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Enterprise IT organizations today often are bypassed as employees and LoBs use cloud services; in fact cloud computing is considered the revenge of the business unit. 2014 will be year that the Enterprise IT organizations move from role of helpless bystander to role of strategic partner to the business unit. It will be the year that the CIO carves out a new role of strategic importance, namely the enabler of cloud apps that drive agility, productivity and competitive advantage for their business units. In 2014, CIOs and IT departments will use rapidly emerging cloud security solutions to accelerate the adoption of SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) within the enterprise and will embark on security transformation.
1. Rush to adopt cloud services will drown out security fears
Cloud security risks will never be completely eliminated, obviously, but security won't be a cloud adoption obstacle in 2014. Cloud security is already on par, if not better than, traditional digital security, and 2014 will mark the cloud security tipping point, the beginning of real security transformation.
The major tech giants (Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc.) have all placed major bets on the cloud, and the rest of the economy, regardless of industry, will follow their lead. In fact, a recent study found that cloud adoption is already high in industries as varied as manufacturing, health care, media and financial services - and that's just reported adoption.Shadow IT would push those numbers higher.
2. IT stops blocking cloud services over outdated risks
There will be big change in 2014 on how IT copes with cloud risks. The status quo is based on outdated arguments and limited visibility. Today, IT generally blocks what it knows (Facebook, YouTube, ESPN.com). Many of these sites are blocked in order to prioritize productivity (and often to conserve bandwidth). And what IT does not know today generally gets through, which is often risky.
This approach is pointless at best, since it's so easy to find workarounds, and counterproductive at worst, since IT often blocks services that will boost productivity. According to our 2013 Cloud Adoption & Risk Report, which compiled data from more than 3 million users across more than 100 companies in various industries, IT still blocks what it knows, not necessarily what puts organizations at risk.
In 2014, IT will get the visibility needed to feel comfortable loosening the reigns, helping employees evaluate and understand the risk of these services, rather than simply blocking them.
3. IT gains more organizational power due to the rise of SMAC
Not that long ago, the IT world fretted about whether or not IT was becoming irrelevant in this service-driven world. Now, with social, mobile, analytics, and cloud trends all converging in chaotic ways and the number of service providers increasing at dizzying rates, IT will start to get over their self-image as operators and providers of all IT infrastructure, applications, devices, and services and will start to see themselves more as the strategic enabler of services
According to Computerworld, the hottest IT job right now is IT business analyst. Not long ago, only the CIO worried about aligning technology with business goals. In 2014, it will be the entire IT department.
4. Revenge of the CIO - CIOs will transition from CI-No's to business enablers
As IT departments become more strategic, the CIO's role will change drastically too. CIOs are tired of being "CI-No's." It's not a fun job. Fortunately, they no longer have to fill that role. As IT pros evolve into internal tech consultants who identify, evaluate, and oversee technologies (and not necessarily the ones who have to develop, deliver, or operate these technologies), CIOs will be tasked with figuring out how new technologies deliver competitive advantages.
CIOs will look at cloud, mobile, social media, and whatever other new technology comes along to discern how these cloud services will benefit the business, operationally and strategically. This means the background of CIOs will change as well. Organizations will value pure IT backgrounds less and less, instead prioritizing business and operational experience.
5. CIOs who aren't comfortable with SMAC will be challenged
By the end of 2014, CIOs who don't understand the strategic importance of social, mobile, analytics and cloud will be considered old school and less relevant to the organization. CIOs who "just say no" and fail to adapt will face criticism from everyone from board members who can't live without access to corporate data on their personal tablets to developers who demand access to services like AWS.
Moreover, in 2014 CMOs will continue to infringe on areas of responsibility that used to belong solely to the CIO. Those CIOs who continue to block cloud services that deliver business value will place their organizations at a competitive disadvantage, and once the rest of the C-suite wakes up to that fact, it will be the CMO, not the CIO, driving the future of technology within those slow-to-adapt organizations.
6. Unencrypted data will start to disappear
Ask any digital security professional for tips on how to better secure anything from the cloud to mobile end points to social media, and every single one will mention encryption at some point. In 2014, data will be encrypted everywhere - in motion, at rest, on corporate-owned smartphones, on employee-owned mobile device, etc.
As more applications and services reside in the cloud, the focus on how best to encrypt data will shift away from endpoints to cloud services and networks. The weak link in data encryption is the endpoint, but in 2014 that weak link will start to be eliminated, with important data never stored on end devices.
In 2014, enterprises will also demand encryption services that encrypt data no matter where it resides. Soon, there will be no such thing as unencrypted data.
7. Cloud adoption will force the enterprise to regain control of encryption keys
As unencrypted data disappears, so too will encryption keys that the enterprise does not own or control. New key escrow mechanisms will emerge allowing cloud service providers to have access to the customer data in the clear, but only for controlled, narrow windows of time. There will also be massive interest in encryption algorithms that allow enterprise ownership of encryption keys and do not break cloud service provider functionality.
