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Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People - Benjamin Disraeli
A combination of a Liberal Democrat and a Social Democrat, Dudley was a believer in democratic practices, respect for human rights, freedom of expression, and the independence of the Judiciary— an upsurge in Domestic agriculture for the revival of the economy was one of his favourite ideas. Developing Agricultural Colonisation Schemes started by his father D.S. Senanayake was another task he undertook with much enthusiasm.
A political career spanning over five decades, and gaining experience, as a member of the State Council in 1936, he became the Minister of Agriculture. He succeeded his illustrious father in early 1950s as Prime Minister and subsequently as Leader of the Opposition, but it was a difficult and unpleasant political career. He loved his people and the country and the people loved him too. Regrettably, he had a struggle working with some powerful UNP leaders. At one stage some people whom he helped come up to positions filed legal action against the great man.
Father D S Senanayake was a man of restricted book education but of incredible sophisticated wisdom. His eldest son an illustrious product of S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia and blessed with an adorable personality, young Dudley Shelton, "Shelley" to close acquaints, showed little attention to marriage. The Senanayakes of Botale Walawwa in Sapitigama Korale were well enriched in politics by the second decade of 20th Century with Senanayake brothers FR and DS spearheading the Independence and temperance movements. The dealings in connection with the disturbances of 1915, during which time, under the orders of Governor Chalmers, 30- year-old D S Senanayake was unfairly and unjustly arrested along with his two brothers FR and DC and a host of leaders of temperance movement on a trumped up charge of involvement in riots. At Welikada jail they were served food in dirty tin plates that was pushed under the door.
Dudley's grandfather Don Spater belonged to the Ceylonese bourgeoisie of mercantile renters who later invested profits in graphite mining and plantations. They spend lavishly, at the turn of the century, in campaigning for anti-arrack movement. The three brothers FR, DS, and DC became dedicated members of Temperance movement initiated by their father along with contemporary National leaders at the very young age of twenties and earned the wrath of Colonial rulers as well as local Suddha clans of Seethawaka. Around this time father of SWRD Bandaranaike, Maha Mudaliyar Sir Soloman Dias, was the aide-de-camp for Governor Chalmers. They 'wined and dined' the Britishers at Horagolla during the riots. SWRD's maternal uncle S C Obeysekara who was a Legislative Councillor in 1915, speaking at the debate on Riots, Obeysekara made a contemptuous comment when he referred to Senanayakes, he said,
"…the poor farmers and villages have been deluded into this trap for personal aggrandisement of a few who are 'nobodies', but hope to make 'somebodies' of themselves by such disgraceful tactics"- Hansard—11, August 1915 Fo.442
Dudley, the young Barrister returning from London took oaths as an advocate of Supreme Court before commencing practice in the chambers of legal luminary H V Perera KC, who like Dudley gained a First Class for his degree at the London University and subsequently passed out as a Barrister. Dudley took a keen interest in his professional work as a lawyer but neglected the collection of fees from clients and invariably got reprimanded by his guru. Increasing pressure was brought to bear on him by the Sapitigama Korale people for Dudley to take up politics following father's footsteps. He preferred an easy life, ignored such overtures by a host of relatives and friends as well. Dudley's early legal carrier was marred by a chronic stomach ailment. However, later the father used his skills in the art of persuasion was successful in putting the message across to the son. Dudley contested the Dedigama, adjoining his father's Minuwangoda in 1936, under the Donoughmore Constitution at a time when Party politics were unknown. Dudley was only 24-years-old at the time he was elected with a majority of 8,299 votes [almost double the number of votes scored by his closest rival]. The result---
Dudley Senanayake 17,045
N.H. Keertiratne 8,746
Father reprimands son
While father supported the Second World War effort in 1940, Dudley and his friend JR was indifferent; they thought that by extending our support to enemy we could obtain independence immediately. Both of them visited the Japanese Consul in Colombo and expressed their support to Japan. DS, The Head of State was furious over the high-handed act of the two young Ministers, and to their shock and surprise, they were thoroughly chastised by him. Further if not for the father's influence and excellent relations with the Governor Calcott the British government would have arrested the young man. Apart from this incident the father never interfered in son's political activities.
Coronation of Queen
British government invited Dudley Senanayake to represent then Ceylon to participate at the Coronation of Queen as its head of state. The organisers ran short of a horse-carriage for one of the Heads of State and wanted our young Prime Minister from their 'LIPTON's Tea Estate' to share the carriage with a female diplomat of a newly emerged African British Colony. Dudley vehemently opposed the idea; he not only declined the offer, but threatened to take the next flight home. The London Home office authorities replied, "It is an insult to her Majesty if you do that" for our leader to retort, "Officer, your suggestion is an insult to my great nation." With an 'Our deepest regret' note British authorities apologized before arranging a special carriage for the great man—the present generation of politicians need to study how Senanayakes ran this country.
JR – Dudley clash
Dudley stepped aside and allowed JR to accept the Leader of Opposition post after the 1970 defeat and leadership of UNP group in the House was entrusted to JR. The party rank and file however were pressurizing Dudley to return to active politics.
"...... this larger struggle for reform of the Party was affected by, and in turn affected the deteriorating relationship between JR and Dudley Senanayake. After a wait of nearly 20 years JR was becoming impatient for the leadership. In the last quarter of 1970, the division between JR and the party leader indented because of sharp difference on tactics and strategy on opposition to the government."—Profs. K M de Silva and Howard Higgins --JRJ Biography: pp- 225 -240.
