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Saturday, June 26, 2010
Catching Up-And Crashes
21 comments:
Hey Susan try to look at the upside while I'm sure it looks bleak theres just got to be a light at the end of the tunnel, theres got to be.
- June 26, 2010 at 4:55 PM
- susan said...
I know. I got "Always Look on the Bright Side of LIfe" on my desktop. I just have to keep believing.
Thank you.
- June 26, 2010 at 4:57 PM
- Deputy's Wife said...
Oh, sweet girl, I am so sorry you're going through all this. I hope your days get better, quickly, and things turn around. I'm keeping you in my prayers!
- June 26, 2010 at 5:36 PM
Oh, Susan. *hugs* I am so sorry to hear that things have started to crash. Depression is an insidious beast, isn't it?
Is there anyone you can contact to have some help with things? Would a social service agency in your area help?
Unfortunately I can't do anything from out here in cyberspace other than offer hugs and loads of support.
Keep breathing and let Holly be there for you. You can get through this.
Supportive tailwags,
- June 26, 2010 at 8:44 PM
- PTSD, A Caregiver's Perspective said...
Ugh, I cannot even begin to comprehend. I don't know what to say that will throw you a lifeline of any kind :(
It is so bizarre how we all want to "save" our fellow man, and yet we are the least qualified to do so.
Makes me sad for you, and frustrates the crap out of me!
- June 26, 2010 at 10:25 PM
- misssrobin said...
I am glad you wrote. I hope you can keep writing. When I'm really depressed I have difficulty writing. But I know it helps clear some of the emotional toxins from my system.
I think blogging is a positive step. It is acknowledging where you are publicly. Letting people know where you are is almost as good as asking for help.
I'm sorry you are down again. Every time I feel a little better there is this nagging voice in the back of my mind that reminds me it's temporary. I hate that stupid little voice.
I will keep you in my heart and in my prayers. Feel free to email me if you need/want support.
- June 27, 2010 at 1:51 AM
- Marcie said...
I hope this is just a temporary downswing. The costs of these medicines are ridiculous...we spend $500 a month easy, and that's with pretty good insurance. I'm keeping you in my thoughts.
- June 27, 2010 at 3:32 AM
- Kristin said...
I know how hard it was to write this but I am so glad that you did - so that people like me can remind you that the depression WILL lift. Hold on.
Is there anyone that you can call? Some one to help you clean up? I do not think that you will be evicted but if you are worried, please call a friend to come and give you a hand to get the worst of it in order. You and your cat shouldn't be separated. How about your mom? Can she help?
You read Whitaker's book so you know that the diagnosis of schizophrenia is not a life sentence. You read that in other countries, where meds are not the first line of defense, people have episodes and recover.
Have you read about neuroplasticity of the brain?
I am rooting for you, Susan. I hope this episode passes soon. Keep writing. I think it keeps me focused and in touch - important aspects to a meaningful life.
xx kris
- June 27, 2010 at 9:38 AM
- Ana said...
Hi Susan,
I'm sorry I'm not coming to your blog.
Not even having time to read...
I need your help.
A friend of mine is in Japan and he is having some problems.
His psychiatrist has told him to go to a mental institution.
No. He is not suffering from some any problem that requires any measure like this.
He is suicidal and feels like this for a long time.
He will use the name Solstice.
And I told him about your blog and some of your posts.
I'm trying to show him how he has to be part of his recovery.
Same old in Japan... no therapy and medicines for anything.
The psychiatrist claims that if he stays one month at a mental institution it will be quicker...
Can you believe that?
The "quick-fix" in a mental institution...
Thank you Susan!
You are amazing and you are always on my mind.
- June 27, 2010 at 10:42 AM
- Andrew said...
Blessings Susan. I wish all the best for you.
- June 27, 2010 at 12:28 PM
- Laura said...
I am so sorry that you are not feeling well. I look at the title of your blog and think "that is what we all need to keep doing"
Let Holly comfort you and know that you are in my thoughts and look forward to you recovering from this episode.
Laura (USA)
- June 27, 2010 at 4:47 PM
- Ana said...
Thank you for going to my blog Susan.
I'm sorry I didn't read your post and came very quickly.
If I was next to you I would go to your house and clean up some dishes or do anything for you.
I know that in this periods the energy to do any of daily stuffs goes away and we need someone to be there not only to listen to know, no problems about the crying and "have have no meaning"..., I can hear that and give comfort, but also to make some of this stuffs.
I only can assure you that it will go away...
It will.
Remember the other periods and be sure of that.
You don't have to help anybody now.
take good care of yourself dear!
It's already quite a work.
Love you
- June 28, 2010 at 6:29 PM
- Radagast said...
Susan: First, there's no point to internalizing anything. Second, I don't see any value in killing yourself, or thinking of it. For anybody. Third, whatever it is that's troubling you, you're keeping it well hidden, because I can't see it.
I can't tell you to care - well, I can, but I can't make you care, which is more to the point. I can only tell you that in my experience, people tend not to care about themselves, when they perceive that nobody else cares about them (think about it: it's hard to think one matters, if everybody's treating one like shite, and so one gets drawn into everybody else's reality, and one begins to treat oneself like shite... unless one is wise to that particular pitfall).
So, I can tell you that you matter, right now. There, I just did. But does what I say carry sufficient weight with you to countermand your belief that you don't matter? If it doesn't, then why doesn't it, because quite frankly, my opinion is the only one that has any bearing, seeing as I raised the subject?
Where am I going with this? I don't know. You've got to learn to "complete the loop". Lindsay knows this, I'm sure of it. That's why she stopped talking: because it was too painful to try to resolve her stuff, only to be snubbed. You know that pain? When one thinks one has met somebody who'll talk to one, and the next thing one knows, the stuff that one has talked about is the subject of a massive joke at one's expense? Eventually, one stops trying - one internalizes.
I still don't know where I'm going with this. So, I'll loop back to the beginning. There is no point in internalizing anything - it might benefit others, but it's causing you harm. This is my talent, you see? It doesn't matter what you say, I'll find some way of moving the subject on.
- June 28, 2010 at 7:30 PM
- Syd said...
I hope that things begin to get better too. There is always hope. I am wishing that some will fill you up right now.
- June 30, 2010 at 1:22 PM
- Hannah said...
i'm really sorry to hear you've hit this low. Keep writing and tinkling away on here. it's easy to feel really alone when you feel this way, but at least with blog, you are in a way reaching out to people. That's how i'm viewing my low period at moment and writing.
H xx
- June 30, 2010 at 1:23 PM
I am with you in spirit.
Struggling with you.
Trying to be courageous with you
Trying to contemplate the value of life with you.
Not caring with you.
Having little energy to take care of myself or my doggy...with you.
Waking up alienated with you.
Trying to participate in the act of being alive and breathing with you.
Hiding from the world under the covers with you.
We are all with you at this moment...
as you have been there with us...
telling our stories
through your pen.
with you...
we are
- June 30, 2010 at 6:05 PM
- Kristin said...
How are you doing? Let us know.
xx kris
- July 1, 2010 at 10:31 AM
- Kristin said...
Still checking in, Susan.
Hope you are okay.
xx kris
- July 5, 2010 at 9:16 AM
- Wendy said...
Susan - KEEP GOING - while you are going through Hell!!! Love you girl.
- July 5, 2010 at 12:09 PM
- journey2balance said...
I have been so out of blog land loop... have not written or read much. But I do hope that the upside will start showing itself to you soon!!! Boo for the "downside!"
- July 6, 2010 at 5:25 PM
- Lisa said...
I've been in a similar place. One of human suffering, am sorry you have been feeling so crap. :( I remember times that I thought of my kids, or people who loved me - thinking, ok, i don't want them to feel loss or grief, I don't want them to suffer. I decided to live for them - until I could do it for myself. This is going to pass for you - I hope really soon ((((()))))
- July 12, 2010 at 2:48 AM


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Hotel Transylvania 3 marks my transition into feature film work. I had a total blast working on this project and got to flex some serious cartoony animation muscles. I also got to sculpt tons of special blendshapes, using proprietary tools, in order to get those specific shapes and silhouettes that set the movie apart.
