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Welcome to The H Roundup, your review of the week with the most read news on The H, the security alerts and open source releases, and the essential feature articles – all in one quick-to-scan news item. This week: the 3.10 Linux kernel and Fedora 19 are released, Ubuntu's Mir plans raise eyebrows, the first Firefox OS ...
This week saw the release of the latest version of the Linux kernel, the LXDE developers previewed a port of their desktop environment to Qt, and Canonical's roadmap for switching Ubuntu to Mir as soon as possible is raising eyebrows.
Meanwhile, the Fedora developers unveiled Fedora 19 and the first Firefox OS phones hit the market in Spain.
Avira is discontinuing its anti-virus solutions for Linux. In Germany, in the wake of the PRISM scandal, details emerged on the extent of data gathering local intelligence services are engaged in at the country's main internet backbone.
The LibreOffice developers are working to boost the performance of their spreadsheet application with GPU-based processing, the latest Firefox beta gets an a universal share button, and a new programming language targeted at GPUs arrives on the scene.
Thorsten Leemhuis explains the new features in Linux 3.10 and also looks at the latest Fedora release, proving that Schrödinger's Cat is definitely alive.
Open source releases this week include a number of open source RSS readers, a maintenance release of Samba, a new version of systemd, and a new version of the Rust language.
A bug in Atlassian's Crowd software puts unpatched servers at risk, gaming company Ubisoft had its customer data compromised, and Apple has released a security update for Mac OS X.
Sunflower, UnitedHealthcare and Amerigroup currently provide Medicaid plans in Kansas. It’s unclear if other insurance companies would be willing to offer plans in Kansas’ privatized system. The three companies reported losing $52 million in Kansas in 2014.
To compound financial issues, Gov. Sam Brownback cut Medicaid reimbursements to providers by 4 percent to help fill the state’s budget hole. The cuts will go into effect in July but will exempt critical access hospitals in rural areas along with nursing homes and home- and community-based disability services.
Michael Randol, director of the Kansas Division of Health Care Finance for the state health department, said he did not yet know if the three KanCare providers planned to pursue contract renewals, which would start in 2018.
But he wouldn’t say what it is that he would do.
All three companies fell short on some performance requirements specified in their contracts with the state.
Nonetheless, Randol said he felt each organization had made improvement. The state is supposed to have a full-time watchdog over the KanCare program, but that position of inspector general has been vacant since January 2014.
Wednesday in Wichita, KanCare recipients, parents of children with disabilities and health care providers shared grievances about the current program and concerns about the future.
▪ Gov. Sam Brownback cut Medicaid reimbursements 4 percent, to help fill the state’s budget hole.
Community members at the public hearings expressed concern that lower reimbursement rates will result in fewer doctors willing to accept Medicaid patients.
▪ The state passed a “step therapy” law that requires Medicaid recipients to try cheaper generic drugs before being allowed to receive more expensive brands. It will go into effect July 1 and is expected to save about $10.5 million.
Patients and health care providers complained that the move takes away the physician’s professional judgment and instead transfers decision-making to the health insurance companies. Opponents of the law also say that it could cause patients to suffer while trying ineffective drugs and that the appeals process could be ...
▪ Medicaid applications are backlogged. The problems began when the state switched oversight of Medicaid eligibility from the Department for Children and Families to the Department of Health and Environment at the beginning of the year.
Providers questioned the state’s ability to efficiently manage changes. One provider at the public hearing said the approval of applications is delayed between six and nine months. He also said the merged eligibility departments has led to one-hour hold times at the call center. He reported being allowed only one quest...
Randol, the state director of the Division of Health Care Finance, said he couldn’t address individual call times but didn’t know of waits of up to two, three or four hours long. He wouldn’t say if one-hour waits were typical.
▪ Many service providers for the disabled have received the same Medicaid reimbursement rates since 2008.
Providers said organizations that offer services have staffing shortages and high turnover from stagnant payments as costs to provide services have gone up.
▪ Kansans with intellectual or developmental disabilities face average wait times of seven years to receive state funding for services.
The state will develop draft applications in June and July, post the applications for review around August or September, submit them to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid in November and establish the contracts, terms and conditions in 2017 to take effect in 2018.
Fisher-Price is recalling nearly 5 million baby sleepers after 30 babies died in a 10 year period, reports AP.
Details: The company initially stood by its product when the American Academy of Pediatrics initially asked for the recall of the "deadly" sleeper, per the Washington Post. While using the Rock ’n Play Sleepers, infants would roll over, and then suffocate, per AP. The product has been on the market since 2009.
Worries that increases in drug prices will slow growth caused shares to fall sharply last month.
