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Barns/Grounds
Feed/Supplements
Grooming/Tack
Stable Management Extra
Stephanie Stephens
It feels a little like being stood up on a date: "Oh, no! Another no-show (sigh)." When students don't appear at their appointed time, it's aggravating, but most important, it's a bruise to your bottom line. Never forget: You have a service that they want, and your time is money.
Don't get mad—take steps now to ensure chronic abusers of your lesson policies are kept in check. After all, this is your business, your livelihood, and it's really nothing personal when you have to lay down the lesson law.
What does the oldest continuously operated stable in America do? Sharon Halley at English-discipline Claremont Riding Academy in New York City explains: "When people book, we notify them that we have a 24-hour cancellation policy, even if they want to change a lesson or move it. We take the name, a credit card number and phone number. They're fine with it as long as you tell them up front." Folks in Manhattan have never been prone to beating around the bush.
Post your cancellation policy on your Internet site where all can see it. At multifaceted, English-focused Potomac Horse Center in Gaithersburg, Md., Shailla Cardon happily directs inquiries to the Web where the policy prominently resides. Its specifics: Cancellations must be made 24 hours in advance in order to be eligible for a make-up lesson. In case of illness, make-ups will be scheduled upon receipt of a doctor's note. No more than two cancellations may be used per session. Make-ups are the student's responsibility and must be scheduled within 30 days of the cancellation or that lesson is forfeited. Make-up lessons are not guaranteed, but subject to availability and must be made up within current series dates. Students arriving more than 15 minutes late (10 minutes for 1/2 hour class) will not be permitted to join the lesson and will not be eligible for a make-up lesson.
Does this work? "It doesn't work when people 'forget' that we do it,"?says Cardon. "When we remind them that the rules are posted, we still hear, 'Oh, really???' "
Since nobody's perfect, Laura Hall implements a three-strikes-and-you're-out rule at her new Ashbrooke Equestrian Center in Aiken, S. C. It's her way of dealing with a group of mommies "who always call and say, 'She just got off the bus and she's sick.' You know the ones, habitual cancellers at the last minute," says Hall. "I also get really irritated when I have the lesson horse tacked up and ready, or maybe I've had to turn down another client because the lesson was full."
Hall, who teaches dressage, combined training and hunting, is nonetheless as flexible as she can be. She encourages purchase of six- or eight-lesson packages, as it affords students more control and "is easier for committed kids who ride on a regular basis." If the student calls late morning for an afternoon lesson, he or she will usually receive the benefit of the doubt, says Hall, who charges $50 for privates at 45 minutes. Her policy, too, is clearly posted on her site to eliminate confusion, but as in all businesses, exceptions can be made depending upon the situation: "Your instincts will frequently guide you," she says.
Web Feats
It's easier to stand your ground if you make your policy clear from the get-go. "When you start—and sign your liability and other forms—you are given a lesson policy sheet," says Jennifer Hallmann of Windermere Equestrian, a hunter/jumper facility in Clinton Township, Wisc. Go to the barn's website and click on "Barn Policies," and it couldn't be more specific, eliminating "I didn't know" as an excuse.
"If 'they didn't know' when information has been communicated, I shouldn't have to pay for that," says Hallmann, with 24 years at her location. "Stand up your dentist, your doctor? You'll pay, and I can't recreate that hour of time for you. I'll stand around for 15 minutes and wonder where you are, and because I teach a certain number of hours per day, every minute is valuable to me. I'm a skilled tradesperson and I?should be compensated for that time."
Hallmann has heard all the excuses and admits she's evolved to deflect the different excuses she's been given through the years. She knows that when she "bends" for one, two more will ask her to do the same for them.
"I've heard 'Grandma died' six times and 'Susie's sick,' when really she had an overnight with friends and doesn't want to get up," says Hallmann.
A little advance communication can go a long way. According to Monique Smith, instructor at 90-acre Angus Valley Stables, Bethlehem, Ga., where Western, English and trail riding prevail, e-mailing can be a very effective tool. This organized teacher sends out her weekly lesson schedule Sunday night and requests confirmation by noon on Tuesday for upcoming lessons, which may total 40 weekly. "If they don't respond, they're not locked in," says Smith. "If they cancel within four hours, it's a $20 fee; less than four hours and they owe the full price. At a fine restaurant, if you make a reservation and don't show, you pay. This is a business, too."
Smith is "full" in summer, and plans her calendar a month in advance, including notifying students when she's going on vacation, as they do with her. It's tough, Smith admits, when a child really wants to learn and the parents don't communicate or are disorganized about lesson fulfillment.
Catering to the Numbers
South Ponderosa Stables in Phoenix, Ariz., offers trail, breakfast and cookout rides as well as lessons, and only charges cancellation fees for some ride-and-dine outings. Fifty percent deposits are mandatory for rides for 10 people or more and the stable collects a 25 percent deposit on cookout rides, but they rarely see cancellations when it comes to these culinary adventures. Manager Katharine Lloyd says that "99 percent of the time we reschedule. In the rare case that a reschedule is not possible, we do refund deposits...when receiving a very good reason." For simple trail rides, South Ponderosa operates on a first-come, first-served basis, so cancellations are largely not an issue—selling out is. And because people need to reserve the sunset and dinner rides, they are far less likely to pull a disappearing act.
One issue, points out Lloyd, is that the stable only has "certain numbers of horses that will accommodate certain weight groups. We are careful to get weights of all riders and are sold out when we reach that particular group's number."
The Individual Approach
Complete with mountaintop views and 150 acres, Grove River Riding Stables & Retreat in Gillsville, Ga., hosts plenty of semi-private and group lessons, and isn't discipline-specific, co-owner Cindy Farmer says. "Horse care and education are the focus, along with 4-H and youth programs.
"You have to bend the rules sometimes and everything does have an 'individual' approach to it." She honors a standing schedule week-to-week and if a student doesn't call or show up, "they lose that spot if someone else wants it—unless they have a really good reason."
When a client no-shows a second time for a private, "they don't get another lesson until they pay for that second no-show. Everyone is told this when they start here."
As all of these professionals have found, when it comes to the business, it is best to make the policies, disseminate them and stick by them. To get clients to respect your time and bottom line, you must make every attempt to make the rules clear. But never forget, your clients aren't as easily controlled as your horses—people are only human, after all.
The No-Show Problem
In tough economic times, horse show attendance can be negatively affected. Here are a few ways to keep people coming.
To The Show We Go
As show season gears up, ever wonder if you are charging the right amount to go on the road with clients? We asked a few professionals.
Deal Or No Deal?
Finding a reputable horse dealer is not always easy.
No Trainer Is an Island
How much of a role do politics play in the horse world... and how should you play them?
Putting on a Show
Spring is around the corner and many barns will be kicking off their show season. Here's a look at how some barns run successful events.
Have No Fear
Do you have a young horse or a new client with a skittish mount? Here are a few tips for bombproofing those flighty animals.
50 Shades of No
Whether you are a boarding farm seeking specific clients, or a stable looking for that one special trainer, sometimes people tell you no. But all "NOs" are not created equal. What you do after they say "no" can make the difference in a future "Yes!"
The "Terrible Teens"
Ah, teenagers. So full of life, promise…and problems. Here are some ways to curb the drama at your barn.
How to Turn No into Yes