The Biography further says how Dudley won the majority in the party's Working Committee as JR continued his theory, "Constructive Accommodation" with Sirimavo Bandaranaike's UF government. JR deliberately avoided public rallies held island-wide. JR even felt that if Sirimavo invited the UNP to join the government, that the party should do so and accept portfolios.
As the book narrates; "As for the UNP, Dudley Senanayake moved swiftly to cut JR down to size" and how M.D. Banda senior member moved a resolution to have JR expelled. JR Jayewardene took Dudley to courts though he had only A.C.S. Hameed on his side in the Working Committee: the other ally, V. A. Sugathadasa, was sick at the time. Failing in all his manoeuverings, plotting and scheming to disrupt the party progressing under the leadership of Dudley, finally, JR filed action in District Courts of Colombo challenging the authority of his leader—the petition was supported by H W Jayewardene QC [JR's brother] and four other QCs.
After the intervention by moderate leaders like Paris Perera the case was withdrawn and the differences patched up.


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Born of God - Born Again - Born of the Spirit
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This series is foundational to a clear understanding of the Bible and what God is doing today. It shows the stark contrasts between God's program with Israel and God's program for the Body of Christ. Without this understanding there is much confusion and personal frustration. Some of the areas of contrast covered are: two gospels, giving, blessings, apostles, commissions, prayer, the resurrection, which scriptures are for whom, the role of angels, etc. In addition, there is detail around The Mystery program we are in today.
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The Perpetual Hatred of Israel
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How will it all End?
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What Is Going On In The World Today
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Educating Angels in the Manifold Wisdom of God
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What is the role which angels have in this present church age? Are they ministering to and watching over Christians today? Most believers today would be surprised to learn that rather than angels ministering to us, there has been a role reversal, as we are actually ministering to them, and teaching them things which can only be demonstrated to them by way of a properly functioning body of believers who understand what God is actually doing in this dispensation of grace.
Christmas should also be celebrated by the Jewish people
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Unfortunately, Christmas is viewed as a Christian Holiday and Hanukah appears to be the Jewish Holiday celebrated approximately during the same time. The reality from scripture is that Christmas should be celebrated by The Jewish people as well. Find out why in this message.
Who Knew The Mystery
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In Christianity today, there is tremendous confusion and mis-understanding about the distinctive nature and importance of "the mystery" referred to repeatedly by the apostle Paul in his epistles. Very often, a mis-understanding of "the mystery" will be associated with the disastrous error of presuming that there is only one gospel message in the Bible. This study is an attempt to shed some light on much of that confusion and error.
Dispensational Overview of the Bible
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The order in which the books of the Bible are arranged present a progressive timeline of what of God has done in the past with the nation of Israel, what God is currently doing through the church, the body of Christ today, and what God will be doing again in the future, with and through the nation Israel, when Israel's prophetic kingdom program resumes again.
Prayer in Israel's Program
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One of the great errors within many denominational churches today, is the presumption that the so-called "Lord's Prayer" of Matthew 6:9-13 is a pattern of prayer for Christians today. In this study, it will be demonstrated how that the prayer of Matthew 6 has no place in the prayer life of Christians today. What would more appropriately be called "The Disciple's Prayer", it illustrates the appropriate petitions which His disciples should have been praying in light of the situation that the nation Israel was in at the time, and that which it was destined to experience, as Israel's kingdom program unfolded.
Prayer for the Body of Christ
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3 Phases of Salvation, Sanctification & The Christian Life
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The Great Commission for the church, the Body of Christ
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As ambassadors for Christ, it is incumbent upon every believer to know what the different gospel messages in the Bible are all about, and to understand exactly what the gospel of the grace of God is, and what it is not, and how the Satanic policy of evil has corrupted and perverted that very gospel, in it's attempt to subvert the eternal destiny of anyone who desires to be saved.
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The 7 mystery kingdom parables given by Jesus in Matthew 13
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Leviticus 26, Israel's 5 courses of Punishment
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The Value Proposition
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Foreknown, Predestinated, Chosen and Elect
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There is a lot of confusion, differing opinions and wrong doctrine surrounding the topic of predestination. This series provides a biblical and practical exposition of the topic
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Peter Philippi - April 24, 2011
That old time religion
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Perilous Times
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In year 2008, comedian and TV host Bill Maher produced a DVD documentary
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Another Jesus - Another Spirit - Another Gospel
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Israel's Prophesied Kingdom
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This 3-part series demonstrates the literal, physical nature of Israel's prophesied kingdom as opposed to the abstract notion that this kingdom is actually present today. The "kingdom", which is repeatedly referred to in the gospel accounts during Christ's earthly ministry, is often incorrectly presumed to be present in the hearts of believers living today - usually based on an incorrect interpretation of verses such as Luke 17:20-21 and John 18:36.


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By Chan Li Lin Sin Chew Daily
The mother and daughter do not have a huge network of friends and they are not prominent figures. People know them because they are frequent visitors to the Ghost Festival celebration in South Puchong. In the latest celebration, it marked the seventh year they become volunteers at the festival.
At the venue of celebration, she is known as "aunty Shanti". Her distinctive complexion also enables her to easily stand out in the crowd. By looking at the way she skillfully folds the incense papers, handles offerings meant for the spirits, as well as participates in religious rites with joss sticks in hands, it is hard to imagine that she is neither a follower of Taoism nor Buddhism. A Hinduism believer, she does not speak a word in Mandarin but many people feel that she is more sincere a devotee when it comes to the Ghost Festival, which is largely celebrated by the Chinese community.
