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(The above image is a slide from a presentation by Marlise Richter, a researcher at the AIDS Law Project, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. It is described at the bottom of this post.)
Stigma is an interesting beastie. Whore stigma is particularly interesting, in part because it makes no sense and falls apart the minute it's exposed to any rational analysis whatsoever. Yet somehow, even though it makes no sense, it is a constant and often overwhelming social force that shapes the lives of all women.
There's an old joke about a man who walks up to a woman at a bar and asks, "Would you have sex with me for a million dollars?" She says, "Yes." He says, "What about fifty dollars?" and she snaps, "What the hell do you think I am — a whore?" He replies, "We've already established that you're a whore; now we're just negotiating the price."
Inherent in this joke, and in the slide I showcase at the top of this post, is the tension and confusion that happens pretty much automatically whenever anyone tries to point out the difference between a "nice girl" and a "whore". It's one of the best ways to show that whore stigma makes no sense: the difference is impossible to pin down.
What's weird about these conversations, though, is that everyone almost always gets caught up in the question of who's a whore and who's not a whore — and in the confusion, very few people think to question whether whore stigma itself is ridiculous and divisive and harmful. This even happens during conversations that start with the intent of questioning the very concept of whore stigma, such as this post by sex work researcher Laura Agustín; the post's whole point is that the concept of whore stigma makes no sense — but commenters on the post immediately start trying to define what a whore is.
Indeed, this even happens among sex workers. My friends at the Sex Workers Outreach Project have told me how complicated it can be to pull different sex workers together, in order to work towards legal rights and societal recognition. One recurring issue is how some sex workers will refuse to associate with other sex workers: for example, professional dominatrixes or strippers may refuse to associate with escorts because "You're whores, and we're not whores, and we're not like you." This is one more factor making it hard for sex workers' rights advocates to achieve social momentum. Which may mean that when — for example — the law randomly decides that dominatrixes are actually whores (surprise!), those non-whore sex workers may find themselves without resources.
But of course it happens among non-sex workers, too. Because being an "actual" sex worker is in no way a requirement for being called a whore, or for having whore stigma slammed in your face. Any woman who carries condoms might as well be a whore, right? Not even thirteen-year-old girls are exempt from whore stigma or its twin, slut-shaming, as we learned from Hope Witsell's suicide last year. Hope sexted a boy who betrayed her and sent her message all over the school — at which point she was punished severely, was socially ostracized, and killed herself.
Examples of whore stigma abound, and none of us are innocent from reinforcing it. I'll cop to it: before I had a grip on how problematic whore stigma is, I myself called one or two women whores because I felt threatened by them. I hadn't thought through how easily I myself might be harmed by the label; I hadn't yet identified my fears of being labeled one myself. I was insensitive — and I was also stupid, because whore stigma could come get me as easily as it could get an "actual" whore. Contributing to it wasn't just hurting other women, it was also shooting myself in the foot.
Plus, the more effort women put into distinguishing ourselves from whores, the less effort we can put into actually working on the issues that harm women. Or making common cause with, say, sex workers who aren't women and therefore get completely disappeared during all this anxious finger-pointing.
When we will acknowledge that whore stigma makes no sense, that it's ridiculous and divisive and harmful? What does it take? All women's appearance and activities — especially our sexuality — are attacked, limited, and kept in line by the threat of "sluthood" and "whoredom". In that sense, we all pay. We all have a stake in taking down these social structures.
And we can start by accepting and acknowledging sex work as an honorable job that deserves both legal and social recognition. Today is a fantastic day to do just that. December 17th is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, and there may just be an event in your area. It's also worth considering reading up on how to be an ally to sex workers and passing that information on to your friends.
Please note that The Wisdom of Whores, the awesome book by Elizabeth Pisani that I encouraged y'all to read for free on World AIDS Day at the beginning of this month, is still available for free download — all the way through the end of December. Pisani's book is one of my favorites, ever — there are some valid critiques to be made, but even with those in mind, I just love it. It's free! What are you waiting for?
(The slide at the beginning of this post shows a straight horizontal line with an arrow at each end. At the top, the graphic is labeled "Sex-for-reward continuum". The right end of the arrow is labeled "Illegitimate", and the left end is labeled "Legitimate". From right to left there are five points, labeled as follows:
* "Self-identified sex worker on a street corner?"
* "Woman who has sex at the back of a taxi in exchange for a ride into town?"
* "School girl has sex with her ex-boyfriend for cell phone airtime?" [Note: This slide was used in an African presentation. In Africa, or at least in the parts I'm familiar with, cell phone airtime is a somewhat expensive commodity. A school girl having sex in exchange for airtime is somewhat analogous to having sex in exchange for a nice piece of clothing.]
* "Student sleeps with her lecturer in order to pass?"
* "Wife has sex with her husband as she knows they are going to the mall tomorrow?"
At the bottom of the slide is a triangle pointing up to the line. It is labeled: "Who do we put in jail?")
This post was cross-posted at Feministe. This version has a few small edits for the sake of clarity and sensitivity; those edits are lacking from the Feministe version. However, the Feministe version has a hell of a lot more comments.


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Some glitches are annoying. Some are downright infuriating. Still, they can (and do!) serve as the foundations of hilarious internet videos.
The one above is a prime example—all YouTube user Cr1TiKaL wanted to do was to enjoy a little bit of Sleeping Dogs. What he got instead was a bug-fueled journey of absurdity and frustration through the streets and various locales of virtual Hong Kong.
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Gursel Tekin, the deputy chairman of the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), has predicted that the Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoglu will be sacked after implicating Turkey in the Syrian crisis. Tekin added that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is planning to get rid of Davutoglu soon.
For some time now, Davutoglu has been the target of sharp attacks by opposition parties and many media analysts, who blame him for the dismal failure of the Turkish policy in Syria, as he is the one responsible for devising and selling it to the prime minister.
Here, many cite the Turkish stance on Libya, where Erdogan had strongly opposed intervention by NATO and the West, and said that Turkey would not stand for it.
But a week later, the prime minister reversed course, after the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a phone call to Davutoglu, and somehow managed to convince him to stand on Washington's side in return for "large rewards" for Turkey and the Justice and Development Party (AKP).
Shortly thereafter, Ankara hurriedly set up camps for the Syrian refugees on its border, even before any had fled to Turkey.
Davutoglu has been the target of sharp attacks by opposition parties and many media analysts, who blame him for the dismal failure of the Turkish policy in Syria.Yet the biggest surprise came when Erdogan's government gave the go-ahead to the Syrian opposition to hold its first conference in the city of Antalya, at the beginning of the uprising.
In fact, the Turkish involvement in Syria started in conjunction with Qatar and Saudi Arabia also entering the fray. Clearly, the Qataris and Saudis had lied to Davutoglu from the outset about the intricacies of the internal situation in Syria and their predictions for the regime's impending collapse.
But Davutoglu bought these lies all too readily, as he seems to have wagered throughout his statements on President Bashar al-Assad being ousted within a period of three months at most.
The Syrian dissidents who sought refuge in Turkey also contributed to these lies, with Davutoglu seemingly oblivious to the fact that many of them have intimate links with Western capitals, which recruited them for the purpose of getting Turkey involved.
Furthermore, Saudi Arabia and Qatar both played a key role in dragging Turkey into the Syrian crisis, particularly after the two Gulf nations provided large financial assistance to Ankara with a green light from the United States. This put Turkey on the front lines of a future war on Damascus, given the massive border shared between the two countries.