(2015-2017) Rooster Teeth
I was fortunate enough to work on RWBY seasons 3, 4, and 5 as well as the Yang and Blake character shorts during my time at Rooster Teeth. RWBY follows the story of four huntresses and their awesome adventure against the creatures of Grimm and a huge roster of villains that are out to get them. During RWBY3 I mostly focused on acting and dialogue heavy scenes, which relies heavily on mocap. After RWBY4, I leveled up to working on intense action and fighting sequences which is mostly all hand-keyed. It's been a blast to hone different animation skills during this huge project!
Skills: hand-keyed animation, mocap performance, mocap clean upSoftware: Maya (RWBY4, RWBY5, Yang and Blake character shorts), Poser (RWBY3)
(2016) Rooster Teeth
RWBY Chibi is a spin-off show based on Rooster Teeth's RWBY. It's based on non-canon jokes and a cartoony and exaggerated animation style.
This show has been so collaborative and open-ended, that my role as an animator has been a bit different than usual. I take the script and cut together all the dialogue to create interesting timing and flow. Then I'll sketch out some quick boards just to show the director how I've approached the script I was tasked with. The funnest part of this process is that I get to add an extra layer of visual gags and character that I wouldn't normally get the freedom to do!
(2015) Personal Project
"Yoga Skeleton" was a project I tackled when I took AnimSchool's Body Acting class. I focused on making the funniest piece I could, only using physical humor and interesting timing. I also pushed myself to think of interesting transitions between key poses which I think made this project stand out from other work I had done in the past.My main goal with this was to have fun and learn a lot about a more cartoony animation style!
(2015) Ringling College of Art and Design
Stellar Moves: The Story of Pluto is my senior short film, produced at Ringling College of Art and Design. I collaborated with Tabia McCarty and Valerie Sattazahn to create this huge film that involved nine dancing planets (and a cute little moon!)
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The Talent Management Consultant implements the plans, programs, and agenda within Learning and Capabilities Development area of the Talent Management Center of Excellence for all Associates. The Consultant demonstrates a primary focus on the Learner Experience and ensures alignment to the CHRISTUS Health Cultural Attributes in all programing. The Talent Management Consultant partners with business leaders and HR strategic partners to determine learning needs, develop learning programs, and demonstrate current program effectiveness through a consistent application of the overarching learning philosophy. The consultant will design, update, and implement in-house, and vendor-provided programs using a variety of delivery methods; including but not limited to classroom, individual, self-paced, and computer-based training.
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Movies the version we eventually get to see usually tends to be rather different from their original screenplays. Many scenes from the movie are cut during the editing process after they are filmed. These deleted scenes usually make their way into extended editions of the movies or special segments in the DVDs. The reasons for the deleted scenes are often justified, whether it's due to length of the movie, the scenes not fitting into the film or last-minute story changes. But not always. Some deleted scenes would have actually made the movie better. Here is a list of deleted scenes that should have made it to the final cut.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
After years of living with the Dursleys, Harry finally parts his way with them. In this scene, we see Dudley being nice to Harry and finally showing that he doesn't share his father's contempt of his cousin. And although it's just one sentence, it's a very touching moment.
The Wolverine
Wolverine's iconic costume from the comic books never made its way to the big screen. Well, except for a deleted scene that was supposed to be at the end of The Wolverine. Seeing the look on his face, we are pretty certain Logan wouldn't be caught dead wearing the yellow spandex costume.
Suicide Squad
Many scenes ended up being cut from Suicide Squad to make the movie less dark and serious. Of all the deleted scenes that would have surely made Suicide Squad a more fun watch would be the ones with Joker, which, according to Jared Leto, are enough to be made into a separate movie.
Whether or not Zack Snyder did complete justice to Alan Moore's comic remains debatable, but this was a spectacular movie on its own. One of the deleted scenes has the aging Hollis Mason get in one last fight before his death that was cut from the final movie. Seeing him fight back makes his death all the more emotional.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
A scene towards the end of the movie, which would have aptly set up a third movie in the rebooted Spider-Man franchise was cut out after Andrew Garfield was fired by Sony. That's not to say The Amazing Spider-Man 2 wouldn't have been better if we got to see that Peter Parker's dad was alive, quoting the famous "With great power comes great responsibility" line.
X-Men Apocalypse
There are several deleted scenes from X-Men Apocalypse that fans would have loved, but this is a monumental moment when Beast gives Scott Summers the visor to control his powers. The deleted scene should have definitely been included in the movie as this is when Cyclops is born.
Which deleted scene was your favorite? Do you have any more that we missed out? Let us know in the comments below.


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CHADIS Research and Development
May 2018
April 2018
MGH Poster, Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference, April 2018Monnin, K., Wildman, B., Howard, B., Sturner, R., Vullo, G., Langkamp, D.Relationship Between Parent Satisfaction with Their Child's Physician, and Parent Reports on Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) MeasureSociety of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference, April 2018
August 2017
Study featured in the Journal of Autism and Developmental DisordersAccurate Autism Screening at the 18-Month Well-Child Visit Requires Different Strategies than at 24 MonthsRaymond Sturner · Barbara Howard · Paul Bergmann · Tanya Morrel · Rebecca Landa · Kejuana Walton · Danielle MarkJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, () 1-15; DOI: 10.1007/s10803-017-3231-0
July 2017
Study featured in the Journal of Autism and Developmental DisordersComparison of Autism Screening in Younger and Older Toddlers Raymond Sturner, Barbara Howard, Paul Bergmann, Lydia Stewart, Talin E. Afarian Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, (), 1-9; DOI: 10.1007/s10803-017-3230-1
May 2017 - Pediatric Academic Society Conference and IMFAR Presentations
Sturner, R., Howard, B., Bergmann, P., Bet, K., Stewart, L., Williams, R.Autism Screening at the 18-month Visit – Dimensional vs. Categorical Approaches of Alternative Tools,
Pediatric Academic Societies, May 2017.
Howard, B., Sturner, R. A., Vullo, G., Berger, M. Bergmann, P,Uncovering Persistent Asthma In Child Health Supervision Visits.
Pediatric Academic Societies. May 2017
Kulandaivel, G., Vullo, G., Howard, B., Sturner, R. A., Sturner, R.Parent Report of Perceived Barriers to Adherence to Asthma Medication
Pediatric Academic Societies. May 2017
Stewart, LA., Sturner, R. Howard, B.Improving ASD Screening in Primary Care through Physician-led Quality Improvement.
IMFAR, May 2017
Glover, R., Sturner, R., Howard, B., Barry, T.,Perceptions of the Parenting Experience Among Caregivers of Toddlers: Comparison of ASD Risk and Non-Risk Groups.
IMFAR, May 2017
January 3, 2017
Study to be featured in the next issue of World Biomedical Frontiers because of its innovation and potential for significant impact.Autism Screening With Online Decision Support by Primary Care Pediatricians Aided by M-CHAT/FRaymond Sturner, Barbara Howard, Paul Bergmann, Tanya Morrel, Lindsay Andon, Danielle Marks, Patricia Rao, Rebecca Landa Pediatrics Aug 2016, e20153036; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2015-3036
December 2016
CHADIS receives NICHD award aimed at reduction of child maltreatment and addressing family stress. A unique family stress "patient specific template" has been created for this purposes and is being further refined through clinical simulations with primary care pediatricians and feedback from a diverse group of parents. This module will be studied further in a large scale cluster randomized trial. Interested practices should contact Dr. Barbara Howard at firstname.lastname@example.com Click to view Family Stress Grant Summary.
