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Carlisle Homes Pty Ltd ABN 106 263 209 of 2 Nexus Court, Mulgrave Vic 3170 is the promoter of this campaign ("The Promoter")These Terms and Conditions set out the information on how to enter to win a grant. Entry constitutes acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.
1. Who can apply?
1.1 An Applicant must:
(a) be 18 years or over;
(b) be an organisation, business, charity or not-for-profit organisation, whose main purpose benefits the community,
(herein referred to as the "Applicant").
1.2 An Applicant must not be an individual, minor, political group, foundation, associated with the building industry or a staff member of the Promoter.
1.3 The Applicant must have a genuine tangible project which will provide a benefit to the community in the Promoter's Building Zone (as listed on www.carlislehomes.com.au) ("the Project") with the Promoter being the 'sole' provider of funds for the Project (or an identified component and clearly defined associated cost of the Project).
1.4 The Promoter reserves the right to request, at any time, an Applicant to produce appropriate identification (to the Promoter's satisfaction in its sole discretion) in order to confirm the Applicant's identity, age, or contact details. If the documentation required by the Promoter is not received by the Promoter or the Applicant's eligibility has not been verified to the Promoter's satisfaction, the entry will be deemed invalid.
1.5 The Promoter reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to require an Applicant to submit to a confidential background check to confirm eligibility and help ensure that the use of any such person in advertising or publicity of the Program will not bring the Promoter into public disrepute, contempt, scandal or ridicule or reflect unfavourably on the Promoter, its agents or the Program as determined by the Promoter in its sole and absolute discretion.
2. Campaign Cycle
2.1 The Community Grants Campaign (the "Campaign") will have four Campaign Cycles per calendar year, dated for each cycle listed below.
|Campaign Cycle Commences
|Campaign Cycle Concludes
|Eligible Grant Recipients notified
("Notification Date")
|9.00am, 1st October 2015
|5.00pm, 31st December 2015
|20th January 2016
|9.00am, 1st January 2016
|5.00pm, 31st March 2016
|13th April 2016
|9:00am 1st April 2016
|5:00pm 30th June 2016
|13th July 2016
|9:00am 1st July 2016
|5:00pm 30th September 2016
|12th October 2016
|9:00pm 1st October 2016
|5:00pm 31st December 2016
|18th January 2017
|9.00am, 1st January 2017
|5.00pm, 31st March 2017
|12th April 2017
(referred to as "Campaign Cycles")
2.2 During each Campaign Cycle, the Applicants can complete an application form located on the Promoter's website. The Promoter may publish all suitable applications on the Promoter's Facebook page and/or the Promoter's website (the "Application").
2.3 Once the Application is posted on Facebook by the Promoter, the Applicant may (during the Campaign Cycle) share their Application via social media websites including Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and email. Family, friends and the general public can then support the Applicant's Application by becoming a supporter. IMPORTANT NOTE: each application is judged according to its compliance to Section 1 Who Can Apply? of these Terms and Conditions, and not assessed based on social voting and sharing alone.
2.4 At the conclusion of each Campaign Cycle the Promoter will shortlist the Applications. The shortlisted Applications will all be submitted to the Board for final consideration. A member of the Board will notify the winner by the Notification Date.
3. How do I apply for a Grant?
3.1 An Applicant can apply for a grant by submitting an application for one eligible project on the Promoter's website during the Campaign.
3.2 Applicants will be notified by email at the address provided in their Application, advising them:
(a) that their Application has been received by the Promoter;
(b) when their Application is being published on the Website and on Facebook;
(c) if their Application has been considered unsuitable; or
(d) if they have successfully been awarded a Grant.
3.3 Where the Applicant is reliant upon funds and sponsorships from other organisations, businesses or individuals in order to commence and/or complete the Project, the Promoter reserves the right to request further evidence as to how much funding is to be obtained.
