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Climate Change Solutions: A Science and Policy Agenda
It is a pleasure to be here, and I welcome the opportunity to address such a distinguished group of science leaders. I know that a lot of you are here from out of town, and I have to say that I appreciate what you have done to raise this city's collective IQ, if only for a couple of days.
I also want to say that I applaud the theme of your meeting, Setting the Agenda for 21st Century Science. If I accomplish nothing else in my remarks, I hope I can leave you with a stronger sense that one of the most important items on the science agenda for this century is climate change and how we respond.
Science holds the key not just to advancing our understanding of this complex problem but also to advancing our ability to reduce the very real risks it poses to the world. Science also will be critical as we try to figure out how best to adapt to climate change in the years and decades ahead. This is one of the most important issues of our time. And each of you, together with your organizations and the scientists and engineers you represent, can and must play a leading role in shaping solutions.
Today, I want to talk with you about what those solutions might entail – and about how you and your organizations can help make them happen. But first, considering that we are here in the nation's capital, I'd like to spend a few minutes talking about how Washington has responded to climate change so far.
In providing this report card on our elected leaders' efforts on this issue, I am reminded of the teacher who told the parents of a failing student that they could at least rest assured of one thing. "With grades like these, he couldn't possibly be cheating."
Now I know you heard yesterday from a representative of the Bush administration about its approach to the issue of climate change. And I am certain that you heard a lot about our government's hard work in areas from advancing climate science to promoting technology development and working with industry on an array of programs and initiatives. But the fact of the matter is that the Bush administration's climate policies represent little more than a "business-as-usual" approach.
With their limited R&D investments, their reliance on voluntary measures, and their lack of planning for how this nation and others can adapt to climate change, the policies advanced by the White House are simply inadequate. They reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature and potential severity of the problem.
The science tells us in no uncertain terms that we need to be doing all we can to, number one, reduce our greenhouse gas emissions today, and, number two, spur the investments needed to achieve even greater reductions in the years and decades ahead. We also need to get real about the fact that climate change is happening now—and that its impacts will accelerate in the years ahead. We need a proactive approach to adapt to climate change so we can limit the damage, economic and otherwise, that this problem will cause.
The Administration, of course, makes much of the ongoing effort to address the "uncertainties" in today's climate models – specifically concerning the rate and magnitude of global warming. I cannot tell you how often my staff and I, in our meetings with members of Congress and other opinion leaders, hear the refrain that the science on this issue just isn't there yet – and that the uncertainties in the science suggest that action is not necessary or desirable at this time.
Our response is that, yes, uncertainties certainly exist about future trends. But the certainties and near certainties are equally important. Today, the scientific community agrees on three key points: 1) the earth is warming; 2) the primary cause of this warming is fossil fuel consumption; and 3) if we don't act now to reduce emissions, this problem will only get worse.
Despite this concensus among scientists, our nation's climate change policies have changed very little in the last several years. The first President Bush, when presented with evidence that climate change was a problem, pursued a strategy of scientific research and voluntary reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The evidence is much stronger and much more conclusive today, and yet our basic strategy has not changed.
The White House's new Climate Change Science Program, for example, has a budget comparable, in inflation-adjusted dollars, to its predecessor during the 1990s, the Global Climate Research Program. There are the more substantive R&D initiatives embraced by this administration – I am talking here about the Hydrogen Fuels Initiative and FutureGen, the much-touted public/private initiative to develop clean coal technologies. But these initiatives, while of value, represent only modest investments in technologies that are decades away from being deployed.
The real proof of our nation's climate policies, of course, should be in the results, and the bottom line is that the United States is not even close to doing what's needed to reduce our emissions and put on us a path toward meeting the long term objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to which the United States is a party.
In order to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at roughly double pre-industrial levels (that is the equivalent of 550 parts per million), developed countries such as the United States must undertake a concerted effort to deploy existing energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies, and aggressively promote more advanced technologies as old energy capital is retired. Allowing our near-term emissions to grow will only make this task more daunting and expensive. But this is precisely the path we are on, and this is because we continue to rely on a voluntary approach to mitigation.
The current Administration's plan to reduce the "greenhouse gas intensity" of the U.S. economy actually will result in an increase in absolute emissions. These emissions will grow by roughly 14 percent above 2000 levels and 30 percent above 1990 levels by 2010. Needless to say, this is not the direction in which we want to be headed.
Clearly, we can do better. We must do better. I have often said that climate change calls on us to create the conditions for an energy technology revolution. But a revolution needs two things: an impetus, or spark; and a vision, a vision of the change we want and need to see.
The impetus for the revolution I am talking about, I believe, will have to come from political will. We have seen some important gains on this front in the last couple of years, as various members of Congress, together with state and local officials, have developed and proposed policies that reflect a real understanding of what's at stake. But an energy technology revolution will not happen without broader support from our political leaders. It will not happen unless and until industry receives clear and consistent policy signals from government that climate change is a priority – and that reducing emissions and developing low-carbon technologies is not a choice but a condition for doing business in America. This is going to take a level of political will that we have not yet seen, but that I hope, with your help, we can generate in the months and years ahead.
What about the vision of where we need to go? At the Pew Center, we recently developed something we are calling the "10-50 Solution" to climate change. By 10-50, we mean we should be looking ahead and thinking about where we want to be on this issue in 50 years. However, at the same time that we are establishing a long-term goal, and making the necessary investments that will allow us to meet it, we also need to identify the strategies and policies we can start pursuing in the next 10 years and in each decade that follows.
The bottom line is that we need a sense of urgency as well as a recognition of the long-term nature of both the climate change problem and its ultimate technological solution. The United Kingdom for example has set 2 goals, a near term goal of a 12.5-percent greenhouse gas emission reduction by 2012 and a longer term one for a 60-percent reduction within 50 years. The United States needs to adopt something similar, setting targets that will, in turn, drive the development of the policies and technologies we will need in order to reach our goals.
After hearing all the hemming and hawing around this issue in Washington, you wouldn't know that near-term reductions in our emissions are readily available – principally through investments in energy efficiency. Over the decades to come, more advanced technologies such as carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, and possibly advanced nuclear energy can be tapped to provide for the steeper reductions that are ultimately needed. These technologies will require policies to both push and pull them to the markets, and over time these technologies also must be made available to the developing world. But we must start now. Because of the long-lived nature of greenhouse gases, there will always be a substantial lag between the reductions we achieve and the effect of those reductions on atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.
