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Recent healthcare legislation in the U.S. has created a pathway for biosimilar approval and commercialization, potentially unleashing a wave of competition to the current class of blockbuster biologics now on the market. However, reconciling the development of these biosimilars with the innovator biologics they are designed to replace has created numerous challenges, a situation which might be summed up as "how similar is similar enough?"
In an August 2011 New England Journal of Medicine Perspective, and draft guidance issued in February 2012, the FDA outlined the challenges facing the biosimilars approval process and suggested that a "meaningful finger-print-like analysis" would streamline the process and speed the approval process. In this tutorial we suggest one method of accomplishing the fingerprint-like analysis that the FDA has proposed.
Over the past three decades, biologics (therapeutic proteins) have made up an increasing volume of pharma sales. Within the next decade, patent expiration will affect many of these innovator biologics and both generic and innovator manufacturers are gearing up programs to produce biosimilar and biobetter drugs.
The term biosimilar is applied to products that have been shown to be similar to the innovator biologic through head to head tests of quality and appropriate comparative studies. If these criteria are met, then the biosimilar can undergo an abbreviated pathway for approval under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation (BPCI) Act of 2009.
Biobetter drugs are intended to be superior to the innovator product and as such are considered new molecular entities and must go through the full development and approval process. For the remainder of this article, we focus on biosimilar drugs and the innovator biologics that they seek to replace.
Unlike generic small molecule drugs, biologic drug production is complex, meaning that biosimilars will always be different from the original innovator drug. Even if the biosimilar uses the same gene as the innovator, differences in production, including cloning vector, expression system, fermentation, and purification will generally always result in a biosimilar that is slightly different from the original. The question facing the FDA and biosimilar applicant is "how close is close enough?"
While the BPCI Act outlined a pathway for biosimilar approval in the U.S., it left unanswered many questions surrounding the specific scientific quality criteria addressing how "similar" a biosimilar should be to the innovator drug in order to be approved. Draft guidance documents further clarifying this were issued in February 2012, with the FDA suggesting that a "meaningful fingerprint-like" comparison of a large number of product attributes in the innovator and biosimilar products would be very helpful in streamlining the approval process.
This appeared to be a worthy goal, provided an applicant was able to recognize which product attributes were most critical to compare to a safe and effective biosimilar drug.
At Array Bridge we asked ourselves this same question and concluded that a biologic's three-dimensional (3D) epitope distribution would be a sensitive marker for structural changes in the molecule. Furthermore, if an easy method for following the 3D epitope distribution existed it would provide a powerful tool for "meaningful finger-print-like" comparisons of biosimilars and innovator drugs.
With this in mind we have developed a series of Protein Conformation Array ELISA (PCA-ELISA) kits for three-dimensional structural comparability analyses of biologics and biosimilars. These PCA-ELISA kits can provide valuable information on the 3D structure and heterogeneity of biologics and can be used at many stages of biologics/biosimilars development including cell-line selection, process development, formulation development, and product release testing.
The basis of the kit is a series of polyclonal antibodies to overlapping peptides spanning the entire length of the amino acid sequence of the biologic (Figure 1). When used in an ELISA format, with a separate family of polyclonal antibodies in each well of a 96-well plate, one can interrogate the entire surface of the biologics.
One key feature of the system is that, in its native form, few of the epitopes will be exposed on the surface of the biologic, but if the higher-order structure of the biologic changes slightly, additional epitopes will be exposed, resulting in a signal increase in the well containing the antibodies to that particular epitope.
Effectively, the kit provides a "fingerprinting" technique for the native biologic that is also primed to detect very small changes in structure due to the array of antibodies made to all the buried epitopes. It is highly sensitive to changes in structure or denaturation of the protein and is able to detect as little as 0.1% denaturation of a protein sample (Figure 2).
The assay is a robust sandwich-type ELISA and other than a colorimetric plate reader and multichannel pipettes, no specialized lab equipment is needed. Each assay kit consists of three 96-well plates coated with an array of 30–31 polyclonal antibody families, distributed column-wise across the plates with each polyclonal family represented six times on the plates.
One biosimilar can be compared to innovator in triplicate, or two biosimilars can be compared to innovator in duplicate.
In another example (Figure 3—top panel) we show the conformational array ELISA result of seven commercially successful monoclonal antibody drugs, with only the Fc (constant region) results depicted. The point to emphasize here is that the results are fairly similar across all seven biologics, as would be expected since this region is common among all antibodies in this class.
Compare this result to the lower panel of the figure that shows three candidate monoclonal antibody drugs that all failed in clinical trials. It becomes obvious that two of these candidates showed significant additional epitope exposure to Ab17 and Ab18 (near the hinge region), while the third showed significant epitope exposure to Ab23 and Ab24 (near the glycosylation site). Whether this additional epitope exposure actually caused the clinical trial failure is not yet understood, but the linkage is intriguing and we feel warrants further study.
Biologics and biosimilar drug development is likely to increase greatly in the coming years, both due to the promise that biologics bring to unmet medical needs and the price competition that biosimilars bring. As the FDA suggests, having "fingerprint-like" analysis tools will streamline development and improve safety; we believe that the technology offered by PCA-ELISA is one way of achieving this.
Kits are currently offered for seven of the most popular mAb-based innovator biologics (Rituximab, Trastuzumab, Bevacizumab, Adalimumab, Cetuximab, Alemtuzumab, and Palivuzumab, as well as a kit designed for novel mAb-based biologics). In each case the kit is designed to perform a PCA-ELISA comparison between one innovator standard and one biosimilar sample (in triplicate), or between one innovator standard and two biosimilar samples (in duplicate).
In each case the customer will need to supply samples of the biosimilar samples and innovator drug being compared to. Array Bridge can perform the PCA analysis in-house from supplied samples, or can supply kits for customer use.
Michael Davies ([email protected]) is senior scientist and Xing Wang, Ph.D., is president at Array Bridge.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Explain 1Malaysia
However, I am not sure if the prime minister is aware that he needs to keep his ship on a tighter control. As the prime minister, he will have to shoulder the responsibility for the infamous actions and outbursts of his subordinates.
His predecessor, Abdulllah Badawi, had suffered from similar repercussions when his subordinates made several costly decisions or took wrong actions which were unpopular to the people. Abdullah's popularity took a nose dive since his debut victory at the 2004 general election. He was ousted by UMNO after an unprecedented electoral losses suffered by the BN coalition in the 2008 general election.
Najib must learn quickly to stop the erosion of public support for his administration. It is important for him to stop the spiral decline before it consumes his premiership.
One way to do so is to make sure that he get better people to assist him to run the country. Not a bunch of comedians, racists or arrogant and irrational people. He must ensure that there is no more arbitrary interference by the police in the political process.
There must not be any more arbitrary and unconstitutional arrests. At present, the police are still detaining peaceful demonstrators. A healthy democracy should respect the freedom of expression and assembly. That is why Najib must explain his 1Malaysia motive. Can 1Malaysia help to improve the respect for democratic rights in the country?
What is Najib's stand on racial equality and racism in the country? Is his 1Malaysia committed to transform the social and political landscape in the country? The coalition and party he heads are racially centric organisations. Can 1Malaysia be achieved if Malaysia continues to be besieged by racial politics? Rhetoric is saying one thing but doing something else. Is Najib ready to create history by ending BN racial politics?
If Najib is serious about national unity, then he should discourage a movement such as the '1Sekolah Untuk Semua' which is a hollow concept aimed at flaming the Chinese and Tamil vernacular schools. Blaming primary school students for causing disunity is both silly and irresponsible.
