ized Fender Stratocaster guitars and iPhones, "finding really elegant ways of adding original art" to these technology-heavy devices, as he puts it.
The steampunk aesthetic is showing up in popular culture. Three Rings Design, a San Francisco game company, did its offices in full steampunk décor, complete with a secret room behind a bookcase. A company called ModVic in Sharon, Mass., will redo your house in neo-Jules Verne.
And to the horror of the steampunk crowd, Justin Bieber's Santa Claus Is Coming to Town video last year had a strong steampunk overlay. Some were so appalled that their subculture had gone mainstream that a version of the video called Bieber Minus Bieber showed up on YouTube, removing the pop singer entirely and rebuilding the video using only its steampunk-themed elements, to a song called Build the Robots.
Hollywood is seeking out steampunk. Portland authors Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett recently had their book Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel optioned as a movie by producer J.J. Abrams. It features a robot that fights with Pancho Villa and travels to Antarctica.
Steampunk is "so much more than goggles on top hats," says Lev AC Rosen, author of the steampunk novel All Men of Genius. He sees it as a response to today's unknowable technology. "Everything I own is Apple, but I have no idea how it works," he says. In steampunk, "you can feel the gears at work. It's rough, physical, tangible science. It has all the wonder that science doesn't have today."
The movement spans the globe. "Brazil is a hotbed of steampunk right now," says Kory Doyle, an organizer of the San Jose event.
The steampunk music scene started with Seattle band Abney Park, which has dark, old-timey sound and songs with lines such as "out with the new, in with the old." Bands across the country play events such as The Jules Verne Ball of the Future in Pasadena. A steampunk music festival, Steamstock, is in the works for October.
The sense of elegance, formality and etiquette is what drew Doyle, a therapist in San Jose, to steampunk. "There is no one answer to 'What is steampunk?' " he says. "All are welcome, and everyone's correct."
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By Josh Jackson / Special to MLB.com | May 21, 2013 9:08 PM ET
Five years after he was a first-round pick, Matt Hobgood is on the path to the Major Leagues he and the Baltimore Orioles had always envisioned.
Hobgood, who missed the 2012 season while recovering from surgery, was stellar in a Class A relief appearance Tuesday. He allowed a walk and a single -- both of which came after 4 2/3 perfect innings -- in five shutout frames of Delmarva's 9-2 loss to Lakewood. He struck out seven.
Baltimore picked Hobgood (4-0) fifth overall in the 2009 Draft, and he began to experience shoulder problems almost immediately after signing and reporting to the Bluefield Orioles in the Rookie-level Appalachian League.
"I took off a month after my last high school playoff game," he said. "When I got to Bluefield, I started the throwing program there, throwing from 120 feet. From the time I started that program in Bluefield, my arm wasn't ever right. I can't say what happened or why it happened, but something wasn't right."
His fastball was rarely able to reach into the 90s the way it did when he was pitching in high school in California. He finished 2011 with an 0-8 record and an 8.76 ERA between the Gulf Coast League and the short-season New York-Penn League.
"I think with any first-round pick, there's some sort of expectation, and with a top-five pick, there's even more. Going into 2009, I was ready to take that head on," Hobgood said. "But coming out of the gate and never flashing what I knew I had, not being able to do things that got me drafted in the first place, was hard for me.
"I like to rise to the occasion. To go out year after year after year and fail at that was really hard."
In April 2012, he underwent rotator cuff surgery that required him to miss the campaign. Hobgood went through a rigorous rehabilitation program from May through July and had time off until he began playing catch at the end of December.
"If ever there's good timing for a surgery, that's as good as you can have it," he said. Still, "rehab was tough. There were times when my arm really did not feel well. I had people tell me that I'm not going to make it back or that a lot of people don't make it back from shoulder surgeries. That was something that drove me, actually, to work even harder -- to prove those people wrong."
Tuesday marked Hobgood's longest outing since Aug. 24, 2011, his final game of that season with Aberdeen, but he's been almost as sharp in nearly every outing since his return to the mound this year. In 11 appearances, he's allowed runs in three and earned runs in only two, thus far posting a 1.17 ERA.
