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Darren Clarke proved to be, hands-down, the best player at this year's British Open. The 42-year-old carded rounds of 68-68-69-70 for a 5-under total of 275 that gave him a three-stroke win over Americans Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson.
Despite bogeys on the final two holes at Royal St. George's in Sandwich, England, the Northern Irishman had the championship well in hand. When his final putt dropped, Clarke raised his arms in exultation, finally winning the Open Championship for the first time in 20 attempts.
It was Clarke's first major title in 54 tries. He also became the third Northern Irishman to win the past six major championships, joining fellow Ulstermen Graeme McDowell (2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach) and Rory McIlroy (2011 U.S. Open at Congressional). Not bad for a country with only 1.8 million inhabitants.
After accepting the Claret Jug with his newly engraved name on it, along with a check for $1,305,593, Clarke met with reporters and talked about what this week meant to him. Here's what the former rugby player and bartender told reporters.
As usual, Clarke evinced his usual charm and sense of humor during his victorious session with the media.
MODERATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, we're joined by the 2011 Open Champion Darren Clarke. How does it feel, Darren? (Applause.)
DARREN CLARKE: Pretty amazing right now, to tell you the truth. You know, it's been a dream since I've been a kid to win The Open, like any kid's dream is, and I'm able to do it, which just feels incredible, incredible right now.
Q. I have to say I didn't see this coming when I saw you duff your tee shot on 16 on Wednesday.
DARREN CLARKE: You never see a lot coming, never mind anything else (laughter.) I actually didn't duff it. That shows how little you know about the sport you cover. I cut it into the wind and I cut it a little bit too much and I came up short. But no, I've been playing lovely for a while. I got really, really frustrated on Sunday up at Inverness because I played really nice for the first two days and then played poorly on the Sunday, but came down here, knew I was hitting the ball well, knew it was obviously on links again, and I was really excited and looking forward to it. That being said, I still wasn't in the best of humor on Tuesday, but spent a bit of time as I told you earlier with Bob Rotella. My golf seems to - if I feel as if I'm putting better, my whole game seems to be better, and that's what happened to me this week. I didn't putt fantastic, but I was pretty solid.
Q. At what point today -- you got a couple of bounces that went your way, obviously.
DARREN CLARKE: I did, I did.
Q. But at what point did you start thinking to yourself this is my day?
DARREN CLARKE: You never really think that up until you're on the 18th green with a couple of shots ahead. You never know what's going to happen. I got a couple of good breaks that went my way. Yesterday I played as good as I could play from tee to green and I didn't really get anything out of it. Today I played not bad; I played okay. Got a couple of good breaks that went my way. Also at the same time hit lots of great putts today which burnt the edges and doesn't go in. So it sort of balanced out.
But there's times you can get a couple of good breaks but it could have easily just gone the other way, and that's the game, that's links golf and that's the way it is. I actually did not take anything for granted until it was on the back edge of the 18th green there. I've got enough shot -- 17 I was not going to make anything worse than bogey, you know, trying to play the last two holes pretty smart, and I hit a really good tee shot off the 18th tee right in the middle of the fairway. Excuse me for a little and I'll have a little sip.
Anyway, you can't take anything for granted. It was just one of those things where I was trying to be sensible. As I said yesterday, I'm going to go out and try and play my best, and my best today was enough to win.
Q. We know you're a pretty emotional character, how on earth did you manage to keep a lid on your emotions during the 18 holes? And again during and before the presentation?
DARREN CLARKE: I'm just older, just a little bit older and allegedly a little bit wiser. But I certainly have a few thoughts going through my head when I was walking onto the green on 18 because at that stage I could have four putts from there, and even I figured I could manage to get down in four from the edge of the green there. But the few thoughts, thinking about the past, and then again with the "Beeb" (BBC) doing interview and then making a speech, but you know, I can only be as normal as I am. So if I didn't feel a little bit emotional it wouldn't quite be right. I was but just about managed to cling onto it.
Q. You joked earlier in the week that you play better golf when you're carrying a bit of condition.
DARREN CLARKE: I like that. I'm going to use that myself.
Q. After this could you see yourself going on a diet?
DARREN CLARKE: I'm on Weight Watchers tomorrow morning. I'm at Chubby's (agent Chubby Chandler) apartment, so I'm going eat and drink as much as I want tonight and he's going to help me on it tomorrow morning.
Q. You're seriously going to go on Weight Watchers in the morning? Points, all that -
DARREN CLARKE: Yeah, all that sort of stuff. He might give me an extra day off if I'm nice to him tonight.
Q. How much are you planning to lose?
DARREN CLARKE: No idea, we'll see. I'll probably get bored with it in a week and give up. (Laughter.) I think this could probably be a bad week for me to try and start. I think every time there's five points in a pint of Guinness, I think it's a real bad week for me to start. With Chubby doing it, I can't get away from listening about him doing it.
Q. I think there are about 40,000 people here and I'm sure at least 39,000 of them wanted you to win. How much was the crowd at Sandwich a factor?
DARREN CLARKE: They were sensational for me all week. They really were. The support they have given me through the bad weather as well as the good weather. They were all out there roaring and shouting. It was just brilliant to have that amount of support. It's been a while since I've felt that amount of support. The fans could not have been any better for me this week. They really were. They've been a pleasure. They've been very, very kind to me.
Q. There were some idiot golf writers out there who wrote you off.
DARREN CLARKE: Hang on, let me just scratch my little - no, I'm trying to recollect your little line. "He's in his inexorable slide toward relevance." Is that what you said? Is that what you said? I've got the paper at home. I can show it to you if you don't believe me, "inexorable slide towards relevance." This is a mirage. Carry on, sorry.
Q. At any time in the last few years did you doubt yourself? Did you think you were possibly sliding into golfing relevance?
DARREN CLARKE: You know, bad times in golf are more frequent than the good times. You know, I've always been pretty hard on myself when I fail because I don't find it very easy to accept that. And there's times I've been completely and utterly fed up with the game. But friends and family and Chubby say, get out there and practice and keep going, keep going, keep going, and that's why I'm sitting here now.
