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Things have been fairly quiet on the Hemisphere blog recently. The last year saw us busy on:
- Osmos Multiplayer, which we released on iOS this Summer, and updated soon after with voice-chat. This is where we spent most (read, a lot!) of our time.
- The Android port, released at the beginning of the year.
- A few other minor projects/updates, like iPad Retina, Game Center support for the Mac App Store, etc.
Then, in August, Dave and his wife Mel had a beautiful baby girl. (Congrats, Dave! ) And, finding myself more or less on my own for a while with nothing "on fire", I decided to take things down a notch and enjoy the beautiful weather with family and friends.
But It's now late October, fully into rainy shoulder season, and Dave and I are both back at it, planning what's next for Hemisphere.
On one hand, we're excited to be working on games besides Osmos, picking up some prototypes we had worked on between the cracks over the last 1.5 years, as well as hitting some new ideas we've been discussing. But at the same time we feel like there is some "undone" work on Osmos we plan on hitting over the next few months. Here's our list, broken down by platform:
- Android: we're working with the fine folks at Apportable to bring Osmos Multiplayer to Android tablets and handsets.
- iOS: We're adding support for 4-inch (iPhone/iPod 5) screens and the iPad Mini. (It should just work "out of the box" on the Mini, but we'll tweak the UI a bit, making the buttons and fonts a bit bigger.) We're also adding support for iOS 6, including Facebook integration. Finally, we're thinking of merging the iPad and iPhone versions into a single "group" so they can play multiplayer against each other through Game Center.
- Linux: we're working with Valve to bring Osmos Linux to Steam.
- Mac: we just added Retina support to the version on our website, and will be updating the Mac App Store version with this soon as well.
- Windows: we're looking at Windows 8, Surface, etc., but the reviews have been pretty bad! We're wondering if it's worth supporting them explicitly. (There's already a Win 7 multitouch version available which hasn't generated much interest.)
Last but not least there's some blogging we want to do, mainly on the subject of multiplayer.
- One subject we want to tackle is "expert play"; namely, how it's difficult to connect with other strong players on iOS. As such, we'd like to spearhead an effort to get people playing in some high-calibre Osmos matches. More on this soon!
- From a developer perspective, we learned a lot about creating a polished, real-time, multiplayer game on iOS. During development we found ourselves wishing there was more information on this subject on the web. So we plan to share some of our experiences in the hopes they can help other developers, both on technical aspects (Game Center, bluetooth, networking techniques for physics/simulation-heavy games) as well as some thoughts on design.
And with that, it's time to get back to it. We have plenty to do!!


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FICO provides analytics software and tools used across multiple industries to manage risk, fight fraud, build more profitable customer relationships, optimize operations and meet strict government regulations. Many of our products reach industry-wide adoption — such as the FICO® Score, the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the United States. FICO solutions leverage open-source standards and cloud computing to maximize flexibility, speed deployment and reduce costs. The company also helps millions of people manage their personal credit health. FICO: Make every decision count™.
Founded in 1956, FICO introduced analytic solutions such as credit scoring that have made credit more widely available, not just in the United States but around the world. We have pioneered the development and application of critical technologies behind decision management. These include predictive analytics, business rules management and optimization. We use these technologies to help businesses improve the precision, consistency and agility of their complex, high–volume decisions.
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Cypress Semiconductor Completes Tender Offer For Ramtron International
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: CY) announced today the completion of its tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Ramtron International Corporation (NASDAQ: RMTR). The subsequent offering period expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on October 17, 2012. Computershare Inc., the depositary for the tender offer, has advised Cypress that 25,912,939 shares were validly tendered and not withdrawn during the initial and subsequent offering periods (including shares that were tendered by guaranteed delivery procedures and subsequently delivered), all of which have been accepted for payment and purchased. Such shares, together with shares beneficially owned by Cypress, represent a total of approximately 78% of Ramtron's outstanding stock.
Cypress will acquire all of the remaining outstanding stock of Ramtron by means of a merger pursuant to Delaware law. Because Cypress owns less than 90% of the outstanding Ramtron stock, the "short-form" merger provisions of Delaware law are not available for use in that merger. Instead, the merger will be consummated following a special meeting of Ramtron's stockholders. Cypress has sufficient voting power to approve the merger at that meeting without the affirmative vote of any other Ramtron stockholder. Ramtron will file a preliminary proxy statement in connection with the merger with the Securities and Exchange Commission shortly, and Cypress currently expects that the merger will be completed in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Following the merger, Ramtron will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Cypress, and each outstanding share of Ramtron stock that was not tendered and purchased in the tender offer will be cancelled and converted into the right to receive the same $3.10 per share in cash, less any withholding taxes and without interest, provided in the tender offer, except for shares owned by Cypress or Ramtron or shares for which appraisal rights have been validly asserted. Information regarding the merger will be mailed to Ramtron stockholders who did not tender their shares in the offer, and, following the consummation of the merger, instructions will be mailed to stockholders outlining the actions to be taken to obtain the merger consideration. After the merger, Ramtron common stock will cease to be traded on the Nasdaq Global Market. Until that time, Ramtron common stock will continue to trade.
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Mr. Johanns: Madam President, it feels a bit like déjà vu standing here again discussing the ongoing saga of the 1099 repeal. Two weeks ago, I offered amendment number 161 to this small business bill. If you read all the press releases and the public statement, while it appears that absolutely nobody could possibly oppose the repeal of the 1099 requirement in section 9006 of the health care bill. Yet once again, the other side is attempting to delay or derail the 1099 repeal by offering a second-degree amendment. Now, I might have been open to a second-degree amendment when we started this process many long months ago, but now we're approaching the one-year anniversary since we began fighting to repeal this unnecessary mandate. It has no place in the health care bill in the first place.