If he is serious to end racial blame game, he must carefully select the right people to helm the state-owned media organisations and those controlled indirectly by his party. If he put those who believe in the trampling of democracy, the promotion of race supremacy and the use of hurtful and seditious language then his vision is as good as blind. Are there not other Malaysians who can run these media organisations better? Must his administration use recycled personalities?
Similarly, we would like the prime minister to state his stand on the NEP, a true economic liberalisation to strengthen industrial development, the ISA, the current education policy, a better deal for workers, a fairer treatment of indigenous people and those who are marginalised, racism and others.
It is time to get serious about change. Mouthing change alone will not stop BN continuous slide into oblivion. As a proponent of a two-party system, I would like to see the two coalitions compete in a healthy manner.
Hence, Straight Talk would like to remind him that his time and that of his coalition is fast running out.
Get the right people. Do not fear your own shadow. Do the things right so that your actions will not come back to haunt you.
Mr Prime Minister, you really ought to pull up your socks!
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All of us can come up with beautiful slogans. Unfortunately slogans are just that, slogans, without substance, proper study, short term and long term plans on how to carry it out.
Are we going to give 1Malaysia the benefit of doubt? Yes, but show us why we should.
What is 1Malaysia exactly? How are we going to achieve that? What are the short term and long term benchmarks? Is it going to benefit everyone? In other words, what is the plan?
Please don't push out yet another half cooked idea, or one of those op-this, op-that type of operation. We want well substance, not just some beautiful slogans.
- ajoyly said...
I agree totally with your views. 1Malaysia should be the window of opportunity to revamp everything that was wrong in this country. Not merely through lip service but through real action and practice. Malaysians are fade up of rhetoric.They want reality.
Unfortunately all the things above that you asked to be corrected are exactly what Najib stands for and upholds till today...
I don't think Najib can control the police any longer. With so many scandals bugging him, who knows what kind of evidence is the PDRM holding against him (ransom?). PDRM is busy buidling a police state and Najib can't do shit about it because he is at their mercy... We need a clean PM! One who is not only clean but is seen to be clean!
- kopitelp16 said...
This is Sloganland. A land full of beautiful slogan coined to con the Rakyat. Explain 1Malaysia? I'm afraid the one who came up with this don't even know what it really means. How to explain.
To me, it means that Malaysia is 1, whole and completely owned by 1. For the rest, you can take the crumbs.
- AliG said...
When it comes from that guy I just don't bother to know what it means. I'll never bother to stop to listen to a con man. If you are a good guy, you dont have to come with anything. Your heart shows it. To me their slogan has always been "Protect our race above all and at all cost". It is still going on. What has changed? Please don't hoodwink the Malaysians
The malaysia of today is not a democracy but a feudal warlord system. the country is run by the 2nd generation of warlords named razak, hussein, mahathir each carving out their fiefdom, each untouchable by the other. and as the chinese saying goes, the 1st generation builds, the 2nd gets comfy and eats off the 1st generation's fruits, then the 3rd bankrupts it. another comparable fate that will befall malaysia is how bush sr passes the baton to bush jr and like they say, the rest is history.
najib is the 2nd generation. he was born with a silver spoon. so why does he need to work hard? everything is so comfy cushy to him so why change? just throw around some slogans to the barking masses to keep them quiet and not rock the boat. he just wants to have fun while under the immunity protection of the pmship. change is too risky as it pushes him out of the box and instead of paradise he may end up in mongolia ha.
1Malaysia is defined as a form of sarcasm. For instance, when the PM said "People 1st, Performance Now", you won't really get it. 90 over percent voted for a by-election in Perak, and if it's really people 1st, then PM would have listen. If performance now, we should have a by-election by now.
There you have it. 1Malaysia! :)
hey..can i need ur help??
acttually...what are the motive for 1 malaysia??
i could not understand the government do it for wad??
hope can u explain for me...thx =)

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By JIM PARKER
The Post and Courier
A $2.5 million sale of a Legare Street house here, an East Battery closing in "the $4 million range" there pleases Debbie Fisher.
Those deals this year indicate the luxury homes field is ripening, like the tangy fruit on downtown fig trees.
Of course, that doesn't mean the market is all the way ripe. Fisher, broker-in-charge of Handsome Properties in Charleston, is aware the four-year national housing downturn yielded a sustained hibernation in high-end sales. With a few exceptions, potential buyers sit on the fence, not ready to commit.
"But everything is showing like crazy, which really means they are just about (ready to move)," Fisher says. "People are reading about Charleston, with Spoleto, all the events. Instead of going down to Miami," jet setters are stopping in the Lowcountry. "I think there's a confidence," she says.
Fisher is among dozens of Realtors in metro Charleston who either specialize in luxury home sales or at least count on a few such listings from time to time.
While luxury homes account for higher totals dollar-wise, sales of residences at $750,000 or higher made up 5 percent, or 1 in 20, of all deals in greater Charleston in the first three months of 2013, according to Charleston Trident Multiple Listing Service figures.
"We are definitely seeing more people looking," says Alex Tumbleston, agent with Wilkinson & Associates Real Estate ERA Powered in West Ashley. "Banks are lending money again; that's helping a lot," she says.
Tumbleston is listing what she describes as four "lovely and secluded" estate lots on private Flounder Lake on Yonges Island in the town of Meggett. The 4.25-7.32 acre parcels sell from $330,000 to $400,000. Or, someone could purchase the entire 22.28 acre tract for $1,465,000.
"A birder's, fisherman's, or hunter's paradise, with its own 'Avenue of Oaks,'" she says in her listing.
Tumbleston says the luxury market started turning upward in fall 2012. "Every month it gets better," she says.
The Yonges Island property would be an ideal choice for buyers who want to keep horses, or establish organic gardening plots, for instance, she says.
Many luxury home shoppers are looking to places such as Meggett, which while rural is just five miles from U.S. Highway 17 South. "I think they are looking to get away from the high density," Tumbleston says.
According to Peggy Reese, the luxury home market is "doing a lot better." She is listing a brick house on Shellfish Court, backing up to a lagoon and on a cul de sac in Hamlin Plantation in Mount Pleasant, that's priced at $745,000.
"Hamlin is a nice neighborhood. It's got beautiful walking paths, trees, a sense of privacy," says Reese, a Realtor with AgentOwned Realty.
Reese says she's seen signs that out-of-town buyers are moving to the Lowcountry.
She talked this week to the owner of a moving van rental company, who says so many customers are hauling their belongings from places in the Northeast to the Charleston area that the company had to send its employees out to recover the vans to have supply.
An advantage for the Charleston area is that homeowners in the Northeast, even as far south as Washington, D.C., can buy more house here. Large houses are available here for below $1 million. At the same time, interest "rates are low," she says. Out-of-state shoppers are calling her, asking things such as, "I want something between Savannah and Wilmington for $750,000."
Also helpful is home sales in harder hit parts of the country are showing "a bit of an uptick." Reese says. That had been "a little holdup," when people couldn't sell their homes elsewhere to move to the Charleston area.
While agents are happy about the boost in luxury home sales, they're aware that too much growth can be a bad thing — even in the rarefied luxury market.
Reese cites a trip she took this spring with her husband to the Big Apple. When New Yorkers learned they were from Charleston, "they'd want to come here, (but adding) close the gate behind me," she says. "They don't want to bring everybody else."
For more information and photos, visit www.postandcourier.com/realestate.