Q. Are you able to share Bob's wise words now that you've won?
DARREN CLARKE: No. Second question?
Q. Second, can you put your finger on why Northern Ireland has had three major champions in 13 months?
DARREN CLARKE: I was waiting for that one, and I honestly can't -- I don't know. We're blessed to have obviously two fantastic players in Rory and G-Mac, and I've just come along -- the old guy coming along behind them. You know, we've just been lucky. We have fantastic golf courses, we have fantastic facilities, but to have three major champions from a little small place in a short period of time, it's just incredible. You know, it's fantastic, it's brilliant for home.
Q. Phil Mickelson is famous for his charges. When you saw on the board obviously that he was making that charge, did it just make you grit your teeth a little bit harder?
DARREN CLARKE: No, as I said to you yesterday, I can't control what anybody else does. I can only control what I do. It was wonderful last night that I got a text from -- I saw Rory, he was at Chubby's house, and then I got a text from him later on sort of reiterating the text that I had sent to him whenever he was going out to play at Congressional. And then I had a couple of really good messages, texts from Tiger. He was giving me a couple of bits of advice, which was brilliant. I replied to him and blah, blah, blah. But just getting little bits of advice and stuff like that, as well, made today even a little bit easier than what it otherwise might have been.
Q. What do you think is happening now in Portrush?
DARREN CLARKE: They're probably all getting pissed, I would imagine if you really want to know, which means they're drinking too much. They're probably all having a drink in Portrush. If they're not, I hope they are. But I'm sure -- they're having parties all the time, party for G-Mac (McDowell) at Portrush and party for Rory a couple of weeks ago, and I'm sure I'll have another one this week. They'd all just be very pleased. As I say, Northern Ireland is a very small place and it's all a very close-knit community and everyone is very pleased for our sporting guys that do well, and I'm pleased to join them.
Q. You've had these wonderful moments on the golf course and some difficult moments, and off the golf course wonderful moments and just the worst moments. When you look back, all worth it? And what's going through your heart and mind right now when you look back at this long journey you've had?
DARREN CLARKE: All worth it, most definitely. To sit here and talk in front of you guys with this trophy being the Open champion just means the world to me. In terms of what's going through my heart, there's obviously somebody who is watching down from up above there, and I know she'd be very proud of me. She'd probably be saying, I told you so. But I think she'd be more proud of my two boys and them at home watching more than anything else. It's been a long journey to get here. As I say, I'm 42 and I'm not getting any younger. But you know, I've got here in the end. It may be the only major that I win, it may not be the only major that I win. But at least I've gone out there today and did my best, and my best was good enough to win. If I had come off and hadn't won, I could still have said I did my best. I can't ask for anything -- I ask my two boys to do their best and that's what they do. I can't ask them for any more, so I think their dad should try and do the same.
Q. Do you have any remaining golfing ambitions?
DARREN CLARKE: To win another couple of these. You know, what can I do? Can I say that's it, I'm going to retire now? I can't. I've got to keep on playing. To be The Open champion is just incredible. So you know, I've got to go back now, reassess and set some more goals. I've spent a bit of time earlier this year with a guy called Mike Finnigan from i2i Sports and we wrote down all my goals and stuff and blah, blah, blah and a few of them was to be sitting at Christmas and having won a couple of tournaments, and back in Augusta again next year to get myself back on track, and obviously I've achieved that now after today.
It's all good, but I need to reassess now and figure out some more goals. I don't just want to rest on this. I want to keep on going, keep on working on what I'm working on because my golf was obviously very good this week, albeit it was links and links does suit me. But I still feel as if I can compete with the best players in the world, and that's what I want to do. Obviously I can.
Q. ISM now have three majors in the bag this year. Do you think we'll see a Chubby Chandler Grand Slam with the PGA?
DARREN CLARKE: I can't see why not. I think one of my other good friends, Lee Westwood, has been knocking on the door for so long, I think it would be -- most of you guys agree, it would be wonderful to see him win one. And if he was to complete the Chubby Slam, I'm sure everybody concerned would be very pleased. But you know, he's got an awful lot of good players there that will have chances.
Q. Could you talk about the essence of what Tiger's message was to you.
DARREN CLARKE: No, definitely not. That's personal and private between the two of us. I'm not going down that road at all.
Q. What about on the same plane, what your message to Rory was and what he reiterated? Could you talk about that a little bit?
DARREN CLARKE: No, a little bit more, sort of "be patient" with Rory and "keep doing what you're doing, keep playing the way you're playing." That's basically all it was, and he was sort of telling me the same things I said back to him. As opposed to me being the old wise one and he was trying to give me all the information. So it was different.
Q. What was last night like compared to the sense of anticipation you would have had years ago when I presume there were no text messages?
DARREN CLARKE: I'm not that old. There was text messages a while ago. I may look ancient but I'm not that bad just yet. Last night was very relaxed. Over at Chubby's house again. Had very nice red wine and very nice food and was very relaxed. Had nine hours' sleep. Got up this morning ready to go. Been in this position and done it before, so this time I was much more relaxed than I have been for quite some time.
Q. Your celebrations aren't going to interfere Killarney, are they?
DARREN CLARKE: I will be in Killarney. I may not be sober for the Irish Open, but I will be in Killarney.
Q. You paused slightly just before tapping in the final putt. You turned to your right and said something to maybe Dustin or the caddie -
DARREN CLARKE: No, I was talking to myself. It was nothing really. I can't really remember what I said to myself at the time. I think I said something like, you've done it at last. But I think it was more to myself than anything else. I can't remember.
Q. Have you spoken to your boys yet?
DARREN CLARKE: No, I've been too busy out there lifting this, so I haven't had a chance to call them yet. But I'm about to call them right now whenever you stop asking me.
Q. How are you going to treat them -
DARREN CLARKE: They've probably already decided. Never mind what I'm going to treat them, they probably already decided what I have to buy them, especially Conner, the younger one. He will have decided already. But they were down at playing at Royal Portrush this morning and they were going to watch the golf all afternoon. I'm sure they'll be very pleased.
Q. Is there now an overwhelming argument for a Portrush Open, or would you rather see it played at St. George's every year?
