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Sharps injuries are a significant injury and health hazard for health care workers and also result in a number of direct and indirect organizational costs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that about 385,000 sharps-related injuries occur annually among health care workers in hospitals. More recent data from the Exposure Prevention Information Network (EPINet™) suggest these injuries can be reduced, as sharps-related injuries in nonsurgical hospital settings decreased 31.6% during 2001–2006 (following the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act of 2000). However, injuries in surgical settings increased 6.5% in the same period, where adoption of safety devices was limited compared to nonsurgical settings. It has been estimated about half or more of sharps injuries go unreported. Most reported sharps injuries involve nursing staff, but laboratory staff, physicians, housekeepers, and other health care workers are also injured.
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Reducing sharps injuries first requires that health care workers have a full understanding of the magnitude of the problem. The STOP STICKS campaign focuses on raising awareness which, in turn, prepares and motivates health care workers to make the changes needed to reduce sharps injuries. Change itself requires a shift in the organization's safety culture and use of safer sharps devices and practices, and management support is a critical component of any change initiative.
The STOP STICKS campaign is a community-based information and education program. Its goal is to raise awareness about the risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens such as HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C from needlesticks and other sharps-related injuries in the workplace. While the campaign materials were developed mainly with operating room and emergency department audiences, the target audience includes clinical and nonclinical health care workers and health care administrators in hospitals, doctor's offices, nursing homes, and home health care agencies.
How the STOP STICKS campaign was developed
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), developed the materials available through this website by conducting a multiyear pilot project in Columbia, South Carolina. Other partners involved with NIOSH in pilot testing this campaign and developing the tools necessary to conduct your own awareness campaign include Palmetto Health Alliance, Dorn VA Hospital, CM Tucker Nursing Care Center, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, PHT Services, the Association of Professionals in Infection Control, the University of South Carolina School of Public Health, the South Carolina Nurses Association, and other local Columbia, SC health care employers.
The tools available for conducting your own STOP STICKS campaign are highly customizable so that you can decide which components best fit the needs of your facility. You may choose to conduct a complete campaign, or only use certain components, depending on the needs and resources available at your facility. The STOP STICKS campaign may be presented as a stand-alone initiative, or it may be tied with other initiatives, such as introduction of a new safety device or an annual refresher to remind staff of the hazards associated with sharps injuries.
What is a "safety campaign" and a "communication blitz"?
A safety campaign is a series of strategic communication initiatives designed to convey a consistent key message targeting a safety need. In this sharps injuries campaign, the key message is "STOP STICKS."
The communication blitz is a component of the safety campaign and refers to brief, targeted communication interventions that bring attention to the safety campaign goals. Specifically, the blitzes for the STOP STICKS campaign focus on bloodborne pathogens, exposure prevention methods, equipment evaluation, and proper post-exposure prophylaxis protocols. The blitzes feature posters, newsletters, health and safety fairs, exhibits, and videos, among other communication methods and channels to communicate the campaign message.
STOP STICKS campaign guide and resources
These websites includes guidance on how to prepare blitzes, use templates and other media resources in preparing the blitz materials, implement the blitzes, and evaluate the campaign outcomes. See the full list of campaign resources on the menu at left.

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"Who is that boy sitting alone in the graveyard," I asked a neighbor, "Does he do drugs?"
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Billy didn't know that he was the center of attraction. All he cared about was to tell his dad how he misses him, he is being good, and he is studying hard to go to college.
Billy's father died in a battlefield, overseas.
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Skills gap grips India's budding storage market
India is the second fastest growth market for storage technology in Asia Pacific after China, according to IDC, but a skills shortage could hamper growth, experts say.
Housing Development Finance Corp. Ltd. (HDFC Bank), one of India's largest banks, is adding two new branches weekly to its 680 offices in 228 cities across India. To support this growth, the firm's IT infrastructure and notably its storage requirements are booming.
"We're up to 300 terabytes (TB) from 100 (TB) a year ago … Our biggest challenge now is how to manage this large infrastructure and to find the people," according to Harish Shetty, vice president at HDFC Bank.
The firm just deployed a 1,488-port 4 Gbps Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) from Brocade Communications Systems Inc., doubling its available SAN ports while at the same time consolidating the number of devices on its network. And instead of buying from four storage suppliers, IBM, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hitachi Data Systems Inc. (HDS) and Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), it's consolidated around two –HDS and IBM. "Integration becomes a lot easier this way," and also reduces the bank's requirement for specialist skills, Shetty said.
Finding qualified people that have more than a rudimentary knowledge of storage is an issue for companies in India as they are growing at a clip and need more long term, strategic planning to make better IT decisions and get more out of their investments.
Overall, the "storage IQ in the country is pretty low," according to Manish Goel, vice president and general manager of data protection solutions at Network Appliance Inc. (NetApp) "There needs to be a fair bit of hand-holding to deploy and optimize large environments."
Soumiatra Agarwal, general manager of NetApp's operations in India, agreed that finding people and training them is one of the company's biggest challenges.
The main reason for the skills shortage in India is not a lack of available talent -- the country produced 400,000 engineers last year -- it's keeping hold of this talent that's the problem. India's brain drain has been going on for decades and continues today as countries, including the U.S., Australia and the U.K., offer more opportunities and a better lifestyle. This is gradually changing as the growth in the Indian economy improves the standard of living in the region. A second drain on resources are company's like Tata Consulting Services Ltd., India's largest software company, that plans to add 30,000 people to its current workforce of 72,000. Tata, InfoSys Ltd., Wipro Ltd. and others steal the lion's share of engineers that stay in India, attracting them with high salaries and benefits that match any U.S. firm. This leaves the rest of the market in India struggling to find people.
This summer, EMC Corp. committed to double its existing investments in India from $250 million, announced in February 2005, to over $500 million by 2010. The company recently launched EMC Academy Program (EAP), the industry's first program aimed at developing a resource pool of skilled storage professionals in the region. EAP has partnered with 26 educational institutes across India so far.
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Predictably, India's growth in terabytes shipped is greater than the growth in end-user revenue, according to Graham Penn, associate vice president for Asia Pacific storage research at IDC Corp. Total storage revenue forecast for 2006 is $256.9 million, compared with $198.6 million in 2005. Meanwhile terabytes shipped jumped from 17.6 million in 2005 to 27.2 million in 2006 and is forecast to hit 206.4 million TB in 2010, a compound annual growth rate of 63.5%.
To put this in perspective, the total disk storage systems market worldwide grew to $5.9 billion in the second quarter of 2006, up 6% from the prior year's quarter. And total disk storage systems capacity shipped worldwide was 704 petabytes (PB), a growth rate of 51.5% from the same quarter a year ago.
India, therefore, is still a small percentage of these overall numbers, but it has tremendous room to grow, according to Penn. He has noticed significant growth in external storage as users in India make the transition from storage internal to a server, (mostly x86 servers) and embrace networked storage. Fibre Channel SAN revenue for 2006 is forecast to hit $122.7 million, while network attached storage (NAS) will bring in $48.3 million, and iSCSI SAN, $8.6 million, according to IDC.Overall, India is the second fastest growth market in the Asia Pacific region, after China, and it is now the fourth largest market in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) after China, Australia and Korea, Penn said.
Many of the internal inhibitors to India's growth are being addressed, including inconsistent and ever-changing government policies, inconsistent sales tax structures in different states, difficult logistics and transit times, relatively high interest rates, and customs duties on capital goods are now confined to certain pockets.
Variable power supplies adding to capital equipment and operating costs can still be an issue. And border security concerns also have the potential to divert attention from infrastructural investments, analysts noted. But overall, there are strong indications that India's investment in storage is growing and paying off.
"India is one of our fastest growing markets," NetApp's Goel said. The company has about 300 customers in the region, buying a mix of SAN and NAS products. Since India opened its market to the outside world in 1992, multinationals have poured into the country in a bid to tap the subcontinent's growth and its abundant supply of low-cost, highly skilled workers. Often these organizations simply carried over their architectures from the U.S. "Texas Instruments Inc., Oracle, Morgan Stanley, General Electric Co. … If they bought NAS from us in the U.S., that's what they've installed in India," Goel said. Meanwhile, the Indian-based verticals – financial services, telecom and government-run industries including oil and gas – are not constrained by the "old way of doing things," he said, and therefore tend to purchase more leading-edge technologies.
The gap between what's being deployed in the U.S. vs. India is closing, according Shyam Gopal, country manager for India, at Brocade. Releases are available in India at the same time as the U.S. "as business is global and people have to compete," he said. While most companies are behind the curve for high-end software functionality like data lifecycle management or continuous data protection products, they are beginning to ask questions about it, vendors say.
On a related note, most major storage vendors are building a direct presence in the area and are working with local integrators. This is broadening access of the latest storage hardware and software products to more customers. "The big cities have become saturated because of the high growth," said Manoj Suvarna, country manager for HP StorageWorks in India. HP is pushing into Tier-2 cities, including Hyderabad, Pune and Chandigarh, to find new business. Some states have created special economic zones and are offering tax rebates for businesses that set up in these cities. HP is following this development.
More challenges
Remote connectivity is patchy in India, so where a hub and spoke architecture is common in the U.S., there are more distributed data centers and storage islands in India. "Connectivity is less reliable," NetApp's Goel said.
The labor to capital ratio is also very different to the U.S. The pressure to eliminate operating costs is lower in India as labor is so much cheaper, although steadily rising. The bigger concern is skills, which is why customers look for reliability. "Nondisruptive operations are more important, as there aren't the people available that can manage the systems," Goel added.
Furthermore, the market is more price sensitive than the U.S., as the price of equipment is the same in India as in the U.S., but staff are paid in rupees. Technology is therefore a larger proportion of a company's overall spending, which creates enormous pricing pressure.
That said, it's no longer sufficient to be lower cost, companies are looking for a partner to help them understand how to manage their infrastructure. "They deployed technology at such a tremendous rate, it's breaking through the streets in Bangalore, and now they are saying OK, help me control this growth," Goel said.


