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Mutual fund families, despite serving as retirement plan fiduciaries and hosting "open architecture" plans, nevertheless favor their own fund offerings, according to new research.
In an academic paper published late last month, Veronika Krepely Pool and Irina Stefanescu, both of Indiana University, and Clemens Sialm of the University of Texas at Austin say that poorly performing funds are more likely to appear on 401(k) menus if they are affiliated with the plan trustee.
Titled It Pays to Set the Menu: Mutual Fund Investment Options in 401(k) Plans, the study eliminates the possibility that trustees maintained a proprietary fund on the plan menu because of information that the fund was poised to outperform, since subsequent performance was disappointing.
In fact, the reseachers found that trustee-affiliated funds underperformed by an annual 3.6% on a risk-adjusted basis, thus having a significant impact on retirees' retirement income — especially considering compounded return effects. Moreover, the study determined that investors do not undo the bias toward the trustee's funds through their investment choices.
The problem stems from an inherent conflict of interest between a fund company's role as trustee of a retirement plan and its self-interest in promoting its own products.
ERISA regulations tolerate this conflict by requiring trustees to be "prudent" in selecting "suitable" investments.
Write the study's authors: "We hypothesize that if the trustees' decisions are driven by their own financial interests, mutual fund trustees may be more inclined to include their own funds in the fund lineup — even when more suitable options are available from other fund families — and subsequently more reluctant to remove them."
Using a large sample of data based on SEC 11-K filings over an 11-year period, the study's authors compare fund option choices among fund family trustees and non-mutual fund trustees. The authors write:
"An interesting feature of our dataset is that a given fund often contemporaneously appears on several 401(k) menus that are administered by different trustees … and allows us to contrast how the very same fund is viewed across two different menus: one on which it is a trustee fund and another on which it is not."
The researchers find that trustees favor their own funds, and are far more forgiving of poor performance.
"For example, mutual funds ranked in the lowest decile based on past performance … are approximately two and a half times more likely to be deleted from those menus on which they are unaffiliated with the trustee than from those where they are affiliated with the trustee."
The three researchers make clear that their paper does not address whether or not plan sponsors should employ mutual fund companies as plan trustees and call for additional research that explores the costs and benefits of having mutual fund and non-mutual fund companies managing these plans.
Under current ERISA law, an employer sponsoring a retirement plan appoints a trustee to hold the plan's assets. That trustee has a fiduciary responsibility to manage the plan for the benefit of plan participants, acting within reasonable standards of prudence and offering diversified investment options.
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Blackmail at Black Rock--The David Letterman Case Updated
Oct. 11, 2009 Updated March 12, 2010
Letterman survives his unmasking as a "creepy" sexual predator
by Don Fulsom
On September 9, 2009, David Letterman ambled out of his multi-million dollar lower Manhattan hideaway and plopped his lanky frame into a waiting limo for the short ride to the Ed Sullivan Theater. To Dave's surprise, his chauffer handed the CBS TV star an envelope.
The driver had lowered his window to accept the envelope at the ungodly hour of 6 a.m. He apparently thought little about the propriety of the transaction—because the envelope came from esteemed CBS veteran "48 Hours Mystery" producer Joe Halderman.
Yet the envelope was not an innocent handoff of company memos from one Black Rock (CBS Headquarters in Manhattan) biggie to another. Authorities say its contents amounted to an extortion attempt by Halderman. And six months later, Halderman himself concurred—pleading guilty to second-degree larceny.

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Debugging applications in which several threads are active can be challenging to the point of great frustration. This article aims to relieve a bit of that frustration by explaining how to utilize Visual Studio to debug multithreaded applications. As part of Visual Studio, Microsoft includes a debugger with multithreaded debug support. We'll start by examining the different multithreaded debug capabilities of Visual Studio, and then demonstrate how to use them.
Threads Window
As part of the debugger, Visual Studio provides a "Threads" window that lists all of the current threads in the system. From this window, you can:
- Freeze (suspend) or thaw (resume) a thread. This is useful when you want to observe the behavior of your application without a certain thread running.
- Switch the current active thread. This allows you to manually perform a context switch and make another thread active in the application.
- Examine thread state. When you double-click an entry in the Threads window, the source window jumps to the source line that the thread is currently executing. This tells you the thread's current program counter. You will be able to examine the state of local variables within the thread.
The Threads window acts as the command center for examining and controlling the different threads in an application.
Determining the sequence of events that lead to a race condition or deadlock situation is critical in determining the root cause of any multithread-related bug. To facilitate the logging of events, Microsoft has implemented tracepoints as part of the debugger for Visual Studio for many years.
Most developers are familiar with the concept of a breakpoint. A tracepoint is similar to a breakpoint except that instead of stopping program execution when the applications program counter reaches that point, the debugger takes some other action. This action can be printing a message or running a Visual Studio macro.
Enabling tracepoints can be done in one of two ways. To create a new tracepoint, set the cursor to the source line of code and select "Insert Tracepoint." If you want to convert an existing breakpoint to a tracepoint, simply select the breakpoint and pick the "When Hit" option from the Breakpoint submenu. At this point, the tracepoint dialog appears.
When a tracepoint is hit, one of two actions is taken based on the information specified by the user. The simplest action is to print a message. You can customize the message based on a set of predefined keywords. These keywords, along with a synopsis of what gets printed, are shown in Table 1. All values are taken at the time the tracepoint is hit.
