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Lou Jones; The World Of Jazz
Photos © 2004, Lou Jones, All Rights Reserved
Having the good fortune to become involved wholly with an inspiration or an
idea is pretty awesome, and as long as I have known Boston photographer Lou
Jones he has been "involved." I don't think he has ever missed
an Olympics event or turned away from his deep-rooted convictions about the
death penalty in this country, producing a moving documentary in his book Final
Exposure: Portraits From Death Row.
Then there has been music and dance, above all, the era of jazz and the outstanding musicians who lent magic to our world in the 1950s and '60s. These are not simply "themes" or "material," they are Jones' world. Last year I was privileged to see his work in a setting that befit the dignity of his subjects and hear him speak of the jazz musicians he has photographed over the years.
The setting was The Huntington House Museum, a magnificent restored mansion
set on Windsor Green in the heart of Windsor, Connecticut. (The kind of place
one would expect to see an exhibition of photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron.)
It was a beautiful space to show these musicians during their quiet, private,
and sometimes somber moments.
It is always interesting to me why a photographer chooses a particular theme that spans almost an entire career. During his lecture someone asked Jones what held him so closely to the theme of jazz. Being the inveterate storyteller he is, Jones told his tale--how he wanted to carve out a niche and how he loved music. It was the time when rock-and-roll musicians were riding high and Jones wanted to shoot The Who and the Rolling Stones. "And," he added, "I liked the good life of the times--you know--sex, love, and rock-and-roll!"
One day he realized that in many cases he didn't know what the performers looked like. "I would see four people playing horns up there and I didn't know who I paid my money to come to see," he says. "I needed to photograph them, to give them a face." Jones followed them, setting up times, often backstage or at rehearsals, stalking them until they would finally say yes. It was the beginning of an archival series remembering jazz musicians of the era.
Did the art directors flip out over the pictures? "Not even a wiggle out of them," Jones says. Did the magazines grab the images for editorial? "I couldn't give them away!" So Jones began supporting himself photographing for textbooks, a lucrative market in Boston at the time. But he continued to try and make his mark in the world of jazz, finally realizing that annual reports put food on the table, not the wail of a trombone no matter how his camera could almost make us hear it.
It was a labor of love.
Entering the exhibition area we face a 30" square silver print of Donal Fox, seated by his piano, his white scarf elegantly placed on his shoulders. It is a quiet, introspective portrait.
Then there's Milt Jackson, head in his hands, next to a rare image of Miles Davis, the great one swathed in towels after finishing his workout at a gym in Boston. Jones had found Davis at the gym; a fortunate fluke as someone had tipped him off that Davis was there getting in shape after his two years of semiretirement following an automobile accident.
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I totally agree with him about the skill concept.
PvE isn't skill.
Since when has WoW required skill?
The thing that gets me about "skill" is that to far to many high end guilds it is equated to experience. While it is certainly true that downing boss X shows a certain level of knowledge it is not the be all end all. What about the guy that was in a casual raiding guild that couldn't seem to down that boss? According to alot, I would say a majority, of high end raiding guilds(not even top, just more hardcore even) the fact that you have been loyal to your previous guild is a detriment because it stifled your own progression.
My Tychus authenticator can kick your Raynor authenticator's butt.Well, as long as we're not delving into spoiler territory, anyway. :P
The only "skill" required in World of Warcraft is the 'skill' it takes to quit.
People who say WoW doesn't take skill are absolute fools. If this was the case, we would all be raiding the very end bosses easily and be decked in epics right now, but we aren't. We still have people struggling with heroics.Yes, the dedicated will get there faster. But those who are rubbish at the game won't get there at all because, guess what - it takes some aspect of skill.Anyway, a skillfull player to me is one who has the ability to adapt and improvise. So a Priest who knows how to tug crap DPS out of fire, a tank who can not only position a mob but can have his eye on all his group members, ready to intervene (spell and literal!) at any moment, DPS who have their rotation nailed down so tight that they can keep an eye out, toss emergency heals, HoP for Paladins etc.That's my take on it at least.
I agree with Bashiok about it very much. Raiding isn't a competition, players only make it that way. Raiding takes a more personal approach to the competitive aspect, as the only people your raid group should be competing with is itself, to try harder to get that boss down. Ok, I have a weird example for this. Have any of you watched the show Ninja Warrior on G4? The premise of it is an obstacle course that you have a certain time limit to beat. Anyone from anywhere, any walk of life, can try it out. There is no real First Place trophy. If you beat it, you do get a spot in a Hall of Fame of sorts, but you aren't competing with the other people. The only person you are competing with is yourself. If you can make that jump, climb that rope or ladder, you feel like you accomplished something. There is no true competition for it, and the people who participate end up sitting there and cheer the rest of the contenders on. That's what raiding is to me. A group of people trying to accomplish something, going through an obstacle course, and pushing themselves farther, not competing with other people.EDIT: I'd like to know exactly which post this was, as I don't trust the very bad search feature on the new WoW Forums.
The power of Raynor compels me... to buy another authenticator... just for its collector's value...
*Shakes boring red corehound authenticator around* JEALOOOOOOUS.
Considering the horribad pugs I've experienced at times, there is DEFINITELY a skill component to WoW, PvE or otherwise.
I'm really starting to dislike the term "skill". Sure, WoW requires a little bit of skill to play. However, above ALL else, it requires patience and time, whether it be leveling your character, grinding reputation, learning your class, learning an encounter, etc. Just because it doesn't take a lot of skill to, say, strafe out of a fire, doesn't mean that PvE as a whole is easy.When some dude waltzes around, shouting "PvE takes no skill!" They're frankly just finding an excuse to stroke their egos. Elitism is all it is, IMO.
Haha, if pve don't require skills, nothing really does. If it didn't everyone would have done pretty much everything without effort. Retarded players saying pve doesn't require skill cause they want a concrete reason to play pvp only, I don't think you play it cause it requires skill, but that it is funny.While many people playing is 20 years or older you sure are naive for your age.
Dunning–Kruger effect. People with no skill believe that the task is easy, and that no-one does it much better than them. Driving is a scary example of this, huge numbers of people believe themselves to be "good" drivers despite not even meeting their country's basic test standard.


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Nocturnal oxygen administered to patients with disordered breathing ameliorates hypoxemia. As a result, an important chemical stimulus to arousal is diminished. This could cause prolongation of disordered breathing events, worsen respiratory acidosis, and induce potentially harmful cardiac arrhythmias. The presence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) could further aggravate the situation since such patients may have depressed hypercarbic responses. To test this hypothesis, 20 obese men with sleep apnea and COPD were studied polysomnographically on two nights receiving air on one or oxygen at 4 L/min on the other. Supplemental oxygen increased mean DOB event duration from 25.7 to 31.4 seconds (p less than 0.001), increased end apneic PCO2 from 52.8 to 62.3 mm Hg (p less than 0.025), and decreased mean end apneic pH from 7.34 to 7.28 (p less than 0.001). At the same time, it improved mean sleeping and end-apneic oxygen saturation. The number of ventricular extra-systoles (PVCs) per minute of sleep showed small increases in three subjects while breathing oxygen. Complex ventricular arrhythmias were unaffected by oxygen in five subjects. Oxygen eliminated atrioventricular block in two subjects. We conclude that nocturnal supplemental oxygen does not increase ventricular arrhythmias in the majority of patients with COPD and coexisting disordered breathing events. While the clinical significance of an oxygen associated increase in ventricular extrasystoles in three subjects is unclear, nocturnal monitoring by telemetry or ambulatory recorder should be sufficient to detect such patients.
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Don't really know where to start… so much has happened, so much is going on, and I realise it's time I mentioned a few things in passing. Like, I'm making an album. The E.P. that I started recording at Kerry Brown's Coldwater Studios a few months ago is growing in scope, backwards and forwards in time. It's currently a dozen songs of love, loss, heartache and delight, laden with thick butterings of strings captured on luscious 2″ tape engineered by Kevin Dippold on the vintage tape machine that recorded Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. You can learn more on the new album blog.
