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Winterthur simply cannot be explored in one day. A 60-acre naturalistic garden, surrounded by 1000 acres of soft meadows, the grounds provides visitors with the "peace and great calm of a country place," in the words of Henry Francis du Pont. One could easily spend a year there, discovering new delights, especially within the 175-room museum of American decorative arts, which boasts an impressive collection of over 90,000 objects.
Upon our arrival, we were warmly welcomed into the Brown Horticulture Learning Center. Here, we began our day with an engaging round table talk lead by Estate and Garden Director Chris Strand, Director of Horticulture Linda Eirhart, and Gardens Associate-Curator Carol Long. We were given an in-depth history of H.F. du Pont's legacy, complete with marvelous tidbits of information, such as the fact that Winterthur once housed a prize winning herd of Holstein-Friesian cows!
Our discussion moved onto current topics in public horticulture such as family programming, narrative interpretation, public engagement, agricultural visibility, and the potential shifts a garden may need to make for a changing visitor demographic. The Director and staff were gracious enough to answer all our questions, providing yet another perspective to add to our public garden experiences.
Following the discussion, the Fellows were led through the gardens and grounds. Notable features included the Renaissance-inspired Reflecting Pool and the KIDS GROW Children's Vegetable Garden, which is open to young families for an engaging 8-week course in vegetable cultivation. We quickly fell under the spell of the Enchanted Woods, which tickled our fancies and fueled our imaginations. My personal favourite: the Tulip Tree House, carved beautifully out of a fallen Liriodendron.
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SALT LAKE CITY—There are ways a basketball team can impose its will on an opponent that go far beyond the physical aspects of the game.
It isn't hitting and it's not executing offensive sets to near perfection; it's being mentally tougher and seeing if the other guy is willing to accept the challenge.
Raptors coach Jay Triano has seen snippets of it through three games of the regular season, enough to know it's there but not enough to count on it every game.
And until he does, there will be no satisfaction.
Triano is a great proponent of testing the depth of his opponents' commitment, of outworking them and out-hustling them and demoralizing them until they wave the proverbial white towel.
It goes to hitting the boards and getting back, and those are two areas in need of improvement.
"Everybody talks about being competitive in this game and it is on (defensive) rebounds," said Triano. "If you make the first hit, sometimes guys will quit and not go to the boards.
"It's the same thing in transition. If you take the first two steps to get back then the other team will maybe stop running."
The Raptors didn't do nearly a good enough job in transition defence during a 111-108 loss to Sacramento on Monday night, allowing the likes of Tyreke Evans to bull past them and get to the rim almost uncontested as part of a 60-point second half for the Kings.
The blame, or responsibility, does not lie with one man or even a primary defender. As with all things in NBA defence, a collective effort is a must and Triano is still hoping the Raptors will catch on to the system sooner rather than later.
He wants to make sure the first two steps in transition from offence to defence are quick and lead to instant recognition of what's needed for the rest of the play.
"That's where you get back and then it becomes a team thing," he said. "You don't run with your man, you run back to support your teammates. I think a lot of times, people figure that they've done the right thing in transition because 'I'm back before my guy gets there.'"
As the Raptors found out when repeatedly scorched by the Kings, who outscored Toronto 10-0 in second-half fast-break points, guys like Evans make you pay for not having anyone willing to stop the ball.
"This league has too many point guards that are too good that can break guys down, especially when they have a full head of speed," said Triano. "You have to get back and show numbers to the offensive player and when you do that, it's a matter of communicating and finding everybody."
The task isn't going to get any easier for the Raptors when they continue their four-game road trip with a date with the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night.
Utah point guard Deron Williams is cut from the same cloth as Sacramento's Evans, a strong, determined attacker who likes to get out and run until someone gets in his way.
And for the Raptors, stopping the ball might not be enough because the Jazz are one of the slickest half-court executing teams in the league. It will require more defensive discipline than Toronto has shown this year to steal a road victory.

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This letter is in reference to your article on County Service Officer (Bell County to hire veterans service officer, Nov. 13 KDH).
Disabled American Veterans Chapter 29 in Harker Heights has five trained service officers, two of whom are certified from the Texas Veterans Commission.
The service officers are available four days a week — from 8 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
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Following in the footsteps of the craft beer movement is a booming booze business that offers a growing assortment of locally produced artisanal gins, vodkas and other spirits.
Five distilleries, some serving food along with their liquor, have popped across the Valley — from Bethlehem to Emmaus.
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I dont see why we must continue to torcher ourselves with Ron Artest.
He's not playing, he's not a factor at all, we have to go in with the team we have. As far as I'm concerned, Artest doesn't exist right now...he's not part of the team we are watching in the playoffs.
Look, I know how important Artest is to this team, and I know he is the favorite player of many. But I just think we should all enjoy what we have right now. We're up 2-1 on the Celts, after getting the crap kicked out of us in game one. Game 4 is at our place with no Walker. Reggie is playing out of his mind.
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Leif Manson, a 27-year-old phlebotomist from San Diego, CA, was eliminated from
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Leif was voted out of his tribe at the season's tenth Tribal Council session, the fourth session for the mixed-gender tribe since the merge, after he was just another male victim on the all-female alliance's list.
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Below is the first half of our exclusive interview with Leif. Check back with Reality TV World on Friday for the concluding portion.
Reality TV World: Were you surprised to be voted off or not? In your final words, you said it felt like it was "coming sooner or later." Was it your vote-off that you were referring to?
Leif Manson:
I kind of had a feeling like I was trying to the best of my ability to just pull out whatever I could to try to stay in the game as long as possible. It was definitely getting harder and harder and harder as we were going along, and I knew as soon as I got back to camp, and it seemed that [Troy "Troyzan" Robertson] had won immunity, that was definitely a huge sign right there about that. That definitely just sent a big chill up my spine.
Reality TV World: So were you pretty convinced at that point it was either yourself or Tarzan?
Leif Manson:
Yeah, yeah. And I know I had talked to [Kim Spradlin] to try to get some kind of reasoning, and I just talked to everybody to try to figure something out -- something else out -- and it just wasn't happening. (Laughs) It just wasn't happening with those girls.
Reality TV World: Troyzan and yourself were the only two people to vote for Kim at Tribal Council. Did that surprise you -- like had you gone into Tribal thinking there was a chance that [Christina Cha] and [Alicia Rosa] might flip and you guys could vote Kim out, or were you pretty certain that wasn't going to happen by the time you got to Tribal?
Leif Manson:
I was definitely -- because I knew Troy had been doing his thing. I, myself, had been doing my thing. And I know I had kind of deep down felt like I was going to get the votes at least to try and vote Kim out, because I know Kim had told me that she had this special list. So, I definitely had some ammo on her to tell the rest of the girls that, "This is this list. We need to get her out."
Reality TV World: A list of what order people were going out next in, you mean?
Leif Manson:
Yeah, yeah.
Reality TV World: So what was that list? Did she tell you what the order was? (Laughs)
Leif Manson:
Got to keep that a surprise. (Laughs)
Reality TV World: So based upon that then, it sounds like you actually thought there was a chance that Christina and Alicia might be flipping, right? Because it almost seemed like based upon what they showed at Tribal, Kim and [Chelsea Meissner] might have been a little worried about that too. From what they were saying at the session, they did seem a little nervous I guess.
