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Kensington Column Mount Extended Monitor Arm with SmartFit System
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Features color-coded SmartFit® system. Effortless adjustment. Maximizes desktop space.
- Color-coded SmartFit® system positions monitor at optimal viewing level, reducing eye and neck strain
- Monitor arm extends 17"
- Effortless vertical and horizontal adjustment raises productivity
- Dual pivot points allow user to move monitor close
- Cable management system maximizes desktop space
- Assembles quickly
- Wall/Ceiling Mounts and Hardware Type: N/A
- Mounting: Monitor
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CyberSphere Online Documentation :
What could they be?
Advantages are an essential part of any character. They define what special stuff your character has accumulated throughout his or her (or its) life. They are things like Martial arts styles, special skills with weapons, the ability to make ammunition, a job, an apartment or shop, and an enormous amount of other things.
Where to get them
Most advantages can be purchased in character generation for advantage points, although some are only available in-game after a certain amount of character development. You start off with 75 Advantage Points(APs), so choose wisely. In game, you can use the APs you gain for your time in game, to buy
advantages through the @sptrade system, although these are usually 2-3 times as expensive as chargen and are heavily scrutinized by the admin before being approved. It is possible to get almost any advantage through an @request, but it will cost you at least 50AP an advantage, if not 100. There are also disadvantages which give you more APs to use in chargen, but be careful as some of them are quite nasty.
Some advantages can only be gotten as a tier 3 character, these will be marked with a
after their AP cost.
Combat Advantages
Martial Arts
Use the command
@natural [name of style]
to use any of these martial arts when you aren't holding a weapon.
for 25 APs: (Defensive Martial Arts)
You have been trained to use the defensive martial arts style Aikijutsu. It is a style of entangling arm locks and lighting quick strikes, which make it one of the more damaging "defensive" martial arts styles.
Dirty infighting
for 25 APs: (Brawling)
Street Brawling, barfighting, any sort of Fisticuffs, your style is what some people would call
. You would just call them losers. Throwing dirt, sucker punches, the creative use of knifehand strikes, and elbows all combine to form a sort of disorganized style that is all too effective.
Kung Fu
for 30 APs: (Offensive Martial Arts)
I know kung fu.
Muay Thai
for 30 APs: (Offensive Martial Arts)
An Offensive Martial Arts style called "The art of eight limbs." It involves your fists, elbows, shins, feet, and knees being used to "box" with your opponent.
for 25 APs: (Offensive Martial Arts)
Savate originated as a style of French street fighting, with a fairly kick-boxing-like manner. It involves all the normal kicks and punches you would expect from street fighting and throws in a few open handed slaps for variety. Savate at one point in history had tournaments and leagues devoted to it, with specific rules. Chances are that's how you learned it, however in the violent existence of everyday life, such rules are easily forgotten.
Tae Kwon Do
for 25 APs: (Offensive Martial Arts)
The fall of the North American economy encouraged an influx of Chinese television. Many of the programs idealized a brawling version of Tae Kwon Do, and now this bastard of an offensive martial arts style is popular around the world. It uses overpowering strength, snap kicks, and full body sweeps to incapacitate your opponents.
for 25 APs: (Defensive Martial Arts)
Knifehand strikes, arm locks, dodges, counter-blocks, twists. Each of these is an integral part of the Taijitsu style. The less damaging of the Defensive martial arts it concentrates more on dodging and blocking then inflicting damage.
Skill Sets
Black-Ops training
for 30 APs:
Somehow you learned black operations, how to kill quickly and efficiently. The wars of today are fought with small squads, not with large armies, and you have been trained with this in mind. Whether taught by a corporation, the government, the ninjas who home-schooled you, or just a friend, you know the ropes of Rifle, Pistol, Stealth, and OMA. Over-capping these skills will cost you less than normal, the first few times.
Fast loading
for 15 APs:
Fast with guns is one thing, but at the critical moment when your clip or cylinder is empty, you are a cut above the rest. Be it natural skill or years of hard work, you can get your gun back in action faster than most. You do not have to deal with combat round penalties with clip load guns, and Revolvers reload much faster than normal.
Military Training
for 30 APs:
The idea of a formal military doesn't really exist in the corporate run world of
, where conventional forces with their large numbers are a thing of the past. However corporations still have soldiers, and many veterans from the armies of yesterday are still around. So whether you received training from a national army or from a corporate entity, you know your way around several forms of weapons. Pistol, SMG, Melee, Gunnery and Gun Tech all overcap easier the first few times.
quick draw - Pistol/Swords
for 15 APs:
Being able to get your weapon of choice out quickly is essential in the rough and tumble streets of New Carthage, whether it be getting the first shot off at your opponent, or being able to parry that surprise attack that catches you without sword in hand. Either way, if you use swords or pistols, and plan on fighting, quickdraw is rarely a bad choice. The command is
qd [target] with [weapon]
. You will need to make sure your weapon is accessible, either in an open holster or scabbard, or simply on your person.
Sharp Shooter
for 25 APs:
As a sharp shooter, you love the thrill of the perfect shot, the anticipation as you line up your gun, or take a bead on a running target. You excel at precision shooting, blowing holes through quarters with your revolver, or maybe just being able to get that head shot in a tight situation. Overcapping Pistol, Rifle or Gun Tech is much easier the first couple times with this advantage.
Ways to Earn a Living
Ammo Loading
for 10 APs:
With the right materials, you can make almost any ammunition. From small arms to grenade launcher rounds, from belts for SAWs to very large bullets for anti-tank weaponry, there is almost nothing you cannot create.
There are various advantages available to support this particular method of earning a living. Please see the
page for an in-depth explanation.
Body guard training
for 15 APs:
Protection is your specialty. Maybe a corporation trained you to take a bullet for a celebrity, or a powerful corporate executive, or maybe you just picked it up on the street, that happens. Using the command
Bodyguard (person)
you can block attacks from hitting them, however that attacks then come at you, so be careful. The command
Stop bodyguarding
will cause you to stop protecting your ward.
for 10 APs
As a street crime expert or a trained doctor, you are very good at determining the cause and time of death of a corpse. With the right shop, and equipment you can even go further in depth.
Counselor Training
for 20 APs:
Your psychological training is fairly useful for those who are cyberpyscho. Just grab a pad and a nutter and they should be back to
normal in no time.
Counsel [nutjob]
will start a session,
stop counseling
will end it prematurely. Using this skill takes AP from the counselor.
for 15 APs:
A cyberdeck tech knows how to strip and install hardware on cyberdecks. A deckshop facility is useless without cyberdeck technician knowledge.
for 60 APs:
This Advantage is only available in game
The training that is required to repair and modify high end decks. Well worth it if you are a decker and are hoping to one day float the grid on an Mindseye 3.
for 25 APs:
Whether it's back alley graft jobs, or high end corporate enhancements, you know your way around the human body and all of the shiny goodies that can be put inside of it. This combined with the Cyberdoc skill will let you rip and install implants.
for 10 APs:
The Deathguild is a loose association of Mercenaries, who offer assassination services via a nice shiny terminal. Once the money and the target is put up, Deathguild members go after the targets at their leisure. This advantage gives you access to redeem heads at the terminal.
Detective Training
for 20 APs:
Formal or Informal, you excel at arts much more subtle than combat: lifting that fatal piece of evidence off an enemy, seeing the worth in a weapon, or opening a door to search living quarters while the occupants sleep. Detective works like black-ops training, for Appraisal, Thievery and Lockpick.
