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The world economic crisis is even affecting a place as remote as the Marshall Islands. Last year, three percent of its population moved to the United States, and many Marshallese are traveling 6,000 miles from their Pacific home to a small Ozarks town, where the local economy is still strong.
Jacqueline Froelich of member station KUAF in Fayetteville, Arkansas reports.
JACQUELINE FROELICH: A colorful crowd of Marshallese celebrating the 30th anniversary of their nation's independence stares at 13-year-old Josiana Chungong(ph) as she belts out the "Star Spangled Banner."
(Soundbite of song, "Star Spangled Banner")
Ms. JOSIANA CHUNGONG: (Singing) As the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
FROELICH: No one holds a hand over a heart. It's not their tradition, but huge gatherings are. Six thousand Marshallese in Springdale have been joined by several thousand more islanders from migrant communities in Hawaii, Oregon and California. They started to come to Arkansas two decades ago, after a Marshallese man took a job in a poultry slaughterhouse. Word quickly spread back on the islands that was money to be made in the Ozarks and rent was cheap. Twenty-one-year-old Angeluck Lubbon(ph) has lived here nine years.
Mr. ANGELUCK LUBBON: We're really close with our families. Like, one family moved here, like, even though it's your uncle, he's going to try to bring his sisters, kids and his brother's kids, everybody else, to come here. Like, there's no jobs back in Marshalls.
FROELICH: Lubbon works the night shift at Tyson Foods and is enrolled in community college. He's studying to be an accountant. Other islanders work in the region's retail, medical and restaurant industries. But back home, unemployment is staggering and the cost of living worse. Last year, more than 1,600 Marshallese left their Pacific archipelago - a big number, considering only 53,000 live on the islands.
Under an agreement with the U.S., any Marshallese can move here with just a passport - and most show up in Arkansas, which is why they've opened a consulate in town. Consul General Carmen Chong Gum.
Ms. CARMAN CHONG GUM (Consul General): I have a passion to help our people, and having lived in the United States for so many years, I know what it takes to succeed.
FROELICH: And living in Springdale should be a cinch, having survived typhoons, sand and waves of colonialists and 67 U.S. atomic bomb tests.
Juanita Lokbol's(ph) homeland, Bikini Atoll, is still radioactive. But most of her family live in Arkansas now. She and her sister, Ruth Ann(ph), wait for them to share a feast of chicken, rice, fresh papaya and coconut pudding. Eyeing the food, Lokbol says she likes it here - sort of.
Ms. JUANITA LOKBOL: I've been thinking about moving, but since my whole family is here, I don't think I will ever be able to do that. It's how Marshallese say (Foreign language spoken), which means…
Ms. RUTH ANN LOKBOL: Your body wants…
Ms. J. LOKBOL: …my body wants to…
Ms. R. LOKBOL: But your heart…
Ms. J. LOKBOL: …but my heart just can't do it, no, no.
(Soundbite of laughter)
FROELICH: Staying in the Ozarks at 1,300 feet above sea level might be a good idea. Climate scientists speculate the low-lying Marshall Islands may be inundated with the rising oceans over the next century.
For NPR News, I'm Jacqueline Froelich in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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Free Meditation Classes this December
With Simon Heale
This December I will be holding two 60 minute meditation classes for the curious as well as for the more experienced out there.
Meditation and mindful awareness are two simple yet incredibly powerful skills that can help us change our relationships with our thoughts, feelings and senses. By sitting with our experiences, in a new and more helpful way we can create a shift in how we are with them, to ultimately bring a sense of control, choice and more freedom into our lives.
If stress, worry and the frantic mind is is part of your current reality then come and find out how a 3 minute breathing exercise can lead to calmness and help you regain some control over your thoughts and feelings.
The classes are on:
Sat 10th December at 1-2pm
Wed 14th December at 6-7pm
To book onto one of the classes please email me directly here
The classes are a gift to you and are free, but as it's a time of goodwill I am inviting people to make a donation to a charity I am very close to: Haringey Shed which is an inclusive theatre and performing arts company for children and young people. Click on the above link to find out more about it.
To make a donation or to become an angel of Haringey Shed please click here
To book a place on one of the free meditation classes email me today as places will go fast.

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GroupWise Purge Process is Killing My POA!
October 13, 2011
GroupWise Purge Process is Killing My POA!
Had a customer call today about a GroupWise POA that was purging items like crazy. He decided to delete 60 users from his GroupWise System in the middle of the day. So much purging was going on that his users couldn't send emails. The POA was virtually unresponsive. We modified two settings in his HTTP POA Screen.
Mass Purge Items Threshold
Displays the maximum number of items that the POA purges from a mailbox with an active client/server thread. If more than the specified number of items need to be purged (either because the user has manually emptied them or because daily archive processing has purged them), the purge operation is passed to a background client/server thread for completion. The default number of items to purge immediately is less than 10. Valid values range from 2 to 20.
Click Mass Purge Items Threshold to change the maximum number of items.
Mass Purge Concurrent Threads Limit
Displays the maximum number of background threads that the POA can start for purging batches of items that exceed the Mass Purge Items Threshold setting. The default number of background threads for purging items is 3. Valid values range from 1 to 8.
Click Mass Purge Concurrent Threads Limit to change the maximum number of background threads.
We lowered the Mass Purge Items Threshold to 5 and increased the Mass Purge Concurrent Threads Limit to 5. This allowed the POA to be more responsive to his users.
Note, this setting is ONLY AVAILABLE ON THE POA HTTP AGENT INTERFACE! You can't modify the settings in the startup or in ConsoleOne. This means that the next time the POA gets restarted, those thresholds will not be set the same way. Keep that in mind if you have to use it.
