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Shiatsu: Another Tool for Keeping Birth Normal
by Suzanne Yates
[Editor's note: This article was originally printed in MIDIRS, 12/98, and appeared in Midwifery Today Issue 61, Spring 2002.]
Anything that enables women to have more confidence in their bodies is vital in these days of hi-tech living and hi-tech birth. There is now an increasing acceptance of complementary therapies in midwifery. Yet the number of ultrasound scans, other forms of screening and cesareans continues to rise. As the "birth machine" (Marsden Wagner) continues to grow, so do we also need to keep developing support for women simply to enable them to connect with their own bodies and their own wisdom.
As a shiatsu practitioner and childbirth educator, I feel that shiatsu offers one form of that support. In some parts of the world it has become relatively popular and well known as a form of healing through touch based on the meridian system-"acupuncture without needles." In other places, people still think of the Shitsu dog! As far as midwifery practice and birth support goes, it is relatively unknown and certainly extremely underused as a tool in supporting women and their families. Many midwives have embraced massage and aromatherapy into their practices, but shiatsu has not really caught on in the same kind of way. I feel this is a shame, since it has so much to offer that is different from and complementary to other forms of massage.
I wonder if this is simply because a full massage training is six months or less, whereas the full shiatsu training is usually three years. I believe it is possible to teach people the essence of shiatsu in considerably less time than that and to focus on particular aspects of shiatsu knowledge relevant for particular groups of people. I was surprised how effectively my partner, who is not a shiatsu practitioner, was able to use some shiatsu points and techniques on me to get me into labour when I was threatened with induction after my waters had broken. I was also impressed at how effectively he was able to use shiatsu for pain relief during labour. He and I have been teaching regular classes to women and their birth partners since 1990, where they learn how to use shiatsu in labour, also extremely effectively after just a one-day course. They mostly use it for pain relief, but have also used it to help turn breech or posterior babies, to speed up slow labour, to get second stage moving, even to expel placentas, with no ill effects. It is possible for midwives to learn these skills and more, and integrate shiatsu into their practice, without having to reduce other aspects of the care.
What is Shiatsu?
Shiatsu is in essence very simple: It is a particular way of touching a body. It is similar in some ways to massage, aromatherapy and reflexology, yet it is also profoundly different, as it draws on the Eastern traditions of yin/yang, meridians, elements and Zen. It includes work with muscles, ligaments and skin, releasing physical tension and promoting relaxation. It also works with the energetic pathways (meridians) and encompasses work on the emotions, the psyche and the spirit. It is a form of communication-reaching beyond the physical and tangible form to touch the essence of life itself, which is invisible.
The main difference between the experienced practitioner and the novice is the ability to interpret the information received through touching in this way. Many of the essential aspects of this way of touch, this form of communication, can be accessed after relatively little training. In this respect it is different from acupuncture and herbalism, which view the body and its energy in similar ways. Obviously you need to train for several years to be able to insert needles into the body, and you need to have a thorough understanding of Chinese herbs to begin to prescribe them safely.
The more spiritual Zen aspects of shiatsu may be the attraction for us here in the West. Some teachers in the U.K. do work more with the physical aspects of shiatsu. They may have trained as physiotherapists, or osteopaths. Others focus more on the spiritual; they may have lived in meditation centres and studied with monks. Shiatsu has the gift of being able to work with and transcend both systems, both ways of seeing the world. It can include both the spiritual and physical and can be adapted according to the needs of the person.
In Japan, an informal style of shiatsu has been handed down for thousands of years, through the traditional birth attendants or "sambas." Unfortunately, with the Japanese defeat in 1945 the "sambas" virtually disappeared as birth shifted from the birth houses to the hospitals. Only a handful remain and I have been lucky enough to have worked with a Japanese midwife living in London whose grandmother was one of these attendants and who has written about her work. From her, I have learned some useful additional techniques and feel connected to an ancient tradition. Today the most common use of shiatsu in Japan in the maternity period is postnatally, doing breast work to promote breastfeeding and prevent problems such as mastitis.
The Benefits for Birthing Women
In practical terms, a session offered by a practitioner of shiatsu usually lasts from one to one and one-fourth hours. It involves some time spent talking, assessing through listening and observation diagnosis. Then there is about 40 to 50 minutes of work with the person lying down fully clothed on a futon (light cotton mattress). A key feature of shiatsu is the use of pressure, which is usually experienced as calm and relaxing even though it works deeply on the body. The practitioner uses the hands, especially the thumbs and palms, to apply pressure all over the body. Stretches as well as techniques more similar to massage, such as stroking and kneading are included. Afterwards, some time is given to relaxation and then feedback. Shiatsu is not simply about "having a massage" but about guiding the client in the process of both becoming more aware of the energy in their body and of self-development. This is an important part of shiatsu. Sometimes people don't want to do much of the work themselves, and that is fine. But the more they are able to take responsibility for their own health, the more benefits they will receive.
A practitioner working with a pregnant woman is able to ease many of the discomforts and problems of pregnancy, ranging from nausea to backache, leg cramps to depression, anxiety and stress. It is the whole person, rather than simply the condition with which we work; but often many of the "symptoms" disappear after only one or two sessions. The very nature of shiatsu means that the woman is enabled to connect more deeply with her body and baby. She can then begin to experience aspects of herself she may not have been in contact with before. Shiatsu can continue postnatally, and again most "symptoms" can be addressed. It is also possible to work with the newborn baby. I often teach parents a form of baby massage that is shiatsu-based.
Shiatsu: Personal and Professional Tool for Midwives
Midwives, after my six-day training program, can learn techniques that can be easily incorporated into practice. You can learn different ways of touching the abdomen (in shiatsu known as the hara, an important energy centre of the body) that incorporate relaxation for the mother and working with the energy of the baby. This needn't take much more time than an abdominal palpitation and it also provides an opportunity to teach the mother, and possibly also the father, friend or sibling some simple abdominal massage techniques. This shift of emphasis encourages parents to bond with their unborn child and encourages mothers to feel more confident about their bodies. Some of you probably do some of this anyway, instinctively, or with more Western massage techniques. Shiatsu skills will add to what you do. You may even use some simple back and neck shiatsu techniques to relieve tension and promote relaxation, which can be incorporated into your ordinary antenatal appointments. You may be surprised at how effective even a little of this work can be-sometimes having worked on the back to relieve backache, you may find you have eased water retention, or improved digestion. During labour shiatsu is extremely effective, as I mentioned before, for getting labour going, for pain relief and for helping at any stage at which the mother may get stuck. Postnatally, a midwife can ease backache, promote rehabilitation of the abdomen and work with the baby, and in doing this she may also help ease postnatal depression.
Shiatsu, even when practised by a midwife with a little training, offers a chance for mothers to relax deeply and connect with their bodies. Traditionally midwives worked a lot with touch and with plants from the earth. In Eastern terms we can say that the midwives worked very much with the earth element, with its qualities of nourishing and support. Now in the 21st century midwives work much more with machines and tools, often made from metal. We can say this represents a shift toward the metal element, which can be less nurturing, more invasive, more critical. Shiatsu represents a way of introducing more of the earth element back into midwifery practice and helping midwives reconnect and update some of their more traditional skills.
