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Is it possible to use third-party components (like Bryntum's Ext Scheduler) in Designer 2?
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Not yet, look for this sometime after the official 2.0 GA release.
There is certainly nothing preventing you from including these files and using it via your own overrides. But you will not get visual support for these components until we add some additional support.Aaron Conran
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Hey Aaron
I get quite a few questions like this, anything I can do on my end to start preparing for supporting Designer? Any design decisions made on your end on what type of API I must support etc?
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Send me an email MatsAaron Conran
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Here is where I am. Designer creates a Viewport class that extends MyViewport which has a border layout where I want to place Bryntum's Ext Scheduler in the center region. I defined a class that extends the Scheduler class that has an xtype of "scheduler". What class do I override and how do I hook into it?


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This application claims the priority filing date of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/228,630 filed on Aug. 29, 2000.
This invention relates to a method and apparatus for detecting obstruction of the airway of a patient. More specifically, the invention involves an improved method and apparatus for detecting obstruction, either partial or complete, based upon a flattened measure of an inspiratory portion of respiratory airflow. The method is useful in patient ventilators such as those used in the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory conditions including sleep apnea or hypopnea.
The dangers of obstructed breathing during sleep are well known in relation to the Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) syndrome. Apnea, hypopnea and heavy snoring are recognized as causes of sleep disruption and risk factors in certain types of heart disease.
The monitoring of upper airway pressure-flow relationships in obstructive sleep apnea has been described in Smith et al., 1988, J. Appl Physiol. 64: 789-795. FIG. 1 of that article shows polygraphic sleep recordings at varying levels of increasing nasal pressure. It was noted that inspiratory volumetric flow plateaued in certain breaths suggesting the presence of airflow limitation. Pressure-flow curves were constructed by plotting midinspiratory airflow against either mask pressure or endoesophageal pressure. The pressure-flow plots of nasal pressure against mean midinspiratory flow were then fit by least-squares linear regression to calculate resistance upstream to the collapsible site.
The effect of positive nasal pressure on upper airway pressure-flow relationships has been described in Schwartz et al., 1989, J. Appl Physiol. 66: 1626-1634. FIG. 4 of the article shows that pressure-flow tracings plateau at a low pressure level. It was further shown when the pressure was increased, flow did not plateau.
The common method of treatment of these syndromes is to administer Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP). The procedure for administering CPAP treatment has been documented in both the technical and patent literature. Briefly stated, CPAP treatment acts as a pneumatic splint of the airway by the provision of a positive pressure, usually in the range 4-20 cm H2O. The air is supplied by a motor driven blower whose output passes via an air delivery device to sealingly engage a patient's airway. A mask, tracheotomy tube, endotracheal tube, nasal pillows or other appropriate device may be used. An exhaust port is provided in a delivery tube proximate to the air delivery device. Other forms of CPAP, such as bi-level CPAP, and self-titrating CPAP, are described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,148,802 and 5,245,995 respectively.
With regard to the control of CPAP treatment, various techniques are known for sensing and detecting abnormal breathing patterns indicative of obstruction. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,245,995 describes how snoring and abnormal breathing patterns can be detected by inspiration and expiration pressure measurements while sleeping, thereby leading to early indication of preobstructive episodes or other forms of breathing disorder. Particularly, patterns of respiratory parameters are monitored, and CPAP pressure is raised on the detection of pre-defined patterns to provide increased airway pressure to ideally prevent the occurrence of the obstructive episodes and the other forms of breathing disorder.
Similarly, U.S. Pat. No. 5,335,654 (Rapoport) lists several indices said to be indications of flow limitation and/or partial obstruction patterns including: (1) The derivative of the flow signal equals zero; (2) The second derivative between peaks of the flow signal is zero for a prolonged interval; (3) The ratio of early inspirational flow to midinspirational flow is less than or equal to 1. The patent further lists events said to be indications of obstructions: (1) Reduced slope of the line connecting the peak inspiratory flow to the peak expiratory flow; (2) Steep upward or downward stroke (dV/dt) of the flow signal; and (3) Ratio of inspiratory flow to expiratory flow over 0.5.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,645,053 (Remmers) describes calculating a flatness index, wherein flatness is defined to be the relative deviation of the observed airflow from the mean airflow. In Remmers, individual values of airflow are obtained between 40% and 80% of the inspiratory period. The mean value is calculated and subtracted from individual values of inspiratory flow. The individual differences are squared and divided by the total number of observations minus one. The square root of this result is used to determine a relative variation. The relative variation is divided by the mean inspiratory airflow to give a relative deviation or a coefficient of variation for that breath.