DARREN CLARKE: I would prefer to see it played at Royal Portrush every year. That's where I would like to see it. Logistics that the R & A have to take a look at, and they have done, and at the moment they can't see a way of having it there, so it's very tough. I wish there was some way around it and I hope at some stage in the future they will find a way around it because the golf course is every bit as good as any of The Open venues and is good enough to be in the Open rota. Hopefully they will figure a way around the logistics if they possibly can.
Q. Just looking at your facial expressions today, the support that comes off the stands, you look almost embarrassed by it and you're also telling the crowd very quickly when you played a good shot to be quiet because Dustin was about to play. Does that say a lot about your character? Are you embarrassed by this?
DARREN CLARKE: No, the support was good. The reason I was telling the crowd to be quiet when Dustin was going to play, that's golf etiquette, that's manners, that's politeness, that's the way the game should be played. Yes, the roars and shouts for me were wonderful and I really, really enjoyed them, but whenever another player, a fellow professional is trying to win the Open Championship, as well, and he's about to hit his golf shot, it's only right that I try and get the crowds to give him the respect they give me. So that's why I was telling them to be quiet. In terms of being embarrassed, not really, I was loving every minute of it. But in my head - it's different all of a sudden being a little bit -- not having that support to have everybody shouting at me was a little bit overwhelming at certain times, brilliant but slightly overwhelming, but the crowd couldn't have been any better for me. And whenever I did put my hands up they quieted straight down for Dustin. They just got a little bit over exuberant.
Q. You seemed to have a nice moment with Mickelson afterward, is that something you can talk about?
DARREN CLARKE: It is something that I could talk about but I'm not going to. Again, that's personal between friends, and Phil has been through an awful lot with Amy and what have you, and we have spoken quite a lot. He has turned into also a very good friend of mine through thick and thin, and he said some very, very kind words to me there after the thing, which is great. And Amy is looking fantastic, as well.
In the 2006 Ryder Cup at The K Club, the way that we walked out where we -- whatever way it was, whether the Europeans were alphabetical and the Americans were whatever way they qualified, so I was C, so I was on my own, and Amy and Phil were walking opposite me, and Phil went one side and Amy went the other side, and that's the way we walked in the opening ceremony and the way we left the closing ceremony. So the three of them -- no, Phil was there, I was here and Amy stood in the middle and held both our hands. I can't say anything more about it than that.
Q. A few of us walked around with you and Rory early on Wednesday morning, and at the end, most of us were asking questions about Rory and not about you. However much you admire Rory and G-Mac, had you become bored over the last few years being sort of relegated to a cheerleader for them effectively?
DARREN CLARKE: No, not at all. I have been working away on my game, and the two guys deserve all the attention and credit that they get, without a shadow of a doubt. You know, I haven't given you guys too much to write about, so I can't have any qualms whatsoever, can I? That's the way the world works, that's the way the game works. Maybe now I've given you a couple of lines to write, but that's the way it is. I will always support the two guys because they've been fantastic for players as good as that coming out of home. I'll always be that way. But I'm delighted now that I can give you something to write about me for a change.
Q. It's a similar question in a sense, but you effectively mentored Rory over a number of years. His winning the U.S. Open last month, is there a connection between that and your victory here? Is there a relevance between these two things?
DARREN CLARKE: No, no, not really. As opposed to -- I told some of the press guys that were in here yesterday, I went to this party on Thursday night and they told me to get my finger out and try and win one myself. That's the only similarity between the whole thing. It's great, I enjoy Rory, I enjoy playing with him, I enjoy being friends with him, I enjoy playing with him and watching how he hits the golf ball. It's wonderful. In terms of do I still want to play and compete against him and try and beat him, of course I do and I planned to do it this week. He'll probably beat me more often than I'll beat him, so this week is okay.
Q. It's been written a lot over the weekend that you'll be the most popular Open winner for many years. Can you understand what it is about you or your character that has this great appeal and fascination to the public?
DARREN CLARKE: Because I'm a bit of a normal bloke, aren't I, really? I like to have a pint, I like to -- I don't know, go to the pub and have a pint, jump on Easy Jet, fly home, buy everybody a drink, just normal. There's not many airs and graces about me. I was, as a few of the scribes will attest to in here, a little bit more difficult to deal with in my earlier years, and I've mellowed some. Just a little bit. But I'm just a normal guy playing golf, having a bit of fun.
MODERATOR: Thanks for joining us. Congratulations.
The transcript for the above interview is courtesy of ASAP Sports.
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Growing emphasis on ecosystem and landscape-level forest management across North America has spurred an examination of alternative management strategies which focus on emulating dynamic natural disturbance processes, particularly those associated with forest fire regimes. This topic is the cornerstone of research in the Blue River Landscape Study (BRLS) taking place in the Central Cascades Adaptive Management Area, located in the McKenzie River watershed of western Oregon. As scientists and managers involved with the BRLS work to unravel the ecological and economic implications of disturbance-based forest management, they must also consider the level of public acceptability for such an approach. Currently there is little information regarding what citizens know about disturbance-based management, their confidence in natural resource agencies to carry out this approach, and their overall level of support for it. This thesis summarizes research on public acceptability of using historical disturbance as a guide for future forest management. Specifically, it examines the perceptions of disturbance-based management held by members of the attentive public in McKenzie River watershed communities and the cities of Eugene and Springfield. The study is based upon responses to a mail questionnaire distributed to this group in the summer and fall of 2005. This questionnaire covered three broad categories: participants' knowledge of forest management and ecosystem processes, their opinions about citizen-agency interactions, and their judgments about the use of disturbance-based management practices, including perceived risks and uncertainties associated with this approach. This study yielded several important findings. First, members of the attentive public in the McKenzie watershed have high levels of knowledge with respect to basic ecosystem management terms, and lower levels of knowledge about landscape-level disturbance processes. Knowledge of disturbance-based management techniques is also low, and terminology associated with this approach is not intuitive for citizens. Second, public confidence in agencies and the information they provide appears to be problematic, though McKenzie watershed citizens tend to trust local agency personnel more than agencies as institutions (e.g. federal or regional level). Third, respondents display cautious support of disturbance-based management, with several qualifications. These include emphasis on the need for projects based on sound science, transparent and inclusive decision-making processes, frank disclosure of risks and uncertainties associated with projects, and clear management objectives. Based on these findings, several recommendations can be made. First, acknowledge the important role that attentive citizens in McKenzie communities can play in making decisions about new management strategies, and engage them from the very beginning in decision-making processes. Second, objectives and rationale behind disturbance-based management approaches must be clarified for the public. Agencies can capitalize on the existing high level of basic knowledge of forests and ecosystem processes to cultivate understanding of disturbance-emulating techniques. Third, address issues of risk and uncertainty associated with a disturbance-based management approach. These issues are often primary factors in the public's willingness to accept forest management practices, particularly those that are new and largely untested. Fourth and finally, focus on improving citizen-agency interactions, not just on a per-project basis, but as a central, long-term goal.