Shiatsu is also powerful as a tool for personal development for midwives. Since it has developed over thousands of years and is part of a long Eastern healing tradition, developing from a "spiritual" context, it emphasizes not only the "patient" or "receiver" but the "giver." For the work to be effective the healer must come from a place of wholeness: "Physician heal thyself." A large part of the shiatsu training and the ongoing discipline of being a therapist is self-development work. It is not possible to balance other people's energy if your own is out of balance. Integral to the practice of shiatsu is continuous work on oneself to balance one's own energy. This lessens the possibility of burnout, fatigue and stress, or even absorption of any disturbed, exhausted energies from the person you are working with.
Integration into Maternity Services
I believe it is time for some of the gifts shiatsu can offer to be more fully integrated into maternity services. This is why I have decided to set up a six-day course aimed at teaching to midwives the relevant aspects of shiatsu. The focus will be very much on integrating shiatsu into the constraints of current midwifery practice, rather than simply acquiring another interesting skill. As a member of the Avon Maternity Services Liaison Committee I am only too aware of the implications of introducing complementary therapies into midwifery care. I know many midwives out there who have a skill in complementary care, which they are not often able to use.
In these days of research-based practise, there is unfortunately not much research specifically on shiatsu. There is quite a body of research on the role of acupuncture, which uses many of the same points and is easier to research. At my local hospital in Bristol one of the midwives was particularly interested in shiatsu for induction and did an audit on its use. This showed that post-term women who used shiatsu were more likely to labour spontaneously than those who did not. Of the women who had used shiatsu, 66 percent (42/66) went into spontaneous labour compared to 36 percent (26/77) of women who did not use shiatsu. The shiatsu group had a significantly lower rate of inductions and slightly fewer Caesarean sections and instrumental deliveries. We are now applying for research funding to investigate this effect with a much larger group of women and therefore contribute to increasing research on shiatsu. My hope is that as more midwives become aware of the benefits of shiatsu, some may be inspired to carry out research projects and this kind of touch and energy work can have a bigger role in supporting women.
I am excited that such ancient knowledge is being revitalised in the modern world and is still as relevant, if not more so, today than it ever was. My work is ultimately all about "supporting the wisdom of parents and babies" and I hope that more midwives will learn shiatsu as a way of doing this.
Suzanne Yates, BA(Hons), Dip HSEC, MRSS (T), APNT, is a shiatsu and massage teacher and practitioner. She studied antenatal and postnatal exercise in the U.S. with Elizabeth Noble and established Well Mother in 1990 to work with parents. Following the success of her work in Bristol U.K. she began to teach courses for professionals including midwives and shiatsu practitioners as well as massage therapists. She now runs international courses for these three groups; her ultimate aim being the integration of bodywork as a core part of 21st century maternity care. She visits the U.S. to teach once or twice a year and Midwifery Today is organising a five-day shiatsu course from August 26-30. Contact firstname.lastname@example.com. Or visit the Web site: wellmother.org
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Managing Dysexecutive Syndrome (DS): CIHR 2011-2014
This study has been completed.
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Deirdre Dawson, Baycrest
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Successful community participation following acquired brain injury (ABI) continues to be an elusive goal for patients, clinicians and researchers. Our pilot work shows that community dwelling survivors of ABI can significantly improve performance on self-identified real- world performance problems and that they can transfer this learning to improve goals not trained in the treatment sessions. We will compare two types of rehabilitation intervention using a randomized controlled trial. We will also interview survivors, their significant others and clinicians regarding their experiences with each intervention to help us discover what works best.
|Traumatic Brain Injury Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) Acquired Brain Injury
|Behavioral: Conventional rehabilitation. Behavioral: Novel rehabilitation approach
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Managing the Dysexecutive Syndrome Following Traumatic Brain Injury: An Ecologically Valid Rehabilitation Approach
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: RehabilitationU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Deirdre Dawson, Baycrest:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Change in performance on COPM [ Time Frame: pre, post, 3 month follow-up ]Canadian Occupational Performance Measure: standardized interview
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- DEX, IADL profile [ Time Frame: pre, post, 3 month follow-up ]Perceived and observed impact of dysexecutive syndrome in everyday life
|Study Start Date:
|March 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Conventional rehabilitation
In-home work on problems in daily living.
Behavioral: Conventional rehabilitation.
1 hour / 2x / week for up to 15 sessions
|Experimental: Novel rehabilitation approach
Behavioral: Novel rehabilitation approach
1 hr, 2x/week for up to 15 sessions
Detailed Description:
Executive dysfunction is endemic after severe acquired brain injuries (ABIs) and is highly associated with long-lasting psychosocial distress, problems in a multiplicity of everyday activities and overall reduced quality of life. There is increasing evidence to suggest that a novel behavioral intervention is a treatment of choice for executive dysfunction. However few studies have addressed ecological relevance: failing to take into account the significant impact of the complex settings of real life on executive function. More data are desperately needed in this area given the devastating consequences of ABI. We propose to investigate the benefits of two community- based interventions.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- fluent in written and spoken English,
- have sustained (1) a moderate to severe TBI as defined by a 6-hour GCS of 12 or less OR (2) complicated mild TBI with GCS 13-15 and associated abnormal findings on CT or MRI scan OR (3) other form of acquired brain injury (ABI) that is not related to a congenital, developmental or degenerative disorder but which occurred through a medical problem or disease process including stroke,
Exclusion Criteria: other significant neurological or psychiatric history such as multiple sclerosis or psychiatric illness requiring hospitalization, concurrent moderate to severe depression.
Contacts and Locations
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01414348
|Canada, Ontario
|Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
|Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6A2E1
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|Principal Investigator:
|Deirdre D Dawson, PhD
|Baycrest centre
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Dawson DR, Anderson ND, Binns MA, Bottari C, Damianakis T, Hunt A, Polatajko HJ, Zwarenstein M. Managing executive dysfunction following acquired brain injury and stroke using an ecologically valid rehabilitation approach: a study protocol for a randomized, controlled trial. Trials. 2013 Sep 22;14:306. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-14-306.
|Responsible Party:
|Deirdre Dawson, Dr. Deirdre Dawson, Senior Scientist Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest
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|NCT01414348 History of Changes
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|August 10, 2011
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|January 26, 2015
Keywords provided by Deirdre Dawson, Baycrest:
activities of daily living
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Wounds and Injuries
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Two new CLASP resources released this week lay out the facts of the issue and explain why reinstatement of the provision is essential for maintaining access to education and training for low-income, low-skilled students.
The Ability to Benefit provisions allow students without a high school diploma or secondary school equivalent to demonstrate their readiness for postsecondary education by either passing a skills test or successfully completing six college credits. Students who qualify under either of these options are eligible to receive student financial aid (depending on their further income eligibility) for the remainder of their college certificate or degree program.
- Eliminating "Ability to Benefit" Student Aid Options Closes Door to College Credentials for Thousands and Undermines Innovation explains why the loss of AtB is devastating for lower-skilled adult students wishing to return to school and get better-paying jobs. It lays out the consequences for students given declining state and federal education and training resources, and provides details about how the loss of the provision disproportionately impacts students who are low-income, first generation, and minorities.
