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As it turns out, the team at Monolith Productions was in between projects and wasn't actively working on anything. After some encouraging words from Fryer, the team put some serious thought into what it wanted to work on next and the answer was ... Batman.
"Okay, it's cool," Fryer told them, "but we already have a Batman game. And last time I checked, people really liked it so I'm not sure how that's going to work."
"No, not the Batman," they told her. "We want to work on multiplayer Batman."
Of course, multiplayer Batman presents an obvious problem: Everyone wants to be Bats. Monolith's solution: "Nobody's going to be Batman." A bold concept for a Batman game, to be sure, but with that idea in hand the studio pitched the game to the executive team in Burbank. After the presentation, the president told Fryer it was the most surprising pitch he'd ever seen.
The hook: You're not playing as Batman, or Joker. You're playing as "impostors" of the seminal comic book characters. This of course eliminated another canonical problem for the famous shooter developer. A Batman impostor can use a gun. "It's not every day you get green-lit to subvert a paradigm," Fryer said. But to do that, Fryer and Monolith needed permission from the gatekeeper, comic book publisher (and Warner Bros. subsidiary) DC Comics. Lucky for them, when DC co-publisher Jim Lee visited the studio ... "he loved it." In fact, his only suggestion was to push the already unhinged concept even further; he went back to DC and began the Impostors storyline in the Detective Comics series.
So what exactly does Gotham City Impostors look like? In short, it's a hyperactive multiplayer shooter, coated in a thick layer of Batman Sauce. Players can pick to be on Team Bats or Team Jokerz (no word on other potential teams yet, WBIE tells us) and, from there, customize their characters, loadouts, individual weapons, and even the "card" that enemies will see after you've killed them. Character customization begins with body type, which ranges from nimble to heavy, all the way through "cowl," where players can pick the type of knock-off Batman mask they want their impostor to wear.
A curiously compelling pastiche of Batman iconography, wrapped around a fast-paced shooter from the seasoned veterans at Monolith.
To demonstrate weapon customization, we were shown the "Thunder Dragon" rocket launcher ... But a rocket launcher is old hat, right? How about a purple cheetah-print rocket launcher ... that fires fireworks -- or molotov cocktails? Your loadout includes a "ready" weapon, an assault rifle in our case; a "backup" weapon, the aforementioned Thunder Dragon here; a "support" item, which includes pipe bombs, a jack-in-the-box-style bomb, an axe, a boomerang, and more; and a "gadget," which includes a glider, a grapple gun, roller skates, or a smoke bomb. Like most games in this market, you can either customize everything or pick from defaults, including pre-made loadouts.
On display at the event were only two gametypes -- the mandatory Team Deathmatch and the more atypical "Psychological Warfare," a kind of capture-the-flag done Batman-style. The map on display was the funhouse Amusement Mile, an appropriate setting for the madcap action on display. Littered across the level are trampolines, which players can use to make their way to higher ground, giving the map a distinct verticality. Also helping traverse this vertical environment is the glider which, when coupled with heating ducts, let players fly across the level. Similarly, skate ramps allow players with the roller skates gadget to get a speed boost across the map.
Psychological Warfare tasks each team with defending or recovering a battery connected to a brainwashing system. When a team grabs the battery to bring it back to their base, it leaves behind a trail of battery acid, leading the defending team directly to the stolen battery. Once back at the base, it must be defended for 30 seconds before the attacking team can activate its brainwashing machine. Once activated, your team members will hear a motivational speech, while the enemy will be brainwashed and temporarily lose access to its weapons, relying solely on "panic attacks."
The hook: You're not playing as Batman, or Joker.
From a mechanical standpoint, Gotham City Impostors plays much like other shooters: run is mapped to the left analog stick's clicky button; left trigger pulls up your iron sights; right trigger fires. Killing enemies earns you XP (conveniently posted above enemies every time you land a shot); though, strangely, Monolith isn't talking about what other actions will net players XP. Successfully snagging a battery? No sign of XP in the demo session.
Despite its conventional mechanics, Impostors unsurprisingly distinguishes itself in its setting, a curiously compelling pastiche of Batman iconography, wrapped around a fast-paced shooter from the seasoned veterans at Monolith.
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Nuna Leaf: the bouncer that grows with your child
As indispensable as they are, baby bouncers and swings have drawbacks. First, there's the investment–$100 or more for an item baby will use a few months at most. Second, when baby is finished with them, you're stuck with a large and suddenly useless product taking up space. One of the latest bouncer/swings on the market, the Nuna Leaf, alleviates some of this. Although it is still an investment, the Leaf comfortably and safely accommodates children from newborn up to 130 pounds. In the beginning, strap baby into the organic cotton-covered seat and allow them to sway to sleep. As kids get older, the Leaf becomes a fun bouncer and, later, a great seat for relaxing. The Leaf also locks into a stationary position if little ones get a little too rambunctious.


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|BACKGROUND: In Caucasian patients with acute stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) due to symptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic stenoses (ICAS), only limited data on the recurrent stroke rate and its associated risk factors have been reported. In view of the increasing options for endovascular interventions, we sought to investigate the prevalence, risk for recurrent stroke and mortality in these patients. METHODS: A total of 304 consecutive patients with acute ischemic stroke or TIA due to 50-99% ICAS were prospectively documented in 19 German stroke centers. In 201 patients (68.1% of the survivors), a central biannual telephone follow-up could assess recurrent stroke and mortality up to a median of 2 years after the index event. RESULTS: An ischemic cerebrovascular event attributable to symptomatic ICAS was found in 2.24% of the consecutively admitted patients. The overall cumulative recurrent stroke rate after admission was 17.9% (95% CI = 13.4-23.5) for the first year and 23.3% (95% CI = 17.8-29.8) over 3 years. After correction for age and sex, only previous stroke (HR = 2.11, 95% CI = 1.14-3.91) and diabetes (HR = 2.41, 95% CI = 1.33-4.37) were significantly associated with recurrent stroke. CONCLUSION: Although the prevalence of this etiology seems very low in patients admitted to German stroke centers, we found a high risk of recurrent stroke in patients with symptomatic ICAS. Whether endovascular interventions can reduce this high risk needs to be determined in a randomized trial.