8. VPNs and agents begin to disappear
Mobile devices access more enterprise services each and every day, and the way most enterprises protect data as it travels from applications to mobile devices is through a VPN. However, even simple to use VPN clients have their issues, such as reduced battery life and misconfigurations and connectivity issues.
As everything from tire pressure gauges to soil sensors to fitness monitors connects to the Internet, new ways to encrypt wireless data traffic will emerge. The agent-based approach will start to be phased out in 2014.
9. Data security re-emerges, this time to stay
Even as encryption becomes standard, it won't be enough. Encrypting data is indeed a best practice, but it's one tool in the tool chest. Just because your data is encrypted doesn't mean you know where it's been, where it's going, or whether or not it was accessed inappropriately. As a result, data access analytics and cloud-based data loss prevention (DLP) tools will start to become as common in the next few years as firewalls were in the past.
Data tracking tools will grow more powerful over time, meaning that even if you store data in a third-party cloud that you have no visibility into now, you'll need to start gaining visibility in 2014.
10. A virtual security perimeter begins to take shape
Traditional perimeter security is on life support. Traditional Firewalls, IPSes, and VPNs do a poor job of protecting against emerging cloud, mobile, and social threats. However, there is now a virtual cloud edge developing, one that enforces policies spanning authentication, identity management, access control, encryption, data movement, and more. This virtual cloud edge will enable organizations to securely stitch together their various clouds (private, public, hybrid), while even protecting traditional behind-the-firewall applications.
In 2014, the virtual security edge will begin to take shape in response to BYOD and cloud risks, but its benefits will be much further reaching.
11. The SMACS famous five (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud, Security) will be the rage in 2014
Cloud is the main driver of social and mobile today. Cloud-delivered analytics will become more widely used. In 2014 cloud and analytics will form another alliance, namely, "Analytics for the Cloud." This will help the industry gain better, more actionable insights into cloud usage and behavior. The analogous alignment between Cloud and Security will emerge: cloud-delivered security will become more widely used and will be joined by security tools purpose-built for the cloud.
Meanwhile, those organizations blocking services will be at a major disadvantage in 2014, since their ability to compete will be seriously hindered.
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May 10, 2013 Rachel Ehmke
Allie Brosh, the woman who writes the popular webcomic Hyperbole and a Half, stopped updating her blog in 2011. This would be bad news for any person hoping to make a living out of her blog, as I think she is, but it was particularly ominous to her readers because we knew that Brosh was depressed.
So I was glad to see that she resurfaced yesterday, with a new comic called Depression Part II (the more jauntily named Adventures in Depression was the last blog she wrote before the hiatus). Her latest post should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand what clinical depression feels like. In her characteristic combination of text and crude but expressive Paintbrush drawings, Brosch illustrates being unable to feel genuine emotion, needing to simulate the right reactions when talking to friends, and how dark it feels when life starts losing purpose.
At points the comic is funny, but it's also quite disturbing—Brosh describes thinking about suicide but never acting on those impulses. She talks about getting treatment, too, and is honest about how difficult that process can be.
Brosh says she's been working on the post "for the better part of a year (partly because I wanted to get it exactly right, and partly because I was still experiencing it while attempting to explain it, which made things weird." The result is great, I think, and I encourage everyone interested in depression to check it out.View Comments | Add Comment
A Bipolar Child, a Parent's Dilemma
May 10, 2013 Caroline Miller
Dorothy O'Donnell fought for years the idea that her precocious, ebullient, wildly imaginative daughter might have a mental illness. She admired Sadie's lack of inhibition—her ability to march up to kids on the playground and, pied-piper-like, lead them on an adventure to Princess Land, her impromptu dance recitals that charmed strangers at the fountain in the mall. She fended off warnings from preschool teachers that Sadie careened from giddiness to rage, that she chattered constantly during rest time, and that her antics were out of control.
But Sadie became increasingly anxious and explosive, increasingly unable to function in school and connect with other kids, until, at a low point, she told her mother, in tears, "I don't want to be on this planet anymore, Mama. I think I'd be happier in heaven."
Like all of us, O'Donnell had read about overdiagnosis of young children with ADHD, about the spiraling rates of kids being diagnosed with early onset bipolar disorder and, worse, being medicated. She didn't want to fall into that trap. And she has written a very compelling account of her struggle to do the right thing for Sadie. It's called Dancing in the Rain: The Story of a Bipolar Child, and while the headline gives away the diagnosis, there's a good deal more to the story.
If you've ever struggled with the question of whether to medicate a child, I think you'll find O'Donnell's piece very familiar, and quite moving.
