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text: A list of characters from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance''.----!Residents of St. Ivalice!!Marche Radiuju->Voiced by: Creator/YukaImai (''Radio Edition'')[[quoteright:269:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ffta-marche_small.jpg]]Marche is the main protagonist of ''Final Fantasy Tactics Advance''. At the beginning of the game, Marche is a NewTransferStudent from a warm climate. He joined with his new friends Ritz and Mewt to read an old book, which turned out to be a magical grimoire; his new town of St. Ivalice is changed into the magical land of Ivalice. Of his friends, Marche's actions are geared toward reverting the world back to normal, rather than indulging in the new world. ----* BatmanGambit: He takes a prestigious job knowing that Doned will interfere, since this time, it's his goal to force a confrontation with him.* {{BFS}}: Marche's Judgesword in his artwork.* {{Expy}}: Marche has a resemblance to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics''' Ramza - both in appearance and in philosophy (doing what he feels is right rather than following everyone else), as well as being villainised for his actions by the official records.* FingerlessGloves* HeroesPreferSwords: Or giant transparent geometrical bludgeons.* IdiotHair: [[ShoutOut Ramza's]] ahoge taken UpToEleven.* KidHero: Probably not older than twelve.* LongHairedPrettyboy* MeaningfulName: His name sounds incredibly similar to the German word "Marchen" meaning "fairy tale", the very foundation of Ivalice itself. In addition, Hans Christian Anderson's final, unpolished manuscript was called Marchen Meines Lebens, The Fairy Tale of My Life, fitting considering the fact that a fairy tale can be considered a ''[[StealthPun fantasy]]''.* NewTransferStudent: His job was "New Kid" during the SnowballFight.* OnlySaneMan: Has shades of this throughout: Despite his lot in life being vastly improved by being in Ivalice, Marche doesn't want to spend the rest of his life in a make-believe world. His friends and brother, on the other hand, are dead-set on keeping fantasy!Ivalice at all costs because of personal problems they no longer want to deal with. Marche is [[spoiler: initially]] the only one who recognizes this as an unhealthy avoidance tactic.* SayMyName: Ritz and Montblanc do this one after the other when [[spoiler:Marche was sent to Prison during the AudioAdaptation]].* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Rejects Mewt's rule in favor of returning home.* ShortHairWithTail* TooManyBelts* TookALevelInBadass: Becomes considerably more confident and decisive in his time in Ivalice, in addition to getting more powerful.* TheResenter: [[spoiler: Towards Donned due to the kid getting more attention from his parents. Marche understood that Donned needed to be looked after frequently due to his illness, but he still felt resentment since he didn't get much attention. Marche eventually confesses his resentment to Donned, causing the kid to break down in immense guilt after he realizes that he was being incredibly selfish while Marche had to stand by and watch.]]* TheUnFavourite: [[spoiler:Because his little brother Doned is handicapped, Marche's parents paid more attention to him than Marche himself.]] ** BecauseYouCanCope* WarriorTherapist: The other kids accept his viewpoint--that they need to go home and deal with their problems--after he defeats them in battle.* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: When faced with the prospect of having to [[spoiler:face Babus alone]].** And, of course, when he confronts the Queen/[[spoiler: Li-Grim]].--> "I can't deny what you say. But this world is a dream, and I'm ''done'' dreaming."!!Ritz Malheur->Voiced by: Creator/YumiKakazu (''Radio Edition'')[[quoteright:269:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ritz_small.jpg]]Ritz is the [[ClassRep Class Head]] of Marche's new class. At the beginning, Ritz was supposed to fight against Marche's team during the snowball fight, but soon switches to Marche's team. One of the bullies teases her as a "prissy grandma" due to her white hair, which she dyes red. When St. Ivalice changed into Ivalice, Ritz had natural red hair and leads a clan named "Clan Ritz" with her friend Shara.----* ActionGirl: Along with other [[OneGenderRace Viera]].* AmazonBrigade: Clan Ritz is entirely composed of Viera.* ClassRepresentative: Ritz is the Class Head if you check her job during the SnowballFight.* HairDecorations: Ritz has a hairpin.* FashionableAsymmetry: One of her arms is wearing armor.* FieryRedHead: Not short-tempered, but quite outspoken with her opinions.* [[spoiler:FightingYourFriend]]: [[spoiler:In the penultimate mission, she and her clan stand in Marche's way as he tries to pass through Siena Gorge to the Ambervale, forcing him to defeat her]].* GamerChick: She much prefers games over books.* GreenEyes* GuestStarPartyMember: She and Marche fight side-by-side (in two main-story missions and two optional ones), and she operates in this capacity during these bouts. [[spoiler:The next time, they fight each ''other''.]]* HairColorDissonance: During the epilogue, [[spoiler:her hair was light violet, but her friend commented her hair "as white as snow"]].* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: Ritz referencing Marche towards Doned in the game's AudioAdaptation.* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Shara.* MagicKnight: Ritz gets to be a Fencer, a Red Mage, and an Elementalist throughout the whole game.* MiniDressOfPower* MysticalWhiteHair: Her true hair color is pure white, but she dyes it red because her class mates bully her calling her a "granny."* [[spoiler:OptionalPartyMember: Will join Marche in the post-game, remembering the snow ball fight they had at school]].* OtakuSurrogate: She prefers video games to books.* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Ritz's hair color is red, ''really'' red.!!Mewt Randell->Voiced by: Creator/AsamiSanada (''Radio Edition'')[[quoteright:269:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ffta-mewt_small.jpg]]Mewt is the one who triggered the power of the Gran Grimoire. He is one of Marche's new friends who was always bullied in school. When they were still in St. Ivalice, Mewt was hit by a lot of snowballs, including one with a rock, causing his forehead to bleed. He then introduces his friends Marche and Ritz an old book he found at a bookstore. In Ivalice, however, he is the Prince and was highly respected by its citizens. He even has Babus and Llednar to serve for him. ----* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: He screams more in the AudioAdaptation.