The address of the instruction
The name of the function that called this function
The state of the callstack
The name of the current function
The ID of the process
The name of the process
The ID of the thread
The name of the thread
Table 1: Tracepoint keywords.
In addition to these predefined values, tracepoints also give you the ability to evaluate expressions ins the message. To do this, simply enclose the variable or expression in curly braces. For example, assume your thread has a local variable
threadLocalVar that you'd like to have displayed when a tracepoint is hit. The expression you'd use might look something like this:
Thread: $TNAME local variables value is {threadLocalVar}.
Breakpoint Filters
Breakpoint filters enable developers to trigger breakpoints only when certain conditions are triggered. Breakpoints can be filtered by machine name, process, and thread. A list of different breakpoint filters is shown in Table 2.
Specifies that the breakpoint should only be triggered on certain machines
Limit breakpoint to process with the matching ID
Limit breakpoint to process with matching name
Limit breakpoint to thread with matching ID
Limit breakpoint to thread with matching name
Table 2: Breakpoint filter options.
Breakpoint filters can be combined to form compound statements. Three logic operators are supported:
! (not),
& (and), and
|| (or).
Naming Threads
When debugging a multithreaded application, it is often useful to assign unique names to the threads that are used in the application. Assigning a name to a thread in a managed application is as simple as setting a property on the thread object. In this environment, it is highly recommended that you set the name field when creating the thread because managed code provides no way to identify a thread by its ID.
In native Windows code, a thread ID can be directly matched to an individual thread. Nonetheless, keeping track of different thread IDs makes the job of debugging more difficult, as it is hard to keep track of individual thread IDs. Unfortunately, the standard thread APIs in Win32 lack the ability to associate a name with a thread. As a result, this association must be made by an external debugging tool.
Microsoft has enabled this capability through predefined exceptions built into their debugging tools. Applications that want to see a thread referred to by name need to implement a small function that raises an exception. The exception is caught by the debugger, which then takes the specified name and assigns it to the associated ID. Once the exception handler completes, the debugger will use the user-supplied name from then on.
The implementation of this function can be found on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) website at msdn.microsoft.com by searching for: "setting a thread name (unmanaged)." The function, named
SetThreadName(), takes two arguments. The first argument is the thread ID. The recommended way of specifying the thread ID is to send the value
-1, indicating that the ID of the calling thread should be used. The second parameter is the name of the thread. The
SetThreadName() function calls
RaiseException(), passing in a special "thread exception" code and a structure that includes the thread ID and name parameters specified by the programmer.
Once the application has the
SetThreadName() function defined, the developer may call the function to name a thread. This is shown in Listing One. The function
Thread1 is given the name
Producer, indicating that it is producing data for a consumer. Note that the function is called at the start of the thread, and that the thread ID is specified as
-1. This indicates to the debugger that it should associate the calling thread with the associated ID.
Listing One: Using SetThreadName to name a thread.
unsigned __stdcall Thread1(void *) { int i, x = 0; // arbitrary local variable declarations SetThreadName(-1, "Producer"); // Thread logic follows }
Naming a thread in this fashion has a few limitations. This technique is a debugger construct; the OS is not in any way aware of the name of the thread. Therefore, the thread name is not available to anyone other than the debugger. You cannot programmatically query a thread for its name using this mechanism. Assigning a name to a thread using this technique requires a debugger that supports exception number 0x406D1388. Both Microsoft's Visual Studio and WinDbg debuggers support this exception. Despite these limitations, it is generally advisable to use this technique where supported as it makes it much easier to use the debugger and track down multithreaded bugs.


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Tennessee Elections – A Round-Up of State House and Senate Candidates Who Don't Believe in a Rape/Incest Exceptions for Abortion
The Tennessee Eagle Forum isn't exactly known as a moderate organization – their current newsletter has a pretty big section trying to drum up fear that the White House is being by Islam, a not-exactly-subtle attempt to gain support by stoking fears of Muslims.
Nevertheless, the organization does put out a questionnaire to political candidates each year, and some of those candidates respond.
Among the questions is this (#26):
An unborn child as a fundamental individual right to life; therefore, abortion should be prohibited except to save the life of the mother.
Now, I mentioned on Sunday that I think rape exceptions are actually hypocritical from a purely pro-life standpoint. However, most people in the United States are probably not as militantly pro-choice as I am, and most seem to support the idea that women who are raped should not then be forced to carry a resulting pregnancy to term. I get that, I really do – if *all* the access we can get is a rape/life exception, then of course I want that exception – I just don't think it should be necessary in the first place, because abortion decisions should be left to individual women – not to politicians to decide whether those women have suffered enough already.
