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Re: Encouraging Accuracy?rankismet Sep 28, 2013 7:33 AM (in response to WKMMS)
While I get your perspective to a point... I don't agree with it.
If you remove scoring a kill with hits to extremities then you must also change the affect those shots have. People should limp... be unablle to raise a weapon... and what about the health fairy?
Perhaps the game needs to emphasize not being shot.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?trialstardragon Oct 4, 2013 3:16 AM (in response to rankismet)
I think that if you get hit in the arms or legs is should be proportional to the number of hits on the effects. 1 hit decreases accuracy/run speed by 25%. 2 hits decreases it by 50%. 3 hits and you cant use a two handed weapon or sprint anymore. No health regen either. so no running to hide and wait until its back to normal.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?rankismet Oct 4, 2013 8:30 AM (in response to trialstardragon)
trialstardragon wrote:
I think that if you get hit in the arms or legs is should be proportional to the number of hits on the effects. 1 hit decreases accuracy/run speed by 25%. 2 hits decreases it by 50%. 3 hits and you cant use a two handed weapon or sprint anymore. No health regen either. so no running to hide and wait until its back to normal.
IMO, the health fairy is the cause of a lot of issues.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?trialstardragon Oct 4, 2013 2:06 PM (in response to rankismet)
Yes it is. You fire 3 rounds aimed at a target at a range it takes 4. they live dodge go hide regen and come back to spray you down not aiming at all.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?Run_N_Gunning_Camper Oct 4, 2013 3:14 PM (in response to trialstardragon)
It would be nice if they get shot by a sniper on the arms or legs, the victim will drop to the ground in Last Stand position, lose his weapon, be defenseless and he have to crawl a minimum of two meters to get his weapon back. He will be on this position for ten seconds before regeneration triggers.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?trialstardragon Oct 4, 2013 3:32 PM (in response to Run_N_Gunning_Camper)
Eh if they ever added that the QS and other players would cry too much about unfair deaths and how the game was too hard and not fun anymore and demand it be removed and put back to how CoD was in past games.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?Izjar11 Sep 28, 2013 8:26 AM (in response to WKMMS)
Spraying people in the legs and getting a kill. We all do it and it happens to us all too. Yes, this is a video game and there's a certain amount of suspension of disbelief that should be applied, but I've always found this to be a bit silly. In order to kill someone shouldn't we at least be required to hit them from the waist up?
what your asking for is more realism and that is not what COD should be.
CoD has always been a straightforward and simple shooter, but isn't it about time that there was a bit more emphasis placed on being precise and accurate? What are your thoughts?
BO2 had its emphasizes on accuracy (the huge aim assist) was to help with aiming for a reason. I do not think more realism is the answer to COD or how to make it better.
Not a bad post but I would not suggest it.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?brsox Sep 28, 2013 10:30 AM (in response to WKMMS)
I think the damage is fine, but I wish they would make aiming worth something. I constantly get killed by wild sprays in BO2. It's ridiculous. Most of the time I feel like I would be better off hip spraying over aiming. That is probably the most frustrating thing for me. I HATE when I ADS and shoot someone (on target) but I die... then watching the killcam I see a wild uncontrolled hipspray. Hate it. Makes no sense at all.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?rlbl Sep 29, 2013 5:46 AM (in response to brsox)
it makes perfect sense to me:
If I drop a gun on the ground and it fires, and the stray bullet ricochets off of two walls, and then off a steal drum to find its resting place in the back of someone's head who was aiming at me... I expect they will die.
I am being facetious... but it can happen nonetheless
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?Old__Tymer Sep 28, 2013 6:14 PM (in response to WKMMS)
Maybe they should just lower the damage a little more for limb shots.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?iivrruummii Sep 28, 2013 7:03 PM (in response to Old__Tymer)
I think the game works great the way it does now. I don't really want to hear more people complaining about 5+ hitmarkers and not getting kills.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?WKMMS Sep 30, 2013 10:03 AM (in response to iivrruummii)
They'll complain about that anyway
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?ghamorra Sep 28, 2013 11:14 PM (in response to WKMMS)
Depending on the weapon, a sniper can cleanly blow of body parts. I don't expect much fight out of that person, assuming they're still conscious after the shock of be torn apart.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?Hobeinator Sep 29, 2013 3:36 PM (in response to WKMMS)
I don't think requiring a waist up shot for a kill is the way to go, but I wouldn't be against lowering the damage value on extremity hits. That would put more emphasis on accuracy.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?WKMMS Sep 30, 2013 5:27 AM (in response to Hobeinator)
Yeah... I think you and Old_Tymer have made a better suggestion than I did. Certainly that would give the upper hand to the guy consistently hitting centre-mass
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?Adam1234567893 Sep 29, 2013 4:25 PM (in response to WKMMS)
Lol seriously this post was just funny they haven't encouraged accuracy since MW2 that was the last accuracy based Call of Duty games after that game either had to much aim assist or to many 3D animations errors or they had broken camera angles as well. You say encouraging accuracy I say what accuracy? If they only use sticky aim that would even encourage sticky aim. And if you are an anti-quickscoper I haven't seen a quickscoper post in awhile so there is no need to keep bashing them. Games after MW2 have been spray and pray games more then accuracy based games.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?WKMMS Sep 30, 2013 9:53 AM (in response to Adam1234567893)
That's exactly my point, there isn't a whole lot of focus on needing to be accurate when you can fire an SMG at 1200rpm into someone's leg and they'll die in a split second. Don't get me wrong, I've no problem with how the game plays, just had a notion in my head and wanted to see what the community at large felt. Not sure why you think I'm bashing quickscoping though - check out some of my posts in the many QS threads and you'll see nothing could be further from the truth
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?Adam1234567893 Sep 30, 2013 10:03 AM (in response to WKMMS)
Nah I was just saying the anti-quickscopers haven't given it a rest yet they just keep going I bet if they ended quickscoping they would target another play style until that got removed lol. As for accuracy I miss MW2 because every gun had a chest shot damage multiplier rather then just a head shot one it encouraged people to aim for the chest. Now it's only the snipers that have chest damage multipliers you don't even have to aim let alone flank with a shotgun anymore because how easy they have become. No gun is accuracy dependent let alone encouraging accuracy so it's become a huge problem.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?WKMMS Sep 30, 2013 10:11 AM (in response to Adam1234567893)
I would have said the Ballista iron-sights is massively accuracy dependent, along with the Ballistic Knife, but how rare are they to see.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?SRPhoenix Sep 30, 2013 8:08 AM (in response to WKMMS)
I posted a previous post "Realism" along the same line of reasoning. A head shot (excepting range and/or weapon type - e.g. long range pistol) should be one shot kill; limb shots should slow/deter movement; while torso shots should result in slowing and result in gradual "bleed out". I got pretty much the same type of response. Most people appear to be happy with a run-and-gun arcade game.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?WKMMS Sep 30, 2013 10:01 AM (in response to SRPhoenix)
I'm more than happy with the run n gun style and not looking to make the game super-realistic - there are other games out there that fit that bill more closely and, though I enjoy playing those games too, it's the fast, simple fun of CoD that keeps me coming back for more. Just thought there might be a way to reward and encourage players to develop their accuracy
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?Adam1234567893 Sep 30, 2013 10:05 AM (in response to WKMMS)
Running n Gunning hasn't existed since Black Ops 1 with the removal of infinite sprint being removed in MW3 it's all rushing now. If you meant running and gunning literally well that has never been in Call of Duty cause you can't shoot while sprinting lol.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?WKMMS Sep 30, 2013 10:12 AM (in response to Adam1234567893)
we're just talking symantics, run-n-gun, rushing.... it's the same meaning - kind of like hardscoping and proper sniping
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?T-boss Sep 30, 2013 9:39 AM (in response to WKMMS)
none chest/head shots should do less damadge then normal shots.