"I'm a Hinduism follower and there is no such celebration in my religion. I consider the Ghost Festival as a blessing ceremony while the Guardian God of Ghosts is also a God of Protection. Blessing my sons who work abroad with good health and safety, He also protects my family so that we can enjoy a smooth sailing life journey," she said.
Influence on children
Shanti began to serve as a volunteer ever since the first edition of the Ghost Festival was held in South Puchong. It all started by chance when her neighbour Guan Zi-ting, also the chairman of the ceremony, invited her to lend a helping hand leading up to the event. In the beginning, the mother of three had only one thought. Besides wishing that her children would be blessed with good health at all time, she also hoped that her sons who worked overseas could always come back safely.
Almost backed down in first visit to Ghost Festival
As marine engineers, both of her sons spend most of their time working on sea. When words reached Shanti that providing prayers and offerings to the spirits of the deceased could protect her family, she did not even hesitate to participate in the ceremony. It also didn't cross her mind that the Ghost Festival would subsequently turn into an annual event for her. Moreover, her children also extend their help to make the festival a success because of her influence.
"I still remember I almost backed down when I first joined the event, especially after looking at the paper-made statue of the Chinese deity "Da Shi Ye", or Guardian God of Ghosts. Initially, I was frightened by His fearsome appearance but became used to it later," she said.
During the period when the Ghost festival is celebrated, Shanti arrives at the worshipping premise at 10am in the morning and will only take a shower at home at 7pm. After that, she returns again to offer her helping hand until midnight. Just like other volunteers, she is kept busy folding the incense papers. Holding joss sticks and on her knee, she often joins the prayers when rites are being held. Besides volunteering at the place of worship, she also brings incense papers home so that she can fold them at home. Folding 15 huge bags of incense papers during a single festive period remains her highest record.
Greeted with curiosity
Shanti admitted that it often serves up a surprise for strangers who come to know about her activity. She can still vividly remember that at one occasion, she wanted to utilize her waiting time by folding incense papers after sending her car for a maintenance service. Being concerned that the people around her might not be happy with her paper folding activity, she requested for permission before actually doing it.
"The worker took a glimpse of me and asked whether the paper offerings were meant for the dead. He thought I didn't know! Within three hours, I managed to complete folding one large bag of incense papers. Many Chinese were curious and some didn't even dare to sit beside me. I think they had over-reacted. For me, it is just a religious approach. Even though some may not understand it, they should treat it with respect," she said.
"Despite being a Hinduism follower, I visit church, Chinese temples, Buddhist centres and other places of worship. In my eyes, there is only one God in this world and the people are only embracing different religions. We must not take to heart the differences in beliefs but instead, we should accept the differences," she added.
"Distribution" ceremony is highly anticipated
A "distribution ceremony" taking place on the last day of the Ghost Festival sees the organizer distribute pouches to participants. The bags are being filled with rice and coins, which signify ample food and essential items. The ceremony is also the most eagerly anticipated event for Shanti during the festival.
"I've specially prepared a small rice bucket to keep the rice I receive every year. I think of the rice as a gift and ever since I bring the rice home, my family has always had enough to eat. Also, my children are healthy and things are going well in their jobs. Pretty soon, they will get the chance for a promotion," she said.Santi is not superstitious in regard to the traditional Ghost Festival. However, she deeply believes that if we are offering prayers from the bottom of our heart, our prayers will come true.
Win from "lucky numbers" a gift
"In fact, the festive event has resulted in many "magical" moments. For instance, I suffer from back pain because of prolonged sitting during the incense paper folding process. What I find "magical" is that every time when the festival comes to an end, the symptom will disappear in the following day. This is really inexplicable," she said.
"Moreover, buying lottery on a regular basis is not a habit of mine but since I became a volunteer, I always place my bet on the "lucky numbers" awarded by the masters during the Ghost Festival. As a result, I manage to reap a harvest every year. Though I only win RM30 at times, the amount is not important to me as I see it only as a gift," she added.
Distributing prayer items to neighbours, relatives
Every year, Santi distributes the prayer items to her neighbours and relatives in the hope to bring them luck and blessing. She even gave some of the prayer items to the reporter who interviewed her, stressing that she only wished for happiness and bliss for every person she knows by participating in the festival which is totally unrelated to her religion.
Sharmala, 20 years old, undergraduate: treated well by others
When I was a 13 year-old, I followed my mom and joined the Ghost Festival activities. My first thought was the people had gone crazy and my mom was one of them! The people were burning incense sticks and a statue of the Guardian God of Ghosts was being put on display. I felt uncomfortable, thinking that I didn't belong there. Therefore, in the first two years, I was only there to accompany and support my mom.
After getting to know each other, the people no longer overlook my presence as an Indian girl. They will also give explanations on things that I'm curious about. Everyone is treating me as one of them and our relationships just get better and better. When we are folding incense papers, we can hear gossip in our community and I find it hilarious.
Some people think that burning incense papers and joss sticks during the Ghost Festival will bring about harmful effect to the environment. I'm a supporter of environmental protection but after thinking of it as an old tradition, I do not oppose to the activity as it is only carried out once in a year.
Guan Zi-ting, chairman of the South Puchong Ghost Festival: Embody the spirit of religion regardless of race
It is comforting to know that this Chinese cultural and religious activity has received support from non-Chinese.
Having leapt past the cultural and religious barriers, Shanti and her family are truly embodying the spirit of religion regardless of race.
The Ghost Festival celebration needs a lot of manpower and sponsorships. For instance, the help of women is needed in helping with the incense paper folding. Over the years, Shanti has made it an obligation to serve as a volunteer here.