In commonly owned U.S. Pat. No. 5,704,345, Berthon-Jones also discloses a method for detecting partial obstruction of a patient's airway. Generally, the method involves a determination of two alternative obstruction index values based upon the patient's monitored respiratory airflow. Either obstruction index may then be compared to a threshold value. Essentially, the index values may be characterized as shape factors that detect a flattening of an inspiratory portion of a patient's respiratory airflow. The first shape factor involves a ratio of the mean of a midportion of the inspiratory airflow of the breathing cycle and the mean of the inspiratory airflow. The formula for shape factor 1 is as follows:
where fs(t) is a sample of the patient's inspiratory airflow and M is the mean of inspiratory airflow given by the following:
A second shape factor involves a ratio of the Root Mean Square deviation of a midportion of inspiratory airflow and the mean inspiratory airflow according to the formula:
Berthon-Jones further discloses a scaling procedure applied to the inspiratory airflow samples such that the mean M of the samples fs(t) is unity (M=1). This scaling procedure simplifies both shape factor formulas. Additional adjustments to fs(t) including averaging and the elimination of samples from erratic breaths such as coughs, sighs, hiccups, etc., are also taught by Berthon-Jones. The foregoing U.S. Patent is hereby incorporated by reference.
The present invention involves an improved method and apparatus for detecting some forms of obstruction based upon the flattening of the inspiratory airflow.
An objective of the present invention is to provide an apparatus in which obstruction, either partial or complete, of the patient's airway is detected by analyzing respiratory airflow.
A further objective is to provide an apparatus in which a novel algorithm for detecting airway obstruction is implemented without using additional components or making substantial changes to the structure of existing respiratory apparatus.
Accordingly, a respiratory apparatus is provided in which the respiratory airflow of a patient is continuously monitored. The part of respiratory airflow associated with inspiration is identified and sampled. From these inspiration samples, several samples representing a midportion of inspiration are identified. One or more weighting parameters or weighting factors are associated with each midportion sample. These weights and midportion samples are then used to calculate an obstruction index. Finally, this obstruction index is compared to a threshold value which comparison is used to adjust or control ventilatory assistance.
In one embodiment, weighting factors are applied based on whether the inspiratory airflow samples are less than or greater than a threshold level, such as the mean airflow.
In another embodiment, different weighting factors are applied to samples based on their time positions in a breath. Samples taken prior to a certain event during inspiration, for example, samples preceding the half way point of inspiration, are assigned lower weighting factors than samples succeeding the event. An obstruction index is then calculated using these samples with their corresponding weighting factors.
In one aspect, the subject invention pertains to a respiratory apparatus which includes a gas source adapted to selectively provide pressurized breathable gas to a patient, a flow sensor to sense the respiratory airflow from the patient and to generate an airflow signal indicative of airflow, an obstruction detector coupled to said flow sensor which includes a weight assigning member arranged to assign several weight factors to portions of the flow signal and to generate an obstruction signal using the weighted portions, and a controller coupled to the flow sensor and arranged to control the operation of the gas source, receive the obstruction signal and alter the operation of the gas source in response to the obstruction signal.
Another aspect of the invention concerns an apparatus for monitoring and/or treating a patient having a sleep disorder, the apparatus including a flow sensor that senses patient respiration and generates a corresponding flow signal; and an obstruction detector coupled to the flow sensor and adapted to determine a weighted average signal, the weighted average signal being dependent on a weighted average of the flow signal in accordance with one of an amplitude and a time position of portions of the flow signal, the obstruction detector including a signal generator that generates a signal indicative of an airway obstruction based on the weighted average signal.
