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All the series i watched are either a sad ending, or "what a hell just happened" ending, or "wtf thats it?", and the romantic aspect of the series with "who did he pick at the end?" or "come on, she is right there, just say u like her u @%$&^# moron" so please if u know any series that has a happy ending, please post it here.
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Cons: typical repairs every 3 years: wire contact gone
Excellent opened overheads for everyday use with the typical sound brilliance of Porta Pros with a little less of bass overboost (which is positive) due to being not that pushed on the ears.
There are few things in the world that need no improving. KSC-35 almost fit in there - if only the wire ends in the phones were attached a better way so I wouldn't have to get them fixed every approx 3 years. Replacable molitan covers can be cheapely purchased (only I always buy set of three pairs and lose the other two until I need them, so one pair set would be better).
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Ten Points: Yakupov, RNH, and the Leafs as the worst franchise in pro sports
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September 10 2012 07:54PM
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1. A year in Russia? With the end of the collective bargaining agreement rapidly approaching – it expires on Saturday – the possibility of Nail Yakupov spending part or all of the year in the KHL is very real.
Yakupov would play for Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, the team that selected him 19th overall back in the 2010 KHL Draft. The club also happens to be his hometown team, and the last few seasons has been decidedly overmatched by other KHL clubs. Still playing for a weaker team probably means more ice-time and it isn't likely to hurt him – Alex Ovechkin played one year and Evgeni Malkin two in Russia after being drafted before coming to North America, and the KHL is the world's second-best league.
2. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is much worse in the faceoff circle than Anton Lander. The raw percentages paint a similar picture – a picture of two rookies who stunk in the faceoff circle last year. Anton Lander won 43.3 percent of his draws; Ryan Nugent-Hopkins won 37.5 percent. The gap, though, is actually much wider. While both players took most of their draws at even-strength, Nugent-Hopkins' extra work came on the power play (where it's easier to win faceoffs) while Lander's work came on the PK (where it's much harder to win faceoffs. At even-strength? Lander won 45.8 percent of his draws (not bad for a rookie) while Nugent-Hopkins won 37.1 percent.
3. The NHLPA's next move. Today, we saw the opening moves of post-negotiation NHLPA strategy, and is expected it is to the courts. Unlike other major leagues, the NHL has a significant Canadian presence, which opens Canadian law to the players as an avenue to prevent a lockout. In Quebec, the union has asked the courts to rule against a lockout on the grounds that the NHLPA is not certified as a union in that province, while they're looking at their options throughout the country and are pushing in Alberta as well.
Whether it will work, I don't know. What I do know is that this path also ultimately leads to decertification – the elimination of the NHLPA as a union. If that happens, the NHL's presence in Canada should offer it a jurisdictional advantage that other associations haven't had in fighting their leagues.
4. McKenzie's take on a lockout. I'm a big fan of Bob McKenzie, and his offering on the current CBA battle only reinforces that position. I have some quibbles – I think calling the last lockout a battle of principle is too generous to both sides – but on the whole it's a balanced, detailed assessment of where the league is at now. The one real negative? He's not optimistic; this is the concluding line from his first paragraph: "And to think we're likely just taking the first few steps this week towards walking through what is likely to be a very long, dark tunnel."
5. The Toronto Maple Leafs are the worst franchise in major league sports. This according to ESPN. On the one hand, Toronto has stable ownership, the team is basically a license to print money, and their fans are as ridiculously devoted as any in pro sports. On the other hand, the richest team in hockey owns both the longest championship drought and longest streak without a playoff appearance in the NHL. So, yeah.
Then again, any list that puts the Phoenix Coyotes as he best franchise in the NHL and the Leafs as the worst is clearly not being written from an ownership perspective.
Jiri Tlusty, Toronto's first-round pick in 2006 (Benjamin Reed/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 2.0)
6. If you're going to be bad, go all the way. The Edmonton Oilers own the second-longest playoff drought in the NHL, at six seasons – just one less than Toronto. Fortunately for the Oilers, they haven't just missed the playoffs; they've missed by a mile. With the departure of Luke Schenn, not one of the Leafs first-round picks in that span is a full-time player for them as of now (Nazem Kadri, with 21 games last season, comes closest). The Oilers have four, and that's not counting Magnus Paajarvi or Nail Yakupov.
7. WOWY analysis doesn't always mean what we think it does. WOWY – or with and without you – is a favoured method of various stat-heads to try and ferret out individual contributions. When players frequently spend time together, it can be difficult to identify statistically which player is driving the play. To compensate, one method of analysis is to compare how a player performed with and without a given linemate. So, to pick an Oilers example, let's look at Ryan Smyth's Corsi rating (Corsi is a plus/.minus measure of goals, shots, missed shots and blocked shots at even-strength and correlates closely to scoring chances) with and without Shawn Horcoff:
So, Smyth spent almost equal amounts of time with and without Horcoff, and the team seems to have done better when Smyth played with Horcoff. Additionally Horcoff's numbers without Smyth are just a whisker lower that with him (46.9 percent of Corsi events were positive). So, we might conclude that a) Horcoff was the player driving the line and b) playing with Horcoff was beneficial for Smyth. Those things may or may not be true, but it would be a mistake to conclude them. Here are Smyth's numbers with and without Devan Dubnyk:
Now, if we take that data and use it in the same way, we might conclude that Smyth should be a healthy scratch in games where Devan Dubnyk plays. That would be wrong, though; in reality all we're seeing here is timing – Smyth was hot early in the year (when Khabibulin played a lot) and cold late in the year (when Dubnyk played a lot). It looks superficially like Dubnyk made Smyth a worse player, but that's not what's going on.
The point here is just that there are other factors and when doing this sort of analysis it's important to be cognizant of them. It's still a useful tool, but it needs to be used carefully.
