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A Study of HIV-Disease Development in Aging
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The purpose of this study is to better understand the relationship between age and HIV disease progression.
This study will explore the possible relationship between age and HIV disease progression. Older age is an important risk factor for faster disease development, but older people may respond better to combination drug therapy. This relationship needs to be understood better.
|HIV Infections
|Drug: Lopinavir/Ritonavir Drug: Emtricitabine Drug: Stavudine
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase II Exploratory Study Examining Immunologic and Virologic Indices in Two Age-Differentiated Cohorts of HIV-Infected Subjects to Explore the Basis of Accelerated HIV-Disease Progression Associated With Aging
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|October 2000
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|April 2005
Older age is an important risk factor for accelerated HIV-disease progression. However, the virologic response to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) may be superior in older persons. A better understanding of the immunologic, virologic, and behavioral mechanisms that underlie these age-related differences may help to elucidate critical immune responses that are necessary to control the progression of HIV-disease.
Patients are grouped according to age. Group A consists of patients between the ages of 13 and 30 years. Group B consists of patients age 45 years or older. All patients receive open-label lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/RTV) plus emtricitabine (FTC) plus stavudine (d4T) for 96 [AS PER AMENDMENT 06/04/02: 192] weeks. Study visits occur at pre-entry, entry, and Weeks 4, 8, 12, 16, and 24 then every 12 weeks thereafter through Week 96 [AS PER AMENDMENT 06/04/02: Week 192]. Clinical assessments, safety laboratory tests, CD4 cell count monitoring, lymphocyte phenotyping, and HIV-1 RNA determinations are performed routinely. Blood samples are stored for further immunology and virology studies. Patients may volunteer to participate in virology substudy A5020s and either immunology substudy A5016s or A5017s [AS PER AMENDMENT 06/04/02: Substudy A5017s has been eliminated.]
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Patients may be eligible for this study if they:
- Are HIV-positive.
- Are between 13 and 30 years old (need consent of parent or guardian if under 18), or are more than 44 years of age.
- Have a viral load of more than 2000 copies/ml within 60 days of study entry.
- Have a CD4 cell count of less than 600 cells/mm3 within 60 days of study entry. (This reflects a change in the CD4 cell count requirement.)
- Agree to use effective methods of birth control (such as condoms) during and for 12 weeks after the study.
Exclusion Criteria
Patients will not be eligible for this study if they:
- Are pregnant or breast-feeding.
- Have an AIDS-related cancer (except Kaposi's sarcoma) requiring chemotherapy.
- Have hepatitis within 30 days of study entry.
- Have diarrhea (more than 3 liquid stools/day for at least 14 days) within 30 days of study entry.
- Are receiving chemotherapy or radiation treatment.
- Have taken antiretroviral drugs for more than 14 days.
- Have received an HIV vaccine within 30 days of study.
- Have a serious illness or infection within 14 days of the study.
- Have other serious conditions that might interfere with study participation.
- Have taken or plan to take certain other drugs that might affect the study results.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00006144
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|Robert Kalayjian
|Study Chair:
|Michael Lederman
|Study Chair:
|Richard Pollard
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|NCT00006144 History of Changes
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10168 ( Registry Identifier: DAIDS ES )
Substudy ACTG A5016s
Substudy ACTG A5020s
|Study First Received:
|August 7, 2000
|Last Updated:
|November 6, 2013
Keywords provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):
Drug Therapy, Combination
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Cohort Studies
Disease Progression
Antigens, CD
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Anti-HIV Agents
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Disease Progression
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
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Pathologic Processes
Slow Virus Diseases
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
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Madson throws Saturday morning bullpen session
ANAHEIM -- After having scar tissue removed in Arizona and going two weeks without throwing from a mound, Angels reliever Ryan Madson got back on the hill Saturday.
Madson, recovering from a Tommy John surgery that's kept him out of Major League games since September 28, 2011, threw a bullpen session Saturday morning.
The Angels will monitor Madson's bullpen and see what the next step is.
