![]() That was as close as I got to an almost acceptable solution. I tried combinations of apps, such as GrandTotal for the invoicing combined with Tyme or Timing for the time tracking side of things. I looked at online options, and desktop applications, and hybrids of online with a desktop app, subscription based options, and regular license options. I spent hours looking over all the options for a project timing and invoicing app as good as Billings. Billings 3 (being a 32bit app from 8 years ago) was dead in the water. The upgrade was great, except that 32 bit apps don’t run on Big Sur nor the M1 chip. A month ago, I upgraded my old Macbook Pro (which was running MacOS Mojave) for an M1 Macbook running Big Sur. Despite no updates for 8 years, it still worked up to macOS Mojave, and I was never able to find a comparable replacement. It was an old application they stopped selling and supporting quite a few years ago (in 2013). For many years I’ve been using Billings 3 from MarketCircle. I need to do this at my desktop, and be able to quickly start and stop my timer, and switch between clients, tasks, etc., in my timer. A little backgroundĪs an IT consultant and Internet developer, I do a lot of work at my computer, and I need to track time spent on jobs for clients. I’ve looked at most of the options that are available for macOS, and drawn some conclusions that may speed up your path to timing, billing, invoicing heaven. Accessed September 29, 2011.In what follows I intend to save you a lot of time, and let you know what the best macOS application is for desktop based project billing and time tracking. Looking Closely at Personality Disorders: Should DSM-5 Reduce and Redefine Them? Science Daily. Does DSM-IV already capture the dimensional nature of personality disorders? J Clin Psychiatry. Zimmerman M, Chelminski I, Young D, et al. The APA Trustees or Assembly should step in and provide the adult supervision needed to settle this issue in favor of the Zimmerman suggestion. ![]() Zimmerman’s proposal is the only feasible solution-a practical, if imperfect, way to save dimensional personality diagnosis for DSM-5. The DSM-5 Task Force seems equally paralyzed. The DSM-5 personality disorders work group is a deer in headlights-unable to work its way out of the quagmire it has created for itself. We propose, instead, that we call more attention to the fact that there is a quasi-dimensional approach already built into the existing DSM-IV.”2 “What we found is that the DSM-IV 3-point dimensional approach is an effective method in identifying personal disorders and these findings raise questions as to whether or not there is a need to modify the DSM-IV for personality disorders at all. Zimmerman’s conclusions provide a clear way out of the DSM-5 personality disorders follies. ![]() Zimmerman’s surprising and encouraging finding is that this makeshift dimensional method was able to save valuable information and worked reasonably well in predicting morbidity (better than categorical diagnosis and as well as 3-point, a 5-point, and criterion-count methods). This is a crude, but extremely convenient and clinician friendly, method of converting personality disorder categories into personality dimensions. He treated the personality ratings of “not present,” “sub-threshold,” and “present” as a surrogate for a 3-point dimensional ratings. Dr Zimmerman’s results (reported in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry1) are a final nail in the coffin of the ill-fated DSM-5 dimensional proposals and usefully provide a viable alternative.ĭr Zimmerman performed a simple, but elegant and telling analysis. He has systematically evaluated a grand total of 2150 psychiatric outpatients using carefully conducted semi-structured diagnostic interviews that assess DSM-IV personality disorders, their severity, and morbidity. Mark Zimmerman, MD, of Brown University has accumulated a wonderful database for studying the diagnosis of personality disorders. The fact that the proposals are universally condemned by researchers in the field has not prevented the work group from stubbornly soldiering on-seemingly oblivious to how impossibly cumbersome and out of touch are its proposals. The work group has produced an ever-changing array of proposals, but each is a pastiche of complex and untested ratings that will most certainly never be used by clinicians. ![]() The DSM-5 attempt to “dimensionalize” the diagnosis of personality disorder has worthy goals, but has suffered from grievously incompetent implementation. ![]()
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