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Strategies to Optimize Antiretroviral Therapy Services for Maternal & Child Health: the MCH-ART Study (MCH-ART)
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
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The purpose of this study is to understand how to improve health care services for HIV-positive women during their pregnancy and after delivery. The study's aim is to compare two different ways of providing antiretroviral therapy for pregnant women with HIV. The study is to be conducted at the Gugulethu Midwife Obstetric Unit (MOU) in Cape Town. There are three phases of the study: Phase 1 is a cross-sectional evaluation of consecutive HIV-infected pregnant women attending their first antenatal clinic visit (n=1600); Phase 2 is an observational cohort that will follow women from Phase 1 who are eligible for ART (n=600) from the second antenatal clinic visit until the first postpartum visit; Phase 3 is a randomized trial of women from Phase 2 who are breastfeeding and will compare two different service models for delivering ART to women after they delivery their babies (n=480). For Phase 3, women who are taking ART will randomly be assigned to either (1) referral to receive ART at the nearest adult clinic at 4-8 weeks after delivery (this is currently how all women receive care in this setting) or (2) to continue to come to the antenatal clinic for ART services until the end of breastfeeding. All women will received the standard local ART services (with identical medications and medical treatment); they are different because some women will stay longer in care at the antenatal clinic. All women participating in Phase 3 will be followed through at least 2 months after they deliver.
|Other: MCH-focused ART services
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
|Official Title:
|Strategies to Optimize Antiretroviral Therapy Services for Maternal & Child Health: the MCH-ART Study
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Further study details as provided by Associate Professor Landon Myer, University of Cape Town:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Combined endpoint of (i) maternal HIV viral suppression, and (ii) maternal retention in ART services, at 12 months postpartum [ Time Frame: Up to one year post partum follow-up for all phase 3 participants ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Maternal retention in care up to 12 months postpartum [ Time Frame: Up to one year post-partum ]
- Maternal viral suppression throughout the breastfeeding period as well as before and after cessation of breastfeeding [ Time Frame: Up to one year post partum ]
- Rates of HIV transmission from mother-to-child at 6 weeks and up to 12 months postpartum [ Time Frame: Up to one year post partum ]
- Breastfeeding practices, including duration of exclusive feeding and weaning patterns [ Time Frame: Up to one year post partum ]
- Acceptability of different strategies for delivering HIV care and treatment during the postpartum period [ Time Frame: Up to one year post partum ]
Other Outcome Measures:
- Subgroup analyses of the primary outcome according to participant demographic characteristics, medical history, clinical characteristics and psychosocial characteristics [ Time Frame: up to 12 months postpartum ]
|Study Start Date:
|March 2013
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|March 2017
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
No Intervention: Local Standard of Care
Arm A: Referral of post-partum women from the antenatal clinic to general adult ART services at approximately 4-8 weeks postpartum (the local current standard of care in this setting)
Active Comparator: MCH-focused ART services
Arm B: Continued receipt of MCH-focused ART services based at the antenatal clinic throughout the period of breastfeeding. Post-partum women will only be referred to general adult ART services after the end of breastfeeding and once infants' final HIV status is determined.
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Phase 1
- Age 18 years or older
- Documented HIV-infection according to two finger-prick rapid tests using different test types (per routine protocol in this setting) or documentation of HIV status for those women self reporting HIV diagnosis.
- Confirmed pregnancy according to urine pregnancy test, ultrasound or clinical assessment
- Able to provide informed consent for research (Informed Consent #1)
Phase 2: Subset of Phase 1 participants who are ART-eligible
- Consented and participated in Phase 1
- Documented ART eligibility based on CD4 count and/or WHO staging according to public sector testing or assessment
- Not currently using triple-drug antiretroviral therapy (women started on AZT for PMTCT during the current pregnancy are eligible) or have not used ART within the previous 6 months.
- Able to provide informed consent for research (Informed Consent #2)
Phase 3: Subset of Phase 2 participants eligible for randomization
- Consented and participated in Phase 2
- Initiated ART during the antenatal period
- Currently breastfeeding within <7 days postpartum (with an allowable window of up to 28 days postpartum)
- Willingness to be randomized and return for postnatal study visits
- Able to provide informed consent for research (Informed Consent #
Exclusion Criteria:
Individuals meeting any of the following exclusion criteria at the point in the study will be excluded:
- Not currently pregnant (Phases 1 and 2) or loss of pregnancy/neonate (Phase 3) at the time of eligibility determination
- Intention to relocate out of Cape Town permanently during the study period (Phase 2 and 3 only)
Any medical, psychiatric or social condition which in the opinion of the investigators would affect the ability to consent and/or participate in the study (all phases), including:
- Refusal to take ART/ARVs
- Denial of HIV status
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Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01933477
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01933477
|South Africa
|Gugulethu Midwife Obstetric Unit
|Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of Cape Town
Columbia University
|Principal Investigator:
|Landon Myer, MBChB, PhD
|University of Cape Town
|Principal Investigator:
|Elaine J Abrams, MD
|Columbia University
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Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Keywords provided by Associate Professor Landon Myer, University of Cape Town:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 25, 2017
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|Responsible Party:
|Associate Professor Landon Myer, Professor, University of Cape Town
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01933477 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|August 22, 2013
|Last Updated:
|July 5, 2016
Keywords provided by Associate Professor Landon Myer, University of Cape Town:
Maternal Health
Child Health
HIV infection
Antenatal care
Postpartum care
Prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT)
Breast feeding
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Miami coach Jim Larranaga, just days after missing out on top recruit Kameron Williams, scored a win Friday night when top-100 shooting guard Davon Reed committed to the Hurricanes.
Reed, a 6-5 native of Princeton, N.J., is ranked No. 78 in the Class of '13 by ESPN and No. 97 by Rivals.com. He picked Miami over offers from Wake Forest and Xavier.
"I think he just believes in what Coach (Larranaga) has going on down there," Reed's AAU coach, Rob Brown, told SportsNet New York. "He kind of took over somebody else's team and had success with it and they have five or six freshmen coming in with that class. Davon's trying to bring some of his friends with him.
"He can play a lot of different positions on the floor. He can really shoot the ball. He's got real good sweet stroke to his jump shot. I think he's going to get better and better with time. I think when he gets to college he's going to step up and improve his game and be an impact guy for Miami."
Reed is a skilled perimeter player who is long and athletic, and he has good enough ballhandling skills and court vision to play point guard at times even though it's not his natural position.
Now that he has committed to the Hurricanes, Reed is now one of Larranaga's biggest recruiters. Brown said he's working the phones in hopes of talking top-100 forwards Josh Hart of Silver Springs, Md., and Reggie Cameron of Hackensack, N.J., plus center Austin Colbert of Gladstone, N.J., into joining him at Miami.


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Any of us can, without warning, be caught up a traumatic event
that is overwhelming, frightening, life-threatening (to ourselves
or others) and beyond our control. This could be:
After such an event, most people feel
distressed and can have symptoms for some time. Everyone will react
differently, bit it is common to feel anxious, angry, emotional,
shaky and to have difficulty putting the event out of our mind.
This is called Acute Stress Reaction. Fortunately, this usually
fades over a period of days or weeks.
But sometimes, the acute reaction doesn't go away and
you can develop a more severe condition that we call
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD.
The condition can also be triggered by less acute, but equally
distressing and longer-lasting traumas, such as on-going
mistreatment, and physical or sexual abuse in the home.
No. Most people get an Acute Stress Reaction which has some
overlap with PTSD symptoms. These usually go way, but not everyone
is so lucky. About 1 in 3 people will find that their symptoms just
carry on and that they can't come to terms with what has happened.
It is as though the process has got stuck.
The symptoms usually start within a few
weeks of the trauma, but they can start up to 6 months later.