A further aspect of the invention concerns an apparatus for treating a patient having a sleep disorder, the apparatus comprising a mask, a gas source selectively supplying pressurized breathable air to the patient through the mask, a flow sensor that senses airflow and generates a flow signal indicative of respiration, an obstruction detector coupled to the flow sensor and adapted to determine a weighted average signal, the weighted average signal being dependent on a weighted average of the flow signal in accordance with one of an amplitude and a time position of portions of the flow signal, and a controller receiving the obstruction signal and generating in response a command for activating the gas source.
Another aspect of the invention concerns a method for detecting obstruction in the airways of a patient, including measuring an air flow of the patient, detecting a predetermined section of said air flow, assigning weights to portions of said predetermined section and determining an index value for said predetermined section based on said weights as a measure of the obstruction.
FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a respiratory apparatus constructed in accordance with this invention;
FIG. 2 shows a flow chart illustrating the operation of the apparatus of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 shows the inspiration phases of typical respiration signals for a healthy person and a person with a partial airway obstruction;
FIG. 4 shows a portion of a normal respiration signal from a patient;
FIGS. 5 and 6 show portions of two different respiration signals characteristic from patients with sleep apnea;
FIG. 7 shows a flow chart for determining the flattening indices for the respiration signals of FIGS. 4-6;
FIG. 8 shows a normal breathing pattern for a person without respiratory obstructions to illustrate the determination of two improved obstruction indices;
FIGS. 9, 10, and 11 show various breathing patterns with obstructions identifiable using the improved indices:
FIG. 12 shows an example of how a flow curve can be checked to insure that it is a valid respiration curve; and
FIG. 13 shows an example of how a typical respiration flow curve can be trimmed.
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FIG. 1 shows an example respiratory apparatus 10 constructed in accordance with the invention. The respiratory apparatus 10 includes a mask 12 connected to a blower 14 by a flexible tube 16. The mask 12 is fitted to the patient and may be either a nose mask or a face mask. The blower 14 with an air outlet 22 is driven by a motor 18 in accordance with control signals from a servocontroller 20. This arrangement allows the respiratory apparatus 10 to deliver pressurized air (or air enriched with oxygen from a source, not shown). The pressurized air is delivered by tube 16 to the mask 12. The tube 16 is provided with a narrow exhaust port 26 through which air exhaled by the patient is expelled.
A control circuit 24 is used to control the operation of servocontroller 20 and motor 18 using certain predetermined criteria, thereby defining modes of operation for the apparatus 10. Preferably, in accordance with this invention, the control circuit 24 is adapted to operate the apparatus 10 to provide CPAP to the patient.
Control circuit 24 includes a flow restrictive element 28. Tubes 30 and 31 lead from restrictive element 28 to a differential pressure transducer 34. Tube 30 is also connected through another tube 33 to a mask pressure transducer 32.
The mask pressure transducer 32 generates a first electrical signal which is amplified by an amplifier 36 to generate an output P(t) proportional to the air pressure within the mask 12. This output is fed directly to the servocontroller 20.
The differential pressure transducer 34 senses the differential pressure across the flow restrictive element 28, which differential pressure is related to the air flow rate through the flow restrictive element 28 and tube 16. Differential pressure transducer 34 generates a second electrical signal that is amplified by an amplifier 38. This amplified signal F(t) is termed an air flow signal since it represents the air flow through the tube 16.
The air flow signal F(t) is fed to a filter 40 which filters the signal within a preset range. The outputs of the filter 40 and amplifier 36 are fed to an ADC (analog-to-digital) converter 42, which generates corresponding signals fi to a microprocessor 44. The microprocessor 44 generates analog control signals that are converted into corresponding digital control signals by DAC 46 and used as a reference signal Pset (t) for the servo 20.
One method for the operation of a respiratory apparatus 10 is shown in the flow chart of FIG. 2. Individuals skilled in the art will recognize other methodologies for utilizing the improved flow flattening index that is disclosed herein. The embodiment of the methodology of FIG. 2 is also detailed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,704,345 (the '345 patent). The first step 100 is the measurement of respiratory flow (rate) over time. This information is processed in step 102 to generate Index values to be used as qualitative measures for subsequent processing. Thus, Step 102 includes the generation of obstruction index values based upon the weighting method as disclosed herein. Step 104 detects whether an apnea is occurring by comparison of the breathing Index with a threshold value.
