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A 37-item survey covering a variety of somatopsychic domains was constructed to explore patients' subjective response to treatment with clozapine. The survey was administered to 130 patients with diagnoses of chronic schizophrenic or schizoaffective disorders who were on a stable clozapine regimen. The majority reported improvement in their level of satisfaction, quality of life, compliance with treatment, thinking, mood, and alertness. Most patients reported worsening in nocturnal salivation, and smaller numbers reported worsening in various gastrointestinal and urinary symptoms and weight gain. This general health survey highlights the patients' positive regard for clozapine, despite adverse bodily experiences. Subjective reports are a useful component of outcome measures of drug treatment.
Antipsychotic medication is the cornerstone of symptomatic treatment of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders, with psychosocial approaches as necessary adjuncts. Traditional drug therapy may have limitations in efficacy and bothersome side effects, in both short-term and long-term use (1). Clozapine is an atypical neuroleptic drug that has been shown to improve positive as well as negative symptoms when other neuroleptics have failed to do so, and it is not associated with extrapyramidal side effects or tardive dyskinesia (2).
Studies reporting on the effectiveness of clozapine in long-term use—ranging from one year to 40 years—have focused on clinicians' assessments of changes in symptomatology, side effects, and functioning. Few reports have been published on patients' own subjective experiences with clozapine treatment (3). Although mental health researchers often view such information as "soft data" of little utility, subjective experiences with medication have been shown to be a powerful predictor of compliance (4). Moreover, the unpleasant subjective states that patients associate with medication—neuroleptic dysphoria—may be related to comorbid alcohol and drug abuse (5).
At Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital and its community clinics, our work as specialized care providers for patients with chronic schizophrenic and related disorders serves a catchment population of approximately 1.6 million people in south-central Ontario, Canada. The number of our patients treated with clozapine has been steadily increasing since public funding was begun for this medication in Ontario in 1992.
Although most of these patients showed sufficient objective and functional improvement to justify continued treatment with clozapine, we had no systematic compilation of the patients' subjective experiences with the treatment. Our study objective was to comprehensively survey our patients' own impressions of their clozapine treatment.
We developed a 37-item questionnaire to elicit the subjective responses of patients in a wide variety of somatopsychic domains. The items were drawn from patients' own reports in our clinical encounters with them, from the Manual for the Assessment and Documentation of Psychopathology (6), and from the indications and side effects listed in the product monograph for the drug. The questionnaire was designed so that it could be administered in a clinical setting easily and quickly, in an average of ten minutes, and the data readily gathered and entered into a database.
Patients were asked in face-to-face interviews to identify, for each item, the overall change they noticed since they started taking clozapine. Trained interviewers administered the questionnaire verbally in the patients' natural treatment setting. Each response was rated on a 3-point scale (better, worse, and no difference or unchanged). The frequencies of responses were calculated and tabulated for the 37 items.
The sampling frame for the survey was July to December 1997. Our respondents were recruited from the patient population served by Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario. The eligibility criteria were a diagnosis of chronic schizophrenic or schizoaffective disorder according to DSM-IV criteria and six months or more on stable doses of clozapine. Of 168 possible patients in this target population, ten refused to participate, and 28 were not available during the study period. Of the 130 patients recruited, 100 were outpatients being seen in two community clinics, and 30 were inpatients of the hospital. All subjects provided written informed consent for the survey.
The survey sample consisted of 99 men and 31 women, with a mean±SD age of 38.7±8.7 years (range, 19 years to 67 years). The daily dose of clozapine was 464±158 mg (range, 125 mg to 1,200 mg), and the duration of clozapine treatment was 34.3±22 months (range, seven months to 98 months).
As shown in t1, most of the 130 respondents reported satisfaction with clozapine treatment (especially when compared with past treatments), better quality of life, and an intention to continue using the medication. For the significant target symptoms of treatment with clozapine—thinking, mood, and social and activity levels—the majority of patients reported improvement with the drug.
Among side effects of clozapine treatment, most patients reported a worsening of nocturnal hypersalivation. Substantial numbers reported weight gain and increased constipation, thirst, abdominal pain and bloatedness, urinary difficulties and enuresis, sweating, and unusual movements. However, in most of these categories the majority of patients reported no change.
Improvement in the target symptoms of clozapine therapy is an important consideration in the pharmacological treatment of persons with chronic schizophrenic and schizoaffective disorders. It is notable that clozapine's known sedative effect was not reflected substantially in the survey results related to alertness, energy, and activity level. Thus the rewards—items reported as better—of continued clozapine treatment appear to outweigh the many risks—items reported as worse. These benefits may be attributable directly to the effects of clozapine or indirectly to the psychosocial treatments that clozapine may augment (7).
The strength of our study lies in our direct, wide-ranging questioning of patients to survey their subjective experience of their clozapine treatment. The resulting data have clinical implications and heuristic value. However, this study contains a number of methodologic limitations and sources of bias. Our questionnaire was not tested for reliability and validity. The interviewers were not blind to the treatment condition. There was no control or comparative survey of treatment-responsive patients undergoing long-term treatment with neuroleptics other than clozapine.
A substantial proportion of our respondents, 59 percent, were also taking medications other than clozapine, such as valproate or antidepressants. The reported responses may have been affected by these other medications or by interactions between them and clozapine. Our survey also did not differentiate the study population in terms of adjunctive psychosocial treatments.
Although the reliability and validity of self-report measures in psychiatry may be challenged, patients with schizophrenia have been shown to be similar to physically ill patients in their reporting of quality-of-life items. Such findings point to a certain degree of validity of self-report measures in a schizophrenic population, especially in comparison with affectively disturbed patients (8).