if htere is a sniper that OHK's from the theigh up, then there is a issue, and it sounds like a preview to MW3/MW2 quickscoping issues. recent news has not been good for htis game.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?surridge1990 Sep 30, 2013 10:12 AM (in response to WKMMS)
Best way to encourage accuracy over spraying is to make the hip fire spread larger. currently you can hipfire just as accurately as you can ADS, in fact in some cases more accurately because the recoil is less noticable when hipfirng.
Just add a larger area that hipfired bullets can spread to, therefore less bullets will hit the target.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?mickilla Oct 1, 2013 3:53 PM (in response to WKMMS)
Perhaps the more effective way to encourage more deliberate player input would be to make the weapons behave with real consequences. As things stand now, most weapons have such low recoil that you may as well just hold down that trigger and let loose fully automatic fire for as long as you feel like, regardless of range to target. Hipfiring in close combat is just as mindless, probably even more so.
For sighted fire, my suggestion is to use a variable recoil system. As you fire rounds in succession, each one will have more recoil than the one before. The first few consecutive rounds will be extraordinarily precise, but then afterward the recoil will start to add up in a hurry. The exact values will probably have to be adjusted per weapon type.
For hipfire, there isn't much that can be done. The only possible solution is just to make these spastic close range spray-fests less of the norm. The problem isn't the size of the maps, rather just how cluttered they are. Every time you turn a corner, there's a close-range encounter waiting for you. That, in a nutshell, is the problem.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?SRPhoenix Oct 2, 2013 10:01 AM (in response to mickilla)
The problem isn't the clutter, in fact the clutter can be used effectively for cover, allowing you to move through the map more stealthily. The problem is that the game is not zonal. If the maps were broken up along enemy lines, and advancement into enemy territory were more strategic and team oriented then the random blind corners would be negated.
I know I am likely to get flamed, because it's going to be said that that is not the way the game was designed or intended, and a new spawn scenario would be required. But, I have never understood why the game has a team death match with no impetus to play as a team. Run-and-gun types can always play FFA. The way it is now most people play team death match using their teammates as cover (and I am as guilty as the next).
I am just saying, add a team mode that can be played as such.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?mickilla Oct 3, 2013 9:42 PM (in response to SRPhoenix)
The larger point to make is that nearly all combat occurs at short range, even on the large maps. Open space often is completely avoided, so regardless to how big the map is everyone just huddles together in yet one more close range spray-fest. And I stand by what I said about clutter rather than cover. Most map objects exist to completely conceal the enemy, rather than give them a strong position from which to fire their weapon. That's the reason we simply don't get any ranged combat, and why marksmanship is a skill that has been completely lost on the COD franchise.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?SRPhoenix Oct 4, 2013 8:59 AM (in response to mickilla)
I was just assuming "clutter" was being used idiomatically. But you are right about the way they lay it out in this game. If the maps had high vantage sight lines over "open" areas containing strategic cover, then long range players (campers) could use sniper or suppressing LMG fire to provide cover for the mobile players (run-and-gunners). This would require better map design (allowing for defensible positions) and "protected" or selectable (but not strategically offensive) spawn sites. One idea would to have "out of bounds" spawn sites behind certain areas that allow players a certain amount of limited time to enter the map.
[I wrote the above before I saw the trailer for squads. From what I see, I am hoping the squad mode play will promote a more strategic type of game play.]
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?mickilla Oct 4, 2013 1:08 PM (in response to SRPhoenix)
It tends to be the case that there are a few nice vantage points in each map, but they aren't defensible. And what's worse, they're easily flanked. Even more troublesome, the enemy could just respawn behind your position at any time. Add all that up, and its suicidal to play defensively.
The irony is that camping is often said to be a major problem. This happens because defensive players can't use vantage points, so their only practical option is to back into a corner and just guard themselves. A major device that each map should have is a pair of defensible vantage points that face one-another. Let defensive players try to outgun the enemy team's defensive players. Suddenly the aggressive flankers have a purpose in getting to the opposing side's position to tip the fight to their team's favor.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?SRPhoenix Oct 4, 2013 1:42 PM (in response to mickilla)
It seems we are pretty much in agreement on the subject.
It really hoses me off to weed my way to a nice vantage point, lay claymore and a couple of shock grenades, only to have somebody charge through a door or window and mow me down before I can even get off a shot.
As to the camper thing - I usually have to turn off chat, because every time I stop for a couple of seconds, get the lay of the land, and get a kill or two I get called a "bleeping" camper. Seeking cover and trying to get kills without getting killed is common sense. But as the game does no really penalize you for deaths (which I think it should), you are going to have a preponderance of players going 25 and 20 (or so). It makes more sense personally to me to go 15 and 3, get 5 to 10 assists, and take down a few aircraft - and have fun doing it.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?trialstardragon Oct 4, 2013 3:13 AM (in response to WKMMS)
Yes but if they tried that the casual gamer would have it too hard, would not like the game and not buy the next one because of it. All that would be left would be diehard fans that stayed.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?WKMMS Oct 4, 2013 8:53 AM (in response to trialstardragon)
Possibly, but I'm not entirely sure. I think a lot of the kiddies would stay. They tend to stick around even when they're going 3-20. I think they're just happy to be in the game at all - they certainly don't seem to be too bothered about winning or getting a decent score
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?trialstardragon Oct 4, 2013 2:05 PM (in response to WKMMS)
Some would stay yes, but those that no longer found it fun because it was not easy anymore would not.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?WKMMS Oct 12, 2013 4:22 AM (in response to trialstardragon)
so long as they're pitted against similarly skilled players I think they would just adapt. So long as CoD is still the "cool" game to play. We could see a return of some players also if there was a greater learning curve and skill-gap
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?OPStealthRecon Oct 13, 2013 7:58 AM (in response to WKMMS)
I know I hate it when I get hit markers. if you hit someone with a bullet they shouldn't be able to move back into cover and wait for you with a shotgun. a hit marker should indicate that you have a kill not that an enemy is eating bullets. I feel like they should either make the bullet damage higher (which is what I recommend) or make it so that their is less cover to move to after you are hit. and seriously I am tired of getting shotgunned or quickscoped after I shoot an enemy in the face.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?WKMMS Oct 13, 2013 9:35 AM (in response to OPStealthRecon)
Have you thought about playing some hardcore? You'd never have to worry about shotgunners or snipers taking you out in one shot if you're putting bullets on target. All the guns almost instantly at most ranges so its a much more level playing field weapon wise.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?OPStealthRecon Oct 13, 2013 10:25 AM (in response to WKMMS)
ya I just wish it were like that in all game modes.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?Run_N_Gunning_Camper Oct 13, 2013 9:38 PM (in response to OPStealthRecon)
The problem here is you can't hold your aim long enough to get the kill. Core isn't just about who fired the first shot. It's about who can hold his aim more accurately to get the kill. You can fire first, get a hitmarker, lose your aim and get killed. I killed so many players even though they fired first. I'm a hard target. I strafe, I jump, I dropshot, and I'm pretty accurate. If your accuracy isn't so good, rest assured I will take you down even if you managed to fire first.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?trialstardragon Oct 14, 2013 1:04 AM (in response to Run_N_Gunning_Camper)
Yep, fire first kill first, is not how core was ever meant to play.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?Run_N_Gunning_Camper Oct 14, 2013 5:41 AM (in response to trialstardragon)
A lot of complaints on BO2 says they fired first yet they died first. I suspect they can't hold their aim and their target strafed out of their line of fire. They get owned and they take to the forums and complain the game is broken.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?rankismet Oct 14, 2013 7:27 AM (in response to trialstardragon)
trialstardragon wrote:
Yep, fire first kill first, is not how core was ever meant to play.