He may not be considered a top prospect anymore, but that doesn't bother him.
"I'm indifferent about it to be honest. People can put whatever label they want on me, whether they want to say I'm a prospect or I'm not or I'm getting to old," he said. "As long as I'm pitching well and pitching consistently, that's the big thing for me. If I'm on somebody's prospect list, great. If I'm not, I still know in my mind that I'm going to pitch in the big leagues someday."
When he entered the game with the bases loaded in the fourth inning, the BlueClaws had already scored nine times. Watching from the bullpen, Hobgood got the impression that he could probably quiet the Lakewood lineup.
"They were hitting the ball," he said, "but I felt if I was able to get my fastball in on their lefties, I'd be able to have a lot of success."
The game plan was apparently a good one and the 22-year-old righty executed it nearly perfectly. He got out of the frame without incident, and of the 15 outs Hobgood recorded, seven were on ground balls, and he said, broke three or four Lakewood bats along the way. He cruised into the eighth inning and struck out the first two batters of that frame without realizing that he hadn't allowed a baserunner, but then walked Brian Pointer and Art Charles dropped in a bloop single.
"I saw Mike [Givens] warming up in the eighth," he said. "With all that struggle in the last inning -- I wasn't focused enough -- I figured that was probably it. Up to that point, I was really happy with how things were going. I still was after, I guess. For me to go five 13 months out of surgery, that's good.
Hobgood knows he has a long road ahead of him, but that he's on the right track. For the first time since high school, he's been able to throw consistently in the 90s.
"I don't know what it was tonight, but I felt like I was throwing pretty hard. I know I touched 95, and maybe 96 a couple times. In other outings this year, I've touched 97," he said. "The doctor told me the velocity was more than likely going to take a year-and-a-half to return actually. So who knows? Maybe there's even more in the tank."
But Hobgood's goals remain modest, and the same that the Orioles have for him -- to pitch a full, healthy season. Beyond that, he'd love to be a starter.
"That's why they drafted me, I think, and they want me be a workhorse in the big leagues at some point," he said. "Right now, they have me as a long man, I guess you could say, and that's maybe where I need to be right now. I'd like to start again, but I realize I didn't pitch all last year, and I pitched only [37] innings in 2011. I know I have to take it slow. For the time being, working out of the bullpen, I'm having fun.
"It's been awesome. When I think about it, it's just a blessing to come back and throw pain-free, with no setbacks yet this year. I'm just glad to go out cnd compete, because that's what I love to do -- I'm a competitor."
Shane Watson, the Phillies' No. 12 prospect, improved to 3-3 with the win for Lakewood. He allowed a hit and two walks while striking out four over five scoreless innings.
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Canberrans spent much of Valentine's Day looking for ways to cool off and beat the heat as the capital sizzled through its warmest February morning so far this year on Sunday.
For those who may have struggled to sleep through Saturday night due to the heat, they weren't imagining it, as the mercury dipped to a low of just 15.6 degrees.
Weatherzone meteorologist Kim Westcott said Sunday morning's temperatures were about 2.5 degrees above average.
"It was the hottest morning so far this month, but we did have a hotter morning in January," she said.
The temperature in Canberra reached a top of 32.6 degrees on Sunday.
Ian Burrell from Gowrie chose to make the most of the wind on Sunday by casting a large 7.5 metre dolphin kite to the skies. He had only collected his new kite the previous day.
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Others chose to beat the heat in more traditional ways by taking to Canberra's water ways.
Shea Smith and his 10-year-old son Tyler were spotted paddle boarding while Leigh Baguley of Lyneham showed off his impressive wakeboarding skills on the Molonglo River.
After a hot and sunny weekend, Ms Westcott said Canberra was bracing for a cool change this week as a cold front moved up from the south.
"Eventually that will push all that heat out of Canberra unfortunately so we are looking like we are going to drop down to the mid to high 20s for the next few days and then probably start to go up around Friday," Ms Westcott said.
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Hi Fabry,Ā