After Amgen, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMGN) sounded a cautionary alarm regarding drug prices during its third-quarter earnings, shares in the company fell 15.4% in October, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Amgen put up solid top and bottom line in the third quarter. However, it may face difficulties in delivering future growth, based on management's comments during a conference call with investors.
In highly competitive markets, PBMs can require incremental rebates from us in order for us to maintain our formulary positioning. Maintaining our formulary positioning is essential to ensure patients have access to a drug like ENBREL, which has the longest in-market history of efficacy and safety. Given this dynamic a...
The lack of pricing power is bad news for the biotech giant because Enbrel's markets have become increasingly competitive, and that's weighing down unit volume. In Q3, Enbrel volumes were 7% lower than a year ago. The risk of volume loss and flat-lining prices is important because Enbrel sales were $1.45 billion in the...
However, investors may not want to dismiss Amgen altogether on this news.
The company's earnings are growing more quickly than its sales thanks to a cost restructuring, and there are some bright spots in its product portfolio and pipeline.
For example, the company's Prolia, Kyprolis, and Repatha saw rapid sales growth last quarter versus a year ago. Prolia sales rose 18%, to $379 million; Kyprolis sales rose 34%, to $183 million; and Repatha sales jumped to $40 million from $3 million last year. In addition, the company's got a slate of biosimilars in th...
Overall, however, Amgen appears to be in a period of transition. Its blockbusters Epogen and Neupogen are seeing sales drop because of recently launched competing biosimilars, and a lid on drug prices doesn't offer a lot of support to its top-line growth next year. Therefore, while the company's 3% dividend yield is en...
Investors severely punished Volkswagen when trading opened on Monday morning in Europe, driving the German automaker’s stock price off a cliff. The steep decline comes after the US Environmental Protection Agency accused the company of evading federal clean air laws, and its CEO was forced to apologize. The rout wiped ...
On Friday, the EPA handed down a damning citation to VW outlining a plot that, while highly nefarious, is pretty impressive in its scope: According to the EPA, the company outfitted half a million diesel-powered cars sold in the United States with software called a “defeat device” that could detect when the car was bei...
It’s unclear how far up the chain of command the deception reached. On Sunday, VW CEO Martin Winterkorn said he was “deeply sorry” for breaking the public trust and ordered an internal investigation. That won’t stop the ongoing US investigation, which could ultimately result in up to $18 billion in fines. Monday’s stoc...
WONSAN, NORTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 04: North Korean boys finish up a ski lesson at Masikryong Ski Resort on February 04, 2019 near Wonsan, North Korea.
Life is bleak for most North Korean residents, their country fraught with high poverty rates and tight government control.
But over the past few years, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly spent millions of dollars building two ski resorts.
The Masikryong Ski Resort is one of them. Its $40 ticket price is out of reach for most residents.
North Korea is infamously secretive and repressive of its residents. Photos from inside its borders are rare. The news that we do receive from inside the country tells of a people living in fear and poverty, and consistently shown propaganda about the Kim Jong Un regime.
This winter, photos emerged from inside one of the country's two ski resorts, the Masikryong Ski Resort. With lift tickets costing $40, most residents of the country can't afford its entrance fee.
Keep scrolling for an inside look at one of North Korea's ski resorts.
North Korea has two ski resorts. The first is Masikryong Ski Resort, which opened on December 31, 2013.
Masikryong Ski Resort is pictured on February 5, 2019, near Wonsan, North Korea.
Despite opening in 2013, it wasn't officially ready for the visitors who could afford a ticket until mid-January 2014, according to The Guardian.
The country's second resort, Kanggye Ski Resort, opened in January 2018, and only took a few months to build.
The entire complex was built in just 10 months by soldiers from the Korean People’s Army, though it's unclear how the country paid for it.
Children ride on a sled at Masikryong Ski Resort on February 4, 2019, near Wonsan, North Korea.
After completion, citizens of North Korea were inundated with propaganda encouraging them to work at "Masikryong speed."
The state claimed that the resort cost $300 million to build, while others estimate the price tag at $30 million. Where this money came from is unclear— North Korea is one of the poorest countries in the world.
The resort includes nine different slopes, an ice skating rink, a ski school, and an entire winter park for children.
North Korean women skate on an ice rink at Masikryong Ski Resort on February 5, 2019, near Wonsan, North Korea.
There are 120 hotel rooms. Facilities include a swimming pool, billiard tables, a karaoke room, and a sauna.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un commissioned the resort back in 2011.
People ski on a lower slope at Masikryong Ski Resort on February 5, 2019, near Wonsan, North Korea.
It was speculated that Kim wanted to step out of his father's shadow— his father built a mountain resort on Mount Kumgang. It's also believed that Kim developed a fondness for skiing while he was attending school in Switzerland.
