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Monday, 28 November 2011 03:54 PM
* Prosecutors seek fuller mental evaluation
* Initial screening found him competent
By Jeremy Pelofsky
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A doctor has determined that
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this month is competent to stand trial, but prosecutors
Monday asked for a fuller evaluation.
Prosecutors are seeking a competency hearing and a full
psychological screening of Oscar Ortega-Hernandez. He has been
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His abandoned car was found blocks from the White House
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Gerald Keddy, parliamentary secretary to the Minister of National Revenue and ACOA, made the announcement in Sydney Monday.
Under ACOA's business development program, the centre will receive $225,000 over a three-year period to market Cape Breton's craft sector. Another $205,900 grant from the same program will allow the centre to carry out improvements to its Charlotte Street location, including energy efficiency upgrades, roof repairs and efforts to improve public access and make it more accessible.
Keddy said what he had seen of the centre was impressive.
"It very much is an economic generator," Keddy said.
"Absolutely, it should help generate more money, through efficiencies and cost savings and energy costs, number one. Number two, the ability to market, not just regionally but nationally should actually generate more dollars coming in."
The proposed improvements to the Charlotte Street building include exterior improvements and upgrades, updated signage and improved curb appeal for the Esplanade entrance, interior upgrades, energy efficiency and lighting upgrades and improved technology and communication systems to improve its value as an event venue.
"We feel that it's really an icon in terms of this centre," said Marlene Usher, acting director general Cape Breton operations with ACOA.
Laurie Murchison, chair of the centre's board, said the craft sector creates local, sustainable employment in Cape Breton, calling it a key contributor to the economy, adding it is also important to the island's culture, tourism and sense of community. He noted the Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design has been a driving force in the development of the craft sector for more than 40 years.
The current building opened seven years ago. Murchison said it has since become a hub of activity in the downtown, as well as a tourism destination with more than 20,000 visitors a year.
Its galley shop has put more than $500,000 into artisans' pockets through sales over the past five years, he said.
The funds to improve marketing efforts will also assist artisans in accessing large-market conferences. The intention is to position Cape Breton craft on the national and international stages.
"We will continue to build on those great successes and try to move into new areas that we haven't touched yet," Murchison said.
He said the Charlotte Street building and its improved facilities have been critical to the craft sector.
Leona Sulewski of Sydney works in the jewelry department at the centre's gallery shop and also produces silver jewelry herself, making pendants, rings, earrings and bracelets.
"I was an art teacher in the school system, and when I retired about 12 years ago, I thought, 'well, I'm going to jump into my art full-time,' which I'm trying to do right now.
She was happy to hear about the grants that the centre is receiving.
"The people that work here are wonderful and they're always trying to help us in any way that they can and the money is going to be very useful for our studio. We always constantly need money to order new metals and also the equipment that we work with, like rollers and polishers and cleaning machines, they only last so long, so we're always needing money to buy the stuff."
Sulewski said she believes the centre provides important supports for those in Cape Breton looking to want to make a difference in the arts, adding it provides a good start in a wide range of fields, from rug-hooking to papermaking.
"A lot of artists are making their mark and their name is getting out further than Cape Breton Island," Sulewski said.
Services offered at the centre are not expected to be affected by the renovations. As of March, the centre had 269 active members from all across Cape Breton.


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Milk Music isn't just a DIY punk band from Olympia; it's also the name Samsung has given to its entry into the streaming-services wars. And in a new commerical, the Samsung people have rounded up a fairly impressive slate of artists, organizing them together in service of the idea that, if you play these people's songs on Milk Music, these people will appear to you in a neon lit-up room. Iggy Azalea and Charli XCX, Childish Gambino (also the clip's narrator), Little Dragon, John Legend, Lady Antebellum, Cold War Kids, and Chromeo all appear in the ad, and Chromeo get a Delorean in their fantastical stage setup. Watch the ad below.