8. Other factors and 'Record with Player X in the lineup.' The previous point is also something to keep in mind on a more general level. For instance, take this quote from Sportsnet's community boards back in February:
I think someone mentioned it in the game thread, but our record with and without Barker is night and day. Is it just a coincidence, or does his first pass out help that much? We are 10-2-1 with him in the lineup and 11-23-3 without him. I know, we have to see him in more games, and there are other circumstances, but that is a huge difference in win %. Maybe he's our good luck charm.
The Oilers went 3-7-2 over the last 12 games Barker played.
All that was happening was that Cam Barker was in the lineup early in the season during Nikolai Khabibulin's hot streak, and injured right about the time the Oilers started losing. This is known as "correlation does not equal causation" or put another way "just because a guy's in the car doesn't mean he was driving."
9. Correlation ≠ Causation, Part II. Sometimes, wearing a given pair of socks, underwear or arrangement of facial hair coincides with a winning/losing streak. Additionally, sometimes betting on a victory coincides with a loss, or vice versa. Sometimes, shortly after speculating that a goalie will get a shutout, the other team scores a goal.
These are not related events. They are coincidences.
10. Remembering Igor Korolev. This past Friday was the one year anniversary of the plane crash that wiped out the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team. One of those killed was assistant coach Igor Korolev. I've been re-reading Dave King's excellent book King of Russia, and he sings Korolev's praises; one anecdote in the book was this one:
Psychologically, the pivotal moment in the game came during the second period with the score tied. Once again, we were killing what seemed to be an endless supply of penalties when Igor Korolev went down to block a shot. There was a collision, the other guy fell too, and Igor received a skate cut for twenty-three stitches. It was so bad that our doctor was practically throwing up. He told us, "Igor's out for the game for sure." I thought, Well, we'll see. So they took him to the dressing room, where Igor got mad at the doctor because he was taking all day to get the job done. He thought Igor was done for the night. Igor, meanwhile, barked, "Get me sewed up, I'm going back." The doctor said, "You can't go back. Igor said, "Get the stitches in because I am going back." So the doctor finally got off his butt, put the stitches in, and about three minutes into the third period, down the runway, here comes Igor Korolev with a great big patch over his eye, blood all over his sweater and his face. He was back.
Korolev left behind a wife and two daughters; he and his family became Canadian citizens in 2000. He was just one of the 44 people to die in that crash.
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I just hope all our fist overall picks play.in Edmonton some time this year.
"Then again, any list that puts the Phoenix Coyotes as he best franchise in the NHL and the Leafs as the worst is clearly not being written from an ownership perspective".
That article in ESPN was an absolute joke. As much as it was fun to see the Leafs ranked last, having Phoenix as the best franchise was a laugh. Absolutely no credibility in my humble opinion.
September 10 2012, 09:47PM
1.) It is sad that NHL is considered the best hockey league in the world, very sad.
2.) Lander will become one of the best 3rd line centres in the league once he hits his stride, maybe even 2nd.
3.) NHLPA should grow up and go play hockey. A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.
4.) What about Bob?
5.) If your team suck at sport and you think you're New York, you're Toronto.
6.) Kadri has a sexy cousin here in the city.
7.) Was WOWY created for the Horcoff arguements sake?
8.) Is Barker a dog with no bite?
9.) Chance or Reason?
10.) R.I.P God Bless.
September 10 2012, 08:52PM
The Edmonton Oilers own the second-longest playoff drought in the NHL, At the last lockout I thought this was the thing of the past but I didn't think the Oilers would be worst than before the lockout. Now we need a new area to compete with the rest of the NHL what's next?
How would the 2013 draft work if there was no season this year?
And now for something completely different.
WOWY analysis doesn't always mean what we think it does.
The other thing to consider is how a player is used. When player A plays with player B and player B always has tough assignments you'd expect player B to look bad on player A's WOWY. In your example you used corsi which is good at tracking where the puck is while the player is on the ice, it would be unfair to not take into account where the puck starts. Playing with Horcoff and his 44% zone starts is different than playing with RNH and his 63% zone starts. So someone might look great playing with RHN while looking worse playing with #10, but that might be more to do with their task than their chemistry.
September 10 2012, 11:35PM
Regardless of what that ESPN article suggests, when your play-by-play guy needs to use his catch phrase on a goal like that, you're the worst franchise in sports. Sacred blanket, indeed!
Korolev - probably one of the grittiest players to play the game. He was a beast on NHL 94 on Sega,IIRC. We're so full of ourselves when we say that players from country x aren't tough.
But the Coyotes are the best franchise in the NHL, I mean it's hard not to be when you're owned by the very same league you play in. Utter Brilliance. Also the fanaticism for the Maple Leafs still scares me sometimes:"remember when we won that cup 45 years ago?", no I wasn't born then, and chances are neither were you. "remember when Sittler had that 10 point night 5 years before I was born" No, but I do remember Gagner's 8 point night, even though that was all of 7 months ago.
It's like a religion or a cult: rational arguments hold no ground against faith. A small amount of Faith is nice, even necessary, when following a sports franchise. Unfortunately, most Leafs fans I know don't have a set benchmark for failure, always believing that they're headed in the right direction and will contend next year. I can tell you that if the Oilers aren't going deep (conference finals or SC finals)in the playoffs in 5 years I'll consider it a failure.
September 11 2012, 08:24AM
Any team opperating on a shoe string budget, with as many outside distractions as the Phoenix has and can STILL be a competitve team, with a long playoff run has to be in the running for best franchise in the league.
The current Coyotes success would have basically been the equivalent of a late 90's, early 2000's Oilers team if they were consistantly a strong team with with a few decent playoff runs.
I saw Justin Schultz last night at Roxette concert and bought him and his buddies a round. He is still quite slender but looks like he put on some weight. I would guess hes around 180-185. Pretty tall though.
I ws curious about his weight after reading earlier in the spring that he was 165 or something.
