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N-Acetyl-Cysteine (NAC) in Early Phase Schizophrenia Spectrum Psychosis (NACPSY)
This study has been completed.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Center de Neurosciences Psychiatrique, Lausanne, Switzerland
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Tsung-Ung Wilson Woo, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: May 13, 2011
Last updated: May 26, 2015
Last verified: May 2015
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Detailed Description:
The investigators seek to examine the effect of add-on N-Acetyl-Cysteine (NAC) in the early phase of schizophrenia spectrum illness in collaboration with researchers Kim Do, PhD, and Philippe Conus, MD in Switzerland. Modifications of brain structure are thought to occur during the pre-illness phase and around the transition to psychosis. Therefore, studying new treatments that could target changes occurring during this period is of critical importance.
Does add-on NAC treatment in early psychosis influence:
- positive and negative symptoms
- extrapyramidal side-effects of other medication
- plasma concentration of glutathione
- Mismatch Negativity, a physiological marker
Schizophrenic Psychoses
Drug: n-acetylcysteine
Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Effects of Oral N-Acetyl-Cysteine (NAC) in the Early Phase of Schizophrenia Spectrum Psychosis: Randomized, Parallel, Double- Blind, Placebo Controlled Trial
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: schizophrenia
MedlinePlus related topics: Mental Disorders Psychotic Disorders Schizophrenia
Drug Information available for: Cysteine Acetylcysteine Cysteine hydrochlorideU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Improvement of negative symptoms on the PANSS [ Time Frame: within 6 months of NAC treatment ]Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Improved positive and general symptoms (PANSS) and functional level (GAF & SOFAS) [ Time Frame: within 6 months of NAC treatment ]Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale Global Assessment of Functioning Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale
- Improved cognition and working memory (MATRICS) [ Time Frame: at 24 weeks of NAC treatment ]The MATRICS is neurocognitive battery designed to assess cognition in psychopharmacology studies
- Improved EEG/Evoked potentials (Mismatch Negativity) [ Time Frame: at 24 weeks of NAC treatment ]Mismatch Negativity, a component of auditory evoked potentials
- Improved plasma glutathione [ Time Frame: within 24 weeks of NAC treatment ]Plasma levels of glutathione, plasma amino acids and genetic analysis of enzymes involved in glutathione metabolism
|Study Start Date:
|May 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|August 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|August 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: n-acetyl-cysteine
N-Acetyl cysteine effervescent tablets in water 2 in am and 1 in pm for 28 weeks
Drug: n-acetylcysteine
900 mg effervescent PharmaNAC tablet in water or juice: two tablets in the AM, one tablet in PM
Other Name: PharmaNAC
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
matching effervescent tablets in water 2 in am and 1 in pm
Drug: n-acetylcysteine
900 mg effervescent PharmaNAC tablet in water or juice: two tablets in the AM, one tablet in PM
Other Name: PharmaNAC
Detailed Description:
The study proposes that a glutathione deficit leading to an abnormal response to oxidative stress is a vulnerability factor, combined with other brain specific factors, in brain functioning of some individuals with schizophrenia (Do et al., 2010). N-acetyl-cysteine is hypothesized to cross the blood-brain barrier and increase glutathione in the brain.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 35 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Capacity to provide informed consent
- DSM IV TR diagnosis of schizophrenia, schizophreniform, schizoaffective
- Psychiatric and medical stability
- Prescribing clinician's premission to participate, assurance of medical stability
- Having met threshold criteria for psychosis on CAARMS (Comprehensive Assessment of at Risk Mental States Scale) Psychosis subscale
- Up to 12 months of antipsychotic treatment
Exclusion Criteria:
- Severe medical comorbidities
- Previous cerebral trauma
- Substance induced psychosis or organic psychosis
- Mental retardation
- NAC allergy
- Pregnancy, females and males planning pregnancy
- Treatment with antioxidants
- Insufficient command of English
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01354132
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01354132
|United States, Massachusetts
|Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
|Massachusetts Mental Health Center
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
Sponsors and Collaborators
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Center de Neurosciences Psychiatrique, Lausanne, Switzerland
|Study Director:
|Ann Cousins, PhD, APRN
|Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
|Study Chair:
|T. U. Wilson Woo, MD, PhD
|Harvard Medical School
More Information
Keywords provided by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 23, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Tsung-Ung Wilson Woo, Psychiatrist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01354132 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
107865 ( Other Identifier: FDA IND )
|Study First Received:
|May 13, 2011
|Last Updated:
|May 26, 2015
Keywords provided by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center:
early schizophrenia spectrum psychosis
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Psychotic Disorders
Mental Disorders
Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Respiratory System Agents
Free Radical Scavengers
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Protective Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 23, 2017

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14/08/2013 - Life is a metronomeMature
Diary Entry.
So here we go again it seems.
Life is nothing but a big metronome. Swinging back and forth from happy and sad, constantly ruining your life just after it's reached it's peak of joy. Just after you're happy, finally.
Nothing lasts forever but who thought this feeling would only last a day or two? Why is it that every single time I think things are going right... Something fucks up.
I don't think I can take it any more. I'm sick of going from being on top of the world to wanting to be six feet under it. It's harder than it looks to be alive, especially when you've got the weight of everything on your shoulders. I'm a lost cause, nobody can save me now. I'm still here in body but in spirit, I'm as far away as spiritually possible.
I'm a liar. I rarely tell the truth. I lie about the pettiest of things. The way I feel, they things I eat, the things I do, things that happened. But then there are the huge lies. The ones that I say to myself so often I'm actually starting to believe them. I lie to myself more than others. I make myself believe that I live this great life full of adventures and romance and great friendships but I don't. Not really. It's not like I could ever actually become someone. I find it near impossible to actually think that I have a chance of becoming famous. It's a childish dream, I know. It's an almost impossible dream. But still I try... Waiting for the imminent failure. I lie to myself about that too, that one day I'll be living how I want to be and I'll be happy. Emotions are a lie.
One thing I don't lie about is how I don't believe in love. I believe it is humanly possible to make yourself love someone. In fact I am living proof that you can because about 10 months ago I was lying in bed telling myself to love this guy. I literally lay there for an hour saying to myself "you love him, you love everything about him, his cheeky smile, his voice, the way he always stands out. You love it. You love him."
