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Senior ICT Consultant able to use broad and in-depth technical expertise and practical experience of working within growing businesses to improve mission-critical systems. Has strong project management and budgetary skills, excellent architectural knowledge, and works well with both ICT staff and non-ICT managers. Over fourteen years experience of designing, managing and supporting IT&T operations and environments in UK and Australia as Microsoft and Citrix senior engineer, project manager, infrastructure architect and manager, business analyst, enterprise applications architect, business systems manager and senior ICT manager in Microsoft/ Wintel/ Citrix environments with between 450 and 5,000 users and budgets in excess of AU$5million. Currently seeking a Project Management or Infrastructure Architect or Enterprise Architect or Consulting or Senior ICT Management role.
· Blue-Chip organizations including Anglian Water, Volvo Construction, Ford Motor Company, Grant Thornton Chartered Accountants and Communisis· Power and Utilities organizations: Integral Energy, NSW and Anglian Water, UK· Experience working in a pre- and post- sales environment: Glasser Whitley· Distribution, Supply Chain, Logistics and Transport operations: Charles Tyrwhitt, The White Company, Lombok, British Gaskets, Surex International and Transco Logistics· Other Industry sectors include Local Government, Manufacturing, Distribution, Pre-Press and Print, Business Education, Charity Management, Accounting, Legal and Medical Practice, ICT Consultancy, ICT Managed Service Provision and ICT Facilities Management in both the UK and Australia.
· Business Process analysis, management and re-engineering · Enterprise and ICT Strategic Management · Leadership and Team Management · Project and Program Management · ICT Operations · Enterprise and Infrastructure Architecture Design and Build· ICT Engineering · ICT Governance
THE WHITE COMPANY, UK – AU$166m turnover from multi-channel retail operations, including ECommerce and Business to Business salesRESPONSIBILITIES· Responsible for all IT&T architecture, projects, delivery, infrastructure, systems· In-house software development (ERP, CRM, Operations, EPOS and ECommerce)· IT CapEx (AU$5.1million) and P&L budgets (AU$1.6million pa)· Managing all IT&T suppliers (negotiated value for money contracts, including favorable software licensing contracts) · Direct line management of 16 staff (developers, project managers, engineers) · Acted as Project Manager for selected projects and trained, mentored and managed other Project Managers in the ICT team for the remaining projects
ACHIEVEMENTS · Devised ICT Strategy and three-year Road Map for ICT after thorough analyses of business processes, operations, warehousing and logistics· Specified new systems requirements, then implemented multiple projects in the three-year Road Map· Designed and built new IT&T enterprise architecture, n-tier infrastructure, systems, supporting services and management. This included storage, Layer 3 network switching, backup, disaster recovery & edge of network security, providing high reliability and much improved performance· Negotiated better telephony and data communications tariffs, with improved bandwidth availability, reduced latency and better fail-over provision· Moved warehouse operations from three small locations with manual systems to a 9,000sqm warehouse 150km from main site, including remote communications, VOIP, wireless networking, barcode and RFID solutions· Developed warehouse management sub-systems to improve replenishment, picking, packing and onward dispatch· Rebuilt server rooms with improved cable management, air conditioning and UPS to give reliability and create Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity facilities · Developed 24/7 monitoring and alerting procedures for better incident response times, substantially reducing business interruption· Improved performance and service availability by introducing weekly statistics and post-incident reviews to identify root causes and address them· Performed Technical Lead role to implement thin client (Citrix and Terminal Services) technologies throughout the enterprise· Brought the e-commerce website in-house with subsequent increase in direct sales from 22% to over 50% of turnover · No downtime during the profit-critical Christmas season
LOMBOK, UK - Rapidly growing importer, manufacturing, mail order, wholesale and multi-channel retail enterprise with turnover of over AU$25mRESPONSIBILITIES· Responsible for designing and program planning for all IT&T architecture, delivery, infrastructure, systems and software development including ERP, CRM, Operations, EPOS and ECommerce applications
ACHIEVEMENTS · Designed new ICT enterprise architecture, n-tier infrastructure, systems supporting services and management providing extremely high reliability and availability· Completed analyses of business processes, operations, warehousing and logistics and specified new systems requirements, devised ICT strategy and three-year Road Map· Evaluated third party integrated enterprise application solutions and their suppliers, then appointed key solutions supplier. · Replaced diverse and rigid enterprise applications with a fully integrated system, based on Microsoft Dynamics Navision and SQL Server, giving reliable support for the business
CHARLES TYRWHITT SHIRTS, UK - AU$130m turnover from mail order, ECommerce and multi-channel retail activity in the UK, France, Germany & USARESPONSIBILITIES· Responsibility for all IT&T architecture, projects, delivery, infrastructure, systems and in-house software development (ERP, CRM, Operations, EPOS and ECommerce applications)· IT CapEx (AU$4.5million) and P&L budgets (AU$1.5million)· Managing all IT&T suppliers (negotiated value for money contracts, including favorable software licensing contracts) · Direct line management of 14 staff (developers, project managers, engineers) and 4 reports· Acted as Project Manager for selected projects and trained, mentored and managed other Project Managers in the ICT team for the remaining projects
ACHIEVEMENTS · Devised ICT Strategy and three-year Road Map for ICT after thorough analyses of business processes, operations, warehousing and logistics· Delivered ICT projects and ICT applications and infrastructure on or ahead of time, and on budget· Overhauled infrastructure and network, which were not coping with the requirements of a growing business, turning service delivery from business interrupting & impeding to highly reliable and available· Set up in-house software development teams dealing with core ERP and CRM applications and their integration· Created and managed e-commerce team to create and launch a successful new website with subsequent increase in direct sales from 18% to over 50% of turnover· Overall, a similar role, with responsibilities and achievements analogous to The White Company (above)


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About The 4-Point Shot
The Harlem Globetrotters, who have contributed more innovations to the game of basketball than any other team in history, announced today that the team has approved the implementation of the first-ever 4-point shot as part of all of its games on the team's 2011 "4 Times the Fun" North American tour, which begins December 26. The 2011 tour marks the team's record 85th season of touring.