Oh, and I'm playing live with the Woolly Bandits, Damien Youth and Michael Berg, including a show with the Woolly Bandits tonight at On The Rox, upstairs from the Roxy on Sunset Strip. Strings, back-up vocals and my legendary tambourine shakin', yeah!
David J's album is practically done and ready to roll, and it's amazing. His voice sounds as perfect as piping hot PG Tips with exactly the right quantity of milk, sugar and whiskey…
Last week we shot the video for David's new version of Love & Rocket's "I'll Be Your Chauffeur". It's being produced by David J with programming and loops by Rob Garza from Thievery Corporation, and features an amazing young vocalist David discovered in the Bay Area, a pitch-perfect 17 year old named McKenna.
Which brings me to Bela. Don't know what to say about this, but the short version is, last week David J, Jill Tracy and I revisited Bela Lugosi Is Dead in a studio adjacent to Oakland Cemetery, and it was an unforgettable, super magic night. The spirits were close, summoning the spectre of Lord Byron.
One detail I can reveal to you exclusively, strings-lovers…
You may know I like to play hard. I often play so hard that my bow hair shreds. Most violinists get their bows rehaired every year or so. Well, sometimes I get through a bow in one show. Indeed, I've been known to wreck a bow in one song. And at a few memorable shows, I've also broken a string.
Well, on Bela night, I got through a bow. And then, I got through another bow. And kept playing, kept playing, kept playing. A string broke. Whatever, more playing, other strings… Then another string…. SNAP! Aaagh, still more music needing to be played, more music being channeled from who knows where, more sounds and scrapes and scratches coming through from the ether.
SNAP!!! and SNAP!!!!!! NO STRINGS LEFT!!!!!
And still more to play… pulling at the undead strings, pulling them tight to get a sick creaking aching sound out of them, resonant with the spirit of Bela and Byron and whatever else was coming through the tortured body of that poor violin.
I scraped the fingerboard, hit the headstock, scratched the strings and bowed the belly of that undead beast. And had probably the most fun possible with one's clothing intact.
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Cooey Rifles
Cooey was a Canadian rifle manufacturer that made 12 million + mass produced, utilitarian firearms for Canada.
Country of Origin: Canada
Year of Origin: 1950, 60s mainly
Countries of Manufacture: Canada
Ammunition: rimfire, centrefire, shotgun
Fire Type: varies
Legal Classification*: Non-Restricted
Approximate Value: utilitarian
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The H. W. Cooey Machine & Arms Company was based in coburg ontario and was bought out by Winchester in 1961. They were completely shut down in 1979. Today their guns still enjoy popularity on the used guns market. The cooey line of rifles and shotties are the highest selling guns in Canadian history.
Where to buy
we will sell cooey rifles. They are all used since they havent been manufactured since the 1960, but we will have a pile of them in our used guns section. Just about every house in Canada has one of these damn things at some point.
cooey shotgun (sorry fot eh size of the image)
cooey single shot shotgun
A couple of cooey rifles (rimfire)
canadian cooey from World war
Cooey RiflesCoeey made a whole host of rimfire 22 rifles in their day. They are one of the more utilitarian guns on the canadian market with virtually no collector valyue.. That being ssaid, they are pretty dependable little 22s
Below is a full list of Cooeys. We will be putting up values for each of them ASAP and hopefully listing them for sale if we have em.
- Cooey model 25
- Cooey model 35
- Cooey model 39
- Cooey model 55
- Cooey model 60
- Cooey model 62
- Cooey model 75
- Cooey model 78
- Cooey model 82
- Cooey Ace
- Cooey Ace 1
- Cooey Ace 2
- Cooey Ace 3
- Cooey Ace Repeater
- Cooey Ace Special
- Cooey Bisley Sport
- Cooey Canuck
- Cooey Canuck 25
- Cooey Canuck Junior
- Cooey Canuck Western
- Cooey Cooey Repeater
- Cooey HWC
- Cooey Mohawk
- Cooey Model 10
- Cooey Model 39
- Cooey Model 60
- Cooey Model 600
- Cooey Model 64
- Cooey Model 64 Deluxe
- Cooey Model 64A
- Cooey model 64B
- Cooey Model 71
- Cooey model 71 Carbine
- Cooey Model 75
- Cooey model 750
- Cooey model 750 Deluxe
- Cooey Model 710
- Cooey Ranger
- Cooey .22 rimfire smoothbore
Shortlist of Cooey Shotguns
- Cooey model 37A
- Cooey model 410
- Cooey model 84
- Cooey Canuck 25
- Cooey Canuck 410
- Cooey model 84
- Cooey model 840
Cooey rifles were often sold in Canadian department stores like Eatons. They made some very utilitarian firearms and if you can find one very cheap, they can get the job done for you. The author has a Cooey Ranger that can shoot 22LR, 22 Short, 22 Long with a high degree of short range accuracy.
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YouŌĆÖve probably read about CaliforniaŌĆÖs frenzy over whether to start using computerized voting machines. Teams of computer-security experts examined CaliforniaŌĆÖs would-be voting system and concluded that attacking it would be quite feasible. State officials disagreed. Sensing that the notion of finding a better answer would require them to actually do their jobs, the officials challenged the security expertsŌĆÖ findings with the age-old technique of denial. ŌĆ£Bah!ŌĆØ they cried. ŌĆ£Those ŌĆśexpertsŌĆÖ used very improbable attack methods.ŌĆØ After all, what are the chances that a bad guy could get physical access to the machines clandestinely? Who could even imagine that a malicious user might access and modify the machineŌĆÖs programs?
Now, youŌĆÖd think that CaliforniaŌĆöthe state that virtually birthed the computer ageŌĆöwould be the absolutely last state to let computers handle something as important as vote-counting. Yes, of course, the memory of the hotly contested and still-disputed 2000 US Presidential election is still vivid, and no one ever wants to hear the phrase ŌĆ£hanging chadŌĆØ again. But, really, how might computers make elections more reliable? Consider these few examples of the inadvisability of computer-based voting machines.
First, thereŌĆÖs the matter of the ŌĆ£butterfly ballotŌĆØ that bedeviled some Floridians in the 2000 election. These people were confused by what weŌĆÖd call a bad user-interface design. ItŌĆÖs just as easyŌĆöperhaps easierŌĆöto create a bad computer UI, as IŌĆÖd imagine any IT pro can attest.
Second, thereŌĆÖs the fact that a computerized voting system is built on computer software, and to my knowledge, no one in the history of computing has ever built a non-trivial program that didnŌĆÖt contain errors. Errors in human-based systems are transparent to any sensible adult, so for years, investigations of voting fraud have needed nothing more than a bit of detective work that any interested voter could undertake. (The processes are usually written in English, and voting officials can be interviewed.) But how many Americans will be allowed to examine the source code of electronic voting machines, and how many could make sense of a mountain of C++ code even if they could see that code?
Third, how would any statewide system tally votes? ThatŌĆÖs a techie way of saying, ŌĆ£How does a state add up the tallies from polling place A, B, C, and so on?ŌĆØ Well, heck, thatŌĆÖs easy: Just hook them all up to a network and have them report to the election officials in the state capitol. But what network would be that ubiquitous? Why, the Internet, of course! ItŌĆÖs safe, right? Obviously, itŌĆÖs not safe, so in the end analysis, what is the safest way to transmit and aggregate those numbers? The answer would probably be a system like the one we have nowŌĆöa system that uses a variety of communications systems or, in other words, the same process of telephone calls, ballot boxes driven across a county, and so on. It would be no more reliable, and certainly no more cheaper.
Fourth, it seems to me that the ultimate argument against computerized voting and tallying is obvious: the multiplicative power of computers. Stealing an election conducted with paper ballots would involve the conspiracy and silence of thousands of people. IŌĆÖm no expert on conducting conspiracies, but pulling off anything with so many participants sounds highly unlikely. However, implanting malicious code into computerized voting machines might involve no more than a handful of people.
