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I was just curious what people's opinions are on the cyclones? I think they look great but for some reason I am more drawn to the wheels the car comes with. Even the turbine wheels are almost a shade too sporty for me, but they are very beautiful. The only thing that pushed me firmly away from the 21's was talking to my friend who has the 21's and as such the thinner tires on her Panamera and she has had to replace five tires in two years. Luckily she purchased the tire warranty. I saw the Rial Lugano's at tirerack.com and they look like a great 19" alternative to the turbine if you get the right lug nuts, pressure sensors, the right guy puts them on for you, etc. But honestly I am not sure it is worth all that trouble when you can just get the cyclones through Tesla with the Tesla logo on them, and the primacy tire upgrade. Plus if you look closely, the Rial's are slightly more curved and thus more sporty and masculine than the Tesla Turbine design. And I guess I would also be really worried about them flying off the car if they weren't installed correctly. So that brings me back to my first question, namely, esthetically which do you prefer, 19" cylcone or standard? So far, I think I am just leaning toward the standard wheels but I would love to hear what others think. Thanks!
The cyclones look cheap to me. Also note that the spokes are grouped into pairs with more space between pairs. To me it's jarring because when I look at a turbine or fan, I expect the blades to be evenly spaced. Visually, the pairing makes the wheel look like a mistake or a bad design. But that's just my opinion.
After having a loaner with 21" turbine wheels, I am so glad I got the stock 19" wheels. The turbines/cyclones are too busy. The stock wheels make a nice first impression while visually getting out of the way as you admire the sexy brakes.
The Turbines, the Cyclones, and the Rial Luganos all turn backwards on the right-hand side of the car. That's a no go for me, but if you don't mind that, then just pick what you personally like best.
Interesting that they turn backwards on the right-hand side. Makes sense. Thanks for the tip.
Never a good question to ask because you're getting the opinions of people (which are all personal) and I'd bet no one commenting has even actually seen them on a car. And I laugh every time someone comments about them turning "backwards"!
Personally, I think the standard wheels are quite nice and that they look better in real life, plus, if you like seeing those Brembos, they're a good choice. Having said that, I ordered the cyclones myself because I liked the way they looked in the renderings.
I'll find out if that was a good choice when I do get the beast. Considering getting them painted gray.
Don't like backwards? Would you prefer the wheels created a vacuum or a hi-pressure bubble under the car?
Thanks GaryREM. I think the cyclones look great. They are a sound option if you want that look without the tires that need to be replaced pretty often. My friend does not race her Panamera around. She does very little freeway driving, mostly around town mom-stuff driving. But there are potholes and the tires pick up nails or other debris and sure enough one needs to be replaced 2-3 times a year. Even with the tire warranty she has (assuming you could get such a thing from TM) I cannot imagine sitting in the service center 2 or 3 times a year wasting time while my tires are changed when I could be doing something else. She said she regrets getting those tires, and I believe her. I remember when I was deciding whether to forgo ordering the 21's someone else said to me, "If you get them, you need to get the run flat tires or you will be changing them all the time." Sounds awesome. Not. So yeah, the cyclones are great. And I have seen them; I saw them at the Service Center when I wanted to see different colors in person, and they look amazing. All of the wheel options look amazing. It's such a beautiful car, you can't go wrong. One thing that I think I will do regardless of whether I get the cyclones is upgrade the tires to the Primacy. Should have done that from the outset. Please post pictures of your MS when you get it. I am sure it will be gorgeous. :)
I like the cyclones.
I don't like the cyclones as much as the turbine grey wheels. They look amazing! I was at the Hawthorne supercharger and saw a P85+ with the turbines with dark grey and I would buy those in a heart beat if they sold them for the 19' wheels.
The turbine greys are the best and hide brake dust.
I can't really see the wisdom of 21" tires when there's NO all-season option. At all. Even if the price of a spare set of winter rims is small compared to a $120,000+ car, they're still not an expense I'd want since I'd upgrade to the turbines to use the turbines, not some other rims for half the year (they'd have to be something different looking anyway to be worthwhile).
They listened and finally gave a 19" version of the turbines. Maybe they'll also give us a 20"....Because 20" are big enough to give the look of the 21", but way more options for tires, including all-season.
I would likely end up getting stock rims and finding some other 20" option.
Actually, I heard from Tezzla (during the prolonged test drive he graciously allowed me to take in his car) that Tire Rack has 19" turbines coming out in late October. I'm thinking of just going with the stock and trading them out one the new ones arrive.
TireRack will be carrying the 19" Rial Lugano wheels. Not exactly the same look as Tesla's turbines but pretty similar.
The cyclone design reduces brake dust buildup, but the standard wheels look much much much better.
@ NoMoDinos & Joehuber - Really? Did you hear anything about pricing on the 19' Turbines? I'll have to look out for them. I think they look awesome.
Let me list my not so great concerns on the matter:
1) If we're talking aerodynamics, is it better to have air cross flow on a car moving forward vs sucking air from under the car?
2) With cross air flow, the left and right hand side of the car will get different drag (air is easier to push out from under the car vs pushed in, or maybe vice versa). This theoretically makes the vehicle less stable and disrupts the rearward airflow or not?
3) How big is the aerodynamic influence of one wheel/rim type vs the other? Does it noticeably matter if air goes in or out at all?
4) Tesla arguably originally wanted the Turbines to be mirrored but decided not to because of cost / convenience reasons. The Lotus Evora is another car with turbine wheels available which ARE mirrored. Why would anyone bother if it was better to let them turn backwards?
5) Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn about the aerodynamics anyway, because I think the influence of how the Turbine wheel is rotating is minimal. At least I hope so! I simply really don't like the looks of the rearward turning rims on the righthand side of the car. But that's just in my eye and other people may not even notice it or may not care which is great! This matter of taste has nothing to do with aerodynamics.
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Well for those that do like the turbine-look I too noted that tirerack states that both the black and the silver luganos will be available in late October but the arrival date seems to keep pushing back so I wouldn't be surprised if it keeps getting delayed. My research indicates that a German company called Wolfrace may have a wider selection of Lugano turbine styles. I think for now I am going to stick with the original wheels and see how I like them for a week or so. If I feel my heart tugging for the turbine style then I will probably explore getting the Luganos from tirerack or wolfrace.
The Wolfrace website is www.wolfrace.com and the page with the Lugano selection is here:
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Quality and Choice
As part of our Wolfrace GB range of alloy wheels, the radically unique Lugano is the latest edition and is being hailed as ground breaking in terms of its quality. An instantly eye-catching design with both the spokes and the rim edge finished in a combination of gloss black with high quality polished surfaces, this particular alloy wheel has recently been approved as an aftermarket solution for Renault cars. If you are looking for alloy wheel Renault then you will be hard pressed to find a more contemporary style, as the Lugano's ten twisted turbine spokes coupled with the unique colouration makes for a boundless number of fantastic viewing angles. As with all the Wolfrace GB alloy wheels, it is made in Germany and comes with TUV certification. If you are unsure what design to go for, then it may be worth first considering what size wheel you want, as you will find 15, 16, 17 and 18 alloy wheels for sale on our website. There is so much choice in fact that we recommend customers to use the drop-down box facility to speed up the process of tracking down the perfect alloy wheels.
Yikes. Just saw this link on another thread but wanted to share it in case anyone else is thinking about 19" wheels. Edmunds as of September 20th is not happy about the 21" tires. Not happy at all.
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I have some free time. I want to develop some android apps. I know a little bit of html, css and basics in C programing. The problem is I don't know any java or .net. I have to start from scratch and should learn on my own. Is it possible? If possible what should I learn to make some quality apps? I can spend time if I can learn.
