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Pay for performance is touted as the magic elixir of health care. Every week a payer outlines a P4P proposal that it says will enhance medical care while paying doctors more. Health plans, employer groups, the federal government — payers universally say that P4P holds the promise of improving quality by encouraging doctors to implement evidence-based medicine. But not all doctors are happy, and physician-participation is crucial to P4P.
Here's what the AMA says: "Some so-called pay-for-performance initiatives are a lose-lose proposition for patients and their doctors," says AMA Secretary John H. Armstrong, MD. "The only benefit is to health plans. Done right, these programs can improve medical care; done wrong, they can harm patients."
The difficulty is in defining performance. Depending on whom you ask, sometimes it is a synonym for quality, at other times for cost.
The AMA and other physician organizations, such as the Society of Thoracic Surgery, worry that P4P is no more than a withhold program made up to look like something new, that P4P creates exclusive panels, that it is unethical to create tiers of physicians based on criteria over which they have no control, that P4P programs fail to adhere to a specified set of standards, and that physicians will be expected to make financial investments in information technology that they cannot afford.
"Pay for performance can be an effective system as long as it isn't a tournament model system, pitting doctors against each other," says Jeffrey Rich, MD, chairman of the society's task force on pay for performance.
"Right now there are three ways we pay doctors," argues Leonard Schaeffer, MD, chairman of WellPoint. "Fee for service, capitation, and salary, and they are all bad. That's what economist James Robinson [University of California, Berkeley] has said, and he's right. Pay for performance can improve the quality of care, increase the value we receive, and encourage the adoption of information technology and electronic medical records."
He says Wellpoint is developing programs that will pay bonuses to physicians who demonstrate improved clinical outcomes, the use of evidence-based medical procedures, improved generic prescribing rates, the implementation of information technology, and high levels of patient satisfaction.
The public is demanding greater accountability, says Douglas Hiza, MD, medical director for provider relations at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota. His company recently launched two P4P programs: Recognizing Excellence and Assisting Smokers To Quit. The former will focus on outcomes measures for five clinical specialties (internal medicine, family practice, pediatrics, OB/GYN, and cardiology) and will affect about 150,000 members. The latter will pay doctors extra to do exactly what its name says. The programs will be expanded in the next several years to include additional specialties and hospitals.
Other health plans agree that they need to put their money where their mouth is. Blue Cross and BlueShield of Michigan recently paid 10 Michigan physician groups a total of more than $1 million in P4P bonuses for adopting electronic medical record systems, referring chronically ill patients to disease management programs, identifying patients with a high risk of medical complications, and an increased use of generics.
All that sounds like something no one can argue with. One thing that worries Armstrong and the AMA is that some P4P initiatives appear to be no more than old-fashioned withhold programs, an idea they feel has come and gone. The purpose of withholds was always to limit care, and that's always made for bad medicine, they say. "The idea of withholding payments to physicians and then releasing those payments if the physician acts right removes incentives to quality. That's not what these programs should be about," says Armstrong. And the AMA is against P4P programs that create exclusive networks or that demand physicians make large investments in information technology to improve their reporting capabilities.
Another concern — for doctors and payers — is a current lack of universal reporting standards, an issue that Schaeffer and others say must be addressed by the people with the funds and expertise to do so: plans, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and organizations such as the National Quality Forum. "There's a willingness on the part of the federal government to play a role here, I believe," he says.
What the AMA wants to see is the adoption of several key principles by payers in P4P programs: physician participation must be completely voluntary, sponsors should give doctors the option of participation and not punish them if they don't, and programs should not benefit big practices over small practices or favor practices with greater information technology. P4P programs should minimize financial and technological barriers to physician participation, says the AMA.
"One thing we want to see avoided are P4P programs that require physician practices to purchase health-plan specific IT capabilities," says Armstrong.
One reason that P4P may be promising more than it can now deliver is that P4P resembles an historical imperative, at least to many payers, according to James Rohack, MD, chairman of the AMA board of trustees. "Pay for performance is a method of linking pay to a measure of individual, group or organizational performance, based on an appraisal system," Rohack wrote to the AMA Board of Delegates in a recent white paper outlining the variety of available P4P initiatives. "The market is moving toward exclusivity in terms of physician networks and hospitals."
Most P4P programs provide financial bonuses to physicians, their groups, or hospitals that meet specific performance criteria. And most programs are modest, offering bonuses from 1 percent to 5 percent of a physician's total revenue from a specific plan. Because most bonuses are paid by plans at the group level, physician organizations usually devise internal P4P programs reflecting the plan's standards and setting some distribution formula. None of this is really all that new. Many health plans have run so-called bonus programs for years, but most were from withhold pools that were economically based: If a medical group could rein in overall costs, the plans would return the withhold, sometimes at as much as 150 percent of what was in the withhold pool.
"We've found that bonuses based on the limitations of referrals and on productivity heighten physician performance anxiety and their perceptions that care may be compromised in those areas," says Kevin Grumbach, MD, a researcher at the Primary Care Research Center of the University of California – San Francisco, who has studied the relationship between the quality of care and managed care payment incentives. "Incentive programs based on meeting quality measures and improving patient satisfaction are associated with significantly higher physician job satisfaction."
That sort of incentive system is what pay for performance should be about, says Sidna Scheitel, MD, an internist at the Mayo Clinic who served on the steering committee of a recent study of P4P by the disease management company American Healthways and Johns Hopkins University Medical Center. "What pay-for-performance means for us is a revolution in how we get paid," she says. "More importantly, it can improve patient care."