GroupWise Resource Archive - October 2011
GroupWise Resource Archive – October 2011
Stay current with the latest discussion between GroupWise administrators, partners and consultants. Free and complete with high speed text search, topics range include GroupWise technical issues to Attachmate/Novell business discussions.
The October 2011 edition of the GroupWise Resource Archive is available from:
Collated by Advansys since November 1999 and created using Archive To Go, the GroupWise Resource Archive is a rich information resource derived from the GroupWise administrators' NGW List.
If you have collated valuable information in your GroupWise email account, you can also create portable, searchable knowledge archives using Advansys Archive To Go. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us.
The Advansys Archive To Go Team
2 Ways to Look at Email Discovery with GroupWise
November 7, 2007
I've been thinking about this a lot. And I've talked to a lot of people about it. I've come to the conclusion that there are 2 ways to go about doing email discovery and forensics work, particularly when it comes to litigation support type work. The first way is the way that I end up doing a lot of my work. I get a call from a LitSupport company who has a bunch of data they were sent and it's all GroupWise. I help them extract the data using my GroupWise expertise and the tools that I have. We tend to extract everything to PST since that's what most LitSupport companies want it in. This is the Post-extraction method. It tends to cost a lot of money in Consulting and LitSupport dollars. And it's not very good for companies (well, other than companies like mine and Lit Support companies who make money doing the extraction work) who have multiple litigation requirements that they have to fulfill.
The other way to handle this is pre-emptively, or before it happens, the customer can setup (or we can help them set it up) an archiving solution such as GWAVA Reveal and/or Retain, Nexic Discovery, or Messaging Architects GWArchive. These products all support GroupWise natively and allow the customer to do searches and extract those searches to a readable and searchable format. If a judge tells you to provide all the mail from 2006 that includes the words balogna, you can easily go to any of these tools and do a search on those keywords and then export them to a CD and deliver it. You don't have to get a Consultant involved (although sometimes the objectivity of a consultant is required) or at least it shouldn't take the consultant as long to take care of if you're already got an archive that you can search and prepare for them. Cost-wise, each of these products are sold on a per-user basis, but by paying up front to get these types of solutions in place and ready to go, you can avoid the costly attorney & consulting fees that come around the other side of a litigation situation.
So, you might want to take a look at what your email retention requirements are (check with the regulatory board in your industry to find out what they are) and get ready ahead of time by using an Enterprise Archiving solution to get ahead of the curve. The other huge benefit of using tools like these is you can get a bunch of that old GroupWise email off of your production GroupWise environment, and on to an online archive that your users can refer to, but it wont' be hogging up your GroupWise System.
Let us know if we can help you install and configure any of these types of solutions. We've installed them in lots of companies across the nation and could easily be scheduled to come help you.
Until that time, keep sending those emails, and let us know how we can help you get your GroupWise System in the best shape possible.
Matt Ray, Owner, Prinicipal Consultant, MC Consulting – GroupWiseGuru.com
Recreate User Database - A GW Zombification Tool!
September 25, 2007
It's almost Halloween time and there's always talk about Zombies at Halloween time, right? Besides being a GroupWise expert, I've also spent a lot of time in Haiti (with Healing Hands for Haiti, my hobby, you might say) where most of the "real" zombies live, I'm told. But what you may not know is that we can create zombies of our own in GroupWise. To explain, I need to explain to you a little bit about GroupWise and how it works.
GroupWise uses a set of shared databases to store and represent messages to users. There are a set of user databases (ofuser directory), a set of message databases (ofmsg directory), and a directory for attachments (offiles). When I send an email to someone else in my post office with GroupWise, three things happen (I'm definitely simplifying the process here). First, I insert the actual message in my assigned message database. Then I create 2 pointers to that message. The first is in my Sent Items folder and the second is in the recipient's Inbox folder. If there's an attachment to the message it gets stored in offiles directory, but that's besides the point.
So, let's say my recipient doesn't want the email any longer. He deletes the message and then empties it. However, until I delete the message and empty it from my Sent Items folder, that message, although dead to my recipient, is still living. From my recipient's perspective, it's buried, but really, "It's A-L-I-V-E-!" (insert a wicked sounding laugh here).
So, who cares whether GroupWise naturally creates zombies of messages or not? Well, when you're going through email for litigation purposes and you can't find the email you're looking for, perhaps the reason it's not there is because the recipient deleted it from his mailbox. But, as long as the sender didn't delete it from their Sent Items folder (something that almost nobody does, by the way, because they don't think to delete sent items) you can run a process called, "Recreate User Database," or something I like to call, "Bringing emails back from the dead!" The recreate user database will dump all the emails into the recipient's Cabinet folder, even the ones that were in sub-folders before, but there's a good chance you'll get many more emails recreated than what you had originally. By the way, it also dumps all the Sent Items in that same folder. Once they're in that folder you can do your keyword searches or extract the mailbox to PST and search it that way.
I hope this helps in your email searching. If you need more information about creating zombie emails, please don't hesitate to contact us for assistance. For litigation/e-discovery purposes, or for any of your GroupWise Consulting needs, call us and we'll help you get the job done, even if it means bringing emails back from the grave!
Matt Ray, GroupWise Guru, email@example.com, 661.885.2699
GroupWise Litigation Support!
August 17, 2007
Have you been given a GroupWise project to grab all the files from backup and extract mailboxes? Has it been difficult? Let us help you by providing GroupWise expertise in this area. We've been doing GroupWise Litigation Support for several years now, providing law firms & litigation support companies with GroupWise expertise on their toughest GroupWise Litigation Support Projects. We've worked with so many companies to provide this support that we went ahead and documented what you need to get started. This doc tells you what files and directories are required to get things going right.
GroupWise 7 SP2 ships!
April 24, 2007
GroupWise 7 SP2 ships!