With that in mind, the following state Senate and House candidates for the Tennessee legislature agreed that they would make no exceptions for abortion for rape or incest, but would only allow for abortion when a woman's life is in jeopardy:
State Senate Candidates:
District 2 – Scott Hughes
District 8 – Frank Nicely, Cynthia Jackson, Jeffrey Brantley
District 12 – Ken Yager
District 16 – Ron Stoltzfus, Rod McClellan, Janice Bowling
District 18 – Ferrell Haile, Brock Ewell, Tony Allers
District 20 – Rob Mortensen, David Hall, Steve Dickerson
District 22 – Mark Green
District 24 – John Stevens
District 28 – Joey Hensley, Dean Dickey
District 32 – Mark Norris
State House Candidates:
District 1 – Jon Lundberg
District 2 – Tony Shipley
District 3 – Kevin Parson, Karen Morrell, Timothy Hill
District 5 – Ted Hensley
District 7 – Matthew Hill
District 8 – Art Swann
District 10 – Don Miller, Tilman Goings
District 11 – Jeremy Faison
District 12 – Richard Montgomery
District 13 – Vanderbilt Brabson
District 17 – Roger Griffith, Larry Boggs
District 18 – Steve Hall
District 25 – Cameron Sexton
District 27 – Richard Floyd
District 30 – Vince Dean, Bryan White
District 31 – Jim Cobb
District 34 – Rick Womick
District 36 – Dennis Powers
District 37 – Richard Garvin (Dawn White responded that she would make rape/incest exceptions)
District 38 – Kelly Keisling
District 39 – David Alexander
District 40 – Terri Lynn Weaver
District 41 – Bobby Stewart
District 43 – Derrick Waggoner
District 44 – William Lamberth
District 45 – Courtney Rogers, Debra Maggart
District 46 – Mark Pody
District 47 – Judd Matheny
District 49 – Mike Sparks
District 50 – Dave Hall, DJ Farris
District 52 – Daniel Lewis
District 53 – Ben Claybaker
District 56 – Beth Harwell
District 57 – Susan Lynn, Linda Elam
District 59 – Robert Duvall, Jim Gotto
District 61 – Charles Sargent, Rob Hathaway
District 64 – Sheila Butt
District 65 – Jeremy Durham
District 66 – Josh Evans (Lee Harrell "would consider rape an exception")
District 69 – Joh-Roh Sloan, Kenneth Buser
District 70 – Barry Doss, Calvin Moore
District 71 – Shirley Curry (Vance Dennis disagreed with this item)
District 74 – Nick Steward, Lauri Day
District 78 – John Paul Wood, Jr., Lynn Ray, Mary Littleton, Gary Allen Binkley, Rick Wilson
District 79 – Curtis Halform
District 81 – Debra Moody, Roy Bricco
District 83 – Mark White
District 88 – Harry Barber
District 89 – Joey McCulley, Roger Kane, Tim Hutchinson
District 92 – Travis Monroe
District 96 – Steve McManus, Jim Harrell
Don't think that those who didn't say yes to this question are necessarily more moderate or reasonable on abortion. They simply didn't return the questionnaire, with the exception of District 22 Democratic Senate candidate Tim Barnes, who returned the survey and disagreed with this item. District 71 Republican Candidate Vance Dennis also disagreed with this item.
Keep in mind that the state legislature is where many important day to day restrictions get made.
If you don't know your district numbers, use the Find My Legislator tool on the Tennessee General Assembly website. It's meant to find your current state Senator and Representative, but that will also tell you what district you're in.
This is not a moderate position. These are not moderate candidates. These are candidates who explicitly agree that abortion access should be so severely restricted, even women who are raped should not be able to choose abortion. Logically consistent? Perhaps. Repugnant if you have even an inkling that women are independent beings who can make their own decisions? And should not have their abortion options so severely limited that they have to be dying to get one? You betcha.


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Marijuana may be coming out of the black market in Colorado and Washington state, but the drug, at least for now, will retain a decidedly underground feel: Users may not know what's in it.
Less than a year away from allowing pot sales, regulators are grappling with how to ensure that the nation's first legal marijuana industry will grow weed that delivers only the effects that pot smokers want.
Whether it is establishing rules to govern the growing of marijuana, including the use of pesticides and fungicides, or accurate product labeling, officials know they will be doing it alone.
Federal agencies that regulate food and drugs are staying out because pot remains illegal under federal law. That means the states are starting from scratch to protect consumers from pot that could be tainted by mold, mildew or unwanted chemicals.
Whatever regulatory scheme officials in the states choose, there is little reliable product history to even know where to begin identifying marijuana safety risks, said David Acheson, a food safety consultant.
When it was illegal, few users could come into the health department to complain that a stash of weed they bought was bad, said Acheson, a former assistant commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration.
"As it becomes legal, we could see many problems emerge. We just don't know," he said.
Medical marijuana product safety has long been a concern in Colorado. Critics say the regulations were too loosely lax, and that any new regulations for pot should be stringent, and rigorously enforced.
Colorado has one operational product testing facility for marijuana potency and content. Product testing is voluntary and paid for by interested pot consumers and sellers, not state regulators.
"I've seen stuff in grow houses - oh my God, you don't even want to know about," said Genifer Murray, the owner of CannLabs, a Denver lab that tests marijuana. She said she has seen cans of bug spray next to marijuana, plants covered with powdery mildew and lax sanitation.
"There's no other plant like this that you smoke and eat and use as medicine," Murray said. "Everybody's entitled to a safe and effective product, and right now it's completely hit and miss. What exactly are you buying?"
Colorado requires labels on edible pot, including an ingredient list and recommended expiration date. Potency and dosing, though, are currently left to the buyer to figure out. Labels read, "Levels of active components of medical marijuana reported on product labels are not subject to independent verification and may differ from actual levels."
The state has detailed production safety guidelines and a three-page list of pesticides and other chemicals that can't be used on marijuana, including arsenic and mercury. But in Colorado's three-year history regulating medical-marijuana production, the state has levied no enforcement actions for a safety or sanitary violation.
Colorado and Washington officials are considering going further when it comes to marijuana for sale to all adults, though neither has decided what to do. The states will first have to decide whether to treat marijuana like something that is smoked or something that is eaten.