After the traumatic event you can feel
grief-stricken, depressed, anxious, guilty and angry. In PTSD you
may also:
Psychological (talking) therapies. These are
usually delivered on a one-to-one basis with your therapist. The
ones with the best evidence-base are:
Medication. Antidepressant tablets can
help. If you find them helpful, you should carry on taking them for
around 12 months before slowly tailing them off. If you are so
distressed that you can't sleep or think clearly, you may need
sedative medication. But you should only take this for a short
time, 2 weeks or so.
CBT, EMDR and antidepressants seem to be most helpful. The
evidence for other forms of psychotherapy or counselling is much
weaker. Trauma-focused psychological therapies (CBT and EMDR)
should usually be offered before medication.
When you can:
Most importantly, don't be hard on yourself
or expect too much of yourself. PTSD is not a sign of weakness. The
strongest person can get it.
Some people think it can be helpful to let
those around you know about your mental health problems, whether
they are family, friends or colleagues at work. This may help
people know what things can help you, especially during times of
It is not easy to be open with people about these issues. It may
help to discuss this with your doctors or mental health team to
decide if this is the right approach for you.
Remind yourself that they are irritable and jumpy because they
are still reliving the trauma. Give them time to tell you about
what happened.
For more in-depth information see our main leaflet:
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Pruning will occur, but not all wanted the tree to stay
Ukiah Daily Journal
Soon minus a few branches, the large oak tree near Grace Hudson Museum will remain standing for now, although two members of the Ukiah City Council do not agree that pruning it is the best course of action.
"I think at some point the tree has to go, and the sooner we start with a new tree, the sooner we have a big tree," said Mayor Doug Crane, who voted against having staff pay arborist John Phillips an estimated $3,500 to cut off more of the tree's branches.
Community Services Administrator Katie Marsolan said the 80-foot tall valley oak is a very typical old tree, meaning it can drop its branches, and that is worrisome because it is in a public park.
"The tree is of heightened concern because (Carpenter Hudson Park) is a very active space and will continue to be," Marsolan said. "Arborists (who examined the tree) have reached a consensus that it does present some decay and cracks, but nearly every tree of this age has those, and it could have many more years of health."
Marsolan said the majestic tree is already beloved by many in the community, but it could become even more important as a centerpiece in the future plans for the park, which will be transformed into a cultural center featuring living exhibits thanks to a $3 million state grant.
"We feel very confident that this tree could be a feature of an educational exhibit ... and will be a tool for us," she continued. "The best course for us as staff to be able to utilize the tree and the space (around it) would be to prune it."
Phillips pruned the tree and put in a cable system to help support the tree's branches more than 15 years ago, but a large branch fell two summers ago. Since then, the city has put up signs and other barriers to keep people away from the tree's "dripline," or where branches might fall.
Marsolan said the pruning being suggested "would be more than just your average haircut, we would move some weight from the canopy above the cables, and the tree would have a smaller canopy."
Since Phillips pruned the tree in the past, Marsolan said staff was recommending he perform the work again, estimating that it would cost about $3,500, including equipment rental. The contract she asked the council to approve was for "not more than $5,000."
When Council member Benj Thomas asked what the annual pruning costs for the tree were expected to be, Marsolan said she did not expect pruning to occur on an annual basis.
"Does pruning a tree of this age in fact weaken it, and endanger the health of the tree?" Thomas asked, and Marsolan said "Yes, any time a tree loses a branch to falling or pruning, that's a defect, and the health of a tree is characterized by the number of defects."
"We are also trying to address liability issues," said Sherri Smith-Ferri, director of the museum. "The pruning will have a negative impact, but if somebody is hurt (by a falling branch), that will also have a negative impact."
When Council member Mary Anne Landis asked that since the tree was expected to be a living exhibit, could the grant funds be used for the pruning, Marsolan said staff was suggesting that it be paid "out of the general fund now, and future work would be paid for out of the grant funding."
When Landis asked if "this is the best use of this resource," Marsolan said, "This process has helped me without a doubt realize that the tree, given its location and its relationship to other amenities in the park, is a very strong feature and is something the community is tied to. That's why we're proposing this -- this really is the strongest approach."
"I support the recommended action," said Council member Mari Rodin. "And I wonder if it would make sense to plant some other trees now?"
"Yes, we are planning on that," said Smith-Ferri. "And this tree has planted some of its ancestors around it, and us cutting back the canopy will allow those (trees) to grow better."
"How drastic will this haircut be, and are we really just buying time to get people used to the idea that they're going to lose the tree?" asked Thomas. "Is that the sense of staff?"
Marsolan said members of the city's Tree Advisory Group were supportive of the plan, and "staff is confident this is the best approach."
Phillips then addressed the council, saying that any pruning of a tree "can be harmful ... we don't do it for the sake of the tree, we're doing it for ourselves."
As for the frequency of pruning, Phillips said he didn't see a need for more pruning for at least five, maybe 10 years, and that the tree would not look "drastically different" after the proposed pruning.
"From a distance, it's not going to look that much different," he continued, estimating that the canopy would be reduced by about 10 to 15 percent. "The tree lost a major section three or four years ago, and we're trying to keep that from happening again."
Referring to the "Meet Our Old Lady" tagline on the new Visit Ukiah's website, Council member Phil Baldwin asked, "Is this the Old Lady that Visit Ukiah wants us to check out? We need to get that misogynistic statement off their website."
Thomas asked if perhaps private donations could be solicited to take care of the tree, and maybe "the people that are deeply concerned about this tree would care to contribute to a fund for maintaining it?"
Marsolan said the city would first need to fund the work, and that action "will determine whether we get those donations coming in."
The council then voted to approve the pruning work, with Thomas and Crane voting "no."
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Easy enough, I've been around for a while, however I'm not up on forum policies for external links and such...
1. download Lion from the market.
2. download chimera 1.4.1 (google) or whatever build of chameleon you prefer
3. download xmove 1.0 (google)
4. resize your leopard partition to leave 11.5gig of free space at the end
5. create a new partition in the empty space, name it install
6. Run xmove, and make sure you choose the partition 'install' as your destination!! (if you install it to your snow leopard partition you'll break your setup)
7. Once that is complete make sure you have either updated your chameleon, or you have run chimera.
8. reboot, at the boot screen select install as your boot device, and install!
9. once in lion copy any of the files you like from the attached archive (most of which are based from this thread, and some are not), to get sound working use the archive provided by the thread starter here. I think you'll need the network kext provided there as well, but I'm running on wireless so I never bothered.
10. Open terminal and paste:sudo perl -pi -e 's|\x8b\x45\xc8\x39\x45\xcc\x74\x0b|\x8b\x45\xc8\x39\x45\xcc\xeb\x0b|; s|\x8b\x45\xb4\x39\x45\xb8\x74\x08|\x8b\x45\xb4\x39\x45\xb8\xeb\x08|' /System/Library/Extensions/AppleRTC.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleRTCyou may wish to backup /System/Library/Extensions/AppleRTC.kext first.
**Make sure you've updated your bios to FF
*** All you fermi users NO MORE FREEZING!!!!!!! I gave up on lion with my 5750, so I put my GTS450 back in just to test the waters, and no freezes!! (this isn't exactly news at this point).
Make sure you run kext utility before reboot.
JPA has a much prettier, and well thought out guide here
My geekbench under SL was 8950
My geekbech under lion is 10970!! (I think nullcpupowermanagement was slowing me down under SL)
Updated to 10.7.1 this evening, sound was broken as usual, after reboot I put the attached kext back in s/l/e , ran kext util, and all was back to normal.