Throughout the 2011 North American tour, which will travel to 220 cities in 46 U.S. States and six Canadian provinces between December 26 and April 17, every Globetrotters game will now feature two designated 4-point shooting spots on each side of midcourt, each located 35 feet from the basket (the spots are 12 feet beyond the NBA's official 3-point line). The 4-point option is expected to further open up the playing floor for the Globetrotters as well as their opponents, the Generals, and is expected to generate even more high-scoring action and competitive play.


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Dr. David Suzuki and director Sturla Gunnarson and their acclaimed documentary "Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie" reveals a sensitive and emotional portrait of the environmental activist. Also. American voice-actor and comedian, Maria Bamford. Her Comedy Central CD, "Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome" explored issues of mental illness - and we get inside the head of its creator. Plus Juno-winning singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith. Some of the artists who inspired Sexsmith – Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello – now praise him for his most recent album, 'Long Player Late Bloomer.'


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On Friday April 27th Kmag Presents a Blue Cheese label night at Café 1001. In anticipation of this event we caught up with label co-owner Freek, who has also put together an exclusive mix to whet your appetite...
Please introduce yourself and Blue Cheese Records...
I'm DJ Freek, I co-own Blue Cheese along with fellow producer/DJ Bluey. The idea behind Blue Cheese is to push music from new artists who are trying to break through into the scene. We don't confine ourselves to a single sub-genre as we prefer to concentrate on the artists and helping them craft their "signature" sounds. This can range from the most minimal deep, to the hardest thumping techstep.
We also have the sister label Rotten Cheese Records which focuses on the jump-up side of dnb. Rotten Cheese is managed by the label's very own Richie Stix who is definitely making a name for himself as both a producer and a DJ. As a label we are privileged to receive amazing support from some of the scene's biggest players such as DJ Hazard, Mutated Forms, S.P.Y and many more...
Your night with us at Cafe 1001 is billed as The Lighter Side Of Blue Cheese... is this a new direction for the label?
During March we had a series of Blue Cheese club nights and radio shows and these were focussed more on the heavier side of the label, promoting one of our jump-up releases. So we're very excited to showcase the complete opposite end of the spectrum and play sets that we haven't been able to play at any of our previous nights. It's not really a new direction for the label, we've always had a lighter side, it's just always been overshadowed by our intent to destroy dancefloors with techy bangers.
Tell us about everyone on the line-up for the April 27th date at Cafe 1001 and what people can expect from their sets...
Label owners myself and Bluey will be doing a three deck B2B liquid / deep set. Blue Cheese artists on the night are Teksteppa, SoveX and John Miszt who will be performing a live set using a combination of hardware controllers, Ableton live and CDJs to provide a wonderfully unique set. Opening the show for us is the very talented DJ Oversight.
Where else can people see you DJ in the near future?
We don't have any label nights arranged as we have had quite a few over the past months and we're now all working hard on the beats for the next instalment on Blue Cheese. however, you can catch me in room three for Shabba's Birthday Bash @ The Scala on 5th May. To book me, Freek, for your event email email@example.com at Evolution Artist Management.
Anything else you want to tell us about?
The Intervention - Blue Edition, is out on May 7th and features tunes from Teksteppa, SoveX & John Miszt. It really is an excellent representation of what the label is all about and is receiving great support from within the scene.
I've also done a guest mix along for all the Kmag readers really to say thanks for all the continued support we've been receiving over the last 12 months.
Id like to give a shout out to Callide, Lewis & everyone at Cygnus Music for doing an excellent job, John Sutherland our mastering engineer who always provides a quality service, and shouts to all the Blue Cheese, Rotten Cheese, UKDNB, EAM, Lost In Bass & The Sik Mix crews...
Download Freek's guest mix here
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One of Twitter's co-founders has come back to help the troubled social-networking company. Seen as part artist, part visionary, the question facing Dorsey now is whether he can turn the company around.
Technically Incorrect: The Dunwoody Police Department in Georgia believes that humor might put people off doing things that are against the law.
Technically Incorrect: After being arrested for making his own digital clock, the newest science celebrity shows humor during a press conference and an appearance on MSNBC. He says he's transferring schools.
For a few weeks, police in New South Wales will get to drive around in style to help raise awareness for the Police Legacy charity.
Technically Incorrect: A Maine man had seven people in his car. He still allegedly needed to pose with them for a photo.
Technically Incorrect: In Maryland, law enforcement arrests two men who were allegedly planning to drop all sorts of contraband into jails.
Technically Incorrect: In Spain, they have a strange new gagging law that's being used in even stranger ways.