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The easiest way to get started would be to download the Android SDK. You would be coding in Java. When I started with this I had never used Java before either, but it didn't take too long to pick up having done C and related languages before.
There are also a lot of getting started guides and tutorials on the same site.
From my personal experience, starting with the framework and tools and following tutorials, allowed me to pick up the Java language and enjoy doing it more than I would have if I had just focused on learning Java by itself.
First and foremost start with basic Java. Then learn about XML and web services. You also need to know database operations. Get started with SQLite database tutorials. Search google for beginner tutorials on Android. You can also look into "Beginning Android 4 Application Development" book.
If you have HTML skills, the go get a html-based cross-platform toolkit, such as Apache Cordova.
Then you can develop for iOS as well. There's no need to learn Java for Android dev, just because that's what they use in the SDK. You could use C with the NDK, but there are easier toolkits available, and IMHO learning a cross-platform toolkit is worth the effort.
With a front-end web development skill set such as your own, you could go the route of something like Apache Cordova - combined with a framework such as JQTouch or jQuery Mobile... However I wouldn't advise that!
So with that in mind, you'll be best of learning Java - which the Android SDK requires. Now depending on your experience with C, this may not be too difficult.
C will have given you a good introduction to the syntax of Java, introduced you to the principles of flow control, variables, data types and so on. This is all good, and it's also pretty universal amongst mainstream languages. (Note, that's not a rule though. Ruby and Python are just two examples of languages that are more diverse)
The main thing that C wont have taught you is "Object Orientation"; and this is one big thing to try and grasp - especially with regards to Java. (It's essential to have an understanding of this) You'll be using some form of "Design Pattern" when developing your apps, possibly "MVC".
The three things I've highlighted are the three things I'd deem essential to understand; Object Oriented Programming and some basic design patterns; if only MVC to begin with.
For Java - Oracle have some good documentation, inherited from the Sun days here. If you go through the basic tutorials you'll have a fairly good foundation to work upon.
Now for Object Orientation - honestly speaking, I spent a couple of years bumbling about this topic - and it never truly clicked until I looked at Design Patterns. I'd suggest this website OODesign as a good resource. You wont find anything regarding MVC on there though, as technically it's a 'composite pattern' - meaning a mixture; so just read the wiki article and experiment!
Now that's my advice for getting a good understanding of Java; required for the Android SDK. Or you could do what I did, downloaded it and messed around making a lot of mistakes but learning a lot at the same time... ;)
In short - yes!! It's totally possible to learn in your own time, I would even advise it! Just take time out and experiment, read what you can and remember you have communities such as StackOverflow to fall back on. Hell, I often read topics about subjects I'm trying to learn - just to get some more knowledge.
There's training videos and books available that will take you step by step, but if you want the underlying knowledge first then I hope the advice above will hold you in good fortune. Overall, good luck and enjoy it!
You need to learn the beyond-basics of Java and also have a solid understanding of Object Oriented Programming if you want to avoid hard time on comprehending the Android Framework. Because if you don't, you will have a hard time of understanding the codes when you search on the internet and also the android developer site.
It may take a many days or a week doing so, but rest assured worth it and saves you a lot of time later om your development effort.
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We were just talking about the state of protection warriors in the Beta, and lo and behond, not only do we get a new prot-heavy beta build to try out, but we also get those long sought warrior glyphs to drool over. So what are the big changes? Well, MMO Champion and World of Raids have the lists but some of the standouts are worth mentioning here.
For starters, warriors get a variety of changes aimed at tanking: Warbringer allows a prot warrior to charge in combat, in any stance, Thunder Clap's damage is increased by 50%, and Damage Shield, a new ability, causes warriors to deal damage whenever hit by a damaging attack or when they block an incoming attack equal to 10/20% of block value. With the new way strength adds to block, this is an indirectly scaling with AP ability. Improved Shield Block now is folded into Shield Mastery, Vitality now adds expertise in addition to strength and stamina, and several abilities have had their threat reduced but their direct damage increased to compensate. A change that surprised me greatly was seeing Sword and Board now adding yup to 15% critical strike chance to Devastate in addition to resetting Shield Slam's cooldown and reducing it's rage cost by 100%. This could make devastate a very attractive DPS option in the right gear.
And Shield Wall is back up to 60% damage reduction for 12 seconds. The Improved Shield Wall talent is gone, replaced by Improved Disciplines, which lowers the cooldown on Retaliation, Recklessness and Shield Wall by 60 seconds max.
Arms and Fury see smaller changes: Bladestorm now whirlwinds every second for six seconds, Weapon Throw is now Heroic Throw, does half AP instead of 100% of AP, and has a minute cooldown. Enraged Assault is changed, it now consumes an enrage and prevents you from being enraged while it's up, but regenerates 30% of your health over 10 seconds. Nice enough (and the thunderclap change is big for tanking) but clearly this was a prot pass for warriors.
There are some nice glyphs in this build as well. Tanking warriors will go nuts for the Glyph of Resonating Power - it allows your thunder clap to hit four more targets! Combined with the new DPS of the ability and the new talent Damage Shield, warrior AoE tanking should have just gotten a very large boost. The Glyph of Cleaving, which reduced rage cost on cleaves by 5, should be good for AoE DPS and tanking, but while quite a few of these glyphs will be awesome for tanking (Glyph of Blocking, Glyph of Devastate, Glyph of Sunder Armor, Glyph of Revenge to name but a few) the ones aimed at pure DPS or PvP abilities seem lackluster in comparison. Glyph of Mortal Strike, for instance, increases the ability's damage by 10% but cuts the healing debuff in half: I don't know many PvP warriors who'd make that trade.
Some big changes for tanking warriors all told. I'm very anxious to get online right now and try them out, in fact, so we'll end this discussion here. Don't forget to check out all the changes yourselves.


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Ron Helsel wasn't exactly sure what he was getting himself into.
He's president of Lesleh Precision Inc., a precision machine shop. He was operating out of a 10,000-square-foot building in Lower Speers, making parts and pieces for various industries, when an opportunity arose.
He got a call from Holger Schweisthal, president and CEO of PIAD Precision Casting Corp. in Greensburg. The company is the largest permanent mold foundry in the nation, Schweisthal said.
Schweisthal was casting the distinctive "high-strength nickel bronze" receivers and buttplates used in making Big Boy lever-action rifles for Henry Repeating Arms Co. A machine shop in New Jersey was finishing them.
That shop wasn't meeting the standards Henry had in mind, though, so the company asked Schweisthal if he knew of anyone else who might be able to do the job.
Enter Helsel. With at least some trepidation.
He figured he could make the Big Boy parts. But he also knew — as did Schweisthal — that if he was going to take over the job of being the only maker of Big Boy receivers in the country, he was going to have to greatly expand his operation.
"I told him this is either going to work for you or you're going to go bankrupt," Schweisthal said.
"That's exactly what he said," Helsel remembered. "He said, 'I'm not sure if I'm helping you or hurting you.' "
It sure seems like it's helped him so far.
Helsel has gone all in. He's spent $2.5 million to buy new equipment in the past six months, and another $2 million to buy the 35,000-square-foot building in Rostraver he moved into a month ago. He's become PIAD's second-largest of 300 customers along the way, having gone from ordering $40,000 in materials a year to $2 million last year. He expects to top that in 2014.
At the same time, he's looking to grow his work force from 35 to 50 people, all so that he can manufacture rifle parts full-time.
And still that's not too much.
When he began working with Henry, the goal was to produce parts for a couple of hundred Big Boys a month, Helsel said. Now, he said he's trying to create 1,000 guns a week.
"We've been shipping from empty shelves for three to four years now, which means that as soon as a rifle gets packaged, it's out the door," said Henry president and owner Anthony Imperato.