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An early morning accident April 12 left a Summerfield man dead.
Jeremy Wahl, 28, the rider of a 2008 motorcycle was pronounced dead at the scene after emergency workers responded to the accident at SW 12 Ave. and S. Main St., Williston around 6:30 a.m.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Angie Brewer, 69, of Williston was traveling east on SW 12 Ave. in her 2006 Chevy and was attempting to turn left onto S. Main St. and failed to see Wahl, who was traveling west.
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As the editor of the publication, I have both the blessing and the curse of deciding which stories make it into the magazine each issue. It is a curse because these can be very difficult decisions to make; beyond which stories make the lineup, there is always the issue of how much of the story we choose to run. After all, a page only holds so many lines of copy.
But the job has its upside, too. Like now, when as a result of my trusty red pen, I am left with enough edits for an entire column. I'll just consider it a gift from Drug Store News senior pharmacy editor Jim Frederick.
Jim's story on the three-way partnership between IBM, Google and Continua Health Alliance (see page 25) speaks right to the heart of why the private sector needs to lead the way on healthcare information technology. Last year, Google announced that it was going into the personal health record business; this new deal with IBM and Continua demonstrates what can happen to health care by digitizing health records.
Google's electronic health record initiative is not earth shattering. It has competition from software juggernaut Microsoft, which, about the same time as Google, launched a program called Heath Vault. And every Convenient Care Association provider-member—roughly 95% of the total retail clinic universe—has worked off an electronic medical record for about four years now. Make no mistake: If any one group has led the way on digitizing patient information, it has been the retail clinics.
Google's collaboration with IBM and Continua is important, however, because it seeks to leverage the EHR technology to enable patients, providers and caregivers to make better health decisions.
Drug Store News senior OTC editor Michael Johnsen has written extensively about Continua, and I invite you to log on to
In the meantime, here's the Cliffs Notes version: Continua is a consortium of more than 100 major healthcare companies, device manufacturers and technology makers that came together a few years ago to ensure that their products, including blood pressure monitors and glucometers, spoke a common language and interfaced freely with common computer platforms. From that standpoint, the Continua mission anticipated this period that now seems to be underway, given the $20 billion commitment the Obama economic relief plan dedicates to health information technology stimulus.
Who is Continua? It's such device companies as Bayer Diabetes Care, a sponsor of the sixth annual Drug Store News Diabetes Roundtable (see page 13), and Omron. It's such big pharmaceutical companies as Novo Nordisk, another Diabetes Roundtable sponsor, Novartis and GSK. It's such technology giants as IBM, Cisco and Intel. It is such global communications leaders as AT&T, Nokia, Sprint and Verizon. And it's such big healthcare payers as Kaisar Permanente, UnitedHealth and Aetna. It's the private sector showing our country how to move the needle on healthcare reform.
So, getting back to Jim's story about Google, IBM and Continua, and what got left on the cutting room floor this issue. IBM built the software according to Continua standards; Google provides the platform for users to access the data. In fairness, and more to Drug Store News readers than to Jim, here is a look at what this new partnership means for everyday Americans.
"For example, a busy mom can receive daily electronic updates on the health status of an aging parent who lives alone, is suffering from high blood pressure and is on multiple medications," IBM spokeswoman Gina Jesberg told Drug Store News. "A traveling businessperson who is diabetic and training for a marathon can have a real-time discussion about her blood sugar levels and heart rate with her coach hundreds of miles away."
Google Health director Sameer Samat explained that the partnership "will help both providers and users gain access to their device data in a highly simplified and automated fashion."
Added Dan Pelino, general manager IBM healthcare and life services industry, the new alliance harnesses "the rapidly growing use of remote patient monitoring across every part of the healthcare services industry," and boosts "the real-time value of [patient health records] for consumers everywhere."
And why Continua? Because there are 600 million people in the world with some form of chronic disease, explained Continua president Dave Whitlinger. "The time for greater personal health management is now," he said.
As this issue of Drug Store News went to press, another force emerged from the private sector to take the lead on HIT, a coalition of more than 50 pharmacy operators, healthcare companies and technology vendors known as the Health Information Trust Alliance.
Who is HiTrust, as the group calls itself? It's such companies as CVS Caremark, McKesson, Humana and Johnson & Johnson. Why HiTrust? To ensure that in a world of digitized health records, that the security of that information is appropriately safeguarded without unfounded patient privacy paranoia derailing all of the positives that HIT could deliver this country.
"Our focus is to increase trust in how health information is managed," explained Dan Nukis, HiTrust CEO. "We want to lower costs, reduce risks, increase efficiency and decrease complexity."
In the case of HiTrust, "trust" is a key word. As our government wrestles with the challenge of how to fix health care, lawmakers need to trust the private sector to lead us in the right direction. Because when you take a really close look at it all, you realize that so far, the private sector has led the way on much of what seems to constitute "health reform" in this country.


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STAFF at Sainsbury's supermarket at Merry Hill are urging charities to get in touch if they are interested in receiving food donations.
The food donation scheme is aimed at charities and organisations that could benefit from receiving surplus fresh food products that would otherwise go to waste such as bread from the in-store bakery, milk and fresh fruit and vegetables.
Natalie Jacombs, store manager at Sainsbury's Merry Hill, said: "Donating our surplus food is a great way of supporting local charities and also reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill.
"Very often at the end of each day there is perfectly good food left over that has reached its display-by date, but is still within the use-by date.
"Where this happens we would rather give this food to charities for free than see it go to waste, so we are advocating linking up with a local charity to donate this surplus food to them.
"We would urge any charitable group that provides meals for people and who may be interested in receiving food donations to get in touch."
The supermarket chain has been involved in donating food to charities since 1998.
Any borough charities interested in the scheme can call the store's PR ambassador Yvonne Artiss on 01384 480887 or email firstname.lastname@example.com


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McClendon seeking consistency from Ackley
SEATTLE -- Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon did not soften his message Thursday when asked about Dustin Ackley's struggles at the plate. McClendon wants his starting left fielder to be a more aggressive, consistent hitter.
"We've talked about it. At times, he is more aggressive. At other times, he's very passive up there," McClendon said in his Safeco Field office a few hours before the Mariners finished up a four-game set with the Twins. "One thing I'm starting to learn is that he's a very streaky hitter, so we'll have to ride the hot streaks and pick and choose when he's not swinging well."
Ackley entered Thursday hitting .229 with 14 doubles, four home runs and 28 RBIs in 81 games, but he maintained that he felt fine at the plate, noting that the struggling Mariners offense had to face tough White Sox left-hander Chris Sale and surging Twins right-hander Phil Hughes in the past six games.
In July, a small-seven game sample, Ackley was 9-for-23 with two doubles and an RBI. His OPS in 2014 is a paltry .627.
"I'm not in one of those stretches where I feel like I'm lost or anything," he said. "I feel like I'm on it pretty good."
But Ackley was out the lineup Thursday for the second day in a row against a right-handed pitcher, as McClendon opted to start 36-year-old left fielder Endy Chavez.
"I don't see myself as a .220 hitter by any means," Ackley said. "I think I've been through some stretches this year where I've hit how I'm capable of to start the year. And a couple other stretches here and there, but I think it's about just being consistent."
McClendon agreed.
