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Orange County families deserve transparent…
Orange County families deserve transparent communication about San Onofre nuclear plant
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, seen from San Onofre State Beach in 2016. (File photo by Jeff Gritchen, The Orange County Register)
By Garry Brown | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: September 20, 2018 at 4:30 pm | UPDATED: September 21, 2018 at 5:13 am
Orange County families deserve to enjoy living near our stunning coastline with the peace of mind that they are safe from any health risks from radiation exposure.
But just 1,200 feet from the ocean, two shuttered nuclear generators sit full of nuclear waste, which is in the process of being transferred from pools to dry canisters. A few weeks ago, a mistake during a fuel transfer nearly caused one of these canisters to fall 18 feet. This could have resulted in a radiation leak, but the public did not receive information about the incident from the plant's owner, Southern California Edison.
Our families deserve basic answers to basic questions about what's happening near our neighborhoods. It is imperative that Edison protect residents by communicating openly as it safely decommissions the plant.
Originally, the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was comprised of three nuclear generators. The first was decommissioned in the early 1990s. The second and third have not been operational since June 2013 due to malfunctions in the cooling rods of the steam generator system – a design error that potentially could have threatened the safety of our communities.
As Edison decommissions the two remaining generators, it has a responsibility to earn public trust by communicating transparently with the 8.3 million residents who live within 50 miles of these structures.
Edison must put the public first with three common-sense measures: openly engaging with the community, reporting radiation incidents, and protecting our coastline. To its credit, Edison created a community engagement panel to represent the public in the decommission process. This panel has no authority and is based on a model promulgated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The panel is the minimum of what Edison should be doing to address public concerns.
To start, Edison is taking a step in the right direction by hosting meetings specifically to educate residents. This month, the meetings will address basic topics including risks of radiation and what to do in case of an emergency.
Edison must prioritize more initiatives like this. Edison should develop and distribute educational materials to respond to questions from the public. By making its emergency protocols public, Edison can prepare our community and give residents peace of mind.
Second, our families deserve reliable data about nuclear fuel near our coastline and neighborhoods. According to NRC law, spent fuel will be stored on the SONGS site for the foreseeable future, at least until 2035, or when an appropriate long-term storage option becomes available.
Edison must install live-time radiation monitors at the fuel storage site and share that data with the first-responder agencies that will coordinate public safety in an emergency. Monitoring data should be publicly available, so our families can take proper precautions.
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Finally, Edison must protect our community by investing in programs to keep our coastline safe and healthy for generations to come.
The private corporation stands to save up to $100 million in removal costs, if the State Lands Commission approves its permit to leave pipes buried beneath the ocean floor. Our communities should benefit from this allowance – especially since Edison's decommissioning budget was funded by local ratepayers.
If Edison intends to leave buried debris behind, it should pay a mitigation fee to compensate for its impact on the environment and ratepayers. These fees could be invested in local restoration projects to create a safer environment by improving the waters where our families swim, surf and fish.
We call on Edison to take community members' concerns seriously. Robust and open communication with the public is essential to earn their trust and keep our community's peace of mind.
Garry Brown is founder and president of Orange County Coastkeeper and member of the SONGS Community Engagement Panel.
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Based on the story of Micky Ward, a fledgling boxer who tries to escape the shadow of his more famous but troubled older boxing brother and get his own shot at greatness.
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams
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Stars: Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore
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Stars: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins
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Stars: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener
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A freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician, a grieving mother, and a born-again ex-con.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Stars: Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts
Mickey Rourke ... Randy 'The Ram' Robinson
Marisa Tomei ... Cassidy
Evan Rachel Wood ... Stephanie
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This is a drama about an aging professional wrestler, decades past his prime, who now barely gets by working small wrestling shows in VFW halls and as a part-time grocery store employee. As he faces health problems that may end his wrestling career for good he attempts to come to terms with his life outside the ring: by working full time at the grocery store, trying to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned in childhood and forming a closer bond with a stripper he has romantic feelings for. He struggles with his new life and an offer of a high-profile rematch with his 1980s arch-nemesis, The Ayatollah, which may be his ticket back to stardom. Written by Matlock-6
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If the phrase "the little movie that could" applies to any movie this year then it most certainly does to "The Wrestler". It is one of the best movies I've seen last year, and more than that it is even more special due to the brilliant and amazing performance of its cast.
The return of Mickey Rourke was overdue, a gifted and talented actor, who in my opinion was wrongly shunned and marginalized because of his past attitude and behaviour which marked him as a "bad boy". Hollywood surely likes to sometimes punish its own, especially those individuals who don't repent and crawl on their knees asking for "cinematic forgiveness" from their peers. What happened to Mickey Rourke was pure hypocrisy on the part of an industry that has no problem tolerating much, much worse behaviour on the part of less talented individuals; an industry that from time to time seeks to attain some kind of superficial saving grace marked by a phony mea culpa and a symbolic sacrificial lamb, in this case Mickey Rourke. I ask, how is what he did any different than the behaviour of let's say Lindsay Lohan, whom many critics where at one point anointing her as the next Jody Foster or Merryl Streep?!?!? Talk about self-imposed blindness! When I last saw Rourke in "Sin City", I was, albeit briefly but forcefully reminded, of how good of an actor he really is. So imagine my pleasure and anticipation when "The Wrestler" came out! At heart this is a story of redemption, but here comes the kick, it is actually an attempt and ultimate failure at redemption, at least in the sense that redemption is understood in today's society. This is a profoundly sad movie, but that fact does not take away one bit from the movie, rather it makes it more believable and even more powerful.
As Bruce Springsteen's song by the same title points out, there are some wrongs that can't be righted and some wounds that can't be mended, and that is the situation Mikey Rourke's character finds himself in. I don't want to discuss the movie in detail, nor give anything away from the plot or storyline, suffice to say that this is one viewing that is more than worth sitting through from beginning to end.
Rourke, Marisa Tomei (another grossly underrated actress) and Evan Rachel Wood are phenomenal and really hold their own and make the most of their on-screen time. Whatever award nominations and wins these actors are likely to get are more than deserved. Darren Aronofsky has really grown by leaps and bounds in his solid and varied career as director. I am personally glad that he decided to helm this project, the end result speaks for itself.
Ultimately there is redemption to be found in this movie, but it comes at a heavy price, to me that redemption takes the form of the triumph of the human spirit against insurmountable odds and seemingly impossible choices. These days that is a bold statement to make!