September 11 2012, 09:21AM
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the richest team in hockey owns both the longest championship drought and longest streak without a playoff appearance in the NHL.
This was essentially a 'fan friendliness' ranking scheme. Their lack of success plays a pretty small part in their poor showing.
The fact that they list the top 5 teams in the NHL as PHX, TBL, NJD, NAS, and STL gives this away pretty strongly.
ANTI-TRUST LAWS will seize to be intact once lockout is envolked and previous contract expired i believe. That's a huge hammer should Fehr follow up on top of other labour law discrepancies . Union calls in hundreds to show solidarity . Owners trying to play hardball with Fehr is liable to backfire radically this time , in stark contrast to last time .
As only way to skirt anti - trust laws is if union agrees to it in next contract , and thats iffy this time around . The playing field about to get levelled and real negotiations in good faith should begin . Don't see owners walking all over union this time around . Fehr a tough negotiator .
September 11 2012, 11:03AM
"Sometimes, wearing a given pair of socks, underwear or arrangement of facial hair coincides with a winning/losing streak. Additionally, sometimes betting on a victory coincides with a loss, or vice versa. Sometimes, shortly after speculating that a goalie will get a shutout, the other team scores a goal.
These are not related events. They are coincidences"
i hope you know your just taunting the hockey gods with that shutout comment
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2.) Lander will become one of the best 3rd line centres in the league once he hits his stride, maybe even 2nd.
Really .What is this based on.How weak his whole game was last year?
September 11 2012, 02:18PM
I would just like to strongly recommend that anyone interested in better understanding the CBA nightmare read Bob Mackenzie's recent blog post on the TSN site that JW mentions above. Like JW I don't agree with every detail of BM's assessment but I consider him the leading commentator on the NHL and this lengthy analysis is the best I have read on the subject. He essentially says both sides are to blame. Basically that the owners original offer was way over the top and that the NHLPA counter offer was essentially unresponsive. It is easily found and very well worth a read.


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A raft of articles offered contrasting views on analytic tools for assessing unilateral effects from differentiated products mergers. We revisit this debate to clarify the issues and place them in context. We consider the choice among analytic tools at three stages of a merger assessment - initial screening, ultimate decision, and courtroom presentation. In doing so, we explain how the proper analytic tool for a particular merger depends on the competitive process in which the merging firms are engaged and how the merger is apt to affect it. We also explain how the proper analytical tool for a particular merger depends on the information currently available. We address the Upward Pricing Pressure Index (UPPI), finding merit in the idea of a simple screen for differentiated products mergers, and suggesting a slightly simpler calculation. We conclude that either as a screen or as part of a full assessment of a merger, other tools are preferable to the UPPI.
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ORLANDO, FLA. -- The double-digit sales increases notched by the U.S. auto industry since 2009 will give way to slower but steady growth through 2015, J.D. Power and Associates predicts.
Sales should grow percent this year, to 15.1 million, followed by 4 percent gains in each of the next two years, according to a forecast presented at the J.D. Power International Automotive Roundtable at the National Automobile Dealers Association meeting in Orlando.
A recovery in the U.S. housing market, a slew of new products, pent-up demand and ample credit availability will drive growth, said John Humphrey, senior vice president of J.D. Power's global automotive operations.
Most promising, Humphrey said, is that the growth is happening the right way, with auto makers building to demand and dealers' profitability improving.
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Is it worth the risk of losing your car for a loan that charges 300 percent interest?That's what's at stake when you take out a car title loan, a lending tool in which an individual uses his car as collateral to borrow money. But despite the potential long-term risks, it's a less-known form of subprime lending.Subprime loans, such as adjustable rate mortgages and payday loans, have come under the scrutiny of lawmakers and financial watchdogs in recent years. Yet the auto title loan has flown under the radar, and consumers in 21 states have come to rely on them when they run out of conventional lending options, according to a report by consumer groups earlier this year.
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Is it worth the risk of losing your car for a loan that charges 300 percent interest?
That's what's at stake when you take out a car title loan, a lending tool in which an individual uses his car as collateral to borrow money. But despite the potential long-term risks, it's a less-known form of subprime lending.
Subprime loans, such as adjustable rate mortgages and payday loans, have come under the scrutiny of lawmakers and financial watchdogs in recent years. Yet the auto title loan has flown under the radar, and consumers in 21 states have come to rely on them when they run out of conventional lending options, according to a report by consumer groups earlier this year.
Consumer groups criticize auto title loans for exposing the borrower to triple-digit annual interest rates and balloon payments that come due within a month. Worse, your car is on the line.
"We consider these loans to be a triple threat for borrowers," says Ginna Green, spokeswoman for the Center for Responsible Lending in Durham, N.C.
Auto title loans are typically advertised as short-term loans for individuals who need money quickly but have been turned down for conventional loans. Still, borrowing this money can come at a steep cost. For some borrowers who put up their car as collateral, they're gambling their only remaining asset.
In addition, a person receiving a $1,000 loan might pay more than twice that in interest on a typical car title loan. And the loan amount is usually far less than what the car is worth. The median loan amount is $845, while the median car value in the loan is $3,150, says Tom Feltner, director of financial services for the Consumer Federation of America in Washington, D.C.
"We view extremely high-cost loans in and of themselves as harmful to consumers. You're paying a significant amount in interest that can't go toward other expenses like housing, food, medical care and other necessities," he says.
One of the fundamental problems with car title loans is they don't factor in the borrower's ability to repay the loan, Green says.
With most conventional loans, the lender considers the borrower's entire financial picture -- income, credit, debt -- to ensure the person can actually afford the payments. "Car title lenders don't do that," Green says. "They get a lot of folks trapped in debt, and to the point where they've got their family vehicle on the hook."