Wellpoint's Schaeffer agrees. "Bringing doctors and hospitals into reimbursement systems that improve care is only the beginning of changing the way the system works, but it's imperative," he says. "Medicare, the AMA, JCAHO, it's the role of all segments to focus their constituencies on pay for performance."
An example of the kind of P4P initiative that does drive doctors up the wall is the UnitedHealth Performance pilot program being rolled out in Missouri. That program is aimed at hourly General Motors employees in UnitedHealth Group's PPO network. The physicians in the network are being rated for quality and efficiency using outdated and insufficient claims data from 2002 and 2003, according to Michael D. Maves, MD, the AMA's executive vice president and CEO. According to Maves, physicians passing the quality and efficiency screens are designated "performance" physicians and are listed in the UnitedHealth Group directory of physicians with a star next to their names. Under the program, patients would have to pay 100 percent of their costs for office visits and preventive care services that are received from UnitedHealth Group participating physicians not designated as "performance" physicians. Essentially they are not in the network at all.
For example, Jim H. Petersen, MD, president of the St. Charles-Lincoln County Medical Society and a gastroenterologist in Chesterfield, Mo., found that he had been designated as a UnitedHealth Group "performance" doctor because his efficiency was too low, according to the AMA. He was told that he billed the insurer $375,000 for 279 patient encounters the previous year, but needed to bill for no more than $373,400 to be considered efficient, according to Maves.
"The program seeks to destroy the patient/physician relationship and institutes roadblocks and financial disincentives for many patients seeking primary care and preventive services from their physicians," says Maves. He, Peterson, and representatives of other regional professional medical associations said in a recent letter to UnitedHealth Group Chairman and CEO President William W. McGuire, MD: "This strategy flies in the face of the importance of prevention being discussed by health insurers across the country. This threatens to disrupt GM employees' longstanding relationships with physicians who know them and have cared for them for years."
The UnitedHealth Performance program is disguised as a pay-for-performance program which, instead of rewarding physicians for providing quality care, punishes patients for seeing any physician who does not provide the lowest average cost. It should be noted that these costs are not merely for services provided directly by the treating physician, but these costs include all services received in the treatment regimen, such as hospital, diagnostic testing, and other physician costs, although the primary care physician has no control over the charges for these additional services."
The uproar over the UnitedHealth program is widespread. These kinds of programs are "inherently unethical," says Paul Bronston, MD, chairman of the American College of Medical Quality. "I see no program that can be fair to doctors if they're not judging doctors on standard of care." And the Medical Group Management Association's chief executive, William F. Jessee, MD, said publicly that the program fails to utilize quality measures for 12 medical specialties. "Physicians are being selected solely on the basis of cost," Jessee said in a separate letter to McGuire about a UnitedHealth Performance program initiated in Louisiana. "We really don't know what qualifies them."
In response to the hue and cry from the AMA and the MGMA, a UnitedHealth spokesman said publicly that UnitedHealth Performance is not a true pay-for-performance program, but did not offer specifics. In a recent interview, UnitedHealth's Reed Tuckson, MD, senior vice president for consumer health and medical care advancement, said that his company believes in the inherent worth of P4P programs and "we're continuing to develop and improve models we believe can work to improve care."
UnitedHealth Group's troubles and the reservations of the AMA notwithstanding, P4P is moving forward. Recently, CMS began to push the idea. According to Geof Baker, CEO of Med-Vantage, a health care research company that recently completed a study of P4P programs, the private sector will watch the CMS initiative closely. "For one thing, payers are thinking about coalitions to push P4P, in part because the information technology cost can be significant," says Baker.
Jeffrey Kang, MD, chief medical officer at Cigna, says that truly successful P4P programs will involve "multiple health plans, multiple employers, and maybe CMS." Examples of employer involvement include the Leapfrog Group, the Bridges to Excellence program, and the Integrated Healthcare Association, which coordinates a P4P initiative in California that includes six health insurers and 7 million members.
By the end of this year, more than 600,000 Medicare recipients will be in test programs that pay doctors and hospitals bonuses for achieving better results, like increasing the number of diabetic patients whose blood sugar is under control. Under Medicare's doctors' test program, which involves 10 large groups covering about 200,000 patients, physicians will receive bonuses if they measurably improve care for patients with common chronic diseases, including congestive heart failure, coronary disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure.
To qualify for the bonuses, the doctors must also provide preventive services like vaccines and cancer screening, and they must save Medicare money by keeping patients out of the hospital and eliminating unnecessary procedures.
A similar pay-for-performance program involving 280 hospitals is already under way.
Some doctors say they are glad CMS is making a move toward P4P. "One of our biggest problems has been Medicare," says Brent C. James, MD, director of the Institute for Health Care Delivery Research in Salt Lake City. The institute is part of Intermountain Health Care, an integrated provider system. James says that the parent organization "has been able to negotiate contracts with private plans where they share in the cost savings created by improving care. Medicare is take it or leave it."
Some people see hope in what P4P can do for health care in its inherent need to create a uniform standard set of standards. In May, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality unveiled final standards created with input from a wide range of stakeholders. "In the end, there's no silver bullet for solving our crisis," says Wellpoint's Schaeffer. "It will take leadership, new behaviors, political will, and a culture of accountability. That's what pay for performance will do to help shape our future."
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Your ears did not deceive you. That was a very vocal slice of 70,000 suffering 49ers fans chanting "We Want Carr." As in David Carr. This David Carr. Poor bastards.
Alex Smith and his tiny, tiny hands stunk up the joint last night so badly that fans begged for a savior to save them from their misery, even if that savior has sewn nothing but misery wherever he's gone. It's a testament to the failure of the Alex Smith experiment that he actually had a decent game statistically, but inspired zero confidence among the faithful.
