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Things to see and do
Temples, churches and shrines of Chanthaburi
Culturally eclectic Chanthaburi in eastern Thailand has long been home to large Chinese, Khmer and Vietnamese communities and was also influenced by the Shan from Burma as well as the French, who ruled the area from 1893 to 1905 ... read more
Chanthaboon Old Town
Bursting with history and a distinct mix of cultures, the small eastern Thai city of Chanthaburi is among the country's most precious undervisited gems. ... read more
Exploring the Chanthaburi coast
Chanthaburi province's gulf coast in eastern Thailand lacks the fine white sands and cerulean blue waters of nearby Ko Samet and the Ko Chang archipelago. ... read more
Highlights of Chanthaburi province
Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Kanchanaburi, Phuket and ... Chanthaburi? This coastal province in southeastern Thailand isn't usually listed among the kingdom's premier destinations, but maybe it should be. ... read more
The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Reflecting Chanthaburi's large Vietnamese Roman Catholic minority, this gothic-style cathedral is the largest church in Thailand and the city's most noticeable landmark. The cathedral looms over the river from the eastern bank just across from the old town. The first missionary chapel was built ... read more
Wat Kate Na Boonyaram
Difficult to miss in the middle of town between Benchamarachuthis and Sukhapiban Roads, this temple reflects the mixed heritage of Chanthaburi perhaps better than any other. Chinese-style gateways open to the 200-year-old temple, which boasts a large image of Garuda (Thailand's national emblem) ... read more
Gem Market
Chanthaburi is perhaps best known for its precious gems trade, and although small gem shops are scattered all over town, the area around Si Chan Road is the epicentre of all things sparkling. The gem shops here are busiest on Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings, but jewellers from around the ... read more
King Taksin Shrine & City Pillar Shrine
Just north of the old town on Thaluang Road, the King Taksin shrine is a small, nine-sided structure topped by a roof designed to look like the pointed and round brimmed hat that Taksin was known for wearing while riding into battle. Ever since the shrine was built in 1920, a steady stream of ... read more
Wat Bot Muang
A short walk towards the old town from King Taksin shrine takes you past Wat Bot Muang, which sits on a hill between Benchamarachuthis Road and Sukhapiban Road. Believed to be the oldest temple in Chan, this Ayutthaya-era wat features several charming old temple buildings and a small but ... read more
Chatuchak Market
A relatively new development next to the Robinson Shopping Centre east of the river in Chanthaburi, the so-called Chatuchak Market is worth an hour or two if needing to satisfy a shopping fix. The roofed market was set up in the spirit of Bangkok's famous weekend market, and while it doesn't ... read more
King Taksin the Great Park
Occupying a huge swath of territory a couple of kilometres to the west of the old town, this park features a large green space surrounded on all sides by a wide moat that's only passable by a few footbridges. Outside the moat are more grassy areas and a walkway that's perfect for a morning jog. ... read more
Khun Krabaen Mangrove Trail
Located towards the western end of Hat Chao Lao, this nature trail winds through thick mangrove forest and opens to some sweeping views of bordering brackish inlets. The extensive trail system is in the form of well kept raised boardwalks and suspension foot bridges that culminate at a five ... read more
Khun Krabaen Aquarium
A few hundred metres past the mangrove trail, this aquarium was far better than we were expecting. Hundreds of colourful tropical fish of all shapes and sizes can be seen in relatively large display tanks that line the aquarium's dark and wide halls. A small display of rare seashells is also ... read more
Namtok Phlio National Park
Namtok Phlio National Park, 14 kilometres from Chanthaburi, is named after one of Thailand's best known waterfalls, which cascades straight out the side of Khao Sabap mountain into a pool below where both people and fish frolic. The waterfall is most impressive during rainy season when the ... read more
Wat Mong Gorn Phupharam
Located right on Sukhumvit Road a few kilometres southeast of Chanthaburi en route to Namtok Phlio, this stunning Chinese Buddhist temple was built only 40 years ago. More than 30 individual shrine rooms burst with colour and feature gorgeous statues of Amithaba Buddha, Maitreya Buddha, Guanyin ... read more
Khao Kitchakut National Park
Khao Khitchakhut National Park, 30 kilometres north of Chanthaburi on Route 3249, is a pleasant place to visit for a few hours. The park covers an area of 59 square kilometres, but holds 53 species of birds -- probably because it lies adjacent to the Khao Soi Dao Wildlife ... read more
Wat Khao Sukim
Located between Chanthaburi and Khao Khichakhut, this imposing mountaintop temple makes for a decent detour on the way back from the national park. The temple was made famous by the revered forest meditation monk, Ajahn Somchai, who lived during the 20th century. Although it would have been a ... read more
Khai Nern Wong
Khai Nern Wong is a feeble old fort worth a quick stopover for a firsthand look at some of the only remaining evidence of the strategic military base that Chanthaburi once was. While some say it was here that General Taksin made camp here while re-assembling his army before retaking Ayutthaya, ... read more
Khao Ploi Waen
Khao Ploi Waen is a hill located about four kilometres past Khai Nern Wong offering a scenic view of the surrounding area. At the base of the hill lies a small active temple. Follow the path on the right until you come to the steep and rather uneven stairs leading to the summit. Here there ... read more
Farm Buu Nim
One of the first things we noticed after arriving at Farm Buu Nim was an enormous domesticated boar quietly tied to a post near the restaurant's bamboo kitchen. Sloppily dressed servers stepped over a yipping dog, concentrating to keep their massive platters of boiled crab from tipping. It was just ... read more
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I named my first niece, my second niece, and my third niece and all three have beautiful names,my fourth niece and nephew name came from the Bible and no none of their names are mainstream but all four are beautiful. and even though I was born over 40+ years ago, neither is mine. My nieces were named doing a time when Blacks wanted to create names that were not considered slave names, so we became creative. Now I must admit that some people (not just African Americans) have taken this to the extreme and need linguist before they saddle these children with some of these names that are spelled one way and the parents teach the children to pronounce them incorrectly and when the teacher pronounce it phonetically the teacher gets the dumb looks.