Colorado currently copies tobacco pesticide regulations to apply to medical marijuana. But regulators rejected a proposal to certify "organic" pot grown without any pesticides, leaving consumers with no way to verify organic processing claims.
Other blank spots facing marijuana product safety:
- Sanitation. Marijuana is a crop difficult to insure, giving unscrupulous growers an incentive to hide moldy or otherwise foul pot rather than throw it away.
- Edible marijuana. There are no food-safety inspections on cannabis-infused food products. Some in the marijuana industry say the public is at risk from ingredients not related to pot, and that salmonella or E. coli outbreaks should be of concern.
- Workplace safety. Marijuana producers say the industry is overdue for worker-safety protections. Of special concern is the production of concentrated marijuana, or hashish, which is frequently produced using butane or other explosive solvents.
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, the nation's oldest marijuana-legalization advocacy group, says marijuana could be treated like alcohol or like an herbal supplement.
Federal law doesn't require rigorous testing of supplements to prove they are safe, or even that they work. NORML says pot should be treated like echinacea or vitamin C pills, with government product intervention only if consumers get sick or a safety issue comes to light.
"Look at lettuce. Look at cantaloupe. They're regulated a whole lot more than cannabis, but the reality is even with those regulations, you can still have outbreaks. That doesn't mean lettuce and cantaloupe themselves are dangerous," said Paul Armentano, a California-based deputy national director for NORML.
The group doesn't mind that federal agencies aren't helping. Noting that liquor regulations vary from state to state and even town to town, Armentano said a patchwork of marijuana safety regulations is likely.
Dr. Alan Shackelford, a Denver physician who helped write Colorado's medical marijuana safety regulations, said that the absence of federal oversight gives Colorado and Washington big jobs in pioneering consumer safety standards for marijuana.
"Anything that is going to be offered for sale to the public needs to have safety and health standards," Shackelford said. "Time will tell what those should be for marijuana."
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KDE has now also standardised on PackageKit for its backend, which means both desktops are using the same update stack. Furthermore, Powerdevil is now included for easier and better power management on your KDE 4 desktop. Just click the battery icon in the system tray.
The award-winning release also contains 230 new features, improvements to YaST, OpenOffice.org 3.0, and more freedom with a brand new licence, Liberation fonts, and openJDK. This is also the first release built entirely in the openSUSE Build Service, and the last release to contain the full KDE 3 desktop available on the DVD medium for installation.
Finally remember that for testing purposes, the recently released KDE 4.2 Beta 2 is available in the openSUSE Build Service, via 1-click-install. Alternatively, you can try out the release with KDE Four Live.
KDM Theme
Can sombody tell me why openSuse has to choose the worst made (among all distros) KDM theme as default?
By Bobby at Sat, 2008/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: KDM Theme
Strange comment, I actually _really_ like the look of the login screen, and from what I've seen almost everyone does. The fonts are quite perfectly readable. The green stripes look pretty slick, and the design fits in well with the boot, installer screen, etc.
There have virtually been no complaints about this -- I think you just have slightly more idiosyncratic tastes. You can very easily change the KDM theme from KDE's system settings, anyway.
By Francis Giannaros at Sat, 2008/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: KDM Theme
Yes it's possible that I have a weird taste, that I am not cool but I love the GDM theme in contrast to the KDM Theme. I even like the original KDE theme more than the opensUSE one even though it doesn't match the green boot screen stripes. Couldn't they use a background similar to the default wallpaper? Yes I like the wallpaper but I hate green stripes! Apart from that we had those same stripes in 10.3 I think it was. They just did some recycling, no new ideas. Maybe that's why I don't like it.
By Bobby at Sat, 2008/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: KDM Theme
"You can very easily change the KDM theme from KDE's system settings"
This is not true unless you are using another openSuse 11.1 with a different KDE 4 than the one that I have installed.
Re: KDM Theme
I like it too. Even if green is not my favourite colour (I prefer Fedora's blue) it is well integrated and very nice: a great improvement in usability respect the silly gdm I was "forced" to use in Fedora 8. openSUSE was always (and is) the best looking Linux available.
By RGB at Sat, 2008/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: KDM Theme
You don't have to like Gnome (I don't either) but if there is one thing that the GTK guys can do then it's designing Themes. Actually it's the only thing that I like about Gnome.
Re: KDM Theme
What's your problem? If you do not like the default theme, just change it.
By matter of taste at Mon, 2008/12/22 - 6:00am
Re: KDM Theme
Then tell me how to change it using KDM 4. Like I said, it doesn't work.
Re: KDM Theme
System Settings → Login Manager → Theme (might be slightly different, I'm on a norwegian locale).
By sandsmark at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: KDM Theme
Well you can all preach like Paul an Peter, the truth is that it isn't that easy to install KDM themes, even on KDE 3.5 you have to install a theme manager before this is possible. On KDE 4 it just doesn't work! Well try to install a GDM theme - it's fool proof. I love KDE but there is a lot of room for improvement here.
Re: KDM Theme
Yes I know. They also use their own daft window decorations for no apparent reason whatsoever.
By segedunum at Tue, 2008/12/23 - 6:00am
Re: KDM Theme
In all honesty, the window deco is terrible. Look how elegant and beautiful the original Oxygen deco is and look at what openSuse offers. It's the very first thing that I change after I log in for the first time.