This hasn't exactly sparked a panic in the front office. The team is sticking with Singletary. Singletary is sticking with Smith. Jed York says they're going to win the division.
And what else can they do? Heed these words: David Carr is never the answer. If the question is "who should relieve Alex Smith?" the correct answer is Troy Smith. If the question is "who was the best QB out of Fresno State?" the correct answer is Trent Dilfer. Hell, if the question is "who was the first pick in the 2002 NFL Draft?" the correct answer is "I don't remember."

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When Tom Brokaw's father drove his family from South Dakota to California in a brand-new 1950 Chevrolet, 10-year-old Tom considered it "an adventure the likes of which I never thought I'd see in my lifetime."
The future news icon had badly underestimated how adventurous his life would be.
In the next six decades, Brokaw covered Vietnam, the fall of the Berlin Wall, wars in Somalia and Lebanon, and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. When the World Trade Center was hit, he was at a yoga class his wife had ordered him to take. He raced to NBC headquarters, where he informed millions of viewers that the attacks were "a terrorist act of war against this country." Days later, he became one of the first targets of anthrax-laced letters that further terrorized America.
Also read: Brokaw Tells Stephen Colbert He Was at Yoga When Plane Hit WTC
Brokaw looks back on his adventures – and the stories behind them – in a new show for Discovery's Military Channel. The tentatively titled "The Brokaw Files" debuts this fall.
Brokaw, who has also written books including "The Greatest Generation," served the anchor of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004. He talked to TheWrap about President Obama's odds of re-election, his most dangerous moments on the job, and why today's problems don't begin to compare to those of The Greatest Generation.
TheWrap: You've documented so many other people's lives. Now that you're 72, is this show a way for you to document your own accomplishments and career?
Brokaw: This is a real mix. What's appealing about it to me is its generational — it's military and non-military. It has to do with events that changed our lives. Searing moments, everything from 9/11 to the 60th anniversary of D-Day and Ronald Reagan, who has become larger in life now. … I've always been interested in the place of people in shaping historic events. This gives us an opportunity to underline some of that.
Also read: Brokaw Looks Back With 'Brokaw Files' (Exclusive)
You must have had stories you couldn't tell because you had to protect sources. Will you be able to share some of them now?
It wasn't a matter of censorship. It was mostly a matter of having the time to do it. One of the things that has always been frustrating about television is it's so perishable. You put it on and if the audience has got something else to watch that night, or there's inclement weather or good weather and they're not there in front of their televisions, then it goes away. This gives us a chance to revisit what we think are some important television documentaries and examinations of people who shaped our lives.
I often make the case when I'm talking to journalism students that in television you've kind of got kind of one pass. … Because of new technology you do have a chance to Tivo stuff, or go to Hulu and see it. But that's an extra, added effort, and I don't think the country's completely conditioned to that yet. So this gives us a chance to expose an entirely new audience to stuff that we're really proud of.
Generations X and Y are similar to the Greatest Generation in that they're dealing with harsh financial times and war on multiple fronts. How do you think they compare to the Greatest Generation, and what can they learn from this show?
In my latest book, "The Time of Our Lives," I try to address those themes. I think what made the Greatest Generation so great is it was a common experience – two of them – that were deeply ingrained in their psyche. First of all the Great Depression. Times have been very difficult during this downturn. This is nothing compared to what they went through during the Great Depression. Banks were closing, farms were going away, people were losing not just their homes but their jobs. They were getting in caravans and driving from Oklahoma to California. We had the '29 collapse of the stock market in New York. It changed overnight the roaring '20s to the dirty '30s. And then coming out of that, just when they thought there was some hope, they had to put on uniforms, or go to work in shipyards and factories here at home, to fight the two greatest military machines that had ever been assembled, Japan and Germany, especially. I think younger generations now have no appreciation of how big that war was. A lot of historians have called it the single greatest event in the history of mankind.
The world was literally at stake. Hitler had consumed most of Europe. The Russians were deep, deep into the Communist revolution and fighting back for their very lives. Japan had invaded China and bombed us at Pearl Harbor. The consequences were enormous. And that generation went through all of that, emerged from it, and came back and didn't miss a beat. Just rebuilt the country. And enjoyed for the first time their real economic prosperity.
I'm a product of that generation. I remember what it was like in the 1950s in working class towns where I lived, where families were getting their first new car, for example. Nobody had had a new car. They'd always bought a used car. People were moving into new homes. They didn't have to rent them. I remember in 1950, my dad bought his first car. It was a 1950 Chevrolet. He loaded the entire family into it and we drove to California. It was an adventure the likes of which I never thought I'd see in my lifetime. And that was kind of the feel of the country at the moment.
Now, looking back, this generation, my generation, and the boomers, we've had so much, I think we have to put that in some kind of a context.
How do you feel today when you see people compare Obama to a socialist or a Nazi, or compare any of our problems today to the Great Depression?
This is all in the context of a political debate which is a little bit overheated. I don't want to get into the politics of the moment, but a lot of what has been done in the last three years really was baked in in the preceding four or even eight years. People forget that the stimulus, the TARP program, was the product of the George Bush — 43 – administration. And we had never had anything like that in our contemporary lifetime, in which the government wrote big checks to banks and car companies and … financial institutions in order to keep them from going under. I'm mean, [then-NBC owner] General Electric was a beneficiary of that in the closing days of the Bush administration. And the unemployment that came out of all that really had started much earlier than Barack Obama raised his hand and took the oath of office. Did he deal with it perfectly? No. By no means. And that's what this election is going to be all about.
