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Today's Online Commentary & Diversions:
• Awards: Congratulations to Lorenzo Mattotti for the much-deserved Max and Moritz Prize Lifetime Achievement Award and to Joe Sacco for being awarded Best International Comic Book, as announced over the weekend at the Internationaler Comic Salon at Erlanger and reported by Tom Spurgeon at The Comics Reporter, Torsten Adair at The Beat and Joe Gordon at Forbidden Planet International
• Review: At Boing Boing, as part of their "Mind Blowing Movies" series of guest posts, Amy Crehore examines the Ghost World film: "I knew it was going to be good, but I had no idea that the movie Ghost World (2001) would bathe me in such an uncanny sense of deja vu from start to finish. The characters are so real and familiar that they could have been based on my friends and me."
• Commentary: Ashok Karra has a short but thought-provoking analysis of elements of the Ghost World graphic novel: "A ghost world could be three things. Two of them are types of haunting: either by the past (nostalgia for childhood) or the present (the glow of the television). The third possibility is that you pass through as a ghost."
• Plug: At Flavorwire, Emily Temple includes Ghost World on the list of "30 Books Everyone Should Read Before Turning 30," saying "Clowes writes some of the most essentially realistic teenagers we've ever come across, which is important when you are (or have ever been) a realistic teenager yourself."
• Plug/Preview: At The Beat, Jessica Lee posts a 5-page sneak peek of New York Mon Amour by Jacques Tardi et al., saying "This newest Tardi release... is slated for a July release, just in time for Independence Day, where we can all revel in the patriotic depictions of New York that Tardi has provided — oh wait. True to his new realism style, 'Manhattan' retains the same kind of gritty aesthetic as his illustrations of WWI trench warfare as well as Parisian life."
• Review: "The 11 horror stories in [The Furry Trap] showcase Simmons's possession of a dark and capable imagination, one that has discomfort down to an exact science.... Simmons is at his best in stories like 'Mutant' and 'Demonwood,' where rash decisions and chance encounters lead to nightmarish consequences ... Simmons's brand of deep unease permeates all of [these stories], even in the opening story, 'In a Land of Magic,' which features a scene of sexual and physical violence that could lead to sleepless nights. The book is also filled with illustrations and short comics that just add to the pile of evidence that Simmons has a wide-ranging talent, with an artistic sense that brings to life his most ghoulish creations. These stories are, hopefully, harbingers of even stronger and more sinister work in the future..." – Publishers Weekly
• Review: "The action [in God and Science] ebbs and flows, but the story remains engaging and exciting. I had to read it all in one afternoon because I just couldn't put it down. I was enjoying it too much to stop reading.... [There]'s another great thing about this comic — there's some subtle philosophical questions nudged in that the characters (and reader) have to answer themselves.... I can't recommend this title enough. I can easily say that I want more Ti-Girls, or at least comic characters like them." – Sheena McNeil, Sequential Tart
• Review: "Prince Valiant Vol. 5 — As the war years draw to a close, the strip finds Valiant settling down — at least a little bit — by finally winning his true heart's love, Aleta. There's still enough brigands and evildoers to keep Val busy, but a lot of Vol. 5 is spent with the couple developing their relationship, and Harold Foster deepening and developing Aleta's character in the process. ...[I]t remains a thrilling, boisterous work." – Chris Mautner, Robot 6
• Review: "Dungeon Quest Book Three — Joe Daly's faithful D&D fantasy by way of Harold and Kumar proceeds apace, with lots of bloody skirmishes with fierce animals and fiercer bandits and an abundance of jokes about penises, pot, hand-jobs and the like.... His incredibly detailed forest backgrounds are really quite exquisite, and the full panel sequences of his band of adventurers simply trekking along a forest path or walking through a stream were my favorite parts of the book." – Chris Mautner, Robot 6
• Commentary: It's been interesting seeing the evolution of the "hey, they should bring Love and Rockets to the screen" article in the age of the serialized cable drama. Arthur Smith at The Paley Center for Media is the latest to add his voice to the chorus
• Plug: "Got this beautiful Popeye compilation book (Fantagraphics) a couple of days ago. Haven't had a chance to even crack it open, but my son is now running around going 'Arf, arf.' It's a hit." – Ruben Bolling
• Tribute: At The New York Times, Tim Kreider remembers the great Ray Bradbury: "Prescience is not the measure of a science-fiction author's success — we don't value the work of H. G. Wells because he foresaw the atomic bomb or Arthur C. Clarke for inventing the communications satellite — but it is worth pausing, on the occasion of Ray Bradbury's death, to notice how uncannily accurate was his vision of the numb, cruel future we now inhabit."
• Tribute: Monte Schulz (seen above with Bradbury and Gary Groth at Comic-Con 2009 — click the image for a larger version) has a lovely memorial to Bradbury currently on the main page of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference website


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From the Pentagon, a plea for budget normalcy
Monday - 9/17/2012, 5:09am EDT
Jared Serbu, DoD reporter, Federal News Radio
The Defense Department says it's making reasonable progress toward achieving auditable financial statements. But Congress isn't helping much by constantly keeping the department guessing about what its actual financial resources will be.
Pentagon comptroller Robert Hale said he doesn't want to overpromise, but the department is fairly confident it can meet the 2014 and 2017 deadlines Congress and the Defense secretary set for audit readiness. But he said it would help a lot if the financial management professionals in the department — the same ones responsible for guiding the audit preparation effort &mdash ;weren't constantly scrambling from one budget crisis to the next.