Yes, It was designed for corner jumping, bunny hopping, drop shotting health fairy shenanigans.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?trialstardragon Oct 14, 2013 3:49 PM (in response to rankismet)
No, it was designed for people who used tactics to move about and cause the attacker to loose aim and thus not do enough damage for the kill because they could not keep their target in their sights.
Aim first, fire first, kill first was never how Cod was meant until HC came about where guns killed in as little as 1-2 rounds. And that is the difference between core and hc. HC takes a greater level of accuracy and ability to remain on target than hc. Which is why most hc diehards cannot play core and do well and then cry it is broke. When really it is them that is broke because they lack decent aiming skills to follow the target as it moves.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?curse_terror Oct 16, 2013 12:37 AM (in response to trialstardragon)
first off all hc exists since call of duty 2 or even 1 so it was always there so its not correct to say since it came ... i wanted to correct this misconception... and then HC is a far more realist game mod than Core ever was or will be so please stop ******** about ppl crying they are not all crying i own both hc and core you just have to adapt to the gamemode.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?trialstardragon Oct 16, 2013 2:36 PM (in response to curse_terror)
It was not always in the game. It was an added in feature in one of the earlier games. So yes it is right to say since it was added.
HC is not more realistic at all. For people can survive multiple gun shot wounds and live in real life. Getting shot in the foot with one round and dieing is not more realistic.
Soldiers in real life have been shot several times in arms or legs and lived to be healed and then sent back to battle.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?dieStrafe Oct 15, 2013 11:37 PM (in response to WKMMS)
I do believe aim assist has been removed all together as well as crosshairs for the sniper rifle class. This does add significant emphasis on aiming for those who will be sniping. Hopefully they've also considered spray patterns and movement, like how the jump shot in BOII has ridiculous effect on the weapons pattern, and taken into consideration each weapons unique spray.
Re: Encouraging Accuracy?frequentbanger2 Oct 17, 2013 9:34 PM (in response to WKMMS)
totally agree with you


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Baugher's Career Day Leads Valpo Past Cougars
Saturday, January 18, 2003Meredith Baugher (Berea, Ohio/Berea H.S.) recorded her first career double-double as Valparaiso moved back over .500 with a 66-50 Mid-Continent Conference victory over Chicago State on Saturday afternoon at the Athletics-Recreation Center.
Baugher tallied career bests in scoring and rebounding as Valpo moved to 8-7 overall and 1-1 in the Mid-Con.
The sophomore forward scored 11 of her 18 points in the second half and grabbed 12 rebounds in the contest for the Brown and Gold.
Valpo jumped out to a 21-11 lead with 7:32 to play in the first half after a Kathryn Knoester (Grand Rapids, Mich./Christian H.S.) three-pointer. The Cougars responded with a 7-0 run to cut the lead to three, but that would be as close as Chicago State got the rest of the way.
Knoester scored ten first half points as the Crusaders led 33-23 at intermission.
The Brown and Gold came out the second half and built the lead to 14, 37-23, after a pair of Jenna Stangler (St. Michael, Minn./St. Michael-Albertville H.S.) free throws.
Chicago State (5-9, 2-1 Mid-Con) cut the lead to nine several times, the last on a Tina Hill lay-in with 6:42 remaining, but could not continue to chip away at the lead.
Jeanette Gray (Valparaiso, Ind./Valparaiso H.S.) scored 14 points and grabbed nine boards for the Crusaders, while Knoester added 14 points.
Marverly Nettles and Krisey Sanders paced the Cougars with 14 points each, while Hill added 11. Sanders also had a team-high eight boards.
The Crusaders shot 43.4% (23-of-53) from the floor, while Chicago State knocked home 34.5% (20-of-58) of its shots. Valpo outrebounded the Cougars 46-32.
The game marked the eighth straight that the Crusaders have held their opponents below 60 points.
Valpo will return to action on Monday evening as the Brown and Gold hosts Southern Utah. Tip-off is slated for 7:05 p.m. at the Athletics-Recreation Center.
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Traumatized, exhausted and half-starved civilians who have fled Sri Lanka's conflict zone are being housed in camps without decent water and sanitation facilities and with inadequate food supplies, international aid agency Oxfam said today.
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Dunedin students can enjoy a four-day weekend leading up to Monday's observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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Seems profitable from current season back to about 3 seasons ago but not before then (so became profitable and been so over multiple seasons)... I seem to like it but am open to comments/suggestions... this is my first bet labs system.
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Does Sports Insight have other example of NBA systems or sells them?
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Best thing to do is come up with your own and email them in and have them review your system for you... I think there are some basic systems in the intro to betlabs section though
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I always love systems that look at teams that have lost games recently ATS (worse the better usually). This seems like a good system with logic behind it like smartplays mentioned.
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Curious, what did you change to get the positive results??
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I added underdog in previous game... made a big difference
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Excellent system. Logic behind it too, which is extremely important. Shows a solid win % every year. Interestingly, if you go to Game Month filter, November is the worst month. Its 34-32. 17-16 last 5 years.
Take out November games and the win % is even better.
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Wow, it's hot out there! The last few days have been really hot out at Performance Course and at SMU. We've had to move our kids inside a few days in a row to keep them from dropping like flies while running. Coach Faucette has been taking us to the pool for workouts, which has been a cool alternative.
We're approaching the last few weeks of Performance Course. The kids will run fifty (50) forty-yard sprints during the last few days and then they will re-test to get their results. The primary reason that we re-test them at the end is to show how much stronger and how much faster they've gotten, and to show their parents that they didn't send their kids to a country club for a whole summer.