* {{Bookworm}}: Mewt is the class librarian, and his connection to grimoires indicates this.** It's also implied reading books makes one connected to magic in some way or is an indication that all mages are bookworms because they'd have to be smart to cast magic. Mewt's stats in the snowball fight show that he has a few points in Magic Attack while all the other children have no magic power at all.* TheCaligula: Makes the laws harsher whenever he feels threatened by Marche's efforts, causing quite a bit of resentment toward him and the queen. * CollaredByFashion: Mewt wears a red collar.* CompanionCube: Mewt's teddy bear, which was given to him by his dead mother.* FacialMarkings: On his forehead in Ivalice.* HappyPlace: He shapes Ivalice to be this--a living mother, a father he can be proud of, and him in charge.* HornedHairdo: In Ivalice.* NonActionGuy: He doesn't have a job class, nor does he participate in battle. Queen Remedi makes him a ShadowArchetype instead.** TheUnfought* TheQuietOne: Mewt usually quotes "..." during the beginning. [[IncrediblyLamePun Guess Mewt is sort of a Mute.]]* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Remedi will issue any edicts that Mewt wants to make. This comes into play as a game mechanic by increasing the number of laws during a battle after certain points in the story.* SpellBook: The Gran Grimoire, Mewt is s the only one who can truly command its RealityWarper powers.* SpikesOfVillainy:He's not ''really'' a villain, but he was ''against'' Marche during the game.* SpoiledBrat: Mewt becoming a prince in Ivalice turned him into this. Anything he wants, his mother gives him and if she isn't around for it, Babus or Cid will grant Mewt's desires. When he hears how Marche is avoiding everything he throws at him, Mewt turns to his mother to make everything better and acts helpless if she isn't around.* TragicKeepsake: His stuffed bear.** The reward for one of the postgame missions is a stuffed bear, which implies that he's left it behind and moved on.!!Doned Radiuju->Voiced by: Hiromi Ishikawa (''Radio Edition'')Marche's younger brother, who is confined to a wheelchair and has to go to the hospital on a regular basis. In Ivalice, neither applies to him.----* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Late in the game, Marche goes after a very promising lead in the hopes of luring Doned out so that he can talk with him.* IllBoy: He was born frail and sickly.* KnowledgeBroker: A minor example being a street ear who gives clans tips and information.* [[spoiler:MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After Marche makes him realise just how ungrateful he's been concerning his family's efforts (and that he can still go on living despite how hard it is, possibly even being able to walk someday in the future), Doned breaks down in his older brothers arms and apologises for what he's been doing to him.]]* NonActionGuy: Even able to walk, he's too young to be able to fight in a clan yet.** AdaptationalBadass: In the radio drama, he is a contributing member of a clan, and a competent knife-fighter. * SpoiledBrat: Deconstructed. He sends people knowing they could well and truly kill his brother under some circumstances, but he also has a FreudianExcuse in that he especially doesn't want the world to return to normal. He ''is'' implied to be a bit of one in the real world as well, where he doesn't appreciate how much his family does for him.* ThrowingOffTheDisability: In Ivalice, crippled Doned could walk. [[spoiler:Official artwork seems to have him and Marche standing in a photo together in the real world.]]* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:Due to his crippling illness, all sorts of problems happened in his family: his mother hardly got home just to watch over him at the hospital, his father had fights with his mother until it's implied through Ritz they divorced and now passed custody of Marche and Doned to her, and Marche developed a sense of solitude because their parents focused more on Doned than on him]] What does Doned do in Ivalice? [[spoiler:He makes Marche's life a living hell to the palace by telling on him constantly to keep them from ever leaving Ivalice behind so Doned is never bound to a wheelchair, and Doned has the gal to tell Marche to his face he had everything when in truth he was ''more'' miserable than Doned was]].* TheUnfought: He works against Marche by tipping him off to bounty hunters, guards or rival clans, but never faces him in combat. A wandering clan called the "Doned Faction" can be encountered, but he isn't in it. Justified that he is not old enough to engage. ** Averted in the radio drama, where he faces Marche directly twice.!!Cid Randell->Voiced by: Creator/YasuyukiKase (''Radio Edition'')Mewt's father, who sank into depression after the death of his wife. In Ivalice, he becomes the Judge Master and the highest authority besides Mewt and Remedi.----* {{Bowdlerize}}: In the US version, he's only outright said to be having trouble at work, with anything else left to implication.* CardsOfPower: His Advanced Law commands activate with these in addition he can assign red or yellow cards to send lawbreakers to prison.* DrowningMySorrows: During the beginning of the game in the Japanese version.** AlcoholicParent* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: Or rather, he swears neutrality and service to the Law rather than to the Palace; however, he discreetly supports Marche's efforts to return the world to normal, aiding him for the rest of the main story.]]* TheJudge* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In Ivalice, he seems not to remember his past life, unlike the other people from Mewt's life. [[spoiler:When his memory returns, he endorses returning the world to normal.]]* TheMourningAfter: Whether drowning his sorrows or crying in the gutters this is the source of his turmoil.* ParentsAsPeople: He cares for Mewt, but is too broken as a result of his grief to do his job as a parent well. In the English localization, Marche remarks that he cares.* [[spoiler:OptionalPartyMember: Will join Marche in the post-game, after clearing all 300 missions and starting the final bonus quests involving the oppression of the renegade judges]].