Story continues after video of Brokaw's historic 9/11 report:
There've been many times in your career when you've been in danger. I'm thinking most recently of the anthrax mailings after 9/11. How often did you feel endangered?
Well, you know, it rises and falls. I've never had in a combat situation what I would call a close call. I've been embedded with the Special Forces and the 10th Mountain Division. The most dangerous places I've ever been – two of them – one was Somalia and the other was Lebanon when the war was going on. There were no frontlines, you didn't know where you could go, the Israelis were bombing West Beirut. We were there covering. We had all these armed gangs in effect emerging from the rubble and wondering who we were, whether we were spies or part of the Israeli military complex. That was a very dangerous place, but again, I didn't get close to having any kind of serious wounds or anything. A couple of rocket-propelled grenades landed near me and we drove through some pretty harrowing exchanges of fire but I've been in more trouble, frankly, climbing mountains.


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Joshua Horowitz brauchte ein neues Anderes Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 18 Designs von 4 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Amigo-US Phone Rentals is seeking a designer to help us promote our Spring sale/ raffle to our existing and past customers.
Amigo-US Phone Rental (http://www.amigo-us.com) is an international cellularphone company that rents cellular telephones to travelers to Israel. Wehave a sister service as well, MediGuard (www.mediguardtravel.com).This service is a travel medical coverage plan for travelers to Israel.
We are looking for a designer to come up with an design a campaign tohelp us launch our May "Spring" Special. The main portion of thecampaign is a drawing/ raffle, where 10 lucky phone rental applicantschosen at random will win their phone rental bill for free(restrictions apply). To help increase their chances, if they adMediGuard as well that will give them an extra entry in the drawing.
The chosen designer will be asked to deliver the campaign in two ways:
1. HTML version to be used in an e mail newsletter
2. PSD - to be used in print
Theimages to be used should reflect travel, Israel (examples: WesternWall, Sea of Galilea, Mount Meron etc.) Motorola i876 Cell Phone
(I canprovide imeages of the phones and logos)
- A clean crisp look
- Simple yet effective
- the message of the raffle to win afree phone rental is to play center stage without a lot of "noise"
- Though secondary to the phone rental, we want customers to sign up for MediGuard as well so let MediGuard show itself
- Images of the "Dome of the Rock"
- Too many images.
- too much going on, let the message of the raffle be the fical point


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Accompanying the refreshed Mac Pro, Mac Mini and iMac are interesting (if incremental) upgrades for the AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule. Both products get dual-band wi-fi, along with an interesting "guest networking" feature.
For the end user, this means a few things. As expected, the dual-band feature broadcasts on both 2.4GHz (802.11b/g/n) and 5GHz (802.11a/n) frequencies, allowing client devices to connect to whichever standard suits them without forcing the whole access point one way or the other. In other words, different devices could be connected to both g and n network simultaneously.
Guest Networking is a clever feature that essentially sets up a walled, parallel hotspot that provides only internet access, keeping the rest of your network private from connected users—perfect if you share your wi-fi with neighbours, or just run a particularly promiscuous access point.
Otherwise, the AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule are almost exactly the same—Time Capsule storage options remain at 500GB and 1TB, for which the prices stay at $US300 and $US500, respectively. The AirPort Extreme still hovers at a lofty $US180, a blow only slightly mitigated by the new features. Both are shipping right now, to the rich. [Apple]


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Terrible '80s Bridesmaid Fashions That Should Stay in the Past
by Simone Hill
The 80s were great for a lot of reasons like Michael Jackson, the toppling of the Berlin Wall, and E.T. — but bridal fashion was not one of them. In honor of Throwback Thursday, we've rounded up the best of the worst 80s bridesmaid looks that we hope never catch on again.


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Apple sued over RIM-developed USB charging technology following preemptive action
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Non-practicing entity Fundamental Innovation Systems International on Monday filed a lawsuit against Apple claiming the tech giant infringes on multiple patents covering USB charging and communication technologies.
59% of iPhone users spend more than $100 per month on carrier bills
01/30/2013, 09:01 am
iPhone users have the highest carrier bills among all smartphone platforms, with with 10 percent spending more than $200 per month with their carrier.
Apple's iPhone grew to 25.1% global market share in 2012
01/25/2013, 08:01 am
The latest worldwide smartphone data from IDC reveals that Apple's worldwide market share grew to 25.1 percent in 2012.
RIM could license software, sell hardware division after BB10 launch
01/21/2013, 11:01 am
Thorsten Heins, chief executive of Research In Motion, said on Monday that the embattled BlackBerry maker must ensure that its forthcoming BlackBerry 10 models are successful before the company can consider strategic alliances, such as licensing its software or even selling off its hardware production.
More than half of US smartphone shoppers plan to buy Apple's iPhone 5
12/13/2012, 12:12 pm
A new survey of more than 800 U.S .consumers found that more than half of those planning to buy a smartphone in the next three months say they will buy Apple's new iPhone 5.
iPhone and Android to surpass BlackBerry in enterprise for first time in 2012, study says
11/27/2012, 06:11 pm
According to a study released by IDC, Apple's iPhone and handsets operating Google's Android operating system will combine to overtake the share of enterprise customers using RIM's BlackBerry, which for years has been the stalwart OS of that segment.
Apple's iPhone grows to 5.5% share of all mobile phone sales
11/14/2012, 10:11 am
The iPhone accounted for 5.5 percent of all mobile phone sales in the third quarter of 2012, making Apple the third-largest handset maker in the world.