CHADIS American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) Portfolio Sponsor status renewed for the Maintenance of Certification (MOC-4) program. CHADIS is unique in matching patient generated data with prompted clinician decision making so chart reviews are not needed. Portfolio Sponsors are programs recognized as having demonstrated success in creating approved quality improvement processes for formal re-certification of specialty status and are able to create their own programs on behalf of the ABP. CHADIS offers MOC-4 for the following areas: Autism Screening; Developmental Screening; Asthma; ADHD; and Family Stress.
CHADIS has been developed with the assistance of grant funding from a number of agencies and sponsors. Drs. Sturner and Howard have acted as principal investigators with the assistance of the CHADIS research staff and many other professional collaborators. These grants include support from the following granting agencies: The Abell Foundation, the Wilson Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, The Erickson Foundation, The Cisco Foundation, The State of Maryland, and the Maternal Child Health Bureau and the National Institutes of Mental Health. In addition, eleven SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) awards were given for purposes of CHADIS research and development through Total Child Health, including six from the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) and two from the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD), two from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and one from the Center for Disease Control (CDC). In addition, we have completed subcontracts aimed at developing modules for CHADIS as co-investigators with support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Agency (SAMSHA).
Recent Publications:
Recent Posters Presented (September 2016)
Posters Presented at The Society for Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics Conference 2016
A Child's Perceived Strengths and Challenges
The "Best and Hardest Parts" of Parenting
Current Research Projects (March, 2016):
Autism is prevalent (1 in 50 children) and impairing, but early intervention has been shown to improve outcomes prompting recommendations for screening at both two year and 18-month health check-ups. Detection of autism early is crucial, but accurate screening tools have been elusive. In Phase II, a practical method of improving the accuracy of M-CHAT, the most widely used autism screen, was created by adapting the validated and recommended follow up interview, M-CHAT F/Ui (F/U), for efficient use during the visit. In the case of a positive screen, the primary care provider (PCP) can use CHADIS, a web-based questionnaire delivery, decision support and post-visit engagement system, to conduct F/U rather than requiring a visit with another professional. Phase II data showed F/U results by a PCP were equivalent to the autism center. Phase II data on the M-CHAT plus F/U via CHADIS replicated findings of the F/U authors in showing both excellent positive predictive value (PPV) 0.96 for children >20 months (thus effective for 24 month olds) and also low PPV 0.54 for <20 months. Promisingly, Phase II exploratory analyses using a decision tree including supplementary data from a routinely used standard language screen (ASQ communication scale) and an item from a language measure (MCDI) plus the standard autism screen (M-CHAT plus F/U) reached PPV of 0.95 in the <20-month group. This screen completion could be done efficiently online by parents. Phase 2B plans a replication of this screening procedure which promises to be accurate for 18 month olds and comparison to alternatives using the community network of >400 Maryland doctors where >22,000 autism screens have been done using the CHADIS system.
A more accurate screening test is of less value if it is not universally used. In Phase II an approach was developed that reduces disparities in access to screening using a "talking" tablet kiosk that was preferred by parents to alternatives, but further workflow issues will be addressed in Phase 2B. To improve screen completion we will program an automated reminder/completion confirmation text/email system in CHADIS with coupons as incentives for parents. In Phase II CHADIS was adapted to capture both patient input and doctor decision-making and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) accreditation was awarded by the American Board of Pediatrics for this program and earned by 140 pediatricians. This monthly doctor quality improvement program will be extended to a daily continuous quality improvement process for the whole office team to further assure patient participation in screening while providing other clinical and financial analytics of value to the office. The Phase 2B goal is to develop and test an innovative "screening system" not just a new test.
Notes: Data collection is underway within a network of Maryland pediatric practices. In addition to the replication of earlier work, item sets are being evaluated from collaborators from Cambridge University, England led by Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen, Brock University, Canada led by Dr. Maurice Feldman, and the University of North Carolina, U.S. A., led by Dr. Linda Watson.
Web System for Engaging Families and Doctors in Continuous Asthma Quality Improvement
Asthma affects 8% of US children and is a leading cause of ED visits, hospitalization, missed school, suffering, and death. It disproportionately affects low-income minorities. This proposal seeks to overcome health care delivery barriers to implementation of national asthma guidelines – both clinician failure to provide guideline-based care and patient adherence when appropriate treatments are offered. This project will develop and then test the effectiveness of an innovative web-based decision support system (CHADIS) to support teaming doctors and patients in parallel processes of continuous quality improvement of asthma care for doctors and engagement of parents and children in their own care. CHADIS engages parents in completing pre-visit questionnaires, which trigger patient-specific decision support for doctors for use in the visit. Patients will complete the Pediatric Asthma Control & Communication Instrument (PACCI ), a questionnaire of asthma symptoms recently validated across a range of demographics by one of the co-investigators, online via CHADIS pre-visit and between visits. Doctor interaction with CHADIS decision support during the visit results in both documentation for recertification credit and triggering of individualized parent education to appear in an enticing website for each child called the MemoryBook Care Portal. Patient adherence is addressed through Problem Solving Counseling by the clinician prompted by the pre-visit data on symptoms and barriers. Patients also are provided tailored default messages and alerts in the Care Portal which can also be monitored by a remote coach. Monitoring of asthma symptoms between visits is expected and CHADIS uses multiple forms of automated communication (texting, email, phone) to prompt completion of the PACCI. In addition, parents are encouraged to do questionnaires through multimodal reinforcements including: the MemoryBook, coupons for free products and "gamification" i.e. entertaining videos and quiz games for individualized patient education. In Phase I the system is built with professional and patient feedback and piloting and presented to medical specialty boards for formal QI MOC certification. In Phase II the system is further refined and then tested for effectiveness in improving asthma control by a large intervention study using a cluster randomized control design. The Phase III product will have market value as it improves and documents care for Quality Improvement, Maintenance of Certification credit, meaningful use, clinical quality measurement, pay for performance and Medical Home efforts.
Notes: Dr. Sande Okelo, pediatric pulmonologist at UCLA and author of the PACCI is a co-investigator. 22 pediatric practices representing all regions of the country are now enrolled in the intervention studies.
A Tool for Supporting and Monitoring Decision Making in ADHD
This proposal is to complete and validate a new web-based tool to assist in the screening, diagnosis, and management of mental health disorders (focusing here on ADHD), quality improvement (QI) documentation and efficient large-scale research. CHADIS is a screening, assessment and decision support system delivering tools online for the care of health, development, and mental health conditions including ADHD. CHADIS provides online questionnaires for parents, teens, and teachers to complete prior to a visit. These are automatically scored to yield conclusions on a worksheet linked to electronic chapters of clinician guidance and myriad resources for families which become handouts. Clinical data is shared securely among professionals, also forming a de-identified research database. This proposal is to adapt CHADIS tools to optimize use for ADHD care, QI and research. Proper care of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), a common treatable mental health condition, calls for accurate diagnosis, assessment for comorbidity and multiple observer inputs. Among CHADIS' tools is a comprehensive previsit parent questionnaire (CHADIS-DSM) for assessing child mental health problems based on the logic of both DSM-IV and DSM-PC and producing provisional DSM diagnoses. While pilot data on CHADIS DSM is encouraging, additional validation focusing on ADHD and its comorbidities is needed. This project also proposes creating case-specific templates (CST) within CHADIS to receive the responses from all previsit parent, teen or teacher questionnaires to provide specific guidance to clinicians. CSTs will provide the clinician with evidence-based prompts, e.g. symptoms to explore, suggested wording for questions, menus of observations from which to select, and related text to help further confirm, refute or change the presumptive conclusions from parent/teen data. CST use will document evidence of diagnostic criteria, diagnose more accurately, improve care, and compile a research database. This study will validate CHADIS-DSM for ADHD and its comorbidities and assess the impact of CSTs on the accuracy of diagnoses. 1100 4-12 year olds presenting for care in 2 existing CHADIS practice networks will be screened. Those 300 seeking care for behavior problems, and all positive among 800 coming for well visits plus a random sample of those negative will complete comparison and gold standard criterion measures. Pediatricians are required to conduct a QI effort in use of evidence-based practices in order to maintain professional certification through the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP). ABP approved QI programs require chart audits for documentation of approved care, difficult for practices to implement. Another product of this proposal is making CHADIS the first system for pediatric care that collects both patient data and clinician responses thus providing automated documentation of care for QI accreditation. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), a disorder affecting 4-12% of children, is mainly diagnosed and managed by primary care physicians yet evidence-based guidelines and optimized outcomes are generally not achieved. The American Board of Pediatrics is striving to improve all pediatric care by requiring Quality Improvement (QI) activities but the recertification process is onerous. This proposal is to complete and validate additions to CHADIS, an innovative web-based system for healthcare that delivers pre-visit questionnaires online and presents results to the clinician linked to decision support and helpful resource listings, in order to overcome obstacles to implementation of QI, in this case for ADHD, by guiding and documenting clinicians' responses to parent input, to increase evidence-based care and to create a tool facilitating large-scale research projects.
