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Romsey Abbey is confident it can raise £4 million needed to press ahead with an ambitious scheme to preserve the ancient building.
Church bosses want to enhance part of the South Garth and the Church Rooms in a bid to protect the Saxon Rood and also provide more facilities to attract visitors and worshippers.
In a survey conducted by the abbey, 80 per cent of of people interviewed believed that £4 million was an "achievable" sum.
The abbey says several local organisations and individuals would be interested in supporting a fund-raising campaign and that there was "immense love" for the town's landmark building, which is Hampshire's biggest parish church.
Romsey's vicar, the Rev Tim Sledge said: "The proposed development will enable the abbey to be of better service to our community, while providing a high standard of educational and visitor experience."
The two main aims of the proposed development are the protection of the rare and ancient Saxon Rood (cross) in the South Garth, which is currently exposed to the elements and making the chapel in the North Apsidal, currently used for choir practice, into a place of silent reflection and prayer.
The choirs would be moved into a purpose-built song room.
Proposals on the table also include a redevelopment of Church Rooms and the upgrade of education and visitor facilities at the abbey.
Mr Sledge stressed that the scheme was still at the pre-planning stage and added: "The project must be sustainable as it will be the biggest building development for the abbey in hundreds of years, so we need to get it right for future generations, as well as for now."
He added: "I feel very much that this is a building for the whole of the community and beyond. There is a sense of ownership of the abbey as part of the precious heritage of this town which is not just to be preserved, but enhanced for a fast moving and growing community and for the expectation of tourists who come here and whose expectations change and grow all the time."
Romsey Abbey Parochial Church Council (PCC) is due to meet on April 12 to review the results of a feasibility study in detail before deciding on the next steps.
If a decision is made to proceed, the project will require volunteers who may be interested in being part of the fund-raising campaign or communications team. Anyone with skills in these areas is asked to contact Rob Gower via the Parish Office: parishoffice@rom seyabbey.org.uk Any development scheme will go out to a wider community consultation.


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Breaking from Schefter regarding the Saints and Bountygate:
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Sean Payton suspended one year. Mickey Loomis 8 game and $500,000 fine. Saints fined $500,000 and a second round pick in 2012 and 2012.
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Rams DC Gregg Williams suspended indefinitely but will miss at least 2012 season for his role with Saints bounty program

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This year's Black Friday shoppers were split into two distinct groups: those who wanted to fall into a turkey-induced slumber and those who'd rather shop instead.
Stores typically open in the wee hours of the morning on the day after Thanksgiving that's named Black Friday because of retail folklore that it's when merchants turn a profit for the year. But after testing how shoppers would respond to earlier hours last year, stores such as Target and Toys R Us this year opened as early as Thanksgiving evening. That created two separate waves of shoppers.
Lori Chandler, 54, and her husband, Sam, 55, were a part of the early group. By the time they reached the Wal-Mart in Greenville, S.C. early Friday, they had already hit several stores, including Target and Best Buy. In fact, they had been shopping since midnight.
"It's a tradition," Lori said as she looked at some toys she bought for her four grandchildren. Sam, smiling, agreed: "We've learned over the years, you have to stand in line early and pray."
Elizabeth Garcia, a sales rep from the Bronx borough of New York City, decided on a later shopping start at about 3:30 a.m. at Toys R Us in New York's Times Square. As a result Garcia, who has three children ages three, five and seven, believes she missed some of the lines on Thanksgiving when the store opened at 8 p.m. That's good news since the crowds got to her last year, and she Garcia almost got into a fight over a Tinker Bell couch.
"This year I wasn't about to kill people," she said.
The earlier hours are an effort by stores to make shopping as convenient as possible for Americans, who they fear won't spend freely during the two-month holiday season in November and December because of economic uncertainty. Many shoppers are worried about high unemployment and a package of tax increases and spending cuts known as the "fiscal cliff" that will take effect in January unless Congress passes a budget deal by then.
At the same time, Americans have grown more comfortable shopping on websites that offer cheap prices and the convenience of being able to buy something from smartphones, laptops and tablet computers from just about anywhere. That puts added pressure on brick-and-mortar stores, which can make up to 40 percent of their annual revenue during the holiday shopping season, to give consumers a compelling reason to leave their homes.
That's becoming more difficult: the National Retail Federation, an industry trade group, estimates that overall sales in November and December will rise 4.1 percent this year to $586.1 billion, or about flat with last year's growth. But the online part of that is expected to rise 15 percent to $68.4 billion, according to Forrester Research.
As a result, brick-and-mortar retailers have been trying everything they can to lure consumers into stores. Some stores tested the earlier hours last year, but this year more retailers opened their doors late on Thanksgiving or at midnight on Black Friday. In addition to expanding their hours, many also are offering free layaways and shipping, matching the cheaper prices of online rivals and updating their mobile shopping apps with more information.
"Every retailer wants to beat everyone else," said C. Britt Beemer, chairman of America's Research Group, a research firm based in Charleston, S.C. "Shoppers love it."
Indeed, some holiday shoppers seemed to find stores' earlier hours appealing. Julie Hansen, a spokeswoman at Mall of America in Minneapolis, said 30,000 people showed up for the mall's midnight opening, compared with 20,000 last year. She noted that shoppers are coming in waves, and sales aren't just being shifted around.
"This is additional dollars," Hansen said.
Hansen said stores that didn't participate in the midnight opening last year learned a lesson. Last year, 100 of the 520 Mall of America tenants opened their doors at midnight. This year, that figure doubled.
About 11,000 shoppers were in lines wrapped around Macy's flagship store in New York City's Herald Square when it opened at midnight on Black Friday. That's up from an estimated 9,000 to 10,000 shoppers who showed up the store's midnight opening last year.
Joan Riedewald, a private aide for the elderly, and her four children ages six to 18, were among them. By that time, she already had spent about $100 at Toys R Us, which opened at 8 p.m., and planned to spend another $500 at Macy's before heading to Old Navy.
"I only shop for sales," she said.
By the afternoon on Thanksgiving, there were 11 shoppers in a four-tent encampment outside a Best Buy store near Ann Arbor, Mich., that opened at midnight. The purpose of their wait? A $179 40-inch Toshiba LCD television is worth missing Thanksgiving dinner at home.
Jackie Berg, 26, of Ann Arbor, arrived first with her stepson and a friend Wednesday afternoon, seeking three of the televisions. The deal makes the TVs $240 less than their normal price, so Berg says that she'll save more than $700.