As we consider how to reach our long-term climate objectives, I believe we need to consider three approaches at once.
The first approach is based on the notion of targets and trading. Government cannot mandate a revolution. But it can create the conditions for one. By establishing clear and definitive goals, or targets, and then summoning the powers of the marketplace to meet them.
From its inception, the Pew Center has supported cost-effective, market-based approaches to climate change – chiefly, through an economy-wide cap-and-trade system. This is a policy that sets targets for greenhouse gas emissions and then allows companies the flexibility to trade emission credits in order to achieve their targets in the most economic manner.
This is the approach taken in the Climate Stewardship Act introduced last year by Senators Joseph Lieberman and John McCain. Their bill garnered the support of 44 U.S. senators and prompted the first serious debate in Congress about exactly what we need to be doing to respond to the problem of climate change.
Cap-and-trade works because it enables companies to reduce emissions as cheaply as possible. We all know the example of how trading has worked to achieve cost-effective reductions in emissions of the pollutants that cause acid rain. In fact, it was because of the United States' successful use of trading to reduce sulfur emissions that our country insisted that trading be a central element of the Kyoto Protocol. And now, inspired by Kyoto, the European Union is on the verge of launching the broadest emissions trading system ever established.
What's more, right here in the United States, nine Northeastern governors, led by New York Governor George Pataki, are developing a multi-state regional "cap-and-trade" initiative aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. This effort is proceeding well, and we expect them to complete their work, as planned, by April of next year, with agreement on a model rule.
Of course, it will likely be some time before we establish a national, economy-wide cap-and-trade system in the United States—the politics (or the spark) isn't there yet. But what might be possible is a series of interlinked trading systems – the east coast with Europe and perhaps with Canada and the west coast as well. Such a "bottom-up" system could be robust enough both to achieve some environmental benefit and keep costs down. And it would be a valuable learning experience for both sides on this issue, hopefully one that would show that taking action on this issue is both practical and affordable.
The second pathway to the future that I want to focus on is the need for sectoral solutions to climate change. Simply put, any effort to address climate change must include greenhouse gas reductions from all sectors. The two biggest sectoral sources of these emissions are transportation and electric power. Transportation alone accounts for more than a quarter of U.S. energy consumption, and more than a third of our greenhouse gas emissions. And the electricity sector is responsible for almost 40 percent of emissions.
If we want to achieve progress in reducing emissions, we have to achieve major reductions from these two sectors – and that means serious (short-term) efficiency improvements followed by major technological changes. But not surprisingly within these sectors there is real resistance to this kind of approach.
The advantage we have in addressing transportation emissions is that the auto industry is highly concentrated – and global as well. The 10 largest manufacturers account for 74 percent of the global market. The vast majority of cars are produced – and used – in a relatively small number of countries. Major fuel producers are also relatively small in number. What we really need here, and what should be achievable, is an effort to bring all the key players together and chart a path toward a zero emissions future in, say, 30-50 years.
This is not a proposal to dictate specific technologies – each major manufacturer seems to be going down a different technology path, and they should be allowed to do so – but I believe we will be most successful and efficient and if we adopt a set of globally consistent performance standards.
No, it wouldn't be easy, and many will argue that it is simply too hard. But is it easier, or smarter, to tackle the problem nation by nation, or state by state? At the moment, there are different auto efficiency or CO2 emission standards or goals in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan, China, Korea, and Taiwan. And now here in the US we have a proposal from California to establish greenhouse gas standards for vehicles – a proposal that, if it goes into effect, will doubtless be followed by other states. I wonder if the time isn't close for the private sector to decide that a rational, long-term effort, in which they are "at the table" and can help set the milestones, might not be better than the alternative.
The power sector, for its part, is very different. Power supplies are much more distributed -- there are hundreds, if not thousands of players (far too many to put into a room, let alone around a table), and there are many different ways to generate power. So here we might focus on selected energy sources, the most important of which, both politically and in terms of emissions contribution, is coal. There is no denying that coal will figure heavily in our energy future. It is globally available and it is cheap. Virtually all of the new power plants being planned here in the United States will burn coal. China is projected to add as much as 300 gigawatts of generating capacity over the next 10 years, nearly all of it coal.
How then do we continue to provide power but minimize the impact on the climate? How do we shift investment away from traditional coal plants to newer technologies that will be compatible with the efforts underway to capture CO2 emissions and sequester them deep in the ground? Here, too, I think we need a combination: a global R&D effort, and a clear set of mandates to pull new and better technologies into the market. Many in the coal industry are beginning to see the need for a more proactive strategy, and if they can be assured a place in the future, they may be willing to give up the technologies of the past.
To put it simply, I think every sector that is a part of the problem has to be a part of the solution – including agriculture and forestry, as well as power and transportation.
The third pathway to the future that I want to talk about is one that integrates both climate and development.
We cannot expect developing countries to become full partners in the climate effort if it continues to be seen as a purely environmental issue, a constraint on economic growth and development. Frankly, this is true in developed countries as well. We need policies that speak both to climate and to core development priorities. The place to start, I would suggest, is with national energy policies. Each nation needs to accept that climate change must be one of the drivers of energy policy, as the UK has. Along with security of supply and price, we need energy policies that will not only power the global economy and raise living standards, but that will also help us in our efforts to stabilize the climate.
Similarly, for economies to grow, and for individuals to have the mobility they desire, we must find ways to make our transportation systems more sustainable and more climate friendly. Charting these paths forward will be crucial if we are to succeed in meeting our long-term climate objective.
And to meet that objective, we need your help.
As scientists and engineers, you make decisions about how this nation's vast technical resources – including human resources – are mobilized. You decide what research problems to focus your attention on and what solutions look most promising. You are responsible for training and nurturing the next generation of scientists and engineers. How grant monies are used, how scholarship funding is allocated, even how course curriculums are designed – all of these questions play a role in setting the stage for the technology revolution we need to address the climate challenge. In a sense, our future is in your hands.
Some of you may be aware that the U.S. Department of Energy has issued a "Grand Challenge" to the scientific community to work on the critical issue of hydrogen storage. While the Pew Center prefers to be "technology neutral", I would say that there are at least two other "grand challenges" that the scientific community needs to become more engaged in over the next 10 years. These are:
· First, the development of low-cost and reliable technologies and processes for carbon dioxide capture and geologic sequestration; and
· Second, the development of low-cost renewables and the infrastructure and storage technologies that will enable them to become widespread.