This is not to mention the fact that moving fighters and arms across the Turkish-Syrian border is much easier than doing so through any Arab country, as Turkey is a non-Arab state that once enjoyed a strategic relationship with Syria.
All these developments were sufficient to embroil Turkey further into the Syrian crisis, with all its security-related and political dimensions, not to mention the sectarian and ethnic ones – notably the Kurdish question.
Meanwhile, Cemil Cicek, speaker of the Turkish parliament, was quoted as saying that "the others have pumped us with hot air and then left us alone on the Syrian issue."
Yet Davutoglu was convinced by Cicek's statement, instead persisting with his hostility toward Syria, despite Western capitals taking a step back from rhetoric, relatively speaking.
Meanwhile, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have distanced themselves from Turkey, sensing that officials there have exposed their lies on the Syrian issue.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar both played a key role in dragging Turkey into the Syrian crisis, particularly after the two Gulf nations provided large financial assistance to Ankara.This perhaps explains why there has been a lack of communication recently between the emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, on the one hand, and Erdogan, on the other.
Nonetheless, these factors have done little to change Davutoglu's mind. He is convinced and absolutely certain that he is right, despite all the criticism levied at him that suggests he has made gross tactical and strategic miscalculations.
In truth, Ankara lacks experts in Syrian affairs, as well as Arab affairs in general. This may help explain the fact that all analyses of the Syrian situation have been rather skin-deep, and do not go beyond news stories and articles published by the Western media or US and Israeli intelligence reports that are habitually leaked to Turkish journalists.
Most of Ankara's information about Syria comes from al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya, and the pages of the Syrian opposition on social networking sites.
For example, when Erdogan used the term shabiha (a reference to pro-regime militia in Syria) as conveyed to him by his advisers or perhaps Davutoglu, it did not occur to him that both the Turkish army and security services often use civilian security agents, who are no different to the shabiha, to crack down on peaceful protests.
There are about 100,000 Kurdish village guards in the southeast of Turkey who collaborate with the Turkish army against fighters from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).Furthermore, there are about 100,000 Kurdish village guards in the southeast of Turkey who collaborate with the Turkish army against fighters from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
But the most important question that remains unanswered on the Turkish political and media scene is this: Until when will Erdogan continue to bear the burden of the flawed policy of his foreign minister, which has cost Turkey dearly and at all levels?
Some reports indicate that Davutoglu controls the staff close to Erdogan, and thus, they seem to be unable to level with the Turkish prime minister regarding the realities of the situation in Syria.
Here, it seems that Davutoglu is determined to overthrow the regime in Syria; otherwise, Erdogan will dismiss him and put an end to his diplomatic career, which he wanted to exploit for future political calculations.
Some talk about the possibility that Davutoglu may become the new prime minister of Turkey, when Erdogan becomes the president of the republic in the summer of 2014, provided that Davutoglu proves his diplomatic and political merit by toppling the Syria regime.
After all, the Americans once said that Davutoglu is the Kissinger of the Middle East, with a red Ottoman fez and blue stars.
This article is an edited translation from the Arabic Edition.
Via SyndiGate.info
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With flip of wrist, interventional radiologists treat uterine fibroids
Interventional radiologists have devised a new way to access a woman's fibroids—by flipping her wrist and treating via an arm not groin artery—to nonsurgically shrink noncancerous growths in the muscular wall of the uterus. Researchers found this to be less painful and traumatic for women, allowing them to immediately sit up and move after uterine fibroid embolization (UFE)—with no overnight stay, according to a March article in the Society of Interventional Radiology's flagship publication, the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.
"Improving patient care and providing advanced treatment options are always on the minds of interventional radiologists. And this could be a game changer for image-guided minimally invasive treatments," said Aaron M. Fischman, M.D., an interventional radiologist and assistant professor of radiology and surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. Mount Sinai researchers studied the access treatment favored by cardiologists for coronary interventions—and applied it to a minimally invasive treatment for women's uterine fibroids. By flipping access for treatment from the artery in the groin to the artery in the wrist, the researchers said that the women experienced less pain and trauma than the traditional groin technique—opening the door to potential savings in health care costs. Complications related to bleeding at the puncture site are also significantly reduced using this novel approach. Patients are able to walk immediately after treatment, which dramatically improves their experience. "This is just the beginning," he added, indicating that this technique may also pave the way toward improving other interventional radiology treatments—including those for cancer patients.
Fischman said that his team wanted to explore options that were more comfortable and beneficial for patients undergoing UFE, a nonsurgical interventional radiology treatment for women that cuts off blood flow to painful fibroids to kill the noncancerous tumors. "Few reports in the literature have explored this application to interventional radiology treatments. This is the first reported use of transradial access for UFE," Fischman added.
Uterine fibroids, which affect up to 40 percent of all women 35 and older, can cause prolonged, heavy menstrual bleeding that can be severe enough to cause anemia or require transfusion; disabling pelvic pain and pressure; urinary frequency; pain during intercourse; and miscarriage. Typically, interventional radiologists have delivered treatment directly to the fibroid—by threading a catheter through a woman's femoral artery in her thigh. In this new approach, the interventional radiologists threaded a catheter through one of two arteries in a woman's left wrist. They then made a tiny nick in the skin, less than one-fourth of an inch, and inserted a catheter into the artery. Using real-time imaging, the doctor guided the catheter through the artery and then released tiny particles, the size of grains of sand, into the uterine arteries that supply blood to the fibroid tumor. This blocked the blood flow to the fibroid tumor and caused it to shrink and symptoms to subside.
Women seeking UFE at Mount Sinai were presented both access options, said Fischman. His team treated 29 women (ages 23–56, some with benign tumors the size of a grapefruit) from March through October 2013. Fischman said that their findings suggest that wrist (transradial) UFE offers a safe and effective alternative to groin (transfemoral) UFE. He indicated that a much larger prospective, randomized trial is needed to validate conclusions about specific benefits of this novel approach. He noted that interventional radiologists will need to be trained in this new access. In addition to presenting this study, Fischman will be leading workshops on this new technology at the Society of Interventional Radiology's Annual Scientific Meeting March 22–27 in San Diego.
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Quick hits from the Raiders press conference with Al Davis outlining the reasons for firing Lane Kiffin and hiring Tom Cable, plus a few notes from Lane Kiffin's counterpoint on ESPN:
— The Raiders case was detailed in a letter Davis said was sent by Federal Express on Sept. 12 and can be found at the above link or in the previous blog post.
— Kiffin won't be holding a press conference as he told TV reporters earlier today. After Davis' performance, Gary Uberstine, Kiffin's agent and attorney, told his client to clam up.
The statement was as follows:
"Earlier today, Lane Kiffin told members of the Bay Area media that he intended to hold a press conference on Wednesday, October 1, to address his departure from the team. In light of today's events, we have advised Lane to cancel all future interviews for the time being.''
— But not before Kiffin went on ESPN and refuted much of what Davis had claimed, including the now infamous letter. Kiffin said that just because it was printed on paper and shown on an overhead projector, "doesn't make it true.''
— Is it just me, or does it finally seem to be sinking in that the image of Davis' precious franchise has been seriously damaged over the last five years?