I can't help but question why on earth we are still swinging and missing at this one. Is it a lack of support in my caucus? Well, the answer to that, madam president, is no. The support amongst republicans is absolutely unanimous. Lack of republican support certainly has not held this up. I ask myself if there is a lack of bipartisan support that is holding the effort up. Well, the answer to that is also no. My colleague, the junior senator from West Virginia, has cosponsored the last several versions of this repeal legislation here in the senate. Together, senator Manchin and I have secured dozens of democrats who very strongly support the repeal. And 76 democrats voted for this identical 1099 repeal in the House of Representatives. So bipartisan support is enormously if not unusually strong.
So might our problem be a lack of support from the White House? Well, the answer to that is also no. The President has publicly called for repeal of this 1099 mandate on several occasions in press conferences, and he even referenced it in his state of the Union Address.
Well, is it possible that there is still confusion about how our small businesses feel about the mandate? Well, that's not the case. The chorus of job creators opposing this mandate is almost deafening. The Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Businesses, the American Farm Bureau Federation, and i could go on and on and on listing organizations that are arguing for its repeal.
Has it been a controversial pay-for that has slowed down our progress? Well, interestingly enough, an almost identical budgetary offset passed this chamber, the United States Senate, unanimously just four months ago. Requiring someone to repay what was given to them erroneously, well, that's just plain and simple good government. Even Secretary of Health and Human Services Sebelius noted that repayment of improper subsidies is -- quote -- "fair for recipients and all taxpayers ." So arguments about the pay-for simply are hollow excuses to justify inaction. And our job creators are seeing it for what it really is. It's more nonsense. It astounds me that we can seemingly pass benchmark after benchmark without going over the finish line. How can we make so much important progress only to be stymied again and again by some silent opposition? My friends across the aisle have often complained about the slow pace of the senate. It blamed the other side of the aisle for preventing progress. Well, madam President, my side of the aisle has been ready for a long, long time to repeal this job-killing mandate. I want you to know we stand ready to vote.
Considering the high unemployment rates plaguing our country, it seems absolutely incomprehensible that we would go even another day without addressing this mandate in the health care bill. Our job creators have watched dueling amendments and proposals and counterproposals. Well, that's gone on for a year. I first circulated a "dear colleague" letter asking for cosponsors of this 1099 repeal in June of last year. And when we introduced it in July with 25 cosponsors, well, small businesses cheered. It gave them hope that common sense would prevail in congress and that partisanship is sometimes set aside to just simply do the right thing. But now they see that there is yet again a delay tactic in the form of a second-degree amendment to the 1099 repeal. They have been frustrated time and time again. When it failed to advance in September or November, it appeared stalled well into the New Year. Well, today we have a simple choice. We can pass my amendment with strong bipartisan support and democrat support that we have demonstrated that we have the 60 votes necessary for the house version. Or, we can pass the second-degree amendment and push this repeal off into limbo, into never-never land yet again. We can actually fix the problem in a bipartisan way, or we can continue to kick this can down the road. If we pass the second-degree amendment, quite simply, what we have voted yes to do is delay the repeal of the 1099 amendment, and eventually we are going to flirt with disaster on this and it won't get done.
We need to focus all of our energy on helping our job creators grow and create more jobs, not force them into worrying about hiring more accountants. Pardon my boldness here, but there is no reason to delay. An identical version of my amendment passed the house with large bipartisan support, 314-112. I urge my colleagues with all i have to oppose the second-degree amendment that my friend from New Jersey is proposing. Let's be clear here, this latest distraction from 1099 repeal is just that. It's distraction. We all know that it isn't really about a study to look at health care costs. If you want to do a study, put the amendment on some other piece of legislation. This is about derailing and delaying the 1099 repeal. Because if the second-degree amendment passes, it says instead of sending this to the president to become law, we need to go back to the drawing board.
While the proponents of the second-degree amendment will claim that it's innocuous, make no mistake, it's designed to obliterate this amendment because of a budgetary offset that, again I remind us a similar offset was passed unanimously recently by the senate. Just like a "Politico" article from yesterday noted -- and I quote -- "Senate democrats are working on an amendment that would kill the republicans paid for in the future." unquote. If the second-degree passes, then we are essentially adding nearly $25 billion to our debt over the next ten years. While some may preach the virtues of pay-as-you-go rules, when it comes right down to it, they will undermine virtually any fiscal responsible pay-for. So here we are again crossing the same bridge that we have crossed so many times before. In fact, the senate refused this idea when we rejected the Baucus Amendment that repealed 1099 but was not paid for.
That amendment fell 23 votes short of passage because it just fiscally didn't make sense. So why are we still here aimlessly walking around in circles when we ought to be marching straight ahead? why are we proposing to send this bipartisan legislation back to the house? because that's what will have to happen when it ought to go directly to the president's desk for signature. Our vote today can send a message that we have all the votes necessary to get this done and get it on the president's desk, and everybody can celebrate: our job creators, democrats, republicans, independents. The logic of the second-degree amendment is absolutely baffling. Here we are in the ninth inning and somehow our pay-for has become magically unacceptable even though a similar pay-for was used unanimously by the senate before. Where were all the objections? Where was the demand for further study when we unanimously approved a similar offset for the doc fix legislation? let me be very clear. A vote in favor of the second-degree is a vote against our business and job creators.
My amendment has been waiting for a vote for 14 days now, and the repeal has been pending for nearly a year. Isn't enough enough? the time for delay and further study must be over. Let's pass my amendment today by an overwhelming vote of the senate. Let's reject the second-degree. Let's get this piece of legislation to the president for his signature, and we can all celebrate. small businesses, our job creators, deserve no less.
Madam President, thank you. I yield the floor.


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1TB per disc: Sony and Panasonic team up on next-gen Blu-ray March 10, 2014 at 11:44 am
Electronic storage has been moving away from discs for quite some time. Music is kept on our phones rather than in giant CD books that get left in the car, important documents are kept on the cloud, and flash drives and cards are becoming ever cheaper and much larger in size. Even video games — the last bastion of optical media — have been moving toward the cloud. However, games arguably benefit the most from increased storage, and that's why Sony and Panasonic's new 300GB disc is extremely promising for the future of gaming.