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UPHOLDING a Missouri law that places significant restrictions on the circumstances under which abortions may be performed, the US Supreme Court has taken a major step toward making it easier for individual states to impose restrictions on a woman's right to abortion. At the same time, the court backed away from overturning the historic Roe v Wade decision of 1973 that legalized abortion in the United States—a course urged by the Bush Administration— and looked to future cases.
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Today is the 'Great American Smokeout' when smokers are urged to lay down their cigarettes for 24 hours, or better yet, for good.
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"You cannot resist the craving. You cannot keep fighting," said smoker Julie Gelfand.
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HK USP vs Sig 220-229
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> HK USP vs Sig 220-229
December 4, 2007, 06:56 PM
Could someone please compare size of grip of thes guns?
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December 4, 2007, 06:58 PM
To me, the USP feels clunky. The P220, on the other hand, feels like a glove.
December 4, 2007, 07:03 PM
Full size USP feels much bulkier in the hand to me then a P220, of course we are talking double vs. single stack.
Same goes for a USP compact vs. a P229.
Give me the SIGs any day over the HK.
December 4, 2007, 07:30 PM
I have the USP45F SS, USP45C, USP40C, USP357SIGC, & the SIG P220. All are excellent pistols. They all fit my hand and all have been 100% reliable so far! I would be hard put to choose a best out of these. :)
December 4, 2007, 07:34 PM
Before I purchased my USP I also looked at the SIG. I have pretty large hands so the grip size of the USP was actually a positive for me.
I don't regret the decision at all. The USP is one of the most rocks solid and reliable pistols you can own. I would chose the HK over the SIG 100 times out of 100.
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December 4, 2007, 07:37 PM
SIG P220, hands down~! ;)
December 4, 2007, 07:42 PM
Having both, P220 with 825 rounds down-range without any failures, just 100%, along with a Sig P229 9mm with 2700 rounds without any failures, just 100%, I'd say without a doubt, go with either Sig..
Also: one of, if not, the easiest guns to disassemble, inspect, clean, and reassemble out there, bar none.. KEY IMHO.
December 4, 2007, 07:48 PM
if you have big hands the usp is for you.
December 5, 2007, 12:54 AM
And if you have big hands, the 220 isn't for you. Trigger LOP is short.
Both are great guns. Fondle them them and decide for yourself.
December 16, 2007, 02:33 AM
I find the P220 far more comfortable than the USP.
December 16, 2007, 04:12 PM
I like the integrated decocker/safety on my USPc, and will soon get a full size USP9. The decocker on the p220 seems to get in the way.
The P220 grip is too narrow for my gorilla hands.
December 16, 2007, 04:29 PM
Check out the HK P2000 if you dislike the USPc due to its ergonomics.
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December 16, 2007, 08:33 PM
I have big hands, so the USP is a better fit for LOP and such, but it is still shaped like a 2x4 and not all that comfortable. I am now thinking CZ.
December 16, 2007, 11:30 PM
I owned a 220 for several years and 1,000s of rounds. Great Gun! But after I purchased my USP Tactical 45, the 220 migrated to the back of the safe. For me, the feel was a little better, the match trigger a lot better and ergonomics of the controls on the Tactical suited me better. I still have my 226, which I've had four about 17 years now and over 20,000 rounds.
December 17, 2007, 09:35 AM
I have all pistols listed(HK USP45T, Sig P229 40/357, Sig P220 38Super). I love them all. I think I'm more attached to my P229(easier to carry, with good round count). All are extremely great shooters!
December 18, 2007, 02:50 PM
I've shot both, I prefer the USP over the P220. I have large hands and the P220 just felt very awkward in my hands. The USP feels lighter as well.
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It's the second of TV Cream's election-themed weekly podcasts, and we've moved forward 15 years to 1979.
Change is afoot, both in the corridors of power and Television Centre. Familiar faces are taking their leave and new faces are settling in for the next decade. And is that Richard Stilgoe's piano being wheeled into the BBC election studio?
Alongside a look at how the Beeb covered the result on air, this podcast also:
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Considering that from a high-to-low point Sarepta Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SRPT ) skyrocketed almost 1,400% at one point last year following the release of positive mid-stage data on eteplirsen, its Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug, I knew I had to keep my eyes peeled for what the company had to say at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference.
The data, released in October, demonstrated not only a degradation of the disease, but actual improvement as evidenced by the 89 meter six-minute walking improvement over the placebo. As my Foolish colleague Brian Orelli noted, eteplirsen crushed Sanofi (NYSE: SNY ) and BioMarin Pharmaceuticals' (NASDAQ: BMRN ) Aldurazyme in the results column, and as an orphan drug -- much like Alexion Pharmaceuticals' (NASDAQ: ALXN ) Soliris or Vertex Pharmaceuticals' (NASDAQ: VRTX ) Kalydeco -- it's eligible for patent protection, as well as accelerated review status since it targets clinically unmet needs. Not to mention, orphan drugs like Soliris and Kalydeco carry a hefty price tag.
As expected, the majority of Sarepta's presentation revolved around eteplirsen -- which isn't a bad thing. But, we also ascertained some milestone dates to keep in mind as it moves eteplirsen, and its remaining portfolio, forward.