* PassingTheTorch: After finishing the very last mission, [[spoiler:Cid offers Marche to be the next highest judge to rule them all]].!Residents of Ivalice!!Montblanc->Voiced by: Kumiko Yokote (''Radio Edition'')[[quoteright:269:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ffta-montblanc_small.jpg]]Montblanc found Marche as soon as St. Ivalice experienced its transformation. He is very loyal to him, especially in ''Final Fantasy Tactics Advance Radio Edition''.----* BigNo: During the mission [[spoiler:"Moogle Bride"]], when it turns out that [[spoiler:the suitor was tricking him]].* BlackMage: His default class.* BreakOutCharacter* CrutchCharacter: For some strange reason, Montblanc is never allowed to go on dispatch missions, which would help him to gain AP in short amounts to fill AP gauges without wasting huge loads of them on one ability that's about to be learned in full.* [[DarkSkinnedBlond Dark Furred Blond]]: Only in the artwork. His sprite has white fur.* DeadpanSnarker: He has his moments, like when he remarks that Marche "has a good grasp of stating the obvious" in his first engagement.* EdibleThemeNaming: Named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Blanc_%28dessert%29 this]].* FairyCompanion: To Marche.* HairColorDissonance: Montblanc's hair color in his in-game sprite is orange, though he actually has blond hair.* IAmNotWeasel: Montblanc's reaction when Marche calls him a "stuffed animal".* IWillWaitForYou: What Montblanc says towards Marche during one of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtcjvlBM6n8 commercials]].* JapanesePronouns: In the AudioAdaptation, Montblanc usually uses Marche's name towards Marche. Otherwise, he would use ''omae'' instead.** When referring to himself, he says "Mogu", which could be a moogle-style version of "boku".* {{Keet}}: In the AudioAdaptation, especially at Vol. 4.* [[Creator/HyoSei Kumiko Yokote]]: That's what the credit says.* NoIndoorVoice: Montblanc yells a ''LOT'' in the AudioAdaptation.* SayMyName: Marche calls his name [[spoiler:if he dies in a Jagd (unprotected slum - keyword "unprotected" - which can cause a FinalDeath]].* ThoseTwoGuys: With Nono during the AudioAdaptation.* VerbalTic: Since he's a moogle, he automatically uses "kupo".!!Shara->Voiced by: Rie Kanda (''Radio Edition'')One of Ritz's viera friends in her clan.----* ActionGirl* ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Ritz confesses that her hair is pure white in her own world and that she hates it, Shara asks Ritz if she finds the Vieras' hair hideous. It helps Ritz overcome her own insecurities and take pride in her unique traits as white hair is considered beautiful by the Viera.* BareYourMidriff* FashionableAsymmetry: She only wears one stocking.* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Ritz.* LoinCloth* [[spoiler:OptionalPartyMember: Will join Marche in the post-game after being helped from Antlions]].* StockingFiller: Only one leg.* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Antlion Larvae, revealed in the mission "A Maiden's Cry", where [[spoiler:Shara gets to be recruited]].!!Babus Swain->Voiced by: Creator/KumiSakuma (''Radio Edition'')[[quoteright:218:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Babus_5410.jpg]]Mewt's Nu Mou retainer.----* AntiVillain: He's characterized mainly by his loyalty to Prince Mewt and desire to keep Ivalice from being destroyed.* BattleButler* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:In Bervenia Palace, he stops time for the guards and takes Marche directly to Mewt.]]* CarryABigStick* CollaredByFashion* CutscenePowerToTheMax: [[spoiler:He can stop time for everyone except himself and Marche in a cutscene]].* DuelBoss: The second time he's confronted, although Marche's goal is to destroy the Exodus Fruits rather than defeat him.* FireForgedFriends: After the main story is over, one can take a mission which will end in him being recruitable. [[spoiler: Following the fight against Li-Grim/Remedi]], Marche offers him friendship despite their earlier clashes - after fighting side-by-side more recently, "why not?". Babus accepts, although he doesn't go as far as calling them "close friends", a sentiment Marche agrees with.* {{Foil}}: To Ezel.* MagicKnight* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Says as much to Marche - he causes Mewt pain, and that's reason enough for him to oppose him. [[spoiler:When he starts aiding Marche's efforts, he does so purely because he starts to believe it would be better for Mewt to face reality.]]* [[spoiler:OptionalPartyMember: Will join Marche in the post-game, trying to clear out a personal mission involving the aftermath of the final battle]].* PrematurelyBald: He sounds younger compared to Ezel and other Nu Mou have hair.** It is possible he has thin, white fur. Being a high-ranking royal servant, he would be more well-groomed than other Nu Mou.* RecurringBoss: Fought twice during the game.* SugarAndIcePersonality* TimeStandsStill* YouRebelScum: He actually addresses Marche as, "You commoner scum" for impugning the word of Prince Mewt.!!Nono->Voiced by: Masako Jō (''Radio Edition'')Montblanc's younger brother, a gadgeteer who hopes to make his own airship.----* ButtMonkey: In Mission 12, his airship gets wrecked in a hit-and-run, and you have to chase the perpetrators to the Jagds. In an optional mission, ''this happens again''.* GadgeteerGenius* ThoseTwoGuys: With Montblanc during the AudioAdaptation.* VerbalTic: Since he's a moogle, he automatically uses "kupo".!!Ezel Berbier->Voiced by: Creator/WataruTakagi (''Radio Edition'')[[quoteright:269:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/imagesCAQ1LN24_5610.jpg]]A mysterious Nu Mou who is responsible for the creation of Anti-Laws.----* CrutchCharacter: He's as close you will get to see a physical-based Nu Mou, [[spoiler:but his locked job prevents him from becoming a stronger force. That being said, he will always have a great rate of success at any dispatch missions]].* {{Foil}}: To Babus.* InsufferableGenius: His attitude, not that anyone calls him out on it - he truly ''is'' quite brilliant.* MadScientist* NeverAcceptedInHisHometown: Cid notes that the Nu Mou consider him "an eccentric loony."* NoHeroDiscount: [[spoiler:After you recruit him, the prices stay the same]]. It's also unclear how saving him affects his prices, but arguably, being let in on his secret shop can be considered a reward.* [[spoiler:OptionalPartyMember: He joins Marche after completing a second personal request]].* RebelliousSpirit* TheSmartGuy: Of Marche's network of allies, since he seems to mainly serve as an informant and an expet in creating antilaws.* SpySpeak* SquishyWizard: Unlike Babus he can't really take a hit.