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Telecoms firms warn they will take EU legal action after Eir 'interferes' in National Broadband Plan
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July 9 2019 2:30 AM
Eight major Irish telecoms operators have said that they will consider EU legal action if the Government yields to "tactical interference" by Eir in National Broadband Plan.
https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/news/telecoms-firms-warn-they-will-take-eu-legal-action-after-eir-interferes-in-national-broadband-plan-38294731.html
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Through industry association Alto, the firms - which do not include NBP 'preferred bidder' National Broadband Ireland - rounded on Eir, accusing the company of trying to subvert the State-subsidised roll-out to 540,000 homes.
"If the tactical interference in a public procurement process, grounded in State Aid law and rules, is seen to have borne fruit then it will be appropriate to bring such a matter to the attention of the European Commission Directorates General Competition and Information Society for further investigation," said the letter from Alto.
The group was responding to Eir's offer that if the Government abandons the NBP's protections and regulations, it could roll out a broadband network for less than the €2.9bn subsidy outlined by the Department of Communications.
The Government rejected Eir's approach, arguing that the cost difference is smaller than Eir says, that rural householders would have less protection, and that such a large subsidy would require a tendering process.
An Eir spokesman said: "We're not interfering, we were asked a question by the Oireachtas Committee."
Eight telecoms operators will consider legal action if Eir rollout national broadband plan
Philip Ryan: 'Varadkar's hope of retaining power depends on the Four Bs'
Eir ready to 'reach a deal' with Government on National Broadband Plan replacement - chief executive
The Big Tech Show: Are we mugs to upload our mugs to FaceApp
Adrian Weckler The fad of the week is FaceApp, which makes even the most cherubic youngster look like Gandalf.
G7 moves closer on digital tax and warns on new currencies
Leika Kihara and David Lawder The Group of Seven (G7) has agreed that large tech companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook or Apple can be taxed in the countries in which they make money, even without being physically present.
Teckro to create 45 new jobs in Dublin
Adrian Weckler The Limerick-based clinical trials startup Teckro has announced 45 new jobs in Dublin as part of a doubling of its staff globally.
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International School of Business, Kolkata
International School of Business (ISB) is a private business school in India. It is part of IIMS Educational Trust.
International School of Business is a leading institute to impart education in the field of management in the state of West Bengal. It was founded in the year 2002 and has been catering to the requirements of students of these academic fields since then.
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Gerald Rau began attending Trinitarian Congregational Church in Wayland MA in seventh grade at the invitation of a friend, committed his life to Christ three years later and rapidly became involved in leadership of both the church youth group and Crossroads, a local Bible study group where he learned how to study the Bible on his own.
As a freshman at Wesleyan University, he was one of the cofounders of the Wesleyan Christian Fellowship (IVCF). During his college days the group grew from the three founders to about 20 students attending regularly. He also assisted with the youth group of Main Street Baptist Church in Meriden CT, and was assistant leader of a Teen Missions International work team one summer.
After graduating from Wesleyan in 1976, Gerald worked for three years at His Mansion, a Christian residential counseling center, at that time in Wauregan CT. In 1980 he moved to the University of Minnesota to pursue graduate work in horticulture. While there, he met his future wife during an outreach to incoming students sponsored by the student fellowship of University Church of Christ (now Southeast Christian Church).
During their respective Ph.D. programs at Cornell, he and his wife helped found the First Ithaca Chinese Christian Church. Gerald wrote the first constitution and bylaws, helped with the incorporation and purchase of the first church building, and preached regularly. He was also a leader of the Cornell Chinese Bible Study on campus. After graduation, he served as the first Director of English Ministries at the Chinese Alliance Church of Westchester in Port Chester NY from 1991-1992.
Moving to Taichung, Taiwan in 1992, he joined Taichung Rung Chung Christian Church. Since 1998 he has been the main speaker at the summer youth retreat 14 times. He also spoke at the Christmas program 8 times and preached and taught adult Sunday school regularly for many years. After a brief hiatus in Michigan and Illinois from 2007-2010, where he was involved with the Ann Arbor Chinese Christian Church and Wheaton Chinese Alliance church, respectively, he returned to Taiwan and has since been an active member of Chuan Ai Baptist Church in Chiayi, while continuing to help from time to time with programs at Rung Chung. Since October 2014 he has led an English worship for international students at Chuan Ai.


We remember when the original BR editions of LOTR were released, we said it was a quick cash grab in advance of the EE releases to come in months (or in this case even longer) later on. Turns out we were correct, as you can see by reading on.
Years later the release of the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Blu-ray disc set is finally drawing close, and now the set is available for preorder on Amazon.com, and adding a couple of hours of footage to the epic fantasy trilogy, they include an MSRP of $120 (but currently selling for $83.99) and a video trailer is on the page as well for your viewing pleasure.