The key points to Sarepta's eteplirsen study, if they haven't been touched on already, are that there weren't any treatment-related adverse events and that 28 of 36 patients enrolled in its studies showed increased dystrophin production. Sarepta is planning a confirmatory study which will begin enrolling later this year and begin dosing in the first quarter of 2014.
Sarepta will actually be stepping away from eteplirsen's studies for much of 2013 to prepare for the possibility of large-scale manufacturing of the drug. Since Sarepta considers manufacturing eteplirsen to manufacturing a small-molecule drug, the assumption is that purity and safety won't be an issue with the FDA with regard to the manufacturing process.
As I alluded previously, orphan drug pricing is often high, and based on Sarepta's presentation, it is expecting to price eteplirsen somewhere in the $300,000 to $500,000 price range -- consistent with comparable rare disease drugs -- and bring in between $600 million and $1 billion annually. By Sarepta's own figures, eteplirsen will target 13% of the 35,000 DMD patients in the U.S. and European Union.
Another key point worth mentioning is Sarepta's research on additional exons. In addition to exon 51, which is what eteplirsen targets, Sarepta is also developing treatments for exons 45, 50, and 53, which are currently in preclinical trials and are slated to be discussed before the FDA in a pre-IND meeting in the second-half of this year. Assuming all three translate into success, this would give Sarepta a chance to market to a third of all DMD patients.
In summary, we're still quite a ways away from actually seeing eteplirsen approved by the FDA, but we're going to see Sarepta's focus shift solely away from research and broaden into developing a commercial manufacturing process. Keep your eyes peeled for anything out of the ordinary in terms of the other exons in preclinical trials, and watch for a potential accelerated NDA filing much later this year. If that NDA doesn't come until next year, Sarepta could have a relatively quiet year.
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I've been trying to connect this jsp site with MySQL database for a school assignment and I just can't seem to get it to work. It's getting really really frustrating because I have copied my friend's code(which does work on his pc) and for some odd reason it just won't work on my pc!(yes i changed the database names/passwords/table names in the code)
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Qt is a cross-platform C++ application and UI framework that is widely used to develop software with a graphical user interface (GUI), as well as non-GUI programs. Non-GUI features include SQL database access, which can both execute arbitrary queries and map results to lists and fields in the user interface.
Expanding on ITTIA's commitment to developers of applications for mobile devices and other embedded systems, support for Qt in ITTIA DB SQL enhances cross-platform development and reduces development time and cost. The Qt driver for ITTIA DB SQL allows developers to access relational embedded data management software that offers a unique competitive edge with such features as replication, data distribution, reliable concurrency and logging.
The combination of Qt's elegant framework and ITTIA DB SQL's flexible data management will encourage best practices for concurrent processing of data, as both technologies are designed for multithreaded application development. Applications can run transactions in parallel, allowing long-running tasks such as synchronization to run without blocking normal operations. Qt also works well with libraries like the STL and Boost, and code is compiled to native binaries that will run at full speed without the need for a virtual machine.
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In the wee hours of a frigid winter morning, a wanderer considered both odd and smart towed a toy wagon through a field and along a line of power poles. Rattling in his wagon were random items: a can of spray paint, a sleeve of golf balls, a gas can, a chain saw.
An Orchard Park patrolman saw him step out of some woods and didn't buy his story that he was out hunting for firewood and returnable bottles – not in 10-degree weather at 4 a.m. But seeing no crime and knowing something about the man's past, the officer got him to a hospital for a mental check-up.
Ten days later, a wind storm toppled three of Orchard Park's wooden power poles. The National Grid crew that restored electrical service to 6,300 customers discovered the poles had been cut three-quarters of the way through with a chain saw and left to snap.
Detectives zeroed in on the fellow with the Radio Flyer Wagon, Gregory J. Seifert.
In January 2012, Seifert had just turned 43. Nearly 6 feet tall, he was lean and handsome, with close-cropped hair and a wary gaze. In a suit, he could look like a business consultant – which is what he was when he earned more than $100,000 a year setting up computer networks. But that winter, after moving in with his parents because he had nowhere else to go, he sometimes walked the streets in bare feet.
James and Carol Seifert could not convince their oldest son that he was sick. Nor could they place him long-term in a state psychiatric center, even after multiple evaluations. The number of state-provided psychiatric beds had fallen to historic lows, and though their son had worsened for almost a decade, he was not seen as dangerous to himself or others, a crucial legal threshold for involuntary commitment.
After an hours-long interrogation, Orchard Park police formally accused Seifert of sawing into the power poles and booked him into the Erie County Holding Center. It was Jan. 23, 2012.
Gregory Seifert was finally in an institution. But it was the wrong one for someone seriously mentally ill.
Decades after the country began closing mental institutions en masse, jails and prisons have become America's de facto psychiatric centers. Psychiatrists say that about a third of the severely ill people who, 50 years ago, would have been placed in a psychiatric center still need a structured setting. But today's structured setting is often a jail or prison.
As the new century approached, the number of mentally ill inmates in New York's prisons was exploding. During a 13-year period – from 1991 through 2004 –the volume of inmates receiving treatment grew by 71 percent, three times faster than the general population, according to the Correctional Association of New York, an independent prison watchdog for almost 170 years.
The new reality is that roughly one of every seven prisoners is on the state Office of Mental Health caseload. The number of seriously ill inmates has waned in recent years, along with the overall state prison population and the growth of mental health courts and prison-diversion programs. But the 7,800 mentally ill inmates are too many for the system's designated treatment units, said Jack Beck, who visits prisons for the Correctional Association.
The consequences are serious, for mentally ill inmates and the community:
• Mentally ill inmates nationwide are more likely to become sexual victims while behind bars. Some 6.3 percent of state and federal inmates with "serious psychological distress" reported that they had been victimized by another inmate. That's nine times greater than the percentage of victims with no mental disorder, according to the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics.
• Inmates in designated mental health units are involved – as victims or perpetrators – in more assaults, contraband violations, self-injuries and other "unusual incidents" than general population inmates in New York's most dangerous prisons. The rate of unusual incidents among prisoners in six of the system's specially established mental health units in 2011 was more than three times the rate for Auburn Correctional Facility, a notorious maximum-security prison.