GroupWise 7 SP2 has recently shipped and it has a lot of fixes in it! You can download the NLM/NT version by going to this link:
Download the LINUX version by going here:
You should read through the list of fixes if you've got some time on your hands. But one of the most important fixes is a Web Access vulnerability issue. Read more about it here:
I've installed SP2 for a few customers and overall it has gone really well. No major issues have occurred. And, the client is a lot snappier, based on my experience. If you need help with applying the Support Pack, don't hesitate to call us. We have accellerated upgrades that can help you apply the support pack within a few hours (backend only) and very little downtime. In fact, most people are surprised by how little down time we have when we upgrade them from 6.5 to 7 or even 6.0. We just did an upgrade from 6.03 to 7.01 IR1 2 weeks ago for a large school system and we had 5 minutes of downtime. Of course, this is an in place upgrade. If you need to upgrade your servers and do an across the wire migration it will take longer, but we've done one of those with as little as 30 minutes of downtime. The nice thing about that is you could do it during lunch, which we did.
Make sure you call us for all your upgrade and migration needs. We'd also be glad to help you with an enterprise level archiving solution. See our next post.
GWAVACon Report
January 29, 2007
GWAVACon Report
For those of you who missed GWAVACon this year, you really missed a great event!
There were over 500 attendees and lots of great information being shared. One event that I always like to take good notes on are the previews of future products coming out from Novell. Phil Muir spent about an hour demonstrating the new features of Bonsai, the next release of GroupWise, due out in the fall of 2007. He actually brought up the GroupWise client, as it stands currently, and he was unable to get it to crash. There were a few memory errors, but the client wouldn't crash. The reason he wanted it to crash was to demonstrate the new feature of Save Draft or whatever they're going to call it. In essence, if you're working on an email and GroupWise crashes, when you re-open the client, it asks you if you want to continue working on the email you were composing. That, in itself, is almost enough to upgrade to the cliient when it comes out. But there's more. Here are my notes from his presentation. They are a little cryptic, so please take them for what they are, Notes. If you have questions about my notes, please email me and I'll be glad to answer them. firstname.lastname@example.com
Power to the People
Ken Muir, Phil Karen – Bonsai
Past successes:
May – 2006
Novell Open Workgroup Suite
June, 2006
GMS, powered by INtellisync
Dec, 2006
Interim Release 1
Future of Groupwise – Bonsai
Halfway done coding with bonsai, code complete in May, ship in November '07.
- Contact management
- People have to get answers fast
"The first two-by-four that hit me in the head, when I looked down at it, it said Contact Management."
- Schedule Coordination
- Publish calendars
- Subscribe to calendars
- Check availability across organizations
- Windows Client
- Collect
- Process
- Organize
- Do
- Review
- Save work in progress
- Compose messages
- Office
- Manage tasks
- Linux and Mac Clients
- Linux is an alternative to Vista
- Mac dominates creative groups
- "Rome wasn't built in a day. We're trying to get both clients together as far as features go."
- Our goal: Make both clients identical.
- Functionality on Par with GroupWise 7
- -ui=gtk – a startup switch that makes groupwise look different on linux client
- Ken's Group uses a coding method called Agile Code Development that makes the code shippable at any time.
- It looks a lot like the gw7 client and he jumped around the client and got a few memory errors, but it still did everything he asked it to do.
- Full color calendars
- He actually pulled a copy of his live groupwise system and ran the gw linux client against it.
- Drag and drop calendar modifications
- New Checklist
- New automatic saving of compose mode
- Getting things done
- You can now hide completed checklist items
- You can mark items a percentage of completion (30% complete for example) – project management
- Every folder has the ability to have a sticky folder list or quickview – remember folder list state
- Remember quickviewer visibility
- Customized Panels
- GWAVAHome Page – web page panels
- Message Preview – you can see the first 200 characters of all of your emails
- It remembers your login information and the page you were on
- Editors/Viewers
- You change the setting and when you go into new mail, it opens word as the composer
- You can insert spreadsheets and other applications into the email, just like you could in Word or Excel (or Open Office)
- Publish Calendars
- Someone sends you an email
- Webcal: it populates all the schedules into your calendar
- GWMailto hangs
- Interacts with Icalshare.com
- Alternate Time Zone
- During the Demo, Ken wanted to make the groupwise client to crash so he could show the way that newly composed messages are auto-saved so that when you go back into GroupWise after a crash, it asks you what you want to do with the messages that were saved. He eventually just killed GroupWise with the Task Manager and then restarted it so he could show this feature. It's ironic. There are still 4 months left of coding to do on it, but he couldn't get it to crash.
- Address now allows you to put in photos and things and looks like outlook
- View Map allows you to click on a user in address book and it jumps to google and maps their address out, all from within the client
- Birthdays put into the address book show up on your calendar automatically
- Summary
- Next Release, Bonsai, late 2007
- Contact Management
- Calendars and schedule coordination
- He committed to shipping no later than November 30th
- Clients
- Windows & Windows Vista
- Web Access
- Mac
- Outlook
- Very few people were angry that he waited until June to ship because when it shipped, it was solid
- Windows Vista, end of February it will be supported
- The feedback from customers was that SP1 was the most solid release in a long time
- Support Call volume for SP1 was down 67% and defects & logs were down 68%
- Nothing is as old as yesterday's sports page – Nothing is as old as our last release. We're on the road to better things.
- This is the right release (Bonsai) at the right time for our customers
- Web Access has the most developers on his team and it's going to be awesome. He didn't show us Web Access, but will show it at Brainshare and he's saying that it's amazing.
- Questions
- We like to eat our own Caviar and we're trying to make sure that the APIs are all there.
- What version will you ship? 7.5? 8?
- 64 bit support?