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Originally posted by Michael Morris: Well the the client will access a Data object, through an interface, which is bound to a local file. Hope this helps, Michael Morris
What will be the case when the client is not running on the same machine/JVM as the server(where the database actually resides)? Is that possible to run the databse locally if the client machine is different from the server.
Originally posted by Michael Morris: Now, you could connect to a file on a different network node in local mode for example "www.mydomain.com/~myaccount/sucertify/db.db" but that would be in the same VM.
Can you please explain this a little bit more??
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Being one of the judges at The 6th Annual Sandwichfest on Saturday was definitely one of those experiences that make me say, "It's not a job; it's an adventure."
Of course, this was an adventure that took some preparation (as in eating only a piece of fruit for breakfast), because it's an awesome responsibility to be one of five people who will decide a year's bragging rights for "The Best Sandwich in Sandwich."
There I sat with WCAI host Mindy Todd on one side and cookbook author and food stylist John Carafoli on the other (Sandwich police chief Peter Wack and Cape Cod Life editor Matt Gill were at the next table), all of us having been told we would each be eating one-quarter of 14 sandwiches.
So that's like 3 1/2 sandwiches. I don't know about other people, but that's a whole lot of lunch. So I, like most of the judges, nibbled judiciously, making sure to take a big enough bite to get the blended flavors of each sandwich while leaving some appetite for poor Nos. 11, 12, 13 and 14.
Truth be told, there wasn't a bad sandwich in this year's very big roll, which included Beth's Bakery & Cafe, Belfry Inn & Bistro, Bobby Byrnes, British Beer Company, Cafe Chew, Canterbury Cuisine, Cafe Riverview, Dan'l Webster Inn & Spa, The Deli, Momo's, The Pilot House, Ice Cream Sandwich, Seafood Sam's and Uncommon Cafe.
We chose the smoked salmon and pear sandwich made by Beth and Joe Giampietro, owners of Beth's Bakery & Cafe, as the winner. It was a creamy spread served on a well-toasted crostini in which salty salmon balanced perfectly with sweet pear.
We guessed at the cream cheese in the spread, but there was something else ...
"Greek yogurt," Beth Giampietro said Monday in a telephone interview from the Sandwich shop. "I like to do a little bit more on the delicate side rather than just a sandwich."
She added, "This is the first time we've won. We won one other year for vegetarian sandwich, but we were the only vegetarian sandwich that year so it wasn't really the same."
Beth's Bakery & Cafe is selling the treats (three served with a side salad) at least through the summer and have put them on the catering menu.
"One of the things we were aiming for was the type of sandwiches they may have had in times gone by to commemorate the 375th Birthday of Sandwich," Giampietro wrote in an email in which she kindly shared the winnng recipe.
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24 ounces smoked salmon
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Introduction to LIGO & Gravitational Waves
Continuous Gravitational Waves
Continuous gravitational waves are produced by systems that have a fairly constant and well-defined frequency. Examples of these are binary star or black hole systems orbiting each other or a single star swiftly rotating about its axis with a large mountain or other irregularity on it. These sources are expected to produce comparatively weak gravitational waves since they evolve over longer periods of time and are usually less catastrophic than sources producing inspiral or burst gravitational waves. The sound these gravitational waves would produce is a continuous tone since the frequency of the gravitational wave is nearly constant.
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PHOENIX — It's a spring tradition of sorts, the veteran non-roster invitee who comes out of nowhere to top leaderboards and open eyes.
In 2009, Andres Torres hit .400 in Cactus League play and become a Giants fixture. Three years later, Gregor Blanco hit .333 and stole 13 bases in 27 spring games to kick off a season that ended with Blanco starting World Series games. Last spring, Chad Gaudin posted a 2.55 ERA in 11 spring appearances to win the competition for the long reliever spot.
This year's surprise had been Brandon Hicks, a 28-year-old infielder who is hitting .381 in 22 Cactus League appearances, with three homers and seven doubles.
Teammates have marveled at his hot spring and management has taken notice. With Marco Scutaro virtually guaranteed to start the season on the disabled list, Hicks is in line to make the opening day roster, along with 24-year-old Ehire Adrianza. The two have outlasted several minor leaguers and veteran Tony Abreu, who was released over the weekend.