Decades ago, some wag created a poster that read, ŌĆ£To err is human ŌĆ" but to really foul things up requires a computer.ŌĆØ WeŌĆÖve all paid for the mass computerization of mundane tasks in the form of messed-up paperwork, fouled sales orders, and so on, and the price is usually nothing more than some wasted time and frustration. Sometimes, though, as in a few of the larger stock-market drops in the past 20 years, computer-related problems have translated to some serious failures. Are we really willing to risk the validity of our votes on that sort of thing?


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Chrome Angled 510 Drip Tip Adapter
This is an angled drip tip adapter for your 510 cartomizers. It also fits most 808 and 901 cartomizers. The angle makes for a comfortable vaping experience as the angle eliminates the twisting motion of bringing most cartos up to vape. Is finished in polished chrome and looks great with any mod or device.
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Hotel Cristoforo Colombo
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Hotel Cristoforo Colombo
About the Hotel
Property Location
With a stay at Hotel Cristoforo Colombo in Quartiere XXXII Europa (EUR), you'll be minutes from Euroma2 and Euroma 2. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of EUR and White Gallery.
Make yourself at home in one of the 205 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars. Rooms have private balconies. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected. Private bathrooms with showers feature bidets and hair dryers.
Enjoy recreation amenities such as an outdoor pool or take in the view from a garden. Additional amenities at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and wedding services.
Satisfy your appetite at the hotel's restaurant, which serves breakfast and dinner, or stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). Relax with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge or a poolside bar.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include a business center, limo/town car service, and express check-in. Planning an event in Quartiere XXXII Europa? This hotel has facilities measuring 1292 square feet (120 square meters), including meeting rooms. Free self parking is available onsite.
Hotel Facilities
- Smoke-free property
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Conference space size (feet) - 1292
- Meeting rooms 2
- Conference space size (meters) - 120
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- 24-hour front desk
- Year Built 1970
- Free self parking
- Express check-in
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Garden
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Poolside bar
- Outdoor pool
- Total number of rooms - 205
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- Multilingual staff
- Number of floors - 2
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- Limo or Town Car service available
- Television in common areas
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Refurbished Sig's are not a bad option at all, especially from a cost perspective.
This is a discussion on Need help deciding, double-stack full-size 9mm within the General Firearm Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; Yep SA XD's are great guns and have so many variations. I agree with others, S&W M&P's are also great choices. I have both guns ...
Yep SA XD's are great guns and have so many variations. I agree with others, S&W M&P's are also great choices. I have both guns mentioned and love them. As stated by others the best this to go out and rent or shoot with a friend who has several and see what fits your hand and what YOU like. Only you can decide what is best. We each love different items for so many reasons. Mostly it is what sits in our hands well and is accurate.
May also want to look into refurbished Sig's. Many places have them at a great price and they are on a whole new level. The SIG 226 and 229 are great choices for double stack 9's.
It's not a problem til they make it one!
Refurbished Sig's are not a bad option at all, especially from a cost perspective.
I'm in favor of gun control -- I think every citizen should have control of a gun.
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One other entry worth considering is the CZ-75. You can get it in "traditional" DA/SA which allows cocked-and-locked carry, or a decocker model, or SA only. Standard capacity is 16+1. Best of all, the CZ Custom shop is right here in Mesa and Angus will set you up with something nice!
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You betcha'! Great suggestion. Angus knows a CZ like a Bo Weevil knows cotton.
There are only TWO kinds of people in this world; those who describe the world as filled with two kinds of people...and those who don't.
I cannot say enough good things about my Sig 2022. It shoots great and has been completely reliable through 1500+ rounds. They can be purchased for around $400.
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A muscle not exercised will eventually atrophy.
A right not exercised will eventually be taken away!
I carry a Springfield XDm9mm compact, 14 rounds with the small mag, 20 with the big one. Suits my needs, might fit yours too.
This thread has set me to thinking about my 9mm. I have two, both polymer frames -- the Glock and the Kahr. I wouldn't mind having a full-sized, all metal framed 9mm. Right now the CZ-75 in stainless is looking like it might fit my hand just fine.
I'm in favor of gun control -- I think every citizen should have control of a gun.
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There's a lot of CZ75 variants available. The straight-triggered SA, with the same grip-angle as a FN HP, is my sweet-shooting favorite.
There are only TWO kinds of people in this world; those who describe the world as filled with two kinds of people...and those who don't.
I bought a Glock 19, shot about 2k rounds thru it and could not force myself to like it. Its that stupid hump on the back of the grip.
OP I LOVE HK's and Sig's. They are an absolute orgasm to shoot.
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of the four you mention, i'd lean towards the Springfield or the Ruger.
recommend you also look at Sig 2022 and the CZ's, which i would prefer even more.
you made your preferences pretty clear in your first post. i really think people should respect your choices and not try to push choices that you've already rejected.
To the Glock guys who suggest I shoot one, I've shot a G17 and a G19, didn't care for either, I enjoyed shooting both the 92FS and the XD9 much more.
I'll probably be heading over to CZcustom to check out what they have to offer, maybe see if anything feels right in my hand. I'll also check out the Sig 2022. Pretty sure the XDm is a bit out of my price range that I set, last time I saw one in a store I am pretty sure it had a ~$600 price tag, but I definitely like them for the ergonomic feel and incredible capacity.
Also to the person that suggested it, my plan is to go to the range and rent pretty much every gun I end up seriously considering that I have not already shot and put 50 rounds down range with each. I've made the mistake with my LC9 of buying without shooting and I decided I would never do that again.
Ditto on the CZ 75 series of pistols: 75 Compact (safety), 75 D PCR Compact (decocker), the P-01 (decocker), the SP-01 (various), or the strait 75 (various, safety/decock/SA).
Extremely reliable, accurate, excellent ergonomics, widely supported by holster makers.
Your best weapon is your brain. Don't leave home without it.
Thoughts: Justifiable self defense (A.O.J.).
Explain: How does disarming victims reduce the number of victims?
Reason over Force: Why the Gun is Civilization (Marko Kloos).
Bang for your buck it's going to be hard to beat a PT92. This is coming from a Sig fanboy. Those who don't know tend to bash.


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DONALD TRUMP HAS SCORED another one. The New York-based developer and casino operator had $115 million in personal bank debt come due on June 30. BUSINESS WEEK has learned, though, that the banks have granted him three extra years to pay.
Say what you want, Trump is a master at giving himself breathing room. His 1990 financial meltdown savaged his personal fortune, yet he avoided bankruptcy. And now, the banks extended his personal debt maturity for fear he could not repay the entire sum, sources say. Trump insists he could have sold assets to settle the tab, which he claims is really $68 million. Afd indeed, he recently raised $280 million in a stock-and-debt offering on one of his three Atlantic City casinos, the Trump Plaza. He's using that to expand the casino and start a riverboat gaming parlor in Gary, Ind.
Whether he could have raised $115 million by selling other properties, some heavily debt-encumbered, is an open question. The Trump Plaza deal sliced some $20 million off his personal debt--but covenants required him to redeem at least $49 million in Plaza bonds. Trump depicts the debt extension as routine. He says, "I'm in better shape than in the 1980s."
Although lenders took over some of his prime assets in the early 1990s, they bet that he could stage a comeback with the rest. It's too early to tell. But he has struck a potentially lucrative deal with Hong Kong interests to build a massive residential complex on Manhattan's West Side.


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by: Mooli Lahad
The term compassion
fatigue was suggested by Figley (1995) as an alternative to the earlier
concept of secondary traumatic stress disorder (McCann 1990). Both terms
describe the influence on mental health professionals of the therapeutic
encounter or intervention with victims of disaster suffering PTSD.
Here, I will
attempt to document observations from my experience in crisis intervention
and in supervision of professional helpers1 who are involved in
intervention immediately after and following a disaster with victims of emotional
trauma. The purpose of the article is to offer new understanding to the phenomena
looking at it from dramatherapeutic perspective, that is the lack of differentiation
rituals protection and initiation ceremonies and metaphoric myths. I shall
also use psychosocial and anthropological explanations to aid the understanding
of these phenomena. These reflections are based on my observations as a supervisor
of professional helpers soon after their contact with victims and survivors
of disaster and their family members, as well as my personal involvement
in such incidents. Let us first look into the term compassion fatigue and
what it entails.