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There have been a spate of reports and blog posts recently postulating about the potential demise of the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) in the light of big data and evolving approaches to data management.
There are a number of connected themes that have led the likes of Colin White and Barry Devlin to ponder the future of the EDW, and as it happens I'll be talking about these during our 451 Client event in San Francisco on Wednesday.
While my presentation doesn't speak directly to the future of the EDW, it does cover the trends that are driving the reconsideration of the assumption that the EDW is, and should be, the central source of business intelligence in the enterprise.
The massive improvements in processing performance seen since the advent of data warehousing means that it is now more practical to process data where it resides, or is generated rather than forcing data to be held in a central data warehouse.
For example, while distributed caching was initially adopted to improve the performance of Web and financial applications, it also provides an opportunity to perform real-time analytics on application performance and user behaviour (enabling targeted ads for example) long before the data get anywhere near the data warehouse.
While the central EDW approach has some advantages for data control, security and reliability, this has always been more theoretical than practical, as there is the need for regional and departmental data marts, and users continue to use local copies of data.
"The approach of many users now is not to stop those distributed systems from being created, but rather to ensure that they can be managed according to the same data-quality and security rules as the EDW.
The concept of the "data cloud" is nascent, but companies such as eBay are pushing in that direction, while also making use of data storage and processing technologies above and beyond traditional databases.
Hadoop is a prime example, but so too are the infrastructure components that are generating vast amounts of data that can be used by the enterprise to better understand how the infrastructure is helping or hindering the business in responding to changing demands.
For the 451 client event we have come up with the term 'datastruture' to describe these infrastructure elements. What is 'datastructure'? It's the machines that are responsible for generating machine-generated data.
While that may sound like we've just slapped a new label on existing technology we believe that those data-generating machines will evolve over time to take advantage of improved available processing power with embedded data analytics capabilities.
Just as in-database analytics has enabled users to reduce data processing latency by taking the analytics to the data in the database, it seems likely that users will look to do the same for machine-generated data by taking the analytics to the data in the 'datastructure'.
This 'datastructure' with embedded database and analytics capabilties therefore becomes part of the wider 'data cloud', alongside regional and departmental data marts, and the central business application data warehouse, as well as the ability to spin up and provision virtual data marts.
As for the end of the EDW, both Colin and Barry argue, and I agree, that what we are seeing does not portend the end of the EDW but recognition that the EDW is a component of business intelligence, rather than the source of all business intelligence itself.
Among the numerous prediction pieces during the rounds at the moment, Bradford Stephens, founder of Drawn to Scale suggested we could be in for continued proliferation of NoSQL database technologies in 2011, while Redmonk's Stephen O'Grady predicted consolidation. I agree with both of them.
To understand how NoSQL could both proliferate and consolidate in 2011 it's important to look at the small print. Bradford was talking specifically about open source tools, while Stephen was writing about commercially successful projects.
Given the levels of interest in NoSQL database technologies, the vast array of use cases, and the various interfaces and development languages – most of which are open source – I predict we'll continue to see cross-pollination and the emergence of new projects as developers (corporate and individual) continue to scratch their own data-based itches.
However, I think we are also beginning to see the a narrowing of the commercial focus on those projects and companies that have enough traction to generate significant business opportunities and revenue, and that a few clear leaders will emerge in the various NoSQL sub-categories (key-value stores, document stores, graph databases and distributed column stores).
We can see previous evidence of the dual impact of proliferation and consolidation in the Linux market. While commercial opportunities are dominated by Red Hat, Novell and Canonical, that has not stopped the continued proliferation of Linux distributions.
The main difference between NoSQL and Linux markets, of course, is that the various Linux distributions all have a common core, and the diversity in the NoSQL space means that we are unlikely to see proliferation on the scale of Linux.
However, I think we'll see a similar two-tier market emerge with a large number of technically interesting and differentiated open source projects, and a small number of commercially-viable general-purpose category leaders.


In the slide show above, you're seeing pictures of budget hotels and motels near the Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park in Valencia, California. While none of the closest hotels to Magic Mountain are budget-priced, you'll find some good deals on hotels if you stay just a bit further away...say, from 4 to 10 miles from the park. You may sacrifice a few amenities, but you'll have a clean room with all the basics that you'll need. And, you'll save so much money that you can extend the length of your vacation---or take another trip later!
Goodnite Inn, Sylmar: The Good Nite Inns are a small California-only chain of budget hotels.
Luckily for Six Flags Magic Mountain visitors, the chain has a location only about 9 miles from the theme park, in the northern LA suburb of Sylmar. It's directly to the east side of I-5 at the Roxford St exit.) As long as you have a car with you...as most Magic Mountain visitors do...you'll face only a short drive each way before you reach all of the theme park's fun attractions. Since Sylmar is north of Magic Mountain, your morning drive will be northwards---in the opposite direction of traffic flow during the morning commute. In the evening, likewise, you'll be heading towards Los Angeles at a time when most people are heading home from the downtown areas.
Unlike some brands of budget motels, Good Nite Inns feature a full-sized room, the size of which you'd find in more expensive chains. You'll enjoy other amenities, such as cable TV, a swimming pool and free morning coffee.
Wireless internet is available for a small fee. There's a Denny's Restaurant across the street, and a gas station a stone's throw away. And, unlike some fancier hotels in the USA, there's never an extra "resort fee" tacked on top of your hotel bill!
Because this Good Nite Inn is a good value for its price, you can expect it to fill up to capacity many nights during the busy summer months and on weekends during the spring and fall. Therefore, unless your trip is during the off-season, you should definitely make reservations ahead of time or you may arrive to find a full hotel.
Rates run around $45 in the off-season, and about $75 during the summertime, or can fall somewhere in-between these two extremes. Weekdays are generally less expensive than weekends.
The Sylmar Good Nite Inn address is 12835 Encinitas Ave, Sylmar, CA 91342. The Sylmar Good Nite Inn phone number is (818) 362-8899. Here is the Good Nite website.
The Motel 6 location in Sylmar, California is also a budget-lover's friend. Located next door to the Good Nite Inn, it, too, frequently fills up to capacity on busy summer days.
Rooms at the Sylmar Motel 6 look exactly like Motel 6 rooms almost everywhere. Same carpeting, same desk & chair, same bedspread. (I can get up in the middle of the night when the light is off and not run into anything...THAT'S how similar!) This Motel 6 delivers up the basics here, while charging up to 50% less than a fancier counterpart.
There is a pool and lounge chairs available, and free coffee is available every morning in the lobby. Vending machines sell soft drinks and snacks.