Scutaro underwent another procedure on his bad back Tuesday, adding a diagnostic nerve block to the two injections he has already had this spring. Giants trainer Dave Groeschner said he would update Scutaro's condition on Wednesday.
The Houston native said four or five clubs offered to bring him out to spring training but after conversations suggested that San Francisco could provide the greatest opportunity.
"We thought it would be a great place for me," Hicks said. "And I felt this was the best spot."
Hicks knew he made the right decision after talking to right-hander Scott Proctor, who was one of the pitchers Gaudin beat out last spring. Proctor raved about the organization. Hicks has been a perfect fit, and not just because the Giants seem to have a thing for bearded infielders named Brandon.
Scutaro's absence has allowed Hicks to play 101 1/3 innings this spring, 50 of them at second base. "He has played well," manager Bruce Bochy said. "He has got experience and power. He lets it go (with the bat)."
Hicks has 90 big league at-bats with the A's and Atlanta Braves but has never stuck in the big leagues.


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Again this year the Nebraska coaches are reaching far and wide to find tall, athletic offensive lineman. They've now joined an ACC team by extending an offer to a player that fits the mold perfectly. 6-foot-5, 290-pound Tyler Sands from Boyertown, Pennsylvania is one of the latest prospects to garner an offer from the Huskers and he is more than a little excited about getting it. Along with his tender from the Huskers, Sands also has an offer from Duke. He's receiving strong interest from Boston College and is also interested in Virginia, Vanderbilt and West Virginia. He recently returned from attending a Junior Day at Boston College and has plans to make his way to Nebraska shortly for an unofficial visit. ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now!
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For now, newcomer KJWP television station fills its schedule with old shows provided by its network, Me-TV.
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After a hard-fought effort to bring a television station from Wyoming to Delaware, the operation is finally up and running, and gradually rolling out to area cable and satellite television lineups.
There's little local flavor at this point on KJWP, but the station's managing partner, Bob McAllan, said the first of the original programming is coming soon. Exactly how much local content, and the extent to which that programming focuses on Delaware itself, depends on how much advertising revenue it is able to raise, McAllan said.
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"Dwellings": An Animation by Aaron WendelJuxtapoz // Sunday, 07 Aug 2011
"Dwellings" is a great animation short created by Aaron Wendel back in 2010. Wendel brings you two houses, or "dwellings" if you must, that are simultaneously destroying each other. The last sequence is especially pleasing.
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Limpopo - Hundreds of teachers have instituted a R174 million lawsuit against Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga and Limpopo Education MEC Dikeledi Magadzi.
The multimillion-rand lawsuit relates to the non-payment of rural allowances that Motshekga's predecessor, Naledi Pandor, had promised them.
Pandor placed a notice in the Government Gazette in December 2007, showing that R500m had been allocated for the 2007/08 financial year to incentivise teachers at remote, poor and no-fee schools.
Eligible individual teachers were to receive the R1 300 monthly allowance from January 2008, according to court papers.
KwaZulu-Natal had received the lion's share of R114.55m for that year, while Limpopo got R70.06m – the third largest allocation.
The half-a-billion rand national allocation was set to be adjusted annually in line with the consumer price index, the notice, contained in court document, states.
A total of 203 teachers from schools in Limpopo have filed the lawsuit in the Polokwane Circuit Court of the High Court in Pretoria.
They claim they have not been paid a single cent.
Between January 2008 and October last year, education authorities owed just more than R80 000 per individual from the 203 teachers who lodged the civil case.
Teachers argue that the debt accumulates monthly.
Fridah Marokane, a maths and English teacher at Makhuma Combined School in Sehlakwana village, is one of those who lodged the civil claim.
The department owed her more than R80 000, she said.
The Basic Education Department had not responded to e-mailed questions by late on Wednesday.
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CSU's Trevor Brown won the men's 110-meter high hurdles and teammates Holly Keeper and Jake Schneeberger also had top-three finishes Friday in the Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa, Calif.
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So I was reading this article about denim losing ground: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/burn-your-jeans--teens-are-abandoning-denim-for-a-new--it--pant-143502837.html
It makes me sad but makes sense, my teenager almost owns no jeans almost ALL the leggings and jeggings. (she can NOT wear them to school is is a dress code violation)
Quoting conweis: I love jeans. Good thing I don't care about fashion.
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Complex PTSD (CPTSD) and Dissociation
Complex PTSD (CPTSD) and Dissociation – An Unrecognized Problem in Psychotherapy
In order to understand this complicated phenomenon we call dissociation (and specifically "pathological dissociation" it is necessary to understand where and why it develops. This condition is part of a syndrome called Complex PTSD. Before we can really understand where it fits in, I need to describe the differences in people who present in a therapist's office with PTSD. By the way, PTSD is in my humble opinion (and many others) as a dissociative phenomenon, and should not be classified as an anxiety disorder.
Many times potential clients will start treatment with me saying that the last 5 therapists they had were nice people, but not quite helpful. Often these people suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder of a different kind, called Complex PTSD (or CPTSD).
Let me explain some differences between PTSD and Complex PTSD (CPTSD). When the World Trade Center was hit on 9/11 2001, there were scores of people calling me in crisis. Some had been there, or had been close by; some had lost loved ones. By and large, these people were pretty well put together before this national tragedy. Many came from secure homes as children; most were married and had productive jobs.