Summer workouts end on July 25th and the team has a week off before camp. Camp begins August 1st when players will report for physicals and to check-in with the coaching staff. From then its on to prepare for Texas Tech. I'm excited about two-a-days this year, and I hope everyone else is excited about the upcoming season. Another friendly reminder to buy your tickets!
Thanks for listening to me this summer, I hope that this has given you an insight into the "adventure" of being a student athlete at SMU.
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July!
It was back to work on Wednesday. The kids were in for some rough treatment, but they pushed through the workout and came out on top in the end. During this point of the summer, we see as instructors the large improvements in the kids' attitudes and work ethics. They are becoming faster, so now its our turn to increase the workload. The theory that work becomes easier the more reps you do comes into play as we (as in instructors) add more weight/less repetitions to the squats and benches, while outside we have the kids do more running at a higher level of intensity.
On a parallel note, our workouts at SMU are becoming more speed based. Coach Faucette is working on building up speed and explosiveness now, whereas in the first part we were building up strength and power. He has also emphasized a focus on mental toughness, because football is 80% mental, 20% physical. With one month left before two-a-days, everyone is starting to get a little more excited and a little more pumped about the upcoming season.
Another friendly reminder to buy tickets for this year, Mustang Fans!
Just got paid
A month of summer has gone by, and I just got my paycheck from Performance Course. YES! Even though most of the money will go towards filling up my truck, it's nice to have some hard-earned money to spend on the weekends.
It's hard to grasp how demanding college athletics is on a student. It's pretty much a full-time job. My co-workers always see me with a sandwich in my hand; I'm constantly eating to try to put more weight on or to just keep my weight up. My friends always call me when I'm in the weight room or on the field. My grades could be higher but time constraints for practice, traveling and games keep them "restricted." I still manage by the grace of God to make a 3.0 every semester. My sport is so much fun that I forget about how much time I dedicate unless if I really sit down and think about it, hour by hour, day by day.
Smells like team spirit
Here's a little football update for you PonyFANS junkies: Summer workouts have been going well. We've had majority turnouts of 60+ daily, which is good because a great sense of chemistry is developing amongst us. This is what the summer is for: developing unity and a sense of cohesion so when we reach the emotional roller coaster of the season, we can stick together.
Every week we have team functions, which open up more opportunities for us to develop chemistry. Even though most of us should just stick to football, we play sand volleyball at the Dedman center or we will hit up the intermural fields to play a little softball. It is not an understatement that we work together and play together as Mustangs.
Oh yeah, a friendly reminder for you Mustang fans to buy lots and lots of tickets so we can fill up Ford Stadium this year. The first game is against TEXAS TECH on September 2nd in Lubbock and I hope to see a lot of Blue in the stands....so BUY SOME TICKETS! Our first home game is against Sam Houston State on September 16th after another road game at North Texas.
Waking up is hard to do
Starting out is tough. Waking up at 5 a.m. to be at Allen High School by 6 is no joke. The first two days are always rough because all of the athletes in the camp have to be tested by the coaches. They are tested in height, weight, vertical reach, vertical jump, 40-yard dash and pro agility.
My typical day at work always starts before 6 a.m. because I need to get up early to get a shower and eat something, then I'm out the door. The mornings are always exciting though because we work with the varsity athletes. During the fall I try to stay in touch with a lot of the athletes I work out with because one day I might be seeing them play in college (or even play against them). There are about three sessions daily.
What do women want?
The next session after the "Varsity Boys" group are the girls. Girls are much different from guys. You have to work them out differently and you have to apply concepts differently. One also has to be very careful how you coach them because they are much more sensitive to criticism The plus side to coaching girls is you really only have to tell them once. The guys need more reinforcement because of egos, but you can be more intense. (I remember not wanting to listen when I was their age, too.)
The wonder years
The last session is usually composed of middle school youth. They are the hardest to teach because they are just learning how to squat or perform Olympic lifts and you have to demonstrate every lift to a "T". This also helps me with my lifting for football because I learn how to perform lifts more efficiently and to run much better.
New school
This is my last week at Allen High School, next week I'll be at Southlake Carroll. Southlake is where I worked last year. Geno has been getting me ready for "the transition" by giving me different jobs this week at Allen (i.e. playing "waterboy") because he knows that I'll be leaving there to work at a different place. He told me that I'll be running the weight room over there, so I'm glad he's kept my weight room responsibilities to a minimum thus far.
I've enjoyed working at both places. The kids at Allen and at Southlake are great. They work very hard to earn their district and state championships in all sports. Geno warns all of us sometimes to watch the kids for "working themselves into the ground." Being at a place where the athletes want to get better really makes my job easier, but you still have to find ways to motivate them to keep coming back day after day, because the newfound tough workouts eventually become a daily grind. Sometimes I have to the same problems at SMU, because the work is tough, but I know that you get out what you put in, so that usually motivates me to do another rep harder or run another sprint faster.
Mustang workouts
Around 12:30 is when I'm finished with work, so I start to head back to Dallas for my workouts at SMU. My body is usually already tired, so I find myself drinking a lot of water and sports drinks to prevent heat exhaustion and dehydration. I also find myself eating a lot during the day to help keep my weight up. Our lifts and running are very difficult but it is very similar to putting money into an investment, the pay out is in September when we start our season. My job really translates smoothly into my sport, which is why I enjoy what I do.
A weighty job
I wanted to work for the Performance Course because it appeals to my interests as a football player. By working here, I will be able to use my talents and skills to teach others how to train their bodies properly in order to compete at a maximum level. I also applied to work here because I really enjoy lifting weights and sports in general. I am seriously considering coaching (high school or college) as a career once I am out of college.
Finding the job
The application process wasn't very difficult. I actually applied for the job last year, it is my second year to work for The Performance Course. I called the owner of the course (Geno Pierce) and asked for a job. He was reluctant to give me the job but I told him that I'd work very hard and gave him my resume. Through persistent phone calls and emails he called me back and interviewed me for the job. He could see that I was a man of good character and accepted me to work for him as an assistant strength instructor.
A taste of the coaching life
I hope to gain out of this experience a little taste of what it is like to be a football coach. So far, my experience has been positive. I really enjoy teaching others proper lifting techniques and seeing my "students" succeed. I also hope to gain invaluable connections through the coaches at my job site and through the strength coaching business.
Doing things the right way
As an assistant strength coach, my job's responsibilities are to maintain a safe lifting environment for the athletes. I also have the responsibility to correct poor technique and provide positive reinforcement to the athletes. I am a coach, not a drill sergeant. I have to physically show these young men and women what to do. My responsibilities are important because if these boys and girls do not learn the correct technique, they will not get stronger, and they could possibly get hurt. I am also responsible for providing a role model for the athletes. My fellow co-workers and I are required to maintain a professional, "clean cut" appearance to set examples for these young men and women. A lot of responsibility is required for my job, but it helps teach me a few lessons about how to do things the right way and to teach myself how to be a successful coach and leader.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There's a buzz about NASCAR and the season-opening Daytona 500 that has nothing to do with an exploding jet dryer or a well-timed tweet from a driver.