There was less bluster, not nearly as many references to the "Greatness of the Raiders.'' Most rare was the admission of a mistake in the hiring of Kiffin.
"It hurts because I picked the guy,'' Davis said. "I picked the wrong guy.''
— Later, harkening back to the days when Davis was told there were sellouts at the Coliseum only to find out there weren't, he said of Kiffin, "I think he conned me, like he conned all of you people."
Kiffin said he watched the press conference with his wife, called it "hurtful" and said, "That's something I wasn't proud to be associated with. I was kind of embarrassed for him."
— Davis was asked if he was responsible for not only the Kiffin hire, but the fact that the Raiders have gone through Bill Callahan, Norv Turner and Art Shell as well since 2003.
"I bear the responsibility. It takes a toll on me. It sure does,'' Davis said.
— Kiffin, Davis said, would have been fired if he were 3-1 instead of 1-3.
"It was a cumulative thing. The pattern just disturbed me,'' Kiffin said. "The first question he asked me when I said you would be fired or was relieved for cause was, `Are you going to pay me?' First question. There are a lot of people who believe in this organization that he wanted to be fired but he wanted to be paid.''
— Kiffin said his first question was about the status of his assistants, and was pleased to learn they were all keeping their jobs.
— Asked if Kiffin was daring the owner to fire him, Davis said, "That's a good question. I don't know what he was doing but he got me to fire him.''
Responded Kiffin to ESPN: "There is no way I was trying to get fired."
— There were a few instances of misdirection when asked about a specific problem. A query about the lack of continuity and number of coaching changes brought a reminder that the Raiders have been to the Super Bowl more recently than the Cowboys and are the last AFC West team to make it.
— If you're keeping score on all the offseason "rumors" regarding the Kiffin vs. Davis, the Raiders owner confirmed that Kiffin wanted to bring in his father to be defensive coordinator, Kiffin didn't want to draft JaMarcus Russell, Kiffin wanted to fire Rob Ryan, and that a resignation letter drafted on Kiffin's behalf did indeed exist _ although Davis said it was at Kiffin's request.
— Another one _ Davis said Kiffin wanted to leave for a job at Arkansas last year and was angry when told he had to wait until the end of the season. A high-profile friend at Arkansas (Jerry Jones?) tipped Davis off on that one, and Davis said Bobby Petrino left the Atlanta Falcons early specifically to beat Kiffin to the job.
— The inescapable conclusion is that stories regarding problems between Davis and Kiffin were not the creation of the media, but by Davis and Kiffin.
— Have there ever been two more stubborn men locked in a futile battle of wills, with both claiming the high ground when it's clearly a matter of money?
It's clear Davis despised Kiffin for some time, and the feeling was mutual. Yet they went some eight-plus counterproductive months before coming to Tuesday's unforgettable theater.
— Cable was the most valuable assistant coach on the Raiders staff last year, and if he inspires the kind of loyalty in the entire team he does in his linemen, it can only help.
— Coaching at UCLA, Idaho and Colorado, Cable was also a hell of an offensive coach, his 11-35 record at Idaho aside.
"Everybody has a past, everybody has a journey in life, whether it's professionally or personally," Cable said. "For me, it's been a great journey. Not always successes, by the record I have at Idaho. At the same time, not too many people move the ball like I did in college football, whether it was at Colorado, Idaho or UCLA. So I'm very confident that way, very confident."
— Cable on Kiffin: "I respect Lane Kiffin, I love the guy. I think he worked his tail off. However, whatever that's gone on here is between him and Mr. Davis, and I'll leave it at that."
— Davis said Ryan was too valuable as a defensive coordinator with the current team to consider elevating to head coach.
— It probably didn't hurt Cable that he has a grasp of the tradition which has slowly evaporated over the past five years.
"I grew up a Raider. I grew up loving this team from the time I was a little boy," Cable said.
I asked Cable about how the Raiders go about finishing games when so many players have known nothing but constant defeat.
"How you finish games? You don't let up. You don't let up," Cable said. "You throw the football to score points in this game. You run the football to win it. And you've got to find a balance between those two. You've got to get your play-makers the ball in their hands, and you gotta be able to do that to finish. Defensively, you've got to be able to choke 'em out."
Post-press conference notes
A few notes collected from talking with Davis after the formal press conference broke up:
— The investors which purchased 20 percent of the team have no option to buy. A scenario to the one similar to when Chris Cohan purchased the Warriors could not happen, Davis said.
— The Raiders are working with the city of Oakland regarding a stadium _ "Of course we want a new one," _ but Davis declined to "negotiate" in the media.
— Davis was sold on Russell as the No. 1 overall draft pick, in part because of a recommendation from ex-Raider Tee Martin, who went to the same Birmingham high school as Russell. Kiffin, Davis said, fluctuated between wanting Brady Quinn and Calvin Johnson, and also wanted to trade it for a time.
— It was Mike Lombardi who sold Bill Belichick on the idea of acquiring Randy Moss. It's clear Davis still rues the day he made that deal, even if most people believe Moss had already mentally checked out of Oakland.
— Regarding Lombardi, who has been taking both subtle jabs and right crosses at the Raiders in his new gig as a columnist for the National Football Post, Davis said, "Mike Lombardi has been fired from every job he's had. Every job. He can't get a job. Last year he was fired from a job he was working for for nothing. He was fired from Denver. But he does have ability."
— Davis said he is looking at a football executive he declined to name who will be needed to help guide the Raiders through issues such as labor, a new stadium
— Mark Davis has been around the facility more this season but Davis said his son has no plans to get in on the football end of things, although he will some day inherit the team.
"Business and stadium. He doesn't want to get involved in football," Davis said. "He just doesn't want to get into that part of it. But he will own it some day. That is… if they let me go to my maker."
— Davis said his health is fine "other than the quadriceps and a little trouble with the walking, based on total balance, I'm fine. I'm healthy. You're going to have to have me around for a while."
— Al still just loves Mike Shanahan.
"When Shanahan left me, he went to Denver. He was there for about four or five years as an assistant and they fired him for insubordination," Davis said. "Dan Reeves and he had a big battle. He went to the 49ers and he learned their style of football and when Dan Reeves failed in Denver, the first guy they had was Wade Phillips, I think, then he brought Shanahan back. And Shanahan had success. But Shanahan has an asterisk next to those two Super Bowls, because they were caught cheating."


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Posted: Wed 12 Sep 2007, 01:57
Post subject: One Laptop Per Child Revisited:
Subject description: sugar or spice?
From the One Laptop Per Child wiki:
""One laptop per child" is a concept. It is an education project, not a laptop project. . . . OLPC is based on constructivist theories of learning pioneered by Seymour Papert and later Alan Kay, as well as the principles expressed in Nicholas Negroponte's book 'Being Digital'."
From what I have read, OLPC is not so much about getting any particular distribution to work in a low-powered laptop. Rather than thinking of the computer as a networked tool whose desktop provides a graphical human-computer interface (HCI) to an underlying hierarchy of directories and files, the OLPC desktop HCI called "Sugar" conceptualises the desktop as a mirror of the collaborative universe itself. Instead of folders and files on the desktop, you find icons representing the individual users and collaborative groups using the networked computer facilities. This is a radical shift in thought away from the current GUI desktop model we have become indoctrinated with... The current incarnation of Sugar is written in Python, on top of X.