"We'll miss the actual being there with family, but we'll have the rest of the weekend for that," she said.
But some shoppers decided to stick to traditional Black Friday shopping hours. At a Kohl's store in Milwaukee, which opened at midnight, Lavette Roberts scoured the shelves for clothes her son could take back to college next week.
A Black Friday veteran who has participated for the past seven years, the 45-year-old welder said she was on a strict $500 budget, and she wanted to come out early on Black Friday to get the best deals.
"My husband doesn't play. If I spend $501, he'll make me come back," she joked.
Nicole Page of Bristol, Conn., shopped with her sister at a Wal-Mart in Manchester, Conn., at about 4:45 a.m. on Black Friday. Page, who recently finished school and started working as a nurse, bought an electric fireplace for $200 that she said was originally $600. Her shopping cart also had candy canes, a nail clipper for her dog and other stocking stuffers.
Page said she and her sister stuck with the Black Friday tradition; They've shopped in the early morning of Black Friday in previous years.
"We try to make a tradition of it. It's kind of exciting," she said.
Mae Anderson and Anne D'Innocenzio reported from New York. Mitch Weiss contributed from Greenville, S.C. Stephen Singer contributed from Connecticut. Dinesh Ramde in Milwaukee. Tom Krisher contributed to this report from Ann Arbor, Mich., and Toledo, Ohio.


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Kent: To the town of Breckenridge
October 29, 2012
I was with a heavy heart that we recently sold our house in Breckenridge, after seven years, in this beautiful town. Altitude finally reared its ugly head and after trying everything to overcome it, we decided to sell and go to a lower altitude.
We will miss this town, more than can be written, on a mere page.
The friends we made and the memories, will always be with us.
Thank you, to Luke Paffrath, whom we met one afternoon, who had the personality and enthusiasm,to help us look for and purchase a home, in two hours!
Karen at the Blue Moose, who embraced these lively Louisiana people and their friends, I will miss those whole wheat pancakes, as we say in the south, Ya'll are the Best!
To Dora, at the Twisted Pine, whose friendly smile and words, just brought out the shopping in you.
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To all our friends, we look forward to seeing you again soon.
Breckenridge is a real town, with real people, nothing fabricated here. it will be impossible to find a better town, anywhere, skiing or otherwise. Sincerely,


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Toy, Comic Book and Pop Culture Show this December...
For a great selection of action figures and collectibles, check out BigBadToyStore.com, BriansToys.com, ToyWiz.com, SmallJoes.com, PastGenerationToys.com, Urban-Collector.com, MonkeyDepot.com, HobbyLinkJapan.com, and Sekaido.com.
To insure your action figure collection, get in touch with our sponsor Collectibles Insurance.
Orangestone Promotions, Inc., promoters of the Pittsburgh based convention called the Steel City Con, is celebrating 21 years as "Pennsylvania's Largest Toy, Comic Book and Pop Culture Show" this December 3-5, 2010 at the Monroeville Convention Center.
Greenlight Collectibles, a premier manufacturer and marketer of officially licensed authentic die cast replicas will be attending the event. Greenlight Collectibles will be debuting it's new die cast Hollywood Series and also selling product. Additionally, they will have distributor and whole sale account information for new business as well as promoting the custom projects that they offer.
In addition to a massive selection of new and vintage toys and comic books, attendees will be treated to signing appearances by many pop culture celebrity icons. The following are a few of the guests attending: Lou Ferrigno ( "The Incredible Hulk"); Richard Kiel ("Jaws" from the James Bond Films); Priscilla Barnes ("Terri" from Three's Company and The Devils Rejects); Kane Hodder ("Jason Voorhees" from the Friday The 13th Films); Bruno Sammartino (Legendary Wrestling Superstar) and TNA Knockout's Angelia Love and Velvet Sky from the Beautiful People. Attendees can also expect to see a large number of Comic Book Artists, Writers and Illustrators.
Anyone interested in finding out more about the Steel City Con can go to www.steelcitycon.com.


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what is keeping this layout centered?
is this the default behavior of table display?
Hi there,
The correct way to centre a div in the browser is to apply the following CSS rule to it:
#myDiv{margin:0 auto;}
Tables are not centred by default, but you shouldn't be using them for layout purposes anyway
I'm wondering how quizpoint has centered their layout. I didn't see margin: 0 auto; in their CSS.
It's there, well at least the margin: auto bit is.
margin: auto
.container {
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
This is what centres the main container.
The declaration to give the main container some spacing from the top of the page comes here:
margin-top: 3.5em;
You can see all of this if you use your browser's dev tools.Here's how to do it in Chrome: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/chrome-dev-tools-markup-and-style/
k, last question about quizpoint. on div.row-fluid it's set to display:table; and then content "".
I've seen this on a few other sites with display set to table.. what is the purpose of content "" in conjunction with display:table;?
mmm, that just seems like BAD CODE. Content:"..." ; is only applicable to generated pseudo elements such as :before or :after. it has NOTHING to do with display:table;
The content="" is set on the :before and :after pseudo elements on the content area, and this is the latest artifice for enclosing floats, though I'm not sure it's needed here. (It's probably just there as part of all that bloated bootstrap stuff.)
.row-fluid::before, .row-fluid::after {
display: table;
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Jimenez an 'emergency' option in Angels' outfield
ANAHEIM -- Since making his Major League debut on April 12, infielder Luis Jimenez has made a strong impression with his glove at third base in 18 games while Alberto Callaspo was on the disabled list.
"I don't know if you could ask any player to come up and do anything else on the defensive side," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "He's done everything you could ask any player to do on the defensive side and it's helped us win games."
Prior to Friday's game, the Angels activated Callaspo from the disabled list, but kept Jimenez on the 25-man roster because of his defense and his versatility.
As Callaspo retakes his role as the team's everyday third baseman, Jimenez may find his new role in left field as he spent Friday afternoon using Mark Trumbo's glove to get in some outfield work.
"I just am ready and available for anything they need me to do," Jimenez said. "Any spot that they need anything. If I'm here, I'll be able to do it."
Scioscia said Jimenez will be used in left field on an "emergency basis," but the 25-year old is confident and comfortable with his abilities in the outfield as he spent some time out there during the Caribbean series.
"I'm OK. Anywhere they need me, I'll be OK," Jimenez said. "If I can make the routine play, I'll be OK."