Rates at the Sylmar Motel 6 run around $45 for a room on an off-season weekday, up to about $75 during the busy summer tourist season---very similar to the Good Nite Inn's rates.
The Sylmar Motel 6 address is 12775 Encinitas Avenue, Sylmar, CA 91342. The Sylmar Motel 6 phone number is (818) 362-9491.
Motel 6 website: for further information about this (and other) Motel 6 locations near Southern California attractions, you may refer to the Motel 6 official website. Not many discounts are available at Motel 6 (no AAA, for example); however, by reserving your room ahead of time via the internet, you can take advantage of online discounts of several dollars per night (when offered.) You should note that kids stay free at Motel 6 locations; however, there is an extra charge for 2nd, 3rd and 4th adults in your group.
Extended Stay America: For about $20 more per night than the budget hotels discussed above, you can stay closer to the theme park AND have a kitchenette. Starting about $65 on a weekday in the off-season (and higher, of course, during the tourist rush) is the nice-looking Extended Stay America hotel.
The Extended Stay America chain specializes in rooms with more of the comforts of home...specifically, a cooking stove, cooking and dining utensils, and a larger fridge than the midget-sized fridge sometimes found in tourist hotel rooms.
Other amenities at the Extended Stay hotel location near Magic Mountain are free local phone calls, coin-op laundry, voice mail, iron & board and close proximity to a Coco's Restaurant. A large shopping center anchored by Walmart is located just down the street, and features a nice range of shopping and dining options.
Wireless Internet is available for a small fee, and work stations are provided in each room to accommodate those who'll be using a laptop while on their trip.
The Valencia Extended Stay hotel's address is 24940 W. Pico Canyon Rd, Stevenson Ranch, CA 91381. This location is a block or two west of I-5 at the Pico Canyon Road exit. You probably won't see it from the freeway, and you may not even see it when you're waiting at the stoplight in front of it. (It's kind of hidden up the hill behind the Coco's Restaurant...which IS plainly visible.) The Valencia Extended Stay hotel's phone number is (661) 255-1044.
Extended Stay America website: To check rates on the day you'd like to visit, or to get further info about this feature-filled hotel, here's a link to the Valencia page of the Extended Stay America website.
Here are some other options you might wish to investigate in your search for a cheap Valencia or Santa Clarita hotel near Magic Mountain.
1.) Santa Clarita Motel, address 24971 San Fernando Rd, Newhall, CA 91321; phone number (661) 259-2800. This basic-looking hotel is generally a well-liked budget motel, except by light sleepers (who dislike its location near a train track.) Here is the Santa Clarita Motel website.
2.) Santa Clarita/Valencia Super 8 Motel, address is 17901 Sierra Highway, Santa Clarita, CA 91351; phone number (661) 252-1722. This is one of the more attractive-looking locations of the Super 8 chain, which (as you probably) can vary widely in appearance. Amenities include a free continental breakfast and high speed internet. Its location off-the-beaten-path (it's NOT along I-5) makes it more suitable for visitors who know their way around the Valencia/Santa Clarita area with ease. Magic Mountain is about 8 miles away. Here is the Super 8 website.
3.) Santa Clarita Travelodge, address 17843 Sierra Highway, Santa Clarita, CA 91351; phone number (661) 252-1716. Located away from the I-5 corridor (like the Super 8 listed above) this location is attractive, but further off the beaten path than other Magic Mountain hotels. Amenities include free high-speed internet and "Bear Bites" breakfast. Here is the TraveLodge website.
4.) Days Inn, address is 31410 Castaic Rd, Castaic, CA 91310; phone number (661) 295-1070. This location is about 5 miles north of Six Flags Magic Mountain. It's the closest location of the national Days Inn budget motel chain to Magic Mountain Park. Here is the Days Inn website.
5.) Rodeway Inn: The national chain of Rodeway Inn budget hotels also has a location near Six Flags Magic Mountain. Some rooms with microwaves and refrigerators are available. Address: 31558 Castaic Road, Castaic, CA 91384; phone number, (661) 295-1100. Here is the Rodeway Inn website.


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Q: SQL Difference function between Name Column in 2 Tables I have 2 tables that contain a column for a name part, i.e. John Doe has a row for John and one for Doe.  The 2 tables have different names in them.  I need to take the name part from one table and calculate the DIFFERENCE score to the name part in the other.  Right now I'm using an inner and outer cursor to loop through each of the two tables.  This works but is taking a long time to run.
Is there a different way that would speed this up?
An example of what I'm trying to do:
Table 1
Name
----
John
Doe
Jan
Smith

Table 2
Name
-----
Henry
Ford
Ransom
Eli
Olds

This is what I need:
DIFFERENCE('John','Henry')
DIFFERENCE('John','Ford')
DIFFERENCE('John','Ransom')
DIFFERENCE('John','Eli')
DIFFERENCE('John','Olds')
DIFFERENCE('Doe','Henry')
DIFFERENCE('Doe','Ford')
DIFFERENCE('Doe','Ransom')
DIFFERENCE('Doe','Eli')
DIFFERENCE('Doe','Olds')
DIFFERENCE('Jane','Henry')
DIFFERENCE('Jane','Ford')
DIFFERENCE('Jane','Ransom')
DIFFERENCE('Jane','Eli')
DIFFERENCE('Jane','Olds')
DIFFERENCE('Smith','Henry')
DIFFERENCE('Smith','Ford')
DIFFERENCE('Smith','Ransom')
DIFFERENCE('Smith','Eli')
DIFFERENCE('Smith','Olds')

Right now, I save these DIFFERENCE scores in a temp table for testing purposes.  Sorry for the lack of formatting, I'm new to posting here.  Thanks for you help.

A: I think - what you are actually are looking for - is CROSS JOIN.
It is - in short - a join-everything-with-everything join which needs no join condition. The result is each possible combination of values, in other words: the cartesian product.