This sounds similar to my problem here (http://forums.pcbsd.org/showthread.php?t=19296). Deleting the Chromium PBI and reinstallingĀ24.0.1312.57_1 (note the _1) seems to have fixed the problem. Kris explains the cause in the forum thread, but to give it a rough summation: there was a bad library hanging out in Chromium. He removed it & it seems to have fixed the issue.

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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Fabrizio Parrella <email@example.com> wrote:

Sometime the App Cafe while it is checking for updates reaches 100% cpu usage, when I go and check what is going on I see that it is trying to fetch from URLs that are not currently open from the firewall/proxy or unreachable.

 When this happens other 3 things at the same time happen too:
 Ā- Opening the AppCafe results in a grey/white page screen, seems all scrambled and no icons or anything shows, only the Top menu
 Ā- Chromium stop displaying the rendered page, the menu works, the tabs do have the icons, if I move the mouse around the "white page" I see the cursor change and if I click I do see the URL change and pages get called.
 Ā- LibreOffice and Open Office do not open right away, I have to click on them at least twice, then kill the first process and the second one open.

 Those things always happen at the same time, I am not sure if the hanging of the fetch is the cause or a symptom. ĀThe only way to recover from this status is to restart the computer. Closing/Reopening the programs do not work. ĀWhen I close the program all the processes are closed as well.

 I tried to remove the content of the /tmp folder and /var/tmp paying attention to the files needed by LXDE, but no success. ĀI even tried to remove my chromium folder thinking it was chromium the problem, but again nothing. ĀI did remove the config, uninstalled chromium, close App Cafe and the Update Manager, Āreinstalled chromium, still nothing, Log-Out and Log back in... nothing...

 I am reverting to Firefox for now, but it is a lot slower rendering the pages and I am forced to close it every few hours as the memory consumption gets too high.

 I really do not think this is a chromium issue, but most likely some library gets "messed up"