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UK MoD awards contract for two fast patrol boats
The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded a £9.9m contract to Merseyside-based Marine Specialised Technology (MST) for the delivery of two new fast patrol boats for the Royal Navy's Gibraltar squadron.
Marine Specialised Technology wins contract for the delivery of two new patrol boats for Royal Navy's Gibraltar squadron. Credit: Royal Navy.
The six-year contract will support 30 jobs and create 25 additional employment opportunities.
Work under the contract is expected to take around 18 months, with construction scheduled to commence this month at MST's boatyard on Merseyside.
Delivery of the first boat is expected in the third quarter period of fiscal year 2021/22, while the second boat will be delivered in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022/23.
The remainder of the contract will offer four years of local in-service support.
New vessels will be used to patrol HMNB Gibraltar and British Gibraltar Territorial Waters (BGTW).
Supporting the Royal Navy's exercises and operations, the boats will closely monitor Gibraltar's shores.
UK Defence Minister Jeremy Quin said: "These new vessels will enable the Royal Navy to maintain the security of British Gibraltar Territorial Waters and protect British, Nato and allied ships transiting through the region.
"This contract will also support highly skilled jobs across the UK, which clearly demonstrates how national security and regional prosperity go hand in hand."
The boats will provide force protection to vessels visiting UK and allied military vessels.
Once delivered, the boats will replace the Gibraltar Squadron Fast Patrol Craft, HMS Pursuer and Dasher.
HMS Pursuer and Dasher were Archer-class vessels that recently took over from Scimitar-class vessels HMS SABRE and HMS SCIMITAR, which were in service in Gibraltar for 17 years.
HMS Pursuer and Dasher are 19m boats that can move at speeds of up to 40kn. Armed with three machine-guns, each boat can carry a crew of six, along with up to six passengers.
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Due to Government Shutdown, California Humanities Suspends All Arts Grants
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Julie Fry, president and CEO of California Humanities: 'We're making do with what paper towels we already have.' (Terry Lorant / Courtesy California Humanities )
Last year, California Humanities issued more than $1 million in grants to artists and cultural organizations.
But now, the National Endowment for the Humanities' state partner has suspended grant-making indefinitely as the historic federal government shutdown nears its sixth week.
The independent nonprofit, which has offices in Oakland and Los Angeles, is operating on an "austerity basis," CEO Julie Fry told KQED, unable to release even already awarded grants.
In the final two months of 2018, California Humanities awarded more than 30 grants totaling approximately $350,000. But the release of the funds, in some cases expected to occur this month, is now delayed. Likewise, interim and final payments of earlier grants are on pause until further notice.
Claudio Roncoli a recipient of an award from the National Endowment for the Arts works in his studio space at the Bakehouse Art Complex on March 16, 2017 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
"We will resume payments as soon as the government reopens, the federal budget is approved, and the NEH recommences payments to the state humanities councils," Fry told grant recipients and hopefuls in an email sent on Friday. "At this point, we are unsure how long this process will take."
Fry said the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) contributes a "significant portion" of California Humanities' grant-making budget. Last year California Humanities awarded just over $1,030,000 to 98 projects statewide in categories such as documentary filmmaking and library innovation. Now, though, the organization is pausing even travel and office expenses.
"We're making do with what paper towels we already have," Fry said.
The Museum of the African Diaspora. (Courtesy of the Museum of the African Diaspora)
Across the country, the National Gallery of Art as well as 19 Smithsonian museums are closed due to the shutdown. Their employees are among an estimated 800,000 federal workers furloughed or otherwise deprived of at least one paycheck during the holiday season.
The government shutdown, now the longest in history as President Donald Trump demands billions for a southern border wall that he'd promised Mexico would pay for, has also shuttered both the national endowments for the arts and humanities, which together disburse nearly $300 million nationwide each year.
For Bay Area artists and cultural nonprofits reliant on the national endowments, either directly or through state-level groups such as the California Arts Council and California Humanities, the shutdown has destabilized an already precarious ecosystem. (A spokesperson for the California Arts Council said the shutdown has yet to impact its grant-making, noting that the agency plans to issue 2019 awards at the end of June.) Yet even if the government reboots tomorrow, arts figures tell KQED, the consequences will be felt for the rest of the year.
The shutdown is also a reminder of Trump's threats to cut the national endowments altogether. Last year, the NEA issued $1.7 million to Bay Area arts groups.
Kronos Quartet. (Wojciech Wandzel)
For small to medium-size arts organizations such as the Kronos Quartet's Kronos Performing Arts Association, the NEA shutdown is a major source of anxiety. Kronos development manager Mason Dille said he doesn't know when to expect reimbursement for NEA-supported projects, and his agency contacts simply aren't at work to field questions. "Any delay in the application process now might impact the work we are able to do far into the 2019-20 season," he said.
NEA workers aren't just funders—they're researchers and advocates with a nationwide mandate, often providing resources to remote or disinvested areas. Dille pointed out that agency staff couldn't participate in several major annual arts conferences this month, calling it a "missed opportunity that will resonate across the country for the entire year."
James Leventhal, interim director and chief development officer at Smithsonian affiliate Museum of the African Diaspora, said he hasn't heard from his furloughed national colleagues for the past three weeks. As a Smithsonian affiliate, MoAD is one of some 200 resource-sharing museums. So the lack of communication could jeopardize events such as a mid-February concert for local middle-school students featuring the Smithsonian Museum Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.
Leventhal also stressed the geographic scope of the national endowments. "When you hear about the real work of the NEA, that real work is about making sure culture is reaching every single corner of this nation," he said, likening the agencies' shutdown to a "moratorium on culture."
The History Museum of the Museums of Sonoma County is among several Smithsonian affiliates in the Bay Area. (Museums of Sonoma County)
Although the national endowments are still accepting grant applications, organization leaders can't communicate with the agencies as deadlines near, and the ultimate effect on processing time is unclear. "I'm working on a NEA grant and we're concerned that the Feb. 5 deadline for filing is quickly approaching," said Jeff Nathanson, executive director of Museums of Sonoma County.
And Eric Stanley, Museums of Sonoma County's associate director and curator of history, said preparation for an upcoming "Pacific World"-themed exhibition has nearly ground to a halt. "Two of the main archives I had been talking to about lending objects and collaborating on the exhibition were SF Maritime Museum and Point Reyes, both national parks," he said. "Unfortunately it looks like the shutdown will completely prevent me from working with either."
At the bottom line, the national endowment shutdown is interrupting cash flow, especially for nonprofits with little reserves. Roberto Bedoya, Oakland's cultural affairs manager, said last year the NEA supported his department's development of the city's Cultural Plan, sending a check within a month of receiving his invoice.
"Now that's not happening," Bedoya said, adding that some nonprofits in the Bay Area, with its astronomical overhead, are a grant or two away from folding.
"Especially for marginalized communities, rural communities—the shutdown is part of this administration's larger disinvestment in the public good," Bedoya said. "As we knew, arts and culture aren't their priority."
"The shutdown is part of this administration's larger disinvestment in the public good," says Roberto Bedoya, Oakland's cultural affairs manager. (Karen Boyd/City of Oakland)
The national endowments, like the southern border wall, have themselves been points of federal budgeting contention for Trump. In both 2017 and 2018, Trump proposed eliminating the agencies entirely before Congress intervened. The NEA and NEH are a minuscule fraction of the budget, and governments of most developed countries vastly outspend the United States on arts and culture.
At this point, Fry said, the subject of elimination feels unsurprising. "It comes up on a cyclical basis—cultural agencies are on the table," she said. On the other hand, Congress recently proposed raising the allocation to the National Endowment for the Humanities, subject to Trump's signature.
"We'll have to wait for the president's approval of that when the government reopens," Fry said.
KQED's Sarah Hotchkiss, Gabe Meline, Nastia Voynovskaya and Chloe Veltman contributed to this report.


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I found the answer here. Yes it depends on underlying DB.
How to ignore database tablename case-sensitivity using Spring's JdbcTemplate?