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The Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation will make its First in Family Scholarships available over the next three school years, according to today's announcement.
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John C. Fortier joined the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) in April 2011. He is a political scientist who focuses on governmental and electoral institutions.
Prior to coming to BPC, he was a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he also served as the principal contributor to the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project, the executive director of the Continuity of Government Commission, and the project manager of the Transition to Governing Project. He was also a regular contributor to AEI's Election Watch series. He also served as the director of the Center for the Study of American Democracy at Kenyon College.
He has a Ph.D. in political science from Boston College and a B.A. from Georgetown University.
He is the author of Absentee and Early Voting: Trends, Promises and Perils (AEI Press: 2006), author and editor of After the People Vote: A Guide to the Electoral College, and author and co-editor with Norman Ornstein of Second Term Blues: How George W. Bush Has Governed (Brookings Press: 2007), and numerous academic articles in political science and law journals.
He has been a regular columnist for The Hill and Politico. Fortier is a frequent commentator on elections and government institutions and has appeared on ABC's Nightline, CNN, Fox News, PBS's News Hour, CBS News, NBC's Today Show, C-SPAN, NPR, Bloomberg, and BBC.
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I love the LA Looks Curl gel - consistently good results for me, but I've not tried the Wet look one. Do you find that it's a stronger hold/ or does it dry more crunchy that the other variations? The curl gel does leave some crunch, but it's easy to scrunch out. Glad to hear you love it. I also find that the Wet look gel is easier to find than the Curl gel in the stores (even at Dollar General).
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anyone remember the late 90s Sinbad series? i remember watching it quite a bit. it was alright.
It was mediocre, neither the best nor the worst of the glut of syndicated fantasy-action series that arose to mimic
around that time. It was mainly annoying for having a mostly white cast, and even having Sinbad apparently be a European who'd been displaced to the Mideast -- and for having its one black cast member be stuck playing a mute character. On the plus side, one of its regulars was George Buza, who was the voice of Beast in the '90s
animated series (and a trucker in the first
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i haven't watched it in ages but i thought it was a decent show. i remember it had some shoddy CGI monsters and the main girl was pretty hot. thats about the extent of my memories though.
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On "Lakewood Now," a TV show that was launched in the 1998-99 school year, students present world news, sports, announcements and school interviews.
During the 2003-04 school year, it grew to become a township program, and is now broadcast on Cablevision Channel 77 with a range of different programs. They include "Mad House," a show that combines home videos of students doing funny things and outtakes, and "Piner Breakdown," in which students attempt to break Guinness World Records. The records deal mostly with food, and none have been broken yet.
Glenn Picone, 50, of Dover Township is in charge of "Lakewood Now." He has 28 students in two TV Production classes. He also teaches freshman English. While one class produces the morning show, the other class works on creating other programs, such as "What Matters?" where students discuss issues important to them.
Senior Paula Iwaniuk, 17, is taking Picone's class.
"My best friend had taken the class before me and encouraged me to take it," Paula says. "When you are in this class, you learn so much about the mechanics of putting a program together and how to use the different equipment needed to run a TV station."
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Thanks to the new single-site advancement to the da Vinci Robotic Surgical System, doctors can now complete the surgery in a shorter amount of time and with better accuracy and fewer complications. While traditional robotic surgery requires three or four small incisions, the new version of the technology requires just a single incision into the belly button in order to remove the gallbladder.
During a minimally invasive surgery using the da Vinci system, the robotic arms are attached to surgical equipment. These arms are controlled by the surgeon who is seated at a console several feet away from the patient. Using the console, the surgeon is able to visualize the patient and the procedure using a high-definition 3-D image. As surgery begins, the robotic arms enter through a single-incision in the belly button, about one inch in diameter.
This method provides various patient benefits including minimal scarring, less bleeding, quicker recovery times and a shorter stay in the hospital.
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Tiger Woods Snaps at Reporter at Honda Classic Presser
by Chris Young | February 29, 2012 at 2:46 PM | Golf, Sports
Here's video of Tiger Woods responding to yet another question about new details within his former swing coach Hank Haney's tell-all book "The Big Miss."
The book has been a hot topic for more than a month, but talk of its contents hit a fever pitch yesterday when Golf Digest published several excerpts. Among the juiciest was the revelation that Tiger is apparently obsessed with Navy SEALs (something Woods' agent Mark Steinberg vehemently denies) and even considered leaving the sport of golf to enlist, according to Haney. If the very idea seems ludicrous maybe it is.
But Alex Miceli, the golf writer and Golf.com founder in the above video, was not ready to bury the topic that Tiger repeatedly said he was done discussing. And so, the clip was born.
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GridIron Systems: Mining Big Data 'Gold' in a Flash
GridIron cites a number of client examples. In one, an Oracle data warehouse for an online comparison shopping site was able to reduce the production of critical reports from six hours to about 30 minutes. In the process, GridIron says, about $2 million was also saved from storage and server consolidation. In another case, a financial services hosting provider was able to triple improvement in response time as well as double its overall hosting capacity, leading to savings of more than $1 million.