"There's so much that goes into throwing a bullpen as far as not only how you feel in the 'pen, but rebounding," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "Just throwing the 'pen is only part of the equation, how he feels tomorrow, how the next 'pen goes. It's a process that you have to keep clearing some hurdles, and hopefully we moved ahead with some things in the last little time we shut down."
Madson threw a simulated game two weeks ago, but felt tightness shortly after and had not thrown off of a mound since. However, Madson did play catch on Thursday.
Although he went a while without picking up a baseball, Scioscia does not believe the setback added any significant time to Madson's recovery.
"If he has some good bullpens, he's probably closer to pitching in games then he was when he was throwing the sim-game," Scioscia said.
Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Gonzo and "The Show", and follow him on Twitter @Alden_Gonzalez. William Boor is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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They say the younger a Lowrider is when they fall in love with the culture; the more likely they are to pass it on to the next generation. While that may or may not always be true, it certainly is in the case of Oscar Canal of Anaheim, CA. Oscar grew up in the 'hoods of Southern California and received his introduction to Lowriding at the tender age of eleven. It seemed as if everyone around him had Lowriders, and in his junior high years, Oscar and his friend, Cesar, would attend all the local shows. Oscar knew that one day, he would take the opportunity to build a Lowrider and join the culture that he loved. That day would have to wait, however, since Oscar started a family at a very young age and had more important financial responsibilities. "I never had the funds to build one," laments Oscar.
Once his kids were older and he was more financially situated, Oscar decided it was the right time to build himself his first Lowrider. "I was getting older and I thought that now is the time to do this," says a resilient Oscar. "I want my kids to grow up into Lowriding, and I want to make sure they know more about our culture and come to learn that building a ride takes passion and dedication." Oscar bought the Cutlass over two years ago from one of his friends who had plans of fixing it up. "I wanted to start off with a car that wouldn't take too much money to build, but was elegant, and that Cutlass was that choice," he states. Looking to combine street readiness with show quality looks, Oscar certainly had his work cut out for him with the Cutlass. In order to make this happen, Oscar enlisted the help of his club president, Edgar Villegas, of "Choice of Color." Edgar has been Lowriding since the '80s and has had a number of quality builds under his belt. Oscar gave Edgar creative freedom over the car due to his experience, and Edgar didn't disappoint. "He was the perfect person to do it," beams Oscar. The paint alone showcases Edgar's skills in transforming a car into a true work of art.
Now that he had a ride worthy of cruising, it was time to pick a club to cruise with; the decision was a no-brainer. De Aquellas Car Club has been around Santa Ana since 1989, and has always had a presence on Oscar. "I grew up with my friend, Cesar, and he's been a Lowrider owner forever. He was in De Aquellas, so I've known the club for a few years now and joined."
Though the Cutty is his first official build, Oscar would like to go on the record as saying that this won't be his last car. "I have another one coming out soon," Oscar says with a grin. Oscar would like to thank everyone that helped him put the car together, he really appreciates the assistance in completing his first Lowrider masterpiece.
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Owner: Oscar Canal
Vehicle: 1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass
City/State: Anaheim, CA
Club: De Aquellas
Body/Paint: Edgar Villegas, of Choice of Colors in Garden Grove, CA., handled the bodywork on the car. He also sprayed the Cutlass with a Pink Pearl, topped off with patterns and fades. Bob Iverson of Fountain Valley, CA., finished off the paint by adding some fine pinstripe work.
Interior: Jesse Valadez of AJ's Upholstery in Garden Grove, CA., stitched together the custom suede and vinyl interior.
Sound System: Fellow De Aquellas club member, Cesar Lopez, hooked up the Alpine deck with the 10-inch JL W3's and JL amps.
Setup: Jimmy, at High End Hydraulics in Santa Ana, CA., installed the Cutlass' two-pump, six-battery, four-switch setup.
Tires: 13-inch Daytons.
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Mixed feelings about Stern.
Hated the unfair brawl suspensions which did not acknowledge the extent of Detroit's role. That alone will always effect my opinion.