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In a previous Incubator post, our colleagues pointed out that leading effective focus groups for implementation research requires clarity about the critical topics to explore. Our experience conducting the focus groups for our evaluation of PowerTeaching illustrates how we targeted a few key topics while at the same time encouraging conversational flow. We prepared a framework in advance to help us analyze the information we gathered during the sessions.
Overall, our implementation research was asking whether the program, a version of "cooperative learning," had been implemented as designed, and what kinds of relevant activities were occurring in schools that did not receive the program.
In practice, cooperative learning may be simply "group work" that involves seating students in groups and asking them to work together, sometimes assigning a unique role and responsibilities to each student in the group. Yet cooperative learning as defined by the developers of PowerTeaching — the Success for All Foundation — specifically means that groups exhibit team interdependence. The key elements are team recognition, individual accountability, and equal opportunities for success: Teachers give student teams recognition for good collaboration and academic work, and, critically, they use random reporting, calling randomly on team members. This method gives the team incentives to collaborate to make sure that every member is involved and ready to respond.
How were teachers defining cooperative learning?
How were teachers using cooperative learning, and why?
Did teachers at the same school use cooperative learning in the same way?
How did students respond to and engage with cooperative learning?
How did teachers' implementation of PowerTeaching differ from typical group work?
We wanted to learn about how cooperative learning actually occurred in classrooms, but the project budget did not allow for direct classroom observation in multiple schools at multiple times. We examined the project's logic model and the options for data collection and determined that focus groups were essential to inform us about what cooperative learning looked like across the schools in the sample.
In developing the focus group protocol, we wanted to zero in on the extent to which teachers using cooperative learning were facilitating team interdependence. But by its nature, cooperative learning is a very complex practice with overlapping parts. It is hard to have a conversation about one of those parts without also talking about another part. So we needed a protocol that allowed the discussion to move between topical buckets, rather than a protocol that sounded like a survey and forced the discussion to move in a line from one topic to the next.
We developed a one-page protocol with several layers (see figure below), beginning with an icebreaker question about classroom layout meant to get at whether teachers grouped their students, followed by questions and probes related to the three big themes — team recognition, individual accountability, and equal opportunities for success. Our overall research question appears near the bottom of the figure, and the protocol ends with a question that asks teachers to share their personal opinions about their experiences implementing the program.
Creating and using this figure helped us in several ways. First, while developing it, we were challenged to articulate the central questions that needed to be addressed during the sessions. This helped us conceptualize how cooperative learning might manifest in different schools. Having this exhibit in our minds during the focus group sessions also changed the way that we conducted the groups: We were better able to navigate the protocol, using comments from participants, than we had been in our prior work when we had lists of questions. And the protocol enabled us to focus on depth, not breadth, in collecting information. Participants did most of the talking and the conversation did not feel contrived, but we could bring the focus back to the key questions when needed, and we had a sense throughout of where information was richest and where it was leanest.
The protocol fed into our coding, starting with the three "parent codes" for team recognition, individual accountability, and equal opportunities for success. We then created "child codes" based on themes that emerged from a first round of reviewing transcripts. For example, for the equal opportunities for success parent code, we created child codes that captured whether the teacher discussed (a) creating mixed ability groups, (b) setting team goals, and (c) assigning team roles as part of the effort to create equal opportunities for success. We then used a weight system to flag whether the teacher's description of these themes was positive (weight of 2), neutral (weight of 1), or negative (weight of zero). Our coding team had three coders, each specializing in one parent code and gaining expertise in that part of the implementation story.
When Is a One-Page Protocol for Focus Groups Appropriate?
Using this kind of one-page protocol is unlikely to work well when focus group facilitators are inexperienced or do not have a deep understanding of the implementation context or of the study priorities. And it's not appropriate if the focus group sessions are a last-resort source of information for questions better answered with surveys or other data. This kind of approach works best when the focus groups are part of a broader information collection strategy for implementation research and when the sessions can inform a particular aspect of the intervention in depth.
Rappaport, Shelley, and Kelly Granito. 2018. "Focusing Focus Groups: A 'One-Page Protocol' Approach." Implementation Research Incubator (blog), November. https://www.mdrc.org/publication/focusing-focus-groups.


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1. Make sure Gnome settings app is not open
2. Copy the new `.mim` file(s) to either `~/.m17n.d/` (user local) or `/usr/share/m17n/` (global)
3. Make sure they have the correct permissions set,
    i.e. `644` like the other files
4. restart all IBus daemons (According to [the Internet](https://askubuntu.com/a/656243)),
    e.g. using `pgrep ibus | xargs kill`
5. Open Gnome settings
    1. Go to "Region & Language"
    2. Under "Input Sources", press the "+" button
    3. In the modal window, select your newly added language variant.
        Note that it might be grouped by the main language,
        e.g., you might need to click on "Swedish (Sweden)" first,
        and then select the specific variant like "Swedish (test (m17n))".
    4. Confirm with "Add"
    5. You can test the keyboard layout by clicking on the "eye" icon
        next to the language in the list
6. The language should show up global menu bar's language selection.
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## Definitions

IME: Input method engine

IBus:
- "Intelligent Input Bus"
- Linux-based IME for non-Latin characters.
- Think typing chinese characters using a US keyboard: You type the phonetic spelling and get suggestions for characters on the screen to choose from.
- cf. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Input_Bus), [ArchWiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IBus)
- [source](https://github.com/ibus/ibus)

M17n:
- abbr. of "multilingualization"
- implementation and database of locales and input methods
- [ibus-m17n](https://github.com/ibus/ibus-m17n) uses this as a source for IBus
- cf. [nongnu.org/m17n](https://www.nongnu.org/m17n/)
- library represents multilingual text as an object named M-text and has functions to deal with them

M-Text:
- "M-text is a string with attributes called text properties, and designed to substitute for string in C" ([nongnu.org/m17n](https://www.nongnu.org/m17n/))

## Interesting findings

### What language codes in `mim` files are used

It appears that they follow [ISO 639][iso639],
in an interesting way:

- For many languages, the two letter codes from ISO 639-1 are used
- For languages that are not in 639-1, they "fall back" to the newer version, ISO 639-2.

[iso639]: https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php

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Ma Zhanshan (chinois simplifié = 马占山, chinois traditionnel = 馬占山, pinyin = Mǎ Zhànshān, Wade-Giles = Ma Chan-shan) ou Ma Chan-san ( – ) est un général chinois musulman qui s'opposa à l'armée impériale japonaise durant l'invasion de la Mandchourie de 1931, puis se rallia brièvement au Mandchoukouo avant de se rebeller et de retourner combattre les Japonais en Mandchourie et dans d'autres régions de la Chine.

Son nom musulman est Muazzam Husain (حسین لمعظم).

Biographie

Jeunesse
Ma est né à Gongzhuling dans la province du Jilin, dans une pauvre famille de bergers. À 20 ans, il devient garde de sécurité du comté de Huaide. Il est promu en tant que garde moniteur du  de sécurité pour sa bonne adresse au tir et à l'équitation, par Wu Junsheng, commandant de la patrouille routière de Tianhou et du bataillon de défense de Mukden en 1908.

Selon certaines sources occidentales, Ma Zhanshan est né au Liaoning en 1887. Beaucoup d'autres indiquent cependant 1885.

En 1913, Ma est nommé major et commandant de la , du , et de la  de l'armée centrale de cavalerie dans l'armée de terre de la République de Chine. En 1920, il est promu colonel et rejoint son mentor, le seigneur de guerre Wu Junsheng.

Il commence sa carrière militaire dans l'armée du Nord-Est de Zhang Zuolin, servant en tant que commandant de la  de cavalerie, de la  de cavalerie, puis en tant que brigadier de la  d'infanterie de l'armée du Heilongjiang. Après la mort de Zhang en 1928, Ma est nommé commandant chargé de la suppression des bandits du Heilongjiang, et commandant-en-chef de la cavalerie de la province en 1928.