I/O bottlenecks are a very real problem that does not allow servers to exploit all of their capabilities while trying to process information from storage. That is why so many vendors are rushing in with SSD-based solutions to try and solve this problem. GridIron Systems does not try to solve every I/O bottleneck problem, but instead focuses on simply addressing the problem as it relates to the analysis of big data.
GridIron seeks to accomplish this through its TurboCharger line of appliances. On the business side, the advantage of faster analyses is the ability to take advantage of the results of the analysis faster (and, in some cases, that may be the difference between the data being of material value since late-arriving data may be worthless). On the IT side, better CPU and storage utilization leads to better IT investments. That can include savings, which makes GridIron's approach to enhancing big data acceleration and analysis worthwhile.
At the time of this publication, GridIron is not a client of David Hill and the Mesabi Group.
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Judge blocks Apple on two patent claims against Kodak
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Eight patents remain to be settled, auction going ahead
US Bankruptcy Court Judge Allan Gropper has ruled that Apple does not own two of the 10 imaging patents the company was claiming in a dispute between the iPhone maker and the troubled photography pioneer. Kodak is seeking to auction off some 1,100 digital imaging and other patents in an auction that has technically already begun, while Apple has been trying to stop the sale of now eight patents for which it claims it is the true owner.
Judge Gropper ruled that Apple waited too long to assert any claims of ownership. Apple says Kodak has misappropriated shared technology over the 20 years since the two companies collaborated on the early and influential QuickTake digital camera and related software. Apple has said that its subsidiary FlashPoint Technology is the rightful owner of the eight remaining patents.
Kodak has accused Apple, which has tried repeatedly to stop or delay the auction, of trying to sabotage the sale or lower the price so that it can buy the patents itself. Apple maintains that it is unlawful to auction the patents before ownership of the handful in question has been determined. The company may in fact be preparing to
The judge ruled that Kodak's ability to sell its portfolio would be hindered if Apple's "unreasonably late claims" were accepted, but denied Kodak's motion for a summary judgement on the other eight patents. The judge rejected both "inventorship" and state law ownership claims by Apple on the two, and ruled against FlashPoint on another motion regarding three other of the disputed patents.
Apple has filed counter-claims in a California court, but in that case Judge George Daniels has stayed the case until New York-based Judge Gropper has ruled. Apple has reportedly joined forced with Microsoft to bid in the auction, in which initial bids are due this week. In a twist, however, the International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled last month that at least one of the patents Apple has lost its claim on is invalid, reinforcing a preliminary finding in May and complicating Kodak's efforts to sell it.


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A tough start was followed by a strong rebound at the Class 1-A Boys Individual State Tennis Meet for the duo of Will Loux and Brannon Johnson on Pella High. The doubles team representing the Little Dutch drew the third-seeded team from Maharishi and were defeated 6-0, 6-1 in the opening round of the Championship bracket.
Loux and Johnson bounced back in the Consolation bracket with a 6-4, 6-2 win over the doubles team from Chariton; then followed up that performance with a gritty 7-6 win in the first set of their match with Spirit Lake's doubles team that went to a 7-5 tiebreaker. After overcoming the first set, the senior and junior tandem closed the door with a 6-1 win in the second set.
Pella's Will Loux and Brannon Johnson will now face a doubles team from Aplington-Parkersburg today in the Consolation semifinals. A win would give the members of the Little Dutch tennis team a chance to play either Boone or Storm Lake for fifth place.
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Franklin County's boys golf team had first, second and third place finishes in the Flyer Classic Monday at Juniper Hill.
The Flyers won the tournament with a score of 291, FCHS senior Matt Way took second place with a two-under-par 68, and teammate Lee Rarden was third after shooting a 69.
"I'm very excited," FCHS coach James Myers said, "and very happy with the way we played. For our No. 1 and 2 players to play as poorly as they did and we still win, that says a lot about our depth and it shows how important every kid out there is. All five have to come ready to play."
Way's 68 tied him for first place with George Rogers Clark's Andrew Davis, and Davis took medalist honors in a one-hole playoff. Rarden and Drew Hale of Madison Central tied for third, and Rarden won that playoff on the first hole to take third place.
Rounding out the scores for the FCHS No. 1 team were Robert Oliver with a 74, Brandon Gaines with an 80, and David Haydon with an 81.
"I thought Lee would play well, and he did," Myers said. "He's been playing well lately. Matt Way was tremendous. That's probably as good a round of golf as I've seen him play and not just scoring, but his ball striking, the way he managed his game was superb. I'm tickled to death for him.
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A tale of 3 rockers: Ride Dh2.4 vs Arbor Coda vs. Lib Attack Banana`
So yeah. I got to ride all 3 boards last weekend in some pretty hard and choppy conditions at mammoth, and overall I could say I tried 3 good boards, but they're really different. All of these boards are pretty much going after the same rider, they're all mountain freestyle decks.
Attack banana 159 started out the weekend. This is a board anybody can jump on and have a good time. Standing on this board and pressing it, I was a little worried, I thought it was going to be way too soft and fold. It wasn't so bad on the hill. I could press it easily all over the hill (5'10, 185) and it was easy to butter, and pop was fine.
Honestly, it felt kind of similar to my sl-r from last year and had it been a little stiffer I think it could have been love. But more on that later. The magne traction was very mellow, to the point that i didn't notice it at all. If you're not a fan of magne but are curious about lib, it's not a factor on this board.
On the groomers, it felt very stable. The side cut and possibly the camber just let you bomb it without any hint of catching. Flat basing was great as well.
Any normal chop you find on the hill was a non- issue, i could just go right through/over it. There was some sun baked goodness on one area of the hill where there was a nice little natural kicker, and the board was fine there, no sketchiness to speak of on landing.