Borrowers who take out auto title loans don't always read the fine print, which can contain hidden fees and repossession stipulations, says Trenton Grand, attorney with Grand Law Firm, a Louisiana-based bankruptcy firm.
The lender might require that the customer provide a copy of the keys. Some even go so far as to put GPS tracking devices in the car that can locate and, in some cases, disable the vehicle if a payment is late, Grand says.
"Talk about putting someone in a bad predicament if (he or she) has a child or needs the vehicle for health reasons, and the vehicle is disabled," Grand says.
Green says a borrower who defaults on a car title loan might be subject to repossession fees of $350 to $400 in addition to paying back the outstanding balance on the loan.
The contract text can conceal other fees, such as credit insurance, life insurance or even insurance to cover when your car breaks down, Grand says.
The loan's terms increase the likelihood that the debtor won't be able to pay back the loan or, worse, will default and lose their vehicle.
Compared to other subprime lending forms, car title loans have maintained a relatively low profile because so much attention has been gone to their cousin, the payday loan, Green says. As a result, there hasn't been much legislation to regulate auto title loans.
"That doesn't mean this is an issue we shouldn't pay attention to," she says.
In February, the Center for Responsible Lending and the Consumer Federation of America issued a report on car title loans and their impact on consumers. Among the report's findings:
Fred Winchar is well aware of his industry's reputation as a source of predatory lending. Winchar is president of Illinois-based QuadW International and Max Cash Title Loans. He blames mom and pop lenders with questionable business practices for giving the industry a black eye early on.
"In any industry, there are bad eggs. And because they're so bad, they become the thing to look at instead of all the guys who are doing the good things," Winchar says.
When the auto title loan industry started about three decades ago, it was full of small businesses that sought to make money by repossessing people's cars, Winchar says. Since then, his and other larger companies have shifted their business practices away from the repo model and toward lower interest rates and amortized loans. Although unethical car title lenders still exist, Winchar says their numbers are shrinking.
"When you talk about the industry being predatory, I agree. At one point, it was really predatory. Now, it's competitive," he says.
Winchar says his industry fills a need for consumers who have tried to obtain a traditional loan only to be rejected.
Consumer advocates maintain that conventional loans are always going to be the ideal scenario. But if an individual is shut out of the conventional loan market, there are other options, Green says.
"I would recommend that folks do what we did 25, 30 years ago, before these products existed," Green says.
That means turning to personal lending sources. Consider asking your employer for a paycheck advance or talk to family or friends about a personal loan, Green says. Religious institutions and community groups might also be able to offer financial help. Although it's not something they publicize, these groups often maintain emergency funds for people in need.
Credit unions are another option. Many offer small-dollar loan products at interest rates that are more reasonable than what an auto title loan would offer.
If you are saddled with a car title loan, the best course of action is to pay it back as fast as you can to reduce interest payments, Green says. It also helps to learn whether loans are illegal or limited in your state. "If you got a triple-digit-rate loan but you live in a state with a rate cap, I would see an attorney because chances are that loan is not valid," she says.
Consumer advocates say it's best to avoid auto title loans.
"People feel that car title loans and payday loans are part of their financial-services options," Green says. "The problem is that they really shouldn't be. They're faulty products that are in the marketplace."
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John Castellani
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The Economist Pharma Summit 2013
February 28, 2013
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Thank you for that kind introduction.
I'm here to talk about the future. But first allow me to address some of the criticism of the biopharmaceutical research industry I've heard today.
This industry is men and women dedicated to improving the health of everyone.
Finding solutions for patients is what gets us up in the morning. It's why we've made extraordinary progress fighting disease. It's why patients rightly place their hopes in us.
Any dialog that helps us advance this cause is welcome.
But some of the criticisms voiced today offer no answers, nor does it help any patient get the medicines they need any faster or push innovative research forward.
Instead, they present a straw man – what some here in the U.K. might call an 'Aunt Sally' – putting industry on "trial" and impugning the work of hundreds of thousands of good men and women.
Make no mistake: we want critics asking hard questions about our industry.
We must continually examine and re-examine how we do business, conduct trials, evaluate new medicines and track how our medicines perform when they leave the laboratory and enter the real world. But, as we consider criticism, we (and our critics) ought to ask questions about the solutions proposed.
How will this impact patient safety and privacy?
How will this impact our ability to develop and deploy innovative new medicines?
Will this encourage companies to embrace risk and tackle significant new challenges or, instead, incentivize them to take smaller risks in more familiar fields?
Will this prolong an already protracted regulatory process and, if so, will the potential benefits outweigh the costs of delay to patients?
These are responsible questions. They are the ones that we must answer – as do our critics.
So, let me start a constructive conversation.
First: above all, we need a system that protects patients, their privacy and safety. Responsible data sharing is part of credible, regulated, strong biopharmaceutical R&D.
In fact, our industry is cooperating in initiatives like the CEO Roundtable on Cancer's Life Science Consortium's "Project Data Sphere" (led by PhRMA's former Chairman Chris Viehbacher).
Additionally, our companies already regularly receive and grant requests for clinical trial data for legitimate scientific purposes and our reporting of on-going clinical trials is the most extensive in the world.
Second: clinical trials and all R&D are an increasingly collaborative process – one that companies invest in to the benefit of patients. But needed future investment will only come if fair returns and the resulting intellectual property are protected.
Third: this industry relies on a rigorous, transparent, efficient regulatory process. It is our license to do business. We are committed to the highest scientific standards and fully understand that without them we forfeit needed patient trust.
Finally, a "Wiki-Regulatory" approach advocated by some critics may work as an academic exercise, but it is unlikely to benefit patients in the real world.
In the real world, over the last 15 years, more than a hundred innovative medicines have helped transform lives.
Take HIV/AIDS, once a death sentence, now, in the developed world, it is often a manageable chronic disease and death rates are down 80 percent.