Des documents diplomatiques britanniques le décrivent comme l'un des militaires « bandits » qui n'ont reçu ni entraînement, ni apprentissage, ni instruction.

L'invasion de la Mandchourie

Après l'incident de Mukden de 1931, lorsque l'armée japonaise du Guandong envahit les provinces du Liaoning et du Jilin, le gouverneur du Heilongjiang, Wan Fulin, était parti à Pékin sans confier à personne la tâche d'organiser la défense contre les Japonais. Zhang Xueliang télégraphie au gouvernement de Nankin pour demander des instructions, avant de nommer Ma Zhanshan au poste de gouverneur et commandant-en-chef de la province du Heilongjiang le . Ma arrive à la capitale Qiqihar le  et prend sa fonction le lendemain. Il organise des conseils militaires et inspecte personnellement les défenses tout en affrontant des personnalités intérieures appelant à la reddition, il disait : « J'ai été nommé président de la province, et j'ai la responsabilité de défendre la province et je n'ai jamais été un général qui se rend ».

Les troupes japonaises ne cessent de demander de réparer le pont de la rivière Nen, qui avait été dynamité auparavant lors de troubles civils pour empêcher un seigneur de guerre rival d'avancer. Ces demandes sont refusées par Ma Zhanshan et les Japonais envoient eux-mêmes une équipe de réparation escortée par . Près de  les attendent au pont et une échauffourée appelée la « résistance au pont de la rivière Nen » s'ensuit. Chaque camp accuse l'autre d'avoir ouvert le feu sans sommation, et c'est ainsi que commence la campagne de Jiangqiao. Bien qu'ayant été forcé de retirer ses troupes face aux tanks et à l'artillerie japonaises, Mace devient un héros national pour sa résistance aux Japonais, qui est reportée dans la presse chinoise et internationale. Ting Chao et d'autres commandant hauts gradés suivent l'exemple de Ma à Harbin et partout ailleurs, et son succès inspire les Chinois de Mandchourie d'aider ou de s'enrôler dans ses forces. Le , Ma évacue Qiqihar. Cependant, après que le général Ting Chao ait été chassé de Harbin, les forces de Ma subissent de lourdes pertes et sont très vite repoussées au-delà de la frontière soviétique.

Ma appelle à l'aide par télégramme la société des Nations contre les Japonais. $ sont envoyés par la communauté chinoise des États-Unis pour l'aider dans la lutte.

Au service du Mandchoukouo
Du fait de sa célébrité et de ses efforts héroïques pour résister à l'invasion japonaise de la Mandchourie, le colonel Kenji Doihara offre à Ma Zhanshan une énorme somme de $ en or pour rejoindre la nouvelle armée impériale du Mandchoukouo. Ma accepte, et propose de faire le tour de la région pour réconcilier la population locale avec le nouveau gouvernement. Il est à Shenyang en  pour assister à la proclamation de l'État du Mandchoukouo, largement contrôlé par l'empire du Japon. Ma est malade à cette époque, ce qui lui permet d'éviter de signer la déclaration d'indépendance du Mandchoukouo. Il assiste à la cérémonie d'intronisation de Puyi en tant qu'empereur du Mandchoukouo en mars de la même année, et est nommé ministre de la Guerre et gouverneur du Heilongjiang. Les Japonais ne font cependant pas totalement confiance en Ma, et (comme pour d'autres fonctionnaires du Mandchoukouo) il doit demander l'accord de ses conseillers japonais avant d'engager toutes actions dans sa province.

Le général Ma décide secrètement de se rebeller contre les Japonais et utilise de grandes sommes d'argent japonais pour former et équiper sa nouvelle force de volontaires. Il achemine discrètement des armes et des munitions hors des arsenaux et met en sécurité les femmes et les familles de ses hommes. Le , il sort de Qiqihar avec ses hommes pour un supposé tour d'inspection. Cependant, le , à Heihe, il annonce le rétablissement du gouvernement provincial du Heilongjiang, et son indépendance du Mandchoukouo. Ma réorganise ses troupes en 9 brigades au début de mai, et forme 11 autres troupes de volontaires à Buxi, Gannan, Keshan, Kedong et ailleurs. Cette force est appelée l'« armée du salut national anti-japonaise du Nord-Est » et Ma s'en nomme commandant-en-chef nominal, tout comme celui des autres armées de volontaires anti-japonaises de la région, commandant une armée totale d'environ  au plus haut de sa force.

Les unités de Ma organisent des embuscades le long des principales routes et Malmènent les troupes du Japon et du Mandchoukouo dans plusieurs engagements. Lors d'une campagne offensive, l'armée japonaise du Guandong parvient à encercler et détruire l'armée de Ma. Ses troupes réussissent, malgré de lourdes pertes préalables, à s'échapper du fait de la passivité des troupes du Mandchoukouo. En septembre, Ma Zhanshan arrive à Longmen et entre en contact avec l'armée du salut national de Heilungkiang de Su Bingwen. Lors d'une campagne offensive,  et hommes du Mandchoukouo forcent Ma Zhanshan et Su Bingwen à se retirer au-delà de la frontière avec l'Union soviétique en décembre. La plupart de ses troupes sont alors déplacées vers la province de Rehe.

Ma Zhanshan prend ensuite le commandement de  combattants de guérilla contre les Japonais, qui attaquent entre autres le trésor du Mandchoukouo, Changchun, la capitale, et dérobent six avions japonais sur un terrain d'aviation.

Ma perturbe tellement les opérations japonais que lorsque son équipement et son cheval sont capturés, les Japonais les présentent à l'empereur à Tokyo en affirmant qu'il est enfin mort. Ils enragent lorsqu'ils découvrent qu'il a survécu et qu'il s'est échappé. Un journal chinois mentionne que « la persistance avec laquelle les télégrammes japonais réitèrent et insistent sur le fait que le général Ma Chan-san est mort frôle le comique ». Les Japonais, continuent pendant plusieurs mois, d'inventer différentes versions de la mort supposée de Ma Zhanshan.

Après sa fuite, ses hommes continuent le combat, terrorisant les Japonais. Ils capturent 350 otages japonais et coréens et les retiennent pendant des semaines, et enlèvent des étrangers comme le fils d'un général britannique ou la femme d'un exécutif américain.

Durant la seconde guerre sino-japonaise
Ma reste à l'étranger un certain moment, en Union soviétique, en Allemagne ou en Italie fasciste, et ne rentre en Chine qu'en .

Il est l'un des commandants supposés de l'armée soviétique pendant la , durant laquelle il combat contre son coreligionnaire musulman, le général Ma Hushan. Il est rapporté qu'il mène une troupe russe déguisé avec des uniformes chinois, en plus de bombardiers, durant l'attaque, qui avait été demandé par Sheng Shicai. D'autres sources ne mentionnent pas cette participation incertaine de Ma Zhanshan dans ce conflit, puisqu'il est commandant-en-chef de la cavalerie de l'armée nationale révolutionnaire en Chine en 1937.

Il demande à Tchang Kaï-chek des troupes pour combattre les Japonais mais celui-ci lui refuse. Ma s'installe ensuite à Tianjin jusqu'en octobre 1936 lorsque Tchang Kaï-chek l'envoie soudainement combattre les communistes dans la guerre civile chinoise. Se trouvant à Xi'an au moment de l'« incident de Xi'an », il suggère à Zhang Xueliang de ne pas tuer Tchang Kaï-chek pendant que le pays est encore en guerre et signe la « déclaration de la situation politique actuelle » rédigée par Zhang Xueliang et Yang Hucheng. Zhang Xueliang nomme Ma Zhanshan au poste de commandant-en-chef de l'« armée du groupe de cavalerie anti-japonaise pour aider le Suiyuan », qui est dissoute lorsque Zhang Xueliang est placé en détention par Tchang Kaï-chek.