Marketing star players got the NBA out of the doldrums, but it is to the detriment of the league now. The NBA has "graduated" from that type of marketing IMHO. I would love to see more marketing of teams rather than players. It won't take place overnight, but eventually that will lead at least somewhat to less people showing up to Bankers Life in Lebron jerseys when they've never been within 300 miles of South Beach in their lives. Seeing those lame 16 year old fan boys drives me crazy.
I still say one of the most positive things Stern did was institute the dress code, but I won't say why since it gets political.
Hope to see a cap structure that promotes real parity some day as well.
I don't expect any real changes from Silver. Guy has been Stern's chosen person for years. I think its more likely that the new North Korea leader will open up. Expect more of the same people. Different guy, same regime.


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Welcome to the Machine
Doug Kass' line about the market not having a memory from day to day definitely applies today. It went from a gloomy, trend-down day to an upbeat, trend-up day on no significant news. If anything, the news was negative due to poor earnings reports from YUM! (YUM) and Baidu (BIDU).
This sort of inconsistent action is another good example of how computerized trading has come to dominate. Humans may have mood swings, but the pattern of shifting every other day smacks of computer algorithms trying to catch market players out of position. Yesterday and last Thursday, the computers kept the pressure on, which scared out some bulls who had grown overconfident in their dip-buying. Today and last Friday, the computers squeezed the bears who have been anxiously anticipating a market rollover for weeks....171 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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No Porn, Or Even Nipples, On The iPad
For an electronic device named after feminine hygiene products, the iPad isn't loving the lady parts. Because of Steve Jobs' desire for "moral responsibility," pornographic content is blocked from the iPad. The device has a stringent anti-nipple policy and this extends to art photography. In order to publish on the iPad, magazines like Dazed & Confused and Vice, which often include nudity, will now have to censor their work. An insider at Dazed & Confused said that they nicknamed the iPad version the "Iran edition" of the magazine and a spokeswoman for Germany's news and gossip newspaper Bild quipped, "Today they censor nipples, tomorrow editorial content." We need to be nice to magazines—they're an endangered species and the iPad was supposed to save them from their spiraling death pool! And no one's going to read magazines without nipples! Just kidding about that last part. But maybe if nipples weren't considered "pornographic," people wouldn't make such a big fuss about women breast-feeding in public? [Newser]


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Comparison of the Effect of an Ongoing Treatment With Alendronate or a Drug Holiday on the Fracture Risk in Osteoporotic Patients With Bisphosphonate Long Term Therapy (BILANZ)
This study has been terminated.
(low recruitment rate)
Evangelisches Krankenhaus Lutherhaus gGmbH
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
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First received: January 11, 2012
Last updated: July 10, 2017
Last verified: July 2017
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of bisphosphonates in long term treatment of osteoporosis.
|Drug: Alendronate Drug: Placebo
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Comparison of the Effect of an Ongoing Treatment With Alendronate or a Drug Holiday on the Fracture Risk in Osteoporotic Patients With Bisphosphonate Long Term Therapy
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MedlinePlus related topics: Fractures Osteoporosis
Drug Information available for: Alendronate sodiumU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Evangelisches Krankenhaus Lutherhaus gGmbH:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Incidence of new osteoporotic fractures [ Time Frame: 24 months ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Equivalence of deaths with and without continued bisphosphonate therapy [ Time Frame: 24 months ]
- Incidence of the combination of fractures and deaths [ Time Frame: 24 months ]
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|February 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|March 2013
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|March 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|Active Comparator: Alendronate
Drug: Alendronate
70 mg per week
Other Name: Fosamax
|Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Drug: Placebo
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Detailed Description:
Is a continued treatment with alendronate for another two years after a preceding therapy with bisphosphonates of at least four years able to reduce the incidence of new osteoporotic fractures in patients at high fracture risk compared to a therapy-free interval?