Cardiovascular disease kills about 17 million people globally each year. But, in the U.S., associated death-rates fell by 28 percent between 1997 and 2007 – due in no small part to improved medicines.
We've also made significant gains against osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Hepatitis C., diabetes and rare diseases. That's real progress from innovative medicines and patients' access to those medicines.
These achievements, I note, were made with current research and clinical trial paradigms.
Clearly, something is working.
Sadly, some see this progress but still label the biopharmaceutical research industry as "bad." They are on the wrong side of history and owe patients more than indignation and rhetoric.
They owe them solutions.
Solutions that recognize that risk-taking and failure play a critical role in innovation.
To quoteThomas Edison: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
The reality of this industry is that most researchers will never see their work reach a patient, much less cure a disease. Still, they go to work every day and continue to search for new cures and treatments.
Our researchers don't just
They do.
So, let's talk about what they are doing and the future.
This industry is at a fork in the road – what I call the juncture of "Invest Now" or "Pay Later."
For patients, for innovative healthcare, for our economy, the clear choice is "invest now."
To spur continued needed investment, I believe there are four clear pillars that must exist.
- A business environment that inspires and rewards smart risk-taking and investment, while recognizing our industry's unique business model and time-lines;
- A vibrant, collaborative and modern scientific ecosystem that underpins great scientific and technological innovation;
- A modern, transparent regulatory system that evolves with the science to get safe medicines to patients quickly; and,
- An environment where innovative medicines are properly valued.
These pillars are interdependent.
Without them it is hard to see how we make future big advances on Alzheimer's, cancers, rare and chronic diseases. The cost of healthcare to patients and the economy will skyrocket.
Worse, patients' choices will be limited to the status quo of aging generic medicines.
That's not hope or a plan. It is an admission of failure and one I do not accept.
Instead, I side with progress and those who dare to risk, to innovate and to invent – those committed to finding solutions.
Today, an era where many healthcare policy choices are made through a narrow fiscal lens, leadership and vision are needed.
Our industry is leading.
In 2012, overall U.S. industry R&D reached about $280 billion. PhRMA member companies alone invested more than $50 billion – more R&D as a share of sales (20 percent) than any other industry.
In fact, a National Science Foundation report found that this industry accounts for the single largest share of all U.S. business R&D – nearly 20 percent of all domestic R&D funded by U.S. businesses.
Since 2000, PhRMA members alone have invested half-a-trillion dollars in new R&D.
This industry created more than four million U.S. jobs, while the overall annual impact of the sector on the domestic economy is $917 billion. Its contribution to the U.S. GDP is three-and-a-half times the average contribution of other sectors of the economy.
But to keep moving forward we must fully embrace the value of medicines, not just focus on cost.
For example, just look at the value of innovative diabetes treatments.
Uncontrolled diabetes can lead to many complications including amputations, kidney failure, heart attack and stroke. These complications are bad for patients and costly.
The average cost of amputation surgery is $40,000.
A single year of dialysis for kidney failure runs about $83,000.
But, a year's supply of medicines that can help control diabetes averages around $2,400.
More than the cost, however, I think it is unquestionably better for patients to treat and control their diabetes, than to amputate or endure endless dialysis.
And the evidence continues to mount that innovative medicines – and access to those medicines -- can help to limit costs.
For example, JAMA in 2011 published an important Harvard study on the implementation of the Medicare prescription drug benefit – known in the States as Part D.
The study showed a $1,200 per year decrease in non-drug medical spending among patients who previously had limited or no prescription drug coverage – an overall savings to Medicare of more than $13 billion.
Evidence of the value of medicines like this recently compelled the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to update its methodology for calculating the costs of Medicare policies. It now reflects the positive effect of prescription medicines on total medical costs.
CBO will for the first time account for the savings from medicines that reduce the need for other costly medical services, like hospitalizations, acute care and long-term care.
The new methodology incorporates a 0.2 percent decrease in spending on medical services for every one percent increase in the number of prescriptions.
While this may seem small, it represents a sea-change in government thinking. CBO has come around, in a small way, to realizing what all governments must face if we are to avoid pushing the cost of untreated, un-manageable disease down the road to a point outside of the political here and now.
No nation, no matter how wealthy, can provide innovative health care for its citizens unless it values wellness, prevention and disease management at least as much as it values acute care.
Similarly, no nation can afford to ignore the looming costs of chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension and Alzheimer's disease by dis-incentivizing the innovative therapies that can help reduce those costs.
If we are to foster the development of innovative medicines that will both make life better and also reduce overall costs, we must put a premium on the fruits of innovation. The benefits to payers, to economies and, most importantly, to patients more than justify the premium.
But governments must do more to help realize the full value of medicines.
They must promote investment along with regulatory, scientific and economic policies that foster risk-taking and innovation.
Policy must recognize that the risk-free world doesn't exist. Churchill recognized this when he observed that "a pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
I am an optimist.
I am also inspired by risk takers – like the researchers at biopharmaceutical research companies, academic, hospital and government laboratories seeking solutions for patients.
The treatments they're developing are pushing the technological and scientific envelope – and they do it because of patients who have run out of every option but hope.
Innovation and risk go together.
This moment, to me, appears to be one when industry, government, academia, patients and all stakeholders can forge the long-term policies needed to generate investment and build a sustainable innovation ecosystem – the four pillars I spoke of.
This effort will also help give markets certainty. Greater certainty fosters increased investment and unleashes additional creative and innovative firepower that benefits both patients and society.
Today, this industry invests in innovation in spite of great odds including: the high-cost of development; long development time-line; investor impatience; and the fact that the vast majority of R&D never results in a new medicine.
The more than 5,000 new medicines now in the global biopharmaceutical pipeline are the result.
Of these medicines in development, 70 percent are potentially the first-in-class, others are for diseases for which no new therapies have been approved in the last decade.