The new Gen-6 race car makes its long-awaited debut at Daytona International Speedway, and the success of the 2013 season could depend heavily on its performance. Already, things look good. After all, NASCAR's most popular driver has given the Gen-6 a ringing endorsement.
"This sport is going to be revolutionized again with this car," Dale Earnhardt Jr. said after one of his first full test sessions in the car.
That's the shot in the arm NASCAR is looking for after a 2012 season that saw the quality of the racing criticized at times. Long green-flag runs and a lack of cautions frustrated fans, and that irritated drivers who openly wondered if fans were more interested in wrecking than they were in racing.
Behind the scenes, NASCAR was working hard on a new car that would replace the "Car of Tomorrow" after six years, and hopefully improve the on-track product. It was welcome news to Earnhardt, who won 17 races in the "old" car but only two after the CoT was introduced during the 2007 season.
"I struggled with the old car," he said. "I think the rest of the car is definitely a step back toward the old, original car we used to have. I think that's going to benefit me in certain areas. The car is really exciting. I'm looking forward to it."
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The fireball put the Daytona 500 in the mainstream spotlight, but the racing that followed failed to entertain a wider audience.
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This Friday marks the final episode of Fox's Fringe with a two-hour "event." I love Fringe, and while I love that they are getting the proper send-off, I am devastated to see it go.
Looking back, Fringe is one of those shows that is difficult to pull out a handful of "must see" episodes. If you are a fan, you have seen them. If you haven't been watching the show, there is no "catching up" - you've got to watch it from the beginning. The show started out as a mix of monster-of-the-week procedural, but when J.H. Wyman and Jeff Pinker took over the reigns in season two, they brought in a dense and complex mythology that made the fans obsess happily, but made it difficult to tune in casually.
My hope with this list is to set up the important moments in the life of Fringe; the wackiest, the most interesting, and hopefully the stuff that will cause non-viewers to seek it out on DVD. It is in no way exhaustive; just a selection of some of the episodes that stand out most to me.
The Fringe series finale airs as a two-hour special on January 18th at 8pm on Fox.
Episode 120 - "There's More Than One of Everything"
The season one finale was a mind blower, as it was the first to take us into the alternate universe, which became an integral part of the mythology of Fringe.
Episode 216 - "Peter"
The first episode to really employ time travel, this one took us back to the 1980s, when Walter was a mad scientist instead of just being mad. It is here that we learn the truth about Peter's death and Walter's obsession with bringing him back - even if it meant kidnapping him from a parallel universe. In addition to the important plot points, setting the episode in the 1980s afforded the chance to use many fun retro references, including an 8-bit credit sequence.
Episode 218 - "White Tulip"
The first "mythalone" episode - a phrase coined by showrunner Joel Wyman to describe an episode that both new viewers and hardcore fans could enjoy - is often considered the finest, most poignant single episode in all of Fringe's 100 episodes. The story involves another mad scientist (played by guest star Peter Weller) who himself is working on time travel. It leads to a sincere "heart-to-heart" among the two scientists, with themes of redemption and forgiveness. The white tulip is a symbol of forgiveness and something that is a recurring thread throughout the series (most recently turning up in episode 518.)
Episode 220 - "Brown Betty"
In the last few years, everyone has done musical episodes - to varying effectiveness. But Fringe may be the first genre series to do a musical episode since Buffy the Vampire Slayer's 2001 episode, "Once More With Feeling." And they did it well. Essentially a standalone episode, Walter smokes an extra-special batch of marijuana he grew called Brown Betty - and is then asked to babysit Olivia's niece, Ella. He spins for her a noir tale, casting Olivia as the lead detective in Ella's mother's murder.
It is interesting to note that this episode was actually the 19th of the season, but the 20th to air (due to a season one holdover.) As you will see below, beginning with "Brown Betty," the producers used the 19th episode of each season as a "play" episode.
When the episode first aired, I had this to say: "Hands down, my favorite episode of Fringe ever. It had everything: Passion! Betrayal! Zombies! Urban legends come to life!" And it was certainly one of the more gruesome episodes. A depressed 17-year-old ballerina kills herself and her mother donates her organs. A man in her therapy group, desperate to give her one more chance, has been stealing the organs in hopes of bringing the ballerina back to life. Add onto this the Fringe science of keeping people alive without, say, a heart, and the fact that he hands the dancer's corpse like a gruesome marionette, and this episode has pretty much everything you could ever want.
Episode 319 - "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide"
William Bell's consciousness has taken up residency within Olivia, and time to separate them is running out. Walter being, well, Walter, he feels the best was to separate them is to go into her mind - and that will require Walter-sized doses of LSD. Peter trips for the first time; Broyles trips on accident, and the bulk of the episode is animated. It's pure wackiness as only Fringe can do.
Episode 419 - "Letters of Transit"
This episode took place in the year 2036 and was clearly a setup for a fifth season, despite the fact that, at the time that this episode was shot, most critics and analysts didn't think Fringe would make it to a fifth season. Olivia wasn't in this episode, and Peter doesn't show up until the end. Instead we follow a young, blonde Fringe agent named Etta - who is clearly Olivia and Peter's daughter, even though that reveal doesn't come until the last scene - and the beginning of the Observers invasion. Personally, I wasn't a fan of this episode, but it was truly important to the run of the series. Plus, after being frozen in amber for 20 years, Walter comes out with even more holes in his Swiss cheese brain, which makes him even more childlike and ridiculous.
Since Fringe wouldn't have an episode 19 in its final season, they put a fair amount of playful weirdness into episode nine - but not the whole episode. On this leg of their scavenger hunt, Peter, Olivia, and Walter come across a young boy who had been hidden away decades ago by Walter and Donald. The boy, Michael, has not aged; in fact, he is an Observer child, the only one they've ever seen. Michael's caregivers do not believe that they are the ones they have been waiting for, and ask for the password, which only Walter has. He can't remember, but "luckily' he dropped acid before heading out, and retrieves the password from his cracked brain via a Monty Python animation.


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James River cleanup scheduled June 9
Citizen Staff Reports 05/31/12
The James River Advisory Council, in cooperation with the James River Association, will sponsor the 13th annual James River Regional Cleanup on Saturday, June 9, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at various spots along the river.
Volunteers may select sites between Lynchburg and Charles City County, including Osborne Park and Boat Landing in Varina. Volunteers will pick up trash and recyclable materials along shoreline areas and trails, while paddlers and power-boaters will collect floating trash and access shoreline trash that is difficult to reach by foot. Much of the trash collected is the result of litter that is carried by rain runoff along roadside ditches to streams, and eventually to the James River.
To register to participate, visit http://www.jrac-va.org
Agencies combine on new entry point to Chickahominy
Canoeing and kayaking enthusiasts soon will have a new access point to the Chickahominy River. VDOT, the James River Association and Henrico County Parks and Recreation are teaming up to establish a new site in Eastern Henrico.