All three of these challenges – hydrogen storage, carbon capture and storage, and low-cost renewables – are currently at different points on the RD&D spectrum. But they can all benefit enormously from your brains and your help.
This is why I was so delighted to be invited to speak with this group today. We need your engagement on this issue. Obviously, some of you and your institutions have been working tirelessly on climate issues for a long time. But the level of human, institutional and monetary resources that are currently dedicated to these challenges does not fit the magnitude of the problem. Within your universities, your research institutions, your organizations and the broader group of NSF (or "grant-making") funding committees, there needs to be significantly greater attention to the challenge of a low-carbon energy future – and research resources need to be allocated accordingly.
And it is not just the challenge of reducing the potential severity of climate change that we need to focus on – as I stated at the top of my remarks, we also need to figure out how to adapt to climate change. Unfortunately, because of the momentum of the climate system and, perhaps more importantly, our own economy and technology, we are beyond the point of preventing climate change.
For example, if we were to somehow cease all greenhouse gas emissions today, we would still be committed to additional global warming of about one degree Fahrenheit over the course of the 21st century. If we set a more realistic, but still ambitious, target of limiting atmospheric CO2 to a doubling of its pre-industrial concentration, we'd likely experience at least an additional three degrees of warming on average globally, with some regions, including the United States and the poles, expected to warm more.
This is not a doomsday scenario – quite the contrary, this is one of the most optimistic outcomes we can expect. But even with such valiant efforts to reduce our emissions, climate change will pose many challenges to our natural ecosystems and resources, economy, and human health. In fact, we're already starting to see the effects. Therefore, we must find a way to adjust or adapt to these challenges – in other words, we need to prepare ourselves for that level of climate change that we can no longer prevent.
Here, too, scientists and engineers have important roles to play. To adapt to climate change, we must first understand how our environment will respond to the changes in temperature, precipitation, and sea level that are currently projected.
How will our water resources be affected? Which coastal communities lie in harm's way? Which species are at greatest risk? Then, we must devise methods for preparing these systems for a changing climate – new water management strategies, new coastal development plans, new wildlife conservation efforts. And, we must do all of this against the backdrop of an ever-growing U.S. and global population, using more resources, more land, and further altering the global environment.
Although we shouldn't fool ourselves into thinking we can engineer ourselves out of this problem, prudence dictates that we seek ways to improve our resilience to climate. The loss of life in Europe during the summer heat wave of 2003, or the death and destruction we witnessed in the Caribbean and the United States from this year's hurricane season, are the harbingers of what we can expect in a world of continued warming.
I'm sure many of you currently collaborate with colleagues from all over the world. But how many of those colleagues are from developing countries? Building bridges with scientists in the developing world is invaluable for enhancing the capacity of other nations to assess and respond to the challenge of climate change.
I have talked about a number of priorities today. I have talked about the need for an energy technology revolution. I have talked about establishing a long-term goal of achieving a low-carbon economy. I have talked about three pathways for achieving that goal – through targets and trading, sectoral approaches, and integrating climate and development. And I have talked about adaptation.
This is complex stuff, Albert Einstein famously stated that people do not truly understand something unless they can explain it to their grandmother. Well, the unfortunate fact is that people don't truly understand the problem of climate change. All of us need to do a better job explaining this issue in a way that resonates with people – grandmothers and grandchildren alike.
In a recent paper for the journal Global Environmental Change, scholars Maxwell and Jules Boykoff reported on their analysis of 14 years of climate change coverage in four major daily newspapers: The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. During the period they covered, 1988 to 2002, a clear consensus emerged among climate scientists that climate change was real—and that human activities were a principal cause. And yet, in the newspapers, the majority of articles (nearly 53 percent) gave roughly equal space to this consensus view and to the view of climate-change skeptics that any warming we have seen is the result of natural fluctuations.
This is the challenge we are up against. Science has produced a clear case for action on this issue, but people, including some important government leaders, are still are not getting the message. And I encourage all of you, in your communications with the media and the general public, to make every effort to convey to people what is truly at stake here. At the same time, I encourage you, as scientists, to help us debunk all the junk science that's out there and help people focus on what we know to be true.
The junk science on this issue comes from all over, but there appears to be a cottage industry of industry-funded think tanks that trumpet every objection they can find to the consensus view that climate change is happening and will only get worse.
So I am asking for your help:
- If you or someone in your organization is talking to the media about this issue, please emphasize the clear and overwhelming consensus among scientists that this is a very real problem we need to begin addressing right now.
- If you see or hear policymakers stressing the uncertainties in the climate science, please also set them straight about the certainties and what they tell us about the need for real and serious action.
- The same goes for media reports on climate change that give equal weight to the scientific consensus on this issue and to the claims of the skeptics. It is important that scientists become engaged, with letters to the editor, op-ed articles, radio call-ins, whatever it takes.
It will take some time and persistence, but as the compelling, robust and irrefutable evidence of the human impact on the earth's climate continues to accumulate, it will become impossible to ignore.
As scientists, you have the credibility to challenge this nation to step up to the problem of climate change in a manner that reflects the seriousness of this issue. And, together with your peers throughout the country, you have the capability to come up with the new ideas and the solutions that will create a safer world in the decades to come. This is your mission, and it is our mission at the Pew Center as well. And I hope we can work together so that future generations aren't left wondering why we did so little – when we knew so much.
Thank you very much.


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Peyton Manning part-owner in NBA
Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning isn't allowed to own a piece of a football team per NFL rules, but that doesn't mean he can't own a piece of another team in another sport.
Sources have confirmed to ESPN.com that Manning is part of the proposed ownership group led by Robert Pera, who agreed to buy the Memphis Grizzlies from Michael Heisley for about $350 million this summer.
The news of the involvement of Manning, who played collegiately at the University of Tennessee, was first reported by Chris Vernon of ESPN Radio Memphis. The ownership stake is actually in the name of Manning's wife, Ashley, but one source confirmed that Peyton Manning is involved. The Mannings' stake in the team and how much they paid for it is not yet known.
Through last week, Manning has earned more than $178 million on the field and tens of millions of dollars more off it as the most popular endorser in the NFL.