In compassion
fatigue, symptoms resembling the physiological, emotional, and cognitive
symptoms of victims appear among those who administer help to them. In 3%
to 7% of cases, these may be so severe that the professional helpers themselves
develop PTSD, with all its long-term implications (Hodgkinson & Stewart 1991).
The subject
of emotional burnout among mental health professionals has been widely researched
(Freudenbeyer 1974; Maslach 1982; Maslach & Jackson 1981; Pines 1993).
This literature describes a continuous process of burnout, composed of three
principal components: emotional, physiological, and mental (Pines & Aronson
1988). However, while burnout develops gradually, there are advance warnings,
and it is expressed in emotional fatigue, irritability, difficulty in concentrating,
and other physiological and mental phenomena, compassion fatigue may appear
suddenly, with no previous signs (Figley 1995). In addition, Figley (1995)
notes that, unlike mental burnout, here there is a strong sense of helplessness,
confusion, a feeling of being cut off from support, and psycho- somatic symptoms
similar to those of survivors or victims. However, recovery is also usually
very speedy.
The term compassion
fatigue was first coined by Joinson (1992) and later adopted by Figley.
Websters New Collegiate Dictionary (1989) defines compassion as sympathetic
consciousness of others distress together with a desire to alleviate
Figley (1995)
indicates two major components that lead to compassion fatigue: empathy and
exposure. Without both empathy and exposure, there is a low probability of
developing compassion fatigue. In principle, according to Figley and other
researchers, work with trauma victims (survivors, family relations, and the
injured) subjects helpers and those engaged in intervention to extremely
forceful exposure to trauma-inducing factors. This vulnerability is attributed
to several causes:
is a central instrument in helping and assessing injury and planning
the intervention program. Harris (1995) claims that empathy is the key
factor in the penetration of a traumatic event among crisis
of those involved in intervention have experienced traumatic events in
their lives. Because those who administer help after trauma cope with
a variety of events, at some time they inevitably encounter some that
are similar to the trauma in their lives.
The helpers
may have unresolved traumas of their own.
The encounter
with children in trauma has a particularly strong effect on the helpers
(Beaton & Murphy 1995).
The following
discussion is based on my own observations as supervisor and interventionist
and discussions held with professional helpers, who offer psychosocial intervention
in Israel (Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Kiryat Shmona), and the former Yugoslavian
states and Northern Ireland.
to prepare or to set the stage
usually take place without prior warning. They can happen at any moment,
anywhere, and to anyone. Massive, intense penetration of the event into our
lives (including direct television broadcasts from the disaster site, voices
and primary witnesses) immediately exposes helpers to the disasters that
they are meant to go to. Their daily ability to control the setting and the
staging is shattered as they are been called to act without appropriate warm
and the Role of Mental Health Professionals - an anthropological approach
to the myths about calamities.
Until the
Gulf War in 1991, civilian mental health professionals did not have much
direct and immediate exposure to real-time disaster situations. First of
all, the approach was that psychosocial helpers met the victims at emergency
relief centres, or in the clinic or in rare situations they were asked
to help families at the cemetery or in their homes. In other words, there
was a physical distance from the site of the disaster. Second, as telecommunications
technology required a studio, it took time to broadcast a disaster, not to
mention print a paper, and thus helpers were spared some of the most upsetting
immediate sights. Ethical limitations adopted by the journalists associations,
as well as almost absolute government control over electronic media, also
prevented some of the pictures from being broadcast. Thus professional helpers
working with trauma victims were exposed at a distance of both time and place,
limited almost exclusively to descriptions of the horrors by the victims
with whom they worked or to written reports and photographs in newspapers
or on television.
After the
Gulf War, it was decided in Israel that civilian mental health professions
(social workers and psychologists) would also come to the scenes of disaster
and work according to Salmons (1919) Proximity, Immediacy, and Expectancy
(PIE) model, which had been adopted many years earlier by the Israels
defense forces mental health units (Solomon, 1993). The idea was that immediate
intervention, close to the site of the event, including conveyance of expectations
for recovery, would reduce the incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) among victims, survivors, witnesses, and family relatives. The psychosocial
team was also expected to support the rescue workers, whom research indicates
as prone to develop PTSD (Hodgkinson & Stewart 1991).
This intervention,
which was meant to take place alongside or at the end of the rescue operation,
exposes psychosocial helpers to the horrific sights of a disaster on a much
greater scale. Furthermore, the CNN model of electronic media, of reaching
the site of the event, quickly setting up equipment, and broadcasting live
without editing (made possible by modern technology) also became prevalent.
Thus, a situation
in which the caregiver who comes into contact with victims in both physical
and temporal proximity to the disaster is exposed even before reaching the
area to the sights and sounds of the horror. He or she has often seen and knows more
than the victims themselves. This almost real exposure of the
helpers prior to even being on site, makes even minimal distancing difficult
and leads to an immediate identification with the survivors descriptions
not as a listener but as an equal and sometimes more informed partner, with
pictures of the event bringing arousal of strong emotions. This increases
the degree of empathy, identification, and assimilation of the event by the
helper. The fact that these scenes are being broadcast over and over again
are often described by helpers as having a semi-hypnotic effect on them drawing
them to look at it over and over again. Much like a nightmare the pictures
keep coming at them and make them feel as if they were actors /participants
and sometimes invisible survivors of the same incident.
Lack of
admission rituals as boundary - defence factors of compassion fatigue
In the daily
routine of a mental health professional, there are several rituals that enable
differentiation and protection against the penetration of loaded or morbid
information into his or her life. These rituals are very helpful in the process
of getting into role. An important ritual is the intake,
the first stage of contact with the client. In this ritual, the caregiver
informs the client that he or she will do the interviewing, in order to collect
data that will help them and the client to understand his or her own situation
/ condition. The therapist records; the client answers. Thus a boundary is
drawn between the two. The ritual of acquaintance may or may not be limited
in time; they may spread over one or more intake meetings. However, even
if there is only one such meeting, the helpers study of the material
(after the client has gone home) helps him or her conceptualise the clients
problems and thus differentiates between the helper and the client.
No less important
is the ritual of setting of the time an element that is usually in
the sole control of the helper even if the needs of the client are taken
into account when determining the time. In this ritual, the helper controls
a central component, namely, the length and time of the meeting. A related
ritual is that of 50 sacred minutes.
Of similar
importance is the ritual of the place. This is totally in the control of
the helper. It is usually his office and this territory was designed or at
least partially decorated by him thus making it to his or her territory.
There are also other rituals such as greeting and saying good-bye.
intervention in a disaster precludes the use of these rituals. There is no
time for an in-depth anamnesis; on the contrary, the professional literature
indicates that historic connection with the immediate distress (acute stress
reaction, ASR) and posttraumatic (PTSD) situations are counterindications
of recovery (Witstom 1989). Thus a central mechanism of the differentiation
process is eliminated.
Neither does
the helper decide where the intervention will take place. Today secondary
interventions may begin near the incident site, at the mortuary as happened
in Israel since 1995 and lately in Northern Ireland in the Omagh massacre,
August 1998. It may include visits to grieving families in their home, neighbourhood,
or in the victims school.
Even the
length of the performance that is a crucial aspect of every play
is undefined. The work shift can be 18 and more hours. Sometimes the intervention
takes days with meetings every day or even several times during the day and
the work is always very intensive.
Kfir (1990)
suggests in the time close to the event, daily encounter with the victim/s,
sometimes for several hours. Thus availability of helpers and intensity of
contact without the appropriate rituals exposes them more forcefully to the
intensity of the disaster.
proximity and psychological proximity (The lack of distancing)
crisis helpers are often called upon to provide intervention at locations
that are geographically close to their place of work or residence. This proximity
creates immediate identification and a sense of being a near miss, they
could have been the victims, yet they are called to help. This makes it very
difficult for the helpers to maintain distance from the event and its immediate
threatening significance to themselves and the wellbeing of their dear ones.