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An expansive Old World style house — indicative of the luxury homes in the Charleston area — is in Hibben off Long Point Road (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).×
Custom builder Trellis Residential framed this upscale, Charleston-single style home that sold this spring in Rivertowne east of the Cooper. (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).×
High-end countertops and drawers show off this bathroom at 308 Nevis Trail in Hibben from Trellis Residential (Photo by Anthony Rapidsarda/Staff).×
A sizable tree along the sidewalk provides shade for 170 Queen St., a downtown Charleston pied-a-terre listed by Handsome Properties (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).×
A wide front porch sets apart this residence in the Belle Hall neighborhood of Mount Pleasant (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).×
Colorful flowers highlight the entrance to this house off Long Point Road in East Cooper (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).×
This building at 61-B Queen St. houses an art gallery on the first floor and a residence above. The upstairs condo is priced at $599,000 (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).×
Matching palmettos flank the front of this three-story house in Hibben (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).×
A door knocker with the figure of a lion's head makes for an imposing display on the 17 Chalmers Street luxury home (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).×
The 308 Nevis Trail residence sports a landscaped backyard (Photo by Laura Olsen/Olsen Imagery).×


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Darth Vader fans can see the Big Bad One in costume and as a life-sized Lego replication as part of a Star Wars' weekend at Legoland Discovery Center in Grapevine. This week's top five list also features an impressionism workshop for kids at the Kimbell Art Museum, a Mother's Day Story Book Tea at El Dorado Country Club, Grease auditions at Garland Civic Theatre's Children on Stage and Seussical by the Flower Mound Performing Arts Center. I've got the details here.
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Incoming Altoona Area School District Superintendent Tom Otto has the full support of the school board, something Superintendent Dennis Murray has not had since the start of 2012.
"With the new superintendent, we can all get behind him and go in the same direction, in a way that benefits students and teachers," board member Skip Dry said.
"I can't wait for him to come down from Clearfield. It's going to be something that all board members want," he said.
In 2011, school board candidates Sharon Bream and Cheryl Rupp campaigned on a promise of not being "yes men" for the administration.
"They've been out to get [Murray] from day one," former board member Margaret "Ticky" Hendricks said of the new members.
Hendricks, Mary Kimmel and James Walstrom lost their bid for re-election to the school board when Bream, Rupp and Ron Johnston were elected in 2011.
"I knew several of the board members were resentful of him. I think there has been resentment with these board members because they think Denny [Murray] did not take cuts as he should," Hendricks said.
Bream, Rupp, Johnston, Board President Ryan Beers and Elizabeth Chapman have been critical of Murray's management of the district.
Without naming board members past or present, Bream said she "continues to get the sense some have never questioned Murray."
"I don't think Tom will back away from those questions. I think he will work with us," she said of Otto.
An inquiry in January by Beers, a 2002 Altoona Area High School graduate, into salary increases apparently given to administrative staff above contracted rates dating back to 2007 is the most recent and most significant question of Murray's management.
Murray has said he wants "vindication" and has hired a law firm to represent him.
Investigations by the Auditor General's Office and district solicitor Dave Andrews are continuing. Auditor General's Office personnel could not estimate the end date for their investigation, and Andrews is waiting for Murray's attorney, Efrem Grail of Pittsburgh, to confirm that Murray has recovered enough from his January shoulder surgery to participate in an interview for his investigation.
Otto said he has read Mirror articles about the ongoing investigation of the salary increases but said he is not concerned with issues he has no history with.
"Leaders that are up to challenges can't be shaken by circumstances at any particular time," he said.
While that issue is unique to Altoona Area, the school board shares obstacles with other districts, including looming financial deficits created by rising costs of the Public School Employee Retirement System, which is controlled by the state.
Hendricks said she has been painted as a "yes man" for Murray but said that's not true. She said she regrets voting against a tax increase Murray proposed during her tenure that would have helped the district save for PSERS costs.
Hendricks fears the board majority will handle the district's financial problems by voting for budget cuts that could harm the district.
"I'm glad I'm not there [on the board] now. I wouldn't want to be there. I feel bad for Tom Otto. I know him. I wish him well," she said.
Dry, Richard Lockard, Vice President Maryann Joyce Bistline and Tim Lucas have often been more in favor of administrators' spending recommendations than the board majority, which has disagreed with real estate purchases and construction projects, including the Altoona Area Junior High School. Planning for that combined school, to replace Keith and Roosevelt junior highs, started in 2005.
"I want to give our kids a good education," Bream said. "But at some point you have to be realistic. Do you need three artificial turf fields? These kind of things are over and above what is necessary."
Lucas favors district expenses that have come under fire, including the junior high school built shortly before his election.
"I view myself as representing the students on behalf of the community," Lucas said.
"You have to have a good deal of respect for Dr. Murray for doing what he's done with a low tax base and a smaller amount of local capital to work with. We have wonderful teachers and students and buildings," he said.
District spokeswoman Paula Foreman said Murray's reputation has been built on frugality. The district has raised taxes only three times in the past 25 years.
"He's facing a lot of criticism right now, but that was all Dr. Murray," she said of the infrequent tax increases.
In December, Murray achieved a net interest savings of $2 million for the district by refinancing its bonds.
Otto has the full backing of the board and contention involving Murray will dissipate, Lucas said, when Otto begins work at the district as early as June.
"But to say we are all going to agree on everything he agrees with is not true. As a board with a superintendent, we work as a team," he said. "We have to agree to disagree - but in the end come to a conclusion."
Otto, a former teacher and principal in the district, is the first successor named to take over one of the three superintendent positions in Blair County that are opening with retirements: Murray is retiring after 29 years in Altoona; William Miller is retiring after 43 years in Tyrone; and Paul Gallagher is retiring after 14 years in Hollidaysburg.
"These are difficult times in public education," Gallagher said. "As a superintendent, there are issues involving budgets and curriculum that we didn't face five to 10 years ago. All of those do take their toll on superintendents and other folks in the district."
In addition to government-mandated curriculum changes and funding cuts, school boards in Altoona and Hollidaysburg have become increasingly conservative since the 2009 elections, challenging superintendents to fend off looming financial deficits by cutting expenses related to school buildings and administrative positions rather than raising real estate taxes.
While conservative board members have grown in number on the Altoona and Hollidaysburg school boards, that hasn't appeared to be the trend statewide.
The most recent Pennsylvania School Boards Association survey shows Republican school board members decreased from 65 percent in 2006 to 54 percent of all members in 2010.
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1. shy2papa (Posts: 309; Member since: 23 Jan 2010)
Look the fact of the matter is WP7 still dose not have what it takes to go up against iOS or the people's choice Andriod.
MS has to work hard to make WP7 UI more attractive and give people the chioce to customise it the way they want.
3. Penny (Posts: 1648; Member since: 04 Feb 2011)
That's debatable. WP7 has what it takes to up against iOS and Android, it just depends on what you are looking to get out of your device, because each platform has its benefits and pitfalls.
4. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
I think mango update helped a lot.
8. vvelez5 (Posts: 623; Member since: 29 Jan 2011)
I don't know what you mean by "attractive" but it is considered that the Metro UI is the best looking UI out there. Obviously not the easiest to use like IOS or gives you the best customization like Android. But the prettiest by far.
10. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
Who says its the best looking. I have never heard that before.
14. vvelez5 (Posts: 623; Member since: 29 Jan 2011)
Many people simply because IOS is basically a collection of apps and Android can start looking very clustered. The live tiles with the black background looks great and many sites and reviews agree.
15. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
That's totally opinion, but seriously most people think its one of the uglier OS's. At least in the US.
19. vvelez5 (Posts: 623; Member since: 29 Jan 2011)
Never heard anyone say the Metro UI is considered ugly And it isnt opinion that IOS is a collection of apps and Android can start looking clustered. But of course to what is "pretty" is opinion but when several reviews and people say its pretty then you start to think that they may have a point. and being American and living in America I've never heard one person call the Windows UI ugly. And I am not exaggerating. But I'm sure people dont like the way it looks.