Leif Manson:
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Because I know that I had definitely gotten wind that it was either going to be Tarzan or myself, so I definitely had to kick on the afterburners and try to pull something out.
Reality TV World: So why do you think Christina and Alicia decided not to flip? It seems pretty clear that they are the outside members of that girls' alliance, so do you think they are just happy finishing fifth and sixth, or do you think they believe they have some type of sub-alliance with some of the other women?
Leif Manson:
It was hard, because I know Alicia and I had an alliance earlier on in the game, and I know a lot of those alliances just kept falling apart and going elsewhere. So it was hard, but I mean, it was at least good to know that she didn't at least vote me. So, (laughs).
Reality TV World: While last night's episode didn't show the reasoning, the women decided to split their votes between Tarzan and yourself seemingly because they thought Troyzan might have found the hidden Immunity Idol again and possibly have given it to you and negated your votes. Was that your take on it or do you have some other explanation as to why they did that?
Leif Manson:
No, yeah. That was exactly what Troyzan and I were planning on doing.
Reality TV World: Tarzan actually voted for you at Tribal. Was that because he knew the women were going to be splitting their votes and he wanted to make sure you went home instead of him, or was there some other reason that you're aware of for that?
Leif Manson:
I know that he, yeah, started forming a completely different alliance elsewhere. So, (laughs). He's a very smart man and he wasn't going to be going out like that I guess. (Laughs) So, he beat me to that in a sense.
Reality TV World: Who did he begin forming his alliance with?
Leif Manson:
Um, I don't know. You're going to have to just find out. (Laughs)
Reality TV World: In your final words, you said you didn't have any regrets. Did you really mean that at the time, and looking back now, do you still feel that way?
Leif Manson:
Ugh, no. (Laughs) My one regret is not voting for Tarzan, because then that would have at least tied us up and then we would all have had to re-vote.
Reality TV World: What do you think would have happened then? Do you think Troyzan would have voted to keep you instead of Tarzan?
Leif Manson:
Most likely. Most likely.
Reality TV World: Do you think the game would have played out any differently for you if Colton Cumbie hadn't been evacuated?
Leif Manson:
Him and I definitely had a kind of solid pact going on, and I mean, he was -- that was definitely what he was really, really good at -- was manipulation, and things definitely, definitely would have been different -- definitely would have been different.
Reality TV World: What do you think was the key mistake that resulted in the women being in such control of the game? Do you think it was right after the merge, when the men didn't stick together and [Jonas Otsuji] was voted off?
Leif Manson:
That was definitely a huge turning point when I heard that Jonas was on the chopping block. I know I did a lot of scrambling. I felt for him knowing that he was going to be next, and I was really trying hard to get all the guys onboard and vote differently.
Above is the first half of our exclusive interview with Leif. Check back with Reality TV World on Friday for the concluding portion.
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Feds: Trucker helped illegal immigrant
A Canadian truck driver is accused of trying to help a man illegally cross the international border into Boundary County, Idaho.
Border patrol agents spotted Brian Meszarosi trying to pick up Darwin S. Canonizado on Highway 1 just south of the border on Oct. 12.
Meszarosi, recognized by agents as wood chip hauler who frequently crosses the border, said he met Canonizado at a small gas station just west of Creston, B.C., and agreed to help him get into the United States for $500, according to an affidavit prepared by investigators.
Meszarosi was to pick up Canonizado after the Philippines native crossed the border on foot and Meszarosi in his truck, investigators wrote. Meszarosi was to then drive Canonizado to Spokane, investigators wrote. Canonizado told investigators he is a Filipino citizen whose Canadian work VISA is set to expire. He hoped to find employment in California.
Meszarosi and Canonizado are in the Boundary County Jail. Their ages were not available.
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My father, the radio rabbi, master of the 'God slot'
Rabbi Hugo Gryn's daughter pays tribute to a much-loved communicator.
My father, Hugo, was a guest on Desert Island Discs in 1994. The producer was unable to find in the BBC collection a recording of one of his requested tracks, Kol Ha'Olam (The Whole World) played by klezmer clarinettist Israel Zohar. My father remembered that I had said I had a copy and called me from the studio. I jumped on my bicycle with the quarter-inch tape, joined him at Broadcasting House in Portland Place and sat with the sound engineer while the presenter, Sue Lawley, and my father recorded the rest of the show. It was his eighth and final music choice, the disc that he would have taken with him to the desert island if he could take only one.
"The words come from Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, a remarkable teacher and mystic thinker," said my father. "Kol ha'olam kulo gesher tzar me'od, v'ha'ikar lo lefahed klal; the whole world is a narrow bridge and the important thing - the ikar - is not to be afraid."
On a dark and stormy night 17 years before, sitting in the car, he had asked me about my plans. Yet to take A-levels, I rarely planned much beyond breakfast, but on this occasion, surprising even myself, I blurted out: "I want to go into religious broadcasting!"
I didn't yet know exactly what that might entail, but to encourage this newfound ambition, my father invited me to come with him to the BBC's television studios in White City, where he was recording an episode of The Light of Experience. I watched from the gallery as he gave an account of how he and his family were deported to Auschwitz in 1944 when he was just 13 years old. It was the first time I had heard him speak about the Holocaust in such a public forum. He was dignified and eloquent and, like everyone else in the studio that day, I was profoundly moved.
In between these two memorable occasions we collaborated on several television documentaries with Jewish themes, including Chasing Shadows, a film I produced for Channel 4 Television in 1989, chronicling his first return since 1945 to his hometown, Berehovo, in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. While we were editing the film, I encouraged my father to start writing his memoirs, but he died from brain cancer in 1996 and never found time to finish them. I edited his recollections into a book, also called Chasing Shadows, published in 2000, but apart from this, little of his writings have previously been made public.
He knew about life from many vantage points, and he knew about suffering first-hand
And yet, split between the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies where we, his four children, have deposited much of his archive, and my mother's spare bedroom in Marylebone where we store the rest, there are dozens of boxes crammed with lectures, addresses, sermons and eulogies. Among them are more than 400 scripts for various radio "God slots", written and broadcast between 1976 and 1996. And it is probably for this ministry of the airwaves that my father was best known.
These radio talks were about the values that mattered most to my father: taking care of the needy and the vulnerable, devotion to learning, and his lifelong quest for shalom, or peace. Some are in the style of a meditation or miniature sermon, others are personal recollections or potted histories of his spiritual heroes; nearly always there's a good story at the core. He drew inspiration from sources ranging from the five books of Moses to George Orwell and Mahatma Gandhi. Often he spoke from personal experience or used current affairs as a springboard: the collapse of the Soviet Union and the formation of a "new Europe", race riots, the Israel–Arab conflict, the Troubles in Northern Ireland and "ethnic cleansing" in the Balkans. Some of these struggles sound like distant thunder, others rumble on and on.
My father had a knack for public speaking. His voice - chocolate stained with nicotine - was warm and engaging even when challenging people's complacency, questioning society's values, demanding more rigorous attention to our individual and collective morality. His command of English was excellent but my father's accent and syntax, both forged in the central European crucible in which he had been raised, included hints of Hungarian, German, Yiddish, Hebrew, Czech and Scottish, as well as a mid-Atlantic seasoning he had acquired during his years as a student rabbi in Ohio, and later when he lived in New York. This lent him a certain authority: he knew about life from many different vantage points, and he knew about suffering first-hand.
