Using Reflective Practice in Teaching Dance toPreservice Physical Education TeachersAnn Carolyn McCormack aa University of Newcastle , AustraliaPublished online: 10 Aug 2006.
' developmental trends in attitudes. Inductive analysis of weekly journal responseswas undertaken to identify major themes or focus areas using the Reflective Frameworkfor Teaching in Physical Education (Tsangaridou and O'SulIivan, 1994). Attitudinaldata from questionnaire responses were analysed using SPSSPC and focus groupdiscussion data were transcribed and analysed for dominant themes using NVivosoftware. The results indicated an increase in the focus and level of complexity ofreflections and analytical responses in line with changes in attitudes and confidencein teaching dance experienced during the course. Significant gender differences inattitudes to teaching dance prior to undertaking the course and in the early journalentries were identified. Improvement in and value given to journal writing wasevident, however, some preservice teachers felt hindered by a lack of personalreflective writing skill.
Ann McCormack, University of Newcastle, Australia.
grounds of facilitating the linking of theory and practice and enabling preserviceteachers to take an active role in their own credibility (Calderhead, 1989). Thedevelopment of the skills and habits of reflection may be seen both as a means ofimproving practice and as an end in itself, a valid outcome of reflective teachereducation (LaBoskey, 1993; Mclntyre, 1993).
Reflective practice has been conceived of as a collection of strategies used as amechanism to encourage teacher growth. These strategies range from deliberationabout the practical aspects and content of teacher's work to critical appraisal of themeaning, in a moral or ethical context, of teaching activities (Redden, Frid andReading, 1997). Reflective practice presupposes that for teacher growth to occur, mereexperience is not sufficient. Teacher growth is a result of experience plus reflectionon that experience (Posner, 1993). LaBoskey (1993) developed a conceptual frame-work for reflective teacher education in which the act of reflection was viewed interms of the dimensions or aspects of content, processes, attitudes and teachingconditions. LaBoskey (1993) and Furlong and Maynard (1995) argued that thenecessary skills for reflective practice are not automatically available to beginningteachers and opportunities must be provided to develop these skills. Furlong andMaynard (1995) postulated that teachers move through a developmental pathcharacterised by a shift in focus of teacher concern. This concern begins withteaching behaviour and modelling themselves on others, moving onto concern aboutskills and content, then to focus on students and ends in a final stage of exploringattitudes and theoretical underpinnings of one's actions as an educator.
Researchers in the physical education field have also called for attention toreflective teaching practice (Tsangaridou and O'Sullivan, 1994) with many propositionsand suggestions about the specific aspects of teaching needing reflection (Dodds,1989; Tinning, 1991). However, there is little empirical evidence in the physicaleducation literature to inform practice or to support these propositions (Gore, 1990)and that which does exist, tends to focus on practicum experiences and methodscourses rather than the practical areas of physical education. Maybe it is assumedthat teachers of physical education are skilled practitioners who readily adapt to thelearning and therefore teaching of different areas of study within the discipline.
One of the traditional areas of preservice training for physical education teachersin Australia is dance education. Although dance has emerged as part of arts educationin recent curriculum statements physical education classes remain, for the majorityof students, their first introduction to dance education. Dance has remained animportant strand of study in school physical education programmes, however, forpreservice physical education teachers in their teacher education courses it oftencauses apprehension and a resulting lack of commitment to learning. These attitudesare commonly built upon beliefs preservice teachers bring from their own schoolexperiences and these have been seen to transfer into their inservice teaching (Clark,1988; Pajares, 1992). Holt-Reynolds (1992) suggested that the attitudes preserviceteachers form -about teaching as a student in schools over an extended period ofmany years acts as a "filter" through which they view and interpret the content oftheir teacher education.
mental and emotional functions. Dance is also often a co-operative endeavour, an artof socialisation for both the teacher and student and may carry with it gender, socialand cultural expectations. Again, these expectations are linked to personal valuesand attitudes (Klenz, 1995). Dance education in teacher education should thereforerequire preservice teachers to examine their values and attitudes as they developthe technical skills of creating, performing and appraising dance. Studies haveconfirmed that prior beliefs and images must be recognised, modified and recon-structed for professional growth to occur (Kagan, 1992). One method to encouragepreservice teachers to challenge, mitigate and reconstruct these attitudes is toprovide them with reflective strategies and tasks throughout their dance educationinstruction.
Recently, teacher educators have developed and applied different instructionalstrategies in their programmes to prepare preservice teachers to reflect on theirteaching. Journal writing is one such technique which has been used extensively inuniversity contexts where reflection has been widely recognised as a crucial elementin the professional growth of preservice teachers (Calderhead and Gates, 1993).Evidence provided by preservice teachers' reports indicated that journals are highlyrated as a means of facilitating reflection (Walker, 1985), integrating theory andpractice (Ballantyne and Packer, 1995), developing personal theories about practice(Thornbury, 1991) and examining held beliefs and values (Wodlinger, 1990).Research has shown this is particularly applicable to contexts in which reflectivejournals are used as adjuncts to conventional learning methods (Ballantyne andPacker, 1995).
Although journal writing has been lauded as an effective reflective practicestrategy in teacher education programmes, concerns have been expressed aboutits use with identification of the problems of overuse, lack of focus, emphasis ongrading, level of skill in writing and lack of preservice teachers' understanding of"reflection". In light of the increased popularity of reflective practice and the lack ofreported evidence from physical education teacher education programmes, furtherresearch evidence is required to substantiate the effectiveness of journal writing asa valuable learning tool for practical skills.
2. To examine the impact of reflective practices on the perceived dance skilldevelopment of preservice physical education teachers.
3. To investigate if gender differences exist in attitudes towards teaching dance inphysical education.
SampleA cohort of 90 first year Bachelor of Teaching/Bachelor of Health and PhysicalEducation preservice teachers were the focus for the study. These preservice teachershad completed one semester at university and had undertaken five micro-teachingsessions in primary school settings. The group consisted of 47 female and 43 malepreservice teachers ranging in age from 18 years to 35 years.
The 90 preservice teachers participated in a two-hour dance class each weekover a 14-week semester. The content of these classes covered creative, folk, bushand line/individual dances with each lecture having a warm up, skill development,dance making/choreography, performance/appraisal and theory components. Thepreservice teachers were introduced to the concept of journal writing as a meansof recording and reflecting on their lecture experiences and skill development. Theformat and categories of the journals were explained with a weekly journal proformaprovided for the participants as a guide to their reflections with emphasis advised inthe three areas of skill development, choreography and general comments. Therewas no restriction on the length of writing required. A final free-response questionasked the preservice teachers to comment on the value of the journal writing.
In addition, quantitative data was collected using an attitudinal measure in theform of a short questionnaire which was administered to the preservice teachersduring the first and last lecture of the semester course. Further data was collectedfrom focus group discussions conducted with ten randomly selected preserviceteachers from the group and held during Week 3 and at the completion of the course.This data served to allow further clarification and expansion of data collected fromthe questionnaires and journals.
