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The Audacity of Youth

2011 October 26

Youth, many say, is wasted on the young.  We elders admire their energy, but pity their lack of knowledge and experience.  As Cicero said, “Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.”

With each new generation, we find new names for our youth.  I was a proud member of “Generation X” and therefore a slacker.  Now we have the “Millennials” who are said to seek instant gratification and demand to be spoon-fed a sense of purpose.

Whatever you call them, since the time of Socrates we have mourned the irreverence of our juniors, their lack of respect for posterity, propriety and their reluctance to receive our wisdom.  Yet, all to often, it is we who forget that much of the wisdom we have to give is the result of past blasphemy evolved into doctrine.

Putting Order to the Universe

In 1665, a Great Plague swept the Kingdom of England.  Cambridge University closed as a precaution and sent its students home.  One young man, only 23 years old at the time, used the break from his indoctrination into ancient Aristotelian thought to write in his notebooks.

By the time Cambridge opened again two years later, Isaac Newton had discovered calculus, gravity and a new theory of optics.  He later went on to build the foundations of mechanics, which survive to this day.

Much of what we now consider common sense notions of how the physical world works were actually unknown until Newton started scribbling in his little book.  Newton’s ideas ruled for over two centuries, forming the basic precepts for generations of students.

However, in the late 19th century, his ideas began to fray.  The old guard held out, but their world was shattered by another young man working in isolation in a Swiss patent office.  In one miracle year, 25 year old Albert Einstein upended the prevailing wisdom once again.

In the great tradition, he found it impossible to accept the next wave, quantum mechanics, declaring that if it was true he didn’t want to practice physics and, indeed, produced little past the age of forty.  His successor Richard Feynman mocked string theory, jesting that the young crowd couldn’t even figure out how many dimensions they were living in.

Ground Zero at the Revolution

In 2004, I found myself living in Kiev, Ukraine when the Orange Revolution broke out and was, in fact, running the country’s leading news brand at the time.  The event had all the excitement and intrigue of a Tom Clancy novel.

There was a battered hero in Victor Yushchenko, a brutish villain in Victor Yanukovitch and even a beautiful heroine in Yulia Timoshenko.  World leaders raced to mediate and crowds filled the streets.  We were energized by the promise of a new dawn, but terrified at the prospect that at some point, the tanks would roll in and the shooting would start.

Tales circulated of events being orchestrated by the remnants of the KGB, the CIA, George Soros and even Zbigniew Brzezinski.  However, as I walked the streets and visited the tent city which served as ground zero for the revolution, I found kids; students in their 20’s, who could just as easily have been in their dorm rooms playing Xbox.

They were part of a movement called Pora! (It’s time!), which itself was part of a greater movement including the Serbian Otpor that overthrew Slobodan Milosevic and Georgian Kmara which led the Rose Revolution, among others.  The bigwigs got the headlines, but youth drove events.

The Curious Case of Ronald Wayne

The recent passing of Steve Jobs has inundated us with images from his youth.  The stories of he and Steve Wozniak scrapping together the Apple II in his garage.  His ouster from and return to the company he had founded.  Even his “insanely great” brand of hyperbole has become the stuff of legend.

It’s a familiar tale by now and not necessarily unique to Apple.  A quick survey of tech giants such as Microsoft, Dell, Facebook and Google would yield similar images of youthful dreams becoming commercial realities, disrupting incumbent competitors who scoffed at the same rashness which Cicero complained of over 2000 years ago.

However, the Apple story has one little known tidbit that is particularly telling.  They actually started out with “adult supervision” in the form of co-founder Ronald Wayne.  He was in his early 40’s when the venture was launched, but dropped out a few weeks later because he felt he couldn’t risk the bumps along the way.

He spent the rest of his career in secure jobs and later retired to sell stamps and coins.

Systemic Failure and Paradigm Shifts

Ronald Wayne reveals what’s at the core of our uncomfortable relationship with twenty-somethings – they scare us.  They come with no baggage and feel no loyalty to the system under which we have prospered.  They have few responsibilities and are willing to take risks that can disrupt the secure little worlds in which we find comfort.