These people are usually high functioning in their lives. Yet, after experiencing an event that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others. Their response involved intense fear, helplessness or horror. (DSM 4 – TR 2000). They were quite "freaked out," as we say in the vernacular.
Mental health professionals will easily recognize the aforementioned as the "A" criterion for PTSD. They will also suffer from intrusive and distressing recollections of the event, sometimes flashbacks, nightmares, and psychological and physical reactivity to anything that reminds them of their traumatic experience. Then there are a whole symptom complex of avoidant and hyperarousal symptoms.
Sounds pretty dire, doesn't it? Well, these people can heal from this traumatic event without too much of a problem. I treated many of them with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing or EMDR. Treatment was usually pretty brief, and almost always successful.
EMDR is an "evidence based form of trauma psychotherapy that has been accepted worldwide as being highly effective in these cases. It has been researched by many mental health professionals and has consistently given the highest ratings by various organizations including the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, or (ISTSS); the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs, to name a few reputable organizations.
That's all well and good, but these problems pale by comparison when we talk about CPTSD. This form of trauma usually starts in early childhood and is characterized by harmful and persistent emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Courtois and Ford 2010) have edited one of the definitive text books on the subject. In chapter two Julian Ford describes the differences in brain development of children who have grown up in secure vs. abusive households.
In a secure and loving household children neurologically develop a "learning brain," while those who have grown up in abusive households develop a "survival brain."
"The learning brain is engaged in exploration (i.e., the acquisition of new knowledge and neuronal/synaptic (a end point of a brain cell called a neuron) connections… The survival brain seeks to anticipate, prevent, or protect against the damage caused by actual dangers, driven and reinforced by a search to identify threats, and an attempt to mobilize and conserve bodily resources in the service of this vigilance and defensive adjustments to maintain bodily functioning (Ford, Chapter 2 p. 32).
How is Pathological Dissociation a Part of CPTSD?
In order to begin to understand this phenomenon it is useful to first understand the syndrome of CPTSD. It characterized by:
•Affect Dysregulation (not being able to regulate one's emotions)
•Alterations of Consciousness (The code name for pathological dissociation)
•Somatization (the development of many physical problems that multiple physicians cannot find an organic origin to)
•Problems With:
Self Perception,
•Loss of Systems of Meaning.
As stated, dissociation is related to the Alterations of Consciousness – While some think that this means only the "absence of," it could also indicate the "presence of" (as in the "A" criterion of PTSD. Still with me?)
Identifying features of a dissociative disorder may go unrecognized. Why is that? I believe that the problem starts with many clinicians lacking the proper education in being able to identify dissociative phenomenon.
It's important to realize that dissociation is on a continuum from something we all do, such as daydreaming, and other forms of absorption, to the more pathological disorders of dissociative amnesia, all the way to Dissociative Identity Disorder, or what lay people still call multiple personality disorder (yes, it exists, though there are some in the mental health field who claim that this is a made up problem, concocted by clinician and client. Let's first look at this continuum.
The Adaptive to Maladaptive Continuum:
Here are some common forms that most of us experience.
•Day dreaming,
•Creative expression,
•Highway Hypnosis
•Forms of Forgetting,
•Selective Retention
Cross Cultural Perspectives need to be taken into account – such as altered states of consciousness; non possession trance, or shamanic rituals, soul journeys, spirit channeling. They all need to be taken into account in order to understand what part of dissociation is part of a culture, such as some primitive rituals in South America, Africa, and other countries, and what is pathological.
Here is where we start to find forms of pathological dissociation:
•Shock/Peritraumatic Dissociation (dissociation at the time of a trauma)
•ASD (or Acute Stress Disorder)/PTSD/CPTSD
•Dissociative Amnesia
•Possession Trance
•Depersonalization and Derealization
•Dissociative Identity Disorder
The Taxon/Epidemiological Model of Dissociation:
•Dissociation Classified by Symptoms of:
•Dissociative Amnesia
•Dissociative Fugue
•Depresonalization Disorder
•DDNOS (Dissociative Disorders Not Otherwise Specified)
•DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder)
Elizabeth Howell in her excellent book, The Dissociative Mind, defines pathological dissociation as – "a separation of mental and experiential contents that would normally be connected." (Howell 2005).
The BASK Model of Dissociation (Braun 1998) breaks down dissociation as a fragmentation of:
- B = Behavior
- A = Affect (or emotions)
- S = Sensations (whether present or absent)
- K = Knowledge
•According to Frank Putnam of NIMH (1997), "there is a failure of integration of ideas, information, affects and experience."
All definitions bring a wealth of information to the table.
In the most general form, pathological dissociation has also been characterized as:
•Psychologically defensive, or organismic and automatic response to imminent danger (remember the survival brain I quoted Ford on earlier in this article?)
•The concept can be used as a verb when describing dissociative processes, such as when a person looks at themselves while experiencing themselves as not in their body.
It can be used as a noun, as in Dissociative Amnesia when someone cannot remember considerable blocks of time, while NOT under the influence of mind altering drugs or alcohol. I've had clients who tell me that they can not remember anything before the age of 12 (and they are only 32).