If the answer in step 104 is "Yes", an apnea is in progress and there then follows a determination of patency in step 110. If there is patency of the airway, a central apnea with an open airway is occurring, and, if desired, the event is logged in step 112. If the result of step 110 is that the airway is not patent, then a total obstructive apnea or a central apnea with closed airway is occurring, which results in the commencement or increase in CPAP treatment pressure in step 108. If desired, step 108 may include the optional logging of the detected abnormality.
If the answer in step 104 is "No", one or more obstruction indices, such as the improved flow flattening indices, are compared with threshold values in step 106, by which the determination of obstruction of the airway is obtained. If the answer is "Yes" in step 106, then there is a partial obstruction, and if "No", there is no obstruction (normalcy).
Step 108 applies in the case of a complete or partial obstruction of the airway a consequential increase in CPAP treatment pressure. In the instance of normal breathing with no obstruction, the CPAP treatment pressure is reduced, in accordance with usual methodologies that seek to set the minimal pressure required to obviate, or at least reduce, the occurrence of apneas. The amount of reduction in step 107 may, if desired, be zero. Similarly, in the event of a central apnea with patent airway (step 110,112) treatment pressure is not increased. Such increases in pressure reflexively inhibit breathing, further aggravating the breathing disorder.
Improved Flow Flattening Indices
FIG. 3 depicts an airflow signal with respect to the inspiratory portion of a typical breathing cycle. During the inspiratory portion of the breathing cycle of a healthy person, the airflow rises smoothly with inspiration, reaches a peak and falls smoothly to zero. However, a patient with a partially obstructed airway exhibits a breathing pattern characterized by a significant flat zone during inspiration. Theoretically, for an obstructed flow, as the degree of partial obstruction increases, the airflow signal for inspiration would tend to a square wave.
As previously discussed, the '345 patent describes two shape factors useful in testing for a flattening of the inspiratory portion of a patient's breathing cycle. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the resulting obstruction index or flow flattening index (FFI) for each shape factor may be compared to unique threshold values. While the approach works well in many instances, it may not detect certain obstruction patterns.
This can be illustrated by an examination of FIGS. 4-6. FIGS. 4-6 depict portions of respiration cycles. FIG. 4 shows a normal respiration flow and FIG. 5 shows a severely obstructed respiration cycle in which the inspiration period is characterized by two high positive lobes A and B and a relatively flat zone C between lobes A and B. In FIG. 4, the RMS deviation is indicated by the shaded area under the respiration flow curve and above the mean inspiration flow. In FIG. 5, the RMS deviation is indicated by the shaded area above the respiration flow curve and below the mean inspiration flow. As seen in FIG. 5, due to obstruction, the mean inspiration flow is greater than it would be without the second positive lobe B. Therefore, when analyzing the flow using shape factors of the '345 patent, the highly restricted and abnormal flow of FIG. 5 would not be detected as an obstruction.
Similarly, FIG. 6 shows another possible respiration curve for a patient with a partial airway obstruction. This curve includes an abnormally wide initial positive lobe D preceding a flat portion E. Once again, because of the large lobe D the mean inspiration flow is higher than for the more typical flow of FIG. 3. Using the prior art obstruction index, this condition may be detected as normal rather than being properly detected as an obstructed flow.
In order to detect these obstructions while continuing to properly respond to non-obstructed flows like the one of FIG. 4, the present invention assigns different weighting factors to the inspiration flow samples depending on:
(a) the magnitude of each sample with respect to the mean inspiration flow; and
(b) the time-wise position of each sample with respect to a time reference such as mid-inspiration.
By assigning a different weighting factor to a sample that is less than a particular value, for example, the mean flow, during the obstruction index or FFI calculation, there is an improved sensitivity to the respiration signal of FIG. 5 without affecting the FFI for normal breathing where most of the flow is greater than the mean.
Similarly, by assigning a different weighting factor to samples that occur after a time reference point, the subsequent samples become more significant. This improves sensitivity to the respiration signal of FIG. 6 without affecting the FFI for other breaths that are symmetrical in time about the center point of the inspiration.