Tesla's Gigafactory: The next step in Musk's domination of the battery-powered world February 28, 2014 at 1:49 pm
Bold plan calls for a battery factory with capacity 50 times greater than Tesla's 2013 sales. Tesla would also sell batteries for solar, wind power timeshifting. But what about Apple? Is a possible merger in the works? Could Musk be Apple's next visionary CEO?
World's first affordable powered exoskeleton is almost here: Prepare for mech wars January 8, 2014 at 1:33 pm
The first affordable, mass-produced robotic exoskeleton will be on sale next year from Panasonic. For 500,000 yen, or slightly under $5,000, this full-body power garment will let you hoist 100kg objects and move at speeds up to 8 km/hr. While this device would make a nice addition to any wardrobe, will it have immediate practical value, or will it mainly be purchased by hobbyists and educators as a base platform for mere experimentation?
Panasonic quits plasma TVs: The latest victim of LCD's rise to display supremacy October 14, 2013 at 10:33 am
Japan Inc. exits what became a commodity business. But Panasonic's plasma sets were loved by viewers and reviewers.
Sony and Panasonic join forces to create 300GB+ optical disc by 2015 July 29, 2013 at 12:45 pm
Though the consumer tech world seems to be moving beyond optical media in favor of digital downloads, a few staunch supporters of the medium are still working hard on providing optical media with much larger storage capacities than ever before. Sony and Panasonic have joined forces to create a new optical storage medium that has a baseline of 300GB per disc by 2015.
Organic photo sensor dumps silicon, promises to shatter CMOS imaging limits June 13, 2013 at 8:30 am
While most camera sensor innovations attempt to push the bounds of silicon-based imagers, researchers from Fujifilm and Panasonic have teamed up to create a revolutionary new design using organic compunds, that promises to greatly increase the dynamic range of future cameras.
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WiGig breaks 1-watt barrier, 5Gbps wireless hopefully on its way to smartphones March 26, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Panasonic has developed a new WiGig radio chip that uses less than 1W (one watt) of power, making it the least power consuming radio chip in the world for WiGig. It is hoped that this chip will pave the way for WiGig on mobile devices.
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The Cambridge Birth Center opened its doors in December 1997 in a renovated Victorian home. Our center's intimate atmosphere provides a truly homelike experience for women and their families who are looking for an alternative to a traditional hospital birth. We are recognized by the American Association of Birth Centers and the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
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Another Invasive Plant Workshop
Our March 1 workshop had a waiting list and so another workshop has been schedule for Wednesday April 16 from 4-7 pm.
The folks on the waiting list have been given the opportunity to register and now it is open to anyone interested.
This workshop is free. It is our hope that those attending will organize and participate in invasive removal projects in Richmond's city parks.
The parks in Richmond are being invaded!
Non-native species are covering ground (literally) and trees, too.
Several environmental groups are collaborating to provide training for invasive species identification and removal.
Please come to the workshop on March 1 to learn more.
Details below. Registration is limited. Register here.
Handy Bandy Day
Please note the change in date from Feb 8 to Feb 15 and new link for volunteers…
Here is a volunteer opportunity that may interest those who want to help GET THE IVY (and other invasive plants) OUT OF RICHMOND….
Friends of Bandy Field will have a work day on Saturday,
February 8.
Some of the work will include invasive removal in an effort to keep these plants from infesting and consuming the parks foliaged perimeter and the its 2-acre central woods.
Learn more about Bandy Field here.
Ivy deserts growing in Richmond
As most of our native plants lose their leaves the green ivy is easy to see as you walk through your neighborhood or park.
Ivy and other non-natives are rapidly covering ground, creating ivy deserts where little else grows and some trees are nearly covered.
The problem can be overwhelming, but there is one simple thing you can do this fall and winter.
Small patches of ivy and ivy seedlings are very easy to spot when other plants lose their leaves and are very easy to pull up.
Search & Destroy! Remove them now before they grow.
Let's keep our remaining natural areas ivy free and try to make your yard an ivy free zone.
Join the Battle Against English Ivy
With so many things to be concerned about these days and so much to do, dealing with invasive plants may not be on your mind, but perhaps it should be. English ivy and other non-native invasive plants in the Richmond area are spreading quickly in all of the natural areas and destroying habitat wherever they grow and grow and grow.
Just take a look as you drive around town. At this time of year it's very easy to see infestations on trees. Each of those ivy loaded trees will make seed for the birds to spread to another location. It is absolutely out of control.
On Saturday, March 9, 2013, the Reedy Creek Coalition in Richmond will sponsor an Ivy Removal Workday at Forest Hill Park. They will be providing guidance on how to kill ivy that is growing on trees. Volunteer for this event at Hands On Greater Richmond.
AND you can help just by keeping ivy off the trees one your own property. NOW is the time to start.
- Make your property an ivy free zone.
- Subscribe to our website for updates and let us know about your progress.
- Join volunteer groups that are removing invasive plants in our parks.
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As part of my preparation for prelims this week, I have been reading a lot of work on material culture. I have read about changing habits of cleanliness, the construction of female lineage through the gifting of cupboards and linens, and the development of the European taste for sugar. As a result of this reading, I started thinking about what things in my house a historian of material culture could use to reconstruct my life and what these items might say about me. I also thought about those items that had particular meaning for me but whose meaning prove elusive for others.
Here's a partial list of the things that stick out in mind:
– the letter "K" cake topper from my wedding
– the crystal bowl from Tiffany's that I received as a wedding gift from Teresa Heinz Kerry (long story)
– my American Girl doll
– a clown stuffed animal from my childhood
– our china cabinet
– my stand mixer
– my cupcake stand
– a seed bead necklace from my aunt
– a reindeer stuffed animal my Uncle Chris gave me
– the bamboo plants we gave as wedding favors
– the green paint I insisted painting our walls
– the teapot I painted at the pottery store


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It was not until data reports were able to be generated that the system moved from supervising by anecdote to being able to manage with data and allowed managers to measure performance in ways that directly affected the outcomes for the families they serve.