Après l'incident du pont Marco Polo de 1937, Ma Zhanshan est nommé commandant-en-chef de la force avancée du Nord-Est responsable des quatre provinces de Mandchourie, le Liaoning, le Jilin, le Heilongjiang et le Rehe. Ma Zhanshan établi un quartier-général à Datong en  et mène ses troupes contre les Japonais dans les provinces du Cháhāěr, Suiyuan, Datong et Shanxi et il coopère avec les troupes de Fu Zuoyi dans la défense de Suiyuan et pendant la guerre du Yinshan.

Ma Zhanshan enrage contre la politique de non-résistance du Kuomintang et rejoint le Parti communiste chinois dans sa politique anti-japonaise. Il se rend à Yan'an en 1939 afin de négocier un compromis avec l'Armée rouge chinoise. Ma Zhanshan est nommé président du gouvernement provincial du Heilongjiang en  par le Parti communiste, et conserve ce poste en secret jusqu'à la fin de la guerre.

Après la défaite du Japon en 1945, le Kuomintang nomme Ma Zhanshan au poste de commandant de la sécurité du Nord-Est. Il s'installe alors à Shenyang, mais se retire un an et demi plus tard dans sa maison de Pékin en déclarant être malade. Il se rallie au parti communiste en janvier 1949 après avoir persuadé le général Fu Zuoyi d'autoriser les communistes à capturer la ville sans effusion de sang. Après la fondation de la République populaire de Chine, le président Mao Zedong l'invite à assister à la conférence consultative politique du peuple chinois de , mais il ne peut s'y rendre à cause de son état de santé et il meurt la même année le  à Pékin.

Voir aussi
 Défense de Harbin
 Pacification du Mandchoukouo

Références

Bibliographie

 * (fr) Bruno Birolli, Ishiwara, l'homme qui déclencha la guerre, Arte Editions/Armand Colin, 2012; Amazon.com (2019)

Liens externes

 Ma Zhanshan avec photo
 The volunteer armies of northeast China

Naissance en novembre 1885
Décès en novembre 1950
Résistance au Mandchoukouo
Hui
Général du Kuomintang
Personnalité chinoise de la Seconde Guerre mondiale