And now look at me, I'm head over heels for the guy. I'd do anything for him.
But nothing ever works two ways does it. Nobody ever feels for me as much as I do for them. I'm never top of their list even if they're the only one on mine.


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Silent RideMature
The small digital clock in on the dashboard of his father's car reminded Tobias of his own digital clock, blinking at him as he squinted, blinking back the tears that accompanied his yawn. Every one or two minutes, another yawn would follow, and Tobias couldn't help but feel that it was something to do with the sheer lack of sleep he had got the previous night.
Now the car was silent, and his father and mother were looking into the distance of the road, trying not to ask any awkward questions, but not yet revealing where they were going.
It had been obvious to Tobias since he had been told to put his shoes on, which he had done a little reluctantly, but nonetheless. This was the direction in which they travelled every time that the family visited Dr Andy at his clinic. It was a specific paediatrician's clinic, and so Tobias had always felt very safe upon approach. But today, he couldn't bury the butterflies that fluttered in his tummy.
Although Tobias was very sure that that was where they were going, he felt the need to ask, just so that the car would not be filled with such an aching silence.
'Where are we going?' He took the plunge.
His parents both remained silence for several seconds, which seemed to drag on for an eternity, but after a short while, they answered.
'We're just going to go and see Dr Andy, sweetheart,' his mother said. The words seemed forced, especially the 'sweetheart', as though she didn't really feel that way at all any more. Her son was a freak, and she couldn't accept it. Tobias tried to banish these thoughts, but they lingered, even longer than the echoes of the Voices would have done, if they had not fallen silent the moment Tobias had left his bedroom this morning.
'We just want to make sure you're okay,' his father said, as if explaining why such a trip would be necessary. Of course, all three of them knew, and Tobias was not one for beating around the bush.
'Is this because of what I said last night?'
The silence seemed to stretch on even longer now. It was as if Tobias had asked if he could murder somebody, and the silence was not so much simply awkward as it was absolutely shocked. Neither Tobias' mother nor father wanted to be the one to admit it. Neither wanted to be the one that said:
'Yes son, we think you're crazy.'
But of course, they were both thinking it. How many nine-year-olds were ravished with such terrible bad dreams, let alone wandered around claiming to be hearing Voices. None, as far as Tobias was concerned.
'I'm sorry.' Tobias said after a few minutes of dead quiet, which had made him think that he had not even asked a question.
Again, the car was silent, save for the constant humming of the engine, coupled with the buzz of the tyres on the tarmac below.
For the first time since the truth had been revealed, Tobias' mother turned around from her seat, and looked her son in the eyes.
Tobias could tell that she was fighting back tears, as he had been doing – and doing unsuccessfully for the last three days – and as she looked into his eyes, she gave a small smile. Not one of genuine happiness, but one of confusion. As if she didn't know what other face or expression to pull.
As the look that mother and son shared went on longer and longer, Tobias felt it become uncomfortable, and as he looked away, he saw his mother's head turn back to the front of the car. Tobias' sight was directed towards the same place his parents were looking at, and he recognised the small building in front of him, as his father parked the car overlooking a steep hill and sheep dotted on it, like clouds in the sky.
As the family exited the vehicle, mum and dad led on, as if they didn't really care whether or not their son followed them. However, he did, and at a few opportunities, he tried to catch up to them, and walk next to them, instead of being ignored and appearing like a third wheel. However, he did not want to make the situation more uncomfortable, so he hung back, waiting until they were inside the building.
Dr Andy greeted his parents with a concerned smile, similar to the one Tobias had seen from his mother. He was waiting in the reception of the clinic, and he spoke softly to them.
'I got your call.'
Blunt and to the point. Tobias would normally have liked that. He didn't like people waffling on about nothing, which is partly the reason he hated the Voices so much, repeating everything they said, as if Tobias hadn't heard.
Dr Andy led Tobias' parents through a door to the right, which Tobias knew from experience was where the small rooms were in which the doctors did their examinations.
His parents went without even looking back, and Dr Andy glanced back over his shoulder, indicating for Tobias to wait in the room to the left – the waiting room.
Watching his parents walk down the hall, Tobias felt a cold ache inside himself, as if sadness was actually a physical condition, and it was inside him, like a tumour.
Pushing the door on the left, Tobias tried to fight back the single tear that threatened to fall down his face in front of all the other people waiting for their check-ups. All children, but all with parents.
Tobias felt well and truly alone. No Voices. No parents. Alone.


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Bear KirkpatrickPhotographer Male Rollinsford, New Hampshire, US
My Website: Bear Kirkpatrick StudioMy MM URL: http://www.modelmayhem.com/bearkirkpatrick
Mayhem # 706528
About Me
I am a full-time artist, not a commercial/glamour photographer. I use a camera to gather material that I can use to make compositions, and I show these compositions in contemporary art galleries in New York, San Diego, Boston, Philadelphia, and Santa Fe.
Since I work with a lot of naked people, and my covenant with models is this:
1. Nobody views any image we take except you, me, and my female assistant.
2. If I come up with an image I like and want to use it in my portfolio, I will show it to you first for approval. Only after getting your approval will I use it.
3. I pay models, but only a little. I will sometimes work in trade--a shoot for a shoot.
4. We sign a release which covers all of this.
Examples of my work can be found here: www.bearkirkpatrick.com
"Working with Bear was a very fulfilling experience. The energy he provided made it very easy to tap into my creative wells, and his professional yet personable attitude put me at ease. The mood of the shoot shifted from intense and dramatic to funny, and everywhere in between. If you are a model looking for a great photographer with whom you can really explore yourself and be pushed to your creative limits by, you will have an amazing shoot with Bear."
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Yumi Stynes has had quite a ride. Her career started in the year 2000 when she won the Channel [V] music reporter search. Literally overnight Yumi went from working in a Melbourne takeaway to being snogged by Robbie Williams on live national TV.
Throughout her career Yumi has interviewed actors, comedians, directors and musicians all over the world, and also written for various publications including Grazia, Frankie Magazine and Film Ink.
