Show 2C Saturday Jahuary Home & Family 26 2002 Maintenance tips Fill the gas tank with fresh gasoline Gas from last year or even from this summer can cause starting problems Also change the oil before every season - it promotes long engine life Install a new spark plug every year An old plug can be the root behind starting problems Check the belts: Just like your automobile belts can become brittle and worn ' Check the scraper bar: A scraper bar is underneath the snow thrower and helps scoop snow into the machine A worn or missing scraper bar means less efficient snow removal Try vegetable oil spray on the inside of the impeller chute to help prevent clogs Coat the inside of the snow thrower with the lubricating spray Wet packed snow will slide right off and you’ll have fewer problems with clogging - Toro Company snow-throw- Mind From 1C remission” he said “It is not at all the disease that people thought it was decades ago” Raquel E Gur director of neuropsychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine’s Schizophrenia Research Center said more than half of the nonviolent individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia eventually function normally with the help of medication therapy and a strong support system The view from within But these “mainstreamers” have received almost no attention in the mass media as they are overshadowed by images of deranged criminals Goldsman and director Howard cite films such as “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991) and “Primal Fear” (1996) about violent mentally ill people as examples of the direction they didn’t want their film to take As Goldsman put it they wanted to avoid “taking audiences to the zoo” “That’s where there’s the mentally ill person and then there’s the healthy surrogate pointing at the mentally ill person and we get to watch” he said “We wanted this movie to be from the point of view of the person with the disease so we couldn’t objectify them We didn’t want the safe island of having the normal person leading us through” Audiences of “A Beautiful Mind” are placed squarely within Nash’s distorted reality “We created a delusional system that was really intact because that’s the way it feels - totally intact and fluid” Goldsman said For the sake of accurately portraying that “system” Howard sacrificed significant parts of Nash’s biography Standard-Examin- Blow throw it quite a ways You can bury your neighbor’s car” From 1C Not only will this cut down on time O’Connor said it will also give an even distribution of snow on each side of the driveway “It doesn’t do any good to blow the snow out in the street because they are just going to push it back into your driveway” O’Connor said He joked that it might not improve neighbor relations to blow it into the next-doo- r yard either But some snow throwers do have the power to do that “If you get powder you can Snow-throw- er Critics say the result is a film that is often more cheery than comprehensive with long stretches of Nash’s depression and a lengthy separation from his wife completely excised Even the diagnosis of one of Nash’s sons with schizophrenia is ignored But Nasar said her book was merely the basis for the movie and Howard did not have to make “a public service announcement” Nasar a former New York Times staff writer who now teaches at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism said even with Howard’s artistic license the film has an essential truth “There are no villains There’s no abusive father No screaming wife No one caused it That’s so sophisticated” Nasar said of the film “For a long time psychia- trists believed you never did recover That was an artifact of institutionalizations That was before drugs People ended up in hospitals and they didn’t Howard’s research Although a snow thrower can save on backaches and possibly heart attacks it doesn’t come without risk The Consumer Product Safety Commission reports that snow throwers are the cause of finger amputations among consumer products “We see a fair number of hand injuries with snow blowers” said Dr Joan Balcombe with the emergency room at Ogfourth-leadin- g den Regional Medical Center “It’s not insignificant” About 12 people this season But Lauder’s carefully constructed world fell apart after his father died in 1997 and he went off his medication The following year he murdered his pregnant fiancee and was sentenced in July 2000 to a psychiatric institution He was 37 years old “I learned a lot through my conversations with him and that specific journey” Howard said of Lauder’s ability to train himself to function in spite of his delusions - and the fragility of that arrange- ment By the time Howard read Goldsman’s screenplay he was eager to refute mythology about the disease He sent the screenplay to experts “for a vetting” He hired a psychiatric consultant to come to the set He also paid many impromptu visits to his neighbor a psychiatrist pop-cultu- Confronting delusions Howard recognized similarities irf how Lauder and Nash confronted delusions A trained mathematician Nash developed the game theory of economics in his doctoral thesis But in 1959 when he