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- This article is about Pokémon, also known as Pocket Monsters, as a series. For other uses of the words, see Pokémon (disambiguation).
Pokémon (Japanese: ポケットモンスター Pocket Monsters, ポケモン Pokémon for short), sometimes shortened to PKMN, is an overarching media franchise owned by Nintendo, Creatures, Inc., and Game Freak. First appearing in 1996 with the release of its first entries on the Game Boy[1], the game series has since inspired an array of media, including an anime, a card game, numerous manga, and various spin-off games.
The series focuses on the creatures known as Pokémon, as well as their inhabited world, full of legends, tales, and adventures. Several interpretations of the world explore different themes and elements. Most commonly, Pokémon coexist with humans and can be caught, trained, and used in battles and other activities. Trainers, along with their Pokémon, travel across diverse lands aiming to make their dreams become reality.
Much as happens with many other words and phrases borrowed from English, the Japanese name for the series, Pocket Monsters, became contracted into "Pokémon" during the development of the original games, likely as much for convenience when referring to it as to save on screen real estate, considering the small size of the Game Boy's screen. The official romanization of "Pokémon" at this time was derived from the contraction of Pocket and Monster, and can be seen explicitly in Primeape Goes Bananas, even in the dub.
The "Pokémon" name used today came about during the translation of the games for an English audience during 1997 and 1998. Whereas in Japan, Pocket Monsters was easily able to be trademarked, the release in America would prove difficult had this name been used, due to the unrelated Monster in My Pocket franchise. Thus, an alternate romanization of the contraction was used, with an acute accent over the e to indicate its specific pronunciation, poh-kay-mohn. Despite this issue, however, the fact that Pokémon is short for Pocket Monsters has been referenced in English, with an NPC in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum asking the player what Pokémon is short for after thinking about the name of the Pokétch, itself a contraction, as well as on the back of the DVD set containing the first, second, and third movies.
- Main article: History of Pokémon
Pokémon, as a series, was originally conceived by Satoshi Tajiri as a way to instill in children of the modern, more urbanized Japan the same enjoyment that he felt as a young boy collecting insects and other bugs near his hometown of Machida. Initially called Capsule Monsters, or CapuMon for short, Tajiri pitched the series to Nintendo after being inspired by the Game Link Cable; he pictured an insect crawling across it between two Game Boy systems.
With help from Shigeru Miyamoto, the series began development, with the concepts of the original games, Pokémon Red and Green, going into production between 1990 and 1995. At last, in early 1996, the first games in the series were released in Japan, and Tajiri's dream had become reality. Compared to other games of its time, Pokémon was very limited, with comparatively poor graphics and sound. The series was an overnight success though, and Red and Green were quickly followed by an upgraded third version, Pokémon Blue.
An anime was produced, with the intention of covering the journey players took through the Kanto region in the games over the course of a year and a half. About halfway through the anime's run in late 1997, tragedy struck and an episode of the anime was found to be responsible for epileptic seizures in more than 600 children due to a flashing strobe effect. No one died of these seizures, and after an investigation was put into place, the anime was put on hiatus for four months, later returning to the air to complete the Kanto run in April 1998.
Encouraged by the games' success in Japan and their upcoming release in the United States, Game Freak began development on sequels to them. Rather than releasing the sequels immediately, however, Game Freak instead chose to draw from the story of the anime (which differed from the games in that its protagonist was given a Pikachu instead of the standard starter Pokémon received in Red, Green, and Blue) and created a fourth game, Special Pikachu Edition, to buy some more time for development on the announced sequels.
Several manga series were also produced in this early period, including Pokémon Adventures, which Tajiri has stated is closest to his original idea of the world the series takes place in.
The much-awaited sequels were released in 1999 in Japan and 2000 in the US. Pokémon Gold and Silver revamped the Pokémon world, bringing it into full color, introducing one hundred new Pokémon and addressing many of the issues that had been present in the original games. For example, two new types were introduced to address type imbalances. The anime, manga, and other aspects of the franchise followed suit, bringing their characters into the second generation.
Even after the initial worldwide hype for the series died down, the Pokémon franchise remained strong. A third version was produced for Generation II, focusing on the legendary Pokémon Suicune. With Pokémon Crystal, a female player character was finally introduced, and the games became fully dependent on the Game Boy Color, abandoning the now long-outdated Game Boy. A third generation was announced for the new Game Boy Advance, and at least among fans, the hype returned.
Despite this, when Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire were initially released many people considered them, and Generation III in general, a disappointment. Misty, Ash's longtime companion in the anime, left the show and a new girl May joined him. Although 135 new Pokémon were introduced, the games, unlike the Generation II games, were completely incompatible with their predecessors, making 184 of the 251 previously released Pokémon unobtainable without cheating. This issue was addressed with the unprecedented release of remakes of the original pair of games, Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, which included many of the Pokémon missing from Ruby and Sapphire. In addition, a third version, Pokémon Emerald, was released and introduced the Battle Frontier and many other features that would be enjoyed by those who battled Pokémon competitively.