During the festive event, four to five masters will lead a reciting ceremony everyday. Each time, Shanti joins the rites on behalf of the event's committee. Her children are also helping out due to her influence on them.


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try absolut vodka
have fun making your tinctures
and boulder is an awesome place to live 🙂
Brigitte's books are great too.
I buy the Rain Brand of organic Vodka…It is a beautiful glass bottle, a fair market value. I use this vodka to sterilize the glass container I use to make my kombucha, and all bottles I use to store the kombucha in when I pour it out of the container.
Welcome!! How long are you in Boulder? I am a teacher of Raw Foods (just moved to Boulder a year ago). I am making all organic, all raw chocolates (cacao) mint-cream (not dairy)-filled patties. I am just starting to market them and already getting orders for 30-60 from all over the country (and I'm not even in a store yet)…..e-mail me and I'll give you a sample/taste! ….I became Raw in 1968….and have taught meditation, yoga and ayurveda for 35+ years.
Hi Kevin and Annmarie,
Glad you are enjoying Boulder, knew you would…hope you found a place to park…not surprised you would consider Boulder a potential long-term destination. Loved my days there…Brigitte has been an incredible resource for so many there for years. I second the Absolut.
Michael & Tracy
A friend wants to know what if you only have a few grams of an herb, how much vodka and how long should it cure?
when you go into the liquor store anything on the top shelf is going to be the highest quality. that's where the term "top shelf" comes from. please don't judge me (lol)
here's a link to some organic/green vodkas – http://planetgreen.discovery.com/buying-guides/buy-green-vodka.html
haven't tried them myself, but seems that if you're going to make tinctures, you'd want to focus on the integrity of the vodka production!
I believe Rain and Square One are two organic brands of vodka
Hello Kevin and AnneMarie,
Wow, I just missed you in Boulder. I was there just a week ahead of you.
We found this amazing oxygen bar there that also sold raw food.
I love making tinctures – my favorite is California Poppy since poppies grow wild on our property.
Colorado is where we plan to end up too. We lived there for over 15 years and can't wait to return for good.
Green Blessings,
I'm blessed to know Brigitte probably 30+ yrs. and she's part of our growing raw community. I loved seeing today's video of her demo. I learned something for sure.
Boulder, CO is not in a "rain tunnel" but you came Kevin so this was a test to see if you really love it here or not. I'm glad you still have the interest to move here. I schedule the rawlucks at least 2x month for years now. Brigitte is active when in town too. Everyone loves her!
Grey Goose is a top shelf vodka, but it's fairly expensive. Rain is also a good vodka, it's organic and is a little less pricey compared to Grey Goose. Think they are my two picks.
There are two basic vodka sources, vodka fermented from potato mash and vodka fermented from grain mash .. I like grain sourced vodka much better simply because it seems to be more pure in essence and flavor, potato vodka just doesn't seem as pure to me as grain fermented vodka…
Also another really good thing to do with vodka is make Pure VANILLA EXTRACT… just take a pure vanilla bean, slice it down the middle to open it up and throw it into a bottle of vodka, let it sit for about 6 months and you have pure vanilla extract you can use to flavor any of your raw food baking and cooking.
Brigitte was delightful – – brown bag in the back seat of the car – you have to love the simplicity of it all :-). Can't help with the vodka brand 🙂 – but if you ever need whiskey advice – I can help you out ;-)(oh – and as Brian said – please don't judge me either…lol)…hugs, Dede
As for types or brands of vodka, I am not sure if the United States imports this russian brand, but in Canada where I live we can it.. its called Stolichnaya Vodka from Russia, its about the purest vodka I have ever found thus far.
I haven't been to CO, but it has been a place in the back of my mind for 15 years so at least need to visit soon myself.
I have no advice on the vodka, in fact I would be more interested in what brandy/whisky is usable because I have NEVER been good with vodka(1-2 shots and I'm ill). I would love to know how to use other alchohol in tincture instead.
Thanks for this one, Kevin. I really enjoyed Brigitte and the simple, empowering methods she offered. Super show!
Hi Kevin Loved the video but I have no idea what tinctures are actually used for. I'm guessing it's for herbal tea.
42 Below Vodka_from New Zealand
:uses GM free wheat from the purest fields in the world and water from a volcanic spring that achieves the highest purity rating possible – AA. 42 Below is distilled near a world benchmark for air purity, 42 degrees below the equator. Made from 100% GM free wheat, the spirit is distilled three times (each pass uses 35 separate filters) then 'washed' in spring water to thin the spirit to a point where any last remaining impurities can be deleted. After which it is distilled a final time to create a totally clean spirit. It is then bottled at a full-flavoured 42%. It is then distilled a fifth time to create totally pure spirit. This 'high saturation' distilling in New Zealand spring water is unique to 42 BELOW. The spirit then passes through 35 filters to create a very smooth vodka with a distinctive flavour from the infusion
Hello everybody! The best vodka is considered to be ABSOLUT. SMIRRNOFF is another good choice.
Personally I would never use whisky or brandy in my tinctures.
Best regards from Moscow.
Here in Croatia people use brandy as a base for tincture. They bake it on their own. My mother in law bakes her brandy.
She has done it from pears and plums, but you can make it from grapes too.
Try to find out who is making his/her homemade brandy and use it for base.
Good hunting!
My personal choice for vodka taste is Svedka. Unfortunately, it's in plastic bottles, so not suitable for tinctures. Realistically though, taste, smoothness, etc. is irrelevant when it comes to tinctures. You want something cheap in a glass bottle, IMHO. "Top shelf" would not be my first choice for a tincture.