They are, in effect, outside our bubble and are therefore eager to pop-it.  That angers us. In Kuhnian terms, the existing paradigm never worked for them and so they are eager to see its flaws, and ours.  We, not surprisingly, are not amused.

Unfortunately, they are sometimes right, which creates an even bigger problem.  It’s one thing to have annoying little shits taunting our prudence, but quite another to see them become our bosses.  The spoils of generational struggles inevitably belong to the younger generation and there is very little we can do about that except to stay young ourselves.

As Franz Kafka once wrote, “Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”  He died unknown at the age of forty and has distinguished the canon ever since.

– Greg

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  1. October 30, 2011

    Philosophical revolution, scientific revolution, political revolution and business revolution, all interesting. What about today’s “Occupy” revolution. Would like to see you bring this into present day and hear your always insightful thoughts.

    Greg Reply:

    Still waiting to see where that one goes:-)

    Judith Eckles Reply:

    As we would have said in the ’70s, that, my friend, is a cop-out. : ) But I’ll keep reading to see when you decide to comment. Maybe only: Today’s “Occupy” movement has yet to find a strong leader to galvanize the nationwide events. We’ll have to say how that rolls out, but it looks promising. It certainly reflects the optimism and rashness of youth.

    Greg Reply:

    Yes, it does.

    – Greg

  2. November 6, 2011

    Am I still young with my Macro-Economics Design paradigm shift in policy-making and structural design for the economy?

    Greg Reply:

    Seems to keep you energetic:-)

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There's a right way of doing these things. And a wrong way. Whitehall got it right in November 2008. And all wrong in November 2011.

2008 – the right way
November 2008. You remember. Gordon Brown is sub-Prime Minister and is busy saving the world. The economy is in meltdown and Sir Gus O'Donnell is Cabinet Secretary, Permanent Secretary at the Cabinet Office and Head of the home civil service, responsible for all senior appointments. Sir David Normington is Permanent Secretary at the Home Office. Bob Quick is Assistant Commissioner at the Met, Damian Green is Shadow Immigration Minister, Christopher Galley is chief Tory Mole at the Home Office, and Jacqui Smith is Home Secretary.

Information had been leaking from the Home Office for some time, allowing Damian Green to ask embarrassing questions in the House. How, for example, had 11,000 illegal immigrants been licensed by the Security Industry Authority to work as security guards?

Sir David discussed the matter with Sir Gus and between them they decided to call in the police. Why? According to the Independent, Sir Gus said it was because:
... when we started the inquiry the reason for it was we were worried certain information was getting out that was potentially very damaging to national security.

To have access to some other things that had come out in the newspapers, the kind of person (who) would have access to that material might also have access to some quite sensitive stuff ...
On 19 November 2008, Christopher Galley was arrested on suspicion of misappropriating some quite sensitive stuff and released on bail. He was subsequently charged with ... absolutely nothing.

Then, on 27 November 2008, Damian Green was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office and aiding and abetting, counselling or procuring misconduct in a public office.

He was detained for nine hours without a lawyer being present. His home was searched, his constituency office was searched and his House of Commons office was searched. His computers, and hard copy documents, were taken away.

How did Assistant Commissioner Quick's men get into the Palace of Westminster? By asking the Serjeant-at-Arms to let them in. Did they have a search warrant? No. What about Mr Speaker? He is Gatekeeper. Where was he? Good question. Was it the first time the Palace had been invaded in this way since 1642? Yes. Damian Green was subsequently charged with ... absolutely nothing.

As the BBC remind us:
Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer said there was a "high threshold before criminal proceedings can properly be brought", and that he had considered the "freedom of the press to publish information and ideas on matters of public interest". He said the information leaked was not secret information or information affecting national security and there was "insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction against Mr Galley or Mr Green".
The Home Secretary knew nothing about these events in advance. Did she lose her rag when she found out? No.

She should have done – John Reid raps Jacqui Smith, as they put it in the Sun ...
HOME Secretary Jacqui Smith was left reeling yesterday by a vicious Commons attack over the Damian Green case by her predecessor John Reid.