The last part of the test circuit had some shitty icy steeps followed by a super chopy runout. This is where the board showed some weakness finally. For my weight, I need a bit stiffer flex to hold speed and keep those tip and tail edges engaged in that stuff. Mind you, NO board short of a 165 would kick ass in that stuff, but I could feel the nose starting to get slapped around and i really had to put on the brakes. Oh. A word on the base, as there's some discussion as to what it's made of. It doesn't matter. I didn't do anything to prep this base, and it was FAST. Faster than I ever got my never summer base last season, and up there with the nitro bases, which are the fastest I've ridden. I honestly think its some sort of sinter, it looked less porous than some sintered bases, but more porous than an ext. base.
#2 of the weekend was the Arbor coda in 157. What can i say? It's a fun board. Seeing as I had a good routine for seeing what a board could do on a typical day, I took the coda through the same thing for a bunch of laps. It's light and playful, and makes you want to hop all over the place.
On groomers it was a good time, and felt really stable at speed most of the time. You could really feel their ice claws or whatever you want to call them kicking in when you needed it which was a relief. For a rocker board, I was very pleasantly surprised at how well it handled moderate crud and texture.
No need to talk about presses, but I felt i got about the same pop out of this board as the attack banana, maybe a little less. That lifted tail let me down in a couple of places though. On slushy kickers, wall hits, etc, I could feel the tail start to wash out on me.
Also, I wasn't going as fast as my buddy (who was my reference point for speed all day) and once I got it onto the super steep ice bump wall with the choppy runout, the board really disintegrated. In the super chop, you just weren't using the full edge at all, and the board was basically as long as your stance. The lifted nose and tail weren't doing anything and the board lost a lot of directional stability as well. So you basically claw your way through that stuff.
I wish I got to take this board in some powder. You can tell it would kill it there, but overall, i feel it's A) The one that holds up the least in the really crappy terrain. For me this is important, as I want to be able to carry speed through technical sections without winding up on my ass.
And b) The most fun and playful board just about everywhere else.
And Finally, Ride DH2.4 (159). This board is basically a cambered deck with a slight rise before the last couple of CMS of edge contact.
First, a note on flex. If the Attack Banana is a 6.5, then the ride is an 8 (it's listed at 7). It just felt stiffer than the others, and not just because of the camber.
This board is hard to categorize. It's got the most pop by far out of all 3 decks, yet felt the least playful/throwaround of the three as well. It hauled ass and ate up the junk that the other decks folded over, but it also felt like it had more side slip on the groomers. On the other hand, in the steeps, you could really feel that nose and tail gripping and keeping you in control. It was crazy. I was going noticeably faster on this deck in all conditions than on the others, that was for sure.
It's been a full season since I've been on a cambered deck, but one thing I noticed is how committed you are to a turn on this. It's just not as easy to up and change directions as the others. I also noticed that the nose and tail on this board are a bit wider than the other two, maybe that had something to do with it. On paper, it looked like it would have a pretty mellow side cut, but that didn't bare out in the real world. Laid on top of the attack banana, the sidecut was noticeably more aggressive, and this was obvious on the snow as well. Even with the lifted contact points, this board wanted a bit of detuning to lose a little bit of hookiness.
Jumps were great on this board, no folding and it was easy to recover from off balance landings. Also, all that pop really helped you to spin around and I always felt very solid landing blind.
So overall, this was the rhino of the bunch. It goes about kicking ass in its own determined way. I could probably size down to a 157 in this deck based solely on how powerful it is, and then I would probably get that playfulness back.
So in retrospect, in terms of fun and playfulness (high to low) it went Coda -> Attack Banana -> DH2.4.
But in terms of ass kicking, it went DH2.4 -> Attack Banana -> Coda.
In retrospect this shouldn't be surprising as youre basically on a sliding scale from rocker to camber, but with all the hype out there, it's easy to get lost sometimes. For me personally, If I had to pick from these three, I'd go with the DH2.4 just because I know it will get the job done, but really, I'd like a slightly stiffer version of the Lib Tech, as it was the best combo of fun and ass kickery.
Oh that reminds me.. Anybody looking for an attack banana 159, only used once?
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This is a very good comparative review that doesn't skimp on the details. If I hadn't already bought a DH2.4, but was considering it -- or any of the boards you discuss -- I think I'd save your review as one of my reference documents.
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Hundreds of tourists pull up to this platform each day for the authentic experience, Josef explains. He reassures me he will wait while I visit the museum. Just as I am about to enter the building, I turn back to look at him. He has resumed his posture of leaning against his cab and reading a newspaper. He glances up, smiles and waves as I disappear into the gloom of the building.
I am sitting inside a tiny theater, watching newsreel footage of the Allied liberation of Auschwitz. There are about 10 other people in the theater. A few sobs punctuate the dreadful images onscreen. The film is one I have seen before, depicting the conditions the Allies discovered at the death camp. The emaciated bodies of surviving prisoners are displayed for the camera by soldiers; too weak to stand on their own, some of the prisoners have to be held up. They look self-consciously at the camera as our eyes scan their decrepit features through the window of time. The dead bodies are less self-conscious but otherwise do not look much different from those of the living. I glance down to read a booklet handed to me upon entering by a pretty young woman with badly bleached hair. It describes in English, German, French and Russian the history and layout of Auschwitz. The English translation reads:
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I notice some obvious omissions in the story this booklet tells about the camp. The words "Jew" and "Gypsy" never appear in it. Instead, the booklet describes Auschwitz as a memorial to "The Martyrdom of Poles and Other Nations." Its centerpiece is a detailed account of a Polish Catholic priest named Father Maximilian Kolbe, who offered to give his life in place of a fellow inmate who was about to be executed. The Nazis rewarded Father Kolbe for his selflessness by condemning him to starve in a small underground cell. The story is poignant, a touching depiction of how, even here, where humanity was crushed into dust, an act of courage and self-sacrifice managed to survive. But there is also an unnerving sense in the story's very prominence that the horrors of Auschwitz are just the backdrop for Polish hagiography.
