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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Average Rating: 6.1/10
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A frantic and occasional funny adaptation of Douglas Adams' novel. However, it may have those unfamiliar with the source material scratching their heads.
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A frantic and occasional funny adaptation of Douglas Adams' novel. However, it may have those unfamiliar with the source material scratching their heads.
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Douglas Adams' oft-adapted tale of an normal guy making his way through the universe (it's already been presented as a novel, a radio serial, a television series, and a comic book) finally makes its way to the big screen in this endearingly goofy sci-fi comedy. Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) is a very ordinary man who is having a truly unusual day -- after discovering that one of his best friends, Ford Prefect (Mos Def), is actually an alien, Ford tells him that the planet Earth is going to be
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Adams would be pleased.
The problem is not that the film debases the book but that movies themselves are too capacious a home for such comedy, with its tea-steeped English musings and its love of bitty, tangential gags.
[It has] visual goofiness and flights of thespian bravura.
[The movie] captures the quizzical, quasi-spiritual nature of [Adams'] book and manages to nail a surprising number of his dry little jokes, even some that you think could work only on the page.
Although Hitchhiker starts out a total gas, it doesn't have enough fuel to sustain the ride, ultimately amounting to little more than some amusing gags strung together in search of a story.
Galaxy is good enough to keep you rooting for it, but the mode of transport needs fresher points and plugs.
Fans of the book will probably be a little disappointed, but anyone encountering the Hitchhiker's Guide for the first time should be thoroughly entertained. It is very strange and very funny in a way that Adams' work exemplified.
"The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" is an enjoyable sci-fi romp with a strong twist of self-effacing British raillery that children of all ages will get a charge from.
It's hard to dislike a movie in which one of the heroes gets brain power from lemon juice.
Considering all the things that could have gone wrong in the making of this picture, it's a minor miracle that it turned out as well as it did.
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A lot of fun and something different, poised to reach a broader audience with its silly and spirited tour of space -- which is vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big, by the way.
"Mostly Unnecessary."
Devotees of the original stories are going to be frustrated that their favorite bits have been truncated or excised outright, while newbies will likely wonder what all the fuss has been about these last few decades.
Adams fans will have to content themselves with the fact that, while the film is not perfect, it is indeed the best they could realistically have hoped for.
Cute, science-fiction adventure that has inspired moments. Just not enough of them.
Given this fan's worst fears, The Hitchhiker's Guide is a minor pleasant surprise
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On the grand scale of adaptations, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy falls...closer to Lord of the Rings than it does The Shining, or I, Robot.
For all its huge sets, high-tech glitz, and CGI effects, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fails to capture the deadpan drollness of the Adams novels
The world (the Universe, and Everything) is divided into fans of Douglas Adams, and those who have never read anything by the man
This film is a pleasant experience but a throwaway one. It is hard to be harsh on a film with as many smiles as this one. For many of us the jokes will be just too familiar.
...character interactions and relationships have been jettisoned in favor of wild gesticulations, frantic emoting and a heap of commotion.
I'll never be able to figure out how they can turn words like "go" and "no" into two-syllable words.
The big problem with Hitchhiker, and it is a crucial one, is that the middle section of the film really isn't that interesting.
Even those who love British humor (a la Monty Python) will find the script tedious and unimaginative.
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So today I reinstalled Windows, same computer just different new identity, so nothing recognizes it. Installing all of my other programs I had no problem. Even Maya worked just by entering the serial and product keys, but Photoshop is asking for an instal disc. Obviously I don't have one if I bought and downloaded it straight from the Adobe site. Need a fix for this.
Hi Syv Le Fore't,
Did you download the version using this link? http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=photoshop
Can you provide us with more info about the source of your current installer?
The issue can be of the download media. You can follow the steps listed at http://forums.adobe.com/thread/981369 to initiate a direct download else Create a new admin account and try to install.
Well since I had reinstalled windows, I backed up a lot of files to my phone. (SD card on it) I came to Adobe.com and redownloaded PS CS5.1 from the site via, "My Orders > Alt Download > File 1+2" I did this the same way when I first installed it. I've got no problem entering the Serial Key, but once the installer reaches the instal part it requests the CS5.1 Disc. Like I said I don't have because I bought PS as a download.
And no Preran. I didn't use that link. I never downloaded a trial copy. I bought a full product from having nothing previously.


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The same consultant that helped establish a regional power-purchasing program for electricity is gauging interest in a similar program for natural gas. Peoria Public Radio's Alex Rusciano reports:
Charles de Casteja is the Managing Partner of Good Energy. He says the company is working with the Illinois Commerce Commission to put a referendum on next year's spring ballot for a new gas-purchasing program:"First of all it would be aggregated-purchasing, leverage. Contract terms, we were able to put a lot of really amazing contract terms unto the municipal electricity contracts. Really the education around products, perhaps, in natural gas, we would have more that just fixed-price products. We would have savings," de Casteja says.