These are modern classic films, and Blu-Ray is the only way to view them, in our opinions. We can't wait til their (as yet unannounced) release date.
Now on occasion we like to read the lists provided by TVPredictions.com, and this one is a doozy of a read: The 10 dumbest things to happen in the world of HDTV over the last decade or so. It's an amusing and all too accurate list, in our opinion.
The ones we agree with in particular: 3D HD it appears, Voom (decent idea, poor execution), and the quick fall of HD DVD from Toshiba (Blu-Ray clearly had the upper hand when they released it, meaning instant doom for the format and those who chose it, of which I personally know several).
Read the whole list here in all its glory, and marvel in the dumbness.
Price Slash: $169 top line LG Blu-Ray player?
It seems even the high-end Blu-Ray players are getting a generous price reduction, meaning nothing but good news for the future of HD and the BR media format, moving it closer to eclipsing DVD as the home format of choice.
Amazon.com is now selling the LG BD 570 Blu-ray player, which comes with wireless video and audio streaming built in, for only $169. That's 25% off the retail price, and its got very good ratings from users as well. Not a surprise, given the high ratings we've given many LG products in years past.
We assume this item will be gone quickly, so follow the link above to grab it up while its still in stock (which it was last we checked).
Finally, we find a market that is truly enthusiastic about 3D. Tokyo-based researchers BCN, cited by CrunchGear, report that a cool 57 percent of all Blu-ray recorders sold in Japan last month had 3D playback functionality built in, while 23 percent of all 40-inch-plus TVs sold had the ability to relay stereoscopic imagery. Both those numbers are major leaps in popularity within the nation itself and also easily dwarf penetration rates for 3D hardware in other parts of the world. 3D has apparently grown a lot more affordable in Japan, but lest you think these data are just a symptom of people upgrading their equipment without regard to its third-dimension skills, word is that there's still a chunky 30 percent premium associated with adding 3D to your BR recorder purchase.
We're glad someone is getting mileage out of the 3D trend in home theater, here's to hoping this follows in the US at some point.
Three top Hollywood directors last week urged Americans to buy Blu-ray editions of their movies, saying they offer the best picture and sound available in the world. That's according to an article by The Los Angeles Times The three directors made their remarks during a panel discussion at last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
"Blu-ray does a better job (than DVD) by a factor of about 12 or 13," said director Michael Mann who has helmed such films as Heat, Ali and Miami Vice.
We applaud these directors for saying what we already knew: Blu-Ray is the best HD home movie medium out there, and nothing else compares.
The chicken littles have been worried about this since long before the first Blu-ray (or even HD DVD) title was ever released, and the first step towards the analog sunset has officially come. Any new Blu-ray player announced after January 1st 2011 will only output HD via HDMI — players that started shipping last year can still be sold until the end of this year though. If you just love component video, you might figure you'll be able to get a player today and continue to enjoy it for years to come, but maybe not. You see the studios also have the Image Constraint Token (ICT) which when set on a title will tell every and all Blu-ray players to down convert analog output to 540p. The only reprieve is that if its set on a title, it must be marked on the box, and of course it can't be retroactively set (any title you own now will continue to play exactly the same way it does on your existing players). We're waiting for final confirmation, but apparently the ICT hasn't been an option to studios until now so start looking for the icon on your latest purchases. The final stage in the sunset is 2013 when analog outputs will be removed from Blu-ray players completely.
We applaud the move as a welcome bridge to an all HDMI/HDTV society.
It's official: Blu is here to stay, more than likely. Based on recent surveys and data, Blu-ray is now in 27.5 million U.S. homes, according to Digital Entertainment Group, an organization high up in the high-def disc industry. The report also states that Blu-ray title sales have doubled in the last year.
"That's bucking the trend with what's going on with packaged media in general," stated Parsons, referring to declining DVD sales, which dropped 11% last year over the year before. No such drop for Blu-Ray though, which is only going up: Blu-ray sales and rentals syrocketed an amazing 53% in 2010, hitting $2.3 billion in total earnings.
Since over 60M homes have HDTVs, that almost half the installed user base, meaning the word is getting out there quite successfully. The news is nothing but good for HD pundits who predict that BR will eventually replace DVD as the dominant medium. Here's to a bountiful future for Blu.
Everyone has an opinion regarding what direction HD will go in for the future. One thing is for sure: HD is here to stay for years to come, and it will just keep growing as the economy slowly recovers from its doldrums and people's wallets begin opening again.
TVPredictions.com has published its top 10 predictions for 2011 and HDTV in general, many of which we agree with. In particular, their stance on 3D HDTV and (lack of a) future right now, the expansion of Blu-Ray as a medium in general, and DirecTV shuffling their offerings to channels with more friendly lease rates, to the detriment of viewers, no doubt. The slow emergence of Plasma as a contender in the HD race wouldn't surprise us either.