Drug Dealer
for 30APs:
This Advantage is only available in game
You sell drugs, you know where to get them, and you can get them in huge quantities, for whomever is buying...or maybe just whoever you like. Using the equipment provided by BBP, and tapping into BBP's network of suppliers, almost any drug on the market is possible to obtain. Remember, never get high off your own supply.
EMT Training
for 25 APs:
Every gang, Every corporate hit squad, every crime organization, needs a doctor to patch their members up and to keep them on the fighting edge with the best chrome they can buy. The doctors with EMT training consistently do better than those who are untrained, or trained on the street. Characters with EMT training get a break on their first few overcapped skill raises for Cyberdoc and First Aid.
for 25 APs:
Some people have a knack for machines, others go to school for engineering. In the fast paced future, everyone needs something fixed. Deckers need faster decks, solos need better guns, corpies need cooler cars. Engineering is similar to EMT training, except it covers the skills Appraisal, Gun Tech, Mechanic, Programming, and Electronics.
for 10 APs:
Connections, that's what facemen are all about. Whether you know a guy who knows a guy, or your father is an important corporate business man, somehow you know the right people. They can get places most people can't, they pick up packages, and deliver goods. Facemen are the low guy on the totem pole, but can often quickly advance to more connected statuses, such as Fixer or Drug Dealer.
for 36 APs:
This Advantage is only available in game
Knowing where to get stuff is crucial, whether it's weapons,
, supplies, electronics, or
. Each Fixer has his own specialty, and can use his connections to get many hard to get items. Obviously selling these items is the goal, but a substantial amount of money is required beforehand to invest. Fixers can use AP and credits to get almost anything in the game in their specific niches.
Note: This advantage requires faceman advantage before you can request it. You have to be connected and reliable to the black market before they let you take out a line of credit and order shit.
Gun Repair
for 16 APs:
The ability to repair guns, unjam guns, retool custom guns, and make custom guns, even add scopes. Gun repair is the essential complement to the Gun Tech skill.
IO Simulant Agent
for 7 APs:
are genetic freaks, not quite mutants and not quite humans.
has been contracted by the Turing corporation to hunt these freaks down. As a sim hunter, you are allowed corpside, and know how to find
. You will get paid each time you kill a simulant and turn in the head.
Lock Expert
for 20 APs:
You have been picking locks, whether legitimately or not, for quite some time and you know your way around lock picks. You can use lock picks with your lockpick skill to open most doors.
for 0 APs:
As an electrician you are employed by Bill Phiber-Optik's, a factory on Hosaka that produces electronics. By entering the factory and working for a few hours a day you make some cred, to do whatever with.
for 10 APs:
In New Carthage, news is made every day: gang killings, hit jobs, assassinations, drug running, conflicts and innumerable other interesting events make the city one huge mass of reportable intel. As a reporter you can write and submit articles to NCI which can then end up on the BBS. This makes you a little money, enough to survive on...but not that much.
for 15 APs:
The wastes, junkyards, and many other places present opportunities to those with the right eye. As a scavenger you can use your skills and this advantage to find things others can't to take junk left about and turn it into useful and sometimes even valuable items.
for 20 APs:
People personalize cars, houses, gardens, clothing, and in the future their weapons. A weaponsmith has mastered the art of turning your average every day weapon into something unique and personalized. Using your weaponsmithing connections you can get almost anything you might need to make a ordinary weapon extraordinary.
Language recognition
for 2 APs:
You can recognize most languages, the words used elude you, but if someone is speaking French you will know.
To use a language, type
speak [language]
and everything you say on coms or in person will only be understandable by another speaker of that language. Simply typing
will tell you what language you're speaking and which languages you know.
The languages are:
Arabic for 5 APs
Chinese for 5 APs
French for 5 APs
Gaelic for 5 APs
German for 5 APs
Italian for 5 APs
Japanese for 5 APs
Navaho for 15 APs
Portuguese for 5 APs
Russian for 5 APs
Spanish for 5 APs
Street-Talk for 5 APs
Thai for 5 APs
Vehicle Advantages
Assault Driver
for 30 APs: Requirements: Corp Driver
You have been a driver for corporations, and have been trained specifically to avoid ambushes, and to drive assault vehicles. This advantage augments any skill points you put into driver, it gives you more points than corporate driver, but also costs more APs.
Combat Biker
for 20 APs: Requirements: Gang Biker
A Combat biker, has either biked for a corporation, or been in a biker gang, through many gang wars. This advantage is similar to the Driver Advantages, but gives you a bonus in Biker, which stacks with the Gang biker advantage.
Corp Driver
for 20 APs:
You have driven a car for a corporation, usually in corporate convoys, transporting people, information, weapons, product, or any dozen other things that corporations need moved. You are reasonably proficient at driving any street car, and gain a small bonus to your driver skill.
Expert biker
for 30 APs:
Expert bikers, Lead biker gangs, they are the front runners feared by all other biker gangers. In the corporate world they are paid large sums of money, in order to rule the streets for whomever has the most cred. Expert bikers get a very large bonus to their biking skill.
Gang biker
for 15 APs:
Maybe you were in a biker gang, maybe you just like to ride Motorcycles, possibly you ride in a corporate motorcade. In whichever case you are an alright biker, and have some experience. Gang Biker gives you a small bonus to your biking skill.
Motorcycle Owner
for 30 APs:
You own a motorcycle, not a terribly nice one, but it's yours and it's pretty neat if you do say so yourself. It probably won't be a waste bike, but it won't be the fancy hoverbike from Nga. Nevertheless it's a cool bike, and it gets you where you need to go.
Cybernetics Packages
Brawler Cybernetics
for 20 APs:
You enter New Carthage with a few implants in you, ones that will specifically benefit a brawler. You gain Basic Grafted Muscles, and Duro Knuckles. This saves you the trouble of finding making the money for implants, then finding a doctor in game right away, however remember this is spending APs you wont get back, to get implants that you can lose.
Corporate Cybernetics
for 20 APs:
Corporate cybernetics is the basic chrome set of your average corporate citizen, It comes with a DNI, a brain wire, and a sensorium access unit. Everything a budding little corpie needs.
Cyberdoc Cybernetics
for 20APs:
As a cyberdoc you have access to some of the best chrome, and you use it to make your practice better! You have had a friend install the Gensyn Medical cyberhand, for operations, and Mass-Neotek ISCAN eyes, for checking patients' chrome loads out.
Decking Cybernetics
for 20 APs:
As a decker, you need your implants to keep yourself above the crowd. You have to be faster than the competition and that nasty ice as you surf the grid, so you blew a chunk of your savings on the nicest chrome you could find. Besides the essential DNI, you also nabbed a Neural Co-Pro and a Brain Wire.
Detective Cybernetics
for 20 APs:
Whether you're an actual detective, or you just want to know whats going on around you, High Range Hearing and Zeiss lowlight eyes are an essential part of your body.
Health Guru Cybernetics
for 20 APs:
You like to be healthy, maybe you worry about poison, or drugs, or you get into fights a lot and like to make sure you don't get too messed up, so you had a doc put in some health monitoring, and health protecting chrome. You've got a Retinal display, an Internal Biomonitor, and a bloodfilter.
for 20 APs:
As a popular Sim star, you have to be able to watch yourself, get media reports and keep up with all the hot gossip. Your agent made sure to give you all the chrome you need to do just that. With a retinal display, and cyberTRI-V receiver, you're always up to date. In addition fashions change with the moment, so go color-q-fashion eyes, and fiber optic hair to make sure you can change as quick as your clothes.