- The client and backend code?
- We are working on 64 bit, but, Bonsai won't take advantage of 64 bit pointers
- We're laying foundation and it's all based on Unicode (95%)
- Are you going to change the shared folder's ability to change ownership?
- What's going on with the outlook client?
- Rewrote a bunch of tables
- Is MS helping with that?
- Mailtune
- Out of office
- Archiving to PSTs??
- Multiuser calendaring can not be shown for more than 1 day. Is this going to be addressed?
- Not sure about web access
- Management of GroupWise through imanager?
- Doubled qa team in the last month
- Adding resources to start working on aspen
- They're working on imanager lite so that it's not eDir specific. He doesn't want to tie GroupWise to eDir any longer so that non-eDir customers can install it.
- External integration with wordperfect?
GW7 SP1 Ships!
June 23, 2006
After months of waiting patiently, Novell customers can now download GroupWise 7 SP1. Although the initial GroupWise 7 release was amazing, there were many things that needed to be addressed. Novell reports that they fixed over 1000 issues with the client alone. So if you've been waiting to roll out GroupWise 7, now is the time! In addition to all of the issue fixing, Novell has also shipped an amazing new product called the GroupWise Mobile Server, allowing you to connect to all of your wireless PDA devices. And you can do it for free!
If you'd like help upgrading your GroupWise System to GW7, or want to apply SP1, don't hesitate to contact us. Also, let us help you implement the new Mobile Server! Call or email us today!
Welcome to GWGuru.com
December 22, 2005
Have you ever worked with a company who is so good at one thing that when you talk to them, you instantly know that they know what they're talking about and you feel like you've come to the right place? Well, if that one thing you're looking for help on is GroupWise, welcome to the right place.
GWGuru.com, a website run by MC Consulting, was founded by Matt Ray, a consultant who has been doing Enterprise-level GroupWise Consulting and Support for the past 14 years. While at Novell Matt worked with many different customers including LAPD, Port of Los Angeles, City of Redondo Beach, Synovus, Nationwide, Baptist Health Services of South Florida, Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass, and others. Matt has worked in the Legal, Government, Schools, Health Systems, and Corporate industries. He has offered many solutions around GroupWise and works with partners to provide additional solutions to you, providing business solutions, not just boxes of software.
Now offering GroupWise 7 Upgrades!
Are you looking for help upgrading your GroupWise System? What about professional consulting advice about how GroupWise can help you solve your business needs? Contact us and we can help you perform an accellerated upgrade of your GroupWise Backend, allowing you to roll your front end out at your own leisure. Or, we can do the whole thing. How about making sure your agents and gateways are running in a fault tolerant and redundant configuration, providing uptime beyond your wildest dreams.
GroupWise Monitoring
We now offering GroupWise Monitoring as a service. We can monitor your GroupWise System, making sure it's designed and performing correctly. We'll provide you regular reports on usage, trends, and issues. Let us help you and your staff to make your GroupWise System a more efficient and stable application. Our consultants have the GroupWise expertise to help you and your GroupWise System rock solid!
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If you are an integrator/reseller and would like to partner with us on GroupWise projects, we'd be glad to work with you. Bring us in as your GroupWise expert, providing high-level GroupWise expertise to your customers and helping them to see value in the service you provide them. We can also provide GroupWise Monitoring for them, sending you the reports, allowing you to reformat them and deliver them to your customer. Look like GroupWise Pros!
It's a win/win solution for you and your customers!
Contact us to learn more about our services and how we can make your GroupWise System a dream come true.
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Introduced originally in California and followed by Texas, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Kansas and New York, Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment or DSRIP programs are a key feature of the dynamic and evolving Medicaid delivery system reform landscape. DSRIP initiatives are part of broader Section 1115 Waivers and provide states with significant funding that can be used to support hospitals and other providers in changing how they provide care to Medicaid beneficiaries. Originally, DSRIP initiatives were more narrowly focused on funding for safety net hospitals, specifically maintaining supplemental payments for safety net hospitals. Reflecting a growing emphasis at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to strengthen accountability for Medicaid waiver dollars, a defining feature of these waivers is that they require providers—and, recently, states—to meet benchmarks as a condition of receiving Medicaid funds.
In light of the importance of DSRIP initiatives, Manatt recently undertook an analysis with the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured to assess how they are working in four states, titled "Key Themes From Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) Waivers in 4 States." Building on an earlier brief that provides an overview of the DSRIP waivers, the authors conducted intensive interviews with 16 key stakeholders—state officials, providers, and advocates—to identify emerging trends and themes in three states that have expanded Medicaid (California, Massachusetts, and New York) and one state that has not (Texas). As appears in the Executive Summary, the key findings of the analysis are:
Key Findings
- DSRIP initiatives are promoting collaboration, supporting innovation, and bringing renewed attention to social services. DSRIP initiatives are sparking new collaborations among providers, such as urban teaching hospitals and rural healthcare providers or primary care and mental health providers. With the funds that they make available, providers are pursuing innovative approaches to improving care that they have been considering for years. In addition, DSRIP waivers are increasing the focus on the role that social services play in the health of Medicaid beneficiaries, including stable housing, jobs, transportation, food, and other "nonmedical" resources. At the same time, providers are struggling with the scope and complexity of the organizational, financial and cultural change needed to implement DSRIP initiatives in some states.
- It is critical but challenging to design appropriate DSRIP measures. With significant federal funding on the line in DSRIP waivers, it is vital to design measures that capture whether providers are using DSRIP funds to improve care for beneficiaries. The effort is complicated by the vast number of DSRIP projects in some states, as well as by the inherent tension between providers wanting the flexibility to design projects that address community-specific needs (as allowed in the initial waiver approved in California) versus the need for some standardization of projects and metrics (more like the recently approved waiver in New York). States and other stakeholders also face many of the classic issues that confront most measurement efforts, including the burden that it can impose on providers to gather and report standardized data, the risk that measures will overincentivize providers to focus too heavily on specialized activities or populations, and the risk that providers will employ problematic strategies to meet performance benchmarks.