"We've encountered unprecedented budgetary uncertainty in recent years, including no fewer than four shutdown drills and a long-term continuing resolution in 2011. Sometimes I think I spend most of my time planning for things I hope don't happen," Hale said. "Now we face the prospect of sequestration and yet another long-term continuing resolution. Dealing with these extraordinary actions is sapping the time we could be spending on other things including audit readiness. The single biggest thing Congress could do to help me is to return to a more orderly budget process."
DoD on track for 2014 audit
Hale's remarks came at a Friday hearing at which the House Armed Services Committee questioned department witnesses on progress toward Defense auditability deadlines. The department's first audit target is in 2014, when it's required to develop an auditable statement of budgetary resources.
Hale said he thinks they're about halfway there.
Robert Hale, comptroller, Defense Department
"Look, I'll regret this, but I think we're at midfield," he said. "But we've got momentum on our side, we've got the ball and we're on the offense."
The government's largest department is one of just two of the 24 CFO Act agencies that haven't yet received a clean opinion on its consolidated financial statements. And while's it's going to be a heavy lift, DoD financial managers say there have been numerous important turns in the road over the past year.
The Air Force and Navy received unqualified opinions on the existence and completeness of the vast majority of their equipment. Two major Defense agencies, the Defense Finance Accounting Service and Defense Information Systems Agency, received clean opinions on their own statements of budgetary resources. In addition, many of the department's senior executives had their own contributions to audit readiness incorporated into their performance reviews this year.
"It's not the primary performance goal," Hale said. "If you're a logistician, your primary goal is still logistics, but it's part of the subsidiary goals and we'd like to tie this as closely as we can to assessments and bonuses so that there's some tangible rewards for success and some change in behavior if we're not making success. I think we've got people's attention, but I'm a little less confident that they know what they need to do throughout the department. It's a major step forward, but I'm humble about all the things we need to do to get to audit readiness. We've overpromised and under delivered for a long time, and I don't want to be part of that. I wasn't to tell it as best we can and try to meet these goals."
Beth McGrath, DoD's deputy chief management officer, said the huge enterprise resource planning systems, which will be key to getting the department's books in shape, are now all meeting one standard. Within the past few months, DoD has finished testing the military services ERPs against a single Standard Financial Information Structure so that the data they produce can be integrated into a single departmentwide financial statement without extra workarounds.
Nonetheless, in the short term, she said, audits will rely on a mix of modern ERP systems and legacy IT solutions that grew up around specific business needs.
"I think the difference today, though, is that we truly are taking an enterprise perspective," she said. "We're lifting up and looking across the organization to say, 'What do I have, and how is it helping or not to achieve the business outcomes that we want?'"
Whole organization must be a part of the financial management solution
The department's various ERPs have a troubled history in terms of meeting their original cost and schedule estimates, as a recent DoD inspector general's report pointed out in detail. But McGrath said in many cases, where the systems have failed to meet their objectives, it wasn't an IT problem. Rather, it was because military organizations business practices didn't match up with the auditable, commercial business practices for which the systems were designed.
Beth McGrath, deputy chief management officer, Defense Department
"What we've really learned is that it can't just be the accounting team with the financial management solution. It must be the entire operation understanding the role that this capability plays within their overall execution," she said. "That, to be honest, has been one of the most challenging things. We must move away from the years of business practices that we've had into the new environment. There are a lot more controls in the new systems, such that you've got referential data integrity that are so important to achieving auditability and full accounting of the money."
But Marilyn Thomas, the Air Force comptroller, said ERP setbacks aren't necessarily the fault of the workforce or individual business process owners. Thomas said an assessment of problems with the Air Force's Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System found that training was a big issue.
"The operational assessment pointed out that we had some big issues with change management," she said. "As we peeled the onion back, we talked to the workforce. The key thing they told us was, 'You taught us how to use the software. You taught us about the software. You didn't teach us how to do our job with the new system.'"
Gladys Commons, the Navy Department's comptroller, said her service had a similar experience with their ERP, which the Navy plans to roll out across the service at the beginning of October. She said leaders learned it's critical to communicate to the workforce that there are important reasons that business processes need to be standardized across the service.
"What we found is that they liked to establish ways to get their jobs done quicker, but they didn't realize the impact that it's having on the overall organization when they invent their own methodology and local business practices," she said. "So we have a major effort to standardize our processes and publish those standards so that everyone knows what they need to do."
The Navy also is circulating a five-minute YouTube video among sailors and marines emphasizing the notion that every part of the workforce has a hand in auditability, not just the financial management community.
Commons said she's hopeful both Navy Department services will beat the 2014 audit target. The Marine Corps expects to have an audit-ready statement of budgetary resources for fiscal 2012. The Navy hopes to follow at the end of 2013.
This story is part of Federal News Radio's daily DoD Report. For more defense news, click here.