Oliver McTernan - then a Catholic priest, now a specialist in conflict resolution - was, with my father, one of the regular contributors to Capital Radio's Reflections. For a long time, these pre-recorded inserts went out during When the Spirit Moves, Al Matthew's Sunday morning gospel music show. But as the years went by, the station scheduled its Reflections slot earlier and earlier until it was better suited to insomniacs than to morning listeners, reducing the duration of the broadcasts to what my father used to say was not so much of a sound-bite as a sound-lick. Fortunately Oliver convinced my father that it was worth the effort of writing and recording their respective offerings to keep alive on Capital a spark of the transcendent and more than a quarter of the scripts reproduced in the book come from those sessions. By contrast, millions heard my father's contributions to the God slot on Radio 2's Breakfast Show and through the BBC's World Service he reached tens of millions, from Antigua to Zambia.
His success as a broadcaster did not go to his head. "The media chews you up," he used to say "and then it spits you out." Yet despite periodic attempts to freshen-up the panel, for seven years - right up until two weeks before he died - his was the voice of reason on Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4's weekly debate on ethical issues. At the end of each show, the masterly host Michael Buerk gave my father the honour of having the last word. It was a kind of a rabbinic benediction, usually in the form of an anecdote or parable, with which he would try to sum up the discussion and restore equanimity for listeners, fellow-panellists and the programme's guests after what often spun into verbal brawls.
In Britain today religion is regarded more or less as a private affair and many people argue that the God slot is a dodo. But I can still hear my father's voice making the case that in this multicultural, multi-faith society, religious education and interfaith dialogue are important avenues by which we can get a measure of insight into each other's beliefs and values and learn how to respect and trust one another.
The radio and television producers with whom he worked understood the impact of a religious leader who had survived the Holocaust and could still see above the trees. His call for tolerance and harmony and the celebration of difference is as urgent in this century as it was in the last.
What remains of my father's God-slot legacy - apart from a handful of studio tapes digitised for posterity by the BBC and some home recordings on audio cassette - is a cardboard box of scripts, each illustrating from a different perspective the point that he most wanted to make, that life - all life - is a blessing, and a gift from God.
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Carl "Bud" Oran Butler Jr.
Carl "Bud" Oran Butler, Jr., 70, went to be with The Lord on Monday, February 10, 2014. Bud was born on August 5, 1943 in Itasca, Texas to Carl Oran Butler and Mildred Lorraine Isbell Butler. He grew up in Alvarado, Texas and eventually moved to Palmer, Texas where he graduated from Palmer High School. In December 1961 he married Etheleen Krajca Butler and they made their home in Palmer. He began working for Tyler Refrigeration, where he drove a truck for many years. Bud thrived for any opportunity to fix things or build things. He was a man that loved to provide and support for his family and was defined by his work ethic and determination to succeed at any job, including bailing hay and farming whenever he was not driving a truck. Bud is survived by his wife of fifty-two years, Ethie Butler, his son, Chad Butler; his daughter-in-laws: Renee Butler and Monica Butler; his four grandchildren: Magen Butler, Molloy Butler, Conner Butler and Tyler Butler; two great-grandchildren: Brady Sparkman and soon to be born Jolee Sparkman and four sisters: Gene Sadler, Barbara Hauser, Lynn Wickline and Patricia Paterson. Bud is preceded in death by his parents and his son, Carl Butler III. Visitation will be on Tuesday, February 11, 2014 from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. in the J.E. Keever Mortuary of Ennis. A Celebration of his will take place on Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at 11 a.m. in the J.E. Keever Mortuary Chapel of Ennis. Pallbearers will be Conner Butler, Tyler Butler, Geraldo Munoz, Mike Fennel, Lance Anglin, Ted Young, William McElyea, Brian Almond, and one honorary pallbearer Jarrell Raymond. Interment will follow in Myrtle Cemetery under the direction of J.E. Keever Mortuary, Inc. www.jekeevermortuary.com


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Connellsville rec board gets permission to apply for events liquor license
Connellsville City Council on Wednesday approved a request by the Connellsville Recreation Board to seek a special-events liquor license.
The state Liquor Control Board allows nonprofit groups to apply for a special permit for up to six events.
The board is not sure if it will use the permit for all of its events. It is hoping to apply for it for a wine-tasting event at the Community Center on May 25; a cornhole tournament at East Park on June 1; possibly the Cate Cuneo concert at the Community Center sometime in June; a concert at Yough Park on July 13; a concert at East Park on Oct. 5 and a possible rain date for the Oct. 5 concert.
Melissa Tzan, recreation board president, said when participants are identified at events, they will get a wrist band. The recreation board will then limit the number of drinks an individual can have.
"I met with our insurance company and we would like to move forward with this," said city Councilman Greg Ritch. "We are not endorsing alcoholic beverages. We're endorsing the events and the activities."
He added that if something would happen at the wine-tasting event, or any other event that caused problems or concerns, there would be a halt to liquor at any following event.
In other recreation board business, Tzan reported to council the board is planning a city-wide parks cleanup day on May 18, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Volunteers are needed.
Focus for the day will be on three of the city parks including South Side, Woodruff and East parks.
Tzan said the recreation board will lead the activities at South Side Park, which will include painting the fence and putting down mulch around the playground equipment.
The Connellsville High School football team will be cleaning up Woodruff Park, including picking up litter and painting the concession stand.
A local Boy Scout group and the Masons will be in charge of cleaning up East Park.
Greg Lincoln, secretary of the recreation board, invited any other volunteer group who would like to adopt a park for the day and help clean it up to contact the recreation board.
Those with questions can contact Tzan at 724-628-0107 or by email at email@example.com or call city hall. Visit the board's Facebook page at Connellsville Recreation Board.
Lynn's Pub and Grill has offered to have a pizza party for the first 50 volunteers.
Anyone interested in volunteering can stop by Connellsville ArtWorks to get gloves and trash bags before going to the parks.
Tzan invited anyone interested in entering a wine in the wine-tasting event to contact her to register. Entry fee for the wine-tasting event for tasters will be $10 in advance or $12 at the door.
The cornhole tournament scheduled for June 1 will have two different registration classes. The "pro" class will be $50 per team and the "Joe" class will be $30 per team.
Movies at East Park will begin again on June 13. Tzan said the board plans to show six movies this summer, plus one around Halloween.
She said the board is still looking for three more sponsors. Each movie costs $300.
Summer sports programs will begin in the third week in June. The programs offered this year will include golf, basketball, flag football and tennis.
For more information on the times, places and cost of the events visit the recreation board's Facebook page.
Rachel Basinger is a freelance writer.