Much like the previous generations, the fourth generation was highly anticipated. Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, released in 2006 in Japan and 2007 in the US, received much praise. These games brought with them many enhancements from Emerald, and for the first time, Pokémon could be played online to battle against and trade with other players across the world. This generation was also noted for introducing the physical/special damage category split, another improvement which would be enjoyed by those who battled Pokémon competitively. 107 new Pokémon were added as well, bringing the total to 493.
With the precedent set by the earlier release of remakes for the original pair of games, this generation saw much speculation for a remake of the now-outdated Generation II games, and hidden data in the games seemed to indicate that remakes were planned. A third version, Pokémon Platinum, was released two years after Diamond and Pearl. Due to this, as well as the delay in the release, many became discouraged that the remakes would never come. However, after five years of speculation, Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver were finally released in 2009 in Japan and in 2010 elsewhere.
The fifth generation of the franchise constituted a "reboot" similar to that of the third. The highly anticipated Pokémon Black and White were set far away from the previous games in a region based on New York City called Unova. Initially in the game, only the 156 new Pokémon introduced in this generation were available before beating the Pokémon League, forcing veteran players to rethink old strategies. The games did have the capacity to connect to older games, however, and maintained the international connectivity introduced in the fourth generation. The anime series, trading card game and manga series also embraced the new generation with releases of tie-in media. Breaking the traditional format, Black and White were followed by two direct sequels, Pokémon Black and White Versions 2 which included many Pokémon from different regions.
Another reboot occurred with the sixth generation games Pokémon X and Y in 2013, marking the first time a pair of Pokémon games was released simultaneously worldwide. The games introduced many new features such as a fully 3D world including 3D models for every Pokémon, Mega Evolution, a new Pokémon type, improved online features, Trainer customization, Pokémon-Amie and new battle styles. France, the basis of the in-game Kalos region, was chosen partly because French culture is known for its art and beauty - the main theme of the game. Super Training, another new feature introduced, offered a simple way to monitor a Pokémon's EVs. New ways to improve the player's chance of finding Shiny Pokémon were also introduced, such as the introduction of chain fishing and Horde Encounters, as well as the return of Generation IV's Poké Radar. With the addition of 72 new Pokémon, the total as of Generation VI is 721.
Although the release of remakes skipped a generation (Generation V was the first generation since Generation II not to include remakes of previous games), Generation VI saw the release of Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire worldwide in 2014. In addition to being remakes of the Generation III games, the games included new Mega Evolutions and the concept of Primal Reversion.
The Pokémon franchise continues to run strong and a new generation of games has released as Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon as of November 2016. This generation introduced 81 new Pokémon, taking the total up to 802. The games were released on the year of the 20th anniversary of the franchise and are notable for being the first in the core series to lack Gyms, Badges, and HMs.
- Main article: Pokémon (species)
The creatures themselves, based on various plants, animals, and other concepts, inhabit virtually every corner of the world, no matter which canon's interpretation is seen. Many make their homes in forests and on rural routes stretching across the various regions, while still others are native to cities and other urban centers. Currently, there are 826 known Pokémon.
Typically, Pokémon that are owned by a person are kept in Poké Balls, which allow for them to be quickly sent into battle or to perform a task, but keep them safe and make them easier to transport, with the balls being typically able to fit into a pocket. HeartGold and SoulSilver have the lead Pokémon out of their Poké Balls. Many Pokémon owned by Trainers, however, choose to remain outside of their Poké Ball, and travel with their Trainer on foot.
Pokémon begin their lives by hatching from Eggs, and many of them will evolve to grow stronger and larger during the course of their lives. Pokémon are not immortal, as can be seen from the Pokémon gravestones found in various burial grounds. Though their abilities far surpass those of normal animals, Pokémon are not immortal as those who do not follow the series as closely may deduce.
Many Pokémon are much more powerful than others, and some, due to this, have passed into legends that are told in the Pokémon world. It has not been consistently illustrated whether or not these Pokémon really do have the power that their legends state, though the general consensus is that, in the wild, a Pokémon's abilities are truly those of the legends, while a Trainer who captures one in a Poké Ball will limit its strength.
Many Pokémon may also be influenced by yōkai, which are special creatures in Japanese folklore with strange abilities, sometimes even created from inanimate objects.
In other languages
|ポケモン Pokémon
|From ポケットモンスター Pocket Monsters.
|Same as Japanese name. The letter é is used to represent the -ay sound.
|Chinese (Mandarin)
| 寶可夢 / 宝可梦 Pokémon*
神奇寶貝 / 神奇宝贝 Shénqí Bǎobèi*
小精灵 Xiǎojīnglíng*
| Transliteration of Japanese name.
From 神奇的口袋中的寶貝 / 神奇的口袋中的宝贝 Shénqí de kǒudài zhōng de bǎobèi. 神奇宝贝 / 神奇寶貝 means magical creatures.
Same as former Cantonese name.
|Chinese (Cantonese)
| 寶可夢 Pokémon*
小精靈 Síujīnglìhng*
寵物小精靈 Chúngmaht Síujīnglìhng*
精靈 Jīnglìhng*
| Same as Mandarin name.
From 寵物小精靈 Chúngmaht Síujīnglìhng. 小精靈 means little creature.
Same as the series' name.