Try this:
DECLARE @tbl1 TABLE(Name VARCHAR(100));
INSERT INTO @tbl1 VALUES
 ('John')
,('Doe')
,('Jan')
,('Smith');

DECLARE @tbl2 TABLE(Name VARCHAR(100));
INSERT INTO @tbl2 VALUES
 ('Henry')
,('Ford')
,('Ransom')
,('Eli')
,('Olds');

SELECT t1.Name
      ,t2.Name
      ,DIFFERENCE(t1.Name,t2.Name) AS DiffName
FROM @tbl1 AS t1
CROSS JOIN @tbl2 AS t2

The result
Name    Name    DiffName
John    Henry   2
Doe     Henry   2
Jan     Henry   2
Smith   Henry   2
John    Ford    2
Doe     Ford    2
Jan     Ford    2
Smith   Ford    2
John    Ransom  1
Doe     Ransom  0
Jan     Ransom  1
Smith   Ransom  1
John    Eli     2
Doe     Eli     2
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Train with masters of sports. Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web! Gracefully lying on a peaceful location nearby the picturesque town of Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympic Games, the Olympic Village Hotel & Spa invites you to experience unforgettable holidays surrounded by pristine nature and impressive ancient sites. Ken Livingstone, then the mayor of London, made it perfectly clear why the Olympics would be a … The hosts had to add 20,000 more condoms. After the Munich Massacre which occurred during the 1972 Olympics in Germany, the safety of the Olympic villages became critical. It's no secret that, over the years, a lot more than sporting events have taken place at the Olympics. The Berlin Olympic Village housed nearly 4,000 athletes during the 1936 games. This is one of the many thousands of questions this task force will have to address. A mix of photo journalism and own sports imaging done with & for the athletes. The doors are wider, showers taller, larger corridors and the lifts have room for two wheelchairs at a time. Thousands of athletes from all over the world will live in these Olympic Villages for two weeks. Gym. olympic village . Type: noun; Copy to clipboard; Details / edit; GlosbeMT_RnD. noun. It will occupy an area of 160,000 square meters. Athanasios Gioumpasis Getty Images. We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly. Los Angeles, the hosts, dismantled the Olympic village right after the Olympic Games. Das Land am Zusammenfluss von Kladeos und Alpheios weist eine lange Besiedlungsgeschichte auf. Olympia (altgriechisch Ὀλυμπία) war das Heiligtum des Zeus in Elis, im Nordwesten der Halbinsel Peloponnes. Each unit features modern comforts including a satellite TV. 4 of 18. The pantheon for Olympic Athletes; the Mecca of the Olympic Games. The Olympic Village always has a certain air of ~mystery~ around it because it's off limits to regular non-athletic people. Discover Hitler's Olympic Village in Wustermark, Germany: The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget. We truly appreciate your support. During the Olympics, the hosts built cabins around the venue of the event. Fishing. He himself served as its president for 29 years, and there have been 8 presidents since then. 3 years . In early Olympic games, organizers had to rent rooms all over the host city to house athletes and trainers. Geschichte Frühzeit. What Is The Biggest State In The United States? What do we know about sex in the Olympic Village? The road to Tokyo seen through the eyes of Paul Raats. Olympic definition: 1. of or relating to the Olympics: 2. of or relating to the Olympics: . Es war der Austragungsort der Olympischen Spiele der Antike. Volleyball. World Population By Percentage of Blood Types. A self-contained district within a city hosting the Olympics, providing accommodation and amenities for competitors and other people who have an official connection with the Games. Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in Japan. In the run up to the Games Popular Science Monthly reported in 1931 about the plans of on Olympic Village with "a group of several hundred houses, a 1200-foot-long dining hall and a large administration building". Later on in the 1932 Summer Olympics, the hosts built the first Olympic Village that formed a model used for the present-day Olympic Villages. … Hedonism is the belief that humans exist to derive the most pleasure in life. The Olympic Villages exhibit hedonistic lifestyles among athletes during the Olympics. https://www.definitions.net/definition/olympic+village. The Olympic Village under construction in 2009. STANDS4 LLC, 2020. The Olympic Village was delivered in June, 15th to the Rio 2016 Committee. In the Olympic village alone, you're bringing together 17,000-18,000 people, they're living in close quarters, interacting with each other, coming from all over the world. Vacated rooms are said to be bribed away from maids and become occupied for the sake of partying. We hope and we will do whatever we can so that there is an Olympic village, the village is where the heart of the Games beat. An Olympic village is an accommodation facility built by organizers for the Olympic Games. Copy to clipboard; Details / edit; Dbnary: Wiktionary as Linguistic Linked Open Data . He will share with you the development of the venues, events, exclusive sports shoots with Olympians preparing for Tokyo, trainers, brands, and many related topics to Tokyo 2020. village olympique { masculine } Provide a guarantee regarding funding for the construction of the Olympic Village. Tennis. Squash. Olympic village . A sample Olympic village came to light at the Summer Olympic Games in 1924. Meaning "The Olympic symbol expresses the activity of the Olympic Movement and represents the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games." (Olympic Charter, Rule 8) These five rings represent the five parts of the world now won over to the cause of olympism and ready to accept its fecund rivalries. Viele übersetzte Beispielsätze mit "in the Olympic Village" – Englisch-Deutsch Wörterbuch und Suchmaschine für Millionen von Englisch-Übersetzungen. What's The Aurora Borealis And Where Can You See It? The Marina, Castle, and Chesil Beach are all short walks away, and everything else on the island is max 20 minute drive. translation and definition "Olympic village", English-French Dictionary online. This was expensive and inconvenient. 5 Things You Should Know About: South America, 5 Things You Should Know About: North America. The building will have 1,440 new apartments located in 32-storey buildings. The press and media that cover the events of Olympics do not have ac… OLYMPIC VILLAGE. Web. Additional 10 sections. Fitness. Definitions.net. Am Rande des antiken Heiligtums befindet sich die moderne Stadt Archea Olymbia. There are 31 buildings and all have adapted units for people with disabilities or little mobility. Badminton. Photograph: Graeme Robertson. One of the most interesting scenarios that ever happened was during the Sydney Olympics where the 70,000 condoms provided ran out during the games. On the other hand, London provided 150,000 condoms during the 2012 Olympics. Not only was it brilliant to be able to stay in the Olympic village, but everything in Portland is really accessible. Many translated example sentences containing "in the Olympic Village" – Portuguese-English dictionary and search engine for Portuguese translations. The Olympic Village is a complex of accommodations used to house athletes, trainers, and officials during the games. The village consisted of one and two story apartment buildings in Berlin. Swimming pool. The village hosted male athletes only. The "sports" that will never be written in the history books. Martial Arts. The primary purpose for the Olympic village is to house all participants of the Olympics including trainers to athletes to the officials. The Baldwin Hills Olympic village consisted of a fire department, telegraph and post offices, a bank, a hospital, and an amphitheater. The press and media that cover the events of Olympics do not have access to the Olympic villages. Many translated example sentences containing "Olympic Village" – English-Lithuanian dictionary and search engine for English translations. President Thomas Bach : This is one of the many thousands of questions this task force will have to address. Acts such as casual sex together with copious amounts of alcohol consumptions are common. 