"He's a very talented individual," he said. "I need to see it every day. Not spurts."
The Mariners selected Ackley, 26, with the No. 2 overall pick in the 2009 MLB First-Year Player Draft. Since his big league debut in 2011, Ackley has a .243/.310/.352 slash line, but last year, following a demotion to Tacoma, he led the club after the All-Star break with a .304 batting average in 53 games.
A few weeks ago, Ackley moved up in the batter's box to help him fight off pitches on the outer half of the plate. He thinks the approach is working.
"It's never too late to start hitting," he said.
Adam Lewis is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Hi Everyone,
I'm trying to figure out how to rewrite a URL. I've looked at a few sitepoint topics about this subject matter but I'm having a hard time trying to figure it out on my own.
I want to take the below URLhttp://whatsmyowncarworth.com/state.php?state=rhode%20island
make it look like thishttp://whatsmyowncarworth.com/rhode-island
I've written the below code in my .htaccess but it's still not working. Any help would be appreciated.
I've tried all of the below syntax once but nothing is working. What am I doing wrong? Thanks everyone!
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*)/(.*)/$ /state.php?param1=$1
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*)/(.*)/$ state.php?param1=$1
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*)/(.*)/$ state.php?state=$1
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*)/(.*)/$ /state.php?state=$1
I cover just this topic in developing the regex portion of my signature's tutorial on mod_rewrite. Please come back with questions.
Hi DK,
Thanks for the email and tutorial.
I read through your website and I'm trying the below syntax in my htaccess. I thought I was doing it correctly but I'm getting internal server errors on my website.
My .htaccess code
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^test\\.html$ test.php [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_]+)$
state.php?state=$1 [L]
First, the tutorial should have corrected your description as you want mod_rewrite to accept a state and redirect it to state.php with the value of the state in the URI assigned to the state key.
Note: You can redirect to the preferred (non-servable) URI then back but that's more of an advanced topic. Best to get it right before delving into that, IMHO.
Second, the tutorial described single name states (no spaces) as well as the changes required when there is a space in the state's name (i.e., best to change the link and replace spaces with _'s because %20 is so !@#$ ugly). Also, if you don't want to accept "garbage" as a state name, you really need to create a list of acceptable states (also shown in the tutorial).
Third, your original attempt shows a space between rhode and island but you've shown a hyphen in the link you wanted to use.
Okay, comments on your original code above:
Options +FollowSymLinks # should already be in the httpd.conf so this is not (normally) necessary
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*)/(.*)/$ /state.php?param1=$1
Is $2 a "throw-away"? If so, then why create that variable?
How is this any different? If you're already in the DocumentRoot (where I like to keep my mod_rewrite code), there is no difference at all.
Okay, uses state as a key rather than param1.
These are your test URIs? What does test.html have to do with your state problem?
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^test\\.html$ test.php [L] # irrelevant to state problem
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_]+)$
state.php?state=$1 [L]
THIS is what is causing the 500's as there should be no line return after the regex. 500's are almost always the result of syntax errors in code (or the module not being available).
Changing to the one-liner:
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_]+)$ state.php?state=$1 [L]
this code WILL work for your second and third test URIs (and the fourth) but not new-york. Note that you've included my preferred _ while the link used a - instead. When you use regex, you should be very specific with your directives. Unfortunately, this will also match "garbage", "nEW_yORK" and a lot of other nonsense. Had you been specific about what your database query is expecting to find, use of
RewriteRule ^(new-york|massachusetts|nevada)$ state.php?state=$1 [L]
WOULD have worked. However, when testing, change your [L] flag to [R=301,L] so you can see the redirection in the URI (and KNOW that your mod_rewrite is working properly) - you can remove the R=301, when you're ready to go live on your website.
Please have a re-read of the Regex section of the tutorial.
Hey DK,
I think I'm understanding this a bit better. I'm fairly confident I wrote this part of my .htaccess correctly but for some reason css of my website isn't displaying.
The both pages above are the exact something but the second URL shows my CSS and the first one does not. Maybe it's my .htaccess code?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_]+)$ state.php?state=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_]+)/([a-zA-Z_]+)$ city-breakdown.php?state=$1&city=$2 [L]
Success! Your mod_rewrite is working.
The "missing support files" are addressed in my signature's tutorial, too. Remember, mod_rewrite is changing the directory level but not announcing that change to your visitors so you need to do that either via the <base> tag or via absolute links.
I'm glad it's working. Thanks for your help but now my goal is to figure out my hyphen- issue. I want to prepend a hyphen to every state (and also city but now I'll focus on state) on my website. I'm fairly certain I've done that correctly but for some reason if you click on a city none of my data is showing up. I don't believe my .htaccess is wrong? What do you think? Thanks again.
// I'm prepending the - right before the a
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([-a-zA-Z_]+)$ state.php?state=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z_]+)/([a-zA-Z_]+)$ city-breakdown.php?state=$1&city=$2 [L]
This is my vehicle-display.php syntaxhttp://whatsmyowncarworth.com/vehicle-display.php
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){
$state = $row["state"];
$state_up = first_cap($state);
echo "$state".'
';
$state = lowercase($state);
$state = str_replace (' ', '-', $state );
echo "$state_up Inventory".'
';
echo '
';
Tip: Before I start coding, I define EXACTLY what links will look like and what those links will map to. IMHO, that should eliminate your "hyphen-issue."
Redirection: state-city => city-breakdown.php?state=state&city=city.
That's fine as long as you can define state and city precisely, i.e., WITHOUT hyphens (which are used to separate city from state - see why I prefer _'s yet?).
WHY prepend your URI values for state/city with -'s? First, that complicates your mod_rewrite code (slightly) but it looks ugly.
[as]Also, use PHP variables freely in your PHP code rather than bounding back and forth with first/lower or " " to "-".[/as]
I'd move the state's - outside and before the parenthetical as it's not part of your state's name (again, my reason for 's to replace spaces ... which you've already accounted for in your modrewrite code but NOT your PHP code!?!). Unfortunately, you're not consistent with your city-breakdown code which will NOT match any hyphen in your URI.
Ergo, back to the planning stage. After all, PPPPPPP (Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance) and, once you have the definition (which I use to find the "kinks" in the code), it's easy to turn it into pseudo code and then into mod_rewrite code.
Hey dklynn,
I figured out my htaccess!
For anyone that's curious here's my .htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([_a-zA-Z_]+)$ state.php?state=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_a-zA-Z_]+)/([_a-zA-Z_]+)$ city-breakdown.php?state=$1&city=$2 [L]
ErrorDocument 404 /cool404.php
I have one remaining question.
The below URLhttp://whatsmyowncarworth.com/state.php?state=rhode%20island
is the same page as this below URLhttp://whatsmyowncarworth.com/rhode_island
Is there anyway to tell google, yahoo and bing to just index the second URL? -> (http://whatsmyowncarworth.com/rhode_island)
Check your character range definitions as I don't believe that you need TWO _'s in each one. If you're using hyphens, change the first one each time so Apache doesn't get confused.


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Amsterdam -- Ahold reported Friday that sales for the fourth quarter rose 7.5% to $10.4 billion, boosted largely by its ability to keep U.S. stores open during Hurricane Sandy, said the company. Same-store sales advanced 2.8%.
Its U.S. business includes the Stop & Shop, Giant-Landover and Giant-Carlisle supermarket banners and the Peapod online grocery service. Ahold posted fourth quarter sales of $6.1 billion in the U.S., marking a 4.3% rise over the year-ago period.