From 寵物小精靈 Chúngmaht Síujīnglìhng. 精靈 means creature.
|포켓몬 Pokémon
|From 포켓몬스터 Pocket Monsters.
|بوكيمون Bukimun
|Transliteration of English name.
| Belarusian, Bulgarian
Russian, Ukrainian
|Покемон Pokémon
|Transliteration of English name.
|Πόκεμον Pókemon
|Transliteration of English name.
|פוקימון Pokémon
|Transliteration of English name.
|पोकेमोन Pokémon
|Transliteration of English name.
|போகிமொன் Pokémon
|Transliteration of English name.
|పోకీమాన్ Pokémon
|Transliteration of English name.
|پوکيمون Pokémon
|Transliteration of English name.
|โปเกมอน Pokémon
|Transliteration of English name.
| Pokémon
Bửu Bối Thần Kỳ*
| Same as English name.
From former Chinese name.
Pocket Monsters
|ポケットモンスター Pocket Monsters
|From ポケット poketto (pocket) and モンスター monsutā (monsters).
|Chinese (Mandarin)
| 精靈寶可夢 / 精灵宝可梦 Jīnglíng Pokémon*
神奇的口袋中的寶貝 / 神奇的口袋中的宝贝 Shénqí de kǒudài zhōng de bǎobèi*
宠物小精灵 Chǒngwù Xiǎojīnglíng*
| From 精靈 / 精灵 jīnglíng (creature) and 寶可夢 / 宝可梦 Pokémon (transliteration of Japanese name).
Means the magical creatures in the pocket.
Same as former Cantonese name.
|Chinese (Cantonese)
| 精靈寶可夢 Jīnglìhng Pokémon*
寵物小精靈 Chúngmaht Síujīnglìhng*
| Same as Mandarin name.
Means pet creature.
|포켓몬스터 Pocket Monsters
|From 포켓 poket (pocket) and 몬스터 monseuteo (monsters).
|พ็อกเก็ตมอนสเตอร์ Pocket Monsters
|From พ็อกเก็ต pocket and มอนสเตอร์ monsters.
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- Pokémon on Facebook (English)
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- Pokémon on Twitter (English)
- Pokémon on Instagram (English)
- Pokémon on YouTube (English)
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NICE TRY TO SAVE YOURSELF AT PIRATES' COURT. WHY DIDN'T IT WORK? John: I'm a goofy dancing fool. I tried to leverage a lot of my success in terms of convincing people to mutiny, and it wasn't shown. At pirates court, a lot was explained to us that we didn't already know, and it changed the game dramatically, but I had already stolen the compasses. That wasn't enough. I kept them after I got on the raft, so those compasses did leave the game. I got on that raft and I was a little bit bitter, but then I had to laugh at myself, it was funny, to see their jaws drop, it was an absurd situation. You know I always knew I was gonna either go first or win the whole thing. I wasn't surprised.
Personally I thought when John took the compasses, he showed that he was unscrupulous. (Well that isn't a bad trait for a pirate master I suppose.) However it blew the other's minds and I think that is why the kicked off the ship. I don't know about the dominate/subservient mind set. :pirates1
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It even has a picture of John he made with watercolors. Very nice artwork, for a watercolor painting.
Each week I sketched (with my opposite hand) the pirate cut adrift among other things
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I am too bloody judgmental with my left, so Ithought Id do it with the other
its actually quite interesting to do.)
Casting kind of found me, I didnt try out for the show.
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Christian: I didnt have any game strategy. As you know, right at the beginning, I got voted off pretty quickly. Towards the end, the game got a little tighter and more real. In the beginning , there wasnt much of any game to play
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On July 1, 1876, the first seven inmates entered the Territorial Prison at Yuma and were locked into the new cells they had built themselves. Thus began the legend of the Yuma Territorial Prison. A total of 3,069 prisoners, including 29 women, lived within the walls during the prison's 33 years of operation.
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The kids really enjoyed the fruit pizza making experience and it was very tasty.
Sounds like they had fun, and I think they did a great job, don't you?
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AFD-3000 Diagnostic Pool Scanner
Announcing the new best friend for pool technicians and for the pool owner who wants the latest gadgetry.
The AFD-3000 is a patented electronic diagnosis tool for swimming pool and spa systems. With the handheld, weather proof-shock proof control panel, you can quickly access real time status on chemical levels, flow dynamics, pressure differential and heater combustion.
The powerful chip inside the AFD-3000 controller has 10 gig of storage capacity and the fastest processing speed that allows quick computation and displays results in tables, graphs, pie or column charts. Measurement data is taken daily and stored automatically and continuously. Wifi uplink to your home PC or cloud storage creates back-up and restore capability.
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Pipes: Sensor 'A' monitors water leaks by logging very small changes in pipe pressure.
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Hillsboro financial adviser Robert Wall is not sure why a financial New Year's resolution has not been en vogue. To him, the exercise of writing down every expense is just as valuable as doing curls and crunches in a gym.
To those interested in instituting personal financial changes, Wall recommends balancing checkbooks on a regular basis and sticking to a budget. For some people, budgeting involves setting up smaller cash funds or giving themselves reminding e-mails. Wall added that every act should relate to a financial goal.
"For some people it's about having no debt at all," he said. "Some are saving for something."
