text: Friday, September 07, 2012 APTA Develops Patient FAQs to Ease Concerns Over CMS Therapy Cap Letter APTA has learned that a letter issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) about the therapy cap has caused some beneficiaries to panic and cancel appointments. CMS recently began issuing letters to Medicare beneficiaries who have received $1,700 or more in outpatient therapy services in calendar 2012. The letter informs beneficiaries that if services are furnished above the therapy cap of $1,880 in 2012, and the requirements for an exception are not met, then the beneficiary would be financially responsibility for these services. To help ease beneficiaries' concerns, APTA has developed a frequently-asked-questions (FAQs) document that physical therapists can download and distribute to patients. Additionally, the document can be accessed by patients directly from APTA's Move Forward consumer website. Comments I appreciate the effort to ease beneficiaries' concerns about the CMS letter, thank you for taking the time to do this! I do wish that you would consider adding more about medical necessity, using CMS' rationale so that the patients don't think we can just add the KX and get paid. I believe patients need to understand that there is a limit to everything and that their active participation (i.e. progression) in their therapy is paramount. Additionally, they need to understand what is involved with justifying the exception...co-morbidities, social and environmental challenges exceeding the norm, functional not recreational limitation, etc.. All patients believe their care IS medically necessary! I believe that in many cases it is, indeed, medically indicated but just not medically necessary per the payers requirements. Mary Posted by Mary Daulong on 9/7/2012 6:02 PM I agree with Mary D's comment. I was worried when I read the APTA FAQ since it sorely understated the issue of medical necessity. I understand that explaining these issues to patients is part of my responsibility as a therapist but I think information put out by our organization should be more thorough. As it reads, the patient could come away thinking that their PT can easily "obtain" an exception to the cap just by using a "special code." Please amend the FAQ to include more information defining "medical necessity." Patients need to have a better understanding of the very complicated insurance issues so that they can make better informed choices when choosing people and ideas that will represent them in both local and national politics. Posted by Michelle Spicher on 9/8/2012 12:08 AM I commend the APTA for developing this FAQ document in response to the recent CMS letter. It is concise and simple for patients to understand. This document also allows patients to see that we, as clinicians, have support from our national professional organization in offering them potential choices for additional care beyond an arbitrary "cap" if deemed medically necessary. This will certainly encourage dialogue between the patient and therapist to discuss further details regarding the appropriateness of the cap exception for their particular situation. Then it is up to us to advocate for them as needed. Don Freehafer,PT FREEDOM PHYSICAL THERAPY www.freedom-pt.com Posted by Don Freehafer,PT on 9/8/2012 8:40 AM Thank you APTA for the helpful documents, including the patient petition. We can help our paients realize that they must advocate for their own health care and talk to their representatives about repealing the caps. I spoke with a patient who was crying about the letter from CMS because she wants so desperately to continue her physical therapy. She had a second orthopedic surgery this year, in July, followed by a stroke 2 weeks after surgery. She said she wouldn't be able to be home and able to walk if it hadn't been for working with her PT this last month. I encouraged her to continue and to not feel invalidated by the letter. I look forward to sharing the APTA letter and information with her this week so she will feel the support to keep working on her recovery. I encourage therapists to continue to document the skilled therapy they do every day with their patients so the medical necessity of our work is self evident. Posted by Laura Bennetts MS PT on 9/9/2012 3:15 PM First of all, I would clarify the "cap" is $3700 before physical therapy services would need further extension (at least I understood that way)involving CMS decision makers. I do believe only small number of patients with severe conditions would require our service beyond the established amount. I would agree it is arbitrary and we should prove beyond any doubts that our service is beneficiary to those who need us and CMS should not put any restrictions if those in need would require physical therapy services. Unless CMS believes monetary aspect overweight human desire to the best care elderly people deserve after many years of giving the best and building our wonderful country where people from CMS and us enjoy living. Let's continue the dialogue with CMS and provide them many proofs our services are necessary and self evident. Posted by Peter Kluba DPT on 9/9/2012 7:36 PM APTA has made a change to the letter posted September 7 to more explicitly encourage patients to talk with their physical therapists about "medical necessity." The concept of medical necessity is complicated and not easily defined in a document that is intended to provide basic facts about the cap and serve as a conversation starter between patients and physical therapists. 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Earlier this month, Google released its Patchfield audio library. This can now be used by Android developers to help construct specialized audio applications capable of being connected to other audio apps inside Android environments.
Peter Brinkmann of the Android speech infrastructure team describes Patchfield as a means of creating "highly focused audio apps" (such as synthesizers and effects), which can combine their capabilities by connecting them to one another in a virtual patch bay.
Google explains that Patchfield is inspired by JACK, the JACK Audio Connection Kit, to provide a simple, callback-driven API for implementing audio modules, a flexible API for managing the signal processing graph, and support for inter-app audio routing.
NOTE: JACK is a system for handling real-time, low-latency audio (and MIDI). It runs on GNU/Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OS X, and Windows (and can be ported to other POSIX-conformant platforms). It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, allowing them to share audio between themselves.
"Running as a remote service, Patchfield allows audio developers to create interoperable apps that focus on a single task each, such as synthesis or effects or recording. The output of one app can be connected to the input of another, for a combinatorial explosion of possibilities. Running locally within a single app, Patchfield provides a powerful way of organizing the audio components of an app. The implementation resides entirely in user space and works on many stock consumer devices, such as Nexus 7 and 10," writes Brinkmann.
Developers can get access to Patchfield at GitHub under the Apache 2.0 License.

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KParts Demonstration
I have written a small article that demonstrates the use of KParts. You can find the article here. The tutorial demonstrates the ease with which KParts can be embedded in applications, and discusses their use in KOffice. This article should also be a great way for developers to get up to speed with this powerful KDE technology.
Cool stuff + some comments
Nice to see more resources about KParts coming up, this is cool.
Hehe, I like the line count argument for koshell. What isn't known is that I had to add special hooks/code for KOShell in kofficecore ;-)
Another comment: assert()s are very dangerous, don't use them. Especially in such code, where nothing guarantees that the component will exist, will be openable, and will contain what will expect. Always prefer something like "if (!condition) return 0". Not longer, and avoids giving crashes to the unexpecting user ;)
By David Faure at Thu, 2001/09/13 - 5:00am
Qt3 Component Role
So where will Qt3's component architecture fit into KDE3's KPart framework? Will there be a bridge to connect the two, so for instance, one could use the Opera render in Konqi or embed a HancomSheet document in KWord? I know it may be early in the game to ask this, but I am quite interested in the possibilites....