William Boor is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Geri Halliwell 'open to fairytale ending'
Geri Halliwell is "really open to relationships and marriage."
The 40-year-old Spice Girls crooner is mother to six-year-old daughter Bluebell with filmmaker and screenwriter Sacha Gervasi.
Geri dated businessman Henry Beckwith for three years before they split and enjoyed a brief romance with Katy Perry's ex-husband Russell Brand in September.
The star doesn't view her previous affairs as failures.
"The deal is, I'm really open to relationships and marriage," she told British newspaper the Mirror.
"I'd like to think there was a fairytale ending for me and I'm very open to it.
"You'll have to ask me that when I'm 90-years-old and I'll let you know the answer."
Spice Girls musical Viva Forever! will debut in London December 11.
Geri is excited about the show and is elated that the band's songs remain relevant.
"When we got to see the first run-through, it was just incredible," she gushed.
"I was very tearful and couldn't control it. It was so emotional watching our songs being interpreted on stage.
"It was like, who would've thought our songs would be here like this 16 years later. I'm really proud because this show displays our songs in a natural, glorious way."
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"Since we can not change reality, let us change the eyes that see reality."
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Babak Sarrafan is professor and director of Television and Film Production at San Jose State University. He has helped to rebuild the film program from scratch and has brought name recognition to the Radio, Telelvision, and Film Program.
With over twenty years of professional experience in the film and television business, he is an accomplished director, producer, designer, editor, and music composer.
As a filmmaker of two award-winning feature films, Sting of Chance and Pizza Wars the Movie, Babak earned limited theatrical release and national DVD distribution. He has completed numerous award winning shorts, documentaries, and commercials as well.
He also has directed and edited multi-award winning music videos for The Donnas, Mix Master Mike, Townsend, High on Fire, Natalise, Nuthouze, and Mark-D with airplay on MTV, MTV Chi, VH1, CMC, and music related websites.
Babak is the live action director, editor, and creator of the Green Ninja, the climate action super hero as seen on greenninja.org.
As an editor/designer/special effects artist, he has worked on episodics including Law & Order, Fame LA, Magnificent Seven, New York Undercover, Ultra Force, Soldier of Fortune, Pinky & the Brain, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Sailor Moon, and Sea Quest. He has lent his skills to specials such as the Oscars, the Emmys, Elizabeth Taylor Tribute, Sea World Special, Disney Special, the Ace Awards, American Film Institute Tribute, American Music Awards, and the Kennedy Center Honors. You have also seen his work in motion pictures such as Independence Day, Fled, Stargate, 2-days in the Valley, Meteor-Man, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Swift Justice, Moll Flanders, Steel, numerous movies of the week, commercials, and music videos for Henry Rollins and Michael Jackson.


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The presentation will be given by CEO, Philip J. Young on Monday, September 10, 2012 at 4:05PM US Eastern Time, and will provide an update to the market on progress that Ampliphi has made in the last twelve months since its creation in 2011 through the merger of Biocontrol Ltd with Targeted Genetics Inc.
AmpliPhi Biosciences
AmpliPhi BioSciences Corporation [APHB.PK], created in 2011 through the merger of Biocontrol Limited with Targeted Genetics Inc., is a biotechnology company dedicated to the development of innovative antibacterial solutions to improve human health through the application of its proprietary bacteriophage platform. The Company's lead product development programs are targeting Gram-negative infections that are often resistant to existing antibiotic treatments. For more information, please visit www.ampliphibio.com
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Efficacy Study & Safety Evaluation of SR-T100 Gel in Actinic Keratosis Treatment
This study has been completed.
G&E Herbal Biotechnology Co., LTD
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
G&E Herbal Biotechnology Co., LTD
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: December 15, 2011
Last updated: February 17, 2016
Last verified: February 2016
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Detailed Description:
Studies of SR-T100 gel and its clinical relevance in the treatment of AK, providing adequate measured outcomes for skin lesion treatment. In addition to the high complete response rate (90.0%) as compared with the conventional therapy, the most significant result was that no undesirable side effects were associated with the use of SR-T100 gel. The result also shows approximately 80% of study subjects had a complete response in phase II clinical trial conducted in Taiwan; hence, result from our study model suggested SR-T100 gel offers beneficial therapeutic values in treatment of AK is harmless to the skin as well as high tolerance level displayed by majority of patients.
|Actinic Keratosis
|Drug: SR-T100 gel Drug: Vehicle gel
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Double-Blind, Parallel, Vehicle-Controlled Phase III Trial to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of Topical SR-T100 Gel in the Treatment of Patients With Actinic Keratosis
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Comparison of SR-T100 gel effect with those of vehicle gel (Placebo) on efficacy and tolerability in patients with actinic keratosis [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]The primary objective is to compare the complete clearance rate between treatment groups at 8 weeks after the completion of 16 weeks study treatment. The primary efficacy endpoint is to evaluate the complete clearance rate at 8 weeks after the completion of 16 weeks study treatment between treatment groups. The complete clearance is defined as the absence of visible or palpable AK lesions in the treatment area
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Evaluation of efficacy and tolerability of SR-T100 gel in AK treatment [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]SR-T100 clinical application in Actinic Keratosis treatment as direct proportional relationship to lesion size reduction, complete & partial clearance defined consequently as 100% & ≧75% reduction, coordinated toxicity & bio-safety reports supplements additional case study basis & foundation.
|Study Start Date:
|October 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|November 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: SR-T100 gel
Patient group receiving medication SR-T100 gel with active ingredient under investigation, enrolled subjects randomly assigned to this group to accurately depict statistical significance of the measured outcome.
Drug: SR-T100 gel
Patient will be instructed to self-apply approximately 0.3~0.5g of SR-T100 gel on 25 cm squared treatment area (avoiding the periocular areas, lips, and nares) once daily with an occlusive dressing for 16 weeks treatment period.
Active Comparator: Vehicle gel
Patients given placebo with non-SR-T100 ingredients as they are being administered to patients, subjects are under random assignments from patient pool to depict statistically significant outcome measurement.
Drug: Vehicle gel
Patient wil be instructed to self-apply approximately 0.3~0.5g of vehicle gel (without active ingredient)per total of 25 cm squared treatment area (avoiding the periocular areas, lips, and nares) once daily with an occlusive dressing for 16 weeks treatment period.