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I hadn't heard about this, I'll definitely be seeing it! I really liked Romeo when he was Pip in Great Expectations.ReplyDelete
This trailer actually makes me excited to revisit the Romeo & Juliet story!ReplyDelete
CHUCK BASS/ED WESTWICK! Yup, I'm watching this. Plus Romeo is rather pretty and the trailer looked amazing.ReplyDelete
- Lizzy6:48 PM
Ooooh I've had my eye on this trailer for about a month now. Hopefully the movie is as stunning as the trailer. I love seeing how all movie/play adaptions change the story in some little way, and am looking forward to see how Julian Fellows and the director interpreted the story. I'm also super excited for Hailee Steinfeld as Juliet. She looks gorgeous! Everyone I know hates Romeo and Juliet though, so I guess I'll be seeing it by myself. =(ReplyDeleteReplies
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I can't wait to see it! I too have always loved R&J - I own both the Zeffirelli version and the Luhrmann version on dvd. I especially like that they keep on using Zola Jesus's song "Skin" in the trailers for this one (IMHO, the first trailer they released is better than the one you put up).ReplyDelete
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This is the first time I've seen this trailer and it looks good. I'll be willing to watch it if I remember by the time it comes out. LOL.ReplyDelete
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I was wondering why the actor playing Romeo looked so familiar! (I did see him in Great Expectations, but I kept feeling as if I knew him from something else, something much older.)ReplyDelete
I saw the trailer in the theater yesterday and I think I will! Go that is. It looks pretty awesome really.ReplyDelete


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Spring in the Country of Lichen and Spines: Fragments of Home
Spring in the Country of Lichen & Spines: Fragments of Home
by Kiva Rose
Warm temperatures have arrived early in my corner of the Gila, with the Golden Smoke blooming sooner this year than I've ever previously seen. This follows a cold (-35F is plenty cold for me, thank you) and dry Winter. Now our seasonal winds blow the sand up in spiraling circles until it dances like the shifting forms of whirling dervishes against New Mexico's lapis colored sky. The skeletal limbs of shattered Russian Thistles caught up in these little whirlwinds give sharp edges to the dancers.
The Canyon trees bend in the same wild winds and yet last year's withered purple Juniper berries cling to their branches as they're tossed about in the breeze. They retain their pungent yet sweet flavor as well, a little drier perhaps, but still strong with the distinct magic that comes only with being the fruit of a Red Cedar tree.
Even in drought these mountains remain a country fraught with magic. If anything, the enchantment is turned up enough in these extreme conditions. Walking among the apricot and lavender colored volcanic rock I often find myself with a sense of the surreal, or more accurately, the hyperreal. The contrast of the barbed tips of white and black cactus spines draped in swaths of green Usnea fallen from the limbs of tall Pines is in itself strange enough to be disorienting at times. The sharp wrapped up in the soft, the colors blending and emerging as something altogether new.
Mountain Candytuft is our first showy flower each and every year since I've come to the Canyon. It's purplish leaves and violet to white flowers dot the mountainsides and draw the first butterflies. A member of the Brassicaceae, the spicy-sweet taste of its flowerheads is reminiscent of a more flavorful broccoli and I'm always so excited to add it to my Spring soups and salads.
The Cane Cholla is blushed a vivid pink from the cold temperatures but will return to its usual green color before producing flowers in a month or so. Clambering up and down the arroyos and dry creekbed, I peek under likely boulders looking for a few fronds of green and rust colored ferns and run my fingers along the ragged margins of the many-colored lichens that grow from almost every stone surface here.
The New Mexico Olive has just begun blooming and it's golden spray of flowers will eventually give way to the bittersweet blue-purple fruits that Loba and I will harvest and brine and use as tiny but flavorful olives in our meals. When I stopped on my way home to photograph the flowers a spring-mad hare leapt from the brush and went galloping off in typical jackrabbit fashion, too quick for me to even snap a picture.
Moonwort emerges from dust and sand, its silvery leaves streaking the landscape with a tenacious grace and filling the air with the warm sagey fragrance so peculiar to the West. The sweet butterscotch scent of Ponderosa resin mingles with the Moonwort and makes the canyon air at once heady and sensual. Crouching down in the leaf litter as I gather the Moonwort leaves and chunks of pine resin to infuse into warm oil, I press my face against the puzzle piece bark of a Ponderosa and breathe in the medicine of place. I sit back on my heels to absorb the whiplash power of something so simple, so fragile as awareness of this unbroken moment where I remember that this is what I've always wanted – all my stories and songs unraveling in the face of amber-skinned trees and downy bitter leaves. Sometimes the beauty of life just can't be comprehended as anything rational, my body (including my brain) just have to experience it as this tactile, skin-shivering beast that it is. Fuck analysis for a moment, just drink it up.
Arizona Sycamores raise their tangle of bone-white branches to the sun and drink in the cold water that curls down the mountains to pool around their roots. The first hummingbirds beat the air with a breakneck rhythm that well suits their warrior ways yet also belies the expectations sometimes created by their seemingly delicate beauty. Like the land itself, what appears fragile at first glance may be reinforced with a deeper strength.
My home is a fierce place, fragrant with the scent of aromatic plants well adapted to aridity, populated with the varied songs of the myriad birds that take refuge in the trees and long grasses and sparkling with the glint of the Southwest sun on a thousand volcanic rocks forming these cliffs and arroyos. The Canyon is wild with the tracks of mountain lions and coatimundi, the soundless rush of opening flowers and the singing winds that circle and play among the emerging leaves.
In the river, blue mica glimmers among the sand as the fish gather and part, gather and part with the tidal impulse of all things that love water. Spring in the country of lichen and spines feels warm under my bare feet this evening, and I dance to its strange, liquid music.