Marion financial adviser Tom Kimbrel agreed with many of Wall's ideas. He said people should look at their routine expenditures — like purchasing an afternoon pop at a convenience store — as a place to save money.
"I don't want people to be dull, sitting in a chair and staring at the wall," he said. "But people have to know where their money is going."
Wall said investing $50 a month into a mutual fund is not as tenuous as in years past. He noted that Dow Jones was up 7 percent, S&P 500 was up 12 percent, and NASDAQ was up nearly 16 percent in 2012 from 2011.
"A lot of people didn't notice it because we were kind of depressed," Wall said.
Kimbrel agreed that a professionally managed mutual fund was the best way to invest, but he emphasized saving money in larger sums. He suggested saving at least three months worth of salary in a form that is easily made available.
"It gives you time to get something done," Kimbrel said. "You get laid off and that next bill's coming, what are you going to do?"
Kimbrel's No. 1 recommendation is putting a large amount of money in a Roth Individual Retirement Account. Roth IRAs allow the investor to not have to pay taxes on the money when it is available starting at 59 years old.
"It's a very powerful tool, especially for young people," Kimbrel said.
For Marion County business owners, business consultant Dean Claycamp also stressed staying on top of expenses and budgets as often as possible.
He said business should do their books at least monthly but encourages a weekly regimen. If owners are not inclined to do the accounting themselves, Claycamp suggests hiring a professional. Claycamp also emphasized comparing prices among competitors and then trying to fix discrepencies based on items purchased from vendors.
If invoices and balances are checked on a regular basis, businesses can then produce a budget based on costs segregated month to month. Claycamp said this budget should be held to a standard within a few hundred dollars.
"Any budget is a guideline," Claycamp said. "I don't have a crystal ball. There could be unexpected increases."
Claycamp said much of his job is establishing how much of the business is under the owner's control. He said if bills and payroll taxes are not paid on time, those are harsh warnings that a business is spiraling out of control. He also said that if there is a declining trend in revenue, that owners should look to grab the reigns of an operation.
Claycamp is a regional consultant for Butler Community College. His next appointment at the Marion campus is Jan. 25.
Wall works for Everence Financial Advisers at 105 S. Main St., Hillsboro. His phone number is (877) 467-7294. Kimbral works for Edward Jones at 314 Main St. Marion. His phone number is (620) 382-3899.


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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01706146
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : October 15, 2012
Results First Posted : February 22, 2016
Last Update Posted : March 23, 2016
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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained abnormal rhythm of the heart, affects an estimated 2.5 to 5 million individuals in the US, and can lead to stroke, heart failure, and premature death. For those with AF and other stroke risk factors, chronic anticoagulation is recommended to prevent intracardiac thrombus formation and stroke even if the AF is infrequent or short-lived. This standard of care is based partly on our inability to rapidly recognize and respond to AF recurrences which can often be brief and asymptomatic, but exposes the patient to the risk of anticoagulant-induced hemorrhage even during prolonged periods of sinus rhythm where the risk of stroke is presumably low.
Recent advances in device technology and drug therapy, however, have the potential to change the way the investigators manage AF. The use of a small leadless subcutaneous implantable cardiac monitor with remote data transmission capabilities (Reveal XT, Medtronic Inc.) provides the ability to remotely and continuously evaluate a patient for AF recurrences, even episodes that are brief and asymptomatic. In addition, release of unique oral thrombin inhibitor approved for use in non-valvular AF(Dabigatran [Pradaxa], Rivaroxaban [Xarelto]) allows for rapid onset anticoagulation within minutes to hours of a single oral dose. Together, these advances allow for continuous AF monitoring with targeted anticoagulation only around the time of an AF episode, thereby reducing the risk of drug-induced hemorrhage while still protecting against stroke.
The aim of this pilot study is to assess the feasibility of intermittent anticoagulation with a rapid-onset oral thrombin inhibitor guided by a continuous AF-sensing implantable cardiac monitor (Reveal XT) with remote data transmission capabilities.
|Condition or disease
|Atrial Fibrillation
|Drug: Non-coumadin Oral Anticoagulant
|Phase 4
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|59 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Rhythm Evaluation for AntiCoagulaTion With COntinuous Monitoring
|Study Start Date :
|October 2012
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|February 2015
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|February 2015
Non-Coumadin Oral Anticoagulant
Administration of Non-coumadin Oral Anticoagulant for 30 days following episode of atrial fibrillation as detected by the Reveal XT device.
Drug: Non-coumadin Oral Anticoagulant
Administration of Non-coumadin Oral Anticoagulant for 30 days following episode of atrial fibrillation as detected by the Reveal XT device.
Other Names:
- Number of Days on Anticoagulation [ Time Frame: up to 12 months ]Assess subject anticoagulant utilization and number of days on anticoagulation
- Bleeding Incidence [ Time Frame: up to 12 months ]To assess the bleeding incidence with implantable monitor-guided intermittent anticoagulation.
- Stroke Rate [ Time Frame: 12 months ]To assess the stroke rate with implantable monitor-guided intermittent anticoagulation.
- Overall Survival [ Time Frame: 12 months ]To assess the overall survival rate with implantable monitor-guided intermittent anticoagulation.