Since Pera agreed to the deal, shares of his company Ubiquiti Networks has been hard hit. On a single day in August, Pera lost $365 million on paper when the company's stock plummeted. Shares since have rebounded modestly.
In recent months, Pera has added local partners, including AutoZone founder J.R. "Pitt" Hyde and financier Staley Cates, who were minority owners under Heisley. In September, Pera scored pop star and actor Justin Timberlake on the ownership roster. Sources also confirmed Thursday that former NBA player Penny Hardaway -- who grew up in Memphis and played at Memphis State -- has joined the group.
A source with knowledge of the sale told ESPN.com's Marc Stein that the transfer of ownership from Heisley to Pera and his high-profile partners remains on course to be approved by the start of the regular season later this month. The NBA Board of Governors is scheduled to have its meeting Oct. 24-25 in New York City.


text: The numbers tell the story: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are more than 52 million Hispanics living in the United States, making people of Hispanic origin the nation's largest ethnic or race minority. The Bureau forecasts that by 2050, this demographic will number 132.8 million — or about 30% of the population. By 2015, one in three newborns will be of Latino descent. And while the overall U.S. population is getting older, the Latino community remains young: More than 60% of the U.S. Hispanic population is under 35, and 75% is under 45.


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Have you noticed a fairly recent push to establish new holiday traditions, many involving elves?
Christopher Pop-In-Kins, a family's 50-year tradition shared with the world in 1984, seems to be peaking in popularity since his sister Christina Marie was introduced in a book in 2010.
"The Elf on the Shelf," self-published by mother and daughter Carol Aebersold and Chanda Bell in 2005, has a strong following. The story tells of an elf who visits a home to watch a child during the day then returns to the North Pole at night to report the child's behavior to Santa Claus.
From Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve, parents around the world open their homes to these little elves. Children find the elves in a new hiding spot each day.
A pair of authors recently set out to create more faith-based Christmas traditions with their new books.
Jill Hardie's "Sparkle Box" encourages families to put a present under the tree and fill the box with the good deeds they have done to honor Jesus on his birthday.
Hudson High School graduate Jenny Shanahan of Kent recently wrote "Lost and Found: Jesus the Greatest Treasure." Instead of looking for an elf on a shelf, the book encourages children to find the Magi each day in their house as they journey to see Jesus.
"I feel that this book was guided by the Holy Spirit and I am a messenger," she told me. "It seems that once Christmas Day is over, that is it; there is a let down. However, in the church year, that is the beginning of the Christmas season.
"My goal was to create a fun setting where kids would want to celebrate the 12 days of Christmas and truly find Jesus in their everyday lives."
In reading about the other authors, they also were inspired by a desire to share their own values and family traditions in the hopes that others would find the same joy.
My family follows several holiday traditions:
No singing Christmas carols until after Thanksgiving dinner. Maybe that's not a tradition, just a rule established after too much "Jingle Bells."
My mom hides a different elf somewhere in the house every day for the 24 days of December before Christmas. She was inspired by Danish stories about helper elves who do chores, like feed pets, when children forget. And her elf tradition pre-dates Christopher Pop-In-Kins 1984 world debut by many years. Maybe she should write a book...
My family annually made gingerbread houses together out of graham crackers, frosting, candy, cereal and any other colorful food items. We were not allowed to use anything that can't be eaten, and, as kids, we were allowed to eat our houses after the holidays. Only the M&M's were still edible after a few weeks on display, but it was still fun to play Godzilla and bite into the roofs.
My mom made cornish hens on Christmas Eve, and she and my dad made steak and eggs on Christmas morning.
Santa always delivered at least one extra large gift on Christmas Eve. Santa followed the same sensible spending habits of my parents when I was a kid, but he still managed to find one super-sized item for us, like a cardboard lemonade stand, a giant stuffed purple dog or a Little Tikes kitchen set. In my mind, our living room was filled with gifts on Christmas morning thanks to Santa's big presents.
My grandmother hid an almond in her rice pudding on Christmas Day. Whoever found it won a prize. My sister found it every year. My mom and I were surprised to learn this year that the whole thing was fixed. My sister, my dad and his mother-in-law kept that secret from us for almost 30 years.
Every member of my family hangs a pickle ornament on their Christmas tree. Whoever finds the pickle first on Christmas Day wins a prize.
My mom has assembled several Christmas tree ornament wedding gifts for newlyweds, inspired by a German tradition, so on the trees of her married family and friends, you're likely to find these 12 ornaments:
A heart for true love;
A pinecone for motherhood and fruitfulness;
Santa for unselfishness and good will;
A house for shelter and protection;
A rabbit for hope and faith;
An angel for God's guidance;
A teapot for hospitality;
A rose for beauty;
A basket of fruit for generosity;
A flower for good wishes; and
A bird for happiness.
I'm not sure if any of these traditions are unique to my family, but if there's a void of holiday traditions in your family, you're welcome to follow them. And if not, I'd like to hear about your family's traditions. You can email them to me or post them on our Facebook page ( www.facebook.com/hudsonhubtimes ).
I'm sure my family wouldn't mind adding a couple more traditions. The more the merrier.
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Javon Jackson
Artist's BiographyJavon Jackson came into international prominence as a member of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. As a member of Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Javon toured and made many recordings with the legendary drummer. In addition to Blakey, Jackson has toured and recorded with Elvin Jones, Freddie Hubbard, Betty Carter, Cedar Walton, Ron Carter, Donald Byrd, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Richard Davis, Bobby Hutcherson, Curtis Fuller and Stanley Turrentine, and Ben E. King. As a recording artist, Jackson has appeared on over 135 recordings. Additionally, he has developed a formidable career as a leader, recording and touring throughout the world.
Javon's current musical group, The Javon Jackson Band, incorporates many styles including jazz, funk, R&B and rock.
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As an addition to the current tour schedule, the Javon Jackson Band will be joined by special guest Les McCann, the iconic soul jazz pianist, vocalist and composer. Known as one of the godfathers of soul jazz, Les is recognized as a founding force for the genre known as funky jazz established in the mid 1960's. This collaboration of the young along side the legend is not to be missed. Also look for Javon as a special guest with legends Cedar Walton and Jimmy Cobb .