One of the problems with the concept is that there are so many definitions and disputes that the concept is in danger of losing its meaning.
•van der Kolk and Fisler (1996) describe PTSD (a type of dissociative experience), as involving "a unique combination of learned conditioning, problems modulating arousal, and shattered meaning propositions (as in a case where a priest sexually abuses an alter boy; there is often a loss of a religious system of meaning).
•Shalev (1995) proposed that this complexity is best understood as the co-occurence of several interlocking pathogenic processes:
•- an alteration of neurobiological processes involving stimulus discrimination.
• -the acquisition of a conditioned fear response to trauma related stimuli.
• altered schemata and social apprehension.
People who suffer from dissociative disorders are in a terrible bind.
•Because the roots of their relational traumas lie deep within their early childhood experiences, they often manifest strong dependency needs combined with a deep distrust of other people.
The way they perceive others is categorically different from other people.
Let me give you an easy example:
•When you see friends at a conference whom you haven't seen for a year, often you will give them a hug. You or they won't ask for one; you just "know" that it is fine.
•This example is part of what Lyons-Ruth (1998) calls "Implied Relational Knowing." (IRK)
•Now take a patient from your population who has complex PTSD starting in infancy or early childhood.
•What is their "IRK"?
•""People will hurt me; even the ones who seem to be nice at the beginning" (think of grooming behaviors of pedophiles).
•These patients will have a hard time trusting, and it will take a while to develop a therapeutic alliance. They will test their therapist to prove over and over again that he/she is worthy of their trust, and will actively search for signs that they are being fooled again.
•Many times these poor souls will be caught between their dependency needs, and their fear of harm.
van der Hart et. al have written beautifully about this dilemma in their text, The Haunted Self, (2006) in their chapter "Overcoming the Phobia of Attachment and Attachment Loss to the Therapist;" and Kathy Steele et. al(2001,) "Dependency in the treatment of complex ptsd and dissociative disorders,
•Davies and Frawley (1994) when the write about the idealized omnipotent rescuer and the entitled child.
•This dilemma was noted by Pierre Janet, a contemporary of Sigmund Freud's.
•He was clear that there was a special need for the patient to feel safe with the therapist.
•He considered this alliance indispensible for any therapy to succeed with dissociative disordered patients.
•However, he recognized that forming this bond was fraught with difficulty.
•He observed that the patient was prone to idealization of the therapist.
•This idealization if not carefully managed could develop into an intense "somnambulistic passion." (van der Hart, Brown, and van der Kolk 1989).
•While he called this idealization "rapport" we would call it transference today.
•Both Freud and Janet considered transference both a necessity and a resistance for a cure
•While Freud was better known for the concept of transference and repression, it was actually Janet who originated this idea.
Here are some other facts:
•There is a higher prevalence of undiagnosed dissociative disorders in clinical populations.
•There is a high cost to the patient, therapist and society for not adequately finishing the first phase of Janet's phase oriented approach (which has also been known as the Consensual Model of Trauma Treatment).
•The first phase is stabilization, symptom oriented treatment and preparation for trauma work.
•If a therapist moved too quickly into the second phase which Janet called the liquidation of traumatic memories, too many negative outcomes could result.
•During the first phase it is necessary to stablize affect dysregulation. (A point made by Dr. Alan Schore 1994, 2003a, 2003b).
Treatment of dissociative disorders:
•It is crucial to be able to tell when a patient was not ready to even talk in depth about their traumatic histories
•To try to encourage this, as a means of shortening treatment, is a way of ensuring re-traumatization.
•When a patient seems to be having trouble telling a coherent narrative, the therapist needs to let the patient know that they can take as much time as needed, and that the therapist would be happy to teach stabilization and symptom relief strategies to the patient first.
•There are many signs and symptoms that the therapist needs to be aware of even before administering the Dissociative Experience Scale (DES).
•These include:
•A history of years of unsuccessful therapy (Kluft 1985; Putnam et. al. 1986).
•The client comes to treatment with a number of varying diagnoses; none which have been successfully treated.
•The patient may have a history many in patient hospitalizations with multiple diagnoses over the years.
•The client reports intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, and nightmares.
•They may evidence periods of "spacing out" and forgetting what they were saying during an evaluation.
•The patient may report not feeling like themselves (perhaps they see themselves as bigger or smaller).
•They may report that surroundings that are known to them look somehow "different." or;
•They may report looking in the mirror and not recognizing themselves. (de-realization)
•They may report having experiences of floating alongside their bodies (depersonalization).
•They may report that their daily environment seems dreamlike as if they were walking in a fog.
•They may report have memory lapses, i.e not recalling how they got to the shopping mall.
•Finding items at home that seem unfamiliar to them; not being able to remember ever buying them.
•In tertiary dissociation (DID) the client may report hearing strange voices coming frominside their heads.
•Experiencing "made feelings" i.e. feelings that come out of the blue, without having a logical way of explaining them.
•Having "made" thoughts and behaviors that they cannot identify as their own.
•Ross et. al. reports that DID patients have more first rank Schneiderian symptoms than schizophrenics.