The results of this survey attest to a subjective efficacy of clozapine. Patients directly reported benefit, satisfaction, and intention to continue taking clozapine, despite the side effect of nocturnal hypersalivation for most patients and other adverse bodily side effects for many. Despite the limitations of our study and the biases that self-report measures may contain, patient-derived data of this sort are clinically meaningful (9). Systematic exploration of subjective responses to ongoing pharmacological treatment can be usefully included in the array of routinely used outcome measures.
At the time of this study Dr. Waserman was affiliated with Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, and with McMaster University. He is now head of the division of ambulatory services at Humber River Regional Hospital in Toronto, Ontario. Dr. Criollo is a clinical and research associate at Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital. Send correspondence to Dr. Waserman at Humber River Regional Hospital, Mental Health Programme, 2175 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6M 3Z4 (e-mail, email@example.com).
Ratings by 130 patients assesing change on 37 somatopsychic items after six months or more of clozapine treatment
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A Normandy veteran who narrowly missed being selected for the 1948 London Olympics will be welcoming sports fans from across the world to Greater Manchester for this summer's Olympic events.
Now, 88-year-old Bernard Morgan is encouraging other North West residents to get the Olympic buzz by coming forward to act as ambassadors, welcoming visitors from across the world to Manchester, Trafford and Salford.
Bernard, originally from Longsight, served as a code and cipher operator during the Normandy landings and used to run during his time with the RAF - narrowly missing out on a chance to represent his country to Bill Nankeville, who went on to win a world record.
Bernard, who still cycles four miles a day, worked as an ambassador during the Commonwealth Games, during which he stewarded at Piccadilly train station and gave tours around the city, and is looking forward to donning a uniform again to become the oldest ambassador working in Manchester.
He said: "I was a Manchester lad originally and I like to do anything to help the city do anything it can to promote itself.
"The Olympics will be an excellent advert for Manchester and an excellent advert for the country, and working as an ambassador means you can meet people you wouldn't normally meet and do things you wouldn't normally do."
Meanwhile, Samantha Coates, aged 17 and from Beswick, who is currently Manchester's Volunteer of the Year, and gives 10 hours of her time a week coaching at Manchester Tennis Centre, will also be working as an ambassador during the events.
Ambassadors will welcome visitors to Greater Manchester at the airport and major train stations, will help marshal outside Old Trafford Football Ground and the city centre live sites where people can watch Olympic and Paralympic events.
They will also steward the Olympic Torch Relay and may also help at other large events taking place during the build up to the Olympics such as the Great Manchester Swim in Salford Quays and the NBA event at the MEN Arena.
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MONDAY, Oct. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Experts have long suspected that breast milk may have the power to prevent babies from getting infected with HIV, and new research gives insight into why that might be so.
Researchers say they've discovered a component of breast milk that appears to kill the virus that causes AIDS, potentially preventing some babies from becoming infected by their mothers.
"Even though we have anti-retroviral drugs that can work to prevent mother-to-child transmission, not every pregnant woman is being tested for HIV, and less than 60 percent are receiving the prevention drugs -- particularly in countries with few resources," study senior author Dr. Sallie Permar, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Duke University, said in a university statement. "There is still a need for alternative strategies to prevent mother-to-child transmission, which is why this work is important."
According to UNICEF, an estimated 330,000 children worldwide in 2011 became infected by their mothers during pregnancy or birth.
The protein the researchers pinpointed, known as Tenascin-C or TNC, wasn't previously suspected to have germ-fighting abilities. The researchers reached their conclusions after testing samples of breast milk from uninfected women to see if it could combat HIV strains.
"TNC is a component of the 'extracellular matrix' that is integral to how tissues hold themselves together," Permar said. "This is a protein involved during wound healing, playing a role in tissue repair. It is also known to be important in fetal development, but its reason for being a component of breast milk or its antiviral properties had never been described."
Future research should examine whether the protein works with other components of breast milk to fight HIV, she said.
Dr. Barton Haynes, director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, added: "The discovery of the HIV-inhibiting effect of this common protein in breast milk provides a potential explanation for why nursing infants born to HIV-infected mothers do not become infected more often than they do."
"It also provides support for inducing inhibitory factors in breast milk that might be even more protective, such as antibodies, that would completely protect babies from HIV infection in this setting," Haynes said.
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WMDT 47 NEWS - Labor is called labor for a reason. Giving birth to a baby is serious work. And staying fit prior to the big day can make all the difference leading up to, and during, delivery.
But even knowing this a good number of pregnant women still don't work out. "It doesn't surprise me at all," admits John McCloskey, a personal trainer at World Gym in Salisbury, who helps teach prenatal exercise to pregnant women.
He's referring to numbers from a recent study which shows 3 out of 4 pregnant women in the U.S. do not get enough exercise. "They're not sure if they should be exercising," McCloskey tells WMDT, recalling what some of his clients have told him. "They hear a lot of horror stories where there could be complications because of exercise."
But that is not the case for most women, explains Michell Jordan, midwife and professor of Maternal Child Nursing at Salisbury University, "We always recommend regular exercise during pregnancy." Jordan says the recommendation for women with uncomplicated pregnancies is at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise daily, up to 5 days a week. "It helps keep them in shape. It keeps their heart in shape cardiovascularly. It helps prepare their muscles and keep them ready for the big event. I always tell people you wouldn't go out and run a marathon without practice ahead of time. So they need to keep their bodies ready for the marathon of labor."
On the flip-side of this issue, are people like the woman called the "CrossFit Mom". She recently caused a stir online by posting pictures of herself lifting heavy weights during the last few weeks of her pregnancy. Despite negative backlash, she gave birth to a healthy baby boy in November.