You could, it seems to me, say that OLPC "Sugar", using the educational concepts of Papert et. al., involves an object-orientated desktop paradigm which attempts to map the physical universe of humans collaborating with each other rather than simply mapping the hierarchical position of folders and files (which themselves are simply other objects involved in the collaborating universe). The OLPC desktop is therefore populated with icons representing these sets of collaborating users (and other objects) rather than simply representing files and folders as in the currently (conventional) human-computer desktop interface. Linux just provides the underlying OS functionality. That's my take on it anyway.
So maybe some thought should go into providing a "Sugar" interface to Puppy in some incarnation of it or other?
Perhaps Sugar or something similar is about to become the future of networked computing (or a dismal failure...)?
Personally I think the radical shift in thought is long overdue.
However, none of the above takes away from what I think is a fact: Puppy Linux is currently easily the best OS distribution out there (in terms of efficiency and usability)!!! But we have to realise that, conceptually at least, Puppy is still a conventional OS distribution. By all means its important to keep improving the Puppy we know, but its equally important, I think, to be willing to think laterally in order to prepare for and help formulate any possible future.
I found the following links concerning OLPC Sugar particularly enlightening
Interface: http://laptop.org/en/laptop/interface/
Principles: http://laptop.org/en/laptop/interface/principles.shtml
and in particular, from a much more technical perspective (though worth skimming through the whole thing even if a lot goes over your and/or my head),
The OLPC Human Interface Guidelines at
The above "Guidelines" really helps to illustrate the radical different conceptual nature of the OLPC desktop. Food for thought!
William (mcewanw)
>>>>Brief Extract from the OLPC HCI Guidelines:
[The traditional desktop] metaphor has evolved over the past 30 years, giving rise to distinct classes of interface elements that we expect to find in every OS: desktop, icons, files, folders, windows, etc. While this metaphor makes sense at the office—and perhaps even at home—it does not translate well into a collaborative environment
. . .
The traditional "open" and "save" model commonly used for files will fade into abstraction on the laptops
. . .
Based on the Object model associated with files, each kept Object is, technically speaking, a separate instance of the activity which created it. This eliminates the need to "open" a file from within an activity, replacing the act of opening with the act of resuming a previous activity instance.
. . . incremental backups will occur at regular time intervals . . .
the laptops will drastically minimize the hierarchical filesystem as a means for organization, replacing it with a temporally organized list of activities and events, furthering the Journal metaphor. This drastically simplifies the auto-keeping behavior, since it eliminates the need to specify a location in which a newly started activity should be kept; naturally, the newly started activity will appear as the most recent entry in the journal.<<<<
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Posted: Sun 09 Nov 2008, 22:22
Post subject: Sugar and Kernel
Subject description: My experience with XO-1 OLPC
I own a XO-1 from the G1G1 project. I would like to share my opinions based on my personal experience.
As noble or not the instance on purity of code from proprietary sources and pedagogy of a new take on computing, the XO-1 in the real world is getting hung by these ideals stuck in vain pride. The journal is a lie. Under the sugar shell is a file system as on any other computer. When you upload files to the net, you need to know this file system. Keeping a sugar coating on the facts is not promoting self guided learning. It is the folly of a parental stance that the children should be distanced from real code. The turtle can not handle more than two variables and two procedures. The TamTam does not have a full scale. In the end the tutorials in English on Youtube have been placed beyond the capacity of the XO-1 as shipped. There should be language software and not a fake avoidance of language, with English still silently expected.
Developers of Puppy Linux, please to not heed the advice of mcewanw. Sugar makes the OX-1 slow, and for the end user unreliable. Sugar will delete a picture that you just took if you do not give enough time and wait for the picture to be considered permanent. Save and open are often missing features of it's implementation. This is not a benefit to any child. The slowness of python as the main programming language wastes energy, harming the environment. Euphoria should be the programming language. http://www.rapideuphoria.com/ Framebuffer UI should be the graphical user interface. http://home.comcast.net/~fbui/
There is much that is wonderful about the XO-1; the camera is readily available; the screen has a good quality image; the build is durable and capable of withstanding earths environment. Yes, the keyboard is small, but it is not a high price to pay at all. What is unacceptable is a result of pride. In order to use the computer for a person not surrounded by other XO-1 users upgrades to Opera, Firefox, a full Abiword are required. Once installed one recognizes the blight caused by the instance of python activities and sugar journalizing. If Puppy can be placed on the XO-1 it would be a savior. I know how pleased I was when I booted up old laptops with Puppy, the speed and sense of security. My files were now safe from the bloat of Microsoft. XO-1 files are not safe from Sugar's journalizing. Any file can be considered too large or not looked at for long enough and deleted by Sugar. XO-1 does not need a Puppy coated in Sugar, XO-1 needs puppy as he is.
Here is a link I found on rebuilding the OLPC kernel. I hope it helps.
Also some internal config files
I tried to change the olpc.fth as presented here.
Here is what I learned.
Case 1:
" u:\boot\initrd.gz" to ramdisk
boot u:\boot\vmlinuz root=sda1
having initrd.gz and vmlinuz from puppy linux in the usb drive, which seems to be all that is required by the instruction. Will freeze the XO-1.
Case 2:
Replacing the initrd.gz with the olpcrd.img found in XO-1, will start the boot but choke on a panic kernel not found.
Case 3:
If both the ramdisk and vmlinuz are replaced by the XO-1, version but the root is still set sda1, the boot gets hung when it tries to mount sda1.
Case 4:
\ space after slash
" n:\boot\olpcrd.img" to ramdisk
boot n:\boot\vmlinuz root=mtd0
is all that is needed for a boot from olpc.fth. But what you have is a reduced olpc.fth and not puppy on the xo. Also a little less secure without the back upfeatured in the orginal.
I prefer the smaller font, I can see more of the lines.
I wish you the best of luck. I do look forward to the day that there is a version of Puppy that works on the XO-1.
Here is another link that may be of help.
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Posted: Mon 10 Nov 2008, 06:29
Post subject:
I am now experimenting with the 2.6.27.x kernel, which is "OLPC aware".
I do have a OLPC that has been sitting there for sometime, so I will probably get back to trying Puppy (or Woof) on it soon.
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It knows!!!! O.o
run for your lives people! it has viral p2p networking skynet is coming!
it will beat you to death with it's flip up antennae!
Taking Puppy Linux to the limit of perfection. meanwhile try "puppy pfix=duct_tape" kernel parem eater.
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Posted: Mon 17 Nov 2008, 07:23
Post subject: OLPC XO-1 running Puppy Linux
Barry and community,
THANK YOU for Puppy! It is wonderful, rapid and practical!
Up until a few weeks ago, my G1G1 (Give one, Get one) XO laptop had been collecting dust. That's when my beloved, 400mHz IBM Thinkpad finally died. With Puppy, this baby would boot in about 40 seconds and it blew the pants off the newest computers (with 3 gHz processors!) with its quick boot time and noticibly faster application launch times.
Yes, I have personally witnessed Puppy being responsible for converting several Microsoft users to Linux.
In theory, Puppy should be even faster on my OLPC XO-1, since its hardware specifications are faster than my IBM Thinkpad's. However so far, I have failed miserably in all my attempts to get Puppy running on my XO-- Despite using the latest version and attempting many of the alternate boot scenarios that Phoenix described.