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%gosìa 9{ezus Chief Charlo of the Salish VOLUME 16, NUMBER 45 Ä news puBCication of the Salish and %gotmai TriBes of the Jiathead Indian Reservation THE MONTH OF THE GEESE Chief Koostatah of the Kootenai MARCH 30, 1988 Indian education conference enjoyed by hundreds in Kalispell Approximately four hundred Indian educators from Montana gathered for the annual Montana Indian Education Association convention held March 21-23 at Cavanaugh's Inn in Kalispell. This year's theme was: "Promoting Excellence in Indian Education." Administrators, teachers, counselors, cultural leaders, students and interested people from Indian Country attended the three days of workshops, Photos on page two 3> 10 io GO 3 co h 0) Si guest speakers and current education issues forums. This year's convention was coordinated by 1987 MIEA board members Rhonda Lankford and Ivan Small. The dominant concern throughout the convention was the recent court mandate to overhaul the Montana school funding system. Indian educa-. tors fear the mandate is a threat to "874" funds which are distributed to schools according to the number of Native American students. The funds are in lieu of taxes for federal and trust lands under Public Law 874 (which will be covered more thoroughly in the next issue). The MIEA convention was also host to gubernatorial candidates who were invited to sit on a panel and field questions from the audience. Five Democrats were present: Frank Morrison, Ted Neumann, Curley Thorton, Mike Greely and Tom Judge. Dr. Robert Swan of Rocky Boy stated, "It's significant that only Democrats showed up at this Indian education conference." Candidates spoke in support of protecting 874 funds and fostering cultural integrity in schools. The big applause-getter was Tom Judge's statement: "It's time for the Indian community to be represented by a board of regents." He went on to point out that "the role of Native Americans in the political scene has grown and matured." Mike Greeley said, "That's not enough, though. You have to get more involved in the local government, and the legislature has to recognize sovereignty of tribes." Some of the workshops offered (Continues on page tour) Quarterly is this Friday in Pablo The second quarterly Council meeting for 1988 is set for Friday, April 1, at Tribal headquarters in Pablo, beginning around 9 a.m. Quarterly meetings differ from regular Council meetings in that they don't have a formal agenda. Topics for discussion are suggested by the audience. The public is invited to attend. As always, the meeting will include a noon meal. Questions? Call 675-2700.
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Gallery: Bosco Verticale: The World's First Vertical Forest Nears Compl...
The types of trees were chosen based on where they would be positioned on the buildings' facades and it took over two years of working with botanists to decide which trees would be most appropriate for the buildings and the climate.
Milan is one of the most polluted cities in the world, and the Bosco Verticale project aims to mitigate some of the environmental damage that has been inflicted upon the city by urbanization. The design is made up of two high-density tower blocks with integrated photovoltaic energy systems and trees and vegetation planted on the facade. The plants help capture CO2 and dust in the air, reduce the need to mechanically heat and cool the tower's apartments, and help mitigate the area's urban heat island effect – particularly during the summer when temperatures can reach over 100 degrees.
The two towers measure 260 feet and 367 feet tall respectively, and together they have the capacity to hold 480 big and medium size trees, 250 small size trees, 11,000 ground-cover plants and 5,000 shrubs (that's the equivalent of 2.5 acres of forest). The types of trees were chosen based on where they would be positioned on the buildings' facades and it took over two years of working with botanists to decide which trees would be most appropriate for the buildings and the climate. The plants used in the project were grown specifically for the building, pre-cultivated so that they would gradually acclimate to the conditions they would experience once placed on the building.
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gailklein May 3, 2013 at 2:22 pm
Note on old Google Maps proximity to a totally antithetical glass building!
WhoopWhoopie April 6, 2013 at 3:04 pm
I don't think the architects, builders, investors, etc, would overlook the issues brought up here. Anyway, this is a very interesting project. You come across concept images like this all the time, but to actually see one being built is awesome. Here's the Google Maps address for anyone interested: 17 Via Gaetano de Castillia, Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
Abha Khabar February 14, 2013 at 3:55 pm
oject were grown specifically for the building, pre-cultivated so that they would gradually acclimate to the condi
bharati M January 19, 2013 at 2:46 am
beautiful, but there seems to be no scope for the trees to grow any taller! If they do, they will grow bent and twisted!
kristinjordan January 16, 2013 at 8:49 am
Will there be human inhabitants in the building?
lesley poisson January 16, 2013 at 1:58 am
Wonderful!!!! Let's do it here and there and everywhere!!!!!
RonnyJay January 15, 2013 at 10:56 pm
It's looks like quite a project, but may I ask if they used plants that bear edible fruits and vegetables? It says they chose according to which were most appropriate for the buildings and climate, but there are also people in there, it would be a good opportunity for a win/win situation.
sustainablefarm January 15, 2013 at 10:30 pm
How do they stop the trees from ripping through the concrete?
osita January 14, 2013 at 6:03 am
How much it will cost to look after them, the roots will eventually grow and how they will control the damage of it?
But it looks beautiful -
desmond January 11, 2013 at 1:31 am
Looks brilliant – definitely something to watch and learn from over the next few years
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Thanks - but that's OK. I think it was funny too looking at what I wrote from a very literal sense. On the other hand - Michelle, like other skaters went out many nights and skated with injuries or got an injury during a skate. So while I was trying to say something a little differently, I know they are aware of this and most likely they knew what I meant. Hey, after exchanging posts with fans of another skater the last two days these folks are nice and fun. We can't get so touchy that we lose the abilty to laugh at ourselves.
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I obviously misunderstood, boy did I ever! My sincere apologies!
Marie Antoinette didn't win 30 gold medals.
What is so wrong? Good question. Michelle's entry onto the Olympic team back in '06 was wonderful news to some, but left a bad taste for others. As much as I would like to see Michelle return, I would like her return to be clean. I don't want to see a return that leaves a bad taste or a bad smell. How much did we complain when Sasha got 2 Grand Prix events? I know, giving Michelle a free ride to Nats doesn't rob anyone else, but the principle is the same.