By Eron Lloyd at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: Qt3 Component Role
All good questions, but at the moment things like this are still undecided. There's a discussion about the Qt interface stuff discussion currently underway on the devel lists.
By Richard Moore at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: Qt3 Component Role
the QtCom stuff doesn't handle UI issues for a KPart/OLE interface for document embedding. I don't see that happening for a while, but it will probably happen.
By Shawn Gordon at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: Qt3 Component Role
Hello, Shawn! Speaking of frameworks, how is Korelib coming along? Are you still actively developing it? It seems like a nice lightweight component library for cross-platform stuff. I wish you guys would publish more technical papers about all the wonderful stuff you engineer... anyone know of a good technical writer these guys could hire ;-) ?
By Eron Lloyd at Sat, 2001/09/15 - 5:00am
which is better?
Is qt3's solution or kparts better? kparts seems very elegant but I'd think that it'd be better if it could be done within qt with as few dependencies as possible. It'd certainly make KDE more portable.
Does qt3's solution have something like dcop?
By foaog at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Hmm.. how does this connect to this article?
I'm referring to this article, which came op on /. just today:
Could KParts/KOffice be a first step in this direction?
Should we make KOffice even more "Kparts" (ie: split them up in more components, like KSpellcheck, etc.)?
I'm not a programmer (yet!), but it seems like a very likable idea. You could even download (life) new components you might need, and you would deliver a very flexible solution.
Maybe you could take it even further, and make all of K(DE/Office) write into one XML database (internet-based, of course!). That way you would have .Net (ie: write together into one database on the net with your co-workers), and a very flexible unix-tools-Office-like conglomerate of small tools you could use to edit the data in your central database of "XML" documents. Of course, the data would start by describing witch component should be used to edit/view/print etc it...
KParts is, as I understand is, ideal for this kind of solution. (I dont know enough to say for sure if it would be possible to take it to the central XML-database idea...)
Well... just dreaming away :-))
By Paul Wiegers at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: Hmm.. how does this connect to this article?
What you say is more or less the way KDE 2 works :-)
By aleXXX at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Mentioning kate
Mentioning kate: I had heard that kate should be the new advanced editor in KDE, replacing kwrite. As my current distribution, containing KDE 2.1.2, still starts kwrite as the advanced editor, I just wonder how the situation really is. Is kate part of the core KDE package?
By Alexander Kuit at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: Mentioning kate
Yes, kdebase KDE 2.2.
By aleXXX at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: Hmm.. how does this connect to this article?
very beautiful dream indeed, multiple small components, called only when needed. But, sadly, I can't dream on using .Net-like technology. Connection cost is very high here (I can get full lunch with < US$ 0.5, here)
Anyway, document centric and component approach is so nice.
By Reza at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: Connection cost is very high here...
The beauty of open source .net-like technology is that everyone runs their own "centralized database" at home. That way
- _You_ possess your data, not micro****.
By Daver at Sun, 2001/09/16 - 5:00am
KNOME vs GDE
Why mention GNOME in the article? What does it have to do with KParts?
And if CORBA is so slow, then how come GNOME apps using ORBit aren't slow?
By KNOME vs GDE at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: KNOME vs GDE
CORBA is for distributed systems, a desktop ain't distributed. The developers had all the problems of working with distributed systems without actually working on a distributed system. CORBA ain't easy to learn (I know from experience), it requires actually an almost entire new way of programming. CORBA has nothing to do with embedding GUI stuff, but it was used in relation to this. And CORBA (MICO) apps takes ages to compile and don't run that fast. The actual CORBA was replaced by DCOP which does now the IPC and is very lightweight, both in terms of speed and memory as in terms of learning how to use it.
By aleXXX at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: KNOME vs GDE
> CORBA ain't easy to learn (I know from experience), it
Then how come so many GNOME developers learned it in such a short time?
> And CORBA (MICO) apps takes ages to compile and don't run that fast.
That only proofs that MICO is slow. Try compile an ORBit app.
And if CORBA is slow, how come Berlin, a new windowing system, use CORBA for IPC?
By KNOME vs GDE at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: KNOME vs GDE
> > CORBA ain't easy to learn (I know from experience), it
Did you try to use CORBA ?
> > And CORBA (MICO) apps takes ages to compile and don't run that fast.
Yes, I didn't say more.
> And if CORBA is slow, how come Berlin, a new windowing system, use CORBA for > > IPC?
Did you ever see Berlin in action ?
By aleXXX at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: KNOME vs GDE
If you look at the Berlin FAQ, they do admit that CORBA is a lot slower than, for example, KParts. There approach is to use a very high-level API to minimise the communications between the client and the server (e.g. where X would give 20 odd commands to draw a button, Berlin would just give a single "Draw Button" command). They use CORBA to give them the network transparency of X. It's an interesting project, but frankly I think the Unix world really needs an X12 specification to get rid of all the dross that the great people in XFree86 are lumped with.
By Bryan Feeney at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: KNOME vs GDE
> Did you ever see Berlin in action ?
According to all those anti-X11 trolls at Slashdot, X is bloated and must die and Berlin is light much faster than X...
By KNOME vs GDE at Sat, 2001/09/15 - 5:00am
Re: KNOME vs GDE
I can confirm that CORBA gives programmers a hard time. The inofficial CORBA bible for C++ programmers has more than 1000 pages and it doesn't even cover every aspect. To really understand CORBA, you have to have a lot of time. Most developers rather spend this time on functionality and improvements. CORBA should be used where it is really useful: in highly distributed systems.
By Alexander Kuit at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: KNOME vs GDE
In my experience of using CORBA I would rather say it simplifies things for programmers, but as with all techniques you have to learn how to use it first(which is non-trivial unfortunatly.)
I have tried multiple ORB-implementations with different levels of success. But
Have a look at TAO which includes a real-time orb.
By Jonas Nordin at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: KNOME vs GDE
>But on the other hand this is only a problem during the development phase.
In case you hadn't noticed, KDE is constantly in a development phase...
I think long compile times are a big downside. Even if the end-user doesn't notice them directly, he/she might notice that development got slower.
By not me at Sat, 2001/09/15 - 5:00am
Re: KNOME vs GDE
>In case you hadn't noticed, KDE is constantly in a development phase...
Yep, that's why it's moving forward so fast! :-)
By Carbon at Sat, 2001/09/15 - 5:00am
Re: KNOME vs GDE
> Then how come so many GNOME developers learned it in such a short time?
Did they ?
Note: the man works for Ximian.