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Sertindole in Asian Patients With Schizophrenia
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|Drug: Sertindole Drug: Olanzapine
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Randomised, Double-blind, Parallel-group, Flexible-dose Trial Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of 12 Weeks of Treatment With Sertindole or Olanzapine in Patients With Schizophrenia in Asia
- To evaluate the efficacy of 12 weeks treatment with flexible doses of sertindole in comparison to flexible doses of olanzapine in patients with schizophrenia. [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]
- To evaluate the safety and tolerability of 12 weeks treatment with flexible doses of sertindole in comparison to flexible doses of olanzapine in patients with schizophrenia. [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]
|Study Start Date:
|March 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|May 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|March 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: Sertindole
Drug: Sertindole
Sertindole flexible doses per os, 12, 16 or 20mg/day according to response and tolerability, initially up-titrated from 4mg/day to target dose 16mg/day within the first 16 days
|Active Comparator: Olanzapine
Drug: Olanzapine
Olanzapine flexible doses per os, 10, 15 or 20mg/day according to response and tolerability, initially up-titrated from 10mg/day to target dose 15mg/day within the first 16 days
Detailed Description:
This study is the first randomised clinical trial performed in Asia with sertindole, aiming at comparing sertindole efficacy and safety to that of another atypical antipsychotic.
Sertindole is a limbic-selective antipsychotic agent with a unique neuropharmacological profile. Sertindole has shown significant improvements relative to placebo against both positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia (measured by PANSS total, PANSS negative and positive subscale scores). It is well tolerated and shows placebo-level incidence of extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS). Sertindole is associated with a dose-dependent increase in the QT interval, but this does not translate into an excess mortality with sertindole relative to that of other recently developed antipsychotics in their respective clinical development programmes.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male and female patients, aged 18-65 years (extremes included), suffering from schizophrenia
- Positive and Negative Syndrome Scales (PANSS) total score between 60 and 120 (extremes included) at screening and baseline
- Based on the patient's clinical status, an antipsychotic treatment is indicated
- Otherwise healthy
- Female patients of non-childbearing potential, or non-pregnant, not breast-feeding women of childbearing potential, using adequate birth control methods
Exclusion Criteria:
- Current Axis I primary psychiatric diagnosis other than schizophrenia
- Has never before received antipsychotic drugs
- Has received a depot antipsychotic medication within less than one dose interval prior to Screening
- History of clinically significant cardiovascular disease, congestive heart failure, cardiac hypertrophy, arrhythmia or bradycardia (<50 beats per minute)
- Congenital long QT syndrome or a family history of this disease, or in patients with known acquired QT interval prolongation (QTc above 450 msec in males and 470 msec in females at Screening)
- Significant risk of suicide and/or violent behaviour
- Known history of narrow angle glaucoma
- Substance or alcohol abuse, current alcohol dependence
- Use of disallowed concomitant medication
Other protocol-defined inclusion and exclusion criteria may apply.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00864045
|Beijing, China, 300074
|Study Director:
|Email contact via H. Lundbeck A/S
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|Responsible Party:
|H. Lundbeck A/S
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00864045 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|March 17, 2009
|Last Updated:
|September 19, 2013
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
Mental Disorders
Autonomic Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Gastrointestinal Agents
Antipsychotic Agents
Tranquilizing Agents
Central Nervous System Depressants
Psychotropic Drugs
Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors
Neurotransmitter Uptake Inhibitors
Membrane Transport Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Neurotransmitter Agents
Serotonin Agents
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 18, 2017


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Dear friends of the colored cables,
I had a problem that sounded easy (as it is in most programming languages) but was not solvable in Labview. My problem was, I wanted to delete from a listbox by drag-dropping outside of the box. While BrokenArrow came up with a nice workaround it is not helping for other quality of life problems.
Imagine, you have a data evaluation tool that is ought to open a set of data. Drag-dropping the file from the explorer onto the frontpanel seems like a comfortable solution for the user; but right now it is only possible to drop to a path field.
While I think it is a good idea to remove not so frequently used operations from regulary used structures like the event structure, there should be a way to catch these events, anyhow.
Let me hear what you think and do not forget to Kudo if you like the idea.
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Somewhere in the forum, Darin K. mentioned how he went around the exact issue with files that you are describing by putting a large, transparent, Path Control covering the whole panel.
I thought about this kind of solution. I decided against it, because I consider this to be painful for other programmers to realize that there is something large, invisible and its making strange things while arranging groups of controls and indicators on the FP. Also, it feels like a crutch, where I feel it should not be needed.
Fair enough. However, this makes your first statement inexact...
I kuddo-ed the idea, but as you sort of hinted at in your title, I think it would be more useful to make drop targets more general than just the panel. And while we are at it, drag sources should be extended to. For instance, I'd love to be able to drag a plot from one graph to another, or a file into graph, etc (for the latter, some work would be needed from the programmer to interpret the event, but you get the idea).
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I am going to say something I don't think I have ever said about a movie before: This movie needed to be 20 minutes longer. It runs slipshod over backgrounds, love stories and character development; so the second we are off and running, the audience has little emotional investment in the story. That being said, this is an exceptionally well-acted and--for the most part--entertaining film.
It's 1949 and the infamous gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) has taken over Los Angeles. He has the police on the payroll and is poised to assume control of all aspects of organized crime in the city. The only thing standing in his way is police chief Parker (Nick Nolte), an honest man desperate to stop Cohen. He recruits Sergeant John O'Mara (Josh Brolin) to assemble a group of vigilante policemen to stop the reign of terror using any means necessary--hence the Gangster Squad. Meanwhile, O'Mara's No. 2 man, Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), has fallen head over heels for Mickey's girl, Grace (Emma Stone), further complicating the situation.
This movie has one big and very obvious problem: It doesn't know what it wants to be. It's 70-percent L.A. Confidential and 30-percent Dick Tracy. Any time the movie starts to settle into a dark stylized thriller, one character or another drops some hackneyed line or cracks an awkward joke, shattering the moment. I have to say even though it's an interesting film, when you consider what it could have been, it's a disappointment.
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I have been gathering the money confessions from people that attend my talks for the last few months. The more interesting of these confessions I have decided to share on this blog. This is confession number 53 in the series:
"People invest money with me because they think that I'm wealthy. I live paycheck to paycheck."
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Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about. Don't forget to send in your own tips, or just leave a comment on this page if you think you've got something we should include.
Xbox 360 Sales Double After Price Drop
It will be interesting to see what the sales look like for September in the gaming console world. Microsoft said that the weekend following their price cuts caused Xbox 360 sales to double. At $200 I'd say the system is quite a steal, and I doubt I'm the only one thinking that. [related]
Amazon to Power MP3 Store on HTC G1
Apple has always had a strong focus on music, but where would the iPhone-killing Android OS be drawing its tunes from? The T-Mobile HTC G1 will be the first Android device to hit the market, and it will ship with the Amazon MP3 store. Do you hear that? That's the sound of 6-million DRM-free MP3's at your fingertips! [related]
Private Mode Coming to Firefox 3.1, Again
Mozilla just can't make up it's mind. Firefox 3.0 was supposed to include a private mode that would let users surf the web without leaving any tracks on their machine. Well, that feature didn't make the cut so it got pushed back to Firefox 3.1. It didn't take long for the feature to get pulled from that release as well, but now Mozilla is saying that it will be back in by the time all is said and done. I guess they are feeling the pressure after Google Chrome and IE8 have been flaunting similar features.
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Put Gmail Labels on the Right Side
Google has been releasing a significant number of Gmail Labs features lately, and you won't hear me complaining. One of the nice things that they recently added was the ability to place your labels on the right side of the screen, which can be handy if you have a widescreen monitor.