- DSRIP's role in broader delivery system reform and its relationship to Medicaid managed care remains unclear. A major issue in all four states is how DSRIP fits into other efforts to transform the Medicaid delivery system. In particular, DSRIP waivers often share many of the same goals as Medicaid managed care programs—slowing the rate of growth in spending, improving care and offering greater accountability. DSRIP offers providers—rather than health plans—the opportunity to change the way that they provide care, but, even so, the relative roles of DSRIP-funded provider networks and managed care plans remain unclear in many instances. New York reported the most progress in articulating the relative roles as a result of the work it has done on planning (required in the waiver) to ensure that managed care companies work more over time with the provider networks established by the DSRIP waiver.
- The financing structure behind DSRIP waivers can dramatically affect how they are implemented. States typically rely on contributions from state and local public hospitals to finance their share of DSRIP payments. Not surprisingly, this has an effect on the role that providers are expected to play in DSRIP. For example, California currently reserves its DSRIP funds for the state's 21 public hospital systems because they finance the nonfederal share of DSRIP payments, as well as of some of the state's other Medicaid spending. In Texas, large public hospitals finance the bulk of the state's share of DSRIP expenses, but a number of other public entities, including community-based mental health centers, also contribute, and some stakeholders believe it has increased their influence over DSRIP implementation.
- The complexity and rapid pace of DSRIP implementation pose challenges to providers, advocates, and state officials. It often takes an extended period—two years for New York—to negotiate a DSRIP waiver with CMS, and once approval is secured, states typically want to implement rapidly to jump-start delivery system reform and allow providers to begin earning DSRIP payments. At the same time, the work is complex, often requiring providers to build relationships with new partners and make fundamental changes in their organizational culture and approach to the delivery of care. The complexity and pace of change create challenges for all stakeholders, but have proven particularly challenging for consumer advocates. They generally are enthusiastic about the role that DSRIP can play in improving care for Medicaid beneficiaries, but already have numerous ACA issues to address and limited resources. As a result, they struggle to keep track of and actively participate in DSRIP implementation.
Looking Ahead
The early results indicate that DSRIP waivers are driving important changes in the relationships among providers and the way that they provide care. On the other hand, there are a number of open questions about the future of DSRIP waivers, including the fundamental issue of whether CMS will allow more states to use DSRIP waivers as a tool for delivery system reform. If it does, CMS, states and other stakeholders will continue to face questions about how to track and evaluate the impact of DSRIP waivers; how to integrate them with Medicaid managed care and other delivery system reform efforts; how to ensure their long-term sustainability; and how to ensure that consumer advocates have the resources with which to track and respond to DSRIP developments.
Robin Rudowitz, Associate Director, Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Alexandra Gates, Policy Analyst, Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured


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Ulster coach Doak sounds a European Champions Cup warning
Ulster's participation in next year's European Champions Cup and this season's Guinness Pro12 top four play-offs are under threat unless results immediately improve, Kingspan head coach Neil Doak has warned.
The province can take nothing for granted after falling to seventh in the Pro12 table.
If the season ended today, Ulster would make neither the domestic play-offs or next season's Champions Cup and, even with two thirds of the campaign still to play, Doak has flagged the need to start picking up results immediately ahead of Edinburgh's visit to Kingspan Stadium tomorrow night (7.35 kick-off).
With all four of the Pro12's competing countries having to be represented in Europe's top competition, including the lowly Italians, it is likely that only a top six finish would seal Champions Cup qualification for Ulster and Doak maintains that a Pro12 league semi-final berth remains the minimum requirement, particularly with perennial strugglers Connacht on the march.
"You saw Connacht at the weekend beating Munster away, it's a great result for them and it just shows the improvement across the board," he said.
"Edinburgh themselves lost to Zebre away. It's not going to be an easy ride all year for anyone.
"Obviously our goal at the start of the year is that, minimum, we're in the Pro12 top four and ideally we want to win the league. It's early in the season, but we're under no illusions about how big a game Friday is for us to get back to winning ways, especially at home."
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I've never been one to commit to anything for more than a few years, and a decade is my absolute maximum. Well, this blog - under one name or another - has been around for nearly 10 years. That's too long. So, I am thinking of turning this one into an archive, or deleting it, and starting up a new one.
I can think of any of a number of reasons to do so - not the least of which being that it would be that I am not in the same place (literally or figuratively) I was when I started this one. Given that this one had some team members at one point, it was sort of all over the place. A new blog would be a chance perhaps to have some content and linkage that is more focused.
When and if that happens, I'll make some mention. Let's say that I have a concept in mind, that would certainly be in character.
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Ten Year Itch
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Friday, December 7, 2012
Say hello to
Red Horizon - this one looks extremely new.
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Monday, December 3, 2012
A reminder
It's damn difficult to spend as many years as I have on this rock without being in some way affected by HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) - either by becoming infected one's self, or by knowing some of those who have. The paranoia that I recall all too well a small handful of decades ago has long since passed, but the terrible suffering and willful ignorance thereof has continued unabated. Never forget.
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I am running P6 Professional R8.3 w/ Microsoft SQL 2012 in a Terminal Services environment. I able to log and connect into the database but as soon as I logoff, my database connection is lost. When logged on to windows as Administrator (DOMAIN) the settings are saved correctly. All others it does not retain settings even if the user is a domain administrator and has full administrator rights. Settings are only saved for the user Administrator. I'm guessing it is a SQL permissions issue but I can't be certain as I have fiddled with the SQL permissions.