"I have to order their guns a year ahead of time, and even then they trickle in. I have to, or I'd never get any," said Tim Brown, owner of John Brown's Armory in Rochester, a "gold level" Henry dealer. "They can sell every gun they make."
Big Boy rifles came to be in 2003 based on the popularity of Henry's "Golden Boy," a .22-caliber lever action, Imperato said. They come in three brush-busting calibers, .44 magnum, .45 Colt and .357 magnum. Some people hunt with them. Others use them in cowboy action shooting competition.
They are not the dominant rifle in those competitions, in large part because they are "a replica of nothing, it's a total new design" in a game where authenticity counts for much, said Matt Mastorovich of Export, and a cowboy shooter himself. But Henry is made up of "good people" and their rifles do have dedicated fans, he added.
Kristopher Kniha of Washington is one. He typically competes in two cowboy shoots a month from April through October, putting 60 rounds through his .45 Colt Big Boy each time. He's found the gun to be reliable and fun, he said.
"It seems to shoot pretty strong and where I want it to go. And the action's really smooth," Kniha said. "So I'm really happy with it."
It takes a lot of people to make a Big Boy, Imperato said. Perhaps as many as 15 suppliers are involved.
"Making a gun, it's quite complicated. Besides all of the parts involved, and all of the processes, you're taking a typical gun that contains 50, 60, 70 pieces and you've got to make it feed, you've got to make it so that it can handle the explosion of a round, you've got to make it accurate. It's not like making salt shakers," Imperato said.
But "the Big Boy starts right here," Helsel said.
That's been good for PIAD, which operates 26 furnaces in its Greensburg plant. Two of them — each manned by two men at a time and operating two eight-hour shifts per day — are dedicated solely to making Henry parts, Schweisthal said.
It's been good for Helsel, too. He's now making not only the Big Boys, but all of Henry's centerfire rifles, including the new Henry Original, a replica of the lever action built and patented by Benjamin Tyler Henry in 1860.
That's been great, he said. But the enormity of his expansion still sometimes gives him pause, he admitted.
"When you start, it's pretty intimidating. When you're in the middle, you're too scared to quit, and at the end you think it wasn't so bad," Helsel said. "But I'm not ready to say that yet."
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Use Stone Fruit to Get Rid of Stress
Did you know how good stone fruits are for you? They actually help you get rid of stress. The way I figure it, it is said we should eat nine fruits and vegetables daily. For your fruit part eat stone fruit then perhaps you won't get stressed or will stop stress already there.
Did you ever hear of a plout? If you haven't, it is an hybrid fruit of an apricot and plum. I never saw one so they may be hard to find, but if you can find them, buy one to see if you like it. You will be less stressed because it will give you enough energy to get everything you want to get done (with what you planned wouldn't be impossible). This fruit has Vitamin K which makes your circulation better so that more blood with oxygen can oxygen to the brain and the rest of your body.
Apricots are full of beta-carotene and it can help keep your skin look younger than you are. The reason is explained in the journal, Dermatology. Beta carotene is a nutrient that stops the breakdown of a protein that makes your skin look young and firm. This protein is called procollagen. Besides keeping your skin young, beta carotene helps neutralize the UV waves from the sun, which can cause your skin to wrinkle and sag at too young of an age. An example of this would be that lady that has been in the news for tanning so much she is 48 and looks 80. Don't just count on beta carotene in the sun, remember your sun block.
Do you want to prevent free radical damage to the fat in your brain? If you do, plums have two things in them called neochlorogenic acid and chlorogenic acid. It also has been shown that those who eat plums increases how fast you learn something and may help put off Alzheimer's Disease or maybe even prevent it.
Those who are busy taking care of your kids, 4 of them under 5 and feel like you just want to crawl in bed, but you still have to cook dinner? Do you give dinner making duty to your husband and go to bed as soon as he gets home from work, or do you what you should do, go to the refrigerator and to help calm your mind eat a nectarine. There was reseach from Korea that your body doesn't give out as much stress hormones because of the pectin in nectarines, you should be relaxed in about 30 minutes.
Do you have heart disease in your family? Are you alright now, without heart disease and don't want it? This fruit I am going to name isn't guaranteed you won't get heart problems because a lot of heredity goes into acquiring a heart disease. But it never hurts to try and help keep the disease away from you. What you should eat is a good and juicy peach. The reasons to try peaches are, as Harvard University's because the fruit has lycopene. Peaches are able to help you lower your LDL or bad cholesterol. It can also lower your triglycerides. This fruit can lower your chance of heart disease by 34%.
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Releasing painful muscles, not strengthening them, is the first step in hip pain relief.
In my last post I wrote about my perspective as a Hanna Somatic Educator regarding chronic hip pain and what is counterproductive, and what works.
- Strengthening painful hip muscles can cause further pain or injury.
- Learning to relax the muscles and the pattern of contraction the muscles are stuck in can provide long lasting pain relief, relaxed hip joints, and balanced movement.
Exercises such as the "clam shell," and lateral leg lifts tighten the hip muscles, making it more difficult to move the hip. They can, in fact, create more pain. Sitting with the soles of the feet together and pushing the knees out to "stretch out" the inner thighs can cause tight adductors to contract back against the force of the stretch. Even psoas "stretches" performed in isolation, can induce the stretch reflex, causing muscles to tighten back against the stretch.
- Address the pattern of contraction, not the individual muscles.
- PANDICULATION is the most effective way of regaining muscle function, improving movement and re-setting muscle length. When you contract a muscle first, then lengthen and relax it you address muscle function at the level of the nervous system. You provide needed sensory feedback to the brain and "wake up" the cortex to take back control of the muscular system.
I hope some of you tried the small sample of simple Somatic Movements I included in my last post. Here's a wonderful variation of one of my favorite somatic exercises, called the "steeple twist." This variation, made by Charlie Murdoch (a Hanna Somatic Educator and Feldenkrais practitioner) shows how differentiating movements with the hips creates improved overall movement. Remember to go slowly and only as far as is comfortable. "Micro-movements" are perfectly fine!
All these movements are a good beginning to learning to relax the muscles involved in the "trauma reflex."
Improved body awareness and muscle control is crucial when you have structural damage, like a labral tear.
If you know you're injured, and your doctor tells you to "wait and see," or "it's not a big deal," then it's critically important focus your attention on how your brain and muscles are compensating to deal with the injury (Sensory Motor Amnesia), and how that is changing the way in which you move. Improving somatic awareness applies to all of us – elite athletes, teenagers, and Baby Boomers hitting their 60's. Unconscious and habituated functional problems left unchecked can, over the years, result in structural damage.
Do you have to be A-Rod to get a good doctor?
About a year ago I finally convinced my doctor to give me an X-ray on my hip. I had intermittent hip pain that I knew intuitively wasn't merely a functional issue. The X-ray showed a tumor on my hip and an MRI confirmed a tumor, the result of two labral tears. My surgeon, a well known sports medicine doctor here in New Jersey, took time to show me my results: labral tears, osteoarthritis, a tumor. He told me that, "there's just not enough science out there about labral tears to go ahead and do the surgery."
Unrepaired labral tears could create the need for a hip replacement in years to come.
Before he walked out the door I asked, "do you think that if you don't fix the tear in my hip now, and I walk around compensating for slightly the next 5 years due to intermittent pain, that I might be causing worse structural damage, thus setting me me up for a full hip replacement?" He replied, "yes, that just might be the case."
As I said in my first post about hip pain, it didn't take Alex Rodriguez's doctors long to figure out that if the Yankees were going to get their star player back on the field, earning his millions and hitting home runs, labral tear surgery was a must. ASAP. No absence of scientific data there.
So where does that leave the rest of us?