US immigration agency buying $2.1M worth of iPhones in switch from BlackBerry
10/22/2012, 03:10 pm
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency will leave Research in Motion's BlackBerry and buy $2.1 million worth of iPhones.
UN roundtable tackles wireless patent disputes between Apple, Samsung, others
10/10/2012, 02:10 pm
Apple was joined by Google, Microsoft, Samsung and others in a meeting in Switzerland on Wednesday that discussed the potential patent litigation reform in the lawsuit-saturated wireless industry.
Apple's iPhone tops JD Power satisfaction survey for 8th straight time
09/07/2012, 09:09 am
Apple's iPhone once again topped the J.D. Power and Associates rankings for customer satisfaction, marking 8 straight surveys of besting the competition.
Android loses ground, Apple's iPhone takes 33% of US smartphone market
07/30/2012, 03:07 pm
Domestic shipments of Android-based smartphones declined year over year in the second quarter, while Apple saw its iPhone sales grow by 2 million units.
Samsung smartphone shipments estimated at 52M, doubling Apple's iPhone
07/26/2012, 09:07 am
A new estimate pegs Samsung's smartphone shipments for the second quarter of calendar 2012 at 52.1 million, which would be twice the 26 million iPhones Apple sold during the same period.
Users say Apple's iPhone worth $313 to them, Android averages $220
07/17/2012, 08:07 am
A new survey has found that the average iPhone user considers their handset to be worth $313 to them, while Android smartphones are valued at $220.
Apple's iOS takes 65% mobile browser share in June, Android at 20%
07/02/2012, 09:07 am
Apple has continued to take an increasingly larger share of mobile devices tracked by Net Applications, reaching more than 65 percent in the month of June.
RIM's survival until BlackBerry 10 all about cash preservation
06/29/2012, 09:06 am
While Research in Motion reported dismal quarterly earnings this week, the company did manage to improve its cash balance, suggesting the its demise isn't imminent � if it can survive until the launch of BlackBerry 10.
RIM looks to BB10, software licensing for survival
06/28/2012, 06:06 pm
Research in Motion CEO Thorstein Heins said in a Thursday earnings conference call that the company is working hard to overcome the challenges faced by the rapidly expanding smartphone market and is looking to the upcoming BB10 platform and licensing deals for BlackBerry Messenger to survive.
RIM operating at a loss as fiscal 1Q 2013 earnings far worse than expected
06/28/2012, 04:06 pm
Canadian telecom Research in Motion took a substantial hit during its first fiscal quarter of 2013 with a non-GAAP loss of $0.37 per share on only $2.81 billion of revenue, numbers that are drastically lower than anticipated results from financial analysts and represent the first net loss for the company since 2004.
AT&T asked RIM for iPhone competitor while it was Apple's exclusive carrier
06/28/2012, 01:06 pm
In 2010, when the iPhone was still exclusive to AT&T in the U.S., the carrier turned to Research in Motion and asked it to develop a touchscreen device to compete with the iPhone, a new report reveals.
73% of iPhone buyers choose 4S, 38% switch from Android or BlackBerry
06/07/2012, 10:06 am
A new survey of American iPhone buyers has revealed that 73 percent choose the high-end iPhone 4S, while 38 percent of those buying Apple's smartphone reported switching from Android or BlackBerry.
IDC projects Windows Phone to surpass Apple's iPhone by 2016
06/06/2012, 07:06 pm
Market analysts at IDC estimate that the share of handsets running Microsoft's Windows Phone will grow to take nearly 20 percent of the market by 2016 at the expense of Apple's iOS and Google's Android.


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Kiteboarding's Olympic Ambassadors, Sir Richard Branson and ISAF Rolex Sailor of the year nominee Kristin Boese, met last week during Branson's BVI Kite Jam on Necker Island, an event that attracted both top kiteboarding athletes, celebrities and businessmen from all around the world.
When asked about the IKA's Olympic Project, Branson stated that "Kitesurfing reflects everything that the Olympics stands for. It has all the spirit of the original Olympics. Men against the elements, women against the elements, tremendous skill, tremendous excitement. It's also perhaps the best spectator sport. It looks beautiful and any future Olympics that doesn't have kitesurfing in it need to have their heads examined."
A statement that surely only someone like Sir Richard Branson can make.
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DWTS Pro Derek Hough And Family Attend Grand Opening Of "Cars Land" At Disneyland Resort
How sweet is this? Pictured above is Dancing With The Stars pro Derek Hough and some of his family members. Wednesday they attended the Grand Opening Of "Cars Land" At Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. Picture above courtesy of Zimbio Pictures. You can view more at Pure Derek Hough. Our Miss Heidi provides. Such a beautiful family!


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Giants complete comeback with Posey's shot
Shaky defense helps build four-run deficit before rally to win opener
PHOENIX -- After the Giants' infield botched a sixth-inning rundown Monday that generated another Arizona Diamondbacks run, manager Bruce Bochy couldn't choke back his mingled sarcasm and dismay.
"I looked at Ronnie," Bochy said, referring to bench coach Ron Wotus, "and said, 'Can we start Spring Training over?' It was like we didn't have Spring Training."
Indeed, it wasn't. The Giants were officially charged with two fielding errors that spawned four unearned runs in the fourth inning off Madison Bumgarner and lapsed into other miscues, including the aforementioned rundown, that helped Arizona assume a four-run lead through six innings.