Research firm NPD says more than 400,000 Blu-ray players were sold during Black Friday week (ending Nov. 28), a 50 percent increase over last year's Black Friday sale. That's according to an article by Home Media Magazine.
Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis for NPD, said shoppers sought out discounted Blu-ray players that featured Internet services. Many Blu players now offer wireless connections that enable users to download content from Internet services such as Netflix and Vudu.
Baker added that the medium price per Blu-ray unit sold this Black Friday week was $113, a 23 percent decrease from last year.
We're overjoyed that lower price points has made this technology more accessible to the masses, as that will do nothing but expand HDTV's dominance in today's entertainment landscape.


Great 1 story 4 bedrooms,in well maintained South Valley Ranch, large family room, granite counters in kitchen private backyard with solar heated pool. Separate master bed with walk in closet, dual sinks, separate shower tub. Easy care desert landscaping with small lawn areas. Private covered patio. Community offers great park and green areas. Convenient to new GV hospital and Galleria Mall.


At present, the process for importing cars into Australia is complex. Reforms to car import laws set to roll out next year will make importing classic cars easier, however, and will involve less red tape. But car enthusiasts should plan ahead before starting down this route.
Here are some questions to ask before you think about importing an older classic car.
Why should I wait to import in 2018?
For anyone who wants to import an older classic car from overseas, you might want to delay your purchase until 2018. This is due to an upcoming overhaul of the Motor Vehicle Standards Act 1989.
Next year you'll be able to import a wider variety of rare, classic, and luxury cars. It will be much easier to register specialist vehicles that do not meet typical standards.
What are the costs of importing a classic car?
Currently, before you import any type of vehicle into Australia, you need a valid Vehicle Import Approval (VIA). VIAs are applied for through the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development. There is a $50 application fee.
If you don't have a VIA, then the car is liable to be exported or destroyed at your own expense. If you do have a VIA but it's not processed before the car is shipped or arrives, you could end up paying for storage until it's cleared by customs.
You currently pay shipping and customs charges for the country you're importing from and for importing to Australia. These include cleaning, quarantine inspection fees, international freight and port service charges.
Importing a vehicle into Australia incurs taxes, duties and GST, depending on the type and age of the vehicle. For instance, if you're importing a luxury car worth over $60,316 ($75,375 for fuel-efficient vehicles) you'll incur a tax of 33%. Older cars (more than 30 years old) don't incur duty, but you will have to pay GST of 10%.
Re-gassing the air conditioner, and more.
Of the eight steps to import a vehicle, this is the last step once the car is compliant and ready to drive. You need to pay to register the vehicle in the relevant State or Territory (in Brisbane this is the Department of Transport and Main Roads). The vehicle will also need to be insured.
Will my classic car be approved for import?
While changes for importing cars will make it easier for buyers in 2018, you could run into some problems with importing an older classic car. This is because it could have rust, need a lot of repairs or be classed as a biosecurity concern if it has asbestos in the brake pads, clutch lining, gasket or seals.
It's a good idea to get an independent inspection for an honest report about the condition of the vehicle before you start the process of importing. Otherwise, you could face lengthy delays and heavy fines to get the vehicle released.
We do have a wide range of classic cars available in Australia, so to avoid the hassle of importing a classic car from overseas, you may want to consider the option of buying interstate. Don't forget that you can use Door to Door Car Carrying services to get your car from anywhere in Australia, to your doorstep. To make the process even easier, consider enlisting a local professional restorer to give your classic car a facelift.


Kamiyama High School (神山高校, Kamiyama kōkō) is a high school in Kamiyama.
The Kamiyama High School is a general high school. It neither has big school grounds nor large amount of students (~1000). It's not hard to enroll to it, and percentage of the Kamiyama High School graduates who went to college/university is average. What makes this school special is big number of strange club activities (such as India-ink Painting Club, A Capella Club, Classic Literature Club, etc.). Due to this, Kamiyama High School's cultural festival unofficially called Kanya Festival is well known in Kamiyama.
The Kamiyama High School consists of several buildings. First, the largest one is the General Block building where general classrooms are located. Second, the Special Purposes Block where special purposes classrooms are located. Third, the Gymnasium. Also, the Martial Arts Dojo and the Sport Equipment Storage Room are present. The General Block and Special Purposes Block are connected via the passageway.
The school uniform for the boys is the tsume-eri, while for the girls it's white sailor fuku with blue collar and tie. Also students wear badge showing their grade on their school uniforms. Students are permitted to go to school in plain clothes during summer holidays and wear plain winter clothes.