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The Maine Child Welfare Information System (MACWIS) presents real time data to allow supervisors and caseworkers to provide timely and effective interventions and permanency plans. This allows more children to be successfully placed in a epermanent family setting, avoiding the poor outcomes associated with long term foster care including homelessness, criminal activity, and substance abuse.
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MACWIS has the proven ability to track and manage case management outcomes, manage resources, provide financial processing, meet all state and federal reporting requirements, and produce successful outcomes for the children of Maine.
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Reduces Maine's reliance on institutional care placements for foster children and increases foster care placements with relatives
Generates data that can be acted upon by management at all levels
Decreases the number of children placed in institutional settings by 88% and today only 6% of Maine foster children are placed in an institutional setting, one of the lowest percentages in the country
Provides ability to track the placement and care needs of the children in state custody
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The Maine Child Welfare Information System (MACWIS) presents real time data to allow supervisors and caseworkers to provide timely and effective interventions and permanency plans. This allows more children to be successfully placed in a epermanent family setting, avoiding the poor outcomes associated with long term foster care including homelessness, criminal activity, and substance abuse.
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Assisting Case Workers in Child Welfare FunctionsIn response to federal laws requiring improved tracking of children in state foster care, the State of Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) embarked on a project to create a State Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS). Prior to the launching of this project, most information on children in care was paper-based and fragmented, which caused issues with overall business process effectiveness and efficiency. State of Maine turned to Sybase technology to help develop this solution.
A base system was brought in from the State of Indiana, and the design effort included all levels of program and technical staff. The process culminated with the Maine Child Welfare Information System (MACWIS), developed in accordance with federal and state mandated laws. Today, MACWIS is one of only nine federally-compliant state child welfare information systems in the country.
MACWIS serves as the single repository for all Maine child welfare information to assist case workers in the recording, tracking, and processing of child welfare functions. As an object-oriented, windows-based application, MACWIS was developed using Sybase PowerBuilder as the application development tool.
More than 1,000 users have access to MACWIS, and at any time during the day, 400 users are actively using the system. The system is the single repository for all electronic child welfare information and actively manages 850,000 identified persons as well as 30,000 resources. MACWIS also manages the licensing functions of those resources though the Office of Child and Family Services as well as the Division of Licensing and Regulatory Services.
The system interfaces with many other statewide agency systems. Users can enter and retrieve information from any state office and have access to information quickly to help accomplish their work. MACWIS also allows users to access ticklers as reminders of upcoming tasks and lists of service/placement providers. The system also enables electronic case-transfer and provides required forms for documenting work.
Due to the extremely sensitive information in the system, MACWIS follows strict confidentiality rules that include security profiles, restricted access to high-profile cases, and user tracking. Users of MACWIS provide a variety of tasks for many areas across DHHS. For example, case workers can review client child welfare participation, create legal documents for court activity, and pay service/placement providers.
MACWIS has never experienced a significant service outage and continues to provide a multitude of different services to different customers to the benefit of the families and children that DHHS serves.
Focus on Positive Outcomes for ChildrenThe MACWIS project provides a case management tool that captures all of the information required to meet the needs of the field staff. Its wealth of data has resulted in the ability to create informative and dynamic reports for the use in policy management and field staff supervision. Due to MACWIS, management was able to make a conscious decision to move from a system managed by anecdote to one driven by data. Today at all levels of the system, child welfare professionals are not only familiar with but on a regular basis actively using data.
"It was not until data reports were able to be generated that the system moved from supervising by anecdote to being able to manage with data and allowed managers to measure performance in ways that directly affected the outcomes for the families they serve." - Regional Manager
MACWIS data allows staff to work more effectively by concentrating on those case elements that most directly resulted in positive outcomes for children. One detailed example of the benefits of the MACWIS system is Maine's ability to reduce its reliance on institutional care placements for foster children and increase of foster care placements with relatives. Research proves that children have better long term outcomes through adulthood when raised in a family setting. Since 2003, MACWIS data has been used by management to make informed policy decisions that have decrease by 88% the number of children placed in an institutional setting and today only 6% of Maine foster children are placed in an institutional setting, one of the lowest percentages in the country. In 2003, 12% of the children in foster care where placed with a relative, today 50% of the children that enter foster care are placed with a relatives. Since the implementation of the MACWIS system, Maine has developed into a leading child welfare system. Specific data elements from the MACWIS system are able to be used to create a data view of the child welfare process from start to finish. Managers are able to create real and sustainable improvements to the system, which has increased the wellbeing and the safety for the children in Maine.
"Daily we work in an environment where we deal with each case individually, but it is the use of the data available in the system that allows us to step back and say if the decisions made are really beneficial to long term outcomes for the families we serve." – Regional Manager
A Model SystemMACWIS has played a major role in helping the State of Maine improve the outcomes of children involved with child protection over the past 10 years. As reported in the Maine Sunday Telegram on January 30, 2011, Tracy Field of the Annie E. Casey Foundation said, "Maine was not on the map as being a leader in the past. Now they're viewed as having really good outcomes." In the article, Field also said that child welfare managers, case workers, advocates and legislators from Virginia as well as other states have visited Maine in recent years to get a firsthand look at the child welfare system.
Maine is also one of only nine states in the entire country to gain compliance as a State Automated Child Welfare Information System. In addition, the state has further set itself apart in the way that it generates data from the system that can be acted upon by management at all levels. Several other state child welfare department administrators have visited with Maine administrators of MACWIS to learn more about how to generate actionable data. As other state administrators have found, Maine manages outcomes more effectively because timely and accurate information not previously accessible is now not only available in the system, but actively being used by management.