3.4 The Promoter reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any Applicant deemed in the Promoter's sole and absolute discretion to be:
(a) Tampering or attempting to tamper with the entry or voting process or the operation of the campaign or any website of the Promoter;
(b) Violating these Terms and Conditions;
(c) Acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner;
(d) Using automated software or other mechanical or electronic means to automatically vote repeatedly; or
(e) If any of the above conditions set out in (a) to (d) above apply to the Applicant's own Facebook page whilst specifically relating to this Campaign.
(f) Unable to commence the project due to absence of funding for adjoining components.
3.5 If the Applicant submits a photograph, image or logo, the Applicant is responsible for ensuring any such photograph, image or photo is their property (intellectual or otherwise). Where the photograph contains identifiable images of a minor, the Applicant must have the written consent and permission from the minor's parent or legal guardian for the photograph to be used for the purposes of the Campaign. Where an Applicant supplies no photograph, image or logo, the default image attached to their Application will be the "Community Grants by Carlisle Homes" logo which remains the property of the Promoter. The Applicant consents to the Promoter using the Application, Applicant's name and (if applicable) logo or image, for the purposes of promoting the Campaign on the Promoter's Website, social media, and in any other publications the Promoter determines appropriate without further notification, remuneration or compensation. The Applicant agrees that, in the event they are awarded a Grant, the Applicant will participate in all reasonable promotional activities in relation to the Campaign as requested by the Promoter and its agents.
3.6 The Promoter collects personal information about an Applicant to determine eligibility. By participating in the Campaign, an Applicant also acknowledges that a secondary purpose for collecting the Applicant's personal information by the Promoter is to enable the Promoter to contact the Applicant with marketing materials at any time and via any medium including any form of electronic, digital or conventional communications channel whether existing now or in the future. The Promoter may share information with its Program sponsor who may contact the Applicant. Applicants can gain access to, update or correct any personal information by contacting the Promoter. All personal information will be stored at the office of the Promoter. A copy of the Privacy Policy in relation to the treatment of personal information may be obtained by contacting the Promoter on 03 9560 1779 or visit www.carlislehomes.com.au.
4. What is the Grant?
4.1 On each Notification Date, the Promoter may award (in its sole discretion) the total amount of up to $50,000 inclusive of GST ("Total Cycle Grant"), the Total Cycle Grant may be divided between a number of selected Applications or may be given to one successful Application. The Promoter may vary the amount of the Grant (and/or the Total Cycle Grant) provided through the Campaign at its sole discretion.
4.2 The Grant will only be deposited into a bank account held by the organisation, business or not-for-profit organisation. The Grant will not be deposited into accounts held by individuals.
4.3 The Grant is to be used by the successful Applicant on the Project. The Grant must be spent solely for the purpose of the Project within the time period on the Application, or not longer than twelve (12) months after the Grant has been issued. If at any time the stated purpose of the Project is no longer possible and the Project cannot be completed as set out in the Application, the Applicant must advise the Promoter and discuss alternate options to use the Grant for the benefit of the community.
4.4 The Promoter may, where appropriate, visit the Project's site before, throughout and after the Grant has been issued, at times agreed by both parties. The successful Applicant must advise the Promoter in writing when the Project is completed and provide photographs to the Promoter at firstname.lastname@example.com within ten (10) business days of completion. The Promoter reserves the right to, and the successful Applicant agrees that the Promoter may, visit the Project for the purpose of taking further photographs for publication and marketing purposes.
4.5 No substitution of a Grant is offered. A successful Applicant cannot apply for additional grants for the same Project. Non-successful Applicant's may apply for a grant in any following Campaign Cycles.
4.6 A successful Applicant must repay the full or relevant part of the grant funding to the Promoter within thirty (30) business days after it receives formal written notice from the Promoter in any of the below circumstances occurs:
(a) an amount of the Grant is unspent at the Project completion date; or
(b) the successful Applicant misuses the Grant by paying for any purpose that is not the Project detailed in the Application.