"She was used to that type of exercise," Jordan says of the CrossFit Mom. "She had been doing it for several years before she became pregnant, so there are aspects of it she can continue."
Experts recommend the average woman lift no more than 20 pounds during pregnancy, and anyone who decides to do more than that is essentially taking the risk upon themselves.
Even if you are physically fit and have been exercising regularly for years, it's still recommended that you meet with your doctor to determine if there are other risk factors that might make exercise dangerous for your pregnancy.
If your doctor gives you the green light to get moving, you'll be happy to know recent studies show regular exercise likely reduces the risk of pregnancy complications, such as preclampsia and gestational diabetes. The American Diabetes Association says gestational diabetes affects about 18 percent of pregnancies. Exercise through pregnancy is also believed to shorten the duration of active labor.
Here's what is considered acceptably safe exercise in uncomplicated pregnancies, by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: brisk walking, swimming, cycling, and aerobic classes.
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A Whopper without mayo. I'm serious and thats just my opinion.
google is your friend....put in different stuff with what you remember.
It's my main staple. 1 pound of lean ground beef,cup o' oatmeal,coupla eggs and whatever spices. Mix it all up and you have your protein,carbs and fiber in 1 easy to use meatloaf.
I see that the majority of your posts are of a critical,sarcastic nature.
No, studies have shown it makes no difference. Whatever your comfortable with. I like intermittent fasting. Nothing but coffee during the day and feasting at night.
The people here that want to see her get the shiv or shotgunned in her face are a heck alot more screwed up than Paris. Ya,she's a spoiled brat who deserves 45 days anyways.
You would have to have a mold inspector come out. Take a sample(swab AND an air sample near the problem area. Then you get the test results from a lab. Then you have a report that probably WONT do...
You have to do a swab sample and send it to a lab to know for sure what it is. Black mold means nothing. Could be a relatively common mold or the more dangerous stachybotrys. Regardless, the best...
Water chestnuts are one of the few foods I don't like. Like eating tasteless wafers of nothingness. I wouldnt be surprised if they are seriously lacking in the nutrition department.
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Are you serious? What the hell gym is this? I "maybe" can understand the grunting thing.
I just googled diet swimming and found a bunch of stuff.
I would actually say the V8 is better just comparing it to a tomato. 1 medium tomato only has 1 gram of fiber. So,thats not a big issue. 6 ounces of V8 has 4 times the lycopene than the medium tomato.
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The minute or so before and "Stairway" guitar solo. Still gives me goosebumps after all these years and countless listens. It seems otherworthly and magical.
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Womens Basketball Introduces Class of 2013
LANCASTER, Pa. - Franklin & Marshall women's basketball coach, Ashlee Courter, announced her class of 2013 on Monday. Five players will don the Diplomats' blue and white, joining a cast of nine returning players on F&M's roster.
"I am thrilled with the freshmen class we have coming in," said Courter. "They are an athletic and talented group of basketball players, whose strong knowledge of the game and solid high school experiences immediately provides us with more depth than in previous years."
The Diplomats have gone 36-19 over the past two seasons under Courter, advancing to the Centennial Conference championship tournament in each of those seasons. F&M hosted the 2007-2008 Centennial Championships, falling in the title game.
Alexa Barbush | 5-7 | Point Guard | Trinity (Pa.)
Four-year varsity starter... All-Pennsylvania Third Team selection... Two-time Big 15 choice by the Patriot News... Two-time Mid Penn Conference First Team choice... Two-time First Team All-Sentinel... All-Tournament Selection, Gettysburg Holiday Tournament... Max Prep top 100 in Steals & Assists... 865 Career Points... Double digit scoring average as junior (13.5 ppg) and senior (10.8 ppg)... Team was three-time Eastern Finalist (AA in '07 and '08, AAA in '09)... Squad ranked top 10 in Pennsylvania all four years...
Colleen Bott | 5-9 | Guard/Forward | Villa Walsh Academy (N.J.)
Four-year varsity starter... Team captain as a junior and senior... All-time leading scorer in the Villa Walsh history with 1,320 points... Led 2006-07 team to Northern Hills' first conference championship... Led team to the semifinals of the New Jersey Non-Public B State Basketball Tournament in 2009... 2009 Morris County Senior All-Star... First team all-conference as a sophomore, junior, and senior... First Team Morris County Coaches Association as a sophomore, junior, and senior... Named Villa Walsh's top female athlete for N.J. Women in Sports Honors... Earned team's Most Valuable Player as a senior...
Veronica Kresse | 5-7 | Guard | Quince Orchard (Md.)
Team captain this past season... Junior year helped lead the team to the Maryland 4A West Region Final... Seventh highest scorer in Quince Orchard history...
Michelle "Shelly" Montagna | 5-1 | Point Guard | New Providence (N.J.)
Second most prolific scorer in New Providence's history with 1,342 points... Conference player of the year as a junior; Team won sectional that season... Four-time MVP... Two-time team captain... Third-team All-State as a junior and senior... Team won Mountain Valley Conference each of her final three seasons.
Elizabeth "Liz" Snyder | 5-8 | Guard | Cranford (N.J.)
Averaged 12 ppg and 5 asst. as a senior... All Mountain Valley Conference First Team selection as a junior and senior... All-Union County Third Team choice as a junior and senior... Team captured the Union County championship her freshman year....