Inductive analysis of the participants' journal scripts was undertaken in Week 7and again at the completion of the course. This analysis identified major themes orfocus of the comments at the beginning, middle and end of the course to monitorany longitudinal developmental trends. The scripts were analysed using the ReflectiveFramework for Teaching in Physical Education (Tsangaridou and O'Sullivan, 1994).This framework identified three focus categories of reflection, namely, technicalwhich is concerned with the instructional technique of teaching; situational dealingwith the contextual and organisational aspects and finally the sensitising or evaluativeaspects which reflect on the moral and personal values and social aspects of the lessonand teaching. The pre and post-subject questionnaire attitudinal data were analysedusing SPSSPC with frequencies, descriptive means and standard deviations calculatedfor occasions and gender responses. Focus group interviews were recorded and thetranscripts analysed for dominant themes using the NVivo software program.
Today we were introduced to the basic elements of dance, such as timing, space,levels, quality, rhythm and relationships with locomotor and non-locomotormovements. We did walks, runs, leaps, curls and stretches and explored differentlevels and use of the entire studio space. Relationships in dance were exploredwith partner and group tasks involving contrast, mirror, and cannon movements.A warm up and cool down was given involving individual and partner activitiesto music (FS.34).
/ was somewhat self-conscious and thought I look stupid doing the tasks but asthe lesson progressed I found I was actually enjoying myself. I found creativedance is an excellent way to allow students to express themselves and interpretthings in their own way. I am pleased we started with that dance style as itbroke the ice for me (Susie, discussion transcript, Week 3).
This week the first dance-making task involved creating a sequence to La Salutwith 4 steps and 4 changes of formation. With more people in our group we hadto listen, discuss, trial ideas and cooperate. We decided on our introduction,linking steps and final position. We kept it simple and elected one person to cuethe steps for our class performance. Our dance worked out well and we evensurprised ourselves with the great timing and skill level (MS. 22).
This class enabled us to learn the folk dances and then use those steps to createour own folk dance based on the elements of dance composition. The grouptasks demonstrated how to give dance-making opportunities in a folk dancelesson and an opportunity for performance and appreciation of each group'sdance (FS.13).
Even though it was too hot to dance today you could not hold the class back!We all enjoyed the dances and also liked the fact that they were Australian andfamiliar although I did not know the history associated to them. These dancesallowed us to clap and release stress yet still perform to a high standard. I cansee how important the teacher is as a motivator in teaching dance and the needto keep all students actively involved. I think the fun aspect is very importantand I will always try to encourage that in my own classes (FS.63).
Although I enjoyed today's dance-making task in the groups and I now believethat dance should be taught in a co-educational class as it is both beneficialto gain everyone's ideas and develop a dance that the group members feelcomfortable with and own. I can see how our co-ordination and social skillscan be enhanced through dance in schools, as everyone in our group certainlyenjoyed themselves in this course. (FS.31).
Making up our assessment dances and all of the practice sessions were, lookingback, the highlight for me. It took a lot of extra time and effort but was greatas we got to know each other, had heaps of fun, improved our dance skills andreally enjoyed the atmosphere of the big performance day (Ben, discussiontranscript, Week 14).
/ found writing the journal was difficult. To begin with my ideas were veryfew but as time went on it forced me to think about my attitudes to dance andhighlighted the changes that have occurred during this course. I was verycautious at the beginning as I found dance very boring at high school, however,after the last 14 weeks I now look at dance as more enjoyable and feel I cancope with teaching it at my prac school (MS.25).
The fact we had to keep a journal throughout the course made me go home eachweek and think about what we did, the teaching strategies used and styles taught.I found it quite difficult to write down my reflections but it did force me toanalyse the lesson to see what worked best and how to get the point across simplyand clearly. It made me think about how I might teach dance in schools (MS. 88).
In addition to the journal entries and the focus group discussions measures ofattitudes towards teaching dance by the participants in the course were taken by thecompletion of a questionnaire at the beginning of the course and again fourteenweeks later at the completion of the course (Table 2).
Analysis of the quest ionnaire results indicated increased confidence in s tudents 'ability to teach dance al though most recognised the ongoing n e e d for professionaldeve lopment in this area. T h e pretest attitudes about who. and what is required toteach d a n c e were rather divided, however, the majority of part ic ipants agreed thatdance should be part of the physical education p rogramme in each year of secondaryschool ing and not jus t as a "filler" at various t imes. These at t i tudes were reinforcedand s t rengthened in the post-test results. The part icipants agreed on the need fora wide r ange of dance styles to be taught in schools, however , after complet ingthe subject they disagreed that dance from popular culture was the best dancestyle to teach in schools . These results indicated that after part icipat ion in the coursethe participant's enjoyment, confidence and feelings about teaching danceincreased. This supported the attitudes reflected in both the journals and focus groupdiscussions.
This study attempted to shed some light on the attitudes of preservice physicaleducation teachers to dance education and the impact reflection had when preserviceteachers were asked to analyse and examine their attitudes and experiences whilstcompleting a 14 week dance course. The reflection took the form of weekly journalwriting, focus group discussions held on two occasions and attitudinal measuresbefore and after undertaking the dance course. The study confirmed the preserviceteachers came to the course with a wide range of reflective skills and attitudestowards dance. Some, especially the mature age students, were able to engage insophisticated reasoning and analysis of events and issues in the form of sensitising/evaluative comments, whilst others struggled to progress beyond the level of simpletechnical and situational responses. LaBoskey (1993) suggested that students' initialreflective abilities and orientations have significant impact on how they participatein reflective activities and what they take away from them. However, the resultsof this study showed reflective skills can be a learned enterprise and given theopportunity to develop these they have value as a technique to assist professionalgrowth and development for beginning teachers. Results of analyses of participantresponses in this study also support the theory (Furlong and Maynard, 1995) thatpreservice teachers move through a developmental path which begins with aninitial emphasis or concern on technical reflection. As they gain experience andconfidence the focus shifts toward attitudinal and evaluative concerns exploringone's action as a teacher.
The study identified gender differences in both the attitudes expressed towardsdance and the ability and willingness to use reflective writing. The male studentsfound greater difficulty in the reflective journal writing activities initially providingvery brief comments and few personal reflections or critiques of the early classes.In comparison the female students were eager to analyse their experiences and voicetheir own ideas and feelings. This response can be partly explained by the strongsport-orientated background of the male physical education preservice teachersand the traditional associated gender roles and attitudes that prevail in Australiansociety. The male students initially felt uncomfortable or were unwilling to enterinto the personal emotional expression required in the performing arts. However,towards the end of the course the male students' confidence, skills and enjoymentof the dance classes increased. This was not only evident from their increasedwillingness to participate and contribute to the group problem solving activities andchoreographic tasks, their journal entries also displayed a more relaxed attitude anda willingness to think about their actions and attitudes towards dance.
A person does not develop the desire to dance all of a sudden, but as a result ofmany experiences (p 18).
The results of this study suggested the use of reflective teaching practices in theform of journals, discussions and identification of attitudes encouraged introspectionand assisted this group of prospective teachers to think about their experiencesand how they could improve and use those experiences in their future teaching.This study therefore supports reflective practice as a powerful tool in developingmore thoughtful, motivated and reflective physical education dance teachers for thefuture.
Please address all correspondence to: Dr Ann McCormack, Faculty of Education,University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan NSW 2308, Australia.
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Node Express Pico-Tutorial Part 1: Hello World!
Welcome to PicoCoder.io! This is the first part of a bigger tutorial, which will teach you how to create a Node.js, Express website using templating engines such as Handelbars. (Don't worry if you don't understand any of this for now). By the end of this chapter you will have a simple Express app running on your machine.
You can find the final result of this chapter in Github.
