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The system has cost more than $117 million since the first contract was approved in 2005 for about $60 million, with the most recent amendment adding $6.8 million to the price tag.
The system has cost more than $117 million since the first contract was approved in 2005 for about $60 million, with the most recent amendment approved Wednesday by the Executive Council adding $6.8 million to the price tag.
District 4 Executive Councilor Chris Pappas, D-Manchester, said there continues to be operational issues with the system when 20 to 30 percent of one hospital's claims are denied. He said Elliot Hospital has $2.7 million in claims that are more than 90 days old.
Health and Human Services Commissioner Nick Toumpas said his agency and the contractor Xerox State Healthcare LLC, continue to work through the issues, but noted significant progress has been made on one area affecting many health care providers — suspended claims.
Changes are required to an already complicated system he said, because of the state's new Health Protection Program which is expected to add about 50,000 adults to the program and federal mandates, which are the basis for the latest contract amendment.
Toumpas told the council his team and Xerox continue to work on the priority issues, noting the company is "on the hook" for a lot of the costs.
He said there have been a number of issues with the system that he takes responsibility for, but some providers and not billing properly.
Elliot has been contacted and understands there are some things it can do now to mitigate the problem.
A significant number of suspended claims have been addressed Toumpas said, but "the issue now is we have to go claim by claim and determine 'Is there a billing error? Is it a system issue? Or is it something that needs to be denied?'"
Pappas noted the problem has come on the last few months, and added Elliot would like to have it resolved before the end of the fiscal year June 30.
The project experienced a number of delays and costs overruns before finally going on line April 1, 2013.
The Medicaid Management Information System is designed to process the $1.4 billion in Medicaid claims each year for medical services to 140,000 recipients. About 10,000 medical providers participate in the program.
Electronic Data Systems, now owned by Hewlett-Packard, had managed the system for two decades prior to 2005, when the state put an upgrade out to bid.
Affiliated Computer Services, now owned by Xerox, won the bid coming in $10 million below EDS for the five-year contract.
Hewlett-Packard continued to process the Medicaid claims until April 1, 2013.
The federal government pays 90 percent of the system design, development and implementation, and then 75 percent of the system cost once it is operating.
Wednesday's contract amendment will be paid with 83 percent federal funds and 17 percent state money.
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Mayhurst Inn SconesFrom MAYHURST INN
Delightfully tasty raisin scones with crusty outside and soft inside. Perfect with homemade Blueberry Butter or Homemade Devonshire Cream. Serves 16.
- 2 cups flour
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup sugar
- 4 tsp baking powder
- ¾ tsp salt
- 2 eggs - well beaten
- ¼ cup milk or ½ and ½ or cream
- ½ cup raisins or chopped almonds or choc. chips or cinnamon chips or chopped dried fruit , etc.
- Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together
- Cut in butter with pastry cutter or 2 knives
- Mix eggs with milk and add to dry ingredients
- Do Not over mix
- Add raisins or other ingredients
- Drop by spoonfuls onto un-greased sheet cake pan or onto parchment paper (my preferred method), or Press into 2 very lightly greased pie pans (I use glass)
- Bake 375 for 14 to 15 minutes
- Brush tops with butter and sprinkle with coarse sugar
- Can be frozen and reheated briefly, but never as good as fresh.
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Today's post is fairly black & white though - Jacob & I walked to his doctor's office & to the grocery store today. The trees looked black without leaves & there is still some white snow on the ground.
At the doctor's office we picked up a form that is needed for day care - I doubt that Jacob understood me telling him that he would not be getting any shots today - but we chatted getting shots anyway.
At the grocery store, I picked up some cake mix for my birthday cake. (A wagers on whether or not my husband will make the cake?)
Oh well, I'm off to start some pea soup - not my ideal birthday dinner, but the weather is fairly soupy, so I'll make soup. (I chopped the vegetables a couple days ago while I chopped them for a vegetable beef soup. So today, the stove will do the hard part.)
I almost forgot - for my birthday tomorrow, I get to go to the dentist! YAY! The last time I went to the dentist before getting pregnant, I treated myself to sushi afterwards - not a good idea. The seaweed salad got stuck in my newly cleaned teeth...
Does anyone else give themselves a special treat after visiting the dentist? (Not that it is a horrible experience for me, but it is one that I'd rather not endure. I really can do without the lecture! - Especially when these days I am really happy to get my teeth brushed let alone flossed.)


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U. T. Dallas Geoscientist Helps Convene Wyoming Conference on Plate Tectonics
University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) geoscientist Dr. Robert J. Stern is co-convening a Geological Society of America (GSA) Penrose Conference on plate tectonics beginning today in Lander, Wyoming.