32. snowgator (Posts: 3583; Member since: 19 Jan 2011)
One thing is for sure: Metro UI is a love it/hate it thing. The more popular WP gets (and it will) the more polarizing it will become. Without the ability of manufacturers to put a skin on the devices the way you can on Android, the live tiles concept is it's selling point. And if you fall into the group that dislikes it's looks, WP has lost you. I love the function and the advantages of the live tiles, and I can see dozens of ways Nokia, Samsung, HTC and all the other handset makers can make hubs and tweaks to make each of their WP offerings unique. But there will still not be the Sense VS. Touchwiz VS. Motoblur type distinctions. Maybe that puts Microsoft at a slight disadvantage to Google. But the trade-off is a smooth UI experience with updates that come quickly and firmware improvements that will not "brick" your device.
Whew, way more long winded than I meant that to be. Just wanted to agree with vvelez......
54. vvelez5 (Posts: 623; Member since: 29 Jan 2011)
LOL always love your comments snowgator whether I agree with them or not.
62. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
i just love gator.. he tastes like chicken. :)
66. snowgator (Posts: 3583; Member since: 19 Jan 2011)
Dude... I am way creeped out right now...
67. vvelez5 (Posts: 623; Member since: 29 Jan 2011)
But gator you do taste like chicken. With like a fishy texture to you.
69. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
a lil on the rubbery side if its premade. thats how you can always tell fresh snowgator from left over snowgator. :) :) :)
55. Uzzelien (Posts: 131; Member since: 22 Feb 2011)
I do see it as a disadvatage but more of an advantage. Look at how long it takes HTC or Samsung to release Android X.XXX to the phones after it comes out and is RTM compared to WP7's last RTM to phone. Like you said the updates come a lot faster. They don't even talk about how much better support it has for Word, Excel, Power Point and Share Point then Android does.
24. shimmyx20 (Posts: 280; Member since: 03 Mar 2009)
I definitely think Metro is the best looking. I have an iPod (had an iPhone 3G), and I have had several Android phones with all the major skins (TouchWiz, Blur, and Sense). My current phone, a Samsung Focus, has the best looking UI of all of them. Windows 7 paired with a Super AMOLED screen is really great looking.
70. T00muchF00D (Posts: 98; Member since: 27 Nov 2011)
The Engadget crew and the Gizmodo crew did
26. Dr.Phil (Posts: 1163; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
If you had post this a year ago, I would have agreed with you. But, now that Mango has been released I would have to say you may be wrong. With the introduction of Live Tiles, WP7 is a unique and I must say attractive OS. I mean the idea of being able to look at your device and find out basic information without having to go into an application is great. Also, WP7 was the first one to truly be optimized for HTML5 while Android and iOS have been playing around the entire time and now we know that Flash is no longer going to be offered for mobile platforms. While WP7 does need to step it up in terms of graphics (which the other day they were looking for people to "bring the heat" when it comes to graphics and games), at the same time it has the fastest growing app market. I don't think WP7 is trying to appeal to those who really care what picture they have on their background or whether they are allowed to put applications in this pane or that pane. The whole premise behind WP7 is that people aren't absorbed into their phones but rather you can work efficiently without having to go through several different menus and opening applications to find what you need.
Now, I will admit WP7 is still lagging behind the other OS' in terms of technology as well as overall appeal. But, I have a very very strong feeling that next year with the release of Windows 8 and Metro UI coming to all Microsoft applications (your PC, your Xbox 360, and your phone) you will see more and more people looking at windows phone. This idea that you can access your computer profile from your mobile phone or your Xbox Live account from your mobile phone and still play with your friends is really quite interesting. Also, Microsoft did buy Skype so you will most likely see a good integration of that as well.
59. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
Its still a plenty viable OS, certainly more mature in the app sector than Blackberry but carriers still tend to push those more, and that video above just further demonstrates it.
68. CellularNinja (Posts: 306; Member since: 27 Sep 2011)
so, so biased. . . You don't have to like it, but it can compete with the other OSs. It doesn't have to be your favorite to be a great OS.
2. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
Majority of sales reps in store and over the phone are actually not much more educated then the average consumer. You could tell this girl didn't really know what she was talking about. Also as can be seen by the comment section on here a lot of them are very biased and will try to push their favorite phone on you.
Sales people don't try to sell windows phones right now, but that's kind of microsofts fault. They haven't created much demand for the phone. They also have higher return rates which goes against the sales rep.
31. snowgator (Posts: 3583; Member since: 19 Jan 2011)
As I say this, understand I am not trying to call you out Taco- I know that happens to you a lot. But I have never heard of Windows Phones being returned a lot. As a matter of a fact- it was the amazing rate of customer satisfaction for Windows Phones that got me to go look into them. I had a horrid experience with Windows Mobile, and it is very old news that when lumped in with Win Mo that it appeared as though WP was rated real low. But WP itself is very well recieved and those that owned a first gen WP sold me on them.
48. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
taco is right about return rates. HD7's were boomarangs at first. People were all excited about them, but when they realized the WP7 was lacking a lot of features they had in android, a very large chunk of them went back to andriod instead.
A lot of that was not proper expectactions by the sales reps (who most knew jack about the device themselves), and an expectation by unknowing customers that WP7 did all the stuff the old windows phones did, just nicer.
The "boomerang" effect has died down quite a bit, but so have sales since then. You scare the sales reps from selling it and the phone is toast.
60. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
Returns due to features is not the same as returns due to issues with phone. WP7 may have initially saw high returns due to features, but I rather have a phone returned due to features than due to issues. My optimus for instance didnt ring at all today and my wife tried calling me several times. The phone has worked good for a year, but now its starting to crap out on me, coincidentally enough when Im out of the manufacturer warranty. If I had gone WP7 instead, Im sure it will still be working good. I cant rely on my phone anymore after what happened. She was pissed at me, she thought I was ignoring her calling or had the volume off or misplaced the phone or something like that, but it was with me the entire time with ringer, it just didnt ring or receive any incoming messages. Particularly strange since the mobile web was working on the phone just fine, and when I sent her a text, because I hadnt heard from her in a while, it seemed to go through fine on my end, but she didnt receive.
63. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
in sales... returns are returns.
and actually the HD7 has had a lot of issues since the mango update. I have warrantied more HD7's in the last month than i remember selling in the 6 prior months.. lol. Some weird issue where it just decides to hang and become a permanent brick randomly. Did like 5 in the week after mango came out and have been slow n steady ever since. For a phone that didnt sell that well to begin with.. thats a lot.
5. CannedKarma (Posts: 19; Member since: 22 Oct 2011)
As a Verizon store manager, I'll readily admit that I'm prone to telling customers we carry Android and iPhone when first asked as those are our top sellers. When a customer comes into the store looking for a new phone, and lets me know what sort of experience they're after, I'll certainly use that information to better quality them into a WP7 handset if it's applicable. The problem goes in a couple main ways: first off, there's not a 4G WP7 handset on Verizon, so it by default gets the short stick when you're considering the best promos that are offered, and then there's the issue of selling what's on hand to the customer versus what would need to be special ordered. Very few stores actually have stock of the Trophy on-hand, and one of the eternal mantras of any retail store is to sell what's available today. That said, none of my reps are familiar with WP7, and even the official Verizon training materials are incorrect in their descriptions. Our online manuals list WP7 as having a 'PC-like experience'.
Until a manufacturer takes a leap of faith to build an LTE WP7.5 handset, the devices will continue to gather dust in a warehouse, and the reps won't let the customers know about them. It's sad, but it all boils down to what is most popular to sell, especially when the people working the stores aren't all interested in knowing EVERY platform on the market inside out.