Solo Cybernetics
for 20 APs:
Solos are the guys who fight alone: hit men, ex cops, those who shun groups in favor of the loner way of life. They are moody, brooding and dangerous in combat, but everyone needs their cybernetic enhancements to give them that edge, especially when fighting without backup, as many solos do. The Solo cybernetics package is geared toward guns, a favorite of many Solos. So get ready to cause havoc with a SmartLink, Retinal Display, and Zeiss-Ikon Lowlight Eyes.
Street Samurai Cybernetics
for 20 APs:
Your body moves like liquid, contorting around the bullets whizzing around you, a bullet tears through your arm, grazing the bone as you spin away from a burst of fire. You close in, and drive your Metal claws up into their stomach, as their blood pumps down your arm, a smile of triumph crosses your face. Street Samurai are the close quarters killers in
, they prefer to eviscerate or otherwise incapacitate their opponents from close range, an interesting choice in today's world of guns. In order to survive such rigorous and unconventional combat, a Street Samurai needs implants to make them stronger, faster, heartier. An Adrenaline Control Module, and basic wires would do the trick quite nicely.
Clones-R-US Cheap Clone
for 3 APs:
You have a clone, already stored in New Carthage for you. It is at Clones-R-Us, a rather cheap clone institution in the Old City. It's cheap and prone to clonefail, but at least it's a clone.
Myotech clone
for 5 APs:
A clone is one of the essential parts of life in New Carthage, whether you just got into town and first thing grabbed a clone, or if you've lived here all your life and have a longstanding relationship with Myotech. This advantage gives you a clone, and Myotech's Clone Arrangers is the most popular clone provider in the city.
Parallel Resurrection clone
for 10 APs:
Parallel Resurrection
, or PR, is one of the more upscale clones favored by deckers, corporate citizens, and anyone west side with a lot of money. PR offers a gear retrieval service, and for a price a combat rescue service, that will retrieve you, hopefully alive, from amidst combat. The sight of a PR wristband flashing is enough to send many assailants packing, for fear of PR's rescue AV and personnel.
Myotech Offworld clone
for 15 APs:
An off-world clone is from the clone provider on the L4 orbital habitat. It is the best and most upscale clone provider available. It is impossible to make the minute errors that cause close failure in the zero-g world of space, so having one of these clones is well worth the cost and travel. It might be a hassle to get to, though, if you don't have the training to go into zero-g.
Corp-Class Starting Credits
for 25 APs
You are a corpie, and have money, maybe you are upper class, and have a lot of money stored away. Either way you have a large amount of cred (10k) stored in the bank.
Freelance Criminal
for 15 APs:
You do jobs for the criminal underground in your spare time, maybe you mug people? Maybe you kill some easy marks for your boss every once and awhile, whatever you do it pays. You trade between 1 and 3 APs a week for 1-3k. It does however go on your criminal record, which can be quite a problem with the NCSP or NCPD. The command
will toggle this advantage on and off if you need to save up your AP.
Freelance Job
for 15 APs:
Similar to Freelance criminal, except usually a much more stable job for much more reputable people. You do not receive a criminal record for this Job, but the rewards might be slightly less...However for those wishing to not have trouble with the law, it is well worth it. The command
will toggle this advantage on and off if you need to save up your AP.
High-Class Starting Credits
for 15 APs:
Your savings account is not quite corporate class, but it is certainly nothing to snert at. Between a savings account and your credstick you have a decent amount of cred (7k) saved up.
Middle-Class Starting Credits
for 10 APs:
As your average citizen you have an average amount of money (5k) saved up. Middle class starting credits isn't too much, but it's more than you normally start out with, and who doesn't love cred? Commies...you a commie, son?
Real Estate
Corporate Apartment
for 35 APs:
You start off with an apartment corpside with some pre-paid rent. This is a good choice if your character has lived in New Carthage for awhile.
Corporate Office
for 25 APs:
You have worked in New Carthage for awhile, on the East side, so naturally you have an office.
Cyberdeck Shop
for 20 APs:
You work as a Cyberdeck tech in NC, or have use for owning a cyberdeck shop, with some rent paid of course.
Cybernetics Clinic
for 20 APs:
Your Cybernetics business is doing moderately well, and you even have your own clinic! Saving up some rent might have been difficult, but now that you've done it you can relax...for a bit.
Garage Depot
for 25 APs:
For whatever reason, you rent a garage in New Carthage. Whether you keep your fancy vehicles there, or you simply operate a mechanics business, your garage has a bit of rent paid to make sure you can continue doing what you're doing for a bit longer with no worry.
Gun Mod Shop
for 20 APs:
As a gun tech, or perhaps someone who owns a lot of guns it is beneficial for you to have a gun tech shop to use to repair guns, add scopes to guns, make ammo etc. You've recently been doing good, so your rent is paid for a bit off into the future.
Low Rent Apartment
for 10 APs:
As a resident of NC, you have an apartment, it might not be too fancy but its a place to sleep and it holds your stuff. It may be a bit sub-par but its got some rent paid and it does the job so who are you to complain?
Securitech Apartment
for 30 APs:
Securitech, as its name implies, is easily the most secure apartment complex east side of the wall. It is more expensive than other apartment buildings, but is notoriously hard to break into. Having an apartment there is one of the only reasons many people can sleep at night.
Standard Apartment
for 20 APs:
Standard apartments, in places like public housing, cost a bit more than low-rent apartments, but they are more secure, and generally cleaner, too. With some pre-paid rent, you've got a nice safe place to sleep, and some room to drop things that you might need later.
Store Owner
for 15 APs:
No matter what you're selling, having a store is essential. With a bit of rent paid, you have some leeway to gather all you're selling together and price it just right. As long as you advertise well, you can hopefully keep the place and make some extra money.
Tri-V Studio
for 20 APs:
If you're a reporter, producer, or sim star, having your own studio makes being that lovable Tri-V personality that much easier. Hopefully your programming can make you enough money to keep paying the rent after your deposit runs out.
Decks and Tech
for 15 APs:
Decking equipment is key to being a decker, This advantage lets you select a couple low end pieces of general decking and technical equipment from a list using a set amount of points.
General Items
for 10 APs:
This Advantage is similar to Decks and Tech. It allows you to buy things from a list of general items. For the Advantage you get 200 points, to use on Items ranging from 10-200 points. General Items will get you some of the basic stuff that people will have on the street etc.
Municipal Permits
for 10 APs:
This advantage allows you access to several permits in chargen. Whether it be a permit to cyberdoc, or to own a weapon, or a few other things this is useful if you're worried about getting the NCPD on your case. There are ways to get these permits in game, so don't sweat it if you don't have the APs.
Wasteland Gear
for 15 APs:
Wasters need some important gear to survive in the harsh wastes. So Wasteland gear works similar to general items, except all the items are useful for living in the wastes.
Weapons and Armor
for 15 APs:
In the future, combat is a part of everyday life, almost everyone wears some sort of armor, and most people own some sort of weapon. This advantage works like General items, and allows you to choose from a number of weapons, and a variety of low end armors to bring into game with you.