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|60 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Postmenopausal women or men > 60 years
- DXA T-Score at lumbar spine, total hip or femur neck <-2,0 before the start of the bisphosphonate therapy or at baseline or at least one low trauma vertebral fracture grade 2-3 or multiple low trauma vertebral fractures independent of bone mineral densitiy
- Pretreatment with bisphosphonates for at least four years
- Risk for hip and vertebral fractures min. 30% according to DVO-guideline for osteoporosis 2009
- Signed informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Other pharmacological treatment of osteoporosis during the last 48 months
- Other bone diseases
- Malabsorption syndromes
- Renal insufficiency with a calculated creatinine clearance < 35 ml/min
- Diseases of the esophagus, delayed esophageal clearance
- UUnability to realise the intake instructions
- Hypocalcemia
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01512446
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01512446
|Department of Internal Medicine III, Alfried Krupp Krankenhaus Essen Steele
|Essen, Germany, 45276
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Evangelisches Krankenhaus Lutherhaus gGmbH
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
|Study Director:
|Johannes Pfeilschifter, Prof. Dr. med.
|Alfried Krupp Krankenhaus Essen Steele
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
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|Evangelisches Krankenhaus Lutherhaus gGmbH
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01512446 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
2011-000290-31 ( EudraCT Number )
|Study First Received:
|January 11, 2012
|Last Updated:
|July 10, 2017
Keywords provided by Evangelisches Krankenhaus Lutherhaus gGmbH:
Osteoporotic fractures
Pretreatment with bisphosphonates
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Bone Diseases, Metabolic
Bone Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Bone Density Conservation Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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About Mercy
I am a displaced New Yorker living in the middle of Oregon. I must admit...I love it! I am single, looking, and very excited to see a band I have sadly been unable to see for over 20 years. I have been a Jane's Addiction fan since the mid-eighties.
I cannot believe the show is tonight! All of the problems with the tickets have been taken care of, so there is nothing left to do but enjoy the show. I have waited so many years to see these guys. I have been a fan since the mid-eighties. Yeah-I am old. LOL I hope to meet some people tonight. : P


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...even for a big gun like Koolhaas, the global depression has had an impact. Thus his new furniture line for Knoll called "Tools for Life." It's a pretty standard track for any architect when the commissions start to dry up; have some interns fart out designs for a furniture line, ship it off to China for production, then slap a price tag on it with no less that 4 zeros and BOOM! you're back makin' Bentley payments and wearing Prada suits in no time. — The World's Best Ever
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If you like the Gentle Cleansing Castile and don't want them to discontinue it, please send PSF an email expressing your concerns. I did, and got this reply from them: (I complained about the GCC being discontinued, and they offered to send me a sample of the new replacement bar, which I accepted in a second email, and also asked them for a sample of the Gentle Foaming cleanser as well, which they are sending). Maybe if enough of us complain, they'll bring it back.
Thank you again for your email. Yes I will be happy to send you a sample
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I was watching a video of Sandstrom giving some instruction in a gym. I obviously couldn't understand him but still found some helpful things by watching his motions. This, in combination with some ruminating on what's been causing my knee irritation got me on this topic.
I've been x-stepping for two years, but I haven't always considered just what each step does, how the x-step generates power, etc.
Here's the scenario. I have knee pain in my plant leg (left leg). I regularly have difficulty opening up the angle of my plant step, so typically it's a little more than 90 degrees from the target, which no doubt just BEGS for torque. Clumsily, after viewing this on video, I thought "take a wider step" or "just start opening the hips earlier." All this did was make me more clumsy, pull some shots wide, lose them early...general issues of inconsistency.
Presently I'm thinking not about that last step, but the step that leads into it- the cross step, where I take my right leg, pull it behind my body to aid in turning hips/torso/shoulders away from the target. That step points 180 from the target if not slightly more. I know that turning away from the target is beneficial for building tension, but THIS far? Maybe some people can make it work but I'm not convinced it's benefiting me (or the people I've introduced to the sport).
Practically, it creates a huge issue. It takes two steps to get the body appropriately oriented away from the target, but then to try and make that full turn in one step is out of my ability (or I haven't made enough sense of it to make it work).