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Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 234 / Thursday, December 5, 2013 / Notices 73197 ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES Number of respondents Instrument Number of responses per respondent Average burden hours per response Total burden hours APSR ............................................................................................................. CFSP ............................................................................................................. CFS–101, Parts I, II, and III .......................................................................... Caseworker Visits .......................................................................................... 232 232 232 52 1 1 1 1 76.58 120.25 4.38 99.33 17,766.56 27,898 1,016.16 5,165.16 Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: .................................................. ........................ ........................ ........................ 51,845.88 In compliance with the requirements of Section 506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the information collection described above. Copies of the proposed collection of information can be obtained and comments may be forwarded by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. Email address: infocollection@ acf.hhs.gov. 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Based on a March 1, 2010, estimate provided by the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (75 FR 49495 at 49496), we estimated that approximately 900 new OTC drug product stock keeping units (SKUs) are introduced to the marketplace each year. We estimated that these SKUs are marketed by 300 manufacturers. We estimated that the preparation of labeling for new OTC drug products would require 12 hours to prepare, complete, and review prior to submitting the new labeling to us. Based on this estimate, the annual reporting burden for this type of labeling is approximately 10,800 hours. OTC sunscreen products were previously not included in our consideration of the burden to comply with the Drug Facts labeling requirements in § 201.66. We specifically exempted OTC sunscreen products from complying with the 1999 labeling final rule until we lifted the stay of the sunscreen final rule published in the Federal Register of May 21,1999 (64 FR 27666). 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FDA estimates the current burden of this collection of information as follows: TABLE 1—ESTIMATED ANNUAL THIRD-PARTY DISCLOSURE BURDEN 1 Number of respondents 21 CFR Section Number of disclosures per respondent Total annual disclosures Average burden per disclosure Total hours ehiers on DSK2VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES 201.66(c) and (d) for new OTC drug products .................... 201.66(c) and (d) for new OTC sunscreen products .......... 201.66(e) .............................................................................. 300 20 1 3 3 0.125 900 60 0.125 12 12 24 10,800 720 3 Total .............................................................................. ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ 11,523 1 There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of information. set forth in § 201.66(d)(1) and (d)(9) and, therefore, qualify for the labeling modifications currently set forth in § 201.66(d)(10) (67 FR 16304 at 16306). The Agency issued this delay in order to develop VerDate Mar<15>2010 13:57 Dec 04, 2013 Jkt 232001 additional rulemaking for these ''convenience size'' products (December 12, 2006; 71 FR 74474). These products are not currently subject to the requirements of § 201.66. PRA approval for any PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 requirements to which they may be subject in the future will be handled in a separate rulemaking. E:\FR\FM\05DEN1.SGM 05DEN1 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 234 / Thursday, December 5, 2013 / Notices Dated: November 29, 2013. Leslie Kux, Assistant Commissioner for Policy. [FR Doc. 2013–29079 Filed 12–4–13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4160–01–P DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Food and Drug Administration [Docket No. FDA–2013–D–1464] Draft Guidance for Industry on Bioequivalence Studies With Pharmacokinetic Endpoints for Drugs Submitted Under an Abbreviated New Drug Application; Availability AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS. ACTION: Notice. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled ''Bioequivalence Studies With Pharmacokinetic Endpoints for Drugs Submitted Under an ANDA.'' This guidance provides recommendations to applicants planning to include bioequivalence (BE) information in abbreviated new drug applications (ANDAs) and ANDA supplements. The guidance describes how to meet the BE requirements set forth in FDA regulations. The guidance is applicable to dosage forms intended for oral administration and to non-orally administered drug products in which reliance on systemic exposure measures is suitable for documenting BE. The guidance will be especially useful when planning BE studies intended to be conducted during the postapproval period for certain changes in an ANDA. DATES: Although you can comment on any guidance at any time (see 21 CFR 10.115(g)(5)), to ensure that the Agency considers your comment on this draft guidance before it begins work on the final version of the guidance, submit either electronic or written comments on the draft guidance by March 5, 2014. ADDRESSES: Submit written requests for single copies of the draft guidance to the Division of Drug Information, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 51, rm. 2201, Silver Spring, MD 20993–0002. Send one self-addressed adhesive label to assist that office in processing your requests. See the SUPPLEMENTARY ehiers on DSK2VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Mar<15>2010 16:54 Dec 04, 2013 Jkt 232001 INFORMATION section for electronic access to the draft guidance document. Submit electronic comments to http://www.regulations.gov. Submit written comments on the draft guidance to the Division of Dockets Management (HFA–305), Food and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Teresa Ramson, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 7520 Standish Pl., Rockville, MD 20855, 240–402–3870. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background FDA is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled ''Bioequivalence Studies With Pharmacokinetic Endpoints for Drugs Submitted Under an ANDA.'' The guidance is applicable to dosage forms intended for oral administration, including tablets, capsules, solutions, suspensions, conventional/immediate release, and modified (extended, delayed) release drug products, and to non-orally administered drug products in which reliance on systemic exposure measures is suitable for documenting BE (e.g., transdermal delivery systems and certain rectal and nasal drug products). This guidance revises parts of the guidances to industry on ''Bioavailability and Bioequivalence Studies for Orally Administered Drug Products—General Considerations,'' and ''Food-Effect Bioavailability and Fed Bioequivalence Studies Relating to BE studies in ANDAs.'' Specifically, the draft guidance revises recommendations related to (1) the use of systemic exposure measures and (2) considerations for the conduct of BE studies under fed conditions. Revisions are based primarily on experience gained with recommendations contained in prior guidances as well as on scientific information that has become available to the Agency. We believe the revisions will clarify guidance to applicants conducting BE studies for systemically bioavailable generic drug products. This draft guidance contains recommendations for submission of BE studies for ANDAs only. A separate guidance entitled ''Bioavailability and Bioequivalence Studies Submitted in NDAs or INDs— General Considerations'' to address investigational new drugs (INDs), new drug applications (NDAs), and NDA supplements will be published in the PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 73199 near future. FDA has determined that separating guidances according to application type will be beneficial to sponsors. This draft guidance is being issued consistent with FDA's good guidance practices regulation (21 CFR 10.115). The draft guidance, when finalized, will represent the Agency's current thinking on BE studies with pharmacokinetic endpoints for drug products submitted in ANDAs. It does not create or confer any rights for or on any person and does not operate to bind FDA or the public. An alternative approach may be used if such approach satisfies the requirements of the applicable statutes and regulations. II. Comments Interested persons may submit either electronic comments regarding this document to http://www.regulations.gov or written comments to the Division of Dockets Management (see ADDRESSES). It is only necessary to send one set of comments. Identify comments with the docket number found in brackets in the heading of this document. Received comments may be seen in the Division of Dockets Management between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, and will be posted to the docket at http:// www.regulations.gov. III. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 This guidance refers to previously approved collections of information that are subject to review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520). Information submitted in an ANDA under 21 CFR 314.94(a)(7), supplemental applications submitted under 21 CFR 314.70(b), and waiver requests submitted under 21 CFR 314.90 are approved under OMB control number 0910–0001. IV. Electronic Access Persons with access to the Internet may obtain the document at either http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/ GuidanceCompliance RegulatoryInformation/Guidances/ default.htm or http:// www.regulations.gov. Dated: November 29, 2013. Leslie Kux, Assistant Commissioner for Policy. [FR Doc. 2013–29081 Filed 12–4–13; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4160–01–P E:\FR\FM\05DEN1.SGM 05DEN1
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of Management and Budget Review; Comment Request; Over-the-Counter
Drugs; Labeling Requirements
Over-the-Counter Drugs; Labeling Requirements--(OMB Control Number
0910-0340)--Extension
In the Federal Register of March 17, 1999, (64 FR 13254) (the 1999
labeling final rule), we amended our regulations governing requirements
for human drug products to establish standardized format and content
requirements for the labeling of all marketed over-the-counter (OTC)
drug products in part 201 (21 CFR part 201). The regulations in part
201 require OTC drug product labeling to include uniform headings and
subheadings, presented in a standardized order, with minimum standards
for type size and other graphical features. Specifically, the 1999
labeling final rule added new Sec.  201.66 (21 CFR 201.66) to part 201.
Section 201.66 sets content and format requirements for the Drug Facts
portion of labels on OTC drug products.
On June 20, 2000 (65 FR 38191), we published a Federal Register
final rule that required all OTC drug products marketed under the OTC
monograph system to comply with the labeling requirements in Sec.
201.66 by May 16, 2005, or sooner (65 FR 38191 at 38193). Currently
marketed OTC drug products are already required to be in compliance
with these labeling requirements, and thus will incur no further burden
to comply with Drug Facts labeling requirements in Sec.  201.66.
Modifications of labeling already required to be in Drug Facts format
are usual and customary as part of routine redesign practice, and thus
do not create additional burden within the meaning of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA). Therefore, the burden to comply with
the labeling requirements in Sec.  201.66 is a one-time burden
applicable only to new OTC drug products introduced to the marketplace
under new drug applications, abbreviated new drug applications, or an
OTC drug monograph, except for products in ``convenience size''
packages.\1\ New OTC drug products
must comply with the labeling requirements in Sec.  201.66 as they are
introduced to the marketplace.
\1\ In a final rule published in the Federal Register of April
5, 2002 (67 FR 16304), the Agency delayed the compliance dates for
the 1999 labeling final rule for all OTC drug products that: (1)
Contain no more than two doses of an OTC drug; and (2) because of
their limited available labeling space, would require more than 60
percent of the total surface area available to bear labeling to meet
the requirements set forth in Sec.  201.66(d)(1) and (d)(9) and,
therefore, qualify for the labeling modifications currently set
forth in Sec.  201.66(d)(10) (67 FR 16304 at 16306). The Agency
issued this delay in order to develop additional rulemaking for
these ``convenience size'' products (December 12, 2006; 71 FR
74474). These products are not currently subject to the requirements
of Sec.  201.66. PRA approval for any requirements to which they may
be subject in the future will be handled in a separate rulemaking.
Based on a March 1, 2010, estimate provided by the Consumer
Healthcare Products Association (75 FR 49495 at 49496), we estimated
that approximately 900 new OTC drug product stock keeping units (SKUs)
are introduced to the marketplace each year. We estimated that these
SKUs are marketed by 300 manufacturers. We estimated that the
preparation of labeling for new OTC drug products would require 12
hours to prepare, complete, and review prior to submitting the new
labeling to us. Based on this estimate, the annual reporting burden for
this type of labeling is approximately 10,800 hours.
OTC sunscreen products were previously not included in our
consideration of the burden to comply with the Drug Facts labeling
requirements in Sec.  201.66. We specifically exempted OTC sunscreen
products from complying with the 1999 labeling final rule until we
lifted the stay of the sunscreen final rule published in the Federal
Register of May 21,1999 (64 FR 27666). In the Federal Register of
December 31, 2001 (66 FR 67485), we stayed the 1999 sunscreen final
rule indefinitely. Additionally, in the Federal Register of September
3, 2004 (69 FR 53801), we delayed the Sec.  201.66 labeling
implementation date for OTC sunscreen products indefinitely, pending
future rulemaking to amend the substance of labeling for these
products. In the Federal Register of August 27, 2007 (72 FR 49070), we
proposed changes to labeling and related testing requirements for
sunscreen products to address both ultraviolet A and ultraviolet B
radiation, and we anticipated that sunscreen products would become
subject to Sec.  201.66 at the time any resultant final rule becomes
effective. In the Federal Register of June 17, 2011 (76 FR 35620), we
published a final rule that established testing and labeling
requirements for OTC sunscreen products. This 2011 final rule lifted
the delay of the Sec.  201.66 labeling implementation date for OTC
sunscreen product. The compliance dates for the 2011 final rule were
June 18, 2012, for sunscreen products with annual sales of $25,000 or
more and June 17, 2013, for sunscreen products with annual sales of
less than $25,000, but we later delayed these compliance dates to
December 17, 2012, and December 17, 2013, respectively, when we
published an extension date notice on May 11, 2012 (77 FR 27591).
All currently marketed sunscreen products are, therefore, already
required to be in compliance with the Drug Facts labeling requirements
inSec.  201.66, and thus will incur no further burden under the
information collection provisions in the 1999 labeling final rule.
However, a new OTC sunscreen drug product, like any new OTC drug
product, will be subject to a one-time burden to comply with Drug Facts
labeling requirements in Sec.  201.66. We estimated that 60 new SKUs of
OTC sunscreen drug products would be marketed each year (77 FR 27234).
We estimated that these 60 SKUs would be marketed by 30 manufacturers.
We estimated that approximately 12 hours would be spent on each label,
based on the most recent estimate used for other OTC drug products to
comply with the 1999 Drug Facts labeling final rule, including public
comments received on this estimate in 2010 that addressed sunscreens.
In determining the burden for Sec.  201.66, it is also important to
consider exemptions or deferrals of the regulation allowed products
under Sec.  201.66(e). Since publication of the 1999 labeling final
rule, we have received only one request for exemption or deferral. One
response over an 8-year period equates to an annual frequency of
response equal to 0.125. In the 1999 labeling final rule, we estimated
that a request for deferral or exemption would require 24 hours to
complete (64 FR 13254 at 13276). We continue to estimate that this type
of response will require approximately 24 hours. Multiplying the annual
frequency of response (0.125) by the number of hours per response (24)
gives a total response time for requesting exemption or deferral equal
to 3 hours.
In the Federal Register of July 23, 2013 (78 FR 44124), FDA
collection of information. We received one comment in response to the
notice. The comment was a complaint about the ``deceptively large''
containers in which some OTC drug products are packaged. These
deceptively large containers mislead consumers into thinking that they
were purchasing more product than the package actually contained.
We do not consider this comment relevant to this proposed
collection of information. This information collection concerns OTC
drug product labeling format and content, specifically the labeling
that appears within the Drug Facts panel. This comment is a complaint
about OTC drug products packaged in ``deceptively large'' containers,
which is a separate issue and is not the subject of this notice. The
regulations for Drug Facts labeling in Sec.  201.66 do not establish,
and were not intended to establish, container size requirements for OTC
drug products. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act already
prohibits the use of deceptively large containers. According to 21
U.S.C. 352(i): ``A drug or device shall be deemed to be misbranded if
it is a drug and its container is so made, formed, or filled as to be
misleading.'' Therefore, the commenter's complaint is already addressed
by statute.
FDA estimates the current burden of this collection of information
as follows:
Table 1--Estimated Annual Third-Party Disclosure Burden \1\
Number of      disclosures    Total annual       Average
21 CFR Section             respondents         per         disclosures     burden per      Total hours
respondent                      disclosure
201.66(c) and (d) for new OTC                300               3             900              12          10,800
drug products..................
201.66(c) and (d) for new OTC                 20               3              60              12             720
sunscreen products.............
201.66(e).......................               1           0.125           0.125              24               3
Total.......................  ..............  ..............  ..............  ..............          11,523
\1\ There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of