Notes: In addition to the above plan, in order to better adhere to AAP guidelines for identifying parent goals for care and the CHADIS emphasis on evidence-based shared decision-making early in the project data was collected from 441 parents prior to ADHD visits regarding their goals for the visit as part of a process to develop a new goal setting questionnaire (article below). This questionnaire is now one of a series of measures that are being used to trigger clinician decision support and options for guidance messages for families which can be printed or provided through the CHADIS Memorybook Care portal, a secure webpage for each child.
McGoron, L., Sturner, R., Howard, B., Barry, T. D., Seymour, K. Tomeny, T. S., Morrel, T., Ellis, B. M., Marks, D., Parents' Goals for ADHD Care in a Clinical Pediatric Sample., Clinical Pediatrics 53, 10, 949-959., 2014
"CHADIS has been a great timesaver and has improved the quality of the care that I deliver in the office. I used to have a large stack of paper on my desk, of questionnaires and surveys, that needed to be scored and evaluated. With CHADIS that paper has all disappeared because the parents complete those surveys and the scoring is done automatically and is imported into Office Practicum. That benefit in and of itself is worth the investment."
"Getting CHADIS is definitely worthwhile. If you were to take each of those questionnaires and buy them individually, at an online pre-visit basis, the cost is actually cheaper through CHADIS."
"My short time experience with CHADIS integrated has been great! It's a product that actually does what it says it will do! I am really liking this product! The discrete data elements and the ease of use have made the transition rather painless."
"We have been using CHADIS for 5 years. The recent interface between Allscripts Pro and CHADIS has had a positive impact on our clinic, for the questionnaires that are supported. Prior to the interface, almost 100% of our questionnaires were completed in the office. Now we are seeing an increasing percentage of questionnaires being completed at home. We find it is fairly seamless now. [This is a] significant savings of work and time…"
"Dr. Lindgren's patients access a cool web tool, called CHADIS, that allows them to help him screen for all kinds of conditions including developmental delays, behavioral issues, or even learning problems. You see, this doc is big into prevention. But it's hard to get the info he needs in a regular office visit since parents often have their hands full with a sick child. Now his patients can be way ahead of the game and parents love it."
CHADIS has been a really great resource for my practice. With CHADIS, I have access to a comprehensive list of screening and assessment tools. I can use the tools to accomplish multiple goals, including early screening and intervention. As a physician, I know that early intervention DOES WORK!
Treehouse Pediatrics has used Chadis as a part of its day to day operations for the past couple of years. We have found it to be a tremendous asset in our operational efficiencies. Parents appreciate the convenience of completing their child's developmental, ADHD, and asthma questionnaires at home, and it has proven to help make all of our visits requiring questionnaires run more smoothly. Furthermore, we appreciate the interpretation and documentation that Chadis provides for these questionnaires. We feel that Chadis has become an integral part of our operational efficiencies. We do not know what we would do without it.
"I just wanted to say thank you for such a wonderful opportunity…so so helpful for me to better understand my patient, and to have ideas on where to go next. So thank you so much for a really incredible opportunity to be part of CHADIS."


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The supply of a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is expected to start before March next year, according to a recently published news report. Latest News from World News Desk
The report cited unidentified officials saying the pipeline would be used to transport imported LNG from Karachi to Punjab province.
The energy agreement was signed during the day-long visit of Sergei Shoigu last month, the first visit by a Russian Defence Minister to Pakistan in 45 years. The last visit to Pakistan was made by Soviet Union's defence minister Andrey Grechko.
During Shoigu's visit, Islamabad and Moscow also inked a defence and military cooperation deal.
It is the first time Pakistan and Russia have signed an energy pact decades after the recent deal to increase military cooperation.
Pakistan, over the past few years, has carefully courted Russia to boost bilateral relations. Its former army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani visited Russia in 2009 and 2012.
Earlier this year, Russia lifted arms sales embargo to Pakistan, and a "final go ahead" was given for the purchase of Russian MI-35 helicopter gunships.
Pakistan is currently working on two LNG pipelines as an alternative to the apparently doomed Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project, which included LNG Gwadar pipeline and south pipeline from Karachi to Lahore.
The government has signed a deal with China to award USD 3 billion Gwader LNG pipeline and terminal project.
Russia has helped Pakistan set up the Karachi Steel Mills and also supported the Oil and Gas Development Company Limited, which is still using old Russian machinery in exploring oil and gas.
The paper also reported that Pakistan has offered China and Russia to lay IP gas pipeline but both the countries had backed out due to sanctions imposed against Iran.
The supply of a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is expected to start before March next year, according to a recently published news report.
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For military personnel, vision loss can be defined as the absence of vision where it existed before, which can happen either acutely (i.e., abruptly) or chronically (i.e., over a long period of time). Before the acquisition of alternative adaptations and skills, the effects of visual loss can be devastating, especially when a person's vision disappears over a short period of time. Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision and vision loss based on visual acuity, and early editions of the World Health Organization's ICD (International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems) described a simple distinction between "legally sighted" and "legally blind."
However, the ICD-9 released in 1979 introduced the smallest continuous scale which consisted of three tiers: normal vision, low vision, and blindness.
Anyone with non-correctable, reduced vision is considered to be visually impaired. The World Health Organization uses the following classifications of visual impairment:
When the vision in the better eye with best possible glasses correction is:
- 20/30 to 20/60 is considered mild vision loss, or near-normal vision
- 20/70 to 20/160 is considered moderate visual impairment, or moderate low vision
Legal blindness:
- 20/200 to 20/400 is considered severe visual impairment, or severe low vision
- 20/500 to 20/1,000 is considered profound visual impairment, or profound low vision
- less than 20/1,000 is considered near-total visual impairment, or near total blindness
- No Light Perception is considered total visual impairment, or total blindness
There are also levels of visual impairment based on visual field loss (loss of peripheral vision). In the United States, any person with vision that cannot be corrected to better than 20/200 in the best eye, or who has 20 degrees (diameter) or less of visual field remaining, is considered to be "legally blind" or eligible for disability classification and possible inclusion in certain government-sponsored programs.
It is critical that persons suffering vision loss be examined by an optometrist or ophthalmologist specializing in low vision care prior to other rehabilitation training to rule out potential medical or surgical correction for the problem and to establish a careful baseline refraction and prescription of both normal and low-vision glasses and optical aids. Only a qualified physician can evaluate visual functioning of a compromised visual system effectively.


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Renault has chosen the 2005 Geneva Show to take the wraps off its latest concept car, Zoé, a diminutive upper-range urban vehicle which places the accent on genuine motoring pleasure. In response to the public's demand for compact, appealing, dynamic models, Zoé features a blend of clear-cut lines and rounded forms. Meanwhile, its luxurious, functional interior puts its innovative asymmetry to maximum effect to reveal a true three-seat layout and voluminous boot. Another Zoé innovation is its 'Pass' system which will automatically adjust interior ambience to match individual driver tastes. One click will modify the choice of music, settings and overall atmosphere.