- Major Bleeding-free Survival Rate [ Time Frame: 12 months ]To assess the major bleeding-free survival rate with implantable monitor-guided intermittent anticoagulation.
- Stroke-free Survival Rate [ Time Frame: 12 months ]To assess the stroke-free survival rate with implantable monitor-guided intermittent anticoagulation.
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, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Patients must meet all of the following criteria:
- Age 18 and above.
Patients with non-valvular, non-continuous AF and either:
(A) Infrequent AF episodes without a rhythm control strategy who have had no documented AF lasting > 1 hour for 3 consecutive months (the last 2 of which are on a previously implanted Reveal XT implantable cardiac monitor), or (B) Previous or current rhythm control strategy. Rhythm control strategies may include: i. Class I or Class III antiarrhythmic drugs ii. Pulmonary vein isolation iii. Post-MAZE/minimally invasive MAZE
- Current Reveal XT implant prior to study enrollment.
- Documented clinical history of symptomatic or asymptomatic paroxysmal, long-standing persistent or persistent AF prior to rhythm control initiation. The duration of AF must have been > 30 seconds as documented by an external monitor, present 12 lead ECG, or Reveal XT.
- CHADS2 score of 1 or 2
- Candidates for chronic anticoagulation with an FDA-approved non-Coumadin oral anticoagulant (dabigatran, rivaroxaban, apixaban), based on the discretion of the treating physician.
- Demonstrated ability to tolerate dabigatran 150mg/BID (if CrCl >30ml/min), rivaroxaban 15mg QD (if CrCl 15-49 ml/min) and 20mg QD (if CrCl ≥50ml/min), or apixaban 5mg BID or 2.5 mg for subjects with ≥2 of the following: age ≥ 80 years, body weight ≤60kg, serum creatinine ≥1.5 mg/dl.
- Able and willing to provide written informed consent and willing to follow instructions, attend all required study visits, and undergo all planned tests.
- Subject must be willing and able to discontinue oral anticoagulation for the purposes of this study
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients should not have any of the following criteria:
- Permanent AF
Any documented single AF episode lasting ≥ 1 hour per month over two consecutive months prior to study enrollment.
Mechanical prosthetic valves or severe valve disease.
- CHADS2 score of 0, or > 2
- Subject deemed high risk for non-cardioembolic stroke (i.e. significant carotid artery disease) based on discretion of the investigator.
- Individual is pregnant, nursing, or planning to become pregnant.
- Known hypersensitivity to non-Coumadin oral anticoagulants.
- Documented prior stroke or transient ischemic attack.
- Reversible causes of AF (e.g., cardiac surgery, pulmonary embolism, untreated hyperthyroidism).
Conditions associated with an increased risk of bleeding:
- Major surgery in the previous month
- Planned surgery or intervention in the next 3 months.
- History of intracranial, intraocular, spinal, retroperitoneal or atraumatic intra-articular bleeding
- Gastrointestinal hemorrhage within the past year unless the cause has been permanently eliminated (e.g. by surgery)
- Symptomatic or endoscopically documented gastroduodenal ulcer disease in the previous 30 days
- Hemorrhagic disorder or bleeding diathesis
- Need for anticoagulant treatment for disorders other than AF
- Required use of non-aspirin antiplatelet agents (i.e., Plavix) at time of enrollment
- Uncontrolled hypertension (SBP >180 mmHg and/or DBP >100 mmHg)
- Recent malignancy or radiation therapy (≤6 months)
- Anemia (hemoglobin <10g/dL) or thrombocytopenia (platelet count <100K/UL)
- Patients who have received an investigational drug in the past 30 days or are participating in a drug study.
- Intolerance or hypersensitivity to low dose aspirin therapy
- Life expectancy less than the expected duration of the trial due to concomitant disease.
- Any concomitant condition which, in the opinion of the investigator, would not allow safe participation in the study (e.g., drug addiction, alcohol abuse).
- Inability to comply with daily data transmission requirements.
- Known history of isolated atrial flutter/atrial tachycardia without atrial fibrillation.
- More than 10 false positive atrial fibrillation events lasting > 30 minutes per month for two months prior to enrollment on a previously implantable cardiac monitor.
- Severe renal impairment (CrCl < 15 ml/min)
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01706146
|United States, Illinois
|Northwestern University
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
|United States, Massachusetts
|Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
|Canada, Ontario
|University of Western Ontario
|London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5A5
|Principal Investigator:
|Alexandru Chicos, MD
|Northwestern University
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Alexandru B Chicos, Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01706146 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
1R34HL113404-01 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
7R34HL113404-03 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|October 15, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|February 22, 2016
|Last Update Posted:
|March 23, 2016
|Last Verified:
|February 2016
Keywords provided by Alexandru B Chicos, Northwestern University:
atrial fibrillation
reveal xt
oral anticoagulation
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Atrial Fibrillation
Arrhythmias, Cardiac
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Pathologic Processes
Factor Xa Inhibitors
Serine Proteinase Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action


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|2012-09-27, 15:12
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Spoiler for Ep 22:
Great, now two months to wait.