Hated by...
for 0 APs:
You can be hated by a lot of people, mostly gangs like the
, the
, or the
, or organized crime, like the
. This is an excellent choice if your history permits it, but it means that these gangs will attack you on sight, and you will appear on the blacklist of whichever criminal organization you are hated by. Consequently this could cause some problems, so it is not to be taken lightly.
for 35 APs:
Mutants are freaks, not glamorous X-men, but shambling, broken creates that may be physically superior to humans, but suffer in sanity and looks. Many people discriminate against mutants, but that's the price you pay when you're a genetic freak. Mutants cannot have implants, have to look deformed, and can get the mutant abilities advantage.
Mutant Abilities
for 5 APs:
What's a mutant without their lovely, freaky and somewhat useful mutations? These are not limitations on the way you can be mutated, just the mutations that you actually use for things, such as natural weapons or acid blood, that have coded effects in game. See the page on
for more information.
PR Rescue Service
for 20 APs:
's rescue service is feared by most people. Rarely will an assailant be ballsy enough to continue his or her assault on you after the PR AV has arrived to take you to safety. This advantage gifts you the PR wristband, which is tapped to call on PR's rescue personnel in times of need.
for 10 APs:
aren't quite mutants and they aren't quite humans. Their DNA scrambling is a result of genetic engineering. They are superior to average humans, but they are often anti-social, unstable, and a danger to society. They rarely survive long in the public eye, especially with the
simulant hunters tracking them down for the
for 10 APs:
Throwing your voice is useful both for entertainment, and being generally creepy.
Throw-Voice [whatever you want to say]
will make it appear as if there is a disembodied voice in the room.
Zero-g training
for 10 APs:
Going into a Zero Gravity environment can be quite disconcerting. Without proper training, one becomes space sick and can have difficulty telling up from down. Without this training, drugs are neccessary to go into space without major problems. If you live in Space, have a clone there, or just love exploring space Zero-G training is a good choice.
for -10APs:
Maybe you were rich and bored, or your life was a wreck and you just needed to lose yourself, either way you started doing drugs. A few doses later, you realize you cannot quit. With this disadvantage, you will be permanently addicted to some kind of a drug. Going to rehab will not cure you and you will always be unhealthy because of your bad habit. The good news is... well, there is no good news, you are screwed for life - you should have never done drugs in the first place.
for -7APs:
Bright lights give you headaches. Actually, almost any light does. Without a set of sunglasses or some other mitigation expect to be miserable (and generally less effective) any time you're in a well lit area.
for -10APs:
You bleed. A lot. If someone looks at you the wrong way you might start bleeding. Still, if you're the type who doesn't generally give people a reason to make you bleed you might be alright.
Powerful Enemies
for -5APs:
This has to be justified by your history and RPed accordingly. Did you sleep with a high ranking corporate suit's daughter? Steal something from the head of a cartel? Assassinate a world leader's family member? Congratulations, you've got powerful enemies! Expect admin to take the opportunity to fuck with you throughout your character's life. This isn't the end of the world, mind you. The people who are sent to deal with you can be dealt with in turn while other situations can be outright avoided if you're quick, clever, and well informed. As long as you're smart and careful this mostly just adds structure to how you RP (such as never going to L4 or an entirely rational fear of anyone who speaks with a British accent). Of course, should you be careless expect a very large hammer of doom to treat you like an anvil.
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Trichotillomania – Compulsive Hair pulling
Trichotillomania (TTM), is the often unconscious urge to pull out hair from the body. The hair can be from any region of the body such as the head, eyebrows, eye lashes, ears, nose, under the arms and the pubic region. Many tricho sufferers have the condition since childhood. Some babies have also been seen to pull their hair.
In childhood the ratio of male to female pullers is around 1 to 1. As children grow into teenagers and become adults the proportion of make pullers tends to drop whilst females tend to stay high.
Most people who have TTM will attempt to mask the condition by combing their hair over any bald patches or wearing headgear that mask the problem. If the condition gets worse, trichotillomania can lead to a withdrawal from social engagements and self esteem may drop.
The causes of trichotillomania are not known. There may be a genetic component because it has been seen in infants. Nurturing can play a part too. Sometimes a child will see an adult, may be even a parent pulling their hair and they may mimic them.
Hair pulling can provide some pleasure to some people. There is a sense of relief and release once hair has been pulled. The good feeling experienced from this action may lead to a compulsion to pull again to re-experience the nice feeling.
Hypnotherapy in London for Trichotillomania.
Anne Thornton-Patterson has been treating clients with trichotillomania in London for many years now. She has helped men, women and children. Her experience and success has enabled her to develop a program specifically for hair pulling help.


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Mar 3, 2009 1:15PM EST
Mentalist is taking a short break, but will be back with a new episode on March 17th!
Mar 3, 2009 1:17PM EST
Cheers. Thanks for the info. They shift programmes all over the place then they complain that ratings fall - doh!
Mar 3, 2009 7:08PM EST
LOL!! short break??? You have to be kidding me, its been a month now that no new episodes have been aired :*( now i don't have anything to watch since, it seems, all the popular shows took breaks! I hate breaks!


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WASHINGTON – The scene looks something like this: An outdoor garden under a starry sky, glasses filled with bubbling beverages, live music working its way down Constitution Avenue and modern video art projecting off an international government building.
It's not a page out of the next Gatsby-esque novel; it's Art After Dark, an annual event hosted by Art Museum of the Americas.
What serves as the museum's largest fundraiser for its educational and outreach programs includes all the elements of an urban soiree: a live performance and video premier by Dangerous Muse, music from D.C.'s DJ Shea Van Horn, drinks (included in the ticket price) and after-hours access to the museum's current exhibit, "Fusion: Tracing Asian Migration to the Americas."
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2 sentenced for killing of Missouri businessman
Thursday, March 24, 2011
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — Two men have been sentenced to life and 25 years respectively for the killing of a St. Joseph businessman in what prosecutors called an attempted robbery.
Michael Limley and Christopher Helton had both been convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Larry Norris. The victim was killed in August 2009 behind his business, Valvoline Express Care, where Helton had worked.
KQTV reports Limley received the 25-year sentence Wednesday in Buchanan County Circuit Court.
Limley had pleaded guilty in a deal that prevented prosecutors from pursuing other charges. In his confession, he said Helton shot the victim in a struggle over a gun.
Helton was also sentenced Wednesday, with a life term on the murder charge plus 10 years for armed criminal action.
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Moniteau County Fair Baby Show draws about 70 entrants
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
One of the most popular events at the Moniteau County Fair is the annual baby show, which drew about 70 competitiors Saturday, Aug. 6, at the main arena of the fairgrounds, despite temperatures that climbed as high as 100 degrees.
"The number of entrants was definitely down this year," Event coordinator Sally Vogel said. "I'm sure the heat was a big factor. We had quite a few entrants who were registered, but then didn't show up for the contest. It was just miserably hot."
Judges ultimately chose three winners in each of the seven age categories, except for the Twins Under 2 Years category, which only had two entrants.
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A 15-year-old New York boy is accused of stockpiling gasoline, propane, fuses and a machete for a planned school attack on the anniversary of the Columbine school massacre.
The detective who interviewed the teenager says the boy burst into tears and admitted he was upset about being bullied.
Orange County Attorney David Darwin says charges will likely be filed in juvenile court. The boy's name hasn't been released.
Monroe police Chief Dominic Giudice says the boy was taken into custody Monday after authorities searched his home in Monroe, 45 miles northwest of New York City. Police say he told them he planned to attack the Monroe-Woodbury High School on April 20 and was looking to buy an assault rifle.
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Appeals panel lifts suspensions for four NFL players in bounty scandal
Jonathan Vilma, Scott Fujita and Will Smith are back in the NFL. For now.