By Guillaume Laurent at Tue, 2001/09/18 - 5:00am
Re: KNOME vs GDE
Hi Alexxx :)
CORBA is great, this type of technology might be the future of computing.
However if the project fits in (little data to manipulate through the distributed computing system) then you have a winner !
MICO is not "bad", I use it all the time. It is very complete and that's what I like. I think (correct me if I am wrong) that it is the fullest CORBA/CORBA Services implementation available.
For my project, MICO is doing VERY well because the design and application fits perfectly in the big picture. Now MICO is going also multithread(see http://mico-mt.sourceforge.net) and I am sure that with this more and more people will use it.
Now GUI are another concern and it seems that lightweight ORB are working (ssee GNOME/Bomobo technology). I don't think that Kde or Gnome are right or wrong here: I think that if they are doing their DESIGN well then having distributed components aren't or won't be a problem at all. I am convinced that Design matters a lot.
By Jesunix at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
find the mistake ;-)
Cite: "they have gone through three stable release (KDE 2.0 and KDE 2.1) with almost..."
By aleXXX at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Bonobo != CORBA
[I must admit that I can only judge KParts by this article]
From the article:
"In short, a good component technology has the following
* it is easy to enable an application as a component
Corba meets none of these requirements, while KParts meets all of them.
The author misrepresenting Bonobo here. [classical usenet style
While Bonobo is based upon CORBA, it provides default implementations
KPart seems like a glorified shared library loader; there's nothing
On the other hand, Bonobo's CORBA-base allows for flexibility which is
1) out of process components
note that 1) and 2) can be done transparently -- client doesn't have to
3) interaction with other languages (e.g. you can use Bonobo from C++,
4) Allows for independent implementations (e.g. there's a Java-based
For more info on Bonobo, please take a look at my Bonobo Controls tutorial:
It's extremely simple to create a Bonobo component (control) from a
BonoboControl* control;
ipentry = gtk_ip_entry_new ();
/* create a BonoboControl from a widget */
and on the container side we can start it with:
/* get a widget, containing the control */
(IPCTRL_OAFIID contains the name the component)
not too hard, right?
By djcb at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: Bonobo != CORBA
Hi Dirk Jan, I have read your tutorial (very well written!) about Bonobo so I am not speaking ignorantely.
I plan a more detailed comparison of Bonobo and KPart in another article (when I'll have time!) but I can at least say a few things:
> On the other hand, Bonobo's CORBA-base allows for flexibility which is
Except for out-of-process components that can sometimes be very handy, the stuff you described will actually almost never be used.
I would say that 90% of Gnome is written in C but it is probably more than that. Remote components are a cool hack but even you are doubtful about the usefullness of this (quoting your tutorial "there must be someone somewhere who needs this").
Kde has chosen the technology that solved the problem: "I want an application as component". Gnome has chosen the technology that is theorically the top and can do a lot. But in practice 95% of the users won't use the things that made you choose Corba over Shared Libraries. You are forcing them to use a more complicated technology because you want the remaining theorical 5% to be able to use remote embedding.
The comparison that comes to my mind is this famous guy who designed an operating system that would not be unix although it would resemble it a lot. It would be cool, have micro-kernel, use message passing and provide more Freedom for the user. 10 years later, this OS is still struggling to get support and applications. Besides, there is this cool finnish student who wrote a cool hack on x86 that would solve exactely his problem. This cool hack is no more a cool hack but a widely used OS. The fact that it was originally specifically and only designed for x86 doesn't stop it to run on many architecture now.
Corba vs Shared Libraries is exactely this: theorical good choice vs practical one.
You are right though that KPart doesn't provide the flexibility of Bonobo. But there is XPart () which provides exactely what you want. It uses X to embed out- of-process applications. So if you have a remote X server with applications written in a different language, on a different workstation/OS, you can embed it with XPart. Still no need for Corba.
XPart is sufficentely generic to make a Bonobo-XPart bridge, or to be used outside KDE (it depends only on X and Qt).
KDE made the good choice: shared libraries and ease of use for direct components. More exotic technology for more exotic needs.
Note that nobody has used XPart yet, nor requested for remote components. IMHO, this is because KPart solves 99% of the needs for components and nobody needs remote components. I will use XPart for kvim because of its out-of-process property.
I have absolutely nothing against Gnome. I simply think the Gnome project has made some wrong technical choices.
> It's extremely simple to create a Bonobo component (control) from a
Moreover, I find the component accessing and embedding more difficult. The problem is that for every interaction with the component, you must go through Corba. You don't have this problem with in-process components.
By Philippe Fremy at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: Bonobo != CORBA
Hi Philippe,
> Hi Dirk Jan, I have read your tutorial (very well written!) about
Ok. I'm equally well-educated in KParts, thanks to you article ;-)
> I plan a more detailed comparison of Bonobo and KPart in another
That would be interesting.
> > On the other hand, Bonobo's CORBA-base allows for flexibility which
Sure, GNOME's mostly written in C, but that doesn't really say much
> Kde has chosen the technology that solved the problem: "I want an
Well, the funny thing is that with Bonobo you don't need to deal with
> Corba vs Shared Libraries is exactely this: theorical good choice vs
Hmmm.... a CORBA server can be a shared library, and it is possible to
Writing CORBA-code (esp. servers) in C is a bit inconvenient, but the
XParts sounds like reinventing CORBA, without the benefits of using
> XPart is sufficentely generic to make a Bonobo-XPart bridge, or to be
The core Bonobo (cvs-versions) doesn't depend on either X or GTK+. But
> KDE made the good choice: shared libraries and ease of use for direct
GNOME uses out-of-proc servers a lot, as well as inproc servers. You
> I have absolutely nothing against Gnome. I simply think the Gnome
Gnome made some different choices.
> It is true that creating a bonobo component is as simple as creating a
I didn't receive your bugreport. Please send me one.
> - your component doesn't add any menu entries and there is no dynamic
What is 'dynamic invocation'? And you're right I should add some stuff
> - using signal/slots is painful
You could transport gtk-signals from server to client using a property
> - you don't have remote scripting
Why not? You can use Perl/Python/Guile if you like.
> Moreover, I find the component accessing and embedding more
CORBA servers can be inproc if you like. The way you access them is
Anyway, it seems both technologies (Bonobo and KParts) are doing what
By djcb at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: Bonobo != CORBA
It seems to me that making/using bonobo components are easier seeing that no 80 line could has to be used. I understand that those 80 are very general and that certain ide will provide them but 80 lines it still 80 lines- the only time that is good is when one is talking about coke.