Foxmarks on Your Mobile
When you're on the go you can point your mobile browser to my.foxmarks.com to quickly gain access to your precious bookmarks… assuming that you use Foxmarks to sync them. You can even search through them to help you find the needle in the haystack.
Use Google Docs to Track Page Changes
This might not be the easiest thing in the world to setup, but it's interesting to see how you can use Google Docs to keep a watchful eye out for website changes. With it you can monitor things like price drops, and then get alerted when it changes.
Make the Google Chrome Theme Black
Don't let Google Chrome's default blue theme be the thing that makes you walk away from the browser. Just because Google doesn't let you customize the appearance doesn't mean it can't be done. This simple and quick hack shows you how to change the theme to one of the many already being put out by third parties.


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WASHINGTON — Throughout the campaign, Barack Obama made many promises to the American people. Msnbc.com has chosen 14 of these to explain, explore, and track. See if the new president keeps his word, and vote on his progress during the first 100 days.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
Obama's words: "I think it's important to foster competition inside the public schools. And we also agree on the need for making sure that if we have bad teachers that they are swiftly — after given an opportunity to prove themselves, if they can't hack it, then we need to move on because our kids have to have their best future."
The issue: A recent study by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center showed that the average public school graduation rate is 58 percent. The study also revealed that graduation rates are 15 percent lower in urban schools compared to suburban schools.
During the campaign, President Barack Obama embraced several education ideas considered generally more popular with Republican candidates including extra funding for charter schools, performance-based pay for teachers, and layoffs for educators with poor performance evaluations.
While he's opposed to vouchers to help parents pay for private schools, Obama advocates creating a new array of public schools for families to chose from. He's proposed that the government spend more than $400 million a year on charter schools.
Following through: In his inaugural address, he pledged to "transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age."
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On Feb. 17, the president signed a $787 billion economic stimulus plan into law.
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On March 10, the president unveiled his new plans for education at a meeting of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. He said he backs the idea of merit pay for the best school teachers — a position that union supporters have fought.
"It is time to start rewarding good teachers and stop making excuses for bad ones," said Obama.
He also said that where the so-called "charter schools" have been shown to be successful, they should be encouraged.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has also announced plans to spend a record $5 billion to transform U.S. schools — including rewards for innovation, merit pay for teachers, and the creation of a national scorecard to identify failing schools.


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JERUSALEM (Nov. 6)
King Hussein of Jordan appeared today to have won the support of the two largest guerrilla organizations based on Jordanian soil – El Fatah and the Palestine Liberation Organization – in his conflict with a splinter insurgent group, Kataeb al Nasr (Victory Phalange). Pitched battles between that group and troops loyal to the Kingdom Monday and Tuesday reportedly resulted in at least 25 persons dead, 100 wounded, 70 arrested and another 30 being sought by police.
King Hussein said at a press conference in Amman today that the shooting crisis might have been fomented by Israel. "There is a strong chance that this group was acting according to a plan that did not originate in any Arab state" and that "possibly" Israel was behind it, he said. Only two days ago, King Hussein charged that the dissident terrorists were the "paid agents" of a foreign power which most observers took as an allusion to Syria where several terrorist groups have their headquarters and recruiting stations.
The King also denied a charge leveled by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and various terrorist leaders that he was trying to curtail guerrilla operations against Israel to pave the way for a peace settlement. Only last night, El Fatah charged in a broadcast heard here that Jordan had been involved in a "United States-British plot" to end guerrilla activities.
But reports from Amman today told of a five-point agreement between the Hussein regime and El Fatah and the Palestine Liberation Organization which agreed to dissociate themselves from Kataeb al Nasr's actions. The guerrillas denied they had taken part in the disturbances, assured the authorities of their support and expressed hope that the dissident movement would be confined to Kataeb el Nasr.
(Reports from Amman reaching London today quoted a guerrilla spokesman who charged the Jordanian Government with trying to liquidate commando activities as a prelude to a peace settlement. According to Bahjat Abou Ghardieh, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's executive committee, 13 guerrillas including five leaders were killed by Jordanian forces yesterday. Mr. Abou Ghardieh, who claimed to speak for all guerrilla groups operating from Jordan, said that if there were no new incidents today the Government's honest intentions would be proven. But, he said, "we fear there might be new surprises, perhaps fabricated incidents to give an excuse for a further crackdown.")


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Nvidia has announced that Parallel Nsight Professional Edition is now available for all Visual Studio developers, free of charge. This is good news for the increasing number of developers creating highly parallel applications that use Nvidia CUDA-enabled GPUs.
As was discussed in the early days of CUDA, the high number of independent processors in a GPU are especially good for embarrassingly parallel problems, such as with 3-D rendering, face recognition, Monte Carlo simulation, particle physics event reconstruction, biological sequence searching, genetic algorithms, password guessing, and weather modeling -- any workload that can be divided into many parallel tasks. Since then, applications have appeared that use the GPU for speeding up video encoding, modeling fluid dynamics, doing electronic design automation, calculating financial options returns, ray tracing, oil and gas exploration, and medical imaging.
In the last year, GPU computing has quietly taken the high-performance computing world by storm, to the point where the fastest computer in the world, the Tianhe-1A unit in China at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, uses 14,336 Intel Xeon CPUs and 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 GPUs. However, the free GPU software development tools were difficult for programmers to use, and Parallel Nsight Professional Edition, which makes developing and debugging code to run on CPUs and GPUs almost as easy as developing for ordinary CPUs and integrates tightly with Microsoft Visual Studio, was relatively expensive, considering its special purpose.
According to Nvidia, it is providing the full Parallel Nsight Pro feature set at no cost to bring this tool into line with CUDA and its other development tools. This allows a broader range of developers -- who may not have the funding available to professionals -- to use high-level tools to unlock the speed of GPUs for their applications. Developers can download the latest version from Nvidia (registration required).
This article, "Windows-based parallel application development gets a boost," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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Newsmaker: Becky Plymale
Noteworthy: The Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV honored Plymale with the educational service agency's 27th annual Annie Sullivan Award. Named for Helen Keller's famous teacher, the award was established by the Unit's Labor and Management Committee to recognize educators who show deep care, concern and skill while helping students with special needs gain acceptance in schools and communities. Plymale's students and peers nominated her for the honor.
Age: 55
Residence: Butler
Occupation: A support teacher for the hearing-impaired for more than three decades in Butler, Lawrence and Mercer Counties; this year, she is based out of Seneca Valley School District
Background: Plymale serves on several boards of nonprofits, including the Musical Theatre Guild of Butler, the Butler Little Theatre and the Butler County Historical Society. Education: Bachelor of Arts in deaf education, learning disabilities and behavior disorders from MacMurray College in Illinois, 1980; Master of Science in counseling the deaf from Western Maryland College, 1986. Quote: "I was very humbled. I think that my colleagues and I work together as a team, and it was strange to be singled out because we work together."


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People use plastic a lot in this hobby so I thought I'd scour the net for the best info on all of it...and organize it.
I've build combat robots as a hobby for many years now and I know about most of these materials.
Clear Plastics:
Acrylic is Plexiglass.