There are many ways to install NPM and Node in your machine. If you are using an Apple computer, I would recommend to install everything from Homebrew. You can check here how to install Homebrew on Mac.
Step 2: Install Node using Homebrew by typing in your terminal. When you install Node, NPM should installed automatically on your machine as well.
Step 3: Check if you have Node and NPM installed on your machine.
Checking if Node and NPM are installed.
This is all the prerequisites that we need for this part of the Pico Tutorial. The Only thing we need next is a nice text editor. Some of the most popular in the industry is Microsoft's VScode, Sublime text, vim etc. My personal preference is VScode.
The 'Hello world!' Express application.
Let's create a folder in your preferred directory to include all the files needed for this tutorial. In your terminal type mkdir picoblog. This will create a directory called, picoblog. Then navigate to that directory by doing cd picoblog.
Now that you are inside of the correct directory you can do npm init to create a package.json file which is a file that helps us manage external libraries and automating some of the tasks such as running our application. By doing npm init, it will ask you stuff like package name, version etc. You can just press enter and leave the default options. The only thing I changed, is the entry point to be called, app.js.
Terminal commands for setting up our project.
Opening the package.json in your text editor you will see something like this.
Now we have to install Express. In order to do that, we can do npm install express or npm i express which is doing the exact same thing. This will install express and add that information to package.json file.
As you can see, now we have a property called dependencies in our package.json file. If you don't understand what the package.json file does, do not worry for now. However, you can find more information here.
Just to be sure that everything is correct so far, here is the project structure.
The directory node_modules and package-lock.json file are created automatically when you installed Express.
Now let's create a file called app.js, paste this code and save it.
Now the project structure should contain app.js file as well.
Lets, see what each line means.
1. Importing the Express framework that we installed earlier.
3. Setting up the port to start the server on port 3000.
4. Using this function, we are telling Express that, when the request is of a type GET and in localhost:3000 then send back the 'Hello World!' text.
5. Start the server at the specified port and also print in our console (terminal) which port the server is running. So, now when you do node app.js the server should start and print on your console Server listening at: 3000!. Open your web browser and navigate to localhost:3000. You should see the 'Hello World!' message displayed.
If you are having issues following this tutorial you can download the code from Github. Here is the repository with everything you will need and the tag for this specific chapter is v0.1.
Congratulations, you have completed the first part of this tutorial and you are now one step closer to build a website using Node.js and Express.
Node Express Pico-Tutorial Part 2: Templating Engines.
This article explains how to work with templating engines. Specifically, I am going to explain how to work with a templating engine called Handlebars.


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Of Home Truths and Shitholes
Af: Roger Kimball	17. januar 2018, 13:23
Vassily Surikov Assassination of Julius Caesar (1875)
It is curious how close certain seemingly contrary emotions can be. Consider, to take just one example, the feelings of glee and outrage. At first blush, they seem very different. Glee occupies a positive register in the metabolism of human emotions. There is such thing as malicious glee, of course—the German word schadenfreude captures that perfectly. But by and large, I believe, glee is a sunny, allegro emotion.
Outrage, on the contrary, is a dour beast. It glowers. It fulminates. It glories in moral indignation, which it eagerly manufactures whenever it is in short supply.
And it is there, in the manufacture, affectation, the pretense, of moral indignation that that outrage shades in smarmy gleefulness. You can see this in operation right now, today, by the simple expedient of turning to CNN and watching commentator after commentator explode in gleeful outrage over Donald Trump's alleged comments about the relative desirability of immigrants from countries like Norway, on the one hand, and countries like Haiti, El Salvador, and various apparently unnamed African countries on the other. (I say "alleged" not because I doubt the substance of the report, but simply because the president has disputedsome details of the reporting.)
Two questions: Were all those commentators at CNN (and the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other purveyors of sanctimony)—were they more delighted or unhappy about the president's comment? Think carefully before answering.
Sometimes, the experience of outrage, and its accompanying moral indignation, is essentially a feeling of displeasure—at a wrong done or suffered, an injustice or cruelty observed, etc.
But sometimes, outrage is but a patina of indignation whose chief motive is incontinent delight. Which is it for the talking heads at CNN? Are they genuinely morally offended by the president's comments? Or are they really absolutely delighted by the opportunity he has given them to say "shithole" over and over again while also running endless chyrons reminding viewers that the president referred to (if he did refer to) Haiti, El Salvador, etc., as "shithole countries" from which we should not seek immigrants?
I think it is the latter, and I believe there are two parts to the delight. One is the natural expectation of a ratings boost in the wake of all that potty-mouthed commentary. The other is the prospect, once again, of being given free rein to lay into Donald Trump and deplore how horrible, uncaring, racist, and vulgar he is. Maybe, just maybe, this exhibition of political incorrectness will turn the tide of public opinion against this most improbable president. Maybe, just maybe, it will administer the coup de grace against a man who is the walking embodiment of everything enlightened progressive opinion loathes.
Maybe. But I wouldn't count on it.
Which brings me to my second question: Was the president right to question the desirability of accepting immigrants from places like Haiti? Let's leave his colorful language to one side. That was just a bit of rhetorical salsa on the burrito. The coarsening of language in the public square (and the private hearth) means that virtually anyone not cloistered hears and/or utters much ruder language almost daily.
The real issue is whether we justly prefer immigrants from some places over others.
I would say that the answer is an unequivocal Yes. Of course we do. Not only was the president correct when, some time ago, he said that we should favor immigrants who knew English and brought with them marketable skills, he is also correct now when he suggests that someone from Norway, say, is more likely to bring those desirable qualities than someone from Haiti, El Salvador, etc.
He is further correct that the Haitis of the world are conspicuously undesirable places: crime- and disease-ridden trous de merde that we may pity and may endeavor to help but that are not necessarily good sources of helpful immigrants.
And here we come to a second curiosity in the preening and ecstatic outrage over the president's comment. Everyone, near enough, knows that he was telling a home truth. It was outrageous not because he said something crude that was untrue. Quite the contrary: it was outrageous precisely because it was true but intolerable to progressive sensitivities.
In other words, the potency of taboo is still strong in our superficially rational culture. There are some things—quite a few, actually, and the list keeps growing—about which one cannot speak the truth or, in many cases, even raise as a subject for discussion without violating the unspoken pact of liberal sanctimoniousness.
Donald Trump, of course, does this regularly, delightedly. Hitherto, his brazenness has only endeared him to his base and driven his critics mad. Perhaps it will be different this time. Maybe the angry censors will descend en masse in effective indignation and drag him from the stage. Again, though, I wouldn't count on it. Trump's Haiti moment is cut from the same script as Trump's "Rosie O'Donnell is a fat pig" mot. Uncouth. Crude. But was it untrue?
We live in a surreal moment when it becomes ever harder to tell the truth about sensitive subjects. Donald Trump has strutted across our timid landscape like a wrecking ball, telling truths, putting noses out of joint. The toffs will never forgive him, but I suspect the American people have stronger stomachs and are up to the task.