Because the site is the helpers natural setting, going home may expose
the helper time and again (that is even when the event ended) to the scene
and experience. It thus may weaken the defence mechanism by continuously
reminding him that this could have happened to me. This is called
geographic proximity.
between the victims or their relatives to the helpers life and sometime
to his or her peer group or family is called psychosocial proximity and this
can also create great difficulty. For instance, the disaster at Dizengoff
Shopping Centre, (Tel Aviv, Israel, April 1996) and the disaster at Apropos
cafe (Tel Aviv, Israel, March 1997) occurred in areas that were familiar
to most of the helpers. The victims were similar in age and socio-economic
status to those who came to help them (in the Dizengoff Shopping centre disaster
the aspect of injury and death of children, increased vulnerability and in
the Apropos cafe the victims were three social workers friends of
the helpers).
Thus the
possible similarity between the helper and the victim, considering the random
and chance occurrence of the disasters and the geographic proximity noted
above, reduces the important aspect of distance and creates greater chance
of identification with the victims, and absorption of their story as part
of me.
and countertransference are well-known aspects of the therapeutic process,
which have been discussed widely, both in training and supervision of therapists
in general and crisis interventions as well. However, as explained here,
when in contact with disaster victims these two phenomena raise particular
intensity and take a heavy toll on those providing intervention.
In their
work routine, mental health professionals make a point of coping directly
with transference either by direct confrontation with the client or through
other ways of processing it. However, when helpers meet with a survivor (or
family members) who say you remind me so much of my son, or you
are like a relative to me, it is difficult for them to deal with it
or work through it as transference. In fact, it is typically reported that
this is like a blow at the soft spot of my stomach; it makes me feel
significant to them, on the one hand, and places a tremendous emotional burden
on me, on the other. The helper goes along with it trying to fulfil
a fantastic (countertransferential) role of family member or friend.
The emotional
burden of identifying with the victim is often expressed in the development
of intense, deep relations with the survivors, victims, and their families.
It is expressed in frequent home visits and telephone calls beyond the scope
of the intervention or therapy; the helpers explain that it is so important
to them; they need me so much.
This phenomenon
is related to a concept, which I call the imprint of death of
the disaster. The survivor, victim, or family member becomes very attached,
like an imprint, to the image of the first lifesaver they happen
to meet. The helper goes through a similar process of clinging to the victim.
It is often expressed in undertaking tasks that he or she does not usually
do for clients, such as spending irregular work hours with the victim or
deviating from work definition such as calling all sorts of agencies on behalf
of the client. Also there can be great difficulty parting from the victims,
family members, and survivors and they may do all sorts of little services for
Other expressions
of the identification process are the development of physical symptoms similar
to those suffered by the victims, such as physical pain or intense anger
toward institutions, organisations, and service providers with whom these
professionals usually cooperate. Some helpers report dreams about the event
or about the victims and their families, as well as difficulty in concentrating
and apathy toward daily life (phenomena similar to grieving and mild depression).
I have seen
it developing within hours. Helpers are exhausted yet refuse to go home saying
or at least thinking, I cant leave these people now I am so significant
to them. They will not be able too make contact with someone else. Alternatively,
helpers will find themselves calling the families on the phone to see how
they are despite the fact that they have just seen them for a few hours and
the regular worker has already taken over the case.
On other
occasions helpers disclose to me that they became so attached to the family
there wasnt a single day without them visiting the family just
passing by to say hello.
In one incident
the helper, a very experienced social worker learned at the mortuary that
the family had just moved house and as it happened did not have any furniture
in their living room. When she discovered it was close to her sons
flat she took the furniture from there and brought it to the family just
for the seven days of mourning.
the most common symptoms are those of physical aches, pains and changes in
appetite, sleep disturbances, moods, loss of interest in daily activities
and most of all, the routine workload of the office.
These symptoms
resemble very much the phenomena of combat fatigue. That is,
it develops quickly and the physical and emotional symptoms generally pass
after three to four days, although full return to routine often takes longer.
Dumpty sat on a wall
Dumpty had a great fall
All the
Kings horses and all the kings men
put Humpty together again.
The wish
to put Humpty together again is a great example of the hero or saviours
urge to help but not just intervene but to reassemble the pieces and put
them exactly as they were, anew.
This phenomenon
definitely plays a major role in the compassion fatigue but what is the interplay between
Humpty and the kings men-the helpers?
creates a sudden break in our continuities (Omer & Inbar 1991;
Winnicott 1971). These continuities are the bridges that we build for ourselves
in order to ensure that yesterday will predict tomorrow, that we are stable,
that life is logical, that the world is a decent, logic, safe place, and
that people who are good have good things happen to them.
breaks our faith in a good world and confronts us suddenly with chaos. Typical
reactions are: I dont understand what is happening (cognitive
continuity); I dont know myself (historical continuity); I
dont know what to do, how to act here, what it is to be a bereaved
person/an injured and wounded person (role continuity); Where
is everyone, I am so alone, where are my loved ones? (Social continuity).
In my experience,
I have found that two contradicting thoughts run through the minds of victims:
is a nightmare any minute now Ill wake up and see that everything
is as it was; and
will only get worse; this is the end, it is horrible, it is a disaster,
it hurts more than any pain.
Because the
disaster is real and actually occurred, the first thought fades quite quickly
and the victim often enters catastrophic thinking that everything will become
The tremendous
need for someone from outside to organise the person, to anchor him or her
in reality, to take him or her somewhere safe, often leads some victims to
cling on to the caregivers with very strong emotional and physical force
(the death imprint), and like Humpty to project the verbal and non-verbal
existential message help me, tell me it is not true, put things together
In parallel,
the helper has a similar experience. On the one hand, there is tremendous
commitment, with a sense of mission and a desire to help, based on the belief
in his or her ability and power to put things together again - to stitch
it up (omnipotence); on the other hand there is a feeling of worthlessness.
This can be graphically represented as follows:
is a nightmare,
soon I will wake up
is nothing to do
it will only get worse.
I can
I am very significant.
is so terrible. There is
no point. I am insignificant.
The victim
projects expectations of omnipotence on the helper, who is a sort of parent
figure, and this meets the helpers fantasy of being an omnipotent parent.
Valent (1995) uses the term attachment, I call it the parents magic
touch, comparing the contact with survivors to a parents calming
of a small child who has been hurt. An adaptive attachment, crying
and a call for help, lead to calming down the need for help by satisfying
needs (hugging, kissing, physical contact). The unification with the attachment
figure creates a sense of security, satisfaction, and relief. Rutter (1991)
claims that ethological theory correctly predicts that stress should enhance
attachment behaviour.
to Valent, attachment can also be directed to a father or any member of a
group, and it operates among adults who too feel their vulnerability. It
is the universal experience of the parental magic touch, the
pain relieving kiss and hug of a small child, that in my eyes trigger the
helpers fantasy of omnipotence. Devora Omer, an author of Hebrew childrens
books, describes this phenomenon in a poetic way. She called her story, The
Kiss that Got Lost, telling about the phenomena that once the mothers
kiss was found it made magic on the crying child and pacified him. This experience
is closely connected to attachment and in my mind is at the basis of many
a helpers fantasy of the ability to bring things back to where they
were. Unfortunately this phenomenon disappears when the magic of childhood
ends and even then, when facing trauma or disaster it often does not work.
The victim
who projects such great helplessness, pain, and suffering looks to
us as helpless as a small child. The fierce desire to protect activates the
fantasy of omnipotence related to the experience of the parents magic
touch and makes the helper feel omnipotent. However, the failure of
the magic in the encounter with the disaster victim is liable
to make the helper feel helpless, empty, and self-doubting. In the literature,
this experience is referred to as impotence versus omnipotence. For years
I have been involved in emergency intervention and this term always seemed
inadequate to me until one day I realised why.
In his recent
book on traumatic stress, van der Kolk (1996) includes a chapter on the black
hole of trauma, in which he presents the description of the experience
of exposure to traumatic incident as being pulled into a black hole. In my
encounters and observations of disaster victims and their family members.
I have also often heard metaphoric descriptions, such as I am falling
into a black hole, I feel as though I am diving into a black
abyss, I am surrounded by black, or it is like an
endless hole.