Yumi's on-air style combines a unique take on the world - where her life experiences of single motherhood, growing up half-Japanese, being in a rock band and hitch-hiking solo across the country make her sympathetic to outsiders, rebels and artists. She has proven herself to be a versatile, intelligent and witty presenter who is respected by viewers, co-hosts and guest alike.
In 2010 Yumi joined Network Ten as one of four co-hosts on The Circle. The show was nominated for - and won - a Logie for Best Light Entertainment in 2011. That same year Yumi and Chrissie Swan launched The 3pm Pick Up, a weekday radio show on Mix FM to considerable acclaim and she was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards in 2012.
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Malaysia Beaches
Port Dickson, Cherating, Tanjung Aru
Malaysia's beaches are some of the best in the world. Sunny breezes, white sandy beaches and a serene atmosphere are our hallmark of perfection.Read More
- Batu Caves, Royal Selangor & Batik Half-Day Tour
- Sunway Lagoon Theme Park Admission with RM10 Meal Voucher
- Nature & Elephant Sanctuary Tour
- Historical City of Malacca Full-Day Tour
- Traditional English Afternoon Tea at the Eastern & Oriental Hotel
- Glittering Fireflies Night Tour with Dinner
- City Half-Day Tour
- Aquaria KLCC Admission
- Dining in the Clouds at the KL Tower with Transfer
- Kuala Lumpur Tower Observation Deck
Other Beaches in Malaysia
Every weekend, Malaysians in the south state of Johor flock to Desaru, a 25 stretch of warm beach just 98km away from its capital Johor Bahru. The water sports industry is at its zenith here. Water skiing, canoeing and catamaran sailing activities are some of the developments in this famous beach. Other activities you can do include horse-riding, archery, camping and off-road adventures in 4x4 vehicles.
Tanjung Aru
Just 15 minutes away by car from Kota Kinabalu, Tanjung Aru's long line of sandy beach dotted with casuarina trees provides a peaceful and inviting sight. The beach is a popular sport to swim, relax and watch the beautiful sunsets of Sabah.
Rantau Abang
Rantau Abang is the only location in Malaysia where the massive leatherback; the largest turtle species on Earth, comes to nest every year. Between May and September, visitors who come here to Rantau Abang in Dungun, Terengganu, will get a rare glimpse of leatherbacks climbing the gentle beach slopes to lay their eggs and return to the sea.


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Love, mind - whatever
What form can love often take?
Could it always be cerebral?
exist in this state perhaps forever
not ever require an act physical?
How does success one measure?
Does one continue out of devotion?
When the embers have but died down
left with only memories of the emotion
Perhaps love stripped of civility
make us less human than bovine
What gives it a noble quality?
perhaps a function of the higher mind.


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Carol "marie" C.
Nanny in Alexandria, VA 22305.
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- Age 32
- 13 years paid experience
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Preferred Rate $15-$18 per hour
Carol "marie"'s Bio
27-year-old wife, mother and professional nanny with 12 years of experience with children of all ages/backgrounds with all types of needs. Many excellent references available but for their privacy would like to send privately. I look forward to hearing from you!
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It could be a good moment to bring manufacturing back home: Overseas wages and employment costs are rising, as are long-distance shipping costs, and political instability and natural disasters have shown the weaknesses in long, complex, multinational supply chains. Perhaps it is easier, some companies now say, to have all your suppliers within driving distance, even if that costs more. That's what auto manufacturers have long done.
What is a job? What's a factory?
But this is not a simple or uncontroversial matter.
A big reason why manufacturing jobs and factories moved to the Far East was because Asia and the rest of the developing world have a very different definition of "job" and "factory." Western manufacturing, by the end of the Second World War, had come to be based around what some economists called a Fordist model: After the innovations of Henry Ford and his industrial comrades, factory jobs became lifelong, secure relationships between employer and employee, and factories permanent features on the landscape.
When Mr. Dyson complains about the 25-year leases he is expected to sign on British factory land, or the employment laws that make it a big burden to hire an additional worker (in large part because it's so expensive to fire them), he is complaining about the legacies of Fordism.
Asian manufacturers work in a "post-Fordist" economy in which labour and capital are flexible and fast-moving. If he sets up a vacuum-cleaner factory in Malaysia, he can ask his aluminium-tube supplier to set up a parts factory down the road, and within a year it can be built, staffed and operational. If his sales fall, he can cut staffing levels quickly.
Millions of Westerners, perhaps the majority, live the post-Fordist life: the call-centre workers, the piecework food processors. But our governments and unions have spent generations making full-time industrial jobs secure and permanent. Changing that will be controversial and jarring. It's what the Detroit auto workers effectively did: In exchange for the Washington bailout, they and their unions agreed to sharp reductions in job security and benefits.
Some labour and political leaders argue that the sort of policies proposed by the Dysons of the world amount to the beginning of a levelling-down of Western standards to developing-world levels, when the opposite should be occurring.
Other economists argue that it isn't really about manufacturing: There is no reason, on paper, why a good is more valuable to the economy, more export-worthy or more productivity-enhancing than a service. Most employment takes place in services, and in many countries the lion's share of exports are services such as software, banking, consulting and things like waste collection. And the barrier between the two is breaking down: Is Amazon's Kindle operation really retailing goods, or are the readers themselves merely the physical front end for the much larger downloading service?
When people talk about using government to boost manufacturing, what exactly are they talking about subsidizing, and to what end? As Jared Bernstein, a former economic adviser to U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden, told a reporter after Mr. Obama proposed his industrial policy: "Every barbershop is now going to claim that they manufacture haircuts."
Mr. Dyson and his allies dismiss such arguments. "It's a false view that services are just as good," he says. "Services are very hard to export, and even if you do export them, they're very easy to copy. And manufacturing does provide a better living. The average salary at Rolls-Royce is £41,000 [$65,000]per year; the average salary at Lloyds Bank [Britain's largest service employer]is £17,500 [$28,000]per year. There's a very high standard of living in Switzerland and Singapore, and they're both manufacturing economies – the average salary in Singapore is $57,000 a year."
He sees the source of salvation in Britain, Canada and similar countries in their universities – "our last remaining source of innovation and industrial leadership," he says.