All Photos ©2011 Kiva Rose
9 Responses to "Spring in the Country of Lichen and Spines: Fragments of Home"
Beautiful Kiva! Thanks for enveloping us in your fairy tale.
Dear Kiva,
Truly beautiful, and truly magical, indeed! I love your colorful world.
Ahhh. That left me feeling dreamy and calm 🙂
These articles are beautiful to look at and winsome on the ears and eyes Thank you for being the poet naturalist canyonist that you are Kiva. The way you bring story and color to where you live helps me extend that where I live. I start to notice more birds and brown wind-blown stems and furtive night critters. You and your canyon are lucky to have each other.
Most basic to us is experiencing life around us, in our bodies. How rich is this!
Your words describing the gorgeous natural place you live and thrive in are so beautiful! I shared with my friends on Facebook. Thank you so much for painting this picture with words, and also for the beautiful photographs!
May you find more and more beauty with each blossoming season!
Love, Darshana
Menlo Park, California
O my! So breathlessly beautiful… and your canyon walk inspires the same wonder and magic it did four or five years ago, when I first came across your blog. My eyes are tearful and my heart is happy, because I Know that Love! Sending heartfelt smiles your way !♥
"…the soundless rush of opening flowers." Perfect word medicine.


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Diana Wynne Jones Love-Week continues at Book of the Day with The Merlin Conspiracy.
Merlin isn't a who, though,in the Islands of Blest. It's an office, recently vacated and now occupied by someone who is up to no good. Roddy, a young page travelling with the King's Court, must discover her magical powers! And foil the evil plot! While not-flirting with an attractice teen boy from another universe!
Nick Mallory is the teen boy in question, who gets himself lost among worlds and embroiled in the mess. Nick and Roddy take turns writing chapters. Good voices.
And again with the Britishness: Nick at one point says 'it was like a whole train of pennies dropping on my head.'. Now that's a nice image, and not one you'd find in an American book.
This appears to take place in the Chrestomanci universe, but that's not really laid out - and the book suffers for it, I think. I prefer when things make more sense and we know the mechanism for the magics. The time travel really threw me for a loop when keeping track fo what was going on.
Solid work!
Reading Journal Entry: The Merlin Conspiracy, by Diana Wynne Jones
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Joan Joyce (Schiavon) Huesca
1928 - 1987
In her own words (Part Eight)
In the episode that follows from her (unfinished) book, Joan Joyce Schiavon Huesca: an Autobiography, my mother recounts a poignant memory of the wise way her father, Ralph Schiavon, understood that sometimes the fearful anticipation of a consequence for one's actions is more effective than the consequence itself. This was one of her favorite stories, and she told it often, adding that this event was, for her, a hallmark of the mutual understanding and love between her and her father.
"All afternoon, I worried, my Father had such BIG HANDS! 'This will be some spanking,' thought I. Finally, the hours passed, the front door opened and there was my Daddy...SO BIG! He had a smile on his face, which quickly disappeared as my Mother told him of my misbehavior. A stern, serious expression crept across his face, and I stood there, grasping my Mother's dress hem, trying to disappear behind her.
"My Father grunted, 'Come with me.' I followed as slowly as possible, cringing inside with fear. We entered the bathroom, my Father closed the door, turned to me, and asked if I was sorry for whatever I had done. In a small voice, I replied that, 'Oh yes, I was very sorry and I promise never to do it again.'
"In the meantime, my Mother, waiting outside in the hall, was having second thoughts about my punishment. A smile appeared on my Father's face, and he plotted with me to clap his big hands together, and I would scream as loud as I could.
"My Mother called out for my Father to stop spanking me. We opened the door, with big smiles, I in my Father's arms, and that was the tale of my only 'spanking-that-never-was.' Let me add that from that time on, I think there was a special bond between my Father and me. My Father had been beaten as a boy, as my Grandfather was very stern, and through my life, my Father tried to shield me from harm."
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In the good old days, everything a copywriter did was sales copy: sales letters, print ads, and other text designed to generate an order for a product.
Today, the big trend is marketing by giving away free content - and copywriters are increasingly called upon to write that content.
In CD #2, white paper guru Michael Stelzner and I talk about the art and craft of writing white papers - in particular, how to balance giving away free content the reader finds useful -- with subtly convincing him that your product is the one he should buy.
In this segment, you will learn:
- How the Internet has revolutionized the marketing of business-to-business products and services.
- Marketing industrial and technical products with free how-to content offers.
- How white paper marketing bypasses the business press -- and gets your product story directly to the end user.
- Russell Kern's simple, no-brainer secret for multiplying the return on your marketing dollars tenfold.
- Your marketing should NOT sell your product or service. Here's what it should sell instead.
- How technical must the content of a white paper be? The answer may surprise you.
- Using white papers to overcome sales objections ... and solve marketing and selling problems.