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HoopsHype Tayshaun Prince rumors
Executives from multiple teams have been offered these players in trade talks and know that they could be had, according to league sources: O.J. Mayo of the Milwaukee Bucks, Tayshaun Prince of the Memphis Grizzlies, Jeremy Lin of the Houston Rockets and Austin Rivers of the New Orleans Pelicans. It's not a big surprise that these players are available, as their names have surfaced in trade rumors repeatedly over the last year. But executives from multiple teams confirm that they are still on the block and may be traded at some point this offseason, if their respective teams can find a taker. Basketball Insiders
Alex Kennedy: Not a surprise, but Tayshaun Prince is on the block. The Memphis Grizzlies discussed a number of trades involving him, according to source. Twitter @AlexKennedyNBA
Ronald Tillery: Griz still shopping Tayshaun Prince and looking to grab a second-round pick. Twitter @CAGrizBeat
Ryan Wolstat: Don't expect Ariza to Raptors. Don't have the money available bringing him in would take, not to mention Prince possibility. Twitter @WolstatSun
Marc Stein: Hearing: Toronto in hunt to acquire Memphis' No. 22 pick tonight's draft but would have to take back Tayshaun Prince via trade to do so Twitter @ESPNSteinLine
Marc Stein: Potential swap would send John Salmons and No. 59 to Memphis for Tayshaun Prince and No. 22 and put Raptors in range to pick Tyler Ennis Twitter @ESPNSteinLine
Marc Stein: Update to potential Raps/Grizz trade: Deal would more likely send No. 37 with John Salmons to Memphis for Tayshaun Prince and No. 22 pick Twitter @ESPNSteinLine
Mark Deeks: If this goes through, Masai Ujiri will have landed two first round picks in a stacked draft for Andrea Bargnani and John Salmons. Twitter @MarkDeeksNBA
Ronald Tillery: Tayshaun Prince (left ankle sprain) will not return Twitter @CAGrizBeat
David Aldridge: Also "no traction" on rumored Wolves-Grizz deal w/ @Tony Allen and Tayshaun Prince for @Chase Budinger & others. Sides aren't close to anything. Twitter @daldridgetnt
Ken Berger: Memphis and Minnesota have hit a logjam in talks involving Tayshaun Prince and Tony Allen for Chase Budinger and J.J. Barea, sources say. Twitter @KBergCBS
Sam Amick: There's some suspicion on the Memphis side that Minnesota is trying to use this situation to improve its odds in another similar one. Twitter @sam_amick
Ken Berger: The Grizzlies and Timberwolves have gained momentum on a deal that would send Tayshaun Prince and Tony Allen to Minnesota, sources say. Twitter @KBergCBS
Adrian Wojnarowski: Minnesota firm that it wants Tony Allen to join Tayshaun Prince in Budinger-Barea deal, but Memphis resisting - for now, sources tell Yahoo. Twitter @WojYahooNBA
Darren Wolfson: Got a text from someone involved confirming what @KBergCBS has: Memphis & #Twolves making progress on a 2-for-2 -- Prince, Allen, Bud, JJ. Twitter @DarrenWolfson
Ronald Tillery: Griz-Timberwolves are nowhere close to a deal, per source. Memphis won't part with Tony Allen in proposed deal that's been reported Twitter @CAGrizBeat
Memphis wants to include forward Tayshaun Prince into the package and the deal could be expanded to include guard Tony Allen, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Components of a proposed deal are still fluid. Yahoo! Sports
We also know that the Grizzlies would love to get out from under Tayshaun Prince's $7 million contract this year and next. Prince is clearly on the downslope of his game, playing through injuries, and even in the last three games when we started seeing "Tayshaun is finally healthy!" articles and he was able to score in the double digits for the first time this year, he's still not helping the offense as much as he needs to for the starting lineup not to be a smoldering black hole on offense for large stretches. Memphis Flyer
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Dog Eat Dog (U.S. game show)
|Dog Eat Dog
|Game show
|Created by
|David Young
|Presented by
|Brooke Burns
|Country of origin
|United States
|No. of seasons
|No. of episodes
|Matt Kunitz
Stuart Krasnow
Sandra Soczka
Tracy Santomarco
|NBC Studios
Burbank, California
|Running time
|45–48 minutes
|Original channel
|Original run
|June 17, 2002– August 26, 2003
|Related shows
|Dog Eat Dog (UK version)
Dog Eat Dog is an American game show, which originally ran from June 17, 2002, to August 26, 2003. It is loosely based on the UK version of the show by the same name. It is hosted by Brooke Burns, and has contestants compete against each other in physical competitions, trivia, and other assorted games for a prize of $25,000.
Reruns of Dog Eat Dog currently air on the Game Show Network.
Main game[edit]
Six players spend a day together at a training camp before arriving at the studio for the show. A challenge is described, and the players each vote for the one they want to send into it. The player receiving the most votes takes the challenge. Failure to complete it sends the player to the "Dog Pound" and eliminates him/her from play, while completing it allows the player to send one of the people who voted for him/her to the "Dog Pound."
Four challenges are played in this manner. If a tie vote occurs on the first one, a player is chosen at random to break it; on all subsequent challenges, the last player eliminated acts as the tiebreaker. The last two players compete in a fifth, head-to-head challenge, such as Fish Throwing and Wall Climbing, with the winner being officially declared that night's "Top Dog" and the loser going to the "Dog Pound". The "Top Dog" then faces the other five players in a trivia challenge in which $25,000 is awarded to the winning side.
These are some of the reoccurring challenges that appeared on the show. (NOTE: Some of these challenges may appear only once in an episode.)
Aerial Bronco: The contestant must stay on a mechanical bucking bronco located high above the stage while answering 5 questions correctly before he/she falls off. Brooke will name U.S. states while the contestant must name the capital of the U.S. states in order to win. This challenge was only won once.
Aerial Obstacle Course: The contestant must climb a set of cargo nets while swinging across a set of metal rings in order to grab a flag before the nets/rings starts dropping off every 30 seconds as he/she goes or if the contestant falls off one of the nets or rings, then he/she lost the challenge, which happened once. This challenge was won twice.