Have I just been thinking incorrectly all along, or do people manage this kind of body motion with strong results? I'm going to spend some time working on a less-than-full turn away, in the interest of "compacting my motions" and see if I can get my plant foot a little more comfortably forward-angled.


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The Maple Grove Community Organization is planning its Happy Halloween Family Fun event and following the tradition of MGCO's other events (Breakfast with Santa, Sleigh Bells & Sparkle Parade & Maple Grove Days) the kids are sure to have a fun afternoon.
The event will take place Saturday, Oct. 20, from 1 to 4 p.m. at Weaver Lake Park, 8401 Dunkirk Lane. Wear a costume and bring parents for an afternoon of silly spooky fun.
The natural setting of the park hosts the perfect Halloween back drop as the children will follow a map to 20+ stations of games like the Web of Confusion Maze, the Scarecrow Jump, inflatable rides, Esmeralda's the Witches potion (which will surely change the color of someone's hair), pumpkin roll, Halloween Mini Golf, bingo, crafts, music and so much more for an eerie and ghostly kickoff Halloween fun.
The event costs $5 per child, ages 2-8 years, adults are free. All games, trick or treats and rides are included in the cost. Additional refreshments will be available for a fee.
Registration forms are available at maplegrovedays.org or at the Maple Grove Community Center, advance registration begins on Oct. 1 at the Maple Grove Community Center, 12951 Weaver Lake Road. No mail, email or phone registrations accepted. Space is limited so sign up early.
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After looking at myself throw I noticed I look like I'm not as weight forward as I thought. I also noticed it looks like I'm hardly coming across my right pec. I couldn't get it to go any slower for slow motion, sorry about that.
Please destroy me and let me know what I'm doing wrong. I recorded 10 videos I think, these were my furthest ones.
The first throw I guess I pumped some sort of OAT to get it to take a huge anhyzer line all the way right.
When I say "Tight S curve" what happens is 90% of my drives go straight with maybe an inch of hyzer, turn over for a second then start fading left again. This fade usually is maybe 20ft max. That Echo wraith and second teebird hardly went left or right. They finished behind the white goal. They didn't go pass either end of the goal posts if that gives you an idea of what my lines are like.
Tigel wrote:400ft throw = 372.5 ft throw
375ft throw = 347.5 ft throw
350ft throw = 322.5 ft throw
Well, 3 months later and I'm back. I have no slow motion videos however. WMM won't open my files for some shit reason so I just had to directly upload... Extremely sorry for that.
As of right now, Beto has brought to my attention shoulder position, hit, and acceleration issues... I currently do not have my max distance yet. The field I was throwing at the other day where I was throwing farrrrr I haven't measured yet. The field in the video I have no idea. I wasn't flexing my orcs so that number is going to be minimal anyways.
As for my opinion, my form feels great. What I'm doing right now I know needs to twinks but it's on the way. I feel more confident in my drives that's for sure. Comparing these videos with my last ones, I can tell a big difference. The hit is the hardest thing to master, and if that's one of my only problems right now, I'm okay with that.
I will say, these weren't the best representations of my form; at least for first two. The last one was clearly my best.


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Are Seattle taxpayers giving away $731M in arena subsidies?
SEATTLE -- A Seattle group opposed to professional sports subsidies says arena developer Chris Hansen is getting a sweetheart deal and taxpayers are picking up the tab.
In the newly-released report, a group called Sonics Without Subsidies claims Seattle is giving away more than $731 million in subsides for Hansen to build his SoDo arena -- and they're asking city leaders to change the deal.
"These are sweetheart tax breaks the average person does not get," said local attorney and activist Cleveland Stockmeyer.
The group says they aren't against bringing the Sonics back to Seattle. In fact, they say many of their members want to see professional basketball back in Seattle. However, they don't want the current plan.
"The city can do better, the government can do better, and our tax money should not be utilized for that purpose," said Herb Krohn, legislative representative for United Transportation Unions.