The government says it will help catch "criminal behavior online" more quickly -- though increased censorship could be the actual result.
Technically Incorrect: In the latest attempt at fooling the unsuspecting and gullible, three Detroit area teens allegedly talk a MetroPCS store into buying fake iPhones.
The forum was used by cybercriminals to buy and sell malicious software, stolen data and more. It was, says an official, the "most sophisticated English-speaking forum for criminal computer hackers in the world."


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In wake of the aftermath of the Sean Bell verdict, undercover detectives face even more heat for improperly stopping one of their own, African-American, three star chief, Douglas Zeigler. Zeigler (shown below), 60, is the NYPD's highest-ranking uniformed black officer and heads up the Community Affairs Bureau.
According to the NY Daily News, Zeigler was parked in an NYPD-issued vehicle near a fire hydrant when two plainclothes cops approached on May 2, sources said.
One officer walked up on each side of the SUV at 57th Ave. and Xenia St. in Corona about 7 p.m. and told the driver to roll down the heavily tinted windows, sources said.
In his briefing to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Zeigler said the two cops, who are white, had no legitimate reason to approach his SUV, ranking sources said.
After they ordered him to get out, one officer did not believe the NYPD identification Zeigler gave him. One cop got into a heated argument with the chief even after seeing the ID, sources said.
That cop was stripped of his gun and badge and placed on modified duty last night, sources said. The status of the second officer was unclear.
I've personally met Chief Zeigler and have several attended ceremonies at 1 Police Plaza, where his photo is prominently displayed on the same lobby wall on which Commissioner Kelly's photo appears. You have to literally walk around and behind this wall of photos to formally enter the building. For these officers to claim they didn't know who he was is really absurd. He is at every graduation, formal ceremony and notable NYPD event. Hopefully this will be the wake-up call the NYPD needs to reassess their training practices regarding their undercover officers and prevent another police brutality/fatality from occurring.


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The owner, Victor Huerta, admits business is good for such a place -- an ethnic restaurant in a tiny community. Indeed, this town in Southwest Pickens County is typically off most radar screens.
"I never thought there was a town named Aliceville until I drove here and big shock, you know. Living in Tuscaloosa, been to Birmingham, and you come to such a little community. People have been very nice and have taken me very well and I appreciate that."
And according to Huerta, a lot of Latinos have been making the move into west Alabama, enough to warrant opening his restaurant. Enough to support the opening of a Mexican store down the street.
But why Aliceville? Why anywhere in Alabama? Huerta says jobs are here ... and more work means mas dinero.
"If you get a dollar, that's ten times worth more than your money. So for each dollar you get, you get ten pesos, so there's a difference down there."
And that's what many Latinos send back home, good'ole American greenbacks.
A vast majority of Latinos in Alabama -- like Huerta -- are Mexican; a few are Guatemalan, Honduran, Cuban or other nationalities. It's hard to know exactly who's here and from where because many are afraid to be counted officially.
"The Census taker comes to the front door, interviews the one family while the other ten run out of the rear door."
That's the running joke says Fr. Ernesto Obregon of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama. He ministers to Latinos across the northern and central part of the state.
"It is all-too-true that many of our people live together in order to save and be able to send more back to Mexico. So that often, the only person that the Census person catches is the one family who have legal custody of that apartment, the others carefully do not show up."
So it's no wonder, of the 25-hundred or so people who live in Aliceville -- according to Census 2000 -- only ten are Latino. Ten. One zero.
"The numbers are wrong. And the Census Bureau knows that the numbers are wrong."
Isabel Rubio is the executive director of the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama, or HICA. She says the statewide numbers don't jibe either, that there aren't the 75-thousand Latinos the Census says it counted in the year 2000. Rubio says the number is three times as high... and the undercount hurts the entire population.
"It comes down to how our congressional districts are drawn, how aid is given to various state and districts, so we've got to make sure that we can educate so we can do a better job of capturing the numbers... to finding out who's here. Not in the terms of Big Brother looking out over you, but just in terms of allocating resources."
But capturing the numbers is easier said than done. Rubio admits most Latinos don"t know what the Census does or how it operates. Those who do know complain there aren't enough Census workers who speak Spanish. Most of all, she says, Latinos fear that if they talk to a Census worker; the information will be shared with other federal agencies and they will be deported.
"...of course, that's why we're afraid," says one man, from Pascala, Mexico. He doesn't want to identify himself or tell me where he works for fear he, his family and his employer will get in trouble.
He says he's heard that there are about 2-thousand Latinos living in Pickens County who are mostly from Mexico and that the Immigration and Naturalization Service is about to come because the Mexicans are here.
But officials at the Census Bureau say they can NOT share information with the INS, or any other federal agency; it is against the law.
Art Cresce is chief of the Ethnicity and Ancestry branch of the U.S. Census.
"...all of us at the Census Bureau have to sign an oath of confidentiality when we first start and every year we have to renew our commitment..."
So why the fear from the Latino community?
"The first thing they say to me is that they don't believe it."Again, Fr. Ernesto Obregon...who says in post 9-11 America, anything can happen.
"Of course, they're going to be skiddish because Arab males went into the INS to reregister and were immediately picked up and held and interrogated and investigated. And for a Latino who does not know this government, the difference between the INS and the Census Bureau is a difference too small to explain."