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Suburban Point E, on whose cobblestone backstreets Senegalese-American R&B roué Akon passed his boyhood years, already has a mosque. Several, actually, each megaphoning prayer songs across balmy Ramadan soirées. So, locals wonder, why shouldn't downtown New York City get another mosque, too?
The question may seem trivial, coming from one of Africa's smaller nations, but America's controversy over the interfaith community center proposed by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has implications for the United States' ability to thwart terrorism and defeat Al Qaeda. And Senegal, with a 95 percent Muslim population, represents a pivotal buttress in that campaign, say US military operatives. With Islamic fundamentalism triumphing in neighboring Mauritania and northern Nigeria, strategists see Senegal as a critical junction for US dialogue with the Muslim world.
"Islam in Senegal is tolerant, and we expect that tolerance in return," says Souleye Diallo, director for a study abroad program here.
But lately, Senegal's FM talk shows and private press have been appalled by America's debate over the mosque near ground zero, protests against Mr. Rauf, a Manhattan taxi passenger's attack on his Muslim driver, and sneers that Muslims worship "a monkey god" (that was former Tea Party spokesman Mark Williams).
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Mr. Diallo says Senegalese aren't seeing tolerance in the charged debate over the proposed Islamic community center about two blocks from the former World Trade Center. Nor did he personally feel it when he visited New York City earlier this month. While waiting to board the Staten Island Ferry for an iconic boat ride past the Statue of Liberty, he says he was profiled, frisked, and bag-searched in front of his outraged daughter.
He cautions that it was a one-off experience. "Senegalese go to America because in America, they can have their rights respected, and their freedom of movement to be entrepreneurs," he says. "It's not like in France, where you can be asked for your papers wherever you go."
Allowing a mosque near ground zero, says Diallo and other Senegalese, would restore America's image as a place of opportunity while also allowing Muslims to feel accepted. Islam pervades Senegal's Sahelien milieu, as does the hope harbored by youths to travel to America and prevail as capitalists on a stage like New York City.
Their impressions are not to be taken for granted. Senegal's second-biggest export (after its desert-farmed peanuts) might be New York's entrepreneurial class of Senegalese-American immigrants, studying business, driving night taxis, running Harlem restaurants in the Le Petit Sénégal neighborhood, reinvesting millions of needed dollars into Senegal's agrarian economy, and even selling "Never Forget" snow globes around ground zero itself. After all, it was a Senegalese souvenir salesman named Aliou Niasse who was the was the first to see smoke, and then call 911, when a Pakistani-born banker tried to car-bomb Times Square in May.
"It would be good to have a mosque there, to create dialogue between all religions," says Mamadou Mbao, an unemployed young man sitting curbside his mosque. "If it's controversial, then they must build one church and one mosque, right there in the same place. That's fair."
"I don't understand," adds his friend Mustafa Ndiaye. "If they're saying it could become a terrorist command center, isn't America a powerful country? If it becomes a terrorist command center, couldn't American just shut it down?"
Case closed, for Mr. Mbao and Mr. Ndiaye. Then they asked this American journalist for help in scoring two green cards.
Mosque helps US image
Human rights activist Daha Cherif Ba says he can appreciate America's anxiety surrounding Islam. "If Americans bombed us, you wouldn't be welcome here, either," he says.
Mr. Ba thinks the mosque near ground zero should be relocated. "Minorities must respect the sensitivities of the majority," he says.
But Mbao, Ndiaye, Diallo, a gathering of bearded men in a mosque, two students, a teacher, a young man reclining across a wooden bench, and a university professor all disagreed.
"For us, it would be a blessing to have a mosque there, where Muslims could pray for the deceased," says Diallo, the study abroad director. "I understand the grievances, and yes, there were Islamists behind the attack, but the way to heal is to accept people's prayers."
But he says he knows the reality of America's news cycle and heavily charged political scene.
"America's politicians," he adds, "are thinking about re-election, not how to heal."


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On a Sunday in March 2008, Joe Robertson was worried about his credit union's members as he watched the television news about the failures of several major Wall Street firms and big banks.
Robertson's first thought: Members will be concerned about the safety of their funds. He realized he needed to communicate quickly and directly with members of $228 million asset Our Community Credit Union in Shelton, Wash.
"I was thinking, 'We need to get a letter out to our members and tell them exactly why that's happening and why it's not going to happen to us. We need to tell them their money is safe.'"
Robertson wanted the letter to be effective for his specific membership, and to explain that the credit union was a healthy financial institution and in no danger of failing. So he personally wrote the letter.
The goal was to be proactive—to reach members before they became seriously concerned about the financial meltdown. Robertson didn't expect much of a response; he simply wanted to calm fears.
Turns out, the credit union did get a sizeable response—nearly 1,000 calls, letters, and e-mails. Members also visited the credit union and personally thanked Robertson when they saw him around town to express how grateful they were that the credit union had stayed out of the subprime lending mess and had the courtesy to send them a personalized letter.
"I couldn't believe the response," he says. "I never in my fondest dreams thought that more than 10% of the people would read the letter, and maybe half of those would say, 'That's good to know.' But that was not the case; instead the reaction was fantastic."
Robertson followed up with two additional letters when more news of bank failures and economic crisis hit the airwaves. He also wrote a letter to the community-at-large—including about 9,600 potential members—and educated them on the credit union difference to help reassure them and offer a "banking alternative."
Robertson's letter-writing campaign resulted in a local newspaper interview and presentation requests by local community groups. The credit union garnered a record $18 million increase in total deposits for 2009 (doubling the previous year's increase), as members and new members sought a safe haven for their money.
It was a stressful time for all financial institutions, Robertson admits, because fear fed upon itself, the bad news kept building, and accountholders—including members—didn't know where it would end.
Those times stand in stark contrast to Robertson's life today. In December 2010 he retired, and Bert Fischer, formerly chief operations officer, became president/CEO.
Robertson says his stress vanished immediately. "I thought retirement would be like being on vacation," he says. But it's better, he admits. "When you're on vacation when you're a CEO, you still think about work all the time."
Robertson's retirement comes on the heels of a 35-year career in the credit union movement—all of it at Our Community. Before that, he was a marketer for a restaurant chain. For 10 years after being hired by Our Community, Robertson worked in various positions, including collections officer and operations manager. In 1985, he was named president/CEO.


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Today, we are releasing our 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report. This is our first Law Enforcement Requests Report. It provides data on the number of requests we received from law enforcement agencies around the world relating to Microsoft online and cloud services and how we responded to those requests. All of our major online services are covered in this report, including, for example, Hotmail, Outlook.com; SkyDrive; Xbox LIVE; Microsoft Account; and Office 365. We're also making available similar data relating to Skype, which Microsoft acquired in October 2011.
We will update this report every six months.
Our Perspective
In recent months, there has been broadening public interest in how often law enforcement agencies request customer data from technology companies and how our industry responds to these requests. Google, Twitter and others have made important and helpful contributions to this discussion by publishing some of their data. We've benefited from the opportunity to learn from them and their experience, and we seek to build further on the industry's commitment to transparency by releasing our own data today.
Like others in the industry, we are releasing publicly the total number of requests we receive from law enforcement in countries around the world and the number of potentially affected accounts identified in those requests.
We are also publishing additional data that we hope will provide added insights for our customers and the public who are interested in these issues. For example, we are providing more detailed information that shows the number of law enforcement requests resulting in disclosure to these agencies of "customer content", such as the subject line and body of an email exchanged through Outlook.com; or a picture stored on SkyDrive. We similarly are reporting on the number of law enforcement requests that result in disclosure only of "non-content" data, which includes account information such as an email address, a person's name, country of residence, or gender, or system-generated data such as IP addresses and traffic data.
As most people recall, Microsoft acquired Skype toward the end of 2011, and the integration of our two companies advanced considerably over the course of 2012. Not surprisingly, Skype collected and retained certain data in different formats than the rest of Microsoft. It is therefore presented differently in this first report, which covers last year. Going forward, we are aligning our reporting formats across all Microsoft services, including Skype, so they can be presented in the same manner in our future reports. We also will continue to look for new ways to improve the usefulness of the data we publish, and I know we'll benefit from the feedback that we'll continue to receive from individuals and groups around the world.
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A lot of the public discussion about law enforcement requests to tech companies has focused on the benefits of transparency. While transparency is definitely valuable, it's also important to step back when reports like this are released and ask what the data actually show. We've made the data available in a format that enables anyone to analyze it (and as I've found, the new PowerPivot feature in Excel is so easy that even a lawyer can make ready use of it). As I've had the opportunity in recent weeks to review all of our data and talk with the Microsoft teams that work in this area, a few themes have struck me as the most significant. I've therefore tried to summarize below what has struck me as some of the principal trends reflected in the data we're releasing today:
· First, while we receive a significant number of law enforcement requests from around the world, very few actually result in the disclosure to these agencies of customer content. To be precise, last year Microsoft (including Skype) received 75,378 law enforcement requests for customer information, and these requests potentially affected 137,424 accounts or other identifiers. Only 2.1 percent, or 1,558 requests, resulted in the disclosure of customer content.
· It's insightful, I believe, to look at the governments to whom customer content was disclosed. Of the 1,558 disclosures of customer content, more than 99 percent were in response to lawful warrants from courts in the United States. In fact, there were only 14 disclosures of customer content to governments outside the United States. These were to governments in Brazil, Ireland, Canada and New Zealand.
· Of the 56,388 cases where Microsoft (excluding Skype) disclosed some non-content information to law enforcement agencies, more than 66 percent of these were to agencies in only five countries. These were the U.S., the United King***, Turkey, Germany and France. For Skype, the top five countries accounted for 81 percent of all requests. These countries were the U.K., U.S., Germany, France and Taiwan.
· Roughly 18 percent of the law enforcement requests (again, excluding Skype) resulted in the disclosure of no customer information in any form, either because Microsoft rejected the request or because no customer information was found. (We don't have this information for Skype for 2012 because its data was not retained in this form, but we will for 2013 and the future.)
· We addressed last year a total of only 11 law enforcement requests for information relating to Microsoft's enterprise customers. In general, we believe that law enforcement requests for information from an enterprise customer are best directed to that customer rather than a tech company that happens to host that customer's data. That way, the customer's legal department can engage directly with law enforcement personnel to address the issue. Last year, we either rejected or were successful in redirecting seven of these 11 requests, and in the four instances where we disclosed some enterprise customer information, we either obtained the customer's consent before complying, or we disclosed the information pursuant to a specific contractual arrangement to process such requests on behalf of the customer. (For more on how Microsoft handles requests for enterprise customer information, please visit our FAQ here.)
· Finally, while law enforcement requests for information unquestionably are important (and raise important issues around the world), only a tiny percentage of users are potentially affected by them. We have many hundreds of millions of accounts across our online and cloud services. To give you a sense of proportion, we estimate that less than two one-hundredths of one percent (or 0.02 percent, to put it another way) were potentially affected by law enforcement requests. This broke down as follows:
o Microsoft services (excluding Skype) received 70,665 requests from law enforcement, impacting a potential 122,015 accounts or other identifiers.
o Skype received 4,713 requests from law enforcement. Those requests impacted 15,409 accounts or other identifiers, such as a PSTN number. Skype produced no content in response to these requests, but did provide non-content data, such as a SkypeID, name, email account, billing information and call detail records if a user subscribed to the Skype In/Online service, which connects to a telephone number.
What We Do
As we continue to move forward, Microsoft is committed to respecting human rights, free expression, and individual privacy. We seek to operate all of the services we own in a manner that's consistent with our Global Human Rights Statement and responsibilities as a member of the Global Network Initiative. Like every company, we are obligated to comply with legally binding requests from law enforcement, and we respect and appreciate the role that law enforcement personnel play in so many countries to protect the public's safety.
While these issues are sometimes complex, we strive to follow practices that are clear and straightforward:
· We require a valid subpoena or legal equivalent before we will consider releasing a customer's non-content data to a law enforcement agency.
· We require a court order or warrant before we will consider releasing a customer's content to law enforcement.
· We take a close look in each instance to ensure that the requests we receive for a customer's information are in accord with the laws, rules and procedures that are applicable to requests for customer data and content.
You can find additional detailed information on our policies and practices here.
Looking Forward
This is obviously our first report of this nature. We welcome suggestions and feedback, and we'll no doubt continue to learn from our own experience as well as from others as we move forward. If you have ideas you'd like us to consider, please send them to us by email to [email protected]. Even though we may not ultimately agree with or adopt every suggestion, I know we'll be better off for having received and considered your ideas.
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Re: Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests - 04-08-2013, 12:19 PM
"Look how transparent we are! You're safe with us! Spend more money with Microsoft!"
Except...if you or someone you've communicated with are investigated (for any reason, even spurious or personal vendetta based claims, as long as there is a subpoena or warrant) we're going to cooperate fully.
Note the greater number of accounts affected than requests made. You don't even need to have been a willing or knowing participant.
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September 2010
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Terri Irwin has been recognised for her outstanding leadership at the Queensland Management Excellence Awards, being named Owner Manager of the Year for the Sunshine Coast region at an awards ceremony held last night.
As owner and director of Australia Zoo, and Patron of Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors, Terri was honoured for her leadership and management style, the role she has played in the growth of her business, commitment to mentoring and other leadership activities, and communication of the vision, mission and goals of Australia Zoo.
"I'm so honoured to receive this award in my home region of the Sunshine Coast," said Terri after receiving the award.
"Steve and I shared a vision of becoming the ultimate, global zoological destination right here on the Sunshine Coast, and every day I continue to work at growing this vision into reality."
Under Terri's leadership and direction, Australia Zoo has grown into a world-class facility and leader in conservation, and has been widely recognised throughout the tourism industry, taking out Major Tourist Attraction at the Queensland and Australian Tourism Awards, and being inducted into the Queensland Tourism Hall of Fame.
"The growth and development of Australia Zoo is without a doubt my biggest business and career achievement to date," said Terri.
Celebrating our 40th Anniversary this year, Australia Zoo has grown from a four acre reptile park into an impressive seventy acre world-class facility, home to over 1,000 animals and employing over 600 staff. The community benefit on the Sunshine Coast from the operations of Australia Zoo is in the order of $86 - 130 million annually.
"The success of Australia Zoo could not be accomplished without the excellent team onboard at Australia Zoo."
Terri will now progress to the Queensland Management Excellence Awards state finals, to be held in Brisbane in November.
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This is the most interesting overall group of photo entries we've had in a Shooting Challenge in a long time. The irony? They were taken on your cellphones.
Lead Shot and Winner - Evo 4G
Downtown Los Angeles sunset from 10 W Frwy @ East Los Angeles - After moving to West LA area the thing that I miss the most about East Los Angeles is the beautiful sunset view from City Terrace hills. HTC Evo 4 Camera, LittlePhoto App (Various filters)
- Juan Ramirez
iPhone 4 + SlowShutter App
Shot this picture on my IPhone 4 on the way home. Saw all the beautiful lights at night and decided to give the "SlowShutter" app a try. As you can see it works very well. I then pulled the photo into the "Photoshop Express" app to crop it and work on the saturation, contrast, and exposure.
- Chad Hathcock
iPhone 4
I read about your challenges before but never thought of participating, I'm not a good photographer. But when I saw the lead shot, from my own school, I thought damn I can make this! So I grabbed my phone and started running in my whole apartment, looking for something interesting. There was clearly great sunlight conditions, but I didn't really got the thing before I went on my balcony. I thought this is it! After having tried a few shots, I got a really neat one of the balcony fence : I loved the effect! I then used Iris Photo Suite to enhance this effect and make a great sunset with more red,blue and less green, more contrast and a little less brightness. I think I nailed it, damn! iPhone 4
- Alex Unnervik
Nexus S + Vignette
Taken with my Nexus S using Vignette for android under a custom setting I call "Bleach". It's basically a bleach bypass w/ film grain & underexposed to compensate for the contrast. Usually use this setting when its real sunny because the colors just pop, but for some reason while waiting at Madison Sq. Park to get some shake shack, i looked up at the light post I was standing under & it looked eerie. Something made me pick my "Bleach" setting & out of it I got this, the clouds give the sky a painting look & the lamp replaces the Moon in the image.
- Omar Viscarra
iPhone 4
While walking downtown Little Rock, AR on a cloudy day as it got dark, I figured it was as good a time as any to look for my shot for this challenge. As I was about to pass by this building, I snapped this photo in the middle of a crosswalk. The fog gave it an interesting effect towards the top near the lights. Then, in Camera+, I started playing around with the filters. I liked how the pinhole effect gave it an "old world photo of new world architecture" vibe. The colors were very subdued by the gloomy afternoon, so I didn't feel so bad sucking the rest of the color out. Which is ultimately what I ended up going with. iPhone 4, 3.8mm, ISO125, f/2.8, 1/15s, Camera+, Clarity, and Pinhole Analog effect.
- Will Brown
iPhone 4 + ProCamera
I took this shot on my iPhone 4, using ProCamera with the manual focus and exposure turned on. I aimed the camera at light bulb and directed exposure square towards the edge of the bulb. I found when the square was pointed straight at the bulb, the exposure was too low and the result was quite underwhelming. I love ProCamera's low exposure abilities (for a phone, it's quite impressive), but I had attempted taking shots of non-power-saving light bulbs at home, and the results had been disappointing. I was over at my sister's house for Easter Sunday, and she has power-saving bulbs which I realised may have a better effect. I snapped this shot from directly underneath the bulb while standing on a chair to get closer.
- Meagan Roach
iPhone 4 (HDR Mode)
So during my normal commute to the city, I spotted a gentleman with a cool guitar case that I knew would be awesome to have a shot of. As I was fumbling to get my iphone camera app the subway train was fast approaching. I decided to use the HDR mode of the iphone 4 so that I could get a cool motion blur effect with the train and hopefully the guitar case man would remain deathly still (which he did!). For post processing I used a few apps. The first was a app called "filterstorm" and it pretty much functions as a full suite photo editing pc application. After doing some basic touch ups and color correction, I then used a great random effects generating app called "Plastic Bullet" from Red Giant in which I got the burn effect generated. iPhone 4, Regular camera app using HDR mode
- Krishna Yalla
iPhone 4
Taken with an iPhone 4, stock camera app. I was going for a drive around the north coast of Donegal where I live (Ireland), with my parents and brother, and we saw this lighthouse at the tip of the peninsula. I thought it would make a nice picture. I used Photoshop to tweak the levels slightly and that's about it.
- Stephen Coyle
iPhone 4
Was on the train home from NYC and saw this lady just slide over and pass out. It kind of looks like she's dead. this photo reminds me of an alien invasion for some reason.
- Nick Frega
iPhone 4 + ProCamera App
This shot was taken and edited with an iPhone 4 using the ProCamera app. While on a short camping trip over the weekend in Borrego Springs California, I took this shot at Font's Point standing on the edge of a cliff. The point overlooks this scene know as the "badlands." The badlands consists of many narrow slot canyons (think 127 Hours) and travel on for as far as you can see. What I liked about this view besides the badlands, are the clouds. The clouds almost appear flat and remind me of water pooling on a surface. Or in this case clouds pooling in the sky.
- Ryan Seibert
I know this just makes me sound old, but I can't believe that we're able to take compelling photographs on the same thing we use to call, text and drunk-text. As always, we have the galleries below and full-sized shots on flickr.
Mark Wilson is the founder of photography blog Life, Panoramic and Philanthroper, a daily deal site for nonprofits.


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Posts Tagged 'home organizing tips'
Do I need it? Do I use it? and Do I love it?
These are the three magic questions to ask yourself when trying to decide whether or not to keep something. If you need it you'll keep it, and if you use it you'll keep it. But if you love something, it doesn't matter if you need it or use it, you'll keep it. Love has a way of sticking around.
Many of the things in our homes that we love are keepsakes. Things that help to illustrate a story or bring back memories of the person it used to belong to. I love our Heywood Wakefield kitchen table because of the shape of it and also for the neat way it folds up into a smaller size. I also love the stories Aunt June used to tell about purchasing it with her husband back in the 40's.
I love the red fleece jacket I wear around the house in the winter to keep toasty warm. My son loved when I wore this jacket when he was little – maybe because it made him warm when I held him. I don't wear the jacket out in public anymore because it's showing it's age, but I love it and use it so I think I'll keep it a while longer.
But I don't love everything I own. Nor do I need or use everything either. The litmus test I use to determine if it stays or goes into the donate box are as simple as asking these three little questions: Do I need it?, Do I use it?, and Do I love it?
This need it/use it/love it principle can be applied to every area of your home. Let's take the kitchen, for example. Open the gadget drawer and see what you find. How many spatulas, slotted spoons and knives do you have? Are they all useful? Do you need 47 sharp knives in varying sizes? What if you only kept the ones you loved? Would you still have plenty for all your cutting needs?
Once you choose your favorites, place them in a convenient spot where you can use them when you need them. The extras can be put in the donate box or stored in an out of the way area. Your prime real estate should be reserved for the things you use most often.
Let's take another example – the linen closet. Look at all your bath towels and ask yourself the three need it/use it/love it questions. Are there any you could part with? Next, look at the hand towels, wash cloths, sheet sets, single pillowcases, and blankets and take the ones out that don't make the cut. Organize the linens you love by type, color, and frequency of use.
Memorabilia tends to fall into the "love it" category. We often don't use or need items that remind us of the past, but just looking at them makes us happy. I don't need or use my college ID cards but I love the way they bring back memories of the times when I did need and use those cards. Paper memorabilia can be stored in photo albums where they can be shared with others or they can be kept in a box with other flat memorabilia.
For larger keepsake items like a favorite stuffed animal or blanket, a bin with a tight fitting lid is a good choice. Choose one brand (because they stack nicely and will look visually organized) like the Rubbermaid Tough Totes and give each member of the family their own.
When organizing any area of your home, remember the famous words of poet Virgil, "Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love". I don't think he was referring to home organizing when he said it but if you love something, I encourage you to keep it.