10 Things that go on behind the scenes at the Olympic village. In the Olympic village alone, you're bringing together 17,000-18,000 people, they're living in close quarters, interacting with each other, coming from all over the world. Before the use of Olympic villages, the National Olympic Committee used to incur very high costs in renting houses for the athletes, trainers, and Olympics officials. It had a sauna, swimming pool, a hospital, and an indoor arena. An Olympic village is an accommodation facility built by organizers for the Olympic Games. The accommodation is comfortable and clean. Thanks for your vote! Offering you spacious rooms, decorated in modern style, complemented with cozy furniture, and topped with upscale amenities, you will instantly … Fittingly enough the first use of the Olympic Village goes back to the Olympic Games held in Los Angeles in 1932. Football. Los Angeles, USA built the first Olympic village in the Baldwin Hills in 1932. Viele übersetzte Beispielsätze mit "Olympic Village" – Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch und Suchmaschine für Millionen von Deutsch-Übersetzungen. Stretching. Copy to clipboard; Details / edit; wiki. Unlike the Los Angeles Olympic Village, the Berlin Olympic village later became an army barrack for almost 50 years. 18 years. Its location is within an Olympic Park in the city where the Olympics will take place. There were originally 14 members but the Committee has now grown to over 130 members, all of whom must speak either French or English. We are thinking about two possible scenarios, but we can't tell you much because of competition from the others, we'll keep the first word for the IOC. Another example of an Olympic Village was for the 1936 Olympics. The Village housed athletes for the games, which took place under Nazi rule. It is our hope that we can have an Olympic Village in the traditional form, because everybody who has stayed in an Olympic Village knows that this is the real Olympic experience. The complex has capacity to host to 17,950 athletes and technical staff at Games time in 3,604 flats. Examples of olympic village in a Sentence, Images & Illustrations of olympic village. The light of day will never be shed on some of the legendary partying that has gone on at the Olympic Village. "olympic village." When Baron de Coubertin founded the Olympic Movement he established the International Olympic Committee (the IOC) to supervise it, in 1894. The numerical value of olympic village in Chaldean Numerology is: 4, The numerical value of olympic village in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8. The only people who can access the Olympic villages are athletes, Olympic officials, trainers, former Olympic athletes, and specific family members of athletes who have undergone thorough security checks. Learn more. During the 2004 Olympic Games held in Sochi, the host provided the 6,000 athletes who attended the event with 100,000 free condoms. Sex ones do, too. Amongst all the Olympics Villages ever built, the Youth Olympic Village in Villa Soldati, Buenos Aires may turn out to be the largest. 24 Dec. 2020. Country complex for recreation and sports. Here, guests can also enjoy a rich buffet breakfast in the morning. Olympic village (plural Olympic villages) An area where participating athletes, as well as officials and trainers, are accommodated during the Olympic Games. Pierre de Coubertin came up with the idea of setting up Olympic villages. There's a playing field in the village that the kids can run around in. But in any case, 80 percent of the athletes would be within 30 minutes of the Olympic village. By Sharon Omondi on October 10 2017 in Did You Know. Athletes used these cabins which were convenient for them since they were near the Olympics stadium. Chapman Park Hotel, located on Wilshire Boulevard, accommodated the female athletes. 07 of 12. Bike the False Creek Seawall … The event organizers are preparing to host 7,500 people. Pole Dance. Olympic Village Hotel & SPA offers 59 well furnished rooms with balcony offering a nice view of Olympia. We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.If by any chance you spot an inappropriate image within your search results please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly. 6 major sports sections. There's something and The best will be done to ensure that there is an Olympic Village in Tokyo 2020, as this is where the heart of the Olympic Games is beating. Derived terms . How to say olympic village in sign language? Olympic Village . Anastasia Boyko. villaggio olimpico. The primary purpose for the Olympic village is to house all participants of the Olympics including trainers to athletes to the officials. It occupies a total area of 2,864 acres (1,159 hectares), of which 1,680 acres (680 hectares) in the north are covered by the Olympic Forest Park, 778 acres (315 hectares) make up the central section, and 405 acres (164 hectares) in the south are scattered with venues for the 1990 Asian Games. Ping pong. We've got all physiques on display, all trades, all skills, the high jumpers, the heavy lifters, the cyclists. translation and definition "Olympic Village", English-Italian Dictionary online. After the Munich Massacre which occurred during the 1972 Olympics in Germany, the safety of the Olympic villages became critical. Swimming pool. All maps, graphics, flags, photos and original descriptions © 2020 worldatlas.com, 5 Things You Should Know About: Central America. The Olympic Village is a zoo of human celebration. The Hotel's restaurant offers a variety of dishes, Mediterranean cuisine and Greek specialties, in a relaxed setting. Beijing Olympic Park is where the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and Paralympics took place. Wakeboard. Works in our team. Order the roasted Brussels sprout salad or head there for happy hour specials to get bargain beverages. The Olympic Village in Berlin, as pictured in 1936. Olympic Village is becoming a destination for foodies thanks to places such as Terra Breads for sandwiches and a new opening of the Flying Pig, a more upscale restaurant that also has sister establishments in Yaletown and Gastown. Fournissez une garantie concernant le financement de la construction du village olympique. I went to the Olympic village checked you out. Sono anche andato al villaggio olimpico per farvi uscire dall'albergo. Basketball. . Its location is within an Olympic Park in the city where the Olympics will take place. Concernant le financement de la construction du village olympique { masculine } Provide a guarantee regarding funding for athletes... 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View Full Version : Math? Swashbuckler damage stat - Cha, Str, Con?
So it seems like there are a plethora of swashbuckler builds - each with a slight twist on flavor.
CHA damage and spell DC- Seems effective either as 20 bard (more spells/DC "Bardlike")or 12 Brd/6 Ftr/2 Rog (More feats/HP/melee "Skirmisher"). Seems that there are fewer +CHA abilities than others so maximum CHA may be less than others.
CON damage - huge HP pool and significant damage. Good synergy with Dwarf/Stalwart defender on that Dwarven Paragon build. Plus you get a bunch of HP as a bonus.
STR damage - Nice amount of +STR boosters, synergy benefit with tactical feats.
So, has anyone figured out the differences/benefits between the various approaches?