About the Author: Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball is Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books. Mr. Kimball lectures widely and has appeared on national radio and television programs as well as the BBC. He is represented by Writers' Representatives, who can provide details about booking him. Mr. Kimball's latest book is The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia (St. Augustine's Press, 2012). He is also the author of The Rape of the Masters (Encounter), Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse (Ivan R. Dee), and Art's Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity (Ivan R. Dee). Other titles by Mr. Kimball include The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America (Encounter) and Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age (Ivan R. Dee). Mr. Kimball is also the author ofTenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education (HarperCollins). A new edition of Tenured Radicals, revised and expanded, was published by Ivan R. Dee in 2008. Mr. Kimball is a frequent contributor to many publications here and in England, including The New Criterion, The Times Literary Supplement, Modern Painters, Literary Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Public Interest, Commentary, The Spectator, The New York Times Book Review, The Sunday Telegraph, The American Spectator, The Weekly Standard, National Review, and The National Interest.
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Home » Kham Destinations Guide » Zamtang County
Zamtang County
Zamtang county also known as "Zamthang", or "Rangtang", meaning the "The place of the God of Wealth". Zamthang County is administrated by Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, located on the southeast edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, on the upper reaches of the Dadu River, in the northwest of Sichuan, bordering the Barkham County and Aba County on the east and northeast, and adjoining Jinchuan County on the south, and Sertar county, Luhuo County and Dawu County in the west and south, and it borders on the Banma county of Qinghai Province (Amdo) in the north. The county is about 89.6 kilometers from east to west and 134.4 kilometers from north to south. The county has a total area of 6,863 square kilometers.
By the end of 2010, there were 60 villages and 11 townships and 1 town are under the jurisdiction of Zamtang County. The total population of the county is 33,500 people; among of which the Tibetan population accounts for 85% of the total population. There are other ethnic groups such as Yi, Qiang, Miao, Hui, Mongolian, Tu, Shu Shu, Manchu, Yaochu, Dongzhu, Naxi, Buyi, Bai, Zhuang, and Dai. The Duke River (杜柯河) and Zequ River (则曲河) are the main tributaries of the Dadu River
Zamtang County Tourist Attraction
Xiangla Dongji Holy Mountain Scenic Area (香拉东吉圣山风景区): The scenic area is about 30 square kilometers large, and located some 29 kilometers from the Zamthang county. This is a mountain that has never been touched by anyone because it is one of the sacred mountains in King Gesar, being regarded as inviolable. "Shangra Dongji" sacred mountains is shaped like a "Zhong (众)" charactor of Chinese, it is thought to be the incarnation of the Vajrapani, and being surrounded by 88 snow-capped mountains, which are servants of the Holy Mountain according to legend.
Haizi Mountain Scenic Area (壤塘海子山风景区) : The scenic spot is located at the junction of the three counties of Zamthang, Aba, and Barkham, it is about 80 kilometers from the county seat. Haizi Mountain means the mountain with Haizi (the Lake). Haizishan not only has the lake, there are about 35 lakes. Haizishan is 4,760 meters above sea level, its main peak is called "Zun-ma" means the "Queen" ; It is said to be the queen of the Amnye Marchn Mountain in Qinghai, whom wearing a silver cloak, riding a white horse, holding a wishful treasure, protecting a living creature.
Zamtang County Buddhist Culture
Jue-Nang School: The region beyween the Xiangla Dongji Holy Mountain Scenic Area and Haizi Mountain Scenic Area breeds the Jue-Nang Pa of Tibetan Buddhism, which was root in the three monasteries of Que ER ji, Zang Wa and Ze Bu Ji, and all of which were the one in the begining in 1435 BC, and named "The East SangzhuLuobuling monastery " which have been developed into three temples. The buildings of the monastery are integrated into a single town, just 60 kilometers from Zamthang county. The monastery is seated by mountains and faces the plain. the Zuqu River embraces the monastery running from east to west .
9-story Maitreya Pagoda : The 9-story Maitreya Pagoda can be regarded as a Buddha statue exhibition hall. It displays a variety of Buddha statues, including murals, Thangkar paintings, clay sculptures, and metal sculptures. The most exciting thing is that the ninth pagoda is hanging around in a circle. Outside the pagoda wall on the 9th floor, each side has a row of slate tiles that extend from the wall, which is about 20 cm long, and just long enough to hold one foot. The visitor or pilgrimage comes out from the tower gate, lay a hand onto the tower, and move steps on the slate around the pagoda . Just in case, the monks carried a circle of steel ropes as handrails on the pagodas.
–Recommended hotels in Zamtang County–
Zambala Hotel
Add : Xiang Shun Street
Contact : +86 837 236-6666
Haizishan Business Hotel
Add : Sangzu Road
Add : Luo Wu Tang Middle Street
Contact : +86 (0) 135-5859-5849/189-9040-9108
Da Sister's Inn
Contact : +86 (0) 135-6879-5256
Shambala Hostel
Add : Rang Ke Town
Er Jia Inn
Add : Luo Wu Tang Qian Street
How to get to there
Zamtang county is located in the east hinterland of Kham, the recommended transportation is by vehicle. It is convenient to start with Chengdu, renting a vehicle, or by public transportation.
In general, there are two ways to get to Zamtang
By daily direct buses departure from Chengdu, with rate of RMB204, taking 15 hours bus-ride to arrival Zamtang county
By daily direct buses departure from Chengdu to Barkham city with rate RMB126, and 6.5 hours journey; then start from Barkham to Zamtang on the next day with rate RMB53, and 7 hours vehicle ride
Chengdu Cha Dian Zi Bus station
Brief: Chengdu Cha Dian Zi Transporting Center is mainly to send the buses to the Tibetan Area in the west and north of Sichuan province
Address : No. 289, Section 5, West 3rd Ring Road, Jinniu District, Chengdu
Contact: +86 28 8750-6610 / 8750-7768
Working hours : 06:00 am – 19:30 pm


Epic of Gilgamesh - The first great extant work of literature in history, Gilgamesh is the epic poem of a Sumerian king who faces many adventures and trials. The most famous of which was his interaction with a savage named Enkidu who was created by the gods to kill Gilgamesh. After battling an indecisive fight, two became friends and fought against a primeval creature named Humbaba. They were victorious, but Enkidu was eventually slain by the gods for failing to carry out their will, leaving Gilgamesh to mourn his friend. The Sumerian King List contains the name of a king called Gilgamesh who lived around 2600 BC, indicating that the character on which the poem is based may have been an actual person. However, the oldest surviving copy of the poem is not written in Sumerian, making its origin difficult to date. Similar to Homer's Odyssey, the fantastic nature of the hero's adventures indicates that it was most likely passed down for centuries by oral tradition before being written down.


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Richard Geoffrey Smith (born 3 October 1970) is an English former professional footballer who played as a  defender from 1988 until 2001.

He notably played in the Premier League for Leicester City, having also played for Nuneaton Borough and Cambridge United on loan. He joined Grimsby Town in 1996 and remained with the club until 2001 where he then retired through injury.

Career

Leicester City
Born in Lutterworth, Leicestershire Smith joined Leicester City as a junior and came through the club's youth setup. In 1988, he was added to the first team squad by then manager David Pleat. He went on to play under Brian Little, Mark McGhee and Martin O'Neill at Filbert Street and spent a loan spell with Cambridge United in 1989. He played in one Premier League season with The Foxes, the 1994–1995 season when the club were relegated to the First Division. He would go on to make 120 first team appearances in all competitions, scoring twice.