Of course, a close cousin of the tincture is schnapps. Basically a tincture with sugar (or honey) in it, made more for drinking than for medicinal purposes. In this case, flavor/smoothness counts. Not made to be medicinal but then, how bad for you could a schnapps (tincture) made from rose hips or goji berries really be? 😉
To attest to the power of home made tinctures, when I was young I had a chronic throat infection. It would flare up once or twice a year and eventually antibiotics did nothing. 2 weeks on a juniper berry tincture (mixed with another tincture, I can't remember what the companion was) and the infection was gone, never to return. That was over 25 years ago!
Question for Brigitte:
Can you put few different herbs in the same jar to make a tincture combination?
Can you only use fresh herbs or can you also use just dried herbs?
I have made a wonderful tincture for aches and pains. I take lavender flowers, stuff a glass full of the flowers, cover with vodka (my husband got kinda mad at me because I used our really expensive vodka for this), put it in the sun for 3 full day – like making sun tea. Strain, store in glass jar and use on sore muscles, or other aches and pains. Easy and it works. For 10 great uses of vodka plus this tincture recipe go to my website under Healing Recipes: http://www.robin-grant.com
What is the purpose of tinctures? Which herbs do what? Can you do some more on this topic?
I just finished your book and really enjoyed it. It is full of so many helpful tips. I'm not raw now, but my goal is to be 80-90% raw. I'll be able to apply what I learned in your book to my raw adventure. You keep talking about having a medical advisor/doctor, but I don't have a clue about how to find a good one. I live in Los Angeles.
I've been taking Dr. Bob Marshall's Quantum Nutrition / Premier Research Labs tinctures that I buy from Gabriel Cousens' Tree of Life and from someone local who received her Masters & certification & is authorized to sell them. They use an organic pure grain alcohol – but would be curious what kind.
I think Absolut Vodka is a good choice for making tinctures. I have been using it for several years now for making my tinctures. I think it's a great quality grain vodka with an ideal an alcohol/water ratio – 40/60.
most of the vodkas on the market are made from grain, some people are sensitive to that but in general, no worries. Luksusowa under $15/750ml triple distilled. Tito's Handmade Vodka from Texas is made from corn, very neutral spirit, one of the best I've ever tasted (I used to work in the spirits biz, had to taste a lot of stuff), under $20/750ml. I would imagine you could go with a pint and make a smaller batch for experimenting. good show!
In Canada we have Silent Sam Vodka, it is very smooth and odorless I'm sure it would work well. Love your clips!!! I haven't missed any since I started watching 3 months ago, since I went raw and loving it. You guys are a great source of inspiration and information. Thank You!
I've done a lot of reading, researching and purchasing of tinctures, mainly for use in my bath and body products – they are amazing! Most of the well-known herbalists recommend 190 proof (translate Everclear) if you can buy it where you live – not legal everywhere. I'd prefer organic grape, but can't find it for a reasonable price – still searching. Tinctures are amazing for many different reasons, but mainly because you can concentrate and extract all those wonderful chemical constituents in whatever herb or for whatever reason you wish. I am a certified aromatherapist, registered nurse, and manufacturer of bath & body products – I use a combo of herbs (tinctures & extracts) and aromatherapy to make awesome products. Point is – you can too!!
Hi Brigitte,
I don't think you will remember me but we met at your home and were in susans book together. I have a question, what are the laws about putting tintures in a shop, will be my sons.
Thank You
Pat Dice


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Friday, May 21, 2010
The Oil Debacle = Return of the Repressed
My days of professional journalism about oil are long over. I haven't really followed industry trends since FTW folded in 2006. But I'm still thinking about it, and POETRY-POLITICS-COLLAPSE is where I do my thinking on current affairs, with my 46 subscribers and my Don Quixote helmet.
The oil gusher disaster is the return of the repressed. It is the outbreak of the deep past, raging into the present like the suppurating narcissistic wounds of childhood busting upward from the unconscious in the form of somaticized neurotic symptoms--a facial palsy, a tic, a paralysis, an addiction, or a tremor, or poor dear Fairbairn's inability to urinate--and plenty of mental symptoms into the bargain. The somatic symptoms are like the wrecking of the biosphere; the mental symptoms are like the mounting ecological anxiety of the culture, together with its two major defenses--denial and hysteria.
The oil is the deep past; it's the intolerable & heartbreaking message of extinction, not only because the popular mind associates the origins of oil with the dinosaurs, but because in reality petroleum is the product of two enormous algae-blooms from 150 m.y.a. and 90 m.y.a. (long before the meteorite that vaporized the last Tyrannosaurus Rex).
The algae was alive an unthinkably long time ago, a length of time which utterly dwarfs not only the timescale of a human life (102 years), but even the timescale scale of the entire human species' tenure on Earth (~2 x 106 years). The older of the two algae-blooms was 1.5 x 108 years ago. It has been totally transformed into hydrocarbons, whose amazing level of energy storage evokes the vast size of the ancient blooms, the vast energy of the incident sunlight they captured, and the vast aeons it took to "ferment" their myriad microscopic corpses into petroleum.
We call it "rock oil," as though it were as inorganic as stone; in reality, it is liquid death, the "excrement of the devil," which ruins every country in which it's discovered. How? By bringing a cloud of corporate vultures who will kill anybody whose priorities differ from those of capital. Oil brings in The Man, to do what Shell did to the Ogoni in Nigeria. With its easy wealth, it also erases the folkways of traditional expertise; by the time the exportable oil runs out, nobody is left who's old enough to remember how to grow food without it. Pretty soon, there's not even adequate supply for domestic consumption, and things get sticky, as they've begun to do in Britain since the North Sea petro-bonanza ended, sinking Maggie Thatcher's star below the horizon.