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Hospitals' need for qualified IT staff is increasing and isn't expected to diminish any time soon, according to two recent studies.
A College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) survey of chief information officers (CIOs) found that more than two-thirds (67 percent) are reporting staff shortages. This is up from a similar survey conducted by CHIME two years ago, when 59 percent of CIOs reported IT staff shortages.
"Even with two years of focused attention on implementing electronic health records (EHRs) at the nation's hospitals in response to federal incentives, it's clear that staffing is a significant concern for IT executives," says Randy McCleese, vice president of information systems and CIO at St. Claire Regional Medical Center, Morehead, Ky., and a CHIME board member. "Staff needs aren't likely to abate over the next couple years, as CIOs continue to push to achieve meaningful-use targets and switch to ICD-10-compliant applications."
A HEALTHeCAREERS Network report says the most in-demand healthcare IT jobs by sub-specialty are system analysts, HIT analysts and IT managers, all of which accounted for about 13 percent each of total healthcare IT job openings.
According to the CHIME survey, three-quarters of respondents need specialists to implement and support clinical applications, such as EHRs and computerized provider order entry (CPOE).
The HEALTHeCAREERS Network report corroborates this. "The healthcare IT field is maturing as more sophisticated types of healthcare IT jobs emerge," the study states. "There is a growing focus on defining the system requirements of next-generation systems that finally capitalize on the benefits of EMR implementation."
The number of 2012 CHIME survey respondents who are concerned IT staffing shortages will impact their ability to receive HITECH stimulus funds dropped slightly, to 59 percent from 70 percent in 2010. But study participants worried about retaining IT staff increased during the same period, from 76 percent in 2010 to 85 percent in 2012.
Elevated concern over being able to keep qualified IT staffers from going elsewhere is no doubt fueled by the encroaching deadlines for an increasing number of important IT projects, including EHRs, ICD-10, HIE initiatives and meeting meaningful use.
"Retention is important because information systems need constant care and attention once they're implemented," says George McCulloch, FCHIME, CHCIO, deputy CIO at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn. "Clinical systems are complex, are regularly being updated and new clinical staff must be trained to use them, as well. Being able to retain IT staff familiar with an organization's systems is crucial for CIOs."
The CHIME survey also found that 68 percent of respondents are aware of the new national Heath IT Workforce Development program, developed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to provide non-degree health IT training programs that can be completed in six months or less. As of July 2012, about 8,000 students have graduated from the program; yet just 12 percent of survey participants report that program graduates have been hired.


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September 2003
|District Administrators, CESA Administrators, CCDEB Administrators, Directors of Special Education and Pupil Services, and Other Interested Parties
|Carolyn Stanford Taylor, Assistant State Superintendent
Division for Learning Support: Equity and Advocacy
|Results of 2002-2003 Onsite Compliance Reviews of Local Educational Agencies
During the 2002-2003 school year, the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) conducted onsite compliance reviews of 73 local educational agencies (LEAs). Also, DPI conducted follow-up corrective action plan (CAP) verification visits in LEAs reviewed during the 2000-2001 school year. The purpose of these activities was to ensure correct implementation of certain requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and state law. This bulletin reports common errors found by the department's reviews of LEAs' implementation of specific legal requirements and offers guidance relating to their implementation. LEAs were cited for an implementation error when repeated errors were found. Repeated errors may indicate a need to be addressed through staff training or a need to change an LEA policy or procedure.
Child-Find Notice
Requirement. At least annually, the LEA must inform parents and persons required to make referrals under state law about the agency's referral and evaluation procedures. Also, before any major child-find activity, the local educational agency must give notice to parents of its procedures to protect the confidentiality of personally-identifiable information used to meet special education requirements. The notice must include:
- a description of the children on whom personally-identifiable information is maintained, the types of information sought, the methods used to gather the information (including the sources from whom information is gathered), and the uses to be made of the information;
- a summary of the policies and procedures followed regarding storage, disclosure to third parties, retention, and destruction of personally-identifiable information;
- a description of all of the rights of parents and children regarding this information, including rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 and its implementing regulations; and
- a description of the extent the notice is given in the native languages of the various population groups in the LEA.
The notice of confidentiality procedures must be published or announced in newspapers or other media, or both, with circulation adequate to notify parents throughout the LEA of the activity.
Finding. During the 2002-2003 school year, the department found five LEAs failed to meet this requirement. This represents a significant improvement from the previous year when 14 LEAs failed to meet the requirement. Most LEAs failing to meet the requirement did not publish a notice including all of the required content. The department has developed a sample notice that may be adapted for use. It is also available in Spanish and Hmong. The notices may be found at: http://sped.dpi.wi.gov/sped_form_int.
Procedures for Accepting and Processing Referrals
Requirement. Licensed LEA staff and others named in s. 115.777(1)(a), Wis. Stats., who reasonably believe a child is a child with a disability have a duty to refer the child to the LEA for an IEP team evaluation. Each LEA must establish written procedures for accepting and processing these referrals. The referral procedures must address referrals from school staff, parents, and others in the community. Because referral procedures are not included in DPI's LEA Model Policies and Procedures, each LEA must develop its own procedures.