"...selling the census to the population is developing a trust that we will not disclose this to anyone -- even to the INS, the FBI -- anyone ... We're not allowed to do it and don't do it."
The Census Bureau's Art Cresce says it takes the cooperation of community leaders and trust among the locals to get the message out.
The Aliceville restaurant owner, Victor Huerta, agrees.
"People shouldn't be afraid of it...(so you recommend that they do it?)...oh yeah, cause then they would get more help...the community where they live would get more help for health departments or whatever...it would be a benefit for them. For us."
For now, Huerta and other Latinos are quietly becoming a part of a new political and socio-economic landscape in Alabama. But as their numbers grow -- officially and unofficially, the clout they carry will also grow. More representation, more special interest groups, more commercialization pointed at Latinos.
Over the course of the coming months, our series will highlight the changes that affect us all: how the burgeoning Latino population mixes in metaphoric song, with other newcomers -- and old-timers of different races, faiths and backgrounds.
"Alabamba ... Latinos in Alabamba ... (laughs)"
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Outrage over comments by Digital Domain CEO John Textor continues to grow and has now spread across all corners of the animation community, from Motionographer to Canadian Animation Resources.
Textor's comments, which were made last November but leaked online last week, center around Textor telling investors that 30% of Digital Domain's workforce would be comprised of "student labor that's actually paying us for the privilege of working on our films." Artist Scott Benson dubbed it the Reverse Paid Internship. Today the story gained renewed momentum when the LA Times published a story about the controversy surrounding Digital Domain's plans.
In the LA Times, Textor claims that his earlier comments were taken out of context and says, "Find me another visual effects company that is as committed to growing jobs in North America as Digital Domain. If this is taking advantage of kids, I wish somebody would have taken advantage of me when I was in school…. For $28,000 a year, you get an FSU degree and get to work at one of the leading visual effects companies in the world."
The anonymous blogger at VFX Soldier rebutted those statements, pointing out that plenty of other vfx houses are building jobs in North America: "Sony, Rhythm & Hues, Zoic Studios, Image Engine, and many other companies have opened shop in Vancouver where there has been a huge growth in VFX jobs." Furthermore, even with $132 million in cash, land, tax credits and financing from the state and the cities of Port St. Lucie and West Palm Beach, Digital Domain is still aggressively pushing forward on building studios in India and China. So much for North America.
Textor is clearly on the defensive, going so far as posting a comment on VFX Soldier, the site that initially broke the news about his comments. His rambling and combative commentary ("I was probably a 3D programmer before you were born.") doesn't address the ethical and legal issues raised by his pay-to-work idea. Instead, Textor claims that, "The VFX business model, as a pure services model, is broken," and somehow that justifies students paying him to work at Digital Domain. Textor also states, "I cannot fix the VFX industry. I am definitely not smart enough for that." That is something becoming increasingly clear to anybody who's been following the story.
(Photo of Debbie and John Trextor via TCPalm.com)


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Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury (Trauma)
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The purpose of this study is to help improve our understanding of the biology involved in the body's response to serious trauma or burn injury. The host response to trauma and burns is a collection of physiological and pathophysiological processes that depend critically upon the regulation of the human innate immune system, with particular emphasis on the inflammatory component of that system. No single research center or small group of centers has the capacity to delineate the integrated response of this complex biological system, which involves multiple molecular and genetic interactions that vary in time. Our proposal promotes the identification of important dynamic relationships that regulate the integration of this complex biological system, with the expectation that this understanding will ultimately impact the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of the hospitalized, severely injured patient.
Multiple Organ Failure
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury
- Time to death [ Time Frame: Within 28 after trauma injury ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Change in gene expression after trauma injury [ Time Frame: Up to 28 days after trauma injury ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Number and types of complications [ Time Frame: Up to 28 days after trauma injury ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Biospecimen Retention: Samples Without DNA
Plasma, blood leukocyte nucleic acids (only RNA, no DNA)
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|November 2003
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|September 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|September 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
This large-scale collaborative project provides the means to acquire the necessary new knowledge directly in humans. Knowledge will be acquired using diverse state-of-the-art genomic and proteomic technologies, a highly complex clinical, proteomic, and genomic database, as well as newly-developed, novel analytical tools to probe this complex dataset. Our analytical capabilities at the genomic and proteomic level are now rapidly evolving and our ability to link these genomic and proteomic data to pathways and functional modules will help us more closely link this cellular data to immunological processes and ultimately, to the phenotypic response (i.e., trajectory) in the injured host. As a result, potential interventions, whether through our Program or other funding mechanisms, can be more effectively designed.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|16 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Acute hospitalized blunt trauma patients
Inclusion criteria for enrollment in the trauma study are as follows:
- Blunt trauma without isolated head injury
- Absence of traumatic brain injury, defined as either AIS head <4 OR GCS motor >3 within 24 hours of injury
- Emergency Department arrival <=6 hours from time of injury
- Blood transfusion within 12 hours of injury
- Base deficit >=6 OR systolic blood pressure <90 mmHg within 60 minutes of emergency department arrival
- Fully or partially intact cervical spinal cord
All patients meeting these criteria are entered into the epidemiologic database and assessed for specific exclusion criteria to establish whether serial blood draws are warranted.
The presence of any of the following exclusion criteria disqualifies a subject from the trauma sampling study.
