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When you are faced with a challenge how do you do your best thinking? Are you logical and analytical, or more abstract and random? Are you a Right Brain Thinker (intuitive, synthesizing, subjective, random, holistic)? Or a Left Brain Thinker (logical, sequential, rational, analytical, objective)?
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What is your favorite horror movie couple?
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Caleb & Mae - Near Dark
Ya gotta love a woman who will kill for you and let you feed off of her because you don't have the balls to do it yourself!
The complex relationship and dynamic between Caleb and Mae is what seperates Near Dark from the rest of the vampire pack and makes it one of my favorite vampire flicks of all time and one of my favorite horror films to boot. I love them as a couple and while I would've loved to see them live forever together, I think the flick proved that they're better off living and dying together like the rest of us. Caleb and Mae, if you're still out there, Jen and I would love to double date with ya. Lets go listen to the night together - far away from Bill Paxton.
Coincidentally, the only vampire movie that gives Near Dark a run for its money in my eyes is Let The Right One In, and Oskar and Eli would probably be my second choice for favorite horror couple.
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Steve Morlock is a fuckstick.
My fuckstick is very large!
My fuckstick is very large!
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After i fed her seven 11 dollar martinis, i drove her home and showed her my fuck stick.
That kid is such a fuck stick
That kid is such a fuck stick
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November 28, 2004
An idiot
If Bob wasn't such a fuckstick, we might be able to get this job done.
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October 02, 2003
1) A penis.
2) A buffoon, moron, jerk-off, or idiot.
2) A buffoon, moron, jerk-off, or idiot.
When inserting your fuckstick into your own anal cavity, take great precaution not to injure yourself.
The guy in the Dallas Cowboys shirt to my left is a total fuckstick.
The guy in the Dallas Cowboys shirt to my left is a total fuckstick.
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February 15, 2004
General term meaning idiot, asshole, unpleasant, bastard, dumbass, jackass, etc.
Our companies technology consultant is such a Fuck Stick.
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November 20, 2002
A prototypical "look at me don't you think I am cool" dipshit with a shaved head, Oakley sunglasses, backwards black baseball cap, goatee, Hurley or Fox clothes who drives an obnoxiously lifted F-150 with an oversized No Fear or Fox sticker on the back window. Typically, these losers work in construction or some sort of manual labor job because they are too stupid to attend college. These tards are attention hogs who pull out every poser stop to get it by reminding everyone all the time how great they are, and constantly out-buying friends and neighbors for the best dirt bike, quad or toy hauler. They spend countless weekends drunk at the "river" or in the "sands" but when it comes to real sports these fat bellied dolts can't even hit a ball out of the infield. They can be seen sporting one or more tattoos written in old English script while ethnic versions of these idiots sport an iron cross logo completely clueless to the original meaning. They will generally refer to you as bro and or boss and treat everyone as if trying to sell them a used car.
There goes Mr. FOX Racing. That fuckstick is doing 60 down a residental street in his lame-ass F-150 blasting rap music.
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March 17, 2008
A term used to describe a guy who you would normally call a dick or dick head, only funnier and more raw sounding. "Fuck Stick" helps drive the point home to make sure there is no misunderstanding about the distain you have for this particular dick head.
Matt called this douche' bag a Fuck Stick and made me spit Pepsi out my nose.
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April 11, 2006
A huge fucking idiot, a tool, a moron
Hey, dude, stop being a fuckstick, or I will dickslap you
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Take a solar panel. Surround it with light-emitting diodes attached to a microprocessor and, in northern climes at least, some kind of heater. Sheath all of that with the 100-year-old technology known as tempered glass. Voila: the basic building block of what has been dubbed by its creators, electrical engineer Scott Brusaw and his wife Julie, a solar roadway. It could one day make for a highway built of 0.4 –square-meter hexagonal panels, a hodge podge of green circuit boards surrounding 36-watts worth of blue solar panels, all covered in thick, bumpy glass for safety and traction.