Several years
ago, when reading the Book of Genesis I had a very profound experience and
suddenly had an insight as to what is this darkness over the abyss.
The darkness
that so many victims of traumatic incidents experience describes their plea
for a glimpse of light, hope and recovery. If we look for a minute at the
description of the experience of the encounter with chaos as
described in Genesis 1:2:
the earth was without form, and void; and the darkness was upon the face
of the deep
The continuation
in verse 3, And God said, Let there be light.
The experience
of chaos described by so many victims is well depicted by the encounter with
abyss and darkness. The sudden break in the continuities that the disaster
victim experiences increases the feeling of destruction of the order called
chaos in Genesis. This is the experience of the victim, the survivor, and
family members described earlier. The helpers are not at that distance as
they are stand at the edge of abyss, peeking into the eyes of darkness.
Peeking into
the darkness at the abyss involves not only a sense of impotence. I believe
that it is also an existential confrontation with immortality, fear of death
and injury, and concern for ones loved ones, values and beliefs.
Further study
of Genesis tells us about the establishment of order and the elimination
of chaos, lending further insights into the dynamics between the helper and
the victim. According to Genesis 1:3, in the confrontation of the darkness
and the abyss, there is a need for an omnipotent entity to bring the light.
In other words, it is the encounter of the victim with chaos that triggers
his/her plea for the omnipotent and to beg for light and in my view, visa
versa. The helplessness and chaos nurture the omnipotent urge of the helper.
There is a fascinating dynamic of the omnipotence of the helper,
which grows stronger through the needs of the victim, a dynamic that makes
the helper want to bring light, however weak and dim it might be. Because
the task of creating light is a task for the Almighty, the Omnipotent (and
therefore not possible for a helper), the question arises what then, is the
role of intervention?
Study of
the process of the biblical creation of order led me to the realisation that
since the creation of light is beyond our power, perhaps to restore
order by starting from the end, in other words to be human first.
It seems to me that this maybe is a clue to the help that we can give the
victim, namely: in the beginning (of the encounter with the victim) first
and foremost you need to be a compassionate person, not all-powerful.
It is interesting
that when the term PTSD was first introduced in DSM 3 (1980), the authors
used the concepts of disorder, which is parallel to the Latin term chaos.
Therefore, perhaps inadvertently, they coined a concept that describes the
chaos that arises as a result of the encounter with a traumatic event. Sometimes
it remains with the victim, his/her family or survivors forever. So, I believe
that we are talking not only about impotence but maybe on a much broader
experience, our human vulnerability.
from throughout the world (Harris 1995; McCammon 1995; Pearlman 1995; Mitchell
1985; Dunning 1988; Dyregrov & Mitchell 1992; & Shepherd 1994) and
from Israel (Shacham 1997; Lahad & Ayalon 1997; Klingman 1991) describes
a number of approaches to helping helpers in order to protect themselves.
Most of these mean either structured procedures like the CISD (Mitchell,
1985), supervision or spontaneous recovery. These approaches can be classified
according to the multidimensional BASIC Ph Model (Lahad 1993):
B Belief belief
system, hope, self-esteem, locus of control
A Affect direct
or indirect emotional expression
S Social friends,
role, family
I Imagination,
C Cognition,
logic, realism and cognitive techniques
Ph Physical physical
activity, relaxation and activity
B Belief belief
system, hope, self-esteem, locus of control
A Affect direct
or indirect emotional expression
S Social friends,
role, family
I Imagination,
C Cognition,
logic, realism and cognitive techniques
Ph Physical physical
activity, relaxation and activity
Of course,
some of the recommendations relate to more than one category. The beliefs
and value system is related to giving the event a new meaning, cultivating
the belief system that has been injured, finding meaning in suffering (Ayalon & Lahad
1990; Frankel 1970; Lahad & Ayalon 1994; Perlman & Saakvinte 1995
; White 1990).
Affect refers
here to encouraging speaking, ventilation, and legitimisation of direct and
indirect emotional expression after the event (Dyregrov & Mitchell 1993),
Lahad & Ayalon 1994.)
The social
aspect includes social support, taking a role, belonging to the organisation
(Ayalon & Lahad 1990, Mitchell 1993, Elraz & Ozami 1994). Hodgkinson & Stewart
(1991) emphasise one particular role and that is the role of the team leader
as manager of the event, the one responsible for emotional health and physical
needs of the team.
The person
responsible for work schedules referrals for rest, the organisation of talks,
provision of official recognition of the effort and helping create distance.
refers to the use of creativity, acting, guided imagery, relief, and distraction
(Lahad & Ayalon 1990; Breznitz 1983, Shacham & Ayalon 1997 Moran & Collers
The cognitive
aspect refers to preparation of the staff in advance for what may happen,
updating them in the course of the process, guidance and problem solving,
use of prepared programs and the CISD (Mitchell & Bary 1990; Lahad & Ayalon
1994; Binyamini 1984; Cherney 1995).
In the physical
aspect, the focus is on physical activity as a stress reliever, resting,
sleeping, and using relaxation and proper diet (Kfir 1990; Figley 1995).
I met these
nine helpers a few days after they had been involved in a disaster. This
was their third incident in the past five months. All of them had been through
CISD sessions, but the group showed signs of fatalism, tiredness and apathy.
Some were in constant contact with individual and families of previous disasters
despite the fact that it was not their official role. Some were manifesting
anger and discomfort, but all were very dedicated to their role as helpers
and continued to report at any incident.
The atmosphere
at the start of our meeting was a combination of He (me, the supervisor)
will solve all our problems and What can really be done it
is a hopeless case. I immediately registered in my head the parallel
processes between them and their clients moving on the continuity between
despair and omnipotence.
I decided
to start with movement (they have talked enough) putting on the different
sides of the room the words: Hope, Despair, Fear, and Courage. The instructions
were to move around the room and whenever they neared the signs either to
stop or reflect to write or draw anything, or make a movement or a sound.
Then I asked
each of them to choose one of the corners and meet the other members that
chose the same place. (If anyone found it difficult to choose a place s/he
was encouraged to find a position between the two signs depicting the feeling
at that moment). Everyone found a corner except for one person who positioned
himself between courage and despair.
The next
step was to communicate for about five minutes without words (signs, sounds,
and movements) the feelings, thoughts, sensations that this corner brings
up. Then they were to share two to four sentences each, making a joint lyric
or prose and stage it as a choir. They had to decide on the rhythm tempo
or use a known melody. This took about half an hour.
Then they
were asked to perform the outcome and whilst watching and listening to write
down anything that came to mind or any image or sentence they liked from
that performance.
The mood
in the group shifted to the Ph, S and I; that is active social and imaginative,
but still many tears were shed, even at that stage.
When they
were asked to share what happened, some said that the poems and moreover
the melody or rhythm put them in touch with their impotence. Dark, darkness
and dark colours were very apparent in the images and words. A few members
were in tears talking about the permission to grieve. They said that the
poems and moreover, the time they were by themselves but still with others
gave them for the first time permission to express sorrow and grief publicly.
The helper who was in between the signs talked about impotence and inability
to choose; he cried and laughed at the same time and when asked to share
that, he said: crying is about my own loses in life, laughing is the
relief to be able to share that without fear.
The next
session was opened by reading the poem from Alice in Wonderland. They
all knew Humpty Dumpty but did not connect it to their experience. The purpose
of bringing the poem was to look into their need to put all the pieces together,
how frustrating and impossible task it is, and all their anger toward the king who
in their mind expect them to put Humpty together again.
They were
encouraged to take different roles and experiment with different inner and
outer dialogues. For most of them it was the first time they realised the
impossible role they were putting themselves in, the need to fix things for
others, their fantasy of replacing the irreplaceable and the enormous pressure
it put on them. The king was demystified and there followed great
attacks and expressions of anger and frustration were directed at the king who
expected so much of them. The last part of the session was a guided imagery
leading to a meeting with Humpty Dumpty and sharing with him what I can and
cant do for him. Sharing these thoughts in the form of a letter
was the end of the session.
The third
session was dedicated to re-entry, to sharing skills or activities useful
in order to reduce symptoms, feelings or other bothering issues.