Now we're confronted daily with the bizarre spectacle of apparent abundance--a gusher like Spindletop, right out of 1901--but this time even CNN realizes we are only out there drilling deepwater because all the conventional giant fields are in decline, from Ghawar to Cantarell, depleting at about 14% per year. It's a weird tableau of abundance and scarcity.
The oil is precious; human beings busted their asses and risked their blood and treasure to get at it; it is all going to waste; it is toxic and flammable, intensely concentrated liquid power; it is time and sunshine made tangible; it's the materialization of Sun light, that life-giving, life-taking mindless force of the blazing thermonuclear furnace to which we owe our existence; it ruins everything it touches; it is invading the ecosystems of the Gulf and an ever-greater portion of the coastal United States.
BP is behaving like a typical corporation--utterly amoral, hubristic, venal--lying through its teeth, hoarding information, treating the rest of the human community with utter contempt. That's not news; they always do that. The news is that this time, a non-trivial minority of Americans actually know something about Peak Oil; they know about the appalling fragility of the biosphere, and that when it crashes, we all perish; they know the whole industrial food empire runs on cheap & abundant fossil fuels which are rapidly becoming gone things. They even know that before the "spill," the ocean was afflicted with gigantic dead zones and islands of floating trash the size of various New England states.
The Bush crime family, whose lifeblood is gasoline and heroin, recently sent its cat-torturing scion to the White House, where in 2006 he told their battered Stepford bride she had to quit her habit: "America is addicted to oil." Well, it's late in the game for that, since Ford-Firestone and Standard Oil gutted our public transportation systems a hundred years ago and then Ike replaced them with the interstate highway system. Then Cargill, ADM, and Monsanto drove the farmers off the land and into the industrial cities, so we all forgot how to feed ourselves without off-the-shelf Twinkies at our disposal. Then manufacturing went to China, since the American ruling class decided around 1980 that compared to F.I.R.E. (finance, insurance, and real estate), making material things of intrinsic value was a sucker's game. Throw in narco-traffic, war profiteering, and money-laundering, and the picture of the U.S. economy is much closer to completion.
Everybody's in debt, there are no new jobs, and the old jobs all suck--working for the Wal-Mart "folks" who own the country, as their big-box armada homogenizes the entire landscape of the lower 48, eating small businesses and excreting their digested remains in the form of billboards, strip malls, and chain after chain, franchise after franchise, plastered with the smiley emoticons of fake happiness and atomized emotional hypothermia. Brrrr, that Slurpee's cold! So is bowling alone...
But whether we produce or consume, it all runs on cheap oil. At this point the price has plunged toward $50/barrel, apparently because the weak euro is making everything cheaper in dollar terms. That won't last, especially with the shitification of the deepwater oil industry.
Meanwhile, Republican Louisiana Governor Robert Jindal (hands off the "Bobby" nickname; it belongs to RFK, not you) sees fit to wait for permits before building sandbag installations, perhaps because he thinks this emphasis on red tape is helpful to his absurd life's work of being an anti-government governor. The irony there, of course, is that a bit more of the dreaded "big government" regulatory enforcement might have prevented the disaster that's currently crippling his state.
The gusher at the bottom of the ocean is a wound. It is too deep under water to repair. The pressurized oil comes from an even deeper place, below the surface of the ocean floor (in that regard, it's a bit like the balrog that slept underneath the mines of Moria; holla back, my nerd homies); depth under depth. It represents all the bitter self-knowledge we cannot yet tolerate, but which is blasting up out of the unconscious and into the blogs, the press, the conversations (remember those?) at a rate of 95 thousand barrels per day.
That inexorable black plume is the unfinished business of America's drunken dream. It means we are coming to the point where our systems of food, transportation, and economic exchange are going to start failing. Only then will a majority of people be forced to break the law and squat in properties they don't own, hoping for the best until the werewolves of the law come knocking; growing their own food and raising their own animals in the hope that the zoning laws won't kick them into the street; walking and biking after the cars just die in the driveway and stay there. Digging up the pavement to plant corn, and hoping it isn't loaded with cadmium and lead. And so on. Meanwhile there's this other little problem of the hottest year on record, with all the nasty consequences for crop yields.
It's as if the planet is saying, "You want oil? I'll give you oil..."
The good part of this current disaster is the forced march toward integrity, the excruciating uphill slog into truths we can hardly bear to notice, let alone deal with. The dead wildlife won't benefit from our soul-searching, but whatever survives down there will probably have a few years' respite from the trawler-fishing that's devastated coastal shellfish populations to the brink of collapse. With any luck, it'll be like the DMZ in Korea, where animals are free to eat each other alive without interference from man--not because we grew up and learned to respect "nature," but because the Korean War is not yet officially over and the no-man's land of the North-South dividing line happens to be several miles wide. I hear the deer are thriving at Chernobyl.