The idea is to put unused roadway to good use (generating electricity) while also providing an electronic means for lane shifts, driver messages and other utilities. Bonus: solar roadways obviate the need for an electric grid by including a "Cable Corridor" right in the side of the roadway that eliminates the need for power lines running alongside it. And if outfitted with sensors as well the solar highway could transmit real time traffic data or other information of interest. The novel idea has been around for a few years now, bursting back into prominence this summer thanks to a new crowdfunding campaign to support further research and development that garnered $2.2 million before closing on June 20.
The solar roadway already exists, or at least an 11-meter-long solar parking lot outside the Brusaw backyard lab in Idaho made up of 108 of the prototype panels. That's the equivalent of a 3.6 kilowatt solar array, capable of producing roughly 14 kilowatt-hours of electricity per day, or roughly half the electricity use of a typical U.S. home.
As this prototype demonstrates, the Brusaws don't have to start with roads—patios, parking lots or sidewalks, among other currently paved surfaces, might make for a more feasible starting point. But, in the long run, the vision is to take the continental U.S.'s roughly 75,000 square kilometers of road and turn it into a massive solar farm to replace the nation's need for fossil fuel-fired power plants, thus solving climate change and energy security issues in one go. Even better, the solar roadways pair nicely with the need of electric cars for ubiquitous charging wherever the vehicles may go.
The Brusaw's hometown of Sandpoint, Idaho and surrounding communities have already signed up to host future prototypes on sidewalks, parking lots, airport tarmacs, even train station passenger platforms. The goal of such testing is to prove that such panels can last for 20 years while supporting weights of more than 100,000 kilograms.
There are, however, a few challenges to overcome. What happens to the solar roads at night or on a cloudy day, when the PV is not generating electricity to power homes or cities? The Brusaws' answer is to draw power from the grid, presumably from flexible generators, such as natural gas-burning combined cycle turbines or hydropower projects with the room to store water for a dark night (though Brusaw told me he expects wind turbines to fill this role back in 2009. He did not respond to repeated requests for an interview this time around.) As presently designed, the LEDs and heating elements are disconnected from the photovoltaics, meaning these elements require electricity from the grid 24/7. The heaters alone require more power than the available PV in the hexagon can supply.
Then there's the materials challenge posed by the novel use of glass. This glass must be tempered, self-cleaning, and capable of transmitting light to the PV below under trying conditions, among other characteristics—a type of glass that does not yet exist. And that's just the glass. There's the additional challenges posed by putting together photovoltaics, LEDs and other components, not unlike a smartphone but one that will be run over by trucks.
Finally, there's the problem that these 50 United States barely maintain asphalt roads, crumbling highways and unafe overpasses and bridges as it is. U.S. roads are essentially run to failure (i.e. as poorly maintained as possible) so how will any city, state or federal government pay any amount more to put in a solar road rather than paving with asphalt? It's not just that the panel is more expensive than pavement, it's the additional expense of maintenance, replacing the inevitable defects and generally tending a technological jumble subjected to the brutal pounding of daily traffic and weather, among other stresses.
Of course, that pounding can also be put to use via the piezoelectric effect. But that's a whole 'nother yellow brick roadway—and a technology that the Brusaws are also considering incorporating into their solar road panel.
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I wonder if the EROEI of this idea is at all positive.
Link to thisI looked into that a little bit (and ultimately decided not to include it b/c post was already kind of long and duration uncertain). The list of energy inputs is long, from refining the silicon for PV to melting the silicon (in natural gas-fired furnaces) for glass. Then, of course, it depends on where installed and what kind of insolation that place gets as well as how long the hexagons end up lasting. The latter are both uncertain at present.
Link to thisI think paths and driveways are the best application though you are likely better off putting up solar panels above the surface. Maybe you can turn them into shingles for homes. Perhaps it is just one of those ideas that sounds good but dies to the details.
Link to thisExcellent summary David! I would add that another difficulty would be to provide a sound mounting surface for the panels that would not shift with roadway forces and would still work with existing storm water elevations and infra structure. In other words, it would require the removal of the existing impervious surface, base rock and lowering the subgrade, replacing the base rock and placing a new impervious surface with mounting hardware incorporated. A completely new road! These new roads under the panels would require all the same maintenance as they do now plus hardware repair.