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... but she didn't.

Arguably, Sir David went a bit far rubbing it in, when Jacqui Smith later resigned as Home Secretary. As reported on the civil service live network
The head of the Home Office has praised the secretary of state following her decision to stand down.

Permanent secretary Sir David Normington said Jacqui Smith had shown "exceptional leadership" during the her two year stint as home secretary ...

Sir David said Smith had allowed the department "to come out of our previous difficulties". The department was famously described as "not fit for purpose" by Smith's immediate predecessor, John Reid.

Smith had allowed staff to regain their confidence, Sir David said: "In private she was always challenging us to improve; in public she was always supportive. We could not really have asked for more."
Textbook. Sir David remained in control of his minister at all times. We could not really have asked for more.

2011 – the wrong way
Now roll forward three years.

Sir Gus O'Donnell is the only member of the 2008 cast still in the same job(s). He has appointed most of the members of the new cast.

On the other hand, there is no 2011 equivalent of Sir David Normington causing Sir Gus to come out into the limelight. The Head of the home civil service has remained publicly silent during an embarrassing spat in the home civil service.

John Vine is the Independent Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency. Previously Chief Constable of Tayside Police, he is a safe pair of hands (SPOH).

Mr Vine goes to Heathrow for an inspection and interviews Brodie Clark, Head of the UK Border Force, and a SPOH.

Mr Vine is worried about the suspension of fingerprint checks and voices his concerns to Rob Whiteman, the Chief Executive of UKBA, recently appointed, presumably on the basis that he is a SPOH. Mr Whiteman offers Brodie Clark early retirement.

Dame Helen Ghosh, the successor to Sir David Normington at the Home Office, is the ultimate SPOH. She vetoes the early-retirement-with-a-bonus package and Brodie Clark is suspended.

Then the Home Secretary, Theresa May, herself no mean SPOH, goes off the deep end denouncing Brodie Clark. According to Rachel Sylvester in the Times, writing on 15 November 2011, clearly briefed by the Home Office:
She took the decision to do this, I am told, against the advice of Home Office civil servants, who thought it would be wiser to hold a swift internal inquiry and establish the full facts before suspending a senior member of staff.
So no doubt about it. Out of control. Butterfingers. How not to do it.

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Richard Heaton is Permanent Secretary at the Cabinet Office.

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His minister has just picked a fight with the Americans. Quite unnecessarily. Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude Decries 'Old Style' Obamacare Insurance Website.

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  1. Being a father is a main part of a dad’s identity. Fathers are just as likely as mothers to be of the opinion that parenting is extremely important to who they are as a person. In fact, 46 percent of dads (versus 41 percent of moms) report that they find child-rearing enjoyable all of the time.

  2. Compared to 50 years ago, dads are much more involved in parenting. Dads say they spend seven hours a week on child care, which is about three times the amount reported in 1965. Even this increase is not enough for fathers. About half of all dads say they do not spend enough time with their children. Only 39 percent of dads believe they are doing a “very good job” with child rearing, compared with 51 percent of mothers.

  3. A significant number of people believe mothers are better suited to parent. Slightly more than half of Americans say that a new baby is best cared for by the mother (even if breastfeeding is not a factor). Only 1 percent believe that fathers do a better job than mothers, and 45 percent say both parents do about equally well.

  4. A large majority (70 percent) of Americans believe it is equally important for newborns to bond with both parents. More than a quarter believe that bonding with the mother is more important, and only 2 percent believe that a newborn bonding with his or her father is more important.

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The Kenya supreme court last Friday nullified the presidential election in Kenya, after it called it unconstitutional and had called for a new election within 60days. The election was initially won by incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta before it was nullified.

The opposition members that were initially planning a protest to the win, took to the street and jubilated the announcement by the supreme court, as this is the first election in the East African nation to to be nullified.