4.7 If for any reason the Campaign or any Campaign Cycle is not capable of being administered as planned, including without limitation, lack of sufficient number of Applications or support of the Campaign, infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorised intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Campaign, or for any reason the Promoter deems, that the Campaign is not meeting the expected goals, the Promoter reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion to cancel, modify or terminate the Campaign and any Campaign Cycle.
5. How will my Application be judged?
5.1 Stage One: Shortlist
(a) Each Application will be assessed by the Promoter in the sole discretion as to whether it meets these Terms and Conditions and whether the Project benefits the community.
(b) During Stage One, if the Promoter determines (in its sole and absolute discretion) that any Applicant has not complied with these Terms and Conditions in any way the Promoter reserves the right to disqualify any Application and disallow any further participation by such Applicant in the Campaign.
5.2 Stage Two: Notification of Winner
(a) The shortlisted Applications will be submitted to the Board. The Board is made up of representatives from the Promoter (up to five individuals).
(b)The Board, in its absolute and sole discretion, will determine the winner of any Grants. All decisions of the Board are final.
(c) Should the Board (in its absolute discretion) determine that in the Campaign Cycle there have been no suitable Applicants, the Board reserves the right to issue no Grants for the relevant Campaign Cycle.
6. The Promoter has No Liability
6.1 The Promoter accepts no responsibility or liability for the conduct of any Project and the relevant Applicant remains solely liable for the conduct of their Projects.
6.2 The Promoter and its associated agencies and companies shall not be liable for any loss (including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss), damage, personal injury or death which is suffered or sustained (including but not limited to that arising from any person's negligence) in connection with using any grant, except any liability that cannot be excluded by law (in which case that liability is limited to the minimum allowed by law).
6.3 The Promoter accepts no responsibility for errors on the Facebook Page and/or on the Website and any unavailability of the Facebook Page and/or Website.
6.4 The Promoter is not responsible for any technical malfunctions or problems with internet or network congestion, including any injury or damage to the applicant, the voter or any other person's computer which may affect participation in this Promotion or transmission or applications and votes via the internet.


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WASHINGTON, D.C., April 30, 2002 — While matching currently is not used for liver transplantation, a study of more than 3,000 transplants suggests such testing for donor and recipient compatibility could reduce the incidence of disease recurrence after transplantation. The results of the University of Pittsburgh study – the largest study of its kind from a single institution – could help settle the score in a debate about the role of matching for liver transplantation, which has had tissue typers and surgeons on opposite sides of the issue for nearly two decades.
According to the retrospective study of 3,261 patients who received liver transplants at the University of Pittsburgh, immune system compatibility, or histocompatibility, between a donor and recipient not only has an impact on the incidence of rejection and graft failure, but disease recurrence after transplantation is profoundly affected as well. Their results were presented today at the American Transplant Congress, Transplant 2002, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Specifically, the researchers found that while a match between donor and recipient indicates organ rejection is less likely, a match also increases the odds that patients transplanted for hepatitis C or primary biliary cirrhosis will have recurrence of their disease.
"This is particularly significant for hepatitis C, the most common indication for liver transplantation and where the absolute majority of the patients suffer recurrence after transplantation. Perhaps by paying attention to histocompatibility we may be able to reduce the numbers," noted John J. Fung, M.D., Ph.D., Thomas E. Starzl Professor of Transplantation Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh's Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute .
Matching is considered important for kidney transplantation and has been performed routinely for years. But for liver transplantation, the practicality and merits of its use have often been questioned. Time restraints make the test impractical most of the time. But more importantly, most surgeons believe matching is irrelevant for transplants of the liver, an organ that is better equipped to mediate immune reactions against it. Hence, the test is not used to determine whether a donor liver is a good match for a particular recipient. Instead, surgeons pay closer attention to blood type compatibility and the size of the liver relative to the recipient.