I more or less agree with you despite the sentimental feelings I expressed for Michelle. She is very aware of the rules and I am sure she will abide by them. Not every decision can please everybody and I can't imagine in a thousand years any skating federation turning down Michelle's request back in '06. Besides, her bye was allowed under the rules - and with all due respect why not bump a 16 year who has never won a significant event - (and still hasn't) for a five- time World Champion. Bad taste for a few fans - is much preferred over a close to suicidal decision from US Skating. I hope they got over the bad taste - it has been three years now.
In 2006, at least it was within the rules and supported by precedent to allow consideration of medical byes.
Plus, at the time of nationals Michelle was the reigning U.S. champion and it was not outrageous to hope that she would be able to get well and give a good accounting of herself at the Olympics.
This time around it is completely different. To simply toss the rules because we've got Kwan-dust in our eyes -- it hardly seems necessary to ask why that is wrong. 30 gold metals? Michelle's reward for winning all those medals was winning all those medals.
That having been said, if Michelle really does decide to come back, there are plenty of ways that she can do so within the rules.


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Dublin is a big city with a small-town mentality. It's a city where famous writers and drinkers cavorted (and brawled) in many of the same bars and where it's not unusual for a local to strike up a conversation with a stranger in a pub. Today, many of the most popular attractions revolve around the city's rich literary and drinking history. In the literary category, there's the Book of Kells, the Old Library at Trinity College, The Oscar Wilde House, and the Dublin Writer's Museum; in the drinking category, there is the Guiness Storehouse, the Old Jameson Distillery, and numerous historic pubs. The Literary Pub Crawl relates to both, with spirited literary-themed performances and visits to some of the favorite bars of Dublin literati such as James Joyce and Brendan Behan.
Dublin's nightlife scene has been hopping for decades -- or centuries, rather -- and it's still thriving today. University students flock to the rowdy Temple Bar area, while the bars near St. Stephen's Green tend to draw a classier set. The city center is very dense, so traveling by foot is easier here than in many other cities in Europe. Though the Luas train system is not well-used, there is a fairly reliable bus system and a pay-as-you-go bicycle scheme has added to the ease of getting around.
One of Dublin's strongest assets is its compact city center. This means that regardless of where you stay, reaching another neighborhood downtown will require minimal effort, so it simply becomes a matter of preference. Temple Bar is the city's nightlife mecca, and is home to everything from quaint B&Bs to completely divey hostel-style inns. Be warned: This is a convenient area for people looking to barhop, shop, or dine out, but it's known to be noisy into the wee hours.
St. Stephen's Green draws a more upscale crowd, and visitors will find charming historic pubs and excellent shopping along Grafton Street. Some hotel rooms here have park views.
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This one ho dropped my cell phone, so I demonstrated the shitty effect of gravity by giving her a Newton's apple.
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A mental health assessment gives your doctor an overall picture of how well you feel emotionally and how well you are able to think, reason, and remember (cognitive functioning). Your doctor will ask you questions and examine you. You might answer some of the doctor's questions in writing. Your doctor will pay attention to how you look and your mood, behavior, thinking, reasoning, memory, and ability to express yourself. Your doctor will also ask questions about how you get along with other people, including your family and friends. Sometimes the assessment includes lab tests, such as blood or urine tests.
A mental health assessment may be done by your primary care doctor or by a psychiatrist , psychologist , or social worker .
A mental health assessment for a child is geared to the child's age and stage of development.
Why It Is Done
A mental health assessment is done to:
- Find out about and check on mental health problems, such as anxiety , depression , schizophrenia , Alzheimer's disease , and anorexia nervosa .
- Help tell the difference between mental and physical health problems.
- Evaluate a person who has been referred for mental health treatment because of problems at school, work, or home. For example, a mental health assessment may be used to find out if a child has learning disabilities or behavior disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), conduct disorder (CD), or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
- Check the mental health of a person who has been hospitalized or arrested for a crime, such as drunken driving or physical abuse.
How To Prepare
If you are having a mental health assessment because you have specific symptoms, you may be asked to keep a diary or journal for a few days before your appointment. For some assessments, you may be asked to bring a family member or friend with you, someone who can describe your symptoms from their view.
If your child is being checked for behavior problems, you may be asked to keep a diary or journal of how he or she acts for a couple of days. Your child's teacher may need to answer questions about how your child acts at school.
Many medicines can cause changes in your ability to think, reason, and remember. Be sure to tell your doctor about all the nonprescription and prescription medicines you take.
Talk with your doctor about any concerns you have regarding the need for the test, its risks, how it will be done, or what the results will mean. To help you understand the importance of this test, fill out the medical test information form (What is a PDF document?) .
How It Is Done
Health professionals often do a brief mental health assessment during regular checkups. If you are having symptoms of a mental health problem, your doctor may do a more complete assessment or refer you to another doctor, such as a psychologist or psychiatrist.
A mental health assessment includes an interview with a doctor and may also involve a physical exam and written or verbal tests.
During the interview, your doctor pays attention to how you look, how you move, what type of mood you seem to be in, and how you behave. You will be asked to talk about your symptoms and complaints. Be as detailed as possible. If you have kept a diary or journal of your symptoms, share this with your doctor.
Your doctor may ask you questions to check how well you think, reason, and remember (your cognitive functioning). He or she may ask you questions to find out how you think, how you feel about life, and whether you are likely to commit suicide.
Physical exam
A mental health assessment may include a physical exam. Your doctor will review your past medical history, as well as that of your family members, and the medicines you currently take.
Your doctor may test your reflexes, balance, and senses, such as hearing, taste, sight, smell, and touch.
Lab tests
The mental health assessment sometimes includes lab tests on a blood or urine sample. If a nervous system problem is suspected, tests such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) , electroencephalogram (EEG) , or computed tomography (CT) may be done. Lab tests to detect other problems may include thyroid function tests, electrolyte levels , or toxicology screening (to look for drug or alcohol problems).
Written or verbal tests
A mental health assessment may include one or more verbal or written tests. You will be asked some questions and will either answer out loud or write your answer on a piece of paper. Your answers are then rated and scored by your doctor.
Written questionnaires generally contain 20 to 30 questions that can be answered quickly, often in a "yes" or "no" format. They usually don't take long to finish, and you can do them by yourself at a regular office visit.
Many mental health questionnaires are available. They look at:
- Specific problems. For example, for depression, the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, the Beck Depression Inventory, or the Geriatric Depression Scale can be used to evaluate your symptoms.
- How well you are able to think, reason, and remember (cognitive function). The Mini Mental State Examination can be used to check your cognitive function.
- How well you are able to carry out routine activities, such as eating, dressing, shopping, or banking.
Sometimes a more extensive mental health test, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, may be needed. The test may need to be given by a specialist such as a psychologist.
How a child's mental health is assessed varies depending on the age of the child and the suspected problem. Young children may be asked to draw pictures to express their feelings, or they may be asked to look at pictures or images of common subjects and talk about how the pictures make them feel. Parents or teachers may be asked to answer questions about a child using a checklist.
How long does it take?
The time it takes for a mental health assessment varies depending on the reason for the assessment. An interview with written or verbal tests may last 30 to 90 minutes, or longer if several different tests are done. An in-depth test such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale may take 1 to 2 hours.
How It Feels
A mental health assessment is used to find out how you think and feel.
- If you are being checked for a problem, such as alcohol dependence , you may feel resentment, anger, or hostility and may not want to have the assessment.
- If you are being evaluated for a health condition, such as Alzheimer's disease, you may be afraid.
- Because some mental health problems are hard to diagnose, you may worry or become upset if your condition is not quickly or easily identified.
Lab tests do not usually cause much discomfort. A blood sample will be taken from a vein in your arm. An elastic band is wrapped around your upper arm and may feel tight. You may feel nothing at all from the needle, or you may feel a quick sting or pinch. Collecting a urine sample does not cause pain.
Your doctor may not be able to find the cause of your symptoms, because some mental health problems are hard to diagnose. Also, more than one mental health assessment or other tests may be needed to accurately diagnose your problem.
A mental health assessment gives your doctor an overall picture of how well you feel emotionally and how well you are able to think, reason, and remember (cognitive functioning). Your doctor may discuss some results of the mental health assessment with you right after the assessment. Complete results may not be available for several days.
Many conditions can change the results of a mental health assessment. Your doctor will talk with you about how your results relate to your symptoms and past health.
A mental health assessment can help diagnose:
- Mental health problems, such as anxiety disorders , depression , schizophrenia , attention deficit hyperactivity disorder , conduct disorder , bipolar disorders , and eating disorders .
- Developmental problems, such as learning disabilities , intellectual disability , and autism .
- Substance abuse, including alcohol and drug abuse and dependence .
- Diseases of the nervous system, such as Alzheimer's disease , Huntington's disease , Parkinson's disease , and epilepsy .
- Other problems, such as thyroid disease and brain tumors.
What Affects the Test
You may not be able to have the test or the results may not be helpful if you:
- Are not able to cooperate with and trust your doctor.
- Are not willing to have a mental health assessment.
- Have physical or emotional problems that interfere with your ability to complete a written test. In most cases, other testing instruments and tools are used if this is a problem for you.
- Use some medicines, alcohol, or illegal drugs.
- Have trouble reading, writing, or understanding the English language.
What To Think About
- Some mental health problems can be hard to diagnose. You may need more than one mental health assessment and other tests to accurately diagnose your problem.
- What your family and friends see or think about your symptoms can sometimes help your doctor diagnose a mental health problem. Consider having a family member or friend come with you to your appointment.
- Contact your human resources department or local health department to find out what support services are available in your area.
Other Works Consulted
- Andrews LB (2008). The psychiatric interview and mental status examination. In RE Hales et al., eds., The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry, 5th ed., pp. 3-17. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing.
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (2003). Screening for dementia: Recommendation and rationale. Available online: http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/3rduspstf/dementia/dementrr.htm.
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Recently, the book publishing industry has been the subject of much attention as it integrates digital publishing with print publishing. Most publishing houses hastily pushed content into the digital space, securing a place in the marketplace with little regard to quality, reader experience, and basically no consideration for format-specific advantages and deficiencies. This approach lacks the necessary emphasis on readers (who are the customers), and their needs as software users on their devices of choice.
My company's transition from a print-only model to one where we're about to publish more digital products than print ones in 2011 was difficult in many respects. The growing pains of uncertainty and unmapped terrain, of new endeavors, of new skills, of new product models, all touched our organization at every level. Having made it out on the other end alive, I came to realize that there had been a guide for us all along: user experience.
It's important to realize that in publishing, the print business is something we all know very well. It's an assembly line, and the ins and outs of greenlighting, creating, producing, manufacturing, selling, and marketing a print book is a process we're accustomed to. Having been through this same process hundreds of times, it is almost second nature. The give and take, the push and pull of creating a printed book is clear and comfortable, but this is not yet the case with eBooks.