* StandardStatusEffect: Azoth, which is his signature move. It's technically a Lamia's Night, except it only affects enemies instead of everyone but the user.* {{Troll}}: Thoroughly enjoys pissing judges off with his anti law cards or anything else to ruffle their feathers. He can't say no to people who make their lives a living hell, which is why he likes Marche so much.!!Queen Remedi->Voiced by: Creator/YoshikoSakakibara (''Radio Edition'')Mewt's dead mother. Brought BackFromTheDead [[spoiler:not. She's really the Li Grim, and the FinalBoss. This article deals with both Remedi and the Li Grim posing as her Ivalice equivalent.]]* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[spoiler:Her true form is that of a living crystal, one of the world threads that binds the children to the make believe Ivalice.]]* AlliterativeName: Possibly was Remedi Randell.* BackFromTheDead: The "Real" Remedi Randell died before the storyline - although the Ivalice version was [[spoiler:the Li Grim.]]* BigBad* BreastPlate: [[spoiler:In the first battle against her]]* [[spoiler:DegradedBoss]]: [[spoiler:After completing the game, she can be fought in the mission to recruit Babus, and is much easier]].* FacialMarkings: Like her son's.* [[spoiler:FinalBoss]]* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Subverted. She's only a threat to Marche and company. Her edicts are just annoying to everyone else.* MissingMom: She was Mewt's dead mother in St. Ivalice.* MyBelovedSmother: She has some shades of this and some overlap with EvilMatriarch, by enabling Mewt's manic behavior and ensuring he stays dependent on the LotusEaterMachine that is the Gran Grimoire.* [[spoiler:OneWingedAngel]]: [[spoiler:(Her true form is the Li Grim, which is the sixth crystal of Ivalice.)]]* [[spoiler:[[PhysicalGod Physical Goddess]]: She is the personification of the Gran Grimoire's power and the sixth crystal.]]* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:The Ivalice version is the Li Grim.]]* [[spoiler:ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Literally made them. She created Ivalice according to Mewt's wishes and as a result, she has an ability that lets her change the laws at will, even if said laws have been nullified.]]* SinisterScythe: [[spoiler:In her first battle.]]!!Llednar Twem->Voiced by: Creator/HikaruMidorikawa (''Radio Edition'')A boy whom the Queen brings in after Cid separates the judges from the palace. [[spoiler:He turns out to be the embodiment of Mewt's negative emotions]].* [[spoiler:AnthropomorphicPersonification]]* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Blond hair, yellow eyes.* TheDragon* DuelBoss: The second time around.* EnemyWithout* EvilCounterpart: He ''is'' [[spoiler:the embodiment of Mewt's anger after all...]]** He's also an EvilCounterpart to Marche, being [[spoiler:created to be a version of him that fights ''for'' Mewt.]]* GiantPoofySleeves* HopelessBossFight: You have to wait him out twice.* NighInvulnerable: The Queen ''altered reality'' so that he could not be harmed.* RecurringBoss: Fought thrice during the game, although he can't be defeated the first two times due to being invincible.* SdrawkcabName: Of Mewt Randell.* [[spoiler:TakenForGranite]]: During the near-climax of the game.** [[spoiler:LiterallyShatteredLives]]: After his defeat, he turns to stone and crumbles.![[AudioAdaptation Radio Edition]] [[CanonForeigner Exclusive Characters]]Below are exclusive characters who appear in ''Final Fantasy Tactics Advance Radio Edition''.!!Madam Kiri->Voiced by: Kiri Segawa* TheDanza (She is voiced by Kiri Segawa.)!!The Moogle Knight->Voiced by: Ryōkichi Takahashi* NoNameGiven: Even the credits simply named him "Moogle Knight."* VerbalTic: Since he's a moogle, he automatically uses "kupo".* VocalDissonance: He is a '''moogle''' with a extremely low voice, being voiced by [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=18062 Ryoukichi Takahashi]] and all. 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Par Pharmaceutical is buying MDRNA's manufacturing facilities in Hauppauge, NY, and its generic osteoporosis treatment. The transaction closes MDRNA's transition into a company focused solely on RNAi therapeutics.
Under the terms of the asset purchase agreement, MDRNA will receive up-front cash and double-digit profit sharing on commercial sales of its calcitonin-salmon nasal spray. In addition, Par will assume MDRNA's supply and manufacturing obligations.
In December 2008, FDA tentatively approved the therapy, and full approval will be given in June, when Apotex' 180-day exclusivity period ends. The products are generic equivalents of Miacalcin® marketed by Novartis Pharmaceuticals. U.S. sales of Miacalcin were reportedly about $147 million in 2007.
MDRNA will be left with over 237 filed patent applications addressing 153 gene sequences including numerous disease-validated targets. The firm has candidates for hypercholesterolemia, bladder cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, influenza, and lung cancer.
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Matchroom To Launch 'Fight Pass' Streaming Service
By Shaun Brown
Matchroom Boxing's new Fight Pass service, which will provide at least ten boxing shows a year streamed online, could have its first date on August 30, followed by a second show on September 12 with venues and fights to be confirmed.
With an announcement to be made at a Matchroom media day in a fortnight, promoter Eddie Hearn told BoxingScene.com that not only would fans get non-televised shows as part of their annual subscription but also access to their old library of fights and a priority purchasing service to all Matchroom shows for subscribers to this new service.
"We'll also announce that we're working with two, probably three promoters in partnership," he added.
"There's all kinds of things that Fight Pass is for but the other thing is to give the promoters that we're working with some support and to help them develop their shows as well.
"We've got plans to invest in the very grass roots through the amateur body which you'll hear more about in the next six months. Obviously we're involved in the top end but I just feel that there's more fighters I'd like to sign who can't get on the number of shows they need to progress. I'm talking about fighters like Johnny Coyle, Sam Eggington… these kind of guys could go on to be top quality fighters but aren't given the chance to progress properly. A lot of these shows will feature our big boys who are potentially coming back from something as well."