Even so, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have been collecting information about histocompatibility as part of an extensive database covering about 7,000 liver transplants performed at the center since 1981, representing the largest single-center experience in the world.
For the study on histocompatibility, researchers limited their analysis to 4,000 liver transplants in 3,261 patients: first-time liver transplants performed between February 1981 and March 2000 in adult recipients who did not receive additional organs.
Histocompatibility is determined by the degree of similarity between a donor's and recipient's profiles of human leukocyte antigens, or HLA. These are specific molecules found on cells that serve as signals to antibodies and other cells of the immune system. HLA testing yields information about matches or mismatches between specific HLA molecules.
Results of the study indicated that a match significantly decreases the incidence of acute and chronic rejection, reported Igor Dvorchik, Ph.D., director, section of biostatistics, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, research assistant professor of surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and research assistant professor of biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.
"However, we were surprised to learn that the time when the first rejection occurs is crucial for determining the rate of chronic rejection and graft survival. Acute rejections that occurred within the first 30 days were characterized by greater severity and higher odds of graft loss within the first year," he reported.
Twenty-seven percent of these patients lost their grafts within the first year compared to 12 percent of patients who had a severe, acute rejection after 30 days. However, the later post-transplant course for these patients became much more favorable than for their counterparts for all major transplant outcome measures, including graft survival and incidence of acute and chronic rejection episodes.
While having a match put patients with hepatitis C or primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) at greater risk for disease recurrence, a mismatch significantly decreased the risk of recurrence of these diseases.
For patients with hepatitis C, 50 percent who had at least one match with their donor of the HLA-B molecule had recurrence of their disease within two years. But only 25 percent of those patients with mismatches had recurrence of disease within the same time period. For primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), which tends to recur later, 35 percent of PBC patients with two HLA-DR matches had disease recurrence at five years, compared to 10 percent of PBC patients with no matches or just one match.
Matching had little impact on recurrence of hepatitis B or other types of liver diseases.
"This is valuable information for surgeons to consider in deciding the appropriateness of using donor organs in some of our patients. But whether HLA testing will become routine for liver transplantation remains to be seen," said Dr. Fung.
While the preservation time of a liver of just 12 to 18 hours may not allow sufficient time to perform the test and obtain results before the organ must be used, there may be reason to consider routine histocompatibility testing for living donor liver transplants when the recipient has hepatitis C or PBC, say the researchers. Under these circumstances, surgeons have several days or weeks to perform the overall evaluation of a potential donor and can weigh histocompatibility outcomes along with other measures.
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It's Friday and it brings some great news besides beer/Skyrim/COD and what's on your usual Friday evening list. What's on the weekend game playing list btw? Share with us on Facebook!
First of all, long-awaited Minecraft – Pocket Edition is available for your iDevice and Android gadgets. Go ahead, download your favorite pixelated block building tool for just $6.99.
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Weekend Reading List
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- Pixel Art: The End of an Era?
- The Future of Flash Game Development.
- 10 Years Later: How GameCube and Xbox Defined The Current Gen.
- Innovation Has Never Been the Cornerstone of the Video Game Industry.
- Joy! Install Steam Games To Other Drives.
- 2D Game Art For Programmers – Part 5.
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Bob Kuttner has been among the country's most visible advocates of stimulus, having written several books and numerous columns arguing the case for an aggressive program of public investment as the best way to deal with the economic crisis. His new book, Debtors' Prison: The Politics of Austerity versus Possibility (Knopf, 2013) is his latest shot at the austerity gang.
The central theme is the morality tale around debt. The proponents of austerity insist that the debtors be forced to suffer. This is part because of the obvious moral hazard problem, if people think that debtors can get off easy, then no one will pay their debts. It is also partly appeals to our sense of morality, we want people to work hard and meet their commitments.