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Niemy krzyk (tytuł oryginalny The Silent Scream) – amerykański antyaborcyjny film, nakręcony w 1984 roku. Według jego autora jest to pierwszy film przedstawiający zabieg aborcji wykonany przy pomocy techniki ultrasonograficznej. Przedstawia on zabieg przerwania ciąży w trzecim miesiącu, oglądany na monitorze aparatu USG. Autorem nagrania jest amerykański lekarz ginekolog Bernard Nathanson. Według komentarza filmu widoczny ekranie USG płód cierpi, ucieka przed narzędziem lekarskim, krzyczy z bólu i strachu, co według krytyków filmu jest niezgodne z rzeczywistością.

Kontrowersje
Wokół filmu powstało wiele kontrowersji. W 1985 r. zespół ekspertów medycznych amerykańskiej organizacji pro-choice Planned Parenthood uznał, że film jest "pełen błędów medycznych, naukowych i prawnych, jest w nim wiele mylących, przesadzonych stwierdzeń". John Hobbins z Yale School of Medicine wskazywał, że nagranie z ultrasonografu jest początkowo puszczone w zwolnionym tempie, a następnie – gdy zostają wprowadzone narzędzia chirurgiczne – przyśpieszone, tak aby wywołać wrażenie, że "płód rzuca się w przerażeniu". Hobbins kwestionował również tytułowy "krzyk", podkreślając, że "płód spędza dużo czasu z otwartą buzią", i że to, co uznano za "krzyk", mogło być zwykłym ziewnięciem. Dodawał także, że rozpoznana na niewyraźnym nagraniu z ultrasonografu "buzia" w rzeczywistości mogła być przestrzenią między brodą a klatką piersiową.

Z kolei Edward Myer, przewodniczący Chair of Child Neurology na Virginia Commonwealth University, zauważał, że w dwunastym tygodniu mózg nie jest na tyle rozwinięty, aby płód mógł odczuwać ból. Członkowie American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology w październiku 1985 roku, w swojej deklaracji potępili film za szerzenie fałszywych i przesadnych stwierdzeń. Francuski lekarz Étienne-Émile Baulieu zarzucił autorowi filmu manipulację i fałszerstwo medyczne, w następstwie czego Baulieu został przez Nathansona oskarżony o zniesławienie. Francuski sąd, przed którym toczyła się sprawa, odrzucił oskarżenie i uniewinnił profesora Baulieu. The Silent Scream skrytykował również profesor Richard Berkowitz, specjalista od spraw ginekologii i położnictwa z Mount Sinai Medical Center w Nowym Jorku.

Z zarzutami wobec filmu nie zgodził się jeden z prekursorów ultrasonografii i zwolennik zakazu przerywania ciąży, prof. Ian Donald, który uważał, że Niemy krzyk jest prawdziwym dokumentem aborcji trzymiesięcznego płodu. Również polski lekarz ginekolog i polityk Bolesław Piecha, związany z ruchem pro-life, określił film jako całkowicie rzetelny merytorycznie.

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Oficjalna strona filmu – silentscream.org
 The Facts Speak Louder – opinia w odpowiedzi na zapytanie "Planned Parenthood"

 "Neutrum" nr 2(6) 1993 – zawiera między innymi krytykę filmu

Amerykańskie filmy z 1984 roku
Amerykańskie filmy dokumentalne
Amerykańskie filmy propagandowe
Ruch pro-life


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Special-needs student sexually assaulted at Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy
by Our Weekly LA June 25, 2013 October 19, 2021
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — A 13-year-old boy was sexually assaulted by another student during gym class at a South Los Angeles middle school, an attorney for the boy's family alleged today, contending the attack highlights continued failures by the Los Angeles Unified School District to protect students.
An attorney for the district, however, insisted that students are protected, and said school officials acted promptly when they learned of the allegations and notified police.
Brian Claypool, who represents the boy's family, said the seventh-grader is developmentally disabled and should have had extra supervision as a special-needs students. He said the boy was assaulted by an eighth-grade student during a gym class at Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy about two weeks ago.
Claypool said the attack — carried out behind some bleachers by a male student who wasn't even in the same class — occurred despite efforts by the boy's mother, who had talked to school administrators earlier because of reports that her son was being bullied at the campus.
The attack is indicative of "a 20-year pattern of willfully failing to supervise teachers to safeguard children," according to Claypool, who also represents the families of students who were allegedly abused by teachers at Miramonte Elementary School.
David Holmquist, attorney for the LAUSD, said the district takes allegations of "student-on-student misconduct" seriously.
"Upon learning of the allegations, the school site acted to appropriately document and notify authorities of the suspected abuse," he said. "Although we cannot comment on the specific allegations or any potential lawsuit in this case, we are committed to ensuring student safety at all times.
"Our principals, teachers and other school employees do everything humanly possible to ensure student safety and are consistently trying to make school sites as safe as possible," Holmquist said.
The boy's mother said, however, that hearing her son had been assaulted shook her confidence in the school to protect her child.
"As a mother, you're devastated when you get a phone call saying that your child has been sexually assaulted," she said. "Any person with a child knows your number-one priority is to protect them. And God forbid you drop them off at school thinking that they're safe and they come home a different kid because somebody out there thought it was their God-given right to do something to them that wasn't supposed to be done."
Former priest charged with sexual assault
Another accused teachernot from LAUSDgoes to trial
LAUSD sued for negligence in Gompers Middle School sex assault