The Classic Literature Club, or Classics Club, is a historical club of the Kamiyama High School, which has more than 30-years-old tradition of publishing club anthology named Hyouka for the school's Cultural Festival. However, before Houtarou Oreki and his friends joined it, this club was on the verge of being dissolved due to absence of members for three consecutive years.
The Classics Club doesn't have any specific goals. It's clubroom is located in the corner on the fourth floor of the Special Purposes Block. This room is also used as the Geology Lecture Room. Ooide is the Biology Lecture Room club's advisor. Two years ago the Classics Club's clubroom was located in the Biology Lecture Room. Now it's clubroom of the Wall Newspaper Club.
Kanya Festival (カンヤ祭, Kan'ya sai) is a widely used nickname for Kamiyama High School Cultural Festival (神山高校文化祭, Kamiyama kōkō bunkasai) which is held by Kamiyama High School annually in autumn. This festival's duration is 3 days.
Held in April each year, this festival is an event where freshmen students can enter clubs they want. Since Kamiyama High School is famous for having many popular cultural clubs, general club activities are not enough for club members, soliciting solicitations become spectacular. Because there are also people who are put into club activities by being forcibly taken, there are systems of "temporary entry section" and "main entrance section", and entry is determined by whether or not to submit the main entrance around the end of May.
A marathon contest held at the end of May every year at Kamiyama High School. Students run a distance of 20 kilometers. The name is said to be named after a graduate who established a Japanese record for a long distance track event. Although it is canceled at the time of rain due to the permission of the use of public roads, it has never been canceled as long as it remains in the record.
Kamiyama High School is based on Gifu Prefectural Hida High School.


The festivities begin on Friday, January 30th. Bud Light's House of Whatever main event is much more than a concert anchored by A-list talent; it's a musical story full of "Up for Whatever" moments that is sure bring out the animal in all of us. In true "Up for Whatever" fashion, the full theme and artist line-up will not be pre-announced.
Experience the ultimate Bud Light House of Whatever tailgate and concert. After the show, stay and watch the Super Bowl on the big screen in unique (and extremely comfortable) stadium seating that only Bud Light House of Whatever can provide.
I can tell you with absolute certainty that if you're reading this 20 years from now, Google searching your true lineage, there is NOTHING you have to be embarrassed about. Bud Light wanted to create the ultimate party weekend and they absolutely nailed it.
At one point during the three days I spent in Whatever, USA, my body composition was roughly 87% Bud Light. But it wasn't just the endless, literally endless, supply of Bud Light, or the fact that Bud Light was being foisted upon you at every turn, that made Whatever, USA so great. It was the onslaught of once-in-a-lifetime events piled on top of each other, sandwiched between meeting great people from all over the world with one common denominator: being #UpForWhatever.
Here's some background: From roughly 204,000 video submissions, 1,000 #UpForWhatever winners were selected, given 48 hours to grab a friend, pack their bags and leave for Whatever, USA. In store for them were three days and two nights of activities, epic adventures and unexpected performances at Whatever, USA.
On the surface, you would think that bringing 2,000-plus strangers into a remote location and feeding them Bud Light products exclusively for three days couldn't help but end badly. But it was the exact opposite. It was like everyone was cut from the same #UpForWhatever cloth.


JEFFERSON CITY � For a fundraiser at Summit Winery last week, lobbyists were invited to make donations payable either to House Majority Leader Tim Jones� account or to the House Republican Campaign Committee.
77 Members had not taken any contributions during the session as of March 31.
79 Members accepted contributions during the legislative session.
32 members have raised less than $1,000.
45 members have raised less than $1,000.
$6,311 Average amount raised since previous election report.
$15,489 Average amount of money that representatives had on hand for their campaigns.
$1,666,077 Total on hand for all 105 Republican members.
$708,998 Total on hand for all 55 Democratic members.
The House Democratic Campaign Committee has raised $25,615 since the election, with $13,925 on hand.
The House Republican Campaign Committee has raised $244,020 since the election, with $93,550 on hand.
*Figures do not include four representatives who had not filed their quarterly campaign finance reports as of April 21, or three seats in the House that are currently vacant.
Jones reported $11,500 in donations larger than $500 received on the day of the event, but no complete totals will be available until July 15. Jones had reported raising $72,034 on his most recent report, due April 15, leading all House members. Jones, R-Eureka, said it is his job as floor leader to raise money to perpetuate the party�s majority.
House Speaker Steve Tilley, R-Perryville, abstained from taking donations during the quarter, as he publicly stated he would do when the session began. He also urged his fellow Republicans to avoid lobbyist gifts but was unable to persuade them to put that ban in House rules. Jones said he would be failing his fellow Republicans if he followed Tilley�s lead.