Besides functioning as a case management tool, the MACWIS system includes forms, letters, and event-tracking reports so caseworkers save time in creating required documentation. The system populates the forms with information already held within the system and caseworkers simply fill in any additional information necessary. This gives them more time to interact directly with children and families.
One of the most important aspects of the system is its ability to track the placement and care needs of the children in state custody. The MACWIS system holds the placement information of all of the children Maine serves as well as emergency and out of state contacts for the foster care providers, so that in the event of a major disaster all of the children the state is responsible for can be quickly located. It also holds all important medical and special needs information of the children so that any available caseworker has the information needed to meet the emergency needs of any child in the system.
The hallmark of an innovative data system, especially in this current economy, is that it be flexible and adaptable so that other agencies can leverage its success. In the case of MACWIS it has the proven ability to track and manage case management outcomes, manage resources, provide financial processing, meet all state and federal reporting requirements, and produce successful outcomes.
Success is a Moving TargetAll of the state and federal regulations that MACWIS must comply with, and which change over time, present a constant challenge. The federal requirements alone are several hundred pages long and include strict security and privacy regulations since the information to be tracked is extremely private. Maine receives 17,000 child abuse reports annually, 10,000 of which turn out to be appropriate and require investigation.
DHHS has achieved current compliance, but new requirements will continue to emerge, so success is a moving target. The organization has succeeded because it has deployed the necessary hardware and software with a technical staff savvy enough to adapt to changes and the ability to program the software to handle the intricacies of compliance.
Because of the compliance challenge, many states in the U.S. have attempted to build such a system but only nine have completed the process. The MACWIS solution has been successful as it is flexible enough to adapt to changes. Because the system was created modularly and is maintained at that level, the organization can more easily consider new features, and it allows the base system to be helpful to other areas of the state, which helps make the state government more efficient.


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Asian football officials may be forced to tally yellow and red cards or even hold a special lottery to decide the last 16 as an ultra-competitive AFC Champions League group phase goes down to the wire.
With eight knock-out berths still available, 16 teams are in the running, setting up a mad dash for the line in the final group games on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Group C is the only pool where both qualifying berths, and top spot, have been decided. In Group B, both spots are still available and all four teams - Lekhwiya, Pakhtakor, Al Ettifaq or Al Shabab Al Arabi - could finish top.
And in Group E, Buriram United's campaign to become the first Thai team to qualify may be decided by a count of yellow and red cards, or even a specially convened lottery.
With Buriram and Vegalta Sendai tied on points, head-to-head record, goal difference and goals scored, if both teams win or draw they may be relying on their disciplinary record to clinch second spot behind group winners FC Seoul.
And should Japan's Sendai, on seven yellow cards compared to Buriram's 15 yellows and one red, suffer a meltdown against Jiangsu Sainty, qualification could be decided by a lottery at AFC headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.
All to play for
Buriram coach Attaphol Puspakom, still smarting from Sendai's injury-time equaliser which denied his team qualification last week, urged his players to maintain their belief when they take on group winners FC Seoul on Wednesday.
"It will certainly be a hard game for us, but we have to keep the faith," he said.
Elsewhere, China's Guangzhou Evergrande are already through but their bid to finish top of Group F, and secure a potentially easier last-16 draw, has been hampered by a touchline ban for their coach Marcello Lippi.
Lippi, who led Italy to the 2006 World Cup and also won the 1996 European Champions League with Juventus, was sent to the stands during last week's 3-2 defeat to Urawa Red Diamonds for kicking a water bottle.
Lippi and defender Zhang Linpeng, who was red-carded, are both banned for Wednesday's clash with Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors and they will remain suspended until their disciplinary cases are decided, an AFC official told AFP.
Meanwhile, newly crowned Australian champions the Central Coast Mariners will reach the knock-out phase for the first time if they beat Japan's Kashiwa Reysol on Tuesday, or if Group H's other result goes their way.
"One of our main goals before the season started was to advance from the group stage of the ACL, and now we've got the chance to do that," skipper John Hutchinson said.
"We've got a great record at home, and we'll be playing to win that game on Tuesday."
The two-legged round of 16 starts on May 14 and ends the following week.
The competition then takes a break before resuming for the quarter-finals in August.
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2.By extension, does this mean that bonuses from +STR have no other use other than increase attack power when not wielding a shield?
3. What should be the average crit % and hit% of a pre-raid fury warrior? How do you reach an optimum between the two? Why is getting 10% to hit some magical number when it's said that both hands have a 24% base chance to miss? +10% from gear and an extra +3% from talents still mean you have +13%. YOu are still missing 11% of the time?
4. Is parry rating worth getting at all for fury builds? Or arms build? Over crit/hit rating?
5. Should fury warriors use the fastest weapons possible? If so is there a problem with using daggers?
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Implicit objects in jsp are the objects that are created by the container automatically, we do not need to create them explicitly. Since these objects are created automatically therefore these are known as the implicit objects. Implicit objects are used for different purposes. Our own methods (user defined methods) can't access them as they are local to the service method and are created at the conversion time of a jsp into a servlet. But we can pass them to our own method if we wish to use them locally in those functions.
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Caramel Brownie Recipe
Caramel is a gooey, chewy, sweet candy. It is produced when sugar is slowly heated and melted with butter, milk, vanilla, and water. This candy making process can be tedious. To avoid burning, constant stirring and attention to the confection is required. The heating of the sugars is what gives the candy its tan, caramel color. The milk is what gives it a soft, chewy texture.
Caramel alone is sweet and delicious. Caramel with chocolate is even better and one of my favorite combinations. These chocolate caramel brownies are a delicious way to enjoy chocolate and caramel. And don't worry about making your own caramel. This recipe calls for buying candy already made. The caramel gives this brownie a gooey sweet surprise throughout. These brownies are made with a cake mix. It is amazing all the goodies that can be made with a cake mix.