Detailed Description:
The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate a clinically significant outcome involving SR-T100 topical gel developed against skin lesions such as AK. Furthermore, evaluation of SR-T100 efficacy & tolerability in treating AK lesions are developed as secondary objective in this clinical study. Patients with at least two clinically visible, discrete, non-hyperkeratotic, non-hypertrophic AK lesions on the arms, shoulder, chest, face and or scalp and at least one lesion of greater than or equal to 4mm in diameter within a total of 25 cm squared contiguous or non-contiguous treatment are expected to be enrolled. Candidate pool is then divided into two groups with random assignments of treatment group or placebo group. This randomization scheme will be generated by biostatistics and produced by a computer software program that incorporates a standard procedure for generating random probabilities. Study procedures include laboratory testings, analytical readings as well as clinical assessment practices for treatment efficacy and safety evaluations.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|20 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Male or female is 20 years of age or above and patient has at least two clinically visible, discrete, non hyperkeratotic, hypertrophic AK lesions located within a 25 cm squared contiguous or non contiguous treatment area including the arms, shoulder, chest, face and scalp. Patient has at least one histological confirmed actinic keratosis lesion of greater or equal to 4 mm in diameter within the selected treatment area.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient has any dermatological disease and condition, such as atopic dermatitis, basal cell carcinoma, eczema, psoriasis, rosacea, squamous cell carcinoma, melanoma, or other possible confounding skin conditions in the treatment or surrounding area within 5cm distances from treatment area.
- Patient had used the following treatments within 4 weeks prior to the study treatment initiation as immunomodulators or immunosuppressive therapy,interferon and cytotoxic drugs.
- Patient treated with topical 5 FU, diclofenac gel, imiquimod, corticosteroids, retinoids, masoprocol on the treatment area within 4 weeks prior to the study treatment initiation.
- Patient received cryodestruction, chemodestruction, curettage, photodynamic therapy, surgical excision on the treatment area within 4 weeks prior to the study treatment initiation.
- Patient had received any of the following treatments on the treatment area in 6 months before study treatment initiation begins, such as psoralen plus UVA therapy, UVB therapy, laser abrasion, dermabrasion chemical peel.
- Patient is known to be hypersensitive to the study medication.
- Female who is pregnant, breast fed or considers of becoming pregnant while on the study.
- Patient had used of any investigational drug within the past 30 days before enrollment.
Contacts and Locations
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01493921
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01493921
|Chiayi Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
|Chiayi, Taiwan
|Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
|Kaohsiung, Taiwan
|Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
|Kaohsiung, Taiwan
|Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital
|Kaohsiung, Taiwan
|Chi Mei Medical Center YongKang
|Tainan, Taiwan
|National Cheng Kung University Hospital
|Tainan, Taiwan
Sponsors and Collaborators
G&E Herbal Biotechnology Co., LTD
|Principal Investigator:
|Hamm-Ming Sheu, MD
|National Cheng-Kung University Hospital
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Additional Information:
Keywords provided by G&E Herbal Biotechnology Co., LTD:
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|G&E Herbal Biotechnology Co., LTD
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01493921 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|December 15, 2011
|Last Updated:
|February 17, 2016
Keywords provided by G&E Herbal Biotechnology Co., LTD:
SR-T100 Clinical treatment against Actinic Keratosis
Actinic keratosis skin lesion treatment with SR-T100 gel
Skin lesion treatment with SR-T100 gel
SR-T100 gel treatment against skin lesion
Clinical efficacy study of SR-T100 gel
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Keratosis, Actinic
Skin Diseases
Precancerous Conditions
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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If you told me six years ago that I would be living in my hometown and working for a weekly newspaper, I probably would have gotten mad at you.
Well, it's almost over for the elections.
Occasionally, we think it's nice to look around and notice the good things going on in the community. Here are some things that deserve a pat on the back.
"Welcome back, Mr. Whitlock," the hotel host greeted me as Lori and I returned from an evening out.
Last week, the National Football League (NFL) reached a tentative deal with referees to end the labor dispute get them back on the field.
Occasionally, we think it's nice to look around and notice the good things going on in the community. Here is a list of events and organizations that deserve a pat on the back.
I'm not from here. I haven't read this newspaper my whole life and I'm only connected to a tiny number of people that live here.
Robert Mulligan
Guest columnist
Mr. Fattizzi's rant has finally caused me to respond to this misguided concept that people have.
My memory is shot to pieces with the ravishes of old age.
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Topic: New member of "The Club
Hi, My name is Mary, from San Antonio, Tx and was recently diagnosed with this illness, intrahepatic type, and will have my first chemo session tomorrow.
I initially was sent to the hospital to have gallstones removed and 7 days later, left there with the gall bladder intact and an oncologist appointment.
Whew, what a load of bricks that hit that day....am better now with all the help of the occupational nurse at my employer, the case nurse at my insurance company and the staff at the local University Hospital system....not to mention friends and family members coming to my aide.....


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The future hit fast for the Clippers and Doc Rivers on Wednesday.
"I've been here 12 hours and we're already talking about drafting players, so there's a lot of work to be done," the team's new coach said. "Free agency comes up right behind that, so we're behind the 8-ball."
The Rivers Regime begins in earnest today with the NBA draft that opens barely 24 hours after Rivers was introduced as the 16th Clippers coach in the club's Los Angeles history.
The Clippers get one shot this year in the two-round draft, picking at No. 25.
In a pool that offers some slim pickings in terms of impact talent, there remains enough intrigue in the prospects to pose some tricky questions.
The Clippers can do all the homework they want, but after 24 players are off the board, they will have to evaluate on the fly and see if the best available pick can be applied to what they need to shore up most.
Not in any particular order, that would be backup depth in the middle, perimeter defense and shooting.
And when it comes time to pick, who has the final say or veto? Not only is Rivers the head coach, he's been slotted as senior vice president of basketball operations, one notch above vice president of basketball operations Gary Sacks, who did a lot of the footwork to hire Rivers.
"I've always been open to working with the coach on everything and everybody incorporating our entire front office," Sacks said. "That's the key, finding a way to complement each other with our strengths. Not everyone can do everything all the time. My role stays the same, trying to acquire players and put this team in a position to compete.
"At the end of the day that's going to be a group decision. I believe Doc will have the final say, but I think he'll rely on everyone."
By the time the Clippers pick, they may be measuring the likes of defensive centers like Louisville's Gorgui Dieng, North Carolina's Mason Plumlee or Kansas' Jeff Withey against a wing player such as Cal's Allen Crabbe or San Diego State's Jamaal Franklin.