As Kuttner points out, there are two big problems with the debt hardliners' agenda. First, it is often bad economics. The book goes back to the days of debtor prisons in England, pointing out that throwing debtors in jail not only was cruel to debtors and their families, it generally was not good policy from the standpoint of creditors either. Once the debtor was in prison they had little opportunity to earn back any of the money needed to repay their creditors.
Kuttner shows how this desire for punishment has played a central role in shaping attitudes toward the crises countries in the eurozone as well as underwater homeowners in the United States. This attitude has helped to prevent an effective policy response in both places. In Europe the debtor countries have seen their unemployment rates soar even as their debt to GDP ratios continue to increase. Shrinking economies have reduced tax collections and increased demands on the budget. In the United States many homeowners have ended up in foreclosure when it would have been possible to arrange principle write-downs that would have both kept them in their homes and given creditors more money.
The other problem with the debt hardliners' agenda is that is doesn't get applied consistently. While poor countries and underwater homeowners are supposed to pay the price for their mistakes, other troubled debtors, like Citigroup and Bank of America, can count on a service with a smile as the government comes to their rescue. It is impossible to miss the fact that the people most directly responsible for this crisis have almost invariably come out fine because they were able to use their political power to get government handouts.
The book provides many fascinating insights on the history of debt as well as a solid account of the current crisis. While I agree with most of Kuttner's argument, there is one serious quibble that I would raise that starts as a pet peeve and rises to an important point.
At one point Kuttner discusses U.S. policy toward China. He argues that the United States has not cracked down on China's various trade offenses, including currency manipulation, because it can't afford to piss off the country's biggest creditor. While this is a common assertion, on closer examination it is self-contradictory.
The way that China keeps down the value of its currency against the dollar is through buying up dollar assets, most importantly U.S. government debt. In other words, China's "manipulation" of its currency is its purchase of U.S. government bonds. We have to decide whether we are angry at China for buying our bonds or we need them to buy our bonds, but it doesn't make sense for both to be true.
As a second point here, I would argue that it is not concerns about China that prevent us from cracking down on Chinese practices that are harmful to the U.S. economy. Rather it is the power of the U.S. interests that benefit from an under-valued yuan that prevents us from cracking down. Wal-Mart does not want to see all the goods it imports from China rise in price by 20 percent. Neither does GE nor any of the other manufacturers that have set up operations there. The financial industry is happy to have its dollars go farther in their efforts to penetrate China. And Microsoft and Pfizer would rather have our chits with China devoted toward increasing respect for their copyrights and patents in China than in rebalancing trade. The enemy in this picture is here, not in China.
Finally, there is an important point about our trade imbalance that is overlooked in this picture. The trade deficit was actually relatively small until the East Asian financial crisis. The punitive measures imposed by the Gang of Three, Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, and Larry Summers, led to the developing world to accumulate massive amounts of foreign exchange (i.e. dollars). This sent the value of the dollar soaring and gave us the huge trade deficits of the last decade.
These trade deficits were the basis of our economic imbalances. In mainstream economic theory, rich countries are supposed to running trade surpluses with fast-growing developing countries. The Greenspan-Rubin-Summers bailout magic reversed these flows. This was the basis of the havoc we suffered through in the last decade and that we continue to suffer through at present.
Okay, enough of my digression. This is a well-written well-researched account of the current state of the economy. It is worth reading.


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text: ONDCP also administers two grant programs: the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) and Drug-Free Communities (DFC). The HIDTA program assists Federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement operating in areas determined to be critical drug trafficking regions of the United States. HIDTA supports law enforcement efforts in 49 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the . Virgin Islands. The DFC program provides grants to community coalitions to strengthen the infrastructure among local partners to create and sustain a reduction in local youth substance abuse. Currently, there are 698 DFC-funded coalitions across the country. DFC coalitions are made up of community leaders representing twelve sectors that organize to meet the local prevention needs of the youth and families in their communities. These twelve sectors are: