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Chassis 20 mm higher = sports chassis! Optimised response characteristics and large reserves generate very secure ground grip combined with high levels of comfort. These suspension struts permit infinite adjustment of the spring pre-tensioning and a 22-position traction level adjustment of the suspension. The classic version complies with what is "normal" but has a black spring instead of a blue one. Approval: With operating licence (Germany only). As an option, the suspension struts can also be ordered at extra cost with height adjustment (629) or hydraulic spring pre-tensioning (625) - the two together is not possible! Height adjustment cannot be set in the already installed state! Repairs and maintenance are possible via Wilbers Products.
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It only needs to be out of site. They adjusted the rule a few years ago where there are no distance rules. Basically driving in a non illegal fashion (peddling drugs = no) and have the gun hidden and you are good. I have the statute in a binder if you need me to type it up.
Also, you should notify an officer that you have a gun if pulled over.

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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - A group of neighbors is taking a stand against crime.
They're creating a neighborhood watch through a website called nextdoor.com. Neighbors say it has the potential to make a big difference, but they need some help.
Shane Bush said things have changed for the better since he spoke with reporter Jamie Ostroff last week, right after his workshop and camper were broken into. Several other homes in his neighborhood were also burglarized.
"We're settled down, obviously, after the excitement of the evening, but still uneasy," Bush said. "Since your story broke, we've actually had a lot of contacts from people."
One of those people was Barbara Gregory, who lives down the street from Bush.
A self-described introvert, Gregory is coming out of her shell. She's been going door-to-door, delivering flyers for nextdoor.com.
"(I started) about the same time when the break-in happened over in Blue Camas, then shortly after I heard about Shane Bush and his wife," Gregory said. "I just felt like our neighborhood needed something like that to alert each other."
The website verifies the addresses of its members, allowing neighbors to create their own private social networks to alert each other of crime or anything suspicious.
"It'd just be nice to bring us together a little," Gregory said.
According to Gregory and Bush, the only problem is that 10 people from a neighborhood must sign up within three weeks in order to set up a network. Their neighborhood is still short of that number, but Bush is optimistic they'll reach it soon.
"I think it's our responsibility -- every bit as much as the police's responsibility -- to have a safe neighborhood," Bush said.
A spokeswoman for the Idaho Falls Police Department said although Bush and Gregory's neighborhood has seen a spike in crime, every neighborhood experiences these spikes from time to time. She said overall, this neighborhood is no more dangerous than others.
Officers are investigating the recent break-ins, and said they appreciate the help of neighborhood watches.


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Philosophy and Training Model
The Grand Valley State University Internship program reflects the philosophy that the internship year is a pivotal time for a professional psychologist to expand clinical and consulting skills. In keeping current with psychology training, our multidisciplinary setting focuses on experiences & competencies consistent with Health Service Psychology. The program is developmentally-based and is designed to provide both support and challenge for the interns. Interns are encouraged and expected to become actively involved in Center activities, including individual and group counseling, assessment, crisis intervention, outreach and consultation, evaluation/research, and administrative functions. The internship program seeks to provide a training environment which will allow the interns to be well prepared for employment in a university counseling center or any setting requiring similar skills.
The University Community Model:
A Developmental Model of Embeddedness, Interdependence, Independence, and Evolution
The philosophy of the GVSU University Counseling Center incorporates a systems approach of being interdependent, independent, and embedded with the university community. In addition, the Center sees itself to be continually evolving through quality improvement based on assessment, goal setting, and outcome measures. The Center is considered to be an integral part of the University as manifested through the roles assumed and relationships developed by senior staff, interns, and the training program within the university community. Staff members believe they have an ethical responsibility not only to assist students directly through counseling services, but also to influence the university environment in order to create a healthy climate for students. The Center is interdependent in its collaborative effort with other offices at the University. Examples include collaborative programming, research, consultation, and teaching with other members of the university community. The Center is also independent in its separate budget, office space, and programmatic determinations. Staff members also function independently in the development of their specialty areas. The training program parallels this philosophy.
The training program is embedded in the Center. It is viewed as an essential part of the Center, and all professional staff members serve on the Training Committee. All staff members provide supervision to interns and have a part in intern training and evaluation. Interns take an active contributing role in staff meetings, service delivery, and center policies and procedures.
Included in the philosophy of the training program is an emphasis on the interns interdependence with the environment, appreciation of diversity, recognition of alternative world views, and embracing the importance of diversity sensitivity and multicultural competence. Some of the interns early activities include becoming familiar with the Grand Valley campus, taking part in the orientation of Student Services graduate assistants, and living on or near the campus. As they move into their direct service activities, interns have an opportunity to be interdependent with Center staff through a variety of activities including co-facilitation of groups and presentations, supervised emergency coverage, a professional development seminar comprised of interns and senior staff, and departmental case presentations. They are also interdependent with the university community through training opportunities with the Division of Student Services, research with staff, liaisons with student organizations, consultation with faculty/staff/students, and training of peer educators.
The interns have the opportunity to become independent through a developmental training program which includes a core clinical skills component. In addition, a flexible training component is designed to help individual interns meet their own training needs, the needs of the Center, and the needs of the profession of psychology. Interns experience a developmental training sequence designed to provide them with increasingly difficult challenges and experiences. Supervision follows a developmental model with gradually decreasing involvement/guidance on the part of the supervisor as interns develop skills and knowledge. During this process, interns are provided ample support by the Center staff (via supervision and an "open door" policy), yet are encouraged and expected to develop their own professional independence. Caseloads, group leadership, crisis consultation, and additional activities are based on the developmental progress of the interns toward competency and independence as practitioners. Additionally, interns are charged with specific responsibilities that they are expected to maintain. For example, interns supervise peer educators and/or graduate assistants and/or masters or advanced doctoral level clinical trainees, provide consultation to academic/student service departments regarding student issues, and maintain a workload of direct service (which includes individual/couples/group psychotherapy, intake and urgent care; consultation; outreach programming; and supervision).
Furthermore, the training program emphasizes evolution. Just as the University and the Center are changing to meet the needs of students and the changing demands of the world, the training program is also evolving. The evolution dimension seeks to focus the Center on those issues that emerge from the various professional, cultural, and social environments by which counseling centers need to be informed. Thus, research and evaluation are key components embedded within the Center and the training program, guiding the evolution of both.
Another focus of the evolution dimension is maintaining a training program that assists interns in being responsive to the data and research that affects the field of psychology and incorporating research into practice. As the demands of the University, the Center, and the profession change, the Center and the training program evolve to reflect these changes. This degree of flexibility in the program is necessary to ensure that interns are prepared for the challenges and changes in the profession of psychology, as well as those within universities and their counseling centers.
Goal I - Embeddedness
Goal II - Interdependence
Goal III - Developmental Independence
Goal IV - Evolution
1. Direct Service
A primary focus of the internship is on individual and group psychotherapy. Degree of involvement in each of these areas will vary depending upon the interns' interests, skill levels, and knowledge, as well as, Center needs. In addition to scheduled appointments, direct service includes drop-in and crisis intervention. Direct service will involve approximately 50% of the intern's time. This area includes counseling and psychotherapy related to personal, career, and educational concerns as well as outreach and consultation activities. The Center has a service delivery model which is primarily short-term but allows for trainees to have long-term cases. This allows interns the opportunity to develop their skills with both short and long term therapy with a wide range of psychological issues. Another focus of the Center is to provide students with assistance in the area of career development. A portion of the interns' caseload will include students with career developmental issues. Interns will learn how to help students explore their interests, strengths, values, and goals; to show students how to use other career resources, and to interpret interest inventories. Group therapy is also an integral component of direct service. Each intern will co-facilitate an ongoing general therapy group, as well as a psycho-educational group. Recent psycho-educational group offerings include Stress Management, Mindfulness, Managing Your Emotions, Managing Depression, How to Worry Well, Self-Compassion, and Body Image.
2. After Hours' Emergency Coverage
There are over 6,200 students who live on campus during the academic year. One of the services offered by the University Counseling Center is after hours' emergency coverage for on-campus students. The interns serve as the primary responders to after hour emergencies with supervision backup by senior staff. The interns are responsible for carrying the pager in a 5-6 week rotation cycle. During the fifth-sixth week, a senior staff member carries the pager. When interns are on-call, their supervisors carry a back-up pager and are contacted for consultation whenever an intern responds to a crisis situation.
Typical emergency mental health issues include suicidal ideation, bizarre behaviors, extreme anxiety/panic, self-destructive behaviors, responding to a death on campus, sexual assault, group crisis responses following a campus tragedy. Interns will learn the techniques of individual and group crisis intervention, emergency risk assessment, how to manage the crisis scene (including a presence of campus staff and other students), coordinate university and community resources, how to liaison with community mental health professionals and medical staff in a hospital setting, and providing follow-up care.
3. Consultation and Outreach
The Center is committed to a community model of service. Therefore, we value close working relationships with other agencies and groups on campus. Consultation includes outreach and preventative education, crisis intervention, and consulting with faculty and staff concerning mental health issues. Workshops, seminars, and presentations to classes and organizations are an ongoing activity at the Center. For 2015-2016, the staff members of the Center made 657 outreach contacts and provided 770 hours of mental health consultations. Interns will have an opportunity to become actively involved in the Consultation and Outreach activities of the Center.
4. Supervision Opportunities
Interns will have the opportunity to receive training and develop skills in the area of clinical supervision. Two interns will supervise an MA/MSW intern. A third intern will supervise a master's level graduate assistant working with the Career Team or with the ACES (Alcohol & Other Drugs Campus Education and Services) team. The fourth intern will work with the Center Peer Educators, providing training and supervision for the outreach activities. All interns will have the opportunity to provide a 7 week (35 hours) clinical skills training and supervision program to incoming MA/MSW interns during May/June.
5. Assessment
Assessment is a crucial component in providing comprehensive treatment for clients. Proper assessment identifies the multi-dimensional needs and issues that face clients who seek service within a university setting. Interns are required to complete three psychological assessment batteries as part of their internship experience. The focus of assessment training is utilizing assessment data therapeutically with clients. To enhance interns' ability to integrate assessment into treatment, each intern will make two formal case presentations to the staff members and consulting psychiatrist during the fall and winter semesters (see case conferences referenced below).
6. Supervision for Interns
Interns receive two hours of direct individual supervision each week from a licensed psychologist with another hour of supervision as a group in Clinical Seminar. Clinical Seminar alternates every other week with supervision of group therapy. In addition, there are regularly scheduled consultations with a board certified psychiatrist and a nurse practitioner. Weekly rotating seminars provide additional supervision rotating through the areas of multicultural/diversity issues, career counseling, and assessment. The focus of this supervision is discussing clinical issues, learning therapeutic interventions and sharing information and experiences in these areas of psychology. In addition to individual supervision, interns also meet with the Director of Training one hour per week for the Intern Seminar to address questions, concerns, and feedback for the program and Center. This seminar is also used to address special issues related to professional identity development.
7. Professional Development & Case Conferences
Interns participate in the Center's Professional Development Seminar which meets every other week and includes formal case conferences. Case conferences provide a place and time for the professional staff to meet and discuss difficult cases or clinical issues. Each intern will be required to present two formal case presentations during case conference. These presentations will include a written conceptualization as well as a videotape of a session. Other professional development meetings involve presentations on topics of professional interest. Each intern will be required to facilitate one professional development meeting during the year. Interns are also encouraged to become involved in national and local organizations related to psychology and student affairs.
8. Personal Development
Personal development includes dissertation work, special projects, and conference and workshop attendance. In past years, interns have been able to make progress in completing their dissertations while fulfilling the internship requirements. Staff members are committed to interns making progress toward completing their degrees.
1. Orientation
This is a critical first experience which occurs prior to the beginning of Fall semester. Interns get to know Center staff, services, policies and procedures, physical facilities and equipment, and the structure of the internship requirements. Interns also begin to integrate into the University community, meet other Division staff and graduate assistants, and develop a greater awareness of the community roles of the Counseling Center and the Division of Student Services. Additionally, interns are provided intensive training in a variety of clinical areas in which they will begin to practice (e.g. crisis intervention, consultation/outreach, career counseling, group counseling, clinical assessment, clinical documentation, and managing multiple roles).
2. Clinical Seminar/Group Leadership Supervision:
This seminar is co-facilitated by the Clinical Director and the Training Director and utilizes a group/peer supervision format to discuss clients and clinical issues, alternative theoretical perspectives and interventions, and professional/ethical dilemmas. This seminar alternates every other week with Group Leadership Supervision facilitated by the Group Coordinator which focuses on interns' leadership of interpersonal process psychotherapy groups.
3. Intern Seminar
This seminar provides interns with the opportunity to meet weekly with the Training Director for support and to process their training experience, facilitate socialization into the profession, further discuss clinical application information from training seminars, and discuss professional development issues and ethical dilemmas. This seminar also serves as an important informal vehicle for interns to address concerns and provide feedback about their training experience and the training program.
4. Training Seminar
This is a weekly didactic and interactive seminar (often with assigned readings) primarily focusing on a variety of clinical issues, ethics, and integrating science and scholarly knowledge into practice. Other professional areas addressed include managing multiple roles, job search/application/interviewing strategies, preparation for licensure, and internship selection activities.
5. Multicultural/Diversity Seminar
This seminar is designed to expose interns to a variety of cultures and diversities as well as integrate their knowledge into culturally appropriate interventions and treatment. Interns will develop awareness, sensitivity, and skills for working professionally with diverse individuals, groups and communities of various cultural and personal background and characteristics defined as cultural, individual, role differences, including those based on age and gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, cultural, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, language, socioeconomic status and impact of social justice systems. Interns will also integrate self-reflections on their own privilege, culture, and identities.
6. Assessment Seminar
This seminar focuses on clinical assessment and case conceptualization with particular emphasis on a therapeutic use of assessment. Training in administration and interpretation of a variety of assessment instruments (e.g. MCMI-III, MMPI-2, PAI, BSI, 16 PF, TAT). This also includes information on assessment of special populations.
7. Career Seminar
This seminar focuses on career theory, assessment, and the provision of career counseling with particular emphasis on providing career counseling to a traditional and nontraditional student population presenting with a diverse array of concerns and questions. Training is provided on various assessment instruments and computer-based career systems (e.g. SII, MBTI, StrengthsQuest, Focus II, & ONET). In addition, group supervision is provided during this time to allow interns to critically examine how their theoretical orientation influences their approach and steps to career counseling.
8. Psychiatric Consultation Seminar
This seminar focuses on current information regarding psycho-pharmacological intervention and mutual treatment planning for clients, shared with the Center's consulting psychiatrist and nurse practitioner.
9. Evaluation/Research Seminar
This seminar provides interns the opportunity to participate in evaluation/research relevant to Center services. Interns will implement a project and prepare an executive summary for the Center.
10. Supervision of Supervision
This seminar is facilitated by the Training Director and focuses on interns providing clinical supervision to mental health trainees and other supervisees as time allows.
Evaluation of Intern Competencies:
The Center views on-going evaluation as another primary component of the internship program. In addition to the informal feedback provided during supervision and training seminars, interns receive formal written feedback regarding their progress in competency development three times over the year (baseline, mid-year, and final). Training expectations and evaluation criteria are specified in the training manual interns receive at the start of the internship. The evaluated competencies align with the program goals and objectives delineated in Part 1. Interns are expected to achieve intermediate to advanced levels of competency. The competency evaluations are quite comprehensive and therefore, we do not complete additional training contracts and/or evaluations for individual academic programs (programs are sent copies of the mid-year and final evaluations). Specific expectations, exit standards, and competency evaluation forms along with other administrative policies are contained in the Doctoral Internship Manual provided the first day of internship (or available upon request).
Feedback to the Training Program:
Interns provide feedback to the program throughout their experience, but also have regularly scheduled meetings for such purpose along with a written program evaluation at the end of the internship and again two years post-internship.
Weekly hours vary somewhat depends upon the semester and intern commitments.
1. Direct Service
2. Administration
3. Training
4. Professional/Administrative Activities
Note: Some activities for interns (and professional staff) occur during evening hours.
The Grand Valley State University Doctoral Internship program is a 12-month internship. The program is funded for four doctoral-level interns from a clinical or counseling psychology graduate program. Each position carries a stipend of $25,660 plus medical benefits and life insurance.
Interns are required to live within 30 minutes of campus and are strongly encourages to have a vehicle.


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Welcome to the online version of NFA's rulebook, the NFA Manual. We update this
version on an ongoing basis. If you want to check out what changes have most recently
been made to the NFA Manual, go to Recent Manual Updates.
You may view a categorized list of the Interpretive Notices by visiting the Index of Interpretive Notices page.
Since the events of September 11, 2001, the financial services industry has devoted increased attention to issues relating to disaster recovery plans. NFA's Board of Directors (Board) believes that disaster recovery and business continuity issues are of utmost importance and that NFA should be proactive in ensuring that its Members have adequate disaster recovery plans in place. As a result, NFA's Board recently adopted NFA Compliance Rule 2-38 to require all Members to adopt a business continuity and disaster recovery plan (Plan).
Compliance Rule 2-38 is broadly written to provide Members with the flexibility to adopt a Plan tailored to their individual needs. NFA recognizes that the exact form of the Plan adopted by a Member will vary based on a number of factors, including the size and complexity of the Member's business and the firm's resources. Nevertheless, the Board believes Members need additional guidance on the essential components of a Plan and what is required to maintain a Plan. This interpretive notice provides that guidance.
Essential ComponentsCompliance Rule 2-38 requires Members to have a Plan reasonably designed to enable them to continue operating, to reestablish operations, or to transfer their business to other Members with minimal disruption to their customers, other Members, and the commodity futures markets. A Plan should address the following, as applicable:
These components are minimum areas that should be addressed in Members' Plans. A Member's Plan should also address any other areas that are essential to its business operations. An effective Plan will be designed to meet the Member's individual situation and needs.
Maintaining the Plan In order for a Member's Plan to remain effective, the Member must update its Plan as necessary to respond to material changes in the Member's operations. Each Member must also periodically conduct and evidence reasonable reviews designed to assess the Plan's effectiveness.
Even the best Plan is useless if it is not available when needed. Therefore, each Member should distribute and explain the Plan to its key employees and communicate the essential components of the Plan to all employees. Each Member should also maintain copies of the Plan at one or more off-site locations that are readily accessible to key employees.
NFA Compliance Rule 2-38 requires NFA Members to establish and maintain business continuity and disaster recovery plans that are consistent with this interpretive notice. The Rule provides Members with flexibility in developing those Plans, and each Member should adopt a Plan that meets its individual situation and needs.


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Here is the interior lay out for my fett helmet. It is just a dry run. I will glue them down after it is painted. Thoughts and critics would be appreciated from the board.
Oh, and a pic of my two buddies, Kodiack and Napoleon.
Sorry, I thought I had figured out how to post pics. I guess I was wrong.
Here is a link to photobucket.


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The Extreme Academy
LocationsUK + Ireland » Watergate BayUK + Ireland » Newquay - Fistral NorthUK + Ireland » Newquay - Towan / Great Western
ServicesAccommodation Surfer friendly places to stay near some great surf spots. Including camp-sites, hostels, hotels, B&Bs and surf lodges. Surf School Schools with qualified surf instructors offering lessons and courses with equipment hire to individuals or groups, whether you are a total beginner, an intermediate surfer or an experienced surfer looking to improve your ability. Surf Shop Shops supplying surf boards, wetsuits, clothing, leashes, wax, deck pads, fins, DVDs and anything you might need to go surfing. Surf Hire For surf hire, wetsuit hire, boots, hats, gloves, leashes and anything else you may need to go surfing. A range of surfboard hire is usually available, whether you want to rent an SUP, body board, mini-mal or short board. Food and Drink From restaurants and cafes to night clubs, pubs and bars and everything in between. Watersport Centre Could offer a wide variety of water sports activities from coasteering and sea-kayaking to sailing, wakeboarding, climbing or even power boating, not forgetting surfing, stand up paddle, body boarding tuition and hire. Kitesurfing and Windsurfing Offering a range of services such as equipment hire, lessons and places to buy everything you might need to go kitesurfing or windsurfing, including boards, kites foils, booms, harnesses and helmets. Webcam These are either live cameras and video or a daily photo taken by a surfer. The former has the advantage of being up to the minute, the later is more likely to be taken to accurately reflect the current conditions - streaming video cams give the best of both worlds. Check the update date carefully.


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PB Found Glass Pickling Jar
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In villages throughout Hungary, these antique glass jars were once used to preserve seasonal fruits and vegetables so they could be enjoyed year round.
- Variations in markings, size and hue make each jar unique.
- Imported.
- Dimensions & Care
- Small approximately: 6" diameter, 10" high
- Small Capacity: 3-5 liters
- Large approximately: 8" diameter, 15" high
- Large Capacity: 8-12 liters
- Hand wash.
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UPS can deliver most in-stock items within 4-5 business days.
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We can arrange for next day delivery to most destinations within the contiguous 48 states, for an extra charge of $17.50 per address. If we receive your order by 6pm PT Monday through Friday, you'll receive your order the next business day; orders placed on Friday after 6pm PT through Sunday will arrive on Tuesday. Note: Next Day Delivery service is not available for some oversized items, White Glove Delivery, out of stock items, personalized items or for items shipped directly from the manufacturer.
Select oversized items have an additional delivery and processing surcharge; this charge is listed below the item price.
View the complete Shipping and Delivery Information page.
We take great pride in the quality and craftsmanship of each and every Pottery Barn product and we hope you love your purchase. If for any reason you do not, you have 30 days – or 7 days for all Quick Ship upholstery items – to return your purchase for a full refund or exchange. You can return most non-furniture items to your local Pottery Barn store – FREE.
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text: Way back in 1987, a fat little boy (or possibly an elf) in a floppy green hat picked up his wooden sword, and went off to save Princess Zelda. It was an enormous, revolutionary game that created the Action/RPG genre all by itself. I was only a lad myself at the time, but if I had been a video game critic back then I would have given it an "A".


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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 348, September 15, 2006
- Happy 50th Birthday
- How to Beat Moore's Law: An Optimization Story in 6 Acts - Part II
- Java for Fortran Programmers: Part II
- Quick Tip
Happy 50th Birthday
A dear friend to all computer users celebrated its 50th birthday this week. For some, its occasional flakiness has tested our resolve. However, we wouldn't be where we are today without its contributions.
On September 13th, 1956, IBM shipped the first magnetic disk drive, a huge 4.4 MB disk, to Zellerbach Paper in San Francisco.
"Huge" is the operative term. The unit was five feet tall, 5'8" long and 29" deep. It had 50 24" platters for storage but only a single pair of read/write heads, one for the 50 top sides of the disks, one for the 50 bottoms. Its maximum seek time was 0.7 seconds and its transfer rate was about that of a dial-up modem download today.
In honor of the event, Betty Higbie baked and decorated a cake resembling a disk pack. (Thanks, Betty!) Said cake was consumed by ARSC staff and student assistants before lunch. Here's a silent movie of
the RAMAC 305 in action
How to Beat Moore's Law: An Optimization Story in 6 Acts - Part II
[ Many thanks to Tom Logan of ARSC for the conclusion of this thriller! ]
|Directives Save The Day
|Conclusions of the Super-Linear Kind
As you'll recall from > ACTs I - IV of this story, I was tasked with optimizing a tsunami code to reduce the 49 hour estimated run time to something practical. After compiler optimizations and hardware upgrades failed to help, I profiled the code to discover that 91% of the run time was spent in one routine. We pick up the story here...
ACT V: Directives Save The Day
Upon closer examination of the source code, I see 2 doubly nested do loops:
Loops on lines: 709/711 - 730/731 The variables being set here, ip1, jp1, jm1, tot_n, xm are all temporary, only used inside this loop. The real array being calculated is l%m(i,j,2) which is NEVER referenced in these loops. What is referenced is l%m(i,j,1). This is what the compiler sees as a dependency. I can see that it is not, so I can insert some directives to the compiler that tells it so. Loops on lines: 733/735 - 754/755 This is pretty much the same story as the previous loop set. Variables being set here are jp1, im1, ip1, tot_m, and xn, all of which are temporaries used only in this loop set. The real array being calculated is l%n(i,j,2), which is never referenced in the loops. Again, l%n(i,j,1) is referenced and this is the compiler's problem. Inserting a couple of directives should fix the problem.
Of course, as usual for me, I couldn't remember the exact syntax of the directive that I needed. I just knew that it had something to do with 'independent' loops. After a brief search for that word in the IBM Fortran Language Reference guide, I found what I was looking for. The new routine looks exactly as before, except 1 directive has been added 4 times:
!----------------------------------------------------------------------- subroutine momt_s (l,layid) ! ....Solve momentum equation (linear) in spherical coord. ! layid = 1, outest layer ! otherwise, inner layer !----------------------------------------------------------------------- use layer_params type (layer) :: l integer :: layid ! real z(ix,jy,2),m(ix,jy,2),n(ix,jy,2),h(ix,jy) ! real r2(ix,jy),r3(ix,jy),r4(ix,jy),r5(ix,jy) data eps/1.0e-6/, zero/0.0/, twlvth/0.08333333333333/ ! ixm1 = l%ix-1 jym1 = l%jy-1 is = 2 js = 2 if (layid .eq. 1) then is = 1 js = 1 end if !IBM* INDEPENDENT do i=is,ixm1 ip1 = i+1 !IBM* INDEPENDENT do j=js,l%jy if ((l%h(i,j).gt.zero) .and. (l%h(ip1,j).gt.zero)) then if (j .le. js) then jm1 = js else jm1 = j-1 endif if (j .ge. l%jy) then jp1 = l%jy else jp1 = j+1 endif tot_n = l%n(i,j,1)+l%n(ip1,j,1)+l%n(i,jm1,1)+l%n(ip1,jm1,1) xm = l%m(i,j,1)-l%r2(i,j)*(l%z(ip1,j,2)-l%z(i,j,2))+l%r3(i,j)* & tot_n-l%r2(i,j)*twlvth*((l%z(ip1,jp1,2)-2*l%z(ip1,j,2)+ & l%z(ip1,jm1,2))-(l%z(i,jp1,2)-2*l%z(i,j,2)+l%z(i,jm1,2))) if (abs(xm) .lt. eps) xm = zero l%m(i,j,2) = xm else l%m(i,j,2) = 0.0 end if end do end do ! !IBM* INDEPENDENT do j=js,jym1 jp1 = j+1 !IBM* INDEPENDENT do i=is,l%ix if ((l%h(i,j).gt.zero) .and. (l%h(i,jp1).gt.zero)) then if (i .le. is) then im1 = is else im1 = i-1 endif if (i .ge. l%ix) then ip1 = l%ix else ip1 = i+1 endif tot_m = l%m(im1,j,1)+l%m(im1,jp1,1)+l%m(i,j,1)+l%m(i,jp1,1) xn = l%n(i,j,1)-l%r4(i,j)*(l%z(i,jp1,2)-l%z(i,j,2))-l%r5(i,j)* & tot_m-l%r5(i,j)*twlvth*((l%z(ip1,jp1,2)-2*l%z(i,jp1,2)+ & l%z(im1,jp1,2))-(l%z(ip1,j,2)-2*l%z(i,j,2)+l%z(im1,j,2))) if (abs(xn) .lt. eps) xn = zero l%n(i,j,2) = xn else l%n(i,j,2) = 0.0 end if end do end do ! return end
When I recompile and look at the .lst file now, I see (output modified to fit in 80 columns):
Source Loop Id Action / Information Line ------ ------- ---------------------------------------------------------- 736 1 Private variables recognized in this loop nest: "@CIV2", "xn", "xn", "@CIV2", "xn", "xn", "@NewIV1", "@NewIV0", and "j". 736 1 Loop has been automatically parallelized. Source Loop Id Action / Information Line ------ ------- ---------------------------------------------------------- 736 1 Outer loop has been unrolled 2 time(s). 736 1 Private variables recognized in this loop nest: "@DCIV1", "xn", "xn", "@CIV2", "xn", "xn", "@CIV2", "xn", "xn", "@NewIV1", "@NewIV0", and "j". 736 1 Loop has been automatically parallelized. Source Loop Id Action / Information Line ------ ------- ---------------------------------------------------------- 739 1 Private variables recognized in this loop nest: "xn", "xn", "xn", "i.rnn2FF", "@NewIV0", and "i". 739 1 Loop has been automatically parallelized. Source Loop Id Action / Information Line ------- -------- ---------------------------------------------------------- 710 1 Private variables recognized in this loop nest: "@CIV0", "xm", "xm", "@CIV0", "xm", "xm", "i.rnn2FF", "@NewIV3", "@NewIV2", and "i". 710 1 Loop has been automatically parallelized. Source Loop Id Action / Information Line ------- ------- ---------------------------------------------------------- 713 1 Private variables recognized in this loop nest: "xm", "xm", "xm", "@NewIV2", and "j". 713 1 Loop has been automatically parallelized. Source Loop Id Action / Information Line ------ ------- ---------------------------------------------------------- 710 1 Loop interchanging applied to loop nest. 710 1 Outer loop has been unrolled 2 time(s). 710 1 Private variables recognized in this loop nest: "@DCIV4", "xm", "xm", "@CIV0", "xm", "xm", "@CIV0", "xm", "xm", "i.rnn2FF", "@NewIV3", "@NewIV2", and "i". 710 1 Loop has been automatically parallelized.
I don't know why the file has redundant entries, or exactly what these new variables are (@CIV2, @NewIV1, ...). But, I do see that the loops have been parallelized and that in each loop private variables have been recognized by the compiler for those loops.
Upon re-running the modified code, my fears were finally abated. The new code ran 100 iterations per minute with just 4 threads. Using 8 or 16 threads only made it better, with a best run giving nearly 143 iterations per minute when using 16 threads on the power5 node with AIX 5.3.
As a final experiment, I back ported my modifed routine onto a power4 node of Iceberg. It worked beautifully, giving me just under 91 iterations per minute - plenty fast enough to get my full 24780 iterations in the standard 8-hour queue on that system.
Before reaching any amazing conclusions, I had one more thing to do. Verify that the directives I'd introduced to the code did not alter the outputs. I'll admit that after my incredible success I was very nervous to proceed along these lines. However, correct science is certainly more important than quick science and I eventually choked back my trepidity. Comparison of the intial (serial) outputs with the final (auto parallelized with directives) outputs showed no difference. I was in the clear!
ACT VI: Conclusions of the Super-Linear Kind
To summarize the story, I needed to run 24780 times steps of my code. Using 1 iceberg p655 node, I was only able to complete 4051 iterations in the 8 hours allowed by our standard queue. By moving to the a power5 node on iceflyer, I was able to get about 15,000 time steps in the 16 hours allowed on those queues. Finally, by profiling my code and adding only one directive 4 times into a single routine, I was able to get all 24780 iterations in just 167 minutes on a power5 node and 235 minutes on a power4 node. The following graph illustrates my optimization progess.
Speed-up analysis gives:
power4 -> power5 ~ 2 times power4 -> power4 w/ directives ~ 11 times power5 -> power5 w/ directives ~ 9 times power4 -> power5 w/ directives ~ 17 times
Since each of the power nodes has just 8 processors, and adding in the directives gave me 11 and 9 times speed-up respectively, this optimization exercise has given the always desired and often envied super-linear speed-up. All by adding one directive 4 times.
For me, the main moral of the story is that Moore's law is nice, but a whole lot more can be accomplished by a bit of profiling and, in some cases, a couple of simple directives. In addition, with a little help, auto parallelization on our IBM systems can be very effective. Finally, last but certainly not least, when seeking optimization, ALWAYS PROFILE YOUR CODE FIRST!
Java for Fortran Programmers: Part II
[[ Thanks to Lee Higbie of ARSC for this tutorial. ]]
This is the second in a series of articles, presented as a tutorial, for scientists and engineers. First off, thank you to those who communicated an interest in this series. We appreciate your input and feedback!
The topic today is:
- How the OOP Mindset Differs from that Usual for Fortran Programmers
In the imperative languages common in supercomputing, the programmer generally thinks primarily about the control flow of the program and the layout of arrays of data. For example, the temperature in a weather program will be one (or several) 3D array(s) of floating point temperatures. The Fortran compiler will spend extensive resources trying to produce efficient code operating on these arrays. It may analyze blocks of hundreds of source code statements to improve the way it uses cache, registers and arithmetic units.
For making weather maps let me assume that various prognostic variables are passed to a mapping routine. This separate routine will create the charts we see in weather forecasts. The code would be something like:
call weather_map (map_time, temperature, pressure, wind_velocity)
Notice that the syntactic emphasis is on the verb, "call," the imperative.
For object-oriented programming, the programmer generally focuses on the classes, the data structures and the things they do. Often the program is event-driven, so the control flow is complex and not generally knowable by the programmer. My impression is that the Java compiler spends its time ensuring that the operation is correct. Java compilers, for example, will not compile code with uninitialized variables or mismatched argument/parameter types.[*]
A Java weather forecasting program, which is not currently realistic because Java codes run so much slower than Fortran, is more likely to have a Weather class that includes data structures for, say, temperature, pressure, and wind velocity. One function of this class would be to generate a weather map. The call to produce the weather map would be passed only the time because the class instance itself would contain all the weather data and the class would contain a method to create the map. The Java might be:
weather.createMap (mapTime);
Here the weather object includes the temperature, pressure and wind velocity as well as whatever other types of data it may need. In this case the syntactic emphasis is on the object weather. The programmer thinks of the method createMap as operating on the object weather, which is an instance of the class Weather (Java is case sensitive).
This syntactic distinction deserves more explanation. The createMap method (function) requires the name of the object it operates on, weather. In Fortran and other imperative languages, the data structure is just another parameter for the procedure call. In those languages there is no ownership of the function by the data structure. The map generator will merrily generate a nonsense map from
call weather_map (map_time, pressure, temperature, wind_velocity)where the pressure and temperature are interchanged.
In object oriented languages, the methods belong to the class for the object and generally work only on objects of that class. This means that the map generation method is syntactically in the same file as the data structure for the plot. Generic methods in Java, such as those for printing or computing the square root, use an abnormal syntax because they are action driven (conceptually), not object driven.
The example I plan to use in later chapters of this tutorial is the creation of Fortran compile statements from a GUI. For this I will eventually build up to using a CompilerOption, which includes Strings for the compile statement, the GUI Checkbox, the GUI popup balloon with an extended explanation, and the default setting of the compiler switch. This class will extend Checkbox so it will display as desired and will monitor itself so that when the mouse pointer hovers over it, it will popup its extended explanation.
One thing these CompilerOption objects cannot do is set other options or detect incompatibilities between them. That must be done by an object or class that is aware of multiple options. Each CompilerOption object, that is, each object that is an instance of the CompilerOption class, has all the information that it needs to behave, but knows essentially nothing about any of the other instances of the CompilerOption class. An object can know the information to set or clear other objects, but some other, higher level in the calling tree, object will have to do the work.
I mentioned the "calling tree" in the paragraph above. When creating a Java program there are typically three hierarchies that need to be kept in mind.
- The "flow chart" hierarchy that shows which classes are referenced from each class.
- The calling tree or control flow hierarchy that shows how the thread of control reached a point in the program. This is given by the traceback when a program aborts, for example. Every event, mouse action, button click, ..., starts a thread of control. Most Java programs react more to external events than by executing on their own.
- The class hierarchy, which describes the syntactic relationship of the classes to their parents. For Java classes, this forms a tree (an acyclic graph) rooted at Object.
If you check the documentation or use a book on one of the Java packages, such as the abstract windowing toolkit (java.awt.* and java.awt.event.*), you will see the position in the class hierarchy for each class. For example, Checkbox is a subclass of Component which is a subclass of Object. Syntactically, Checkbox extends Component and any class that does not explicitly extend another class, implicitly extends Object. Because CompilerOption extends Checkbox, it inherits all its functionality and, by default, will be able to display itself as a Checkbox.
The primary use that I see for Java in scientific/engineering programming is for GUIs and control programs, programs that are event driven. Such programs are inherently more complex than control-driven programs--you cannot determine the execution thread through the code from the code itself, nor even from the code and data.
In this chapter I have described some of the major differences in the way you need to look at and think about these event-driven and object-oriented programs.
In Chapter 1 I promised a program. Here's HelloWorld in Java. Because HelloWorld does not explicitly extend any other class it is only a subclass of Object.
class HelloWord { // Must be in file named HelloWorld.java public static void main (String [] args) { // required for main entry point System.out.println ("Hello World"); /* This is atypical and rare syntax: out = field of System class that represents the always open output stream println uses methods from PrintStream class */ } // end of method main } // end of class HelloWorld
The Java loader starts application execution at a method called main that is public, static (not an object method), has void return type and whose argument is an Array of Strings
In the next chapter I will describe the important syntactic differences between Java and Fortran/C. Among other things this will elaborate on the class hierarchies, Java's keywords, and the syntax <object name> . <method name> (parameters)
--[*] Footnote: A routine calls a subprogram with "parameters," but all the subprogram gets is "arguments." At least that's the way I use the terms.
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A:[[Here's a conditional statement grabbed from the (/bin/sh) [[ configure script for mysql. There are many like this: [[ [[ if test X"$mysql_cv_compress" != Xyes; then [[ # ...do stuff... [[ fi [[ [[ For my scripts, the following style has always worked: [[ [[ if [[ $mysql_cv_compress != yes ]]; then [[ # ...do stuff... [[ fi [[ [[ So, two questions: [[ 1) Why would the experts use "test" rather than the square [[ bracket syntax? [[ 2) Why bother with that "X" ??? [[ # # Thanks once again to Greg Newby: # > > 1) Why would the experts use "test" rather than the square bracket > syntax? > I think this is just personal preference. On systems I tested, "test" and "[" are the exact same program: % ls -li /bin/test /bin/[ 448252 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 18104 Mar 20 2005 /bin/[* 448252 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 18104 Mar 20 2005 /bin/test* There might be some shells with built-in "test" commands, which could speed things up a bit. > > 2) Why bother with that "X" ??? > Error handling. If a variable is accidentally not set, then the syntax would be bad. For example, if $mysql_cv_compress was not set in your example, the shell would see: if [[ != yes ]]; then which would be bad syntax. By putting the X there, the shell gets this if the variable isn't set: if [[ X != yes ]]; then which is better. Even better still would be to surround the variable with quotes (the X can go inside or outside): if [[ X"$mysql_cv_compress" != Xyes ]]; then so that values with spaces won't cause an error. What if the value for $mysql_cv_compress were, "yes, it is" ? If the shell sees this, it won't know what to do with the extra words (since spaces are word delimiters): if [[ Xyes it is != Xyes ]]; then Basically, the quotes and the extra character help to prevent the script from bombing. Can this handle all problems? Not with this level of checking, but it's an improvement. # # Editor's Note: # Regarding the syntax, "[ condition ]" versus "[[ condition ]]": My O'Reilly korn shell book claims that "[ condition ]" is "old style" and equivalent to "test," as noted by Greg. The bash and ksh man pages basically agree on this: "Field splitting and file name generation are not performed on the words between [[ and ]]." The book suggests using the "[[ condition ]]" syntax to "make quoting less necessary." Q: I'm curious what other people use for their shell prompt setting. (Your prompt is set via the "PS1" environment variable under sh/ksh/bash and via the "prompt" variable under csh/tcsh.)
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I have talked to guys who have made the 444 marlin rimless they used a standard 444 marlin reamer an then used a chucking reamer to remove the taper to work as a stop. most reamers ahve extra neck length to you will have to runthe reamer short or make our brass longer.
the 444???? will need a special reamer or need to be cut with a boring bar.
I think you can use 444 marlin dies however. i have made brass for it. you will need to likely inside ream it. it would be best to expand it straight with a arbor an then sixe it in the dies an then ream the neck area to a correct id.
when this thread was started there were no leverlution bullets avalaible so you were stuck with pistol bullets. The bullet length dictates the case length if you want to get as much capacity as possable. today thre are leverltution bullets avaliable IMIO they wlould be the best for feeding with there plastic tip as well as for veleocity etc.
If i were to retake up work on this project I would start witht he heavest 44 leverlution bullet an work back ward setting case length the allow the bullet to be seated at proper depth at a near mag length OAL loaded length. id make the reamer form the loaded round.
I have been thinking about this round a little more the last few months.Its occured to me that more caxe taper would benifit the it creatly for feeding an also to make it work in a some sort of standard round. I have been working on a 6.5x55 swede an it has a bigger case head. If 6.5 swede brass were used ( yea the cost goes up to make it) then you could have more taper in the round. american swede brass is a little undersized . european brass is closer to the claimed .080 case head it should have. At any rate it would give you a round with more taper. food for thought.


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Gaining experience in penetration testing/appsec
So I've been pondering this question for a few days. I was wondering if anybody had any good ideas:
As somebody who's learning about information security, what is the best way to gain experience in stuff like penetration testing and general application security?
Obviously, I can't go out on the internet and start attempting to get into servers/web apps or the like. So it has to be done in a controlled environment.
But where does on find real-life targets to gain experience working against? And where does on find targets that aren't obviously flawed and "too easy", yet aren't so high-profile targets that you need to be a guru to break it?
Basically the goal is just to find a project to work on to give one experience with security. Any ideas/advice is appreciated.


text: Hi guys! I as vacuuming today and when I pulled my floor mats out of my truck noticed a bit of mildew(mill-do)(idk how to spell that) on the bottom side of the driver side mat. So it would seem that it has been we for quite some time, and consistently wet. Then noticed the passenger side was also wet, just nothing growing under it. I have no idea why this could be so guys, why might both sides of my truck be wet('96 Z71)?


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Someone started a website to compile a list of businesses who post the infamous Texas Penal Code 30.06 signs. For those that don't know, that's the sign that says a Concealed Handgun Licensee is not welcome here and would be in violation of the law to enter. They are not allowing us to legally protect ourselves in that store or restaurant or whatever. It also serves as a tip off to armed felons that regular citizens won't be armed in that business.
The website is new and the guy who started it is still handcoding the list in HTML. I'm hoping it will grow into something much better.
Thanks for the info
Sadly, the guy lost interest and the idea died.


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As the days get shorter and the nights get colder, there are a number of things you can do in the yard to prepare for winter. Performing these few chores now will help get your garden through the cold weather in good shape, and make gardening easier for you come spring.
Pull out spent vegetables and annual flowers or cut them off at ground level to leave the roots to decompose in the soil. Cut back herbaceous perennials, noting that those with strong stems and decorative seed heads (such as purple cornflowers or 'Autumn Joy' sedum) can be left standing to add visual interest to your winter garden. Perennials like lavender and Russian sage that set next year's growth buds on woody stems should be left as well.
Fallen leaves, dead plants and other debris can harbor diseases, rodents, or insect eggs if left on the ground over the winter. Rake up the debris and use it for compost or dispose of it appropriately.
Your fall garden cleanup will likely produce plenty of material for composting. To help it break down more quickly and thoroughly, build your pile with a mixture of materials like dead leaves, grass clippings, plant trimmings and maybe some kitchen vegetable scraps and coffee grounds. For more on how to build a compost pile, read our step-by-step guide "Create a Compost Pile."
If any weeds are still growing in your garden, take this time to get rid of them using a weed killer. Remember to always follow label directions for use. Your yard will look neater during the winter, and you won't have to contend with so many weeds in the spring.
Spreading mulch around trees, shrubs, and other plants left in the garden over the winter does more than just keep your yard looking neat. It will also help prevent soil moisture loss, moderate the effects of winter temperature fluctuations and help keep weeds from sprouting in the spring by blocking growth and access to sunlight. Bark mulch such as Scotts® Nature Scapes® Advanced Color Enhanced Mulch is a good choice because the bark also amends your soil as it breaks down over time.