For the full fiscal year, sales increased 8.5% to $43.6 billion.


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Vans. There's a rumor going 'round that they're the next big thing. You know the kind: heart-shaped windows, crushed velvet interiors, dingle balls across the windshield, side pipes, Cragars with names and stylings to match like Vanana, Vangerine Dream, Vangeance, etc. It's not my favorite period of Automobilia nor is it my favorite style of vehicle, but I guess it could be fun. Hell, the whole scene was basically wrapped around partying. Where do you think the old adage, "If this van's a-rockin', don't come a-knockin," came from? It's definitely steeped in having some good times.
It's no surprise to see that most of the guys who are getting into the whole van craze are of similar age to the guys who came along first. It's that sought after 18-to 34-year-old demographic. It's also no surprise that many of these same guys are responsible for the resurgence of the chopper scene rooted in the same original time frame. It's akin to the whole '50s car/Rockabilly scene that's been exploding over the past ten or so years. This time 'round, it's '70s vans and choppers. It makes sense really. People who are into a certain era of car typically gravitate to other things of the same period. I know lots of guys with postwar hot rods who have a garage full of tools, parts, and collectibles from the same time frame. I guess it's just man's desire to yearn for what they perceive as a simpler time than present day.
Whatever the case may be, I keep hearing about custom vans being the next big thing, but when I look for it, really keeping my eyes peeled, wanting to see this new bastion of hot rodding, I just don't see it. I take the latest large event that I attended, the Goodguys Nationals in Columbus, Ohio. This show brings in nearly 7,000 pre-'72 cars and trucks, and from that I saw maybe half a dozen vans amongst the fairgrounds. I didn't see a huge turnout at that show, but that doesn't mean it ain't out there. No, perhaps it's just more underground than I thought. But fear not, for as this is being written, nearly 12,000 cars, trucks, and hopefully vans are filling up the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky, for the National Street Rod Association's 42nd Annual Street Rod Nationals, and I'll be there looking for this new scene from the '70s.
Now as for what we'll do here at CCT, if and when this scene really takes off, I'm really not quite sure. We've got our job cut out simply covering the pickup truck world for y'all, so I don't think we'll be giving up a lot of space for the boxy crowd, but perhaps a one-shot, special issue may be necessary. What do you guys think? Shoot me an email as I'm interested to see what the general consensus is.
I will say that I'm not much of a van fan on an aesthetic tip, but I can be persuaded, it's happened before. I do, however, welcome any form of four-wheeled motoring as it only strengthens our numbers when it comes to keeping the "man" from sticking it to us in the form of legislature and restrictions, allowing us to "keep on truckin'."
So, if it's vans from the '70s that are the next big thing, so be it. I welcome you with open arms. Just don't bring disco with it. CCT


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Betty (Elizabeth) Jane Mathews of Denver passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on Nov. 5, 2012. Wife of the late William (Bill) Mathews, mother of the late William Scott Mathews; Betty leaves behind a sister Peggy (Margaret) Hauter of Bellingham, WA.; a son Rick Mathews and daughters Jane (Jon) Kleist and Carol (John) Wolff. Also three granddaughters: Jill Werlinger, Kristen Bonapace and Erica Wolff. Betty was a long time resident of Clermont Park in Denver, but she enjoyed spending as much time as possible in Grand Lake, CO. where she was a staunch supporter of the Rocky Mountain Repertory Theater. She also enjoyed trips up into Rocky Mountain National Park where she was a whiz at spotting moose, elk, coyotes and other wildlife. She needed no excuse to venture into her beloved mountains. She was 80 years old when she snowshoed at Never Summer Ranch in December of 1998. Betty was born in Indiana on July 1, 1918 to Ralph and Helen Kittle. She moved to Colorado with her husband Bill shortly after WWII and Colorado became her "forever" home. She worked for the Denver Public Schools for several years in order to be home with her children and then for the United Methodist Church at their headquarters in Denver where she worked for nearly 30 years as secretary for several district superintendents. Betty and Bill were long-time members of Grant Ave Methodist Church (Denver) where they had a close community of life-long friends. A celebration of her life will take place in Grand Lake on Dec. 22. Memorial contributions may be made to Rocky Mountain Repertory Theater, PO Box 1682, Grand Lake, CO, 80447 or the Shalom Hospice, 14800 E. Belleview Dr., Aurora, CO, 80015.


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Financial institutions may have shed their toxic assets and stock market indices may have risen… but it is premature to say that the global economic crisis has ended, UNCTAD Secretary-General Supachai Panitchpakdi told the opening session of a three-week UNCTAD flagship "Regional Course on Key Issues on the International Economic Agenda".
The course is UNCTAD's eighteenth regional session aimed at helping government officials from developing countries keep up with economic trends. Twenty participants from Asian nations are attending the training programme, which is being held from 2 to 20 November.
Aggregate demand remains low in many countries a year after the economic crisis began, Mr. Supachai said in his opening address. He added that there was fear that any "recovery" may be jobless. Governments struggling to cope with the recession should not lose sight of the need for policies and reforms that can lead to sustainable, long-term economic growth, he advised.
He added that unchecked speculative financial behaviour and large external imbalances of the sort that led to the crisis could be avoided in future through better monitored and more transparent rules governing the international financial and monetary systems.
The Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Indonesia, Inron Cottan, told the meeting that economic capacity-building was important for stable and growing trade. And he said a pattern by which governments learned from each other had proved to be mutually beneficial for countries in the region.
Topics to be discussed over the next three weeks include:
Participants also will carry out a simulation exercise on multilateral trade negotiations.
Officials are attending from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Nepal, Singapore, Samoa, and Viet Nam. They variously represent ministries of trade, industry, and investment. Other participants are academics.
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Quick question: Is your TV still using the factory picture settings from when you took it out of the box? If so, here's some great news: You can make the picture look significantly better and it won't cost you a cent — just a few minutes of your time.
Don't fear the menu
If you're nervous about using your TV's picture controls, don't be. There's no way you can hurt the TV by adjusting the basic settings. A good place to start is by taking advantage of the TV's preset picture modes like "Movie," "Sports," "Game," etc. As an example, you might choose the "Movie" preset for your Blu-ray player. Beyond that, you can fine-tune the basic settings for Brightness, Contrast, Color, and Sharpness. And if you feel like you've gotten in over your head, most TVs let you quickly revert to the original factory default settings.
The next step: A calibration disc
By using the picture controls mentioned above you can usually get a picture that is more pleasing to your eye. But if your goal is a more accurate picture, consider picking up a calibration disc, either DVD or Blu-ray. These discs include a series of test patterns with step-by-step instructions on how to use them. The best one we've tried is the Spears & Munsil High Definition Benchmark Blu-ray.
This control is more officially known as "black level." The Brightness control changes the color and brightness of black within the picture.
Often labeled "Picture," it is more accurately known as "white level." This setting controls the set's overall light level.
Usually labeled "Color" or "Saturation," the color level is probably the most subjective picture adjustment. Still, you want to avoid a picture where everyone looks sunburned, or colors look exaggerated or cartoonish.