The six-day conference, titled "When Did Plate Tectonics Begin On Earth? Theoretical and Empirical Constraints," is being held at the Pronghorn Lodge in Lander, located in the foothills of the Wind River Mountains. Other co-conveners of the event include Kent C. Condie, of the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at New Mexico Tech in Socorro, New Mexico, and Alfred Kröner, Institut für Geowissenschaften at Universität Mainz in Mainz, Germany.
Plate tectonics is a theory formulated in the late 1960s that states the Earth's crust and upper mantle – a layer called the lithosphere – is broken into moving pieces called plates. According to the theory, these plates move very slowly over time, causing earthquakes and creating volcanoes, mountains and valleys, depending on the direction of their movement. The GSA conference will focus on when and why plate tectonics began, which is described by organizers as one of the most important unresolved issues in understanding our planet.
The GSA Penrose Conferences, named in honor of R.A.F. Penrose, Jr., a benefactor of the society, were established in 1969 to provide the opportunity for the exchange of information and ideas pertaining to the science of geology and related fields.
Stern is the former head of UTD's Geosciences Department. He is on a faculty development leave this academic year, and will resume his teaching and research duties at UTD in the fall.
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Fayette students will find some differences in the school food service this year as the district's school health team moves forward with new ideas.
More nutritious lunch options and increased opportunities for physical activity highlight an action plan developed by school staff members and students. The effort is part of a federal requirement for the development and updating of a district wellness plan for schools receiving food aid.
"There's a lot of research showing that healthy students perform better in school," said Sue Repp, cafeteria supervisor. "We're excited about working with others in our community to make sure that our students are healthy and can succeed."
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THON leaders drill, test emergency plan to help keep students, visitors safe
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — On a Friday night, hundreds of Penn State students gathered at the Bryce Jordan Center, not to enjoy a concert or to cheer on student-athletes, but to pretend to evacuate — all in the name of safety.
The 2014 executive committee of the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, or THON, participated in a town-gown-partnered emergency tabletop exercise followed by an evacuation drill. They mobilized several hundred THON captains to act as "evacuees."
All of the events were initiated by Janine Patton, THON 2014 Rules and Regulations director, who is in charge of overseeing THON's long-established emergency plan and determined that putting the directors' knowledge in action was the best way to improve their level of preparation.
In sharing the results of the plan with central Pennsylvania news media, Pam Soule, Penn State emergency planner, and Shawn Kauffman, Centre Region Council of Governments emergency management coordinator, explained the significance of conducting emergency simulations.
Kauffman and Soule conducted the evening's workshop and simulation and have offered professional guidance, but emphasized that THON students have led the way in testing and improving the organization's emergency planning. During the simulation, Soule also involved students from Penn State College of Information Technology's Red Cell Analytics Lab to act out specific, unexpected scenarios the directors encountered during the drill.
Read about the Red Cell Analytics Lab's involvement in monitoring THON 2014 for potential safety and security concerns.
The 46-hour no-sitting, no-sleeping THON Weekend 2014 kicks off at 6 p.m. this Friday, Feb. 21, at the Bryce Jordan Center. Visitors are reminded that Penn State Athletics' bag policy is in place for THON, and visitors will be asked to wear digital bracelets as part of THON's digital line management system that aims to minimize entrance wait times when the Jordan Center is at maximum capacity.


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Speak to Elynea Mothren at the Tel Mithryn Apothecary.
She is upset because Neloth has tasked her with repairing part of the Telvani Tower at Tel Mithryn, which is withered. She needs three taproots which have been soaked in the headwaters of the Harstrad river in order to carry out the repairs.
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- Soak the taproots
- Talk to Elynea
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Travel to the Headwaters of Harstrad. It may be neccescary to defeat the three Spriggans here first. Searching the Spriggans provides the taproots required for the quest. Enter Harstrad Cave, by walking through the waterfall. Defeat the Spriggan Mother inside, and search her body for a taproot. Search the chest, and then soak the taproots in the water of the cave.
Return to Elynea at the Tel Mithryn Apothecary. She removes two of the taproots and instructs the player to plant the third into the withered part of the tower wall. Enter the Telvanni Tower and float up. Activate the withered wall to plant the soaked taproot.
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Featured right now in the expansive wine selection of Eataly are the United Wines of Veneto, a region in northern Italy known for producing Prosecco and Soave, but delivers much much more
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Darren Colbourne is either one lucky son of a gun, or he's smart enough to know when to latch on to a good thing.
After years of mediocrity, or worse, the sun is poised to shine again on Corner Brook's Jubilee Field.
The Barons, for the first time since 2007, are back in the all-Newfoundland senior A baseball final.
Corner Brook is a player again on the provincial senior baseball scene.
Some wags might even suggest the Barons could very well knock the St. John's Capitals from their senior baseball throne, which could only be considered a good thing.