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It's almost like they gave him limitless power and then ended up downplaying his power on every occasion, except in those mid-point Eureka eps, even limiting his screentime instead of actually giving him more of a story and deeper motivation since he had too much power to have more screentime, so he's been left in the middle as neither particularly scary with his huge powers nor particularly involving with any relatability/intriguing plans/whatever. He feels like a "mid-boss" which would be okay I guess if there was going to be a second season with a better villain. With a really compelling villain there'd be a lot less complaining I feel.
Spoiler for End of Last Exile -Fam, The Silver Wing-:
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|2012-09-27, 19:23
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Yeah, man with him showing up actually 2 eps before the end and not in the last ep or the cliffhanger of the ep before last hopefully that won't be the case still and he'll actually get some time to talk (and talk to his son).
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Also, I agree that AO needs a second season. I feel your pain, when another show and not even a good one gets another season. Hopefully, we will get one for AO, because no way Bones will end all this in only three episodes without it ending unsatisfyingly. Ao and co. only just begun their real journey in episode 19. Judging from the preview, Naru seems to be no longer under the influence of the Scub Corals. Elena is back, but there is still Maggie. Eureka is still involuntarily jumping through timelines. Even though a few plots have closed there are still more still open.
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What I haven't noticed is that the moon in 12021 is blank.
Which means... the desolated wasteland is the new world's future.
You know, this behavior of Scub Coral doesn't make any sense. Why would it try to take over the world so half-assedly? After all that happened? Why would it infect people and turn them into green goo?
Something else I forgot to mention: the way they disposed of the Secret's head was both hilarious and very characteristic of this show.
Renton being voiced by Keiji Fujiwara is the worst decision ever. They tried to be clever, but really just ended up ruining everything. It's wrong on so many levels, they could've casted ANYBODY, anybody who hasn't voiced a main character in E7, but no, it had to be Holland's VA. Now you're all going to feel awkward and uneasy if there's ever a scene between Renton and Eureka from here on.
And no, that wasn't Storywriter.
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Yeah, even without anything involving old characters it really needs more time in order to accomplish everything it set out to do on it's own with the new characters and story. I hope they get it, there was some really good stuff, just Truth is such a non-personal villain that he hasn't directly pushed Ao, Fleur, and Elena like a traditional antagonist does, this is what I think has lead to a lot of the negativity which is a shame because there was a lot good in what they created for most of the show aside from some weird omissions of screentime (Naru needed more, if Truth was going to stay he needed more so he could be given a more detailed story or at least more menace if he was going to remain the villain).
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That's a good point, that'll probably be one of Renton's duties.
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|2012-09-27, 23:04
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Holy CRAP Daniel Lind, I recognized Holland's voice as soon as I heard it. That's probably a bad sign, huh? I watched the original so many times I'd recognize that voice anywhere.
Admittedly, the ending with Renton was cool, but I'm just eager to get this over and done with, quite frankly. They've made a habit of showing cool things and then going WHOOPSIES HAHA YOU THOUGHT WERE KNEW WHAT WE WERE DOING! SURE FOOLED YOU! (I.E. theEND, Gekko-Go, whatever the hell they've done with the Spec2, and now Renton)
Also, is anyone else freaking upset that Aikawa seems to think that the Nirvash can just be mechanically copied and built? That was never what the old E7 was about. The Nirvash was primarily an archetype, even if it was a unique one. Also throwing around terminology like Seven Swell (which the director obviously associates with the visual alone and not the cause or effects of the phenomenon) is just UGH.
|2012-09-27, 23:08
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Another thing to remember is that this is only small fragments of a much larger whole. I always got the impression that the Scub had a unified will because the command cluster. If pieces of it are getting zapped off the whole, then chances are they're losing that will. Then Naru comes in and makes them spread.
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|2012-09-27, 23:49
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The fact that the writer of AO COMPLETELY blows past all this in what is undoubtedly a ploy to turn AO into your generic military/mecha show makes me highly upset. He obviously doesn't know or care what the original E7 was about or what it stood for. I bet he just saw one shot of the Nirvash's eyes glowing before something happened and went "I want to do this too!" without ever asking about the context.
I'm not saying Dai Sato has always been a good writer, because he's definitely written some atrocities, but there are too many plot holes and lore holes, mostly created from the ignorance of someone who didn't really care to learn all he could about the series (a series that is arguably one of BONES' best) and just did whatever the hell he wanted. There's no room for forgiveness there, none at all.
I just can't wait until this whole debacle is over. Its stupid and annoying and just needs to end. I used to recommend E7 to everyone I knew who would watch anime from time to time and even to those who didn't at all. Now I have to stress that they don't even try to watch the sequel, that its just better to pretend it didn't exist.
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|2012-09-27, 23:58
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As far as the director, its Tomoki Kyoda, the same as the original, and he should know the lore of the original series, considering just how involved in the creation of it he was...which makes whats going on in AO all the more puzzling...
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Wow! Jessica Simpson shared some new pics of Ace Knute on Instagram and he looks just like his dad, Eric Johnson. See the pics here!
Look at this handsome little guy! Jessica Simpson loves being a mommy, and she loves flaunting her adorable kids, 7-month-old Ace Knute, and 20-month-old Maxwell Drew Johnson. The bigger little Ace gets, the more we see that he looks just like Jessica's fiance, Eric Johnson. What do you think?