Grimsby Town
In September 1995, Smith was loaned to fellow First Division side Grimsby Town. He would make 8 appearances for Brian Laws side during this spell which led to him joining the club permanently in March 1996 when Leicester and Grimsby agreed a £50,000 transfer fee. In his time at Grimsby he was in and out of the team both under Laws and his replacement Alan Buckley. The Mariners defensive set up in the mid to late nineties had boasted such club legends as Mark Lever, Peter Handyside, John McDermott, Graham Rodger and Kevin Jobling, so Smith was dipped in and out of the first team. The club were eventually relegated to the Second Division in May 1997, only to bounce back the following season by winning the Second Division Play-Off Final at Wembley Stadium. Town had also triumphed in the Football League Trophy that season, but injury had forced Smith to miss the entire season.

During his final three seasons at Grimsby, Smith continued to play a cameo role in the first team with numerous injury problems preventing him from having any lengthy spell in the team. In his final season the 2000-2001 campaign, he managed only 7 games, scoring once. In what would be his final game in professional football he played the full 90 minutes of an FA Cup third round reply defeat at home to Wycombe Wanderers on 16 January 2001. His final goal had come earlier in that season during a 2–2 away draw with Wimbledon F.C. The Mariners now managed by Lennie Lawrence saw fit to release Smith from his contract in June 2001 due to his ongoing injury concerns, this eventually led to his retirement from professional football at the age of 30.

Personal life
Smith now runs and owns BASH Skip Hire based in Broughton Astley, Leicestershire.

Honours
Leicester City
Football League First Division play-off winner: 1993–94
Grimsby Town
Football League Trophy: winner 1997–98
Football League Second Division play-off winner: 1997–98

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Short Hills poet writes verse in two voices
By Johanna R Ginsberg	November 26, 2013, 12:00 am 0 Edit
Staff Writer, New Jersey Jewish News
Short Hills resident, insurance executive, and award-winning writer Peter Waldor sometimes fantasizes about being a poet from the T'ang Dynasty in China — perhaps a peer to one of the great masters like Li Bai or Du Fu.
But, alas, a Jew born in the mid-20th century, he settles for an alter ego he calls Wu Xing — a sage from that period who happens to write poetry — especially when he's in Telluride in Colorado, a favorite vacation spot for Waldor.
Waldor channels his doppelganger in The Wilderness Poetry of Wu Xing, published in June by Pinyon Publishing. The poems draw on the wisdom and culture of the T'ang period, but also, inescapably, from the experiences and Jewish identity of Peter Waldor.
Much of the book, he said recently, "is very much inspired by the hasidic masters and their return to the natural world. There's a great story about a hasidic master chasing a fallen leaf blown by the wind through the field, and all of his disciples follow, and he reminds them that God is everywhere in nature's beauty."
As a result, a poem from the volume, "A Rumor about Master Do Sa," appears to be about Wu Xing's mentor. But, according to Waldor, it is actually about Rabbi Yaakov Yitzhak Horowitz, the Holy Seer of Lublin (see sidebar).
"Is it a coincidence that Rabbi Yaakov Yitzhak was rumored to have the same ability as Do Sa, to look into people?" asked Waldor. "If I had simply written this about Yaakov Yitzhak, it would be boring. This way, if the poem succeeds, it's transformed and given a new context."
Asked about the unusual confluence of Chinese and Jewish influences, Waldor replied, "I can't escape the Jewish essence of my nature, nor would I want to, but I have interest in other things."
Born in Newark and raised in South Orange, Waldor is the son of Rita and the late Jerry Waldor, major benefactors of the Greater MetroWest Jewish community. Peter Waldor earned a BA from Tufts University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Following his father into the insurance field, Waldor joined the exclusive club of poets/insurance executives that includes no less than modern American poet Wallace Stevens.
In a second collection also published in June, Who Touches Everything (Settlement House), the Jewish content is much closer to the surface. It includes "Cup," with its obvious references to the yahrtzeit candles so often recycled into breakfast orange juice glasses.
That volume, steeped in images of childhood, came out of Waldor's experience watching his wife nurse their third child. (Their children are now seven, 12, and 15.) "There's nothing like the holiness of the mother-baby relationship," he said. "I was just in awe."
He originally titled the volume Gemilut Hasadim (literally, acts of loving-kindness). "People usually think of 'gemilut hasadim' as charitable acts or helping strangers and things like that. But I also think of it as the love a parent shows a child," he said.


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Jeju Shinhwa World Casino Begins Games of Another Kind in South Korea, Just as Winter Olympics Wrap Up
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At the newly opened Jeju Shinhwa World Casino, 300 miles to the south of the Winter Olympics that just finished up in Pyeonchang on Sunday, a whole new set of games are ready to pit opponents against one another. This time, it's the classic battle of gambler vs. the house, with the latter in this case being gaming operator Landing International, the developer of the $2.6 billion integrated resort.
Landing International says that Phase One of its sprawling Jeju Shinhwa World integrated resort is now complete, following the opening of the casino on Sunday. The complex is also home to two theme parks and luxury hotels. (Image: Jeju Shinhwa World)
Sunday marked the kickoff of Phase One of the the venue on the island of Jeju, an island off of South Korea best-known for its Hallasan volcano, a semi-tropical national park, and a variety of waterfalls and lava streams, all of which have made it a popular tourist destination in Asia.
The timing of the casino opening may not have been ideal, as island is hardly balmy at this time of year at a decidedly untropical average of 42° F.
The first facilities at Jeju Shinhwa World, the island's first-ever such integrated resort, were rolled out in increments starting last September. They included convention facilities, two luxury hotels, a condominium complex, amusement park and water park, restaurants, and a shopping mall.
Surprise Decision by Regulator
In August, Landing announced it would move its existing licensed casino operations at the nearby Hyatt Regency Jeju Hotel to the Shinhwa World resort as a temporary measure, until the permanent, much bigger casino could be added before the property's completion in late 2019.
Those plans were held up by red tape until February 21, at which point it authorities granted the developer full-scale casino operation permits. Instead of just a smattering of tables and slots transplanted from the Hyatt Regency, the casino opened on Sunday with 155 live-dealer gaming tables, including baccarat, poker, blackjack, roulette, and an Asian dice game called sic bo, as well as a combined total of 239 slot machines and electronic table games.
Like all but one South Korean casino, Shinhwa World will be for foreigners only, as nationals are only permitted to gamble at the remote Kangwon Land Casino built at the foot of a ski and golf resort, and where alcohol consumption and picture-taking are not allowed.
Diplomatic Rift
But Shinhwa World will not prosper from hordes of Chinese tourists, as Landing had hoped when the project was first conceived. The deterioration of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea following the latter's decision to deploy a US missile defense system on the Korean Peninsula means the Chinese are currently banned by their own government from visiting the nearby country.
Regrouping, Landing now insists it expects half its revenues to come from domestic vacationers visiting its non-gaming attractions.
South Korea's Foreigner-only Casinos Suffer from Chinese Travel Ban


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Prisoners of Desire: Tristan und Isolde at the Oper Köln
Wagner – Tristan und Isolde
Tristan – Peter Seiffert
König Marke – Karl-Heinz Lehner
Isolde – Ingela Brimberg
Kurwenal – Samuel Youn
Melot – John Heuzenroeder
Brangäne – Claudia Mahnke
Ein Hirt – Kim Youngwoo
Ein Steuermann – Choi Insik
Stimme eines jungen Seemanns – Kim Youngwoo
Chor der Oper Köln, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln / François-Xavier Roth.