- The future of white paper marketing in a social networking world - what role will free content play in Web 2.0?
- Overcoming your prospect's natural skepticism and resistance to online sales messages.
- 2 reasons why you should market by educating your prospects rather than through hype and hard-sell.
- How writing and publishing white papers helps establish you as a thought leader in your field.
- The "silver persuasive bullet" - what it is and why it should be in virtually every white paper you write and publish.
- The one risk of educating your market ... and how to prevent it from costing you sales.
- The 4 modes of learning - and how your content-driven marketing campaigns can appeal to each.
- How to write copy to appeal to the modern consumer's limited attention span.
- Creating white papers as an incentive to respond to lead-generating or mail order offers.
- Using a "free on free" offer to build your opt-in subscriber list.
- Converting Web traffic to qualified leads by offering a free white paper on your landing page.
- Turning more leads into appointment or sales with an online conversion series.
- Generating sales leads with pay-per-click advertising that offers a free white paper or report.
- How to identify hot prospects at the moment they are searching for what you are selling.
- Maximizing online revenues and sales by driving traffic to your landing pages.
- How to capture the e-mail address of prospects who leave your site without registering or making a purchase.
- The easiest way to overcome the user's skepticism when she arrives at your web site.
- How much information should you gather from prospects before allowing them to download your free white paper online?
- A powerful way to bond with your subscribers and prospects online, build your e-list, and market your white papers.
- And more....
Step 3: Creating Great Content That Sells
In CD #3, Profiting from Your Content in the Internet Age, best-selling author Roger Parker and I discuss all sort of different ways you can make more money from your freelance writing and content.
- 4 ways you can make a lot of money from your writing in the Internet age.
- How to make money "filling a gap" in the reader's knowledge -- and the marketplace.
- How to get so busy in your freelance writing business that you never have to worry where your next assignment is coming from.
- How to attract new clients by writing how-to articles for the trade publications they read.
- How to promote yourself by giving free talks on your area of expertise at association meetings and local college classes.
- The secret of having "a lot of balls up in the air" for ensuring freelance writing success.
- Choosing writing topics that bring you the most pleasure, fun, money, and sales.
- Capturing random ideas and converting them into profitable writing projects.
- The biggest difference between struggling writers vs. successful and prolific writers.
- Finding a great subject for your next book - and the one topic you should NOT write about.
- Turning your interests and hobbies into money-making writing assignments for fun and profit.
- Must you be the world's top expert to write a book on your topic? The answer is determined by the "90/10" rule.
- How to establish yourself as a top writer in your niche, market, or topic.
- Writing and publishing content to promote yourself and your business.
- Keyword research and discovery tools that can help you determine whether there's significant online demand for information on the topics you want to write about.
- A fill-in-the-blank template for creating free content and paid information products on any topic.
- Free content vs. paid content - the same information or different? Here's the guideline to follow.
- The awful truth about mainstream book publishers ... and a much more lucrative alternative for publishing your content.
- How to eliminate wasted writing time and effort - and sell virtually everything you write.
- Compiling, recycling, repurposing, and reselling your content in many different formats to multiply your freelance profits.
- Why writers should always wear shirts with pockets.
- Building self-promotion and back-end product sales into everything you write or publish.
- Maximizing your personal freedom and financial independence with multiple streams of freelance writing income.
- Tips and techniques for doubling or tripling your personal productivity and increasing your writing output.
- Does following your passion always bring money and success? The surprising truth you need to know.
- How to make a lot of money as a freelance writer - even if you are not "creative" or do not consider yourself a literary artist.
- The most important prerequisite for success as a writer ... and how to acquire it in spades.
- My proven 3-step process to help you write better and faster - acquire, organize, explain, & polish.
- How to express old ideas and information in a fresh and compelling way in your writing.
- The 1-hour incremental work method for super-productive writers.
- How to write books that define, establish, and promote your personal brand.
- How to turn every book you write into a sales brochure for your writing, speaking, consulting, and information products.
- Avoid this lazy writer's mistake of writing with too many hyperlinks as a substitute for your own text.
- How to produce and sell successful, valuable information products on subjects you know absolutely nothing about.
- The most profitable skill you can possess as an Internet information marketer (hint: it's NOT writing).
- And so much more....
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Bob Bly is a full-time freelance copywriter specializing in direct marketing. He earns more than $700,000 a year from his writing, and became a self-made multi-millionaire while still in his 30s.
McGraw-Hill calls Bob "America's top copywriter." A copywriter for more than a quarter of a century, Bob has written promotions for over 100 clients including Phillips, Agora, KCI, 21st Century, Weiss Research, EBI Medical Systems, Sony, IBM, AT&T, Grumman, Crain Communications, McGraw-Hill, Intuit, and AlliedSignal.