By bondowine at Sat, 2001/09/15 - 5:00am
Re: Bonobo != CORBA
2) components on other machines (may not be suitable for GUI-components,
I've always been curious - how do you handle security issues with multi-system components like this? How can you contain a malicious component which is designed to advertise all services and spread across a server pool or even an entire network?
By Evan "JabberWok... at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: Bonobo != CORBA
very good question.
Here are some solution SSL(MICO implements a SSL layer on top of itself), Kerberos, ...
What you need is an authentification layer+crypto on top of your framework
As regards the use of SSL+Mico for example it is very straightforward
I guess some new/modified technologies will/are arise(ing) to address this
By Jesunix at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: Bonobo != CORBA
: What you need is an authentification layer+crypto on top of your framework
How does that prevent one compromised host from spreading through an entire network? And I think that this thread should probably be taken to email, unless any KDEers are interested in theory for potential application to future Qt3/KParts issues.
By Evan "JabberWok... at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
troll syndrome
gnome vs kde?
By Sotheby at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: troll syndrome
Yes, it's no coincidence that this Gnome/Bonobo-trashing article appears only a week after Gnotices published an introduction to Bonobo.
By Anonymous Flamer at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: troll syndrome
What a conspiracy! And how awfully Gnome-bashing this article is! Evil, evil word!
Hey guys, the KDE developpers gave Corba a try and switched to KParts. I'm no developper, so I can't judge this decision, but for me as user there seem to be only advantages of this.
However, isn't it obvious that a KDE developper in an article about KParts stresses the disadvantages of Corba *for the specific use within KDE* - BECAUSE this disadvantages were the reasons they dumped Corba and DEVELOPPED KParts?
By AC at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: troll syndrome
Please... what advantages do kparts give you as a user? The component based approach provides the advantages - not the particular implementation. Have you even tried any bonobo-based applications? Didn't think so. From a user point of view they work exactly the same as kparts-based ones - the only difference being look'n feel due to differences in widget sets.
The article is just plain inflammatory - instead of pointing out the merits of kparts it starts out by bashing Bonobo, making several inaccurate statements about the Bonobo technology. It then concludes that Gnome is far behind KDE. WTF? This is supposed to be an article on "KDE components", not "KDE vs Gnome".
I'm left with the impression that the author has a small penis.
By Anonymous Flamer at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: troll syndrome
The last sentence disqualifies youself, but nevertheless:
The first mentioning of KDE/Gnome/Corba I find in this article goes like this:
"In Gnome, the component technology is provided by Bonobo, which is built upon Corba. KDE also used Corba in the past, but eventually dumped it for an home-made technology: KPart. This choice has been very criticized although almost nobody understood the ground and the consequences of it. It was a good choice and I'll write an article one day, to explain why."
Now... what's your problem with this sentence? The author states facts, he doesn't even state that Gnome is worse off with Bonobo, he just says that Corba was bad for KDE's needs and that it was good (for KDE) to replace it with KParts. Some sentences later he even states that "Corba is a very good technology" - just not fit for KDE's needs. He just discusses the technology and why the KDE developpers chose to develop a new approach instead of using the existing Corba technology.
Considering Gnome being behind KDE in terms of component stuff - Hey, open your eyes, it is! Bonobo is existing, but it isn't really an integral part of Gnome as a whole yet. Yes, I give Gnome a try once in a while, but as of 1.4 it's not yet as integrated as KDE. Maybe 2.0 will change this. But 2.0 isn't released yet.
Discussing technical merits and pointing out the advantages of the technology KDE has chosen is definitely not inflammatory. I'd like to know how much of the article you did indeed understand or even read besides the few lines where the auther mentions Gnome.
By AC at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: troll syndrome
The first sentence disqualifies youself, but nevertheless:
Just because CORBA isn't a good solution for KDE, the author of that article talk about the disadvantages of CORBA in the beginning of the article.
The author claims that CORBA is slow. And he mentions Bonobo.However, the author didn't say that they used MICO, one of the slowest CORBA implementations in the world.
By Morgoth at Sun, 2001/09/16 - 5:00am
Re: troll syndrome
I guess you're happy with your conspiracy theories, so I won't bother to reply too long. All KDE users and developers are bad and always trying to bash Gnome. Is it that what you wanted to hear?
By AC at Mon, 2001/09/17 - 5:00am
Re: troll syndrome
That article does not infect people with some magical virus that causes them to hate GNOME. No-one who understands OSS at all is stupid enough to use a single, semi-related sentance from an article that has nothing to do with GNOME as the basis for their entire KDE/GNOME decision.
The author does not bash GNOME technologies, he just says that KDE uses DCOP, not Corba, and explains why that decision was made by the KDE devleopers.
By Carbon at Wed, 2001/09/19 - 5:00am
Re: troll syndrome
You mean the KDE developers gave MICO a try. ORBit is really *much* faster than MICO.
By KNOME vs GDE at Sat, 2001/09/15 - 5:00am
Re: troll syndrome
The real question isn't really performances but ease of use.
By Guillaume Laurent at Mon, 2001/09/17 - 5:00am
Re: troll syndrome
When KDE was developing its component technology (more than 2 years ago), they were using Mico. They had optimised it and reduced its size to get better performance but it wasn't enough and a lot of problems were not due to mico itself.
Anyway, they couldn't have used Orbit, because at that time, Orbit was almost nothing. Even the C bindings were not stable. The C++ were ... planned! And KDE was needing components now.
So they moved to KParts and Shared Libraries. IMHO, this one of the best choices of KDE, after using Qt. KParts was developed very quickly and was very stable, as opposed to Orbit which took a long time to get developed. This has certainly had a negative impact on the development speed of Gnome component's technology.
By Philippe Fremy at Mon, 2001/09/24 - 5:00am
Yes, good idea but I had problems with implementation of XML builders. Editing toolbars screw my 'Settings' menu and makes 'Help' menu disappear. I could not figure out anything from documentation - it consist of a few comments ( or I'm spoiled by detailed Qt docs ), so I had to copy a code from other "official" apps. It is just wonderful simple idea, but I'm lost in all those KXML.. classes and a few dozens methods. Implementation looks definitively too complicated.
By Krame at Fri, 2001/09/14 - 5:00am
Re: KParts
Some time ago I improved the examples in the docu for kedittoolbar. Did you read this ?
By David Faure at Mon, 2001/09/17 - 5:00am
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No, I didn't
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For details on program times, location and fees
for the recreational and instructional YMCA programs listed below,
visit www.lincolnymca.org
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guide (PDF).