And what if the Clippers, as reported last week, might be prepared to part with backup guard Eric Bledsoe to shore up a need via a trade?
That's always the unpredictable nature of the event that begins at 4 p.m. from Barclay's Center in Brooklyn.
What is always predictable is clubs holding their cards close to the vest.
"We'd like to get more outside shooting, we'd like to get some athleticism and defense on the wings, big men that can come in and help us off the bench or provide skill sets that we don't already have," Sacks said. "Of course, it's always good to have guards who can come in and provide that defense and that shooting."


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I remember my first race like it was yesterday. Even though it's more like 100 years ago now. I was nervous. A planner by trade, the more compulsive my pre-race checklist was the better I felt. Happily I've relaxed a little bit over the years and I am a little less OCD with my pre- and post-race rituals but I've identified those things that made my race weekends easier and prevent me from totally stressing on race day. Or from forgetting my bibs….
Thursdays: I generally take it easy on the bike if I am racing on Saturday. 1.5-2 hrs easy spinning but no hard efforts. Lots of hydration.
Fridays: On the bike – openers. An easy ride that includes a few short, intense efforts to "open" the legs and get your heart rate up briefly. The idea is to go hard long enough to prime your legs but not to induce any fatigue. Drink LOTS on the bike and off.
Pack your race bag early: I'm a compulsive over-packer. Unless it's 90+ degrees in July, I've generally got riding gear for all weather permanently dwelling in my race bag; figure out what you're going to need. But getting it done early reduces stress! Here's my list of basics:
- USAC License
- Helmet
- Shoes
- At least 2 kits per day (jerseys, bibs, sports bra, socks)
- Rain jacket
- Long sleeve thermal jersey
- Arm Warmers / Knee Warmers
- Gloves (full fingers and half)
- Spare Tubes
- Mini Tool Kit
- Mini First Aid Kit
- Hat (for when the helmet is off)
- Change of clothes
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- Sunscreen (be sure you've got broad spectrum!)
- Embrocation (just in case!)
- Asthma Inhaler
- Extra Safety Pins
- Snacks (Clif Bars, Clif Blocks and gels)
Make your bottles – in nice clean bottles. I like to mix my sports drinks the night before and put them in the freezer. Same with water bottles. Make enough bottles for your warm up, race and cool-down
Food: I'm a big fan of peanut butter sandwiches (on whole wheat of course!) for post-race food. Protein is essential in the recovery process plus it's pretty easy on the stomach and packs well. I'm also a BIG fan of Salty Oatmeal Cherry Cookies after my race. The salt is delicious and the hemp protein and oats are great post-race nutrition in quick pick-me up style. I also like to throw in some bananas and cokes (I know, I know – it's bad for you but let me tell you, my last road race had an on-the-road high temp of 116 degrees. An icy cold coke felt like a life saver after that race….)
Load your car:
- Trainer for warm-up / cool-down
- Pump
- Race Wheels / pit wheels / trainer wheel (or at least trainer skewer)
- Bike (cleaned, lubed, and given a good looking over first!)
Phew. The hard stuff is done. Relax. Drink some more. Eat a good dinner but don't get all experimental – probably NOT the time to try the Puffer Fish….
I like to eat nice clean foods. Pasta, veggies, salad. Or quinoa with grilled vegetables. The times I've strayed from the plan, I've regretted it. I'm not much of a meat eater but the night before my last road race I went out with a friend for dinner – and decided to try the Bison Burger. BIG mistake. I thought it would be okay – lean and all that. Suffice to say I won't do that again – sticking to what I know, the tried and tested.
Put your legs up. Relax. Make sure you know where you're going the next day and how long it takes to get there, where they want you to park. Read the Tech Guide, know the race day schedule so there are no unpleasant race day surprises. Drink more. Go to bed early.
Saturday: Race Day!!
Eat a good breakfast. I have three race day breakfasts I alternate between depending on the race. If it's a short criterium I like whole wheat toast and scrambled eggs. Eggs are super for easy digestion and lasting energy. Alternatively I like Bob's Red Mill steel cut oats with walnut bits, dates and a little brown sugar.
For longer road races I try to load up on calories a bit more. 7 Grain or 10 Grain Pancakes with Blueberries and real maple syrup. Scrambled eggs on the side.
Then it's off to the races. Leave yourself plenty of time for getting lost, for parking, for pit stops on the road.
Park, say hullo to your friends. Go to registration and get your number. Bring your license with you. Be sure you ask what side they want your number pinned on. Don't be the person on the line that holds up the start of your race because your number is upside down or pinned on the wrong side.
Drop your wheels in the wheel pit or wheel truck.
Kit up and, working back from start time, warm up.
If you can, get out and pre-ride the course. Look for bumpy spots in the pavement. How's the wind blowing? Roll through the turns at speed. Get comfortable with the course. Be optimistic, know where you want to start your sprint 😉
If it's a short fast crit, you want to go to the line nice and hot. The shorter the race, the longer and more intense your warm-up. Get your heart rate up. Get sweaty. I prefer trainer warm-ups. Safe, reliable. For longer road races your warm-up doesn't need to be as long or as intense, but you still want to go to the line ready to go. For TTs [time trials] – where you are going as hard as you can for the entire duration of the race I like a long steady warm-up, opening you anaerobic pathways and getting HR up to race pace so your body is ready to go when you start. Drink the whole time!
RACE! You'll feel like you need to go to the bathroom a million times. Leave yourself time for that before your start time. Have a gel. Drink more. Line up. Make sure you listen to the officials on the line. Often they have really useful things to say – like at which point in a crit there are no more free laps – or where there are dodgy sections on a road race.
Race your heart out.
After your race.
Drink. Get some food in you as soon as your stomach can handle it – hopefully with some protein in it.
If you were in it, check the posted results. Once posted there is an official protest period – so if they've totally messed up and you KNOW you finished second but they show you 10th or DNF make sure you talk to the officials right away. Once the protest period closes it gets a whole lot harder to get the results changed. But also be reasonable. If you are SURE you were 49th and they have you scored 51st ask yourself if it really matters. There's no prize money for you. There are no upgrade points for you. Live to race another day.
Cool-down. Don't just stop. Ride a cool down. Take it nice and easy. Small chain ring. Roll those legs. Your body will thank you on Sunday.