By Bobby at Tue, 2008/12/23 - 6:00am
Re: KDM Theme
Ehhh, not for KDE4 they do. They use the Ozone decoration which in fact is the default KDE4 decoration.
By Morty at Thu, 2008/12/25 - 6:00am
Re: KDM Theme
But they coloured it with blue using white buttons, which doesn't look good at all. It just doesn't fit, green everything but blue Window deco - terrible. It (the openSuse modification) can't be compared to the original Oxygen decoration.
By Bobby at Fri, 2008/12/26 - 6:00am
Re: KDM Theme
It is not a OpenSuse modification, but they should probably do something with the blue. Open the window decoration control panel and check the "Blend title bar colors with window contents" option, and you are good to go.
But it is not Oxygen, it's Ozone the default window decoration for KDE4. Oxygen newer was default, both on account on the problems to distinguish between active and inactive windows on non composite systems and the inability to follow the KDE window decoration standard with ability for the window decoration to follow the color scheme.
By Morty at Fri, 2008/12/26 - 6:00am
Re: KDM Theme
I did that, actually that's one of the first things that I change immediately after the installation.
What's the big difference between Ozone and Oxygen? They both look the same to me.
By Bobby at Sat, 2008/12/27 - 6:00am
Re: KDM Theme
Nothing, expect for Ozones ability to follow the KDE color schemes window decoration color. Adding greater distinction of windows and making it better usability for people with non composite systems, low end displays and vision problems.
By Morty at Sat, 2008/12/27 - 6:00am
Advertisement on the dot?
This article sounds very much like marketing speach. Something I would expect in an advertisement, but not on the dot.
It's OK to announce new distribution releases here, but please avoid marketing speech like "The award-winning release...". Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex has been released several weeks ago and also kontains KDE 4.1.x. And I am sure that it also has won some awards.
Primarily the dot should be around KDE, not about distros.
Just my 2c
By Carsten Schlipf at Sat, 2008/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
Well, given that PackageKit is gaining more traction, custom stuff like KWin and PowerDevil backports are new stuff that isn't available in most other places, and also regarding the fact that Novell/openSUSE is the most active corporate contributor to KDE (with openSUSE being the most polished KDE distro at the moment), I think there's enough meat and justification to publish such an article.
I for one, as Kubuntu user even, love to read about what openSUSE is doing with KDE, and I'm totally in favor of this article being published here on the Dot. This is nice stuff that I want to know of.
By Jakob Petsovits at Sat, 2008/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
Where do you get the opinion from that suse is the most active corporate contributor? And the 'most polished' opinion is surely your own and not shared all over.
Anyway, the point is not that a user might want to know about this, but the point is that the dot is not an advertisement platform for certain distro's that happen to have some friends in the dot moderation team.
By rogue at Sat, 2008/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
If you look at the number of KDE developers employed by Suse, you'll see why they can be considered the most active corporate contributor. At least compared with other distro's. Nokia and KDAB also employ many KDE developers, and there are other parties out there, but Suse ranks among the largest.
And about the polish, they use these resources for polish of KDE. And for back porting as well, which has its downsides, but the end result is that I certainly believe suse 11.1 to be the best KDE distro out there.
And I have no problem with positive stories about excellent KDE focused distributions on the dot. It's KDE advertisement, and that's what we do here.
By Jos Poortvliet at Sat, 2008/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
Well, packagekit came from Fedora/Red Hat and Fedora 10 was (I think, may be wrong) the first distro to use kpackagekit.
Personally I don't think the dot is the place for distro release announcements - that's distrowatch and the distro websites themselves - but hey, whatever. I don't really care too much one way or another.
By Simon at Sat, 2008/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
I think it is important, at least when it comes to major distributions.
By Andre at Sun, 2008/12/21 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
Then the dot is serving (some of - you at least) its readers well by publishing this stuff :-) I guess some people didn't care for the story on Qt4.5 beta either (random non core kde example). Although that one was interesting to me.
By Simon at Sun, 2008/12/21 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
the dot is the perfect place for distro's to show off their KDE releases. And that is what this article is doing, show casing KDE
By R. J. at Mon, 2008/12/22 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
As others have said, packagekit comes from the redhat guys, and powerdevil (both the app and the backporting) was done by Dario Freddi, which also works as a packager for the KDEmod project on Arch Linux (we also had the kwin backports for quite a while before opensuse shipped with them, for example the Cube backport was done by Mandriva, iirc.).
By sandsmark at Sun, 2008/12/28 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
"Kubuntu 8.10 Brings KDE 4 to the Masses" is not marketing speech?
By Anonymous at Sat, 2008/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
It was simply true: Kubuntu 8.10 is the first distribution using KDE 4 as default.
And this article had a length of 6 lines. And compare the text style. Truely different: http://dot.kde.org/1225379191/
By Carsten Schlipf at Sat, 2008/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
Actually there was a release of openSUSE 11.0 with KDE4 as default[0] back in June, as well as other distributions. So Kubuntu 8.10 was not the first.
As for "Award winning" that is "Simply true". It did indeed win an award, as cited in the article.
[0] http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/iso/cd/openSUSE-11.0-KDE4...
By Benjamin Weber at Sat, 2008/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
Mandriva 2009.0 bring KDE to masses before Kubuntu. They have no advert on the dot and they contribute more to KDE than Kubuntu.
By kinesthetic at Sun, 2008/12/21 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
Assuming there was no rejected dot submission from Mandriva community about its release I see no reason for you to complain.