For information on
Lincoln Area YMCA programs and events, visit the downtown office, 604 Broadway St.,
Suite 1; call 735-3915; or visit
www.lincolnymca.org. The YMCA Activity Center is at 719 Wyatt Ave.
Flowers Gone Wild! In Y art class, kids will make
giant paper tissue flowers on a stem and also learn to draw large
hippie-style flowers, stems and leaves, and then paint them with
psychedelic colors from the '70s. Come and have some flower-power
fun using neon-colored paper, markers and paint. This class is for
children in kindergarten to third grade. Monday, April 21.
Kids Bike Ride
The YMCA will host its 2nd annual Kids Bike Ride in May. The
5-mile course takes riders around historic sites of the Lincoln area
and offers entertainment and exercise for the whole family. Snacks
and drinks are included. Age 4 to sixth grade. Parents of all
participants ride for free. Saturday, May 10.
Scatterball and kickball
Scatterball and kickball are two popular, up-and-coming sports in
America. Participants will start off playing scatterball, a gym game
combining tag and dodgeball, and finish with kickball, like baseball
without the bats. Twice the fun for everyone. Pay for one sport and
get the other free. Age 3 1/2 to sixth grade. Thursdays, April
24-May 15.
Hit a home run with softball. Y instructor Lisa Laforge will put
the "fun" in "fundamentals" of softball. These instructional
sessions will include catching, fielding, hitting, running bases and
much more. The most fun will come on the last night, when
participants compete against their parents in a live-game scrimmage.
Ages 8-12. Tuesday-Thursday, May 13-15.
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Y Summer Day Camp provides an opportunity for children to
experience a fun-filled summer making new friends and learning with
qualified, nurturing, high-energy Y counselors. What determines the
success of Y camp? Y kids are guaranteed to come home each night
tired, dirty and hungry. Kids learn to lead, to share and to work as
a team. Children make great memories, laugh and smile a lot, as camp
puts play in their day. The day camp activities include daily
exercise, character-building lessons, weekly water park field trips,
water play days, outdoor recreation, Bible stories, art, reading,
music and more. Day camp is for kids from kindergarten to sixth
grade. June 4-Aug. 29.
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June 16 The Y offers three two-week sessions for ages 3-12. There is
also a parent and child class for children 6 months to 3 years old.
Swimmers will learn the basics of swimming and water safety for the
younger groups and more advanced swim strokes and techniques as they
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Yep, that's right cats and kittens, I'm back in Japan! And boy are my arms tired.
The flight I was on was full of junior high students so I got bumped up to business class. Classy!
Actually I've always had complete contempt for people who ride first or business class*. It just seems to wasteful and elitist. Yet there I was, up front with all the wasteful elitists. They even close off the doors between the two classes so those of us in business don't have to be bothered by seeing the suffering of the riff-raff in back of the plane. I did an interview in Montreal once where I was asked, "They say the Dalai Lama does meditation when he flies on planes. Do you do that?"
To which I answered, "The Dalai Lama probably flies first class. There's room to do meditation in those seats. I'm always in coach!"
But no, I did not do zazen in my giant wasteful seat. Couldn't have if I'd tried! The "full bed" function on those is better than you get in cattle car class, but not all that great. It's sorta tilted forward so you're always just about to slide out.
Anyway, that'll probably be my last chance to fly business class unless I get another plane full of pre-teens someday.
My European Tour of 2009 is now over. But it looks like there may be another in 2010. I'll keep you posted as news develops.
*Oh stop getting your panties in a twist! I don't really hate those people. It's just a reaction I have that goes way back. It's hard to get rid of these things.


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Stocks may be on an uptrend, but home runs certainly aren't. The most likely reason isn't phenomenal pitching, or better defense, but the elimination of steroids from Major League Baseball.
According to a 2008 article in the American Journal of Physics, the average home-runs-per-ball-in-play (HRBiP) was approximately 0.10 prior to the use of performance enhancing drugs, compared with 0.15 in the steroid era (1995-2003)—a shocking 50% increase. Author R.G. Tobin attributes this differential to the approximate 10% increase in muscle mass brought about by the use of such banned substances.
This observation leads us to attempt to explain the remarkable performance of hedge funds before 2007. Even the most carefully constructed indexes showed the ability of hedge fund managers to produce equity-like performance with bond-like volatility. But in the last few years, the industry has seen its results whither in comparison to the raging bull market, which has seen stocks double since 2009.
Although difficult market conditions and a lack of available margin are certainly a factor, it should be noted that it's simply harder to get one past the umpire. Self-reporting NAVs have gone the way of the dinosaur, the once-hot IPO market isn't nearly as kind to flippers as it used to be, and insider trading has proven to be a dangerous pastime. Amid a more level playing field, hedge funds have found outperformance a very difficult proposition, especially considering their huge fees.
So what's an investor to do? In an effort to reduce volatility, the only game in town is diversification. Mixing stocks and bonds with alternative beta and managed futures can reduce tail risk and make portfolio returns smoother. Alas, it seems that the promise of hedge fund superiority is only plausible in those rare cases when the manager has a clearly defined edge.


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Solarscape began its operation in 2005, as the Renewable Energy Business Unit of "Mediascape Technology & Consulting Services Ltd", and since 2010 is an official company.
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Solarscape's executives are all experienced Engineers and specialized in a position to successfully provide the services mentioned. At the same time, a network of exterior contractors, Research Institutes and Private companies (that provide complementary services) has been developed in order to implement large scales projects or tackle the difficulties that may arise at different stage of a project.
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Numerous medical advances have helped health care professionals manage, lessen, and prevent certain side effects of cancer treatments. But parents whose kids need chemotherapy — one of the most common treatments for childhood cancer — often have many questions and concerns about it.
Chemotherapy (often just called "chemo") refers to medications that kill actively dividing cells. Unlike healthy cells, cancer cells grow continuously because they don't respond to normal signals that control cell growth. Chemotherapy works by disrupting cell division and killing actively dividing cancer cells. In contrast to radiation therapy, which destroys cancer cells in a specific area of the body, chemotherapy works to treat cancer throughout the body.
If your child has been diagnosed with cancer, doctors will develop a customized treatment plan that takes into account your child's age, the type of cancer, and where it's located. A pediatric oncologist (a doctor who specializes in the treatment of childhood cancer) will work with other health care professionals to determine the chemotherapy regimen that's best for your child.
Just as other medicines can be taken in various forms, there are several ways to get chemotherapy. In most cases, it's given intravenously into a vein, also referred to as an IV. An IV is a tiny tube inserted into a vein through the skin, usually in the arm. The IV is attached to a bag that holds the medicine. The chemo medicine flows from the bag into the vein, which puts the medicine into the bloodstream. Once the medicine is in the blood, it can travel through the body and attack cancer cells.