CHANGE YOUR CLOTHES. Nothing is ickier than people who hang out in a sweaty chamois all day. Bad things will happen. Saddle sores. Worse. Grab yourself some Action Wipes get yourself de-saltified and cleaned up. Put on a nice, clean dry set of clothes and enjoy the rest of the day spectating. Drink more. Have fun.


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The Bengals have given Marvin Lewis a one year extension which extends his contract through 2008.
The Bengals have given Marvin Lewis a one year extension which extends his contract through 2008.
That's two offseasons in a row he's been extended. This organization is going in the right direction. I'm hoping that, just like Patriots fans, who are probably having a tough time remembering the decades of losing, mediocrity and mismanagement, that Bengals fans will soon be able to conveniently forget the 90s and early part of this decade.
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Cincinnati Reds - 75, 76, 90
Chicago Blackhawks - 10, 13, 15
University of Kentucky - 78, 96, 98, 12
Chicago Bulls - 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98
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Smart move on the Bengals part. I really do think ML's a keeper.
Help stamp out, eliminate, and do away with redundancy.
Sweet...Marvin has given the Bengals 16 wins in two season...quite a turn around from 10, 8, or even 4 wins in 2 years. I love what Marvin has accomplished and I feel that if the Bengals keep heading in the same direction we will be seeing them on a Saturday Wild Card playoff game. In reality I see the Bengals having a 9-7 record this year (if Palmer stays healthy and continues his great play), but my heart says 10-6 with a Wild Card playoff spot in the 2005 playoffs!
Who-Dey think gonna beat dem' Bengals?
Still no winning seasons in what? Fourteen years? Hell,8-8 ought to get him a lifetime contract.
Go Browns!
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Browns are still working on that first Super Bowl appearance, aren't they?Originally Posted by BoydsOfSummer
Help stamp out, eliminate, and do away with redundancy.
I like it! Lets just go ahead and sign him through 2010.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Originally Posted by macro
Yeah at least the Bengals have had 2...oh yeah how many how many have the clowns had? Thats what I thought shut up!
I don't think the last two words of your message were necessary to make your point.Originally Posted by bomarl1969
Not that you can ever know for sure with how much the NFL changes from year to year, but the Bengals have a much more favorable schedule next year. I seriously think 11 wins is pretty possible, and that's without the Bengals improving much from this year.Originally Posted by bomarl1969
Both the Browns and Bengals can take comfort in the fact that they had ridiculously tough schedules this year.
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I love Marvin, but I'm having a hard time getting over last year's first round pick.
We could have had Steven Jackson, Julius Jones, Kevin Jones, or Tatum Bell and instead got Chris Perry. It might pan out, but the other ones are looking a lot better right now.
I just can't figure out how the Bengals keep picking the wrong guy out of so many good choices.
Sorry Dad.Originally Posted by Boss-Hog
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I agree. I am not a fan of Chris Perry as a starting RB in the NFL. oooh Julius Jones would have been nice. I just hope and pray that the first pick this year will be a stud whatever position he may be playing! Go Bengals.
Your apology is duly noted, and appreciated. Don't let it happen again, child, or you'll get sent to your room without supper.Originally Posted by bomarl1969
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Last Tuesday, a civil jury returned a verdict of "No Liability" for the defense (Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department) after deliberating for less than an hour regarding a 2009 deputy-involved shooting case. Rickey Ivie of Ivie, McNeill & Wyatt represented the deputies (Los Angeles County) while Brian Dunn of the Cochran Firm represented the plaintiffs – the family of the deceased, Woodrow Player. The incident resulted in the death of Woodrow Player, a 22 year-old known gang member.
The incident occurred on July 10, 2009. Deputies from the Lennox Sheriff's sub-station responded to a 9-1-1 call around 9:00 p.m. A woman stated that her former boyfriend had pointed a handgun at her ribs and threatened to kill her.
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Officials on Wednesday confirmed that the man found dead on Centerville Beach near Ferndale over the weekend was the reported Navy SEAL impostor who Bay Area TV station ABC 7 investigated in November.
Humboldt County Sheriff's Office Lt. Steve Knight confirmed that Menlo Park resident Ike Densmore, 48, is the same man who the TV station's investigation team had looked into in a six-minute TV report broadcast Nov. 19.
Knight said senior detectives at the sheriff's office are amidst a "very active investigation" into Densmore's fake Navy SEAL credentials and background, and whether they had anything to do with his death.
Densmore was found Sunday morning by a citizen on the beach between the cliffs and the water line, about one-half mile south of the Centerville Beach parking lot. Officials said his death is considered "suspicious."
Detectives are currently talking with family members, including Densmore's wife, Knight said, in an effort to shed more light on what happened. He was found wearing sweat pants, a sweatshirt, two scarfs, a beanie and a hoodie.
County Coroner Dave Parris said he could not comment on whether Densmore had been shot, or how he had died. An autopsy is scheduled for this weekend.
"We're still evaluating the scene," he said. "There are a lot of questions unanswered."
Knight said it appears Densmore had been in the area for several days. The sheriff's office is asking anyone who saw him or spoke to him in Humboldt County to come forward.
The November ABC 7 TV investigation reported that Densmore falsely claimed he was a member of the United States Seal Team One, and that he earned a Silver Star, Bronze Star, three Purple Hearts, two presidential unit citations, and six Navy commendation medals.
"It gets them respect, it gets them to the head of the line," former SEAL Don Shipley said in the TV report, about why someone would want to fake Navy SEAL status and awards.
Shipley did not return a call or emails requesting comment on Tuesday or Wednesday.
The Stolen Valor Act, signed into law in 2006 by President George W. Bush, made it illegal to falsely represent awards and medals. It made such claims a federal misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in prison. In June 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the law in a 6-3 decision, saying it violated the First Amendment right to free speech.
Congressman Joe Heck, R-Nevada, said in a press release on his website that he recently introduced more narrowly worded legislation that could have a similar effect, and withstand judicial scrutiny.
Densmore's LinkedIn profile indicates he worked for several communications companies, including XO Communications and Nextel Sprint. An employee of XO Communications' Bay Area offices said Wednesday that Densmore had not worked there for several years.
Knight said he could not say if Densmore was employed at the time of his death. A call to Densmore's home in Menlo Park went unanswered.
His LinkedIn account also states he had received a business degree from the University of Kansas. KU spokeswoman Jill Jess said she could not find any record of Densmore attending the university.