First thing to note is that SQL2012 is only became supported with 8.3 SP1 so I suggest upgrading to that first.
Second, I highly suggest making sure that the sql accounts get 'unplayed with' this can cause havoc with your database later on (like deleted projects re-appeaing when you log out/in). There is an article on My Oracle Support that covers what sql roles each account should have (Doc ID 902749.1)
All that being said, none of this should be affecting the Alias information that is stored by the client.
For that I would recommend going through the article on My Oracle Support that covers the minimum permissions (Doc ID 1409273.1)
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|Previous Posts to this Post
What this post is about
|This post has 3 basic parts:
Part 1 - Using the Windows Azure Portal to setup your account
Part 2 – After signing up, create your Hosted Service and your Storage Account
|The hosted service is essentially the web role in which you will host your Azure RESTful service that we create in the previous blog post (Part 4).
This is accomplished by logging into your Azure Account. Navigate to
Notice the red arrow pointing to Hosted Services, Storage Account & CDN. Click on that link.
Notice that I already have 5 Hosted Services and 5 Storage Accounts.
Part 2 – Select Hosted Services
|Click on Hosted Services (5). You will see the following screen:
Note that the Toolbar area has New Hosted Service that you will now click.
Note that I have provided:
We will now work on our Storage Account.
Notice that only two pieces of data were needed. Note that the url (fastmotorcycle.core.windows.net) is different from the Hosted Service, which is FastMotorcycleService.cloudapp.net.
The storage account is now crated as you can see above. It is called fastmotorcycle.
Part 2
|Review the important information.
One very important piece of information is the Access keys. You will need these access keys to be able to communicate with the storage account. After all, you would want just anyone to access your storage.
You will need to keep a copy of your primary access key.
In summary, here is what we have that is important:
Next Post will illustrate how insert data
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Fiddler is unbelievably important to understand.
Fiddler is an HTTP debugging proxy server application written by Eric Lawrence of Microsoft.
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'My heart is full' - Ivanka Trump announces the birth of her third child
Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka has announced the birth of her third child.
The 34-year-old and husband Jared Kushner welcomed their son Theodore James Kushner into the world on Easter Sunday.
The couple are also parents to Arabella Rose (4) and Joseph Frederick (2).
Ivanka took to Instagram to share a photo of her latest arrival, saying: "Jared and I feel incredibly blessed to announce the arrival of Theodore James Kushner. Jared, Arabella, Joseph and I are so excited to welcome this sweet little boy to our family!"
The former model shared a picture of an "it's a boy" sign which confirmed her son's name and time of birth, 5:43pm.
She also posted a photo of her cradling her new arrival with the caption: "Baby Theodore. My heart is full #grateful (sic)".
Ivanka's brother Donald Trump Jr. took to Twitter to congratulate the couple on the birth of their son.
He wrote: "Congrats to my amazing sister @IvankaTrump & Jared on the birth of their third child Theodore. Can't wait to meet! (sic)"
Ivanka, whose parents are US presidential candidate Donald Trump and former Czech model Ivana Trump, revealed in an interview with the Irish Independent in 2014, that she considers motherhood as her most important and rewarding role to date.
"I try not to put too much emphasis on balance because realistically it's very difficult to achieve. Being a mother gives each day a new and more clearly defined purpose. I've become incredibly efficient and try to relish in the chaos as much as possible.
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Still think the residency requirement is a bad idea?
The Register is reporting that, of the 2,000 gay couples that got married in Iowa in the first year it was legal, over 60% were from out of state.
Several people (including yours truly) called for a residency requirement last year in the immediate aftermath of the Varnum decision. But others (you know who you are) raised a huge stink saying that that would just be a waste of time and a "distraction" from the real issue. They also said that acknowledging the need for a residency requirement was tacit acknowledgement of the authority of the Iowa Supreme Court to legalize gay marriage when "all the Court did was issue an OPINION," and they ATTACKED those who supported a residency requirement.
One of those taking the brunt of these attacks was Rep. Steve King. Too bad for the know-it-alls that King was just proven right.
Here's King's statement on the statistics released yesterday.
"Just over one year ago, when the Iowa Supreme Court decided to ignore Iowa law and grant same sex couples the ability to get married in our state, I predicted that the decision, absent action by the state legislature to enact a marriage license residency requirement, would turn Iowa into the gay marriage Mecca." King said. "Now, the Iowa Department of Public Health is reporting that of the more than 2,000 same-sex couples who were married in Iowa between April 27, 2009, and March 31, 2010, sixty percent were from out of state," said King.
"Unfortunately, we've seen another legislative session pass without action on either a constitutional amendment to overturn the court's decision, or a marriage license residency requirement to keep the harmful effects of the court's decision from being imported by 'altar shoppers' into other states.
"This new report from the Department of Public Health reemphasizes the short-sightedness of the court's decision to enact a same-sex marriage law from the bench, and it provides even more evidence of the need for a residency requirement and a constitutional amendment to repeal it."
We have now unnecessarily exported gay marriage to a host of other states, where gay couples will now use their Iowa marriage certificate to fight for gay marriage rights elsewhere.
And it all could have been avoided if a vocal few would have listened to reason and gotten on board with the residency requirement.
I hope they're happy.
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CUPERTINO (KCBS)— Construction on Apple's Spaceship campus is about to lift off into its second phase, but area motorists say it's resulting in traffic gridlock.
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On May 20, 2016, a motion for authority to sell assets of the estates pursuant to section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code was filed in the bankruptcy case of SunEdison, Inc. and its affiliates.