•The DID patient, in contrast to the schizophrenic will usually demonstrate a full range of affect, whereas the schizophrenic patient will suffer from a blunted affect.
•Putnam (1989) reports that DID patients will evidence a preponderance of somatic symptoms, and will report:
•Intractable headaches not relieved by over the counter analgesics.
•Physical complaints that cannot be accounted for by competent physical examinations and tests. (These may be "somatic memories")
•Sleep disturbances (Lowenstein 1991) are common with nightmares and sleep walking reported.
•Many DID patients may present with what they believe to be depression.
•Frequently there is a history of suicide ideation, or suicide attempts.
•These vast array of symptoms which must be asked about during an evaluation make it imperative to complete a DES on all patients where any of these symptoms are suspected.
If many of these symptoms appear familiar to you, it is best to call a therapist trained in diagnosing and treating pathological dissociation. An organization that supports the evolution of research and clinical practice of dissociative disorders is the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (or ISSTD).
What you can do before and during the treatment of dissociation. I am indebted to a fine psychotherapist, Dr. Patti Levin for the following suggestions:
If a person comes in for an evaluation and they do not have basic coping skills, here are a partial list of things they need to do before the reprocessing phases:
- mobilize support system — reach out and connect with others, especially those who may have shared the stressful event
- talk about the traumatic experience
- cry
- hard exercise like jogging, aerobics, bicycling, walking
- relaxation exercise like yoga, stretching, massage
- humor
- prayer and/or meditation
- hot baths
- music and art
- maintain balanced diet and sleep cycle as much as possible
- avoid overusing stimulants like caffeine, sugar, nicotine
- committment to something personally meaningful and important every day
- hug those you love: hugging releases endogenous opioids, the body's natural pain-killer — now you know why it can feel so good!
- eat warm turkey, boiled onions, baked potatoes, cream-based soups — these warm foods are tryptophane activators which help you feel tired but good (like after Thanksgiving dinner)
- pro-active response toward personal/community safety: organize or do something socially active
- write about your experience — in detail, just for yourself or to share with others
People are usually surprised that reactions to trauma last longer than expected. It may take weeks, months, and in some cases, years, to regain equalibrium. Many people will get through this period on their own, with the help and support of family and friends. But too often friends and family push to "get over it" before you're ready, or encourage feeling sorry for or trying to understand the perpetrator. Remind them that such responses are not helpful for recovery right now. Many people find that individual, group, or family counseling is helpful. Either way, the key word is ATTACHMENT — ask for help, support, understanding, and opportunities to talk.
The Chinese character for crisis is a combination of two words — danger and opportunity. Hardly anyone would choose to be traumatized as a vehicle for growth. Yet our experience shows that people are incredibly resilient, and the worst traumas and crises can become enabling, empowering transformations.
While these are excellent suggestions, I strongly urge anyone who believes that they may be suffering from a dissociative disorder to contact a competent trauma therapist trained in treating these conditions.
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On Oct. 5, 1958, people opposed to integration bombed Clinton High School in Clinton, Tenn.
I was born and raised less than ten miles away, but years passed before I knew anything about my home county's turbulent history.
The decades between the bombing and my birth gave the scars time to heal over until they were barely perceptible.
By the time I came around, the races were well-integrated; my neighbors, classmates and friends were black, white, Asian, Native American, Hispanic and just about any other race/culture you could think of.
I didn't think twice about it, and few others ever seemed to either.
By the time I learned this wasn't always the case, the Civil Rights Era was relegated to a chapter in my history book and a section on the test.
The races were integrated and women were "liberated," and the tumultuous path leading to this state seemed as distant as the Dark Ages.
I of course knew the stories about figures such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks, but I didn't give much thought to the hundreds, even thousands, of others. They were simply faceless parts known collectively as "the movement."
As I've gotten older, though, faces have emerged from "the movement."
Monday, one of the leaders in the civil rights movement died in Middle Tennessee.
The Rev. Will D. Campbell, originally from Amite County, Miss., but a Wilson County resident since the mid-'60s, featured prominently in many of the historic race confrontations throughout the South – including the Clinton, Tenn., confrontations.
As a Southern white man pushing for integration, Campbell faced hostility from many other whites and distrust from many blacks, according to interviews Campbell did in subsequent years.
While a member of the Tennessee National Guard, Campbell had to stand in opposition to fellow guardsmen in a neighboring state to walk a little girl into school.
He did so for no other reason than his faith and conscience told him it was the right thing to do.
Because of Campbell, King, Parks and the thousands of others who stood with them, my generation and the ones that followed were spared the turmoil they suffered.
Because of them, my neighbors, former classmates and friends are black, white, Asian, Native American, Hispanic and just about any other race/culture you can think of, and I don't think twice about it.
When Campbell, King, Parks and other civil rights activists stood – at great personal risk – in protest of society's dictates, they stood not just for blacks, they stood for every American.
Because, as Campbell has said, racism and segregation are human tragedies, and in tragedies, neither side wins.


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Theresa M. Bielecki age 92, formerly of Berwyn, Pa died on Feb. 4, 2013. Wife of the late Charles J. Bielecki, Mother of David C. Bielecki of Ambler, Pa. and Patricia Hendrick of Phoenix, Arz., also survived by 1 sister Deloris Lane of Broomall, Pa, 5 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren.