Lastly, it's exactly like taco50 said: Microsoft has done a deplorable job of marketing WP7 in its first year. This is compounded by the fact that Windows Mobile, which is more often than not confused with Windows Phone 7, was a terrible OS that those who were familiar with it were burned enough by it to never give a successor OS another shot.
9. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
Windows mobile was a mess. It's hard for a lot of people to get over that and give them another chance. Consumers and sales people.
33. snowgator (Posts: 3583; Member since: 19 Jan 2011)
We know LTE and dual core options are coming for WP, so that part will take care of itself. Besides, every carrier is headed to LTE, so it is not like Microsoft has a choice. Other options such as expandable memory and different form factors also have to come. Why is it this second gen of Mango flavored handsets seems fine with giving every consumer who wants a full qwerty keyboard or extra room for media to Android? Beyond me to understand.
But the marketing problems, especially from a giant like Microsoft, is really lost to me. I cannot fathom Microsoft not pumping ad campaign after ad campaign to push it until they find the one that works. Sorta like Gieco or Budwieser- they each have like three different ad campaigns going on at any one time. Than they just run with the more successful ones until they run their course.
40. risee2 (Posts: 9; Member since: 25 May 2011)
As a manger why are giving pushing blame back on WP7 for not having a LTE device or Microsoft not marketing the devices. And admitting your stores don't have the Trophy in stock and your staff is not trained on WP7. Thats is the whole problem you as a manager or Verizon should have one person trained on WP7 since its in your store. That's the problem I have when into Verizon stores for any device untrained staff.
Actually the WP7 does have a PC like experience. Windows Mobile wasn't that bad. Move on from the past. True Windows fans will keep coming back. A device that speaks for its self doesn't need adds that saturate the market.
46. CannedKarma (Posts: 19; Member since: 22 Oct 2011)
Where to start with this...
WP7 does not have a PC like experience in the slightest. Metro UI is entirely different from anything you've seen traditionally on any Windows platform. And 'true windows' fans? Considering the divergence between the two systems, that has nothing to do with it either.
And yes, a device that speaks for itself still needs marketing. Why do you think the iPhone is so successful? Because Apple has one of the best marketing strategies and follow-throughs of any company in the world right now. If you don't market your product, it will do poorly solely through the virtue of no one knowing about it. Very basic marketing theory.
Microsoft is to blame for not marketing WP7. Just about every critic who has lauded the platform has brought this up repeatedly. Check your sources.
As for not having at least one person at the store trained on WP7, I am the tech expert at my store for all the platforms. When my reps aren't familiar with something, they come to me. When we have down time, I pass along the knowledge I have to them. That's the point of being the manager -- those who work for me know they can come to me with their questions.
49. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
lol, your one of the few. I have managers from other stores calling me for answers. It was like that when i worked for VZW as well. Most managers are just promoted sales reps that were good at keeping their numbers high. The game changes so fast now that most managers no longer really keep up with the product anymore.
51. ThePhoneGURU (Posts: 11; Member since: 19 Nov 2011)
as a verizon rep i completely agree. I however do like WP7 but customers are lead towards android and iphone and most of the time never even get shown WP7. I hope they come out with a LTE model, that would be the only way Verizon is going to sell one.
56. Uzzelien (Posts: 131; Member since: 22 Feb 2011)
" first off, there's not a 4G WP7 handset on Verizon, so it by default gets the short stick when you're considering the best promos that are offered "
The iPhone isn't 4G LTE either and really it's pointless to have a 4G phone right now as much of any of the networks aren't 4G and aren't going to be for two years.
" Until a manufacturer takes a leap of faith to build an LTE WP7.5 handset, the devices will continue to gather dust in a warehouse "
Yet you push iPhones all the time to people.
" It's sad, but it all boils down to what is most popular to sell, especially when the people working the stores aren't all interested in knowing EVERY platform on the market inside out."
It's true the people in the stores don't care to learn or know about anything that is made.
57. ThePhoneGURU (Posts: 11; Member since: 19 Nov 2011)
"It's true the people in the stores don't care to learn or know about anything that is made."
that is not true in every case. As a rep I do take pride in learning about all the products I sell. But some reps do just learn the basics and sell whats popular.
6. Luuthian (Posts: 246; Member since: 09 Sep 2011)
Of course Windows Phone doesn't get a fair shake, and I blame that more on Microsoft than the carriers.
Not only are hardware options extremely limited, but Microsoft has spent next to no money on training or marketing. They've done absolutely nothing to make the device seem desirable to anyone. And while their OS is beautifully simple, speedy, and easy to use, it's paired with exceptionally archaic hardware. Even its second generation phones, which were only recently released, are a generation behind. And lets not forget it has very little app support, and the Xbox service is a complete joke (it's overpriced, the games are old, and they're only released once a week).
My Focus was very near and dear to me upon release, but a year later I am an exceptionally frustrated customer. I feel like I bought into something with exceptional promise, only to be met with increasing disappointment... A disappointment which has peaked. I'm moving onto a droid as soon as we hit the new year.
Having been a steadfast owner for a year, I can completely see why no one recommends the phones yet. While I hope for the best come Windows Phone 8, and I do believe the OS has some amazing merits, it's no where near competitive with Android or Apple yet. WP7 needs a lot of love, and it needs it fast.
7. vvelez5 (Posts: 623; Member since: 29 Jan 2011)
I've sold alot of cell phones before and been with different companies and there is a definite bias salesmen have with what phones they sell. Myself I've sold all the phones and I usually match it to the needs of the customer but you have your fandroids and apple cultists out there who swear up and down that their respective phone is the best one ever. I've always held a soft spot for Windows Phone and love to show people its beautiful UI which is the most appealing UI over any other OS at the moment. I still push Blackberries too especially when people focus on messaging and security over anything else. But I actually have people that sell people things they dont ask for. My favorite one was last year when one salesmen who no longer works for us always sold the Epic 4G to everyone who comes in. Best Messenger? Epic. Best Service? Epic. Best Looking? Epic. Easiest to use? Epic. Most Secure? Epic. this guy cracked us up but he made sales and no one questioned him because of it. But there is a huge bias especially against windows phone which is just plain wrong.
11. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
This website has let me see the mindset of some of these sales people. It makes me cringe.
13. vvelez5 (Posts: 623; Member since: 29 Jan 2011)
You should see the bias when you talk to them face to face.
38. risee2 (Posts: 9; Member since: 25 May 2011)
Bias is the key word and thats why certain devices don't get sold. Going into a retail store for choosing a new phone or getting technical assistance for that device is a joke sometimes.
50. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
I know im one of very few that will recommend a BB or WP7 depending on the customer's needs. Most of i think has to do with worrying about the boomerang effect and most definitely lack of education on the newer products.
12. DJLegacy2k5 (Posts: 212; Member since: 28 Jan 2011)
I work in an AT&T store, our store sells a TON of WP7 phones. The trick is to listen to the customer! If they want simple, streamlined, easy to see, read, setup, navigate then WP7 is perfect. Most people arent into downloading 10000 apps and honestly most are too stupid or lazy to take the time to learn android. Tons of people are finally learning that the iPhone is worthless and a rip off and blackberry is dead. WP7 should be offered to MOST customers because they want an EASY TO USE Smartphone...These retards in the store that just push ANDROID to 70 year olds or people that arent into apps and cant even use their home computer, should be fired! I know I would fire all of these idiots...
17. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
You're one of the biased reps I'm talking about.
"too stupid or lazy to take the time to learn android."
Ever thought some people may have better things to do with their life then fiddle with their phone. If the OS is complicated that's a miss on androids part.