Link to thisVery good point. Let's call that pre-maintenance woes…
Link to thisTo me, this is about as credible as Black Light Power who claim to have found a new source of energy and whose website is full of technobabble.
Apart from the fact that it is virtually technically impossible at any price, people should not forget that the world has not warmed for the last 17 years so we can be confident that man-made carbon dioxide does not cause dangerous global warming.
As the world has huge amounts of fossil fuel resources and virtually unlimited nuclear power potential – although for strange reasons, people believe that nuclear power is dangerous in spite of the fact that proved to be the safest form of major power generation in the world – there is no need for a hugely expensive and allegedly low carbon source of electricity that, during the winter, will need more electricity for heating then it can generate.
I am amazed that anybody gives its space.
Link to thisKiwiBuzz,
In this case the space was used to show this to be an absurd idea. Mr. Biello doesn't support freakin' roadways. SciAm online should be given credit for objectivity.
Link to thisI liked the part about it being like smartphones run over by trucks. It would be exactly like that.
Link to thisIve seen no one suggest the following; take each water reservoir in the nation and divide them into two sections, during the day part of the solar power pumps water to one side of the reservoir and away from the other, during the night the water is run back and hydroelectric power is generated, the water might be filtered at this time also.
Link to thisThe current solution would be prohibitively expensive in most cases and electronics use some of the worst toxic chemicals and in large amounts, but the issue is how to find a simple inexpensive means, say a tarp materiel, of converting light energy to electric energy, then the roads, the tops of buildings and desert areas like salt flats can all cheaply harvest energy. why not attempt to genetically engineer a tree that generates electricity directly with linked roots that conduct? If we presume to predict the validity of a concept based on the current art then invention is brought to a standstill, its better to try what won't work than fail to try what would, until you try you will never know one from the other, most of invention is recognizing the success in failure, many inventors were trying to do something else than what they ended up doing, if they had closed minds they would end up throwing away their best inventions. It takes no talent to ridicule from an arm chair, it does take talent to offer a useful practical suggestion.
Link to thisIt is bad enough that the automobile has given us suburbia, loss of community and a dying planet. Use some of those highways for mass transit; let the rest die along with the automobile.
Link to thisThis is about solving BIG problems. Not about solving every what if along the way. There is no perfect system. Is global warming real? Do our roads and power grid need a 21st century upgrade? look at the computer and cell phone technology over the past 10 years. No one can predict what will should or might work. Put enough money, power(influence), and determination and this may not work like it looks today in theory. But, could be much bigger and better. (99 ways not to create a light bulb)
Link to this"… all covered in thick, bumpy glass for safety and traction."
Personally, I'd like to see a semi-trailer negotiate an incline in wet weather – then suddenly maneuver in response to an emergency condition…
On second thought – I probably wouldn't like seeing that!
Old news. This bad idea has been thoroughly discussed in other blogs. Read and learn.
'Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves?' – Kelly's Heroes, 1970.
Not all of us read every other blog or website on the subject.
Link to this"Apart from the fact that it is virtually technically impossible at any price, people should not forget that the world has not warmed for the last 17 years so we can be confident that man-made carbon dioxide does not cause dangerous global warming."
First of all, what has this got to do with the article. Secondly, please spare us from long-debunked fossil fuel industry talking points. They are anti-scientific and have no place on SCIENTIFIC American.
"As the world has huge amounts of fossil fuel resources…"
Define "huge". And how do you know what's actually under the ground vs what reserves won't eventually pan out? And please define the effects of relying on these resources into the indefinite future, including massive pollution, geopolitical nightmares and economic costs before making any premature assumptions that our fossil fueled future will be just fine.
"…virtually unlimited nuclear power potential…"
Sorry, we already tried nuclear power and it failed spectacularly in the 1970′s and 1980′s, requiring billions in bailouts and utility customer charges as we learned just how expensive properly-built nuclear reactors actually were. And you want to sink countless billions more into this debacle, even after the world was reminded how horribly wrong things can go after Fukushima? Gimme a break!