The last several weeks have been both frustrating and wonderful. The XO laptop gets the most insane amount of attention everywhere I take it, however its 2 minute boot time and slow Sugar interface is practically rather limiting. Even using Debian, or simply XFCE, it is still sluggish.
TODAY, Amazon has just launched the G1G1 program for OLPC (www.amazon.com/xo). With Puppy, I think we have a real opportunity to turn the XO into a truly functional laptop for G1G1 participants and thus help the OLPC program grow with positive visibility.
From my perspective, it is all about speed and practical functionality:
Rapid boot time, flexible wifi management (like wifi-radar), and a lean suite of programs that can: Surf rapid and leanly (like Opera?), AbiWord (or rapid equiv.), gNumeric (or lean spreadsheet equiv.), a lean PDF viewer and preferably a LEAN presentation program that is Office 97 compatible.
I have absolutely no doubt that you guys can make this happen. I'm still figuring out the basic Linux commands. We XO owners just have to provide encouragement and reassurance that we don't expect perfection. We're not expecting full power management or Python functionality. Simply quick boot and business basics will turn the XO into a mean machine!
Thank you!
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Posted: Mon 08 Dec 2008, 19:38
Post subject: one more plea for olpc puppy
i would like to say "me too"!
I spent several(20-30) Hours trying to get the OLPC usable. I would love to use it as a document-reader with its excellent screen.
But I could not get Puppy running, and I dont know why, icewm and xfce are to slow.
So now my OLPC (G1G1) is gathering dust too, and now i am using a eee-pc clone with via hardware 4-5 hours runtime(good) and 800x480 screen(miserable).
I would like to beta-test if you have images for the OLPC.
I am a long time debian admin(part of my work), so I usually dont ask beginners Questions.
greetings and thanks for your work,
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Hi, any news on puppy and olpc ??
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Posted: Wed 06 May 2009, 17:15
Post subject: overtaken
OLPC has been overtaken by the eeePC and now other ARM-based netbooks.
There are active discussions here about Asus' eeePC and Acer's Aspire One. Puppy is not yet ported to ARM-based machines.
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Posted: Thu 25 Jun 2009, 15:04
Post subject: Re: overtaken
[quote="raffy"]OLPC has been overtaken by the eeePC and now other ARM-based netbooks.[quote]
My XO-1 has not changed into an eeePC that my parents own. The XO-1, as I stated has a better screen and is more durable. This thread is about Puppy on the OLPC and that is what I am looking forward to.
My IBM ThinkPad was long "overtaken" at the time I bought it used. Puppy works great on it. I believe the philosophy of puppy does not use the concept of overtaken.
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Posted: Fri 26 Jun 2009, 03:05
Post subject: open arena
I mean "overtaken" in the open arena (among users who want to use another OS for their machine).
No other than Negroponte admitted to this initial mistake in XO1 development (from
"The XO-1 was really designed as if we were Apple," Nicholas Negroponte says in the interview. "The XO-2 will be designed as if we were Google - we'll want people to copy it. We'll make the constituent parts available. We'll try and get it out there using the exact opposite approach that we did with the XO-1."
That explains why users of G1G1 are effectively prevented from using the machine with other Linux builds.
Hopefully, the XO2 will live up to the new annnouncements.
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Posted: Sun 19 Jul 2009, 14:11
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To bad nobody took the time to get puppy to run on olpc ..probably BarryK lost interest since red hot stole puppy's chanse with the xo . It would have been great to run a fast easy softwhare on my xo 1 (in stead it seats colecting dust ..sugar is unuseable)
Hardwhare olpc is a great mini laptop that offers much more then an eepc and cheaper, It has a better screen , better batery life , an ebook reader posibility , a good inovative wifi but it is ruined by the slow hard to use softwhare . It's a shame, y would of payed for puppy on am xo (i'm shore that not just me) ..microsoft got it and came out with xp for the little laptop (@60$-80$ ) . To bad that Puppy bilders did not take advantage of that (a 10-20$ puppy for xo would have been a real help for olpc comunity and for puppy's development )
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Posted: Sun 19 Jul 2009, 19:36
Post subject: bios
Using the XO1 with another distro involved painful work around the "firmware" BIOS and the use of new kernel (2.6.27 was recommended).
Now that Puppy is
experimenting with a 2.6.30 kernel
, you could try and get Puppy working on the XO1. There are
here about trying to load Puppy on the XO1.
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Posted: Sun 16 Aug 2009, 15:22
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bump. Anyone Linux/Puppy savvy able to figure out the challenging OLPC boot puzzle to get Puppy to work on it? Barry?
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I used the newer puppy 4.3beta1 with the (olpc-aware) 2.6.29 kernel and a simple olpc.fth in a "boot" folder at the root of the stick
\ Boot script
" root=/dev/sda4 rootfstype=fat16 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 fbcon=font:SUN12x22" to boot-file
" disk:\vmlinuz" to boot-device
" disk:\initrd.gz" to ramdisk
For the first time with puppy I saw that actually something is loading the camera and mic lights come on and off (the camera) and then it stops. Unfortunately I did not get off the OFW (the while) screen to get to a console and have a chance to see what's going on.
Then I used the F11-xo1/os5 vmlinuz (with the olpc 2.6.30 kernel) from here
and all of a sudden I got a console and program loading(!) that stopped at
Loading drivers needed to access disk drives done
Searching for Puppy files in computer disk drivers...pp4a-423.sfs not found. Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console...
/bin/sh:can't access tty; job control turned off
The pp4a-423.sfs file is there but somehow not visible. I can only assume that the kernel module needed to recognize the puppy filesystem (sfs) is missing.
The kernel supports cramfs but the squashfs that the sfs files need(?), is missing.
As you can tell from my approach I'm a complete noob and recompiling the kernel is far beyond my limits. I just hope that a more capable person might take it and ride with it or that someone comes up with noob-appropriate instructions.
Just in case I also attache the dmesg output of this failed boot.
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Posted: Mon 24 Aug 2009, 15:34
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I do not own an XO1 or whatever...however, am presently at work developing a custom Pup for the Dell Mini-9.
In order to load a Pup on the Mini-9 I had to devise a roundabout procedure using Rudy Puppy. I posted the procedure
. You need to have a nearby computer with a live-CD or already-existing installation of Rudy Puppy (a 2.14 variant). Perhaps other 2.14 Pup(pie)s will also work.
Maybe my procedure will work on other netbooks as well, provided it has a usb port and can boot from usb.
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Pivotal CRM is a customer relationship management software system offered by Aptean, an enterprise software, service company headquartered in Atlanta, GA. The Pivotal CRM suite includes software tools for sales force automation, marketing automation, lead management, customer service automation, as well as partner management, mobile CRM, analytics, call scripting. Industry specific versions of the Pivotal CRM suite are also offered for several industries, including institutional asset management, mutual fund wholesaling, capital markets, commercial banking, private banking, home building, real estate, healthcare, legal services, among others. Built on the Microsoft.NET Framework, Pivotal CRM embeds several commonly used Microsoft business products within the CRM system, including Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Visual Studio.
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Farhan Thawar, VP Engineering of Pivotal Labs, giving a talk in Toronto Pivotal Labs is an agile software development consulting firm headquartered in San Francisco, California. It is a division of Pivotal Software, and has offices in Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Denver, London, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, and Toronto.
Pixabay.com is an international community for sharing quality public domain images. The website was first developed in Germany by Hans Braxmeier, Simon Steinberger. In August 2014, Pixabay offered around 240.000 free photos, vector graphics, contributed by photographers, illustrators of its community.