LEAs use various models of early and ongoing collaboration and assistance. Some LEAs use "teacher assistance teams" or "building consultation teams" to develop interventions. Such interventions should be initiated early to address the educational needs of children when they first experience difficulties in school. The department recognizes the value of such efforts and is funding a statewide project to promote early ongoing collaboration and assistance. More information about this project can be found at: http://www.cesa1.k12.wi.us/.
Pre-referral interventions may not delay the LEA's accepting and processing special education referrals. The LEA's procedures cannot require a referring person to obtain the permission, approval, or agreement of others before the LEA accepts a referral. Further, the procedures cannot require a person who has formed a belief that a child is a child with a disability to defer a referral pending the outcome of pre-referral interventions.Finding. Some LEAs have not established written procedures for accepting and processing referrals. Others with such procedures require a referring person to obtain the agreement of a team or require a series of educational interventions before a referral will be accepted. Some LEA policies require one or more individuals to review the referral before it reaches the individual designated to accept referrals. Such a policy may result in the referral being impermissibly delayed. Some policies do not address referrals from parents and individuals in the community who are required to make referrals. There is significant progress in addressing this requirement. The percentage of LEAs cited annually on this requirement has declined by almost two-thirds since 2000-2001.
Timely Notice
Requirement. An LEA must provide a child's parents with a written notice of its intent to evaluate or re-evaluate the child a reasonable time before it initiates the child's evaluation or re-evaluation. The first step in the evaluation process is a review of existing evaluation data on the child by the individualized education program (IEP) team participants to identify what additional data, if any, are needed to complete an evaluation or re-evaluation. Therefore, the child's parents must receive a notice of the evaluation or re-evaluation before the IEP team begins to review existing evaluation data on the child. Transmittal of a properly completed Form A-2 or A-6 of the DPI Sample Forms to the child's parents a reasonable time before the review meets this requirement. These forms can be accessed at: http://sped.dpi.wi.gov/sped_form_int.
Finding. A number of LEAs failed to provide the child's parents with the required notice before the IEP team began its review of existing evaluation data to identify what additional data, if any, are needed to complete an evaluation or re-evaluation. Some LEAs documented case reviews completed by problem-solving teams (teacher assistance teams, building consultation teams) prior to referral for special education, instead of IEP team reviews to determine whether additional evaluation data was needed to complete the IEP team evaluation. Other LEAs conducted IEP team reviews to identify what additional data, if any, were needed to complete an evaluation or re-evaluation, but mailed notices of evaluation (forms A-2 or A-6) after conducting the review.
Requirement. An LEA must provide a child's parents prior written notice of a change in the provision of a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to the child or of a change in educational placement. The notice must be sent so the parents receive it a reasonable time before the LEA starts to implement a revised IEP or begins a new placement for the child. Forms I-16 or I-17 of the DPI Sample Forms, when properly completed and sent timely with a copy of the IEP, will satisfy the notice requirements.
Finding. After reviewing and revising IEPs, some LEAs failed to provide notices of placement to parents before the implementation dates of revised IEPs. Therefore, parents were not provided with prior written notices of IEP changes. This situation occurred because annual meetings to review and revise IEPs were conducted too close to IEP one-year anniversary dates. Parents received the written notices about the revised IEPs in the mail after the changes were implemented.
Reviews of Existing Evaluation Data Prior to Completing Evaluations
Requirement. The IEP team, including the parent, is required to review existing evaluation data on the child and identify what additional data, if any, are needed to complete an evaluation or re-evaluation. The law does not require a meeting for this purpose. At a minimum, the IEP team includes the child's parents, at least one special education teacher, at least one regular education teacher (if the child is or may be participating in regular education), and a LEA representative. All of these individuals must participate in the review of existing evaluation data.
Finding. Results of 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 compliance reviews suggest continued improvement in involving parents in reviewing existing evaluation data. There has been significant progress since 2000-2001. The percentage of LEAs cited in 2002-2003 is half that cited in 2000-2001. LEAs continue to be cited frequently for other requirements relating to the review of existing evaluation data. Four of the ten most frequently cited errors in 2002-2003 relate to the existing evaluation data review. LEAs were frequently cited for failing to include regular education teachers and principals who served as LEA representatives in reviews. Further, LEAs did not properly document that special education teachers and LEA representatives participated in reviewing existing data prior to the IEP team evaluation meeting. Form I-1 of the DPI Sample Forms may be used to document the date each participant was contacted, the data reviewed, and each participant's input.
Considering Existing Data at the IEP Team Evaluation Meeting
Requirement. As part of an initial evaluation or a re-evaluation, the IEP team participants must review existing evaluation data on the child at the IEP team evaluation meeting. This information includes previous interventions and the effects of those interventions.
Finding. Some LEAs documented that IEP team participants reviewed previous interventions at IEP team meetings but failed to document the team reviewed the effects of those interventions.
Present Level of Educational Performance (PLOEP)
Requirement. The PLOEP statement must include baseline data corresponding to each of the measurable annual goal statements. If test scores (e.g., grade-equivalent or percentile scores) are used, they must be presented in a manner understandable to all, including parents. The law also requires a PLOEP statement address how the child's disability affects the child's involvement and progress in the general curriculum (the curriculum taught to nondisabled students) or, for preschool students, how the disability affects the child's participation in appropriate activities. "Appropriate activities" refers to age-relevant developmental abilities or milestones typically developing children of the same age would be performing or would have achieved. The IEP team's determination of how each child's disability affects involvement and progress in the general curriculum is a primary consideration in the development of the IEP. The PLOEP statement provides a basis for determining what accommodations the child needs in order to participate in the general curriculum.