Sometimes, a permanent IV called a catheter is placed under the skin into a larger blood vessel of the upper chest. That way, a child can get chemotherapy and other medicines through the catheter without having to always use a vein in the arm. The catheter remains under the skin until all the cancer treatment is completed. It also can be used to obtain blood samples and for other treatments, such as blood transfusions, without repeated needle sticks.
Chemo also can be:
Chemotherapy is sometimes used along with other cancer treatments, such as radiation therapy, surgery, or biological therapy (the use of substances to help the body's immune system fight cancer).
Lots of kids and teens receive combination therapy, which is the use of two or more cancer-fighting drugs. In many cases, combination therapy lessens the chance that the cancer will become resistant to one type of drug — and improves the chances that the cancer will be cured.
Depending on the method used to administer chemotherapy, it may be given at a hospital, cancer treatment center, doctor's office, or at home. Many kids receive chemotherapy on an outpatient basis at a clinic or hospital. Others may need to be hospitalized to monitor or treat side effects.
Kids may receive chemotherapy every day, every week, or every month. Doctors sometimes use the term "cycles" to describe a chemotherapy schedule because treatment periods alternate with periods of rest so a child can recover and regain strength.
Although chemo often effectively damages or eliminates cancer cells, it also can damage normal, healthy cells. This can lead to side effects.
Chemotherapy side effects are different for each child. The type of anticancer drug used, the dose, and a child's general health affect the risk of developing side effects. The good news is that most side effects are temporary — as the body's normal cells recover, the side effects gradually go away. It's also important to remember that doctors have ways of helping with many common side effects of chemotherapy.
Cancer treatment is multifaceted — that is, patients receive a lot of care (i.e., fluid and nutrition support, transfusion support, physical therapy, and medicines) to help them tolerate the treatments and treat or prevent side effects such as nausea and vomiting.
It's difficult to predict which side effects a child might experience, how long they'll last, and when they'll end. If your child has side effects, be sure to talk with your doctor about how to cope with them.
Fatigue is the most common side effect of chemotherapy. Kids may need to reduce or eliminate activities during chemo, and may feel very tired even after sleeping and resting. Fatigue may last for days, weeks, or months, but it does go away once treatment is over.
Encourage your child to rest and sleep as often as possible — even if it doesn't immediately result in more energy — because rest helps the body recover from chemo. Short naps or breaks from activity may be more beneficial than longer ones.
There may be some initial discomfort when a chemotherapy catheter or IV needle is placed in the vein. Certain anticancer drugs also cause mouth pain, headaches, muscle pains, and stomach pains. Chemo medicine may cause temporary nerve damage, which can result in burning, numbness, tingling, or shooting pain in the fingers and toes.
Kids taking pain medication should not skip doses — waiting until pain is bad can make it harder to control. If your child's pain persists or worsens at any time, talk to your doctor. Also, be sure to discuss the use of alternative or over-the-counter medicines and vitamins. There may be drug interactions with chemo you want to avoid.
Skin may be red, sensitive, or easily irritated in the days, weeks, and months during and after treatment. If your child had radiation therapy prior to chemotherapy, the treated skin may turn red, blister, and peel once chemo begins. This condition is known as "radiation recall."
A child who has sensitive or irritated skin should wear loose, soft clothes and avoid using lotions or other commercial products on the affected area. Your doctor may recommend an ointment or cream to reduce irritation. Prolonged sun exposure should be avoided. If your child is going to be outside, speak with the doctor about using sunscreen.
Because chemotherapy often kills the healthy cells responsible for hair growth, it's common for kids undergoing chemo to lose their hair or have a sensitive scalp.
Hair thinning and hair loss may occur all over the body during treatment, including the head, face, arms and legs, underarms, and pubic area. Your child's hair may become thinner and then fall out completely or in clumps.
Losing hair can be scary for kids and make them feel nervous about standing out. Getting a shorter haircut may make it less traumatic once hair loss starts. Your child may also feel more comfortable wearing hats, bandannas, baseball caps, scarves, or wigs until the hair grows back. And it will grow back. Most kids' hair regrows before treatment ends or within 3 months following its end, though it may be a slightly different color or texture than it was before.
To protect the head from sun exposure, have your child wear a hat and sunscreen while outside. Even if your child doesn't have hair loss, using mild shampoo and other hair products can help prevent scalp irritation.
Chemotherapy may cause sores in the mouth, gums, and throat or cause gum tissues to become irritated and bleed. The doctor may prescribe a mouth rinse or other products to reduce pain, dryness, and irritation.
Be sure to take your child for regular dental checkups and follow the dentist's advice on how to brush the teeth during chemotherapy. Kids with mouth or throat pain may find soft, cool foods easier to chew and swallow; acidic foods and juices should be avoided.
Gastrointestinal problems (including loss of appetite, constipation, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting) can occur, although medications can help prevent or reduce nausea and vomiting. Talk to your doctor about medicines or dietary changes that may help ease an upset stomach, prevent weight loss, or combat constipation.
If your child doesn't feel like eating a large meal, try serving small meals throughout the day. And be sure to offer foods high in nutrients to prevent weight loss. Avoid serving fatty, sweet, spicy, or fried foods. And even though your child may not feel like drinking, water, clear broth, juices, and sports drinks can replace fluids lost through vomiting and diarrhea. Room-temperature beverages may be easier to drink than hot or cold liquids. The doctor or a registered dietitian may have suggestions for ensuring adequate nutrition and hydration.
Some chemotherapy drugs can irritate or damage the bladder or kidneys and can cause the urine (pee) to change color or take on a strong odor for a day or two. The doctor may ask for a blood or urine sample before beginning chemotherapy to evaluate kidney function.
Giving your child plenty of fluids to drink will ensure good urine flow and help prevent problems in the urinary tract. Be sure to let the doctor know if your child develops symptoms that may indicate a problem with the urinary system, such as painful or frequent urination, reddish or bloody urine, or an inability to urinate.
Chemotherapy may cause temporary confusion and depression, which should go away once treatment is completed.
Chemo can deplete white blood cells, which are part of the immune system and help the body fight infection. This can increase the risk for infections both during and after treatment. To help protect your child:
Long-Term Side EffectsChemotherapy can cause long-term side effects (sometimes called late effects), depending on the type and dose of chemotherapy and whether it was combined with radiation. These effects may involve any organ, including the heart, lungs, brain, kidneys, liver, thyroid gland, and reproductive organs. Some types of chemotherapy drugs may also increase the risk of cancer later in life.