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Daniela Battaglia
Daniela Battaglia is currently Livestock Production Officer in the Animal Production and Health Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Within the organization she is responsible for the ctivities in support of Animal Welfare. Prior to joining the FAO in 2001, Daniela worked for nine years for the European Commission (Directorates-General evelopment, Directorates-General External Relations and the Europe-Aid Co-operation Office). During that period, she was involved in a wide range of activities and co-operation programmes and projects in the fields of animal production and health; livestock and rural development, mainly in Latin America, North Africa and the Middle East. Daniela has also worked for some years in the field of livestock and rural development in several countries: Peru, Bolivia, Suriname, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Israel and Tunisia.
Brigitte Alarcon
Brigitte works as part of WSPA's External Relations team specialising in coordinating the work the organization does with IGOs and Governments. After completing a Masters in Political Science and a Post Graduate degree in Environmental Law she went on to work for Greenpeace in Brussels. At WSPA, Brigitte has taken part in the campaign for the adoption of a Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare (UDAW) at the United Nations and the successful anti-bullfighting campaign in Catalonia. She currently works on a range of international projects including establishing the links between animal welfare and sustainable development issues in international fora.
David Bowles
As the Head of External Affairs, David coordinates the RSPCA's parliamentary, local government, campaigns and international work. The RSPCA works in Westminster, the National Assembly Wales and through its European umbrella organisation Eurogroup for Animal Welfare, in the three main European legislative bodies to ensure that animal welfare standards are improved in all relevant pieces of legislation. The RSPCA works on farm animal issues through a combination of campaigning and lobbying to improve legislation and the RSPCA monitored assurance scheme Freedom Food. The RSPCA works in over 30 countries proactively assisting governments and non-governmental agencies with advice, aid and training on animal welfare, and in 2008 released its first report with other animal welfare groups on the links between human and animal welfare and measuring animal welfare in development programmes overseas.
Previous to the RSPCA, David worked for five years with the Environmental Investigation Agency, campaigning primarily on wildlife trade issues at UN bodies, and completed one years field research in South East Asia on primates and pigs.
Joyce D'Silva
Joyce D'Silva is the former Chief Executive of Compassion in World Farming. Between 1991 and 2005, she took the organisation from being a UK-based NGO working in the EU to being an EU-based organisation working internationally from South Africa to Australia and China. Joyce now works as Ambassador for Compassion in World Farming internationally. Joyce is co-organiser for Compassion in World Farming of a series of farm animal welfare conferences in Beijing to be held in 2009 with WSPA, RSPCA and HSI. She has pioneered Compassion's links with the Islamic community and is responsible for achieving publication of the revised edition of Al-hafiz B A Masri's book "Animal Welfare in Islam" by the Islamic Foundation in 2006. Joyce organised Compassion 's 2005 Conference, "From Darwin to Dawkins: the Science and Implications of Animal Sentience", which attracted over 600 delegates from 50 countries. Joyce leads Compassion's relationship with key intergovernmental organizations such as the World Bank and the FAO. She has written and presented widely on farm animal welfare, including the genetic engineering and cloning of animals, and has authored chapters for several books, the most recent being "The Future of Farming" published by Blackwells in 2008.
She is currently co-editing a book on the adverse global impacts of high meat consumption.
David Fraser
David Fraser has had a 37-year career in research and teaching on applied animal behaviour and the scientific study of animal welfare. He is currently NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Animal Welfare at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is the author of Understanding Animal Welfare: The Science in its Cultural Context (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), and has served as a scientific advisor on animal welfare to many organizations including the the World Organization for Animal Health (Paris), the National Council of Chain Restaurants and the Food Marketing Institute (Washington), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Rome).
Carmen Gallo
Carmen Gallo is a veterinarian graduated at Universidad Austral de Chile in 1977, with a PhD from the University of Liverpool, UK in 1986. During the first years of her career she was involved mainly in production and meat quality of farm animals (sheep, goats, cattle, rabbits, domestic fowl), and since 1998 her research lines turned towards the relationship between animal welfare and meat quality in farm animals. She has been the leader of several research projects mainly dealing with transport, handling and slaughter of animals for meat production, producing publications in different scientific and technical journals and many courses and seminars for postgraduate and technical staff. She is a frequent invited speaker in this field at national and international scientific meetings, and participates regularly in national and international committees dealing with animal welfare.