Not long ago, I had a conversation concerning spine size of a printed book—how the weight of the paper used for printing can aggrandize or diminish the spine of a book, leading to a different perception of the book's value as related to the product's price point. The level of granularity of thought has yet to extend to our digital products.
But these types of considerations, whether about print or digital books, are concerned with how users perceive and interact with the products we put into the marketplace. This is user experience.
Acquiring new skills is never easy. Changing an entire organization is incredibly difficult.
Several months ago, the president of my company tweeted about how she let all of her book industry association memberships run out without renewing them. The next day, she signed up as a member of the Software and Information Industry Association. And that was that. We were now a digital company.
As such, new skills, processes, strategies, and methodologies were (and continue to be) explored. We started holding Scrum-like meetings for eBooks, creating small task groups with representative from each of the traditional departments (editorial, marketing, design, production), and floated some operations and product development people in and out of most projects. We replaced our editorial board meeting with a "product strategy meeting," opting for more of an ideation period rather than a yea/nay acquisitions meeting. Our book proposals look nothing like book proposals. In fact, each day they resemble functional specs documentation more and more.
We've become intra-departmental. The traditional publishing cycle was much like a relay race—one person would complete work on a project and then hand off to the next in the series. In this new paradigm, we are working like a soccer team, passing the work back and forth to different team members and advancing together. We've let design, marketing, and editorial inform each other. We've replaced a lineal production process with a clustered one consisting of small pods of talent working collaboratively on projects, owning them, seeing them through, and advocating for them.
And, most importantly, we've done all of this with our customers in mind. Almost mind-numbingly, the book publishing industry has a history of creating product for a "customer" that they never speak to, speak of, see, interact with, or consider. In fact, many publishing houses could consider their authors to be their primary customers, with author services being one of the major components of the business.
The poor regard that is actually paid to readers, to customers, to actual book consumers, is embarrassing inadequate. In fact, most of the traditional process of book publishing is insulated from the outside world in a way that never allows anyone not from within to have direct contact with those on the inside. This system of buffers and padding has lead to an almost catastrophic denial of usability, and near complete impotence with issues related to customer satisfaction. If it works, it works. If not, too bad. Print another book and move on.
The publishing industry currently does not understand the language of UX. We lack a means to describe how users interact with our content, as the only gauge we've used for so long is that of sales figures (i.e., point of purchase performance in the retail landscape).
As an organization that is striving to be primarily digital, to deliver quality content to our customers, and to innovate and learn along the way, we've found that the glue that holds our processes together is the user. While traditional indicators like market research and hard sales data still play a role in product development, they are not the only considerations. The more we delve into the digital landscape, the more we realize that we must constantly be taking that necessary step back and asking ourselves about the who, where, and how of our customers.
These days, there is a debate going on about the value of the publisher in the larger scheme of things. Facilitated by the Internet, and the vast amount of easy-to-use tools at everyone's disposal, everyone can be a publisher. So, why do we need publishing houses to buy content, produce it, manufacture it, and sell it? What, at the fundamental level, does a publisher do that is worth the money they take off the top? Shouldn't the content creator reap all the financial benefits of their work?
One response to this debate is that a publisher is a curator. While true in some respects, I don't think this is the ultimate response. In fact, the role of the publisher has a larger scope than simply curation. Content curation is only one aspect of the role that the publishing entity plays. In a digital landscape, our role is to provide the best UX possible to our customers.
And to do that well, we need to know our customers very well. To know what they read, how they read, where they read.
Several months ago, we piloted a program to deliver digital course materials to students enrolled in a select group of medical test prep programs. These students were evaluated at the end of their courses to determine how using digital course materials affected their learning experiences, as well as how they felt about using the materials. Actual usage data was also collected and compared. We learned that for the large majority of the time, these students were using the digital versions of their course materials as quick reference tools. The most used feature was search, favored over other features such as note taking, highlighting, bookmarking, sharing, and others. The context in which students used the products most often was the classroom. Not online, not on the bus, nor in the subway. They were listening to a lecture and were using these eBooks to quickly look up terms and formulas and reinforce the lecture in a context.
This pilot program represented a real turning point for us. We were both surprised and excited about the data we collected, and also by the real insight we had gained into what our customers were doing, what their needs were, and what they wanted us to provide to them. While the data is different product to product, we did learn what to measure and how to listen.
In the world of software application development, UX designers and researchers physically watch people using an application and determine information about them and their needs through observation. In the eBook world, the ability to track usage data, feature adoption, and time spent with each product has meant that we have a whole new world open to us, and a new way of conceiving of and talking about our products and product development.
Digital products have brought the customer back into the equation.
Book publisher. Software developer. eBook producer.
These days, the publisher is all of these things. In fact, ePub (the file format used for eBooks) is HTML-based. While our product is different than a website designer's or application developer's, what brings us together is a need to please and offer an intuitive experience. And every product represents an opportunity to provide an experience to a user using a combination of content, design, interface, and some elbow grease.
In that vein, as we move into a highly digital landscape in which the print business is dying faster than most will admit (and it is), I think we'll see more and more publishers start to experiment with ePub. In doing so, we will inevitably learn the limitations of this format and begin to push the envelope on what type of reading experiences can be delivered via eReading devices. The true potential of the so-called "enhanced eBook" is not just in the addition of separate media such as video or audio for the sake of additional media. Rather, it is use of the technology to create beautiful products that serve a purpose and delight our readers.