Entering this weekend, St. John's has won the provincials 12 years running, and that's not healthy for baseball in Newfoundland.
It wasn't that long ago Corner Brook couldn't beat Pasadena in senior play. One year -2005 - not a soul from the west coast city cracked the province's Canada Games roster. Four years later, only two from Corner Brook made the Games team.
And yet while the number of players were dwindling, and the Barons were dawdling, the minor baseball teams from Corner Brook were winning.
Barons teams have won the provincial AAA midget championship (renamed this year AA) five years and counting, and the bantam AAA in 2010.
While St. John's has won the provincial junior tournament the past four years, it's been no picnic, with two years decided by a run in the final games, one by two runs and this year's final by three runs.
"There's a difference between baseball players," said Colbourne, "and that type of baseball player who you know is going to be a provincial player.
"When you look at what we have out here now, most of those who are on the midget team, are of that calibre.
"That's our up-and-coming group."
Colbourne knows what he's talking about. One of the best, if not most underrated, athletes this province has seen, he is back behind the plate catching and coaching the Barons as they enter the first of three games of the senior final beginning 1 o'clock this afternoon in St. John's.
Colbourne returns after a brief respite from the game.
There's a new guard of baseball player in Corner Brook, one which has grabbed the reigns from Colbourne and Frank Humber, just as those guys took control from the Colbournes and Humbers before them.
Just as the Edmonton Oilers languished through the lean years waiting for young troops to arrive, the Barons have suffered through a drought in anticipation of the arrival of young support.
And it starts where it matters most in baseball: on the mound.
Meet Myles Vincent and Michael Tavenor, two pitching prospects who will be counted on to silence the St. John's bats today and tomorrow at venerable St. Pat's Ball Park.
Both are good, but it's Vincent who conjures up the most chatter. He's six-feet tall and 180 pounds, throws in the mid-80s and has a sharp breaking ball.
He's left-handed, and only 17.
He will start Game 1 today.
Tavenor is a bit older, at 22. He, too, has good stuff, throws hard with a nice curve, but what may separate him from the others, Colbourne says, is his demeanour - cool as an October breeze blowing in from left at St. Pat's.
"I don't want to say he's unflappable, but when he gets on the mound, nothing bothers him," Colbourne said.
Vincent, however, is the crown jewel. He attends the Prairie Baseball Academy in Lethbridge, Alta., where he hopes to catch the eye of some U.S. college scout.
"He's so mechanically sound," said Colbourne, "it's amazing. For a 17-year-old to have the mechanics that he does, and the ability to throw as hard as he does, and have the curveball he does, well, it's fun catching him."
Sounds like another left-hander they were chatting up in Corner Brook years ago. Frank Humber went on to play NCAA DI ball, the Olympics and minor pro in the Dodgers' system.
In addition to Vincent and Tavenor, Colbourne will have Jason Kearley to call upon as well. Kearley plays for the Mount Pearl Storm in the St. John's league and is one of four pickups - A.J. Whiffen, Grant Kenny and Blair Connolly are the others - the Barons were permitted.
The hard-throwing Kearley is 6-0 this season, and has thrown 35 straight shutout innings.
This may be the last year Corner Brook is permitted strengthening players for a while.
" We've got good kids coming up through," Colbourne said of Corner Brook's minor system. "We're not willing to go down to AA to win a championship for the sake of winning a championship, so we've stayed at the AAA level and took our lumps some years.
"Since I've come up through, and after, the thinking out here is you are never going to know how good you are until you play the best.
"We're in the right place," he said. "I'm not saying I'm being opportunistic taking on the Barons this year, but I know the group that I have, and I know what we're capable of, and I know who our guys are, and who can do what.
"I'm excited about Corner Brook baseball, and I know a lot of the older guys are excited about it as well."
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We know you've all been glued to your computers over the last four days voting for Mauro Diaz and then Michel for the 2013 AT&T Goal of the Year, but we need you to keep up the clicking. MLSsoccer.com revealed Groups I-L Sunday morning, and Jair Benitez's audacious midfield bomb against Vancouver Whitecaps FC in Week 28 needs your vote in Group K.
Benitez's only goal of the season was a spectacular one, and it's up against strikes by New York's Thierry Henry, D.C. United's Jared Jeffrey and Philadelphia's Kleberson. Voting for Groups I-L is open until 11:59 pm PT, Monday, November 4 - that's 1:59 am CT, Tuesday, November 5 - so get your votes in early and often to help Jair move on to round two.
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How I Avoided Accidental Marriage in Mesopotamia
"Cehennem kadar sıcak, şeytan kadar kara, melek kadar saf, aşk kadar tatlı."
"As hot as hell, as dark as the devil, as pure as an angel, as sweet as love."