Plexiglass is the name brand of sheets of Acrylic used to replace glass windows, hence the name. It's no different then how a lot of people call tissues Kleenex a lot of time. Kleenex = brand name, tissues = generic name for the item.
Also acrylic can be bonded chemically with CA (cyanoacrylite) glue, aka most superglues, to create (supposedly) seamless clear bonds.
On a similar note:
Polycarbonate is Lexan.
Lexan is GE's brand name for polycarbonate. It's a clear impact resistant plastic which is also used for window replacement.
The differences between acrylic and polycarbonate are this. Polycarbonate is a lot stronger. While in the cosplay field that usually won't matter much, it can. Acrylic tends to crack/fracture like glass does. It can leave some sharp edges and potentially break if you drop it depending on how heavy it is. While polycarbonate won't crack or shatter it's typically a lot more expensive. However if you plan to drill through acrylic be very careful as it will chip or break if you do it to fast.
How to tell the difference:
The best way is to read, wherever you're getting it from will probably say. If you're buying it from the window section of Home Depot or Lowe's I believe typically acrylic is covered in a clear blue film while polycarbonate is in a clear green film.
If you have some clear plastic and you aren't sure what kind it is there's an easy way to distinguish the two. Take a file or some cutting tool and rough up the end a bit. If it's acrylic it should give off a pretty strong odor similar to the places in malls that do fake nails, because yes, those are made of acrylic.
There are two main types of resins. Epoxy resin and Polyurethane resin. These can both be used by themselves or with fiberglass cloth.
Polyurethane resin is pretty harsh stuff. It gives off strong chemicals and should be used in a place with proper ventilation. It comes in a big metal can similar to paint thinner and has a small tube of catalyst which is used for hardening. The little tubes of MEKP (Methyl Ethyl Ketone Peroxide) can be bought separately. Each brand will give their own ratios of resin to MEKP but it's typically about 8 drops per ounce of resin. The good part about this type of resin is it dries fast and the ratio is more of an art than a science as the catalyst only creates a chemical reaction that causes heat to cure the resin. If you're a little off in your mixture it will still harden it just might do it too fast or take a long time. This stuff will eat away pink insulation foam, so don't use it on it unless you seal it with something first.
Epoxy resin on the other hand is much nicer to work with. It doesn't have much of a smell at all. It won't eat away at foam. The downside is it typically dries a lot slower than polyurethane resin. Also it typically comes in a part A and part B. If you don't mix them evenly it can end up tacky or take a long(er) time to dry.
Other plastics:
There are a lot of other plastics you can use for various things. I'd recommend reading around on distributor's websites to get more information.
Some of them include:
Polystyrene - Most commonly found as extruded polystyrene, aka pink insulation foam. This is pretty good stuff to work with but the vapors given off when melted or even sanded vigorously aren't healthy, so work in a well ventilated place.
Carbon Fiber - Sold in thin sheets, this is a laminate material often used for it's strength and light weight or because the weave looks nice. You can also lay your own in a similar fashion to fiberglass but I imagine it would be hard to get the weave to look nice.
Polyethylene - This might be outside the scope of most builders on here but it's a nice material to work with. It's easily machined, as a nice smooth slippery texture, and can be dyed with fabric dye. It's commonly found as HDPE (High Density PolyEthylene) or UHMW (Ultra-High Molecular Weight polyethylene). I belive this is the material commonly used for cutting boards so that's what the texture is like.
Where to Buy:
Most of these materials can be bought at local hardware stores, such as Lowe's or Home Depot, but there are a lot of online resources as well. One word of caution though is to watch out for shipping costs on really big or really long pieces.
- High stiffness
- Light weight -- half the weight of solid PVC in gauges of 1 - 6mm, slightly over one third the weight of solid PVC in 10mm and thicker gauges
- Resistance to moisture and many chemicals
- Smooth solid faces -- just the ticket for ease of finishing, as well as resistance to grime buildup
- Easy to work with (but more on this below)
It starts to soften at about 150° F. This means that you can easily heat up thin (3mm or thinner) pieces of Sintra and mold them as needed. A heat gun is great...but lots of people just use their oven or even a hair dryer. Another method is to boil it in water for 10 - 15 seconds (the length of boil determining how soft the material gets). After boiling, remove the piece with tongs (gently, so as not to leave an imprint of the tong in the piece), quickly bend it to your desired shape, and freeze it in shape with cold water. If you mess up, it's no problem -- keep your water boiling, and you can just repeat the process.
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Wildcats Celebrate Homecoming Win
After weeks of watching sparks of continual growth on the football field, yesterday's 35-12 victory over West Virginia was promise of a turning point this season for K-State football.
"It feels good to win again, it's been six weeks or something - a long time coming," junior wide receiver Curry Sexton, who finished the game with a career-high 112 receiving yards, said. "We've worked hard for it. We've had some tough battles along the way, but we persevered today and we fought through a rough first half offensively. To come out and get a win, it feels good."
Though the first half had its share of woes (K-State went into halftime trailing the Mountaineers, 9-7, and both quarterbacks, junior Jake Waters and sophomore Daniel Sams, recorded fumbles), the Wildcats never let down and finished the game by executing a fourth quarter made up of some of the best football K-State fans have seen from the team all season.
"We were just killing ourselves early (in the game). We just looked rusty when we started off," senior wide receiver Tramaine Thompson, who finished the game with three catches for 53 yards and one touchdown, said. "But once we got rolling, we saw a little bit of what we were capable of, mainly passing the ball, but I feel like we did a pretty good job."
After the third quarter, where K-State regained the lead after Sams completed a 9-yard touchdown throw to junior Tyler Lockett, K-State knew it would have to keep its head in the game in order to come away with its first conference win of 2013.
In the team's previous three losses against Texas, Oklahoma State and Baylor, the Wildcats had held fourth quarter leads, so comfort was something that wasn't felt until after the game, and after K-State's unanswered 21 fourth-quarter points.
"I think this can be a turning point," Lockett said. "It's been a long time since we have gotten a win, so it felt great to be able to celebrate it like that. I think it shows that we have a lot of potential - we just all have to be on the same page. It's always good for me to see times when it's not going to go our way at first, but then at the end things begin to turn around for us because if we ever get in that situation again, we know that we can overcome it."
Finishing the game with eight receptions for 111 yards and three touchdowns, Lockett continued to climb K-State's record books as he became only the eighth player in K-State history to haul in three touchdowns in a single game and his 111 yards gave him his sixth career 100-yard game to tie him for seventh all-time.
But it wasn't just Lockett who shined in those final minutes, in the fourth quarter alone, Waters went 8-for-8 for 152 yards and two touchdowns.
On the Wildcats' first drive, Waters completed a pass to Thompson for a 30-yard touchdown. The following drive, Waters connected with Lockett for the second time during the game for a 24-yard touchdown. Topping off the game's scoring, John Hubert rushed for a 4-yard touchdown and finished with a game-high 89 rushing yards on 19 carries.
"That's the way we need to finish and that's the way we were capable of playing," Waters said. "It gives us a lot of confidence going into next week because that's how we want to play football and that's what we want to do."
By the end of the game, the two-quarterback system of Waters and Sams worked perhaps better than ever before. Sams finished the game completing all eight of his passes for 93 yards and one touchdown while Waters threw 10-of-13 for 198 yards and three touchdowns.