Archery Challenge: Facing off against archery expert Claudia Guglielmo, (who uses a bow & arrow with her feet) in a best of five contest. Whoever hits the most targets wins the challenge. This challenge was only won once.
Beat The Shark: While facing billiards expert Dave Pearson in a game of pool, the contestant must sink four balls in less time than Dave, who has to clear two full tables in less than 30 seconds, in order to win the challenge.
Bottle Opening Challenge: While facing Ivan the human bottle opener, the contestant must open 30 bottles with a bottle opener before Ivan opens 60 bottles with his teeth in order to win the challenge. This challenge was won once.
Bungee Claw: The contestant would be hung from their ankles, and would be dived in the tank, and must grab four targets within three attempts to win. This challenge was won twice.
Bungee Foot Hang: The contestant must hang by his or her feet on a bungee and guess five out of ten morphed celebrity faces. In the head-to-head challenge, which didn't included guessing morphed faces, the final two contestants would hang above the tank. After one minute elapses, it would begin to rain. After two minutes elapse, the bungee would drop closer to the tank, although the contestants were not notified of this. Whoever holds on longer wins.
Bungee Ring Grab: Being placed on the platform that would lower into the tank, the contestant would pull off their rip cord after they were was completely underwater, and the platform had stopped. Once they do this, they would shoot up to a plethora of rings high above. The contestant is given three attempts to attain four rings.
Cargo Climb: The contestant must climb four across cargo nets hanging above the stage and pull all four flags in four minutes. Once the person pulls the flag, the net would swing to the next one, allowing access to climb the next one.
Celebrity High School Yearbook: The contestant has to guess five celebrities from a high school yearbook. No one was able to complete the challenge.
Celebrity Three-Way: Similar to the short-lived 2001 USA Network game show Smush and Wheel of Fortune's before and after category, the contestant must find one common name shared by two different celebrities (e.g., Matt "Damon" Wayans). If the contestant solves all 15 puzzles in two minutes then he/she wins. Also, the contestant is allowed to pass at any time if he/she gets stuck on a puzzle. This challenge was only won once.
Crate Drop: Four crates are located above the stage. The contestant had to climb each crate, swing to next, grab a flag, which would crash the crate they previously climbed, and continue along with all the others. No one was able to get pass the third crate. The contestant would have two-and-a-half minutes, later three minutes, to complete the challenge, although it never was won.
Downward Dog: This challenge involved one of the contestants competing against Dreamer, a black lab who happens to be the smartest dog in the world. Brooke would read a dog trivia question that had a true-or-false answer. When the signal is given, the contestant and Dreamer would dive underwater and retrieve an answer bone of what they think is the correct answer. Whoever came out of the water first and have the answer correct would get a point. The first to get three correct answers wins.
Drag Kings: In a lineup of seven people, one must pick out who they think is a real man. The other six people are biologically female. This challenge was shown and lost once.
Earthquake Island: The contestant must carry two flags to the top of a giant, metal structure that shakes the entire time within a matter of two minutes. No one completed the challenge.
Flush Out Crawl: Within three minutes, the contestant had to try to crawl through two tubes, grab one of three rings from each one, and send it underwater in each basket in order to succeed. In the head-to-head challenge, whoever gets two rings from their tube wins.
The Fuse: In two minutes, the contestant must climb a rope and grab a red flag in order to win the challenge before the fuse burns to the top and he/she falls into the tank. This challenge was never won.
Glacier Run: The contestant has three minutes to run across styrofoam glaciers in the water and have to grab eight flags before the timer runs out. Also, the glaciers tip easily. This challenge was only won once.
Glass Climbing Wall: The contestant must get a key and open the lock, then get to the other side of the wall and do the same thing. If the conestant fails, hundreds of gallons of water are dumped, making a big splash. In the head-to-head challenge, whoever gets to the top of the wall and opens the lock first gets the other contestant to dump gallons of water, making a big splash, too!
Hang In There: In this head-to-head challenge, the contestants would be lifted and holding from handle bars above the tank. They will both hold on as long as they can while it rains (shown in later episodes). The first person to drop loses and their opponent is Top Dog.
He or She: Out of six or seven people, the contestant must select the real woman from the drag queens. This challenge also had a variant where the contestant had to select the bearded woman. Due to the high difficulty of the challenge, it was only won once.
The Hurricane: The contestant must climb a palm tree and face the hurricane (rain storm) by grabbing three coconuts and putting them in a basket within three minutes. In the head-to-head challenge, which happened once, whoever gets three coconuts first wins.
Ice Breaker: The contestant has to break open three blocks of ice in order to reveal hidden boxes of various shapes, a square, a circle, and a triangle, then he/she must take the boxes underwater and insert them into the larger boxes in three minutes, later three-and-a-half minutes. This challenge was never won.
Jump and Grab: In this challenge, the contestant climbs up a ladder to a platform. Brooke would give them five trivia questions they had to try to answer. After every answer to the question, he/she must jump off from that platform and grab a ring within five attempts. If the contestant answers the question right, the ring would move a little closer to the contestant. If he/she answers it wrong, the ring stays where it is.
Ladder Wheel: In two minutes, the contestant must climb around a large, hanging wheel and retrieve the flag without falling off. This challenge was only won once.
Leak in the Tank: In this challenge, the tank is filled with bubbles and is wavy across the area. Under the water are four valves the contestant must turn off. To win, the contestant has to turn all four valves completely off within the allotted two minutes.