The filing was assigned docket number 374 and is described on the court's official docket as follows:
Motion to Authorize Debtors' Motion for Order Pursuant to Bankruptcy Code Sections 105(A), 363(B), 363(F), 363(M), 1107, and 1108 and Bankruptcy Rules 2002, 6004, 9006, and 9019 Authorizing and Approving Entry Into Commitment Letter for Certain Project Sales and Granting Releases in Connection Therewith (related document(s)[366], [373]) filed by Jay M. Goffman on behalf of SunEdison, Inc., et al., with hearing to be held on 6/2/2016 at 10:30 AM at Courtroom 723 (SMB). (Goffman, Jay)
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The Son That Former NFL Player Rae Carruth Tried To Kill Turns 18, Still Suffering From Permanent Brain Damage
The former wide receiver, who plotted the murder of his ex, Cherica Adams, is scheduled to be released from prison soon.
Update: Already, people are applauding Nike's decision to dump Manny Pacquiao as an endorser for the Swoosh.
One of them is NBA Hall of Famer Magic Johnson, who took to his Twitter account Thursday to commend the sneaker and apparel giant for its decision, while vowing to never watch another Pac-man fight again.
"I applaud Nike for terminating Manny Pacquiao's contract after his derogatory statements that gay people are worse than animals," Johnson tweeted. "Fans of all walks of life including gay fans supported May/Pac fight putting $100M in his pocket. I guess to him their money is still green. I won't be watching another one of Manny Pacquiao's fights."
Magic's probably one of many who feel that exact same way, too.
Nike just knocked Manny Pacquiao out... and quickly.
A day after learning of the boxer's derogatory comments about gays, the Swoosh announced Wednesday that it's cutting ties with Pacquiao, ending his endorsement deal of more than eight years.
"We find Manny Pacquiao's comments abhorrent," the company said in a statement, as reported by ESPN. "Nike strongly opposes discrimination of any kind and has a long history of supporting and standing up for the rights of the LGBT community."
This comes after the boxing great and Philippine Senate candidate declared that people in gay relationships are "worse than animals" on the Philippine television network TV5.
"Have you seen any animal having male-to-male or female-to-female relations?" Pacquiao said. "If you have male-to-male or female-to-female [relationships], then people are worse than animals."
Wow. Really, Manny?
Within hours, Pacquiao apologized, tweeting: "I'm sorry for hurting people by comparing homosexuals to animals. Please forgive me for those I hurt. God bless!"
The apology wasn't enough for Nike to continue its endorsement relationship with Pac-man.
Upon learning of Pacquiao's comments, Floyd Mayweather Jr. used the opportunity to throw some jabs at his rival, too.
"We should let people live their lives the way they want to live their lives," Mayweather told TMZ Sports on Tuesday. "To each his own."
And that's coming from Mayweather, who hasn't been exactly politically correct over the course of his own career.
Pacquiao's comments were so overwhelmingly damaging that even his boxing promoter, Bob Arum, said Nike was right to cut ties with his client.
"Nike is in the business of selling its products to as wide of an audience as they can, and Manny's comments were insulting to a lot of people," Arum told ESPN. "His comments were made to a Filipino audience, where same-sex marriage is not as accepted as it is here, and Manny is a convert of enlightened Christianity, which does not believe in same-sex relationships. But to people in the United States, his words can only be viewed as hate speech. If I was running Nike, I would have to make the same decision they did."
It remains to be seen how Pacquiao's comments will affect him running for Senate.
In the meantime, he's set to fight Timothy Bradley for the third and final time on April 9.
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This totally fun Chevrolet Colombia campaign promotes their repair shops with cartoonish, mischievous ads encouraging you to take care of your car and maintain its parts.
My favorite is a poor cat shrieking into the speakers while being manhandled by the brakes with a caption reading, "Don't wait for your brakes to shriek to change them". Oh, the memories of the neighbour's cat! Another one shows a kidney getting the WWF treatment from a shock absorber with the advice, "Don't wait for your kidney to tell you to change the shock absorber." Finally, an old-fashioned coin purse takes a beating with a stick from a spark plug, suggesting not to, "Wait for your pocket to tell you to change your spark plug."
I like the ads, sure they are childish, but even grown-ups can enjoy a bit of silly fun in ads each now and then. The campaign was created by Sancho BBDO, Bogota, Colombia.
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1324 Longworth House Office Building
Friday, July 20, 2012
9:30 a.m.
The Honorable Doug Lamborn
Panel I
Tim Spisak
Deputy Assistant Director, Minerals and Realty Management
Bureau of Land Management
U.S. Department of the Interior
Panel II
David Joyner
Air Liquide Helium America, Inc.
(Truth in Testimony Form)
Walter L. Nelson
Director, Helium Sourcing & Supply Chain
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
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Tom Thoman
Airgas Division President – Gases Production
Airgas, Inc.
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Tom Rauch
Global Sourcing Manager-Services & Aftermarket Solutions
GE Healthcare
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Mark Haynes
Next Generation Nuclear Plant Industry Alliance Representative
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John R. Campbell
Former Member of the National Research Council's
Committee on Understanding the Impact of Selling the Helium Reserve
President & CEO of J.R. Campbell and Associates
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Dr. N. Phuan Ong
Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics
Director, Princeton Center for Complex Materials
Department of Physics
Princeton University
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The U.S. Federal Government is responsible for supplying 30% of world's supply of helium. Originally created as a federal helium extraction and purification plant, the BLM helium reserve is managed in a single reservoir and pipeline system located in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. While once a productive strategic resource, in the 1990s the Department of Interior lost over $1.3 billion dollars establishing and running the reserve. Due to this mounting federal debt and decreasing usefulness of the large federal reserve, in 1996, Congress passed the Helium Privatization Act of 1996 (PL 104-273). This hearing will focus on the existing demand for helium in the United States, the future of the federally-owned helium reserve, and the impact the eventual closure of the U.S. reserve would have on the scientific, technical, medical, and defense industries that depend upon helium for manufacturing and research.