Jessica Simpson — Baby Ace Looks Like A Little Eric Johnson
Jessica, 33, shared a few new photos of her cutie pie son, Ace Knute, on Instagram on Thursday, Feb. 20. The adorable selfie she took with Ace shows the world just how much he looks like his dad, Eric. Considering that Jessica's daughter Maxwell is a spitting image of her, it looks like this happy couple are now even!
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"I wanna sing. I want my daughter to see me on stage," Jessica said during her interview. "My fiance has never even watched me perform, which is crazy. But that's my passion, that's my love, that's everything that I am."
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The primary aim of Tero Saarinen Company, founded by dancer-choreographer Tero Saarinen in 1996, is to promote a humane worldview and basic human values through the language of dance, while also increasing people's understanding of their own physicality and its significance for a good life.
Tero Saarinen Company has appeared in nearly 40 countries and its activities include running an international teaching programme. In addition, Saarinen and his team collaborate with other prominent dance groups; Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT1), the Batsheva Dance Company, Lyon Opéra Ballet and the Finnish National Ballet, to name but a few, have featured Saarinen's works in their repertoires.
Choreographer Saarinen is known for his unique movement language that plays with balance, and off-balance. His choreographic style reflects influences ranging from Butoh and martial arts to classical ballet and Western contemporary dance. His works, which have won wide international acclaim, are characteristically total artworks: combinations of unique choreography, strong performers, striking visuals and, often, live music.
The company is in permanent residence at Helsinki's Alexander Theatre – the former home of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, where Saarinen started his career in the 1980's. Tero Saarinen Company provides work for 40 - 80 individuals each year, nine of whom have permanent posts. The Company's operations are supported by Finland's Ministry of Education and The City of Helsinki.
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FAFSA Simplification
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FAFSA Simplification
Earlier this week, Secretary Duncan and Dr. Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden and a long-time educator, joined students at Washington, D.C.'s Benjamin Banneker Senior High School as they worked with counselors to complete the new, streamlined Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The 2010-11 FAFSA-on-the-Web has been redesigned to be shorter, simpler, and more user-friendly. Questions are now asked only if relevant to the applicant; low-income students, for example, are no longer asked for asset information, and only returning students are asked about prior drug convictions because the question does not apply to first-year students. Also, immediately after submitting the FAFSA, applicants will now receive a confirmation email message which indicates Pell Grant eligibility and links to information about the schools they are applying to, such as graduation and transfer rates and a detailed breakdown of costs and expected expenses associated with the schools.
Later this month, those applying for aid in the spring semester using the 2009-10 FAFSA will be able to retrieve and import their tax data from the Internal Revenue Services (IRS). And, in summer 2010, those applying for aid in the 2010-11 a year will also be able to access the IRS web site to retrieve income information to complete the FAFSA.
President Obama has challenged the nation to have the world's highest percentage of college graduates by 2020. Simplifying the federal student aid application process supports that goal by making it easier for students to access financial support for postsecondary studies. Students could begin filing FAFSAs for the 2010-11 academic year on January 1.
Appropriations Bill
On December 16, the President signed into law an omnibus appropriations bill (H.R. 3288), Division D of which provides funding for the U.S. Department of Education. Overall, the bill includes $63.7 billion in discretionary spending for the agency's education programs, about a 2% increase over Fiscal Year 2009, excluding the $100 billion in education funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) which covers both FY 2009 and FY 2010. Specifically, the bill includes:
- $14.5 billion for Title I grants to local education agencies;
- $11.5 billion for special education state grants;
- $2.95 billion to help states improve the quality of their teachers and leaders;
- $250 million for an expanded (PK-12) Striving Readers program; and
- $17.5 billion in Pell Grants for low- and middle-income college undergraduates.
Among the key new items, there is $50 million for the High School Graduation Initiative; $10 million for the Promise Neighborhood initiative; and a technical change, sought by the Department, to expand school district eligibility for the $650 million Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund created under the ARRA.
ARRA Outreach
On December 24, the Department announced it will hold a second round of public input meetings to listen and learn from assessment experts and practitioners. To date, the Department has convened seven meetings in three cities (Boston, Atlanta, and Denver), with 37 states joining agency leaders and nearly 700 members of the public to hear from experts in general assessment, high school assessment, the role of technology in assessment, assessing students with disabilities, and assessing English language learners. Three additional meetings will be held in the Washington, D.C., metro area. As with the previous meetings, the goals of the meeting are two-fold: to gather technical input to inform development of a Race to the Top Assessment Competition and to enable stateswho will be the grant applicantsand the public to participate in and learn from these events. Secretary Duncan has pledged to reserve up to $350 million (of the $4.35 billion Race to the Top Fund) to support consortia of states that are working to create new assessments tied to a common set of standards. The grants would be distributed through a competitive process this year.
The meetings will be held on January 13 (a full-day on project and consortium management), 14 (a half-day on procurement in complex cross-state initiatives), and 20 (a full-day on general and technical assessment issues).