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Some people use empty pages to make sure that the front page gets printed on a single piece of paper (example).
I think this is a bad solution, as some people might want to print every page on a new piece of paper. They will get some empty pieces of paper. It is also bad for people who read the document in a PDF-reader.
Is there another possibility to make sure that the front page (or other pages) get printed on a new piece of paper without adding an empty piece of paper?


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China Miéville's novel Embassytown is all about communication with an alien race, on a distant planet. So it makes sense that the newly revealed cover shows letters falling on a luminescent cityscape.
Here's the synopsis of Embassytown, due out in May:
Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe.
Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, humans are not the only intelligent life, and Avice has a rare bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts – who cannot lie.
Only a tiny cadre of unique human Ambassadors can speak Language, and connect the two communities. But an unimaginable new arrival has come to Embassytown. And when this Ambassador speaks, everything changes.
Catastrophe looms. Avice knows the only hope is for her to speak directly to the alien Hosts.
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The current move to outlaw peat seems to have taken on a somewhat evangelical fervour that is not necessarily based on fact. The Royal horticultural Society and organisations such as the National trust have taken strong stands on the issue but without presenting all the facts. The RHS website on peat is pitifully poor on facts. Over recent years the RHS have carried out various trials using low peat and peat-free composts and the results have been published in The Garden. However in each case the pictorial evidence shows a comparison between the various peat-free composts used but no control. In any scientific trial there should always be a control and in this situation it should be to compare the results with plants growing in an established peat-based compost. I would guess that if the RHS did use a control, that the results of plants growing in a peat-based compost was so superior, that it would defeat their purpose in trying to promote peat free composts. Let's hush this up!
I also strongly object to TV presenters such as Monty Don who suggest that using a peat-free compost is the only way to grow certain plants. Listen to him next Friday and I guarantee whatever he is propagating, he will state potting in a peat-free compost. This is not the only way to grow whatever it might be but it's purely a matter of choice. Can you imagine a TV chef cooking a Boeuf Bourginon and listing amongst the ingredients a glass of red grape juice instead of a hearty Merlot? It would be preposterous, but amazingly the parallel seems acceptable for gardening. In all my books I have suggested organic alternatives to various growing practices to let the reader choose.
If any of you are sitting there fuming at my Neanderthal attitude and lack of environmental awareness, I suggest you read some of the background arguments on the other side of the peat debate. If you check out this website linked to the Glendoick Nursery, there are some very interesting facts. Whilst it can be accepted that many lowland peat bogs have been depleted and should be protected, in the UK nearly 50% of Scotland is still covered with peat deposits. In the last 50 years, whilst 500ha of peat bog have been used for extraction, some 95,000ha have been drained for forestry purposes. Much of our peat is also imported. On the worldwide basis, approximately 2% of peat is useful horticultural purposes. Most of the peat extracted is still used as a fuel and this still happens at a domestic level in parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Finland has vast sources of peat but the majority is used as a fuel to supply power stations. In Russia 1.5million tons are used for fuel.
|Shatura Power Station in Russia - the largest peat burning power station in the world.
The government is in a mess on this. Dare we say - bogged down? 'The Sustainable Growing Media Task Force' is currently under is dispute on the basis that no-one has really defined what the problem is. Defining this was assigned to the Friends of the Earth organisation who have not delivered a response. Whilst undoubtedly there would need to be control over the use of a product such as peat and a need to protect the natural environment, it would seem to be clear that stopping the use of peat for horticulture is a minor issue compared to harvesting for fuel and draining for agriculture and forestry.
I hasten to add that the above are just a few facts on the matter and certainly far from definitive but it makes you think!


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November 27, 2012, 4:26 pm
Day's Best: Hickenlooper makes Esquire's "Americans of the Year" list
Esquire Magazine got it right.
It surely was not easy to be governor of Colorado in 2012, given the destructive wildfires and trauma of the theater shooting massacre in Aurora.
That's why the magazine included Colorado's Gov. John Hickenlooper on its "Americans of the Year" list.
While we're glad to see the governor recognized, let's hope that next year brings fewer disasters for him to cope with.


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Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University
How can we improve the odds for brown hyenas and other carnivores in South Africa's Pilanesberg National Park?
Dr. Richard Yarnell's experience includes research on the impact of habitat management on mammal ecology, cooperative breeding in meerkats in South Africa, and hyena numbers in Northwest Province, all in South Africa, as well as a project investigating badger and fox populations in relation to pest management for the U.K. government. He has also served as chief executive of the Badger Trust in the U.K. He is particularly interested in the conservation of carnivores and in human–wildlife conflict.


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Whole of government Right to Information
The Queensland Government is committed to giving the community greater access to information. The Right to Information reforms strengthen the community's right to access government-held information, unless, on balance, releasing the information would be contrary to the public interest.
The Right to Information reforms are the result of an independent and comprehensive review of Queensland's freedom of information legislation. The review panel, chaired by Dr David Solomon AM, delivered The Right to Information (the Solomon Report) in June 2008.
The Solomon Report recommended the Government overhaul its approach to information. It proposed moving to a "push" model, with greater proactive and routine release of information, new right to information and privacy legislation and maximum disclosure of non-personal information.
In its response (PDF, 863 KB) to the Solomon Report, the Government supported in full, in part, in principle all but two of the Report's 141 recommendations and committed to sweeping reforms to make Queensland the most open and accountable government in Australia.


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Java BOP Blend
A rich breakfast blend especially suited for those who enjoy a powerful cup in the morning. This also is a great choice for iced tea. Java teas are never expensive, so you get the best produced for a few cents a cup.
Java Indonesian Green Tea
From the volcanic island of Java, this green tea offering has dark olive-green leaves that produce a rich, golden cup with a brisk, refreshing character. Fragrant with hints of flowers and a whisper of sweet tobacco, the full-bodied liquor is honey-sweet, leading to a clean finish that hints of stone fruit.
Season's Pick Indonesian Gunpowder Green Tea
This Java green tea selection has classic gunpowder-style rolled leaves with a glossy sheen. The silky smooth cup is fragrant with a buttery aroma. The amber gold liquor is full-bodied with hints of honey and flowers, complemented by a fruity sweetness.


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Go RVing Canada has announced the winners of its "Favorite RV Recipes" Contest, which was launched in early November.
Before finalizing the three prize winners, a "Top 20″ list of the submitted recipes was chosen and evaluated by a panel of judges, Phyllis Hinz and Lamont Mackay, otherwise known as "The Cooking Ladies."
Both judges are RV enthusiasts, the authors of nine cookbooks and former restaurateurs. They combine their appetite for adventure with meeting new people, seeing new places, sampling new foods and creating recipes.
Their results:
• Grand prize winner of an RV Weekend Getaway: Valerie Gervais, Ottawa, Ontario, for her healthy and unique Baby Spinach & Raspberry Salad.
• Second prize of a $250 gift card for Williams-Sonoma online: Terri Gilson of Calgary, Alberta, for her quirky Pierogi Potato Salad.
•Third prize of a six piece set of Wusthof Steak Knives: Gail McBride of Edmonton, Alberta, for her tangy Pickled Shrimp.
Each one of the top 20 recipes will be revealed over the next 20 days starting this week on Go RVing Canada's Facebook page. For more information on the results, visit www.GoRVing.ca.