The suspensions of those players, plus unsigned free agent Anthony Hargrove, for their roles in New Orleans' pay-for-pain bounty scandal were lifted Friday by a three-member appeals panel. The league reinstated them all a few minutes later.
However, while the decision allows the players to rejoin their teams, it does not permanently void their suspensions.
Rodolph Austin and Luton Shelton scored from free kicks as Jamaica beat the United States 2-1 in a World Cup qualifier in Kingston, Jamaica, giving the Reggae Boyz their first win over the Americans.
Clint Dempsey put the U.S. ahead after just 35 seconds; the fastest American goal in a World Cup qualifier. Jamaica had not won in 18 previous games against the U.S., which plays Jamaica again on Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio.
Lance Armstrong's lifetime ban by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency will keep him from running next month's Chicago Marathon. Meanwhile, world cycling's governing body is considering an amnesty for riders and officials to confess to doping offenses, and says there is no plan to challenge the decision to strip Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles.
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Olympic champion Aries Merritt of the United States set a world record of 12.80 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles, upstaging Usain Bolt's routine 100-meter victory (9.86 seconds) in the final Diamond League meet of the season in Brussels.
At the Van Damme Memorial, Merritt sliced 0.07 seconds off the old mark set by Cuba's Dayron Robles four years ago.
Kevin Harvick took the lead by dodging a caution caused by race leader Kurt Busch, then pulled away on a restart with 17 laps to go and won the Nationwide Series race at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway.
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Del Mar officials said a reporting error on in-state Advanced Deposit Wagering bets during the final two weeks of the Del Mar meeting caused the track to adjust slightly downward its final figures on handle for the recently concluded meeting.
TVG reported the error in a letter dated Sept. 6, saying that its system had overstated ADW handle wagered by California residents on out-of-state races of $14,396,311 between Aug. 21 and Sept. 3, 2012. Del Mar's portion of the error was $9,681,116. TVG said in its letter that the error had no impact on customer wagering or funds.
The Lakers added assistant coaches Eddie Jordan, Bernie Bickerstaff and Steve Clifford to Mike Brown's coaching staff. Los Angeles also signed second-round draft pick Robert Sacre.
• Singer and actor Justin Timberlake has agreed to be part of the ownership group assembled by billionaire Robert Pera in his attempt to buy the Memphis Grizzlies, a source told The Associated Press.
Kody Duff's second-half score was the difference as the San Diego State men's soccer team (1-1-1) beat visiting Houston Baptist 3-2. The game broke the SDSU Sports Deck attendance record with an announced crowd of 2,212 ... Candace Parker and Kristi Toliver scored 18 points each as the Los Angeles Sparks broke a three-game skid with a 96-68 victory over the host Washington Mystics. ... Cyclist Alberto Contador lost 17 seconds of his overall lead to Alejandro Valverde with only one more day of real racing left in the Spanish Vuelta.
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Does anyone know of any books we can read to our little ones when the time comes to explain how our IVF babies got here?
I know there are books out there to help explain babymaking to older siblings when there is a new baby coming and they start asking questions, but these won't apply to us...
What/how do you plan to tell your IVF baby when the time is right?
I've found these from X, Y and Me , which seem quite good. They're American so I'm not sure how much it would be to have the actual book shipped over here but you can download them from the website below. I've seen a few from the UK but they don't seem to be that child friendly whereas these do. Also they do lots of different ones , i.e donor sperm, surrogacy, single mums, dads, same sex couples , the whole lot. They all look the same on the download page as they all have the same cover but if you hover over them it should bring up their title. Be careful you don't download the wrong one. Also I think there was a thread about this quite awhile ago. I'll try to dig it out and bump it up.
Here's the publishers website:
Here's where you can download them.
here's a link to the other thread I was talking about.
I have just written a book about IVF for small children. It will be ready to order in April 2011. You can preview to website now, and watch for the book to be released soon.
There is also a book preview online and additional activities for families!
The webste is: www.myivfbooks.com
Our 2 children are IVF conceived; born 2004 and 2006
Thanks to both of you. I am having a difficult time because my husband doesn't want our children to know. So not really sure what to do yet however I do think we have time to sort it all out.
I would like a book which tells the "normal" facts of life as well as ivf (I have kids conceived both ways) - any suggestions?
I don't think I've seen one that deals with natural conception and assisted conception at the same time which is a shame because there are lots of families where that's the case. TammyTW, maybe you could write one for us Your book looks great by the way and your webpage was really interesting too. Thanks for posting it here. I'm sure it'll be helpful for lots of the families that use this board.
That's a good point cj2005. My first son was conceived from IUI and my 2nd pregnancy is from IVF, so the details are different for them too.
Thanks! Ifthis book does ok- I plan to write a series: conception the old fashion way, IUI, sibling book and one on ART for older children.
I explain sexual and reproductive health topics in my 'day job' so its a pretty good fit. I am trying to figure out if there would be enough interest. What do you guys think?
I think there would defo be interest, it's getting the word out that will be key to being successful. It would be really nice to be told about such books in the final meeting you have with the fertility clinic after your BFP. Like if they gave out a packet of info (they did to me), with a form to fill in when I've had the baby and something about donating cord blood, a little about early pregnancy, information about books like this. After care is just as important as care during IVF, IMO. The early stages of an IVF pregnancy, at least in my experience, are a bit different to a natural pregnancy. I lost a twin early on and had bleeding and needed extra scans and such, and you are terrified of anything going wrong and having to go through the IVF process again (god forbid), so a little support after a BFP is a great idea. So maybe teaming up with the clinics to get the word out?
HI Mary
I am speaking with several clinics in Canada about that very same idea! (great minds think alike!). I agree with you that aftercare is an underdeveloped part of IVF care.Thanks for providing me feedback. I look forward to hearing about your new bundle of joy!
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
MOTORISTS travelling on the A12 in Chelmsford are continuing to face delays following a two-vehicle collision this morning.
The crash happened just before 6.30am near J16 on the northbound carriageway.
Vehicles involved in the crash were a silver Ford Focus and a lorry.
The lorry shed its load of an estimated 20 tonnes of rubbish in the crash.
The main carriageway is closed, with traffic being routed around the junction.
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DeKALB – On Saturday, Sept. 15, Irish-American band Switchback will play the concert everyone will be talking about the next day. The fun begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Egyptian Theatre. Wear green and celebrate the halfway point to St. Patrick's Day!
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Men's Hoops' Clay Wilson to Take Basketball Trip to Europe
Princeton men's basketball rising senior Clay Wilson will be heading to Europe for a hoops tour alongside several familiar faces.
Wilson will be traveling to Belgium with visits to London and Amsterdam for a nine-day trip as part of the Global Sports Academy's Goodwill Tour from August 13-21. The itinerary will begin in Belgium with stops in Brussels, Ghent, Antwerp and Brugge with a one-day visit to Amsterdam during the continental portion of the trip. On the final day before heading back to the U.S., Wilson and teammates will visit London before returning to Brussels for the trip home.
Five games and a scrimmage opener, all against local club teams, will make up the basketball portion of the trip. More than half of the 11-man roster is made up by players Wilson has faced with Princeton during his career, including Cornell's Shonn Miller, Dartmouth's John Golden, Yale's Javier Duren and Matt Townsend, and Alec Wintering and Bryce Pressley from the University of Portland, which the Tigers took on last December in Las Vegas.
Wilson previously visited Europe for a hoops trip two summers ago with his Tiger teammates as the program toured Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia in 2012.