By Anonymous at Sun, 2008/12/21 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
The dot publishes, in some form, almost all news submissions that relate reasonably well to KDE. The difference here is that one a few distros submit news about their KDE work.
By Troy Unrau at Wed, 2008/12/24 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
If by "the masses" they meant 3 or 4 people, then yes, that's true.
By donald at Sun, 2008/12/21 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
I also have big problems with this post; are there suse backers that have a hand in chosing which articles go on the dot??
This article surely isn't helping KDE in any way. A distro saying how great they are for shipping loads of unreleased code from hard working KDE people is not just misplaced on the dot. It is bad enough that suse claims to ship a better-than-kde release with alpha-quality code, to have this on the official KDE publishing channel is really poor practice.
Will the abuse never stop :(
By rogue at Sat, 2008/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
Get over yourself.
You haven't complained when the dot ran release notices for fedora or ubuntu.
the dot is about what ever they want it to be about.
The abuse will stop when you stop abusing people in the name of the silly little agenda you are trying to carrying out.
By R.J. at Sat, 2008/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
I really can't agree at all. You can't claim it's a SuSE conspiracy because articles for other distros are pretty much always published for new versions as well (even rather small distros), unless thats also part of the conspiracy to throw people off the scent... (the devious jerks! ;)
At least from my reading of it, the only thing that could *qualify* as marketing speak is the single adjective (adjective phrase?)'award-winning' which, given that the vast majority of the article is practically just listing the updates, I don't think it's reasonable to get worked up over.
>Will the abuse never stop :(
By Kit at Sun, 2008/12/21 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
You should do your research.
By Francis Giannaros at Sun, 2008/12/21 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
Gotta love that quote: "Releasing a high quality distribution with KDE 4 is not trivial". I dare say it has not been done, because it is not yet doable.
The thing that struck me about the article is that phrase "brings back KDE-PIM".
When was it gone? Did the last openSUSE really have no Kmail in it? I can barely imagine that. That would be definitely too much blood on that edge for me.
And one other thing that strikes me is the implication that distributors should be or even have to be sponsors of the development. Creation and distribution can be done by the same people, but it doesn't have to be that way.
Other than that, I guess since the articles for the releases are written by the respective community members, that they must be expected and allowed to have a spin to them.
By Debian User at Wed, 2008/12/24 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
openSUSE really puts out amazing KDE packages. It may sound like marketing speak (like most distro press releases) but I think the praise is well justified in this case.
By T. J. Brumfield at Sat, 2008/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
I agree 150% ;-)
By Jos Poortvliet at Sat, 2008/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
I'm still using openSUSE 10.3 and both 11.0 and 11.1 are now out. Regardless, KDE support is fantastic! Both, the stable and unstable branches. I just moved from KDE 4.1.3 to KDE 4.2 Beta 2 and am really happy with it.
By Jad at Mon, 2008/12/22 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
I'm sorry you see it that way, but I disagree with your approach on several counts. For one, Ars Technica is IMHO the most respected Linux reviewing website out there; they do not give awards as a whim, and the KDE 4 delivery of openSUSE got a special mention. That this release won an award was only mentioned to highlight the fact that this is a _particularly good openSUSE release_, and in that sense it can be distinguished from say some previous openSUSE releases.
I made no comparison to Kubuntu, did not say that it was an "award-winning distribution, unlike others" which you seem to apparently think. I'm not making this into some sort of competition; I would much rather be in an environment where we work together.
Since you think the whole article sounds like marketing speech, I'd be interested in hearing what else is contentious use of language for the dot. I've been reading the dot for several years, am certainly first-and-foremost a KDE user, and yet I'm still amazed by the fact that one or two people always complain when a distribution release is mentioned. The vast majority of Dot readers, and the Dot editors, approve of these stories and see them as quite useful. I wish some people would just get over it.
By Francis Giannaros at Sun, 2008/12/21 - 6:00am
Re: Advertisement on the dot?
Francis, just ignore it. It was a great article. It's just a shame that some people still have hissy fits when their distro isn't mentioned.
Thank you for the article Francis.
By R. J. at Sun, 2008/12/21 - 6:00am
I installed 11.1 yesterday and am really impressed. KDE 4.1 IS ready for production use - only on Kubuntu one doesn't get that impression...
I've been using Debian or Debian-based distros (Kubuntu, Sidux) for years now and I'm still a bit sceptical about RPM (I can painfully remember dependency nightmares on Suse 6.0 that made me switch to Debian in the first place). But so far, package management works like a charm - adding the Packman repository went smooth, at least.
And the desktop experience is way better than on Kubuntu, everything seems to fit together (but I guess you can't blame the Kubuntu folks, they sure don't have the manpower Suse has).
Congratulations for creating the best KDE (4) distro out there!
By Sepp at Sun, 2008/12/21 - 6:00am
Re: Impressive
Dependency hell still exists Sepp but one gets used to it - just joking ;)
The only problem that I am having with 11.1 is that I can't install my Digittrade DVB-T Stick. It was no problem on 11 but I keep getting an error 2 (Fehler 2) message while trying to install it on openSuse 11.1.
Is there any coder here who could give me one or two tips on what to change in the install script so that it can be installed on 11.1? It's an openSuse 11 driver so I guess it's because of the new kernel.
KUbuntu isn't as refined as openSuse but it's really not bad, it's coming along slowly but surely.