Seems if you go CON you might be limited to Dwarf for greatest benefit - not that that is a bad thing.
Seems if you go STR or CON you need to sacrifice a good amount in terms of CHA bonus to UMD/spell DC. The side benefit being that fascinate and coup use perform which can still be maintained.
I'm personally intrigued by the CON avenue - purely due to the very obvious HP benefit. May be TR'ing into one soon.
I'm the greatest hater of any CON-based build in this website, I honestly don't think there is any reason to be con-based other than a shallow HP amount that I have never missed. You can be CHA-based and use your DC for defense or go STR and use Stun/Trip, either way will give you far more survavibility than a few hit points will ever do, unless you're getting OHK'd of course. I tried doing solo EE Madstone yesterday and I wiped, why do they make things that can't be CC'd?
CHA opens up DC and Spells and contrary to the popular belief you do not need to be a Triple Completionist with uber gear for your DC to work, it works very well! It's trickier in Epics since you need to get your EDs, augments and gear going on first but when you switch to your best ED the results are fantastic, it truly opens a new world of possibility for you.
In heroics it'll be a cakewalk but heroics are a cakewalk either way so try a WIS-based bard.
Don't let higher potential STR trick you, the extra damage isn't that higher to be superior to good Crowd Control.
Or you can just go with CON (my build) instead and solo every ee in the game without ever dying. Gratz on trying to solo madstone.
I'm too tired for math at the moment, but am interested the topic. A picture is worth a 1000 words. Below is what I started with. A few points to note. First, the PDK starter gear is not the best fit in gear to start with for this build, but I've been swapping out pieces as I play and get them. Hopefully I will find what I need along the journey to level 28.
The weapons in the far right hand vertical tool bar are the Tortured Livewood Bow, Knight's Sword (longsword), Tyrzza's Bane (rapier), and Alleigence (khopseh). I've since picked up an Envenomed Blade (short sword) and a Golden Guile from the LoD chain.
I'm all about dancing, controlling, and hacking/slashing/stabbing with this toon. I'm using Tyrzza's Bane as my main swashbuckling weapon. I went CHA, STR, CON. Two levels PDK, 1 level sorc, and the rest bard.
My only goal with this toon is to have a good time, so I'm not going to sweat trying to be perfect or optimal with this build. Although I plan to use only what I find for the most part, I did seed this toon with 50k plat, the bow, and the khopesh. The rest is/was starter gear or I've pulled in quest.
I'm using Tyrzza's Bane as my main swashbuckling weapon.
Gosh, I think Nightforge Stiletto would be better than that, and it takes just 10 minutes to get.
99% of the monsters in this game can be CC'd, how does your build crowd control? And how does +6 CON MOD make it possible for you to do something I cannot? +6 mod at 28 is 168 HP. One Hundred Sixty Eight.
And nice ego post, you came here just to try to show off, brag about your bad build w/ bad dps and bad CC and derate me? Wow.
You've pretty much summed it up OP – str based for max dps, con based for max hp/tanking, cha based for max DCs. Dex based is also an option but imo it's not worth it since a dex dumped swashbuckler can still reach an EE viable reflex save.
I also don't think the gain in dps from going str based is worth the loss of versatility from con or cha based.
Con based is obviously ideal for a tank, but stupidly high HP certainly makes the build effective outside that role (assuming dwarf with throw your weight around so that you're optimizing dps with survivability, the dwarven defender parody is a solid build).
Personally, I like the versatility of cha based.
Going Str-based still provides good CC, since fascinate will still be high enough to catch anyone.
The main weakness of going max Str is the lack of evasion, since you need both power surge (F12) and divine might (C1 or FvS1), so there's no room for rogue levels. You can go Str with divine might only, which would reduce dps, but grant more survivability.
All three are interesting imo, and imply very different play styles. Comparison should be aimed at play styles rather than direct comparison of power.
*Edit: Also note about the side elements and not only direct dps. Spell CC is one, survivability is another, or access to furyshot. Those don't really compare to each other.
Yep, still sleepy for the math part, but for fun I decided to bling the rapier and SB it. I didn't get a chance to fiddle with it much yet. I think it's neat I can start using it at level 10. I still have some Jeweler's Tool Kits from combining cards 7 and 8, so I can always take the augment back out and re-use it. I'd rather use what I find. Anyway for the maths. I equipped the items b4 I made the screen shots.
Anecdotally in the run thru Lords of Dust I used the rapier (pre-bling) on Gnomen and then I used the khopesh on the drow afterwards, and both weapons torn up my opponents in the end fight.
That is a great idea! TYVM! I actually made 4 bards (2 at L4 and 2 at L15). Also there is a another benefit. Any left over ore can go to my crafter. I think they the bards are 4, 6, 15, and 16 now.
That is a nice dagger. I wish it had an augment slot.
Am I the only one who's intrigued by INT based swashbuckler? To pick up rogue skills and insightful reflexes. I guess not many care about rogue skills these days.
I prefer the cha based pdk for higher dc's and soon better cc with changes to warchanter but also because even going dwarf lets say a maximum of 350-400 more hp for the loss of a lot of dc and base healing amp can only fit second tier for my build plus human bonus feat.
The con build is solid just not for me I have 2 guildies that trd into it to give it a go we will see how ours perform together at cap.
i'll be twisting in energy burst soundburst and probably cocoon with great dc's on them where the con build will be more likely to take melee feats.
Sweet! I did not recall it having one and I haven't been there in a long while. TYVM for sharing the link!
Its settled then, I will make a trip to Kundarak after hitting the temple in D for some ore! To the mines! I have a village to feed!
Also, I'm going to collect a few SWF and Swasbuckling weapons for my own comparison purposes and I don't have a dagger, yet, and I have a nice red augment of sonic spell power with no home now that I blinged the rapier.
TY Scrabble and johnnyputrid for the direction and motivation!
I use that build too and I can tell you that is awesome dps and very good defense as well. With this build your cc is swash knockdown, buckler guardebreaking, and fascinate, no need for more. And again fascinate is working pretty well in madstone, soloed 3th crystal on ee with fascinate very easily. That build easly sit at 1.6k hp so is not 168 hp. Anyway a good caster bard is possible to make it viable in ee especially with next patch.
That build easly sit at 1.6k hp .
Thanks for the replies. So no real surprises then.
I currently have a 25 Half-Orc (yuck, but wanted to try it out) pure bard. Poorly geared and still does a good job, DCs are poor but I find I play him more as a buffable melee anyway.