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What you'll learn
By enrolling in this class, you'll gain imperative knowledge on:
- How to read birth charts for yourself and others.
- How to identify your talents, weaknesses, and strengths via the elements.
- How to use astrology beyond the basic sun signs.
- How to create personal growth, financial gain, and harmony in all of your relationships.
- How to align the stars for yourself.
"Ophira's business reading was SPOT ON! Her insight helped me make key decisions for my fast growing company. She'll give you priceless information about yourself and your business that is both grounded and inspiring. Her intuition is off the charts and she's become one of my 'secret business weapons'. I cannot recommend her enough!"
"The AstroTwins are my go-to guides for astrology. Their knowledge is incredible and their intuition is always spot on! I check in with them monthly for guidance and support. I'm psyched to have them in my speed dial."
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How It Works
You'll have unlimited access to hours of video content, all from the comfort of your own home. Lifetime access to the class allows you to explore your spirituality on the deepest possible level, all at your own pace.
You'll take what you've learned in the videos and put it into practice. Return to any session as often as you'd like, or use what you've learned and apply it to your own spiritual practice.
Interactive discussion boards allow you to discuss what's on your mind with instructors and fellow students. Get your questions answered, while joining a community of other wellness enthusiasts.
Find your happiest, healthiest self.
Our classes are designed to give you a simple and effective educational experience so you can focus on "you". Whether you're at home or on the go, you'll have access to world-class experts and a thriving community of wellness enthusiasts - all here to help you along the way.
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All you need is WiFi or a direct internet connection - no downloads or DVDs required! All classes stream directly to the device of your choosing.
Whenever you're ready! There's no set start (or end) date here.
Learn at your own pace. Some classes have a suggested timeline, but you are free to adjust to fit your own schedule.
Yes! Watch as much as you'd like, and for as long as you'd like. Once you've completed the class, it's yours to keep!
No problem - let us know and we will work with you personally to find another class that suits you better.
We really hope you love it! Unfortunately, we're not able to offer refunds for the programs. If you're on the fence, we strongly recommend that you watch the preview videos to get a sense of what the class is like before you buy.
Email us at email@example.com. We're happy to answer all of your questions.


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(Morelia spilota)
This beautiful non-venomous python's thick body has patterns which are blotchy yellow and black. This species of python is a very familiar face for locals who live near Australia Zoo. The carpet python may grow to reach lengths of up to 3.5 metres. It is usually active at night and spends most of the day coiled up in a tree or rafter, or stretched out basking in an open area.
Carpet pythons can be found in habitats ranging from tropical rainforest in the north-east of Australia to arid and coastal regions. Pythons from different habitats tend to have their own unique colouration. The species is currently divided into six distinct subspecies. The local subspecies that can be seen around Australia Zoo is Morelia spilota mcdowelli.
Carpet pythons can normally be seen feeding after dark. They primarily eat mammals and birds, although smaller pythons prefer to eat lizards. Often encountered in suburban areas, you couldn't find a better rat catcher. Like most pythons, the carpet python has heat sensitive pits on their upper and lower lips, which help them detect the body heat of their prey.
Once the female carpet python lays her eggs, she will coil around her eggs, occasionally shivering to maintain temperatures at an optimum level for embryo development (approximately 30°C).