For example, there are 158 potential medicines for ovarian cancer, 19 for sickle cell disease and 41 for small cell lung cancer.
In just seven years, the number of new medicines in development has grown by 40 percent – thanks to R&D investment leavened with prudent risk-taking.
Think what we can accomplish in a more dynamic innovation ecosystem?
This is potentially a unique moment in history. We've made enormous progress in the fight against a host of diseases. We're investing in on-going and new R&D that promises even more progress. And, there's growing recognition – by CBO and policy makers – of the critical value and contribution that medicines make.
If we read the signs properly, make good policy choices and take a long-term versus expedient view of our healthcare challenges and costs, we'll have a fighting chance to meet and overcome future and growing healthcare needs.
In short, by paying now – and smartly – we may avoid having to pay later.
Thank you for listening to why I am optimistic about the future.
There's a faint glow on the horizon. Just as dawn brightens to morning, the proof of the value of innovative medicines grows ever clearer.
This is good news for everyone now working to find better treatments and even cures for the diseases we confront.
The enormous value of the work is being recognized and its contributions to improving health and limiting healthcare costs to the economy increasingly appreciated.
But it is even better news for patients. Their hopes for better health, better medicines and even a cure are not misplaced.
Somewhere in America, here in the United Kingdom, in Europe and elsewhere around the world, academic and government supported scientists along with biopharmaceutical research companies are likely working on a new and better ways to help them overcome their healthcare challenges.
But, it will take everyone here and beyond this room working together to ensure we see the full sunrise.
Thank you.


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Horn of Africa Drought Needs Long Term Solutions08/
The Horn of Africa is in the middle of its worst drought in more than 60 years following two seasons with no rains that have led to crop failures, widespread loss of livestock, and rising food prices in parts of Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti, Somalia and Uganda. The situation is now dire with over 11 million people requiring life-saving assistance throughout the region.As the humanitarian community works to save lives in the areas affected, the need for sustainable solutions to prevent a reoccurance of this situation in the medium and long-term is becoming increasingly apparent. "The first and most pressing challenge is to provide food, water and other essentials to the people affected," said Nick Nuttall, spokesperson for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). "But addressing some of the root causes must also be part of the eventual solution," he added.Myriad factors have contributed to this crisis, with climate change challenges being among them. The region is clearly experiencing at first hand the human consequences of climate change and understanding the link between climate change and development is particularly crucial in Africa, where agriculture and other climate-sensitive sectors are the mainstay of local economies. This is not the first time that drought has ravished the region. However, prior to the 1970s, extreme climate conditions, such as El Nino, occurred every 10-20 years, which enabled local communities to find coping measures to deal with the impact. But climate change is now eroding these coping measures by causing climatic extremes with greater frequency and intensity. Since 2001, consecutive dry spells in some areas of Africa have led to serious food shortages in many countries.Investing in the restoration and maintenance of the Earth's ecosystems - from forests and mangroves to wetlands and river basins - can have a key role in countering climate change as well as climate-proofing vulnerable economies. According to a joint study in 2006 by UNEP and the World Agroforestry Centre on climate change and the impacts and adaptation strategies on agriculture in southern Africa, a number of adaptation measures were cited to tackle the extreme weather events like droughts and floods that come with climate change. Rainwater harvesting, improved crop varieties and climate forecasts as well as forestation were just some cost-effective measures. The availability of drinking water is of crucial importance in these vulnerable communities. UNEP has been at the forefront of supporting the restoration of Kenya's Mau forest, which is one of Sub-Saharan Africa's largest closed canopy forest and the source of the Yala and Nyando rivers which feed Lake Victoria, provide drinking water and support 5,000 hectares of rice production important for local food security. Decades of deforestation of this single most important water catchment in the Rift Valley and western Kenya have had devastating effects on the country, including severe droughts and floods which in turn have led to loss of human lives and livelihoods, crops and livestock. Major steps have now been taken to rehabilitate the Mau and in February a multi-million Euro project to assist in the restoration of the complex was announced by the European Union, UNEP and the Government of Kenya. In Ethiopia, UNEP is partnering with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to help introduce new policies that will assist pastoralists in managing climate change risks and shocks in six districts. The CC DARE programme, jointly implemented by UNEP and UNDP, is providing timely-targeted support to nine nationally driven projects, with most of them linked to the agricultural sector and thereby addressing food security, in an effort to speed up the integration of climate risk consideration into policy and national planning to curb vulnerability to climate impacts.In the Horn of Africa, UNEP has collaborated with UNICEF in water resource management that includes assessments of groundwater resources and formation of water councils to help improved drought resilience and water security. Sharing the lessons learned and gained from such projects will no doubt find an audience among the many people currently impacted by the drought."These illustrative projects underline that some communities are trying to build resilience and reduce vulnerability in the face of accelerating environmental change including climate change," said Mr. Nuttall."Scaling these up and accelerating their implementation more widely could prove to be among the keys to a more sustainable and stable future for millions of people in the region," he added.


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Lawmakers in Ireland Vote to Allow 'Moderate' Drunk-Driving
Local police in Ireland's Kerry county will be allowed to permit some residents to drive drunk if a measure passed yesterday by county councilors is approved by the Department of Justice.
By a vote of five to three with 12 councilors absent, lawmakers in the south-west Ireland county passed a motion giving the Gardaí (police) authority to issue a get out of jail free card to drivers in rural areas who are found to have more than the legal limit of alcohol in their system.
The motion's author, Councillor Danny Healy-Rae, said he proposed the motion out of concern for "older" rural residents who "are being isolated now at home, and a lot of them falling into depression."
Healy-Rae said the lack of public transportation in these areas is preventing these people from venturing out of their homes after having "two or three drinks" for fear of losing their licence.