Which led me to the PDK squashbuckler/FoTM build of 12 bard/6 Ftr/ 2 Rog which I also have at 25 now - PDK, focus on CHA. VERY easy to play, I don't even want to play the half orc. Fascinate/low blow/Coup work great. Dancing ball... mediocre results. Usually better to just beat them down singly unless a huge mob then fascinate. Over time he could definitely use some DC improvement since he doesn't even have mind fog and some reliable non-fascinate CC would be great.
Regardless, both are very survivable - displacement is just a broken spell. The PDK has Stalwart, and the 20% hp is nice while the pure bard is pretty weak in the HP. Usually EH, but both are EE useful in a party.
Thinking about TR's now - Going to move one to a bladeforged something for the heck of it and one to another swashbuckler build. Still really considering the Dwarf build... because Dwarf.
The Infected critters in Madstone are immune to mind-affecting effects. They can be CC'd, just not with mind-affecting stuff like, oh, say, bard songs. Earthquake, on the other hand, works great.
My build CCs with uber dps + cleaves and survivability. If nothing is alive there is nothing to cc. Or I can just fascinate.
But if you think you can do everything my build can, then go ahead and solo ee Breaking the Ranks or ee WGU like I did and I shut up.
And yes, I have a well developed ego, not taking it well when some1 is bashing my uber build.
What is the Dc on your cocoon?
Question, Using PDK with maxed Cha restricting to Short Sword.
Does this make it worthwhile in the goal to having the DC's plus the damage?
I tend to agreed with you, but for the 2 U21 raids on EE those extra hp could really help. Beyond that, yeah I think the extra cha gives you much more utility for a bard vs. bonus con. It seems like the hp differential would be alot more than 400 especially when when hp bonus % are applied in Unyielding.
I am giving this build a try on a deep alt right now just to understand how it works. Then I wanted to try PDK max cha build as well.
Human gets the same bonus to cha as PDK and so can reach the same DCs, but isn't limited to shortswords. That's why I went with human for the build in my sig.
I think the one advantage of PDK is they can use cha for attack and damage, but yeah as you said they are limited to short swords.
That's true but getting cha to attack is hardly an advantage imo. Hitting mobs just isn't an issue anymore as long as you put minimal effort into your to-hit. And the best shortsword (Celestia) is broken by swashbuckler cores.
It seems like the hp differential would be alot more than 400 especially when when hp bonus % are applied in Unyielding.
The dwarf build is more dps and the extra hp do help with survival in tough situations. They are both good builds with places they shine.
It is an advantage if you don't have high caliber tomes and need to focus on just a few stats. It may not be for you, but there are people that it does make sense for.
*edit* I'm not so sure your "not an issue" holds true in epic elites. Zoda has 41 str on his main (which is a con based build, 68 con). In his demo video, he is getting grazing hits on a 6. This is not to say he is ineffective, he is soloing breaking the ice and making it look easy. I'm just not so sure that to-hit is as "not-an-issue" as everyone believes. Swashbuckler has enough attacks that (this will sound drastic), I'm wondering if it would be better to run precision even in LD and skip momentum/laying waste.
*edit edit* I just checked my video and with 26 str and precision, I'm getting grazing hits on a 6 as well. Maybe it doesn't matter.
the real bonus is how cha can synergize with tactics adding 1/3 your cha modifier on a cha build is substantial.
Any bard can have cha based dmg, pdk has the option to use cha to hit or not. If you can stand the look, pdk is a solid choice. Especially for a 12/6/2 build. I think the pdk flavor is easier to gear/get started.
•Frozen Fury and Spinning Ice Difficulty checks adjusted to be generally of the form: "Attack enemies around you with a weapon for +2(W) damage. Each enemy is frozen solid if they fail a Fortitude save (14 + Charisma modifier + 1/2 Bard Level + Stunning modifiers), for a number of seconds equal to your half your Bard level. Bosses cannot be frozen." Increased ranks increases how much Bard levels contribute.
Well, that PDK bonus applies to the DC of tactical feats. Frozen Fury and Spinning Ice are enhancements, not feats. Doesn't matter.
PS. Yes, I'm joking. I fully know that the descriptions is likely to be disobeyed by the software.
I went PDK 12/6/2 for the knight training - A) It doesn't seem that there are that many named shortswords (I still like the envenomed blade though) B) I'm off shortsword quite a bit and don't have a lot of issues hitting even with only a +5 STR bonus.
Since they get the skill point and the free feat I don't see a real negative though - only losing out on dragonmark enhancements. Main limitations are the first level of fighter (bad for skills and going pure) and the really ugly models - human skin on a half orc frame. As above, it can help with tactics too.


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What's a life worth to Cephalon and its stockholders?
Apparently, not very much, considering their off-label promotions of opiate-laced lollipops.
Cephalon settles charges for $425 million
Linda Loyd
Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted on Tue, Sep. 30, 2008
In what prosecutors called the largest health-care settlement in federal court here, Cephalon Inc. will pay $425 million to settle criminal and civil charges that it illegally marketed three of its drugs.
The Frazer company is expected to plead guilty in U.S. District Court to one misdemeanor criminal charge, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia announced yesterday.
Cephalon, a biopharmaceutical company based in Chester County, previously announced last November an "agreement in principle" with the U.S. attorney and Justice Department over an investigation that began in 2003 of its "off-label" promotion and sales of pain medication Actiq, Provigil for sleep disorders, and Gabitril for epilepsy.
Cephalon said yesterday that it had reached separate agreements with attorneys general in Connecticut and Massachusetts to settle related probes.
The drug manufacturer will pay $6.15 million to Connecticut and $700,000 to Massachusetts.
That's the cost of "doing business" to unscrupulous drug marketering and salesforce leaders:
Cephalon's off-label campaigns were successful. Actiq sales jumped from $50.1 million in 2001 to $550.4 million in 2006.
Gabitril revenue rose from $24.6 million in 2001 to $87.3 million in 2004, and Provigil sales from $146.2 million in 2001 to $691.7 million in 2006, the government said.
What's the problem with the strategy of off-label advertising?
While doctors are free to prescribe medicines for any condition they believe appropriate, drug manufacturers can promote products in the United States only for FDA-approved uses.
Were leaders at Cephalon, I add, hired and trained and unleashed without that knowledge? Or did they deliberately flout the law? And if so, have the individuals involved been properly held accountable?
Law enforcement authorities began seeing misuse of Actiq by people who also abused OxyContin and other narcotic painkillers in 2004. Actiq had the street name "perc-o-pops."