A mere 3.45 m in length, Zoé is both practical and functional with innovative opening panels thought through for urban use, including kinematics engineered to facilitate access and loading, especially in situations where space is at a premium. The motorized passenger door features a two-hinge, three-axis opening system that offers extremely easy access. The travel of the door itself can be selected according to whether access to both the front and rear seats, or just the front seat is required. In this way, the space taken up by the door when open is kept to a strict minimum. Meanwhile, the glazed lateral part of the roof lifts up the instant one of the doors is opened. The hatch is raised by a twin opening system, with the rear window and tailgate sliding into each other to keep overall height to a minimum when open while at the same time providing easy access. A further practical feature concerns the rear left quarterlight which can be lowered so small items can be placed on the rear parcel shelf or in the boot.
Zoé's interior is exceptionally spacious for such a small vehicle. Its modular three-seat layout makes a number of combinations possible. A starfish-like switch located on the side of the driver's seat makes it possible to arrange the cabin layout in one of three pre-set arrangements to optimise the way interior space is used. The replacement of the 'fourth seat' by space for baggage allows the luggage of three people to fit comfortably inside the boot. The sliding front passenger seat and reclining seat back combine to form a platform for the transport of bulky loads. Special attention has been paid to ergonomics and comfort. The rear of the front right seat features a built-in footrest, while the rear seat can be likened more in fact to a comfy armchair in which the passenger can literally snuggle up. No preference has been given to any one occupant since all three seats offer the same level of comfort, while the cabin comes with numerous discreet storage bins that allow valuables to be concealed.
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From the case: Globe (illustration)
From the case: Globe (illustration)
contributed by A.Prof Frank Gaillard on July 06, 2008
System: Central Nervous System
Section: Signs
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Description: This is a gorgeous piece of furniture. 1960's dresser with orignal hardware. Freshly painted black and slightly distressed. The top three drawers are slightly more narrow than the bottom two. The dimensions are (L) 28 1/2" x (W) 15" x (H) 45".
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Retro 1960's Dresser
***SOLD ---- Thanks, Lori!***
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Friday, August 14, 2009
Black Headboard
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Description: Very unique full size headboard. Freshly painted black and slightly distressed. Dimensions are (L) 61 1/2" x (H) 42".
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Black Vintage Table(s)
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Description: Great things come in two's. I have two of these fabulous tables! Can be bought individually or together. Would look great as an end table, small coffee table, or put them together for one large coffee table. Freshly painted black and slightly distressed for a vintage look. Dimensions are (L) 29" x (W) 23" x (H) 18".
Price: (one table) $35
(two tables) $60
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University Health Services (UHS) will be giving the H1N1 vaccine to students, staff, faculty, and their family members that fall into one of the categories below:
• Healthy individuals age 16 - 24 (UHS cannot do pediatric medicine)
• Pregnant Women
• Immune compromised
• Emergency Workers
• Caregivers of children under 6 months of age
The vaccinations are free. However, one must escort their family member who is eligible for the vaccine to UHS and present their UMBC ID card. Anyone without a UMBC ID card or card-carrying family member present with them will not be eligible to receive the vaccine.
The vaccinations are by appointment only. Phone calls for appointments will be accepted starting Monday, November 9, 2009.
For questions or to make an appointment, please call University Health Services starting Monday, November 9th at 410-455-2542 and press "1" at the voice prompt.
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A Day In The Life: October 2011
It's time to post the link to your album, blog post, or collection of photos for A Day In The Life : 22nd October 2011! (Aussie's would have well and truly finished taking their photos by now, but our friends on the other side of the world might still be playing).
How did you go? Whether you planned something special, or just took the day to chill out – it's always alot of fun to take some time out to take photographs to remember what you did and to also note your own photography style & skills at the time.
Here was my favourite of the day – we had a 'regular' Saturday which is always awesome!
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The formation of Lipton Rogers Developments reunited the co-founders of Stanhope, Sir Stuart Lipton and Peter Rogers. Their unparalleled creative and delivery capabilities have been the driving force behind many of the major iconic developments in London for over thirty years. Lipton Rogers needed a website that would showcase their impressive portfolio of work and showcase their creative solutions.
TGHP designed and built the site including a custom intro animation using wordpress as a platform but heavily customising the backend content management system to allow easy updating of content going forward.


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I've always found the Chinese very eager to unearth historical precedents to validate whatever it is they want to say or do. The most jaw-dropping example I can recall would have been in around 1993, when the venerable old Shanghai newspaper Xinmin Wanbao ran an article proving that the native population of the Americas was descended from refugees from the defeated Yin dynasty who arrived in the New World in the 11th century BC while fleeing their Zhou-dynasty conquerors. The evidence was that the name "Indian", which European settlers gave them, was in fact a mishearing of the local greeting - Yin di an 殷地安 - which meant "the Lands of the Yin are at peace". There's just one tiny problem with that abortive territorial claim over the USA: it's obviously b*llocks.
Where was I? Ah, yes, Peter Foster in the Telegraph yesterday did a piece on China's rediscovery of polo, the nouveau riche there apparently having realised that ponies can soak up the money they've made through dodgy political contacts and by the sweat of the proletariat like nothing else on earth. (The joyously named Beijing Sunny Times Polo Club is asking £15,000 for a year's membership, if you're interested in hanging out with women who look like Imelda Marcos and capitalists who make the man on the Monopoly box look like Che Guevara.)
Like all the other stories on polo in China that have run over the past seven years since the sport began to take off, this one too repeats the claim that the Chinese have been playing polo for 1,800 years. So, I did a bit of digging to try to uncover the source for this, and the evidence turns out to be a bit thin. Yes, there's solid evidence in the form of a tomb mural from the early 8th century AD that the aristocracy of the Tang dynasty played a game involving riding horses while hitting a ball with a stick, though it does seem to have been as much a test of martial skill (historical titbit: Tang dynasty = horsemanship + chubby women) as a way for fabulously rich people to show off.
But that's several centuries later than the date claimed. For the Han dynasty, 1,800 years ago, the evidence is circumstantial, and comes from an article written by a historian of sport named Tang Hao (1887-1959). According to Tang Hao, a poet named Cai Fu 蔡孚 who was writing in the 740s makes a reference in a poem to a sport like polo being played in the Eastern Han dynasty, more than 500 years earlier. Also, in 1979 a thingy that could kind of pass as a ball was discovered during the excavation of a Han-dynasty beacon tower in Gansu province, but that's obviously not proof that people were playing polo there while waiting for the Xiongnu to invade.
Where was I again? Oh, yes - sickeningly rich Chinese businessmen and their wives, the Empress Dowager Cixis of our time, might point to history to justify their displays of tasteless wealth, but they'll still be first up against the wall when the Communists ride into town. Oh, hang on...


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In the past year alone*, 426 road incidents have been reported to The British Horse Society (BHS), resulting in the death of one person and 21 horses.
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BHS extends their congratulations to representatives at Greater Manchester Police Mounted Branch, as police horses Hexam, Captain and Tangle were awarded 'Public Service Animals of the Year' at the Animal Hero Awards 2016.
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According to Drugs.com, garcinia cambogia is taken orally, and it can be found in capsule or tablet form. The maximum daily dose is 1,500 milligrams.
Drugs.com explains that research supports claims that garcinia cambogia is beneficial for promoting weight loss and lipid-lowering activity; however, there have not been a high number of trials performed on the supplement. The main medicinal component in garcinia cambogia is HCA, which is said to inhibit the conversion of glucose into fatty acids.
WebMD describes it as being potentially safe for use with no known long-term side effects. However, it is known to cause nausea, digestive tract discomfort and headaches. Because few studies have been done on the plant, it is not recommended for pregnant or breastfeeding women.