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Participating Organization(s)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD)
Funding Opportunity Title
Mechanisms of Adverse Drug Reactions in Children (R01)
Activity Code
R01 Research Project Grant
Announcement Type
Reissue of PAR-08-248
Related Notices
Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Number
Companion FOA
PAR-11-052 , R03 Small Grant Program
Catalog of Federal Domestics Assistance (CFDA) Number(s)
93.865, 93.310
FOA Purpose
This FOA encourages projects that enhance the state-of-the-science on the molecular and cellular, genetic and epigenetic mechanisms involved in the production of adverse drug reactions in children. The objective of this announcement includes research on the role of ontogeny and the characterization of pharmacogenetic and developmental variations of drug metabolizing enzymes (DMEs), transporters, ion channels, receptors and signaling pathways that are responsible for drug toxicity in the pediatric population.
Posted Date
December 2, 2010
Open Date (Earliest Submission Date)
February 5, 2011
Letter of Intent Due Date
30 days prior to the application due date
Application Due Date(s)
Standard dates apply, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.
AIDS Application Due Date(s)
Standard dates apply, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.
Scientific Merit Review
Standard dates apply
Advisory Council Review
Standard dates apply
Earliest Start Date(s)
Standard dates apply
Expiration Date
May 8, 2014
Due Dates for E.O. 12372
Not Applicable
Required Application Instructions
It is critical that applicants follow the instructions in the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide except where instructed to do otherwise (in this FOA or in a Notice from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts). Conformance to all requirements (both in the Application Guide and the FOA) is required and strictly enforced. Applicants must read and follow all application instructions in the Application Guide as well as any program-specific instructions noted in Section IV. When the program-specific instructions deviate from those in the Application Guide, follow the program-specific instructions. Applications that do not comply with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.
Part 1. Overview Information
Part 2. Full Text of the Announcement
Section I. Funding Opportunity Description
Section II. Award Information
Section III. Eligibility Information
Section IV. Application and Submission Information
Section V. Application Review Information
Section VI. Award Administration Information
Section VII. Agency Contacts
Section VIII. Other Information
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) issued by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH) encourages Research Grant (R01) applications from organizations/institutions that propose to study the molecular, cellular and genetic mechanisms involved in the production of adverse drug reactions in children. Research on the role of ontogeny in the production of, and immune responses to, reactive metabolites and research on the efficiency of detoxification mechanisms are particularly emphasized. The development of adequate animal and in vitro models to spur discovery of the mechanisms of hypersensitivity reactions in children and the identification of toxicity biomarkers are an important part of this initiative. A major problem in performing experimental studies of the mechanisms of ADRs in the young is the extrapolation and applicability of the animal studies to humans. Juvenile experimental animals, in addition to have compressed developmental timelines (e.g., a 21-day old rat or a 6 week old puppy may be considered equivalent to a 2-year old child) may also have different organ maturation schedules and species-specific biological processes different from humans. Another important objective will be to determine whether there are periods of increased vulnerability to drug toxicity within the developmental continuum, between birth and adolescence.
This FOA also invites applications that will investigate 1) the underlying molecular and biochemical mechanisms, including genetic vulnerability, by which drugs of abuse induce toxicity in children as stated in the FOA and 2) those that were exposed to drugs of abuse maternally (intrauterine, milk etc). Some examples of drugs of abuse to be investigated in this FOA are nicotine, cocaine, marijuana, tobacco, opiates and heroin, methamphetamine, 3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, and LSD.
Research Scope
The last two are not within the scope of this FOA.
Type A reactions are dose-related and can be predicted from the known pharmacokinetics and/or pharmacodynamics of the drug. For example, infants, especially preterm infants are at risk for this type of ADR because of immaturity of their drug metabolizing enzymes (DMEs). The developmental patterns of many biotransformation enzymes (both Phase I and Phase II) have not been sufficiently characterized in children. There is evidence, however, that CYP3A4 activity increases in early childhood and surpasses the enzyme activity in adults. This knowledge raises the possibility that increased activity of some P450 isoforms may be a pathogenic mechanism in the generation of reactive metabolites involved in idiosyncratic reactions. Under normal circumstances, reactive metabolites are inactivated by detoxification mechanisms. The glutathione pathway is important in the detoxification of exogenous and endogenous compounds and in the cellular defense against oxidative stress. The ontogeny of the enzymes involved in glutathione conjugation reactions (e.g., glutathione-S-transferases and glutathione peroxidase) and the factors that determine the size of the glutathione pool have not been sufficiently characterized in children.
The mechanisms involved in idiosyncratic reactions are poorly understood. Circumstantial evidence points to a major role of reactive metabolites interacting with elements of the immune system. An important pathogenetic hypothesis to be tested is whether an increased production of reactive metabolites is associated with the increased activity of certain drug metabolizing enzymes (e.g., cytochrome P 450 3A4, 2C9 and 1A2) that occurs in young children. An imbalance favoring the development of idiosyncratic reactions may occur if a relative deficiency in drug detoxification mechanisms is also present. Often, idiosyncratic (Type B) reactions are mediated by drug metabolites, directly or by way of interactions with a secondary cellular target. Rarely a Type B ADR may be due to cross reactivity between components of a pathogen and the host.
Adverse drug reaction (ADR)-dependent toxicity caused by drugs of abuse in children is a major problem in this country. Children may be exposed to drugs of abuse in various ways including: in utero exposure during pregnancy; through breast feeding; and postnatal direct exposure during the adolescent period. Several studies suggest that both prenatal and postnatal exposure to drugs of abuse can lead to toxicity of various organs/systems in children. The adverse effects on nervous system (brain) include reduced cortical gray matter and total parenchyma volume, cognitive deficits (memory and learning), impaired speech-processing ability, and increased risk for neuropsychiatric disorders. Cardiovascular anomalies associated with drugs of abuse are hypertension, tachycardia, myocardial ischemia, myocarditis, and cardiomyopathy. Breathing secondhand tobacco smoke increases risks for sudden infant death syndrome, acute respiratory infections, asthma, middle-ear disease, and multiple sclerosis in children. Exposure to drugs of abuse may also render children susceptible to opportunistic infections such as HIV, HCV, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. Understanding the mechanisms of toxicity may help identify targets of interventions for treatment or preventive measures.
Research areas appropriate for this announcement include, but are not limited to, the following examples:
Funding Instrument
Application Types Allowed
The OER Glossary and the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide provide details on these application types.
Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards
The number of awards is contingent upon NIH appropriations, and the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications.
Award Budget
Awards issued under this FOA are contingent upon the availability of funds and the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications.
Because the nature and scope of the proposed research will vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the size and duration of each award will also vary. The total amount awarded and the number of awards will depend upon the mechanism numbers, quality, duration, and costs of the applications received.
Award Project Period
The total project period for an application submitted in response to this funding opportunity may not exceed 5 years.
NIH grants policies as described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement will apply to the applications submitted and awards made in response to this FOA.
Higher Education Institutions:
The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
For profit Organizations
Foreign (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are allowed.
Applicant organizations must complete the following registrations
as described in the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide to be eligible to apply
for or receive an award. Applicants must have a valid Dun and Bradstreet
Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number in order to begin each of the following
All Program Directors/Principal Investigators (PD/PIs) must
also work with their institutional officials to register with the eRA Commons
or ensure their existing eRA Commons account is affiliated with the eRA Commons
account of the applicant organization.
All registrations must be completed by the application due date. Applicant organizations are strongly encouraged to start the registration process at least four (4) weeks prior to the application due date.
Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources
necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Project Director/Principal
Investigator (PD/PI) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an
application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic
groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply
for NIH support.
For institutions/organizations proposing multiple PDs/PIs, visit the Multiple Program Director/Principal Investigator Policy and submission details in the Senior/Key Person Profile (Expanded) Component of the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide.
This FOA does not require cost sharing as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
Applicant organizations may submit more than one application,
provided that each application is scientifically distinct.
NIH will not accept any application in response to this FOA that is essentially the same as one currently pending initial peer review unless the applicant withdraws the pending application. NIH will not accept any application that is essentially the same as one already reviewed. Resubmission applications may be submitted, according to the NIH Policy on Resubmission Applications from the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide.
Renewal applications may be submitted..
Applicants must download the SF424 (R&R) application package associated with this funding opportunity using the "Apply for Grant Electronically" button in this FOA or following the directions provided at Grants.gov.
It is critical that applicants follow the instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide, except where instructed in this funding opportunity announcement to do otherwise. Conformance to the requirements in the Application Guide is required and strictly enforced. Applications that are out of compliance with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.
Although a letter of intent is not required, is not binding, and does not enter into the review of a subsequent application, the information that it contains allows IC staff to estimate the potential review workload and plan the review.
By the date listed in Part 1. Overview Information, prospective applicants are asked to submit a letter of intent that includes the following information:
Descriptive title of proposed research
Name, address, and telephone number of the PD(s)/PI(s)
Names of other key personnel
Participating institutions
Number and title of this funding opportunity
The letter of intent should be sent to:
George P. Giacoia, M.D.
Obstetric and Pediatric Pharmacology Branch
Center for Research for Mothers and Children
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
6100 Executive Boulevard, Room 4AO1C
Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7510
(Rockville, Maryland 20852 for non USPS/courier service)
Telephone: 301-496-5589
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
The forms package associated with this FOA includes all applicable components, mandatory and optional. Please note that some components marked optional in the application package are required for application submission. Follow all instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide to ensure you complete all appropriate "optional" components.
All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed.
Resource Sharing Plans
Individuals are required to comply with the instructions for the Resource Sharing Plans (Data Sharing Plan, Sharing Model Organisms, and Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) Sharing Plan) as provided in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
Do not use the appendix to circumvent page limits. Follow all instructions for the Appendix as described in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
Foreign (non-US) organizations must follow policies described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, and procedures for foreign organizations described throughout the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
Part I. Overview Information contains information about Key Dates. Applicants are encouraged to submit in advance of the deadline to ensure they have time to make any application corrections that might be necessary for successful submission.
Organizations must submit applications via Grants.gov, the online portal to find and apply for grants across all Federal agencies. Applicants must then complete the submission process by tracking the status of the application in the eRA Commons, NIH's electronic system for grants administration.
Applicants are responsible for viewing their application in the eRA Commons to ensure accurate and successful submission.
Information on the submission process and a definition of on-time submission are provided in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
This initiative is not subject to intergovernmental review.
All NIH awards are subject to the terms and conditions, cost principles, and other considerations described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
Pre-award costs are allowable only as described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