- proverb about Turkish coffee
Having lived in Western Turkey for five years, this normally latte-leaning coffee drinker has acquired a love for thick, sludgy, put-hair-on-your-chest Turkish coffee. But it was only recently that I discovered it had a darker, more surly cousin living out east. Served mainly in the cities of Urfa, Mardin and Diyarbakr, "mırra" comes from the Arabic word "mır" meaning "bitter."
The making of mırra is an art form requiring skill and patience, the whole process lasting four to five hours. (This is not your Grandpa's instant Nescafe!) First the beans are roasted twice, then ground more coarsely than their powdery Turkish counterparts. In a cezve (a special long-handled coffee pot), the coffee is brought to a boil two to three times over an oakwood coal fire, then transferred to a second cezve where more coffee is added, and boiled up to seven times more. It is considered done when it has reached the consistency of molasses and can dye the inside of a cup.
After a tasty dinner of local specialties like Mardin kebap (grilled lamb meat with walnuts) and kaburga doması (stuffed lamb ribs) at the Antik Sur Cafe in Mardin's old city, I had the chance to take part in the age-old mırra drinking ritual. Our waiter brought out an intricately detailed copper cezve, blackened by the fire, and tiny porcelain cups without handles. He ceremoniously poured out the dark, cardamom-scented liquid, filling the cups only half full, and passed them to each person at the table, starting with the oldest and working his way down, wiping the rim of the cup between guests.
Sampling my first cup, I found the mırra to be light on the "pure as an angel, sweet as love" side and definitely more in the "hot as hell, dark as the devil" category. And let me tell you, it is appropriately named. When it comes to packing a bitter punch that will make you scrunch your face up in pained delight, mırra makes Türk kahvesi look like chocolate milk.
Apparently protocol dictates that each person is served two cups, but most in the group passed on seconds. I, on the other hand, considered this experience an eastern rite of passage and forced myself to accept, despite the distinctly unpleasant bite it carried. This wasn't the sort of coffee you'd sip from a frothy mug in the corner of a bookstore on a rainy day. It was clearly the drink of camel drivers and tribesmen, and how any Mardin female manages to sip with a ladylike look on her face is beyond me. Drinking it - and coming back for more - felt like some sort of traveler's triumph.
"The tradition surrounding mırra," our waiter informed us as he handed me my third shot, "is that if after drinking it, you place the cup on the table instead of handing it back to the person who served it, you must either marry the server or pay for their wedding." He explained that while this old custom is seldom still practiced, it used to be a way for the wealthy ağa of a tribe to help out a loyal servant, sometimes filling the cup with gold and sometimes promising his own daughter, or for a man to discreetly signal his interest in the pretty girl holding the cezve in her shaking hand.
Now all eyes were on me, the only single girl at the table with a cup in her hand. Downing the last bitter drop, I half considered setting my cup down just to see what the waiter's reaction would be. He wasn't bad looking, and I could think of worse places to live than one of Mardin's terraced stone mansions....
Enjoying the game, he called out to the cook, "Abi, evleniyorum," announcing that he'd found himself a bride.
Nice as a house with a courtyard and a few servants might be, he might actually have a ring and a veil in his back pocket, and I had no interest in acquiring myself a Mardin mother-in-law, so I placed the cup back in his hand with decided finality. With a good-natured smile and a slight bow, he took our cups and returned to the kitchen.
Dangerous stuff, this mırra business.
I'm rather positive the life of a Turkish bride is not for me. But if I start to get desperate, you might just find me standing over the coals, stirring a pot of liquid as dark as the devil.....


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Samsung to Surf India's 'Phablet' Wave
Samsung Electronics will be trying to ride the "Phablet" wave in India with the release of its new Galaxy S 4 smartphone.
Phablets are typically crossovers between smartphones and small tablets with a screen size of five to seven inches. Samsung's Galaxy S 4, with its five-inch display, just fits into the category.
The Galaxy S 4 will be launched in several markets including India in April-June, a company spokeswoman said. She declined to give specific details.
U.S.-based research firm Strategy Analytics says eight million phablets will be shipped to India this year, eight times more than in 2012.
"There is a lot of potential in this device because people want to carry one device, not two," said Katyayan Gupta, an analyst with Forrester Research Inc. "It's a convergence of devices."
Most new smartphones have displays of at least five inches Sony new Xperia Z has a five-inch display LG Electronics Optimus G Pro measures 5.5 inches, and ZTE's Grand Memo is 5.7 inches. Several local players like Micromax, Lava and Spice Mobiles have also launched their own phablet versions in India. Most flagship phablets use Google's Android operating system.
Apple is trying to expand its market share in India, but has shied away from phones with displays of five inches or more. Its iPhone 5 has a four inch screen. The iPad Mini has a 7.9 inch display but no phone feature.