"We've got two guys and they've both earned the opportunity and deserve the opportunity to be out there," Snyder said. "Jake did some good things throwing the deep ball today, so he stayed in there, but Daniel was 8-for-8 in the passing game. You can't deny the fact that he can do it as well. It's a matter of consistency. Both of them are good young guys, they care and I appreciate them."
Enjoying the victory among the nearly 53,000 people in attendance of yesterday's game were a few K-State greats.
Before the game, the 2003 K-State volleyball team was recognized for their achievement of going 30-5 (18-2 Big 12) and winning the program's first and only Big 12 Championship.
"It's pretty surreal," former Wildcat setter Gabby Guerre said. "There are so many stories that we all have been catching up on, and it really makes you remember how much of a family we were back when we were playing. Winning the Big 12 was very, very wonderful for us and just being able to achieve that type of success I think that meant a lot to everybody. It's something that we all wanted. It's hard to find a team where everyone has the same goals and desires and to actually follow through on them. I think that was something very special."
Former Wildcat football stars that are now finding successful careers in the NFL were also recognized at the game. From former K-State linebackers Reggie Walker (San Diego Chargers), Emmanuel Lamur (Cincinnati Bangles), Justin Tuggle (Houston Texans) and Arthur Brown (Baltimore Ravens) to safety Tysyn Hartman (former Kansas City Chief), the players had the opportunity to reunite, reminisce and check out West Stadium Center for the first time.
"It's been a good experience to come back, join the fans and see the game and the faces that I haven't seen in a while," Lamur said. "To see my old teammates, it's a great experience. I'm just so happy to be here."
After a game that will be remembered as one of the 2013 season's high points, K-State football (3-4, 1-3 Big 12) will return to Bill Snyder Family Stadium next Saturday, Nov. 2, to take on Iowa State (1-6, 0-4 Big 12) at 2:30 p.m.
Always taking the season one game at a time, getting back to the weekly routine of preparing for the next opponent starts today.
"It's been a long time since this team's had a victory, and I'm glad we could get this one done, but we're going to move on from it," junior defensive end Ryan Mueller said. "We're looking forward to Sunday's film work to study this tape and see how we can get better and then Monday, focus on Monday's practice and lead up to Iowa State."


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Hopkins BrainWise-Spring 2013
Demystifying Delirium
Date: April 15, 2013
"Because psychiatrists examine mental life, we're often more quickly able to detect delirium," says Karin Neufeld, who's also president-elect of the American Delirium Society.
Roughly 40 percent of inpatients at major medical centers will be delirious at some point in their stay," Karin Neufeld told a recent gathering of fellow Johns Hopkins psychiatry faculty. "If they're on ventilators in the ICU, that can jump to 85 percent."
Delirium is a hospital bane, an unwelcome visitor calling reliably on the very ill or frail. And it can harm. In adults, the syndrome is tied to higher mortality and longer time in the hospital (see box, left). Yet common and damaging as it can sometimes be, "delirium remains under-recognized and understudied," Neufeld says.
So she and colleagues are among a band of nationwide movers and shakers bent on correcting that.
Neufeld, who directs general hospital psychiatry, visits bedsides of three medical or psychiatric patients a day, on average, to assess suspected delirium and consult on therapy. That puts her well in position to see where the clinical gaps lie. It's not uncommon in hospitals, for example, for staff to overlook "quiet" or hypoactive delirium or mistake it for depression, she says, or to find agitated delirium simply called psychosis.
Neufeld's most recent work sheds light on the condition's nature and its impact. In a new study, researchers followed about 100 fairly robust patients over age 70 undergoing hip surgery, assessing them before it, just afterward and at hospital discharge. Two results stood out. One was in the recovery room, where staff typically don't look for delirium, since—the thinking goes—general anesthesia makes everyone unfocused and disoriented. But the study showed that nearly half of patients had frank, DSM-matching delirium. It faded quickly in some, but lasted three days in an equal number later moved to hospital beds.
The other result confirms others' findings: Delirium increases the burden of frailty in older people. "Our elders who were delirious in recovery," she says, "were nine times as likely to go to rehab or a nursing home."
What's the culprit in all this? Is it length of surgery? Anesthesia? Surgical sedatives? "Our work suggests the depth of sedation plays a part, but that needs more study," says Neufeld. "We have a lot to learn."
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The "'Dichotic Fused Words Test'" (DFWT) is a modified version of the dichotic listening test.
It was originally explored by Johnson et al. (1977)[1] but in the early 80's Wexler and Hawles (1983)[2] modified the test to ascertain more accurate data for hemispheric specialization of language function. In the DFWT, a participant is presented with pairs of monosyllabic rhymed CVC words and each word varies in the initial consonant. The significant difference in this test is "the stimuli are constructed and aligned in such a way that partial interaural fusion occurs: subjects generally experience and report only one stimulus per trial." [3] According to Zatorre (1989), some major advantages of this method include but are not limited to "minimizing attentional factors, since the percept is unitary and localized to the midline" and "stimulus dominance effects may be explicitly calculated, and their influence on ear asymmetries assessed and eliminated."[3] Thus, it is no surprise that Wexler and Hawles obtained a high test-retest reliability (r=0.85) in their study.[2]
- ↑ Johnson et al (1977). Dichotic ear preference in aphasia. J. Speech Hear Res 20: 116–129.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wexler, Bruce, Terry Hawles (1983). Increasing the power of dichotic methods: the fused rhymed words test. Neuropsychologia 21.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Zatorre, Robert (1989). Perceptual asymmetry on the dichotic fused words test and cerebral speech lateralization determined by the caroid sodium amytal test. Neuropsychologia 27 (10).


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The couple welcomed fraternal twins on Wednesday morning (November 17), the rocker announced on his Web site. Daughter Adalynn Rose arrived at 11:06 a.m. weighing 6 lbs, 5 oz., while son Noah James made his arrival at 11:25 a.m. weighing in at 5 lbs, 5 oz.
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Steven D. Bartle, a resident of Motley, passed away at his home Friday, May 18, of natural causes.
A memorial service was held May 23, at the Motley Free Methodist Church. Burial was at the Motley Public Cemetery.
Steve was born March 28, 1950, in Little Falls, to Floyd and Helen (Kestner) Bartle. Steve graduated from the Motley High School in 1968. He worked as a truck driver for most of his life. Steve was an avid ATV rider and loved to hunt deer and turkey. He was a member of the National Rifle Association (NRA), National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF), and the Arbor Day Foundation. His willingness to help people will be sadly missed.
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BHP will publish its September quarter production report on Tuesday before the Australian market opens.
Equity analyst UBS said higher volumes from BHP's iron ore exportation hub Port Hedland and operational issues at
Port Hedland exported 83 million tonnes of iron ore in the September quarter, up 2 per cent quarter on quarter.
UBS has forecast BHP to ship 54 million tonnes for the September quarter, which, according to the equity house, makes the guidance of approximately 207 million tonnes for the 2014 financial year "look conservative" but added it was too early to tell.
"With Port Hedland September quarter exports up just 1.4 million tonnes quarter on quarter and Fortescue increasing exports by less than expected, it means BHP Pilbara shipments have maintained their impressive run rate of 54 million tonnes per quarter as delivered in the June quarter," said UBS analyst Glyn Lawcock.