In googling, "labral tear surgery" recently, I came upon a forum on both Men's Health and Runner's World. The desperate pleas for help regarding recovery from labral tear surgery were horrifying. Terrifying. Depressing. From the feedback I read, never in my life would I consider this kind of surgery. The one saving grace was this: I'd be willing to bet that few to none of these people realized that their original functional problem – the trauma reflex that got them into the problem in the first place – wouldn't be solved by the surgery. The surgery helped to repair the structural damage, which is wonderful. It didn't address the sensory motor amnesia that altered their movement in the first place.
Surgery combined with Somatic Education focused on regaining full functioning of the body as an integrated whole and skilled physical therapy would be a winning combination.
I'd be willing to bet that what A-Rod got was a winning combination: excellent surgeons, excellent functional trainers, and PTs who knew what to look for (gait symmetry, ribcage symmetry, evenly swinging hips, even leg length that comes from relaxed obliques, lats and abdominals). I would add to anyone's rehabilitation program Hanna Somatic Education.
So while the jury's not out about what route I will decide to take – or have the option to take. Improving my own sensory motor system and paying attention to my daily movement habits (which are fodder for yet another blog post) is critically important and profoundly helpful in creating long lasting pain relief….which is what we're all looking for, right?
I teach a variety of workshops on how to release tight hip joints, hamstrings, backs, necks and shoulders. There are lots of movement patterns, and each one gives more and different sensory feedback to your brain, in order for your brain to intelligently and safely increase flexibility, proprioception and muscle control. If you'd like to bring me to your area for workshops, weekend seminars or private, clinical sessions, please contact me. There are lots of options for learning more: online video consultation, phone consultation or private sessions.


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|Let's Run Park (Jeju Racecourse) (렛츠런파크제주 (제주경마공원))
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|Jeju Racecourse is situated at the base of Mt. Hallasan, 450 m above sea level, with a great view of Baekrokdam and the ocean. It was first set up to protect the Jeju Horse (Natural Monument #347) in 1990. It is open around the year to provide space for excursions, picnic parties and exercises.
Its main facilities are the racetrack made of sand which is 1,600m in length and 20m in width, examination hall where you can see the conditions of the horses before the race, spectators' floors from 3rd basement floor to the ground floor, holding 3000 persons per floor, 100 monitors, 100 ticket desks, information desks and a free parking lot which can hold 2000 cars.
From July to August, races are held between 4:25 PM~9:20 PM. In the vicinity is the Eoksae Flower Garden which is so beautiful that it is the subject of the "Jeju Eoksae Flower Festival"
|Operating Hours
[Facilities inside of park]
11:00-17:00 (16:00)
Friday 09:30 / Saturday & Sunday 09:00
* 11:00 (Friday; Noeul racing period) / 11:30 (Friday-Sunday; departing time changed during summer season)
* Subject to changes due to special events
|Admission Fees
|2,000 won (Free admission without racing scheduled, teens under 19 can enter free of charge.)
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Every Fridays and Saturdays (January 10 – December 20, 2014)
- New Year's Day holidays
- Seollal holidays
- Hot seasons (roughly around mid-August)
- 1 day before Chuseok
- Cold seasons (roughly around late December)
|Subsidiary Facilities
|International Horse Experiencing Zoo, children's adventure land, Happy Land, Dream's plaza, convenient facilities, and food street
|Program Activities
|Purchase of tickets:
Horse race tickets can be bought from 100 won to 100,000 won. There are four kinds including sperfecta, perfecta, quinella, and exacta. Purchase of tickets are possible with Korean currency (won) only. Foreign currency (dollar, yen) should be exchanged at the exchange desk at the spectators' area.
Take a city bus from Jeju Express Bus Terminal to Seogwipo or Moseulpo (10min intervals)
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Chewing tobacco brands, facts, side effects and cancers.
To the contrary, chewing tobacco products contain nicotine at levels that compete with cigarettes and have not been approved as nicotine replacement therapies. If anything, they a mere another route of administering nicotine apart from smoking tobacco. However, some smoking tobacco users have found them useful in helping them quit tobacco altogether.
Smokeless tobacco products like chewing tobacco have since been established to be responsible for oral cancers. There are other conflicting studies that suggest otherwise but these seem to have been overtaken by a growing body of information pointing to cancer association.
For those who wish to stick to their addiction the contrary studies are perfect loopholes top justify continued use. Chewing tobacco facts suggest a different story all in all.
However cancer evidence shown through pictures indicate untold body destruction especially around the area of the mouth and teeth. Avoidable carnage that only those with nerves of steal can withstand. Follow link to view in chewing tobacco side effects pictures.
Chewing tobacco products
It is also known by its other names chewing tobacco and spit tobacco. To administer, a piece of tobacco is positioned in-between cheek and lower lip towards the back of the mouth.It can be chewed or held in place until juices are made with saliva. Saliva can be spit or swallowed. Swallowing saliva leads to stomach ulcers and stomach ache. Holding the tobacco repeatedly on the same place causes sores that might become cancerous.
Moist Plug - is also used in the United States and consists of enriched tobacco leaves, fine tobacco mixed with a sweetener and or licorie.It is administered the same way as loose leaf chew above.
It has similar medical adverse effects.Moist Plug comes in its trade mark brick or flat block with at least 15% moisture. It has a bit of sugar in it because of the molasses-based syrup in which the ingredients are compressed.
In the olden days the compressing was done by hand between tin sheets. Consumers cut a piece or chew off a corner into the mouth ease encouraged by the sweet syrup. This causes tooth decay in some users.
Zarda - is found in India and some Arab countries in its brand variants Baba, Bharat or Gopal. Ingredients include tobacco, lime, spices, vegetable dyes and areca nut.
Users have an option to use it as an ingredient in betel quid or simply to chew it. In manufacturing Zarda, tobacco leaves are cut into pieces and simmered with lime and spicies. After dying, the half done formula is colored with vegetable dyes before being mixed with finally chopped areca nuts.
The pictures show how Zarda is delivered to the market as a finished product.
These chewing tobacco products hardly talk about the adverse effects which are now apparent in users. This is also because anti-smoking campaigns have been heavily focused on smoking tobacco. The tide might turn soon as the United Nations is taking active interest in campaigning for countries to equally look into smokeless tobacco products.
Quitting smoking is admittedly hard yet it can be done. Studies show that following a stop smoking program and using stop smoking aids doubles success rates in most people. If you are deciding on stopping smoking you will require adequate information as well as good tools to help you succeed. Whilst we understand that not all tools are meant for everyone we found this LifeSign QuitKey Smoking Cessation Computer handy. It works like a quit smoking program which alters your smoking routine easing you off cigarettes gradually. Please take your time to check if this is for you.
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iMUSH active experiment will show on PNSN stations
The iMUSH active experiment will start this Tuesday (Jul 22) night with a number of explosions being set off in boreholes in the general Mount St. Helens area. The PNSN is making available realtime seismic data from our stations for iMUSH scientists (and anyone) to monitor these shots as they occur. See the iMUSH blog entry for these realtime recordings.