But frustration quickly turned to redemption for the Giants on Opening Night. They offset their myriad of mistakes with a four-run seventh inning that tied the score, vaulted ahead on Buster Posey's two-run, ninth-inning homer and held on for a 9-8 triumph that seemed absolutely improbable, given San Francisco's mistake-filled start.
Said Posey, "I think we want to be a team that keeps grinding and keeps clicking. It was fun to be able to do that coming out of the chute tonight."
Posey's homer, which broke a 7-7 tie, provided the margin that ended the Giants' three-game losing streak in season openers, all on the road.
"He's on a different level, man," Bumgarner said. "He's been that good since Day One."
If Posey settled the outcome, first baseman Brandon Belt may have defined it. Belt's error, a mishandling of Mark Trumbo's ground ball, opened the fourth. He also took part in the failed rundown by chasing Paul Goldschmidt toward second base before flipping the ball ineffectually to shortstop Brandon Crawford.
But Belt atoned with an offensive flurry that featured a sixth-inning homer, a seventh-inning single and a one-out hit in the ninth that preceded Posey's decisive, two-out drive off Addison Reed.
"It's kind of easy to put your head down," Belt said. "But we didn't. We pushed forward."
Michael Morse's single christened the Giants' big seventh, most of which unfolded with two outs. Arizona starter Brandon McCarthy needed one out to escape the inning unscored upon before Ehire Adrianza's pinch-hit double scored Joaquin Arias. That ended McCarthy's evening and launched a streak of five consecutive hits, including Angel Pagan's RBI double, Belt's hit, Pablo Sandoval's bizarre RBI single that he blooped off shortstop Chris Owings' glove after ducking from reliever Oliver Perez's inside pitch, and Posey's single. That loaded the bases for Hunter Pence, who coaxed a walk from Brad Ziegler that forced in Belt with the tying run.
Bochy praised Adrianza, the rookie participating in his first season opener, for providing an essential hit. McCarthy felt differently, believing that he had slipped a called third strike past Adrianza.
"There was a call there in the seventh that changed the entire outlook of the game," McCarthy said. "Obviously, we all have to execute after that point, but that's a juncture, that's a pitch that you're not rewarded for, so that kind of leaves a bitter taste."
Sergio Romo yielded Miguel Montero's leadoff homer in the ninth inning but held on to save the Giants' triumph, stranding Owings on second base by striking out pinch-hitter Eric Chavez and inducing A.J. Pollock's game-ending popup.
The Giants achieved their first comeback from a four-run deficit in a season-opening win since 1968, when Willie Mays, Jim Ray Hart and Jesus Alou contributed key ninth-inning hits in a 5-4 decision over the Mets.
The Giants couldn't have anticipated such drama Monday at Chase Field. They sent Bumgarner to the mound, fresh off a dominant Spring Training performance. The 24-year-old became the team's third-youngest starter in a season opener -- both in San Francisco-era history and among all left-handers in franchise annals.
But Bumgarner's defense betrayed him, and Bochy lifted him for a pinch-hitter after the dreadful fourth.
"I'm not looking for a four-inning start," said Bumgarner, who still derived some satisfaction from his ability to cope with the distractions accompanying a season opener.
"I felt really relaxed," Bumgarner said. "None of the hoopla bothered me."


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As the football team tore through the state undefeated, disgraced assistant coach Rod Frazier's undoing began
It was almost game time, and the players were starting to get that indomitable football look in their steely high school eyes. Rod Frazier wove through the circle of players gathered in the dressing room, challenging them, cajoling them, his words rising above the rat-a-tat-tat of the drums outside, adding to the electric crackle in the night air.
Frazier was the animated assistant coach on the Manatee High staff last year, the one given the rite of riling up the players before games. On this Friday night, Nov. 16, undefeated Manatee was rated the top high school football team in the nation. Five more wins and Manatee would earn its sixth state championship and first national title in the vaunted history of the program.
"I want to be part of history," Frazier yelled to the players before they went out and crushed St. Petersburg Northeast 65-12.
Around 10 a.m. that morning, Frazier had quietly returned to his position as parent liaison at Manatee High after a one-day investigation into whether he had inappropriately touched female students. The investigation concluded he had not.
Frazier, 35, has since been charged by the State Attorney's Office with seven counts of first degree misdemeanor battery against four former female students and three employees and three counts of interfering with a student's attendance.
He has denied the charges through his attorney, Ed Mulock. On July 26, Frazier resigned from his position in the district and will not return as assistant football coach.
Bradenton Police also have recommended that former Manatee High principal and assistant superintendent Bob Gagnon, former district investigator Debra Horne and assistant principals Gregg Faller and Matthew Kane face charges of failure to report child abuse and lying to police.
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An underlying theme in the Frazier case is whether Manatee High's powerful football program affected the district's investigation into the former assistant coach, contributed to an alleged cover-up and allowed him to allegedly grope students and employees for years without fear of consequence.
Questions arise as to what athletic director and head coach Joe Kinnan may have known about Frazier's behavior. A powerful figure at the school, and well-respected throughout the state, had Kinnan ever heard anything?
Kinnan has not commented on the case, saying "there is nothing to comment on."
Manatee's most ardent fans disagree on the role football plays in the case.
"It has everything to do with football and nothing to do with Joe Kinnan and the coaches," says Manatee assistant coach Steve Gulash.
Others, such as Mulock, say the case has nothing to do with football, and that it just so happens Frazier was an assistant football coach.
In addition to being Frazier's attorney, Mulock is a major Manatee fan. He has been a radio announcer for Hurricane football games since 1988 and has pictures of Frazier's brother -- former Manatee and Nebraska star Tommie Frazier --- on his office wall.