was 31 he had a complete breakdown He underwent intensive rounds of insulin shock treatments - a 27-pa- Howard became fascinated with genius and mental illness several years ago when he got to know Yale Law professor Michael Lauder who was diagnosed with schizophrenia in treatment - and therapy durhis early 20s (About 1 percent ing a five- - to eight-mont- h commitment to New Jersey of the US population has mental institutions He was been diagnosed with the disreleased under orders to conease and men often exhibit tinue treatments of antipsysymptoms earlier than womchotic drugs but they en experts say) numbed his senses Lauder credited medicaThe cure seemed almost as tions and a personal strategy bad as the disease and Nash with the ability to live in conwas determined to logically cert with his vivid delusions “solve” the problem of his de“He viewed life as a televibilitating illness sion screen and he would move his delusional lives to Through sheer discipline the corners of the screen but Nash began to ignore the cadre of hallucinations that had he would have up to four halrun his life for a decade He lucinations going at the same worked around them just as time” Howard said “He beLauder had gan to trust what was in the “I began to intellectually center screen was real” since-discredit- safety reject some of the have had serious enough injuries that surgery was needed Balcombe said most of the injuries happen because people put their hands in the machine “A lot of people don’t realize that even turning the snow blower off doesn’t prevent the injury” she said “As the snow clears there is still enough tension left in the blade that when the snow is released the blade whips around and cuts your fin- gers” O’Connor said Home Depot and other places that rent or sell snow throwers recommend only doing maintenance on a snow thrower that is turned off That includes adding fuel and remov- - delilsional-l- y influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation” Nash wrote in a 1994 biographical essay In the film Crowe describes the strategy as “a diet of the mind” A caution Nash’s approach came at a time when the pharmaceutical industry was coming out with more effective drugs in which the side effects were milder than those he had initially been placed on Thousands of those diagnosed with the disease bene- er ing clogs The Toro Company a leading manufacturer of snow throwers also warns: Never use your hand to remove a clog Instead turn the engine off and use a broom handle or shovel handle to unclog the snow or ice In addition to the lOS) amputations that the Consumer Product Safety Commission reported last year an estimated 5320 people were treated at hospital emergency rooms for injuries associated with snow throwers “People just need to make sure they are using care when dealing with their snow blowers” Balcombe said Help at Home This listing provides information on events of interest to the public on home and family issues Submit items in writing deadline is noon Tuesday before publication WISEQUACKERS preschool program registration through Monday for February classes am Tuesdays and Thursdays For children age plus parent $20 plus $5 materials fee Contact Clearfield City Parks and Recreation 55 S State St 3-- 5 month Sunday library hours 9 am to 6:45 pm To 0 or for schedule information are 378-620- wwwlibbyuedudeptuvrfhc DIVORCECARE SEMINAR SUPPORT GROUP 9 pm Tuesdays room N-- 3 First Assembly of God 2352 E Hwy 193 Layton New class beginning Feb 5 Cost $10 Nondenominational involves 0 biblical teachings DADS 101 classes at Hill Air Force Base for military and civilian personnel 10 am to noon on Wednesdays 7-- 776-407- fited from these drugs starting in the 1970s In one study Nasar said as UTAH VALLEY many as 20 percent of those FAMILY REGIONAL individuals showed significant HISTORY CENTER 2250 the time improvement by Harold B Lee Library they had reached their 50s Brigham Young University The book about Nash asProvo will hold library tours serts that his refusal to take search orientation any drugs after family classes and genealogy classes the 1970s may have saved for mature groups the second him from developing serious and fourth Sundays of each side effects BILINGUAL DISCOVERY TIME FOR CHILDREN 10:30 am Saturdays Weber County Library 2464 Jefferson Ogden For age 6 “I would be cautious about that” Stephen K Baker clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina “It can play into the denial and the idea that they can do it on The 525-279- 0 7 and under parents encouraged to attend also Free (English 627-691- 627-691- 5 4 (Spanish) Standard-Examin- er Recipe Exchange Cookbook! their own” Most schizophrenic patients are not geniuses Baker noted and Nash had other advantages as well The onset of his illness was relatively late and acute He also had an established career and a — port network The hard reality for most schizophrenics is that without medication they are two to four times as likely to suffer relapse Baker said Featuring TO Recipe Exchanges From 2001 Honey Mushrooms Cinnamon Peppers Corn Jelly And More! 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