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Sears Signs Lease Agreement With DICK's Sporting Goods At King of Prussia Mall Sears to update its 215,000 square foot store at largest mall on east coast, DICK's Sporting Goods to occupy upper level PR Newswire HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Jan. 16, 2014 HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Jan. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) announced today that the company has signed a sublease with DICK's Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS), to occupy a portion of its second floor at the King of Prussia Mall in King of Prussia, Pa. The two story anchor building will be renovated with Sears maintaining exterior entrances on both levels and the mall entrance on level one. DICK's Sporting Goods will have exclusive use of the mall entrance on level two and have its own exterior entrances. King of Prussia Mall is one of the largest malls in the United States and is owned and managed by Simon Property Group. The Sears store, on a long-term ground lease with Simon Property Group, currently occupies 215,000 square feet on two levels. DICK's Sporting Goods will occupy the upper level. "The sublease agreement with DICK's Sporting Goods is a great example of Sears Holdings selectively redeploying its asset base to dramatically improve our retail shopping experience while working to create long-term shareholder value," said Alan Shaw, vice president, Real Estate Leasing and Development for Sears Holdings. "King of Prussia Mall customers and our Shop Your Way members will also benefit from the sublease as we use this opportunity to enhance the store shopping experience for them." "We are looking forward to bringing DICK's Sporting Goods to the King of Prussia Mall," said Dan Chadwick, director of Real Estate, DICK's Sporting Goods. "It has been great working closely with Sears Holdings on this outstanding space and this partnership will be a win-win situation for our respective customers. As always, we will provide the top-of-the-line retail and service experience that people have come to expect from DICK's Sporting Goods." King of Prussia, with over 2.9 million square feet, boasts more retail space than any other shopping attraction in America. The center features a diverse roster of over 400 merchants, including a collection of luxury retailers unsurpassed in the region, and more than 40 international dining options in three food courts and in casual and fine dining establishments. "The addition of DICK's Sporting Goods to King of Prussia Mall adds a quality retailer who expands the merchandise offerings to our consumers and enhances an already great retail and entertainment destination for the Philadelphia region," said David Contis, president of Simon Malls. "This project will bring more energy and activity to this area of the mall, where customers will also find easy access to restaurants and other dining choices." "Sears Holdings has a long and successful history of value creation through the selective and strategic redeployment of our existing real estate base" said Jeff Stollenwerck, senior vice president and president, Real Estate for Sears Holdings. "We have executeda number of these transactions that serve as an additional revenue stream, drive efficiency in our store operations and bring in increased customer traffic." For information on additional opportunities at other Sears Holdings' retail locations interested parties can visit http://www.shcrealty.com. About Sears Holdings Corporation Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is a leading integrated retailer with almost 2,500 full-line and specialty retail stores in the United States and Canada and the home of Shop Your Way, a social shopping experience where members have the ability to earn points and receive benefits across a wide variety of physical and digital formats through ShopYourWay.com. Sears Holdings is the leading home appliance retailer as well as a leader in tools, lawn and garden, fitness equipment and automotive repair and maintenance. Key proprietary brands include Kenmore, Craftsman and DieHard, with a broad apparel offering, including such well-known labels as Lands' End, the Kardashian Kollection, Jaclyn Smith and Joe Boxer, as well as Sofia by Sofia Vergara and The Country Living Home Collection. We are the nation's largest provider of home services, with more than 14 million service and installation calls made annually, and have a long-established commitment to those who serve in the military through initiatives like the Heroes at Home program. We have been named the 2011 Mobile Retailer of the Year, Recipient of the 2013 ENERGY STAR® "Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence Award" for Product Retailing and Energy Management and one of the Top 20 Best Places to Work for Recent Grads. Sears Holdings Corporation operates through its subsidiaries, including Sears, Roebuck and Co. and Kmart Corporation. For more information, visit Sears Holdings' website at www.searsholdings.com. Twitter: @searsholdings || Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SHCCareers. About DICK'S Sporting Goods DICK'S Sporting Goods,Inc. is an authentic full-line sports and fitness specialty omni-channel retailer offering a broad assortment of high quality, competitively-priced brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel and footwear in a specialty store environment. The Company also owns and operates Golf Galaxy, LLC, a golf specialty retailer. As of November19, 2013, the Company operated 558 DICK'S Sporting Goods stores in 46 states, 82 Golf Galaxy stores in 30 states and eCommerce websites and catalog operations for DICK'S Sporting Goods and Golf Galaxy. AboutSimon Property Group Simon Property Group, Inc.(NYSE: SPG) is anS&P100 company and a global leader in the retail real estate industry. The Company currently owns or has an interest in more than 325 retail real estate properties inNorth AmericaandAsiacomprising approximately 242 million square feet. We are headquartered inIndianapolis, Indianaand employ approximately 5,500 people in the U.S. For more information, visitwww.simon.com. NEWS MEDIA CONTACTS: Sears Holdings Public Relations (847) 286-8371 DICK's Sporting Goods Cassise Eberle (704) 987-4112 Simon Property Group Les Morris (317) 263-7711 SOURCE Sears Holdings Corporation Website: http://www.searsholdings.com
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|Pulmonary artery banding in the current era: Is it still useful?
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|PMID: 22529599 Owner: NLM Status: PubMed-not-MEDLINE
|BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to assess the results of the pulmonary artery (PA) banding in patients with congenital heart defects (CHD) and pulmonary hypertension (PH) in the current era.
METHODS: We analyzed data from 305 patients who underwent PA banding between April 2005 and April 2010 at our centre. All patients were approached through a left thoracotomy. Twenty percent of patients underwent PA banding based on Trusler's rule (Group 1), 55% of them underwent PA banding based on PA pressure measurement (Group 2), and the rest of them (25%) based on surgeon experience (Group 3). The follow-up period was 39 ± 20 month and 75% of patients (230 cases) had definitive repair at mean interval 23 ± 10 months.
RESULTS: The rate of anatomically and functionally effectiveness of PA banding in all groups was high (97% and 92%, respectively). There were no significant differences in anatomically and functionally efficacy rate between all groups (P=0.77, P=0.728, respectively). There was PA bifurcation stenosis in six cases (2%), and pulmonary valve injury in one case (0.3%). The mortality rate in PA banding was 2% and in definitive repair was 3%.
CONCLUSIONS: We believe that PA banding still plays a role in management of patients with CHD, particularly for infants with medical problems such as sepsis, low body weight, intracranial hemorrhage and associated non cardiac anomalies. PA banding can be done safely with low morbidity and mortality.
|Maziar Gholampour Dehaki; Ali Sadeghpour Tabaee; Changiz Azadi Ahmadabadi; Alireza Alizadeh Ghavidel; Gholamreza Omra
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|Created Date: 2012-04-24 Completed Date: 2012-10-02 Revised Date: 2013-05-29
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ERAP1 genetic variations associated with HLA-B27 interaction and disease severity of syndesmophytes formation in Taiwanese ankylosing spondylitis
Author affiliations
1 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, No. 5, Fu-Shin St. Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan, 33375 Taiwan
2 Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, No. 5, Fu-Shin St. Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan, 33375 Taiwan
3 Clinical Informatics and Medical Statistics Research Center, Chang Gung University, 259 Wenhua 1st Road, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan, 33375 Taiwan
4 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital and Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, Chang Gung University, No. 5, Fu-Shin St. Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan, 33375 Taiwan
5 Deptartment of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, 235B Animal Science/Vet. Med. Bldg., University of Minnesota,1988 Fitch Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
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Arthritis Research & Therapy 2012, 14:R125 doi:10.1186/ar3855Published: 25 May 2012
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a familial, heritable disease specified by syndesmophyte formation leading to an ankylosed spine. Endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidase 1 (ERAP1) genetic variations have been widely proved to be associated with AS in several ethnic populations. The aim of this study was to investigate whether ERAP1 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are associated with AS susceptibility and disease severity in Taiwanese.
Four ERAP1 SNPs (rs27037, rs27980, rs27044 and rs30187) were genotyped in 797 Taiwanese AS patients and 1,150 healthy controls. Distributions of genotype and alleles were compared between AS patients and healthy controls, and among AS patients stratified by clinical parameters.