Samsung is the market leader in India with a 40% share of the 5.2 million smartphones shipped to the country in October-December, according to data from Singapore-based mobile research firm Canalys. Apple had just 5%.
Samsung, which launched its pocket-busting 5.5-inch display Galaxy Note series nearly two years ago, pioneered the phablet category and remains the market leader .
The South Korean company shipped nearly 350,000 Galaxy Notes — Note and Note 2 -- to India last year, according to Canalys.
"Phablets are more appealing from a share of wallet perspective, especially for the cost-conscious Indian consumers," said Neil Shah, a senior analyst at Strategy Analytics. He said multi-purpose smartphones are likely to cannibalize some tablet sales in a price-sensitive market like India.
"Our own experience indicates that people who have these phablets find it reasonably useless to own a seven-inch tablet," added Himanshu Chakrawarti, chief executive of The MobileStore Ltd., an Indian mobile retailer.
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That makes them less attractive than phablets, which allow users to make calls and access multimedia facilities and web applications at a price similar to tablet, said Mr. Shah.
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Houghtaling, a managing partner at the New Orleans law firm Gauthier, Houghtaling & Williams, offered post-Hurricane Sandy advice on how to deal with insurance companies.
He specializes in disaster recovery law, and litigated about 800 cases stemming from Hurricane Katrina. Louisiana's attorney general hired Houghtaling to protect policyholders' rights after that storm, and his firm secured $75 million in insurance settlements for its victims. He now gives talks around the country to those in similar circumstances so they can avoid the problems he saw after Katrina.
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How We Started a Bagel Company in San Francisco, Part 4
We live in an era of creative solutions for start-up food businesses. Whether it's food trucks or a pop-up business like Schmendricks, there is suddenly less pressure for entrepreneurs to immediately go whole hog by looking for a bricks and mortar location.
If not for these options, Schmendricks might never have gotten off the ground. No matter how much we'd believed in our product, it would have taken a much greater leap of faith for four bagel business newbies to plunk down the cash needed to lease and fully outfit a retail space.
Running as a pop-up has given us a lot more leeway to learn on the go. But it has also meant experiencing growing pains a lot more quickly. Almost as soon as we started selling bagels, we found we were due for an equipment upgrade. In order to make enough bagels to meet demand, we desperately needed a new oven.
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Making this purchase has not been a simple matter of walking into the appliance store and choosing between brands. When we considered installing an oven into a shared kitchen, and also our budget, it became clear that we were looking for a used piece of equipment. This meant a prolonged search for the right oven, at the right price, a process that has involved enough of a time commitment that we have actually had to cut back on our production schedule these past two weeks.
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I may look back on this juncture in the development of our little venture and see it as just a minor footnote in our story, but right now it feels like a big deal.
To begin with, even if it's well used, this oven will be the single most expensive piece of equipment we'll own. Schmendricks will have assets!
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And then, what comes after this oven? Start with increased corporate catering orders and events where we can sell bagels to customers by the dozens if they want them, and we're going to need employees very soon. This little project starts to take on the proportions of a more traditional business.
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DeLuca @ CST: (via MLBTR):
Guillen confirmed before Game 2 of the World Series that after his relationship with general manager Ken Williams reached a boiling point late this summer, the Florida Marlins were granted permission by the White Sox to interview Guillen — their former bench coach — for their vacant managerial job.
According to major-league sources, Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria was intent on making Guillen his next manager. Talks, sources say, progressed to the point that there was discussion of executing a trade that would send Guillen, who has a year left on his contract, to the Marlins for 20-year-old outfielder Mike Stanton, who hit 22 home runs and knocked in 59 runs in just 100 games as a rookie this season.
After Guillen met with chairman Jerry Reinsdorf late in the season and agreed to return to the Sox in 2011 — but not getting a desired extension — the Marlins talks died, sources say.
To the Sox FO: You don't get players like Mike Stanton like this. Mike Stanton is worth much much more than Ozzie Guillen.
UPDATE: Marlins sources are denying that they had such talks (MLBTR). And a source told MLB.com that such talks "never happened" too.
UPDATE #2: Mark Gonzales reports a source familiar with the Marlins' situation confirmed that the Marlins asked for permission to talk to Ozzie, but the Sox wanted player compensation and the Marlins didn't receive permission.
UPDATE #3: Kenny Williams confirms Gonzales' story:
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You asked Daniel Radcliffe which literary characters he draws on for his portrayal of Harry Potter.
That was the question we posed to you on CNN's iReport ahead of the highly anticipated sixth installment in the series, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
We asked you to record a video of your questions for Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Emma Watson (Hermione Granger), Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and director David Yates and upload them to iReport.
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Colombia: ADI has described the decision by the Administrative Tribunal of Cundinamarca to revoke permits to capture wild owl monkeys for malaria experiments as a "breakthrough for animal protection and conservation".