Link to thisI agree, solar freakin' roadways are a bad idea. Let's cover the rooftop of every available building with solar pv first and shade every parking lot with it first before trying to turn road design on its head like this. Bad ideas with hardly any hope of success only serve to spin up the pro-pollution trolls around here.
Link to thisI really like the idea of perpetually clean, dry and well lit solar freakin' roadways that can stand up to a army tank. As far as cost I remember working on a PC motherboard that coast about $10,000. They eventually came down to about $100. Anybody remember what it took to sequence the first genome? We now write our own genetic phrases, someday the whole volume. As long as we insist on driving our own car we could really use solar freaking roads. http://solarroadways.com/faq.shtml
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Addendum: vblank and vsync are two different things. Both need to be disabled to get higher fps than refresh rate as far as I've seen.
Why, so we could all play a ray-traced game at 1 fps? I'll stick with something that will actually be playable, thanks.
OpenCL still sucks in the binary drivers enough that no one is committing to it yet, let's wait for someone to at least start using the API before the OSS devs move their attention away from OpenGL.
I can understand Qaridarium in the sense that OpenCL would be nice, fortunately Zack restarted his work, so maybe the state tracker will be finished. After that support would be welcome in the drivers.
Porting Wayland to OpenCL is by no means the job of radeon developers, so please stop that Qaridarium.
If I remember the thread correctly the context was 100 devs targetted at performance improvement, not porting Wayland to OpenCL
Yeah, I've started work on it. Nothing to show for it yet beyond a configure option and some stub code that gets inserted into the runtime cpu detection blocks. I've basically added in the infrastructure to let me do the OpenCL execution, but haven't really fleshed out the implementation yet.
Before I can really go much further, I'll be doing some more profiling the standard C code and refactoring it a bit to make it more conducive to execution on GPUs, then the real OpenCL fun begins.
As for the implementation, I'm currently doing it with AMD's Stream/OpenCL run-time in Ubuntu, but some of the testing will also happen on Nvidia + Mac/Win.
since it was mentioned using opencl for graphics related stuff (even thought i suspect airlied's post was a bit sarcastic )
does this thing makes sense???
i thought opencl was a framework for tasks that are computation intensive ie decoders, math heavy stuff etc ???


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There is a 1 acre lake with a model boat basin included in the project. See detail from map below:
Will advise as we approach the people in charge. Their initial plans are to have r/c sailboats for rent on the weekends. I can't wait to get down there and check it out.


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The Scale Shipyards type IX is right at 8' in length. I worked on mine right at 2 years, and I do mean every minute of spare time was spent building this kit. I was actually off work one summer and spent 3 weeks several hrs. each day just building the deck. The hull was clean and smooth, really no detail to speak of but excellent quality and the shape seemed to be very accurate. I would say the product is worth the cost. Just be ready to spend a while building this thing, it will take more than a few weekends. I think Mike Dory took 3 years to complete his. Mine looks good but lacks the detail Mike built into his, I did have it set up with 2 working torpedo tubes........... Good luck. Jeff Jones , One of the adds at the top of one of the pages on the SCR web site have a pic of my type IX in it.


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Fishing Report for the week of 10/24/2012
"Land a good trout or bass, hold it for a second on the wet skin of your hand, and you have, in one compact bundle, as beautiful and bewildering a combination of opposites as it's possible to imagine; strength and litheness, fragility and toughness, intelligence and obtuseness, fastidiousness and voraciousness, boldness and stealth."
—W.D. Wetherall
The leaves in Plumas County are starting to turn. Over the next few weeks they will explode into beautiful displays of red, gold and orange.
There is lots of good fishing to be had in Plumas County right now. The awesome fall colors are a big added bonus.
Some of the most colorful fall foliage in the state of California is found in Plumas County. Much of that beautiful forest color is on display in and around the riparian areas that border our streams. Combining stream fishing with viewing the fall foliage offers an exceptional outdoor experience.