Wilson's trip adds to the European happenings for current and former Tigers this summer, with Judson Wallace '05 winning an Italian league title with Olimpia Milano and rising junior Hans Brase playing with the German second national team in Romania and China.
This fall, Wilson will be a part of a five-member senior class along with Daniel Edwards, Bobby Garbade, Ben Hazel and Denton Koon, a group that has played in the postseason twice and has 58 wins over its three seasons with the program.


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Ranger arrested again in taxi damage claim
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SWINDON Town striker Nile Ranger is in trouble with the law yet again after being arrested on suspicion of criminal damage in Liverpool.
The player, who is out for the season with the Robins through injury, is being questioned by Merseyside Police after being accused of damaging a taxi following an argument with a cab driver in Liverpool city centre at about 6am yesterday morning.
A Merseyside Police spokesman said: "Merseyside Police has arrested a 22-year-old man on suspicion of causing criminal damage following an incident in a taxi this morning.
"The man, from Middlesex, was arrested on suspicion of damaging a taxi during an argument with the taxi driver in Water Street, Liverpool city centre, at about 6am this morning.
"He has been taken to a police station where he will be questioned by officers."
Last month, Ranger was cleared of rape and is due to stand trial in May at a court in Wales after being charged with drink-driving.
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In the absence of new U.S. immigration reform legislation, this report examines the opportunities that exist within the executive branch and the administration to refine and strengthen current U.S. immigration laws and policies. The administration can exercise its authority to field policies, programs, and procedures that are effective and fair in advancing the goals of the U.S. immigration system.
Information and technology are centerpieces of a new border architecture that seeks to respond to the competing demands of facilitating mobility and managing cross-border risks while remaining cost-efficient and respectful of rights and privacy. This report shows how governments must approach border management systems to ensure properly balanced development.
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Faced with enormous political pressure to stop illegal immigration and to prevent the entry of potential terrorists, the U.S. government has devoted ever more resources to enforcing border policies. It remains unclear, the author argues, whether the efficacy of these programs warrants their costs.
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Hey fans! In case you were too tired to stay awake for the broadcast, or if you feel asleep halfway through (guilty!) don't worry, we've got you covered! Two songs were aired, "Dark Horses" and "The Sound", and according to a few LOBHers that were there, the guys also played "Restless", "The War Inside" and "Where I Belong" after the cameras stopped rolling.
Our friend Wendi sent us video footage that she taped right at the show – so click the links or the embedded video to watch that!
GREAT performances right? They always nail it!
Here's an article about their performance on The Examiner:
Jimmy Kimmel's Outdoor Stage in Hollywood was packed with Switchfoot fans dying to hear the latest from the band. They gave a great performance, their third Jimmy Kimmel appearance. If you weren't there, you really missed out, so please check out the video to the left which is their new single, "Dark Horses."
For "The Sound", lead singer Jon Foreman got in touch with the audience – literally – as he walked on the barrier rail. Here is a link to that video. http://youtu.be/mitvwG-sbAM
Many recall Switchfoot's recent drop off their label's list, as well as their triumphant bid to self-release albums. Their efforts landed them their first Grammy Award for Hello Hurricane and airplay on KROQ, both of which had previously eluded them. Is their label kicking themselves yet?
Their latest album, Vice Verses will be released in one week. On October 11 of this year, they will play the Wiltern in Los Angeles.
They are proud Southlanders who love their hometeam, The Padres. You can also catch them playing after a Padres game this year in San Diego.
To find out more about what's new with Switchfoot, please visit their website, www.Switchfoot.com where they have links, a blog, and video.
P.S. Check out this hilarious photo that they guys posted from backstage – I like how Romey actually looks rather pleased with the turn of events:
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As described in the Introduction, an age-stratified sample of women age 65 years and older residing in the community in Baltimore, Maryland was evaluated for eligibility for the Women's Health and Aging Study (WHAS). The objective of the screening was to identify and recruit the one-third most disabled women living in the community.
A 20 to 30 minute home interview using computer assisted personal interviewing techniques was administered to women who agreed to participate in the screening assessment. This screener questionnaire included batteries assessing disability status and cognitive functioning, both of which were used to determine study eligibility. Information was also obtained from participants on demographic characteristics, self-reported health status, and history of physician-diagnosed chronic conditions (see Appendix B for the complete screening interview).
All screening interviews were completed personally by respondents. Women who were too cognitively impaired to respond to the screener questions or who were otherwise unable to complete the screening interview themselves were excluded. Participants completing the screening interview were considered eligible for the WHAS if they reported difficulty in one or more items in two, three, or four domains of disability (see Introduction to this monograph) and had a Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score (Folstein et al., 1975) of 18 or higher. A total of 4,137 women agreed to be screened, 296 of whom could not personally complete the screening interview. Thus, the screening interview was administered to 3,841 women.
Four domains of disability were considered in the screening process: upper extremity, mobility, higher functioning tasks required for independent living in the community, and self-care. The top half of Table 1.1 shows the specific items included in each domain and the percentage of women participating in the screening who reported difficulty for these items. For each task, the participant was asked whether, by herself and without help from another person or special equipment, she had any difficulty. Data are also presented on the percentage of women with difficulty in one or more items in a domain.
The highest rate of difficulty was in the mobility domain, with over 49 percent of screened women reporting difficulty in one or more items. About 22 percent of women reported difficulty in the self-care domain. Rates of difficulty for all individual self-care items were slightly higher than national estimates for women age 65 years and older (Dawson et al., 1987). For example, 8.2 percent of the WHAS population and 6.5 percent of a national sample of women age 65 years and older had difficulty with dressing, and 3.8 percent of the WHAS population and 1.7 percent of the national population had difficulty with eating. The WHAS population may have a higher rate of disability than the total U.S. population because it is an urban population with a greater proportion of women with low income and education. Consistent with previous work in this field, the prevalence of difficulty in each domain and for specific items increases dramatically with increasing age (Table 1.1).
The bottom half of Table 1.1 shows the distribution of the number of domains in which a participant had difficulty with one or more items. Women who had difficulty in no domains or only one domain were ineligible for the study and constituted 43.7 percent and 20.1 percent of the screened population, respectively. The percent of women with difficulty in no domains dropped steeply with increasing age, from more than 50 percent in those age 65 to 74 years to slightly more than 22 percent of those age 85 years and older. Most of the women with two domains of difficulty had mobility and upper extremity problems, while the majority of women with difficulty in three domains reported problems with these two domains as well as problems with either higher functioning or self-care. The most severely disabled women-those with difficulty in all four domains-constituted about 13 percent of the screened population, but this percentage rose steeply with increasing age, to 30 percent of those age 85 years and older.
The domain approach used in the WHAS to select a moderately to severely disabled study population identified a cohort with diverse patterns and levels of disability. Many combinations of disabilities are represented in the eligible study population. The domain approach to screening was successful in including women with less common patterns of disability who are typically classified as nondisabled using more conventional approaches to disability assessment, such as screening for mobility or self-care disability alone. For example, a small proportion of women with two domains of disability had problems with upper extremity function and either higher functioning or self-care tasks. This important subgroup of women would have been excluded if mobility difficulty, which was extremely common in those eligible for the study, were a fixed requirement for study eligibility.