Actiq, a berry-flavored cancer-pain treatment on a stick, is approved to treat bouts of severe cancer pain in patients who can tolerate opiods such as morphine. But Cephalon promoted it to treat migraines and backaches, prosecutors said .... acting U.S. Attorney Laurie Magid said at a news briefing "We know in the case of these drugs, patients were harmed, including death, when there was off-label use."
Treatment of migraines and backaches with a drug used to treat pain of metastatic cancer?? The former are just the complaints many addicts use in ED's and doctor's offices to get drugs.
I spent the early part of my career trying to convince public transit vehicle operators, police, fire, and other mission-critical personnel not to abuse drugs, and oversaw testing for same.
Now, here come the pharmas, encouraging physicians (some of them - a minority - unscrupulous themselves, but others naive or misled by drug reps and advertising) to prescribe questionable drugs resulting in harm to innocent patients, abuses by dishonest "patient-actors", and support of the street drug trade.
How did this practice come to light?
In January 2003, a former Cephalon sales representative in Ohio, Bruce Boise, contacted the FDA about Cephalon's sales practices. Boise wore an undercover wire to a company sales conference to help the government gather evidence, according to his Washington-based attorney, Peter Chatfield.
In November 2003, another Cephalon sales representative, Lucia Paccione, of Philadelphia, filed the first of four qui tam "whistle-blower" lawsuits. The complaints were unsealed yesterday.
In this case, four whistle-blowers will divide about $46.5 million plus accrued interest, prosecutors said.
The ultimate costs to the company?
News of the settlement, known to Wall Street for months, barely budged Cephalon's stock price. Shares closed down $1.31, or 1.64 percent, at $78.57. Cephalon had reserved the $425 million for the federal settlement last year.
In summary, the life of an unsuspecting patient who takes Cepahalon drugs for off-label uses that were illegally advertised and then suffers harm, and the life of those addicted to drugs, seem worth little to Cephalon and its stockholders.
In my opinion, as long as this pharma/stockholder/cost-of-doing-business dystopia continues, we can look forward to an unending stream of this type of situation.
The penalties for this type of conduct need to be escalated. Instead of just a fine of $425 million, how about the addition of long prison sentences and exclusion from any further involvement in biomedicine - for life - for the perps?
Instead of a wake-up call, it's merely "the cost of doing business." Compare and contrast this with tobacco lawsuits - the idea was to fine them so much that it would permanently change the way that they did business. This is just an inconvience.
September 30, 2008 at 1:45:00 PM EDT
As a business person I have to view this through a business prism. First: "Cephalon had reserved the $425 million for the federal settlement last year." This indicates that the margin on these product are so great that this company can expense this fine. This is similar to the statement made by the device manufactures after they were fined that they would suffer no material impact on earnings.
Cutting through the biz speak this means that these companies can absorb these fines and they will not prove to be a deterrent to these same behaviors in the future.
We look today at the announcement by GSK that they are cutting R&D staff to realign their priorities. Pfizer announced it is getting out of the heart business, the business that has made it billions in the last decade, to focus on, from my perspective, softer less difficult markets such as dementia and oncology. Results may not be measured as stringently for these conditions given the larger body of data on more common conditions.
Often sighted by drug companies is the hostile environment of today's FDA. My personal feeling is the FDA has become aware of drug companies spinning data, and results, and are now demanding a higher standard in more common drugs. Surrogate end points may not be allowed in the future, but instead hard data proving a drugs effectiveness may be the standard.
Taken collectively these companies are acting as, well, companies. There is no higher calling. There is no loyalty to the data. There is only a drive to sell product at the highest price to the most people, regardless of need, or even desire. Pharma is a true marketing industry with all of the same morals and ethics as a Ponzi scheme.
I find it personally insulting when doctors defend pharma as some golden industry claiming I, and my insurance company, are required to both use, and pay, a higher price for branded drugs in order to support this industry. Further, doctors demean their profession with claims of not being influenced by pharma while patients watch drug reps bring in food and other items, while the doctors themselves speak of attending meetings at expensive resorts or restaurants.
The only issue left is what will pharma's response be when a standard of treatment they have promoted for years is found to be of no medical use: Thank you for your multibillion contribution to our corporate coffers? As a marketing entity pharma will always look for greener pastures where they can employ the same tactics they have used in the past. Sales people are creatures of habit and the habits they have learned will die hard.
FallenAttorney said...
If you need evidence that Cephalon's promotion of Provigil for non-approved uses is a very bad idea, consider my case:
Several years ago, My physician met for the first time with a Cephalon sales representative. Being a doctor who saw many adult ADHD patients, she decided to prescribe Provigil for me for a 3-month trial with an eye towards eventually substituting Provigil for Dexedrine. I had been taking Dexedrine for ADHD for nearly 15 years without problem. However, she became convinced after meeting with the Cephalon rep that Provigil could offer me therapeutic benefit equivalent to that of Dexedrine without posing the cardiac risks associated with amphetamines to someone like me in his middle 50s. Six weeks later, I awoke in a delusional state. 2 hours later I arrived painless at the ER, but highly hypotensive and well into acute renal failure. 30 minutes later, I was in cardiogenic shock, and after the on-call cardiologist inserted an intra-aortic balloon, a helicopter took me to a regional heart center. Finding no typical ECG signs of a myocardial infarction, I remained on a ventilator and on the brink of death for 2 weeks with my kidneys nearly useless. 32 days after I was admitted, I left the hospital for home, alive if barely. A year later, a cardiac MRI disclosed that I had suffered a small subendocardial infarction, usually associated with severe hypotension. I have since learned that hypotension/vasodilation is a side effect which studies have shown to occur in 1 out of every 30users of Provigil.
September 30, 2008 at 10:24:00 PM EDT
Large corporations want all the 'rights' of personhood with none of the accountability. Until we see many more CEO's and their sycophants doing a perp walk, with shareholders paying for the promise of high ROI's, nothing is going to change.
Quite frankly, I think the 3-strikes-and-you're-out paradigm that some states apply to individuals should be applied to corporations. Three-strikes and the company will be nationalized or cannabalized by the competitors--maybe THAT would get some attention?
--Melody
October 1, 2008 at 11:14:00 AM EDT
Fallenattorney,
I am sorry to hear of your travails. I hope you will be well with no lasting problems.
Speaking as I might have when I was a medical resident about what was done, let me say "that really sucks."
October 2, 2008 at 1:05:00 AM EDT
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