Finding. Many PLOEPs do not include baseline information from which to measure progress on annual goals. Inadequate baseline data in PLOEPs was the most frequently cited error in onsite compliance reviews during 2001-2002 and 2002-2003. The results of the department's 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 reviews show significant improvement in describing the effects of the child's disability on progress and involvement in the general curriculum or, for preschoolers, how the disability affects the child's participation in age-appropriate activities. The percentage of LEAs cited annually for this error has declined by almost two-thirds since 2000-2001.
Measurable Annual Goals, Benchmarks, and Short-Term Objectives
Requirement. Each IEP must include a statement of measurable annual goals, including benchmarks or short-term objectives, related to meeting the child's needs that result from the child's disability. The annual goal statement should address needs to enable the child to be involved in and progress in the general curriculum and to meet other educational needs that result from the child's disability. An annual goal statement is measurable and includes a level of attainment the child can be reasonably expected to achieve at the end of 12 months. Benchmarks describe the amount of progress the child is expected to make within specified segments of the year. Short-term objectives break the skills described in the annual goal into discrete components that are measurable intermediate steps. An IEP team may use either benchmarks or short-term objectives or both.
Finding. Some IEPs do not include measurable annual goal statements with specific levels of attainment children reasonably can be expected to achieve at the end of 12 months. The annual goals are not 12-month goals; rather, they are multi-year or lifetime goals, e.g., "improve reading" or "exhibit age-appropriate behavior." Further, the associated benchmarks or short-term objectives do not include expected levels of attainment. The construction of annual goals addressing behavior has been particularly difficult. An instructional module was developed to assist in writing IEPs to meet the behavioral needs of students and to provide examples of how to state goals positively. It may be accessed at: http://dpi.wi.gov/sped/doc/fbaiepintr.doc.
IEP Services
Requirement. The IEP must include a statement of the special education and related services, including speech and language pathology and counseling when they are needed for the child to benefit from special education. The IEP must also include a statement of the supplementary aids and services and program modifications or supports for school personnel that will be provided for the child. The amount of services must be stated in the IEP so the level of the LEA's commitment of resources is clear. If it is inappropriate to state the amount of service by stating an amount of time, the IEP may describe the circumstances under which the service is needed. For example, if a student requires oral administration of tests, the IEP may state "tests in English and social studies to be administered orally" or "all tests at an instructional reading level above sixth grade to be administered orally." Also, the IEP must include the anticipated frequency, location, and duration of the services. The location of services generally refers to the type of environment that is the appropriate place for the provision of the service, e.g., "resource room" or "regular classroom."
Finding. Some IEPs do not include either clear statements of the amount of services or the frequency of services. IEPs indicate services will be provided "as needed." Such statements do not make clear the LEA's level of commitment of resources. This description was commonly found for supplementary aids and services and program modification or supports for school personnel. This error was seen with the use of modification checklists, which were appended to IEPs. The 2002-2003 onsite compliance review results show significant improvement from 2001-2002 in describing the frequency and amount of special education. The 2002-2003 results strongly suggest continuing improvement in describing the location (type of environment) for the provision of supplementary aides and services. The percentage of LEAs cited in 2002-2003 is less than half of 2000-2001. There has also been a significant decline in the number of LEAs cited for failing to make counseling available as a related service. No LEAs were cited during 2002-2003 for this error.
Participation in the Regular Education Environment and the General Curriculum
Requirement. Another area of confusion revealed by the department's reviews relates to the requirement to include in the IEP an explanation of the extent, if any, to which the child will not participate in the regular education environment and in the general curriculum. Each of these issues must be considered by the IEP team and addressed in the IEP. For example, a child may be full time in the regular education classroom, but receive a replacement curriculum full time, instead of receiving the general curriculum. Conversely, a child may be removed to a special education resource room and during that time still be taught in the general curriculum, perhaps using different strategies, texts, or methods of presentation.
The IEP team must address both the curriculum and the environment. The general curriculum is the common core of subjects or curriculum areas adopted by the LEA or by schools within the LEA that applies to all children within each general age grouping from preschool through secondary school. The IEP team must decide whether the child will be expected to accomplish the same curriculum goals as the nondisabled students within the school. If the child will not be expected to do so, the extent to which the child will not participate in the general curriculum must be described in the IEP. There is a place to document a child's participation in the general curriculum in the department's model forms on Form I-11. The regular education environment is an instructional grouping with nondisabled peers (regular classroom or other setting). If the child will not participate full time in the regular education environment, the extent of the removal from the regular education environment must be determined and clearly stated in the IEP. There is a place to include an explanation of the extent to which the child will not participate in the regular education environment on the department's model forms on Form I-14 (2).
Finding. Some IEPs do not contain statements clearly distinguishing between the extent of the child's nonparticipation in the regular education environment and the extent of nonparticipation in the general curriculum. In some IEPs the extent to which the child will not participate in the regular education environment is unclear. Some of these IEPs explain why the child needs to be removed from the regular education environment (form I-14) but do not include the amount of removal in the explanation or elsewhere.
Transition to Post-secondary Life
Requirement. Beginning at age 14 (or younger if determined appropriate by the IEP team) and annually thereafter, the IEP must include a statement of transition service needs focusing on the student's courses of study needed to prepare for a successful transition to post-secondary life. An explanation of this requirement is found in an appendix to the IDEA regulations at 34 CFR 300, Appendix A, question 11, page 12,474. The regulations can be accessed on the Internet at: http://ideapolicy.org/IDEA%20'97/pmp_idea_97.htm.