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Plastic Surgeon Offers Orthodox Jews Free Nose Jobs
What's in a nose? A Miami plastic surgeon doesn't want a big schnoz to get in the way of true love, so he's decided to offer members of his local Orthodox Jewish community free or greatly reduced nose jobs in order to increase their chances at finding a mate.
Dr. Michael Salzhauer is an Orthodox Jew, and a father of five, so he feels it's perfectly reasonable and respectable to offer the service to bad-nose-having members of his community. But others say it's rather tacky and controversial.
Big noses in the Jewish world are nothing new (um, hello!). So it stands to reason that an Orthodox Jew seeking to marry another Orthodox Jew would be well familiar with big proboscises. Explains CNN.com:
In order to qualify for the procedure: All applicants must be referred by their matchmakers, which are common in the Orthodox community. If they are younger than 18, they'll need parental consent. Financial need must be verified by a matchmaker or a rabbi. And each patient must meet criteria – medically, aesthetically and psychologically – before being deemed eligible for surgery.
Salzhauer's offer has definitely raised some eyebrows among the generally conservative Orthodox community, where plastic surgery is generally frowned upon, unless it's for medical purposes. And the American Society of Plastic Surgeons questioned whether Salzhauer was acting in an "inappropriate and offensive" way by holding what amounted to a "contest" for plastic surgery services.
But at least one member of the religious community is behind Salzhauer. "We all want to live up to our higher selves, and our higher selves don't look at the size of a cheekbone or a nose," said Rabbi Benzion Klatzko, founder of Shabbat.com, which helps find young singles places to celebrate the sabbath. "But there's a reality that exists." Klatzko notes that he's seen women overlooked by potential mates because of, he claims, unwieldy noses.
But isn't the problem, then, a culture in which both men and women lack self-acceptance and prefer a beauty ideal that isn't actually attainable? Why not instead create and define a new idea of beauty — one in which big noses are better?
Still, Salzhauer sees what he's doing as a mitzvah — or good deed — for the community. He's even created a nonprofit around his "scholarship" nose jobs, called Operation Chuppah. The name refers to the canopy used in Jewish wedding ceremonies. [CNN]
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The town of Fenwick Island, Del., is installing small solar panels on its police cars to help run the increasing amount of electronics in them.
Police use scanners, laptops and several other devices while working in the field, and those electronics usually run off the car battery. The solar panels reduce the amount of time the vehicle must idle, which extends the life of the car battery, the town's police chief said.
The solar panels have been installed on four of the town's squad cars.
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Virginia's technology agency has picked an independent auditor that will examine a weeklong computer outage in August that knocked the Department of Motor Vehicles and other agencies offline and halted government services.
The audit, which was ordered by Gov. Bob McDonnell, will be conducted by Agilisys Inc. The Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) said the audit, which began Monday, Nov. 1, could take up to three months.
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Anodin rates as terrific each-way value in the opening race of Royal Ascot, the Queen Anne Stakes, which is much more open than the bookmakers would have us believe.
Richard Hannon's Toronado is odds-on in some lists and it is fair to say that if he is in the same form as when beating Dawn Approach in the Sussex Stakes he is certainly going to be hard to topple.
However, he then attempted to step up to 10 furlongs at York but was beaten before the trip became an issue.
The only time we have seen him since then he looked pretty lacklustre in a racecourse gallop at Lingfield, after which connections decided to miss the Breeders' Cup.
He may well win, but with so many punting opportunities over the next five days, there really is no need to be piling into a short-priced favourite.
A sporting flutter on Freddy Head's only runner of the meeting instead looks the more sensible option.
A brother of the exceptional mare Goldikova and a half-brother to the Group One winner Galikova, Head knows the family better than anyone and he believes they only start coming to themselves in their fourth year.
Anodin was useful as a three-year-old but came up short in Group One company.
On his seasonal return in a Group Two he was not disgraced, but he took a considerable step forward when beaten only by the superstar Cirrus Des Aigles in the Prix d'Ispahan over a trip which may have stretched him.
Head is confident his charge has improved since then and with doubts over Soft Falling Rain and Verrazano, who disappointed more than once in the States, if he runs his race we should at least collect the each-way part of the bet.
It would not be the biggest shock in the world if War Command completely turned the 2000 Guineas form on its head in the St James's Palace Stakes.
He has over five lengths to make up on Night Of Thunder and Kingman from Newmarket but Aidan O'Brien's War Front colt looked exceptional in winning the Coventry Stakes and while he never recreated the brilliance of that performance again, he did claim the Dewhurst in gritty style.
It may just be that Ascot is the track which brings out the best in him and now we know that O'Brien's string suffered with the cough earlier in the year, there is a legitimate excuse for his mediocre Guineas run.
O'Brien may double up with the totally unexposed Guerre in the King's Stand Stakes.