Table 1.1 also demonstrates how the domain-based screening approach used here worked well to appropriately exclude certain women who would have been eligible if a single criterion, such as self-care difficulty, had been used. For example, a small number of screened women (0.6 percent) reported difficulty in self-care but in no other domains, and thus they were excluded. Closer examination revealed that these women generally reported only a little or some difficulty in bathing or dressing and had no difficulty in tasks such as walking a quarter of a mile, doing heavy housework, and lifting and carrying 10 pounds. Their disability was thus likely to be mild and it was appropriate for them to be excluded from the study.
Table 1.2 shows demographic characteristics, self-assessed health status, and MMSE score for the total screened population and according to study eligibility status. A slightly lower percentage of the population was age 65 to 74 years than the U.S. female population in 1990 (53 versus 55 percent) and a slightly lower proportion was 85 years and older (10 versus 12 percent) (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1992). While Black women made up 8 percent of the U.S. female population age 65 years and older (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1992), they represented one-quarter of the population screened for the WHAS. The screened population had a broad range of educational attainment: a third had less than 9 years of education and nearly a fifth had more than 12 years. Overall, 42 percent of the screened population in the WHAS had 12 or more years of education compared to 56 percent for women age 65 years and older in the United States (Aging America, 1991). There was also a wide range of income; however, one-fifth did not know their income or refused to provide it.
For each category listed in Table 1.2, the distribution of screener status is shown (columns for eligible, non-disabled ineligible, and cognitively impaired ineligible add to 100 percent). For the total population, 33.9 percent were eligible, 62.6 percent were ineligible because they were disabled in only one or no domains, and 3.5 percent were ineligible because of cognitive impairment (MMSE score less than 18). Eligibility ranged from 28 percent for women age 65 to 74 years to 51 percent for women 85 years and older. Higher eligibility rates were seen for African American women, women with less education, and those with lower income. Married women were younger and had lower eligibility. Less than 12 percent of women reporting excellent health were found eligible for the study. In contrast, 80 percent of women reporting poor health were eligible, and an additional 7 percent of these women were cognitively impaired. The mean MMSE score was slightly higher for the non-disabled ineligible than for those who were eligible. Women classified as cognitively impaired who were administered the test had an MMSE range of 0 to 17 and a mean score of 12.5.
Table 1.3 shows the prevalence of self-reported chronic conditions for the total screened population and according to screener status. For all conditions listed there is a substantially higher prevalence in women eligible for the study than in the non-disabled ineligible. The absolute difference in prevalence rates is greater for relatively common diseases such as myocardial infarction, angina, diabetes, arthritis, and hearing problems. In contrast, the ratio of prevalence rates in the eligible versus non-disabled ineligible is greater for rarer conditions such as congestive heart failure, stroke, and Parkinson's disease. Women excluded from the study because they scored 17 or less on the MMSE had prevalence rates that were similar to the ineligible non-disabled group for most conditions. For stroke, hip fracture, and hearing problems, conditions that have previously been demonstrated to be associated with cognitive impairment, the prevalence was substantially higher in the cognitively impaired group than in the ineligible non-disabled group.
Table 1.4 shows sociodemographic and health characteristics of the 1,409 women who completed the screening interview and were found to be eligible for the study. It also presents this information according to whether women participated in the full baseline evaluation or declined to participate further. Of the 1,409 eligible screener respondents, 1,002 (71.1 percent) participated in the full study. Study participation was defined as completing both the baseline interview and the nurse's examination about 2 weeks later.
Overall, women who participated in the study were very similar to the total eligible population on the characteristics shown in Table 1.4 (first two sets of columns). However, in comparing the eligible participants to nonparticipants (second and third sets of columns), certain differences were seen. Among participants, a larger proportion were age 65 to 74 years and a smaller proportion were age 85 years and older. Blacks participated at a higher rate than Whites, with 28 percent of participants and 20 percent of nonparticipants being Black. The participant group included a somewhat higher proportion with more than 12 years of school, with only slightly lower proportions in the other education subgroups. A substantially higher proportion of nonparticipants did not know or refused to report their income. Marital status was quite similar in those who did and did not participate, and there was little difference in the distribution of self-reported health status among those who did and did not participate in the full study. Mean MMSE score was similar for both groups. In summary, there were no major disparities between eligible women who agreed to participate in the full study and those who declined. The group who entered the study was somewhat younger, more often African American, and more often had greater than a high school education than the group that declined, but the two groups had similar marital status, self-reported health, and cognitive function.
As stated above, a screening procedure that assesses multiple domains of function was valuable in selecting a heterogeneous group of moderately to severely disabled women for this study. For the purpose of presenting descriptive data in this monograph, however, a more conventional approach to disability classification is used. Data are presented for study-eligible participants according to three levels of disability: receipt of help from a person to perform one or more basic activities of daily living (ADLs) (bathing, dressing, eating, using the toilet, getting in or out of bed or chairs), no receipt of help but difficulty with one or more ADLs, and moderate disability. The last group includes those who meet the criteria for the study but have no difficulty with ADLs.
This classification system focuses on ADLs because they are the most commonly assessed measure of disability in old age. Clinicians and other care providers, researchers, and policy makers all have experience with these categories of disability and understand the functional problems and general characteristics of older people who have these disabilities. The category termed moderate disability includes those women disabled enough to qualify for the study but not so disabled as to have difficulty with basic self-care activities. It therefore includes women with difficulty in two or three of the domains assessed in the screening interview.
Table 1.5 shows the disability patterns (excluding ADL tasks) for ineligible, non-cognitively impaired women and for women who were eligible and participated in the full study, according to the three categories of disability described above. These data are particularly useful for understanding functional characteristics of eligible women with moderate disability and comparing them with women who were ineligible for the study. Overall, nearly all women classified as moderately disabled had upper extremity problems, virtually all reported difficulty with one or more items in the mobility domain, and almost half had difficulty in the higher functioning domain. Comparing eligible women with moderate disability with women who reported some disability but were ineligible for the study, more than 83 percent of those with moderate disability had difficulty in the upper extremity domain as compared with 22 percent of ineligible women with one domain of disability. More than 99 percent of the moderately disabled women had difficulty in the mobility domain compared with 71 percent of women with difficulty in one domain. Furthermore, more than 60 percent of women with moderate disability had two or more areas of difficulty in mobility, compared with less than one-quarter of women with difficulty in one domain. Finally, there was almost no difficulty in the higher functioning domain in the women with one domain of difficulty, while more than 40 percent of moderately disabled women had problems with this domain. Table 1.5 also shows the total number of tasks for which women reported difficulty; these distributions are substantially different stepping from one domain through the most severe level of disability.
These data clearly demonstrate that women with moderate disability were not as disabled as those with difficulty in ADLs, but they were more disabled than ineligible women who had difficulty in one domain only. The question still remains, however, as to whether there were women with one domain of functional difficulty whom some observers might classify as more disabled than certain study-eligible women with two domains of difficulty. The goal of screening was to have no woman classified as eligible for the study who was less disabled than a noneligible woman, and no woman classified as ineligible who was more disabled than an eligible woman. Using a screening instrument, it is rarely possible to perfectly classify individuals as to any measure of health or disease, and it is likely that a small number of women with mild to moderate disability who should have been included were excluded from this study. However, there is no gold standard by which to measure this. When assessing multiple domains of disability it is sometimes quite subjective as to what combination of disabilities is more severe, and, in fact, which specific health state or pattern of disability individuals would find less desirable may be a matter of personal choice.