An algorithm using one form of the invention for calculating the improved FFI is shown in FIG. 7. In step 100 of FIG. 2, a typical flow rate curve F (defined by a plurality of samples fi where i is an index from 1 to the total number of samples n) is obtained. In step 200 of FIG. 7, the curve F is checked to insure that it is a valid inspiration curve. Next, in step 201 the curve F is trimmed to eliminate all samples fi outside of the inspiration period. Methods of implementing steps 200 and 201 are discussed in more detail below. In step 202, a mean M is calculated for all the inspiration samples 1 through n using conventional techniques.
In step 204 two weighting factors which may be designated as value dependent factors wi and time dependent factors vi are assigned to each of the samples fi based respectively on the amplitude of each sample and its time position in relation to the inspiration mean M and its center point respectively. For example, the factors wi and vi may be assigned for each flow measurement fi using the following rules:
A1. If fi>M then wi=1
A2. If fi<M then wi=0.5
B1. If fi is taken prior to the inspiration center point, then vi=0.75.
B2. If fi is taken after the inspiration center, then vi=1.25.
Next, in step 206 two alternative FFI or obstruction indices are calculated using the formulas:
Where j is the first and k is the last sample relative to a midportion or center half of the inspiration curve F and d is the number of samples of the midportion of inspiration or center half as shown in FIGS. 3-6, and M is the mean of the inspiration curve F. Alternatively, the algorithm may be described by the following steps:
Check the flow samples to confirm they represent a valid inspiration cycle with a shape within acceptable bounds.
Trim samples from any "pre-inspiratory period";
Find the mean of the inspiration flow samples;
Sum the weighed absolute difference of the flow samples from mean for samples in the center half or mid portion of inspiration:
If flow sample is>mean, sum the difference (flow-mean);
If flow sample is<mean, sum ˝ the difference;
If flow sample is before the center point of the inspiration, use 75% of the difference from above;
If flow sample is after the center point of the inspiration, use 125% of the difference from above;
Scale the sum by the mean and inspiration time to produce the flattening index: FFI=weighed absolute sum/(Center half time*mean inspiration flow)
As discussed above, in step 200 of FIG. 7, the curve F is checked to insure that it corresponds to a valid inspiration curve. The flow curve F is checked against an upper and lower bound to prevent processing of an inspiratory curve corrupted by a cough, sigh, etc. For example, as shown in FIG. 12, the curve F may be rejected if it exceeds at any time an upper limit curve UL or falls below a lower limit curve LL. UL may be selected at about 150% of the mean inspiratory flow and LL may be selected at about 50% of the mean inspiratory flow.
In step 201 the respiration curve is trimmed to eliminate samples fi occurring before the actual inspiration period. One method of trimming includes the steps:
(1) determine the point where the flow reaches 75% of the peak inspiratory flow;
(2) determine the point where the flow reaches 25% of the peak inspiratory flow;
(3) extrapolate a line through these two points to the zero flow line to determine the point at the beginning of inspiration but use the first sample if the point is to the left of the first sample.
This trimming method is illustrated in FIG. 13. With reference to the figure, the respiration curve F crosses the zero flow level at T0. Once the maximum inspiratory flow is reached, two intermediate flow levels are determined: the Ľ inspiratory flow level (i.e. the flow equaling 25% of the maximum inspiratory flow) and the ľ inspiratory flow level (i.e. the flow equaling 75% of the maximum inspiratory flow). In FIG. 13, curve F crosses these two levels at points F1 and F2, respectively. Using the times T1 and T2, corresponding to the points F1 and F2, the curve F is approximated by a line L. This line is then extended to the zero flow level to determine an extrapolated time TS as the starting time for inspiration period for curve F. Samples fi obtained prior to TS are ignored.
The improvement resulting from the use of the above described value and time weighted obstruction indices can be seen with an examination of simulated tests. To this end, FIGS. 8, 9,10 and 11 show breathing patterns of patients with both normal and obstructed respiration. These patterns were analyzed using the weighted indices of the present invention, as well as the shape factor 2 that uses equal weight samples fi as described in the '345 patent. The results of the tests are shown in the table below.
Equal weight
Value weighted
Time weighted
The weighted indices range from 0.3, which indicates no flattening or obstruction, to 0, which indicates gross obstruction. The separation point between these two classifications is 0.15, which may be used as a threshold value for comparison as described below.