"I see the merit in having a stricter rule of law for when there's a massive volume of traffic and where there's busy roads with massive speed," he told The Journal. "But on the roads I'm talking about, you couldn't do any more than 20 or 30 miles per hour [30-50kph] and it's not a big deal. I don't see any big issue with it."
Healy-Rae added that many older folks are being driven to suicide by their isolation, and "all the wisdom and all the wit and all the culture that they had" is being lost as a result.
Others, including Kerry Mayor Terry O'Brien, opposed the motion, saying it "doesn't make any sense" and is "incredibly dangerous." He added: "I don't know what expertise one would have to look at someone in a bar to give them a permit to drive a car after any alcohol."
Alcohol Action Ireland rep Conor Cullen agrees. "Almost one in three crash deaths in Ireland is alcohol-related," he told the BBC. "Even in small amounts, alcohol impairs driving ability - any amount of alcohol increases the risk of involvement in a fatal crash."
Cullen noted that anti-drunk-driving measures have lowered road deaths by 42% over the last four years. He also noted that alcohol is likely to exacerbate the "mental health difficulties" of a person with suicidal tendencies, not alleviate them.


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Billy Hunter, on indefinite leave of absence as the National Basketball Players Association's executive director, defended his actions in a report released Friday morning as All-Star Weekend began in Houston, saying he did not steal or embezzle funds and does not deserve to lose his job.
In response to the unflattering independent report conducted by the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Hunter released a rebuttal.
In a statement, one of Hunter's attorneys, Michael Carlinsky, said, "The evidence does not show that Mr. Hunter embezzled, or stole money from the NBPA. The Report also does not cite to a single NBPA policy or rule that Mr. Hunter allegedly violated. The Report can best be characterized as one law firm's judgment by hindsight with which we respectfully disagree."
The U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan is also investigating the NBPA, and its investigation remains ongoing.
Hunter, executive director since 1996, is in a battle to save his $3 million a year job. The Paul, Weiss report slammed Hunter's hiring practices, which included charges of nepotism. Potentially more damning was the report's claim that Hunter didn't have his contract extension properly approved and when notified that it wasn't approved properly, Hunter took no action.
According to Hunter's attorneys, he will not speak to players this weekend, and it remains unclear if players will act on Hunter's future.
"We told the so-called Interim Committee this morning that we would not be coming to Houston after they made clear over the past two weeks that we would not be welcome, the lawyers said in a statement to the union. "If the IEC have changed course, it is only because we accepted their "no". We continue to believe that the IEC's suspension of Mr. Hunter and any adverse action that might be taken this weekend without Mr. Hunter is unfair and invalid."
Carlinsky added: "We have been asking for two weeks if we can come. The message from the interim executive committee was you are not coming. On every call I have raised this issue of attending with their lawyers and they have said consistently you can continue assuming you are not coming. How convenient it is for the lawyers now to be suggesting they have not definitely told us one way or other, where for two weeks we've been asking. This is just convenience on their side because we understood their message to be you can't come."
On the offensive: Hunter says he will fight for job
Hunter's rebuttal includes a 21-page response to the Paul, Weiss report, a three-page executive summary, supplemental exhibits and Power Point presentation titled "NBPA Mid-Winter Meeting 2013."
Among the findings in the report Hunter's attorneys released Friday:
• Hunter's contract, signed in 2010 by Hunter and Derek Fisher, is valid and enforceable and that it did not require 2/3 of NBPA player representatives and executive committee members to ratify. The Hunter report states that if it did indeed require ratification, it was Fisher's responsibility to make sure that happened.
• Hunter's hiring decisions, particularly of family members and close friends, "were legal and in compliance with the union's constitution and by-laws."
• Hunter defended the union's business decisions, including the NBPA's relationship with investment firm Prim Capital, which employs his son Todd.
Hunter's report did not go into detail about that relationship, and the report simply cited the Paul, Weiss report, which said, "the Report does not find fault with a single investment made by the Union."
Paul, Weiss released a statement Thursday saying it would not release information it had found regarding "purported agreement between the NBPA and Prim Capital" because "we are convinced that disclosing additional findings from our continued investigation now could jeopardize the integrity of the government's criminal investigation, and would be contrary to the NBPA's public pledge to cooperate fully with the government's criminal investigation."
• Under Hunter's leadership, the union "has met and overcome each and every obstacle. Members' salaries, benefits and pension plans have greatly improved. NBPA members' standing and visibility as athletes and humanitarians has markedly increased around the world. The financial and medical status of recently retired members has likewise greatly improved. And the Union has been moved from millions in debt to more than $80 million in net assets while dealing with two recessions and two lockouts. …
"As always, Mr. Hunter is looking forward to continuing to work with the Executive Committee and Board of Player Representatives to provide leadership on behalf of the Union's membership. Mr. Hunter looks forward to working on behalf of each and every one of the Union's members to continue achieving the NBPA's objectives."
It is clear Hunter will fight to remain executive director. His contract runs through June 30, 2015 with Hunter's option to remain through June 30, 2016 and the executive committee's option to keep him through July 1, 2017.
The contract Hunter signed details the terms of his termination, if necessary, including "for cause" termination and "without cause" termination.
If players want to fire Hunter, they need a majority vote from the executive committee. If they fire him for cause, they need to prove "embezzlement, theft, larceny, material fraud or other acts of dishonesty," according to Hunter's contract. If they fire him for cause, the union must pay Hunter for the remainder of the year and for any accrued or unused vacation.
If they fire him without cause, they will have to pay Hunter the full remainder of his contract. It's unlikely the players would choose to go that route.
Toledo lawyer professor and sports law expert Geoffrey Rapp said the union would likely look at the "acts of dishonesty" phrase because no one has found Hunter committed embezzlement, theft or larceny.
"The real question is 'Did his failures to disclose rise to the level that we consider other acts of dishonesty?" Rapp said.