- Age < 16
- Anticipated survival of <24 hours from injury
- Anticipated survival <28 days due to pre-existing medical condition
- Inability to obtain first blood draw within first 12 hours after injury
- Traumatic brain injury; i.e., GCS ≤8 after ICU admission AND brain computerized tomography scan abnormality within 12 hours after injury
- Inability to obtain informed consent
- Pre-existing, ongoing immunosuppression - e.g. transplant recipient
- Pre-existing, ongoing immunosuppression - e.g. chronic high dose corticosteroids (>20 mg/prednisone-equivalents/day)
- Pre-existing, ongoing immunosuppression - e.g. oncolytic drug(s) therapy within the past 14 days
- Pre-existing, ongoing immunosuppression - e.g. HIV positive AND CD4 count <200 cells/mm3
- Possible requirement for early immunosuppression - e.g. significant likelihood of requiring high dose corticosteroids (e.g. spinal injury)
- Significant pre-existing organ dysfunction - lung: currently receiving home oxygen therapy, as documented in medical records
- Significant pre-existing organ dysfunction - heart: congestive heart failure, as documented in medical records
- Significant pre-existing organ dysfunction - renal: chronic renal failure (creatinine >2)
- Significant pre-existing organ dysfunction - liver: cirrhosis with portal hypertension or encephalopathy
- Patient injured while sampling enrollment temporarily on hold
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00257231
|United States, Colorado
|Denver Health Medical Center at University of Colorado
|Denver, Colorado, United States, 80204
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Presbyterian University Hospital at University of Pittsburgh
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213
|United States, Texas
|Southwestern Medical Center at University of Texas Southwestern
|Dallas, Texas, United States, 75390
|United States, Washington
|Harborview Medical Center
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98104
|Principal Investigator:
|Ronald G Tompkins, MD, ScD
|Massachusetts General Hospital/Shriners Burn Hospital - Boston
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Dr. Ronald G Tompkins, Chief, Burns Service, National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00257231 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|2 U54 GM062119_trauma, NIH 2 U54 GM062119
|Study First Received:
|November 18, 2005
|Last Updated:
|February 24, 2015
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS):
Immunity, innate
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Multiple Organ Failure
Pathologic Processes
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on October 08, 2015


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Friends and HeroesJoin Macky, Portia and friends in an epic animated journey across the ancient world. As they fight for justice and even survival against the might of the Roman Empire, they become friends and then, in turn, heroes.
Throughout these exciting adventures Friends and Heroes brings the inspiring stories of the Old and New Testaments of the Bible to a new generation of children worldwide, who will be empowered by what they see and hear, as they share the courage, compassion, and the everyday dangers faced by Macky and his friends.
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Enjoy a day out on the crystal clear waters on Antigua on this Cades Reef Snorkel Cruise. You'll head out to the island's finest snorkeling site, Cades Reef. The warm, 80 degree farinheit (26 degrees celcius) will make your snorkeling experience one you won't forget!
- Snorkeling cruise to Cades Reef
- See marine life including barracudas, moray eels, sting rays, and reef sharks
- Lunch included
- Complimentary hotel pickup and drop-off
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After pickup from your hotel, you'll set sail to Cades Reef. Once anchored, explore the marine life of Antigua. Stretching over 2 miles, you're likely to see some larger sea animals, including barracudas and moray eels among the soft and colorful coral while snorkeling at Cades Reef. Enjoy lunch on a beautiful beach before sailing back to your hotel.


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About FDA
Can FDA ban direct-to-consumer drug advertising?
The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act permits the advertising of prescription drugs as long as the advertisements are accurate and not misleading. Prohibiting direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising would require an act of Congress to change the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and would also raise complex freedom of speech issues.
FDA has a section called the Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising, and Communications (DDMAC), which oversees prescription drug advertising activities. DDMAC works to ensure that companies that sell prescription drugs also provide information that is truthful, balanced, and accurate by:
- looking for and taking action against advertisements that violate the law
- educating industry and others about the specifics of the law
- encouraging better communication of promotional information that is provided to health care professionals and consumers
- Where can I find information about adverse reactions to a medicine prescribed for my child?
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- Materials from Webinar on Access to Investigational Drugs
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- How FDA Evaluates Regulated Products: Drugs
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- FDA Basics Webinar on Generic Drugs
- FDA Basics Videos: Tim Coté on Orphan Drugs
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- What is counterfeit medicine?
- FDA Basic Video: Interview with John Jenkins on New Drugs (Video)
- What are unapproved drugs and why are they on the market?
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- How do I discard medicine that I no longer need, do I just throw it in the garbage?
- How do I report a bad reaction to medicine or medication error to FDA?
- Does FDA approve the proprietary names of prescription drugs?
- What does FDA require drug manufacturers to do to prevent contaminated drugs? If contamination occurs, how must they correct the problem?
- How does FDA help consumers when drug shortages happen?
- Does FDA approve the information given out by pharmacies when I pick up my medicine?
- How does FDA decide when a drug is not safe enough to stay on the market?
- How do I find out if a drug is approved? Is there a Web site I can go to?
- What is the approval process for a new prescription drug?
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5: I love manga and anime
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7: I'm normally happy, most of the time, unless when kiriian is teasing me....
8: I'm writing a story?