Bob is the author of 70 books including The Copywriter's Handbook (Henry Holt) and Business-to-Business Direct Marketing (NTC Business Books). He has published more than 100 articles in such publications as Subscription Marketing, Direct, Business Marketing, Writer's Digest, and Amtrak Express.
Mr. Bly has appeared as a guest on dozens of TV and radio shows including The Advertising Show, Bernard Meltzer, CNBC, and CBS Hard Copy. He has been featured in major media ranging from the LA Times and Nation's Business to the New York Post and the National Enquirer. He was a featured speaker at the 2006 annual conference of the National Speakers Association.
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--Don Libey, Libey Incorporated
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--Joshua Andrews, Health Solutions, LLC
"When people get to the promotion, the promotion has a good conversion rate. In one test, it actually had a 14% conversion to sale... can't ask for much better than that."
--David Galland, Casey Research
"I loved the ad! I don't see any reason for revision so I have already put through a check request for the balance I owe you on the ad. We are very excited about this one. I can't wait to see how it does. Thanks so much!"
--Alice Wessendorf, Agora Health Book
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--Paul Szymanski, Harvard Business School Publishing
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"I am happy to report to you that your piece out produced the 4 other packages we tested against it. I want to talk to you about another project...."
--Nick Roumi, Pacific Coast Funding
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--Paul Szymanski, Harvard Business School Publishing
"Like the package ... the tone ... I think it's excellent."
--Bill Caskey, Caskey Sales Achievement
"We are very pleased with your copy approach because your copy seems to speak to the neurologist better than the copy in previous promotions. Moreover, your copy presses the sell better and more effectively. I really value your direct marketing copy capabilities and I'm thrilled to have you working with MedLink."
--Jim Chacona, MedLink
"Just wanted to take a moment to sincerely thank you for the hard work and energy you've poured into the Sinatra product package. You are a joy to work with."
--Gail Diggs, Phillips Health
"Thanks again... you did a great job."
--Caleb Cherry, Capital Financial Media
"You are a genius! I rarely love copy this much from the get-go. You hit it on the head!"
--Sara Pond, Nightingale-Conant "The original ad insert of 'Wall Street's Loss is Your Gain' continues to kick butt -- pulls 12 to 15 subscriptions a week. Not bad for a $500 investment made 5 months ago."
--Charles Mizrahi, Stealth Stocks
"As a marketing professional, for 17 years I wrote my own promotional material. But I am not a professional copywriter. It wasn't until I took my own advice that I started getting the results I deserved. With Bob Bly, I got what I wanted - in the promised time frame - with re-writes - and the results I wanted. Thanks Bob!"
--Mark Amtower, Amtower & Company
"I found your ad copy compelling, powerful...even entertaining. You really communicated the 'feel' of the message we are selling. Thanks for such great work, Bob!"
--Ashley Earnhardt Aiken, Thomas Nelson Publishers
"Bob wrote the most ballsy ad in the history of Dynamic Changes and it set sales records this fall. People couldn't stop themselves from responding."
--Richard Scheffren, Dynamic Changes Hypnosis
"Last year you did all the copy on the What Would Jesus Eat brochure. It was wonderful and I believe is one of the reasons that the book continues to do so very well."
--Pamela Clements, Thomas Nelson Publishers
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--Jack McDonough, U.S. Tax Corporation "A special thanks to Bob for doing a superb job and making this work so well. I felt like a brilliant puppet in your hands."
--Michael Masterson, AWAI
"Even though he refuses to admit it, Bob is THE Direct Marketing guru ... or, at the very least, he's mine."
--Jill Perri, American Consultants League
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--Porter Stansberry, Porter Stansberry's Investment Advisory
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--Gary Yondol, Media Planet
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--Kusko, Dynamic Changes Hypnosis
"Thanks Bob. I appreciate all your work."
--Paul Goldberg, PJ Promotions
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--Chris Gast, Intuit
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--Ray Hardee, Engineered Software, Inc.
"The letter you composed is terrific. We like your text, and we also like the promotional ideas you've incorporated into the package as a whole. Thanks a lot for your efforts."
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"Your 'Double Your Money' headline won with a 1.07 response rate. Just to let you know, this offer did better then the two before it did (all of which were after the new editors took over). I rarely see copywriters that go the extra mile like you do. I really appreciate it."
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"Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed working with you and reading your manuscripts of Bits and Pieces for Salespeople. You certainly knew what the readers wanted since it showed in the circulation figures."
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Our Winter exhibition is always popular and a good excuse for a pre-Christmas party with opportunities to buy artist-made cards and small gifts at affordable prices. We hope you will join us again this year. For the first time it is not an 'open' exhibition but one featuring work by resident artists, along with a few invited artists whose work we like and who have shown us great support. Alongside the exhibition will be a good selection of ceramics, prints and craft items along with a unique selection of hand-made cards. For a truly different experience, come and do your Christmas shopping at Oxheys this year!