FIG. 8 shows a normal breathing pattern. As can be seen from the table, all three indices have approximately the same value, thereby indicating that no increase in CPAP is needed.
FIG. 9 is similar in form to FIG. 5 in that it shows a pattern with two lobes separated by a relatively flat region. As seen in the table, if the equal weight index is used, no obstruction is found, while both improved indices are below the threshold and, therefore, both indicate an obstructed breathing pattern.
FIG. 10 shows a pattern similar to the one in FIG. 6 that starts off with a high initial lobe and then decays relatively slowly. For this pattern, the equal weight index and the value weighted index are both above the threshold. However, the time weighted index is below the threshold indicating an obstructed breathing pattern.
Finally, FIG. 11 shows another normal breathing pattern which has a shape somewhat different from the shape shown in FIG. 8. The three indices in the Table are all above the threshold level thereby indicating a normal pattern as well.
Although the invention has been described with reference to a particular embodiment, it is to be understood that this embodiment is merely illustrative of the application the principles of the invention. Thus, it is to be understood that numerous modifications may be made in the illustrative embodiment of the invention and other arrangements may be devised without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. For example, while the preferred embodiment of the invention applies weighted samples to formulae which are used to identify a flattening of airflow, a similar method might be used with other formulae that detect roundness of flow or its deviation there from using a sinusoidal or other similar function.
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Eran Kolirin's "The Band's Visit," winner of seven Israeli Film Academy Awards yesterday (including best picture, director, script, actor and actress), has been selected as Israel's official entry for the Academy Awards' Best Foreign Language Film category. The film, which screened recently at Telluride and Toronto festival, debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May where it was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics. Also today, Ilmar Raag's first feature, "The Class," has been chosen as Estonia's submission for the foreign language Oscar. The film is being handled internationally by NonStop Sales. [Eugene Hernandez]
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Question from DARK_CLAW
Big Chest in south of Castle Town?
there are three chests total in this area which you can just get to without digging:
1. Well there is the chest in the canyon on the west side (which you need the double clawshot for)
2. Then there is the one where you have to find the EXACT SPOT in order to clawshot your way up on top of the east tower, to then tightrpoe walk, then hand-sidle, then tightrope walk again.
from big chest #2 you can clearly see that there is no possible way of jumping from the hight you're at...
There is one last chest in that game that i need to get then i will be a true Zelda fanatic. So help me get the chest in the middle of the southern Castle Town feild?
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Ok this one looks hard but once you understand how to do it, it's easy. First, go in front of the chest, then climb up the RIGHT side of stairs and stop when you pass the last one. Then get your clawshot out and look towards the tower thing with the flag on it and you should see a circle thing that you hook on to. Clawshot on the circle and STOP!!! and don't climb up. Drop down to the ledge and now get your spinner/top thing out. Barely go left and then use the spinner/top thing and you should get on a rail(Aim towards the small, slim wall). While your spinning on the rail, time it just right and jump off. You should get in the area where the chest is(if you timed it right). And TADAA!!! you get the chest containing an orange rubee(100).
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Crime rate index represents the average crime rate for a local area in comparison to nearby areas and the national average. A crime index of 100 represents the national average. Huron Metro, has 64% less property crime than South Dakota, and is 80% below the nation's average. Huron Metro, has 29% less personal crime than South Dakota and when compared to that of United States, Huron Metro is 63% below the national average.
Marital status represents the percent of residents in Huron Metro that are single, married, widowed and divorced. In Huron Metro, 80% of people are married and 20% of people are single. The percent of people married is 2% higher than the ratio of South Dakota, which is 78%. Marital data is sourced from census, 2015.
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Parents, College Students Need to Talk
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Just when you thought the power struggles of adolescence were over, your children come home from college for Christmas break.
In some cases, this is the first time that college students have had a chance to spend an extended period back home since they left for college in August. That means they've had more than three months of independent living where they've slept as long as they wanted, were out until all hours of the night and ate pretty much whatever was lying around.
Many times plans for holiday break are far different for college students and their parents. To make the transition a little easier, administrators and staff at local colleges offer some pieces of advice for students and their parents.