Andrea Gavinelli
Andrea is a veterinarian graduated in Milan in 1992 and he has been a policy official at the European Commission since 1999 in charge of developing Community policies on farm animal welfare. In September 2008 he became the Head of Unit D5 - Animal Welfare in the Health and Consumers Directorate General of the Commission. Before 1999 he covered the position of official veterinarian in the Italian Ministry of Health in charge of coordinating several animal protection issues both at Italian and international level. Since 1997 he has been member of the Bureau of the "Council of Europe Convention on the protection of animals kept for farming purposes". Since 2001, Andrea is active member of the "Working Group on Animal Welfare" of the World Animal Health Organisation (OIE) and he is member of specific working groups at international level with EU trading partners like Chile, Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland, Australia. Andrea has published several papers on animal welfare and EU issues and he has attended main international conferences, seminars or training events introducing aspects of European animal welfare policies.
Vincent Guyonnet
DVM, Ph.D, Dipl. ACPV. A native of France, Vincent obtained the degree of Doctor in Veterinary Medicine in 1987 from the National Veterinary School of Lyon, France and a Ph.D degree in Poultry Science from The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA in 1991. He was accepted as a diplomate of the American College of Poultry Veterinarians (US board certification) in 1994.
Vincent started his career with Pfizer Animal Health, where he held over the course of 15 years various positions dealing with all livestock species and companion animals, mostly in Asia and Latin America.
In 2005, Vincent joined Burnbrae Farms Limited, a family-owned integrated egg producer and processor (grading, breaking and further processing) in Canada, working in the area of New Product Development and Quality Assurance.
Since 2010, Vincent is also serving as the scientific advisor for the International Egg Commission (IEC), the international trade association representing egg producers and processors from over 60 countries. Vincent works with international governmental organizations on global issues such as animal welfare and greenhouse gas emissions of the livestock sector. In 2011, Vincent was appointed as a member of the Animal Welfare Working Group of the OIE.
Anni McLeod
Anni McLeod is the Senior Livestock Policy Officer in the Animal Production and Health Division of FAO, where she set up the socio-economics programme for emergency control of transboundary animal diseases.
She contributes to work on livestock sector analysis and policy development, advocacy and communication for pro-poor livestock disease control, gender issues in the livestock sector and animal welfare, and recently joined FAO's culture change team. Her professional training includes agricultural economics, veterinary epidemiology and business management. Before joining FAO in 2003 she was deputy director of the Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics Research Unit at the University of Reading and a livestock economics consultant at PAN Livestock Services Ltd. She spent four years working in the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute in Nairobi, helping to expand the livestock economics programme.
Josphat Ngonyo
A social science and communications University graduate with a postgraduate Diploma in not for profit organisations management. He's the founding Director of Africa Network for Animal Welfare. He also founded Youth for Conservation after over 4 years of experience in wildlife rescue and conservation education with the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. In 1997 he carried out first ever de-snaring patrol by the Tsavo East National Park and has since led teams which removed over 7,000 snares, rescued more than 10 animals, coordinated air rescues of elephant orphans, conducted humane education and enlisted Youth and Communities in conservation and animal welfare activities. He won the Middle East animal welfare Award (2007) and the Eastern Africa Environmental Leadership Award (2003). He sat on the National Steering Committee that spearheaded Kenya's wildlife conservation and management policy and legislation review. He's a member of the Global task force on Farm Animal Welfare and Trade and an honorary warden with the Kenya Wildlife Services.
Mateus Paranhos da Costa
Dr Mateus Paranhos da Costa is a professor at São Paulo State University of Jaboticabal - UNESP. He holds a master's degree in Animal Science specialising in Animal Behaviour at São Paulo State University, PhD in Psychobiology at University of de São Paulo and Post-Doc in Animal Welfare at Cambridge University. He has worked on animal behaviour since 1990 and is the founder of ETCO Group (Ethology and Animal Ecology Research Group) of UNESP Jaboticabal. The group aims to graduate professionals and researchers on Animal Ethology and Animal Ecology areas, especially on animal production and handling. Professor Mateus is one of the pioneers and a great authority on Animal Production Welfare in Brazil today. His professional background is related to Animal Welfare on handling before the slaughter and he is also co-responsible for slaughterhouse improvements such as changes on dazing boxes and corral drawings. Due to his experienced and skilled background, he is frequently invited by the biggest slaughter companies in Brazil as an independent consultant to improve their facilities, design and handling areas.