Sharpness could more accurately be called "artificial edge enhancement," and generally only improves the look of lower-quality signals like standard-definition broadcast, cable, and satellite TV programs.
|With most TVs, the "Movie" mode is ideal for watching movies in a room with low lighting. You can further reduce the Brightness if you want black areas of the picture to look blacker.
|Afternoon ball games usually mean more room light, so you may want to increase the Brightness a bit to compensate. A little added brightness helps uniform colors pop.
|You want to make sure the Brightness is set high enough to see objects in darker games. You don't want to get killed by an enemy or miss an important item that you just didn't see.
|When Contrast is set correctly, the edges of bright white objects onscreen are crisp and not blurred. And in very dark areas, you should still be able to pick out details if they are there.
|As with brightness, bumping the Contrast up a bit can add to the visual energy of sporting events.
|Boosting the contrast a bit can really punch up game environments. You'll get that sort of boost from picture presets labeled "Game" or "Vivid" or "Dynamic."
|If your TV makes everyone look sunburned, or colors look amped-up or cartoonish, try tweaking the color control. Skin tones are the best test material.
|If the grass doesn't look green enough for you, you can tweak the color control a bit, but keep an eye on the players' faces to keep skin tones in the ballpark.
|It really just comes down to personal taste here. "Game" mode will typically boost color a bit.
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|If your LCD TV has a refresh rate of 120Hz or higher, you may notice that movies look more like video than film. To avoid this "soap opera effect" try adjusting the TV's motion settings.
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|Although you can't adjust a TV's refresh rate — it is what it is — you can usually adjust motion "smoothing." Reducing this motion control may help the edges of objects look cleaner.


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And to think that last summer Vnlza thought Nene's 14/8 was good enough to get a max contract. Now Hibbert's 13/9 "aren't that great."This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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And to think that last summer Vnlza thought Nene's 14/8 was good enough to get a max contract. Now Hibbert's 13/9 "aren't that great."
Outside of D. Wade and Joe Johnson, I'm struggling to think of other 2-guards that PG would have to challenge for that AS berth.
That's not going to compete with the Miami Heat straight ticket voters or the Knick Connection. National news is good (especially when it is favorable), but it isn't the same as national hype. If Roy gets some highlights on ESPN slamming one down over Lopez or slapping it away from a driving LeBron, maybe. Stats alone just won't cut it with the fans who vote for the All-Star Game no matter how good they are, especially with teams essentially stuffing the ballot box with promotions and publicity (and, yeah, I hate when the Pacers do it, too.)
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
I think Roy has more of a national presence than we realize. He's been in the news, was on Parks & Rec, made the all star team last year
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
I want Paul George to be an All-Star as well. Roy may not be a guarantee, but I think he's got a better than even chance to return to the ASG. Two All Stars (Roy, PG), plus two former All Stars (Danny, West), plus one of the most well-rounded players in the league (Hill) making up our starting five? Yeah, that sounds good to me.
Not that it hasn't been said, but I feel like the importance of the USA Select Team experience can't be understated for PG. He knew his performance in the playoffs wouldn't cut it, and he was given the opportunity to see how the world's best practice, prepare, and play; and I think he really tried to take advantage of that and use it to improve his game. I'm excited to see his progress this season. And like Shaw told him, the team's progress will likely mirror his personal progress.
It's a new day for Pacers Basketball.
No crap it's not a given he's going to be an All-Star. But pointing out that you think Nene's 14/8 is max worthy while Hibberts 13/9 "isn't that great" paints a pefect picture of how you compare non-Pacers with Pacers. You have a classic "grass is always greener on the other side" POV.
Roy is a well liked guy, but that will mean nothing compared to the giant bandwagon/Heat fanbase. Or even Philly if Bynum has a big year. Both players have much much bigger names than Roy.
Our best player will have a good chance to make the A game, anyone else I doubt it.
Don't really care about it. Didn't even watched it last year. George making statements like these excites me a lot though. You the Man Paul!
I think Tyson Chandler is pretty much a shoe-in for the coaches pick, considering he was snubbed last year. We've seen make up votes before. If he has a half decent healthy season, and the Knicks don't blow, he's an All Star.
So if Bynum is the starter, Chandler will be the backup imo.
Now the last two spots... idk. those are a crap shoot since anyone can be there regardless of position.
Hes not a superstar or teammate of. The all star game might as well be Celtics/Heat/Nets/Bulls stars vs LAC/LAL/OKC/SAS stars and Dirk every year.
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George watching the Heat series 7 or 8 times must have hurt in a good way, like growing pains. I've blocked out everything after game 3 and avoid it at all cost.
At C, barring an injury to Bosh or Bynum, Hibbert's chances of making the All Star team are slim to none...
At SG, Wade is a lock to start, so it comes down to Johnson, Ellis, or George for the bench spot (unless one of the rookies, Beal, Waiters, or Ross has a huge season). Johnson will likely be on a really good team that gets a lot of attention with Brooklyn, but his numbers are declining as his age is rising. Ellis will be on a fringe playoff team without much exposure in Mil, but might get some sympathy votes due to his continual All Star "snubs". George, like Johnson is likely to be on a really good team, but like Ellis will not get much exposure.
There is also the chance that Hibbert or George could get one or both of the wildcard spots, but I just don't see them having a 3rd C on the All Star team, espcially concidering the type of game it is and the fact that Hibbert is likely not gonna be putting up the kind of eye catching numbers his competition is. As for George, I do think he has a decent shot at making it either as the backup SG or more likely one of the wildcards if he can score 16+ points a game and continue to have a strong impact on the other areas of the game, a la Iggy.
keep in mind, fans and coaches vote for 'guards', not SG. And then there are 2 wildcards.
With Rose out, I think the starters are DWill and Wade.
Then you have Rondo.
Joe Johnson who I think will be fine. He's a decent creator but he was asked to do way too much for most of his Atlanta years; you could see an improvement last year with Teague and Smith taking some of the burden of creating the offense. Now imagine what DWill can do for him.
Kyrie Irving will get a big push.
These are the main contenders imo. 5 guys for 4 spots.
Then you have outside shots like Kyle Lowry. If Toronto improves by 10+ wins (very likely imo) I think he'll get consideration.
John Wall will be running a better team. The Wizards finished last year very well, and they've added talent since.
Milwaukee duo.
It will be very hard to get one of the 4 'guard' spots. Wild card seems a bit more likely.
I forgot about Garnett. He's a center now. So center has Bynum, Garnett, Chandler and Bosh. Yeesh.
And I'd add Noah to that group as well. The Bulls stay solid - likely. They are still among the top defenses - likely too. If both are true, Noah will get considered.
I think this might be Danny time. East lacks forwards. Iggy's gone. Amare, Gerald Wallace time has passed, most likely.
LeBron/Melo will start. Deng/Pierce/Granger/Josh Smith for the 2 backup spots. Maybe Monroe or Nene, if they play forward and their teams are good.
I think it will be Pierce and a coin flip between Deng and Danny.
With Bosh being a center this year, it's going to be really hard for Hibbert to make the team barring injuries.
If Garnett is also a center, Hibbert certainly won't make it.
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That's going to be a tough sell too. Despite being the worst out of all 4, Deng is the current hipster pick favorite among coaches (those jackasses voted for him over Iggy all defense last season lol), Smith is the best out of all 4 and got snubbed last year, so he may be due for some makeup votes, and Pierce always has the tenured vote going for him.
By looking at the whole team George Hill is the one that looks to me like the one player with the better chance to be an all star, Rondo and Dwill are in for sure but after that who? if Hill has some good numbers and the Pacers have a good record George Hill could probably make it.