I'm happy to report that I got an update from O'Donnell, who tells me that Sadie, though she still has rough spots, is now a happy and stable tween. "She loves art, fashion, hiking and singing and writing her own songs," says her mother. "And she has the self-confidence to try things I once thought she'd never be capable of—taking dance lessons, performing in a school talent show and training for her first 5-K race. Most importantly, she has a busy social calendar and plenty of friends."
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Two Moms With a Mission to End Stigma
May 10, 2013 Rachel Ehmke
Sandra Spencer is the executive director of the National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health. But when her son was five years old, diagnosed with early onset bipolar disorder, she was a mom who had no clue how hard it would be to get him the help he needed. She was told by her school district that her son needed to be sent to a fulltime residential treatment facility—where he was four years younger than the other kids. It took discovering the Federation and learning about her son's legal right to a free and appropriate public education to get her son back home and into the classroom where he belonged.
The Federation hosted a thoughtful conversation on the harmful effects of stigmatizing mental illness this Tuesday as part of Speak Up for Kids. Spencer and Marie Niahros, a Family Resource Specialist and Training Coordinator, spoke not only as national advocates for children's mental health but also as mothers who have struggled to get help for their own children at school and in the community. The women experienced firsthand the shame and disbelief their sons' diagnoses raised. Spencer noted that many people still don't accept that children can have a psychiatric disorder, and people often prefer to blame parents for a child's issues. "What they didn't understand was that as a parent I already blamed myself," she said.
Before joining the Federation, Marie Niahros was a teacher for 13 years and always made an effort to advocate for the children in her class. But it wasn't until she adopted a child with mental health issues that she personally experienced the hurdles to getting support for a child who needs it. "I started to learn how I needed to talk to people, what kinds of words to use, how to be positive, and give people an idea of what my life was like." But it was hard going, and she knew that if she was having a difficult time, people without her background in education, who didn't know about special education laws, would have it even harder.
Spencer and Niahros spoke movingly about the harmful labels that kids with mental health issues get, and how those labels can stick with a child. Spencer described getting a wakeup call one day when her son came home from school frustrated and calling himself "stupid" and "dumb." As usual, Spencer told him that he was neither of those things, and then said, "Haven't I told you that time and time again?"
"Yes Mom, you told me that, but you don't hear what everyone else is telling me" he replied.
Both women are committed to fighting the stigma that makes people assume a child with mental illness is really just dumb, or lazy, or badly behaved. They say they want to instill hope in young people, and they're looking to us for help. Niahros emphasized the importance of using person-first language, or mentioning a person before their diagnosis—for example saying "a child with autism" instead of "an autistic child." They also cited the harmful way mental health is discussed in the media. In news reports and in the movies people with psychiatric issues are often portrayed as dangerous, despite the fact that people with mental illness are far more likely to be the victims of violent crime than perpetrators. "People fear what they don't know," Spencer says, which is part of why talking about mental health—what it really looks like, how it's treated, and what the barriers are to getting treatment—is so important. Spreading education and awareness can have an enormous impact on the life of a child. As family members and advocates Spencer and Niahros will attest to that. Watch their entire Speak Up for Kids conversation here.View Comments | Add Comment
Volkow Speaks Up on Science, Stigma, Addiction
May 7, 2013 Harry Kimball
Last night NIDA director Nora Volkow, MD, gave a fascinating presentation on the science of drug abuse and addiction, followed by an informative question and answer session. Both sections of the program highlighted a core Speak Up for Kids goal: the use of scientific knowledge to address stigma and ensure everyone gets the mental health care they need.
Dr. Volkow began by making a comparison between two pairs of scans: a pair of the heart, and a pair of the brain. One heart was healthy, and the other was of someone who had suffered a myocardial infarction—a heart attack. She indicated how the images showed glucose consumption in the muscles of the organ, a sign of health and activity. Bright colors lit up the healthy heart; the damaged one looked pale in comparison.
The two images of the brain were of a "control"—someone who had not taken drugs—and of a cocaine abuser. The story was the same, if more nuanced: the control brain had bright lights indicating activity in the prefrontal cortex, the control center. The other was dim. Damage had occurred. "By using these technologies we can document that there is harm in the brain, and what areas in the brain, in people that are addicted," she said. "Just like we have done in the past for cardiac disease or other types of medical illness."
Lest her point be lost, she summed up. "Our ability to document the pathology in the organ has led us to recognize that drug addiction is indeed a disease of the brain just like myocardial infarct is a disease of the heart."
This understanding for Dr. Volkow is a key to getting people with substance use disorders the help they need and deserve, a task made difficult by the enduring stigma surrounding addiction. In the litany of diseases that have emerged from the shadows—she mentions AIDS, epilepsy—she even counts "typical psychiatric disorders" as easier to accept and seek treatment for than addiction.