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The You Have The Power! Bullying Prevention Peer Education Project (YHTP!) is a 10-week after-school program where trained high school age youth mentors, with adult supervision, teach elementary and middle school students about the characteristics, risks, and consequences of bullying, and bullying prevention.
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Big pharmaceutical companies have struggled for years to develop a drug that will halt the progression of Alzheimer's disease, a terrible neurological ailment that begins with memory loss and steadily robs patients of brain function, leading to dementia and death. Success would have an enormous societal impact and help to contain the cost of an ever-increasing population of Alzheimer's patients, which number an estimated five million in the U.S. -- and 26 million worldwide.
It would also have an enormous impact on the health of the pharmaceutical industry, which has struggled to replace revenue lost from patent expirations on some of its biggest drugs and fallen from investor favor. Two compounds, now in late-stage clinical trials, have the potential to do just that. Some think a successful treatment or treatments for Alzheimer's could generate $10 billion to $20 billion in annual revenue.
Results from these pivotal trials on solanezumab, developed by Eli Lilly lly -0.03846647006026414% Eli Lilly & Co. U.S.: NYSE USD77.96 -0.03 -0.03846647006026414% /Date(1495659644998-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2209646 AFTER HOURS USD76.99 -0.97 -1.2442278091328887% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 44738 P/E Ratio 38.19509088236735 Market Cap 86053308723.229 Dividend Yield 2.668034889687019% Rev. per Employee 514242 More quote details and news » (ticker: LLY), and bapineuzumab, developed by Pfizer pfe -0.28002489110143125% Pfizer Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD32.05 -0.09 -0.28002489110143125% /Date(1495659623728-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 19771817 AFTER HOURS USD32.06 0.01 0.031201248049921998% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2715132 P/E Ratio 27.046413502109704 Market Cap 191806510175.876 Dividend Yield 3.9937597503900157% Rev. per Employee 545057 More quote details and news » (PFE), Elan (ELN) and Johnson & Johnson jnj -0.007841907151819323% Johnson & Johnson U.S.: NYSE USD127.51 -0.01 -0.007841907151819323% /Date(1495659686852-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3816919 AFTER HOURS USD127.65 0.14 0.10979531017175123% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 151266 P/E Ratio 21.430252100840335 Market Cap 343517576113.231 Dividend Yield 2.6350874441220298% Rev. per Employee 571487 More quote details and news » (JNJ) -- are expected in the third quarter of this year. If either drug works and clears the Food and Drug Administration, it could be on the market as early as next year. "If these Alzheimer's drugs hit it big, they could become the next Lipitor,"observes Tim Anderson, who covers the pharmaceutical industry for Bernstein Research. But the odds of success aren't high. Anderson pegs the chance of success for the Lilly drug at no more than 20%, calling solanezumab a "lottery ticket" with a huge potential payoff. Bapineuzumab has a better shot, though most analysts view its odds at less than 50%.
LILLY AND ELAN SHARES offer the biggest payoffs if the drugs work, followed by Pfizer and J&J. Bapineuzumab is 50%-owned by Pfizer, 25% by Elan and 25% by J&J.
Another promising drug is Baxter International's BAX 0.7251381215469613% Baxter International Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD58.34 0.42 0.7251381215469613% /Date(1495659632322-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2357029 AFTER HOURS USD58.34 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 45185 P/E Ratio 17.362061782036783 Market Cap 31390146722.4909 Dividend Yield 1.0970174837161468% Rev. per Employee 213812 More quote details and news » (BAX) Gammagard, which showed encouraging results in a Phase II trial and is in two separate Phase III trials, the first of which is due for completion next year. And there are many other drugs in Phase II trials. But bapineuzumab and solanezumab are the farthest along in the process.
The key determinant of the stock-market impact is the drug's potential sales, relative to the owner's stock-market value and yearly revenue. Lilly is leveraged to solanezumab because its market value -- $45 billion -- is the smallest among the Big Pharma outfits, and it owns 100% of its anti-Alzheimer's product.
Analysts estimate that Lilly and Elan may have 10% downside if the drugs fail and upside of 50% or more if they score. Success for bapineuzumab could prompt an attempt by J&J to buy out Elan's 25% stake in the drug, or purchase the entire company.
Catherine Arnold, the drug analyst at Credit Suisse, thinks Pfizer offers a good play on bapineuzumab because the stock currently reflects little chance of success. Lilly and Elan now discount some hope for their drugs. Pfizer, at $21, trades for a modest 9 times projected 2012 profits, carries a 4% dividend yield and has a number of promising drugs in late-stage clinical trials. Arnold has an Outperform rating on Pfizer, with a 12-month price target of $24, noting that, if successful, bapineuzumab could add a few dollars to that target.
Lilly doesn't have a lot going for it now besides solanezumab. Its shares, around $39, trade for 12 times projected 2012 profits, a premium to the group, despite a weaker profit outlook than many of its peers, thanks to patent expirations. Few Wall Street analysts have Buy recommendations on Lilly; Bernstein's Anderson rates the stock Market Perform. Success with solanezumab could quickly change the Street's view on the stock, which is supported by a 5% dividend yield that management has vowed to maintain.
Shares of Lilly and Elan could rise in the coming months as investors bet on favorable trial results. And just what those results will be is still anyone's guess. "A consensus view on the phase III results…has not been reached, by either the clinical community or investor base, implying high likelihood of material stock moves upon data release," wrote Arnold in a recent client note.
Both bapineuzumab and solanezumab are aimed at people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's, a group that accounts for the majority of those suffering from the disease. It's considered much tougher to treat patients in the ailment's late stage.
Bapineuzumab probably has a greater chance of success in its Phase III trial -- the final stage of testing before a drug is submitted for approval to the FDA -- because it had a more robust earlier-stage, Phase II trial. That study showed that the compound helped certain Alzheimer's patients, although the overall results were deemed disappointing when they were released in 2008 because not all patients showed improvement. In addition, there was no evidence of any link between higher doses and better results. Barron's published a favorable cover story on the drug's prospects four years ago ("Breakthrough?" Apr. 7, 2008).
It's important to note that neither drug is likely to be capable of curing or reversing the course of the disease. The producers are hoping that the treatments simply will slow the progression of Alzheimer's. That would mark progress, however, because Alzheimer's research is littered with drug failures. Existing treatments, including Aricept and Namenda, address some symptoms of the disease, but don't arrest its progression.
"What solanezumab is really intended to do is slow the rate of decline," said Eric Siemers, the senior medical director of the Alzheimer's disease team at Lilly, on a Bernstein-sponsored conference call with investors in December.
Still, an FDA-approved product that could slow the course of the disease could generate billions of dollars in annual revenues, given the desperation among Alzheimer's sufferers and their families. Most patients are older than 65. The total number of sufferers worldwide could hit 100 million by 2050. The current cost for treating Alzheimer's patients worldwide is estimated at $150 billion per year.
INVESTORS ARE CAUTIOUS on the two drugs because the disease, despite its global toll, still isn't well understood by scientists, complicating the formulation of any treatment.
Among the unknowns are what causes Alzheimer's and what prompts its spread in the brain, killing nerve cells. "It's very different than diabetes and hypertension," Arnold says. "There is a lot of debate among the clinical experts on how the disease evolves and produces the symptoms that it does. When you talk to opinion leaders and scholars, you may get five different hypotheses."
Drug companies usually want a Phase III trial to have a 50%-plus chance of success because a large clinical trial can cost several hundred million dollars. But because of the potentially enormous payoff, the industry is willing to take more chances on drugs for difficult and widespread diseases like Alzheimer's than it normally would.