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[QUOTE=soul_survivor;14689855]will it stream PPV events too? If they decide to have more PPVs that is, I love the current Sky set up tbh. Also, fights showing on skysports, do they get shown on the stream?[/QUOTE] No chance. It's purely for…Comment by soul_survivor on 06-23-2014
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Go-fight is doing this but at least it airs their bouts delayed on cable. More profitable and serves as free advertising(hint hint).Comment by MBE on 06-23-2014
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"Down the Road A Piece," a collection of new works in pastel and oil by Ben Konis, through Aug. 6 , Abraham Art Gallery at Wayland Baptist University, Plainview.
"Glitter, Glamour And Glitz: Texas Pageant And Festival Gowns," through Dec. 31, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum. Call 651-2244.
Amarillo Inventors Association no meetings in June, July or August. Next meeting will be in September. Call 358-4253.
"Texas" musical drama, 8:30 p.m. nightly except Wednesdays through Aug. 19, Palo Duro Canyon Pioneer Amphitheatre. Call 655-2181 or visit www.texasmusicaldrama.com.
"Lone Star Rising," 8:15 p.m. Wednesdays-Sundays through Aug. 19, Fritch Fortress Amphitheater at Lake Meredith. Call 372-2463.
"Dunbier Paints the Southwest," Through Sept. 3, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon. Call 651-2244.
"Those Who Came Before Us: H.D. Bugbee's Indian Hall Murals," through Sept. 1, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum. Call 651-2244.
"Thursday's at Eight," by Debbie Macomber, 11 a.m., Monday, Triumphant Spirits Book Group, Barnes & Noble Booksellers.
"Storytellers of the High Plains," 7 p.m. Monday, south end of Barnes & Noble Booksellers.
"Hey Little Ant," by Phillip and Hanna Hoose, 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, Barnes & Noble Booksellers.
"Cane River," by Lalita Tademy, 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oprah Book Group, Barnes & Noble Booksellers cafe.
International Association of Administrative Professionals Monthly Meeting, 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Holiday Inn at Interstate 40 & Osage Street. RSVP to Linda Ussery by noon, Tuesday, at 345-1110 or 355-1237.
"Sophie and Lou," by Petra Mathers, 10:30 a.m., Friday, Barnes & Noble Booksellers.
Blues musician Stew Moss, 8 p.m., Friday, Barnes & Noble Booksellers cafe.
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Amarillo Opera Showcase July 13-14, Amarillo College Concert Hall Theatre. Free. 371-5359.
Panhandle Pink Dreams Doll Club Show, Sale & Swap, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. July 14, South Georgia Church of the Nazarene, 5016 Susan Drive. Call 351-1601.
Cowboy Poetry Program 6:45 p.m., July 19, Barnes & Noble Booksellers. Call 374-4354.
"Blame It on the Movies," July 19-22 and 26-28, Amarillo College Experimental Theatre. 371-5359.
Playwright's Festival, 7:30 p.m. July 21, Gem Theatre in Claude. 226-5409.
Wiley Jim, 2:30 p.m. July 22, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon. 651-2244.
"Vanities," 7:30 p.m. July 27-28, Gem Theatre in Claude. 226-5409.
11th Anniversary Celebration of the Americans With Disabilities Act, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 28 at Washington Avenue Christian Church, 3800 S. Washington St. Sponsored by the Life/Run Centers for Independent Living. Call Life/Run at 372-7556.
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Virginia Tech fans can rest assured Ryan Williams' fourth-quarter fumble against North Carolina has become ancient history in the young star's mind. Williams ran for 179 yards in the Hokies' 16-3 win over East Carolina on Thursday night, helping Virginia Tech to move on and forget its devastating back-to-back losses to Georgia Tech and North Carolina.
Even though Williams didn't get into the end zone, his ability to run the ball and the Hokies' ability to control the line of scrimmage was the difference in the game. Williams showed why he was a midseason favorite to win the ACC's Player of the Year award, as much of his yardage came by breaking tackles, lowering his shoulder and keeping his feet moving. Virginia Tech also got the most complete effort from its defense it has seen in the past two games, and Cody Grimm seemed to be in on almost every play.
That being said, ECU quarterback Patrick Pinkney made some erroneous throws and helped the Hokies out with his inaccuracy. The Pirates also hurt themselves on numerous occasions with three turnovers, eight penalties, dropped passes and missed tackles. Overall, it was a sloppy game for both teams, as Virginia Tech was only able to score one touchdown. But in the end that was all the Hokies needed to avoid a second straight nationally televised upset.
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JMeter – Export to Excel and Analyse Results using Pivot Tables
Most of you performance testers, newbies or experienced, you all came across this problem … how to export the load test results, and how to analyse them.
While working for a project in Viena, several years ago, Excel looked to be the best option, because of the relative powerful charts, functions, and code (VBA) were offering. Back then, i was still using OpenSTA, which was at the time, the best open source loading tool on the market. (still is a very good option, depending on the needs) As usual, each Performance Tool has (or not) its integrated Graphs for reporting the test results, yet most of the time unsuited for the needs of the performance tester. So exporting to excel was the best option back then. And i used it.
Exporting was quite easy, because of the CSV export functionality OpenSTA was offering, and importing…well there is no point in continuing the discussion, as Excel has really powerful functions for importing and exporting all kinds of formats (starting with csv, ending with xml)
Remembering that project, and being in quite a "time crisis" for the current project, i took the decision to turn once more to the old Excel, this time using JMeter sample records.
Now, a few words about how JMeter exports it's samples. By default, JMeter will save between other samplers:
- timestamp of the http request
- response time
- size
- response code
- response message
- request name
This is actually pretty much what you should be interested in in a very basic scenario. You want to measure some averages, and see some graphs.
Now, basically, the concept behind measuring the response times, is grouping the request names with their response times, and measuring the averate response times. Suppose you have four requests, two of them doing book, the other ones doing login and logout
Using one thread, one user, and generating the following samples(request name, response time in ms):
- login: 240
- book:450
- book:650
- logout:200
you would have an average of (450+650)/2=550 ms for the "booking" request.