I recommend watching her entire presentation, which touches fascinatingly on the unique neurodevelopmental risk factors for addiction in adolescence and how they manifest in and are influenced by the social and psychological trials of young adulthood. And in the question and answer session, she provides real advice to teens and parents alike. What should a young person do if he is struggling with drugs? Talk to someone—preferably a parent, but anyone who will listen.
And on the other hand: Should a parent tell a child about his own past experiences with substance use? Everyone is different, Dr. Volkow says. But "it's important to have your kid trust in you," whether you are talking about the actual risks of drugs or your own experience. As she puts it, kids are smart, and they'll lose faith in you if you say you've never smoked pot, or that one hit will doom you forever. If you can't maintain "credibility," if you aren't "relevant," than you lose the chance to teach them about the real risks.View Comments | Add Comment
Forget DSM-5 for a Moment; What's This RDoC?
May 6, 2013 Harry Kimball
Last week Dr. Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, made a statement that was interpreted as a warning shot over the bow of the psychiatric community. He said the NIMH would not be using the DSM-5—that is, the latest revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which will be released, with much fanfare, later this month—as the basis for research going forward.
This announcement was described in some blogs as the NIMH "abandoning" the DSM, and as "a potentially seismic move." So...is it? And will it affect families who are living with a psychiatric diagnosis?
Let's look at what Insel actually said. Essentially, he said that the DSM has been valuable in creating a coherent landscape of mental health diagnosis, but that its categories of disorders do not stem from any measurable causes or underlying biological conditions in the brain. His words (and note that "validity" is a scientific term, not a value judgment):
The strength of each of the editions of DSM has been "reliability"—each edition has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways. The weakness is its lack of validity. Unlike our definitions of ischemic heart disease, lymphoma, or AIDS, the DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure.
This isn't news—the DSM has long been conceived of as an antidote to the often unknown "etiology" or cause of psychiatric illness. Lacking objective diagnostic tests, the manual was intended to create a coherent set of clinical categories so that doctors would be on the same page, and that research into treatments could be compared. Insel's "abandonment" of the DSM is in fact a symptom of his optimism that we are now or will soon be able to discover the "real," biological causes of mental illness. And the DSM will be a casualty of this emerging science. "We cannot succeed if we use DSM categories as the 'gold standard,'" he writes. "The diagnostic system has to be based on the emerging research data, not on the current symptom-based categories."
If I can summarize Insel's point: For what we need to do—for what it is becoming clear we can do—the DSM approach is not appropriate. Even if it is still the best way to diagnose disorders and deliver treatment and knit the mental health care system together, it must begin to be supplanted by a framework that will let us apply the science of the future to clinical care.
Insel has one in mind, and the NIMH will be funding research based on a new paradigm called Research Domain Criteria, or RDoC, first mentioned online by NIMH two years ago. "RDoC is a framework for collecting the data needed for a new nosology," or classification scheme, Insel writes. And "that is why NIMH will be re-orienting its research away from DSM categories. Going forward, we will be supporting research projects that look across current categories—or sub-divide current categories—to begin to develop a better system."
We have yet to see the effects of the NIMH's new focus on collecting "the genetic, imaging, physiologic, and cognitive data to see how all the data—not just the symptoms—cluster and how these clusters relate to treatment response," as Insel puts it. But in reading back through two years of speculation and opinion on the schism, I came upon a nice quip from Dr. Stuart Kaplan in an article titled "Godzilla Meets Tyrannosaurus Rex?" He writes: "As has been often said, the brain did not read the DSM." To put this another way: RDoC aims to be what the brain really has to say about its own disorders, dysfunctions, and what causes them. To listen to the brain with proverbial "new ears" of emerging science and to let it dictate new categories and associations that will lead to the new and better diagnostic tools and treatments of tomorrow.
What does this mean for the family in the doctor's office this weekend? People and families dealing with mental illness have already been made anxious by the possible changes in diagnosis and benefits that may accompany the DSM-5, and more uncertainty—this time from high up in the federal government—can't be reassuring.
But from what I have read—what Insel has written, what watchers have written in the past two years—what we are seeing is shift towards two different approaches in psychiatry, one focused on clinical expediency, another on the needs of scientific inquiry. In the words of Dr. Nassir Ghaemi in Medscape Psychiatry, the NIMH has decided that we need two sets of diagnostic criteria: "one for practice (DSM-5) and one for research (RDoc). The one for practice can be based on 'pragmatic' decisions about diagnostic criteria; the one for research should be 'real.'"
Vaughan Bell writes on Mind Hacks: "It's worth saying that this won't be changing how psychiatrists treat their patients any time soon. DSM-style disorders will still be the order of the day, not least because a great deal of the evidence for the effectiveness of medication is based on giving people standard diagnoses."