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SIR John Forbes, the physician to Queen Victoria's household, called it "an outrage to human reason." Homeopathy's claim is that you can take a substance of dubious properties, dilute it to the point where there are no molecules of the original substance left in the sample you have, and your sample will nevertheless have retained healing properties related to the original compound. There is no justification in all of science for this idea -- and yet there remains some slim evidence that homeopathy works.
The key word here is slim. But even the slimmest of evidence makes this scientifically tantalising. Are we missing something about the properties of water? Could there be ways to heal that involve ultra-dilution – possibly avoiding the nasty side-effects of certain drugs?
After months of investigation, my conclusion is a sour and muttered "probably not". But even after a long journey into the heart of homeopathy, where I saw, among other things, a pharmacy whose shelves contained homeopathic remedies made from flapjack and musical harmonies, I still cannot be 100 per cent sure homeopathy is all bunkum. Part of the reason for that came as I sat in the botany library of the Natural History Museum reading a rigorous scientific analysis of the roots and efficacy of homeopathy, an analysis that might even be able to rescue homeopathy from the clutches of the cranks who currently run the show.
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dear sirs,
i am a physician who graduated from the university of chicago school of medicine in 1978. as an undergrad i was phi beta kappa and magnum cum laude with a b.a. in biology/chemistry. i have been a practicing physician for the past 30 years. since 1991, however, my medical practice has been entirely alternative, or complementary as we like to say these days. my primary focus since 1994 has been classical homeopathy. perhaps you will consider me one of the "cranks who run tthe show," but i don't run anything except my own life and my own medical practice.
i can tell you this about homeopathy: it does work, and when it works it works beautifully. that is to say when it works it can effect cures rapidly and smoothly. it can work in common acute conditions that are adequately treated by main-stream medicine, but most people come to see me for chronic conditions for which there is no truly effective treatment in main-stream medicine.
so, first we establish that it does work. this cannot be done by researching in the natural history museum or even in university medical libraries. it will only be understood from within the framework of its own paradigm, not from the point of view of a different paradigm. please note, establishing that it does work is not the same as explaining how it works. here we have a phenomenon that has practical application, but for which we do not yet have a suitable explaination. yes, it's true that the implications of homeopathy fly in the face of our current understanding of matter and chemistry. like all anomalous phenomena, which are the very subject of your book, 13 things...., we first establish that something is a genuine phenomenon, that it has an empirical reality. in terms of homeopathy we establish that it has a clinical validity. only after this do we seek to explain the phenomenon.
in terms of its clinical validity, you will no doubt grant me that patients have seemingly been helped by it, but you will say that it could be placebo. well, first of all every time i give a homeopathic medicine to a patient i fully expect it to work, and the patient has every hope that it will work too. that being the case, the placebo effect should work every time, so in effect all my treatments should be a placebo success. well, of course that is not the case, i can struggle with a case for weeks or months, giving several different medicines, until finally i give the right one, which goes on to work beautifully. furthermore, i will tell you that it works when the medicines are given unbeknownst to the patient, eg in his meal or when he is asleep. it also works with animals. in these cases the receiver has no expectations so how can his results be placebo? to absolutely establish clinical validity from a scientific perspective, not just relying on "anecdotal evidence", i think the best approach would be to do a prospective study comparing clinical outcomes of 3 groups of patients. the first group would be treated conventionally, the second group homeopathically, and the third group would remain untreated as a control. i don't think this kind of study has been done yet but i would relish the opportunity to participate in such a project.
i have made my living with homeopathy in a country where conventional medical care is paid for by the government, but no third-party payers cover my patients' homeopathy bills. they must pay out-of-pocket. homeopathic treatment is difficult and time-consuming, and therefore is not inexpensive. my patients are not stupid, they only pay for what works. they may not know that it will work for them when they first come to see me, but virtually everyone who comes to me, does so because they know someone for whom it did work.
this post has been quite lengthy, my apologies. once we are all on the same page, that is, that we are dealing with a genuine and useful phenomenon, then maybe we can enter into discussions about how it may be explained. the importance of anomalous phenomena, as surely everyone on this site should understand, is that you can't sweep them under the rug just because you can't explain them or because they seem to contravene current scientific principles. anomalous phenomena will become the very cornerstones of future discoveries.