In the print business, after having seen a concept, then an acquisition, then a proposal, then a manuscript, then a stack of papers in production, then blue sheets, then a proof, one learns to appreciate the beauty of a finished book. No matter how many books you've produced or seen through production, there are always times when you can't help but remark on how beautiful a book looks when holding it in your hands for the first time.
The same thing happened to me for the first time with an eBook just the other day.
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The readily available technologies for both creating and displaying ebooks is pretty limiting in terms of what can be done to improve quality and overall user experience. A publisher and reader has little control over the fact that an iPad or Kindle is designing to only display certain formats and sizes. These limitations coupled with the fact that there is a need to stay ahead of the curve have made it a giant mess for publishers to evolve their products into something that is universally sound in it's final delivery. As with publishing, this may take 100 years before it is sorted out and works as seamlessly as the printed book does today—from start to finish. Most ebook conversions are done by companies with little to no design experience and so the end product lacks the refinement that a printed book benefits from. And, many people in publishing and in the design/print world do not have the experience to communicate to programmers and people "scripting"/converting these books. There is a language barrier. In fact, for many years, these two world remain very separate when in fact everything is pointing to a logical unity if we ever want to see something substantial and worthwhile come of "e" anything. Design thinking has to be on the forefront of the discussion of how to formalize, standardize and economize the production of eBooks that have the same desired effect as the printed book has had the luxury of attaining.
There is no question that unless this happens, we will see a decline in culture and appreciation of quality. People will become used to the lesser representation of these things and there will be a cultural dilution. This may be good for "marketing" as it will be easier to sell to a dumbed down public, but ultimately devastating to humanity.
I work for an online marketing firm that services a number of publishers in the midst of their digital transformations. Though they publish the gamut from technical books to small-run magazines, in the past couple years all have drastically ramped up their consumption of their own customers' behavioral data. (We help them collect, analyze, and act on the data.)
These publishers were first driven to collect customer behavior by the opportunity to target and sell more effectively online. That continues, but the next opportunity is aggressively transforming the products themselves: the "UX." As Brett writes, that is indeed proving to be a structural challenge for these publishers who keep a foot in the (still quite large and profitable, but shrinking) print world. It's not an option for them to one day simply shrug off print and go full digital, and maintaining production pipelines for both is a struggle.
Steve Webster, CSO
Hired three years ago, I was brought on as John Wiley & Sons first ever in-house UX person and have discovered that a surprisingly deep and widespread interest in the topic exists throughout the company. To imply that the publishing industry doesn't yet think about how users interact with their content is to deny a lot of digital success stories that date back more than a decade - and in a far more transformative and fundamental way than eBooks. For instance, the Higher Ed market is now powered by complex classroom management and elearning software that is available for use with (or without) the textbook itself. The scientific and medical publishing markets are now almost entirely online, with much deep investment happening right now by major publishers to get better integrated into customer workflows. And even professional and trade products like The Leadership Challenge have used digital innovation and UX to launch workflow oriented supplement products like the LPI Online leadership assessments.
That being said, your point about publishing companies being poorly set up to understand and serve actual customers is spot on. Publishers are channel marketers, skilled at setting up trade shows and cultivating intermediaries like librarians and bookstore buyers. They are voracious consumers of bibliometric data and Book Scan data, yet the digital age requires a deeper understanding of the actual consumer of the content. Think about how much more a company like Pepsi, NetFlix, Toyota or HBO know about their buyers' tastes, lifestyle, and desires. These companies also take the time to define and profile customers in the "white space" that they are not currently serving but want to move into. When I see evidence that publishers are truly committed to this level of understanding,enough to do the kind of 'inside-out' innovation that comes by identifying a customer need before developing content & functionality, I will believe that UX and its values have arrived in our industry.
Todd Toler
Director, User Experience
John Wiley & Sons
Hi, Brett. I really enjoyed your post. I am a UX design team lead at a large software company and I am also very interested in the transformation of the publishing industry -- primarily because my partner is an agented writer who is finishing up her first YA novel, and we talk often about what's happening in the world of e-books and self-publishing.
She and I launched a little site back in November called Page99Test.com, which enables aspiring writers to get candid and unbiased feedback from readers, based on a single page of their manuscript.
Next I'd like to apply my particular area of expertise to the publishing world... running multivariate tests on book covers and synopses for publishers. However, I am quickly finding out that most publishers, agents, and cover designers really have no idea how to leverage this proven and accepted method of selecting a 'winning' design for a new book. The still rely on the opinions of 1 or 2 key individuals (e.g., editors, marketing reps) to make decisions about a cover.
In the Web world, the notion of asking a few business stakeholders for their opinion on a home page change is ridiculous. I'd love to get your thoughts on what we're building. Interested? Reach me a lancecj at gmail dot com.


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Crafted from premium lead-free glass, Riedel's Wine Series is an attractive and functional line of wineglasses, featuring the most popular bowl shapes of the more expensive Vinum collection. The glasses are machine-made in Europe by renowned glassmakers and feature a faceted stem with tiered decorations at the top and base. The thin rims are cut and polished so that wine flows smoothly onto the palate, and the bowl shapes emphasize bouquet. This set of two glasses is designed to highlight the flavors and aromas of Cabernet Suavignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, red Bordeaux, Rioja, and Tempranillo.
Non lead, machine made recommended for: Bordeaux, Burnello di Montalcino, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Domina, Fronsac, Graves rouge, Listrac, Margaux,Médoc, Merlot, Moulis, Pauillac, Pomerol, Ribera del Duero, Rioja, St. Emilion, St. Estéphe, St. Julien, Sangiovese Grosso, Tempranillo, Zweigelt. All Riedel glasses are dishwasher safe.