And Insel concludes: "RDoC is nothing less than a plan to transform clinical practice by bringing a new generation of research to inform how we diagnose and treat mental disorders."
Only time will tell how these two systems will eventually work together.View Comments | Add Comment
Flying Lessons and Exposure Therapy
May 6, 2013 Caroline Miller
Paul Graham is a Silicon Valley programmer, investor and enthusiast who runs a kind of training camp for tech entrepreneurs. Nathaniel Rich, who wrote about him in the New York Times, describes him as "infectiously giddy and hyperarticulate," part Bertrand Russell part PT Barnum. The story is about Graham's work nurturing start-ups and connecting them with investors. But what really got my attention was an anecdote Graham tells the writer at the very end of the story.
Graham, it seems, developed a severe fear of flying that made him miserable for more than a decade. Then he hit on what he described as a "miracle cure." I thought he was referring to behavioral therapy, specifically, exposure therapy. But it was flying lessons. That's pretty ambitious, I thought. Then I realized it was exposure therapy. Here's how the writer describes it:
He began with hang-gliding lessons. It was a gradual process. First he ran along flat ground with a hang glider strapped to his back. If there was any head wind, he would feel a sensation of lift but not enough to levitate. Next he walked 10 feet up a hill and ran down it, clearing the ground by several inches. He increased the height until, before he knew it, he was jumping off a 450-foot cliff. "By that point, you're not even worried anymore," he said.
Long story short, the glider led to about 30 hours of flight training in a Cessna. The training included one lesson in which the instructor shut off the engine and Graham landed the plane like a glider. Finally, he was ready to try what he called "the real thing." He flew on the shuttle from Boston to New York, and found it thrilling.
"It was like flying for the first time all over again," Graham told the writer. "Like starting over with a new brain. It felt fabulous. And I thought, Wow!"
I thought, what a great description of what happens in exposure therapy! From several inches to 450 feet to thousands of feet. It worked to conquer his anxiety because it was so gradual. That's exactly what children with anxiety disorders do in exposure therapy—start facing their fears in the smallest possible increments and work gradually to "real" situations that had been debilitating. Not any more.
From now on I'll think of it as taking flying lessons.View Comments | Add Comment
Launching Speak Up for Kids: A Conversation with Dr. Harold Koplewicz and Cynthia McFadden
May 1, 2013 Caroline Miller
Dr. Harold Koplewicz kicked off Speak Up for Kids today in a wide-ranging online conversation with Cynthia McFadden about the barriers to care that keep kids with psychiatric disorders from getting the help they need.
This year's month-long Speak Up campaign comes in the wake of the tragedy at Sandy Hook, and President Obama's call for a national conversation on children's mental health. Dr. Koplewicz notes that the fact is that mass shootings are very rare, but mental illness is very common.
The overwhelming majority of kids with psychiatric problems go untreated, he notes: Only 1 out of 7 Hispanic children who need treatment get it, 1 out of 5 black children who need it, and 1 out of 3 white children who need it.
What are the barriers to care? The No. 1 barrier is stigma. We have become accustomed to adults we respect—actresses, business executives, comedians, even First Ladies—speaking up about depression, and other disorders they've experienced, he notes. But parents are still very inhibited about sharing their worries about their children. And hiding those worries, hoping your child's problems will just go away, is the worst thing you can do for a child who's struggling.
The second barrier to care is limited access to qualified mental health professionals. Pediatricians aren't trained to recognize and treat psychiatric problems, and the average pediatrician in managed care has only 7 minutes to spend on a checkup for a child. Too many problems are overlooked, or kids are routinely medicated when they would benefit more from behavioral treatment.
The third barrier Dr. Koplewicz outlined is a shortage of research. We know more about the brain than ever before, but not nearly enough to achieve the breakthroughs in treatment we need. It's the last frontier, and progress will be slow unless we get a very significant funding increase.
To achieve that we have to treat these disorders above the neck with the same respect as other disorders, and stop making them the lowest priority. Psychiatry is the orphan of medicine, child psych the orphan of the orphan.
To hear the whole conversation, click here, and to see the whole lineup of online talks for Speak Up for kids, click here.View Comments | Add Comment
Do Soaring ADHD Stats Mean Overdiagnosis?
April 29, 2013 Dr. Harold S. Koplewicz
Recently the news has been full of reports that the prevalence of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in the child and adolescent population is dramatically on the rise. These have been based on analysis of CDC data from a nationwide survey in 2011-2012.
The headline grabber in this analysis is that as many as 1 in 5 high school age boys have been diagnosed with ADHD, and 11 percent of school age children overall. And these numbers have stimulated concern that too many kids are being diagnosed, and put on stimulant medication.