Jones said the donations make no difference in the way he conducts himself, brings legislation to the floor or handles his office. �People who never contribute a penny have as much access as people who give me a dollar or more,� he said.
Tilley said his decision on campaign donations wasn�t directly intended to be an example that he expects the rest of House members to follow. He is sitting on $754,000 � almost seven times the funds held by Jones, who is second in available campaign cash � and plans to run for lieutenant governor. Instead, he decided not to raise money for practical reasons � there already are many demands on his time � and to avoid any appearance that legislation is tied to money.
All House members reported raising $519,491 on the reports that were due April 15. Those reports cover varying lengths of time, with some lawmakers not reporting since the primary election last year. Of that amount, $411,602 was reported by 73 of the 105-member House Republicans.
Of 160 House members, 50 Republicans and 27 Democrats have taken no contributions since the session began.
The House Republican Campaign Committee reported $244,020 in donations; the Democratic counterpart took in $25,615. Both party committees accepted donations since the session began. Lobbyists working the Missouri Capitol hallways said Tilley�s abstention from donations hasn�t had a noticeable affect.
Jorgen Schlemeier, a partner in Gamble and Schlemeier, said his clients generally allocate a fixed amount for campaign contributions. The timing of those contributions is irrelevant, he said.
�I have so much PAC money, whether they ask me now or ask in November, there is only so much money for that person anyway,� Schlemeier said.
Of the 77 lawmakers who have not taken donations during the session, 41 are freshmen. Another 14 are barred from running for another term. Most of those who are seeking another office have taken donations.
House Democratic Leader Mike Talboy of Kansas City, who reported raising $11,901 on his report, said he has slowed but not stopped his personal fundraising because of heated elections in Kansas City.
Sater reported the biggest fundraising total among term-limited House members, but the money was $13,410 transferred from his House campaign fund and $47,100 he loaned his own campaign.
Rep. Wayne Wallingford, R-Cape Girardeau, said he didn�t decide not to take donations during the session, he�s just too busy learning his new job. But he said the speaker�s admonition to refrain from taking lobbyist gifts is something he has followed.


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Wednesday May 15 2019
Internationally recognised literacy programme celebrated at Blackpool event
Internationally recognised literacy programme, Lexonik, has been praised by Blackpool's head teachers for its work with children from areas of high deprivation in the North West, particularly focusing on its work in the region.
Stephen Tierney, CEO at Blessed Edward Bamber Catholic Multi Academy Trust (BEBCMAT), Executive Headteacher at St. Mary's Catholic College & Christ the King Catholic Primary School and Chair of the Headteachers' Roundtable Group, has particularly commended the programme for its work with more than 700 students across nine Blackpool schools.
A special education event was held at South Shore Academy to showcase Lexonik's work in the region as part of the Government's Opportunities Areas project, which is supported by the Blackpool Headteacher's Group and the charity, Right to Succeed.
A number of fully-funded literacy programmes were offered to the schools involved in the project, and all nine opted to work with Lexonik, following a demonstration of how reading age can be improved following the six separate hour-long sessions.
Training was provided for teachers working with Key Stage 3 students, as well as classes held directly for the students, and at the end of the programme, the average reading age of the students involved had increased by 31 months.
The Blackpool schools currently participating in the project are Armfield Academy, Aspire Academy, Educational Diversity, Highfield Leadership Academy, Montgomery High School, South Shore Academy, St George's Church of England School, St Mary's Catholic Academy and Unity Academy Blackpool.
Michelle Hicks, Business Growth Manager and Lexonik tutor, said: "We were delighted that Stephen Tierney and the other members of the Blackpool Headteacher's Group have been so supportive of Lexonik's work in Blackpool, and we hope this will encourage more schools in the North West to follow their lead and invest in literacy training, particularly for Key Stage 3. It's the age when children are pre-exam but learning skills that will set them up for later life.
"As these nine schools have recognised, literacy is essential for all school subjects, as well as in life beyond school. The Opportunities Areas project is doing fantastic work across the country, and, as we have seen in Blackpool, massive improvements can be made in a relatively short period of time. It is fantastic to see these schools getting behind the programme and planning to use it with their students for years to come."
Stephen Tierney, CEO at BEBCMAT, said: "A key theme evolved when we were analysing attainment - students were struggling across a range of GCSEs due to poor literacy. Literacy was clearly not simply an issue within the English department, it was an underlying problem across all areas. There was unanimous acknowledgement that reading skills were not strong enough.
"Lexonik formed part of a suite of 'active ingredients' which we believe will have a cumulative and synergistic impact on results. Alongside students reading more, the depth and breadth of their vocabulary needed to be addressed.
"Lexonik was key in developing an understanding of words. The targeted, small group instruction appears to have significant impact, which has further assisted reading and aided comprehension across a range subjects."