Leap of Faith: The contestant would take a high jump from a platform from the top on land on a square target base. There were circular spots locating 10 (in the middle), 20 (down), or 30 (up) points. He/she is given only three tries to accumulate 50 points. If they land on two targets, the person would get points for the higher value base they stepped on. This challenge was only won twice.
Lift Off: Within two-and-a-half minutes, the contestant must hold on to a rope, which would lift them up to a flag high above the tank. While it would rain, the contestant had to grab five flags in order to win. If they fall off while trying to grab it, the contestant may try again. Although, if he/she misses the same flag again, they would lose the challenge.
Little Genius: The contestant plays a trivia game against a child prodigy. First one to get five trivia answers correct would win. No one completed the challenge.
Model Match-Up: Only appearing once, the contestant had to match five former models with their photographs. If they fail the first time, another attempt is given to contestant. If they fail again, the contestant would lose.
Mutant Celebrity: A scrambled face of a celebrity is shown, and the contestant has to guess all five celebrities to win the challenge, which was won once.
Not So Fast, My Friend: Contestants had to guess which college football teams Lee Corso picked to win in 5 random previous predictions he made. If the contestant got 3 out of 5 correct, they would win. This challenge wasn't won.
Out on a Limb: The contestant had to run through a spinning x-shaped contraption within one and a half minutes or two minutes, collecting eight flags, and make it back to the middle before time ran out. The blue flags had to be collected before the red flags. This challenge was won once.
Over and Under: The contestant had two minutes to go under a roped water wheel (over in their first try) and over it and jump from the top and get five flags. The challenge was very difficult and wasn't won at all.
Paddle Wheel: In this head-to-head challenge, the contestants run on a paddle wheel until one contestant falls into the tank and loses the game.
Paddle Wheel Trivia: While walking on the paddle wheel, the contestant has to answer ten questions correctly before falling into the tank. No one completed the challenge.
Pandora's Box: The contestant gets five (three originally) tennis balls from the top of the tank and puts them in a box within two minutes. If the contestant puts the balls in the box within the two-minute period then he/she wins. This challenge was only won once.
The Perfect Storm: In this challenge, the contestant must climb on a cargo net and grabs all seven flags within two and a half minutes to win. This challenge was won twice and lost once.
Pendulum Swing: Hooked up to a large pendulum-like device, the contestant must swing at a full 360 degrees in either direction within two minutes using only their own strength and momentum to move the pendulum within a two minute period. This challenge was rarely won.
Plexiglass Hang: In this head-to-head challenge, each contestant would hang on to piece of plexiglass that would rise them above the tank and turn it to a vertical position. They would also be hanging in cold rain during that time. Whoever drops into the water first loses.
Plug The Pipes: In this challenge, the contestants must plug all four pipes that spew out water from a machine to win. No one completed the challenge.
Pole Sway: The contestant must climb atop of a tower and swing it around to grab four out of seven flags in two minutes in order to win. Due to its difficulty, no one completed the challenge.
Pool Poles: This head-to-head challenge had the final two contestants to balance on two pole pedestals protruding the tank. After five minutes elapse, (reduced to two minutes in the next season), it would begin to rain. The contestant who falls off first ends up in the Dog Pound, and the other contestant is Top Dog.
Rain, Rain Go Away: While in the rain, the contestant must walk across a balance beam in order to retrieve two red flags at the end of the beam, then they must walk back with the flags in one minute without falling off the beam or failing to make it in time.
Raise The Buoy: The contestant must unlocks two buoys using two color-coded keys within three minutes to win. In the head-to-head challenge, whoever unlocks the buoy first wins.
Ratchet Roulette: In a challenge similar to the electronic game "Simon," the contestant is shown a board with a series of lights, which flash in a certain sequence. The contestant must use a series of buttons to make the correct light pattern. The player is given five attempts to do it. Each unsuccessful attempt causes the player, who is attached to a bungee cord, to fall into the tank. This challenge was won twice.
Rope Bridge: The contestant must attach one flag from a cylinder, clip to side of the capsule, four times before the contestant falls off the bridge. This challenge was won twice.
Rope Ladder: Two rope ladders are hanging in the tank in this head-to-head challenge. Each contestant will climb to the top of the ladder to retrieve a flag. First contestant that does grab the flag wins and is Top Dog. Also, once the person grabs the flag, their opponent's ladder will drop down into the tank.
Sexy Catwalk/Runway: While in high heels, the contestant must walk across a balance beam in order to retrieve a purse at the end of the beam, then walk back to the starting point with their purse without falling into the tank. The contestant had one attempt at the challenge, although in the next season, the contestant was allowed a second attempt. No one completed the challenge.
Sliding-Floor Trivia: The contestant answers trivia questions while standing on two Plexiglas panels situated above the tank. Each incorrect answer causes the panel to slide apart. The stunt ends when either ten correct answers have been given, which was won once, or the contestant falls into the tank, which happened twice.
Story Teller: Only appeared in the Playboy special. The contestant must listen to a fast talking woman read a story about the history of Playboy Magazine, then Brooke asks ten questions about it. Five points were required to win the challenge, which was won.
Strip Darts/Golf/Hangman/Quarterback: The contestant attempts to complete a given objective (such as throwing a football through a target) while being required to remove one article of clothing for each football. The game ends when the contestant either completes the task, elects to quit, or fails the challenge completely naked. While naked, contestants are not allowed to cover their private areas; although their private parts are censored on TV, they are on display for the live studio audience and other contestants. All strip games were discontinued in the second season.
In Strip Darts: The contestant attempts to score 30 points on a modified dartboard. Different sections earns 0-10 points, and the bull's-eye scores 20 points. Each dart costs the contestant one article of clothing.