Gayle Pamerleau, the director of counseling at the University of Pittsburgh's Greensburg campus, said that the institution offers an e-newsletter with loads of advice to parents of on-campus students, including what to do when the student returns home.
However, most of the issues she sees arise when students return for the spring semester in the new year. Then she hears the residual effects of poor planning for breaks.
"It's a good idea for students and parents to talk before the student comes home to address potential problems before they happen," she said. "Students are used to being on their own with no curfew and making decisions about their social lives. Yet parents have a right to expect certain rules will be enforced, especially if there are younger siblings still in the house. So there has to be a compromise and it's usually easier to address these issues earlier than when a child comes home at 2 a.m."
Other issues may arise around schedules and agendas for the holidays.
Pamerleau said college students may come home with expectations of sleeping a lot and hanging out with high school friends while the parents may want them to attend family events.
"Again, it's better to discuss these things ahead of time," she said.
While Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus is a commuter campus without a residential life office, school counselor Alan Smith said that many of these same stressors apply to students who stay at home and commute to college. He agreed with Pamerleau that it is better for parents and students to be proactive.
"Parents still expect students to abide by their rules and they end up fighting with their students," he said. "But these are issues we deal with throughout the year with our students since we are a commuter campus. They are more issues about independence. There has to be some give and take, and that needs to happen from day one because students are going to want more independence . …


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Aaron Tveit has won himself a lot of fans for his performance in "Les Miserables," but he is likely to gain even more when the actor's new series, "Graceland," airs this summer on USA. For those people who might want to catch a glimpse of Tveit now, he appears throughout a promo released to tease the series.
In "Graceland," Tveit co-stars with Daniel Sunjata, Vanessa Ferlito, Manny Montana, Brandon Jay McLaren and Serinda Swan as an undercover FBI agent sent to live in a California beach house filled with officers from multiple federal agencies. The house itself is called Graceland, giving the show its title. Working from there, the various agents work to fight crimes including drug trafficking and smuggling.
Mike Warren (Tveit) is the new guy of the bunch and a brand-new agent sent to train under the legendary Special Agent Paul Briggs. His wide-eyed innocence at his first assignment quickly gets replaced by experience, lies and suspicion. After all, everyone around him is lying — but some lies are more dangerous than others.
The promo focuses on footage from the premiere episode of "Graceland," with bits of later episodes added in. The secrets and lies swirling around Mike Warren and Paul Briggs may just play through the whole season.
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A man convicted of holding a Greenwood woman at knifepoint and raping her repeatedly will still spend the rest of his life in prison, despite an appeals court reducing his sentence by 105 years.
Judge Mark Loyd sentenced Shawn Corbally to 270 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of eight felony charges, including rape, burglary resulting in bodily injury, criminal deviate conduct and criminal confinement. The Indiana Court of Appeals upheld the conviction but determined the sentence given by Loyd was inappropriately large compared with similar cases.
The court reduced the sentence to 165 years. Corbally, 35, still will spend the rest of his life in prison, Johnson County Prosecutor Brad Cooper said. The sentence, even at its reduced level, is still the longest sentence on record in Indiana given to a person convicted of rape, Cooper said.
Cooper doesn't agree with the reasoning the appeals court used to reduce the sentence but is satisfied because Corbally will never be released from prison. He intends to appeal the case to the Indiana Supreme Court in an effort to prevent the state from referencing this case as a legal precedent for reducing sentences for other criminals.
"The impact of the crime was horrific, and it will never leave her. So the end result was to convict him and
remove him from society for the rest of his existence so he can never do that to another person again," Cooper said.
The appeals court also determined that Loyd erroneously allowed a Greenwood detective to provide some testimony relating statements made by the victim the day after the incident after the defense objected that they would be hearsay. But the mistake was deemed harmless to the outcome of the trial, according to the opinion by the appeals court.
Judges Michael Barnes, Elaine Brown and Margret Robb all agreed on the hearsay issue, but Robb disagreed with the decision to reduce the sentence without providing an additional opinion. The appeals court is the second-highest court in the state and is responsible for reviewing the decisions of county courts regarding proper practice of the law, whether defendants received adequate representation by attorneys and sentencing decisions made by judges.