Simon Eccles, Head Teacher at St Mary's Catholic Academy, said: "Lexonik has added a vital strand to our literacy project this year at St Mary's. The Lexonik intervention has allowed students to explore how they use and understand key vocabulary and to approach new words with more confidence.
"In addition to this we have been able to work with our staff to help them to adapt their pedagogy to focus more on key vocabulary within their teaching. This has been a great support to the launch of the Academy's Key Stage 3 reading programme this year where all students have been reading challenging text together during afternoon form time."
"Lexonik formed part of a suite of active ingredients which we believe will have a cumulative and synergistic impact on results. "
Stephen Tierney, CEO at BEBCMAT
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Post-Election AMP Analysis: Generic Prices Are Falling
OK, the election is finally over. And President Obama's re-election pretty much guarantees that price transparency will continue to ripple through the pharmaceutical industry. See Transparency is Here! CMS Exposes Pharmacy Prescription Profit Margins for a look at the first batch of pharmacy acquisition costs and revenue data, from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) also requires CMS to publish weighted average Average Manufacturer Price (AMP) data, which (sort of) show the average multisource (generic) drug prices paid by wholesalers and large pharmacies. With healthcare reform repeal off the table, I expect the AMP figures to be finalized within a few months.
In the meantime, we can draw some firmer conclusions from the 14 months of draft AMP data. Here are two observations from my number crunching, detailed below:
Generic manufacturers still sell most of their products for less than 10 cents per pill.
Over the past five months, the Drug Channels Index of Generic Weighted Average AMPs (IGWAAMPS) dropped by 9.9%.
Don't forget that these AMP data pose a mega-compliance threat for manufacturers, which have to deal with murky and undefined rules. Gee, healthcare reform will be fun!
PPACA directs CMS to publish weighted average AMPs (WAAMPs) on a website. In September 2011, CMS began publishing draft monthly data for multisource product groups.
CMS has now published 14 months of draft data. The most recent data set is from August 2012. CMS only publishes the weighted average data by product group. You can view a list of the specific 9-digit National Drug Code (NDC) level included for each group in File #2. Read the full details at the CMS Federal Upper Limits page.
Because brand-name drugs get weighted into the AMP, the published AMP will generally be HIGHER than the actual average of manufacturers' generic selling price. For example, August's "extreme detail" identifies 18 unique NDCs of atorvastatin 20mg tablets (product group 6775). These 18 NDCs represent different package sizes sold by 10 companies, one of which is the original patent holder (Pfizer's Lipitor). Due to the weighting, the brand-name version contributes an ever-diminishing, but potentially meaningful, contribution to AMPs.
The AMP data continue to document very low manufacturer selling prices for many generic drugs. In August 2012, the AMP data included 952 oral solid product groups. Consistent with my previous analyses, more than two-thirds of oral solid generic drugs sell to wholesalers and pharmacies for less than 25 cents per pill.
This distribution is similar to the February 2012 data that I analyze in Generic Plavix: Let's Do the Price Limbo.
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In Generic Drug Prices are Rising, according to latest AMP data, I introduced the Index of Generic Weighted Average AMPs (IGWAAMPS, pronounced "igg-whamps"). Here's an update.
Over the past 14 months, CMS has published monthly AMP data for anywhere from 719 to 1094 product groups. Not all products groups appear in every month. Only 452 products groups show up in every month since July 2011. To assess whether overall multisource prices rose or fell, I computed an equal-weight index of these 452 product groups using 14 consecutive WAAMP values. I set July 2011 to equal 100.
Based on the 14 months of AMP data, the index has cycled up and down over the past 14 months. But since April 2012, the index has declined by 9.9%. From the data, it's not clear why the index spiked in April 2012.
Note that this index only includes drugs with published AMPs for the complete 14-month period, so it excludes any recent multi-source launches. As a sensitivity analysis, I repeated the analysis using the 728 product groups that appear in the 11 months from October 2011 through August 2012. The results were almost identical.
The AMP data are still considered to be in "draft" form, so they are not yet being used for reimbursement, i.e., the Medicaid Federal Upper Limit (FUL) is still being computed as 150% of the lowest published list price plus a "reasonable" dispensing fee. The PPACA redefined the FUL to be AMP multiplied by "no less than 175 percent."
CMS issued its proposed AMP rule in January 2012, but the data won't convert to "final" form until CMS issues the AMP Final Rule in … early 2013? My friends over at The Pharma Compliance Blog are already begging: Can We Please Have Our AMP Rule Now???
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P.S. For a more general look at healthcare reform's impact, see Health Care Reform: Impact on Drug Channels, Post-SCOTUS.