"It seems to have reverted back to a Manatee High football story," Mulock said. "I resent that. This is about accusations against an individual."
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On the morning of Nov. 15, Gulash was among several school employees who provided the names of potential victims and other information about Frazier's behavior to investigator Horne, whose husband, Mike, was a former Manatee High football player.
Among the information Horne was given: A teacher saw Frazier in his office with a female student sitting in his lap.
Gulash said he walked out of the meeting and met with Kane, the assistant principal, in a secretary's office to discuss his meeting with Horne.
"He said, 'We've got to get this behind us, we've got a game tomorrow night,'" Gulash said. "For whatever reason, they felt he needed to be back."
Kinnan said on Nov. 15 he was told by Manatee High principal Don Sauer that Frazier was being placed on paid administrative leave pending the district's investigation.
Kinnan arranged for Cord Graham, the junior varsity coach, to fill in at that afternoon's practice.
Kinnan said he planned on having Graham coach Friday night as well, but was told by Sauer on the morning of the 16th that Frazier was back at school.
That Kinnan would react this way is not out of character, according to those closest to him. He is not known to lament what is lost but instead focus on the solution.
Before the start of the season last year, Manatee's star running back, Trevon Walters, was hit late during a drill in practice and injured his hip. He wasn't moving his leg and Kinnan feared he would be out for the year.
As Walters was being removed from the field by ambulance, Kinnan told the team that late hits can cost 10 yards in penalties.
Inside his office after practice Kinnan never mentioned Walters' name until an update came from the hospital an hour later. It wasn't for lack of concern -- he was focused on finding Walters' replacement.
"I could resign tomorrow and he would replace me," Gulash said. "He wouldn't beg me to come back."
Running the program
Each Wednesday afternoon during the football season last year, a guest speaker addressed the Manatee players in the school's media center.
It was called "Character Development."
On Dec. 5, two days before a state semifinal game against St. Thomas Aquinas -- one of the biggest games in school history -- the guest speaker was Gagnon, the former Manatee principal.
Gagnon was a big fan of Manatee High football, and you could often find him on the sidelines during games.
"On the sidelines I don't think he was an administrator," former Manatee High counselor Christina Conley said. "I think he thought he was coaching."
Gene Gallo, Bradenton's vice mayor and former president of the Manatee football booster club, remembers seeing Gagnon on the field at halftime during last year's playoff win on the road in Fort Pierce, and discussing the game with him.
"He traveled with the team," Gallo said. "He was on the field every game. Kane was the same way and probably Faller, too. He was a football fan."
Gagnon has a football background and played one season at Southern Connecticut State University in 1989, according to the school. He was a defensive player who recorded 65 tackles on a 3-7 team.
Faller is from DePaul, N.J., and also played football. In 1986, he was a 6-foot-4, 205-pound quarterback and was part of the recruiting class at West Virginia that included Major Harris.
Harris became the starter and led the Mountaineers to the national championship game in 1988 against Notre Dame. Faller, meanwhile, transferred to Southern Connecticut State, and was on the roster in 1989 with Gagnon, but the school has no statistics for him.
By 1995, both Gagnon and Faller were employed at the Lake County Boys Ranch, a school for disadvantaged kids in Altoona.
Gagnon's brother, Bill, was head coach at nearby Umatilla High, and Gagnon and Faller were both assistant coaches there.
When Gagnon became principal at Manatee in 2007, he soon brought in Faller to serve as assistant principal. During Gagnon's tenure as principal, the football team reached the state championship game twice -- winning in 2011 -- and the state semifinals once.
"These people believe they created our football team and they were the reason we were successful," Gulash said. "They felt for some reason they were the people running the football program."
Focused on football
After Frazier's return to school Nov. 16, he remained as an on-campus employee until the police began an investigation Feb. 7. He was placed on paid administrative leave the following day.
According to a police report, a school employee claimed Frazier touched her chest area in December 2012 -- a month after his return to school -- and incidents of inappropriate behavior reportedly went back to 2006.
Several people interviewed by the Herald-Tribune said Frazier was often seen with girls in his office or riding around with them on a golf cart, and that it was common knowledge around school.
Kinnan, however, said he did not know of any unusual behavior by Frazier and that he was not his supervisor at school, Faller was. Most of the time when he saw him it was at football practice.
Gallo, who has said he wants his ashes buried at midfield of the Manatee High football stadium named in Kinnan's honor, has known Kinnan for more than 40 years.
He said Kinnan is so unusually focused on football, especially during playoff time, that it is possible he may not have been aware even if someone had mentioned it to him casually.
"Well, I think that's probably the first thing that comes to people's minds, and Joe Paterno will be an example that will make people think that way," Gallo said. "You're still reading it in the paper that Joe Paterno did see things, so people say, 'How could he not know?'"
"Knowing Joe (Kinnan) personally, he could have not known and probably didn't know because if he knew he would have stopped it. Rod would have not been coaching."
Said Gulash: "If there was any doubt in my mind that anyone on the coaching staff had any knowledge or helped cover it up, I would have resigned immediately."
The most animated
Considering Manatee won its first three playoff games last year by a combined 172-19, Frazier wasn't necessarily needed back from a coaching standpoint. The Hurricanes would have easily won without him.
Kinnan called all plays for Manatee games -- there were 100. He would hold a placard in front of his mouth, so no one could see him talking, and say the number of the play to Frazier, who would be standing next to him.
Frazier, a running backs coach, would signal in the number of the play to the players on the field by holding up a large flashcard.
The offensive skill players would then look at wristbands to see the number and the corresponding play that was called. The same routine happened often during practices.