A doctor who failed at scientific method, I am not surprised. Your statement that your remedies should work all the time is absurd. I suspect your patients 'tell' you they are cured just to stop seeing you... in the same manner I told my chiropractor I was cured just to get a gym membership instead (and fix my problem that way.)
dear ebnv,
it might interest you to know that medicine is not all that scientific.
studies have been done which show that only a very small percentage of currently accepted medical therapies have been proven to be effective by proper scientific research.
also, these days proper scientific research is no longer being done in the public domain. why? because it is too expensive. double-blind and prospective studies, r&d of a new drug or treatment costs millons of dollars. the only ones who can afford to do this research now are the very companies who are putting out the new drug or treatment. could there be a slight conflict of interest?
most of the standard and accepted therapies of today will be shown to be bunkum in the not too distant future, just as therapies from the past were shown to be just the fads of the time. only the clinically robust will survive. when would you say modern "scientifically-based" medicine began? is it 200 years old, like homeopathy? homeopathy is huge in india and south america, places that cannot afford the "luxury" of the prohibitively expensive therapies that we see today.
i don't know how things work in your computer-based vocation, but in the health professions things are somewhat utilitarian-based. if it seems to work, and doesn't harm, go for it. later on, some company will chalk up the research to explain why it works.
i assume you must be fairly young, if you think your gym membership is going to keep you away from sickness forever. sooner or later you will fall into the clutches of the medical system. i suggest you fully research any treatment that they offer you, to see if it has been scientifically proven by unbiased research. or you could just put your faith in your doctor - oh btw i have a piece of real estate in florida you might be interested in...
Location:Lewes, UK
I don't know how to reconcile people's anecdotes about successes of homeopathy with my suspicion (and that's all it is) that homeopathy is just placebo - and the distinctly unclear conclusions that scientific investigations have drawn. Several people I trust tell me it made an enormous difference to them. So why does a simple clinical trial not produce similarly enormous differences between homeopathy and placebo?
There's reporting bias of course: very few people who've had unsuccessful encounters with homeopathy tell me about it.
I suspect that we won't find out until the people who run the various homeopathy associations (that's who I meant when I said "the crackpots who run the show" johnh) stop protecting their turf and embrace a bit of criticism.
michael, please see my response to this under separate headings. i am not sure which clinical trials you are referring to. if they meet my criteria referred to under these separate headings please refer me to them so i can review them for myself.
i do agree with you that we need to fully delineate what the placebo response is capable of and what it is not. then we will understand if a cure occurs with homeopathy that it is a genuine phenomenom in its own right. under the discussion of placebo, you do allude to the placebo response not being capable of great changes in a persons pathology. that certainly has been my experience as well.
i wonder if you know how large homeopathy is in the world today? it always somewhat amazing to me to see a phenomenon like homeopathy blithely dismissed, when it is practiced on such a large scale worldwide today and has survived the test of time for nearly two hundred years. do we really believe that all these adherents of homeopathy are stupid, deluded? such arrogance is sad and hints at deeper problems....
I've been away from this awhile, so let me just add in: yes, it is a phenomenon. Homeopathy is popular beyond what scientists expect. And the fact that there are so many anecdotal reports of it working (I imagine far more than of other "questionable" treatments working) that someone has to take it seriously. At the same time, I have found many homeopaths to be difficult to pin down - there's lots of wriggling out of difficult truths. In the book I mention Vilma Bharatan who works at the Natural History Museum here in London. I'm looking forward to seeing what comes out of her work as it progresses. For now, what constitutes an acceptable trial? If homeopaths insist that every case is different, and that you can't do a standard clinical trial pitching one remedy against placebo, what DO we do?
please see the discussion topics in this section entitled "rigorous scientific analysis" and "more on research".
furthermore, homeopathy is based on a different paradigm altogether. therefore we should not be too surprised, if the square peg of homeopathy doesn't fit in the round hole of conventional medical research. once again we end up castigating homeopathy for being different. why can't it be a good boy and get along with the other children! hello, it's uniqueness is the whole point. we have problems with anomalies that are too anomalous!
Location:London UK
"it always somewhat amazing to me to see a phenomenon like homeopathy blithely dismissed, when it is practiced on such a large scale worldwide today and has survived the test of time for nearly two hundred years"
Female circumcision predates even modern Christianity, is still practiced today has has "survived the test of time". Most folk with an ounce of common sense or basic understanding of science (and morality) realise that this is a wrong and unjust practice.
A friend recently attended a seminar on Homeopathy and the head speaker was accompanied by her infant child. This child had not been innoculated with all the basic vaccines that any parent who trusts a Science that can be understood through it's process and method would allow in order for the child to be healthy. I see homeopathy as unable to "get along with the other children!" due to the harm it can cause when it's adherents refuse to marry it with conventional medicine.


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Hope the weekend wasn't to weird with all this bizaar weather we've been having: Rain, severe storms that sometimes happen and sometimes don't, hail that happens in one place but just a little ways away, nothing. Well, they chalk it up to "Climate Change". On the other hand, I've been through crazy storms before.
And sort of keeping on that note: The Eco Lifestyle Market is happening at the end of the month and you can find Sparrow Avenue there. Sunday August 27 at The Great Hall, 1087 Queen St. W. This will be the first show since the beginning of the summer and I'm looking forward to seeing you there. Hope you can come.