Recently commissioned by the Syracuse International Film Festival, Javon composed a full length score for the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lodger. An early outing by the master of suspense, The Lodger is a silent film based on the story of the hunt for Jack the Ripper. Javon debuted his original score at the festival, performing it live at the film\'s screening on October 15, 2010.


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What do you do when there is no school, roads are closed, and the city declares a 'state of emergency'? If you were lucky enough to have a charged phone, and at least occasional electricity, many took to social media to share the experience.
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Corn futures were flat despite supportive export data. Corn futures continue their recent pattern of sideways trading Thursday morning. That didn't change despite a strong sales result (929,400 tonnes) on the weekly Export Sales report. March corn slipped 0.25 cent to $4.5525/bushel late Thursday morning, while May rose 0.25 to $4.6075.
The soy complex surged on Thursday's export news. Soybeans posted a surprising advance in the early morning hours, then accelerated upward after the Export Sales report was released. The totals met moderate industry expectations, but the simple fact that commitments were already running above the USDA total for the crop year emphasized the strength of current global demand. March soybeans leapt 22.75 cents to $14.30/bushel around midsession Thursday, while March soyoil bounced 0.37 cents to 41.57 cents/pound, and March soymeal surged $5.0 to $473.3/ton.
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d'Arnaud picks up Mets with ninth-inning RBI
NY stays hot to open 10-game trip; Colon labors through illness
SAN DIEGO -- Mets general manager Sandy Alderson welcomed his team back from the All-Star break Friday with a challenge of sorts. As the non-waiver Trade Deadline approaches, Alderson said he will shape his strategy around how the Mets perform on their 10-day road trip though San Diego, Seattle and Milwaukee.
Should the Mets continue playing as well as they did prior to the All-Star break, Alderson intimated, he will seriously consider adding pieces to the roster. Should they falter, no guarantees.
It's up to the players then, and one game into their trip everything is going according to plan. Travis d'Arnaud hit a go-ahead single in the ninth inning Friday night at Petco Park, leading the Mets to a 5-4 victory over the Padres for their ninth win in 11 games.
"It meant a lot," manager Terry Collins said. "It really showed the guys that they're still in that zone right now."
Curtis Granderson opened the ninth by drawing a walk off Joaquin Benoit, the de facto closer for a shorthanded Padres team that traded Huston Street to the Angels earlier in the day. Granderson then moved to third base on two consecutive groundouts, and, after Benoit intentionally walked Lucas Duda, d'Arnaud punched a single through the right side of the infield. As Granderson jogged home, he pointed to the visiting dugout, where his teammates were wildly waving towels in support.
"I just tried to keep my eye on the ball and put a good swing on it," d'Arnaud said. "Fortunately, it found a gap."
The Mets did plenty of early damage against Padres starter Ian Kennedy, stringing together three runs on three hits in the first inning, and a fourth on Kirk Nieuwenhuis' RBI groundout in the third. But the Mets also left six men on base over the first four innings, allowing Kennedy to scrape his way through a five-inning, four-run outing.
That kept the Padres, who did not put a runner on base until the third, in the game. They responded by plating four runs off Mets starter Bartolo Colon in the fifth inning, the big blow coming on Chase Headley's two-out, two-run, game-tying double. Battling a stomach ailment, Colon said through an interpreter that he considered coming out of the game early but did his best to battle through the discomfort.
He did, and d'Arnaud's hit bailed the Mets out in the end.
"When you're winning, it's not just one phase of the game that's going good," Collins said. "It's pretty much all of it."
It was similar to what the Mets accomplished prior to the All-Star break, winning eight of 10 on their most successful homestand in four years. That stretch imbued the Mets with enough confidence, for the first time, to begin talking realistically about adding pieces at the Trade Deadline. Previously, most rumors had centered around trading away Colon, Daniel Murphy or other higher-priced veterans -- rather than importing significant big league talent to Flushing, which the Mets have not done in seven years.
The poster child of their resurgence has been d'Arnaud, who made his big league debut at Petco Park last August. Coming into this season amid high expectations, d'Arnaud stumbled to such an extent that the Mets optioned him to Triple-A Las Vegas in June. But his recovery was immediate, and d'Arnaud has not stopped hitting since his return; he has reached base safely in 16 of his last 17 games, batting .318 with three home runs and 11 RBIs over that span.
"He's made some adjustments at the plate," Collins said. "His confidence is soaring. He's seeing the ball good. His confidence is great. There's a lot of things going on, and that's why he's hitting where he's hitting."
Along with the turnarounds of Ruben Tejada, Granderson and others, d'Arnaud's renaissance has helped the Mets salvage a season that was rapidly spiraling out of control in June. Now the Mets are surging. Although they entered the night with somewhere between a 3- and 17-percent chance to make the playoffs, according to various statistical projection systems, they scoff at those numbers.
"Somebody says we have a 3-percent chance," Alderson said. "If you ask the guys on the field, they probably think we've got a little better chance than that."
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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8 Spring Training Stats We Don't Put Much Stock In
1. The Mariners Won't Lead MLB in Homers
Spring-training stats are available at MLB.com going back to 2006. Only the 2009 Royals and the 2006 Tigers (54) exceeded Seattle's current total. Here are the yearly leaders, with their regular-season rank:
Could the Mariners buck this trend and continue their power display into the regular season? Anything is possible, and they did move the fences in at Safeco, but bear in mind that they haven't finished in the top 15 since 2000, when they tied with the Mets for 12th. That Mariners team featured Alex Rodriguez, Edgar Martinez, and Jay Buhner.
Kendrys Morales and Mike Morse each have six homers this spring, which is nice, but it doesn't magically transform them into Rodriguez and Martinez. Nor does moving the fences turn Safeco Field into the Kingdome, which is where the Mariners played the first half of 1999, the last of three straight seasons they led MLB in home runs.
But we'll have all year to deal with reality. For now, let's just hit the snooze button and keep dreaming. —Geoff Young
2. Shane Robinson Will Not Retain his Grapefruit League King Title
3. The Orioles Won't Win 70 Percent of Their One-Run Games
4. Yuniesky Betancourt Hasn't Discovered How to Hit
5. Yasiel Puig Won't Be Walkless
Of course, this prediction supposes a few things. The first is that he plays with the Dodgers this season. Right now, there is no room for him in the LA outfield, but the fact that their entire outfield is susceptible to injury makes this more plausible. Andre Ethier, Matt Kemp, and Carl Crawford all have a season of 135 games played or fewer on their resumes over the last two years. The second thing is that Puig will continue to perform at a high level in the upper minors, giving the Dodgers reason to call him up when there's a need. This feels inevitable when you watch him, but it's anything but a guarantee—especially as he starts facing pitchers who may refuse to throw him strikes.