• Mentally ill inmates are easily preyed upon by general population inmates. Sometimes called "bugs," inmates with psychiatric disorders are enlisted to run drugs or fill other dangerous tasks. A mentally ill or developmentally delayed inmate is "like a lamb or a zebra to a lion," one prison-based mental health worker said. "Easy pickings."
• Studies suggest that mentally ill inmates released from prison are more likely to re-offend if they return to drug abuse – which often accompanies mental illness – and drop the prescribed medicines they received in prison. The more effective the treatment while they are in prison, the less likely they will cause problems once paroled.
Many of the people in charge argue that caring for the mentally ill should not be their job. But jail and prison rosters are likely to grow.
In New York, the state intends to close more psychiatric centers starting next year.
"Talk about cruel and inhumane," said Chautauqua County Sheriff Joe Gerace. "Having them in jail because they are problematic in society is not their choice. A treatment facility is much more appropriate."
Unaware of their illness
There are many Gregory Seiferts, if you count those mentally ill people who don't believe they are sick, doubt their need for medicine, have a brush or three with hospital care, commit foolish or nuisance crimes and then board the conveyor for jail or prison.
Jerome Brylski's family saw him spinning out of control in 2010. The West Seneca resident, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, replaced his medication with marijuana. His children, in statements to police, said they tried to get him admitted to Erie County Medical Center's psychiatric unit for longer-term care, but two attempts ended in frustration for them and made Brylski angrier and more violent.
In the second try, Brylski was released within days. Then, in April 2010, he blasted two shots from his deer rifle at the West Seneca police officers who pulled over the car in which he was riding. Brylski was injured by the barrage of return fire but survived.
An unarmed friend who wanted no part of a gunfight, Jeffrey J. Edwards, was shot twice as he tried to surrender while assuring police he meant no harm. The wounds paralyzed Edwards from the neck down, and he has been in a hospital bed ever since.
Before the shooting, Brylski's family had wanted him in a psychiatric center, where he could get help. He's now serving a 20-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to attempted murder.
It is often up to families – the Brylskis and the Seiferts were among many – to steer a seriously mentally ill person toward treatment and expect them to continue with treatment. Some agencies, such as Erie County Crisis Services, are ready to help. But it's difficult to force people to take medication and accept counseling if they doubt they need it, especially if they are not acting in a dangerous manner.
While the vast number of people diagnosed with a mental illness live safely, some don't. Further, psychiatrists say that roughly half of the people with schizophrenia, when off their medication, don't realize they are ill because the disease damages the part of the brain responsible for self-analysis. So they have no drive to seek treatment.
After seeing the difficulties his mentally ill sister-in-law experienced, D.J. Jaffe began a blog based in New York City called the Mental Illness Policy Org. It offers up a trove of information about the toll of untreated mental illness. Jaffe believes courts should order treatment for those patients who become dangerous and shun care because they cannot comprehend that they are sick. The stance places him directly against those patient-advocates who say forced treatment violates personal rights and does more harm than good.
"When someone is walking down the street screaming, 'I am Jesus Christ,' it's not because they believe they are Jesus Christ," Jaffe says.
"It's because they know they are Jesus Christ."
A family's anguish
Gregory Seifert became a textbook example of how the onslaught of a serious mental illness can redirect a life, blindside a family and force its members into a crash course on the confounding mental health system.
News reports about Seifert's arrest portrayed him as someone whose schizophrenia drove him to bizarre acts. In 2007, he torched his Chevrolet Suburban on busy Elmwood Avenue because he thought it contained devices to spy on him. He set a fire that ruined his Cape Cod in Hamburg the month before the power poles fell.
The news reports, however, failed to fully describe the depth of Seifert's spiral. It began when he was hospitalized in his 30s for what everyone thought was an anxiety attack. It was the first shadow of a serious mental illness that would leave him unstable and sometimes delusional.
Over the next decade he lost his job, split with his wife and grew distant from his four sons. In recent years, he drifted homeless in South Carolina for a few weeks. Rescued by his parents, he returned to live alone at his house in Hamburg but soon after set it on fire. Weeks later, he was facing charges in a puzzling act of vandalism that knocked out power to 6,300 customers and drew notice from the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Days before the power poles were cut, Gregory Seifert was released from the Lake Shore Health Care Center in Irving against his doctor's advice. His father, too, knew it was a bad idea. But the insurance had run out on his inpatient care.
James Seifert, squarely built with thinning gray hair, is a retired General Electric engineer who, like his son, made his living solving problems for business and industry. A former Marine, James Seifert has no trouble saying things people don't want to hear. When a Lake Shore employee told him Gregory would be released, he told her: "For the next couple of weeks, you should wear a good dress to work. Because we are all going to be on TV."
That's how sure he was that his son, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, among other things, would surprise everyone again and probably land in jail.
"One of the things that I have been criticized for is not bailing him out," James Seifert said. "I don't know. Maybe that's something I am going to have to live with for a long time. But I really believe that if I bailed him out, he would just be gone.
"He would be living under a bridge someplace, and he'd either get mugged and killed or do some other stupid things out there. I cannot in good conscience bail him out without some plan for keeping him in a place that can help.
"I'm not afraid of my son. He is not a violent person in the sense that he would try to beat somebody up or try to shoot somebody or stab somebody. But he does stupid things, and he does believe that he's working for the CIA.
"People don't realize what a terrible, traumatic thing this is for a parent."
The crime of mental illness
In Arlington, Va., in 2010, researchers at the Treatment Advocacy Center, a nonprofit think tank, ran some numbers.
Studies showed that 16 percent of inmates nationwide were suffering from serious brain illnesses, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depressive disorder. So the researchers ran that percentage against an inmate census for each state.
Their findings: If there was a tipping point in the transfer of mental patients out of psychiatric centers and into jails and prisons, it had long since passed. The nation had far more mentally ill prisoners than mentally ill hospital patients.
Three times more.