"It's always said about the British," this quintessential Englishman says, "that we invent things and everybody else exploits them. And it's true. But I don't think it has to be that way, and now we have a grand opportunity to change it."
It is perhaps fitting that this idea is being promoted by the man best known for reinventing the vacuum cleaner. This time, after all, what he is trying to fix is nothing less than a political and economic vacuum.
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We got off the bus, mumbling or usual "Thank you", then as soon as the doors close we say "for being a fat prick" or something along those lines.
We meandered back to his house. Dan as usual waddled towards the door pretending to be Happy Al, making the neighboors shake their heads.
As soon as the door opened i was leapt upon but none other that the sly deamon that is Muffins. Her short brown fur rubbed against my new Gothica boots.
"Hello sweety!" I picked up the battle-worn moggy. She had a huge chunk missing from one ear, a scar running down her nose and was missing quite a few teeth. She hated nearly everything that moved unless it was a male cat or me. Dan calls her Hoebag, but shes my baby Muffins no matter if she is a cheap kitty whore.
Dan always says me and muffins are soul mates because im a cheap hoe with an attitude problem too ( Which i am not! I haven't gone past making out with a guy, and that was like two years ago anyway).
The other cats probably would apear around the house and get in the way at some point in the evening. I knew where Monkey would be, but the other three cats would no doubt cause mayhem as usual.
We walked into the living room, dumping our stuff. Monkey was exactly where I thought he would be, snugglled underneath what looked like a gigantic ripped tent. This was infact a curtain Monkey had mangaged to rip down (they called him Monkey because of his love of climbing curtains). Apart from that habit he was a very quiet cat.
No sooner had we flicked on beauty and the geek than my phone rang. Unkown number. Okay weird, I picked up anyway.
"Hey girl!" Jamies familiar voice called from the unfamiliar number. "You made out with him yet?" She asked this question everytime me and Dan spent any time alone.
"No, and I dont intend to" Dan gave an understanding knod still staring at the TV. He knew it was Jamie. It always was when the first thing I said was No.
"Meeeeeoow". Muffins nuged my hand with her forhead, disgruntled that I had stoped petting her.
Jamie Hissed down the phone. I'm the only one of us that likes Muffins. Okay so Jamie still had a scar from when Muffins was introduced to her but it was no reason to be mean. She's just a cat after all. "Okay Okay, Sure you don't. Anyway Carters having a party tonight, hes invited us three. You coming?"
"Hell yeh! l'll tell Dan".
"Woah hold up its a pool party, you sure you still wanna come". She teased.
"We both screamed down the phone". Pool party yes! No parents, Booze and fit guys just in tiny shorts. We started gigling.
"Okay, I'll be over in like ten miniutes. How was dance?"
"Yeh, I'll tell you about that later. They're just about to go into the elimination room on Beauty and the Geek. Gotta watch this, talk in ten". With that I hung up. I wasn't too keen on telling Jamie about dance . She would probably read way too much into it anyway.


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At my last appointment with Deanna, she was so pleasantly surprised at the difference in my demeanor that she commented on it several times. I knew I felt better, but I hadn't really noticed a physical change. But thinking back to those past appointments, I know exactly what she was talking about.
I would drop my entire weight back like I couldn't hold it up. My voice was dry and flat, exhausted after faking cheer and enthusiasm all day. Any responsibilities I had would be listed like a mountain piling over me, like I was going to be buried alive and there was no way to escape it. My thoughts were in a fog; there were no conclusions I could come to on my own.
Now I was sitting forward, engaged in the conversation, honestly caring. I had a lot to do, but it was an it'll-suck-but-I-can-do-it attitude, something different than I'd ever had before. And some things I didn't know the answers to, but a lot of things I came to terms with and found closure for.
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... incentive to get out there, and enough to time to burn it off on the way back :) PS while I would have liked to sneak away with such a beautiful pie, there was no way it was going to fit in my back pocket for the ride home... Nor would I likely have been able to out-ride some of the speed demons that are in the group to maintain possession of this prize for long once we were back out on the ...
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A couple hills and a coffee stop, not much to report today aside from another lovely day of riding. We passed many an almond tree, one of Mallorca's key products along with lemons, oranges and apricots. The coffee stop in Bunyola coincided with their feast day for their patron Saint Mateu. Song, dance, piñata-like activities for the kids, and a a parade through town with bagpipes for all the villagers was quite the sight, and it looked like everyone was ...
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...because you won't find it in Gigi Stone's December 18 "World News" story on teacher merit pay. (Or her write-up at ABCNews.com)
Stone, to her credit, did explain that teachers unions oppose merit pay for teachers because, well, they want more money for all teachers, regardless of how crappy a job they do. Okay, she didn't put it in those words exactly, but, let's face it, that's the reason teachers unions are against merit pay.
So why did Stone insist on presenting the vice-president of the Houston Federation of Teachers as merely a teacher who was concerned that the art of public school classroom instruction under incentive pay would devolve in a race to the bottom, an effort at merely "teaching to the test" or "drill and kill?
And here's the best part:
Stone included a teacher who favors merit pay, but later added that other "teachers in Houston caution merit pay puts too much emphasis on test scores." A clip of history teacher Andrew Dewey followed, as he charged that "it makes the teachers forget the curriculum" and forsake high standards in order to focus intensely on passing standardized tests.
Although just seconds earlier Stone told viewers that "the country's powerful teachers' unions oppose merit pay" because "they want to raise salaries across the board," Stone neglected to mention that Dewey currently serves as vice-president of the Houston Federation of Teachers (HFT), a local affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers and a member of the AFL-CIO.


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BeschreibungMultidisciplinary economics deliberately uses the insights and approaches of other disciplines and examines what consequences their contributions have for existing economic methods, theories and solutions to economic problems. Multidisciplinary economists should be at home in their own discipline and meet the high international standards of economic teaching and research that the discipline has developed. At the same time they should be able to recognise the limits of economics and be willing to open up new horizons by following new, discipline-transcending paths on which new insights into the analysis and solutions of economic problems can be found in collaboration with representatives of other disciplines. As a result of this search, economic methods and theories may have to be adjusted in such a way that they take insights from other disciplines into account. They may even have to be replaced by methods and theories that have been developed by other disciplines.