This group was in court last spring arguing against the alleged subsidies, but the judge told them it was too early to bring a suit. So they hired a PhD in economics to do what's called a valuation analysis, and they say it shows Hansen is getting more than three-quarters of a billion dollars in tax subsidies for his arena.
Stockmeyer calls it "a grab bag of hidden subsidies in this deal with Chris Hansen."
Here's how the numbers in the report break down according to the report: For the $200 million Hansen loan financed by the city, the report shows the city is conservatively losing $149 million in interest it should be making.
With Hansen allowed to use arena-related tax credits to pay off that loan, the estimate is another $425 million lost. And since the city will hold the title to the property, Hansen avoids paying property taxes. That's $250 million in lost taxes.
After 32 years the city could get the property back, so deducting that value of $92 million, the report says the total in tax subsidies to Hansen is $731 million.
The group wants Mayor-elect Ed Murray and the City Council to re-work the Hansen deal and remove those items.
"If they don't change the deal, we will be back in court. We'll be using this study as exhibit A," Stockmeyer said.
A representative from Murray's office said the mayor elect promised not to comment on on-going issues within the city until he formally takes office. However Murray does have a copy of the report and he's reading through it, "eagerly."
Hansen's office declined to comment on the report.


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Oil tumbled from a one-month high in New York as Hamas said a draft accord for a cease-fire that would end fighting between Israel and Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip is almost ready.
Futures dropped as much as 3.5 per cent after Hamas official Osama Hamdan said by phone from Beirut that an announcement was likely at 9 p.m. Cairo time and that the cease-fire will take effect at midnight. His comments came as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew to the region to join truce talks. Prices surged 2.7 per cent yesterday as the conflict escalated.
"Crude is down because cooler heads are prevailing in the Middle East," said Stephen Schork, president of the Schork Group Inc., an energy advisory company in Villanova, Pennsylvania. "The huge run-up yesterday is being exorcised."
Crude oil for January delivery declined $US2.95, or 3.3 per cent, to $US86.33 a barrel at 1:27 p.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract surged to $US89.28 yesterday, the highest settlement since Oct. 19. Prices have dropped 13 per cent this year.
Brent oil for January settlement slipped $US2.55, or 2.3 per cent, to $US109.15 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange.
The conflict in Gaza threatens further instability in the Middle East and North Africa after a wave of uprisings since last year, including one in Libya that almost entirely cut the nation's crude exports. The region accounted for 36 per cent of global oil output and held 52 per cent of proved reserves in 2011, according to BP Plc's Statistical Review of World Energy.
'Every Headline'
"The possibility of a cease-fire in the Middle East makes yesterday's move look overdone," said Michael Lynch, president of Strategic Energy & Economic Research in Winchester, Massachusetts. "We will be paying attention to every headline from the region."
Clinton will visit Jerusalem, Cairo and the West Bank town of Ramallah, said Ben Rhodes, White House deputy national security adviser. "The goal on that trip is for everybody to use their voices, their influence, for a peaceful outcome," he said at a briefing in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
An Israeli official, who spoke anonymously because of the sensitivity of the matter, said that if talks failed, Israel was prepared to invade. Israeli officials have said any cease-fire must include a long-term agreement with Hamas to halt the firing of rockets that can hit 4.5 million people, or half the country's population.
"The fact that Clinton is flying to the region at least shows that the US is getting moderately involved in finding a solution," said Bill O'Grady, chief market strategist at Confluence Investment Management in St. Louis, which oversees $US1.4 billion.
US Stockpiles
Prices also decreased on speculation that an Energy Department report tomorrow will show that US crude inventories rose to a four-month high last week. Stockpiles probably increased by 1 million barrels, according to the median of 11 analyst responses in a Bloomberg survey.
Output increased 32,000 barrels a day to 6.71 million in the week to Nov. 9, the fastest rate since May 1994, the department's report showed. Production was up for 10 weeks, the longest string of gains since 2008. Inventories also may have increased as Phillips 66's 238,000 barrel-a-day Bayway refinery in New Jersey remained shut after Hurricane Sandy, which hit the East Coast on Oct. 29.