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10: I listen to random music
11: I have invented my own word (actually two) which is Grau :v and Rawr, they means the same
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The American Economic Association, the world's largest organization for economists, is set to take up a proposal Thursday that would attempt to codify ethics guidelines for economists. The Nashville, Tennessee-based group says about half of its 18,000 members are academic economists.
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New Jersey-Based Company Recalls Popcorn Product
October 1, 2012 2:05 PM
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ATLANTA (WAOK) – Popcorn lovers take notice.
Gourmet popcorn retailer, Dale and Thomas, out of Englewood, New Jersey, is voluntarily recalling more than a dozen flavors of its Popcorn Indiana brand due to concerns of possible listeria contamination.
The product in question, sold in various sizes in red bags, has sell-by dates between February and March of next year.
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A Study of the Effect of RO4607381 on Atherosclerotic Plaque in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease
ID Number 08-0098Principal Investigator(s)
Michael E Farkouh
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The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute
This study will assess the effect of RO4607381, compared to placebo, on atherosclerotic plaque in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) including patients with other CHD risk factors. After a pre-randomisation period during which PET/CT and MRI will be conducted, patients will be randomized to receive either RO4607381 600mg po daily, or placebo po daily. PET/CT and MRI scans will be taken at intervals during the study. The anticipated time on study treatment is 2 years, and the target sample size is 100 individuals.
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Woohoo I have an unsoiled vanilla installation awaiting the demon seed.
New skill trees with 210 new skills, new base items, gems, runes, uniques, runewords, sets, crafting improved monster AI and new monster types, elite and heroic monsters, 28 uberquests for advanced characters, 5 challenges. Compatible with Diablo II Lord of Destruction 1.10/1.11/1.12/1.13 (PC/Mac).
Median XL 1.F9b --- the best and latest patch --- necromancer tree revamp --- balance changes
Posted by BrotherLaz on Feb 27th, 2010
And it has been for the past three weeks, but better late than never.
This patch features the following changes over 1.E9:
Good, bad, I'm the one with the crossbow
The necromancer skill tree was overhauled and improved - the hated defensive totems were eliminated to remove the need to teleport around everywhere. This freed up several skill slots, which were used to achieve complete separation of the melee and crossbow trees by introducing a number of new melee and crossbow skills.
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The amazon bloodwitch build was further improved with the Balefire skill that answers the most common issue with the build: no controllable way to lower one's life for Bacchanalia to kick in.
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Thanks to the votes of many players, Median XL ended 6th in the Mod of the Year Player's Choice ranking out of over 10,000 mods! This is a great achievement. Thanks to everyone!
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[1]We do the work of finding all of the stories about the Fins from around the web and all you have to do is click them. Here is what is being said about the Dolphins today:
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[3] five things to watch: http://www.miamidolphins.com/news/article-1/Dolphins-Cowboys-Five-Things-To-Watch/2887580f-a4a1-4f9b-9038-14e2e14c3093
[4] multimedia preview: http://thefinsiders.com/blog/2011/game-preview-dolphins-at-cowboys-112411
[5] perspective on the Cowboys: http://thefinsiders.com/blog/2011/behind-enemy-lines-week-11-vs-cowboys
[6] hopeless season by the face mask and roused it to life: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/11/23/2515253/miami-dolphins-matt-moore-taking.html
[7] watching his ridiculous Pee-Wee Herman dance: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-dolphins/fl-miami-dolphins-1124-20111123,0,7519249.story
[8] what the Dolphins have to do: http://espn.go.com/blog/afceast/post/_/id/34665/five-things-to-watch-dolphins-cowboys
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ARLINGTON, Va. (WUSA) -- Debbie Taylor has been in the business of treating addiction since 1972. She is now the director and senior vice-president of Phoenix Houses of the Mid-Atlantic, which provide both inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation for drugs and alcohol to both adults and minors.
"The majority of these children are drinking half a pint of vodka at one time," says Taylor.
MORE: The Damage, Where to Get Help
9NEWS NOW sat down with Taylor at the Phoenix House in Arlington; she says what's changed in recent years is the number of young people they treat who are full-blown alcoholics, and whose bodies are paying the price.
"I am seeing in treatment now kids in their 20's. 25, 26... Who have failed out of college, coming to me with beginning cirrhosis and pancreatitis. "
"I didn't see that 20 years ago in anybody under 45 years of age."
Taylor says most parents have no idea how much alcohol their children are consuming, viewing it as teenage experimentation instead of the voracious binge-drinking that has become more the norm.
She says this onslaught of alcohol changes the chemistry of the brain in its reward center. It alters the stimuli needed to make a person feel good; sometimes, forever.
"It has to do with the chemicals you are putting in the brain. And the more you put in, the less your body will produce of what should normally be there,"
Most people know alcohol abuse can eventually destroy a person's liver. But Taylor says many don't realize its damaging effects on other organs, like the heart.
"The heart tissue will be affected, causing heart arrhythmias, causing obvious blood pressure fluctuations that would not be believed," says Taylor.
Sometimes families don't realize the scope of the problem- both mental and physical- until it is too late. But Debbie Taylor says it is on all of us to stop looking the other way.
"Adolescence is the time that they will push whatever boundaries are there until they are stopped," says Taylor. "And we as a community need to say that's too far. You have gone too far."