Pixel perfect: the story of eBoy
It's mid-October, and we're strolling near the central borough of Mitte, along the yellow painted line that runs where the Berlin Wall once stood. There's a distinct elegance to Sauerteig's movements.
Pixetell was an online communication, collaboration tool for producing, sharing screencasts, short videos that present the contents, activity on their computer screen. Its developer, Ontier Inc., was acquired in 2011, but it was not publicly disclosed what company acquired Ontier, its product Pixetell. The service was discontinued in May 2011.
Pixorial was a cloud-based consumer photo sharing, video sharing, video editing platform. The company was formed in 2007, in Englewood, Colorado as a media conversion service. In 2013, Pixorial was chosen as one of two video storage companies to partner with the launch of Google Drive. Pixorial allows users to edit, share videos on social channels by connecting through their Pixorial account. On June 17, 2014, Pixorial announced that it would be shutting down, that its services would no longer function as of a month later, July 18.
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Planbox is an Agile project management tool that allows members of multiple business functions to plan, collaborate and deliver projects. It brings software development and other functions of an organization into the agile life cycle. Planbox is a hosted web application that is available to the public. Originally created for Bolidea, a Montreal-based technology incubator, it was created to serve as the company's Product portfolio management platform.
Plandora is an opensource tool to manage the software development process. It can be useful for teams that have problems with resource bottle-necks, parallel projects, workers in several projects in the same time, critical dead lines and project documentation demands.
Planisware is the editor of the Enterprise Project Portfolio Management software solution Planisware 6 These reviews position Planisware as an important actor in the market. Configurability, a Web-based interface and functional breadth of the solution are often referred as the strong points of the Planisware solution.
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NEW YORK » Beware of Kansas.
LSU moved into first place in the Bowl Championship Series standings yesterday and Oregon jumped into second place, a day after previous No. 1 Ohio State was upset by Illinois.
But third-place Kansas is the only remaining unbeaten team in the six conferences with an automatic bid to the BCS, and history suggests the Jayhawks will play for a national title if they stay perfect.
An undefeated team from a major conference has never been left out of the BCS national championship game in favor of a one-loss team.
Kansas has a home game against Iowa State on Saturday, then plays Missouri at Kansas City on Nov. 24. Win that one and Kansas goes to the Big 12 championship game, where the most likely opponent will be Oklahoma.
Those games could give the Jayhawks the boost they need in the polls to overtake the Ducks, regardless of how Oregon finishes.
"I think they might even catch LSU," said Jerry Palm, a BCS analyst who runs www.collegebcs.com. "Why not? You're undefeated in a major conference and beat two top-five teams in your final two games."
LSU can rest easier than Oregon. With three games remaining, including the Southeastern Conference championship game on Dec. 1, LSU will likely reach the BCS title game in New Orleans by winning out.
"I don't see LSU doing worse than No. 2 if they win the way they're supposed to," Palm said. "A 10-7 over Mississippi (on Saturday) could change things, because margins matter to voters."
The Ducks also have three games left, but they're past the toughest part of their schedule. The Ducks play at Arizona on Thursday night, have a road game against UCLA on Nov. 24 and finish the season against rival Oregon State at home on Dec. 1.
None of those teams is ranked, so if the Ducks struggle to a victory it could open up an opportunity for not only Kansas, but fourth-place Oklahoma or fifth-place Missouri.
Palm said it will be difficult for the Sooners or Tigers to reach the top two without LSU or Oregon losing.
"I wouldn't expect them to get the same kind of juice an undefeated team would get," he said.
LSU is No. 1 in both the Harris and coaches' polls and top-rated by the computers. The Tigers have a BCS average of .980.
"Our guys understand what being ranked is about certainly at this point in the year," LSU coach Les Miles said. "Now, we are highly ranked again. That ranking happens to be No. 1. They understand what it means."
Oregon is No. 2 in the polls, but third in the computer ratings, giving the Ducks a BCS average of .938.
Kansas is ranked fourth in both polls, but second in the computer ratings and has a BCS average of .909. Oklahoma, third in the polls and seventh in the computers, is at .854. Missouri is sixth in the polls and fifth in computers for a .810 average.
The Ducks have had their national championship hopes dashed by a Big 12 team before. In 2001, Nebraska got to play Miami for the national title in the Rose Bowl even though the Cornhuskers failed to reach the Big 12 title game.
Oregon was relegated to the Fiesta Bowl, where Joey Harrington and the Ducks beat Colorado 38-16. After Miami pounded Nebraska 37-14, Oregon finished No. 2 in the rankings.
Hawaii, the only other unbeaten team in major college football, remained 16th in the BCS standings. Barring a champion from a BCS conference finishing behind them in the BCS standings, the Warriors still need to move up four places by the time the final standings come out on Dec. 2 to earn an automatic BCS berth out of the Western Athletic Conference.
The Warriors (9-0) have games left at Nevada and at home against Boise State and Washington.
Boise State was in 18th place, giving the Broncos a shot at getting to a big-dollar BCS bowl for the second straight season.


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The world of Japanese video game development can often feel mysterious to those of us in the Western Hemisphere, so it's always cool to get these behind-the-scenes peeks at studios like Square Enix.
Granted, this is a fluff video for the upcoming Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (out next Thursday for 360/PS3), so it doesn't answer any of the real questions we have for the folks at Square, like "what's up with FFXV?" and "why haven't you made a new Chrono Trigger yet?" But it's still a fun little mini-documentary on Square's development process.


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Dashboard submission lists
Warning: This discussion has been superseded by OJS Dashboard
To present a quick overview around submissions, letting users checking their state. Its an start point for users to understand what needs to be done.
- By default, make the dashboard context specific. That's the way most users will expect it to be. And add a checkbox at the top of the dashboard content (above the tabs) to enable a site level dashboard. That way we solve two problems at once, making more clear to users what's happening and allowing the filtering of the data.
- Use 3 grids:
- My authored submission, listing all user submitted submissions.
- Unassigned, listing all submissions that have no editor assigned (non editor users should not see this);
- Assigned by editor, listing all submissions that have an editor assigned (non editor users should not see this). Use a category grid to present the editors, then the submission as category data. If the actual user has any assigned submissions, his name must be the first in this grid, except after executing a search;
- Don't present any grid if there is no data inside of it.
- Add possibility to collapse all grids, so users can hide the ones that they are not interested in at the moment.
- Hide paging info if there is only one page;
- Remove the status from grid 2;
What each user will need to see here will depends on which role they have in the system. To be brief on this presentation we will think of editors that are also authors, the most complete use case.
- The search box must work for all three lists, for more details, see prototype.
- The Assigned by editor grid should have an option to sort by items (assigned submissions), that way it would be easier to see editor by work load. Because we don't have column names, we can add a grid action sort by, that will open options to select the column.
It's incomplete because I couldn't produce something better quickly. I spent too much time to make a prototype worth it, so I decided to stop and present what I already have.
Try to search for 'George Orwell' (only works for this name). Then erase that search and try again but only inside the Unassigned grid, author column, again by 'George Orwell'.
The idea is that users can add as many as searches as they want, and delete the ones that they want too. The search box is inspired in google search box, specially the google docs one.
Download the prototype here. Unzip it and double click on index.htm to open it.