Corey Worcester, one of Hunter's attorneys, said Hunter did not commit "acts of dishonesty." Hunter's contract states that any dispute over a decision to discharge Hunter "shall be resolved exclusively through arbitration in accordance with the American Arbitration procedures for Labor Arbitration."
However, Worcester, told USA TODAY Sports that if the union fired Hunter for cause, "There are a lot of options being considered. That's all I can say."


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The City of Green River, Utah is seeking bids for a contractor to do
grounds maintenance for the O.K. Anderson Park, Little League Ball
Field, and Ball Fields located on Pirate Avenue, grounds at the city
office and at the JWP Museum.
Some of the duties are as follows:
Mow all grass once per week between April and October
Remove weeds as needed
Edge along flowerbeds and fences
Keep infields of the ball diamonds properly groomed/seed free
Drag infields prior to Little League and Babe Ruth games
Clean restrooms at ballparks after each game
Clean city park restrooms
Conduct regular policing of grounds and pick up trash as needed
Remove leaves after they fall in the autumn
Inform city of any equipment in need of repair
Other duties as described in the contract
The contractor is expected to supply his or her own equipment and
supplies. The City will supply restroom supplies such as toilet paper
for the restrooms. The contractor will be responsible for replacement
cost of sprinkler heads, valves, electrical boxes, etc. that are
damaged as a result of mowing operations. This contract will be
renewable annually.
Proposals will be received at the office of the City Recorder, 460
East Main Street, P.O. Box 620, Green River, Utah 84525 no later than
4:00 p.m. Tuesday, July 12, 2011. Sealed envelopes must be marked
The City of Green River reserves the right to accept or reject all
Conae Black. City Recorder
Green River City Hall
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By EUGENE SWALBERGguest writer
The Green River Lady Pirates basketball team began the season at the 1A girls basketball preview at the Sevier Valley Center in Richfield. The team played the Rich Rebels on Friday, Nov. 21 and the Bryce Valley Mustangs the 22nd. Though there was much to be said for the games, the ending score is something better left forgotten. The girls played hard and have an idea of some of the skills they need to concentrate on for future games. Playing at the SVC center is a great opportunity for the girls as this is where the State tournament is held and they plan on spending some considerable time on the court come spring time.
On Nov. 25 the Lady Pirates traveled to that school down south to play the Lady Red Devils. Now this was a game. There was tough, physical play on both sides of the court and some great basketball being played by both teams. Green River showed patience on offense and some nice stops on defense. The girls hustled and showed heart on the court. This was rewarded by a score of 41 to 40 at the end of 3 quarters - Red Devils up by one. Then something happened and at the final buzzer, the score was 69 to 45 - favoring the Lady Red Devils.
The Grand High gym was fairly crowded at this yearly endowment game and the excitement entering the game by the fans and Lady Pirates could be felt but the final score kinda stung. Coaches and players will review the game and see just went wrong and make appropriate adjustments and then have the team head back out to the hard wood and play another game. It's what its about this time of year. You gotta love it baby!!!
The Lady Pirates beat the Lady Tigers 51-23 on Tuesday. Brandi Webster scores 20 and Lindsey Spadafora hits 12 to lead the Pirates to their first win. also scoring for the Lady Pirates was Cady Mecham - 6, Courtney Carter - 4, Tracy Engleman - 4, Crosby Hatt - 2, Bailie Packer - 2, and Sarah Swalberg - 1. Monica Weaver of Tabiona led the tigers with 9. Green River Lady Pirates Team Roster #3 Sarah Swalberg, #5 Bailie Packer, #11 Brittney Bastian, #14 Diana Flores, #15 Brandi Webster, #21 Jill Vetere, #23 Bianca Trejo, #31 Cady Mecham, #34 Megan Hatt, #35 Courtney Carter, #41 Crosby Hatt and #45 Melissa Antillon.


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By HARRIET BISHOP
Well, here we go. It's another new year. I don't know about you people, but I have spent the required time (what ever that might be) reflecting on the past year 2003. I haven't made any New Year's resolutions because I never keep them. So making them seems futile to me and just makes me feel negative about myself when I don't keep them. Thus, I don't make them.
In all my reflections about this past year, I surprised myself. I found that I was grateful for it. Not just the good times. There were many. The hard times too. All the trials. I learned from them. I hope I don't have to repeat them. I try to learn from each one of them something so they don't feel so futile. I've counted my blessings and cannot remember the bad things that happened. I'm happy my memory is slipping a little. I am old enough to only want to remember the good things and let the negative ones slip away. I wish no revenge. Just glad I lived through them and am still here.
When all is said and done, I realize that the bottom line is that I am grateful I am still alive, that I have shelter from the storm, that I have heat in my house from this bone chilling snow and cold. I am happy my needs are met. That I have a God that I can worship if I choose to and the rest is just fringe and dressing.
So as this year 2004 begins, this is my world. Until next time remember "Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today."


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Five Inspiring Acts From EM15/MUTEK, Featuring Audion, Fluxion, and More
Montreal's MUTEK Festival (which partnered with the Elektra festival for this year's EM15 presentation) is nothing if not inspiring. Whether through its scores of experimental A/Visions performances, its workshops with cutting-edge music-gear and software manufacturers, its star-packed panels and lectures, or its late-night gigs from dance music's most respected names, there is much to get jazzed about. On our trip there last week, we caught a slew of performances, and, as is always the case, some really rose to the top. Here's what inspired us the most.


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The idea seems simple, Saving man & mans best friend and the execution is so much more heartfelt than you could imagine. Get the Pit Bulls & Parolees Villalobos Logo T-Shirt and show that you cant get enough of the Animal Planet show and the mission of the Villalobos Rescue Center (VRC). The soft white tee features the VRCs logo: a fleur-de-lys that entwines a handprint and a paw print. A portion of the proceeds from these pit bull shirts directly supports the VRC and the pits you love.
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