Whenever we see a surprising increase in in the prevalence of a diagnosis, two responses spring to mind: One is that diagnostic standards have been changed—weakened—so that kids whose symptoms wouldn't have met standards before are now being diagnosed. This is a claim that doctors are guilty of overdiagnosis, or misdiagnosis, or pathologizing normal behavior.
The other response is an increase in diagnoses means that kids who weren't getting the attention they needed are now getting it, because of increased access to care, better information, or a decrease in the stigma that has so long been attached to seeking mental health care.
In my opinion, both of these things can be true.
It's true that some kids are getting quickie ADHD diagnoses and, yes, prescriptions, by overworked and undertrained doctors. Not all kids who have trouble paying attention in school or behaving well in the classroom have ADHD, and it's sometimes easier to try medication than to investigate out what's really behind problematic behavior. A knee-jerk diagnosis is a disservice to kids whose problems are rooted in anxiety or depression or family crisis.
But it's also true that there's an increase in awareness among families, educators, and health professionals that kids with impairing school struggles or dangerous misbehavior really can, and must, be helped. Just washing our hands of kids who have problems and letting a lot of them drop out of school is not a viable option either for those children or for our society. They need to become successful learners in order to be successful adults, and we need them to be prepared, intellectually and emotionally, to form a prosperous and competitive new generation. That's one reason a lot more parents are hearing that they might want to have their kids evaluated—and that there are more diagnoses as a result.
It's important to note that while news organizations have done analysis on the raw data from the CDC survey, the CDC has not yet released their own study. And it's important to pay close attention to the methodology of these mass surveys, lest we overreact. The CDC survey is based on parent responses to questions I believe could possibly elicit misleading responses. For instance: "Please tell me if a doctor or other health care provider ever told you that [the child] had the condition."
Often psychiatry is accused of being an unscientific, disturbingly subjective enterprise full of clinicians desperate to label and then medicate people—the more the better. For one, most ADHD diagnoses are made by primary care doctors, not psychiatrists, and that it is in all of our interests to be very careful about who we diagnose and medicate.
But we should also be very careful about throwing around accusations of fraudulent diagnoses, claims that ADHD isn't a real disorder, and horror stories about stimulant medication use by school children leading to addiction. ADHD is a real brain disorder; it can create severe barriers to success in school, in relationships, in life; and kids who don't get treatment are at heightened risk for drug abuse, not the other way around.
The CDC survey is remarkable for its large size and how representative it is of the population. What we also need are studies of this size that report more specific and dependable clinical information if we are truly going to understand how ADHD and other childhood psychiatric disorders are affecting our kids, and how we as a society are meeting this challenge. I think that people on all sides of the debate would agree.View Comments | Add Comment
Autism Study Offers Models for Success at Multiple Points on the Spectrum
April 26, 2013 Caroline Miller
Dr. Catherine Lord and her colleagues have been studying the same group of several hundred children on the autism spectrum (or most of them, anyway) for 2 decades, since they were less than 3 years old. The results of that undertaking are remarkable in several ways. First, they've been able to identify important predictors of how children on the spectrum will develop, based on their very early behaviors as well as the kind of help they get—and when they get it. But second, they've acquired a very nuanced knowledge of these kids, not to speak of a passionate interest in how they have fared over the years, and how they're doing as young adults. And those individual portraits were the most surprising aspect of a guest lecture at the Child Mind Institute this morning by Dr. Lord, who is the director of the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Of the kids still in the study, eight have done, as Dr. Lord put it, "spectacularly well"—at 19 they were in college, had part-time jobs, had social lives and girlfriends. They're almost off the spectrum, she said, though they were clearly on it at 9 and 14. At this point, she quipped, they seem less autistic than the University of Chicago or MIT physics department.
Another ten of the final group are also doing very well. At 29 they were going to college, but socially they were more challenged, more obviously autistic, more dependent on their families. This group has a higher level of depression than the top group. They're kids who have been quite successful channeling their talents and interests into an effective work or school opportunity, but are still living at home and struggling to have friends. The social deficits are the hardest things to change, she noted.
What these two groups of kids have in common is a positive trajectory on a whole range of autism and IQ scales from a very young age. Improvement starts early, she emphasized, but it's also very gradual over the period from 3 to 19. That improvement is linked to parents taking immediate action when they got the autism diagnosis, and getting kids into consistent communication skill-building programs.
Of course Dr. Lord is excited by that improvement, which she said gives her high hopes. But she also sees many kids in the rest of the remaining sample of 76, including those who are quite cognitively impaired, leading happy lives, and that gives her hope—and anxiety, too.
The hope comes from seeing how well they can do when they have highly structured families and other support in the community—schools, churches, jobs—that help channel their strengths into rewarding roles. She spoke warmly about one boy we see at 3, with his grandmother, who is still living with his grandparents at 19. He is cognitively impaired and has very little speech—single words, Dr. Lord said—but he is very fixated on being neat, and his grandparents worked with that to teach him to run the house. He had to be taught not to start the dishwasher until it's full, and not to remove your glass every time you put it down, without making sure you were finished with it. But he is essentially taking care of his grandparents now, and also has a part-time job at a bakery.