This spring, Yasiel Puig has approached his at-bats like the part of his brain that controls strike zone recognition was replaced by an exact duplicate of the part of his brain that screams "SWING HARD NOW!" But, most importantly, since he recorded no walks this spring, we have no visual confirmation of how Puig would get to first base after a walk. Maybe he'd sprint like Todd Coffey. Maybe he'd walk really, really slowly. Maybe he's athletic enough to just do back flips the entire way. Would he simply drop his bat or do some variation of his home run bat flip? And yes, this is really something that I've thought about. —Bret Sayre
6. Justin Smoak Won't Approach .408/.434/.796
Smoak has continued the trend this exhibition season, compiling a .434/.483/.811 line over 60 plate appearances, picking up four home runs and eight doubles along the way. Consequently, the 26-year-old has improved his career spring OPS to 1.009.
But if history is any indication, Smoak will abandon this pretense once Opening Day chases the fledgling arms of the Cactus League back to their developmental womb. Over the better part of three major-league seasons, Smoak has never hit above .234. He has never posted an on-base percentage greater than .323. And he has never slugged more than .396. Safeco won't be such a hostile hitter's environment in 2013 with the fences coming in—Smoak's home/road OPS splits favor the latter by roughly 60 points since his 2010 trade to the Mariners—but it's still hard to believe his spring performance portends anything beyond a modest improvement. Frankly, it'd be difficult to get much worse: Smoak finished with a .236 True Average in 2012, the eighth-lowest mark among qualified hitters last season. And yes, this is indeed the same player who, in the days of yore, constituted the centerpiece of a trade for Cliff Lee. —Jonah Birenbaum
7. Ryan Raburn Won't Be Anything But a Spring Training Tease
8. Howard Kendrick Still Won't Win That Batting Title
Kendrick has a .467 average this spring (28-for-60), the highest of any qualifying AL player. But don't be deceived: he's not about to make our prediction look prescient. Last spring, Kendrick hit .383. The spring before that, he hit .364. All told, Kendrick has batted .361 in spring training during his years as a big leaguer. He's also a career .360 hitter in the minor leagues. Clearly, he has batting-title bat speed, and a translation of his stats against lesser competition would suggest that he'd routinely top .300 in the majors, which explains why we ranked him the fifth-best prospect in baseball in 2006.
So why has he hit "only" .292 in the majors, despite a robust BABIP? It's not his ballpark, although Angel Stadium is hard on right-handed hitters: Kendrick has hit .293 on the road. The best answer is "breaking balls." Kendrick has no trouble catching up to major-league heaters—he's hit over .340 against four-seamers in the PITCHf/x era—but he's batted under .250 against sliders. In the land of four-seamers, Kendrick is king, so he feasts on opposing pitching in Arizona, where arms are still getting stretched out and the caliber of competition is lower, and in the minors, where most pitchers lack elite secondary stuff. But in the big leagues, his relative struggles against softer stuff hold him back. Even so, he's an extremely consistent, above-average hitter with a good glove and the ability to take the extra base. There are worse things to be than a bit above league average, and Kendrick is well worth the Angels' investment. But he's not about to be a batting champion. —Ben Lindbergh
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Since he wasn't mentioned, I'm going to assume that Brandon Belt *will* hit .453/.478/.906 this season.
Mar 27, 2013 09:28 AM
Guys like Smoak, former top prospects who struggle turn the corner sometimes. See Gordon, Alex. Visually there's a difference as well as he's shortened his swing considerably, most noticable from the left side and he's swinging with confidence. The plate discipline has always been decent, now it's getting betetr and he's starting to square up more balls. Don't be shocked if he goes out and posts an .800 OPS.
Mar 27, 2013 09:48 AM
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I agree with your final paragraph. The Mariners hit 149 homers last year.
Mar 27, 2013 10:34 AM
Would love to see that step forward from Smoak. Jason Churchill has good things to say about him as well, and I pay attention to qualitative analysis more at this point than stats for Smoak.
Mar 27, 2013 11:55 AM
Ben -- any chance you can post an article examining pitching velocity gainers/losers this spring?
Mar 28, 2013 01:03 AM
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Yes, planning to, with the help of Harry Pavlidis. Aiming for next Monday, so we can include all preseason data.
Mar 28, 2013 01:06 AM
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NASCAR smacked Penske Racing with a hammer, the back of a frying pan and a baseball bat Wednesday.
The sanctioning body docked teammates Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano 25 points apiece and suspended seven Penske crewmen for having an illegal rear suspension mechanism in their cars Saturday at Texas Motor Speedway.
NASCAR didn't just suspend the crew chiefs. It also benched the car chiefs. And each team's top engineer. And the organization's competition director, too.
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It was the harshest penalty for a technical infraction since, well, last year when it hammered Hendrick Motorsports for what it said were illegal C-posts on Jimmie Johnson's car for the Daytona 500.
The result of those sanctions was an embarrassing defeat on final appeal, as NASCAR's chief appellate officer John Middlebrook overturned the penalties and virtually wiped the slate clean except for a $100,000 fine.
In other words, Johnson's team violated a rule but either the rule was not well defined and/or the parts and pieces had been through tech so many times that they were basically approved.
Like Hendrick, Penske has vowed to appeal the penalties, probably hoping for a similar outcome.
But this is not a similar case. Either Penske Racing brass or NASCAR officials are living in la la land on this one.
Maybe NASCAR didn't learn anything from losing its last appeal and is going down an embarrassing road that will threaten its credibility and the legitimacy of future penalties.
Or Penske officials know they are wrong and are putting on a charade for its sponsors. If they appeal and lose, it's better than admitting wrongdoing and creates a bit of doubt that maybe, just maybe, there was a misinterpretation of the rules.
But things don't look good for the Penske on this one. This wasn't just one piece that didn't conform to the rules. This doesn't appear to be an incident where one piece was just out of whack.
The rules cited in the penalty seem pretty clear-cut.
One of the rules cited in NASCAR's news release Wednesday read: "All front end and rear end suspension mounts and mounting hardware must not allow movement or realignment of any suspension component beyond normal rotation or suspension travel."