In Strip Golf: The contestant attempts to putt a golf ball into a hole on a putting green. Each shot costs the contestant one article of clothing and allows the player to move a little closer. If the contestant is completely naked, he/she gets to advance to the "naked line," just feet from the hole.
In Strip Hangman: contestants play the classic game of hangman. Every time they guess a wrong letter or repeat an earlier chosen letter, they must remove an article of clothing.
In Strip Quarterback: The contestant attempts to throw two footballs through a hole in a tower. Each football costs the contestant one article of clothing.
When a contestant has one article of clothing remaining, Brooke sometimes offers two last-shot attempts (e.g., two darts) in exchange for the last piece of clothing (only in Darts and Quarterback). In Strip Golf, the player moves up to the Naked Line at the end. Of the seven contestants who played strip games, two ended up completely naked (both lost), one woman ended up topless (and won), and the others quit before they were completely naked.
Swing Rings: The contestant has to cross a monkey bar like course and grab the flag at the end. This challenge was only won once.
Tear Factor: The contestant must shed a tear in 90 seconds without using their hands. No one completed the challenge.
Thrown For A Loop: In this head-to-head challenge seen only once, the final two contestants would hang on a limb on a machine that would spin around numerously. It would spin faster the longer they would hold on. The contestant who lets go first would lose, and their opponent wins.
Treadmill Trivia: The contestant runs on a treadmill suspended high above the tank. The treadmill starts at speed level one while Brooke asks a series of general-knowledge questions. Each incorrect answer increases the treadmill speed by one level (to a maximum of ten). (One contestant managed to run on the treadmill at the maximum speed and fell off while getting only 5 of the required answers.) Ten correct answers wins the challenge, which was done twice. One contestant fell off the treadmill.
Trivia In The Tank: In the head-to-head challenge, Brooke asks a question, and the contestants swim to get the answer right. The first one to get the answer gets a point. The first to get three points is the winner.
Underwater Weight Walk: In two minutes, the contestant must carry 80 pounds of weight across a steel beam and cross the red line to win. The contestant was allowed to come up for air whenever necessary. This challenge was rarely won.
Vomit Comet: While being strapped to a spinning metal contraption, the contestant must try to answer how many vowels are in each word or names. If the contestant can get eight words correct in 90 seconds he/she wins the challenge, which was won once.
Water Beam: There were several variants of this challenge, but the common goal was to travel from one end of a beam suspended over water to the other, collect an item, then return to the starting line. If the person fell off, he or she would get another chance, but if they fall again, that person loses the challenge. This was won at least once.
Water Tubes: In this challenge, the contestant has to get all four rings from four tubes in three minutes. In the head-to-head challenge, whoever gets three rings from their three tubes first wins.
Wedge and Tilt: Brooke would ask trivia questions while the contestant was in a hexagon shaped box. The contestant had to get 10 right to win. Every time they got one wrong, the box would lean forward toward the tank. If they fall in, the contestant would lose.
Final Challenge[edit]
The previously determined "Top Dog" faces the five members of the "Dog Pound." A category is shown, like Music, Food and Drink, Movies, Business, Sports, Famous People, Politics, History, Animals, Fashion, Television, Celebrities, Education, Medicine, Video Games/Games, Geography, Transportation, Theater, and more, and the Top Dog chooses a member of the Dog Pound who they think cannot answer a question in that category. Each contestant can be chosen only once, which means that once the Top Dog picks someone, they can not pick them again. If the Dog Pound member answers correctly, the Dog Pound scores a point; if not, the Top Dog scores a point. The first side to score three points wins the game and $25,000 (the five Dog Pound members receiving a divided $5,000 each if they win).
In the show's first season, a contestant had to be hospitalized after falling unconscious during a challenge where he had to hold his breath underwater.[1][2] The contestant sued NBC, claiming that the mechanism failed and caused him brain damage.[3] The episode continues to run in syndication on GSN.
- ^ "Game show gives contestant injury". Southeast Missourian. 2002-03-28.
- ^ "NBC's 'Dog Eat Dog' is worth a longer run". Seattle PI. 2002-06-16.
- ^ RealityTvWorld: Dog Eat Dog


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Advertisers on Facebook will have some new toys to play with "in the coming weeks," as the social network announced that brands running video ads will be able to choose video views as an objective for their campaigns, as well as take advantage of two solutions to direct Facebook users to additional content, and all advertisers will be able to plan their campaigns using the traditional broadcast model of reach and frequency.
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Regardless every time an event happens, the call for more restrictions from the media and the left (oh right, they are one in the same) is deafening.
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Should you rent out a room?
More and more financially pressed homeowners are taking in lodgers for the extra income, but they need to know how to avoid potential problems.
In checking old census records, I discovered something interesting: My relatives in the 1800s and early 1900s often had boarders in their homes. It wasn't uncommon for working- and middle-class families to rent out rooms to help make ends meet.
And that trend may be making a comeback. The number of unrelated adults living in someone else's home jumped 12% between 2008 and 2010, to 7.3 million, the Census Bureau says. That includes roommates sharing rentals as well as adults renting out rooms in other people's homes.
A troubled economy and high unemployment are causing more people to delay starting households of their own, census experts say. The same causes are leading strapped homeowners to consider opening their doors to lodgers.
Stephen, one of my Facebook fans, recently rented out a room in his home for the first time.
"The decision was based purely on financial reasons," he wrote. "It was easier to bring someone into my home than to uproot an entire house and look for something smaller."
Taking in lodgers works out well for many. Michael Barton, 22, of Lincoln, Neb., rents bedrooms in his home to two other young guys.
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"I get $1,050 a month in cash while my (mortgage) payment is only $710," Barton wrote on my Facebook page. "This arrangement is perfect as I pay nothing to live essentially as they cover my payment and utilities."