Receiving chemo during childhood also may place some kids at risk for delayed growth and cognitive development, depending on the child's age, the type of drug used, the dosage, and whether chemotherapy was used in addition to radiation therapy.
Report any side effects to your doctor so that they can be treated and your child made as comfortable as possible.
Your child may have many questions about cancer and its treatment. Be honest when talking about it — discuss the disease in age-appropriate terms and encourage your child to share his or her feelings. And remember that you're not alone: Doctors, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, child-life therapists, and other members of the cancer treatment team are there to answer questions and support you and and your child before, during, and after chemotherapy.
Kids who are scared about starting chemo might benefit from a tour of the hospital or clinic beforehand or joining a support group for families coping with childhood cancer. Besides making treatment seem less frightening, meeting other cancer patients and survivors might help your family develop a network of friends and supporters dealing with the same issues.
Also remember to care for yourself during your child's treatment. Don't be afraid to ask for help from family and friends, both early in your child's treatment and later on. Caring for yourself will help you to care for your child as well as you possibly can.
Once chemo is done, it's still important for the doctor to monitor your child's health and progress in follow-up appointments. During these checkups, the doctor will ask if there are continuing side effects and check for any signs of the cancer recurring.
It can be difficult to cope with a cancer diagnosis, let alone take in facts about chemotherapy. Remember that while it can be a long road, children and teens treated for cancer often go on to lead long, healthy, and happy lives.
Reviewed by: Lisa Wray, MD
Date reviewed: February 2014
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That's because I drew up the plans for this, my Doll Quilt Swap quilt, a few months back ...
I'm calling it "Fresh Nines"! What do you think?
It all started with a charm pack of the "Fresh" line that I received as a special bonus in a fat quarter swap a few months back. I played around with a few ideas, but ultimately settled on a mini nine-patch design. I'm really in love with the layout of one fabric in the four corners, another in between the corner blocks, and a third in the center square. I was first taken with this idea when I saw all of the beautiful blocks being made in this design for Erin in the original Virtual Quilting Bee.
And in my tradition of trying something new with everything I make, I opted for white linen instead of quilting cotton for the sashing. I think it gives it a nice, but subtle, touch. It was my first time sewing with linen, and I'm glad I bought enough of the white to use on another project!
This little quilt recently found its home with Jessica a.k.a. jmbmommy, who was also the recipient of my Gee's Bend quilt a few months back. The funniest part? She also made a 9-patch quilt for her partner ... the aforementioned Rita! Everything comes full circle ...
Here's a shot of my pieced backing ... I love the print with the hummingbirds, and since they were too big to fit in the little squares on the front, I decided to use it on the back.
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When hair transplant surgery first came onto the scene, men and women with thinning hair or bald scalps (who had been hiding under their hats and scarves for years) finally had some hope. Those who could afford this "new" technology ran to the first hair restoration doctor who claimed they could cure their baldness. Unfortunately, the technology, which seemed advanced for the time, could often result in pluggy, unnatural looking hairlines. For many who had these "baby doll" hair transplants, the results were both cosmetically and psychologically disastrous.
Older methods of hair transplantation included punching out circles of hair-bearing scalp that were then moved to the balding areas. Practices such as scalp reductions (literally cutting out the balding areas of scalp and raising the two sides of hair-bearing scalp toward the center) often left long visible scars. For a time, there was also the method of planting synthetic hair directly into the scalp and then surgically sewing it beneath the skin, a procedure that is now illegal in the United States. This latter was a short lived experiment which caused the hair to be rejected and the scalp to be severely scarred.
The older surgical procedures presented numerous cosmetic problems, the most common of which were the large, unnatural look of plug-grafts. These punch graft techniques of hair transplantation also tended to leave circular scars throughout the donor area (the donor area is the area of scalp where the hair is harvested from for the transplant). Other problems included poor hair direction, inconsistent hair growth, and a generally unnatural look to the hair restoration procedure. In many cases the results were so bad that patients were left wishing they were bald again.
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Brokers' move to independence is one of the fastest growing trends in the wealth management industry, and RIA practices are poised for even more growth as commissions give way to asset-based management fees, according to a recent S&P Capital IQ report.
Most registered investment advisors charge a management fee based on client assets that are either under supervision or actively managed, and today's advisers are more focused on monitoring existing holdings and reviewing suitable investments for purchase, said S&P Capital IQ equity analyst Kenneth Leon in a MarketScope Advisor report published on Aug. 23.
"We think independence would be the best response" for brokers who make the switch to RIA licensed practices," Leon wrote. "We think management fees are the right approach for client services, rather than commissions or transaction fees, and they give broker-dealer firms a more predictable revenue stream than before."
Leon cited "positive implications" in the fast-growing RIA trend for large firms that serve advisors, including Morgan Stanley (MS), LPL Financial Holdings (LPLA), Raymond James Financial (RJF), Charles Schwab (SCHW) and TD Ameritrade (AMTD).
He also criticized the pre-2008 pump-and-dump practices of brokerages, saying that independent RIAs have discretion as to managing client portfolios and making recommendations on asset allocation.
"Transactions fees are also lower, as RIAs are compensated away from brokerage commissions," Leon wrote. "More than a decade ago, brokerage firms would get their brokers hyped up to dial for dollars and churn client accounts with the stock idea of the day or load mutual funds that enabled the broker to get compensated two ways — trading commissions from client activity, and the wholesale relationship with select mutual funds."
Cerulli Associates projects the combined RIA and dually registered market share to make up 24.7% of the advisory industry in 2014, up from 18.6% in 2010, Leon said, also noting Cerulli's finding that hybrid RIAs are the fastest growing segment, at 15% of the advisor industry in 2012 versus 7% in 2004.
Looking to individual firms' performance, Leon pointed out that broker-dealer firms such as Morgan Stanley have set marketing strategies in place to move away from transaction fees to managed fees and now seek to boost the wrap fee structure based on total client assets.
Meanwhile, in the late 1990s, trading revenue comprised 60% of Charles Schwab's total revenue, compared with 17% today, "and management expects it to be around 10% by 2018," Leon wrote. "The two largest revenue streams for SCHW are asset management and administrative fees and net interest revenue. We think SCHW is ahead of the pack, as industry experts estimate that advisors derive 46% of their revenue from asset-based fees and 45% from brokerage commissions. Most of the major firms are targeting a much higher percentage of asset-based fees in the next few years."