                               Ralia Odinga supporters celebrates after the supreme court decision

Responding to the Supreme court, opposition leader, Ralia Odinga said;

It's a very historic day for the people of Kenya and by extension the people of Africa,For the first time in the history of African democratization, a ruling has been made by a court nullifying irregular election of a president. This is a precedent-setting ruling.

The election petition was submitted to the supreme court by Odinga, and the court ruled in his favour, 4-2. Odinga claimed that the electronic voting results were hacked all in favour of his opponent, Kenyatta, who won the election by 54% vote.

Kenyatta while responding to the court ruling said he "personally disagrees" with the ruling, but he respects it,he however, went ahead and lashed out at the judges saying  "six people have decided they will go against the will of the people."

The supreme court did not put the blame on Kenyatta or his party, but the electoral commission in the country. It said the EC "committed illegalities and irregularities ... in the transmission of results, substance of which will be given in the detailed judgment of the court" and it will be published in 21 days.


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BENSALEM, Pa. – Bensalem police said a Philadelphia mother faces child endangerment charges for allegedly leaving two children inside her car for nearly six hours while she gambled at Parx Casino.

The incident occurred Aug. 1st, when 35-year-old Sharon Balek left her 15-year-old and 8-year-old girls inside the car while she played the slots, police said.

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A Lauderdale County man who faces child torture charges after spanking his 5-month-old son so hard it left bruises will have his first court appearance in February. James Robert Smith, 19, 202 Chilton Ave., Florence, is charged with torture and willful abuse of a child under 1, Lauderdale County Sheriff Ronnie Willis said.

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    1. Is the Charge even worth the time to root/rom? Should I rather look at purchasing a different phone first?

    2. If I should keep it, just follow the above sticky for "How to ROOT your Droid Charge?" Is there a better, more update way?

    3. Should I install Odin as well?

    4. I simply do not have the time to try various ROM's. At least not at this time. So I would ask, I know it's personal preference; however, is there a "most popular" ROM I should just go with?

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Pharmacy Profits Over the Generic Life Cycle: Explaining the NARP-NADAC Data

Tuesday’s article—Surprise? CMS Computes and Publishes Pharmacy Prescription Profit Margins—generated a lot of email about the new National Average Retail Prices (NARP) and National Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC) data sets. In particular, the data table showed average gross profit dollars (NARP minus NADAC) that were lower for generic prescriptions ($9.27) vs. brand-name prescriptions ($11.98). This result seems counter to everything that we all think we know about pharmacy margins.

The apparent discrepancy is resolved by comparing profit levels of  newly-launched generics vs. more-common older generics. Below, I discuss the following:
  • Pharmacy profitability from a generic drug varies over the drug’s lifecycle.
  • As shown using the examples of Lipitor and Plavix, a new generic provides pharmacies with gross profits that are 2-3 times larger than an equivalent brand prescription.
  • 7 of the 10 most widely-dispensed generic drugs have average prescription prices below $10, so potential gross profits are correspondingly low.
The generic lifecycle profit framework also highlights the generic wave’s importance for pharmacies. As long as new generics are launching, life is grand. Once the wave peters out in 2016, margin pressure will be brutal for the retail pharmacy industry.

Pharmacy profitability from a generic drug varies over its lifecycle. Consider three time periods after a brand-name drug loses patent protection:
  • Exclusivity Period—The Hatch-Waxman Act provides a 180-day marketing exclusivity period to the first generic drug applicant that seeks FDA approval prior to the expiration of patents relating to the branded drug product. During the exclusivity period, there can also be an authorized generic competitor.
  • Post-Exclusivity Period—Once the 180-day exclusivity period ends, other manufacturers can begin marketing competing generic versions of the product. Generic selling prices drop sharply during this period.
  • Maturity Period—After 12 to 24 months, the market begins to shake out as some manufacturers exit.
The chart below illustrates the estimated gross profit dollars per prescription earned by a pharmacy in each of these periods. As always, YMMV, because the path for any individual drug can vary significantly from the average.

The story is similar for wholesaler profits, as I explain in the 2012-13 Economic Report on Pharmaceutical Wholesalers, starting on page 39.