The Tribunal ruled that research on owl (night) monkeys, by Manuel Elkin Patarroyo, breached Colombia's commitment to CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora).
The permits, planned to run until 2015, would have allowed Patarroyo to trap 4,000 primates for experiments related to malaria vaccine at the Institute of Immunology Foundation of Colombia (FIDIC).
ADI undercover investigators secured video footage of the laboratory's monkey trapping operation along the Amazon. The ADI video shows trappers searching the forests by night for owl monkeys; the trees netted and the tiny monkeys, unable to escape, are torn from their homes; terrified and screaming, they are pushed into sacks for the journey up river to the laboratory. The team also filmed inside FIDIC where the monkeys are kept inside tiny barren, metal cages, a shocking contrast to their native forest homes.
Jan Creamer, ADI Chief Executive said: "We are delighted that the Tribunal has taken decisive action, preventing the horrific suffering of thousands of monkeys and the potential devastation of wild populations. We hope that the next step will be to end these cruel experiments once and for all."
In the ruling, the Tribunal criticised the Ministry of Environment for failing to exercise controls concerning the hunting and scientific study of primates. It further stated that because import permits for owl monkeys of the species Aotus nancymae were not required, this fuelled a trade for these primates, in contravention of CITES regulations.
The Tribunal found that there had also been a number of anomalies in permissions granted to Patarroyo dating back to 1984, which included irregularities in permit procedures and breach of obligations and prohibitions of Colombia's National Resources Code.
As a result of the Tribunal, disciplinary action against officials at the Ministry of Environment is now being initiated. FIDIC and the Corporation for Sustainable Development of Southern Amazonia (Corpoamazonia) were also sanctioned.
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A spot of mansplaining
I'm a middle-aged, white, male programmer, so that's where I'm coming from. I can't help any of that, but doubtless it colors my perspective.
First, I have to say that the idea of coding being associated with prestige (as it seems now to be in DH) is rather foreign to my experience, but the rise of the brogrammer is probably a sign that in general it's not such a marginal activity anymore. These guys would probably have gone and gotten MBAs instead in years past.
DH is slightly uncomfortable territory for programmers, as I've written in the past, at least it is for people like me who mostly program rather than academics who write code to accomplish their ends. I speak in generalities, and there are good local exceptions, but we don't get adequate (or often any) professional development funding, we don't get research time, we don't get credit for academic stuff we may do (like writing papers, presenting at conferences, etc.), we don't get to lead projects, and our jobs are very often contingent on funding. All this in exchange for about a 30% pay cut over what we could be earning in industry. There are compensations of course: incredibly interesting work, really great people to work with, and often more flexible working conditions. That's worth putting up with a lot. I have a wife and young kids, and I'm rather fond of them, so being able to work from home and having decent working hours and vacation time is a major bonus for me.
None of that in any way accounts for the gender imbalance that Miriam is highlighting, though it does perhaps work as a general disincentive (in academia) to learn to code too well. I'd also say that there is nothing that can make you feel abysmally stupid quite like the discipline of programming. Errors as small as a single character (added or omitted) can make a program fail in any number of weird ways. I am frequently faced with problems that I don't know ahead of time I'll be able to solve. Ostensibly hard problems may be dead simple to fix, while simple tasks may end up taking days. It keeps you humble. But I would say that if you're the lone woman sitting in a class/lecture/lab, and you're feeling lost, you're not the only one, and it has nothing at all to do with your gender.
As Bethany cautions, please, please don't circle the wagons. It's my contention that most of the offensive things about programmer culture are not intentional nor deeply ingrained but are actually artifacts of the gender/race imbalance.
[As an aside, I was interested in Miriam's remarks about codeacademy. I started working through it with my daughter a couple of weeks ago, and she was finding it incredibly frustrating. It does not fit her learning style at all. She, like me, needs to know why she has to type this thing. She finds being told to just type var myName="Grace" without any context stupid. In the end we gave up and started learning how to build web pages, and I'll reintroduce Javascript in that context.]
Programmer culture is exclusionary though. Undergraduate CS programs have "weed out" courses. I've actually taken a couple of these, and the first one did weed me out—it managed to be hard and extremely boring at the same time. I only came back to it years later. This gets at an aspect of programmer culture though, a sort of "are you good enough?" ethic. It's not without foundation—a lot of people who self-identify as programmers can't program—but it also means that when you start to work with a new group, there's often a kind of ritual pissing contest where you have to prove your worth before you're treated as an equal. This kind of thing is irritating enough on it's own, and it's easy to imagine it taking on sexist or racist overtones.