In July, BHP delivered a 13th consecutive annual production record as shipments in the June 2013 quarter rose to an annualised rate of 217 million tonnes. Total iron ore production increased by 7 per cent in the 2013 financial year to 170 million tonnes. June quarter production hit 47.6 million tonnes in the June quarter.
The spot iron ore price is trading strongly compared to expectations that Chinese steel mill demand would wane. The spot price was trading at $US134.4 a tonne – up 21 per cent on the calendar year lows in June.
A number of analysts forecasted the spot price to trade around $US100 a tonne before recovering towards the end of the calendar year.
BHP's coal volumes are expected to fall, given longwall movements at BHP's Crinum and West Cliff operations and scheduled maintenance at Goonyella Riverside and Peak Downs. A longwall is a machine used in underground mining that shaves coal from the face and removes the commodity as it falls.
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BHP shares were trading more than 1 per cent higher on Monday in mid-afternoon trade to $36.15 a share while the broader market was also trading in the black.
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Phil Mickelson Rises in Popularity as `Antithesis of Tiger'
Phil Mickelson has chased Tiger Woods for more than a decade. He might finally catch him this week at the U.S. Open, eclipsing him both on the course and in the hearts of fans.
Mickelson, who is 0.55 points away from overtaking Woods at No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking, comes to California's Pebble Beach Golf Links June 17-20 with a third Masters Tournament title on his resume and a popularity rating once reserved for his long-time rival that may help him close a $50 million gap in endorsements. The two are listed as 8-1 co- favorites at U.K. bookmaker William Hill Plc.
Wood's one-vehicle accident in November led him to discuss publicly his marital infidelities, and the reputation of Mickelson, who turns 40 today, has soared. As his wife and mother battle breast cancer, Mickelson won his third Masters in April. The win stole the spotlight from Woods's return to golf following months of public marital strife.
"There was so much conversation about Tiger leading up to the Masters," said Matt Fleming, a senior account manager with Los Angeles-based Davie Brown Entertainment, which ranks celebrity and athlete endorsers. "Phil was ultimately somewhat the antithesis of Tiger on and off the course, so when he won, everybody was excited and that started to reflect in his scores."
That excitement vaulted Mickelson up the company's Davie Brown Index, which is used by advertising agencies to gauge the ability of celebrities to influence consumers. Woods's numbers have fallen to near the bottom in almost every category.
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In its April survey, conducted eight days after Mickelson's Masters victory, he ranked 23rd out of 2,501 athletes and celebrities in the "endorsement" category, which measures how consumers identify with celebrities. In December 2009, he ranked 370th. Woods, 34, has fallen to 2,365th in the endorsement category from 11th in January 2009.
"He went from the absolute top to the absolute bottom," Fleming said of Woods. "We've never quite seen anything like that."
Mickelson also took the lead in the "aspiration" category, ranking 43rd. Woods fell to 2,469th, marking his lowest score ever. His rating, a measure of the degree to which consumers aspire to have the celebrity's life, is comparable to those of former San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds and divorced U.S. reality television star Jon Gosselin.
The shift in ratings is deserved, according to 1982 U.S. Open champion Tom Watson.
"When you win, good things happen as far as sponsorships go," Watson said in a telephone interview. "Phil will never win as many tournaments as Tiger, but he is certainly playing some wonderful golf. The sponsors like that. They want to associate with a winner."
Endorsement Gap
In addition to gaining on Woods in the golf rankings, Mickelson is likely to close the gap that exists between him and Woods in endorsement earnings.
Mickelson made $53 million in endorsement and on-course earnings in 2009, according to Sports Illustrated, compared with Woods's $99.7 million.
There currently are no plans to add to Mickelson's list of endorsers, which includes KPMG LLP, Callaway Golf Co., Barclays Plc, Exxon Mobil Corp. and Rolex watches, according to T.R. Reinman, a spokesman for the golfer.
Woods, the first athlete to earn more than $1 billion, according to Forbes magazine, lost endorsement contracts with Accenture Plc, AT&T Inc. and PepsiCo Inc.'s Gatorade after the crash that led to his admission of marital infidelity. He also was dropped by Hank Haney, his coach since 2003.
Rivalry Question
Mickelson won't discuss their on-course rivalry, a question posed every time he has played this year.
"I'd rather not talk about that," Mickelson said before the start of the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio, this month.
Woods, who lost the No. 1 ranking to David Duval in 1999 and Vijay Singh in 2004, said being replaced at the top by Mickelson would have nothing to do with their relationship.
"The whole idea to be No. 1 and continue to be No. 1 is you have to win golf tournaments and I haven't done that in a while," Woods said at the Players Championship last month.
Other than the Masters, where he finished fourth, Woods has completed four rounds twice in four events. He's 118th on the U.S. PGA Tour's money list and dropped to 13th in the Ryder Cup standings, prompting U.S. captain Corey Pavin to say last month "I'm not going to treat Tiger any different than any other player. He's certainly not going to be an automatic pick."
Missed Cut
Mickelson has three other top-10 finishes along with his Masters win, including a runner-up at the Quail Hollow Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina. Woods missed the cut that week for the first time in five years after a second-round score of 79, his highest since 2002.
While Woods told a reporter yesterday at Pebble Beach that details of his marriage are "none of your business," his life on the golf course is becoming "much more normal now." After injuring his neck preparing for the Masters, Woods said, he's found a balance.
"I'm starting to find out how much I can and can't push myself each and every day," he said. "I overdid it, overcooked it right before Augusta, trying to get ready. I learned my lesson there."
As Woods continues to search for his winning ways, the road to regaining the respect and admiration of competitors and fans -- and the support of new sponsors -- might be even longer.
'Respect for Game'
"The things that have happened with Tiger are self- inflicted," said Watson, 60. "There's a certain amount of respect that every golfer should have for the game. When it's not shown, it can hurt you financially."
Mickelson never has won the U.S. Open, a tournament Woods has captured three times, including by a record 15 strokes in 2000, the last time it was held at Pebble Beach.
After finishing second to Lucas Glover last year at New York's Bethpage State Park, Mickelson said he put the loss in perspective. It came eight days before his wife was due to undergo breast cancer surgery.
"I want to win this tournament badly," Mickelson said after his loss to Glover. "I feel I'll have more and more chances."
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This Book is actually a spin off of the Hex Hall series, but there are no planned sequels at the moment. It's too bad because there are some things that need to be resolved.
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I'm not sure I would really want a sequel to this book because it is so perfect as is. But I love it so much that I would love another change to step into this world.
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This book is adorable. I would love to see Samantha and Jase together again.
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I'm not sure if this counts because it is a duology, but I love this series and definitely want another adventure with Ananna and Naji. In fact, I would love to have a book told from Naji's perspective.
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I really enjoyed this book and while it is a complete story, I would love to revisit the characters!
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I really like these characters and want to know more about what happened "after".
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I want another Death narrated novel.
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Ok, I know this is the last book in the Delirium series, but it felt so incomplete. Yes, the ending is controversial in its "non-ending" way, but even the rest of the story felt lacking. The first two books dealt with relationships and people. This book seemed all about the rebellion and Lena being a brat. I don't know. Maybe I just want a do over?