Posted by Adam J. Fein, Ph.D. on Thursday, November 08, 2012
Labels: Average Manufacturer Price (AMP), Costs/Reimbursement, Generic Drugs, Pharmacy Economics
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"Based on the 14 months of AMP data, the index has cycled up and down over the past 14 months. But since April 2012, the index has declined by 9.9%. From the data, it's not clear why the index spiked in April 2012"
Is a possible explanation of the April spike due to a brand
product going generic and entering the mix?
That shouldn't affect the index that I constructed. I used the 452 product groups that appeared in all 14 months. To be included in the AMP data, the product groups had to be multisource throughout the whole period.
Thanks for the summary. Once the final rule for AMP is published, when do you think the new FUL values will be considered final? Simultaneously with the final rule, or some number of day after the final rule?
My sources tell me that the Final Rule will have an implementation date. For example, the final rule from 2007 was published in July, and the implementation date was October. There may also be a lag if the AMP definition is changed from the current draft data, as there will be a lag before the new AMPs are collected and aggregated for the published FULs.
Adam-
You show that the AMP data has been available for 14 months but it seems that CMS only has 3 months worth of data up on the website at the moment. Does CMS make the historical data (all 14 months) available? If so, do you have a link handy?
CMS only posts the most recent 3 months, so you'll have to contact CMS to get access to the older files.
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I realize I covered Famous Funnies in an earlier post, but this particular cover touches on so many Golden Age era themes I thought it deserved its own.
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Norman Rockwell got behind the effort, painting "Liberty Girl' for the Saturday Evening Post. I was able to find a number of participating magazines (images below). In regard to comics, this appears to be the only one published with the promotion (others stuck to the standard buy war bonds theme with superheroes beating up the enemy). Superman that month was a classic image of him standing strong with the American flag in hand!
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For U.S.-Iran, it's all in the timing
By Trita Parsi
Four years after President Barack Obama famously extended his hand of friendship to Iran, Tehran finally seems willing to unclench its fist. The most decisive geopolitical handshake of this decade may take place today at the United Nations.
Iran's new president Hassan Rouhani and Obama may have this encounter at the luncheon of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday or in the U.N building's corridors.
This new opening has taken the world by surprise. Washington's dual track policy over the past three years — a combination of a little bit of diplomacy and a whole lot of strangulating sanctions — has produced a hardening of the Iranian position. Tehran's nuclear activities have continued unabated, while its regional policies, particularly its support for the Assad regime in Syria, have intensified.
Both sides seemed to be preparing for a long fight, where perseverance would determine the outcome.
Almost no one in the U.S. government expected the Iranian elections to change this — and certainly not by voting in Iranian pragmatists, who had been pushed to the margins of Iranian politics over the past eight years.
But the Iranian electorate have a track record of stunning the world — and they did it again this summer. Against all odds, they turned out in large numbers and dared the Iranian conservatives to cheat again — as they did in 2009.
Washington, however, espouses a different narrative. The change in the Iranian position is not so much due to the change of guards, but the inevitable pain of sanctions finally changing Tehran's nuclear calculus. Some even claim the election results were produced by the sanctions.
On one level, this narrative looks convincing. The pain of sanctions is indisputable, creating an impression that it inspired Tehran's change in tone.
But there is a more complex reality — one less soothing to Western political narratives.
The Iranian signals are not that surprising. Rouhani and the new esteemed foreign minister, Javad Zarif, played crucial roles in past Iranian efforts to engineer an opening to Washington — almost a decade before the strangulating sanctions.
Zarif led the collaboration with the United States in Afghanistan in 2001, where the two countries closely cooperated to oust the Taliban and establish a new constitutional government in that country. The Iranians were hoping Washington would appreciate their strategic help and improve relations. Instead, President George W. Bush listed Iran in the "Axis of Evil." The Iranian plan for rapprochement fell apart.
Two years later, this same team of Iranian officials offered the Bush administration a "grand bargain" proposal, addressing all major areas of conflict between the two countries. Among other things, the Iranians offered to open up their nuclear program for transparency, collaborate with the U.S. in Iraq, restrain Hamas and Islamic jihad and even indirectly recognize Israel.
The Bush White House rejected the offer out of hand.
Before the Ahmadinejad government took over, Zarif and Rouhani — who was then national security adviser and nuclear negotiator — reached out to the European Union. They offered to cap Iran's nuclear program at 3,000 centrifuges. The EU, however, did not take the offer.
These efforts preceded the sanctions that have devastated the Iranian economy. And they were made with the approval of Iran's Supreme Leader, though he maintains he believed they would fail.
These initiatives were motivated by the worldview and larger strategic thinking of Rouhani, Zarif and their allies, who as a result of the elections, have now been given another chance to pursue these concepts. (In fact, what they offered in 2003 is likely less than what they will offer today, after three years of crippling sanctions.)