On July 29, 2012, police said, Corbally broke into a Greenwood woman's apartment about 4 a.m. and threatened her with a knife, forcing her to perform sex acts for about two hours until the sun began to rise.
Corbally raped the woman while her 1-year-old child was asleep in the bed and her 9-year-old was asleep in another room. Corbally also forced her to perform sex acts on a patio at her apartment and outside near a jogging trail and repeatedly threatened to hurt her or her children if she didn't continue.
Corbally had been sentenced as a juvenile for rape and was convicted in 2000 for two additional rapes. He was released from prison five months before the Greenwood incident after serving less than half of a 25-year sentence.
Corbally's attorney Mike Kyle argued to the appeals court that the 270-year sentence was disproportionately large when compared with convictions for other people with lengthy criminal records for sexual assault cases.
"It was about 100 years out of line with what anyone had received for anything comparable," Kyle said.
The court's decision includes examples of rape cases with large sentences, and those people generally were sentenced to between 90 and 150 years. The appeals court did agree that Corbally's actions were deserving of one of the state's longest sentences on record, calling the crime "heinous" and making note of his pattern of committing rapes.
"Clearly, Corbally is a threat to society; and for the sake of public safety, he must be incarcerated for a very lengthy period of time," according to the court's decision, which was written by Barnes.
Corbally's 270-year sentence resulted from the consideration of the main aggravating factors, such as his criminal history and the circumstances of the rape he committed in Greenwood, Loyd said.
"I looked at each of the crimes and determined what the sentence would be individually and didn't set a number. They just happened to come up with 270," Loyd said.
Loyd said he is indifferent to the decision because ultimately Corbally will remain removed from the public. He said the most important part of any appeal is that the conviction is upheld, which it was in Corbally's case.
"That's the primary issue on whether the person is guilty or not guilty," Loyd said.


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My FH has a great Aunt Virginia nn Aunt Gin. I've only met her once but Virginia doesn't work for me - there is also a really high chance that we will move to Virginia in the next couple of years as we live in DC. lol.
I also love Imogen (with the gin ending) - but sadly it doesn't work in German or Spanish and we are a trilingual home. In German it sounds like Ihm-OH-gehn.
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Darcy - thank you for your suggestions. Unfortunately Georginia, Regina and Ginevra are nms. I do like Ginger (but mostly as a mn as it becomes difficult in German and as 95% of my family is German....) and Eugenia has always struck me as interesting but I just don't like it as much as I do Ginnifer. Eugenia is heavy where Ginnifer strikes me as light and sprite-like.proud of our little Lorelei (may 2016)


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Looking at the MLB box scores from Monday's games, I noticed something curious: Games in which the home team had something to play for were, for the most part, badly outdrawn by games in which the home team is playing out the string.
Very strange.
Leaving our own city out of this for a moment, there were four games played at sites where the home team is in the thick of the playoff fight — Tampa Bay, Pittsburgh, Kansas City and Oakland. Those games all drew fewer than 15,500 fans. (A fifth site, Detroit, saw 34,063 watch a first-place Tigers team that's basically waiting for October to arrive.)
Of the four sparsely attended games, only Pittsburgh's drew more than 20,000, but I'm willing to give Pirates fans a pass because they have spun the turnstiles in PNC Park-record numbers this entire remarkable season.
I'm not sure what to make of last night's crowd of 24,933 at Chase Field. Clearly the Dodgers being in town, with their fans eager to see L.A. move closer to clinching the division title, was a big factor for a decent attendance figure. Regardless of the reason, it was good to see so many people show up. A bonus point for us.
Meanwhile, in cities where the home team's been out of it for a long time, there were crowds better than 31,000 in Denver and Philadelphia, and almost 25,000 in Milwaukee.
Mondays are historically tough days for baseball to draw, which makes these totals all the more impressive. It's a good illustration why people talk about cities like Denver, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Detroit being good sports towns.
Sometimes I wonder why there aren't more off days on Mondays. I know it's easy to get to the next city coming off day games on Sunday, but especially this time of year, Mondays seem to be an afterthought in baseball. Not what you want to see with the playoffs looming.
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