The James River Association negotiated the deal with VDOT to procure official access to the area located just east of I-295 on North Airport Road in Sandston. The site includes a park-and-ride commuter lot bordering the Chickahominy River and has been an unofficial launch site used by paddlers for years. > Read more.
Equestrian clinic planned July 7-8 in Henrico
Citizen Staff Reports 07/04/2014
Henrico equestrians interested in deepening the bond between themselves and their horses have the opportunity to attend a two day clinic, held at Steppin' High Stables on July 7-8 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The clinic, "Become Partners with your Horse," will be taught by multiple world champion equestrienne Terry Preiser and will focus on how riders and horses can work together to achieve more. > Read more.
Henrico school bus driver honored
Citizen Staff Reports 07/03/2014
The Henrico-based Hephaestus Society recently awarded its first annual community heroes award (the Hephaestus Award) to Hicham Elgharouch (pictured, center) for what it termed his "selfless acts of caring" in his duties as a Henrico County Public Schools bus driver. Henrico County Director of Pupil Transportation Josh Davis, joined Hephaestus Society President Travis Gardner, in presenting the award and an accompanying $1,500 check to Elgharouch last month.
Elgharouch was selected for his clear and demonstrated patience and for his infectious positive attitude, according to the society. > Read more.
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Grab the kids and check out these fun family-friendly events taking place this weekend! Speed over to the Henrico Theatre for the film "Turbo" or watch "Dumbo" under the stars at Clarke-Palmore House Museum. Little ones can meet Thomas the Tank Engine at CMOR-Central or play at the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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Don't party too hard on the Fourth because a whole weekend of fun events await! Enjoy a classy date night without the kids at James River Cellars Winery's second annual Smoke and Vine Festival. Another date night option is at the Richmond Funny Bone, where comedian April Macie will perform all weekend. The kids have their own options this weekend as well. Choose from storytime at Tuckahoe and Twin Hickory libraries or family-oriented karaoke at Aunt Sarah's Pancake House – I hear they have hits from Disney's "Frozen." For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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"I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.'' ---Ronald Reagan, at his birthday celebration in 1989.
On the day President Barack Obama outlined his plan to make the country safer from crazy people with assault weapons, Ronald Reagan has been invoked in the debate by both sides.
Obama cited Reagan's opposition to military-style weapons.
"And by the way, so did Ronald Reagan, one of the staunchest defenders of the Second Amendment, who wrote to Congress in 1994 urging them — this is Ronald Reagan speaking — urging them to listen to the American public and to the law enforcement community and support a ban on the further manufacture of military-style assault weapons."
Reagan, who was shot while president in March, 1981, backed a ban on assault weapons and the Brady Bill, proposed by an anti-gun group formed by the family of Reagan's press secretary, Jim Brady, who was also shot. (See video here.)
Obama Wednesday signed executive orders to strengthen background checks on gun sales, research the causes of gun violence, encourage mental health providers to report patients who own guns and may be prone to violence. Complete list here.
He also encouraged Congress to ban assault weapons, step-up background checks on secondary sellers and purchasers and hire a director of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms department, which has gone vacant for six years.(see full text of his speech here.)
Reagan, cited by the likes of the Tea Party and Rush Limbaugh as the modern president who most represented their values, is the center of debate. Gun control opponent Erich Pratt, implied that Reagan supported gun control "in his later years," implying that he was less in control of his facilities, as seen in this MSNBC clip.
Supporters of gun control point to the strict legislation Reagan signed as governor of California, such as the Mulford Act of 1967, which forbid open carrying of guns. The act came at a time when the Black Panthers openly carried weapons.
"There's no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons," Reagan said at the time, according to Salon.com.
As with everything about this divisive issue, Obama's Wednesday speech got mixed reviews. Some, such as Earl Ofari Hutchinson, writing in Huffington Post, said he didn't go far enough. Others say he has gone too far and is breaching the Second Amendment. Missouri Republican representative Casey Guernsey, has proposed a state bill to ignore Obama's federal orders.
What do you think? Did the president go too far, or not far enough? What do you think of him citing Ronald Reagan?


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People who have lived in this area for years have been witness to the growth of Clinton Community College as an educational institution.
The growth has come in enrollment, certainly, but mostly on a level that is harder to quantify: its reputation.
Through many positive changes over the years, CCC, perched on a hill off Route 9 in south Plattsburgh, has transformed into a highly regarded community college.
And you don't have to take our word for it. Washington Monthly magazine, with a respected ranking system, has just named Clinton to its 2013 list of the top 50 community colleges in the nation.
CCC came in at 49 in its first appearance on the list. What solidifies this achievement is this fact: It is the only community college in New York state to make the list.
Washington Monthly based its rankings on data collected from the Community College Survey of Student Engagement and the National Center for Education Statistics at the U.S. Department of Education.
Eight criteria were studied: active and collaborative learning, student effort, academic challenge, student-faculty interaction, support for learning, first-year retention rate, three-year-graduation-transfer rate and credits awarded per the equivalent of 100 full-time students. That is a well-rounded basis for evaluation.
Contributing to its elevation in status among colleges, in our opinion, are its dedication to training people for community careers, creative curriculum, knowledgeable faculty, solidified leadership, nurturing of students, increase in diversity through introduction of international students and higher acceptance standards. CCC's offer of free tuition to local high-achieving students has also contributed to its academic growth.
Clinton wasn't the only Plattsburgh college to be recognized by Washington Monthly. SUNY Plattsburgh was listed among the top 30 colleges in the country in regard to offering students the most return for their tuition money.


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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the slow recovery from the Great Recession and 2008 financial crisis illustrates how vulnerable the global economy is and urged economic policymakers to learn from that lesson.
Bernanke told a two-day conference on the crisis that the Federal Reserve and other central banks took extraordinary steps to stabilize financial systems.
The Fed purchased more than $2 trillion in bonds to try and push long-term interest rates lower. The effort was aimed at encouraging lending and borrowing. It has been criticized for those purchases but Bernanke has defended them as successfully working to protect an even more severe economic downturn.
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Matthew Herper, Forbes Staff
I cover science and medicine, and believe this is biology's century.
In March, comparing the price of a cancer drug on a per capita basis here and in India, I told drug companies how to charge $1.6 million per patient for a new drug — and get away with it. So long as companies make sure that all patients have access, I argued, it's possible to convince governments and insurers to pay truly princely sums for medicines that really help patients.
Still, I thought that $1.6 million, was a sky high, off-the-charts, unbelievable amount. Surely, no medicine for sale today cost more than $1 million I thought. In fact, the priciest one I can name is Soliris, from biotech high-flyer Alexion, which costs $500,000 per patient — a lot, but still only half a million. Turns out I was wrong — it's possible that medicines that are already on the market could rise to this price point, if they continue to help young patients grow bigger.
I was convinced of this by an April 17 note from biotechnology analyst Geoffrey Porges of Sanford C. Bernstein. He wrote that ultra-high-priced drugs are the one "bright spot" in the pharmaceutical business. Companies will be able to maintain their prices for these expensive medicines, he argued, calling Alexion "the paradigm of the postmillennial biopharmaceutical company." A second medicine Alexion is testing could also cost more than $200,000 a year. Biogen Idec could price its new drug for amyloid lateral sclerosis at more than $75,000 per patient per year. Vertex Pharmaceuticals' new cystic fibrosis drug Kalydeco costs $290,000 price point, and a new Vertex CF combo pill could cost about as much.