InhaltsverzeichnisI Multidisciplinary Economics: the Birth of a New Economics Faculty in the Netherlands Opening Address, Historical Mistakes Rectified, Tjalling C. Koopmans: an Inspiring Example, Styles of Research in Economics at Cowles II Multidisciplinary Economics at Utrecht University Origins and Development of Multidisciplinary Economics at Utrecht University, Multidisciplinary Economic Research at Utrecht University III Spanning Multidisciplinary Economics: the Institutional, Historical and Spatial Dimensions of Economics. Restructuring the Welfare State Introduction , Towards a European Social Model: Managing Social Risks through Transitional Labour Markets, Dutch Debates: Modernising Social Security by Introducing the Life Course as a Frame of Reference, Learning to Trust Industrial Dynamics and Innovation Economics Introduction, The Truth about Markets, The State of the Industrial Organization Field, On the Dynamics of Innovation Policy: a Dutch Perspective, 'History Friendly' Models of Industrial Evolution: an Overview Financing Problems of the Welfare State Introduction, Public Governance and Private Governance: Exchanging Ideas, Macroeconomics of Fiscal Policy and Government Debt, Joys and Pains of Public Debt EU Integration and the New Economic Geography Introduction, European Integration and Economic Geography: Theory and Empirics in the Regional Convergence Debate, An Account of Geographic Concentration Patterns in Europe - Introduction and Summary Past and Future of the Global Financial Architecture Introduction, Regulation and the Role of Central Banks in an Increasingly Integrated Financial World, Who is Running the IMF: Critical Shareholders or the Staff?, Synthetic Money Economics and Ageing Introduction, Health, Wealth and the Role of Institutions Inaugural addresses Organisational Economics inan Age of Restructuring, or:How Corporate Strategies Can Harm Your Economy, Does Social Security Crowd Out Private Savings?, Will the Dutch Level Out their One and Only Mountain?, The Pietersberg Paradox and Mountains of Debt, The Global Market for Capital: Friend or Foe From Koopmans to Krugman: International Economics and Geography, Index
PortraitPeter de Gijsel took his PhD at the university of Dortmund in 1980. He taught economics at the universities of Dortmund, Regensburg and Maastricht and was professor of economics at the University of Osnabrück from 1994 to 1998. From 2000 onwards he was the driving force behind the setting up of the new Faculty of Economics of Utrecht University. He was appointed the first Dean of the faculty in 2004. De Gijsel's special fields of interest are micro-, labour market and monetary economics.
Hans Schenk.
After studying economics and business administration at the universities of Nyenrode, Amsterdam, Oregon and Leuven, professor Schenk took his PhD at the university of Nice-Sophia Antipolis in France. He taught economics and business at various universities in the Netherlands (e.g. in Groningen and Rotterdam) and abroad (e.g. in Beijing and Strasbourg)and was professor of Industrial Policy and Corperate Strategy at Tilburg University before coming to Utrecht as professor of Organisational Economics in 2002. A year later, he became director of the Tjalling Koopmans Research Institute. Schenk has advised numerous firms and governments and specialises in mergers and acquisitions and competitiveness policy.
PressestimmenThis volume reports on the inaugural conference of the Utrecht School of Economics and the Tjalling C. Koopmans Research Institute. Its title refers to the objective of the new faculty and is rooted in the history of economics at Utrecht: it originated in Law, with economists attached to the Social Sciences, Geography and History. Thus was born an economics with institutional, historical and spatial dimensions. The naming of its research institute was natural in the sense that Koopmans, one of the world's most distinguished economists, was actually a student at Utrecht, but in mathematics and physics: he moved to economics later as a graduate student. In another sense, Koopmans might appear a surprising choice, given that Multidisciplinary Economics will signal to many a broader social science dimension. Yet Koopmans was more than general equilibrium theory, econometric theory and linear programming, although he was all these things: he had a strong sense of social purpose and was centrally concerned with the contribution theory could make to a better understanding of society, as revealed by Frankel and Sandoz (his daughters: as non-economists a nice touch!) and by Kay, in a thoughtful contribution on the nature of the market economy. Frey is another outsider providing a thought-provoking contribution: he takes the unfashionable, but convincing stance that corporate governance can learn from public governance, and in doing so uses psychology to inform the extremely narrow perspective of traditional agency theory. The contributions of further eminent outsiders, for example Buiter, coupled with those of the five, newly inaugurated full professors, Alessie, Garretsen, Kool, Schenk and Unger, complete a substantial volume of wide interest: the editors, de Gijsel and Schenk, are to be congratulated on its quality and relevance.
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Untertitel: The Birth of a New Economics Faculty in the Netherlands. 2005. Auflage. Book. Sprache: Englisch.
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- Bunny: one 5-oz ball each: White (MC), Soft Red (A)
- Bear: one 5-oz ball each: Ocean (MC),White (A)
GAUGE: 22 sts and 30 rows = 4" in stocking st.
Instructions are written for baby size 3/6. Changes are necessary for baby size 12/18 are in ( ).
Hat Lining: Beg at top of crown, with A, cast on 8 sts leaving a 6" end. Divide sts evenly on 3 needles (2, 3, 3 sts). Join in rnd, placing a marker on first st.
1st rnd: Knit, inc 1 st in each st around. 16 sts.
2nd and alt rnds: Knit.
3rd rnd: *K1. Inc 1 st in next st. Rep from * around. 24 sts.
5th rnd: *K2. Inc 1 st in next st. Rep from * around. 32 sts.
7th rnd: *K3. Inc 1 st in next st. Rep from * around. 40 sts.
Cont in this manner, inc 8 sts evenly around following alt rnds until there are 80 (88) sts. Place marker on last rnd. Knit even in rnds until work from beg measures 9" (10").
Outer Hat: Change to MC & knit in rnds until work from color change measures same length as Lining to marker.
Shape top: 1st rnd: *K8 (9). K2tog. Rep from * around. 72 (80) sts.
2nd and alt rnds: Knit.
3rd rnd: *K7 (8). K2tog. Rep from * around. 64 (72) sts.