Theresa had worked for over 40 years at the Upper Mainline YMCA. She enjoyed knitting and crocheting.
Theresa's Life Celebration memorial service will be held on Friday Feb, 22, 2013 at 1:30P.M. with a visitation from 1:00 - 1:30PM at Mauger/Givnish Funeral Home 24 Monument Ave. Malvern, Pa. Interment private.
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Metal, Texas, Doom; Rise Of The Triad Musician Andrew Hulshult
So how did this kid get into scoring video games? First and foremost, because he's a gamer. He admitted that in particular, he gets 'a lot of shit' for playing Minecraft. (I scoffed at that, but he insists it's true, since he's supposed to be hardcore. He did agree that the haters need to STFU.) In addition, "I've been a PC gamer forever" Hulshult told me, adding that builds his own rigs. He grew up playing the Doom, Rise of the Triad, and other shooters from when he was a kid. "My mom hated those games, HATED THEM," he said, "but my dad would always go find me the shareware versions, and be like 'here, just don't let your mother see it'."
That's how he ended up working with Interceptor. "Whenever Fred was working on Duke Nukem 3D Reloaded, I was hanging around the forums, and I was really inspired, really excited that someone was doing this, so I redid Grabbag (hear the original here, and Andrew's cover here,) and a couple others, about four different pieces of music. I tracked [Fred] down and handed them off and he asked, 'Hey, would you mind helping me out on this project [DN3DRL]; there's no money involved, but would you mind?' And of course it was no problem, I said I'd love to."
Of course, Duke Nukem 3D Reloaded was cancelled to make way for Duke Nukem Forever. But when Interceptor decided to bring back Rise of the Triad, Andrew was, so I was told, their first choice for the job of scoring it. That process has come with a tremendous learning curve, of course. The ROTT team is small and Andrew has been handling essentially every music-related job since the project began at the start of 2012. His work on Grabbag and other DN3DRL tracks was essentially his first time really handling so many studio duties. "The mixing techniques that I was using with Grabbag, I was still learning," Andrew told me. "The stuff that's online was literally the stuff that I showed him, it was not by any means the final product… When I was asked to do ROTT I was like 'man, I gotta step up my game'. Now I had to look at everything from mixing, to mastering, to engineering, as well as the creative side. It's completely different from anything I'd done before."
What he's doing on Rise of the Triad is the herculean task of reworking and rerecording the original game's soundtrack in full, handling every part of the process (with feedback from the rest of the team,) trying to preserve the original pop of those old tracks while giving them a more modern polish. That is, shocker, a metric ton of work for a guy who still has a day job and also a band.
"Days off that are not working with the band or doing the job thing, all my time is going into [Rise of the Triad]. One thing for sure," he said, "is that they take a looong time to do." As Andrew describes it, doing something he loves again and again ends up becoming obsessive rather than tedious. "Whenever I get a good inspiration, the track normally takes, I spend maybe 10 hours behind a board. [I]t's normally, 'You've got two days to come up with something good.' Pretty much what I'll do is kind of find where the root note is, something that's going to pull the listener in immediately."
"So I'll listen to the midi track over and over again, find out what are the parts that stick out to me the most. Because [original ROTT composer] Lee Jackson did a great job on the original. So I'll take those and go, 'Here, here, here and here are very memorable, especially when you're playing through,' and I'll try to throw in something that – I don't want to say 'up to date,' but certainly a little more modern, just modern playing and writing styles, pianos, drums, guitars, whatever it may be, anything that works in the mix, and I'll ask, 'How can I make this so it feels you can run around with this, but if you weren't just playing a game, you could still listen to it?'"
The results speak for themselves. Interceptor was gracious enough to provide Game Front with an exclusive track from the Rise of the Triad Soundtrack in advance of the official streaming release. Here's 'Smoke and Mirrors'.
If everything goes according to plan, the success of Rise of the Triad will be due to huge effort by a very small team. During our interview, Interceptor's Dave Oshry made it clear how integral to that effort Hulshult has been. "Andrew is really great at taking feedback as well as creating. He finishes a song and then asks what we think, and the cool thing is that we'll let him know and he'll come back with a new version incorporating that feedback. And bear in mind, every new track is my new favorite," he said.
Hulshult, for his part, will hopefully be in the position not only to get his band greater exposure, but also to branch out into other musical projects. "I don't know if it was like the whole film score thing that I was really into," he said about what he liked about his work on ROTT, "but a gigantic piece of me likes the idea of scoring symphony, I'm still trying to wrap my head around that because it's a crazy number, you can get more than 50 tracks at one time. I'm still trying to perfect it, I've gotten a lot of experience with this."
Does this mean more gaming work in the future too? Hell yes. Not only does he want to continue working with the Interceptor team, he's looking forward to whatever opportunities might pop up. "I want to do more of this," he told me. "This is definitely something that I want to do as long as I possibly can. "
The revived Rise of the Triad comes out early in 2013. The soundtrack will begin streaming the song included in this article beginning next week.


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Even though Breanna Strange, 11, entered a national contest to win a wheelchair-accessible van one month after all the other applicants, she went from 1,000th place to sixth place in only three weeks.