Using this concept, we can group requests in Excel by using Pivot Tables. Let's go through the steps for doing that:
Import JMeter results into EXCEL
JMeter (version 2.3.4) can export in multiple formats, with xml being the native one, and csv being optional. I chose to export into XML (it offers more configurable options when exporting to xml and not csv). As i previously said, EXCEL can handle XML Import pretty well, so we will use that
Using Excel 2007, go to "Data". You Have a "Connections" icon in the toolbar. Click on it. Add a new connection from the window that just opened. Don't get annoyed by the window that just opened, just select "search for other elements" from the buttons below, and then navigate to your xml file.
Import everything, and then keep the following columns only (delete other columns, or hide them)
- t (response time)
- ts (timestamp)
- request name
Prepare your data for pivot tables
The problem with JMeter is that it exports its timestamp in UNIX Format. You will need therefore to create an extra column, called "Timeline", and use the following formula for converting data into date format (we will only use hours, minutes and seconds. The grouping of all samples will be made with the second being the smallest unit. It really does not make sense granulating it all over to milliseconds):
where B2 is the column containing the JMeter timestamps.
After this step, select the new column (timeline), and define its properties so that it returns only the hours, minutes and seconds. Click on the column, select the properties, and go to the last option in the first tab: "custom". Select the following format: "hh:mm:ss"
Ok, now you have your requests, your response times, and your timelines in readable format. On we go to the next step: Pivot Tables
Generate Pivot Tables from JMeter Results
Select all the columns in the worksheet. Go to "Table Tools" and select "Group with Pivot Tables". Use a new worksheet for the Pivot Table. After Excel generates the new worksheet and the Pivot Table, you will have the columns available to select in the right side of the screen. (pivot table field list) Now do the following:
- Drag and drop field "Request Name" to the legends (there are four boxes down there, use the upper right one)
- Drag and drop field "Timeline" to the "Axis fields" (lower left)
- Drag and drop "t" (or "Response Time" column) to the "values" field (lower right)
- Select the "t" field in the lower right area, click on it, and modify the properties, so that the "Field Settings" point to "Average" instead of "Sum"
- Now you can generate a "Chart" from the "Pivot Table Tools" > "Pivot chart"
- In the pivot table, go to the end of the rows. You have a row called "Totals". Modify the field properties for each of the columns so that it calculates the average, and not the sum. Generating a simple chart out of this values is not the purpose of this article and should be REAAALY dumb simple
There you have it. All you need to generate some graphs in EXCEL using JMETER Samples. The final results look pretty much like this:
Pivot Charts from JMETER Results
Final words
I strongly recommend using Jasper Reports for Reporting. Jasper Reports is incredibly strong, and in combination with a Jasper Report Server, it will do wonders. This is going to be one of my next topics.
JMeter Reporting by using Pentaho Data Integration, IReport, JasperReports, MySQL and Jasper Report Server.
Cheers and enjoy,
September 6, 2009 at 12:34 pm
I am very glad to say BIG Thanks.
Thanks a lot for the guidance in making the Reports using Excel. I've successfully game Demo of JMeter usage to my CMD today.
Thank you so much.
December 9, 2009 at 2:46 pm
You can skip the second step by adding the following line in the file jmeter.properties :
June 11, 2010 at 2:32 pm
Hi i'm using excel "where they decided to do strange icons menu without help>about so i cannot retrieve my version number" that must be some kind of office 2007.
I struggle with your function : =DATE(1970;1;1)+LINKS(B2;10)/86400
Excel says he does not know LINKS function (highlited after saying the function is not valid), what is it supposed to do?
June 11, 2010 at 2:51 pm
Thanks! It works fine now.
June 20, 2010 at 12:18 am
It was really helpful. Thank you.
May 25, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Can you plese tell me the unit of the average time displyed in aggregrate graph.
when i worked it out on my application(ONLY FOR LOGIN THE USER) it showed total average time as 1834(i donno the unit)but when i did the same thing using a stop clock to record the same it showed 18.3 seconds..so can you please help
August 18, 2011 at 10:42 am
how to use jmeter for desktop application performance testing
March 7, 2012 at 9:52 am
We started by using Excel as well to make some graphs but it required too much manual steps, so we now use gnuplot instead. We use cygwin so we can do bash scripting and use awk or perl to transform/extract data.
We have wrote a small article here:
July 19, 2012 at 1:19 pm
Useful and clean guide to simple usage. Thanks!
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July 9, 2013 at 6:43 am
Great article, thank you. But when speaking of the unix time stamp, I suggest doing the following:
Just add this line:
to the end of the user.properties file (in the bin directory), and you won't have any problems with Unix time any more.
This is about the test results saved to a jtl file (when running in a non-gui mode).
Here is my example:
# Enable Proxy request debug
September 14, 2013 at 11:32 am
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There's been a hum down the hallways at Trinity Fellowship Christian High School this week, and a spring in the step of the most of the 102 students. For most, their minds aren't on schoolwork, but on basketballs bouncing in Bryan.
"It's pretty energetic, more anxious than anything else, '' said Trinity boys basketball coach Roger Trennepohl. "The teams are real anxious, but I think everybody is feeling the buzz."
And with good reason. For the first time, both the Trinity boys and girls basketball teams have advanced to the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS) state tournament.
Both the Lions and Lady Lions have a state title within their grasp. And unlike the UIL, which has its boys and girls state tournaments on different weekends, TAPPS has both tournaments the same weekend. The school is brimming with anticipation.
"If both teams could win it all, holy cow, that would be really something for both of us to raise that gold ball over our heads," said Trennepohl. "With both teams, it's really added to the school spirit."
The Trinity girls (15-12) will face San Antonio New Life at 2:15 p.m. today in a 2A semifinal at Bryan High School. A little more than five hours later at 7:30 p.m. at the same site, the Trinity boys (14-9) meet Kingwood Northeast, near Houston, in a 2A semifinal.