We put a
huge basket in the middle of the room and asked each one to write on a separate
piece of paper one thing that still bothers them. Each one could put as many
papers as s/he wants.
Then we asked
them to take a paper from the basket randomly and react to it, passing it
to the next person to add ideas. If anyone took out his/her own paper they
could either respond to it or put it straight back. However when the paper
finally came back to them, they were to keep it.
This was
a very busy session, but at the end many of the problems received
some ideas and answers, some in the form of cognitive advice, others with
practical ideas yet some just with words of comfort and support.
Then the
participants were encouraged to either keep the answer or throw
it away, get rid of it by symbolically throwing it to the garbage or destroying
it and saying goodbye to it.
Only three
out of nine participants opted for the second option. We concluded the session
by talking about compassion fatigue and how to prevent it. Training
the participants in selfrelaxation, ended this last session.
I have tried
here to characterise what happens to helpers who are involved in intervention
at times of disaster. These thoughts are based upon my personal experience,
observations, and discussions with professionals whom I supervise and guide.
I have pointed
to components related to the absence of professional defence rituals, the
events penetration into consciousness through media exposure, geographic
and psychological similarity between those performing intervention and their
clients. I have also noted the phenomenon of the death imprint and its influence
on the helper.
By studying
chapter 1 of the Book of Genesis, and consideration of the concept of chaos,
I suggested another way of understanding the experience of the victim and
the helper and the fantasy of omnipotence related to the magic touch of
parenting evoked by the interrelationship of helper - parent; victim - child.
Understanding the experience of the encounter with the darkness in
the face of abyss may help to explain the powerful psychological effect
on the helper, once they get in contact with the abyss and the dark. This
in turn may be a partial explanation of compassion fatigue.
I have used the multidimensional BASIC Ph model to classify the methods that
have been found effective in helping care givers to reduce compassion fatigue
and demonstrated it with an example of group supervision. Naturally, these
are only initial suggestions, and as far as I know, the first attempt to
use creative methods in supervising crisis intervention teams and to use
a dramatherapy approach in this context. These ideas need to be followed
up and further researched. However they do provide insights that I believe
give us a direction for understanding and coping with the incidence of compassion
This was first published
in our publication Community Stress Prevention Vol. 4 2000 and later in
Traumatology 2000 Vol 6.
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He spent months recovering from broken ribs, a dislocated kneecap and mangled teeth he suffered in a jet-boat accident last year.
But Dave Ramsay's pain continued when he received a summons to go to court for his part in the mishap that resulted in injuries to himself and two others.
Mr Ramsay, a 56-year-old Tauranga audio technician and jet-boat enthusiast, says he will plead guilty when he appears in the Morrinsville District Court to charges laid against him by the Waikato Regional Council for operating a vessel in a dangerous manner.
A close friend of his, also of Tauranga and also 56, was injured when his jet boat collided with Mr Ramsay's in August last year and is facing the same charge.
The pair were adventure jet boating in separate vessels on the Waiomu Stream near Matamata when the accident happened on August 28 last year.
Mr Ramsay thinks he was travelling at 40km/h when his boat crashed head-on into his friend's.
The impact shunted him into the front of his boat, partly trapping him and collapsing his steering wheel, knocking him unconscious and leaving him with four broken ribs, a dislocated knee and dental damage. His passenger suffered a knock to the head and was also taken to Waikato Hospital.
His friend's passenger had what was believed to be a dislocated knee.
Mr Ramsay said he was surprised the matter was heading to court after he said investigations by police, the harbourmaster and Maritime New Zealand found nothing wrong.
But asked if would defend the charge, he said: "Nope".
"Who would be an idiot to try and take on the Waikato Regional Council? They're too big. I just see it as a waste of resources, a waste of money and a waste of time.
"The guy (from the WRC) was down here a day after the accident measuring up my boat - when that happens you know you're doomed."
Mr Ramsay, who returned to work on Tuesday after a five-month lay-off, admitted to breaking a number of rules including travelling above 5 knots at the time of the accident.
"One of the maritime rules of the waterway is that you always pass on the right-hand side but I got caught nailed to a bank on the left. It was like I was driving on the wrong side of the road.
"Do you think you'd get prosecuted if you were driving on the wrong side of the road and had a head-on [collision]? I'm pretty sunk aren't I ?"
Mr Ramsay said he would likely be fined.
He is going to sell his 3.7m boat to meet the costs and downgrade to a smaller vessel, though he has no plans to give up jet boating.
WRC navigation safety programme manager Nicole Botherway said the incident, which could potentially have led to fatalities, was a reminder about the need to take extreme care while operating powerful jet boats.
"It's always important for people using jet boats and other craft to watch their speed around other water users.
"The rule is that craft should stick to five knots or less within 50m of other vessels or swimmers."
Mrs Botherway said the council used education, warnings and fines to reinforce water safety rules.
"And, where the situation is serious enough, the council is also prepared to take people to court over safety issues."
She urged all boaties to take extra care over the Waitangi Day holiday weekend when it is expected that even more people will be out on waterways than usual.


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Recall Sampler: Tons of Ground Turkey
Ground turkey's become so popular with folks fond of low-fat beef and pork substitutes. It's not immune from the same processing problems though, and now food giant Cargill is recalling a whopping 36 million pounds of ground turkey. The turkey may be contaminated with Salmonella. The branded products are too numerous to list here so please check any ground turkey products you have against the USDA/FSIS announcement linked above. One person has been killed and 77 sickened by this tainted turkey.
While you'll want to discard any unused recalled food, you can safeguard yourself in any case by properly cooking meat products. The Salmonella bacteria is destroyed and the food made safe to eat if cooked to 165 degrees Fahrenheit. If you like meat rare, you're rolling the dice.
- Source: USDA/FSIS
Here are a few more notable items from the past week's recalls.
SHSCO Manufacturing Various Meat Products
SHSCO Manufacturing LLC, a Phoenix, Ariz., establishment, is recalling an undetermined amount of meat products because the products were produced without federal inspection. Again, too many individual branded products are involved to list here. The products were produced for distribution in Arizona and Nevada.
- Source: USDA/FSIS
Curly's Custom Meats Teriyaki Jerky Products
Curly's Custom Meats, a Jackson Center, Ohio establishment is recalling approximately 33 pounds of teriyaki-flavored beef jerky products because of misbranding and an undeclared allergen. The products contain a known allergen, wheat, that is not declared on the label.
- Source: USDA/FSIS
NexTorch Flashlight Batteries
NexTorch is recalling about 16,000 NT123A flashlight batteries. The batteries can overheat and rupture, posing a fire and burn hazard to consumers.
- Source: CPSC
Cloud Engines Pogoplug Video File Sharing Device
Cloud Engines is recalling about 11,000 Pogoplug Video File Sharing Devices. The device can overheat or catch fire, emitting excessive heat, sparks, smoke or flames.
- Source: CPSC
Battat Toy Keys with Remote
Battat is recalling over 1 million Toy Keys with Remote. The metal toy keys and the plastic key ring can break, posing a choking hazard.
- Source: CPSC
Bravo Sports "Disney" Pogo Sticks
Bravo Sports is recalling about 59,000 "Disney"-branded pogo sticks. The bottom rubber tip attached to the pogo stick frame can wear out prematurely, posing a fall hazard to consumers. Also, the end caps on the handlebars can come off, exposing sharp edges. This poses a laceration hazard to consumers. Maybe we'll talk someday about the product liability and reputational risks associated with licensing agreements.
- Source: CPSC
Honeywell Electric Baseboard and Fan Heater Thermostats
Honeywell is recalling about 77,000 Electric Baseboard and Fan Heater Thermostats. The thermostats can overheat, causing them to melt and smoke. This poses a burn hazard to the consumer.
- Source: CPSC
phil&teds Explorer and Hammerhead Strollers
phil&teds is recalling about 9,400 Explorer and Hammerhead Strollers. The brake mechanism on the strollers can fail, posing an injury hazard.