Let’s examine gross profits using the new CMS data. Here, gross profit is computed as:

National Average Retail Price (NARP) minus National Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC).

The table below shows the unadjusted gross profit for 2011’s biggest brands and their therapeutically equivalent generic version: Lipitor (brand) vs. atorvastatin (generic), and Plavix (brand) vs. clopidogrel (generic). In May, both Plavix and Lipitor moved into the post-exclusivity period.

  • Despite the fact that generics had been available for at least four months, the less-expensive generic prescription generated gross profits that were more than twice as large as the brand-name prescription: $26.11 vs. $10.33, and $19.57 vs. $8.70.
  • Actual pharmacy gross profits were probably greater than the amounts shown above, because these figures exclude any adjustments for off-invoice discounts that would further reduce NADAC.
  • These data are reasonably close to my estimates from the FTC's authorized generics report, shown in September 2011’s Pharmacy Profits from Authorized Generics.
By comparison, many older generics are so inexpensive that gross profit dollars are fairly low. In fact, 7 of the 10 most widely-dispensed generic drugs have average prescription prices below $10. The preponderance of these drugs drove the unexpected results in Tuesday’s article.

For instance, the average per-prescription price of simvastatin was only $7.16 and yielded gross profits of $6.17. Even at an 86.2% gross margin, the absolute dollars are low. Pharmacies can still earn acceptable Return on Assets from generic prescriptions because inventory costs also decline sharply.

If you’re still curious, I’ll have more details in the forthcoming 2012-13 Economic Report on Retail, Mail and Specialty Pharmacies.  Coming in January!

  • The NADAC data are only based on survey responses from independent and chain pharmacies. Mail pharmacies and wholesalers do not provide acquisition cost data.
  • 64% of NADAC responses come from independent pharmacies, although independent pharmacies are only 35% of the sample base. (See page 50 of the Myers & Stauffer deck.) Thus, chains are *underrepresented* in the acquisition cost data.
  • A brief methodological comment about the table above: The November NARP data file contains data for September claims. Unfortunately, CMS is vague about the time periods covered by the NADAC data file. I assume the 10/4/12 NADAC file contains data for September. That said, the conclusions would change very little if I had used a different NADAC file.

  1. Employers should be screaming "where is MY savings?". As I have said before, pharmacists should not fear these numbers they should embrace them. Then they should get with individual employers and compare the data of what the pharmacy is being paid vs. what the employer is being charged.

    Municipalities are an easy group to approach, lots of FOIA data to bring into the sunlight. Documenting taxpayer waste with PBM shenanigans is quite easy.

    We have a great example of the Meridian Hospital Group getting hosed in NJ. They dumped their current (Big 2) PBM for a transparent PBM and saved over 1 million bucks the first year.

  2. Hi Adam,

    Do you happen to know if the the Nov. NARP file is still available? The below URLs work for Sep, Oct and Dec, but not Nov.

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One of the most difficult things in life is to forgive someone when you have been hurt; especially when you have been deeply wounded by another person’s actions or words.  Forgiveness is difficult because it often goes against our human nature to grant mercy to someone who has harmed us in a way that is deeply painful and undeniably personal.  It is illogical to offer clemency to such a person because we feel they do not deserve it or that they would not do the same for us.

The same can be true of seeking forgiveness.  When WE are the ones that have caused harmed to another – either physically, emotionally or psychologically – it is incredibly difficult to seek that person out and ask that they forgive us for the harm that we have caused.  Such action, seeking the forgiveness of another, is also against human nature, as we would rather do anything but lower ourselves to the place that true repentance requires.  This is why we often put off the act of seeking forgiveness because it is so uncomfortable, so shame-inducing and so humbling to a point that forces us to relive what we have done and make restitution for our hurt in a way that costs something from us.

Even with all of this being said, Jesus still demands that we both seek forgiveness and receive forgiveness for He knows all to well healing power of true forgiveness.  Jesus knows that forgiveness frees us from the pain of past mistakes and is the only true mode of moving forward in life, past the harm that we have caused or that others have caused to us.  With this is in mind, forgive others and receive the forgiveness of others so you may be free and so that God may forgive you for the hurt your sins have caused to the One who loves you so much that He forgives as easily as He forgets.