The people at her school have joined together to support the� South Lyon Middle School student by posting fliers across the school and voting for her every day until the contest ends on Friday night.�
Her parents, Kim and Dave Strange, heard about the contest, sponsored by the National Mobility Equipment Dealers Association, on April 16 and immediately entered, even though voting began at the end of February. Her parents were worried they were too late -- but now she is in the top 6 percent with more than 40,000 votes.
Now, in the last week of voting, the Strange family desperately needs votes so Breanna can win one of three wheelchair-accessible vans.
"She started off late, an underdog, not very likely to win. Now, she's bypassed all those people, all the way to sixth place," her father said. "Our goal is to get her in at least third place."
As an infant, Breanna was diagnosed with dystonia -- a incurable neurological disorder that hinders the communication between her brain and muscles and causes uncontrolled muscle contractions. Dave said Breanna, who spends most of her time in a wheelchair, cannot do even the simplest movements for herself, such as scratching her nose and brushing her hair.
"One of our biggest hurdles is that we had to figure out how to do those things for her. It's been 11 years, and we're still trying to figure it out," said Dave.
Her mother said she was devastated by the diagnosis, which was rare at the time and treatments were limited.�
"Cognitively, she's an 11-year-old. But she can't do anything for herself. She can't sit up, she can't roll over, she can't walk and she can't even grab a toy. We have to feed her and do all of her daily routines," said Kim. "There's no normal for her. She can be stiff one minute and limp the next minute. When she tries to move, her body resists. She can move, but it's not voluntary or functional."
Dave added that Breanna needs to be buckled into her wheelchair because she cannot sit up straight.
"When you try to sit her down, her body thrusts forward," he said.
But, despite her obstacles, Breanna's parents say she is still a happy and friendly girl. Kim says Breanna will tell her, "I'm dancing," while her whole body is shaking.
Dave said, "She doesn't care who you are, where you're from, what your background is. She just wants to be your friend. She will introduce herself ... and ask for a hug from complete strangers."
Dave said Breanna cares only about helping others.
"One time we were going down the elevator from a doctor's visit. A woman was there, and you could tell she was in a really bad mood. And Breanna asked to be friends and asked for a hug," he said.
"I could see that this woman changed. She saw Breanna and what she was going through. Instead of being upset about her circumstances, she must have realized it couldn't compare to what Breanna was going through. And Breanna wasn't unhappy."
After Breanna's diagnosis, Kim had to quit her job. And in a now single-income family with all of Breanna's medical expenses, it's difficult to afford additional costs. For instance, their home has two floors, and Breanna's bedroom is on the top floor. The hallway is too narrow to fit a wheelchair, so her mother has to carry her upstairs every morning and each night. And, as Breanna grows, Kim is worried that one day, she won't be able to pick her up anymore.
While the family saves up for an addition to the first floor so Breanna can have her bedroom downstairs, a wheelchair-accessible van is also a necessity -- one they cannot afford.
"Everything associated with a disability is more expensive," said Dave. "It's a lot more money than a normal van. The average van costs 30 (thousand dollars) to $40,000. These are in the 50-to-$60,000 range."
Kim said, with the family's current van, she has to lift Breanna into her car seat and then lift her wheelchair into the trunk. With an accessible van, Breanna could roll into the van without being transferred.
Kim said Breanna likes to go out with her. But since she has grown, Kim said it's more difficult to take her places and lift her by herself.
"She's actually said to me, 'Mom, you don't have to take me out. I will just stay at home and watch TV because I know how difficult it is to put me in my chair.' It's not fair to her," said Kim. "But I have to leave her at home (with a caregiver) on some of those outings."
Kim described Breanna as "God's gift" -- a sweet girl who never excludes anyone and never talks mean about others.
"(Breanna) makes people understand that life is too short to be upset about little things," Dave added.
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Brock bows out of governor's race
MONTPELIER Republican Randy Brock, the Vermont GOPs nominee for governor in 2012, announced in an email Sunday that he will not challenge Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin again this year.
Brock, a former state auditor and state senator, had been publicly mulling a run. His decision comes after Stowe Rep. Heidi Scheuermann and former Wall Street executive Bruce Lisman already bowed out this year.
Scott Milne, president of Milne Travel, is the only other known Republican considering a run. Milne has said he wants a primary, however.
I will not be a candidate for Governor of Vermont in 2014, Brock wrote in his email. This decision has not been easy to reach. I have arrived at it over several months after careful thought, much input and serious deliberation.
Brock lost the 2012 race to Shumlin after winning only 38 percent of the vote after putting about $300,000 of his own money into the campaign. Brock said he was not prepared to pump his own cash into a race this year.
He said he is opting out of challenging Shumlin again this year despite persistent urging to do so from supporters.
I am thankful to the many Vermonters who have called upon me to run. I have heard from people from all over our state offering words of encouragement, he wrote. This outpouring of support from so many has been extremely heartening and I will always be grateful for their unwavering loyalty.
Brock, noting that his name will not appear on a ballot for the first time in 10 years, said he will miss being out on the campaign trail. But, sitting the election out is the right decision for me and my family, he said.
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