5th rnd: *K6 (7). K2tog. Rep from * around. 56 (64) sts. Cont in this manner, dec 8 sts evenly around following alt rnds until there are 16 sts. Break yarn, leaving a long end. Draw end tightly through rem sts and fasten securely. Weave end at crown of lining tightly through cast on sts and fasten securely. Fold Lining into Outer Hat along fold line. Fold up cuff.
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With MC, cast on 13 sts, then with A, cast on 10 sts. 23 sts. When changing colors, twist
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1st row: (RS). With A, P10. With MC, K13.
2nd row: With MC, P13. With A, K10. Rep last 2 rows 8 times more (18 rows total).
Shape top: 1st row: (RS). With A, P2tog. P6. P2tog. With MC, K2tog. K9. Sl1. K1. psso.
2nd and alt rows: Work even in pat.
3rd row: With A, P2tog. P4. P2tog. With MC, K2tog. K7. Sl1. K1. psso.
5th row: With A, P2tog. P2. P2tog. With MC, K2tog. K5. Sl1. K1. psso.
7th row: With A, (P2tog) twice. With MC, K2tog. K3. Sl1. K1. psso.
9th row: With A, P2tog. With MC, K2tog. K1. Sl1. K1. psso. Break yarn leaving a long end of MC. Draw MC end tightly through rem 4 sts and sew side seam. Sew Ears in position.
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Cast on 15 sts. Work 6 rows stocking st.
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Dr Alasdair Allan, Minister for Learning, Sciences and Scotland's Languages, paid a visit to Kyle Academy to learn more about a successful Dyslexia Friendly Schools initiative – aimed at assisting dyslexic pupils to achieve their full potential.
The project has been pioneered by Margaret Crankshaw, a retired educational psychologist who developed a bronze, silver and gold award scheme for the delivery of teaching excellence and dyslexic pupil support in primary schools.
Margaret is now working with Prestwick Academy, Marr College and Kyle Academy, to develop an accreditation scheme for secondary schools and to pilot a similar award scheme.
The initiative has been attracting national attention, and a team from South Ayrshire Council led a workshop at the recent Scottish Dyslexia Conference in Edinburgh, attended by David Thomson, Scottish Government representative. Ainslie Woods and Scott McIlvanney spoke about the work of the DFS Pupil Steering Group at Kyle Academy. As a result of their presentation, Dr Allan decided to visit the school.
Welcoming Dr Allan to Kyle Academy at a special school assembly, Eileen Brown, head teacher explained: "The Dyslexia Friendly Schools Pupil Champions group developed their vision of what a dyslexia friendly school would look like.
"Part of that vision is to help all pupils understand what it is like to be dyslexic – and get first-hand experience of the difficulties facing dyslexic pupils.
"To do this, they have developed and led a series of special school assemblies for all year groups, which include surveys of pupil views, using voting pods, before and after the assemblies to measure the impact on their knowledge and understanding of the condition, as well as their attitudes to dyslexic pupils. The results are displayed immediately and so everyone can see the shift in attitude.
Dr Allan then watched as Ainslie, Scott Sutherland, Abbie Hamilton, Robbie Alexander and Jayde Denholm gave a presentation to the school and explained more about the problems some dyslexic pupils experience. Everyone, including Dr Allan then completed a number of written tasks to simulate the problems dyslexic pupils experience in processing information.
They then showed a film clip highlighting the visual disturbances dyslexia can produce when reading written text and played a balloon game to share more facts about dyslexia. Dr Allan was an enthusiastic member of the team who played the game on stage.
Eileen continued: "Margaret'
"In Kyle Academy, the initiative is being led by our young people who have been inspirational, not only in changing pupil attitudes to dyslexic pupils but also in supporting staff by sharing their vision with them and providing advice and training on strategies which support their learning. Work is also underway to increase the number of parents involved in the Parent Champions group with plans to set up a Family Support Network.
"It takes great courage for dyslexic young to provide presentations at a national conference, to all of their peers and to all staff. They have also been invited to speak to other groups in Scotland. It has been a joy to watch their confidence grow and their determination to make a difference increase. They have already achieved one of the hardest tasks of all; to change attitudes to the condition.
Addressing his young audience, Dr Allan said: "The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that all children and young people with additional support needs, including dyslexia, are provided with the support they need to help them reach their full potential.
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text: Search and the 'Net in 2007 Trends, Challenges and Cutting-Edge Developments in Internet Search Michael Hunter Reference Librarian Hobart and William Smith Colleges For Rochester Regional Library Council Member Libraries' Staff Sponsored by the Rochester Regional Library Council Supported by Regional Bibliographic Databases and Resources Sharing (RBDB) funds granted by the New York State Library 2007 For Today . . . . . . . The Landscape of Search in 2007 A Look at the Major Services Google, Yahoo!, Ask, Windows Live (MSN) Test Drive Time New Services Wikipedia: Looking Under the Hood Tagging and Search Explore on Your Own Current Trends, Future Directions Web Search in 2007 Who's crawling the Web? Yahoo Owns AlltheWeb, Altavista, Inktomi, Overture Google Live Search (MSN) Ask owns Teoma Gigablast NOTE: Ownership is different from database affiliation Google Database Affiliates Google AOL Excite Netscape The Indexable Web (Gulli and Signorini, 2005) Defined as that part of the Web available to be crawled by search engines Estimated at more than 11.5 billion pages Based on sample data set of about a half-million URL's Gulli, A and Signorini, A "The Indexable Web is More than 11.5 Billion Pages" in Proceedings of 14th International World Wide Web Conference p. 900-1. Chiba, Japan, 2005 available http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~asignori/web-size/ Percent of sample indexed by each engine 76% 69% 62% 58% - Google Yahoo! Live (MSN) Ask Estimated Size of 4 Major Services (Gulli and Signorini, 2005) 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Google Yahoo! Ask Live (MSN) Share of Searches – April 2007 Source: Nielsen/NetRatings 2007 