As a young child this boy was so socially aloof that if you stood in his path, Dr. Lord said, he'd just move you out of his way and keep going wherever he was going. "But now he's very socially directed," she said. "He wants to know what you're doing and what you want. He really wants to please you." And when his grandfather fell ill, the boy was obviously worried and concerned—not that he verbalized his feelings, but, she said, he made it clear how he felt by constantly changing the sheets.
The worry inspired by these kids' stories stems from the fact that their success is, as she put it, "highly dependent on context." She worries about what happens to them when they age out of supports—when this boy's grandparents are no longer there caring for him as he's caring for them. "We just don't have the infrastructure in this country to support them, even though we know they could do well."View Comments | Add Comment


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Hola I'm a new user,and just bought my 1st AR.I bought a S&W M&P in 5.45.It came with a red dot and front sight post.However I miss my old m16a2 and would like to install a flip up sight in the rear while still being able to use a scope on it.I have seen and heard about configurations with the scope off set.Is this a viable solution?I'm a right handed shooter so the scope would wind up near the ejection port.If this is doable what kind of parts and scope should I be in the market for?
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All you need is a QD optics mount tall enough that you can mount a rear BUIS. Larue and a couple others make one.
After you start using the red dot you won,t miss the BUIS.
I must ask why the 5.45x39? I have a S&W in 5.56 also and AK in 5.45x39 so I just wonder why you bought the S&W in 5.45.
I have a AIMPOINT M4 on one of my AK 7.62x39s great optic system.
To honest I wanted to try something new.I trained and learned on M16A2,so I am of course familiar with the 5.56 round.A buddy has a Ak74 and after firing it I started looking into a AR of the same caliber.I don't honestly think there is as much difference as people think between the 2,aside from price and the selection.
People complain to much about cleaning. A wipe down is all thats needed 95% of the time. Sometimes I go multiple range trips w/o cleaning my ARs. They go bang every time.
Theres even an article where they have pushed an AR b/w 40k and 50k w/ minimal cleaning and maintenance.


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1 In a bowl, put the butter and beat until smooth.
2 Gradually, beat in the mustard, add salt and pepper to taste.
3 Shape into a long roll.
4 Wrap the roll in the foil and pack in a freezer bag.
5 Seal the bag, label and freeze.
6 Carefully remove the wrappings and using a knife dipped in hot water, cut the frozen butter into slices .
7 Tastes great with grilled (broiled) gammon and baked fish.


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I'll share my recipe, if you'll share yours, August 21, 2012
Salmon with Brown Sugar and Mustard Glaze
Martha Stewart website
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 large shallot, minced
1/4 cup red-wine vinegar
1/4 cup whole-grain mustard
1/4 cup packed dark-brown sugar
Coarse salt and ground pepper
1 side salmon (about 3 pounds), skin removed, cut into 8 fillets
1 bunch watercress (about 3/4 pound), thick stems trimmed
1 lemon, cut into wedges, for serving
Heat broiler, with rack in top position. In a small saucepan, heat oil over medium-high. Add shallot and cook, stirring often until softened, 3 minutes. Add vinegar and cook until slightly evaporated, 1 minute. Add mustard and brown sugar; stir until warm and combined, 1 minute. Season with salt and pepper and remove from heat. (To store, refrigerate cooled glaze in an airtight container, up to 1 day.)
Place salmon fillets on a foil-lined rimmed baking sheet and season with salt and pepper. Transfer 1/2 cup glaze to a small dish and brush on top of salmon. Broil salmon until glaze is bubbling and fish is opaque throughout, 5 to 10 minutes, depending on thickness; brush remaining glaze over fillets. Serve salmon along with watercress and lemon wedges.
This one looks good to me.
chewy S'mores granola bars, they are NO-bake
Here is a link that might be useful: chewy-smores-granola-bars
Mornin' ladies! Hope you're having a grand old day, today.
1 lb. ground beef
1 packet taco seasoning
3/4 cup water
2 8 oz. cans tomato sauce
1 can black beans, drained
2 cups cooked white
tortilla or corn chips
your favorite taco toppings - salsa, cheese, sour cream, lettuce, tomatoes, etc
Brown the meat in a skillet and drain off fat (I use a collander). Return the meat to the skillet; add the taco seasoning and water, mix and simmer for 5 minutes. Stir in the tomato sauce, black beans and rice. Heat in skillet for 5 -10 minutes, until heated through. Serve over tortilla or corn chips and top with your favorite taco toppings.