This just happens to be the same time of year that our lakes are cooling off and the fall fishing is heating up. On our streams, the October caddis, a favorite trout food, is hatching. There are also good hatches of blue wing olive mayflies, midges and stoneflies.
The fall weather brings lower water temperatures that shake the fish out of their summer doldrums. Winter is not too far off, so the fish instinctively eat more to build up their fat stores to sustain them through the cold weather to come.
For current information on the progression of fall foliage check the Plumas County Visitors Bureau website at PlumasCounty.org.
Frenchman Reservoir
Fall colors are coming on, so take a ride out and enjoy the beauty of the area. Bring your fishing rod along, as the cool nights are causing Frenchman to turn over now and the trout are feeding for winter.
The fish are biting well on worms and flies of various kinds.
Troll with nightcrawlers behind flashers or weighted line.
Call Wiggin's Trading Post (993-4683) for the most current information.
Bucks Lake
Bucks Lake is hot right now. It is always a beautiful place to fish, but especially so this time of year with the fall foliage. Bucks Lake is hard to beat for scenic beauty.
If it is fish you are after, Bucks Lake is the place to go. If you enjoy variety, Bucks Lake is hard to beat. Browns, rainbows, brook trout, Mackinaws and kokanee are all being caught right now.
If there is any knock on Bucks Lake it is a minor one. These are not the biggest fish of the year.
The big Mackinaw are very deep and hard to catch. The larger browns are spawning and very spooky.
But what Bucks Lake fish lack in size right now, they make up for in numbers. Catching limits is the norm right now.
This is the point at which I should tell you about the most successful tactics. I have fly-fished, bait-fished and used a variety of lures. My conclusion is that the most successful tactics right now are the tactics you happen to be using. These fish are hungry, not fussy.
The only advice I can give is that the action is near the surfaces before the sun hits the water. After that most of the fish go deeper. But they are still eager feeders.
Lake Almanor
The lake is still very high. The fishing pressure is light. But unfortunately the water temperatures are still in the mid 60s, a bit high for this time of year. The bite is still a little on the slow side. But it can only get better as the water continues to cool.
I fished Almanor a few days last week. I heard there were plenty of fish along the west shore. I did not see them. Nor did many of the anglers I spoke with.
I did find many more fish along the west side of the Peninsula, especially around Rec 2.
Doug Neal, of Almanor Fishing Adventures, fished the west shore on different days and saw lots of fish.
I think the key right now is to understand that the fish are moving around. Based on my experience and the anglers I talked to, there are plenty of fish to be caught, but any given place is hot one day and cold the next.
A fish finder is the key. Try the usual spots: the A-Frame, Big Cove, Rec 1 and 2, the dam and the west shore. If you see fish, work crawlers or shad imitations shallow until the sun hits the water, then go deeper (20 to 45 feet). But if you don't see fish right away, keep moving.
Lake Davis
Lake Davis is fishing very well right now. The lake has cooled of and the bite is hot.
A small group of my fly-fishing friends gathered at Davis a week ago. Aside from great companionship and good food they reported some excellent fishing.
Woolly buggers under indicators were the most successful combination. There are also some blood midges and small mayflies hatching.
Trollers are doing well with Dick Nite spoons. Bank anglers should try the always-productive PowerBait.
Stream fishing
Warner Creek is fishing well in the evenings; fall colors are starting.
The North Fork Feather River above the lake is fishing well in the evenings. Try nymphing in the morning and dry flies in the evening. October caddis are starting to show. The river below the diversion dam has been planted.
Deer Creek is fishing best around Elam and below the falls in the catch-and-release area. Road access is very good from Highway 32.
Hamilton Branch is a consistent producer. Try olive woolly buggers, birds nest and red copper johns or drifting salmon eggs. This is a pretty creek any time and especially inviting in the fall.


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This work focuses on the nonlinear dynamics of clamped-free and clamped-clamped microbeams under electrostatic and shock loading for microswitch applications. This type of analysis essentially requires the consideration of the well-known "pull-in" phenomenon under dynamic conditions.