Bapineuzumab and solanezumab both seek to clear the brain of a plaque caused by a protein called beta-amyloid, which accumulates in Alzheimer's patients. What isn't clear is whether clearing that plaque will have any meaningful benefit.
The drugs work in different ways. Bapineuzumab crosses the so-called blood/brain barrier and seeks to clear brain cells of amyloid plaque. Solanezumab binds with a precursor of the plaque in the blood, with the aim of prompting the body to pull amyloid plaque from the brain.
The optimism about bapineuzumab stems from Phase II trial results that showed the drug slowed the mental decline in patients who lacked a genetic marker that appears to speed the progression of Alzheimer's. People without the marker make up about 40% of sufferers.
The Pfizer group's Phase III clinical trial will study 4,100 people, so that the researchers can evaluate bapineuzumab's effects on a substantial number of patients with and without the genetic marker. Arnold sees a 55% chance that the drug will show "modest benefits" in patients without the marker and she sees only a 10% chance of any success with the "tougher-to-treat" carriers.
The Lilly Phase II trial of solanezumab involved about 50 people and didn't show a lot, other than the presence of certain "biomarkers" that suggested some success, including the presence of the destructive amyloid protein in spinal fluid, an indication that it had been cleared from the brain. Lilly didn't test cognitive function, preferring to conduct a small Phase II test and then jump to a large Phase III with 2,000 patients to gauge solanezumab's effectiveness.
Wall Street and drug companies figure the pricing of Alzheimer's drugs, which are delivered intravenously, will hinge on their clinical impact. The better they work, the more they will cost. Bernstein's Anderson has estimated that the cost could range from $5,000 to $20,000 annually per patient. Multiply that by several million patients and the yearly sales figures run into the billions.
Arnold has various 2020 sales scenarios for the two drugs. Her range is $2.3 billion to $21.6 billion for bapineuzumab, and $517 million to $17.5 billion for solanezumab, depending on how well they work and how large a patient population they can address. The very wide range reflects the uncertainty about the products. She's more upbeat about bapineuzumab.
ONE OF THE CHALLENGES to formulating a drug is that neurodegenerative diseases generally are hard to treat. For all the attention to Alzheimer's, it still isn't easy to identify sufferers early because there can be other reasons for initial symptoms like memory loss. There's concern that once people are diagnosed with Alzheimer's, the disease may be beyond effective treatment. Arnold says some studies suggest that newly diagnosed patients may already have lost more than half their neurons -- the cells that transmit information within the brain via electrical and chemical signaling.
"There's concern that amyloid-lowering agents are effective only if given very early or even before symptoms appear," says Dr. Samuel Gandy, director of the Alzheimer's research center at Mount Sinai hospital in New York. To have an effective treatment, patients may have to be identified in their 50s or early 60s via screening. He adds that another possible contributor to Alzheimer's, a protein called tau, has been tough to tackle.
Sizing up Alzheimer's Drugs
There's hope that the current crop of Alzheimer's drugs may succeed in slowing the progression of the disease, but it's a tough target because much remains unknown about the causes and how it spreads.
To approve bapineuzumab or solanezumab, the FDA probably wants to see cognitive improvement in patients, or at least a lessoning in the decline of mental functions. The agency also will determine whether the drugs clear plaque from the brain and slow the shrinkage of the brain that afflicts Alzheimer's sufferers.
Alzheimer's patients often are evaluated based on two clinical tests, one for cognition, and one for day-to-day tasks. Alzheimer's sufferers lose, on average, about four points per year on the cognition test (the scale goes up to 70).
It's a measure of the difficulty of treating the disease that Lilly scientists said they would be happy if their drug could reduce the deterioration by a third, to four points from six, over the 18-month course of the Phase III clinical trial. One issue is whether the tests can be done uniformly and precisely, thus capturing relatively small differences in mental function. Lilly is optimistic. "The number that we think is clinically significant is about one-third, and that's what we're statistically powered to detect in our phase III studies," said Lilly's Siemers at the Bernstein forum.
Given the limited understanding of Alzheimer's, the optimistic scenario for bapineuzumab and solanezumab is that they can slow its fatal progression, not cure patients. But even that would be good news for the millions of victims of the disease, not to mention the shareholders of the companies behind the medications.
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Entourage - Season 8 Episodes
Entourage - Season 8
In the final season, each of the boys tries to make it on their own: Vince has a new pet project; Eric is running his own management company; Drama is shooting his animated series; Turtle has started a new business venture; and Ari & Mrs. Ari have split.
"Home Sweet Home"
Fresh from rehab, Vince (Adrian Grenier) is psyched about a new film idea, but the guys don't share his excitement. Eric (Kevin Connolly) and Scott (Scott Caan) sign Johnny Galecki to their new management company. Ari (Jeremy Piven) tries desperately to win back Mrs. Ari (Perrey Reeves). Drama (Kevin Dillon) throws Vince a "dry" welcome-home party.
"Out With a Bang"
Vince's movie is re-imagined as a TV film starring Drama. Ari takes Lloyd (Rex Lee) on a recon mission. Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) can't get Alex on the phone. Eric receives a surprising voicemail from Sloan (Emmanuelle Chriqui). Andrew Dice Clay, Drama's co-star on "Johnny's Bananas," needs representation.
"One Last Shot"
Vince (Adrian Grenier) bumps into old foe Carl Ertz (Kim Coates), who expresses interest in producing the miner movie. Although "Johnny's Bananas" has yet to air, Andrew Dice Clay convinces Drama (Kevin Dillon) that they should renegotiate their contracts. Lloyd (Rex Lee) sets Ari (Jeremy Piven) up on a date to cheer him up. Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) gets news about his stake in Avion, and about Alex.
"Whiz Kid"
After Vince finds himself at a crime scene, the guys go to ingenious lengths to make sure he passes a drug test, while Shauna (Debi Mazar) manages damage control with the press. In the wake of a sour couples' therapy session, Ari gets back at Mrs. Ari (Perrey Reeves) by taking an old flame to Bobby Flay's restaurant.
With things not panning out with his new co-star, Drama plots to get Dice back on the show. Eric meets up with Melinda Clarke, Sloan's ex-stepmother, and the two end up commiserating over their exes. In an effort to repair his image, Vince agrees to a Vanity Fair interview, while Ari has an awkward business meeting with Dana Gordon (Constance Zimmer).
"The Big Bang"
After his interview, Vince tries to make things right with journalist Sophia Lear (Alice Eve). Ari gets a reality check from his lawyer about his divorce. Eric receives an over-the-top gift from Melinda Clarke, and some unsettling news from Johnny Galecki. Turtle meets with his East Coast partners on a new business venture. Drama shows his solidarity.
"Second To Last"
Vince (Adrian Grenier) continues to woo Sophia (Alice Eve). The DeLucas (Sonny Marinelli, Elizabeth Regen) fall in love with a pricey restaurant space, forcing Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) to pitch his investors for more money. Distraught over Sloan (Emmanuelle Chriqui), Eric (Kevin Connolly) turns to Melinda Clarke (again) and the pair crash Sloan's date. Ari (Jeremy Piven) makes an emotional connection with the script for Vince and Drama's (Kevin Dillon) miner movie.
"The End"
After a first date, Vince pulls out all the stops for Sophia. Ari and Mrs. Ari (Perrey Reeves) take a step forward, and a step back, at therapy. Drama, Turtle and Vince try to convince Sloan to give Eric another chance.