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Extended Baylor ties connect BU freshman with 'The President's Own' Marine Band
Each year, "The President's Own" Marine Band hosts a national concerto competition for woodwinds, brass and percussionists who have not yet completed high school. Twelve finalists are chosen based on recorded submissions and flown to Washington, D.C., for the final round of competition. This spring's winner? Spencer Sosnowski, now a freshman music (saxophone) major at Baylor from Rockwall, Texas.
But here's where the story gets interesting. The teacher who prepared Sosnowski for the competition, Joey Resendez, turns out to be a Baylor School of Music graduate himself (Class of 2003).
And the Baylor connections don't stop there. For winning the competition, Sosnowski got to perform with the Marine Band at a concert in March in Alexandria, Va. (pictured above). Among the members of the Marine Band? Gunnery Sergeant Steve Longoria, BME '96, the ensemble's lead alto saxophone player.
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Manti Te'o's interview Friday with ESPN's Jeremy Schaap was off camera because the former Notre Dame linebacker requested it be that way.
His first on-camera appearance since the girlfriend hoax story broke will be with Katie Couric, The New York Times reported.
Couric's interview with Te'o will air Thursday on her syndicated talk show, Katie. Te'o's parents, Brian and Ottilia, will also be on hand for the interview, according to The Times.
Matthew Hiltzik, the spokesman hired by Te'o's family recently, is the longtime spokesman for Couric, according to The Times.
Deadspin.com first reported the story about Te'o's girlfriend, revealing that there never as a girlfriend, that, in fact, she had been part of an elaborate hoax. Te'o spoke with Schaap to tell his side of the story and to stress that he was not in on the hoax.
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Putz slated to see doctor regarding elbow stiffness
LOS ANGELES -- D-backs closer J.J. Putz was forced to leave Tuesday night's 5-3 win against the Dodgers in the ninth inning after feeling stiffness in his right elbow.
"We're going to go see the doctor tomorrow and go figure out what it is," Putz said.
Putz was brought on to protect a two-run lead and walked the first batter he faced, Nick Punto, on four pitches.
After the final pitch, Putz began clenching and unclenching his right hand and shook it several times. After being looked at briefly on the mound by head athletic trainer Ken Crenshaw, Putz was removed and Heath Bell was summoned from the bullpen.
As it turns out, Putz felt the stiffness and zinging after the second pitch, but he tried to pitch through it.
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Sleep will likely be hard to come by for Putz on Tuesday night in anticipation of the visit to the doctor.
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Ross heads to DL; Butler recalled
BOSTON -- Veteran backup catcher David Ross was placed on the 15-day disabled list on Saturday due to lingering plantar fasciitis in his right foot.
It was actually good news that there was a rupture on Friday, as the healing process can now start for Ross.
"Everything points toward that tendon having let go last night -- which, in this case, is a positive," said Red Sox manager John Farrell. "How many days it takes to recover, we'll see. But the 15 days should hopefully help this quiet down to the point of him returning."
With Ross out, Dan Butler was recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket for his first stint in the Majors. Butler was not in Saturday's starting lineup.
"You can't really describe it," said Butler. "I'm sure you guys have heard this every time everybody has come up. You can't explain how exciting this is."
Butler spent time with the Red Sox the last two Spring Trainings.
"He's always had a strong reputation of handling pitchers [with] his game-calling," said Farrell. "In some ways, it's a real success story when you factor in that he's been a non-drafted free agent signed out of the Cape Cod League, he was a backup catcher in college -- and with all of his work, it's paid off [with] a Major League opportunity."
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brownie Points, and follow him on Twitter @IanMBrowne. Quinn Roberts is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Assessing the Prognosis of Pulmonary Embolism Using Clinical and Imaging Biomarkers (Retrospective & Prospective )
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Venous thromboembolism (VTE), which clinically manifests as deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), is a common but elusive illness that can cause significant disability and death if not promptly diagnosed and effectively treated. The annual incidence of VTE in the United States is estimated at 1 per 1000. Death occurs in approximately 12% of PE cases within 1 month of diagnosis. At present, clinical management of VTE and PE is hampered by gaps in our understanding of pathogenic mechanisms, the wide variety in patient populations, and incomplete understanding of the long term risks of recurrence and death. Given the complex presentation and risk associated with these conditions, proper risk assessment and subsequent prophylaxis for all at-risk patients is crucial. While clinical prediction rules have been recently developed to associate short-term risks and to stratify patients with acute PE, there is a dearth of objective biomarkers that can be related to the long-term prognosis of the disease. In addition to clinical information, clot burden is known to be strongly associated with clinical outcome of recurrent VTE. The quantification of clot burden requires imaging.
CT Pulmonary Angiography (CTPA) has been established as a reference imaging standard in the diagnosis of PE. In addition to its role as a superb diagnostic tool, CTPA contains a wealth of information including characteristics of the clot that may be used as biomarkers associated with prognosis of PE. The work proposed in this application takes advantage of widely available CTPA imaging biomarker data and extends and advances clinical PE risk prediction model to include long term (2-year) survival as well as the clinically important outcome of recurrence. The primary objective of this proposal is to develop and identify CTPA imaging biomarkers that are associated with short-term and long-term prognoses of patients who were positively diagnosed for PE by CT. The rationale for this proposal is that CT imaging is a rich source of imaging biomarkers that may be associated with prognosis of PE. This information will help advance our understanding of the risk and recurrence of PE and provide a new insight to prognosis and clinical management and treatment of PE. This proposed research is innovative in that we have developed new CT imaging biomarkers and designed a clinical trial to assess and validate the prognostic values of these biomarkers. Our central hypothesis is that CT imaging biomarkers are associated with the risk of death and recurrence in patients with PE. The specific aims of this proposal are: (1) to quantify and characterize pulmonary emboli (volume and distribution) and comorbid cardiovasculopulmonary findings from CT images of patients who were positively diagnosed for PE by CT; (2) to identify CT imaging biomarkers that are associated with the prognosis of patients who were positively diagnosed for PE by CT, and to develop risk prediction tools for death and recurrence; and (3) to prospectively validate the risk prediction tool, and identify whether the change in CT imaging biomarkers of PE after initiation of therapy improve the predictive ability for recurrence and death.
|Pulmonary Embolism
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
|Official Title:
|Identifying CT Imaging Biomarkers Associated With Prognosis of Pulmonary Embolism
- The clinical and Imaging Biomarkers associated with Pulmonary Embolism (PE). [ Time Frame: 5 years ]
- Pulmonary Embolism (PE) risk prediction rule. [ Time Frame: 5 years ]
|Study Start Date:
|December 2008
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|July 2017
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Pulmonary Embolism (PE)
Subjects diagnosed with PE by CT will be recruited.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Adult > 18 years of age who either present to either hospital with acute PE or develop acute PE while admitted to the hospital diagnosed by CT
- Capable of informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Contraindication to CT scanning
- Cannot provide written informed consent.