"iPhone is worthless and a rip off and blackberry is dead."
How exactly is iPhone worthless? I can remind you not too long ago you were on here posting that you were sick of androids battery life and were considering a switch to iPhone.
Blackberry is still worthwhile for some consumers depending what they need.
You're the perfect example of the douchebag salesmen.
16. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
This was just a horrible call basically. Poor training, didn't qualify the customer, didn't pull up her information either obviously. The first thing she should have been asking is what features the customer would like to see and what they would like to do on their phone. Is this going to be a work or personal phone, corporate or personal email, do you play games on your phone, use Facebook, twitter, YouTube, etc, etc... She just started giving suggestions without knowing the custome's needs, which led to a horrible experience for the customer.
With that said, I do believe WP7 gets pushed to the back for other devices. MS could help by making the UI a little more appealing, but some love it just the way it is. But it's not just wp7, it happens with all OSs depending on the rep you get. I remember a call where a customer was talked into a Droid ERIS even though he loved his old Palm 650. He called me completely frustrated with the ERIS because he still wanted a keyboard. I told him about the Pre Plus and the free tether VZW offered with it, waived his stocking fee and followed up with him a week later. No only did he love his phone, but his wife did too. If the rep before had qualified him on the first call, he would have never had that first bad experience. That's why I recommend doing your own research first, so you could never be TOLD what is best for you.
18. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
That's about the average call with any carrier. Most reps don't care to learn anymore than the bare minimum.
20. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
And that's the problem with customer service as a whole. We're here daily learning and discovering new features, specs and technologies, but that's "not their job". Many only care about what their systems tell them.
21. priest2705 (Posts: 2; Member since: 18 Nov 2011)
I work in an AT&T authorized retailer, and while I will admit that some of our reps don't really mention Windows phones, I have no problem with recommending them to people. Metro really is a good looking UI, they're dead simple to use, and the Xbox Live feature is nice. I usually recommend them to people interested in their 1st smartphone or who are looking for an easy to use smartphone. As for the lack of knowledge among reps, I can't speak for any store but mine. But in my store, there are 5 of us and we're all phone geeks. We read PA all day, stay up on what's new, and actually EDUCATE the consumer about the differences in the 4 major OS's that we carry
23. networkdood (Posts: 6330; Member since: 31 Mar 2010)
That's what I'm talking about - DEDICATION!!
28. MorePhonesThanNeeded (Posts: 645; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
You mean 3 major OS's, WP7 isn't major by any stretch of the word. I do however like it's tiling effect, it's super smooth and integrates everything seamlessly. Finally MS got something working correctly, now if they hadn't sat on their laurels with that garbage windows mobile they would have been up there, now they are stuck fighting for 4th position with symbian...this is what I call epic. Great that they created a truly awesome OS but now with a market firmly in the hands of two juggernauts and one business savvy OS, where does that leave WP7? Heck they are already talking about WP8 and WP7 has barely been out 2 years...looks like MS is about to open mouth insert foot...again!
34. snowgator (Posts: 3583; Member since: 19 Jan 2011)
Why is it WP8 coming out is bad for WP7.5, but that you are not calling out Android for coming out with I.C.S. less than a year after Gingerbread and before all those handsets have even been updated from Froyo????
Exactly the bias we are refering to. Microsoft has totally righted their ship after the WinMo disaster, and everyone either is saying the improvements are too slow and are way too far behind, or that Microsoft is stupid to start planning for WP8 even as they kick off WP7.5. It is the four major OS's, because Microsoft is in this race to be a major player and is thinking several years ahead.
64. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
one of my last customers tonight kept talkin crap about the new HTC Radar because it ran WP7. I had to tell him about 8 times that WP7 had nothing to do with windows 5 and 6.... and then since he just refused to believe me I had to break it down in detail..
One of MS's biggest mistakes was naming its new OS Windows. People hear that and just shudder. Shoulda just called it metro or something else.
22. networkdood (Posts: 6330; Member since: 31 Mar 2010)
I go to Costco and the rep there is clueless on what phones are coming out.
36. snowgator (Posts: 3583; Member since: 19 Jan 2011)
Dood, I have never been to a Costco, but I have yet to see a Sales-Kid in a Best Buy that isn't lost. Painful to watch. Last experience I had was my inability to keep my mouth shut as the Sales-Kid was telling a couple my age that Blackberry was being bought out and wasn't going to be making their own phones anymore. Un-freaking-real.
42. Phoneguy007 (Posts: 218; Member since: 02 Jun 2011)
yep the same with most walmarts.
25. nickjjay (Posts: 79; Member since: 10 Oct 2011)
Interesting video. Thanks for sharing it with us.
27. dunyfunny (Posts: 20; Member since: 05 Nov 2011)
some interesting numbers: there are 34 phones running WP7 and more than 25 of them are available in the USA. However, only Galaxy S I or iphone 3gs( not even mentioning 4 or 4s) were doubled or quadrupled of total sales of entire WP7 ones.
here are WP7 oneshttp://cleveland.backpage.com/
29. rsiders (Posts: 913; Member since: 17 Nov 2011)
Well I could see this happening simply because 50 Android phones come out per month and Apple and Blackberry are very well known. Also sounds like the rep has no idea what Windows Phone has to offer. I asked a rep in T-Mobile if he liked Windows OS and he just looked at me like I was crazy and said \"I can\'t stand it. I use Android.\" And that\'s an honest opinion. It\'s all opionated. The POINT is Windows Phone offers something that is different from every other OS. No matter what app they come out with, no other OS has better and visually appealing way of integrating social networks and functionality. Clearly if it was the same as other OS Android, Apple, Blackberry lovers wouldn\'t be so harsh towards it.lol I love that it\'s different. I love that it\'s simple. I love that it\'s Windows.
30. Stuntman (Posts: 836; Member since: 01 Aug 2011)
Can any of you tell me why I cannot find a single working demo model of a Windows Phone in any phone store for the past year? Windows Phone has been out for a year now and for the past year, every single Windows Phone I saw in any store is a fake shell with the home screen sticker on it. In all the stores I have visited, they have had working iPhones, working Android phones (high end models or featured models) and BlackBerrys. I have yet to see a working Windows Phone. That has been my biggest complaint with phone stores here in the Metro Vancouver area.
35. snowgator (Posts: 3583; Member since: 19 Jan 2011)
My first experience with WP was hearing good things about it and deciding to go to my local AT&T store to try it out. They had dummy phones for the Focus and Surround, but no live ones. Since the bigger seller in my area was actually the LG Quantum, they had to unpackage one of those and activate it for me so I could see it.
It took me three Verizon stores to find an active Trophy. One of those Verizon stores didn't even have a dummy phone or even pretended to care I was interested in it. It took me two Sprint stores to find an Arrive I could see. I am truly excited to see the Titan go on sale on the 20th, and I am really worried I will have to go to umpteen stores to find one live to compare to a Focus S. Your point is very, very valid.
44. rsiders (Posts: 913; Member since: 17 Nov 2011)
Well I\'m sorry you\'re missing out dude. I go in the T-Mobile and AT&T stores and give all the new devices a spin, and they have the phones running the same day they launch. Going to take the Titan for a test drive tomorrow!:D I live in Baltimore, MD though.