Should either win, the championship games are set for 12 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. Friday at Reed Arena at Texas A&M. If that happens, they may not need the chartered bus they shared to return to Amarillo - they could float back.
"The two teams have a very strong relationship," said Trennepohl. "We mainly travel together, eat together. More than anything, there's a lot of camaraderie. It's, 'Hey, let's do this together.'
"It was tough at regionals to be at two different places (Denton and Waxahachie). Right before our game, we heard the girls had won and that kind of added a little bit to the pressure. If the girls were going, we were going too."
With both teams going, it's created some pleasant problems for Trinity fans and parents. Transportation for the 600-mile one-way trip as well as finding lodging has been a challenge.
"There's been a lot of unsettled things this week," Trennepohl said. "Who's riding with who, who's staying where. I've never been in this situation. Everybody is kind of fending for themselves. I tried to block off 30 rooms for parents, and was told that wasn't going to fly."
Earlier in the season, to see both teams at the state tournament seemed far-fetched. The Trinity girls were 5-11 after losing three games in a Silverton tournament.
"It was a little bit of a pipe dream at that point," said Lady Lions coach Zack Parker. "The biggest thing was the girls attitude. They were worried about everything that was going wrong. We decided to set all that to the side.
"This may sound corny, but we started matching different kids with a partner, and the reason was the whole practice they were to encourage each other, tell them what they were doing right. Within a week, we saw a drastic change."
The Lady Lions went on to win 10 out of 11 games. In the regional final last week, Josey Ratcliff scored 15 points, and Amber Bryant added 10 in a 59-44 win over Longview Trinity.
"I'd really like to see our season go another month," Parker said. "If we could go another three or four weeks, we'd absolutely peak. We're showing improvement daily."
The Trinity boys finally got over the hump last weekend in a 65-45 win over Muenster Sacred Heart in Denton. The previous three years, Trinity had lost in the regional finals.
Paul Goddard, a 6-foot-5 post, had 16 points in the win. Goddard averages 23.5 points, while 6-3 Josh Cooper averages 17 points and seven rebounds.
"I just hope we don't feel satisfied," Trennepohl said. "I hope we seize the moment. You don't get this chance that often."
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Welcome to Success
By Jacquylynn Brickman
- Grades: 3–5
The start of the school year is the time to set the tone for the rest of the school year. This literature-rich unit will ignite a discussion about the necessary traits for a year of success. Members of a learning community demonstrate many traits of success while fostering those traits in others.
Students will:
- Generate a list of traits that facilitate success (tolerance, respect, integrity, etc.)
- Identify the traits portrayed by characters in literature
- Rank the traits in order of importance
- Justify their top 3 and bottom two ranked traits
- Agree upon 10-12 traits for success that will guide the students through the year
- Define each of these traits in student-friendly language
- Reflect in writing how students are demonstrating these traits in school and at home
- Reflect and discuss how their peers are demonstrating these traits in school
- Reflect in writing about the traits ("Which attitudes are your strengths?")
- Set goals for a successful year ("Which attitudes do you want to further develop?")
Lesson Plans for this Unit
Lesson 1: Traits that Foster Success
Lesson 2: Our Successful Traits
Culminating Activity
In cooperative groups, students will use a digital camera to illustrate each of the traits and write a caption to accompany the photos. These photos can either be made into books or into a beautiful classroom display.
Supporting Books
- Subjects:Achievement and Success, Plot, Character, Setting, Character and Values, Manners and Conduct, Back to School, Autumn Themes, Understanding Self and Others
- Skills:Plot, Character and Setting, Expository Writing, Narrative Writing
- Duration:2 Weeks
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Thanks, I'm not sure why the memorial has her listed as dau of Perry Millard I have their marriage record. he was quite about 20 years older. I have submitted a edit to add her parents & siblings. Thanks again.
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I would like your permission to use the photo you took of Rosa Lee for my family tree she's a sister of my grandfather taken me quite sometime to finally track her down. Thanks
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your welcome.in the photo of the burial plot,i believe his wife is in the middle and his children are around them.hope it helps.
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I would love to manage Kate's memorial. Also any that you added that are linked to her. They are my family and I have Newspaper bio for most of them that I saved when they passed away. I can only add if I manage sites. I would deeply appreciate you allowing it.
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The AAS deplores sexual harassment and expresses its support for people who risk their own professional status by speaking publicly to protect others from similar abuse.
The AAS's new John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow, Heather Bloemhard, introduces herself and describes her path from graduate school to a PhD in physics and, ultimately, a career in science policy.
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Voting in the AAS election of officers and councilors for terms beginning in 2015 closed on 31 January, and the ballots have been counted. The envelopes, please....
Meg Urry reviews the very busy, very successful 225th AAS meeting held 4-8 January 2015 at the Washington State Convention Center.
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I was forced to save this bile for another day because late yesterday news broke that the Bush administration had driven out one of the Environmental Protection Agency's regional directors for, well, you guessed it: actually working to protect the environment.
Only the Bush administration could make competence a liability. After all, this is the President who has showered favor, pardons, and power on some of the most incompetent hacks in the history of hackery: Scooter Libby, Paul Bremer, Alberto Gonzales, Donald Rumsfeld, and, who could forget, Michael "heckuva job Brownie" Brown.
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Dow officials stepped up their campaign against Gade after she broke off negotiations with the chemical giant over its cleanup plans after she says Dow refused to take steps to "protect human health and wildlife." Gade then invoked emergency powers to force the company to cleanup four hot-spots of the toxin, including the largest ever recorded in the U.S. After dumping waste so toxic it is measured by the trillionth of a gram in waterways for nearly a century -- some of which was the remnant of Agent Orange production, the company would apparently prefer to do things on it own timetable: very, very slowly.
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Gatorsports.com counts down the top 25 games in the SEC for the 2012 season.
When: Oct. 27
Where: EverBank Field (Jacksonville).