Chocolate Caramel Brownies
Makes 24 brownies
14 oz.caramel (I buy the 14 oz. bag of Kraft wrapped caramels)
1 cup evaporated milk
1 (18.25 ounce) package Devil's Food chocolate cake mix
3/4 cup butter, melted
2 cups milk chocolate chips (1 12 oz. package)
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Grease a 9x13 pan with cooking spray.
3. Mix cake mix, 2/3 cup of evaporated milk, and melted butter in large bowl.
4. Spread one half of batter in the prepared pan. The batter will be thick.
5. Bake for 10 minutes.
6. Peel caramels and melt in a small sauce pan over low heat.
7. Stir in 1/2 cup evaporated milk.
8. Stir constantly to avoid burning.
9. Take the brownie mixture out of the oven and spread chocolate chips.
10. Drop spoonfuls of the caramel mixture over the chocolate chips. The entire brownie will not be covered.
11. Spread the remaining cake batter over the caramel. This will also not fully cover the brownies.
12. Bake for an additional 30 minutes.
13. Remove and let cool.
These brownies are another great addition to a cookie tray. Enjoy and sweeten the soul with chocolate!
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Fairy Tail TV Anime Project Relaunched - News - Anime News Network
Yes Fairy Tail is coming back. No relaunch date yet. I do think they need to give it some time. Maybe April or even next October to buy some time for material. Though they can insert filler between chapter 340 and 341. Whatever new But filler so soon? I am excited, I hope CR simocast it again. But let's not the same mistakes we made before but rushing through the early arcs.
If Fairy Tail can come back things are lookin' up for Bleach. Of course, Bleach is only sixty-five chapters ahead of where episode #366 left off, so I suppose we should call back in another two years.
EDIT: I think Fairy Tail ended as chapter #325 came out.
Last edited by Jacob T. Paschal; 07-11-2013 at 11:31 AM. Reason: Added note about when the FT series ended.
That's cool for Fairy Tail fans, but I was hoping that we'd get a sequel to Bleach and/or Hitman Reborn first...
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You know, none of the three are among my top favorite titles, but it's also for that reason that I'm not inclined to pick them up by manga (too much money), so really getting them by anime is the way I'll get to finish them. (although Bleach is an exception as VIZ's WSJA - which I have been subscribed to since the beginning - happened to pick up when the manga was at a point before where the anime ended. But that's aside from the point and obviously doesn't apply to the other two).
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I want to see a Bleach anime too. But I rather wait the whole series is done and adapt the final arc correctly. This arc will take a few years. Fairy Tail arcs normally aren't that long. I don't think Hiro wants to do anymore long arcs till the final arc with Zeref and Acnologia.
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Im not certain what the ADScheme.vbs does but if I was to hazard a guess, I would say it is run by the program to build the AD Structure in the left hand panel.
As Duncan has said, you need to browse to your Computers OU not Users. The users OU will contain only more empty OU's (if you have created them) which is obviously no good to you. If you are to browse to your computers OU you should see the computers on the right hand side when you get to the bottom level. Or the alternative is to search for the computer name. The login script shouldnt stop you deploying VNC and using VNC. (if you are Deploying don't forget to set it up first in the Skeep options)
As for the Users, IP and MAC not showing: Firstly check to see if the information is being entered into ADSI Edit. To check logon to an AD Server run adsiedit.msc then expand the OU's down to a computer you know the information of IE Domain.Internal\Establishments\Domain\Computers\Ad min\Computer1. Right click on the Computer Folder and look at the properties. Check if ipHostNumber, NetworkAddress and/or employeeNumber has a value and if any of them do, then are the values correct?
If they do have the correct values then your login script is working and the issue might be with your Skeep program. If there is no values in ADSI Edit, manually enter the IP address of the machine (be sure you are correct) then refresh Skeep. If the IP changes and shows correctly then you can be sure there is not an issue with Skeep reading ADSI and you are back to the issue with the login script.
I have already made a new version of the login script because I was having issues on server 2008 R2. The version I created using slightly different variables to get the same information.
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Being dairy-intolerant I bought this as a substitute for cheese. It tastes nothing like cheese, and gave me severe stomack-pains and bloating. Never again.
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I use these for creating vegan "cheese"sauces,tats is very good and creamy compared to others I have tried.Great sprinkled over food too. Very generous sized bottle!
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No. 3, 2008
Highlights From State and Local Programs
Florida TB and Corrections Team Wins 2008 Prudential-Davis Productivity Award!
In 2008, the Department of Health (DOH) TB staff in Florida were recognized with a group award for their work with the Lowell Correctional Institution TB Deployment Team. The contribution being recognized involved a case-finding investigation in a women's correctional facility. The group award was one of the Prudential Financial–Davis Productivity Awards given each year in Florida.
The awards were created by the late J.E. Davis and A.D. Davis (co-founders of Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc.) and are sponsored by Prudential Financial. Since 1989, the Davis Productivity Award program has publicly recognized and rewarded Florida state employees and agencies whose work significantly increases productivity and promotes innovations that improve the delivery of services, while saving money for Florida taxpayers and businesses. This year's competition attracted 489 nominations from all over the state for innovation and productivity improvements worth $322 million in cost savings, cost avoidances, and increased revenue for state government. Since 1989, award winners have produced more than $5.9 billion worth of added value. The official award winners.
The accomplishment
The 34-member statewide team combined the resources of two agencies, the Department of Health and the Department of Corrections, to find an undiagnosed inmate with highly contagious TB. The previous year, this correctional facility had experienced a TB outbreak. The contact investigation done at the time was considered to have been not as extensive as it should have been. Therefore, the decision was made to do active case finding as opposed to contact investigation. Working almost around the clock for 3 weeks, the team screened 2,729 inmates and prison employees.