In the process of making this argument, Porges took a look at how existing enzyme replacement drugs for rare genetic diseases are priced. These medicines, including medicines such as Cerezyme and Fabrazyme sold by Sanofi's Genzyme unit, all average $200,000 per patient per year or more. But they are actually dosed by weight and the cost of the medicine increases as patients gain weight. Because these medicines improve and extend the lives of children with terrible diseases, someday the per patient cost could become much higher as the kids grow up.
First, Porges shows a graph of how much these medicines cost now, as children approach age 5:
That red line is Naglazyme, which treats Maroteaux–Lamy syndrome, a disease that causes dwarfism, heart problems, and nerve problems. The treatment, sold by BioMarin, costs about $350,000 for the average patient. For kids under five, as the chart shows, the cost would actually be well less than that. But what happens as those children get older?
As you can see, at current pricing, the cost of Naglazyme will pass $1 million as patients hit their teen years, and reach $1.3 million as they approach their 40s. Of course, it's not certain that this will happen; one could imagine that the price may need to drop over the coming decades. But this shows how very expensive these drugs are. Update: to be clear, only some patients will pay this per patient per year cost; the average cost could still be lower than that of, say, Soliris, because some of the patients on Naglazyme will be kids.
One of the most important questions when we think about how new medicines should be priced is this: is it better for a new medicine to help a select few patients a great deal at a high per patient cost (like Naglazyme, Cerezyme, or Vertex's Kalydeco for CF) that will be paid by the health care system (because few individuals can afford these kinds of drug prices)? Or is it better to have lower cost medicines taken by millions, like Lipitor or Plavix? Right now, as a society, we've decided on the former. That may well be the right decision, but it would be nice if it seemed we were actually putting some thought into what we want.
I don't understand what you're asking in your final paragraph. It starts out sounding like it's about drug pricing strategy but ends up offering two potential answers that are more relevant to something else. Drugs that help a select few and drugs that treat millions are different products that are priced in fundamentally different ways. I don't understand how society has chosen one pricing option over the other. Society (as in consumers) still expects drugs like Lipitor to cost less than drugs like Cerezyme and never the twain should meet. (i.e. society has chosen "all of the above") Are you actually talking about product development strategies and saying that "society", in the form of investors, has decided that developing treatments for a select few is preferable?
The driving factor could be the falling total market capitalization of the top ten pharma firms, which in 2011 was $1,110 billion, down from $1,240 billion in 2001. This may be indicative of the industry as a whole. As a strategy to cope with this, shooting for a million dollar pill may be viable. However, we understand this strategy as limiting the consumer base. Of course because peoples lives are dependent on it, one may be able to get away with charging exploitative prices. Though in a world of 7 billion humans, 7 billion customers, it seems prudent to make products that are accesible to ever increasing consumer bases, even at $1/pill that's $7 billion.
An important consideration for these high priced medicines is that they are being used on the right patients. In the examples given this won't be difficult, but when we start to have high prices in broader populations of patients who benefits most from a medicine becomes less clear. Take for example Lipitor. There is little evidence that cholesterol lowering is a good primary prevention strategy, but how many people take Lipitor for primary prevention? Even with the lack of studies to show primary prevention, you can bet that some people do benefit. But, which ones? This means diagnostics and characterization of patients becomes increasingly more important. Higher prices to characterize patients also become more accetable. You would pay for 100.000 dollar work up if it was going to potentially save 1 million a year.
Thanks for clarifying, Matthew. That's what I figured. Do you have data to quantify the trend away from lower cost, larger patient population medicines and toward higher priced, smaller patient population medicines (e.g. Numbers of drugs approved in each category by year, fraction of R&D spending on each category over time, fraction of industry sales per year in each category)? I haven't seen Porges' report, so I apologize if it's in there. It might be informative to see how this trend has played out over time on the chance it might correlate with other related events.
While I agree with the assessments you have made in your article, it still begs the question of what should be done about soaring drug costs. Alexion's strategy may prove profitable in the short term (or long term in Genzyme's case), but economically speaking, the industry will not be able to survive on such a single-minded approach. Consumers are demanding more visibility and better efficacy, but with lower costs. There will have to be a tipping-point between insurance agencies, governments, and other stakeholders responsible for dishing out the enormous funds needed for drugs these days. It doesn't seem wise to advocate for such an anti-consumer policy for pricing medication.
This article can be read from very different views: business, market, health, ethics, science-technology, law. Why price can be so high? There should be enough people willing to pay a price in order to have a real business.
Regarding author´s last question, society does not decide consciously what price is assigned a drug when it´s sold by the first time. Pharma companies, as well as any other, make market studies to price their products in order to make the most profit possible. When a new drug is introduced to market, a patent protects the owner of the drug and the price does not obey demand-offer law.
For a new drug in order to recover the research investment and to finance future drugs and to obtain the most money possible from it, prices are in general as high as possible but not as high to inhibit the whole consumption. From a business view, only high prices justify investment and production of orphan drugs which treat rare or low demand diseases. Price as much as a million or more? I´m not sure that´s the right strategy (I´d say it isn´t). Sad consequence is that many people doesn't have access to the drug ¿where is ethics?, ethics does not play a major role at this phase, but the good thing is that when patent expires, drug is free to be produced by any Pharma generics company, only then, offer-demand law begins to work and prices decrease. Some other factors influence pricing, for example, Biotech drugs are some more difficult to become generics, local regulations also play a role.
At the end, last consequence for effective drugs is pricing going down in long term and more people will reach the benefits of the drug. Its true that many people won´t access the drug at the first time because high pricing, but on the other hand Pharma companies need the income to continue to invest in research. Again: Which is the right price for a new drug? How many people can pay that price. It's an unfortunate balance because many people can´t afford it but works that way.


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PUYALLUP, WASHINGTON STATE-A scone by any other name would smell just as sweet.
Mmmmm. Sweet and buttery with raspberry.
Forgive my digression, but the clan of this Patch editor is currently mired in a crisis of morale, this, the final day of the 2012 Puyallup Fair. Here we sit at the food court, crankier than the guy who has to hose down swine barn after feeding.
Mrs. Patch Editor's feet hurt. Mini-Patch Editor realizes she has come out the loser when comparing the other kids' polar bear-sized stuffed animals to the pig's head that Daddy earned by popping balloons.
And I'm in a foul fair mood, comforted only by the flakey assurance of a scone and the momentum I've built by flawlessly scribing the entire opening of this conondrum on my smartphone. I mean, "column," not "conondrum." (Darn you, Autocorrect!)
Why am I cranky? It's because they've attacked something sacred. The innocence is lost. If these were the streets, it's the equivalent of saying something about my mama and I know you just did not go there!