TheCDC says other health consequences of underage drinking, especially binge drinking include:
- Disruption of normal growth and sexual development
- Impotence
- Higher risk of suicide
- Gateway to the abuse of other drugs


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MCS researcher presents tutorial on scientific visualization of flow field data
Flow visualization has long been an area of research, but the rapidly increasing size and complexity of flow field data have raised many new challenges.
|November 5, 2013
Clearing up concerns about cloud computing and genomics research
Genomics researchers, who produce enormous amounts of data thanks to new DNA sequencing technology, have begun to recognize the potential benefits of moving to the cloud. At the same time, cloud computing raises some concerns.
|November 5, 2013
Clearing up some concerns about cloud computing and genomics research
Cloud computing has become a popular option for scientists wanting on-demand access to increased capacity and capabilities, without having to invest in costly new hardware, storage, or other infras
|October 7, 2013
Cosmological toolkit project featured on DOE energy website
Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory, in partnership with Fermilab and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, are developing a state-of-the-art toolkit for analyzing cosmological simulation
|October 2, 2013
Modeling rolling friction – a real drag on a rolling body
Rolling friction at the interface between moving parts has long attracted the interest of researchers in applied mechanics. Among the challenges facing model developers, however, has been the larg
|September 23, 2013
Using Masks to Improve Compression of Big Data in Scientific Applications
Masks can be used to achieve high compression ratios of big data.
|September 23, 2013
Transferring data rapidly with Mercury
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|August 28, 2013
Toward Observatory Cloud Computing
New inexpensive and reliable sensing devices, such as weather cameras and floats, are allowing us to monitor in real-time a variety of phenomena on an unprecedented scale.
|August 27, 2013
Using dual decomposition for solving problems involving data uncertainty
Researchers develop a new parallel formulation using dual decomposition to solve problems requiring decisions under uncertainty.
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Huckleberry Finn
|This article possibly contains original research. (March 2014)
|Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn, as depicted by E. W. Kemble in the original 1884 edition of the book.
|First appearance
|The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
|Created by
|Mark Twain
Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (taking place after The Adventures of Tom Sawyer). He is 12 or 13 years old during the former and a year older ("thirteen or fourteen or along there," Chapter 17) at the time of the latter. Huck also narrates Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective, two shorter sequels to the first two books.
Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is the son of the town's vagrant drunkard, "Pap" Finn. Sleeping on doorsteps when the weather is fair, in empty hogsheads during storms, and living off of what he receives from others, Huck lives the life of a destitute vagabond. The author metaphorically names him "the juvenile pariah of the village" and describes Huck as "idle, and lawless, and vulgar, and bad," qualities for which he was admired by all the children in the village, although their mothers "cordially hated and dreaded" him.
Huck is an archetypal innocent, able to discover the "right" thing to do despite the prevailing theology and prejudiced mentality of the South of that era. The best example of this is his decision to help Jim escape slavery, even though he believes he will go to hell for it (see Christian views on slavery).
His appearance is described in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He wears the clothes of full-grown men which he probably received as charity, and as Twain describes him, "he was fluttering with rags." He has a torn broken hat and his trousers are supported with only one suspender.
Tom's Aunt Polly calls Huck a "poor motherless thing." Huck confesses to Tom in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that he remembers his mother and his parents' relentless fighting that only abated with her death.
Huck has a carefree life free from societal norms or rules, stealing watermelons and chickens and "borrowing" boats and cigars. Due to his unconventional childhood, Huck has received almost no education. At the end of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck is adopted by the Widow Douglas, who sends him to school in return for his saving her life. In the course of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn he learns enough to be literate and even reads books for entertainment when there isn't anything else to do. His knowledge of history as related to Jim is wildly inaccurate, but it is not specified if he is being wrong on purpose as a joke on Jim.
In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the Widow attempts to "sivilize" (sic) the newly wealthy Huck. Huck's father takes him from her, but Huck manages to fake his own death and escape to Jackson's Island, where he coincidentally meets up with Jim, a slave who was owned by the Widow Douglas' sister, Miss Watson.
Jim is running away because he overheard Miss Watson planning to "sell him South" for eight hundred dollars. Jim wants to escape to Ohio, where he can find work to eventually buy his family's freedom. Huck and Jim take a raft down the Mississippi River in hopes of finding freedom from slavery for Jim and freedom from Pap for Huck. Their adventures together, along with Huck's solo adventures, comprise the core of the book.
In the end, however, Jim gains his freedom through Miss Watson's death, as she freed him in her will. Pap, it is revealed, has died in Huck's absence, and although he could safely return to St. Petersburg, Huck plans to flee west to Indian Territory.
In Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective, the sequels to Huck Finn, however, Huck is living in St. Petersburg again after the events of his eponymous novel. In Abroad, Huck joins Tom and Jim for a wild, fanciful balloon ride that takes them overseas. In Detective, which occurs about a year after the events of Huck Finn, Huck helps Tom solve a murder mystery.
Huck is Tom Sawyer's closest friend. Their friendship is partially rooted in Sawyer's emulation of Huck's freedom and ability to do what he wants, like swearing and smoking when he feels like it. In one moment in the novel, he openly brags to his teacher that he was late for school because he stopped to talk with Huck Finn and enjoyed it, something for which he knew he would (and did) receive a whipping. Nonetheless, Tom remains a devoted friend to Huck in all of the novels they appear in.