The team's first priority was to conduct symptom screening with individuals who might have active TB. To do this, the team developed an interagency electronic data-sharing system and database with specific inmate and officer medical information. This new system allowed the nurses to view the documented medical history of each inmate prior to assessing the inmate's physical signs and symptoms; this allowed for greater efficiency for the active case-finding investigation. The team combined their expertise to design a system for extracting protected health information from the Offender Based Information System (OBIS), a very antiquated system. Obtaining this needed information was the major obstacle this team encountered. However, through the creativity and expertise of the medical and information staff, they accomplished what was originally thought to be almost impossible. This innovation eliminated the need to review approximately 3,000 paper medical records, thus materializing savings of approximately 500 person-hours, for an estimated cost savings of $5,000.
As a result of efforts, the team found an undiagnosed case and prevented further TB spread. Individuals with TB who do not receive treatment can infect as many as 20–30 individuals. The cost of treating one uncomplicated case of TB in Florida is estimated at $21,000 (2003 dollars). By finding this active case of TB, we estimate that at least 20 other people were saved from developing this disease, resulting in a cost avoidance of $420,000 (20 x $21,000=$420,000). After deducting the $92,209 spent on labor and consumables, the team realized a cost savings of $327,791 (annually). The interagency electronic data-sharing system saved an additional $5,000, for a total cost avoidance of $332,791.
This was the first active case-finding investigation conducted within a prison in Florida. The collaborative effort between the two departments added significant value to the active case-finding mission by capitalizing on the abilities and advantages of each agency. Critical factors that ensured the success of the mission included the agencies' sharing information, providing access to the facility, and maintaining ongoing communication. In addition, this investigation was accomplished in a very short period of time. It was a truly successful collaborative venture!
This team was recognized at the Florida Department of Health/Bureau of Tuberculosis and Refugee Health Fourth Annual Statewide Meeting in Tampa. The group members were praised by the director of Disease Control for their "noble commitment and outstanding hard work, which far exceeded Department, Division and Bureau expectations."
This innovative project demonstrated best practices to reduce the spread of a potentially deadly respiratory disease, and improved outcomes for all Floridians. Infectious diseases within a prison can spread to local communities through inmates who return home after completing their sentences, as well as through the exposed workforce.
Employee tuberculin skin testing was identified as an area for improvement during this investigation. A Department of Corrections process map was developed and a quality management approach utilized to improve institutional employee testing compliance. The process of improvement is on going, but the initial results indicate incremental improvement.
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Program Collaboration and Integration Activities in Connecticut
In January 2007, the program manager of Connecticut's Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) Control Program also became the manager of the TB Control Program. The integration of these two programs has presented a great opportunity for staff from these programs to collaborate, offering a variety of services to clients seen for STDs or TB.
In the STD program, Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS) interview clients with certain STDs and follow up with notification, examination, and treatment of exposed sex partners. These staff are also responsible for counseling and interviewing clients infected with HIV and locating their needle-sharing and sex partners for appropriate testing and referral. The DIS staff are able to draw blood, collect urine samples, and collect a swab for HIV testing in the field setting.
In 2007, with the integration of these two programs, Connecticut initiated a cross-training program that is helping the TB program nursing supervisor and the TB case managers become certified HIV counselors. The training, which can take several months to complete, is provided by staff of the Connecticut HIV/AIDS prevention program. To meet the requirements of this training, the TB staff observe the counseling sessions and practice in a variety of settings. For example, they have worked with STD staff in high school settings where students are being screened for STDs and HIV. The TB case managers are able to conduct HIV pretest counseling sessions with students to hone the skills needed for this certification. Once trained and certified, TB staff will be able to conduct HIV counseling and testing for TB patients who have not already been tested for HIV through their medical provider, and can also complete HIV testing on contacts, if there is a need to determine HIV status. This testing can be completed in a nonmedical setting,* which will facilitate the completion of the test and help ensure appropriate management of the TB patient.
*Note: In revised recommendations from 2006, CDC recommends HIV screening for all TB patients after the patient is notified that testing will be performed unless the patient declines (i.e., opt-out screening); however, these recommendations only address health care settings. Revised recommendations for HIV testing of adults, adolescents, and pregnant women in health-care settings. MMWR 2006; 55 (No. RR-14). Fact sheet
The TB case managers and nursing supervisor also had training in phlebotomy in order to draw blood for QuantiFERON tests (QFTs), which will be performed at the state laboratory. QFTs will be available later in 2008. Protocols will be established on the eligibility requirements for QFTs, but it is expected that the majority of eligible clients will be those seen and managed by the TB staff. The ability to draw blood and deliver the specimens to the state lab promptly is crucial to the processing of the test. Case managers can facilitate this process to ensure accurate results.
Further collaboration is occurring with the STD program. DIS staff are now more familiar with TB and the need for TB testing of high-risk clients (e.g., those who are also HIV infected). They are aware of TB clinics in their area and of the staff in the TB program who can assist to ensure TB testing occurs. Clinicians in STD clinics will also be introduced to the nursing supervisor and case managers in the TB program. Once they are familiar with staff and clinics in the area, there will be a heightened awareness of the need for high-risk STD patients to be referred for TB testing.
Recently, additional collaboration has taken place between the AIDS division and the STD and TB programs. In selected community health centers, anyone receiving a positive HIV test is referred for STD services. This includes comprehensive STD screening, hepatitis A/B vaccination, hepatitis C screening, partner notification services, and referral to care for HIV infection. These clients are also referred for TB testing services. This integrative effort has provided a very comprehensive approach to anyone receiving a positive HIV test.
In the area of integrated epidemiologic and surveillance capacity, the Connecticut Department of Public Health recently hired Dr. Lynn Sosa, former CDC EIS officer, to serve as the medical epidemiologist for the TB and STD programs. The additional capacity has strengthened the programs' ability to implement collaborations in the areas of epidemiologic analysis, outbreak investigations, and collaborations in screenings.
Looking to the future, preliminary discussions are underway regarding routine HIV screening in TB clinics and other settings serving patients with TB and their contacts. Recommendations will be reviewed, and collaboration with the HIV/AIDS prevention program will again be an integral part of this initiative.