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Roy Peterka necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 96 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
TriVascular Ovation Abdominal Stent Graft System
TriVascular is an Aortic Repair company that has created a clean sheet approach to solving the repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms. The Aortic Repair space is a $1B market currently, and is growing at over 10%/year. The company was founded by aerospace engineers, and are still currently in leadership positions with the company. Unlike competitive device companies (Medtronic, Cook, Gore, Endologix, and Bolton), the devices were invented in house. The company is just beginning clinical trials, and we have settled on OVATION as the product name for the Abdominal Stent Graft.
The primary target audience for this device are physicians. Vascular Surgeons, Radiologists, Cardiologists, and CT surgeons implant endovascular stent grafts. The secondary audience for this device is the patient and their families. The product will be in clinical trials, and patients will receive information about this device. The product logo will appear on any product related brochures, patient guides, and website. The product is a revolutionary product which has some extreme benefits over the other products, which are currently commercially available. The low profile design, and unique sealing mechanism are the most important attributes of the graft. The patients are typically older (70+) but family members are younger, and well educated. The logo must be appropriate for both physicians and the families.
The Ovation logo should be sleek, and modern. Since the device is low profile, the logo should take this into consideration. Our company colors are in the Gold and Purple spectrum and we would like to maintain similar colors.
The company logo is attached, as is a design that I came up with as a placeholder for some of our presentations.
Our branding for the company and product will can be described as the following: clean, direct, concise, and evocative.
"Ovation Abdominal Stent Graft System" must be included in the logo. The "Abdominal Stent Graft System" can be smaller, as "Ovation" will be the trademarked name. A graphic can be used in the logo, but is not required.
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In Obamacare, online insurance brokers see potential windfall
WASHINGTON -- Online insurance brokers see a potential windfall when the federal government doles out billions of dollars in subsidies to help Americans buy health insurance next year. And they want state regulators to help them capture it.
The online brokers want millions of new insurance customers to use those subsidies to buy health coverage through their websites, rather than shopping exclusively on government-run exchanges.
For that to happen, state regulators will have to agree to partner with these privately run firms. While a handful of states, including Illinois, Minnesota and Connecticut, are considering the option, none has yet adopted it.
Maryland, one of the states leading the way on establishing the government exchanges, recently requested public comment on whether online brokers should be allowed to accept the subsidized consumers as well, but hasn't made a final decision.
These types of websites offer the "the potential advantage of having more outreach to get people insured," said Josh Sharfstein, board chairman of the Maryland Health Benefits Exchange. "It's a really important role for health reform and goal of the exchange."
Online insurance brokers say they have the expertise to make the Affordable Care Act successful by increasing enrollment in health insurance plans.
"The exchanges are spending a lot of money to enroll people, which is all fine, but we could do the same thing at no charge to the federal government," said Gary Lauer, chief executive of eHealth, the country's largest online insurance broker.
These groups have tapped into support from some lawmakers, including Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. Cleaver says that access to these sites would benefit lower-income Americans who will use tax subsidies to buy health insurance.
"Low-income communities should have the same tools as the wealthy when it comes to finding health insurance, plain and simple," Cleaver said in a statement, adding that he thinks such sites need to be "both transparent and consistent."
But consumer advocates worry that these private sites could undermine the health law by steering consumers toward plans that pay the broker a large commission rather than to those that provide the best coverage.
Online insurance brokers often give a small set of health plans better billing on their websites, while making other options difficult to find, said Lynn Quincy, health policy analyst for Consumers Union. Quincy has warned multiple state regulators against allowing the online brokers into the market.
The Affordable Care Act directs all states to build online insurance marketplaces, known as exchanges, where consumers will be able to compare and buy coverage. Many experts describe these sites as an "Expedia" for health insurance, where shoppers can compare health plans rather than airline tickets.
The Department of Health and Human Services opened the door to the potential competition in March, when it issued regulations that allow -- but don't require -- states to partner with online insurance brokers.
The regulations aim to ensure that all health insurance plans have a level playing field. The websites must "provide consumers with the ability to view all [health plans] offered through the exchange" and not give shoppers "financial incentives, such as rebates or giveaways" to steer them toward a particular plan, according to the rules.
Still, Quincy worries that consumers will not get a clear view of the options available.
"There might be inappropriate steering towards certain plans," she said. "Maybe the full choices are there, but some you have to click through to another tab. Or they might direct you to click and see the best-sellers."
"We worry that websites might comply with the letter of the law, but not the spirit of it," Quincy said.
Lauer acknowledges that his company has financial motives. "We're a profit-making company," he said. "Our revenue source is the commission paid to brokers. It's not an additional charge, it's built into the premium, the same premium on the exchange. The only difference is the carrier will pay us a commission."
But, he said, federal regulations are strong and will ensure that consumers get the same experience on the government-run exchanges and the private websites.


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WHAT: Health First Palm Bay Hospital and the Palm Bay Police Department are teaming up for National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. You can drive-up and drop-off your unused or expired medication for safe disposal. You do not need to even get out of your car. This event is being done in conjunction with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. The goal of this national day is to provide a safe, convenient and responsible means of disposing prescription drugs—while also educating the general public about the potential for abuse of medications.
WHEN: Saturday, October 26 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
WHERE: Health First Palm Bay Hospital (located at 1425 Malabar Rd NE, Palm Bay, FL 32907)
** Will be located at the west Physician Office Building entrance
About Health First
Founded in 1995, Health First is a not-for-profit and is Central Florida's only fully integrated health system and employs more than 7,500 people and has four hospitals (including Holmes Regional Medical Center, Palm Bay Hospital, Cape Canaveral Hospital and Viera Hospital). Health First Health Plans also offers a wide variety of health insurance plan options for Brevard and Indian River Counties. In addition, Health First is home to Brevard County's only Trauma Center. Health First Medical Group is the largest multi-specialty physician group on the Space Coast. Health First offers numerous outpatient and wellness services, including four Pro-Health and Fitness Centers. Visit www.Health-First.org for more information.


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Filtering REXX Query Results With BPXWUNIX
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I've talked about BPXWUNIX before but here's a nice use case: Filtering REXX query results. When I get your performance data I have code that stores it in a database which I query with (essentially) REXX. The predicate syntax is very simplistic so I'd like to do better. I can't replace the syntax (not entirely true but close enough) but I can filter the results better. Consider the following... [More]
Java's Not The Only JVM-Based Language
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JVM-based languages have an interesting property for z/OS programmers: They are zAAP-eligible. As we all know zAAP Eligibility brings a number of benefits - including the licence charge benefits and the ability to run on a full-speed processor even when your general-purpose processors are subcapacity ones. (I'll briefly mention zAAP-on-zIIP here for completeness, and then move on.) You... [More]
Hackday 9 - REXX, Java and XML
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I've written about Hackday in the past. See My HackDay 6 Project - Mashing Up RMF , My HackDay 5 Project - z/OS System Logger Analysis and Hackday4 and Referer URLs (though I don't know why I didn't write about Hackday 7 or Hackday 8). So, this year I participated in Hackday 9 (last Friday). My entry follows on from this recent blog post: BPXWUNIX - z/OS' Best Kept Secret? . Graham Harris, in... [More]
BPXWUNIX - z/OS' Best Kept Secret?