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Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time,” the Swedish Academy announced October, 8., 2015

Statement by Svetlana Alexievich

October 8, 2015

"I’m very happy. And overwhelmed by a storm of complex feelings. Joy, of course. But alarm as well. The great shadows of Ivan Bunin, Boris Pasternak, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn have come alive. The greater part of my path has been traveled, but much work remains ahead of me, and many new turns. Now I cannot let myself slide."

„I’m searching life for observations, nuances, details. Because my interest in life is not the event as such, not war as such, not Chernobyl as such, not suicide as such. What I am interested in is what happens to the human being, what happens to it in of our time. How does man behave and react. How much of the biological man is in him, how much of the man of his time, how much man of the man.“

Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine. At present, this writer of international renown, a dedicated critic of the dictatorial regime of her country, is living in Minsk, Belarus. Her books have been translated into 52 languages and published in 55 countries so far. They have formed the basis for a dozen plays, and more than twenty of her scripts have been filmed as documentaries. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature 2015, the Prix Médicis Essai 2013 and the Best Book of the Year Prize 2013 by the French literary magazine Lire for "Time Second Hand", the Peace Prize by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association 2013, the Angelus Central European Literature Award 2011 in Wroclaw/Poland for her book "War's Unwomanly Face", the Ryszard Kapuściński Award for literary reportage 2011 for "War's Unwomanly Face", the National Book Critics Circle Award, New York 2006 for "The Chernobyl Prayer"; Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize, Osnabrück, 2001; the Robert Geisendörfer Radio Play Prize, the German Academy of the Performing Arts, Berlin, 2000; the “Témoin du Monde,” Paris, 1999; “The Best Book on Politics of the Year,” Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bremen, 1998; the Andrej Sinjavskij Prize, Moscow, 1997; the Kurt Tucholsky Prize, Swedish PEN Club, Stockholm, 1996.
Svetlana Alexievich has created a literary non-fiction genre that is entirely her own. She writes “novels of voices.” She has developed this genre book after book, constantly honing the esthetic of her documentary prose, which is based on hundreds of interviews. Her skill at this allows her to intertwine the original voices of her subjects into an artful condensation of a panorama of souls.

“I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the narrative thread remains the same. It is the narrative thread of the people I have come to know. … With thousands of voices I can create—you could hardly call it reality, since reality remains unfathomable—an image of my time, of my country. ... It all forms a sort of small encyclopedia, the encyclopedia of my generation, of the people I came to meet. How did they live? What did they believe in? How did they die and how did they kill? And how hard did they pursue happiness, and did they fail to catch it?”

Alexievich’s five great prose volumes represent an impressing history of mentality – not only of the Soviet Union. Each subsequent book poses still more radically the question, no longer merely about the meaning and meaninglessness of political ideologies, but truly the question for man’s makings.

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With the bank threatening to take Ty Hackett’s (Columbus Short) house away, leaving him and his brother Jimmy (Andre Kinney) homeless and penniless, Ty is left with no choice but to take up the offer from friend and work colleague Mike Cochrane (Matt Dillon) when he asks Ty to play a part in an inside job at their security firm.

With forty-two million in their security vans, the plan is a simple one. Make it look like a robbery, hide the money, and wait. That is until they are spotted by a hapless hobo in the warehouse they’re stashing the money in and panic turns into murder. Having a flash change of heart and taking refuge in one of the locked vans, Ty only needs to wait it out for fifty-eight minutes until they miss a phone check in and the cops come. However, the rest of his team have other plans and if they get to Ty, he’s in trouble.

This isn’t a remake? Surely this has to be a remake? This feels like a remake of a seventies movie that probably wasn’t that good then and they’ve not made it much better now. I mean, the premise is a sound one, one honest guy in amongst a group of rogues, holed up in a locked security while they try to bash their way in to get him and the last of the money. This could and should be full of tension, but really Armored plays a little too broad for its own good and the writer takes routes that are just plain ridiculous.