Integration has been effective and productive for these programs. Staff members from the TB and the STD programs are much more aware of the need for comprehensive screening, as well as the availability of appropriate testing and referral sources for follow-up, particularly for the high-risk clients with whom all staff come into contact on a daily basis. Hepatitis C screening and hepatitis A/B vaccinations are available at most STD clinics, another area that CDC is targeting for program collaboration and service integration (PCSI). Through staff training and collaboration on a regular basis, this initiative has been extremely successful in keeping all staff aware of how they can easily and effectively work together and serve the needs of their clients.
—Submitted by Heidi Jenkins
TB/STD Program Director
Connecticut Department of Public Health
Los Angeles County TB Control Program Collaborates with Community Groups to Organize and Present a Successful World TB Day Symposium
For several years, the Los Angeles County (LAC) Tuberculosis Control Program (TBCP) has been forging partnerships with community-based organizations serving populations at high risk for tuberculosis (TB), such as African Americans, HIV/AIDS patients, homeless persons, immigrants, and substance-abusing populations. These partnerships led to the establishment of the TB Coalition of LAC in 2006. The World TB Day planning committee, carved out of this Coalition, planned a half-day symposium to commemorate World TB Day this year. The LAC TBCP and the TB Coalition engaged in extensive outreach to involve participants who would most benefit from increased education and awareness about TB in LAC. Owing to the increasing proportion of foreign-born TB patients in Los Angeles, a concerted effort was made to target organizations and community leaders working with recent immigrant populations, especially those from parts of the world with high TB prevalence.
On March 15, the LAC TBCP, in collaboration with several local community-based organizations such as Breathe California of Los Angeles County (BREATHE LA) and the American Lung Association of California, presented the 2008 World TB Day Forum, which took place from 9 am to 12 noon at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles, CA. The theme for the forum was "I Am Stopping TB – A Disease without Borders." The purpose of the forum was to educate community leaders about TB so they could take an active role in TB education and prevention within their communities. Community leaders included those from cultural, educational, health care, political, and religious organizations.
Over 115 people representing 55 organizations attended the forum, which began with a keynote address by CA State Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas. Sen. Ridley-Thomas, who sits on the State Health and Appropriations committees, recognized the potential negative effects of budget cuts on the ability to control TB in LAC, promising, "We will not sit idly by as the TB budget continues to be slashed… I will take your message to the Governor."
The program also included an educational presentation on TB, as well as a TB patient testimonial. A panel of experts discussed cultural myths surrounding TB among the following high-risk groups in LAC: African Americans, Latinos, South Asians, and Southeast Asians. Myths that were discussed included "TB is not a Latino disease, it's an Asian disease," "BCG is a vaccine that protects you against getting TB for the rest of your life," and "Smoking causes TB." A panel of providers later discussed services available to those with TB in LAC. The program concluded with a discussion on advocacy and what each participant could do to help in the fight against TB. As a follow-up to the forum, the director and a nurse consultant, both representing the LAC TBCP, appeared on a television show entitled Pacesetters which aired on channel KTLA on April 6.
The LAC World TB Day Forum was successful in employing a community-based participatory approach to informing and galvanizing communities about TB. Specifically, leaders in high-risk communities were educated about the continuing importance of TB and the need to take an assertive approach in fighting the disease. Many participants, by signing letters drafted by a key community partner, were mobilized to educate decision-makers about the potentially devastating impact of funding cuts and the disruption of the TB control public health infrastructure.
—Submitted by Chhandasi P. Bagchi, MPH, Robert Miodovski,MPH, and
Annette T. Nitta, MD,
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, TB Control Program; and
Romesh Anketell, MPH, Breathe California of Los Angeles County (BREATHE LA)
Arizona TB Nurse Case Management Course
The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) TB Control Program, in collaboration with the Heartland National TB Center (HNTC), developed a TB Nurse Case Management Course which was held February 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona.
The course included presentations given by experts in the field including Drs. Barbara Seaworth and Adriana Vasquez from HNTC, and Dr. Karen Lewis from ADHS. The presenters allowed time for questions and were available after their presentations to address individual concerns.
Some of the topics included Principles of TB Nurse Case Management Techniques, TB Epidemiology, Diagnosis and Medical Management of LTBI and TB Disease, Infection Control, TB/HIV Coinfection, TB Medications and Adverse Effects, the Laboratory's Role in TB Diagnosis and Treatment, Cultural Considerations, and Border and Interjurisdictional Issues.
The training seemed to have been very well received by the participants. To determine if this training was in fact successful, and why, the participants were asked to complete an evaluation form at the end of the conference. In addition, some of the individuals' evaluation responses needed clarification; these attendees were contacted after the training and asked for more specific feedback about the conference.
The responses indicated that the course was a success. Some of the comments were as follows:
- "I've learned more in these couple days than I had working in TB for 8 years."
- "I will immediately re-evaluate my current case load to ensure they [patients] are receiving optimal treatment with the information offered at this workshop. I will be in a better situation to make informed decisions and choices. I will be better able to identify problems or issues."
- "It was not the information as much as the staff/instructors answering our questions and getting back to us in a timely manner."
Other comments included a thank you for not making them play games, role play, or break into groups.
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Tuberculosis Case Management for Nurses: Self-Study Modules
These four self-study modules provide an overview of public health nursing and discuss the fundamentals of TB case management, leadership skills of the nurse case manager and management of the pediatric patient.
Tuberculosis Case Management for Nurses Workshop: The Facilitator's Guide
This resource outlines the process of planning and conducting a two-day, interactive workshop for TB nurse case managers and is available as an online product.
Planning & Implementing the TB Case Management Conference: A unique opportunity for networking, peer support and ongoing training
This manual is a step-by-step guide for developing and conducting the case management conference.
—Submitted by Millie Blackstone, RN, MPH
Arizona Dept of Health Services
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