- Patients do not speak English, or have dementia and do not have a proxy who could participate in follow-up interviews.
- Pregnant or lactating females.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00805246
|United States, Missouri
|Washington University in St. Louis
|St. Louis, Missouri, United States, 63130
|United States, Pennsylvania
|University of Pittsburgh
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213
|Study Director:
|Rebecca P. Link, Ph.D.
|National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
|Responsible Party:
|Kyongtae Ty Bae, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00805246 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|December 5, 2008
|Last Updated:
|October 25, 2016
Keywords provided by Kyongtae Ty Bae, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh:
Pulmonary embolism
Risk Prediction
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Pulmonary Embolism
Embolism and Thrombosis
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
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text: Politics 25 July 2012 Appreciation: Alexander Cockburn Remembering the writer and polemicist, who died last week at the age of 71. Sign up for our weekly email * Once asked why he became a permanent resident of the US in 1973, Alexander Cockburn tersely replied: "Oh, England was horrible." It was perhaps appropriate, then, that the radical journalist's death on 21 July at the age of 71 was barely reported in the land he spurned. Though he wrote for a succession of British titles in the early years of his career, including the New Statesman, it is for his columns in the Village Voice (the pioneering Press Clips), the Wall Street Journal and the Nation, that he will be remembered. His column for the latter, which appeared bi-weekly for 28 years, was entitled "Beat the Devil" after the 1951 noir novel by his Irish father, Claud, best known as one of the finest practitioners of 20th-century muckraking journalism. Though his mother longed for him to become an oilman – "she dreamt of me becoming the vice-president of Exxon", Cockburn quipped – his father's radical politics (he was an activist of the British Communist Party) and exemplary prose, alternating between comic irony and lofty invective, provided Cockburn with a model to emulate. Among Claud's bon mots was the rule that one should "never believe anything until it's officially denied". Alexander adopted this gently mocking style, once declaring Gerald Ford to be "America's greatest president" on the Hippocratic grounds that "he did the least possible harm". Such qualities are also present in the work of his brothers, Andrew and Patrick, who collectively represent one of the greatest journalistic dynasties of modern times. Patrick, the Independent's Middle East correspondent, is responsible for much of the best reporting from Iraq, and Andrew's books, including Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy and Saddam Hussein: an American Obsession, are essential chronicles of America's imperial decline. To this list, one can add Stephanie Flanders, the BBC's economics editor, who is a half-niece of the brothers. But through the range of his journalism and the strength of his political commitments, it was Alexander who emerged as his father's successor. Intellectual odyssey Much of his finest writing is collected in The Golden Age is in Us (1995), an intellectual odyssey in which Cockburn turned his pen to Colette, transvestism, sexual manners and hate mail. His polemics against US and Israeli foreign policy were clear-sighted and often prescient, but his political writing was marred by nostalgia for Soviet Stalinism. Cockburn was at his best when assailing the "lesser evilism" of an American left that excused policies enacted by a Democratic president (in this case, Bill Clinton) which it would never tolerate from a Republican. Yet he exhibited just this defect in relation to the Soviet Union, celebrating it as a "counterweight to US imperialism". He never recognised that it was a rival empire to be denounced, not an ally to be applauded. Even more egregious was his denial of man-made climate change and insistence that the French National Front leader Marine Le Pen was "quite reasonably exploiting the intense social discontent in France". To describe these stances as "contrarian", as so many did, would be to unfairly impute bad faith to Cockburn. He was simply and unforgivably wrong. Announcing Cockburn's death from cancer, Jeffrey St Clair, with whom Cockburn co-edited the muckraking newsletter CounterPunch, wrote that his friend "kept his illness a tightly guarded secret", adding that he "didn't want to blog his own death as Christopher Hitchens had done". For much of his life, Cockburn's name was indelibly linked with that of Hitchens. Both were expensively educated émigrés who recognised early in their careers that there was a market for Oxford radicals who would say the outrageous things their staid American counterparts would not. Comrades for years at the Nation, Cockburn terminated their friendship after a succession of feuds, branding Hitchens a "lying, self-serving, fat-assed, chain-smoking, drunken, opportunistic, cynical contrarian". When I interviewed Hitchens for the NS in 2010, he told me that he "avoided responding in kind" out of respect for the rest of the Cockburn family, with whom he enjoyed more fraternal relations. One sensed that Cockburn's pathological criticism of Hitchens was partly born of envy at the greater fame of a man, eight years his junior, who first emulated his achievements in US journalism and then surpassed them. While Hitchens emerged as a literary critic of distinction, writing elegantly about Proust, Bellow and Nabokov for the Atlantic, Cockburn retreated into the world of pamphlet wars and quick-fire polemics. But his best political writing was still infused with a range of literary and poetic reference now rare in the industry. Like Hitchens, Cockburn stood in the radical tradition of James Cameron, I F Stone and Gore Vidal. In this age of high specialisation, one searches in vain for their successors. George Eaton is political editor of the New Statesman. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 30 July 2012 issue of the New Statesman, The London Issue More


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A COMPULSORY purchase order (CPO) has been made for land needed in to regenerate Northwich town centre.
Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWAC) has issued the official notice of the CPO for the remaining land needed to develop Barons Quay.
CWAC already owns 93 per cent of the land required for the scheme and the CPO is to secure the remainder.
Clr Herbert Manley, executive member for growth and innovation, said: "The CPO is the next step in delivering this hugely important scheme which will create 1,500 jobs and transform Northwich into one of the North West's busiest market towns by 2016."
The closing date for objections to the CPO is February 7.
If any objections are received the Secretary of State may appoint an inspector to chair a public inquiry, which would take place later this year.
CWAC has approved the £80m riverside development which is designed to enhance and increase footfall to the existing town centre with pedestrian links to Witton Street, Market Square and the new Memorial Court leisure complex.
In addition to a cinema and an Asda superstore, Barons Quay is set to include cafes, restaurants, shops, new homes and hundreds of car parking spaces.
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