Miyun Park
Miyun Park is the Executive Director of Global Animal Partnership, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring and bringing about continuous improvement in the lives of farm animals through innovative and collaborative multi-stakeholder efforts. She has helped to drive greater interest in and policies for improving the well-being of animals raised for meat, eggs, and milk into corporate board rooms, international investment banks, academic institutions, courthouses, and legislatures. Miyun has written and published dozens of articles and reports on animal agriculture and the welfare of farm animals, including a chapter in State of the Animals IV: 2007, co-authored with Dr. Andrea Gavinelli of the European Commission. Before joining Global Animal Partnership, she served as Vice President, Farm Animal Welfare, of the Humane Society of the United States and its global affiliate, Humane Society International.
Julio Pinto
Doctor in medicine veterinary with a PhD in Veterinary Epidemiologist and Economics from The University of Reading. Since April 2006 I am working in EMPRES group of the Animal health Service (AGAH) in FAO following the implementation of the Global Early Warning System for Livestock Diseases (GLEWS on platform development, early warning and disease intelligence activities. Also I am working within the EMPRES group providing technical support to and actively participate in programmes and projects within the framework of the Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD); providing technical assistance to countries or regions through: the design and implementation of programmes and projects; co-ordination of joint activities with other organisations or national governments by participating in task forces, project formulation and appraisal teams, evaluation and monitoring exercises, and provide technical backstopping.
During my previous work experience in OIE (2003-2006) I was involved in the development and management of the OIE animal health information system and as a Deputy Head of the International Trade Department I dealt with issues such as Animal Welfare. I was involved in the work of the OIE Working Group on Animal Welfare acting as OIE focal point. The OIE WG elaborate recommendations and guidelines covering animal welfare practices, reaffirming that animal health is a key component of animal welfare.
Dorcas Pratt
Dorcas Pratt joined the Brooke in August 2007 as the Director of International Development. She has 16 years experience working in international development organisations, with 11 years experience in senior programme management. Prior to joining the Brooke, she was based in Madagascar leading the process of expansion of the WaterAid programme from 2002 to 2007, doubling the size of the team, the number of NGO partner organisations and the budget over five years, as well as developing the team and the systems required to manage this growth. During her career she has led and managed teams in a number of locations - organising and coordinating Country Strategy development in Laos, Cambodia and Madagascar, and managing staff and partnerships with a range of NGOs in India, the Philippines, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Madagascar. She spent her childhood in Africa (Uganda, Botswana and Sierra Leone) where her father was a livestock specialist.
Melba Reantaso
Dr Melba B. Reantaso, Fishery Resources Officer at the Aquaculture Management and Conservation Service (FIMA), Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, is an aquaculture and fish disease specialist. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in Japan and completed post-doctoral studies at the Nippon Animal Science and Veterinary University in Tokyo. Main responsibilities at FAO include rural and small-scale aquaculture, gender in aquaculture, aquatic animal health, biosecurity, risk analysis, emergencies and chief editorial responsibilities for the FAO Aquaculture Newsletter (FAN). She is also the Department's focal point on animal welfare.
Ian Robinson
Ian graduated from Bristol Veterinary School in the UK in 1975 and started his career in general veterinary practice. He ran a mixed, mainly agricultural practice in the North of England until 1990. Since then he has worked full time in animal welfare, at first for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) in the UK, and more recently for IFAW as the global emergency relief program director, based at their international headquarters in the USA. His responsibilities include the supervision of animal rescue work around the globe, and the rehabilitation and release to the wild of rescued wildlife. Ian has attended many animal welfare emergencies around the world, and has a particular interest in the rescue and release of wildlife back to the wild. Ian is a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (FRCVS) - awarded for his thesis on 'the veterinary aspects of the rehabilitation of seals in the UK' and holds post graduate certification from the RCVS in Sheep Health and Production, and in Zoological Medicine.
Antonio Rota
Antonio Rota, a national of Italy, is the IFAD Senior Technical Adviser on Livestock and Farming Systems. He holds a University Degree in Science and Technologies of Animal Production and post-graduate diploma in Tropical Animal Production and Health. Mr. Rota boasts twenty five years of professional experience on pro-poor farming systems and livestock development, working with FAO, NGOs and private consulting firms mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. He re-joined IFAD on 2006 from FAO-Afghanistan where he was responsible for the implementation of the "Rural Poultry Production" and "Integrated Dairy Schemes" Development Projects. Noteworthy, it is his proactive role in launching the Community of Practice for Pro-poor Livestock Development, under his coordination, with the intention to promote livestock as a tool for poverty reduction.