Outside of the atrocious dialogue, which is so clunky it’s unreal, and the numerous scenes of unbelievably badly handled twists and turns in the heist gone bad (Matt Dillion’s attempt at lying to sheriff deputy Jake Eckehart (Milo Ventimiglia) is laughable. “Oh there’s no siren in there. No, you don’t want to go in there, erm, err an old dog crawled in there and died erm, err”)

There are glimmers of really wanting Ty to succeed, thanks in large part to Columbus Short’s likable leading man performance. However, it’s the utter stupidity of the story that flatlines the credibility of movie. For starters the fake suspense is laughable. When the team go to pick up their massive money shipment, it’s played like they've already done something wrong, which is ridiculous. At this stage they are just doing their jobs—loading up their van with money. Why is this being played like they have fake ID or are conning someone? This is actually their job. Even more so the amount of times Ty manages to get out of the van only to go back into again for no real reason is absolute insanity. I could swallow it the first time. He saved a cop (though getting back in the van seemed a lesser option to taking the cop out of the building and hiding), but when he sneaks out, goes to the roof to call the cops only to sneak back in again (as opposed to leaving the building to get some more immediate help) Ty’s decision making blew a hole in my caring about what happened next.

Armored is utter junk food with more than its fair share of actors slumming it. Jean Reno brings nothing to the movie, Fishburne has never felt more like he was acting, I’ve never understood how Matt Dillon manages to keep playing the same role time and time again. Really, Armored just ends up another one of those “meh” big glossy movies that all look and feel the same and are about as shallow as kiddies’ paddling pool.

Now the movie might be watchable guff, but thanks to the fantastic transfer it’s a pretty looking load of guff. From the get go the level of detail is apparent. Stubble, shaved heads, skin textures (Laurence Fishburne was born for HD) and even the small things like seeing that Matt Dillion’s ear has been pierced are all shown off with the movies bright warm lighting and sharpness.

The night shots are deep black and the use of shadow to show Dillon’s dark side is also captured well. There’s next to no grain thanks to the bright midday setting of the whole movie and while the action scenes are few and far between, they are pretty well shot and look great in the HD presentation.

As mentioned, there’s really only a couple of action scenes and it’s only in these that the DTS-HD Master Audio track comes alive and quite effectively. Beyond that, it’s just a case of strong dialogue, with Fishburne’s voice booming harder than the rest, especially with his heavy laugh and the clanging of metal as the team try desperately to hammer out the pins in the armoured van’s hinges.

The odd gunshot ups the volume a little and the score can sometimes get quite dynamic throughout the speakers but really the track is doing a fairly standard job without having the opportunity to bring any bells and whistles.

The commentary featuring Producer Dan Farah, Skeet Urich and Milo Ventimiglia is laid back and fairly loose. There are a few good moments (usually unrelated to the actual movie), but the three keep up the pace throughout the movie, offering up small nuggets of fun movie making tales and taking comedy pops at some of actors (and themselves) on screen.

As well as the usual Sony Blu-ray live and MovieIQ features, we have ‘Planning the Heist:  Making Of’ (15:19 HD) which is pretty straight forward stuff but gives a good insight from the writer James V. Simpson regarding his intentions with the story and Antal’s approach to it.

‘Armed and Underground: Production Design’ (06:47 HD) looks at the abandoned factory setting as well as the lesser used locations and ’Crash Course: Stunts' (11:30 HD) focuses on the action moments of the movie.

Lastly there are trailers for ‘ Blu-ray is High Definition’, 2012 and Michael Jackson’s This Is It.

This release is a fairly typical Sony affair, with a passable batch of features but a pretty great A/V presentation. The movie itself is an okay watch once movie which I won’t deny had the odd spike of guilty enjoyment. It’s fairly well made and has a short enough run time not to outstay its welcome but it really misses the opportunity to take advantage of its strong cast and utterly failed to convince me why the hell Ty kept going back to that van.

* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.