Programming also tends to squeeze out older folks. Actual age discrimination does happen, but it's also because staying current means almost totally rebooting your skillset every few years. The Pragmatic Programmer book recommends learning a new language every year, and this is crucial advice (my own record is more like one every 18 months or so, but that's been enough so far). If you let yourself get comfortable and coast, or go into management, your skills are going to be close to worthless in about 5 years. And, while your experience definitely gives you an edge, you're not guaranteed to have the best solution to any given problem. The 22-year-old who read something on Hacker News last night might have found an answer that totally blows your received wisdom out of the water.
[As another aside, the speed at which skills go stale means that any organization that doesn't invest in professional development for their programmers is being seriously stupid. Or they expect their devs to leave and be replaced every few years.]
The upshot is that the population of programmers not only skews male, it skews young. Put a bunch of young men together, particularly in small groups that are under a lot of pressure (in a startup, for example), and you get the sorts of tribal behaviors that make women and anyone over 35 uncomfortable. There's not just misogyny, there's hostility towards people who might want to have a life outside of work (e.g. people who have spouses and kids and like spending time with them). And this is both a cause of sexual/racial/age imbalance and a result. It's a self-reinforcing cycle.
But there isn't really one monolithic "coder culture", there are lots of them. Every company and institution has its own culture. Teams have cultures. Basically, any grouping of human beings is going to develop its own set of values and ways of doing things. It's what people do naturally. The leaders of these groups have a lot to do with how those cultures develop, but they aren't necessarily in any position to remedy imbalances.
Once you're in a position to hire people, you realize that hiring good developers is hard. In any pool of applicants, you're going to have a bunch of totally unsuitable people, a few maybes, and if you're lucky, one or two gems (or people you think might become a gem with a little polishing). Are any of these going to be women? Not unless you're really lucky, because the weeding out has already done its work. So once you're in a position to decide who gets hired, it's too late to redress any imbalance. The imbalance is not because leaders don't want to hire women, it's already there.
The only answer I can see is to get a lot more women into programming. If the CS curricula can't do it, maybe new modes like DH can. From what I've seen the gender balance in DH, while still not great, is a lot less ruinous than in programming in general, and a CS degree is far from the only road into a programming career (I don't have one). I think the cycle can be broken. I don't think there's a lot of deeply ingrained misogyny or racism in coding culture. Rather, it's a boys club because it happens to be mostly boys. If there were more women it would adjust. And I don't think that (mostly) it would put up much resistance to an influx of women. So circling the wagons is the exact opposite of what needs to be done.
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- Miriam Posner said...
Hi Hugh! This is great — thanks! Re. Codeacademy, you might be interested in what Julie Meloni had to say about it, which seemed to ring true for a lot of people. (I never did it myself.)
I've never, ever doubted that the "culture" of programming could change if more women were involved. The trick is getting them there. I wonder how you think we might do that?
- March 4, 2012 at 9:42:00 PM EST
- Unknown said...
Hi Miriam, thank you for starting the conversation. I don't think there are any silver bullets, but I'd say:
1. Great as efforts like PyLadies are, I don't think they'll be enough on their own. We have to foster productive mentoring relationships between men and women as well.
2. Evangelism: programming can not only help advance your academic career, it will give you an excellent alternative to academia.
3. Education: I do wonder whether the traditional CS curriculum itself needs to be rebooted to be more open to women. I'm not really a product of it myself, though, so I don't have deep insights into it. But I can imagine something like a DH program giving students enough of a start to do well without spending a lot of time in the CS department. When job ads say "CS Degree or equivalent experience" they really do mean it...
Yeah, I'd read Julie's comments before I ever looked at it, and agree completely. The main thing that bugged me about it was that it gives you a REPL, but then discourages you from playing around with it—which is where real learning happens—by giving you an error message unless you type in the exact answer they're looking for. Even if you already correctly answered the question! Madness.
- March 5, 2012 at 10:41:00 AM EST
- Ben W. Brumfield said...
So once you're in a position to decide who gets hired, it's too late to redress any imbalance. The imbalance is not because leaders don't want to hire women, it's already there.
This is so true. I've conducted somewhere over three hundred interviews for development positions over the last decade. During that time, I've seen a consistent attitude among hiring managers and my fellow interviewers of rooting for female candidates. Women will get the same interview as the men, but quietly we're hoping they'll do well.
But out of a hundred or so positions, I can only remember four of five female hires. How can this be? Women accounted for the same range of stars, competents, and duds as the men did in proportion, but as they only made up single-digit percentages of our applicant pool the number of hires was tiny.
Interestingly, when we interviewed developers in India female applicants made up closer to a third of all applicants, rather than the 3-8% we saw in the US.
- March 5, 2012 at 1:59:00 PM EST
- Sheila said...