"There is plenty of hope. But not for us." --Kafka
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
photosynthesis, electrons, consciousness
Though this fascinating news story, Untangling the quantum entanglement behind photosynthesis is about quantum mechanical effects in the optimizing of light absorption by chlorophyl molecules in photosynthetic bacteria, it should thrill the people who study consciousness via cognitive neuroscience--especially those like Roger Penrose, who say the computational model doesn't amount to an explanation of consciousness unless the computational brain is understood as a quantum mechanical system. But the conventional wisdom (which has only recently come into serious question) holds that quantum mechanical effects like entanglement only become observable in exotic laboratory conditions, and probably don't occur at all in the relatively "hot and noisy" environment of the brain. The parrying argument from Pensrose and others was the hypothesis that certain very tiny "microtubules," which had been observed in neurons, might provide enough shelter from the brain's internal "heat and noise" for such effects as quantum entanglement to arise in the brain. The next step is to wonder if those otherwise rather mysterious microtubule structures exist for that purpose--to create entanglement-friendly conditions the brain can exploit for their awesome computational power, just as any other "quantum computer" does. Critics remained skeptical. So along comes this news story about the quantum entanglement of electron pairs playing an observable role in photosynthesis. It makes no mention of neurons but I bet the microtubules people will be all over this thing like qualia on rice.
I hope this remarkable new work on photosynthetic bacteria leads to even more funding for research on quantum effects in the human brain, which might somehow "solve" the Hard Problem of consciousness. I don't pretend to understand it. Every aspect of our experience gets encoded into coordinated electrochemical flows of firing and non-firing trillions of networked neurons, and somehow consciousness is the result. Neurons and glia, configured in myriad stacked webs, such that it all somehow gives rise to--experience!
Then I think of qualia like the color blue, the flavor of stawberries, the timbre of a bell, and I can't imagine how they arise from computation. It's much easier to imagine the gist of how the sense organs of sight, olfaction, and hearing are able to take in data from the environment and encode it into electrochemical information for the brain's neural network to "process" somehow; it's much harder to imagine any "process" by which those electrochemically encoded data could eventuate in what I experience as those phenomena, when I impale this strawberry with a blue handled fork and take a bite as a distant bell tower rings the time.
I think I get the layman's gist of the neurology of a sea slug or a bacterium exhibiting a tropism and locomoting away from hydrochloric acid. What baffles me about consciousness--this emergent property of the brain--is just how it emerges.
Excerpts below from http://www.physorg.com/news192726440.html
The schematic on the left shows the absorption of light by a light harvesting complex and the transport of the resulting excitation energy to the reaction center through the FMO protein. On the right is a monomer of the FMO protein, showing also its orientation relative to the antenna and the reaction center. The numbers label FMO's seven pigment molecules. Image from Mohan Sarovar
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC), Berkeley have recorded the first observation and characterization of a critical physical phenomenon behind photosynthesis known as quantum entanglement.
Previous experiments led by Graham Fleming, a physical chemist holding joint appointments with Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, pointed to quantum mechanical effects as the key to the ability of green plants, through photosynthesis, to almost instantaneously transfer solar energy from molecules in light harvesting complexes to molecules in electrochemical reaction centers.
"This is the first study to show that entanglement, perhaps the most distinctive property of quantum mechanical systems, is present across an entire light harvesting complex," says Mohan Sarovar, a post-doctoral researcher under UC Berkeley chemistry professor Birgitta Whaley at the Berkeley Center for Quantum Information and Computation. "...this is the first instance in which entanglement has been examined and quantified in a real biological system." PHYSorg.com 10 May 2010.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
REVOLUTION IN MIND: The Creation of Psychoanalysis, by George Makari. Or, DECENT BOOK, EDITORIAL DISASTER.
This is a competent narrative of the origins of psychoanalysis. My judgment of it is clouded by two personal factors: my resentful envy of the prestigiously prestigious prestige with which the book is saturated (the author's "numerous awards," Harper Collins Press, Cornell U., Columbia U., etc.), and my scholarly obsession with issues of English grammar and rhetoric that most people regard as trivial. The two combine in the thought that if a less privileged author were to make this many mistakes of this kind, the book would be trashed in the press or completely ignored. I don't want to ruin anybody's day, but from my perspective the villain here is the "wonderful editor" named explicitly on page 488.
The great William Arrowsmith is the only translator of Nietzsche into English who bothered to render the closing section of the first of the four Untimely Meditations, in which Nietzsche offered a large sampling of the infelicities (often amounting to what we call "howlers") in the writing style of "David Strauss, the Writer and Confessor." Here is a similar bestiary of what Harper Collins allowed out of the house in this book by George Makari.
p.263. Makari makes some good use of the famous remark by Ferenczi, "In times of war, the Muses are silent." He meant that the nascent psychoanalytic community would have to temper the theoretical creativity of its more intellectually independent members until the discipline matured, otherwise such creativity might exacerbate the factionalism that threatened to destroy psychoanalysis as a viable branch of medicine. Fine. But then we get these lines:
"Members who wished to rewrite 'our Science' had to be silenced. This Nuremberg directive had Adler's name on it, but he showed little interest in modifying his views or deferring to these concerns. In the end, he was the Muse that needed to be silenced."
So Adler was a Muse? Adler was nobody's Muse, and even if he was, that's not what Makari is trying to say. He means that Adler was the PERSON who had to be silenced, but he goes for the repetition as if this did not matter. Also, "to be silenced" was absolutely not what Adler "needed." This is a street idiom, where the needs of the aggressor are stated as the victim's needs--as when a thug says "you need to give me your money." No, you need my money; what I need is a cop.
p.264. "Freud had tolerated Stekel, even admired his uncanny critical acumen, but was contemptuous of his theorizing." This is the first we've heard of Stekel's "uncanny critical acumen" or Freud's admiration of it. There's no footnote. Surely such a strong formulation demands at least one example?
p.266. "Freud publicly touted his tolerance of diverse opinion, as exemplified by his barely contained capacity to endure Wilhelm Stekel..." What Freud "barely contained" was his contempt for Stekel, not his capacity to endure Stekel. Was his capacity going to escape?