Re: Impressive
perhaps you should go see a dr about your little red ball not working ;)
I agree about KDE 4.2 I have been using for a few months now. It's just coming together so perfectly now, and it is hard to see what will happen with 4.3
By R. J. at Sun, 2008/12/21 - 6:00am
Re: Impressive
Well, I did that but the doctor said that I should be a bit patient and promised to fix it with the next visit (update), which will make me appreciate it even more ;)
I love KDE 4. Yes there are still a few things to fix but it's coming on very nicely. I can't overemphasize how impressed I am by the industriousness, energy, determination and ambitiousness of Aaron and his crew. Big up!
Kubuntu and OpenSuSE.
You are absolutely right about Kubuntu. It makes you hate KDE. I installed KDE 4.2 beta 2, only to burn it 30 minutes later, wishing to return to GNOME, after a conflicting-PowerDevil, no-Akonadi, and unusable session.
Also, my session revealed that something is dead wrong with my translation (Spanish). It is so wrong, that I'm willing to fix that by myself. Just tell me how can I cooperate with my translation team and I'll improve that translation.
By Ernesto Manríquez at Mon, 2008/12/22 - 6:00am
Re: Kubuntu and OpenSuSE.
working great here... I see no diff between my suse and my kubuntu running kde 4.2 beta2...
I just prefer debian like distros...
By Cédric Bellegarde at Mon, 2008/12/22 - 6:00am
Re: Kubuntu and OpenSuSE.
I also installed KUbuntu on another partition (just to test it) and it's running fine - not so refined like openSuse but it's good to go. There are even a few things that they enhanced that openSuse didn't: for example, I can see my hard drive partitions in Dolphin, which I have to add manually in openSuse. I also like the quick start folder right beside the start menu, it's very convinient.


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Fears of a "hard landing" in China, much discussed in the recent past, have once again flared, with famed NYU economist Nouriel Roubini arguing the BRICS will feel the brunt.
The often-irate prognosticator took to The Guardian's website on Tuesday to describe the threat and explain six reasons why many emerging-market economies, once among the fastest growing in the world, have suddenly turned sour.
"First, most emerging-market economies were overheating in 2010 [and 2011], with growth above potential and inflation rising and exceeding targets," he began. "Many of them thus tightened monetary policy in 2011, with consequences for growth in 2012 that have carried over into this year."
Second, he notes, the idea that emerging-market economies could "fully decouple from economic weakness in advanced economies was far-fetched."
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Roubini concluded by explaining that while many emerging-market economies tend to run current-account surpluses, a growing number of them — including Turkey, South Africa, Brazil and India — are running deficits.
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The Internet can be a wonderful resource for kids. They can use it to research school reports, communicate with teachers and other kids, and play interactive games. Kids who are old enough to swipe a screen can have access to the world.
But that access can also pose hazards. For example, an 8-year-old might do an online search for "Lego." But with just one missed keystroke, the word "Legs" is entered instead, and the child may be directed to a slew of websites with a focus on legs — some of which may contain pornographic material.
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DelPen wrote:If this team manages not to stick thee heads up their own asses no one beats them.
skullman80 wrote:I leave for 30 seconds and miss a goal.,
DropEmJayBird wrote:Asham refuses to get it deep, like seriously
DelPen wrote:skullman80 wrote:I leave for 30 seconds and miss a goal.,
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The band's first live album was comprised of music from three performances from the War Tour. The live version of Electric Co., which was recorded at the Rockpalast concert in Lorelei, Germany on August 20, 1983, had a snippet of Stephen Sondheim's Send In The Clowns and I Want To Live In America from West Side Story. These were removed from later pressings for legal reasons. The Island Masters series of re-issues contained this 'edited' version of Electric Co. Another interesting release was the Korean issue of Under A Blood Red Sky which came in a blue cover. One Mexican version of the 12" vinyl release of the album had the front and back cover photos reversed. Another Mexican release on the Bertelsmann label was part of the Rockollector series. In Australia a limited edition, red 12" vinyl version was pressed, along with 5 copies in a light blue vinyl. These coloured vinyls were released to commemorate U2's Live Under Australian Skies 1984 tour.
Under A Blood Red Sky was voted as No. 1 Best Album and Best LP Sleeve in the Hot Press reader's poll. The album peaked at No.2 on the UK album charts and remained on the charts for a total of 192 weeks. In the US, it reached as high as No.23 on the album charts. Under A Blood Red Sky was certified multi-platinum by the RIAA with 3 million units sold.
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'I think I completely lost myself at various points and became an utter madman. That US festival thing. I climbed to the very top of the stage, it was like hundreds of feet up, and walked across the top of it on the canvas, and the canvas ripped. God! I can't watch that! I don't know who that person is. I don't know who it is climbing up there. I'm afraid of heights anyway.'
Bono, January 1985
11 July, 2011
First time I saw U2TUnder the Blood Red Sky Tour in Australia was my first concert I ever went to as a 16 year old. I loved it so much I went and bought the album the next week. I still have that album, Under the blood red sky Limited RED vinyl edition. I hope one day I can get it signed. Every time I have seen them since, it gets better and better, For the 360 our i was in the RED zone and it will be one of the best highlights of my life.
25 March, 2011
hearing for the first timeMy first ever cassette tape and the beginning of my love for real music. My eyes opened wide, a grin spread on my face and a thrill of some kind of new awareness ran through me. My appreciation for substantial music lives on with U2 to this day. I'm finally going to see them in Moncton this July. Thrilled, to say the least.