- Source: CPSC
Purina ONE Vibrant Maturity 7+ Dry Cat Food
Nestle Purina PetCare Company is voluntarily recalling a limited number of 3.5- and 7-pound bags of its Purina ONE Vibrant Maturity 7+ Dry Cat Food. This is being done because some bags of the product have been found to be contaminated with Salmonella. Please check the notice for the affected "best by" dates and production codes.
- Source: FDA
H-E-B Brands Dairy Products
H-E-B is encouraging customers to check their refrigerators for various packages of cottage cheese, dips, yogurt and sour cream. The products may contain "foreign material." The products were sold between June 18 and July 27. Numerous items and sizes are involved. Please check the recall notice carefully.
- Source: FDA
Qualiherb Dietary Supplements
Finemost Corporation is recalling certain of the company's Qualiherb dietary supplements. The supplements may contain ephedrine alkaloids, which can cause serious adverse reactions including heart attack, stroke, and death.
- Source: FDA
Shata Trading Three Rivers Brand Golden Raisins
Shata Trading is recalling its Three Rivers Brand Golden Raisins. The raisins contain undeclared sulfites.
- Source: FDA
Flying Food Group Sandwiches, Parfaits, Wraps, Plates, and Salads
Flying Food Group is recalling all sandwiches, parfaits, wraps, plates, and salads produced at its Lawrenceville, GA facility. They have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The products were distributed to Core-mark Atlanta Division, Race Trac, and Starbucks in Alabama, Georgia and Florida.
- Source: FDA
Ridley Block Operations
Ridley Block Operations is recalling one lot of Purina-Lix 38 Hi-E and RangeLand 38 Hi-E free-choice supplement tubs for beef cattle because of the potential for softened product to contain excessive levels of urea.
- Source: FDA
These are just some of the past week's recalls. Please check Recalls.gov for a complete list of recent recalls.
Identifying Recalled Products
Identifying recalled products isn't always easy. CPSC has prepared a video for you to watch and learn how to determine if a product you have's been recalled.
What to Do
In general, if you have a recalled item you'll want to contact the retailer or manufacturer. They will replace or repair the item, or issue a refund or credit. Most recalled food items should simply be thrown out.
If you've been injured by a consumer product, or feel you've been sickened by a food or drug, you should keep the item in a safe and secure place. You may need it as evidence for a products liability claim, and a government agency might want to examine it as well. In any case you should contact a good products liability lawyer if you have any questions about your legal rights.
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It is rare to find houses so completely tucked away on their own and this substantial period farmhouse provides such a rural idyll.
Traditionally arranged over two floors, the ground floor comprises a welcoming reception hall with a cloakroom, providing access to a family room on one side and a dining room on the other. The dining room leads through to the sitting room and they share a double sided open fireplace. To the rear is a kitchen/breakfast room with an AGA and adjacent utility room.
To the first floor a landing with french doors to a Juliet balcony serves four bedrooms and a family bathroom. The second bedroom has french doors to a rearward facing balcony affording fine and far reaching countryside views, as does much of the accommodation.
The property is located about a mile outside the pretty hilltop village of Oving, on a no through road.
The village of Oving, situated about 5 miles north of Aylesbury, has an active social and sporting calendar and boasts the well known Black Boy Inn. The recreation ground (with tennis courts) extends to about 7.4 acres and has a new community hall.
Further facilities can be found in the nearby villages of Whitchurch and North Marston. Ramhill Farmhouse is situated within the catchment area for all three Aylesbury Grammar Schools and also the well renowned Whitchurch Combined School, rated 'outstanding' in its latest Ofsted report. The house is also conveniently located for many popular private schools including Swanbourne House School, Stowe and Berkhamsted.
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Portland duo Quasi (Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss) have shared a video for their single, See You on Mars. The track is part of the band's upcoming double LP, Mole City, set for release on October 1 via Kill Rock Stars.
The video features a potpourri of archival footage cleverly arranged to follow the music, like a choreographed dance. Halfway through the song, the black and white clips and cartoons are substituted for colorful images, which only adds to the amusement factor. Watch the very entertaining video below.


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In Cambridge, Crowd Cheers on Sheehan
Mother of soldier killed in Iraq touring nation
by Michael Levenson
CAMBRIDGE -- Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a slain soldier whose vigil outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, helped galvanize antiwar sentiment last month, told 200 cheering, chanting supporters in Cambridge yesterday that Americans should never again be led into what she called an illegal and unjust war.
It's going to be us that makes this war end," said Cambridge City Councilor Denise Simmons, to the cheers of the audience. ''It's going to be all of us.
''We remembered something that we as Americans had forgotten after almost five years of being under a virtual dictatorship," she said on Cambridge Common. ''We have the power. We Americans are the ones with the power."
It was Sheehan's first stop in the Boston area since her vigil helped draw nationwide attention to the movement to remove US troops from Iraq, and she received a rapturous welcome in this famously liberal city.
Her supporters, including several military veterans, parents with young children, and local activists, cheered and waved peace flags on the green where George Washington once mustered his troops. A few people sang the traditional song with the lyrics, ''We ain't gonna study war no more," while others hoisted a banner that asked, ''How many more?" Another banner declared, ''Peace and social justice thrive in Cambridge." When the first busload of military families arrived, people chanted, ''Welcome," and then burst into applause as Sheehan took the makeshift stage adorned with a red tarp backdrop.
''George Bush wouldn't meet with me," Sheehan said. ''But I went over his head. I went to the people of America."
The rally was part of a nationwide tour that Sheehan launched after she failed in her immediate goal to meet with the president to ask him why her son, 24-year-old Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, had to die.
Casey Sheehan was killed in April 2004 after insurgents ambushed his unit in the Sadr City section of Baghdad.
''It's going to be us that makes this war end," said Cambridge City Councilor Denise Simmons, to the cheers of the audience. ''It's going to be all of us."
Sheehan's supporters had set up tents on the grass yesterday and hung a placard reading, ''Welcome to Camp Alex," in honor of Alex S. Arredondo, a 20-year-old Marine lance corporal from Randolph who died in August 2004. He was shot by insurgents while storming a building in Najaf. His father, Carlos Arredondo of Roslindale, later made national headlines when he set himself on fire inside a van that the Marines had used to bring him the news of his son's death. He survived, but suffered burns on 26 percent of his body.
''I hope armed forces families won't go through what my family is going through," Arredondo said in an interview at the rally yesterday, describing his battle with post-traumatic stress disorder. ''Because it's one year gone by, and it's still very difficult, and people are telling me it's a far road ahead."
When Arredondo took the stage with his mother and his wife by his side, he hoisted over his head a picture of his son in full dress uniform.
''He was proud of what he was doing for his country. And I am proud of that," Carlos Arredondo said. ''But the effects that come with that are very high, very high for the family."
He added, ''I want peace," and repeated the phrase again.
At the rally, activists rallied support for a petition that would try to force the state government to withdraw the Massachusetts National Guard from Iraq. As a first step, supporters need to collect 100,000 signatures. Activists, including Sheehan, also asked those in attendance to turn out for an antiwar rally planned for Sept. 24-26 in Washington, D.C., Supporters are trying to draw hundreds of thousands of people in what they hope will be the largest antiwar demonstration since the US invaded Iraq last year.
''Our life here in America is being threatened. It's being sold out," said Anne Sapp. Her husband, Andrew, is a teacher at Concord-Carlisle High School and a staff sergeant in the Massachusetts National Guard currently serving in Iraq, she said. Every night, she said, she worries about him and the increasingly anxious e-mails he sends home. He is due back in the United States in October, she said, but she is not certain the date will hold.
''Each step of the way, when you have a loved one in Iraq, there is a new type of pain, a new type of fear," Anne Sapp said, as the crowd fell silent to listen. Her husband, she said, ''should be here now, serving his community."
After the rally, Sheehan was scheduled to speak at Boston University Law School. She is then due to visit New Haven, Conn., Providence, New York City, Newark, N.J., and Baltimore.
Since she left her encampment outside the president's ranch in Texas, Sheehan said, she has been encouraged but not surprised by the crowds she meets across America.
''I was sensing that America was ready for a change, that America was saying, 'Enough is enough,' " she said.
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