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If all there is to it are these PCI ids, expect backports to virtually all 2010H2 distros...
Phoronix: Intel's Sandybridge Graphics On Linux
Back in February we reported on the first signs of open-source support for Intel's Sandybridge, a.k.a. their sixth-generation Intel graphics processor integrated on their upcoming CPUs that succeed the Clarkdale/Arrandale CPUs. The Sandybridge hardware still has not launched nor will it until late this year or early next year, but the open-source support has been underway for months and from time to time we see new Linux code patches related to Sandybridge...
If all there is to it are these PCI ids, expect backports to virtually all 2010H2 distros...
What is sad is that since mesa is still OpenGL 2.1, Sandybridge graphics experience with Linux will be more limited than on Windows for quite some time...
Seems kinda ontopic, so here we go:
I recently got a Laptop with Intel Core i5 processor and the integrated Intel GMA HD graphic (alongside with a ATi HD5650, but I'm not using that one in Linux).
And I've got to say I was expecting much more in terms of driver-support from Intel. I always thought Intel graphics were supposed to be the ones with the best foss-driver around, but so far my experince is that their drivers suck balls. KWin-compositing/2D is barely fast enough for desktop use, but flash-videos are choppy and in full-screen they almost lock up the system. Also HoN and some other games I've tried simply don't work.
All in all I've had a _much_ more pleasant linux experience with my old and trusty ATi X1900XT. But the Intel-gpu is still relatively young, so I guess there's still hope. Though as it looks like Intel is not going to switch to Gallium3d anytime soon, so performance will probably stay abyssimal for the foreseeable future.
You can enable vaapi support for h264, which is still in the early stages, but maybe somebody could convince Adobe to add vaapi support to flash.
When Steve Jobs says that h264 is not accellerated in videos then you get 2 weeks later video accelleration... Just for Linux there is no Steve Jobs - but i think for Android it already works too.
So are all of these (even the Xeons) going to have an integrated GPU? Seems like a bit of a waste potentially at the cost of more heat if you ask me. I can think of better things you could be doing with those transistors.
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New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) - The National Hockey League on Saturday fined Dallas Stars left wing Ryan Garbutt for a spear against Anaheim Ducks forward Corey Perry.
Garbutt was hit with a major and game misconduct for his actions, which occurred at the 9:11 mark of the first period in an eventual 6-2 Ducks win in Game 5 of their Western Conference quarterfinal on Friday.
The fine, which amounts to $1,474.36, is the maximum allowed under the terms of the current Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Garbutt had been suspended five games by the NHL for charging Anaheim forward Dustin Penner in late October.
Shortly after exiting the penalty box, Garbutt left his feet to deliver a high hit to the head area of Penner after the Anaheim wing was releasing a shot. He was not penalized for the incident, which occurred during the second period of the Stars' 6-3 loss to the Ducks.
For that infraction, Garbutt was forced to part with $14,743.60 in salary that was placed into the Players' Emergency Assistance Fund.


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Howling Highlight: Have A Drink for Haiti
Posted by Arctic Wolf on January 26, 2010
Last night I read in my local paper that the toll in Haiti in property damage, in damaged infrastructure, and most importantly in lives has reached proportions which are almost beyond catastrophic. Refugees and orphans, are beginning to arrive in Canada and elsewhere.
The outpouring of aid from ordinary citizens and from governments has been enormous, but lets face it. The task at hand is daunting and it will be years and years before the effects of what has happened begins to dwindle if ever. I am saddened by reports of the difficulties bringing aid to those in most need, but heartened that the effort continues in spite of hardship. Let us hope these efforts are maintained and that hope is kindled in the hearts of those who need it.
I would like to draw some attention to a couple of small initiatives that are happening with respect to people I know and admire.
Haitian Libations – Raising Money For Haiti
Please click on the link and learn what Rumdood (Matt Robold) is doing to help. If you can support his initiative please do so with vigor.
As well RonJames from the Ministry of Rum posted this comment last week on the MOR Furum:
I invite all who can to link to this thread tomorrow at 8pm and join in. (Just click on the quote and you will be directed to the forum.) Let's raise a glass for Haiti!
As well I am going to re post these links which contain information on how and where you can donate to the Haitian cause! Thank You!
Haitian Earthquake: Raise a glass and donate
Haitian Earthquake Appeal
PS I will be posting my first impressions of Barbancourt Reserve on the MOR forum!
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A Gala for Liberty: The Independent Institutes Gala Reception and Dinner Recorded: Tuesday, September 16, 2008
On September 16, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, actor and director Andy Garcia, and entrepreneur William K. Bowes, Jr. were honored at the Independent Institutes A Gala for Liberty. Each honoree received the Alexis de Tocqueville Award in recognition of their contributions to advancing the ideas and ideals of liberty, entrepreneurship, innovation, and peace.
Experts: William K. Bowes, Jr., Andy Garcia, Archbishop Desmond M. TutuType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Democracy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Economic History and Development (International), Free Market Economics, Government Power, History (International), Latin America, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Race Issues, Religion
Is White Guilt Destroying the Promise of Civil Rights? Recorded: Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Part 1 | Part 2
In the 1960s, civil rights victories dealt a blow to racial discrimination, and yet 40 years later many blacks remain left behind. Has affirmative action sabotaged the gains of the civil rights movement? What is the role of personal accountability in improving the standing of minority groups?
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