The offense? They've killed The Puyallup Fair, at least in name. Mr. Fat Cat-Big Oil-Wall Street Bailout-Darth Vader-Fair Guy thought it would be good idea to be more inclusive and rename the thing the "Washington State Fair" beginning next year.
"Since the Fair features countless entries, animals, entertainment, and two major youth state competitions, it was logical to have a name that fit with all the Fair encompassed, participants from around the state," according to a statement released by the fair immediately following the sale of the last Krusty Pup, which in some countries marks the beginning of the new year.
"A perfect example is the giant pumpkin competition, with first place going to Robin Halbert of Enumclaw, and second place honors to Jay Groepper of Spokane."
Ha. Joke's on them. They missed the memo that Spokane is actually considered Metro Northern Idaho/All of Montana.
I understand why Washington State Fair makes sense. It's more encompassing, more welcoming. It represents how much of a regional attraction the fair - which drew more than a million visitors this year - has become. Fine.
But did they ever stop to think about the unforeseen consequences of a name change?
How am I going to explain the Puyallup Fair shirt I'm donning in the picture-turned-coffee-mug I bought in '96?
What about hipsters from Seattle? Plugging "Puyallup" into their GPS was their only chance of finding the fair the first time without accidentally going over Snoqualmie Pass.
And what about people who don't know how to pronounce "Puyallup?" Now whom will I mercilessly ridicule for not being from the Northwest? "Pooh-Yawl-Oop?!? Get outta town, Mr. and Mrs. We're-Originally-From-Temecula."
Oh, they are keeping the "Do The Puyallup" slogan, which means drivers will continue to hear the fair's radio jingle eight times per hour while stuck in traffic.
Look, I realize I'm much too bitter over this. I just need to decompress with an Elephant Ear or something.
Next year, although we won't call the fair the P-word, it will be back, better than ever.
We'll still have to wait 30 minutes in line for a scone.
The livestock will still smell just as, um, livestock-y on hot days.
Some carnival workers will still have unique stains on their shirts.
I'm getting excited again. The juices are flowing. I'm typing faster than ever before on this foam. Phone, not foam. Darn it, Autocorrect!
I'll be back next year, Fair-Formerly-Known-As-Puyallup. And even though you'll be going under an assumed name, one thing won't change.
I still won't be able to win my kid that giant stuffed animal.


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Program Overview: Currently registered students of Cleveland State University may check out a laptop computer or iPad for on-campus use. Over 200 laptops are available on a first-come/first-served basis (reservations are not accepted). Laptops and iPads may be borrowed for a 5 hour period of time or until one hour before closing, which ever is shorter. There is no charge for usage, however late fees will be assessed and charged to you if the device is not returned on time. You will also be charged for any damage or if the device is lost or stolen. The charges will cover repair and/or replacement of the device, up to $2,000.
Software: Each laptop includes Internet access (via wireless network), MS Office and Internet Explorer and other standard software, as well as the current Windows Operating System.
Hardware: Each laptop has a hard drive that can be used for temporary storage of files (erased when laptop is returned). They also have a USB port that enables use of your own USB Mini Drive if you have one. These laptops have high-capacity lithium ion batteries, an internal wireless modem card, and their own carrying case. They are not issued with AC adaptors. Battery-life on the laptops will differ based upon what programs are being accessed and what equipment is being used. The battery light will turn orange when the battery is low.
Although each laptop has a soundcard and speakers, we ask that you provide your own headphones to minimize disturbing other students.
Alternate Software: These laptops are configured
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General Computer Labs. If you require access to SAS or SPSS,
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may investigate adding the software in the future.
Saving your work: Laptops are re-imaged when they are returned to ensure that they remain virus free, properly configured, and as trouble-free as possible, as well as to preserve the privacy of each student's work. Please be certain to save your work to your own storage device because the data will be lost once the drives are re-imaged. You may save data to internet based storage such as Dropbox or the Yahoo Briefcase, to your USB Mini Drive or CDRW, or email work to your email account. You can purchase CDs and USB Mini Drives in Rhodes Tower Library or CSU Bookstore.
Printing your work: Free printing (up to 2,000 pages per term) is available in the Campus Connection Lounges AND each General Computer Lab (color printing is available at 50¢/page in the Fenn Tower and Urban Labs and in the Student Center Campus Connection Lounge).
Fines and Fees: Although there is no cost to use one of these devices, there are late charges ($10.00 per hour), damage fees (cost of replacing the damaged part), and replacement fees if the unit is lost or stolen (cost of replacing the unit). The maximum combination of fines and fees is $2000.00. All fines and fees will be charged to your account at the University and collected by the Bursar's Office. If you have outstanding fines or fees, you will be ineligible to borrow another laptop.
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Retirees' mass exodus
Watching our elected GOP senators and representatives during this legislative session has been disappointing to say the least. As far as retirees go, they might as well have posted a neon sign on the legislative building saying "retirees not wanted in N.C."
They floated the idea of taxing Social Security but didn't get very far on that one. They did, however, take away the $2,000 exclusion for withdrawals from IRAs while also making most of N.C. state retiree's pension benefits taxable.
Let's compare that with our neighbor just to the south. South Carolina seems to like and want retirees there. If you're 65 or over, they give each person a $15,000 exemption from state income tax, they don't tax Social Security payments and there's no estate tax. Doesn't take much to figure out that your average retiree 65 and over in S.C. doesn't pay a state income tax.
With baby boomers retiring in large numbers and looking for Southern states to move to, state income tax is a major issue (guess why Florida is a big retirement destination – no state tax!). N.C. just lost big on this issue and will lose millions of dollars in future years as retirees (including N.C. retirees) choose to move to states that want them and give them tax incentives to come.
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Central Oklahoma continued its recent torrid play in taking a commanding lead after the first day of the MIAA Men's Golf Championships at Paradise Point Golf Club while Missouri Southern sits eighth in the 12-team field
UCO sits 28 strokes ahead of second-place Central Missouri after the first two rounds. The tournament wraps up today with a final 18-hole round.
Lindenwood, Washburn and Nebraska-Kearney round out the top five. Northeastern State and Missouri Western sit ahead of MSSU in sixth and seventh, respectively.
MSSU was led by Ryan Buerk's two-over-par 74 in the first round and three-over 75 in the second round. The junior is tied for 17th with a 149.
Ryan Russell's two-round score of 151 has him tied for 24th while Andy Hogenmiller and Andrew Maier each finished the day with a 158.
Freshman Ben Starkey shot a 75 on the second round — 10 strokes better than his Round 1 performance — and is tied for 53rd with a 160.
Pittsburg State is tied with Southwest Baptist for 10th, five strokes behind MSSU.
Fletcher Harder leads the Gorillas, tied for 20th with a 150.
Central Oklahoma's Dillon Rust leads the tournament on the strength of his opening-round 67. He followed that up with a 70 and sits five strokes ahead of teammates Trevor Stafford and Logan Waresback, who are tied for second with a 142. UCO's five-man squad is rounded out by Eric Kline (Tied for ninth with a 147) and Chris Muriana (Tied for 28th with a 152.)