To meet the requirement the IEP team must determine what instruction and educational experiences are needed to assist the student to prepare for transition to post-secondary life. The statement of transition service needs in the IEP should relate directly to the student's goals beyond secondary school and show how planned studies are linked to these goals. For example, one student is interested in studying computer programming after high school while another student needs to learn to live independently in the community. The statement in the first student's IEP would indicate the student will take courses in computer technology to prepare him to attend technical college. The other student's IEP would state the student will have instruction in skills of daily living in order to reach the goal of living independently in the community after high school.
Finding. Some statements of transition service needs do not identify courses of study. Others identify courses of study, but how the planned studies are related to students' post-secondary goals is unclear. Some statements do not include post-secondary goals. In 2000-2001, the statement of transition service needs was the requirement most frequently cited error. Since then, there has been some improvement. While the percentage of LEAs cited for the error has declined each year, much improvement is still needed. The department is addressing this requirement and other transition requirements through a statewide transition project funded by IDEA discretionary funds. Information about the project can be found at: http://www.wsti.org/wsti.cfm.
Placement Determined At Least Annually
Requirement. The educational placement of a child with a disability must be determined at least annually. Therefore, an IEP team must meet to determine a child's educational placement within one year of the last IEP team meeting to determine the child's educational placement.
Finding. Some LEAs failed to ensure IEP teams met at least annually to determine children's educational placements. LEAs erred by arranging meeting dates based upon the dates of notices of placement, rather than the dates of the last IEP team meetings to determine placements. Twenty-three percent of LEAs were cited in 2001-2002. The 2002-2003 onsite compliance reviews results have improved. Twelve percent of LEAs were cited in 2002-2003.
Reporting Progress of Children with Disabilities to Parents
Requirement. The law requires the parents of a child with a disability be informed of their child's progress at least as often as parents of nondisabled children. Further, the law requires the parents be informed of: (1) the child's progress on IEP annual goals and (2) the extent to which the progress is sufficient to enable the child to achieve the goals by the end of the year. Descriptions of progress such as "emerging" or "making progress" alone do not meet the requirement, because they do not address the sufficiency of the progress.
Finding. Some LEAs erred in addressing this requirement by sending home grades in subject areas on report cards that do not address progress on annual goals or the sufficiency of the progress. Other LEAs informed parents periodically about progress on annual goals, but failed to include whether the progress was sufficient to enable the child to achieve the goals by the end of the year. Some LEAs provided mid-quarter regular education progress reports, but did not provide proper mid-quarter IEP annual goal progress reports.
2003-2004 Compliance Activities
The department has completed the fifth year of a six-year onsite compliance review cycle. During the first half of the 2003-2004 school year, the final year of the six-year cycle will be completed. This cycle has focused on procedural compliance. We are now moving toward a Continuous Improvement and Focused Monitoring System (CIFMS) that will incorporate the most effective elements of continuous improvement and focused monitoring as described by the Office of Special Education, U.S. Department of Education. The purpose of this new system is to achieve positive results for children with disabilities in Wisconsin while ensuring continued compliance with the procedural requirements set out by state and federal law. Elements will include:
- required LEA self-assessment of procedural requirements,
- data analysis and improvement planning,
- implementation of improvement strategies,
- identification of priority areas to examine for procedural compliance and results, and
- focus on areas in greatest need of improvement.
Beginning with the 2003-04 school year, all LEAs will be required to conduct an annual self-assessment of their implementation of special education procedural requirements. LEAs will also engage in data analysis and improvement planning through their Special Education Plans (SEPs). Data retreats will be offered to train school personnel to use data to drive the improvement process for students with disabilities. During the second half of the school year, a new onsite review process will be piloted in geographically diverse districts of small, medium, and large sizes.
Questions about Continuous Improvement and Focused Monitoring System may be directed to Donna Hart-Tervalon, Assistant Director of Special Education, at
608-266-1781. Questions about the 2002-03 findings may be directed to Elliot Weiman at 608-266-3648.


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Asbestos cement
The name fibro is short for "fibrous (or fibre) cement sheet", more commonly called "asbestos cement sheet" or "AC sheet". It is a building material in which asbestos fibres are used to reinforce thin rigid cement sheets.[1]
Although fibro was used in a number of countries, it was in Australia where its use was the most widespread. Predominantly manufactured and sold by James Hardie & Co. until the mid-1980s, fibro in all its forms was a very popular building material, largely due to its durability. The reinforcing fibres involved were almost always asbestos.
The use of fibro has now been banned in several countries, including Australia itself, due to its asbestos content. Asbestos is directly related to a number of life-threatening diseases including, asbestosis, pleural mesothelioma (lung) and peritoneal mesothelioma (abdomen). Fibre cement sheet is still readily available, but the reinforcing fibres are now cellulose rather than asbestos.[2] However the name "fibro" is still applied to it for traditional reasons.
Products used in the building industry[edit]
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- Flat sheets for house walls and ceilings were usually 6 mm and 4.5 mm thick, in 900 and 1200 widths and from 1800 to 3000 long.
- Battens 50 mm wide x 8 mm thick used to cover the joints in fibro sheets.
- "Super Six" corrugated roof sheeting and fencing.
- Internal wet area sheeting, "Tilux"
- Pipes of various sizes for water reticulation and drainage.
- Moulded products ranging from plant pots to outdoor telephone cabinet roofs and cable pits.
In popular culture[edit]
In the James Blundell & James Reyne song Way Out West, there was a reference to a fibro cement house, with the original Dingoes version of the song having a reference to a house of fibre cement.
See also[edit]
- Fiber cement siding replaced asbestos-reinforced sheeting in the 1980s.
- Eternit
- ^ B.A.Group - Glossary
- ^ "Fibre Cement". Consumer Build. Retrieved 2012-06-05.
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