Stage director – Patrick Kinmonth
Oper Köln, Staatenhaus Saal 1, Cologne, Germany. Saturday, September 21st, 2019.
Tonight's season opening at the Oper Köln took place at their temporary home, the Staatenhaus, on the opposite bank of the Rhine from the cathedral city. The Staatenhaus is an exposition centre, with all the issues that that entails for operatic performance. While the seats are comfortable and the sightlines excellent, thanks to the very steep rake in the ersatz auditorium, acoustically it's far from ideal, with a sound that's very dry – and from my seat it felt that the orchestra was playing in a different room. The renovations to their permanent house are running far behind schedule and budget, and it's likely that they'll be based in that venue for a few more seasons.
Photo: © Bernd Uhlig
The impression of the orchestra being in a different room may have been compounded by the set used in Patrick Kinmonth's new staging, which received its premiere tonight. Abstract wave shapes, upon which video images of waves were projected, surrounded the orchestra, containing them within the set and making it feel that the orchestra was as much part of the stage furniture as the set and the singers. It did mean that the cast was always audible over the band. The downside was a lack of that all-encompassing orchestral glow that one hopes for in this work. The action took place within a permanent set, split into four separate rooms, with further action taking place either on what appeared to be a lawn to the right of the stage, or the ship's bridge on the left. Kinmonth gives us an interesting premise. Initially, it seems that the action evolves on board the ship taking Isolde to Cornwall. As the evening develops, one begins to question whether, instead of a ship, this is instead a prison or an asylum. The lovers don't touch or engage with each other, neither stepping out of their room, but rather imprisoned within their desires. This idea of two people becoming obsessed with something that remains intangible is an idea I found quite compelling.
Personenregie is straightforward, the blocking was effective, and we had a sense of real flesh and blood characters, even if they barely related to each other. There were some random visual touches. I'm not quite sure what the idea behind the gentlemen marching through the waves in formation at various points in the evening was. Although it was interesting to have Marke deliver his monologue from the waves at the front, reinforcing his distance from the lovers. Above all, this is a staging that illustrates the text and provides an intriguing visual framework for the action.
Musically, it must be admitted that it was somewhat variable. Peter Seiffert, in his sixty-sixth year, gave us a singing lesson as Tristan. The freshness of the voice, after decades of singing the most demanding roles, is staggering. The vibrations have loosened slightly but his tenor has retained its bright, clarion colour. He sang with an openness, savouring the text, finding a poetry in Wagner's vocal writing, that one rarely hears. He rose to the ravings of the third act, finding power to spare, the voice penetrating into the room with laser-like precision. One always felt secure in his vocalism and, despite the passing of the years, the artistry is undimmed. Seriously impressive.
As Brangäne, Claudia Mahnke sang with a lieder singer's attention to text. Her mezzo is large, rising from a warm and chocolatey bottom to a bright, bell-like top. She was unfazed by the role's demanding tessitura, always singing with beauty and poise. She floated her warnings from the tower with wonderfully even tone. Samuel Youn sang a heroic Kurwenal, his bass-baritone firm, never hectoring. Karl-Heinz Lehner's Marke was sung in a warm and resonant bass, descending to the depths with rounded tone – although the top sounded slightly disconnected to the rest. The beauty he brought to his monologue and the way he pointed the text, in a moment that can so often feel interminable, was most impressive. The supporting roles were effectively taken.
I must admit that I found Ingela Brimberg's Isolde problematic. This was a role debut for her and it sounds as if she is still working the role into the voice. She sang with lyricism, her soprano bright, but it also felt that she lacked a significant degree of vocal colour, singing over the text rather than with it. The role sits low for many sopranos and Brimberg lacked amplitude at the bottom, the voice disappearing under the orchestral texture at times. As the evening progressed, it sounded like tiredness kicked in and intonation began to sink. Her Liebestod contained much Gwyneth Jones-like swooping, though without the fabled Celtic diva's renowned volume. While Brimberg gave an honourable account of herself, I left with the impression that this is a role that takes her beyond her current limits.
There was much that gave pleasure in François-Xavier Roth's conducting. The way that he encouraged the strings to use vibrato sparingly made the opening to the prelude and the dark night of the soul at the start of Act 3 spellbinding. Tempi were nicely swift, for the most part, but there were a significant number of occasions on which the tension sagged. If felt that, rather than guiding the action, Roth was skimming over the surface, accompanying rather than leading, which meant that the coital flow of the music, that constant yearning for relief, climaxing five hours later, seemed prosaic. The orchestra played efficiently for him. There were a few brass slips along the way although the string intonation was generally accurate. The chorus was fine in their interjections.
This was a somewhat mixed evening on the whole. The staging was effective and logical, giving us an interesting visual premise of lovers trapped within their desires and made us question what was real and what was imagined. There were moments of genuine insight in the conducting but it also felt very much like a work in progress, as indeed did the assumption of the lead female role. At the same time, it was a privilege to see a great artist at work in Seiffert's Tristan. That lifetime of understanding and vocal strength, not to mention the artistry that comes with experience, made for a compelling portrayal of this monster of a role.
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The Cavs Can't Find A Team To Take On Tristan Thompson Or J.R. Smith In A Trade
Robby Kalland 02.05.18 1 year ago 7 Comments
The Cleveland Cavaliers are in trouble. The reigning and three-time defending Eastern Conference champs are perilously close to falling out of the top four in the East and the prospects of improving the roster at the trade deadline are growing ever slimmer as the hours tick down to 3 p.m. ET on Feb. 8.
As the Cavs continue to survey their roster and assets while looking around the league for some help on the trade market, they're finding that there isn't one trade that can fix their problems. Not only is it difficult for them to make substantial improvements with one trade, but it's also going to be exceedingly hard for them to blow things up and make multiple big moves to really shake up the roster.
Two of the biggest problem spots for the Cavs in making trades are with the contracts carried by Tristan Thompson and J.R. Smith. Thompson makes $16.4 million this year, but is owed right on $36 million guaranteed through 2019-20, which is a lot of money for what he does. Smith makes less money at $13.7 million this year, $14.7 million next year with only $3.8 million guaranteed in 2019-20, but considering he's fallen off steeply this season his contract might be even less valuable than Thompson.
In any case, those two contracts signed in the wild summer of 2016 following their championship run when the cap spiked now haunt the Cavs as they look to restructure their roster. Their pursuit of DeAndre Jordan has stalled out chiefly because the Clippers won't even consider taking on either Tristan or J.R.'s contracts (certainly not both) unless the Brooklyn 2018 first round pick is involved, which to this point has remained off the table in talks.
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What doctor was the most helpful?
Thank you to all the amazing, kind-hearted, and supportive doctors who care about people with disabilities and are listed on this page. We asked our readers what doctor was the most helpful in creating accurate medical documentation while they were applying for disability, and we wrote down all their answers below.
The majority of responses on this page came from people who were diagnosed with ME or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. We also received responses from people with Lyme, Fibromyalgia, MCS, Mast Cell Activation, POTS, Environmental Illness, Mental Illness, and related ailments. Many people were approved based on a combination of conditions.
List below is for the US. A few doctors from Canada are at the bottom. If you are able to travel, you may find it helpful to also look outside your state. Some readers reported that the got their most helpful medical documentation by traveling to another state for one-time assessment (and follow-up phone appointments).