For advisors thinking of moving out of established wirehouses or large brokerage firms, the process can be a long sales cycle for any custodial firm trying to bring an investment advisor to an independent model as an RIA, Leon noted.
"Sometimes, large, independent broker-dealers like LPL Financial will have conversations with advisors at wirehouses for one to two years before they're ready to make a move," he wrote. "Frequently, it is teams and not a single broker coming out of a wirehouse and going independent. SCHW says it has a $30 billion sales funnel of potential investment advisors that may join their firm as RIAs. Historically, about one-third will exit a wirehouse and join one of the custodian firms."
Read RIA blogger Mike Patton in 6 Years Post Independence, Rethinking the Value of Financial Planning at ThinkAdvisor.


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BOSTON — The Massachusetts Gaming Commission continues to tweak the casino licensure timeline and regulations as new circumstances arise.
The commission met Thursday to discuss several issues that could impact the casino licensure process across the state. While commissioners delayed a potential decision to alter the timelines in southeastern and western Massachusetts, they modified investment requirements in the southeast and extended arbitration deadlines in Greater Boston.
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The Gaming Commission voted 3-2 Thursday to alter the $500 million minimum capital investment requirement for a casino in southeastern Massachusetts, or Region C. The move allows applicants to count certain on- and off-site infrastructure costs as part of the $500 million investment.
Massachusetts Gaming & Entertainment, an affiliate of Rush Street Gaming, had requested such a waiver. Bridgewater town officials have said the developer is working to reach a partnership with Bridgewater-based Claremont Companies.
Commissioner Enrique Zuniga presented an analysis showing less market potential in Region C due to a number of factors, including demographics, geography, out-of-state competition and the prospect of a Mashpee Wampanoag tribal casino in Taunton.
"The region that would have the most difficulty meeting the minimum capital investment would be Region C," he said. "Compared to the other regions, Region C has less potential."
Zuniga expressed concerns that due to market limitations and risks within Region C, "setting the bar as high as we have" could scare investors away.
Commissioners Gayle Cameron and James McHugh argued against changing the investment requirement.
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MGM Springfield, the lone remaining applicant in that region, asked the commission to delay the formal award of a casino license until the fate of a potential ballot initiative to repeal the expanded gambling law is decided. MGM Springfield president Michael Mathis requested that official licensure be delayed until either the Supreme Judicial Court decides the question can't appear on the ballot, or voters defeat the potential referendum. He suggested the commission could award a provisional license in the meantime.
Once being formally awarded a license, MGM would face approximately $200 million in financial obligations, including a nonrefundable $85 million deposit to the Gaming Commission.
"We're ready to go the minute it is final and behind us," Mathis said.
The SJC is expected to hear arguments next month and may decide by July whether the initiative could qualify for the ballot.
Repeal the Casino Deal chairman John Ribeiro issued a statement later in the day saying the ballot campaign is gaining momentum.
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My recent editorial on the corruption of Agile lamented the religious aspects of Agile and assailed the view held by some developers today that without Agile practices, it's not possible to write good software. These points clearly touched a sore point, for within hours of posting the editorial, I'd received several letters thanking me for writing a long overdue piece. The comments both on our site and on the popular programming aggregators were thoughtful and generally refined points I made. Among the responses that disagreed in part or in whole, two noteworthy ones were an open letter from Rob Myers at the Agile Institute and a lengthy blog post by "Uncle Bob" Martin, one of the leading exponents of Agile practices, who more directly took me to task.
Myers agreed with my overarching points about Agile, but disagreed with my use of TDD as an example of the wayward religious aspects. He felt that the enthusiasm for TDD is due to the benefits people derive from its use. Specifically, the ability to try out code and, from the tests, tell whether it works correctly with the larger code base. And, as he insightfully points out, given the ascending complexity of today's apps, not many practices enable such quick feedback. He also likes tests' ability to be "comprehensive, executable engineering documentation describing all the discrete behaviors of the system in a non-combinatorial fashion," plus "the ability to change the code rapidly and confidently." I have no difficulty with any of Myers' points, save the implication that you need TDD to do this. All the benefits he lists could be attained equally by writing tests after the code, rather than before. And nothing requires that code be written in the smallest testable increments a foundational tenet of TDD. Fundamentally, he's praising the benefits of writing many unit tests. I agree with the perspective. But TDD is definitely not required to do this.
Bob Martin took on my contention that Agile is a set of values, not a set of practices. He repeatedly explained how all cultures, including Agile, are known through their practices ("If you see a bride and groom breaking glass under a canopy, you can guess the culture.") He extended this analogy to other religions and to martial arts, each time expressing how the practices define the culture. I don't find this argument persuasive.
Many, many practices are so disassociated from the values they originally expressed that they have become hollow, empty, ritualistic behaviors. Religions, corporations, and Agile shops are just some of the institutions that engage in practices despite having long ago lost the understanding of the values they were intended to instantiate.
As I pointed out in the original article, organizations that don't use the defined Agile practices can still be Agile if they welcome change and exhibit the values expressed in the manifesto. I thought Martin might run with this and talk about the need to remind organizations of those values, to make them living once again. But instead, Martin argues that Agile should have more practices: "The biggest problem I have seen within the Agile movement is the elimination of the practices. One by one, over the years, the practices have been de-emphasized, or even stripped away. This loss of practice has diluted and changed the Agile culture into something that I don't recognize as Agile anymore."
I find this view untenable. The reason many of these practices have been abandoned is because they did not generate sufficient lift for the cost they imposed. Pair programming being perhaps the defining example of this perceived lack of ROI. In response to Martin's post, this comment was posted on Reddit: "I work at Google. Most teams don't use Agile. A very few do, and the team members complain about all the time wasted in 6-hour planning sessions. Google has great software engineering discipline, with a huge focus on design reviews, code reviews, and strong unit testing and integration testing. Most people there recognize that Agile is just a religion." It was one of many comments on Reddit to express similar dissatisfaction with Agile "religion."
Martin concludes his essay saying, "If you've got better practices, I'd love to see them. If I believe they are better, I'll adopt them in a heartbeat." However, he does not appear to see the link between the two points he's made. He cannot both state that he's willing to abandon Agile practices for better ones, and then begrudge the many organizations that have done just that.
It may well be that Agile has reached its high-water mark and the appreciation of its benefits has begun to recede. If so, Agile itself will need agility to adapt to changes. I believe those changes will mean that a few core practices will remain and new ones will be adopted as the needs of software development dictate. For this to occur productively, the values of Agile will need to be retained, while the practices change. If you look at Agile being a set of values, this is entirely possible, and likely the only way it can move forward.
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