The Energy Department is scheduled to release its weekly report at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow in Washington. The industry-funded American Petroleum Institute in Washington will publish its own stockpile data today.
US Economy
Price declines will be limited because of the improving US economic outlook, said Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at the Price Futures Group in Chicago.
New-home construction unexpectedly climbed to a four-year high in October, more evidence of a revival in the industry that's helping propel the US economy. Housing starts rose 3.6 per cent to a 894,000 annual rate, the fastest since July 2008 and exceeding all estimates in a Bloomberg survey, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington.
"The housing starts number was explosive and may be a harbinger of things to come," Flynn said. "Optimism about the economy should lead to more a risk on trade once the Israeli- Palestinian situation moves from the forefront."
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said in a speech in New York today that an agreement on ways to reduce long-term federal budget deficits could remove an impediment to growth.
Electronic trading volume on the Nymex was 411,232 contracts as of 1:28 p.m. Volume totaled 492,706 contracts yesterday, 6.9 per cent lower than the three-month average. Open interest was 1.47 million, the least since Aug. 21.


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0900 - 1200, 1300-1600 Shared-Memory Programming With OpenMP
In recent years, a "multi-core revolution" has taken place, affecting virtually any computer from large SMP machines in supercomputing facilities down to smart phones. To exploit the enhanced capabilities of such systems as a programmer, it is necessary to learn the basic principles of shared-memory parallel programming, also termed "multi-threading". The use of multi-threading has the potential to speed up virtually any application even on a single-core system due to greater responsiveness and more efficient use of modern CPU's and memory.
In this course, we offer an introduction to the OpenMP compiler directives which enable the conversion of serial programs to parallel through the addition of "local compilation flags" to the code. This is arguably the easiest way of multi-threading as it combines flexibility and power with conceptual simplicity. The course is directed at scientists and engineers who want to use multi-threading techniques in their applications to make use of the enhanced resources offered by shared-memory parallel computers. No prior knowledge of parallel programming is required, but some background in the C or Fortran languages is assumed. The course includes short practical lab sessions to give participants an opportunity for some hands-on experience. These sessions will be conducted on dedicated resources at HPCVL.
Instructor: Hartmut Schmider, HPCVL, Queen's University.
Prerequisites: Basic Fortran or C programming.
|Notes: OpenMP-Handouts
|Source: OMPcode
Day 2 (Tuesday, July 8, 2014)
The MPI (Message Passing Interface) API is a widely used standard set of interfaces for programming parallel computers ranging from multicore laptops to large-scale SMP servers and clusters. Its versatility and wide range of applicability make it a standard system for high-performance programming.
This workshop is directed at current or prospective users of parallel computers who want to significantly improve the performance of their programs by "parallelizing" the code on a wide range of platforms. We do not require any prior background in parallel computing, but some experience with programming in either Fortran or C is useful.
The content of the course ranges from introductory to intermediate. On the first day, we give a brief introduction to parallel programming and introduce MPI using simple examples. We outline the usage of about a dozen routines to familiarize users with the basic concepts of MPI programming. We then discuss some simple parallel models that can be programmed with this limited set of MPI routines. We also discuss the distribution of memory.
Throughout this workshop we will perform simple exercises on a dedicated cluster to apply our newly gained knowledge practically.
Instructor: Hartmut Schmider, HPCVL, Queen's University.
Prerequisites: Basic Fortran or C programming.
|Notes: MPI-Handouts
|Source: MPIcode
0900-1200 & 1300-1600 Distributed-Memory Programming With MPI
Part 2 : Intermediate MPI
Continuation of the previous day: We move on to more advanced issues of MPI programming, such as the definition and usage of user-defined data types and the usage of parallel input-output. In the afternoon we discuss at some length how the combination of MPI programming with simple multi-threading through compiler directives (OpenMP) can dramatically improve the utilization of modern clusters.