All the meetings are open to the public. The official notice, along with information on how to RSVP for the meetings, can be found online. The Department also encourages the submission of written input (see instructions on the submission process online) and plans to post transcripts of every meeting session and all written input submitted to the agency.
- The deadline for State Fiscal Stabilization Fund Phase II applications is January 11, at 4:30 p.m. ET.
- The deadline for Race to the Top Phase I applications is January 19, at 4:30 p.m. ET.
- Revised Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Department ARRA reporting guidance, for the reporting period covering October 1 through December 31, 2009, is posted online.
Educate to Innovate
President Obama, as part of his Educate to Innovate campaign, has announced a number of new and innovative partnerships involving companies, universities, foundations, non-profit organizations, and government agencies, designed to improve the participation and performance of America's students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). These five public-private partnershipsIntel's Science and Math Teachers Initiative, expansion of the National Math and Science Initiative's UTeach Program, a commitment by more than 75 public university presidents to train 10,000 math and science teachers annually by 2015, the PBS Innovative Educators Challenge, and Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships in Math and Sciencerepresent a combined $250 million in financial and in-kind support, adding to the $260 million in support announced in November 2009 at the launch of the campaign. Furthermore, the President called on the 200,000 scientists and engineers working for the federal government to engage in high-impact volunteering alongside STEM educators. In response, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is organizing a multiple-year "Summer of Innovation" enrichment program, in which NASA staff will work with thousands of students and teachers on cutting-edge learning opportunities. At the same event, the President also honored more than 100 outstanding math and science teachers, winners of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching or the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring.
Financial Capability
Meeting with students, educators, and community leaders, Secretary Duncan and Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner recently announced the first step in an effort to promote stronger financial capability among students: the National Financial Capability Challenge. This non-monetary awards program challenges students to take control of their financial future, by learning about personal finance. It also challenges teachers and schools to incorporate personal finance topics into instruction. Those teachers who sign up to participate will receive a helpful teachers' toolkit. In March, students will take a voluntary online exam to demonstrate what they have learned, assess their financial knowledge, and learn more about why financial capability is important. Top scoring students from each school will receive awards in April, and outstanding teachers and schools will be recognized.
Also: Financial literacy was among the topics covered when correspondent Hari Sreenivsan interviewed the Secretary on "The Rundown," the PBS NewsHour's online webcast.
Odds and Ends
A new Department video tells the story of three counselors in the Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools whose jobs were saved by the ARRA.
"It's time, once and for all, to make teaching the revered profession it should be," the Secretary writes in "Elevating the Teaching Profession," an article published last month in both "NEA Today" and AFT's "American Educator." "Our guiding principle is simply that teachers should be treated as professionals: they should have the support, tools, and opportunities to perform at their full potential by having timely and accurate data about their students to inform instruction; they should have time to consult and collaborate with their peers; and they should be evaluated, compensated, and advanced based in part on student learning."
What motivates someone to become a teacher? The Department asked students at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education why they wanted to enter the teaching profession.
On December 16, Secretary Duncan took part in a ceremony honoring the 2009 Preserve America National History Teacher of the Year. He congratulated honoree Timothy Bailey, a history teacher at Escalante Elementary School in Salt Lake City, and used the occasion to praise excellent teaching and highlight the importance of learning history.
"Educational Technology in Public School Districts: Fall 2008," a report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), within the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), includes information on Internet capacity and networks, technology policies, district resources, teacher professional development, and district-level leadership.
"Net Cetera: Chatting with Kids About Being Online," a free guidebook produced through a partnership of over a dozen federal agencies and the technology industry, is designed to help parents when talking with children about Internet safety. Topics include safe use of social networking web sites, cyberbulling, and protecting computers from viruses and other malicious software.
"Now is the time to allocate resources to studentsnot to banksso they have access to college and other educational opportunities," the Secretary argues in "Banks Don't Belong in the Student Loan Business," an op-ed which ran December 17 in the Wall Street Journal. "We cannot in good conscience let $87 billion in subsidies go to banks, when our students desperately need financial help to realize the dream of getting a college education."
In September 2009, the Department's Family Policy Compliance Office issued important guidance for institutions of higher education pertaining to the applicability of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) to disclosures to Census Bureau representatives in regard to the 2010 Census. Consistent with that guidance, the office has also issued additional guidance relating to the Bureau's current American Community Survey (ACS).
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"No area of the teaching profession is more plainly broken today than that of teacher evaluation and professional development. In district after district, more than 95% of teachers are rated as good or superior, even in schools that are chronically under-performing year after year. Worse yet, evaluations typically fail to take any account of a teacher's impact on student learning. The truth is that students and teachers don't live in mythic Lake Wobegon, where everyone is above average. Yet, we have an evaluation system that pretends otherwise. As a result, great teachers don't get recognized, don't get rewarded, and don't help their peers grow. The teachers in the middle of the skill spectrum don't get the support they need to improve. And, the teachers at the bottom don't get the support they need either, and, if they do and still don't improve, they need to be counseled out of the profession. It's not just students who suffer; as [AFT leader] Al Shanker pointed out, 'teachers have to live with the results of other people's bad teaching: the students who don't know anything.'"
|Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (12/2009), in an article titled "Elevating the Teaching Profession"
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