Adolfo Sansolini
Adolfo Sansolini, animal welfare consultant based in London, is currently Policy Advisor for the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA). In the frame of his present position, he is the co-ordinator of the Global Task Force for Farm Animals, present in 18 countries. For many years he has been involved in the Italian organization LAV, of which he has been Director then President. As CEO of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, Sansolini moved from Rome to London and from 2004 to 2006 also served as chairman of the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments. Adolfo Sansolini has written articles for magazines, newspapers and websites, contributed to several BBC radio channels and conducted for eight years the programme 'Un habitat per tutti i viventi' ('A habitat for all living beings') on the Vatican Radio.
Karin Schwabenbauer
Before joining FAO I was working for the German Veterinary Services, first at State level, then at Federal level in the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. In the Animal Welfare unit I worked mainly on topics related to animal experiments and alternative methods, slaughtering, and animal husbandry – especially poultry. I represented Germany in the international fora dealing with animal welfare for nearly 15 years. From 2002 to 2006 I was the German Chief Veterinary Officer.
Joerg Seifert
In charge of overall IDF programme of work and relations with IDF partner organizations (governmental and non-governmental), direct responsibility for IDF working areas of animal health and animal welfare, dairy farming, environment, dairy science and technology, hygiene and safety and food standards
Leopoldo Stuardo
Dr. Leopoldo Stuardo Escobar, Chilean, Veterinary Doctor from the University of Chile in Santiago Chile. Master in Environmental Science and Management by the University of Louvain in Belgium (LLN). He worked for five years at Chile's Agricultural Office to the European Union, based in Brussels, where he took an active part in the negotiations for the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement between Chile and the European Union.
Upon his return to Chile in 2000, he became academic in the Faculty of Veterinary and Livestock Science of the University of Chile, and worked in the Livestock Protection Division of Chile's Agriculture and Livestock Service (SAG), where he was responsible for all the animal welfare activities of the Division and for the trade relations with the European Union.
Early 2006 he was appointed by open competition to the post of Head of the SAG International Affairs Division, where he was working when he accepted the position at the International Trade Department of the Word Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), where he worked supporting the activities of the Terrestrial Code Commission and the Working Group on Animal Welfare, until March 2010.
Dr Stuardo is back in Chile since April 2010, where he was appointed as Head of the recently created Animal Welfare Unit of the Agriculture and Livestock Service (SAG). This Unit will have the important task of develop the secondary legislation of the new Animal Protection Law adopted in October 2009.
Carmen Bullón Caro
Carmen Bullón Caro is a Legal Officer at the Development Law Service in the Legal Office of FAO. She trained as a European Union and International Law lawyer. Before joining the FAO she worked on EU legislation and legal affairs as legal officer at the regional administration in Spain and as international legal consultant. She joined the FAO's Legal Office in 2006 where she has worked on different areas pertaining to animal health and welfare, food safety and food security, phytosanitary measures and other areas of agricultural law and the access to natural resources (land and water).
Michael Greger
A graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine, Michael Greger, M.D., serves as Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at Humane Society International. A professional lecturer, Dr, Greger has presented at the Conference on World Affairs, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit. His recent scientific publications in American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, Critical Reviews in Microbiology, and the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition, and Public Health explore the public health implications of industrialized animal agriculture, and his latest book, Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching, is now available full-text at no cost at www.BirdFluBook.org.
David Bayvel
David obtained his initial veterinary degree from the University of Glasgow, in 1967, and then gained a Diploma in Tropical Veterinary Medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1968. He became a member of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists, by examination in Veterinary Pharmacology, in 1983 and obtained a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Victoria University of Wellington in 1994. David's career has involved periods in private veterinary practice, the international pharmaceutical industry and government service. He has worked in the UK, Zambia, South Africa and Australia and moved to New Zealand in 1982.
From 1989 to 2005, David represented the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) on the New Zealand National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee (NAEAC) and the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) and, from 1993 to 1996, was a member of the ANZCCART (NZ) Board. He has been a member of the trans-Tasman Animal Welfare Working Group since 1990 and is currently actively involved with the OIE in addressing animal welfare issues at an international level.
David has chaired the permanent OIE Animal Welfare Working Group since 2002. He was the coordinating editor for the Scientific and Technical Series review "Animal Welfare: Global Issues, Trends and Challenges" and is chair of the OIE Laboratory Animal Welfare ad hoc Group.
Tjeerd Jorna
Graduate of Veterinary Faculty of University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1967. From 1967 to 1974 Tjeerd Jorna worked in the Veterinary Faculty Clinic of Internal Diseases of Large Animals, Utrecht. In 1978, he got a PhD on the renal bloodflow in ruminants with pyloric stenosis. From 1974 to 1990 he was bovine herd health veterinarian [Buiatricer] in a Herd Health Centre with duties in bovine herd health control, control of notifiable diseases like FMD, BSE, BVD etc. From 1990 to 2004, he was Secretary General of the Royal Netherland Veterinary Association with an office of 30 employees, from 2003 to 2007 President of the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe and from 2008 to date, he's President of the World Veterinary Association.