GS loves when I make these for him :o)
Taco crackers
2 7 oz boxes cheese crackers
5 tsp taco seasoning
1 tsp each
garlic powder
chili powder
1/2 cup oil **use a little less than 1/2 cup
Stir seasonings with oil
Pour over crackers in plastic bag
Mix thoroughly
refrigerate overnite
turning several times
Let reach room temp before serving
Patti, how did you like last night`s curry chicken. Crap my computer is making funny symbols and I can`t post a question mark. I don`t want to re-start my computer right now, so bear with me.
This is the easiest tomato sauce, you`ll ever make. We had this on Sunday with spaghettini and it is incredibly good. I didn`t throw the onion out, but chopped it up to serve with the sauce.
Marcella Hazan`s Tomato Sauce (Marcella Hazan Essential Classic Italian Recipes Cookbook)
2 pounds fresh, ripe tomatoes, blanched, peeled and chopped; or 2 cups canned imported Italian tomatoes, cut up, with their juice
5 tablespoons butter
1 medium onion, peeled and cut in half
Salt to taste
Put tomatoes in a saucepan, add the butter, onion, and salt, and cook uncovered at a very slow, but steady simmer for about 45 minutes, or until it is thickened to your liking and the fat floats free from the tomato.
Stir from time to time, mashing up any large pieces of tomato with the back of a wooden spoon.
Taste and correct for salt. Discard the onion before tossing with pasta. Serve with freshly grated parmigiano-reggiano cheese for the table.


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ADDISON COUNTY — While patrolling Morgan Horse Farm Road in Weybridge on the evening of Thursday, Dec. 8, Vermont State Police Trooper Tim Hanley checked on a vehicle parked in a pull off next to the bridge over Otter Creek.
The trooper said the driver, Jamie C. Martin, 30, of Castleton, falsely identified himself as a Massachusetts man. Martin's privilege to drive in Vermont is suspended.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police began investigating embezzlement allegations filed by Paquette Storage on Route 7 North on Dec. 7. Police said the embezzlement allegedly occurred between May of 2008 and May of 2011.
In other action last week, Middlebury police:
• Received a report that $72 had been stolen from a student's backpack at Middlebury College's McCullough Hall on Dec. 5.
VERGENNES — Vergennes police arrested a city man late on Dec. 5 for violating his conditions of release, an action taken after they spotted him acting suspiciously, near the intersection of Main and South Water streets.
December temperatures have mostly been above average in Addison County, but over the last week, nighttime temperatures in the low 20s have caused the formation of some beautiful ice formations on local rivers and streams.
Senior reporter John Flowers makes a weekly Tuesday radio appearance on Morning News Service, a program on Waterbury-based WDEV, 96.1 FM. He wraps up recent Addison County news for listeners across Vermont.
The annual Very Merry Middlebury event on December 3 brought children and their parents to town to meet Santa at the Middlebury Community House, take a horse-drawn wagon ride with Pat and Cathy Palmer, and grab a cup of hot chocolate at the warming hut.
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MIDDLEBURY — Students in the Environmental Studies senior seminar at Middlebury College aren't just completing graduation requirements, they're doing research that will actually be used by government agencies, local officials, scientists and consultants.
The 11 seniors and the officials with whom they worked hope the work they did will improve the health of Lake Champlain and make local neighborhoods healthier places to live.
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Scarlett Johansson, all bundled up, was pictured giving directions to her short film's star, Kevin Bacon, earlier today on the set of New York, I Love You. I've added 17 pictures in the gallery.
If anyone would like to see more shots of Kevin Bacon alone, just let me know and I'd be happy to add them!
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The website cites federal government spending calculated at $14 billion per year — including approximately "400 employees of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [who] have racked up more than a $100,000 each in taxpayer-funded travel since 2005." The site points to official records backing the claim.
The website's editorial staff is led by Chris Carey, a longtime print journalist and creator of BailoutSleuth.com, which tracks alleged waste and fraud in the management of ongoing government economic bailouts since the financial crisis struck in 2008.
"Some of those employees were undoubtedly pursuing critical missions – ensuring the safety of foreign-made drugs, working to slow the spread of HIV and other deadly diseases, or providing on-site support after the devastating earthquake in Haiti this year," JunketSleuth acknowledges in a Web-posted statement. "But an analysis of the Department of Health and Human Services' computerized travel database, obtained by JunketSleuth through the Freedom of Information Act, shows that more than half of the trips by department employees fell into more mundane categories, such as meetings, conferences, training sessions and speeches."
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Big Sky is a small area that is nestled alongside Lone Mountain. It is about a 45 minute drive from Bozeman (or you can arrange a shuttle transfer) and 90 minutes from West Yellowstone. It's a great place to go ski/ snowshoe, especially if you are interested in seeing Yellowstone National Park (see my Yellowstone page).
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