text: Hatters Ninth After Opening Round at LPGA October 12, 2012 Daytona Beach – The Stetson Hatters are 10 shots off the lead after the opening round of play at the LPGA Xavier Collegiate Invitational on Friday. The 54-hole event will continue with single rounds of play on both Saturday and Sunday. The Hatters are ninth in the 14 team field after posting a 32-over par score of 320 on Friday. While the round was the highest of the season so far for Stetson, the Hatters are still within striking distance of the lead with 36 holes still left to be played. "Looking at the scores, the course had a little to do with the way everyone played, and it was very breezy out there," Hatters coach Floyd Kerr said. "I was a little surprised when I turned in our scores to see 310 leading. To be only 10 shots back means that if we go out tomorrow and have a decent round we can be right in the thick of things." Breezy conditions and a very tough course inflated scores throughout the field. Florida Gulf Coast owns the early team lead after posting a 310 on Friday. The Eagles have a one-shot lead over host Xavier and a two shot advantage over both Old Dominion and Mercer. "We are still not executing basic shots," Kerr said. "We have worked in practice, and we execute those shots, but we are not transferring that to the course. They have to realize it is the same shots they are making in practice." Individually, not a single player managed to break par on the opening day of play. Xavier freshman Shane Crutchfield, a native of St. Petersburg, finished with an even par 72 to hold a one stroke advantage over Mercer junior Lacey Fears. Stetson junior Sammi Smith (Louisville, Ky.) is one of four players tied for seventh place overall, four shots off the tournament lead. Smith's 76 on Friday included a 37 on the front nine and a 39 on the back. "Sammi played a solid round," Kerr said. "She putted and chipped the ball well, but had one bad hole. She had a series of three shots that were uncharacteristic of the things she was doing, but she is hitting the ball well. We have others who are hitting good enough to shoot better numbers, but we have to get back to hitting basic shots and doing what we can do." Overall, the course at LPGA International, which played to 6,178 yards, took a toll on the field. There were a total of just 79 birdies with no eagles in the opening round to go with 437 bogeys, 147 double bogeys and 51 other scores. Smith was one of just six players to card as many as three birdies in the opening round of play. As a team, the Hatters managed just five birdies in the opening round. Smith's birdies came on the par 4 fourth hole, which was her final hole of the day, along with the par 5 eighth and the par 5 14th. She had bogies on holes 1, 2, 9 and 12 and a triple bogey on the par 5 16th. In addition to Smith, junior Ryan Ashburn (Largo, Fla.) is in the hunt after shooting a six-over par score of 78. She is tied for 13th overall in the field. Juniors Mallory Viera (Howie-in-the-Hills, Fla.), Claudia Redinger (Durban, South Africa) and Jenna Hoecker (Rochester, NY) are a little further back in the field of 75 players. Viera is tied for 37th after an opening round score of 82, Redinger is tied for 49th after an 84 and Hoecker finished the opening day with an 87, good for a tie for 58th. "I know our girls aren't happy about what they are doing on the course right now," Kerr said. "When they start to realize that the game is not as hard as they are trying to make it, and they start transferring the things they are doing in practice to the course, then I think we will see scores start to come down." The Hatters will be paired with players from North Florida and McNeese State for Saturday's second round, which will begin with a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. Stetson's players will begin play on holes 7-10.Print Friendly Version More Headlines


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quote: I see you've never used a Windows Phone before.
quote: Still no matter how you customize it, it's still an ugly mess.
quote: And yeah no offense, but that's not a very effective comeback when like 95% of the smartphone-buying public hasn't tried it either.
quote: It just goes to show that people like you are dissing the platform and spreading false information that ordinary people see which turns them away from trying it


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Parents are responsible for teaching children
January 18, 2013
I have read many sarcastic letters blaming the school system for some children's behavior. First off, a child's education begins at home. The parent's number one priority is discipline....
Majoritarian, I love your summary...
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As a teacher I find it amusing at times to see the comments written about us. Allow me to relate an event that happened to me one evening in a book store. I was looking for a book of poetry by Gwendlyn Brooks. There was an elderly gentleman there and we began talking about 'teachers'. He told me that it is the 'teachers' job to teach manners and discipline to my students. I objected saying that is the parents role not the teachers. He agreed with me but said the parents were not doing their job so now 'teachers' needed to do that. I asked him when will we have time to teach our respective curriculum if we first have to teach multiculturalism, allow time for 'specials' over cores, discipline in the class, and then teach a subject? Now you want us to teach them manners and proper respect on top of the other extraneous junk we must cover? He just said 'yes'. I just want to say thank you to you here who really understand that we teachers want very much to teach our students to think
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It is the God given right/duty of the parents to train up (educate) their child and not that of gov't. Parents have either believed a lie that they both must work and defer childbearing duties to the gov't or they are selfish wanting their own careers in order to maintain a standard of living above that which they need to be good parents.
A family can make it on one income but you must work at it. Don't defer your job as parent to the gov't or else they will take it from everyone. A right not exercised is a right lost.
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What is education? According to Webster's 1828, "The bringing up, as of a child, instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations."
The ultimate goal of education is to replicate everything that is good in you as a parent into your child and to give them the tools to be successful in life.
We have allowed Gov't to get involved and teach children subjects contrary to moral values, acceptance of sodomite lifestyles, no right to self-defense, inclusion at all costs, promiscuous living through sex ed, free ******s and inappropriate sexual behavior allowed in children, teaching that founders were generally racist immoral people we should be ashamed of, society is more important than the individual or family etc...
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Parents should NOT be the people to choose the curriculum because it would create to much closed loop thinking. People need to be exposed to all kinds of ideas (the main reason we have freedom of the press written into the constitution) and different points of view in order to form their own. I believe home schooling is wrong (but I commend the parents to do it and are taking responsibility to educate their kids) because of the isolation of the kids and the isolation of the ideas presented to the student. Math is the language for which there is no words to the science we seek to explain. It is the language of thought. Cutting spending on public education severely dampens our place in the world.
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your comments about the Texas board of education setting the standard and that I should go to Texas reveal your lack of knowledge of the subject. In fact, in this country, Texas has the largest public school system in the country and when it chooses books text books to be used in their curriculum it becomes the standard for the rest of the country because by sheer size and numbers it reduces the cost of all the books to be purchased so other states sign onto the same books in order to further reduce the costs.. (capitalisim) Fair enough (why have 50 different books for the same subject matter) but the choices being made in Austin are now no longer congruent with reality in the rest of the country.
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Bull/klava/major - you are all missing my point. First and foremost I am of the opinion that it is parents who do all the best teaching to children and should take the most active role they can in delivering the education standards set by reasonable academics. It was my responsibility to educate my children and I take/took that very seriously and wish other parents would do so and not use the public school system as a baby sitting service. When I say "I am the teacher" it is in the context of hours and hours at the table with my kids engaging them with questions about what they learned that day, reviewing homework and helping "grading" their written work.(what I would say was a B- always seemed to come back from the teacher an A)
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Now that's the deadhead I recognize. I assume all that common sense parenting talk in your first comment just got there through some error. Thanks for clearing up the confusion. Now my opinion of you and your thinking is confirmed.
You're a NUT !
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If it is not the job of the teacher to teach, then why do we pay so many of them to pick out curriculum? And why don't we call just them curriculum providers?
You have a strange standard: You say it is just their job to provide you with a curriculum so that you can teach your child. Why can't you pick out a curriculum? And, why do you then complain about the curriculum that these "educational experts" pick out?
If you don't like Texas' curriculum providers, then don't live there. I am not a fan of North Korea's curriculum providers, so I don't live there. Nor am I a fan of Massachusetts' curriculum providers, so I don't live there. Easy enough...