Neither did the sanctions produce the election of Rouhani. Rather, he won through a combination of election strategizing, the maturity of the Iranian electorate — and luck.
A Tehran University poll conducted immediately after the recent elections revealed that only 2 percent of Rouhani's supporters listed the lifting of sanctions as a reason for supporting him. More important, the poll revealed that strategic voting was an important cause of Rouhani's surge in the polls just before the elections. Since most voters had expected the elections to go to a runoff, voting for your favorite candidate in the first round would be a waste if you expected your first choice to be a shoe in for the runoff.
So some strategic voters voted for their second choice — to produce a runoff between two of their most preferred candidates, the poll revealed.
The poll showed that 24 percent of Rouhani voters said they preferred Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, but were certain he would make it to the runoff anyway and instead voted for Rouhani to ensure a runoff between these two candidates.
Partly thanks to this miscalculation, Rouhani managed to reach just slightly above the 50 percent line and evade the runoff.
As a result, Iran now has a new president who is eager to again pursue an opening to the West, in spite of the rejection of his earlier overtures. Had he lost, there would likely have been no diplomatic opening — in spite of the pain of the sanctions.
The danger of Washington's sanctions-centric narrative is that it could prompt the United States to miss or undermine this surprising opportunity. If sanctions are believed to be the cause of Iran's flexibility, the time-limitation of the opportunity will not be appreciated. Rather, Washington will be lulled to believe that the opportunity will remain as long as sanctions hurt the Iranian economy.
Moreover, if Rouhani's flexibility is credited to sanctions, Congress reasons, then surely more sanctions would produce more flexibility. But more sanctions — a rejection of Rouhani's latest overtures — is exactly how past Iranian openings were squandered.
The difference is, this may be Rouhani's last opening.
PHOTO (Top): Hassan Rouhani speaks during the opening ceremony of the International Conference on Recent Developments in Iraq and the Prospects for Regional Security in Tehran, April 24, 2006. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi
PHOTO (Insert): President George W. Bush awaits his turn to speak at the Dorasan train station in South Korea, 500 meters from the DMZ, February 20, 2002.
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These systems also can benefit real estate agents and brokers, said Nick Catanesi, vice president of business services and technology for the Arizona Association of REALTORS®. Quite often, he said, they will have features that save agents and brokers valuable time, such as when a buyer in another geographic region wants to submit an offer to a home seller in the Phoenix area.
"The prospective buyer can sign the purchase contract electronically and then the Realtor can send the signed contract to the seller. Often, no paper is generated in this process," Catanesi said.
In addition, digital transaction management systems help Realtors remain compliant with state regulations, he said. For example, the Arizona Department of Real Estate requires that within 10 business days of a purchase contract being signed by all parties, a real estate broker must review the contract. Sometimes, especially for real estate agents located in rural areas of the state, it can be challenging to get a purchase contract into the hands of a broker, he said. With digital transaction management systems, the contract can be uploaded to a server where a broker can access it easily.
"An audit trail makes it apparent to regulators exactly when the broker accessed that contract," said Catanesi, who complimented the Arizona Department of Real Estate on how receptive its leadership has been to the new technologies.
Digital transaction management systems can also help homebuyers track the mortgage approval process, Hill said.
Hill also said that the homebuyer benefits from this integrated process because a process that relies on the transfer of data — rather than pieces of paper — is a more controlled process that improves the quality and consistency of data.
"This lowers the cost of doing business and should reduce the unfortunate discrepancies between documents that occurs in the paper world," he added.


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Scotland Yard Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe today apologised to Tory former chief whip Andrew Mitchell if his confidence in the Plebgate police probe had been damaged.
Britain's most senior police officer was questioned by the Home Affairs Select Committee over speculation about briefings he held with journalists in March.
Mr Mitchell resigned after he was accused of launching a foul-mouthed rant at officers guarding Downing Street, including calling them 'plebs', which he denied.
He said he told reporters he had concerns about the potential damage to the Met's reputation, and that he could not account for news reports published days after the briefings.
A few days after the meetings stories appeared in the Guardian and the Times suggesting there was no evidence that police lied about the affair.
Sir Bernard said he was concerned over whether it would be possible to establish who said what, over calls by the Police Federation for a minister to resign and over allegations that officers could have released information that was incorrect.
Eight arrests have been made as part of the investigation, known as Operation Alice, which has cost close to £200,000 so far.
The Plebgate row ignited when Mr Mitchell was accused of the heated outburst against officers as he left Downing Street on September 19.
Pressure intensified after the Daily Telegraph published a police log of the incident, which claimed he called officers 'plebs' and swore at them repeatedly.
He insisted he did not use the words attributed to him, and later said he was the victim of a deliberate attempt to 'toxify' the Tories and ruin his career.
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