Mariela Varas Ramos
Dr. Mariela Varas Ramos is a Veterinary Doctor graduated at the Universidad de Chile. She obtained her Master degree in Epidemiological surveillance for human and animal diseases at the ENVA in France in 2007, working on The Southeast Asia Foot and Mouth Disease Campaign. After that she started to work at the Animal Health Information Department of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), as a Project officer.
In mid-2010, she was appointed to the post of Animal Welfare Focal Point at the International Trade Department of the OIE, supporting the activities of the Terrestrial Code Commission, the Animal Welfare Working Group and Animal Welfare Ad Hoc Groups.


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Treatment With Local PPARgamma Ligand in Distal Ulcerative Colitis
The recruitment status of this study is unknown because the information has not been verified recently.
Verified September 2006 by Herlev Hospital.
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Treatment with PPARgamma ligands have been shown to reduces intestinal inflammation in murine models of colitis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of treatment with local PPARgamma ligand (rosiglitazone) in distal ulcerative colitis.The patients are treated with rosiglitazone enema, once a day, for fourteen days. Disease activity was assessed before and after treatment by endoscopical and clinical activity score.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Ulcerative Colitis |
Drug: Rosiglitazone |
Phase 1 Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Single Blind Primary Purpose: Treatment |
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ulcerative colitis
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Further study details as provided by Herlev Hospital:
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 80 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Distal ulcerative colitis (Mayo Clinical Score > 7)
- Age > 18 years
- Written consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Age < 18 years
- Severe ulcerative colitis
- Systemic treatment with steroids or azathioprin within the last 3 month
- Known liver or kidney disease
- Severe heart failure
- Pregnancy or breast feeding
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00309660
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Dept. Gastroenterology C, Herlev University Hospital | Recruiting |
Herlev, Denmark, 2730 | |
Contact: Gitte Pedersen, MD +45 44883418 email@example.com | |
Principal Investigator: Gitte Pedersen, MD |
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Principal Investigator: | Jørn Brynskov, Ass. Prof. | Dept Gastroenterology C, Herlev University Hospital, 2730 Herlev, Denmark |
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00309660 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | PPAR2005 |
Study First Received: | March 30, 2006 |
Last Updated: | September 20, 2006 |
Health Authority: | Denmark: Danish Medicines Agency |
Keywords provided by Herlev Hospital:
PPARgamma ligand Rosiglitazone Enema |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Colitis Colitis, Ulcerative Ulcer Gastroenteritis Gastrointestinal Diseases Digestive System Diseases Colonic Diseases |
Intestinal Diseases Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Pathologic Processes Rosiglitazone Hypoglycemic Agents Physiological Effects of Drugs Pharmacologic Actions |
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Product Overview
Figure 1. Cisco Prime Network Control System
• Helps resolve access problems across wired and wireless networks to get users back online faster
• Facilitates visibility of user attributes, posture, and profile through integration with the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
• Introduces lifecycle management of Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISRs), the Cisco Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000 Series, and Cisco Catalyst® switches
• Enables simplified deployment of branch offices requiring common, standardized configurations
• Allows full wireless lifecycle management, enabling IT staff to design and maintain optimal RF environments
• Offers an intuitive user experience to eliminate complexity, improve IT productivity, and minimize staffing requirements
• Provides a scalable platform for small, mid-sized, and large-scale wired and wireless networks, across both campus and distributed branch environments
• Delivers physical or virtual appliance deployment for flexibility without sacrificing functionality
Seamless Scalability
WLAN Services Management
The platform provides complete WLAN services management, supporting:
• Cisco CleanAir™ technology, a systemwide capability of the Cisco Unified Wireless Network providing proactive, high-speed spectrum intelligence to combat performance problems due to RF interference
• Cisco ISE integration, which allows for visibility into user and endpoint attributes, their posture, and profiling information for both wired and wireless clients
• Integration with the Cisco Mobility Services Engine (MSE), which enables Cisco Context-Aware Software for real-time location tracking and local services discovery, along with Cisco Adaptive Wireless IPS (wIPS) Software for detection, containment, and location of security threats
Comprehensive Wireless LAN Lifecycle Management
Figure 2. Comprehensive Wireless LAN Lifecycle Management
Figure 3. Simplified Wireless LAN Planning and Design
Figure 4. Flexible Deployment Tools and Configuration Templates
Monitoring and Troubleshooting
Figure 5. Ever-Present Alarm Summary and Alarm Browser Interaction
• The ever-present search tool facilitates cross-network access to immediate and historic information about devices and assets located anywhere in the access network, including endpoint and session attributes, association history, endpoint location, RF performance, statistics, radio resource management (RRM), and air quality.