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... teachers were always taken aback when I would first meet them and say to them without hesitation... "I do not expect you to teach my child anything.... You will provide me with the curriculum and I will ensure my child will learn it... If there is anything YOU need, please let me know..." Usually the teacher would stand there for a moment digesting what I had just said. I always got a thank you and I forged great relationships with each one, closely going over everything presented to my kids for their consumption... It worked out well and served my kids greatly ** Klava they think for themselves.. I made sure they learned how to think in a cognative matter to understand what is going on in the world
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Since the 1980's and ronny raygun's man (bill bennett) decided to gut the department of education in an attempt to dumb down our society to keep it compliant and without cognative thought (easier to rule) we have seen a decline in our kids' education standards. I mean; now we allow the nuts in Texas write the history books (ommitting the fact that slavery was the reall issue at question during the civil war) and re-writing science books (saying man walked with dinosaurs) elevating (the oxymoron) intelligent design to an equal footing with evolution. It is no wonder our kids are woefully prepared to enter a competitive world market place since we put greater emphisis on the dreams of being an NFL or Rock star over being a great engineer or scientist...
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Applause to our teachers. They care more than you think they do about the kids. Many now are facing a violent atmosphere, rather than a learning one. One city school in particular needs to clean up their act quickly. Hire a stable principal with strict guidelines for the students, and a liberal heart for allowing teachers to teach.
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Ahhhh deadhead ! You were really making sense there for a while. I was just about to reevaluate my opinion of you when you started with that "masters of industry" nonsense. I hope you didn't teach that crap to your kids. The biggest problem I had with raising two kids was "correcting" that kind of New Left claptrap that they picked up in school, from the media and from the culture in general.
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You know what they say about assuming right? Yep. You just proved that in full force. Congrats!
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... and their own computors etc.. But in the end they both ended up with full ACADEMIC scholarships to the college of their choice. Education is the key to the rhealm of our society. But when babies who have not finished highschool are having babies (quite the norm in this part of the world) is it any wonder why our children are becomming the least educated on the planet? Becomming lemmings for the "masters of indusry," and the politicians who serve only their corporate masters? * Take the television out of the bedroom, throw away the video games and find a way to control the personal computor/tablet/phone and perhaps our youth will again become the envy of the world and not the patsies of it.
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... going over the work every day instills the sense of responsibility to both child and adult. It is the adult who either allows the child to watch television, play video games or play outside without first doing the schoolwork required. It is the adult, who in most cases sadly, does not produce a book for the child to read instead of allowing a developing mind to wander aimlessly and without structure. My children never had a television in their room nor a video game system to play. (boy did their mom and I hear about that endlessly) We gave them a book and only after homework was done could they play outside or read the new book. It was a battle to keep them "happy" compared to their friends who had video games and televisions...
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I firmly believe that indeed; parents ARE responsible for teaching their children. Discipline, respect and other tangible societal issues are not to be ceded to school teachers and such however. Paddleing and the "ruler" was never a good substitute for parental influence. That said. Parents should realize that teachers can teach your child absolutely NOTHING,NADA! They can AND DO set the curriculum however. Once your son or daughter comes home with schoolwork (completed or not) it is the parents' responsibility to go over it....
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Good for you, NightGoddess. But many studies have shown that you are then the exception to the rule.
Most things aren't impossible with enough effort. However, studying history and general human nature shows a certain pattern of effort.
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The writer to the LTE is spot on.
Unfortunately our society has leaned heavily toward an attitude of an entertainment and entitlement society, which doesn't accept responsibility for its actions. The increasing role of public education from cradle through college doesn't help that mentality or responsibility.
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"Momma does the proposing and Daddy does the disposing. If Dads arent there to enforce the law, society will."
Major, I have to disagree. I am a single mother with 2 teenage boys. Very well-behaved teenage boys. Well-behaved enough that their teachers have remarked on MANY occasions that other kids should take lessons from mine. How did this happen without a dad? Because I have instilled the fear of god in them. Not from a religious perspective, but from a common sense perspective. Butt whippings hurt and they WILL get one if they act like fools.
The result? I haven't had to spank either of them in years because they learned early on what it means to be respectful and accountable for their actions. And all of this without a dad around.....
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Another mediocre somewhat popular nu-metal band, this time, from Canada, which isn't a surprise considering their musical track record (Avril, Celine Dion, Barenaked Ladies, etc). Lead singer Chad is an extremely nasal "Marlboro Man" type vocalist who sounds constipated on a permenant basis. Guitar consists mostly of easy-to-play power chords that give the band a "tough" sound to the untrained ear, but a closer look reveals a band that has nothing to offer creatively. They were recently exposed recycling their music in their two hit singles, "How You Remind Me" and "Someday", which sound nearly identical when played simultaneously.
Nickelback should simply give up.
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the act of willfully allowing one's ears to bleed.
I was Nickelbacking so the school nurse sent me home early.
aqueoustrans가 작성 2005년 01월 02일 (일)
Horrible band. Plain and simple. Most of their songs sound nearly identical, because they have no musical talent or creativity. Just because you can play some power chords does not make you a good guitar player. Just because you can write sappy love songs with almost the same melody for every song does not make you a good songwriter. This band is like cyanide for my ears, and it is very hard for me to understand what people hear in their music. Maybe they had one or two catchy little hits, but next time really listen to what they are playing and compare it to a band such as, The Strokes. Tell me what sounds better and more creative. If you say Nickelback, then you are entitled to your opinion of course, but I feel very sorry for you, because you will never learn to appreciate actual talented musical expression. I'm not saying stop listening to Nickelback if you really like them, im simply saying expand your musical horizon. There is better, more thought provoking stuff out there.
Nickelback Fan: Dude, Nickelback effin rocks bro, did you hear their guitarist jam on those power chords, man that was amazing!
Smart Person: ...wow...grow a fuckin brain idiot...
Smart Person: ...wow...grow a fuckin brain idiot...
Chadkroegerblowz가 작성 2006년 04월 12일 (수)
a shitty band, the lead singer seriously needs a cough drop and is the ugliest fucker i have ever seen
You fucking suck
mimi-amie가 작성 2006년 03월 18일 (토)
See overrated, fraud, untalented. A fake ass excuse for a so called "Post Grunge" band. But in reality they're not grunge. They're a subgenre of rock known as "Nu-Metal". Usually Loved by pre-teens, they are easily called the "greatest rock band ever", but anyone with a brain and passion for music will know that it's crap. If anyone has actually gone through every song that Nickelback has produced, you'd notice that most of the song melodies in Nickelback's songs sound exactly identical to one another. This PROVES that Nickelback obviously have no talent. And are frauds.
Nickelback are one of the worst bands to ever exist.
a real music enthusiast가 작성 2006년 06월 11일 (일)
probably the worst band in the world right now. They use the same 3 power chords for every song which attributes to them all sounding the same.The singer (i dont care to remember his name) tries so hard to be eddie vetter but just sucks.the rhythem section is tottaly uninspired and the solos which are rarely heard due to the guitar player sucking are so easy and bland a 3 year old could play them easily. also they often try to appear like rock n roll "bad boys" by :o drinking alchohol. wow slash died for like half an hour when he o.d thats bad. being 25 and in Nickelback and drinkin half a corona thats weak.If anyone actually bothered to play a guitar or any insturment they would realize this band is totally gay
Nickelback sucks. why is rush the only good and talented canadian rock band?
larry122가 작성 2006년 07월 31일 (월)
Why do I hate Nickelback so much? They perpetuate the sadness of honoring mediocre and un-original non-creative music. Because of their unwillingness to actually think, the mindless masses are not forced to actually use their minds and demand better. Nickelback is a clear-cut example of why our art is in a state of stale, regurgitated darkness, and the true artists are forced to remain on the underground circuit. The longer this goes on, the worse our kids will have it.
random human - "I don't care what you say, I love Nickelback."
me - <tears>
me - <tears>
mazmonsters가 작성 2010년 10월 11일 (월)