The SNP rs27037T allele appeared to be a risk factor for AS susceptibility (P = 5.5 × 10-5, OR 1.30, 95% CI: 1.15 to 1.48; GT+TT vs. GG P = 9.3 × 10-5, OR 1.49, 95% CI: 1.22 to 1.82). In addition, the coding SNP (cSNP) rs27044G allele (P = 1.5 × 10-4, OR 1.28, 95% CI: 1.13 to 1.46; CG+GG vs. CC, P = 1.7 × 10-3, OR 1.44, 95% CI: 1.15 to 1.81) and the cSNP rs30187T allele (P = 1.7 × 10-3, OR 1.23, 95% CI: 1.08 to 1.40; CT+TT vs. CC P = 6.1 × 10-3, OR 1.38, 95% CI: 1.10 to 1.74) were predisposing factors for AS. Notably, the rs27044G allele carriers (CG+GG vs. CC, P = 0.015, OR 1.59, 95% CI: 1.33 to 2.30) and rs30187T allele carriers (CT+TT vs. CC, P = 0.011, OR 1.63, 95% CI: 1.12 to 2.38) were susceptible to syndesmophyte formation in AS patients. Furthermore, two cSNPs (rs27044 and rs30187) strongly associated with HLA-B27 positivity in AS patients. Finally, the ERAP1 SNP haplotype TCG (rs27037T/rs27980C/rs27044G) is a major risk factor for AS (adjusted P <0.00001, OR 1.38, 95% CI: 1.12 to 1.58) in Taiwanese.
This study provides the first evidence of ERAP1 SNPs involving syndesmophyte formation. The interactions between ERAP1 SNPs and HLA-B27 play critical roles in pMHC I pathway processing contributing to the pathogenesis of AS in multiple populations.


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If you look at the last financial statement dated June, you will see that production and overhead are 20% over revenue from their basket of Pgms. Higher production and cost production would help but it doesn't look good since they have been going backward for 5 years instead of forward. Their new mining plan might help but I doubt it would stop the bleeding.


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Myron L Meters Thanks the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ!
Our History
We Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ trace our roots to Dernbach, Germany where our foundress, Catherine Kasper was born in 1820.
Growing up, Catherine heard a "voice within" calling her to be compassionate and caring. She was faithful to the Spirit within her. Alert to the needs of those around her, she helped the poor and sick and took in those who were abandoned.
Other women joined her forming an Association of Charity. Catherine would walk many miles to consult with the Bishop of Limburg in the process of realizing her vision of a religious community. Her persistence and deep humility finally convinced Bishop Blum that God was at the center of her vision.
On August 15, 1851, Catherine and her four companions professed their vows in the parish church of Wirges, thus formally beginning the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ congregation.
Our Spirituality
What gave Catherine the strength to persevere in spite of the misgivings of Bishop Blum and others?
We need to look at Catherine's love of Mary, the Mother of God—a love nurtured by her frequent visits to a small chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Heilborn. Our Lady's faith response to what God asked motivated Catherine to respond in courage to the promptings of the Spirit within her.
That attentive heart and courageous spirit caught the first group of handmaids!
Onward to America
Catherine's deep concern for God's people and her trust that God would provide the resources needed strengthened her through difficult times. Soon a request for help came from Bishop John Henry Luers of Fort Wayne, IN. He had heard of Catherine and the community and asked for Sisters to serve the German immigrants in his diocese. Thus began the PHJC story in America!
Two hundred Sisters volunteered to go to the New World. Catherine, then known as Mother Mary, sent eight brave Sisters on the long trek to Indiana. These young Sisters journeyed by boat, train and farm wagon to arrive in Hessen Cassel, IN in August, 1868. Within a few days they opened St. Joseph School and began the characteristic PHJC response to requests for help.
The Sisters lived Mother Mary's vision, journeying into new territories and ministries, building "little houses" in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri and Pennsylvania before the start of the 20thcentury—bringing God's love to the poor, the sick and the needy.
In the 20th CenturyThe PHJC Community in the United States moved, opened, and closed many missions over the years. Poor Handmaids continued to minister in health care, education, and child care; as well as retreat, parish, and pastoral work.In the early 1920s the Motherhouse in America moved from Fort Wayne, IN to Donaldson, just west of Plymouth, IN.
In This Millennium
We have grown from an American Province focus to understanding ourselves as an international congregation. Sisters have served in Southeast Asia, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Germany, Brazil and Kenya. We've started missions in Mexico. We've done some soul-searching to get back to the roots of our foundress.
We've moved from many persons working in large institutions to working on a smaller scale meeting the needs in neighborhoods once served by some of those large institutions. We've changed our government structure to enable greater participation and accountability on the part of leadership and individual members. The Motherhouse is no longer simply a convent for the Sisters but now supports many ministries serving the surrounding community as the PHJC Ministry Center.
If you look at who we are as Sisters today, you will know that we look and live and pray differently than we did in 1868, 1968 or even 2000. We are fewer in number and we engage in different ministries. We welcome and struggle to realize different ways of living as followers of Catherine. We come together as Sisters, Associates, and the Fiat Spiritus Community.
The future of religious life in the United States is not as clear as it once seemed. Even amid the changes, we live as persons of faith who can hear Catherine's vision in our hearts and know God's presence and challenge in our journey.
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There are several studies that have been completed demonstrating that the symptoms veterans experience in relation to PTSD might have a negative impact on their family relationships, and that family relationships might also either improve or aggravate the PTSD a veteran experiences, as well as any comorbid conditions the veteran has. There are some common relationship issues veterans with PTSD experience.
Research has both examined and shown the effects of PTSD on relationships, revealing severe and pervasive negative effects on adjustment to marriage, mental health of partners, and functioning as a family in general, in some instances. Untreated PTSD and negative effects may result in issues such as family violence, compromised parenting, sexual issues, aggression, caregiver burden, and divorce.
Veterans who are male and who experience PTSD are more likely to report issues with their marriage or relationship. They are more likely to report trouble with parenting, and generally adjust to family life more poorly than veterans who do not experience PTSD. Research has demonstrated that veterans with PTSD tend to be less expressive and self-disclosing with their partners than veterans without PTSD. Veterans who have PTSD and their wives have also reported an increased sense of anxiety surrounding intimacy. Combat veterans with PTSD tend to experience more sexual dysfunction than veterans without PTSD. One suggestion made is that diminished sexual interest contributes to a decrease in adjustment and couple satisfaction.
Where impairments in the functioning of a relationship is concerned, there is a high rate of both separation and divorce among veterans; both with PTSD and without. Around 38% of Vietnam veterans who get married found themselves divorced within six months of their return from war. Overall, the divorce rate among Vietnam veterans is notably higher than for people in the general population; divorce rates are even higher for veterans who experience PTSD.
The National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS) discovered that male and female veterans who do not have PTSD tended to have relationships that were longer-lasting than veterans who did have PTSD. The rates of divorce for veterans with PTSD were two-times higher for veterans without PTSD. Veterans who did experience PTSD were three-times more likely than veterans without PTSD to marry and divorce two or more times.
Untreated Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) may affect the way couples interact with one-another. It has the potential to affect the mental health of partners. Generally, PTSD may have a negative impact on a veterans entire family. Male veterans with untreated PTSD are more likely to report the issues below than veterans without PTSD.
The majority of research concerning PTSD and families has been done with female partners of veterans who are male. It is important to note that the same issues may occur should the veteran with untreated PTSD be female.
Veterans with Untreated PTSD and the Mental health of Their Partners
Untreated Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has the potential to affect the mental health and life satisfaction of the partners of veterans with it. A number of studies have discovered that partners of veterans with untreated PTSD, or other forms of combat stress reactions, experience a higher likelihood of developing their own mental health issues when compared to partners of veterans without PTSD or other stress reactions. In one example, the wives of Israeli veterans with PTSD were found to report more symptoms of mental health and more unsatisfying and impaired social relationships when compared with the wives of veterans who did not experience PTSD.