Using the factor of 16 percent, every state had more mentally ill prisoners than patients. Even New York, which was spending more to run its remaining treatment centers than any other state, housed 2,700 more mentally ill people in cells than in hospitals and psychiatric centers.
"Many of these individuals wouldn't even be incarcerated if they could get the help and care they need in their community," the Civil Service Employees Association said in testimony given to the State Legislature this year. "The state has emptied out the state psychiatric centers but has failed to follow the individuals who leave these institutions."
It would be easy to dismiss the CSEA statement as union rhetoric intended to save state jobs by blocking Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's plan to close four of the state's remaining 24 psychiatric centers because inpatient care is so expensive. But the CSEA's remarks echo those from many others who study the mental health system and whose priority isn't necessarily protecting state jobs.
Among them is E. Fuller Torrey. As a research psychiatrist in Chevy Chase, Md., Torrey argues that government mental health agencies should focus on those seriously ill individuals who are so deep into their own reality that they don't know they are sick and won't seek help on their own – the people who, as D.J. Jaffe said, "know they are Jesus Christ."
To Torrey, the nation has taken a giant step backward, to the early 19th century, when mentally ill people were warehoused in prisons where brutal conditions sparked a reform movement to place them in specially built institutions. With those mental institutions mothballed in the latter half of the 20th century, jails and prisons again were pressed into service for the mentally ill.
Torrey worked as a hospital psychiatrist in the 1970s as states boarded up psychiatric centers and laid the cost to care for patients on federal programs. In 1998, he founded the Treatment Advocacy Center, the nonprofit that ran the numbers in 2010.
"We were very good at emptying out the hospitals," Torrey says, "and then very bad at providing treatment."
In Western New York, the number of hospital beds available for psychiatric patients continues to fall. The new behavioral health center that will open next to Erie County Medical Center early next year – to be run by ECMC and Kaleida Health – will offer fewer beds than ECMC and Kaleida's Buffalo General once offered separately.
Further, while the state-run Buffalo Psychiatric Center intends to add a small number of beds next year, it will have to absorb the Children's Psychiatric Center in West Seneca, which will close under Cuomo's consolidation plan. Facing its own financial pressures, the Lake Shore Health Care Center, which for a time had Gregory Seifert in one of its 24 behavioral health beds, may close as well, unless some other entity buys that hospital.
Torrey, now in his 70s, has become a folk hero to families frustrated that the porous system makes it likely that their ill loved ones will encounter a cop before a psychiatrist or land in a cell before a hospital bed.
"I remember a recent one you had," he said during a Buffalo News interview early this year, recalling the case of a mentally ill man thrown into a Western New York jail for an odd crime after several efforts to help him.
"The guy took his chain saw to some of the telephone poles up there. Which I thought was kind of novel."
"I've seen a lot of things," Torrey said. "But that was a new one on me."
'My cloned twin did it'
Mental health courts can be invaluable in directing someone faced with a crime to accept treatment. But not every community has a mental health court. Sometimes the system steams along without regard to a defendant's mental illness.
James and Carol Seifert cooperated with police during their investigation. They did so thinking that the police would agree their son belonged in a treatment facility, not a jail. But the Seiferts watched the police and prosecutors follow well-worn grooves – toward an arrest and conviction.
When Orchard Park police first asked Gregory Seifert about the downed telephone poles, he admitted being in the area near 3949 California Road with his wagon. Then they showed him pictures of the damage.
"His eyes began to flutter, inside closed eyelids. He swallowed hard, and he became visibly upset," police wrote in a report. Seifert ended the interview and walked away.
Later, Detective John Payne quizzed him in detail at Police Headquarters. In a recording of part of the interview, Seifert sounds foggy. He drawls out his answers. He starts sentences and does not finish them.
He barely acknowledges a problem.
"I got stressed out," he says at one point, to explain the turmoil in his life.
"You've been separated from society for a long time," Payne counters.
Seifert pauses and then says, "Yeah."
But he never really confesses or explains his actions.
"I know this sounds weird, but my cloned twin did it," Seifert said, according to a police transcript.
"So you are saying your cloned twin cut the poles?" Payne responded.
"I know. It sounds weird," Seifert said.
"I want you to take responsibilities for your actions," the detective said.
"I did. I am responsible for those poles coming down," Seifert shot back.
"So you are telling me that you cut the poles?"
"No," Seifert said.
In jail, he took his medicines sporadically. He sometimes refused to see his parents when they came to visit. He wrote threatening letters to people he knew around Orchard Park and implied that he works undercover for the CIA, his father said.
According to jail records, he tore up a T-shirt and wore parts of it as socks. He trashed his cell with food. He removed his identification bracelet. All of the above violated the rules. But what happened in December 2012, nearly a year after he was locked in jail, put him in another league.
Seifert, according to statements given detectives, jammed a shower rod tipped with foil from a juice container into the outlet powering a television set. Another inmate yelled at him to knock it off, because the TV picture could be lost. But Seifert kept at it until the tip of the rod grew hot.
Then, according to witnesses, Seifert set his smoldering tool against some pillow stuffing he had jammed into his cell's air grate. The flames were extinguished before causing major damage or inflicting harm. But, to the deputies, he endangered the building's occupants. That fit a charge of second-degree arson, a felony that could put him in prison for up to 25 years.
Greater risk of suicides
In both jails and prisons, suicide is a leading cause of death.
Various studies report that anywhere from 40 to 70 percent of the victims had a history of mental illness. Many displayed a clear warning sign: a prior attempt to end their lives. But in jails or prisons, clear warning signs aren't necessarily enough to prevent someone from taking their own life.
Amare Seltun, who had been diagnosed with major depression, tried to hang himself several times before he succeeded in killing himself in a solitary confinement cell at Attica Correctional Facility in September 2009. State Commission of Correction investigators faulted the mental health staff for the way Seltun, 37, had been handled.
George Scribner, 43, was placed in the Orange County Jail in Goshen for stealing $20 from his stepdaughter to get high. Scribner, already diagnosed with depression, admitted during his screening that he had attempted suicide six weeks before. After two days in the jail, he hanged himself in his cell in January 2008.