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Home News Stick with Android App Retaliation Gets Overwhelming Support From Android Users
Stick with Android App Retaliation Gets Overwhelming Support From Android Users
Apple's first Android App, which counseled Android users to jump ship and embrace iOS, was naturally ill-perceived and thwarted by offended Android fans across the globe. Now as a cheeky retaliation, a Android developer duo has added a "Stick with Android" app on Google Play store, which has turned out to be a platform for Android fans to retaliate.
The review section is indeed amusing, to say the least, and if you enjoy bouts of Android-vs-iOS rivalry or otherwise, head on to the play store for some good fun.
The description for the new app reads as follows:
"Everything about Android is designed to be easy. That includes sticking with it. With just one step, you can keep your content automatically and securely on your Android device with the Stick with Android app. No need to save your stuff elsewhere before sticking with Android. The Stick with Android app securely keeps you away from switching to another (worse) platform."
The Apple's first Android app was merely a tool to help users switch, and in fact already there are several apps on Play store which help facilitate the same goal. Nevertheless, this was a ballsy move as it was the first and only App from Cupertino giant and thus, was considered disrespectful by Android users.
We would like to know your opinions about the whole fracas. Does the Apple app needs to be reprimanded or its immature of Android fans to pay any heed to it?
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Coastal commission to hear public comment on Farallon Islands rodent eradication plan
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN/KTVU) - Public comment on an environmental impact statement for a plan to drop more than a ton of poison grain pellets on the Farallon Islands to eradicate the invasive house mice population there will be heard by the California Commission when it meets Wednesday in San Luis Obispo.
The EIS for the project outlines three alternatives for dealing with rodents on the islands located more than 20 miles outside the Golden Gate and under management of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Complex.
One alternative is to take no action at all to deal with the mouse population other than current minimal efforts such as spring traps.
The preferred alternative would involve using a helicopter for the "aerial broadcast of rodent bait," the rodenticide brodifacoum, along with "hand baiting, bait stations, and traps in order to benefit native seabirds and restore natural ecosystem processes on the South Farallon Islands" according to the commission staff report.
The alternative is preferred over a third option using a different poison because it is fatal with only one feeding, rather than several.
Application would be over three weeks during the final quarter of the year, "scheduled to occur outside seabird and marine mammal breeding seasons and when most wildlife populations are near annual minimums," according to the staff report.
"We expect that eradicating invasive mice will benefit native seabirds, amphibians, terrestrial invertebrates, plants, and wilderness quality, and will help restore natural ecosystem processes on the islands," the report says in recommending the alternative.
"The South Farallon Islands have sustained ecological damage over many decades from the presence of invasive mice. Eradicating house mice would eliminate the last remaining invasive vertebrate species on the Refuge, thereby enhancing the recovery of this unique and sensitive ecosystem."
Many of the comments submitted on the proposal are highly critical.
"Undoubtedly the poison will travel up the food chain; not only killing the intended mice, but also the entire predator/carnivore community living with the coastal zone," wrote Kim Fitts, a wildlife biologist and environmental consultant.
"This is exactly how the food web is destroyed for generations."
The California Coastal Commission will hear public comments on the EIS when it meets at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the Embassy Suites, 333 Madonna Road in San Luis Obispo.
The EIS can be reviewed online here.
At least 23 people killed in suspected arson attack in Japan
TOKYO (AP) -- A man screaming "You die!" burst into an animation production studio in Kyoto and set it on fire early Thursday, killing at least 23 people.
The blaze injured 36 other people, some of them critically, Japanese authorities said.
The fire broke out in the three-story Kyoto Animation building in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto, after the suspect sprayed an unidentified liquid to accelerate the blaze, Kyoto prefectural police and fire department officials said.


Carrie: Welcome to Artist Strong Razwana, when did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?
Thank you for having me. It's an honour to be here.
When I was in my teens, I knew writing would be a big part of my life. My teenage years were mostly spent writing angsty poetry and short stories (the term emo wasn't created yet, but totally fit my mindset …). I was consumed by them. It helped that the Bronte's grew up and lived round the corner from my home!
I've always written creatively, both for leisure and as an emotional outlet. It wasn't until I hit my late 20's that I decided to infuse the creativity writing with business.
Carrie: How did you discover your interest in copywriting?
When I created my first business, I started following business and marketing blogs to learn how to build my business online. I soon realised I was far more intrigued by how certain blogs and businesses were hooking me into their message, than the business I'd originally started!
So I got to reading books from the copywriting greats, seeing how copywriters online were doing things differently .. and my interest (and business) sparked from there. My aim was to create a service where writing bold was a fearless task.
Carrie: Can you describe your creative process to readers?
Apart from writing new articles on my blog, the majority of my time's spent writing sales copy for my clients (for websites, landing pages, emails and ads).
The process starts with doing a lot of research, both on the audience my client wants to appeal to, and the brand voice of the client. This involves a couple of hours on the phone, and then both online and in-person research that I conduct independently (in forums, Facebook groups, competitor sites, etc).
From this, I list the words and phrases I'll be using in the copy to both appeal to the emotions of the audience and reflect the brand voice of my client.
I then write the full page of copy that I'm working on, take a break from it, and then move to editing the words, layout and flow of sentences. Editing is by far the most time consuming part.
Carrie: Many artists (in all disciplines) have fear around writing and talking about their artwork. Do you have any tips to help them get talking/writing about their work?
From the artists I've spoken to, this fear comes from either not wanting to 'reveal all,' or allowing their art to speak for itself.
Whenever we create art, we're creating it for other human beings. These people have feelings, interests, lives and stories of their own. And the thing that human beings love to do? Is to connect with the stories of other human beings.
What I encourage artists to do is focus on what part of their story they want to share with their audience. Is it the creative process you went through to deliver a piece of your art? What experiences in your life influenced the art? Where does your inspiration come from?
Writing about this not only connects your audience to your art, but to you as a person. It brings your art to life.
Carrie: How did you discover your particular writing style/voice?
At a very basic level, I decided to be as uninhibited in my writing as I am when I speak. There's definitely a fearlessness in how and what I write. I just hope the person reading it 'gets' it (<– my slight madness), y'know?
In practice, it took a lot of, well .. practice. When writing an article for my website, for example, I'd write the article and then edit until the piece 'felt' like me. I'd ensure anecdotes from my personal life and musings were in there to keep things original.
Carrie: What's one piece of advice or practice on your website that you find indispensable for your own artist practice?
Definitely to not play it safe when writing, and give writing a lot of colour. I wrote an article on it which you can find here.
It talks about going out of your way to not use the same words as everyone else, and formatting your writing to stand out, is the only way to write online.
Carrie: What is the first thing you do when you feel stuck working on a writing project?
Do something completely different. I love designing and making clothes,as well as photography. So when I'm stuck on a writing project, I'll take my camera and go snap pictures of Paris (where I live), or I'll take some fabric and start a small project. It keeps my creative mind flowing and takes the pressure off of writing.
Tell myself to write for five minutes. And in that five minutes, I write whatever comes to my mind. This no-pressure writing releases the blocks and I find words just start to flow.
The biggest hurdle was to be unapologetically myself.
There are lots of rules and trends that online business owners are told they must follow when it comes to both copywriting and running their businesses. I've decided to ignore those rules and try things my way.
For example, as a writer, I'm told that clients will only hire you based on your writing experience relevant to their market. So I aim to write for those clients whose projects are exciting to me and in a field I've never written about before. These clients hire me because they're sold on me and what I can do for their business, not how much similar work I've done in the past.
That's a great question! Definitely a thesaurus. There's also a site that allows you to search for words that rhyme, end or start in a certain way, etc. It's called Wordplays.com. Always my go-to!
Other brilliant copywriters and online business owners: they've built businesses that I aspire to have.
On a day-to-day basis, I'm part of a mastermind group and the women in that group inspire me to no end. Our businesses are at the same stage and seeing them experiment with lots of different things to grow their own ideas is truly inspirational.
Creativity is … where madness and ingenuity collide. It's a vehicle where artists takes other people to places they can't go by themselves.
BE COURAGEOUSLY CREATIVE: Do you have a fear about "revealing all" when you share your artwork? Practice getting out of your comfort zone and share a 3-5 sentence story about your art in the comments below.