K. Aleisha Fetters of Women's Health reports that a fraudulent publisher used the Women's Health brand as part of scam targeting dieters using garcinia cambogia in 2013. Although the fruit itself is healthy, studies found that high doses of the rind caused testicular atrophy and toxicity among mice. Diet pills containing the compound have failed laboratory testing, but because it is classified as a supplement, the FDA does not oversee industry regulations. Fetters points out that even if garcinia cambogia's rind is safe to consume, nothing is preventing diet pill manufacturers from combining it with more harmful substances.
According to Fetters, garcinia cambogia gets its reputation as a weight loss supplement because of the high doses of hydroxycitric acid found in its rind, which is supposedly responsible for decreasing appetite and preventing the body from storing fat.
WebMD states that while research suggests garcinia cambogia may prevent fat storage and aid in appetite control, there is insufficient evidence these effects occur in humans.


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Daley Thompson was born Francis Morgan Thompson on 30th July,1958 in Notting Hill, London, the son of a Nigerian father and Scottish mother. Daley was a very active child with boundless energy and a high level of intelligence. He attended boarding school in Sussex and it was here that his love for sport first became apparent.
In 1974 ,at the age of 16, Daley won the Sussex Schools 200 metres , and the following year,just before his 17th birthday, won his first decathlon in Cwmbran, Wales. Thompson's score of 6,685 points was a British junior record, and in that same year, 1975, he qualified for the British Olympic team.
In 1976 he won the AAAs Senior Championship and was selected for the Olympic Games in Montreal, where he celebrated his 18th birthday and finished 18th. From then on his career as a Decathlete went from strength to strength.
He won the European Junior Championships in 1977 .
In 1978 Daley won the Gold Medal at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada,and finished 2nd at the European championships.
He would not lose another decathlon for Nine years !!!
In 1980, after setting a World Record in May with 8,622 points, Thompson dominated the competition at the Olympics in Moscow to win the first of his gold medals.Daley attracted publicity for his colourful personality as well as for his athletic prowess and became one of the biggest sports personalities in the world. His increased success brought lucrative endorsements and sponsorship contracts with the likes of Adidas and Lucozade.
The next four years were very busy for Daley. In 1982 he broke his own world record twice, winning the European Championships in Athens,and the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. In 1983 he struck gold again at the 1st World Championship, held in Helsinki.
At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Thompson successfully defended his title, equaling the achievement of the American Bob Mathias, who won Olympic decathlon gold medals in 1948 and 1952. Although Thompson's total of 8,797 points fell one point short of the world record, when the scoring tables for the decathlon were adjusted in 1985, his Olympic point total was changed to 8,847 and he was awarded the world record.
In 1986 he won both the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and the European Championships in Stuttgart.
One year later, in 1987, Daley was to defend his World Title at the 2nd IAAF World Championships, in Rome ,but hasn't been able to compete for several months,due to injuries, and finished 4th (still).
Having been plagued by injury for some time, Daley still managed to achieve a respectable 4th place at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games.
In July 1992 ,in an effort to qualify for the Barcelona Olympics,Daley ended his first and last ever decathlon in England before finishing the first event,and pulled out with a knee injury
He then decided to put an end to his impressive career as a decathlete.
During his career as a Decathlete, Daley broke the world record four times, the only athlete to do so. He also held the Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth titles, as well as the world record, at the same time. It is unlikely his feat will ever be equalled.
Today, Daley is a family man with a wife and three young children, living in London. He keeps fit by playing football and has been associated with Wimbledon, Leicester, Reading and Mansfield Town over the past few years.
He is making a name for himself as a television personality, having been a presenter on The Week-end Show on BBC 1, a team captain on The Olympic Game and a member of the BBC commentary team for all major athletic events including the Olympics. Recently he was voted The Greatest by view-ers of Channel 4 in a series of programmes devised to decide who was the best British Sportsman of the 20th Century.
The British two-time Olympic decathlon champion Daley Thompson, disdaining the lucrative non-athletic career possibilities to which many Olympic celebrities early succumb, has opted instead for long-term domination of his grueling sport.
Unbeaten in the decathlon, the forty-eight-hour summa of running, jumping, and throwing, since 1978, Thompson has set new world records four times, and his current world-leading mark for the ten-event contest is 8,847 points. He is Britain's best long jumper,and his personal best in the 100 meters is 10.26 seconds, a fraction of a second behind the world record for that event. In the shot put, a relative weakness of his, he has moved up to a personal best of 15.73.
While he is single-minded in his dedication as an athlete,Thompson as a person has a reputation in the British press for being "unpredictable" as well as "cocky."
Headstrong, he refuses to be interviewed by reporters who, in his view, do not understand or fully appreciate the decathlon, and he will not discuss his personal life. When he does speak to the press, he is voluble, witty, and irreverent,unsparing even of such sacred entities as members of the royal family. When he declined to carry the Union Jack in the four-and-a-half-hour-long opening ceremonies of the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane,Australia, it was, he said, to save all of his strength for the decathlon.
"Competition is my life--winning is my only goal," he has explained. "Everything I do is directed toward that end and I will never permit anything to jeopardize it....Since winning is the only prize anybody cares about in this world, I would like people to know what it costs."
Thompson was made a member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1983


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"Your blog is correct Ami. It is important to understand that the whole workings of the NHS has to be considered when costs and ideology is involved. But the fact is that sound bites with no real meaning or truth for that matter, have always been used by political parties, such as John Major's "Back to Basics" and Tony Blair's "Zero Tolerance..." rhetoric.
Most people do not want to know how politicians are going to do something they just want them to say they are going to do something. If they are saying what the joe public thinks is true - that immigrant workers are stealing our jobs, that too much money is spent on aid to third world countries, that the gay agenda is destroying the way of the family and those religious (especially fundamental Christian) related organisations who will not accept such agendas, and that it would be good to "replace 100,000 NHS bureaucrats with doctors, nurses and dentists", ( I come from a background of working for the NHS and found the sheer pettiness of the bureaucracy regarding bureaucratic power struggles and inadequate and business profit modelled management a detriment to both patient care and reshaping of the health service), then people will vote for the political party that espouses such things.
If political parties and other organisations want to combat nationalism, I think it is important to remember that though the main tenor of the BNP ideology is fascist, it's their rhetoric of nationalism that the people relate to, which is what the BNP means to most of their party members and those who voted for them in the EU elections of 2009, they are not all fascists in the true sense of the meaning of the word fascist, then they have to take up the rhetoric used and offer an answer that is meaningful to that rhetoric.
Nick Griffin and his followers are unlikely to look up and read about how and where the government spends it's money. Not many other ordinary people will bother to do so either. Thus political rhetoric to combat the BNP has to be to the point and simple. I have yet to see anything like that from the other political parties though the Lib Dems did a pretty good job in their NEWS (For Your Local Community) newssheet I received in January of this year 2010 (Brighton & Hove Lib.Dems)".
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The euro is the commonly accepted currency for 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union; these countries combine to create the eurozone. To truly understand the euro as a currency is to understand the history of the eurozone.
The Positives
The eurozone is a negotiated partnership between participating countries of the European Union (EU), to share the economic and political benefits typically only associated with larger countries. The synergistic expectations and economies of scale projections from the agreements made between these countries, were expected to have a positive, long-lasting impact for all member nations. The European Union itself began developing just after WWII as a way to foster a peaceful and economically stable Europe.
The European Union offered: peaceful coexistence; the reduction of border restrictions, allowing for free travel; combined strength and influence on a global scale; increased prosperity (though not equally among countries); a multilateral promotion of human rights; the promotion of new ideas to reduce global warming, and most notably, the use of a single European currency - the euro.
The euro was designed to ease the process of providing services, transporting goods and moving capital between euro-using nations. The goals of the euro were well thought-out with the highest of hopes, but the results have been mixed.