That is a new rule for 2013. Along with this: "All front end and rear end suspension mounts with mounting hardware assembled must have single round mounting holes that are the correct size for the fastener being used."
Both those rules were added to keep teams from using suspension systems that skew the rear of the car to help it turn better. Last year, teams had suspension pieces that would unhook in one place and lock in at another in the turns.
That is where all the teams were spending a lot of money and NASCAR developed new rules to prevent that type of package.
Those new rules weren't the only ones that Penske allegedly broke. They also allegedly broke rules that didn't change, which require the pieces to be made of solid magnetic steel and for any new systems to be approved by NASCAR.
Maybe there is some reasonable explanation for all of this. Maybe the gray area is in the terms "mounts and mounting hardware" and what that defines.
Maybe Penske just figured that other teams worked in that area last year and NASCAR didn't do anything but change some wording in the rulebook instead of handing down penalties and suspensions.
But it's been pretty clear that rear suspensions were a focus of NASCAR going into 2013. NASCAR changed the rules in that area of the car to try to stop the shenanigans. So Penske went out and apparently developed such a package, at least believing that what it did was not a violation of the letter of the law.
In other words, the Penske teams thumbed their noses at NASCAR and dared it to react.
NASCAR reacted. Big time.
Though Hendrick won its appeal last year, this case looks different. It wasn't just one piece that NASCAR deemed illegal. It was a series of pieces and mechanisms. It was on all of the Penske cars. It smells bad. Real bad.
While the Hendrick appeal might give Penske executives hope, it would be surprising if the penalties are significantly decreased on appeal.
NASCAR wouldn't go out on a limb and dare Penske to appeal in such an instance after last year, would it?
If NASCAR loses this appeal, it will be questioned every time it takes a part or a piece during inspection. NASCAR's inconsistency in some of its rulings (we've seen that the last few months, haven't we?), combined with its unwillingness to adjust its penalty protocol based on past appeals, would damage NASCAR's credibility even more.
So fans will learn through the appeals process that one side — either Penske or NASCAR — was arrogant and thought it could buck the system.
I'll guess that it will be Penske. Keselowski and Logano should be ready to have different crew chiefs calling the shots for the next seven weeks.


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deGrom making surprising case for NL ROY
SEATTLE -- After Jacob deGrom reeled off seven more strong innings in Tuesday's win over the Mariners, Mets manager Terry Collins noted that deGrom has "numbers to match up any rookie in the league."
Upon closer inspection, that's not just managerial bluster. With August right around the corner, deGrom and Cincinnati's Billy Hamilton appear to be descending into a two-man race for National League Rookie of the Year.
With 39 stolen bases and a .280 average over his first 95 games, Hamilton may currently be the man to beat. But he is still a flawed candidate, considering his .313 on-base percentage and the fact that he derives much of his value from baserunning and defense -- areas that voters often neglect when choosing between players.
Most of the other top rookies in baseball are in the American League, from Jose Abreu to George Springer to Dellin Betances. Others could still crop up in the NL race, but few have a current case that can compare to that of deGrom, who boasts a 3.01 ERA in 13 starts with 79 strikeouts in 80 2/3 innings.
The Mets have not had a Rookie of the Year winner since Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden won back-to-back from 1983-84.
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Greetings, everyone.
I have a question regarding the translation of a passage in AN 1-18. It is often rendered as:
"Just as a tiny bit of faeces has a bad smell, so I do not recommend even a tiny bit of existence, not even for so long as a fingersnap.".
I do not know who the translator is, but I know that . This rendering is consistent with the .
However, , the same passage is rendered as:
"320. Bhikkhus, just as a little bit of excreta smells and should be got rid of, I do not specify thinking even for the fraction of a second."
SuttaCentral.net credits this translation to Sister Uppalavana.
I am not well-versed in the suttas or Pali, though I am not Pali-phobic either. I don't even understand the numbering systems used in the Anguttara Nikaya - both "AN 1.316" and "AN 1.18.1" seem to be correct designations for this passage. I am fluent in Burmese, however, and I'm aware that the Burmese editions of the suttas are not immune to criticism, having renditions such as "discursive thinking" for "vicara". What I do know that the second translation is different from the Burmese rendering, which uses "existence" in place of "thinking".
Could anyone comment on the differences? In English, the two translations have distinctly different meanings. Maybe Sylvester would like to take a crack at it...


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Seven Braves prospects set to compete in AFL
NEW YORK -- Kyle Wren, Edward Salcedo and Aaron Northcraft headline the list of seven Braves prospects who will compete in this year's Arizona Fall League. They will be part of the Peoria Javelinas club that will employ Triple-A Gwinnett's Garey Ingram as its hitting coach.
Jose Peraza has established himself as Atlanta's most intriguing prospect this season and he was a candidate to play in the AFL. But the speedy infielder is instead expected to spend this winter playing in his native Venezuela, where he can be part of a longer season and compile more plate appearances.
Wren has batted .282 with a .699 OPS over 128 combined games for Class A Advanced Lynchburg and Double-A Mississippi this year. The speedy outfielder, who is the son of Atlanta general manager Frank Wren, has been successful with 44 of 58 stolen-base attempts.
Once heralded as a top prospect, Salcedo has struggled at the plate and provided reason to wonder where he would fit from a defensive perspective. The 23-year-old former shortstop has spent most of the past two months playing the outfield. He entered Tuesday hitting .211 with 10 homers and a .655 OPS for Triple-A Gwinnett.
Northcraft opened some eyes when he posted a 2.88 ERA in 13 appearances (12 starts) for Mississippi this year. But since being promoted to Gwinnett, the 24-year-old right-hander has posted a 6.23 ERA in 12 appearances (11 starts).
The other Braves prospects scheduled to play in the AFL include infielder Daniel Castro and right-handed pitchers Brandon Cunniff, Nate Hyatt and Ryne Harper.
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. Teddy Cahill is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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(WARNING: the above video contains lots of foul language. You should not watch this video if such language offends you)
Apologies in advance, but I'm a brown-nosing Vayniac. I'll get that out in the open right now. However, I have learned a ton from this guy, have watched dozens of his speeches, was sitting in the front row of this presentation, actually got mentioned in the speech between 33:00 and 33:30, and can tell you that this talk was one of his best ever. Watch this presentation.