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text: Monday, April 09, 2012 Effects of EHRs Differ Between Provider Populations Physicians order fewer lab tests when they have access to a patient's electronic health records (EHR), but the efficiency may be confined to state-of-the-art records exchanges for now, says a Reuters Health article based on a study published March 26 in Archives of Internal Medicine. The study is on the experience of 2 hospitals-Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General-that form Partners HealthCare, a nonprofit health care system in Boston. In the year 2000, the 2 hospitals established a health information exchange to access each others' EHRs. The researchers examined EHRs of 117,606 people who were outpatients at 1 of the hospitals between January 1, 1999, and December 31, 2004. Of those, 346 had recent tests done at the other hospital-44 patients had them done before the information exchange was rolled out. As for those who did not have recent test results available, 21,968 were at 1 of the hospitals before the exchange. Study author Alexander Turchin, MD, MS, told Reuters Health that the number of lab tests ordered for each patient before the exchange in 1999 was about 7. That number fell to about 4 in 2004. For patients without prior tests, the amount slightly increased to roughly 6 tests per patient from about 5. Compared to the slight increase for patients without tests, the number of tests ordered for those with previous results decreased 49% after the exchange was established. After adjusting for age, sex, the year, and number of the tests, the number of tests ordered decreased about 53%. The findings, however, contradict those of an article published last month in Health Affairs that suggest that office-based physicians with electronic access to imaging and lab results order more tests. "We studied a different population," said Danny McCormick, the author of the Health Affairs study. The question is the same, the population is very different." McCormick said that the Partners HealthCare study is "consistent with other past research and looks at the Partners' exchange system-which he called cutting-edge-whereas his study looked at what is currently happening in physicians' offices across the US." Although physical therapists (PTs) are not yet required or incentivized to adopt EHR systems for such initiatives as Medicare's Meaningful Use Program, physicians and facilities that are included in the program will expect PTs with whom they share patients to use compatible EHR systems. As such, APTA has developed a number of resources for members to assist in assessing and implementing electronic health records.


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Imagine if your clients woke up one morning and found that half the value of the 401(k) plans or IRAs you are managing for them was gone.
That would be pretty shocking — since the devastating financial crisis from which Americans are still recovering wiped out "just" a third of the average value of retirement acounts from market top to March 2009 low point.
But something like that happened just last week in Poland, a nation of more than 38 million, when Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced a pension reform that would transfer the assets held in private pension accounts to the state.
A Reuters news report says the move would improve the nation's balance sheet, reducing public debt by 8%, thus enabling Poland to access international credit markets on more favorable terms.
Poland has a two-tier pension system. The first tier consists of mandatory pay-as-you-go defined contribution accounts to the nation's Social Security system. The second tier consists of mandatory individual accounts invested through privately managed funds run by companies such as Allianz, ING and AXA.
It is from that second category that the government transfer is occuring—specifically from the private accounts' bond allocation. Equities, currently about half the value of the private accounts, would remain as assets of the private funds.
Reached for comment, Professor Agnieszka Chlon-Dominczak (left), of the Warsaw School of Economics' Institute of Statistics and Demography, said the move will weaken trust in Poland's Social Security system.
"I expect that people will seek ways to reduce their contributions," Chlon-Dominczak told ThinkAdvisor. "We have a system that in general makes it very difficult not to contribute. If someone works officially, he is automatically covered by social insurance."
But, she warned, more affluent Poles will likely look to stash more of their wealth in individual retirement accounts outside the mandatory system, "which in the future may lead to a further rise of inequalities," the Polish economist says.
The move, Chlon-Dominczak says, has regional repercussions and should not spark anxiety among U.S.-based investors.
"I think that Polish actions, similarly to the ones we have seen in Hungary, set a bad precedent in the region, she says. "In the case of America, I would not worry—their ownership rights on private savings are not questionable."
Pawe Strzelecki (left), another professor at the Warsaw School of Economics, offered a practical and contrarian spin on the Polish government pension proposal.
"If the system is reformed it will result in an increased supply of shares of good Polish firms…on the Warsaw stock exchange," he told ThinkAdvisor. "So I see here the opportunity to buy good shares [at] a discount.
"In the short term this reform should also increase the financial standing of the Polish government," he added.
Markets appear to have come around to Professor Strzelecki's thinking. The WIG20—the Warsaw Stock Exchange's 20 largest stocks by market capitalization—which initially reacted on Thursday with its biggest decline in two years, fully recovered the loss by the end of Monday's trading.
And while the 10-year Polish government bond yields initially soared 20 basis points after the announcement to 4.94%, by Monday's close the yield had fallen to 4.67%, or 7 basis points lower than Thursday's starting point.
The Polish asset transfer, what some commentators and bloggers are calling a government confiscation of private wealth without compensation, seems to have attracted less international press attention than a move by the smaller European island nation of Cyprus in March to levy bank deposits. The government eventually backed off of initial plans to tax even accounts holding less than 100,000 euros, placing instead a heavier burden on accounts holding more than that amount.
Commentators at the time worried aloud that the move would set a precedent for other indebted nations to seize private assets. Separately, conservative and liberal bloggers have traded radical ideas, condemning U.S. 401(k) accounts, from opposite perspectives.
We invite readers' thoughts on the safety of U.S. retirement savings.
Check out Kill Your 401(k), Conservative Author Says on ThinkAdvisor.