Please also take a look here for important things to know when seeking a doctor: How to Find a Doctor to Help With Disability Documentation.
Some Lyme Literate doctors choose to be private about their practice. In the list below, we have noted lyme disease treatment only if the doctor listed lyme treatment on their own website.
🌸 Dr. Rea – Founder of the Environmental Health Center. Environmental Illness and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities. Highly recommended. Dallas.
🌸 Cerescan. Functional brain scans, brain imaging, brain mapping, QEEG. Toxic brain injury, traumatic brain injury, psychiatric conditions.
🌸 Dr. Ruth Walkotten – Family Medicine. Reader's report: Treats ME/CFS patients. May be retiring soon. Highly recommended.
🌸 Dr. Michael Fitzgerald. Occupational Medicine. Assessments.
🌸 Dr. Lesley Ann Fein – Rheumatologist and Internist. Auto-immune diseases, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Lyme Disease, Tick Borne Illnesses. Very highly recommended.
🌸 Dr. Jeffrey Nelson – Neurologist – Neurology, headache medicine, sleep medicine, Parkinson's Disease, stroke.
🌸 Dr. Rachal Beda – Internal Medicine. Reader's report: Compassionate and helpful towards patients with ME/CFS. History of serving homeless patients. Areas of interest include gender-affirming care for transgender and genderqueer people. Seattle.
🌸 Dr. Nathan Holladay – Myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, unresolved medical problems. Highly recommended.
🌸 Dr Christy Martinez. Family medicine. Highly recommended.
🌸 Dr Stephen Lindsey, Rheumatologist, Baton Rouge.
💮 Dr. Vaccaro – Rothman Institute – Philadephia. Orthopedics.
🌸 Dr Charles Lapp – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. Highly recommended by multiple people. Update: Dr. Lapp is retiring, but training a new doctor to be his replacement.
🌸 Dr. Laura Black – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. Highly recommended.
🌸 Tracy Boggs, Neuro Physical Therapist, Functional Capacity Exam. Please also learn more about acceptable medical sources.
🌸 Myra Preston / Siberimaging – Neuropsychologist. QEEG brain mapping and neurotherapy. CFIDS and Fibromyalgia. Charlotte.
🌸 Dr. George Piligian – Occupational Medicine – Preventive Medicine – Musculoskeletal problem. Assessments. Highly recommended.
🌸 Dr. Thomas Lazzaro, Forensic Clinical Psychologist – Psychological and Psychiatric Testing. Recommended by a disability lawyer.
🌸 Dr. Gudrun Lange – Clinical Neuropsychologist. Expertise in neuropsychological testing for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia patients. Highly recommended by multiple people.
🌸 Dr. Susan Levine – Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Highly recommended by multiple people.
🌸 Dr. Benjamin Natelson – Neurology & Neuroscience – Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Severe fatigue or widespread pain. Highly recommended.
🌸 Dr. Enlander. MD. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Lyme. Highly recommended. New York City and Skype.
🌸 Dr. Hendricks Whitman – Rheumatologist – Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Scleroderma, Lupus, Mixed Connective Tissue Disease, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Manhattan.
🌸 Center for Cognitive Assessment – Neuropsychological Assessment – Learning disabilities, concussion, dementia, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Lyme disease. New York and Chicago.
🌸 Betsy Keller – Two-day CPET testing for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Highly recommended by multiple people – especially for employer disability insurance. Warning: Possible health risk, please read more about this test.
🌸 Amen clinic – Brain spect Scans and other tests. Brain toxicity, sleep disorders, memory problems, psychiatric conditions.
🌸 Dr. John Chia, Infectious Disease Specialist, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Highly recommended by multiple people.
🌸 Dr. Fasih Hameed, Family Physician / Integrative Medicine. Recommended by multiple people.
🌸 Dr. James Novak. Family Medicine / Preventative Medicine. Very highly recommended. San Diego.
🌸 Dr. Peggy O'Toole – Clinical neuropsychologist – Neuropsychological evaluations, psychological evaluations. Wait list for testing is 3+ months. Very highly recommended.
🌸 Dr. Stuart Silverman – Internal medicine, rheumatology and allergy immunology.
Special interest in fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, myofascial pain syndrome, osteoporosis and bone disease. Very highly recommended. Beverly Hills.
🌸 Dr. Kent Holtorf – hormones, hypothyroidism, complex endocrine dysfunction, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, Lyme disease.
🌸 Dr David L. Kaufman – Internist – ME/CFS, Dysautonomia, Autoimmune Diseases, and chronic infectious diseases including tick borne diseases, Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth Syndromes, and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome. Mountain View.
🌸 Dr Bela Chheda – Infectious Disease Specialist – ME/CFS, Dysautonomia, Autoimmune Diseases, chronic infectious diseases, Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth Syndromes, and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome. Mountain View.
🌸 Dr. Sheila Bastien – Neuropsychological testing. Knowledgeable about Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, Environmental Illness, CFS/ME. Highly recommended by multiple people. Update: Reports from readers that she may be retiring.
🌸 Pacific Frontier Medical – Steven Harris (M.D. – Lyme Disease). Jennifer Sudgen (Naturopathic Doctor – Hormone Disorders. Endocrine Disorders. Lyme disease). Note: Social Security does not considered Naturopaths to be an "acceptable medical source." However, any records or letters signed by both Dr. Sudgen and Dr. Harris would be considered acceptable medical source records. Highly Recommended. Foster City, CA.
🌸 Workwell Foundation – Two-day CPET for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Highly recommended by multiple people – especially for employer disability insurance. Warning: Possible health risk, please read more about this test.
🌸 Dr. Brian Walitt – Rheumatology, Fibromyalgia, Chronic pain disorders, Epidemiology of rheumatic disease, Arthritis. Update: One of our readers has noted this controversy.
🌸 Dr. Alan Pocinki – General internist. Joint hypermobility syndromes and related autonomic and sleep problems and chronic fatigue syndrome.
💮 Dr. Janet K. Anderson – Human health toxicologist and environmental risk assessor. Neurocognitive / Neuropsychological Testing. Highly recommended by multiple people. Update: One reader reported not hearing back. Please comment below and let us know if anyone finds out more about whether Dr. Anderson still offers testing.
💮 Dr. Peter Rowe – Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Orthostatic Intolerance, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS). Very highly recommended.
💮 Alan Vinitsky, MD – Internal Medicine. Adults & Children. Environmental Medicine. Rockville, MD.
🌸 Eli Solomon – Psychologist. Specializes in psychological testing and neuropsychological evaluations. Mental health conditions, mild head injury and concussion effects, dementia, learning and memory, intellectual functioning, and personality factors. Case consultation and expert testimony. Athens, Georgia.
💮 Dr Richard Horan, Mast Cell Activation. Allergy and immunology. (Note: May not know a lot about social security documentation, but nice, helpful, supportive, willing to work with you to create documentation. Request the specific testing you need).
🌸 Dr. Susanne Cohen, Noran Neurological Clinic, Neuropsychological Testing.
🌸 Dr. Alan Braun Rheumatologist in Des Moines. Internal medicine and arthritis-related diseases.
🌸 Dina Noricks, Family Therapist. Please also learn more about acceptable medical sources.
🌸 Dr. Maria Vera-Nunez, Neuro Immune Medicine & Integrative Medicine, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. Miami.
🌸 Dr. Scott Kaplan, Clinical Psychologist. Palm Bay.