At least two other studies, to include the NVVRS, showed that partners of Vietnam veterans with untreated PTSD reported notably reduced satisfaction in their lives, decreased levels of happiness, and greater demoralization than Vietnam veterans who do not experience PTSD. Around 50% of the partners of veterans with untreated PTSD indicated they had felt they were, 'on the verge of a nervous breakdown.' Male partners of female Vietnam veterans with untreated PTSD reported more social isolation and poorer subjective well-being than female veterans who do not experience PTSD.
Another study, performed by Nelson and Wright, indicates that partners of veterans with untreated PTSD many times describe the difficulties they experience with their loved one's PTSD symptoms. They describe the stress they experience due to needs that remain unmet, and describe experiences of emotional and physical violence. The difficulties partners experience can be described as, 'secondary traumatization,' something that is the indirect impact of trauma on people who are in close contact with victims. The mental health symptoms partners experience may also be the results of their own experiences of trauma in relation to living with a veteran with untreated PTSD, or it may be related to a prior trauma.
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The partners of veterans with untreated PTSD face many challenges while living with the veteran. Wives of veterans with untreated PTSD often take on a larger share of tasks related to the household such as housework or bill-paying. Partners or wives also tend to do more childcare and care of the extended family in general. Wives or partners may feel that they have to take care of the veteran, as well as feeling they need to attend closely to the problems the veteran experiences. Many partners and wives are very aware of the things that can, 'trigger,' the veterans PTSD symptoms, and they try hard to decrease the effects of these triggers.
The term, 'Caregiver burden,' involves an idea that is used to describe how hard it is to provide care for a person with untreated PTSD. Caregiver burden is inclusive of practical issues such as the strain on the family's finances. Caregiver burden also includes the emotional strain on the person who is providing care for the veteran who is ill. Generally, the more severe the veteran's untreated PTSD symptoms are, the more difficult it is to provide care for the veteran, and the greater the caregiver burden.
The precise connection between the symptoms of PTSD and issues with relationships remains unknown. Some of the symptoms, such as anger and a lack of feeling or, 'numbing,' have the potential to result directly in problems with a marriage. As an example, a veteran who lacks the ability to feel happiness or love can have difficulties with acting in a loving way towards their wife or children. The expression of emotions is an essential part of becoming close to another person. An inability to experience emotions due to numbing may lead to issues with both making and keeping close relationships. Numbing might inhibit intimacy.
A study performed by Beckham, Lytle, and Feldman focused on the relationship between the severity of untreated PTSD and experiences with caregiver burden in female partners of Vietnam veterans with PTSD. As might be expected, the caregivers experienced a burden that included:
Another study, performed by Calhoun, Beckham, and Bosworth, expanded on the understanding of caregiver burden in relation to partners of veterans with untreated PTSD through inclusion of a comparison group of partners of help-seeking veterans who do not experience PTSD. The study reported that partners of veterans with untreated PTSD experienced greater caregiver burden and experienced poorer psychological adjustment than the partners of veterans who do not have PTSD. Throughout the studies, caregiver burden increased with the severity of the symptoms veterans with untreated PTSD experienced. Again – the worse a veterans symptoms of untreated PTSD, the greater the caregiver's burden.
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Due to the shortage of research examining the connection between the symptoms of untreated PTSD and intimate-relationship issues it is hard to figure out the precise relationship between them. Some of the symptoms, such as irritability, anger, and emotional numbing, might be directly related to dissatisfaction with relationships. Trouble within a relationship might facilitate the development of, or exacerbate, the course and symptoms of the untreated PTSD a veteran experiences. A lack of communication, or communication that is combative, along with divisive relationships that impede self-disclosure and the processing of emotional and traumatic items, may lead to the onset or persistence of the symptoms of untreated PTSD.
A study performed by Riggs, Byrne, Weathers, and Litz, did focus on the connection between the symptom clusters of untreated PTSD and relationships. The study focused on the connection between avoidance symptom clusters and the decrease in the ability of a person who has untreated PTSD to express emotion related to their relationship. The study results suggest that avoidance symptoms, particularly emotional numbing, interfere with the person's ability to be intimate; something that requires the expression of emotion. The study results also suggest person's with untreated PTSD who experience emotional numbing and difficulties with intimacy have trouble with both building and maintaining positive and intimate relationships.
Helping Partners and Treatment for Veterans with Untreated PTSD
Helping a partner of a veteran with untreated PTSD involves taking a first step; gathering information. Doing so helps you to gain a better understanding of what PTSD is, and the impact is has on a family. Education for the whole family about the effects of trauma on survivors and their families is another step. There are support groups, not only for veterans, but for partners, couples, and family members. Counseling is available through the Veterans Administration. There are PTSD programs available to you through Vet Centers.
Nelson and Wright suggest that effective treatment for PTSD needs to involve, 'family psychoeducation,' support groups for partners and veterans, simultaneous individual treatment, as well as either couple or family therapy. 'Psychoeducational,' groups teach coping strategies, as well as educating veterans and partners about the effects of trauma on people and families. Many times, these groups work as self-help support groups for veterans and partners.
Early research encourages the use of group treatment for female partners of Vietnam veterans with untreated PTSD. Individual therapy for veterans with PTSD and their partner is an important component of treatment, particularly if the symptoms of PTSD are prominent in both people. Family or couples therapy can be highly-effective for people whose symptoms and issues exist within a family system.
A number of researchers have started to explore the benefits of family or couples therapy for both veterans and family members. Considering recent research regarding the negative impacts of untreated PTSD on families, PTSD programs available through the Veterans Administration and Vet Centers across America are starting to offer people individual, couples, group, and family programs. Perhaps the most important message for partners is that difficulties with relationships, emotional struggles, and social troubles are common when living with a veteran with untreated PTSD. Pursuit of treatment options can improve family relationships and the mental health of individuals.
"Advancing Science and Promoting Understanding of Traumatic Stress"
Each medical center within VA has PTSD specialists who provide treatment for Veterans with PTSD. Plus, the VA provides nearly 200 specialized PTSD treatment programs. A referral is usually needed to access the specialty programs.
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By Daniel Howes, The Detroit News
Public Act 4, Michigan's controversial emergency manager law, lives — for now.
The 2-2 vote Thursday by the Board of State Canvassers bars the labor-backed referendum from the November ballot, prompting angry backers of repeal to vow they will litigate the decision in state court. Meaning hopes are evaporating that Michigan and Gov. Rick Snyder can avoid a Wisconsin-style confrontation with Big Labor this year.
Too much is at stake — for unions in one of the nation's quintessential union states, for Democrats whose influence and electoral cash disproportionately flow from labor, for Republicans trying to retain power two years after gaining it, for taxpayers generally opposed to paying more to maintain union benefits, and for business leaders eager to shed Michigan's Big Labor rep.


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The boys lost three seniors from the recent state championship team in Andrew Brown, Donny Rodriguez and Colton Hardy, but head coach Ryan Galindo knows he'll just need others to step up and lead the team.
"They're hard to replace, but you've just got to keep working at it," Galindo said. "That's part of the challenge is to say, 'OK, we lost some, but let's see if we can do it again.'"
Galindo said he was sad for the graduation of Hardy. He said Hardy was an individual who blossomed toward the end of his junior year.
"He was a late bloomer in essence of his career," Galindo said. "But he was crucial to our victories this year. I'm sad to see them all go, but he was just coming on. So you just think if he had a year or two more what could he have done?
But it was neat that he got to anchor our win this year and be a huge component to that."The girls' team also loses a key senior with the exit of Diamond Morrill. She was a state champion in doubles her junior year and one of the team leaders.