The United Nations Security Council doesn't allow North Korea to import luxury goods, which includes ski equipment. Masikryong was able to import technology and equipment through a loophole.
North Korean skiers disembark from a cable car at the summit of the 1,360-meter Taehwa Peak at Masikryong Ski Resort on February 5, 2019, near Wonsan, North Korea.
The resort has European snowmobiles and ski lifts that they were able to import. Since the resort was completed, the rules about what the country can and can't import have become more strict.
South Korea sent a group of athletes to Masikryong for a joint training program before the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang.
South Korean Olympic skiers trained at Masikryong to prepare for the 2018 Olympics which were held in Pyeongchang.
The resort takes many different currencies, including American dollars, Chinese yuan, Japanese yen, euros, and the North Korean won.
North Korean boys finish up a ski lesson at Masikryong Ski Resort on February 4, 2019, near Wonsan, North Korea.
One North Korean won is equivalent to roughly $.0011.
The $40 entrance fee is about a month's salary in North Korea and not affordable for most locals.
A North Korean girl sits on a sled at Masikryong Ski Resort on February 5, 2019, near Wonsan, North Korea.
The country's wealth disparity is rapidly expanding. Bruce Bennett, Senior International and Defense Researcher at the RAND corporation, told Business Insider that the "resort would be dedicated to the growing upper class and to friends of Kim Jong-Un."
In fact, the resort distills the growing wealth disparity in North Korea. While the average North Korean cannot afford to ski there, higher-income families can enjoy the slopes. They also reportedly receive care packages from the state.
It costs around $100 per day for a foreign tourist to ski at the resort.
North Korean children queue at a cable car station at a lower slope at Masikryong Ski Resort on February 5, 2019, near Wonsan, North Korea.
The National Post reported that it costs $100 to ski there as a tourist. The resort restricts the number of visitors to 2,000 per day.
According to Newsweek, two documentary filmmakers visited the resort in 2017 and took note of its emptiness.
A North Korean man prepares to snowboard from the summit of the 1,360-meter Taehwa Peak at Masikryong Ski Resort on February 5, 2019, near Wonsan, North Korea.
"There's not one person coming down the big slope," said British snowboarder Jamie Barrow in the documentary.
North Korean skiers ride in a cable car to the summit of the 1,360-meter Taehwa Peak at the resort on February 5, 2019.
North Korean skiers ride in a cable car to the summit of the 1,360-meter Taehwa Peak at Masikryong Ski Resort on February 5, 2019, near Wonsan, North Korea.
Just wanted to ask if anyone is constantly losing the signal since switching to the new SIM card.
As someone who is always on the phone at work it is extremely frustrating. It also often happens after I end a call. It can be up to 5 minutes before I am able to make a phone call. I am constantly having people telling me they are unable to get through to me.
I also frequently get a message saying that my data usage has been blocked and I am unable me to use the internet. Very strange considering my deal has unlimited data.
Is it just me or is the new Virgin network not up to it? I am paying money for this!!!
Have you tried the sim in another phone to see if you are getting the same issue?
Have you spoken to the Mobile technical team regarding this at all?
I haven't tried it in another phone as I don't have another one working (another issue I have had with your overseas call centre).
I was going to visit my local virgin mobile branch. I try to avoid calling 150 because all they do is promise to send me emails and messages that never arrive. If I could get through to somebody in the UK I would call more.
I know you are started using your own network rather than EE so I am assuming it's just teething problems but it's is very frustrating when you need your phone for work and I am still being charged the full amount.
Sorry for sarcastic sounding messages but I really am starting to lose patience.
They still use EE for signal but everything else behind the scenes is now theirs.
Thanks for confirming those details Matthew.
They'll stay with EE (probably) for as long as their wholesale agreement lasts. And considering they were with T-Mobile from launch until the Orange merger, I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
And also, whilst you're right in saying Virgin are taking more control of the core side of being an MVNO, I can foresee technical elements that would require interworking with EE's core if certain services are ever likely to work.
I'm behind Sixers bench, Okafor's Dad behind me - he's nonstop HARASSING Brett Brown. End of half Jah finally told Dad to cut it out.
Anyway continue to trust the process Sixers fans. Because, barring an insurrection, what other choice do you really have?
Seasons like this these past several build character...supposedly.
Bhumjaithai Party has put up attention-grabbing election posters calling for unrestricted growing of marijuana, and expansion of cannabis as 'a new cash crop'.
The Bhumjaithai Party has hit the campaign trail in Bangkok by proposing marijuana as a new cash crop for the country, said the party's MP candidate, Sawai Chotkasupha.