• Integrated workflows support seamless linkage between all tools, alarms, alerts, searches, and reports for all infrastructure components and client devices.
• A built-in Client Troubleshooting tool provides a step-by-step method to analyze problems for all wired and wireless client devices. This robust Client Troubleshooting tool helps reduce operating costs by speeding the resolution of trouble tickets for a variety of Wi-Fi client device types. The tool can also assist with client trending analysis (Figure 6).
• When Cisco Compatible Extensions clients, Cisco ISE, and Cisco CleanAir technology are used, specialized diagnostic tools are available to support enhanced analysis of connection problems.
Figure 6. Built-in Client Troubleshooting Tool to Support Step-by-Step Problem Analysis
• Cisco CleanAir technology supports finding, classifying, correlating, and mitigating interference from Wi-Fi and non-Wi-Fi sources such as rogue access points, microwave ovens, Bluetooth devices, and cordless phones. Cisco CleanAir technology improves air quality and creates a self-healing and self-optimizing wireless network that mitigates the impact of wireless interference sources.
• Built-in tools such as the Client Troubleshooting tool support help desk staff and level-two administrators resolve client access issues by providing guidance on where the actual problem may be.
• The security dashboard allows for a network-level assessment and provides a security index with suggestions on how to improve security across your deployment.
• The voice-service audit tool not only provides a way to audit the current network configuration for voice over wireless LAN (VoWLAN) deployments, but also provides a way to rectify the current configuration based on Cisco best practices for VoWLAN deployment.
Figure 7. Customizable Reports to Meet Any Requirement
New Features in Cisco Prime Network Control System 1.1
Table 1. New Features in Cisco Prime Network Control System 1.1
Summary of Cisco Prime NCS Features and Benefits
Table 2. Summary of Cisco Prime NCS 1.1 Features and Benefits
Feature |
Benefit |
Ease of use |
• Simple, intuitive user interface reduces complexity. Designed with focus on workflow optimization.
• Modularized interface supports user-defined customization to display only the most relevant information.
• Flexible platform accommodates novice and experienced IT administrators.
Scalability |
• Complete lifecycle management of hundreds of Cisco wireless LAN controllers and 15,000 Cisco Aironet lightweight access points from a centralized location. Additionally, manage up to 5000 Cisco Aironet autonomous access points.
• Manage up to 5000 routers and switches for configuration management, monitoring and troubleshooting functions.
• Scalable mobility delivered through integration with Cisco MSE. Scalable identity service management delivered through integration with the Cisco ISE.
• Physical appliance or virtual appliance deployment options for ease of installation and setup.
Wired management |
• Comprehensive configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting support for Cisco Catalyst switches allows for visibility into critical performance metrics for interfaces, ports, endpoints, and users, as well as basic switch inventory.
WLAN lifecycle management |
• Comprehensive wireless LAN lifecycle management includes a full range of planning, deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting, remediation, and optimization capabilities.
WLAN and RF planning |
• Built-in planning and design tools simplify defining access point placement and coverage.
• Information from third-party site-survey tools can be easily imported and integrated into Cisco Prime NCS to aid in WLAN design and deployment.
• Specialized tools facilitate immediate assessment of the WLAN's readiness to support voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) and context-aware (location) services.
• Support for on-demand coverage reassessments helps mitigate the effects of (and in many cases eliminate) improper RF designs and coverage problems.
Deployment |
• A broad array of integrated controller, access point, and CLI configuration templates deliver quick and cost-effective deployments.
• Network auditing is supported for effective configuration compliance and management.
• Built-in, software-based, high availability maximizes uptime for services delivery and improves operational efficiency.
• Secure wired and wireless guest access gives controlled wireless access to customers, vendors, visitors, and partners, while keeping the network secure.
• Tools and processes support monitoring, upgrading, and migrating selected Cisco Aironet autonomous access points to operate as lightweight access points and run control and provisioning of wireless access points (CAPWAP).
• Role-based access control provides flexibility to segment the wireless network into one or more virtual domains controlled by a single Cisco Prime NCS platform.
• Power savings are delivered through Cisco EnergyWise
™ technology with adaptive WLAN power management.
• Cisco Prime NCS maps, hierarchies, and network designs can be easily exported and imported between one or more Cisco Prime NCS servers.
• Virtual domains help deploy both large, multisite networks and managed services.