🌸 Dr. Gary Weiss, Neurologist. Neurological testing and assessment. Palm Bay. Recommended by a disability lawyer.
🌸 Dr. Rebecca Hunton, M.D., Integrative Specialist. Holistic and traditional treatments. Her website lists many conditions treated, including Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue. Melbourne.
🌸 Disability lawyer Mike Murburg has compiled this list of Doctors in Florida who are supportive of patients and helpful with documenting disability.
🌸 Dr. Peggy Watson, Family practice. Land O' Lakes, Florida.
🌸 Dr. Rubin Cintron – Neurologist – epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, cognitive disorders, migraines, neuromuscular disorders. Reston.
🌸 Dr Renee Carter – Internist / General Practice. Richmond.
🌸 Dr. Don Martin – Rheumatologist. Note: As of this writing, not currently accepting new patients. Harrisonburg.
🌸 Dr. Matthew Bowen – Neuropsychologist. Brain injuries, post traumatic stress, Psychological / Neuropsychological evaluations.
🌸 Dr. Charmaine Costa, Family Medicine, Vancouver.
🌸 Complex Chronic Diseases Program – Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Lyme-Like Syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities. Especially Dr. Ric Arseneau. Vancouver.
How to Find a Doctor to Help With Disability Documentation.
Thank you so much. I would love to hear more about how they were helpful for your disability case.
I did not see your comment?
First off, I want to thank you. This website has given me new hope when I had honestly almost lost all and was going into a dark place. Thank you so much. Next I had a question as to if you're aware of any South Carolina providers that may have been helpful to anyone that you have heard of please?
Thank you for this lovely comment. I'm sorry to say we only have the info readers have reported above. However, any doctor can be helpful to a disability application if they wish to help and you bring them a copy of forms (they may not know them). I hope you are able to find someone.
Thank you for this information. I will definitely check into the Virginia physicians!
This is a standard policy in nearly all LTD policies 😦 they often try to prove mental illness to end people's benefits.
I am continually amazed by the information you have put together here. I had so many questions about these things, and you seem to answer everything. It's quite amazing.
My work provides disability through The Standard. I don't think anyone has ever successfully filed a long-term disability claim through them for lyme. I did some research awhile ago on this, and there was one person who tried to get LTD for lyme through them, but he was denied. Not only was he denied, they seemed to publicly destroy his life by posting detailed accounts of how he was an alcoholic and a drug user during a court trial. It must be very difficult for him to ever get a job again. I feel really bad for him.
I know they give STD very easily, which I will probably need to take so I can try Dr. Horowitz' new protocol with dapsone for 3 months. Hopefully that will help. I haven't researched into whether The Standard approves people for other illnesses such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for LTD. I should look into that.
I was wondering if you might be able to help me. After reading your blog, I now understand that it's important to SS that you have the right kind of doctor. I have been seeing two LLMDs in Massachusetts for 5 plus years for lyme disease. I assumed that SS would not accept them because they are LLMDs, so I found a PCP doctor who believes in Lyme and might help me. However, I looked up all 3 doctors on their websites and they all have "MD" after their name, so now I'm confused. Do you think they are all acceptable by SS if they have "MD" after their name?
I can send you their websites if you'd like to take a look.
Thanks for this wonderful blog!!
Any doctor who is an MD is an acceptable medical source.
Most folks with Lyme get approved based on other conditions, so any doctor that can help you document other conditions caused by the lyme would be a great help.
I got my disability ruling for fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue syndrome granted through the knowledge and instruction of Alan Vinitsky, MD, 2301 Research Blvd Ste 220, Rockville, MD 20850. His phone number is 301-840-0002. Some people feel he has helped them, but the buzz in the community is that he charges too much, upsells you on treatments and largely unnecessary tests and supplements, the latter of which he sells himself at a premium price. The kind of alternative doctor that most of us can't afford.
Thank you so much lori. This is very helpful.
Dr. Alan Pocinki, M.D. diagnosed me with CFS and Fibromyalgia in 1998 at his Washington, D.C. office. He is located in Rockvile, MD now. Thanks to him I got on SSDI in 1998! He is an awesome physician!
Hi there- I'm grateful to have come across your website. I suffer from CRPS (plus all of the fun things that go with it) & reside in Oregon. Do you know of any specialists, attorneys or individuals that have experience with CRPS? Any information would be helpful.
Hi katie, I'm sorry I don't know any, but I will leave your question here in case anyone comes by with ideas.


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Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder
Law FoA Blogger collateral consequence, effective counsel, Removal, supreme court 7
In the United States, the immigration system and the criminal system are closely, but inconspicuously, related. Attorneys and immigrants alike frequently fail to realize the potential ramifications for pleading guilty to a seemingly minor criminal charge. In some cases, a misdemeanor drug offense can lead to removal from the country, regardless of any other positive factors favoring allowing the immigrant to stay.
The Supreme Court is set to reconsider this issue in Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder. Mr. Carachuri-Rosendo was a longtime legal resident of Texas, settled down with a fiancée and four children, all of whom are Unites States citizens. But, after he had a couple of convictions for possession of marijuana and a tablet of Xanax, a common anti-anxiety drug, he found himself deported back to Mexico, leaving the life he had known for years behind.
Another example of this is Mr. Lemaine, a case cited in amicus briefs dealing with the same issue as Mr. Carachuri-Rosendo. Mr. Lemaine came to the United States from Haiti at the age of three. As a teenager, he was caught with a small amount of marijuana, but this case was dropped. Then, in 2007, he was again caught with a small amount of marijuana, and his legal aid counsel advised him to enter a guilty plea, and agree to pay the mere $100 fine. This normally would seem like the best way to handle such a charge; however, neither party was aware that this had drastic consequences for his immigration status. Before he knew it, he was in handcuffs, on his way to Texas to face an immigration judge, and eventual deportation.
In neither of these cases, were the defendants able to raise defenses in their favor, such as how both have large amounts of family in the United States, with little to return to in their home country. Nor does it matter that, in the grand scheme of our criminal justice system, the charges that were brought against them are minor; neither seemed to pose any large threat to public safety.
For now, both defendants must wait for a ruling in Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, their last hope for staying in the United States and continuing the lives they have known.
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Legal Issue: How does the Sixth Amendment's guarantee for effective assistance of counsel affect a non-citizen where on advice of his criminal defense attorney he pleads guilty to a charge that will cause mandatory deportation in-spite of the attorney's assurance that deportation was not a consequence. Does this advice amount to ineffective assistance of counsel and allow the setting aside of the guilty plea?
(This case was heard by the Supreme Court in October of 2009 and should be decided in 2010).
Pertinent Law:
6th Amendment: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district where in the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.
How does the 6th amendment right to effective counsel apply to a non-citizen?
Jose Padilla, a legal permanent resident, originally from Honduras has legally resided in the United States for forty years and served in the United States Army during Vietnam faces deportation after a plea bargain on drug charges. He was thoughtful enough to ask his counsel if his plea would effect his status and he was told that he "did not have to worry about immigration status since he had been in the country so long." That statement could not be more wrong.
Mr. Padilla (no relationship to the al-Quida suspect) now faces permanent deportation from a country that has been the lawful home to him and his family for forty years. He has petitioned to set aside his guilty plea and go to trial. His case is now pending a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Click here to read the law and rationale the Supreme Court will use to reach a decision
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