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Google Yahoo Live AOL Ask All Others Web Composition by TLD (Koehler, 2004) Web Document Persistence (Koehler, 2004) Collection of randomly selected URL's After a 4-year period two-thirds could not be accessed The remaining one-third continue to be stable for a total of 6 years Legal, scholarly and educational sites have "limited lifecycles not dissimilar to web sites in general" Koehler, W. "A longitudinal study of Web pages.." Iinformationresearch v. 9 no. 2 Jan. 2004 available http://informationr.net/ir/9-2/paper174.html The Major Services Google, Yahoo!, Ask and Live What is Google these days??? Print, radio advertising company? Deals with Viacom and others E-mail utility (gmail), eBay clone (Base), TV network (YouTube)? Bank, video store? Microsoft killer (Docs & Spreadsheets)? Force in US and world politics? Losing its laser-like focus on search??? New & Notable at Google in Search Usage Rights limit (Adv. Search) Suggest (labs.google.com) Transit (labs) Froogle Mobile (labs) News Alerts (www.google.com/alerts) iGoogle (re-design) iGoogle formerly the Personalized Homepage PHP available since 2004 Part of G's mission Search your own stuff (desktop) Traditional web search (unmediated) Mediated web search (your preferences, search history, G's recommendations, etc) IP geolocation as filter for results Facilitates use of Google Gadgets Google gadgets Currently over 250,000 gadgets available for you iGoogle page GadgetMaker allows you to create 7 different types, "with no programming" Photo sharing GoogleGram Daily Me notepad Countdown gadget Personal list YouTube video favorites "Free Form" (meld text and images) New & Notable at Google Beyond Search Notebook (labs) Web clipping and note-taking service Accessible Search (labs) Favors ad-free search results that render well for machine readers for blind and visually impaired Docs & Spreadsheets (docs.google.com) Free web-based word processing and spreadsheet programs (Web 2.0) Create, update, store, share content in real time Google Desktop 3.0's "Search Across Computers" Allows users to search across all their computers Requires user to install and configure the feature G uploads files from your computers, indexes them and transfers them to your other computers and deletes them from its servers All computers involved must be online at the time Google Desktop 3.0's "Search Across Computers" If one computer is not online no data transfer can occur and the files remain on G's servers for up to 30 days, when they are deleted. 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Stricter governmental controls needed Aug., 2005 – G, Y, Microsoft and AOL issued subpoenas for all data relating to search terms and the sites users visited between June 1 and July 31, 2005 Child Online Protection Act of 1998 Y, MSN and AOL "have provided some of the information requested and taken steps to guard users' privacy" G refused To date no request for IP address or other data linking search behavior to individual users DoJ request upheld by US Dist. Court 3/18/06, but reduced from 1 million search results to 50 K, with 5,000 random search queries Google will comply Implications For Users – Invasion of privacy/search behavior, online identity, 1st Amendment For Search Engine Industry – R&D focused on offering search results customized to an individual Requires tracking individual's search behavior Can privacy be guaranteed? Yahoo! Three ways in www.yahoo.com Portal home page (all services) search.yahoo.com Crawler only dir.yahoo.com Subject directory only "People mediated" search via tagging and personalization New & Notable at Yahoo! Y!Q (toolbar) Mindset (Disambiguation) http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/ Music Engine & other verticals Recommendations: Movies, Music, etc. New & Notable at Ask The Butler is gone! Teoma is in his place! Smart Search Web Answers Zoom Superior Mapping Tools Windows Live Search MSN's live.com Launched Sept. 2006 Successor to MSN Search Maintains its own database Tabs for Web, News, Images, Questions and Answers Also Local, Video, (RSS) Feeds Academic – academic.live.com Current strengths: Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering Live.com Advanced Search available only after a search has been done Full Boolean and nesting Limits: Site/Domain, Country/Region, Filetype (6), Languages (37), SafeSearch Default S.E. bundled in IE 7 Live vs. others 4/23/07 (vs. 12/1/06) Web Search - Imre Kertesz G – 417,000 +15% Y – 184,000 +7% L – 37,266 +9% A - 11,800 +33% "Academic" vs "Scholar" verticals For "string theory" Scholar – 85,000 -6% Academic – 10,470 +30% For Siena frescoes Scholar – 3,420 +7% Academic – 32 +113% Live's Collections User-saved search results featuring locations or points or objects of interest Best sushi in NY Stops along old Rt. 66 Listings may be annotated with personal notes Collections can be shared Will become a user-created directory (Web 2.0) New Services Exalead - www.exalead.com Launched October 2004, based in France Maintains its own database Smaller than most US services (8 billion) Offers "Narrowing Options" Advanced features: Phonetic spelling with "soundslike" Approximate spelling with "spellslike" Limits: Site (URL), Filetype (8), Adult content, Language (57!!!) Factbites – www.factbites.com Returns relevant, whole sentences from sites retrieved, not just snippets Incorporates clustering Based in Australia eTools – eTools.ch Meta Engine Searches Google, Yahoo, Live, Ask, AV, Lycos and 4 European engines Parses each query to conform to each engine's search syntax Limit by country (8) and language (5) Change weighting of results from each source engine Results clustered by "topic" and source Save Results as pdf or rss Wikipedia: Looking Under the Hood Wikipedia's Many Faces Free, international, open content online encyclopedias created and edited by thousands of volunteers in wiki format A world-wide online community dedicated to sharing information freely 3rd most popular news and information source on the Web (Nielsen, June 2006) Background and History 2000 – Jimmy Wales, successful options trader, began Nupedia, an online encyclopedia "with content by experts" 2001 – Wikipedia started as a "holding pen" for Nupedia content awaiting review Now maintained by Wikimedia Foundation Financed mainly by donations with current annual budged of $ 1.5 million Growth rate of 13-18 % per month Wikipedias Worldwide Over 250, each in a different language Content is unique to each Wikipedia Article counts (7/5/07) English – 1,864,000+ German – 606,000+ French – 521,000+ Polish – 398,000+ Japanese – 387,000+ Dutch – 314,000+ Languages include Nahuatl, Sardu, Tetun, Wollof Structure and Features Articles and relevant links Article Talk page – for discussions related to that article only User page – Each registered user can introduce themselves and chat with others Media namespace – Uploaded image and media files described Category namespace – Categories and tags that can be assigned to articles "Watch List" – Users notified of changes to specific articles Authorship Most content contributed by a core of about 1,000 "regular, registered users" IP addresses of anonymous editors are recorded in the page history Registered users' IP's are concealed Almost ½ of articles have less than 5 distinct authors About ¼ of articles have only one author Articles average 2.7 authors each Editorial Control (?) Volunteer "administrators" Monitor changes in a section or topic area Arbitrate conflicts i.e. "edit wars" and decide when to "protect" an article from further revision Peer Review Status - granted by a larger number of reviewers as a sign of higher quality Featured Content Status ("The Best of W.") peer reviewed sites selected for this honor by further review and labeled with a Star (18-20 per month) Featured Portals – Large subject metasites of high quality Nature's Wikipedia Study (2005) 50 entries on scientific topics from W. and latest Britannica sent to relevant experts Articles' sources not revealed (blind study) Only 8 serious errors identified: 4 from each source "Factual errors, omissions or misleading statements": B – 123; W - 162 Nature's Wikipedia Study (2005) Reviewers noted many W. articles were "poorly structured and confusing" Nature surveyed over 1,000 of it's own authors 70% had heard of Wikipedia 17% consult it at least weekly 10% author or help to update its content Giles, Jim "Internet Encyclopedias go head to head" Nature v. 438 Dec. 15, 2005 p. 900-1; suppl. info. at www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html Tagging Search and Social Networks The Democratization of Metadata aka Social Bookmarking Folksonomies – Taxonomies by and for (???) people Del.icio.us – Personal bookmark service for URL's with tagging capability Flickr.com – online photo storage system that provides users with a set of tags and allows new ones to be created Facetious – del.icio.us tag database reworked into a faceted classification, grouping tags under "by place" "by technology" "by attribute" etc. http://demo.siderean.com/facetious/facetious.jsp Tag Creation and the "Tag Cloud" Follows a "power law" scenario The most used tags attract even more usage A large number of tags are used by only a few people A huge number of tags will be used by only 1 or 2 people Mathes, Adam "Folksonomies" D-Lib Magazine 12 (1) Jan., 2006 avail. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january06/guy/01guy.html Tagging – the Advantages Not a controlled vocabulary (user-created) Easy, quick, free and enjoyable Instantly incorporates buzz words, current terminology, jargon, new concepts Can be automated by mapping a resource to tags that appear often in its text Tagging – the Challenges Not a controlled vocabulary Lack of Linkage among synonyms, homonyms Hierarchical concept organization Disambiguation Often only single word tags allowed No standardization across services Tags can be over-personalized Improving Tagging Practices Services must allow compound tags "black cat" Educate users to advantages of a few basic classification conventions Controlled Vocabulary 101 Use of tag bundles (informal hierarchies) Allow for cross-cultural tagging practices within and across languages Trends and the Future of Search Search Engine Trends Search is expanding (or being absorbed) into other enterprises G, Y develop Web utilities and services unrelated to search Ask bought by Barry Diller (owns Ingenta, hotels around the world) Implications for R & D? 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SAN DIEGO — Ryan Katz ran for three touchdowns and threw for two more as San Diego State had its way with Hawaii on Saturday night, coasting to a 52-14 victory.
Katz scored the first touchdown of the night off a 27-yard run. He also scored on two more runs, including a 34-yard run in the second quarter. Brice Butler scored on a 36-yard pass from Katz, and Adam Muema caught a 31-yard pass for a touchdown. Katz was 25 of 29 passing for 190 yards.
For Hawaii (1-4, 0-2 Mountain West), Sean Schroeder was 14 of 28 passing for 112 yards, with a touchdown. Will Gregory had 22 carries for 81 yards and a touchdown. The Warriors, who couldn't muster 200 yards of offense for the second straight game, ended a scoreless streak of nearly six quarters with Schroeder's 1-yard pass to Trevor Davis midway through the second quarter.
With 52 points, San Diego State (3-3, 1-1) matched its record for most points scored in a game. The previous 52 points came during a win against Portland State in 2007.
Hawaii has now been outscored by a combined 217 to 48 in four games this season against fellow Football Bowl Subdivision teams. The last time UH started a season 1-4 was in 2005, when it finished the regular season 5-7. UH has given up 45 or more points in each of the last three games. The last time that happened in a season was in 1998.
Hawaii 0 7 7 0—14
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First Quarter
SDSU—Katz 27 run (Marden kick), 8:28.
SDSU—Muema 1 run (Marden kick), 5:50.
Second Quarter
SDSU—Katz 34 run (Marden kick), 12:50.
Haw—Davis 1 pass from Schroeder (Hadden kick), 8:01.
SDSU—Butler 36 pass from Katz (Marden kick), 6:08.
SDSU—Katz 9 run (Marden kick), :24.
Third Quarter
Haw—Gregory 3 run (Hadden kick), 11:10.
SDSU—FG Marden 35, 2:41.
Fourth Quarter
SDSU—Muema 31 pass from Katz (Marden kick), 13:32.
SDSU—Price 2 run (Marden kick), 3:40.
Haw SDSU
First downs 12 27
Rushes-yards 30-61 51-194
Passing 112 218
Comp-Att-Int 14-28-0 17-33-0
Return Yards 26 38
Punts-Avg. 7-43.0 6-38.0
Fumbles-Lost 4-3 0-0
Penalties-Yards 6-62 6-60
Time of Possession 22:55 37:05
RUSHING—Hawaii, Gregory 22-81, Lister 2-9, S.Jackson 2-0,
Davis 1-(minus 1), Team 1-(minus 5), Schroeder 2-(minus 23).
San Diego St., Muema 20-77, Katz 10-57, W.Kazee 4-24, Price 9-22,
Garrett 2-14, Ruffin 1-10, Hazely 1-5, Team 2-(minus 6),
Dingwell 2-(minus 9).
PASSING—Hawaii, Schroeder 14-28-0-112. San Diego St.,
Katz 15-29-0-190, Dingwell 2-4-0-28.
RECEIVING—Hawaii, Stutzmann 6-36, Davis 4-29, Ostrowski 2-24,
Bright 2-23. San Diego St., Ruffin 4-43, Denso 2-32, Sandifer 2-24,
Escobar 2-16, Butler 1-36, Muema 1-31, Shields 1-18, Vizzi 1-7,
Katz 1-5, W.Kazee 1-5, Young 1-1.
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