Kelly McCarron Sisk of Forest Lake, Minn., has rented out a room in her home for 15 years.
"They've always been good friends," Sisk said. "I've never rented to a stranger. I've never advertised; a friend has always come up to me and asked when they know someone is moving out."
Some people buy a home knowing that they'll have roommates to help pay the cost. That's what my friend Rachel did when she bought her first home in San Francisco.
"I was 20-something and single, but I knew a two-bedroom would be a better investment, so I made sure it was a place I could afford alone -- but could comfortably share with a roommate," Rachel wrote. "In my case, that meant comfortable public space (living room + eat-in kitchen), and an extra half-bath -- not enough to have us each get our own bath, but it made a huge difference to have just the second space."
Of course, not all rentals end well.
"After the last renter we had, we will never do this again!!!" one woman wrote of a boarder who played Second Life nonstop. "She wouldn't shower for three weeks at a time (and) she never left the house ONCE in three months of living with us!"
Another one-time landlord rented a room to a friend of her mother's, only to discover the woman had limpetlike tendencies.
"She felt that any time we had a family event, outing, going out to eat, it automatically included her . . . which no, not always," the woman wrote. "She felt entitled to eat any food in the house although we thought we had made it clear she had to provide her own."
The family might have overlooked the boarder's flaws, but then the boarder opted to buy holiday presents rather than pay her rent.
"She felt it more important to buy her daughter (an adult) some expensive Christmas gifts and clothes, complain about how much she HAD to spend, and therefore couldn't afford to pay us her rent . . . not one dime!"
If you're considering renting out a room, you want to make sure the experience is positive for your household as well as your pocketbook. Here's some advice from legal and tax experts, as well as from those who have done it.
Know the law
You'll want to research landlord-tenant laws in your area so you understand your rights and responsibilities. You'll find a guide to the states' laws on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's website. Boarders or lodgers renting a room in a home may be treated slightly differently from a typical tenant but often have many of the same rights. Violating those can lead to lawsuits. Local zoning laws also may limit the number of nonrelated adults who can live in your home. Check with your city hall or county administrator.
Tap your social networks first
Renting to a friend, or a friend of a friend, doesn't guarantee against disaster. But several people who have experiencing renting out rooms said they were more comfortable renting to people they knew or who knew people they knew.
"All my roommates were friends of friends," Rachel wrote. "Nowadays I'd use Facebook; then it was just a matter of sending a mass email to friends."
Figure out what to charge
As with a stand-alone apartment or house, the rent you can command depends on what you're offering and the location of your home. For example, you can charge more for a large room with a separate entrance and bath in a great neighborhood than a closet-sized space with a shared bathroom in a run-down area. Trolling Craigslist for "rooms & shares" should give you some idea of going rates. So, too, can a visit to a local college's housing department, where rooms might be advertised.
Talking with other local landlords can give you an idea of what kind of security deposit to charge and whether asking for first and last month's rent upfront is standard practice in your area.
Screen your prospective lodgers
Getting rid of a bad tenant is painful for any landlord. Imagine the stress if the person you're trying to shed is living in your own home.
"Screen carefully," advises Eva Rosenberg, a tax pro who has several clients who rent rooms in their homes. "It can take 90 days to evict someone, and they could be living with you the whole time."
One woman who rents out her converted garage advises investing time in phone interviews first.
"I never let them just come over to see it until I thoroughly interview on the phone. If they are too anxious and don't want to give me answers to my questions, they don't get to come and see it," she said. "I like to find out about them, see if we have similar lifestyles; that's always best when living with strangers. Find out how they live, what they do for fun, what their work ethics are. I will spend a half hour interviewing."
You'll want to get, and check, references from landlords and employers. You also may want to commission background and credit checks.
Good boundaries make good boarders
You'll need to come up with a set of house rules that cover common areas of conflict. Is smoking allowed? How about pets? What parts of the house are off-limits, and which are shared? Are utilities included, and can the lodger change the thermostat? How will meals be handled? Can the lodger cook and consume meals in her room? How about guests, including overnight guests? Where should the lodger park? What hours are set aside as "quiet time"?
And don't rely on verbal agreements, advises Manda Rae of The Colony, Texas, who rented two of her three bedrooms before she had a family and then rented a room to her sister in exchange for child care.
"The biggest thing, even with my sister, was to have EVERYTHING in writing. Think of every possible annoyance or potential for conflict and put it in the 'roommate agreement.' That way there is no pressure on you as a landlord when something comes up because both parties have agreed and signed the contract."
Take care of your taxes
Rental income is taxable income, but you can offset that by deducting a portion of your housing costs, said Rosenberg, who is also known as Tax Mama.
First, determine how much square footage is exclusively for the lodger's use (the size of the room and any other areas that are for his or her use alone). Then measure the size of any shared areas.
"Divide the shared areas by the number of people sharing the areas," Rosenberg said. For example, three family members plus one tenant means you divide the shared area by four.
"Add one-quarter of the shared area to the tenant's exclusive area. Divide the total rental area by the total square footage of the house."
If the lodger's rental area is 15% of the house, you can deduct 15% of home-related costs such as:
- Mortgage interest
- Property tax
- Insurance
- Utilities
- Maintenance and repairs
- Janitorial work
- Pool service
- Gardening work
- Cable TV
- Alarm service
You can deduct all the cost of any expense for the tenant's benefit, such as painting the room or fixing anything he or she broke.
You'll also take depreciation on 15% of your home's value -- "just the building, not the land," Rosenberg advised. This depreciation can create some complications when you sell your home, because it reduces the amount of profit you can take tax-free from your home. For full details, talk to a tax professional.
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