Monitoring and troubleshooting |
• Centralized monitoring of the entire LAN and WLAN helps maintain robust performance and an optimal access connectivity experience. Unified switch inventory, dashboard components, reports, and monitoring views help you quickly monitor the access network from a single pane.
• Cisco CleanAir technology provides detailed information about RF interference events, air quality, and interference security threats to help more efficiently assess, prioritize, and manage RF interference issues. Easy-to-use graphical displays serve as a starting point for maintenance, security, troubleshooting, and future capacity planning.
• Graphs, charts, and tables are interactive for quick configuration and reconfiguration.
• Hierarchical mapping trees, color-coding, and icons support quick visualization and status assessments of the network, devices, and air quality.
• Ever-present alarm summary and alarm browser provide robust fault, event, and alarm management.
• Google Earth integration helps visualize and manage outdoor wireless mesh deployments.
• Cisco Spectrum Expert
® can be utilized for Cisco Aironet access points that are enabled with Cisco CleanAir technology and configured for Cisco Spectrum Expert.
• You can troubleshoot large-scale LAN and WLAN networks with minimal IT staffing.
• The Client Troubleshooting tool supports a step-by-step analysis of problems and misconfigurations for all client devices across all connection media, with support to troubleshoot issues such as 802.1X (for wired and wireless networks), and identify RF interferers that are affecting client devices.
• The ever-present search tool facilitates cross-network access to immediate and historic information.
• Integration with Cisco ISE and Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) View provides a simple way to collect and analyze additional data relevant to endpoints.
• Specialized diagnostic tools support enhanced analysis of connection problems occurring with Cisco Compatible Extensions clients Version 5 or later.
• Radio resource management (RRM) tools provide visibility into performance, RF statistics, and air quality.
Remediation |
• Integrated workflows and tools help IT administrators quickly assess service disruptions, receive notices about performance degradation, research resolutions, and take action to remedy nonoptimal situations. The Client Troubleshooting tool provides guidance on where the access problem may be.
• Alerts, summaries, and reports about air quality and interferers are included with Cisco CleanAir technology to help diagnose the RF environment and mitigate interference from Wi-Fi and non-Wi-Fi sources.
• The security dashboard and the security index provide a quick assessment of network security, and ways to improve it.
• Voice tools support customizable queries to address VoWLAN problems.
WLAN optimization |
• Extensive on-demand and automated reports can be run on immediate and historic data on network activity, performance, usage, devices, inventory, compliance, security, and air quality.
• Payment Card Industry (PCI) report analyzes WLAN for potential noncompliant events.
• Alarms and events can be forwarded to third-party, northbound receivers and fault, configuration, accounting, performance, and security (FCAPS) applications that understand traps such as HP OpenView or IBM Tivoli Netcool.
• You can customize report data, report timeframe, and report format.
• Display options for charts, graphs, and tables provide enhanced flexibility.
• Output reports in comma-separated value (CSV) or PDF format can be saved as files or as emails.
• Capacity planning is supported by developing trends from multiple reports for analysis.
Centralized security and network protection |
Cisco's unified wireless security solution integrates security alerts, alarms, adaptive wireless intrusion prevention system, and Cisco CleanAir technology into a single unified platform, from a centralized view, making it unprecedented in the industry.
• Cisco CleanAir technology provides critical information about RF interferers that are potential security threats.
• Robust adaptive wIPS supports quick detection, location, and containment of unauthorized (rogue) devices,
• Customized signature files protect against unauthorized intrusion and RF attacks.
• Automated alarms enable rapid responses to mitigate risks.
• Robust service policy engine supports multiple unique service set identifiers (SSIDs) with customizable security and enforcement parameters.
• Management frame protection (MFP) monitors the authentication of 802.11 management frames.
• Access point wired port authentication with 802.1X validates all access point credentials.
• Network security can be enhanced and power costs can be reduced by turning access points on or off at scheduled intervals.
• Unified wired and wireless security is delivered though integration with Cisco Self-Defending Network and Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC).
Cisco NCS Serviceability Program |
• The Cisco NCS Serviceability Program gives organizations the opportunity to provide anonymous usage statistics and wireless operational information to Cisco.
• This voluntary "opt-in" program gathers anonymous statistics from Cisco NCS and the network. No confidential data is collected.
• Learn more about this program by reading the
Wireless Product Improvement Program policy.
Specialized Cisco TAC support |
• Cisco Prime NCS supports the "opt-in" collection of diagnostic data about Cisco wireless LAN controllers and Cisco Aironet access points to assist with wireless LAN Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) cases. This feature helps organizations experience faster resolution of wireless LAN Cisco TAC cases.
Product Specifications
Table 3. Product Specifications for Cisco Prime NCS 1.1
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