Instructors: Hartmut Schmider and Gang Liu, HPCVL, Queen's University.
Prerequisites: Basic Fortran or C programming.
|Notes: see Day 2
|Source: see Day 2
0900-1200 & 1300-1600 CUDA Part 1
This is an introductory course covering programming and computing on GPUs---graphics processing units---which are an increasingly common presence in massively parallel computing architectures. This session will cover both of the available C-like programming frameworks: NVIDIA's CUDA-C a. The basics of GPU programming will be covered, and students will work through a number of hands on examples. Demonstrations of profiling and debugging applications running on the GPU will also be included. The structuring of data and computations that makes full use of the GPU will be discussed in detail. Students should be able to leave the course with the knowledge necessary to begin developing their own GPU applications.
Instructors: Pawel Pomorski, SHARCNET, University of Waterloo and Sergey Mashchenko, SHARCNET, McMaster University.
Prerequisites: C/C++ scientific programming, experience editing and compiling code in a Linux environment. Some experience with CUDA and/or OpenMP a plus.
|Notes: summer_school_CUDA1
|Source: CUDA1_code_examples
0900-1200 & 1300-1600 CUDA Part 2
See Day 4.
Instructors: Pawel Pomorski, SHARCNET, University of Waterloo and Sergey Mashchenko, SHARCNET, McMaster University.
Prerequisites: C/C++ scientific programming, experience editing and compiling code in a Linux environment. Some experience with CUDA and/or OpenMP a plus.
|Notes: CUDA_advanced
|Source: CUDA2_east


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The classic L. Frank Baum book, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," includes a scene of disillusion that was not included in the movie.
When Dorothy unmasks the Wizard, he reveals that "to make the name (Emerald City) fit better, I put green spectacles on all the people, so that everything they saw was green."
"But isn't everything here green?" asks Dorothy.
"No more than in any other city, my dear," the Wizard says.
I felt a little like disillusioned Dorothy during part of my recent trip to Canada.
I confess that I knew very few facts about our northern neighbor, especially its recent history. When I thought about Canada (which I didn't, much), I imagined it as a sort of alternate-reality version of the U.S., where power was shared between the Francophones of Quebec and the government center in Ontario, where ethnic groups mostly got along, where immigration policy made sense, where Indian tribes were respectfully referred to as First Nations, where the western sections were mostly empty and mountainous, where national health care was noncontroversial, and where people were so civilized and well-behaved that we didn't even have to patrol our mutual border. Sort of a northern Oz.
I knew Canada had provinces instead of states. I knew that the province of Quebec is mostly French-speaking and used to talk about seceding from Canada but doesn't any more, that British Columbia is mountainous and forested and ecology-minded and that Alberta has wheat fields and tar sands – the latter producing oil that some folks want to ship via pipeline across the U.S. to New Orleans.
After a week in Canada, reading Canadian newspapers and talking with Canadians, I learned that:
• The Quebec separatist movement is still alive and its Francophile policy threatens to morph into a "we don't like any minorities except our own" anti-immigrant xenophobia.
• The political power has shifted westward along with the money flowing from the oil-shale sands of Alberta, the wealthiest, fastest-growing and most libertarian province. Its residents pay the lowest taxes per dollar of income in Canada.
• The current prime minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, an admirer of Margaret Thatcher and Angela Merkel, is doing his best to bulldoze approvals for a pipeline from Alberta to Vancouver, despite opposition from local ecologists and First Nation groups.
• Harper is also taking incremental steps to dismantle the national health system (Too costly! Too complicated!) by directing responsibility for health care back to the provincial governments, leaving them free to set their own standards for care.
• The traditional union power brokers (based in Quebec) are appalled by Harper. The traditional liberal government workers (based in Ontario) are also appalled. They accuse Harper of undermining traditional Canadian values.
Canada's different road seems to have led to many of the same perplexing places as our own. I was happy at the end of a week to discard my green specs, click the heels of my slippers together and return home to the witches I know.