While Sole Power and Shea Shea are tough cookies, they are not unbeatable and the three-year-olds Hot Streak and Guerre may be the ones to concentrate on.
Guerre is three times the price, though, and with Ryan Moore on because Joseph O'Brien cannot do the weight, it is a case of what is the better value once more.
Another War Front colt, the ground will be in his favour and he was mature enough to beat the battle-hardened Maarek on just his third ever run.
His official rating of 110, combined with his weight-for-age allowance, puts him right bang in the mix.
Moore has also picked up a nice ride in the Coventry Stakes on David Elsworth's Justice Good, who is the most experienced runner in the field.
The young colt has won three of his four starts from the front and coming from behind and there are very few question marks about him.
Mind Of Madness brings strong form to the Windsor Castle and could go off a very short price if his Yarmouth conqueror Adaay runs well in the Coventry but his powerful Qatar Racing connections rate him as their best chance of a winner this week.
The in-foal Body Language might sneak under the radar in the Ascot Stakes.
Ian Williams' mare performed admirably over a mile and a half in a competitive race at Hamilton and while this trip is a step into the unknown, that issue is applicable to half the field.
Don't Tell Annie should win the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Novice Stakes at Thirsk, while Town Crier looks the one in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden Stakes at Brighton.
Nottingham's Corporate Reliability DG Taxis Handicap can go to Naivasha, with Western Diva taken to win the IJF Text 70800 To Donate £5 Mares' Novices' Hurdle at Stratford.
ASCOT: 2.30 Anodin, 3.05 Justice Good, 3.45 Guerre, 4.25 War Command, 5.00 Body Language, 5.35 MIND OF MADNESS (NAP).
BRIGHTON: 6.00 High Tone, 6.30 Town Crier, 7.00 Tilstarr, 7.30 King Calypso, 8.00 Fairy Mist, 8.30 Shifting Star, 9.00 Avonmore Star.
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EMU uses M.U.S.I.C. to save insurance costs
YPSILANTI - A massive fire raged through Sherzer Hall March 9, 1989, causing $5.3 million in damages making it one of the most devastating blazes in Eastern Michigan University history.
While EMU's commercial insurer covered the damages and Sherzer was restored and open for business 19 months after the fire, the incident was the catalyst for the University to find a more cost-efficient coverage alternative to a commercial property carrier.
The answer was a unique consortium called the Michigan Universities Self-Insurance Corporation (MUSIC).
The consortium started in 1987 and initially covered general liability, and errors and omissions liability. Property insurance followed in October 1989, and automobile coverage was offered in 1991.
Eleven of the 15 public state universities are members who pool their resources and obtain low-cost insurance coverage. Michigan State University and the three University of Michigan campuses have chosen to "go it alone," said Dan Salk, assistant director of EMU's Risk Management Department.
Through M.U.S.I.C., EMU lowers the cost of insurance while maintaining the type of property coverage that rebuilt Sherzer Hall.
"The University is like a mini city. It's a specialized market with unique risks," said Salk. "The campus needs automobile and medical malpractice insurance, in addition to general liability, errors and omission liability and property damage."
M.U.S.I.C. works similar to an individual's automobile insurance. The institution's claim history and a deductible help determine the annual payment made by each M.U.S.I.C. member. Any claim above the deductible is covered to a maximum amount by the consortium's pool of funds. An outside commercial carrier covers a third level of payment, above M.U.S.I.C.'s maximum amount.
Long-range planning to reduce risk and keep insurance costs down through the M.U.S.I.C. consortium continues to benefit EMU today.
Last year, EMU paid $24,145 for general liability insurance as a M.U.S.I.C. member. If it had to obtain the same insurance through an outside carrier, the premium would be approximately $221,144, according to the organization's 2004-2005 Premium Benchmarking Study.
"When it started, M.U.S.I.C. was an experiment. The members didn't know whether it would work," said Salk.
But work, it did.
After approximately eight years, any funds remaining in a year's pool are eligible to be distributed to members. Dividends are determined by the premiums paid and annual loss history of each member. Since 1987, more than $1.8 million has been returned from M.U.S.I.C. to the University. In 2005 alone, $456,052 came back to EMU.
Creating an alternative to the commercial insurance market proved to be an EMU legacy of the late Mary Brooks, Salk said. Brooks was EMU's director of risk management and workers' compensation from 1978-2003. She was one of the initial forces behind M.U.S.I.C.
"EMU's goal is to efficiently utilize its funds and with M.U.S.I.C., we maintain insurance coverage for the campus, while obtaining the lowest rates possible. This was a tremendous project that Mary helped create for the University, " said Salk.
Eastern Michigan University is a public, comprehensive university that offers programs in the arts, sciences and professions. EMU prepares students with the intellectual skills and practical experiences to succeed in their careers and lives, and to be better citizens.
Eastern Michigan University is a public, comprehensive university that offers programs in the arts, sciences and professions. EMU prepares students with the intellectual skills and practical experiences to succeed in their career and lives, and to be better citizens.
Editor's Note: Looking for an expert source for a story? Check out EMU's Eastern Experts online at www.emich.edu/univcomm/easternexperts.
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