"She was our top girl," Galindo said. "She's been a huge part of our team over the years."
However, with the girls' team winning five of the last eight state championships and a top four finish this season, Galindo isn't too worried. He'll look to Eliana Garcia and Hellen Chiou, two of next year's seniors, to lead the way for the girls' side.
"For the girls, to think we competed at the top level in what I considered a rebuilding year, I think we should be competitive again next year," he said.
On the boys' side Galindo will depend on Cody Watts and Josh Miller to be the leaders of the team. Miller is a multi-sport athlete at CHS, playing football and basketball. Galindo said Watts is the quiet leader and Miller is the vocal leader.
Galindo said the big reason the boys' tennis team was able to make a run and win the state championship this year was because the team was unified from the beginning.
"They got along as a group of guys," he said. "You just saw something a little special about this group."
Galindo found it ironic that the boys were able to win it this year because last year's team was much deeper.
"Everything just fell into place," he said. "[The boys] never doubted their ability to do it."
All in all, Galindo said both the boys and girls were great kids to coach this year.
"It was such a smooth year, and everything went so well," he said. "It was a very enjoyable group to work with. They worked hard, never complained and just got after it every day."


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Isolated park features geologically formed Esker Trail,
species: the savanna blazing star
Sauers Holdings Nature Preserve offers one of the greatest
opportunities for solitude in the Chicago Wilderness area.
In the middle of the 1,670-acre preserve, 3/4 mile from
any road, lies the most isolated spot in Cook County.
the east, take the Stevenson Expressway (I-55) to
Rte. 45. Go south on Rte. 45 to Rte. 83, then go north
on Rte. 83. Cap Sauers Holdings is bordered by Willow
Springs Rd. (104th Ave.) on the east and Rte. 83 on
the north.
preserve features almost 15 miles of foot paths, ideal for
weekend hikers, as well as about eight miles of large, multi-purpose
trails designed for horseback riding and mountain biking.
Although the trails are not groomed for skiing, adventuresome
cross-country skiers often glide into the woods during the
winter. Those who brave the cold might glimpse the great
horned owls that reside at the preserve during the late
winter months, stumble upon some coyote tracks, or find
themselves face to face with one of the many white-tailed
deer that roam freely here.
terrain encompassed by Cap Sauers Holdings varies greatly.
Vast, open oak woodlands cloak the rolling uplands. Streams
which flow into the Sag valley to the north cut deep ravines,
which harbor forest communities dotted with black walnut,
ash, and basswood. Many ponds and wetlands are scattered
here and there.
of this territory was grazed and farmed heavily before the
land was purchased by Cook County. It was named for a longtime
superintendent of the Forest Preserve District, and was
dedicated as one of the first Illinois Nature Preserves
in January, 1965.
of the most striking features of the preserve is geologic.
From the Esker Trail, named for the glacial formation it
follows, visitors can view one of the best examples of an
esker in Illinois. The southern part of the preserve was
originally prairie. You can reach the Visitation Prairie
from the Esker Trail, located just off of Rte. 83. Through
prescribed burnings and clearings by district staff and
volunteers, much invasive brush has been removed and the
original beauty of the prairie restored. The prairie itself,
in addition to serving as Solitude Central for Frazzled
Urbanites, harbors one of largest surviving populations
of a threatened species the savanna blazing star.
Sauers Holdings does not have on-site parking or a main
trailhead. Visitors can park at Teasons Woods on the southeast
corner of the intersection of Rte. 83 and Willow Springs
Rd. (104th Ave.) or at Horse Tail Slough on Willow Springs
Rd. (104th Ave.) just north of McCarthy Rd. (123rd St.).
From there, find one of the multi-purpose trails marked
with a gray Forest Preserve District sign and follow it
into the discovery zone of this vast and varied preserve.
Or you can park along Rte. 83 at the 'Take a Hike' sign
that marks the beginning of the Esker Trail.
Sauers Holdings is open from dusk until dawn. For more information,
call the Forest Preserve District of Cook County at (630)
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(I-55) to Rte. 45. Go south on Rte. 45 to Rte. 83, then
go north on Rte. 83. Cap Sauers Holdings is bordered by
Willow Springs Rd. (104th Ave.) on the east and Rte. 83
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Separate fires this week have left two South Jersey families homeless days before the holiday.
A two-alarm house fire displaced four Gloucester Township residents early Friday and a fire Monday took everything from a Burlington County family, including Christmas presents.
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From these humble beginnings, Franklin became one of the most recognizable figures in American history.
Rogue and genius, journalist with his own printing press and politician on both sides of the Atlantic, charmer of many yet cool to his own family, inventor (a dreamer) and scientist (a practical man): All of these contradictory elements sum up the character of one of American's most noted founders - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).
Franklin is one of those people everyone would want to invite to dinner or have along on a deserted island. On Jan. 10, this raconteur supreme will be the focus of attention as another speaker - local historian and teacher Darwin Seiler - presents an evening devoted to the life and career of this amazing man, in a program sponsored by Renfrew Institute.
The program "Ben Franklin: The Common Uncommon Man," will begin at 7 p.m. in the visitors' center at Renfrew Park, 1010 E. Main St.
Admission is free.
Ben's adages are still repeated - "early to bed, early to rise" - drawn from his "Poor Richard's Almanack" and his redactions to the Declaration of Independence reflected his concern for the common man. Indeed, he is so well-known that many people just assume that at one time he served as president of the United States, which he did not.
But he has been recognized and honored from the name of this county, to streets, warships, money, and more - from his visage on the $100 bill to a large, gilded statue on the second floor of the Heritage Center in downtown Chambersburg.
"Franklin has always been a favorite of mine," said Seiler, local historian and Waynesboro Area Senior High School history teacher for some 30 years. "I think he and George Washington are probably two of the most important figures in our early history. And he comes from a more common background than the other men in our history."
Franklin came from a modest family. At age 12, he was apprenticed to his brother, James, a printer. After learning the trade and suffering a difficult relationship with his brother, Franklin ran away to Philadelphia at age 17. Here he would make his wealth in printing and publishing, which allowed him to retire from the day-to-day operations of a business and devote himself to his many interests.
And there were so many, it is almost overwhelming that one man could do so much - from establishing a fire company, hospital and university to exploring electricity and inventing the lightning rod and the Franklin stove; from playing the violin, harp and guitar to serving as postmaster and governor of Pennsylvania.
Then there were the many years he spent in Europe, including almost 10 of those as the U.S. ambassador to France, where he was instrumental in obtaining support for the colonists fighting for separation from England.
Drawing on this background, Seiler seeks out the man who lies behind these accomplishments.
"I try to explain what kind of person he was," said Seiler. "He is so very interesting, but although he was an important figure, he never lost his common touch.
And he never forgot the profession from which he gained fortune and fame.
"Every time he traveled he took his type fonts with him and always referred to himself as the 'leather apron' guy. When he died, the funeral procession was led by the workmen of Philadelphia all dressed in their aprons," said Seiler. Franklin was "a common man who went on to do extraordinary things."
Sherry Hesse, a member of the institute staff who will be handling introductions the evening of the lecture, said that "part of the purpose of the institute is to bring environmental, historical and cultural programs to people of this region.
As Seiler added, "I teach my classes that history speaks to you every day. And the better we understand the past, the better chance we have of making sense of today."
If you go
Ben Franklin: The Common Uncommon Man
WHEN: 7 p.m. Jan. 10 (snow date, Jan. 17)
WHERE: Renfrew Park Visitor Center, 1010 E. Main St., Waynesboro
COST: Free
DETAILS: 762-0373 or http://www.renfrewinstitute.org.