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Maybe you've all heard of BPXWUNIX. Maybe it's just me that hasn't. Hence the question mark in the title. Seriously, I doubt this REXX function is as widely known about as it should be. And this post hopes to illustrate a little of its value. Suppose you're writing a REXX program with a stem variable in it. Suppose you want to sort the strings in the stem variable: You might write your own... [More]


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It wasn't deliberate. It wasn't like they were saying 'nanny-nanny-boo-boo, we are using taxpayer funds to teach religion to public school kids'. It was an accident. The principal of the school held a meeting recently, where he sincerely apologized for not understanding the laws fully. We (the parents of students at this school) believe it was an honest mistake. We hold the charter school company (Shekinah Radiance Academy) responsible. They have been in the charter school business for 15 yrs or so, & we are questioning how they allowed the chapels to occur, for 2 full yrs, against the law. Where were they? Who, in their organization is responsible for overseeing the setting up of new charter schools w/in their district, & ensuring that it is running in full compliance w/all laws. Gross neglect on their part, I feel. The Royse City campus has made some major changes recently, to make sure they are in compliance w/all laws. Thank u for bringing this to all of our attention, as we the parents, trusted that Shekinah knew what they were doing, when they opened this new campus here. They obviously don't have a clue.
You may want to contact the ACLU. Tell them the problem with the school and see if they can help.
Someone has already filed a complaint w/the Americans United for Separation of church & state. TEA is currently investigating the situation, causing a huge fuss on the campus. Shekinah Radiance Academy sent one of their corporate office employees, to take videos of children during the classroom, in order to show that some portion(s) of the complaint are not true. Shekinah did not notify any parents before taking videos of the students, nor did they even ck WHICH kids they were allowed to video (some parents had checked 'no' on their child's paperwork filed for the school, when it asked if Shekinah had permission to photograph their child). Shekinah employees are idiots (besides the teachers on this particular campus). No further actions/complaints are necessary at this time. Thk u.
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"Musical Instruments of the Bible" Lecture Available on Podcast
As a guest lecturer to our campus, Dr. Yelena Kolyada gave an absorbing public presentation about "Musical Instruments of the Bible" on October 5th. Using accompanying illustrations of the "harps, strings, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals" mentioned in the Psalms and other biblical books, she described the role these instruments played in the religious, social, public, and private life of ancient Israel. Further, she traced the historic path of musical instruments in worship, from their use in the synagogue to their demise in early Christian churches.
Dr. Kolyada is the author of A Compendium of Musical Instruments and Instrumental Terminology in the Bible (Equinox Publishing, 2009), a reference book that draws on biblical translations and works by rabbinic teachers, church fathers, medieval exegetes, and contemporary scholars. She graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and completed a doctoral thesis at the Vilnius Conservatory in 1987. In the early 1990s she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she gave lectures on early Russian hymnography.
Her public presentation may be found as a podcast in the "Voices from St. Vladimir's" section of Ancient Faith Radio.


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Capital One Cup final: Manchester City v Sunderland – in pictures
After an early goal, Sunderland's hopes for an upset were high. After a two goals in the early stages of the second half, they were deflated. By full time, and two goals later, they were torn to shred. Guardian sport photographer Tom Jenkins was on hand to capture all the action from Wembley Stadium


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Chiefs LB Belcher Signs Free Agent Tender
KANSAS CITY - Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher has signed his restricted free agent tender, which was at the second-round level and will pay him $1,972,000 for the 2012 season.
The team announced that Belcher had signed his tender Thursday.
Belcher went undrafted in 2009 out of Maine, but he's become a solid contributor in the middle of the Kansas City defense. He's made 34 starts in 48 games over three seasons.
He also has experience on special teams.
Belcher will compete with Brandon Siler for the middle linebacker spot alongside Pro Bowl selection Derrick Johnson this season. Siler missed last season after tearing his Achilles tendon early in training camp.


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Linear Regression models, both simple and multiple, assess the association between independent variable(s) (Xi) — sometimes called exposure or predictor variables — and a continuous dependent variable (Y) — sometimes called the outcome or response variable. In cross-sectional surveys such as NHANES, linear regression analyses can be used to examine associations between covariates and health outcomes.
Task 1: Describe Linear Regression
Before setting up a regression model, it is useful to understand the basic concepts and formulas used in linear regression models.
Task 2: Develop Linear Regression Models for NHANES Data
In this task, you will learn how to set up linear regression models in SUDAAN, SAS Survey procedures, and Stata. SUDAAN, SAS Survey procedures, and Stata are statistical software packages that can be used to analyze survey data such as NHANES.
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/MD, /MT, /LD (Use Run-Time Library)
Lets you indicate if a multithreaded module is a DLL and select retail or debug versions of the run-time library.
Causes your application to use the multithread- and DLL-specific version of the run-time library. Defines _MT and _DLL and causes the compiler to place the library name MSVCRT.lib into the .obj file.
Applications compiled with this option are statically linked to MSVCRT.lib. This library provides a layer of code that allows the linker to resolve external references. The actual working code is contained in MSVCR90.DLL, which must be available at run time to applications linked with MSVCRT.lib.
When /MD is used with the _STATIC_CPPLIB preprocessor definition (/D_STATIC_CPPLIB), your application links with the static multithread Standard C++ Library (libcpmt.lib) instead of the dynamic version (msvcprt.lib), but still links dynamically to the main CRT via msvcrt.lib.
Note that the combination of the _STATIC_CPPLIB preprocessor definition and the /clr or /clr:pure compiler option is not supported. For more information about limitations of the /clr option, see /clr Restrictions.
Defines _DEBUG, _MT, and _DLL and causes your application to use the debug multithread- and DLL-specific version of the run-time library. It also causes the compiler to place the library name MSVCRTD.lib into the .obj file.
Causes your application to use the multithread, static version of the run-time library. Defines _MT and causes the compiler to place the library name LIBCMT.lib into the .obj file so that the linker will use LIBCMT.lib to resolve external symbols.
Defines _DEBUG and _MT. This option also causes the compiler to place the library name LIBCMTD.lib into the .obj file so that the linker will use LIBCMTD.lib to resolve external symbols.
Creates a DLL.
Passes the /DLL option to the linker. The linker looks for, but does not require, a DllMain function. If you do not write a DllMain function, the linker inserts a DllMain function that returns TRUE.
Links the DLL startup code.
Creates an import library (.lib), if an export (.exp) file is not specified on the command line; you link the import library to applications that call your DLL.
Interprets /Fe (Name EXE File) as naming a DLL rather than an .exe file; the default program name becomes basename.dll instead of basename.exe.
Implies /MT unless you explicitly specify /MD.
Creates a debug DLL. Defines _MT and _DEBUG.
For more information about C run-time libraries and which libraries are used when you compile with /clr (Common Language Runtime Compilation), see C Run-Time Libraries.
All modules passed to a given invocation of the linker must have been compiled with the same run-time library compiler option (/MD, /MT, /LD).
For more information on using the debug versions of the run-time libraries, see Run-Time Library Reference.
Knowledge Base article Q140584 also discusses how to choose the appropriate C run-time library.
For further discussion of DLLs, see DLLs.
To set this compiler option in the Visual Studio development environment
Open the project's Property Pages dialog box. For details, see How to: Open Project Property Pages.
Click the C/C++ folder.
Click the Code Generation property page.
Modify the Runtime Library property.
To set this compiler option programmatically
- See RuntimeLibrary.