The initial rules regarding the requirements for a country to migrate from its home currency to the euro were well-defined and meant to exclude weaker countries, while creating a relatively stable relationship between countries meeting similar criteria. The official rules were spelled out in the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, that defined how members of the European Union could move into the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and ultimately, the euro.
The Maastricht criteria, as they were coined, consisted of: inflation, a maximum of 1.5% above the average of all members; government debt and deficit restrictions; exchange rate rules and long-term interest rate level restrictions. Once all of the kinks were ironed out, the euro came to life in 2002 (although dates vary for a few countries) and is now the second-most traded currency behind the U.S. dollar, with which it was pegged at par at issuance. (For more on Forex trading, check out Top 8 Most Tradable Currencies.)
Problems with the Countries Using the Euro
Part of the problem associated with the euro is the divergence from the original criteria for participation in the EMU. The most problematic issue has been debt. The original restrictions were set at a maximum of 60% of government debt as a ratio to gross domestic product (GDP); some countries (with the PIIGS as the worst offenders) have debt-to-GDP ratios reaching over 100% of GDP (see graph).
Source: European Commission Q2 2011
The irony is that the agreement between the EU countries and ultimately the EMU was to increase borrowing limits with the expectations that the leverage could be used to advance each country's specific needs. Debt always has a double-edged sword as its powers can be magical when used correctly. Italy, for example, was able to use its increased borrowing powers to increase both its national standard of living and its nationwide education level to become competitive in the global economy. However, this success has come at a serious long-term financial cost and may ultimately lead to Italy being required to restructure, redesign or possibly default on its debt.
Greece has a debt-to-GDP ratio similar to Italy and found its way into the doldrums by supporting its massive sovereign infrastructure through employing more than half of the population and taxing them at minimal levels.
Spain has not accumulated as much debt as Greece since it began using the euro, and has experienced rapid internal growth with its newfound access to capital. They chose yet another path; primarily in the form of private sector construction that had lain stagnant since the end of WWII. In Spain's case, instead of running an excessive debt-to-GDP ratio, its trade deficit ballooned since the construction pace was not sustainable and not a cross-border traded good. Spain faces the challenge of redirecting its efforts to a more balanced economy, including higher levels of exports that may take years to fine tune the balance. (For more on analyzing the situation in the EU, read 5 Economic Reports That Affect The Euro.)
Whatever the road traveled to, these debt levels have cast a shadow on the euro. The grand plan to provide some sort of simplicity and reversion towards the mean for the criteria on which the EMU and the euro were based on, seems to have actually had a reverse effect. In hindsight, one might easily wonder why and how so many different countries with so many different languages, customs and histories could ever share a common currency and be expected to progress and age at the same rate.
The Euro's Path
The euro was pegged in parity (1:1) with the U.S. dollar during its onset. At this point, all previous home currencies were abolished and the new euro was established and allowed to float with other currencies. While there were years of volatility, the immediate move was a divergence in price in favor of the euro, as the U.S. dollar weakened annually, peaking during the economic banking crisis at around 1.6:1. Since the 2008 crisis, volatility has continued but the general trend has been a stronger euro, even as debt and deficit levels have increased.
The Bottom Line
While the evolution of the EU seems to have been beneficial for the most part, the debate will rage on as to whether the assumption of a single currency for only part of the EU was the best idea. The ability for its participants to borrow more money at lower rates has helped each country in its own way to develop and grow, but at a great price.
The value of the euro has been high since its inception, and during the banking crisis it was considered a safe haven while investors fled from the U.S. dollar. Many countries have learned over the years that a strong currency is not always as good as it sounds. It can make your exportable goods more expensive, creating trade imbalances, which does not combine well with ever-expanding debt levels. Only time will tell the fate of the euro. While it is still one of the most attractive-looking currencies in the world, the grand design may be fading after over a decade of life.


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Hey y'all. I am sure you remember my last post where I was showing you my amazing new years eve. I told you that I was invited to a wedding and that I was wearing my grand mothers old dress and jacket. My hair was inspired by Elsa from the Disney movie and I wanted to be sure that you get a whole look on what I was wearing so outside of the church Max and I shot a quick outfit shoot for you guys.
But of course I want to show you a bit more about this magical day and I will give you a peak into the church where the wedding ceremony took place.
I absolutely loved this winter fairytale day. Hope you guys enjoy the pictures and I wish you a lovely weekend.


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Saturday, November 27, 2010
S/M-CHIC(K) with ZVEN BALSLEV!
...to be continued.
if you wanna see the first 6 panels of the "S/M-chic(k)" that i´m doing together with FuFu Frauenwahl..well, then just click on the tagword "comic jam" somewhere alphabetically up on the right of this page. hmm, this since i dont really know how to make clickable links here..
7 comments:
- Kapreles said...
i detect some mike diana-influences in several drawings! good work! very powerful.
- November 28, 2010 at 9:07 AM
- crippaXXXalmqvist said...
hmm, so in which drawings can you detect those mike diana-influences...on mine or those done by zven?
funny this that you mentioned "mike diana", since i was talking about him while scanning these pics at FuFu´s.
it was something about FuFu and charles burns, & me and mike diana. hmm, weird..
- November 29, 2010 at 6:25 PM
- Gaiihin said...
Very good!
- November 30, 2010 at 2:22 AM
- Kapreles said...
at crippa: it is in some of your drawings, certain elements. but at the same time you can see it's not mike diana. it also reminds me a bit of eric braün.
- November 30, 2010 at 9:16 AM
- Marcel Ruijters said...
I agree with Kapreles. Zven's art reminds me more of Rory Hayes. But hey, it's all good!
- November 30, 2010 at 4:37 PM
- SEAN ÄABERG said...
- November 30, 2010 at 8:27 PM
- crippaXXXalmqvist said...
thank you all very much for the feedback, folks. much appreciated!
but hmm, i wish i was the one who draws more like rory hayes than mike diana.
or rather drawing like chester gould!
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The group finally arrived at Jala's house. Liam warns them to avoid touching the fence.
The group enters her house and sees Jala sitting on a chair. Nearby several more chairs sit in front of a table covered in a variety of sweets.
Vendara correctly guesses that Jala is of the Travelling People and greets her with the customary hand gesture. The group eventually has a seat, and Vendara and Liam start to sip at some tea. The rest of the group is either not hungry or too suspicious to partake.
Jala explains that she sent for the group to retreive her fate cards. Apparently the deck was stolen by a group of goblins about half an hour before the group arrived.
When questioned further, she admits that she knew the goblins were going to be stealing the deck because she had a prophetic vision several months ago. She also admits that she made no attempt to stop the goblins from taking the deck, and that she made sure she was away from the house and the door was unlocked. She assumes from what she saw in her vision that there were roughly a dozen goblins. She knows from their tracks that they headed north, away from town and deeper into the forest.
Vendara asks Jala about her visions. Jala says she has visions that come to her with little control, showing her various things that have or will occur. She says that she also uses her deck to perform readings regarding a specific question, person, or object. These tend to be more reliable.
Without her deck she is unable to perform readings with the same accuracy, and would like very much to get them back. She also says that the fate cards the group has were drawn from her deck when she did a reading for the best group to retrieve her deck. She drew eighteen cards, each a different person who would be likely to succeed at retrieving her deck, plus one indicating that Liam should meet them at the Dented Flagon.
The group tells her about the mysteriosu group they encountered at the Flagon. Jala suggests that they might want to bring the survivor to the Jerachoa Tree to revive him, and possibly question him. She seems eager to have information on why the mysterious group were there and started a fight with either Liam or the group.
The group asks if she has had any recent visions. Jala mentios off-handedly that the mayor will want to see them in four days.
Cret questions why they should help her (and whether she is sane or not). Jala offers the group 150 gp each upon return of the deck. Cret immediately heads out the other door to start investigating the tracks.