During the pre-game routine at home, usually around 7:15 p.m., Frazier would always meet the players and give them a pep talk while the other coaches were in their office.
During the game Frazier was easily the most animated of the coaches. After each touchdown Frazier would run out onto the field and chest-bump the players. Considering this, it would have been noticeable were Frazier not at a game.
Kinnan said he thought Frazier, a former Manatee and University of Florida running back who had been coaching at the school since 2001, had the potential to be a head coach one day.
Gulash thinks Gagnon wanted Frazier to be the next head coach if Kinnan ever stepped aside.
"They felt he was the greatest coach on earth, but there's not a single coach that makes the team great," Gulash said. "The players make the team great and the community makes the players great."
'All about football'
The district reopened its investigation into Frazier in January after a girl wrote a letter to Manatee High officials alleging inappropriate behavior.
In an interview with the Herald-Tribune, the girl said Frazier grabbed her inappropriately 10 times, sent her more than 250 texts and that she was in his school office more than 100 times, often seen by administrators, employees and resource officers.
The girl said she thought Frazier was able to have the opportunity to do these things for one reason.
"I don't think it has anything to do with him being a parent liaison," she said. "It's because he is a football coach."
Her father agreed.
"He is Tommie Frazier's brother," he said. "They do not want that kind of negativity on the football team.
"If you ever drive by Manatee do you see any tennis courts anywhere? Do you see a baseball diamond anywhere? Every other school in the county has those things. Manatee doesn't. Manatee is all about football."
Barclay Kirkland, a local dentist, said he witnessed Frazier touching girls during meets when Frazier coached weightlifting.
"I guarantee you, there are people who won't come here if our name was put in the paper against Frazier," he said. "It's football. It all has to do with football."
But Gallo says it is wrong to view the case as a football issue.
"That's one of the things some of us in the booster club have been discussing," Gallo said. "They keep talking about tying it into the football program, but he was a parent liaison and the things he allegedly has done were to students and employees.
"It had nothing to do with football, absolutely nothing."


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KEA is a new open source DHCPv4/DHCPv6 server being developed by Internet Systems Consortium. The objective of this project is to provide a very high-performance, extensible DHCP server engine for use by enterprises and service providers, either as is or with extensions and modifications.
DHCP Standardization efforts: The lead developer on KEA is co-chair of the Dynamic Host Configuration working group in the IETF. We are committed to providing a standards-compliant implementation and are closely tracking developments in this working group and evaluating them for inclusion in KEA.
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The server is usable today in a non-critical application or test environment. The code is posted and is freely available for download and use. The following major features are working.
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Kea is a high performance server. It is able to handle over 1000 leases/sec (that is 4000 packets/sec) with a MySQL backend. We also have an experimental memfile backend that can do much more. To assess server performance, ISC has developed perfdhcp, a tool that is able to simulate thousands of clients and assess server responses.
We are looking for a small group (up to 6 total) of key collaborators at this point. Contact us via the Kea mailing list if you think you might be interested in working on Kea and sharing that work with the community. The primary things we need are:
- Test coverage in different environments, with a variety of clients
- Applications based on the Kea API, both to validate the API and to demonstrate the potential for DHCP applications.
Current collaborators
- ISC Forge - A Python/Lettuce/Scapy DHCP validation environment under development by students of Gdansk University of Technology.
- DHCPv4-over-DHCPv6 - A Tsinghua University team are developing support for draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-over-dhcpv4 in Kea. See ticket #3357.
How to participate in this project
1) Subscribe to the Kea developers mailing list.
2) Read the User Guide (sections 16,17,18 and 19) and the Developer's Guide.
3) Download and build a KEA instance. For the latest KEA code, rather than downloading from the main ISC site, please use our public GIT repository.
4) Give us feedback via the mailing list or submit a bug (sub-project=dhcp). See below for information about the known issues.
- User Guide (Stable) (development snapshot) (see sections 16,17,18 and 19 in the stable version, all sections in development snapshot).
- Developer's Guide: (Stable) (development snapshot)
- System specific notes for building Kea
- Kea coding guidelines
Known Issues with Current Release
- Known Issues - Kea is included in BIND10 1.2 release. This is a list of known issues in that release.
- Kea defects - this is a list of known bugs in the engineering snapshot (the master branch in the Kea git repository)
- Outstanding tasks - this is a list of tasks that we are planning to do. Sometimes the difference between a bug and a missing feature is thin.
- Submit new bug - setting the milestone as Kea-proposed is appreciated.
Design Documents
- Kea Detailed Functionality:
- Kea is extensible. Script hooks are provided:
- Hooks Framework Design - general framework that may be used by other Kea components.
- Design - A list of DHCP-specific hooks.
- Initial design proposal for libdhcp library:
- Abstract pool/lease storage:
- Benchmarking tool:
- User-defined options:
- Other requirements:
- Test Plan
- build-bot - Kea is being built and unit-tests are being run on great variety of platforms.
- Link to Jenkins tests - ISC is using Jenkins and ISC Forge system/conformance tests to validate Kea. Unfortunately, that system is not yet publicly available.
Kea and BIND10
Kea was developed as an application within the framework of the BIND10 project. In 2014, ISC decided to discontinue active development on BIND10 and continue development of Kea as a standalone DHCP server. As a result, the BIND10 components will be removed from Kea. We hope this will simplify long-term maintenance and reduce the footprint of Kea.
Getting in touch
- Kea mailing list - feel free to post any Kea questions here
- Kea developers list - for development discussions
- [xmpp://email@example.com DHCP Jabber chatroom] - if you want to chat with developers.
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