This chapter describes the population who were screened to obtain a sample of the one-third most disabled women living in the community, the study population for the WHAS. Beginning with Chapter 2, all data presented are limited to the 1,002 women who make up the WHAS study population. Most tables present descriptive information for the total study population and within the three age strata and the three disability groups described above. In general, the tables show the actual number of women evaluated, but all other data are weighted to give estimates for the target population the women in the study represent. Appendix A describes the sampling strategy and gives general variance estimates that may be used to estimate the precision of the population rates and means shown in all tables. For a small number of variables, there was a large age gradient in rates; in these cases the information according to disability status is presented both as unadjusted and age-adjusted rates. For most variables, age adjustment made little difference compared to the unadjusted rates for the disability categories, and only unadjusted rates according to disability status are presented.
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A leader in the emerging field of personal health informatics, Goodwin recently received a $1 million grant from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative to turn parents into para-professionals, allowing them to collect research-grade data via easy-to-use, non-disruptive computer systems in the home.
Over the course of two years, Goodwin and his colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology will work with families in the Simons Foundations' Variation in Individuals Project, or VIP. The project aims to connect genetic mutations likely associated with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders with clinical and behavioral patient profiles.
With input from the VIP families, the researchers hope to first identify the most important types of behaviors to collect, then determine the best sensing systems to use. They will then deploy the system—first in the researchers' own homes with their own families, and then with 10 families with children with autism in Boston, Atlanta, and Providence, R.I. After that, they will repeat the process with 10 families in New York, Florida, and Los Angeles, gradually increasing the distance between families and researchers, and thus the amount of support the researchers will be able to provide.
The second year will be devoted to data analysis, Goodwin said. Through the use of cameras, audio recorders, and physiological sensors worn and operated by parents, the system will track a number of conditions, he said, including sleep, seizures, anxiety, sociability, language use, motor-muscle tone, and body temperature. In addition, the researchers will be looking at general affect and deviations from a child's typical behavior.
Assistant professor Matthew Goodwin has joint appointments in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences and the College of Computer and Information Science. Photo by Brooks Canaday.
The researchers have previously demonstrated that they can track these states through the use of digital devices, but, said Goodwin, "This is the first time we're going to do this with a total lay person."
While the data collected will provide important information for researchers attempting to connect behaviors to genetic, physiological, and environmental factors, it will also provide a valuable tool for families themselves. Clinicians can use the data to monitor the efficacy of various treatments and changes in an individual's condition over time.
Early diagnosis and treatment have been linked to improved patient outcomes, Goodwin said. But often, because of the complexity of the diagnostic protocol, cases go unnoticed or underappreciated for years. By providing a low-impact, easy-to-use system directly to parents and caregivers, he hopes to one day change that.


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7 week old needs to be held...what can i do? Please help me, need advive!!
My 7 week old daughter needs to be held by me all day long. Even if she falls asleep and i try to lay her down, she will wake up crying! I have a 4 year old, he needs me too and i cant cause of this! As much as i love her and love to hold e her,its not easy cause i need to get things done around the house also! Please help me, i need it!!
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Have your 4 year old help you by holding the baby or talking to them. I have a 7 week old and a 4 year old also. my son helps me by talking to her and I also get him to help me do things around the house. He sees it a hes helping mommy and his little sister. Well good luck!!posted 09/19/2007 by tink1027
my daughter is 7 weeks old and she does the same...as soon as i lie her down on her bed...she gets up and starts crying...maybe its our own fault...in the first few weeks...we are soo excited about the baby that we keep holding them for hours..once they get used to it..we get tired....a vibrating bouncer really helps...but try to let her cry for some time..once she realizes that you wont hold her...she would stop demanding it...but hold ur baby if she cries really badposted 10/28/2007 by benishch
I too have a high needs older child(3yrs) and a 7 wk old, and its heartbreaking to have to put my older ones needs aside for the baby. After all, your firstborn is adjusting to this new role, and the baby has needs too. Carry the baby in a sling or carrier as often as possible, and even if youre not "gettng any thing done", take the baby in the carrier with you on a walk with your older one. Its important for the eldest to see that just because youre holding the baby in a carrier, it doesnt mean that you still cant meet his needs too. This helps the older one to see the baby as a pleasant addition, not a rivalposted 09/30/2007 by diosa122
we had to threaten my MIL with no more visits if she didnt put our son down. he didnt crawl til 10mths due to not having enough time on the floor to learn. also sleeping was a big issue she would demand to nurse him while he slept, so we threatened no visits and he's been great since, from 1.5mths he's slept from 7pm til 7am every night, even when sick, and even when he did wake up he was easy to resettle or could settle himself. you need to make a habit of putting your baby down for a sleep, wrap them tightly, google baby wrapping if unsure, it keeps them immobile and they cant startle themselves awake with a wayward limb, they feel safe and snug and keeps them warm. and practice tough love, let them cry for a period of time, if they settle YAY. if not, they may need a fresh nappy/feed ect.posted 07/05/2012 by Paxi
i agree, my 7 week old demands to be held , but i have started swaddling her like they did at the hospital with a recieving blanket then i wrap her in a wamer baby blanket and so far so good just remember to make sure baby isnt too hot or too cold, after you wrap her try laying her down in her crib or in a reclining swing or vibrating seat...good luck, and also she is probably going through a growth spurt and thats why she wants that extra attentionposted 04/29/2008 by Jessie77
In all honesty, I can't speak from someone who knows what it's like to have 2 children at the same time. However, I feel that it's time for your 4yr old to learn a little more independence. I can totally understand why a 7wk old needs to be held all the time. Newborns should be given a lot of attention until their at least 3-4 months. I'd say keep your 4 years old at bay with activities and teach him that when he was 7 weeks old, he liked being held a lot and that. Call him a big boy and applaud his ability to do things on his own without your help. Entertain his independence. If he doesn't like it at first, he'll learn too.posted 09/17/2007 by HereWeGoAgain..
Please do not worry about spoiling or creating bad habits. It's impoosible at this young age. My son was the same way and I used a carrier or sling for the first several weeks. I would get housework done and even blow dry my hair and put on makeup and he would sleep right through it all. He would cry if I put him down by himself. Instead of getting frustrated I found a way to make him happy and secure which in turn made my life a lot easier.posted 04/29/2008 by Mo_Mo
i had the same problem. try carring him around in a bjorn or some infant carrier it works great for me.posted 09/07/2007 by aarontinaburke
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Robinson and McGuinness pay tribute to Sir Roy McNulty
First Minister Rt. Hon Peter D. Robinson MLA and deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness MP, MLA have paid tribute to Sir Roy McNulty, following his decision to step down in the near future as the Chair of Ilex Urban Regeneration Company.
~ Thursday, 15 September 2011
The First Minister highlighted the strong leadership, skills and experience brought to Ilex by Sir Roy, saying that: "Sir Roy has made a telling and lasting contribution to the economic, social and physical regeneration of the city, particularly through the opening of the new Peace Bridge linking the Waterside with the city centre and the publication of the 'One City, One Plan, One Voice' vision for its future. I thank him for the energy and commitment he has shown and wish him continued success."
The deputy First Minister reflected that as a citizen of the city, he was able to see the benefits to the community, of the efforts delivered under Sir Roy's leadership. He said: 'Sir Roy has played a key role in focussing the work of Ilex and using his experience to draw together and work with key stakeholders. Much has been achieved under his leadership including securing the award of City of Culture 2013, yet there is still a great deal of work to be done in fulfilling the vision for the city. He has left a great legacy and built solid foundations for others to build on. I thank him for his efforts."
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