Jala tells Liam it is time for him to break his promise. He is no longer forbidden from using his powers in the presence of others. He offers to accompany the group while they retrive the deck of fate cards.


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About once a month (sometimes more) on a Saturday, I head to wonderful Parnassus Books in Nashville to do story time. I sometimes end up with quite the range of ages, but more often than not, I have toddlers and preschoolers gathered around, ready for a good book. For this reason, I've got to be prepared with a selection of engaging and entertaining books geared at those ages. Today, I've got three new ones that I'm sure will find a place in future story times, because they are just right for young listeners.
First up is Ducks Away! Written by Mem Fox and illustrated by Judy Horacek, who have previously collaborated on three books, this may be the best one since the perennial favorite, Where Is the Green Sheep?(originally published nearly fifteen years ago). Ducks Away! was originally published in Australia in 2016, and it is just … well, ducky.
This is the deceptively simple story of a mother duck and her five little ducks. Fox and Horacek give the five tiny creatures a delightfully slow reveal: While the mother duck walks across a bridge, we see them follow her, one-by-one and page-by-page. It's clear right off the bat that this is a good read-aloud choice for toddlers learning to count.
A gust of wind knocks one of the baby ducks off the bridge, who falls feet up into the water below. Each successive duck ends up falling with a splash, and each time the mother duck responds with a repeat rhyming refrain about the number of ducks left on the bridge and the number who have fallen into the water. This repetition and the book's spot-on rhyming and pacing will draw in young listeners, and along the way they just might get some mathematical reinforcement—counting up from one to five and counting down from five to one, that is.
Horacek's simple shapes on uncluttered spreads give ample focus to the duck family; no spread is more complicated than the bridge, the ducks, and the blue water below. Children will root for mother duck, who decides that her only option, after the fifth duck falls in, is to fly down to the river where they are. The problem is that she is apprehensive about making the journey — not, that is, until her first little duck says, "MOM! Go with the flow! Five, four, three … two, one, GO!" A happy reunion follows. Mother duck finally has her ducks in a row, so to speak.
Philippa Leathers' The Tiptoeing Tiger may have children, based on the title alone, imagining fearsome large cats treading stealthily through a forest. But, no, what we have in this swiftly-paced, endearing story is Little Tiger—a miniscule guy, who is disappointed when his big brother tells him he's "too small and clumsy" to scare any creatures. Little Tiger, who chooses to believe he's "sleek, silent, and totally terrifying," sets out to prove his brother wrong.
He tiptoes up to Boar, Elephant, and some monkeys, but they all laugh him off, telling him he's too tiny and too quiet to take them by surprise. There's much humor here as he so confidently sneaks up on some of his larger friends. But when he tries to frighten a frog in a pond, he sees his own reflection and manages to give himself a fright, proving that he is, indeed, adequately fearsome. After all, we are who we choose to be, yes? It's an appealing, chunky thought for children to chew on. And they'll be drawn in by the darling protagonist and his roars—the roars he so desperately wants to be awe-inspiring and formidable but that can't actually help being totes adorbs (as the young 'uns say).
Finally, there is Galia Bernstein's I Am a Cat, where we meet another small, but this time domesticated, cat. On the first page, Simon declares, "I am a cat. Just like you!" He seems to be telling this to us readers, breaking the fourth wall to look right at us. But, no, turn the page to see a pair of very funny wordless spreads in which larger, wilder felines (a tiger, a lion, etc.) look at Simon in disbelief—and then break out into hysterical laughter.
Each feline is convinced that Simon can't really be a cat, as each of them is narrowly comparing Simon's qualities to their own. For instance, the lion is convinced Simon's not a cat, because cats have manes and "a tuft at the end of their tails, and when they roar everybody trembles for they are the kings of all beasts!" That may be true for Lion, but he only thinks of himself. As do all of the other cats, including Cheetah, Puma, Panther, and Tiger. When Simon finally convinces them all that he also has sharp teeth, sharp claws, eyes that can see in the dark, etc.—only much smaller—his large feline friends finally understand.
The story has big things to say about small people (given that Simon is a stand-in for a child), as well as what it means to be part of a family. This is Bernstein's author-illustrator debut, and I like her lively lines and captivating cats. I look forward to what comes next from her.
Story time or bust!
Julie Danielson (Jules) conducts interviews and features of authors and illustrators at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, a children's literature blog primarily focused on illustration and picture books.
I AM A CAT. Text and illustrations copyright © 2017 Galia Bernstein. Illustration reproduced by permission of the publisher, Abrams Books for Young Readers, New York.
THE TIPTOEING TIGER. Copyright © 2018 by Philippa Leathers. Illustration reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.
Illustrations from DUCKS AWAY! written by Mem Fox. Art (c) 2018 by Judy Horacek. Used with permission from Scholastic Press.


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The final design for a new landmark sculpture in Creetown will be unveiled tonight.
The project, commissioned by the Creetown Initiative, draws on the old ferry bell – a prominent feature of life in Creetown in the days when it was a port.
The event will take place at The Gem Rock Museum from 6-7.30pm and anyone wishing to attend should contact Creetown Initiative on 01671 820654 to book their place.
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Hi there...I arived in Maryland a few days ago & am staying with my brother, sister in law & little nephew. My return flight is on 15th Jan & I want to head off on my own & explore Washington & New York before then. My funds are very limited & I hadn't realised how expensive accommodation is in New York. My brother has suggested I perhaps stay on Stratton Island & get the ferry into Manhattan each day to enable me to save on accommodation. I've been looking at hostels in Manhattan & I just wondered whethe anyone might have any advice/tips re: cheap but comfortable accommodation for 4 days...?
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Marmalade Superlove is going to perform!
We've set a date, this Tuesday, June 16th, at The Great Northern.
Note: Previously I used initials to designate our members, but now that we've picked stage names, I'll be using these:
D is now Dr. Stacks
M is now Scarletta
K is now Kleveland
I am now Sable
I'd been wanting to set our first open mic date for weeks. Now that it's real, I feel like old white jeans in a washing machine stuffed with new red blankets — sure to come out alive but forever an exposed-organ pink.
We're in a bit of a rush as Dr Stacks, our keyboardist, will be out of town for three weeks. If we don't do it now, we'll continue uninterrupted "our dreary little lives," as drummer-girl, Scarletta, would say.
We had several options. (It still amazes me that our little valley is so ripe with venues for would-be bands. We had narrowed our choices down to The Packer's Roost, The Craggy Range, and The Great Northern. A couple of us wanted The Packer's Roost because it's out in no-man's land of Coram and has a rep with the kind of people we don't hang with. We figured it would have little crossover into our real lives as music teacher, college professor, regular school teacher, and novelist. The risk would be minimized.)
This sounded good to me. We were in my garage, newly refurbed as a girl garage band haven. We'd just been through our three songs with mixed results from our three audience members. There was T, a non-band member friend who'd I'd invited over before I remembered we had GB practice. There was Dr. Stacks' son, who was a great sport about the whole thing, especially considering some of our lyrics are not, well, appropriate for his age. Then there was MAG, miscellaneous alley guy, who walked by the open garage and gave us one of those rock-on hand symbols.
But then I said, "Let's forget practicality for a minute. In your GB fantasies, where do you picture playing for the first time?"
Kleveland immediately. "The Northern. I've always wanted to play The Northern."
Scarletta ducked her head and admitted that was her fantasy, too. Dr. Stacks agreed.
So The Northern it is. This Tuesday. That leaves me two days to practice — Day 1 of which I broke a string and will have to use up a good part of Day 2 driving to Kalispell to purchase a new one.
We still don't have a drum set for poor Scarletta. And since she gets queasy when I mention beating on bowls and buckets, Kleveland has promised to work her musical network to get a drum set on stage.
We are also supposed to perform in our costumes, which we aren't sure of yet. This will be the subject of the next entry, about which I'm brimming with things to say.
Listen in to the songs we'll be doing.
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