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So what you are implying is that you have free gov't health care, provided for you by US tax payers, and you will have free gov't health care provided by US tax payers for life. Maybe you should just be GRATEFUL for that???

If you had no health insurance, and you had bills, YES you would lose your M3, paid for or not. It would actually be one of the first assets designated for liquidation in a bankruptcy proceeding, or in collection proceedings. Millions of people who can't get health insurance through NO CHOICE of their own are living that right now. Maybe you should just be GRATEFUL the US tax payers have made sure you will never know what that is like.
Yea, free. I haven't given up anything for it... It's also not for life, it depends on when I decide to move on. There's a LOT about it that you don't know here, and I don't expect you to, so I won't go into great detail with it.

I am grateful, but I also feel I am entitled to it for what I have done, for over 10 years now, and almost half of that time being in places no one should ever have to go to. Yes, I am a volunteer, but in reality you only "voluteer" once, then for a while you are "voluntold" as we say. I also pay taxes, so it's not like I am freeloading here. You think all of my income is tax free and goes straight to me? Shows how little you really know...

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Earthquakes today

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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Akutan in Alaska

Earthquake location 52.5976S, -163.6584WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 221 km SE of Akutan, Alaska (137 miles). Exact location of event, depth 28.6 km, -163.6584° West, 52.5976° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 13/04/16 / 2016-04-13 15:56:21 / April 13, 2016 @ 3:56 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 28.6 km (18 miles). Unique identifier: us20005kbp. Ids that are associated to the event: ak13431282, us20005kbp. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:56:21 / 4:56 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

How would you describe the shaking?

How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 221 km SE of Akutan, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -163.6584° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.5976° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 221km SE of Akutan, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-13 15:56:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-24 23:41:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 168 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20005kbp Id of event.
Event Code 20005kbp An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak13431282,us20005kbp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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Earthquake breaking news, Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 83 km WSW of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia

Earthquake location -2.3681S, 100.6863WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Sungaipenuh in Indonesia. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 57.06 km (35 miles). Id of earthquake: us1000769m. Event ids that are associated: us1000769m. Exact location of earthquake, 100.6863° East, -2.3681° South, depth 57.06 km. The temblor was picked up at 16:31:02 / 4:31 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 08/11/16 / 2016-11-08 09:31:02 / November 8, 2016 @ 9:31 am UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sungai Penuh (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Sungai Penuh (c. 95 900 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 83 km WSW of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 100.6863° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -2.3681° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.06 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83km WSW of Sungaipenuh, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-11-08 09:31:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-11-08 12:56:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 420 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 326 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.699 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000769m Id of event.
Event Code 1000769m An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000769m, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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Earthquakes today

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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Amatignak Island in Alaska

Earthquake location 50.0816S, -179.0244WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 131 km S of Amatignak Island, Alaska (81 miles) on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/07/17 / 2017-07-02 15:45:10 / July 2, 2017 @ 3:45 pm. Id of earthquake: ak16247715. Event ids that are associated: ak16247715. Exact location, longitude -179.0244° West, latitude 50.0816° North, depth = 20.3 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.3 km (13 miles). The temblor was detected at 03:45:10 / 3:45 am (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 131 km S of Amatignak Island, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.0244° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.0816° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 131km S of Amatignak Island, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-02 15:45:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-27 02:24:48 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 121 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID ak16247715 Id of event.
Event Code 16247715 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak16247715, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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Wayne’s on his latest Mission

Wayne Hussey, the main man with The Mission, will be bringing his Songs of Candlelight And Razorblades tour to Nottingham Glee Club on Sunday, October 5.

Wayne returns to the live circuit, bearing a fine songbook that includes many hits with The Mission such as Wasteland, Tower Of Strength, Butterfly On A Wheel and Deliverance.

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Because the individual donation amounts are relatively small, many people will round their donation up, making even more profit for your cause. It just doesn't matter if how small your Rotary fundraising team is, we can put you in touch with the right fundraising ideas that will help you reach your goals. For more spectacular small-scale ideas, have a look at our fundraising page for small groups.