In this work, we show that a micro switch that makes contact above a certain voltage but is otherwise immune to shock loads can be designed and simulated. The nonlinear partial differential equations governing the behavior of cantilever beams under electrostatic and shock loading, are solved using MATLAB SIMULINK.
The use of COMSOL Multiphysics enables to compare the results and include different geometries. The simulation results are also compared with other experimental results published elsewhere. Damping effects, such as squeeze film damping, are also taken into account.
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A Study Exploring Two Treatment Strategies in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Who Undergo Catheter Ablation Therapy (VENTURE-AF)
Tracking Information | |||||
First Received Date ICMJE | October 23, 2012 | ||||
Last Updated Date | November 5, 2014 | ||||
Start Date ICMJE | February 2013 | ||||
Primary Completion Date | October 2014 (final data collection date for primary outcome measure) | ||||
Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE |
Incidence of post-procedure major bleeding events [ Time Frame: During the first 30 ± 5 days after the catheter ablation procedure ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ] | ||||
Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE | Same as current | ||||
Change History | Complete list of historical versions of study NCT01729871 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site | ||||
Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE |
Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE | Same as current | ||||
Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE | Not Provided | ||||
Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE | Not Provided | ||||
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Brief Title ICMJE | A Study Exploring Two Treatment Strategies in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Who Undergo Catheter Ablation Therapy | ||||
Official Title ICMJE | A Randomized, Open-label, Active-controlled Multi-center Study to Assess Safety of Uninterrupted Rivaroxaban vs. Usual Care in Subjects Undergoing Catheter Ablation Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation | ||||
Brief Summary | The purpose of this exploratory study is to evaluate the safety of rivaroxaban and uninterrupted vitamin K antagonist (VKA) in adult participants with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) who undergo catheter ablation as measured by post-procedure major bleeding events. |
Detailed Description | This is a randomized (participants are assigned to intervention groups by chance), open-label (both physicians and participants know the identity of the assigned treatment), active-controlled, multi-center safety study of rivaroxaban or VKA before and after a catheter ablation procedure. This study requires collaboration with medical institutions that provide access to electrophysiologists who normally perform the catheter ablation procedure. In this study, NVAF is to be defined as the presence of AF in a person who does not have a prosthetic heart valve (annuloplasty with or without prosthetic ring, commissurotomy and/or valvuloplasty are permitted) and who does not have hemodynamically significant mitral valve stenosis. Approximately 250 eligible participants, age 18 years or older, with a history of paroxysmal, persistent, or long standing persistent NVAF who are scheduled to undergo an elective catheter ablation procedure will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to receive either rivaroxaban 20 mg orally, once-daily, administered preferably with the evening meal or VKA (adjusted to achieve a recommended International Normalized Ratio of 2.0 to 3.0). The study will consist of a screening period, a pre-procedure period, procedure period and post-procedure period. The screening period will begin up to 2 weeks prior to randomization. Participants will be randomized at the beginning of the pre-procedure period. During this period, participants will be recommended to receive their assigned treatment for at least 4 weeks (maximum of 5 weeks) before the catheter ablation procedure. For participants with the sufficient anticoagulation, documented for the 3 weeks prior to randomization, and for participants with a transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) or intracardiac echocardiography (ICE), the length of the pre-procedure period may be reduced down to 1-7 days and must include any transition from the previous anticoagulation therapy to randomized study drug. After the catheter ablation procedure, participants will receive their post-procedure dose of study drug through a minimum of 30 + - 5 days. In addition to scheduled visits and telephone calls the study may also include additional phone calls and visits by the participant to the site when dose adjustment is required for usual care. |
Study Type ICMJE | Interventional | ||||
Study Phase | Phase 3 | ||||
Study Design ICMJE | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Condition ICMJE | Atrial Fibrillation | ||||
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Publications * | Not Provided | ||||
* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline. |
Recruitment Information | |||||
Recruitment Status ICMJE | Completed | ||||
Enrollment ICMJE | 253 | ||||
Completion Date | October 2014 | ||||
Primary Completion Date | October 2014 (final data collection date for primary outcome measure) | ||||
Eligibility Criteria ICMJE | Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
Gender | Both | ||||
Ages | 18 Years and older | ||||
Accepts Healthy Volunteers | No | ||||
Contacts ICMJE | Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects | ||||
Listed Location Countries ICMJE | United States, Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom | ||||
Removed Location Countries | |||||
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NCT Number ICMJE | NCT01729871 | ||||
Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE | CR100732, RIVAROXAFL3002, 2012-001484-79 | ||||
Has Data Monitoring Committee | No | ||||
Responsible Party | Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | ||||
Study Sponsor ICMJE | Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | ||||
Collaborators ICMJE | Not Provided | ||||
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Verification Date | November 2014 | ||||
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Reds, Tribe set to continue Ohio Cup in Cincinnati
Latos, Salazar squaring off after teams split two games in Cleveland
After two games in Cleveland, the Indians and the Reds will head south down Interstate 71 for a pair of games at Great American Ball Park beginning Wednesday.