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Collective Sigh Heard Round the World
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, February 14, 1999; Page A22
BERLIN, Feb. 13 After watching in perplexed amazement while Washington stood by transfixed by President Clinton's impeachment trial, the rest of the world breathed a collective sigh of relief with the news of his acquittal and expressed the hope that he would now turn his attention to what they considered more important business.
Much of the world never understood how the president of the world's superpower could find himself in such jeopardy over a sexual dalliance with former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky. As a result, they saw the closing chapter of his trial as a much-belated attempt by the American political system to come to its senses.
In Mexico, where Clinton is scheduled to arrive Sunday to meet President Ernesto Zedillo, commentators described the impeachment process as an absurd melodrama. "It's incomprehensible for the majority of Mexicans that an intimate relationship . . . would be converted into a political persecution," observed political analyst Sergio Sarmiento.
The Argentine writer Tomas Eloy Martinez lamented the saga that led to Clinton's trial on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice as "a pathetic story" replete with "moral hypocrisy" and the "horror of the temptations of sex."
In Israel, Ehud Barak, the leader of the opposition Labor party who is trying to oust Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in May elections, wrote to Clinton applauding the Senate vote and saying he believes it will enable the president to concentrate on other matters, such as reviving the Middle East peace process.
Across Africa, the scandal managed to intrude into people's lives even though many were facing more serious matters, such as a simmering war between Eritrea and Ethiopia. In the Eritrean capital of Asmara, people expressed amazement that a political crisis that grew out of private acts could obsess the United States for more than a year.
"It was in everybody's face," said Sarah Bereket, 20. "Believe me, people are tired of hearing about it." Others said they hoped that Clinton would be able to focus on more pressing issues, such as border skirmishes on their continent. "The presidency is much more than what Mr. Clinton has gone through," said Solomon Abraha, a travel agent.
European governments refrained from public comment on Clinton's victory. "As we have said all along, this has been a matter for the American Senate," said a spokesman for British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Newspapers felt no such constraints.
"Thank goodness it is all over," observed the lead editorial in London's Independent newspaper. It went on to describe Clinton as "a shamed president," but expressed admiration for his Houdini-like ability to survive what once seemed like an impossible plight.
Much of the political coverage of Clinton's impeachment trial split along partisan lines in Britain, and the denouement in the Senate was no different. A headline in the Daily Mirror lambasted the "Randy Sinner's Cheap Lies" and an accompanying column concluded that "Bill Clinton emerges from this sorry saga with zero credibility."
Other British newspapers suggested that Clinton's reputation suffered such serious damage that it could hamper his ability to conduct foreign policy in his last two years in office.
In Germany, newspaper editorials savored the irony that the biggest losers in the Lewinsky scandal might turn out to be Clinton's most zealous political enemies.
The conservative daily Die Welt observed that the Republicans inflicted a humiliating moral defeat on themselves by persisting in pushing the impeachment process despite an overwhelming desire by the American public to drop the case..
"The highest price will be paid in any case by the Republicans," said the lead editorial in Die Tagespiegel, Berlin's most prominent newspaper. "Those who broke ranks will be deemed traitors to the party, and those who voted guilty will be seen as traitors to the American people."
In Poland, the political columnist Jan Skorzynski wrote that Clinton would be tarred by the infamous scandal that led to his impeachment, regardless of what he accomplished during his presidency. But his foes did not fare well, either. "It looks like everybody lost: politicians, prosecutor [Kenneth Starr] and the mass media," he said.
In Russia, reporters drew comparisons with ailing President Boris Yeltsin's possible impeachment process, which was inspired by his critics in the Communist-dominated lower house of parliament, the State Duma.
The newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta ran the headline, "In America, this result could be forecast. Not in Russia." While Yeltsin will probably avoid being impeached because his ouster would require a 75 percent majority in parliament's upper house, it might soon be heatedly debated.
Correspondents Karl Vick in Asmara, Eritrea, T.R. Reid in London, Peter Finn in Warsaw and David Hoffman in Moscow contributed to this report.
© Copyright 1999 The Washington Post Company


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In a move that won't surprise none, Warner Brothers announced today that Batman Arkham Origins will be getting a season pass. For $20, it'll net you five upcoming DLC for the game. The pack will get you two exclusive skins: Gotham by Gaslight Batman and Brightest Day Batman. Along with two five-pack of skins entitled: New Millennium and Infinite Earth. The final portions of the Season Pack will give you the ability to play as Bruce Wayne in a batch of challenge matches and an all new story mode, with the actual plot of which not revealed YET.
Here's the ad for the Season Pass:
If that wasn't enough to wet your Batman: Arkham Origins appetite here's the PS3 trailer for the Adam West and Knightfall skin avaiable only for the PS3:
Batman: Arkham Origins hits consoles on October 25.