Jim, a runaway slave whom Huck befriends, is another dominant force in Huck's life. He is the symbol for the moral awakening Huck undergoes throughout Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Pap Finn is Huck's abusive, drunken father who shows up at the beginning of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and forcibly takes his son to live with him. Pap's only method of parenting is physical abuse. Although he seems derisive of education and civilized living, Pap seems to be jealous of Huck and is infuriated that his son would try to amount to more, and live in better conditions than he did.
The character of Huck Finn is based on Tom Blankenship, the real-life son of a sawmill laborer and sometime drunkard named Woodson Blankenship, who lived in a "ramshackle" house near the Mississippi River behind the house where the author grew up in Hannibal, Missouri.[1] The father of Huck, called "Pap" Finn, may be based on Jimmy Finn, a full-blown alcoholic who lived on the streets, and it is only through Twain's remembrances that Woodson is characterized as a drunkard. Twain left Hannibal and his boyhood at an early age and his memories of these people are colored by what he could have known and understood at the time, as a boy of less than 14 years old. Twain's friend Tom Blankenship didn't attend school because there were no public schools at the time, and his family was too poor to send him to a private school. Left at loose ends in a busy household with six sisters and lacking a mother who seems to have died when he was young, this Tom was indeed "at liberty" most of the time.[citation needed]
Twain mentions his childhood friend Tom Blankenship as the inspiration for creating Huckleberry Finn in his autobiography: "In Huckleberry Finn I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had. His liberties were totally unrestricted. He was the only really independent person—boy or man—in the community, and by consequence he was tranquilly and continuously happy and envied by the rest of us. And as his society was forbidden us by our parents the prohibition trebled and quadrupled its value, and therefore we sought and got more of his society than any other boy's." – Mark Twain's Autobiography.
Huck's adventure is in part based on an incident that happened to Tom Blankenship's eldest sibling, his brother Benson, a teenage fisherman who had his own skiff. He aided a runaway slave in defiance of the law, spurning a probable reward to him instead bring food and other items to the slave, who was hiding in the wilderness near the river over the course of a summer. Eventually, bounty hunters chased the slave onto a logjam, where he drowned. Days later, Clemens and other local boys were exploring the logjam, when the body was dislodged and sprang up from beneath the water violently, frightening the boys. Some critics[who?] have also connected certain traits of Benson Blankenship to the character Muff Potter, from Twain's novel Tom Sawyer, such as his owning a skiff and occasionally sharing his catch with the boys of the town, and mending their kites.[citation needed]
Tom Blankenship has passed from history with few solid clues as to his ultimate fate. His sister told Twain near the turn of the century that both of her brothers were dead,[citation needed] and local rumor says that Tom perished in one of the cholera epidemics which swept up the Mississippi River in the years after the Civil War.[citation needed] Twain himself told reporters that he heard that Tom moved to Montana and was a well-respected Justice of the Peace, but this is thought to be wishful thinking by some historians.[citation needed] A Hannibal, Mo., old timer[who?] related that Tom "left Hannibal for the penitentiary."[citation needed] Mention is made in the local newspapers that he was arrested for stealing food repeatedly in the early 1860s.[citation needed]
No death certificate has ever been located for Tom, but census records indicate that Benson moved to Texas and started a family alongside his uncles and cousins by the 1860s.[citation needed] This suggests that there may have been a period when Tom and his father Woodson were more or less alone in Hannibal, as the daughters all married or entered into service with local families.[citation needed] No record of Tom's serving in the military during the Civil War has emerged as of this date, either.[citation needed] A local[who?][where?] was quoted as saying the family "played out" and disappeared from the area by the time the war was over.[citation needed] The ultimate truth seems to have passed into the unknowable realm, leaving us only with Twain's fiction.[citation needed]
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
- Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)
- Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896)
- Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians – unfinished
- Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy – unfinished
- The further adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1983) Greg Matthews
Actors who have portrayed Huckleberry Finn in movies and TV:
- Lewis Sargent (1920)
- Junior Durkin (1930 and 1931)
- Jackie Moran (1938)
- Donald O'Connor (1938)
- Mickey Rooney (1939)
- Eddie Hodges (1960)
- Micheal Shea (1968 in the tv series The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
- Roman Madyanov (1973 in Hopelessly Lost)
- Jeff Tyler (1973 in Huckleberry Finn)
- Jeff East (1973 and 1974)
- Steve Stark (1979)
- Vladislav Galkin (1981)
- Ron Howard (1975)
- Ian Tracey
- Gary Krug (1985 in The Adventures of Mark Twain)
- Patrick Day (1986)
- Elijah Wood (1993)
- Brad Renfro (1995)
- Mark Wills (voice)
- Evan Wang (2011)
- Jake T. Austin (2013)
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- ^ (Washington, D.C.) Express, June 6, 2007
- Reich, W,; Felton, E,; et al. (1988), "A comparison of the home and social environments of children of alcoholic and non-alcoholic parents", British Journal of Addiction 83 (7): 831–839, doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1988.tb00518.x, PMID 3207941
- Haberman, Paul W. (1966), "Childhood symptoms in children of alcoholics and comparison group parents Trial: New Evidence and New Difficulties", Journal of marriage and the family 28 (2): 152–154
- Eiden, R,; Edwards, E,; et al. (2007), "A conceptual model for the development of externalizing behavior problems among kindergarten children of alcoholic families: role of parenting and children's self regulation", J Mol Biol 43 (5): 1187–1201, doi:10.1037/0012-16188.8.131.527, PMID 17723044


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