Hugh, Thanks for this post. It actually made me understand our applicant pool better as we are looking to hire a PhP developer and can't find anyone. So it was heartening to hear you say that it's hard to find someone good. I've also heard from others seeking to hire open-source program developers that they think that CS programs haven't quite caught up with the type of needs we have in FOSS development, particularly for federally-funded projects that are increasingly pushing folks to use FOSS. I can't speak directly to what is going on in CS programs, but there may be something to that which also could address some of the gender gaps.
Thanks again to you and Miriam!
- March 5, 2012 at 10:12:00 PM EST
I stumbled into this crosstalk discussion today as someone who used to code and design but is struggling her way through culture shock in a PhD program in the humanities. So, it's been a really good day for me. Thank you.
A contributing factor to the adjustment issues I've had is that I hadn't found productive networks of people with which to engage, and so I'm trundling around fending off approaches from people who think that my role in the room is to design the website. (Yeah, I don't do that. There are experts who do that well, and throwing it at me as if we can all do it, or that there isn't a great deal of finesse and aesthetic, in addition to good practices, required is to marginalize the work of those experts and mine.) So, yes, I sit here eyes ablaze in wonder at what feels like one of my first, "real" conversations.
I haven't written more than a few hundred lines of code in years. I've been, as is in my experience, a relatively typical career track for the rare female coder, spending my time in early phase concept and design team meetings, and in project management at a startup. There are reasons for this - some are inherently perceived as better for business - the conventional wisdom goes if you've got a woman, having her in your management team and putting her in front of the clients at conferences is a good thing. It's progressive. And it wasn't infrequent that I had the best communication and negotiation skill set in the room given the gendered way in which those tend to be honed and assessed.
I find the pissing contest-prove yourself ritual to be genuinely insulting because I do feel that my male counterparts are not asked things like, "and by 'enterprise system,' did you mean accounts payable?" even as my resume clearly lists my work history and quite recognizable employers. It did not, however, occur to me until you made this point, that the gendered tint of the questions about whether or not I know the meanings of the words I'm using could also be construed as an amplification of what is already a hostile cultural practice. That's certainly something to think about. It had me reflecting on the practice of locking everyone in the planning room to debate different approaches to a problem until we come up with one we all agree represents the best game we've got. For a woman, that can be a daunting exercise in interpreting and engaging aggressive discursive strategies. Practices that are inherently masculine, but not intentionally sexist unless the discourse itself takes on a deliberately marginalizing tone. The argumentative nature of the practice is not in and of itself intended to be marginalizing, and at some point, everyone has been crushed by that particular grindstone. It is worth consideration also that there may be other strategies at getting at well-refined solutions that are less alienating for everyone. But then this is not a new issue or one limited to programming given that in my field of rhetoric, feminist critics have well described the cultural consequences of privileging inherently masculine discursive practices - how they play out does matter.
I nodded along with Miriam that standing in for all women in that learning environment is an added difficulty. Especially given the preferred pedagogy is to be as tedious and bland as possible - those days were an exercise in asking myself why I hate myself so much that I would inflict this on myself. Just let me break something and see if I can fix it already!
I applaud your efforts to open different doors for your daughter.
- March 5, 2012 at 11:29:00 PM EST
- Unknown said...
@Cindy, I'm really glad you're finding this productive. I'd never thought about the gendered nature of the discourse in planning meetings, but you're absolutely right. I came into it from a Ph.D. program, and of course in academia there are well established norms of adversarial debate (ideally aimed at discovering the truth rather than just winning the argument) and I pretty much just deployed those skills without even thinking about it.
The ritual pissing contest is insulting, but it doesn't necessarily have a gender/race angle. The first time I remember being on the receiving end of it, a woman was the instigator. But if you're in the minority, any questioning of your competency is going to feel like a gender or race-based attack. It's a bad cultural practice that develops around a genuine problem: figuring out whether this new person can do the work. The people doing it are I'm sure almost always unaware of how it looks and would be wounded and defensive if challenged on those grounds.
My godfather (a black Barbadian) studied for his MD in England, and used to tell the story of how he once boarded a nearly empty train that wasn't due to leave for some time. This was in the days when trains had compartments that would seat about 6 people. So he sat there in his compartment, on the empty train, and eventually someone else got on board, came and peeped in to his compartment, and then went on. And then it happened again, and again, and again. And he started to feel really creeped out. He thought "Oh, my God, this is racism. They don't want to sit next to a black man."
After while though, the train began to fill up, and someone came and sat in his compartment, diagonally across from him (as far away as you can get), and hid behind his newspaper, and gradually his compartment filled up, and he realized that it wasn't racism, it was the English! An Englishman (or woman), given the choice, will pick first the empty compartment, then the least full one, and will only sit next to you as a last resort. [A Bajan on the other hand, getting on a bus empty except for you, would come and sit next to you and start a conversation.]
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