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Nearly four years after Hurricanes Ike and Dolly wreaked havoc on the Texas coast, thousands of Texans are still waiting for housing assistance. The long-term disaster recovery effort financed by the federal government has made little headway. But where two state agencies faltered, another is stepping in.
According to a state report to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development at the end of June, none of the 4,100 homes that were expected to be rebuilt or reconstructed with federal money were completed. And by October, the state had spent only 10 percent of the federal money for long-term recovery.
"I can't even let anyone in the house," said Orison Bolden of Houston, whose home was damaged by Ike. "It's just too shameful." A blue tarp still covers her house in the Third Ward, a historically black neighborhood south of downtown. Although discouraged, she still hopes to receive assistance. "Just fix my roof," she said. "I will try to go and find a job and fix the rest of my house piece by piece."
In the wake of the 2008 storms, the state estimated that $3.4 billion was needed to repair or replace housing for thousands of uninsured Texans. It was also estimated that local governments would need $1.9 billion to fix damage to infrastructure like streets, water and sewage systems, and emergency equipment.
After emergency crews had rolled out, Congress appropriated $3 billion for Texas to help finance the infrastructure and housing recovery. Texas received the first round of money, $1.3 billion, in March 2009.Continue reading the main story
What followed, however, was a different kind of disaster, with long delays in money going out for housing.
Texas was "the worst-performing state in the country on expenditure of funds and disaster money," said Mercedes Márquez, an assistant secretary of HUD, which administers the program on the federal level. She said the way the money was managed was a mistake.
Gov. Rick Perry's office said the federal government had caused the delay in allocating funds by not doling out the second round quickly.
Mr. Perry wanted communities under the direction of local governments to control how federal money was used, so the state devised a financing allocation process that turned over decision-making to regional councils of local government officials. The state's role was to oversee the process.
More than 200 local governments and nonprofits, still dealing with the emotions of the disaster, became responsible for executing recovery projects — and complying with complex federal requirements on spending the money. If they did not get it right, they risked not receiving reimbursements.
Mr. Perry divided the administration of the program between two state agencies. The now-dissolved Texas Department of Rural Affairs, which usually oversaw federal grants for rural development, was in charge of nonhousing projects. The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, which had been criticized over the disaster recovery program it administered after Hurricane Rita in 2005, oversaw the housing projects.
As HUD noted in monitoring reports, the state did not enact standard procedures for how local governments should process applications and write contracts for projects — the result was bureaucratic chaos.
Mr. Perry's office fired back at HUD. "The primary reasons that Texas' expenditure rate is not faster are due to HUD's delayed guidelines and bureaucratic micromanaging of the state's recovery efforts," Kathy Walt, Mr. Perry's deputy chief of staff, said in a letter to Ms. Márquez in November.
In late 2009, HUD rejected Texas' initial proposal for the second round of financing, $1.7 billion.
Ms. Walt wrote that HUD had demanded Texas reach an agreement with advocates for low-income housing who had filed complaints against the state before it would release the money.
"I honestly believe the state was headed off a cliff with Round 1 — that they were not compliant with federal law," said John Henneberger, co-director of the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service, which was involved in the talks.
Many communities had skewed financing toward infrastructure repairs and away from the housing needs of individual families that lacked insurance or the financial means to rebuild after the storms, Mr. Henneberger said, despite federal laws requiring that the state direct a certain amount of money toward housing assistance. The poorest people were often left without help, and the state created "a real problem in terms of not fairly serving people of color and persons with disabilities," he said.
An agreement in May 2010 between the governor's office and the housing advocates required the state to devote the majority of financing to housing in the second round, put performance measures and benchmarks in the state and local governments' contracts, and update the analysis the state used to identify poor and damaged areas needing aid.
HUD refused to release the second round of financing until the updated analysis was completed. And when HUD accepted the state's new analysis in May, it again held the funds until local governments completed training on how to interpret and use the document.
In June, Mr. Perry shifted the administration of the entire program to the General Land Office.
"We determined that putting this function, the responsibility for recovery, under one single agency that's headed by a statewide elected official would lead to efficiencies that the other two agencies hadn't really been able to achieve," said Lucy Nashed, a spokeswoman for Mr. Perry.
Only 236 houses had been rebuilt with the federal funds when the land office took over, said Gary Hagood, the office's deputy commissioner of financial management. In eight months, the General Land Office helped increase the number of single-family homes rebuilt to 1,455, and 932 homes are under construction.
"This should have taken three or four years, but it just didn't happen," Mr. Hagood said. Although he is a proponent of local control, he said that running the program at the state level would have been faster, but that the delays do not fall solely on the state.
HUD can take up to 60 days to respond to submissions, and "you have to work within their process, which is review, after review, after review," he said.
When he was brought in to revamp the program in early 2011, Mr. Hagood said, many of the contracts approved by state officials lacked performance measures and benchmarks for completion. "That's just something we can't have in a program that really has a limited timeline," he said.
Mr. Hagood ensured aggressive timelines were put in the state's contracts. The program is now scheduled to be complete by the end of 2015, HUD has released the remaining money, and the state is awarding grants to local governments under the rules of the conciliation agreement.
In total, $1.6 billion has been budgeted for housing needs, with $238 million (14 percent) spent. For nonhousing projects, $1.4 billion is budgeted, with $262 million (18.6 percent) spent.
"The state is going to have to belly up and take some responsibility here and put in place a better way to do it next time," Mr. Henneberger said, "or God forbid, the next hurricane or other major disaster, we're going to pay once again to learn all these lessons all over again."Continue reading the main story


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