Why it's No. 15: This is always one of the most anticipated and most watched games of the college football season. It's a huge rivalry game between schools from bordering states, and it has a great history filled with many memories of great players creating great moments. The game also usually has a significant impact on the SEC's Eastern Division race.
Series history: Even though the Gators have won 18 of the last 22 games in the rivalry, Georgia leads the series 48-40-2, according to UGA. In the UF record book, the 'Dogs lead 47-40-2. So, the two bitter rivals can't even agree on that. It just adds a little more spice to the series.
Rivalry on a scale of 1-100: 100. This is one of the biggest rivalries in all of football. It's unique. It's played at a neutral site where the crowd is split down the middle, creating a championship game type atmosphere. Like the players and coaches from both sides always say, there's nothing like that bus ride as it gets near the stadium and seeing the tailgating fans react.
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Alastair Reynolds is a Welsh astrophysicist who writes spectacular stories and novels about the future. A future where there are several types of humans, and not all of them get along. Interstellar travel is possible; it will take a while, even on a lighthugger, traveling just under light speed. Orbital habitats form the Glitter Band above the planet Yellowstone in the Epsilon Eridani system, all doomed. They just don't know it yet.
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- Jeffrey E. Barrick 12:41, 15 April 2012 (EDT):History of the compound is very interesting and well done. It might be good to give a short background or link to how malaria works. What kind of organism is Plasmodium? How does an infection progress?
- Jeffrey E. Barrick 12:41, 15 April 2012 (EDT):Great description of their work. There is an earlier paper published about a checkpoint in their engineering efforts where they appear to have been moving the yeast enzymes to E. coli to get it to produce artemisinin. Is this evidence that they were evaluating multiple chassis and had to switch to yeast later?[1].
- Jeffrey E. Barrick 12:18, 15 April 2012 (EDT):Looks like you have the new reports of resistance to Artemisinin covered. Do they know what the mutations are and why they make it resistant?
- Jeffrey E. Barrick 12:41, 15 April 2012 (EDT):It's usually good to avoid value judgements, like calling something "famous", in scientific or formal writing.


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The subtitle is rather misleading, making The Who appear to be one of those fatuous soul bands that drift out of northern Britain every few years. Instead, as almost everyone knows, the London quartet was one of the four great rock bands to spearhead the British Invasion of the '60s. What they brought to the bacchanal, more so than the Beatles, the Kinks or even the Rolling Stones, was a nascent but nasty punk influence. (The band's signature—destroying their instruments—was also a pretty effective way to get out of doing encores.) And as proved by the wonderful footage in this appreciation (much of it previously unseen), The Who was the best of the bunch at playing live—at least until the death by overdose in 1978 of its ferocious drummer Keith Moon. (The band hasn't toured since 1989, although singer Roger Daltrey, along with bass player John Entwistle, is currently on the road with a tribute to the music of Pete Townshend and The Who.)
Woven throughout the program are kudos from fellow musicians Keith Richards, Bryan Adams and Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors. More interesting are the candid, articulate reflections of Townshend, the band's dominant personality. But at the heart of this special, a PBS pledge event, are the performance capsules, from "So Sad About Us" at the Marquee Club in London in 1967, with the band all decked out in formal Mod garb, to "Love Reign O'er Me" at New York's Shea Stadium in 1982.
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How Does Health Reform Affect You Now? (Part 1 of 3)
As Elena Kagan moves toward being confirmed to the Supreme Court, most people are barely taking note of the dramatic social change that the nation's highest court will, for the first time, be one-third female.
Similarly, now that the Affordable Health Care Act has become law, it barely made news that the Department of Health and Human Services launched a new website, HealthCare.gov, on July 1 to help consumers wade through the new law's provisions and how they will affect our access to health care in real life terms. But it's important that we pay attention even though the heat of political debate has diminished.
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Many Americans assume the new health care reform act will benefit mostly the poor and uninsured and hurt everyone else, according to polls. As Matt Yglesias wrote, "Basically, people see this as a bill that will take resources from people who have health insurance and give it to people who don't have health insurance." Those who still oppose the reform say that people ought to pay for their own health care.
We all believe in the virtues of hard work and self-reliance, but these days it's a fantasy to think that anyone but the mega-wealthy will not, sooner or later, depend on help from others to pay medical bills. And that's true no matter how hard you work, how much you love America, or how diligently you take care of yourself. The cost of medical care has so skyrocketed that breaking an arm or leg could cost as much as a new car. And if you get cancer or heart disease — which can happen even to people who live healthy lifestyles — forget about it. The disease will not only clean you out; it will leave a whopping debt for your survivors to pay.
And the truth is, we all pay for other peoples' health care whether we know it or not. When people can't pay their medical bills, the cost of their health care gets added to everyone else's bills and insurance premiums. When poor people use emergency rooms as a doctor of last resort, their care is not "free." You pay for it.
Another common fantasy about medical care is that the "free market" provides incentives for medical companies to develop innovative new drugs and treatments for disease without government subsidy. It's true that private enterprise is very good at developing profitable health care products. But not all medical care can be made profitable.
For years, the U.S. government has been funding medical research that the big private companies don't want to do because there is too much cost for the potential profit. This is especially true for diseases that are rare and expensive to treat. An example of a recent advance made possible by government grants include new guidelines for malignant pleural mesothelioma treatment developed by MD Anderson Cancer Center researchers. Another is a blood screening test for mesothelioma developed by thoracic surgeon Dr. David Sugarbaker. The health reform act provides for more dollars for such research, from which even many of the tea party protesters will benefit.
The biggest fantasy of all was that people who had insurance didn't have to worry about health care costs. But the fact is that in recent years millions of Americans have been bankrupted by medical costs, and three-quarters of the medically bankrupt had health insurance. And yes, insurance companies even dumped hard-working, law-abiding patriots. But the health care reform act will put an end to that, and now America's hard-working, law-abiding patriots are more financially secure, whether they like it or not.
Gloria Feldt