I speculate that he really brought his A-Game because he was amongst peers. The room was filled with 1,000 (?) of the best entrepreneurs in the world, and that's who he is. Even though most of the attendees are not doing social well, or not doing it at all, Gary and these folks still share much of the same DNA. They build businesses. I think Gary felt like he was talking to a different crowd here than one he might address at Big Omaha or SXSW, and that this required something different. All I can say is…. watch the whole thing, including the last question he takes during Q&A. He brought the house down!
And Gary, thanks for the hug afterwards.
Thank you to both Gary Vaynerchuk and Robert Scoble (via Mike Stenger) for rebroadcasting this for me. Needless to say, my blog has seen some traffic in the past few days. By the way, I had a few people say I was lucky to get the attention of these guys. As Harvey Mackay recently said in his Chris Brogan interview, "The harder I work, the luckier I get." Basically, I do stuff. Lots of stuff. Some of it "hits the big time," whatever that means. So….. Blog. Post. Comment. Reshare. Listen. Interview. Videotape. Write. Sit in the front row. Do stuff!


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The Safety and Effectiveness of Didanosine Plus Stavudine Plus Nevirapine Combined With MKC-442 in HIV-Infected Patients Who Have Not Had Success With Protease Inhibitors
This study has been terminated.
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Boehringer Ingelheim
Triangle Pharmaceuticals
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Bristol-Myers Squibb
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: November 2, 1999
Last updated: August 13, 2008
Last verified: March 2000
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The purpose of this study is to see if it is safe and effective to give a new anti-HIV drug combination to HIV-infected patients who have never taken nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) and who have failed to respond to protease inhibitors (PIs). The drug combination will contain didanosine (ddI) plus stavudine (d4T) plus nevirapine (NVP) plus MKC-442. Hydroxyurea (HU) may be added.
|HIV Infections
|Drug: Emivirine Drug: Hydroxyurea Drug: Nevirapine Drug: Stavudine Drug: Didanosine
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase II, 24-Week, Open-Label Study Designed to Evaluate the Pharmacokinetics, Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of Novel Combination Therapy With Videx (Didanosine), Zerit (Stavudine), Viramune (Nevirapine), and MKC-442 (With or Without Hydroxyurea) for the Treatment of HIV-1 Infection in Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor Naive Patients Who Failed Previous Protease Inhibitor Treatment
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MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDS
Drug Information available for: Stavudine Didanosine NevirapineU.S. FDA Resources
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|Estimated Enrollment:
Patients receive a regimen of didanosine, stavudine, nevirapine, and MKC-442 for 24 weeks. Throughout the study, patients are evaluated for changes from baseline in plasma HIV-1 RNA levels and lymphocyte subsets and for development of adverse events and toxicities. Patients who experience virologic failure have the option of adding hydroxyurea to their treatment regimen or discontinuing from the study. After Week 24, patients with documented virologic response may continue treatment with didanosine, stavudine, nevirapine, and MKC-442, and, if applicable, hydroxyurea until a change in virologic status occurs (i.e., the patient experiences virologic failure). Follow-up visits are conducted every 4 to 12 weeks until permanent discontinuation from the study.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria
You may be eligible for this study if you:
- Are at least 18 years old.
- Are HIV-positive.
- Have experienced treatment failure on a previous anti-HIV drug combination that contained at least one protease inhibitor. Your viral load must be between 5,000 and 50,000 copies/ml after 6 months of continuous treatment with that drug combination.
- Agree to use a barrier method of birth control (such as condoms) during the study.
Exclusion Criteria
You will not be eligible for this study if you:
- Have a history of certain serious medical conditions, including pancreatitis, neuropathy, untreated seizures, or AIDS-related cancers, except Kaposi's sarcoma (KS).
- Are enrolled in another anti-HIV drug study while participating in this study.
- Have ever taken NNRTIs (such as NVP or MKC-442).
- Have ever taken ddI or d4T.
- Have taken certain medications within 30 days prior to study entry, including medications that affect your immune system (such as corticosteroids, interleukin-2, or interferon).
- Abuse alcohol or drugs.
- Have received chemotherapy or radiation therapy within 30 days prior to study entry. (Local radiation therapy is allowed.)
- Are allergic to any of the study drugs.
- Are pregnant or breast-feeding.
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00002418
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00002418
|United States, California
|Pacific Oaks Med Group
|Beverly Hills, California, United States, 90211
|United States, Colorado
|Univ of Colorado / Health Science Ctr
|Denver, Colorado, United States, 80262
|United States, Georgia
|AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30308
|United States, Rhode Island
|Brown Univ School of Medicine
|Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02908
|United States, Virginia
|Hampton Roads Med Specialists
|Hampton, Virginia, United States, 23666
Sponsors and Collaborators
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Boehringer Ingelheim
Triangle Pharmaceuticals
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
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|NCT00002418 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|November 2, 1999
|Last Updated:
|August 13, 2008
Keywords provided by Bristol-Myers Squibb:
Drug Therapy, Combination
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Anti-HIV Agents
Viral Load
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Protease Inhibitors
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inducers
Antineoplastic Agents
Antisickling Agents
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Each Friday, I'll let you know which player, coaches, staff, and media you should follow for news and updates, or just for fun.
Let's start with Rapids rookie Grant Van De Casteele.
What to expect? Hilarity. There aren't many ways to say it. Van De Casteele is a funny guy.
There was the time he made the sacrifice of following in LeBron James's footsteps, for the fans, of course.
by introducing the Lebron app, Samsung has opened pandoras box. expect the release of the Grant app this fall #ForTheFansNotMyOutrageousEgo
— Grant VDC (@bigcountryND) May 4, 2014
There was the time he attributed quite the quote to his roommate, Dillon Powers.
"dude I get some nice Dutch ovens in [my bed] every night. just sit there and sniff it all up" - Anonymous (@powerhour5)
— Grant VDC (@bigcountryND) April 30, 2014
And while VDC might be a prolific tweeter, he should probably never offer driving lessons...
you can pretty much get away with any amount of reckless driving as long as you wave to acknowledge your mistakes
— Grant VDC (@bigcountryND) April 25, 2014
BONUS: Grant is also amazing on Instagram. He takes his #TBT (and cookie cake) very seriously.
Check out Grant's social profiles and be sure to come back next week for more!