Applications must be submitted electronically following the instructions described in the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide. Paper applications will not be accepted.
Applicants must complete all required registrations before the application due date. Section III. Eligibility Information contains information about registration.
For assistance with your electronic application or for more information on the electronic submission process, visit Applying Electronically.
All PD/PIs must include their eRA Commons ID in the Credential field of the Senior/Key Person Profile Component of the SF 424(R&R) Application Package. Failure to register in the Commons and to include a valid PD/PI Commons ID in the credential field will prevent the successful submission of an electronic application to NIH.
The applicant organization must ensure that the DUNS number it provides on the application is the same number used in the organization's profile in the eRA Commons and for the Central Contractor Registration (CCR). Additional information may be found in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
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Upon receipt, applications will be evaluated for completeness by the Center for Scientific Review, NIH. Applications that are incompletewill not be reviewed.
Annual Meeting of Principal Investigators
The principal investigator for each grant awarded under this FOA should plan to attend annual NIH-sponsored two-day meetings in Bethesda, MD. The meetings will provide an opportunity for all the investigators to communicate, discuss the progress of their research, exchange ideas and information, share resources, and foster collaborations that are relevant to the research goals of this FOA. This plan is designed to establish an interactive network of investigators who are interested in advancing this area of research.
All applications should include a request for funds to support attendance of the project principal investigators at the annual meetings, as well as a statement of agreement to participate in these meetings and to cooperate with other investigators.
Applicants requesting $500,000 or more in direct costs in any year (excluding consortium F&A) must contact NIH program staff at least 6 weeks before submitting the application and follow the Policy on the Acceptance for Review of Unsolicited Applications that Request $500,000 or More in Direct Costs as described in the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide.
Applicants are required to follow the instructions for post-submission materials, as described in NOT-OD-10-115,.
Only the review criteria described below will be considered in the review process. As part of the NIH mission, all applications submitted to the NIH in support of biomedical and behavioral research are evaluated for scientific and technical merit through the NIH peer review system.
Reviewers will provide an overall impact/priority score to reflect their assessment of the likelihood for the project to exert a sustained, powerful influence on the research field(s) involved, in consideration of the following review criteria and additional review criteria (as applicable for the project proposed).
Reviewers will consider each of the review criteria below in the determination of scientific merit, and give a separate score for each. An application does not need to be strong in all categories to be judged likely to have major scientific impact. For example, a project that by its nature is not innovative may be essential to advance a field.
Does the project address an important problem or a critical barrier to progress in the field? If the aims of the project are achieved, how will scientific knowledge, technical capability, and/or clinical practice be improved? How will successful completion of the aims change the concepts, methods, technologies, treatments, services, or preventative interventions that drive this field?Does the project address a major knowledge gap in the understanding of the mechanisms involved in the production of adverse drug reactions in children? If non-humans studies are proposed what is the clinical significance of the proposed project?
Are the PD/PIs, collaborators, and other researchers well suited to the project? If Early Stage Investigators or New Investigators, or in the early stages of independent careers, do they have appropriate experience and training? If established, have they demonstrated an ongoing record of accomplishments that have advanced their field(s)? If the project is collaborative or multi-PD/PI, do the investigators have complementary and integrated expertise; are their leadership approach, governance and organizational structure appropriate for the project?
Does the application challenge and seek to shift current research or clinical practice paradigms by utilizing novel theoretical concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions? Are the concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions novel to one field of research or novel in a broad sense? Is a refinement, improvement, or new application of theoretical concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions proposed?
Are the overall strategy, methodology, and analyses
well-reasoned and appropriate to accomplish the specific aims of the project?
Are potential problems, alternative strategies, and benchmarks for success
presented? If the project is in the early stages of development, will the
strategy establish feasibility and will particularly risky aspects be
If the project involves clinical research, are the plans for 1) protection of human subjects from research risks, and 2) inclusion of minorities and members of both sexes/genders, as well as the inclusion of children, justified in terms of the scientific goals and research strategy proposed? If animal models and/or in-vitro systems are proposed what is the relevance of the results to humans?
Will the scientific environment in which the work will be done contribute to the probability of success? Are the institutional support, equipment and other physical resources available to the investigators adequate for the project proposed? Will the project benefit from unique features of the scientific environment, subject populations, or collaborative arrangements?
As applicable for the project proposed, reviewers will evaluate the following additional items while determining scientific and technical merit, and in providing an overall impact/priority score, but will not give separate scores for these items.
Protections for Human Subjects
For research that involves human subjects but does
not involve one of the six categories of research that are exempt under 45 CFR
Part 46, the committee will evaluate the justification for involvement of human
subjects and the proposed protections from research risk relating to their
participation according to the following five review criteria: 1) risk to
subjects, 2) adequacy of protection against risks, 3) potential benefits to the
subjects and others, 4) importance of the knowledge to be gained, and 5) data
and safety monitoring for clinical trials.
For research that involves human subjects and meets the criteria for one or more of the six categories of research that are exempt under 45 CFR Part 46, the committee will evaluate: 1) the justification for the exemption, 2) human subjects involvement and characteristics, and 3) sources of materials. For additional information on review of the Human Subjects section, please refer to the Human Subjects Protection and Inclusion Guidelines.
Inclusion of Women, Minorities, and Children
When the proposed project involves clinical research, the committee will evaluate the proposed plans for inclusion of minorities and members of both genders, as well as the inclusion of children. For additional information on review of the Inclusion section, please refer to the Human Subjects Protection and Inclusion Guidelines.
Vertebrate Animals
The committee will evaluate the involvement of live vertebrate animals as part of the scientific assessment according to the following five points: 1) proposed use of the animals, and species, strains, ages, sex, and numbers to be used; 2) justifications for the use of animals and for the appropriateness of the species and numbers proposed; 3) adequacy of veterinary care; 4) procedures for limiting discomfort, distress, pain and injury to that which is unavoidable in the conduct of scientifically sound research including the use of analgesic, anesthetic, and tranquilizing drugs and/or comfortable restraining devices; and 5) methods of euthanasia and reason for selection if not consistent with the AVMA Guidelines on Euthanasia. For additional information on review of the Vertebrate Animals section, please refer to the Worksheet for Review of the Vertebrate Animal Section.
Reviewers will assess whether materials or procedures proposed are potentially hazardous to research personnel and/or the environment, and if needed, determine whether adequate protection is proposed.
For Resubmissions, the committee will evaluate the application as now presented, taking into consideration the responses to comments from the previous scientific review group and changes made to the project.
For Renewals, the committee will consider the progress made in the last funding period.
For Revisions, the committee will consider the appropriateness of the proposed expansion of the scope of the project. If the Revision application relates to a specific line of investigation presented in the original application that was not recommended for approval by the committee, then the committee will consider whether the responses to comments from the previous scientific review group are adequate and whether substantial changes are clearly evident.
As applicable for the project proposed, reviewers will consider each of the following items, but will not give scores for these items, and should not consider them in providing an overall impact/priority score.
Provision of Family Care Facilities
Are the plans to inform attendees about family care resources adequate?
Applications from Foreign Organizations
Reviewers will assess whether the project presents special opportunities for furthering research programs through the use of unusual talent, resources, populations, or environmental conditions that exist in other countries and either are not readily available in the United States or augment existing U.S. resources.
Select Agent Research
Reviewers will assess the information provided in this section of the application, including 1) the Select Agent(s) to be used in the proposed research, 2) the registration status of all entities where Select Agent(s) will be used, 3) the procedures that will be used to monitor possession use and transfer of Select Agent(s), and 4) plans for appropriate biosafety, biocontainment, and security of the Select Agent(s).
Resource Sharing Plans
Reviewers will comment on whether the following Resource Sharing Plans, or the rationale for not sharing the following types of resources, are reasonable: 1) Data Sharing Plan; 2) Sharing Model Organisms; and 3) Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS).
Budget and Period of Support
Reviewers will consider whether the budget and the requested period of support are fully justified and reasonable in relation to the proposed research.
Applications will be evaluated for scientific and technical merit by (an) appropriate Scientific Review Group(s) convened by the Center for Scientific Review (assignments will be shown in the eRA Commons), in accordance with NIH peer review policy and procedures, using the stated review criteria.
As part of the scientific peer review, all applications will:
Applications will be assigned on the basis of established PHS referral guidelines to the appropriate NIH Institute or Center. Applications will compete for available funds with all other recommended applications . Following initial peer review, recommended applications will receive a second level of review by the appropriate national Advisory Council or Board . The following will be considered in making funding decisions:
After the peer review of the application is completed, the PD/PI will be able to access his or her Summary Statement (written critique) via the eRA Commons.
Information regarding the disposition of applications is available in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
If the application is under consideration for funding, NIH
will request "just-in-time" information from the applicant as
described in the NIH Grants
Policy Statement.
A formal notification in the form of a Notice of Award (NoA) will be provided to the applicant organization for successful applications. The NoA signed by the grants management officer is the authorizing document and will be sent via email to the grantee business official.
Awardees must comply with any funding restrictions described in Section IV.5. Funding Restrictions. Selection of an application for award is not an authorization to begin performance. Any costs incurred before receipt of the NoA are at the recipient's risk. These costs may be reimbursed only to the extent considered allowable pre-award costs.
Any application awarded in response to this FOA will
be subject to the DUNS, CCR Registration, and Transparency Act requirements as
noted on the Award
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BASALT – Sales tax revenues soared almost 17 percent in September compared with the same month the prior year, thanks in large part to the opening of Whole Foods Market.
September was the first full month that Whole Foods Market Roaring Fork was open. Revenues in the retail food category, which includes all grocery stores, jumped 37 percent for the month compared with last year, according to a sales tax report by Basalt Finance Officer Judi Tippetts.
Retail food outlets – including Whole Foods, City Market and Clark's Market – collected $158,121 in sales taxes in September. That dwarfed collections for September going back to pre-recession days. In September 2008, sales tax revenues from retail food outlets was $117,104.
Overall, sales tax revenues for September were $345,782 compared with $296,130 in 2011.
For the town's fiscal year to date, which started in December, the town's sales tax revenues are up 6.3 percent. That is not a reflection on the performance of individual businesses. They might be faring better or worse than the town's business community as a whole.
Sales tax revenues year-to-date are $2.88 million compared with $2.71 million at the same point the year before.
In the retail food category, year-to-date sales tax collections are up 7.8 percent. The category has contributed $1.23 million to town coffers so far compared with $1.14 million the year before. That is the highest amount for a year-to-date total for retail food sales since at least 2008, the earliest year covered by the report.
Retail food isn't the only category that has experienced an increase this year. Sales by restaurants with bars were up 8.4 percent through September. Sales by stores in the general retail category were up a robust 16.5 percent. Stores that sell sporting goods showed an increase of 9.4 percent.
The town's latest sales tax report reflects revenue collected in October for business transactions in September.
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