Edward Berezowski, 54, was booked into the Erie County Holding Center in August 2012 after tearing off a Best Buy employee's name tag, choking a manager and throwing him into a store display, according to the Erie County Sheriff's Office, whose deputies arrested him.
His friend Frank Sausner surmised that Berezowski was angry about the big-screen TV he bought weeks earlier.
"He could control himself under most circumstances," Sausner said. "But if he did lose control, he would be, if not physical, real boisterous."
Skilled as a plumber, mason and chef, Berezowski was a smart and determined nonconformist, according to another friend in an online tribute to him. Berezowski declared on Facebook that he works at "surviving life and maintaining my sanity." He also was adamant about taking his medication for depression and bipolar disorder.
In August 2012, the Holding Center was about to emerge from a Justice Department lawsuit that sought more humane conditions within one of New York's worst-run county jails. The county had already agreed to long-neglected improvements that would lessen the chance for inmates to commit suicide, but officials had not yet converted a second-floor gymnasium into an expanded intake and assessment area, which then-County Executive Chris Collins agreed to create.
Sausner said he once heard his friend Berezowski admit to a suicide attempt years earlier. The Holding Center's initial report for state regulators indicates jailers were unaware that Berezowski once tried to take his own life and had been treated for a mental illness.
But were there other signs he was at risk?
A lawsuit contends that Berezowski's ex-wife, who remained among his friends, contacted the Holding Center staff to tell them he was suicidal, and she delivered his crucial medicine to the jail. But Berezowski failed to get it, and he was not placed under constant watch nor in one of the more modern cells retrofitted to make suicides by hanging more difficult.
The day after his arrest, Berezowski strung his jail-issued pants to the bars to create a noose and hanged himself. He died days later in a hospital.
Could he stand trial?
The side door to a quiet courtroom in recess swung open, and an officer led in a wiry defendant dressed in a tan oxford shirt, faded blue jeans and a chain cinching his arms at the waist. With a full beard and longer hair sweeping nearly to his collar, Gregory Seifert looked thinner, younger and deeper into his own world than in the booking photo snapped in January 2012.
He slipped into a chair at the defense table without acknowledging the worried couple in their 60s who sat behind him, little more than an arm's length away.
Seifert had turned 44 during his nearly 20 months in jail, which included time served for his conviction in the telephone-pole vandalism, his father said. At issue on that September morning was his mental fitness for his arson case.
There was no disagreement that Seifert is mentally ill. Psychiatrists over the years diagnosed him with a slate of serious brain ailments no one would want: bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, chronic paranoid schizophrenia. His mental state had led to six different hospital stays to stabilize him.
The question, 10 months after the fire in his cell, was whether he could understand what was going on in the courtroom.
Could he participate in his arson defense?
Did he know what was on the line?
Prosecutor Paul J. Glascott asked three psychiatrists if Seifert understood the charge against him and could testify in his own defense if asked. Did he understand the role of a judge, a prosecutor, a defense attorney? Could he envision the serious consequences if convicted of second-degree arson?
Two of the psychiatrists, Michael Cummings and Evelyn Coggins, answered affirmatively.
"He had awareness of his legal rights," Coggins said of the time she examined Seifert in late February of this year, after the fire in his cell. He could testify and handle the stress, she said.
Cummings, now Erie County's executive director of behavioral health, provided the same answers.
He agreed Seifert had appeared calm, was reasonably well-groomed and answered questions in context during his exam. When taking the antipsychotic drugs Seroquel and Haldol, Seifert seemed more open and friendly, but there was little difference in him when he didn't take them, Cummings said.
Brian Joseph was the only psychiatrist to testify who was not connected to Erie County's Forensic Mental Health Service. Joseph was formerly the chief of psychiatry at the Erie County Holding Center. For years he had testified for prosecutors and knew, he said, that prosecutors expect the county's psychiatrists to deem felony defendants fit for trial.
Joseph, a gray-haired veteran of hundreds of hearings like this one, quickly revealed that he considered Seifert seriously mentally ill. When asked if he would identify him in the courtroom, Joseph pointed toward the defense table and said in his deep baritone, "Mr. Seifert. The one with poor eye contact."
He had examined Seifert at the request of Seifert's defense attorney, Lawrence Desiderio, when Desiderio concluded Seifert wasn't working to defend himself. With Seifert refusing to see Desiderio, the lawyer filed papers to force Holding Center personnel to let him in, and he arranged for Joseph to see the defendant, too.
Joseph said that in no way could Seifert "meaningfully go forward" with a trial.
"As far as I am concerned, Mr. Seifert is a walking conglomeration of symptoms," he said.
Joseph said that when assessing someone's capacity, he chiefly wants to know whether the lawyer and defendant can work together. But he found "no meaningful interaction" between Seifert and Desiderio, because the client's answers to his lawyer's questions were sometimes nonsensical or absurd.
"He does not understand that he is mentally ill," Joseph said. "He is overwhelmed with his schizophrenic view of the world. His answer to the world around him is simply to withdraw."
If such talk angered Gregory Seifert – who did not respond to The News' request for an interview – he did not show it. Gazing elsewhere in the room, he sat as an island of indifference as the psychiatrist's words washed past.
When the hearing concluded, Seifert was led away without a fuss, and without acknowledging his parents.
In the hallway outside, James Seifert went off for a moment to be alone with his thoughts.
Carol Seifert, stoic during the hearing, steadied herself on a bench, then pulled out a tissue to dab at her eyes.
"All we wanted was to get him help," she said. "That's what this was all about."
Christopher J. Burns, the State Supreme Court justice who presided over the hearing, said he would rule quickly and in writing. He circulated his decision Sept. 16, just four days later.
"The court finds, by a preponderance of the evidence," he wrote, "that the defendant currently lacks the capacity to stand trial."
He ordered Gregory Seifert into the custody of the state Office of Mental Health for up to a year. If his condition improves in the meantime, he will be returned to face the arson charge.
Seifert's parents go to see him now in the Rochester Psychiatric Center. He takes his medicine, sees a psychiatrist regularly and talks more frankly about his illness, they said.
From everything they can see, he's getting better and showing more promise than he ever did while in jail.
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