The Ohio Cup series is even after the teams split the first two games. Cincinnati won Tuesday night, 9-2.
Looking to bounce back on the road, the Indians will give the ball to Danny Salazar, who seems to have benefited a great deal from the two months he spent in Triple-A. Since his return in mid-July, the 24-year-old righty is 3-0 with a 2.00 ERA.
When asked what has changed since his return to the Majors, Salazar said the difference has been his secondary pitches.
"How to mix them with the fastball, where to use it," Salazar said. "And trying to keep everything down."
Cleveland right fielder David Murphy said the club never lost confidence in Salazar, even when he struggled to the tune of a 1-4 record and 5.53 ERA early this season.
"We know exactly the type of stuff that he has," Murphy said. "We know how capable he is. We know how talented he is. It's just a matter of him applying it and being comfortable at the big league level."
Mat Latos, who will oppose Salazar, is unbeaten in three career starts against the Indians, despite a 5.19 ERA in those outings.
The right-hander is coming off a win over Miami in which he repeatedly had to pitch himself out of trouble.
"I battled, that's for sure," Latos said of his seven-inning, one-run effort. "I had to bear down when I needed to and made some good pitches.
Reds: Lutz growing into new role
Since serving as a heart-of-the-order hitter for much of his ascension through the Minor Leagues, infielder Donald Lutz has had to grow accustomed to his new role as an occasional bench bat with the Reds.
Lutz has gone 7-for-36 at the plate this season after batting .241 through 34 games in 2013. As he continues to log more time in the Majors, however, the difficulty of only seeing game action every few days is beginning to wear less on the 25-year-old.
"It's not easy," Lutz said on Tuesday. "What I've learned from last year is you can't get too upset with yourself. Say you get one at-bat and then get a couple days off, you can't sit on that at-bat if it wasn't successful. I remember last year I kind of took that approach of, 'I wish I could get another chance.'
"If you get that one chance, you got to be ready to perform. There's no time to think about, 'Is this right?'"
Indians: Swisher improving
Designated hitter Nick Swisher was out of the starting lineup again on Tuesday due to a sore right wrist. Swisher might be available to play by Wednesday, but Cleveland will not have the use of the DH under National League rules.
That will, however, allow the Indians to ease Swisher back into the mix following the minor injury.
"That's probably sensible," manager Terry Francona said on Tuesday. "I don't know if he'd play tomorrow. We'll see where we are the next day. Some of it will be how he feels and some of it will be situational, depending on what we want to do."
Worth noting
• This is the second year of the current home-and-home, four-game Ohio Cup series. Last year, the clubs split the series, meaning the Tribe maintained possession of the trophy as the most recent winners.
• Only two Reds have faced Salazar -- former Tigers Brayan Pena and Ramon Santiago. They are a combined 1-for-7 off him.
• Cincinnati will unveil the 2015 All-Star logo on Wednesday.
Matt Slovin is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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