p.267. "When Freud announced Stekel's departure to the Vienna Society..." We can work out from the context that "to" governs "announced" and not "departure," but good prose does not burden the reader with ear-snagging ambiguities like this one; the author is supposed to resolve them, so that the reader doesn't have to slow down and do it himself. This book has all too many grammatical ambiguities of this sort.
p.268. Along these lines, read the last complete paragraph on page 268 and watch yourself backpedaling to be sure of just who is "he" and who is "the older man."
p.269. "The long paper did not appear to be a rebel's yell, for it opened by paying homage to Sigmund Freud's dream book and took as a given that that hero of classic Greek drama, Oedipus Rex, was living inside us all." The phrase "rebel yell" comes from the American Civil War and is out of place here. If accidental rhyme in prose is to be avoided, "book and took" is not good; neither is "that that." The literature of the Fifth Century BCE is called "Classical," not "classic." The name of the figure in question, like the drama which bears his name, is simply Oedipus, not Oedipus Rex (which is both Latin and extraneous).
p.270. "Like Helly Preiswerk, Frank Miller was an adept, a woman who made the unconscious manifest." I may have missed something in previous pages (I did go back and look again), or I may be the only educated person who hasn't heard of Helly Preiswerk, but who the hell was she?
p.271. Summarizing Jung's interpretation of the fantasies of his patient Frank Miller, Makari writes: "Her psychological struggle with the 'Father Imago'...provoked unconscious religious fantasies that traced the historical movement from the moral decadence of Roman times to the founding of Christianity and Mithraism." The incoherence of this passage is perhaps more Jung's responsibility than Makari's, but a different sort of writer might direct the reader's attention to the problem instead of merely repeating it. Is it Jung or Makari who writes of "the moral decadence of Roman times"? Decadence is a decline; exactly what morally superior past is supposed to have preceded this decline? Are "Roman times" the decadent times? Surely the early Republic with its citizen-farmer-soldiers was not a decadent society, and surely "Roman Times" include "the founding of Christianity and Mithraism," since those gradual events preceded the fall of the Western Roman Empire by several centuries. If "moral decadence" refers to the reign of Nero, there's a chronology problem, since that emperor allegedly illuminated his rooms with the burning bodies of Christians; they were already around during his reign, so its "decadence" cannot have resulted in "the founding of Christianity."
p.273. "Freud then added innocently that his own thought moved forward when he felt 'compelled to by the pressure of facts or by the influence of someone else's ideas.'" His thought moved forward when he felt compelled to--to what? To move forward, in the kitchen?
p.274. "Again, Auguste Comte's curse rose." Specters rise; curses do not.
p.283. "Jones had not mentioned anything about secrecy, but Freud emphasized it: 'this committee had to be strictly secret in his existence and in his actions.'" Again one can't tell whether the error lies with Freud, or Jones, or Makari; obviously we want a third person singular possessive pronoun which was probably his/its in German and has unfortunately been rendered (by whom?) "his" instead of "its" in English. If the error predates Makari, he should have inserted [sic:]; if not, he or his editor should have fixed it.
p.286. "But Jones also expressed reservations." Nope. Jones, too, expressed reservations. You want to add Jones to the list of people with reservations, not add reservations to the list of what Jones had.
p.290. "But some core propositions--especially the defining of the unconscious--were very difficult to prove." The defining was difficult to prove? The defining was a proposition? This is just incoherent.
p.298. "The Viennese philosopher Ernst Mach..." Mach was a physicist, one of the most important figures in the history of that discipline. Makari calls him a philosopher because Makari is only interested in the small part of Mach's work that fits neatly into philosophy (so it can be more easily related to psychology), and apparently has not heard of the rest.
p.298. "Mach argued for description only in science, and he viewed synthetic explanations as unwarranted." The word Makari needed was "speculative," not "synthetic." For a neo-Kantian like Mach, "synthetic" propositions are already part of our a priori knowledge of the world by virtue of our inborn epistemic equipment; we cannot elide them without landing in what James called "a blooming, buzzing confusion." Without synthesis there can be no description, let alone theory.
p.324. "Food was scarce, funds unavailable, and the capacity for communication outside Hungary difficult." Nothing like a difficult capacity, eh?
p.326. "Jones had little interest in laymen, but Karl Abraham and Hanns Sachs took the Brunswick Square applicants and expressed the wish that by bringing these people into the fold..." He took them? Where?
p.328. "The establishment of such guidelines was of TANTAMOUNT IMPORTANCE..." People make this sort of mistake because they have neither read enough books in English to absorb the idioms of the language by rote, nor learned enough about language in general to know that "tant" is a correlative pronoun that means "so much, as much as." Paramount importance, not tantamount.
p.339. "He digested the standard cafe fare: Weininger, Schopenhauer, and Kant..." Not in that order, I hope.
p.344. "Therefore, conflicts...were entirely out of conscious, which meant..." Conscious is an adjective. We speak of "the unconscious," but I've never seen "conscious" used as a noun--certainly not without an article.
p.374. "Like prewar Berlin itself, Abraham gave little hint of originality in his early writings." I can't imagine what that means.
ibid. "In this regard, Abraham shared Ferenczi and Rank's belief that more attention be paid to the analytic situation." Trainwreck.
p.377. "...modes for interaction" This should be "modes OF interaction."
p.393-4. "For the close reader, Sterba had let the Technical Seminar's rabbit out of the bag." That's "cat out of the bag," not "rabbit out of the hat" and certainly not "rabbit out of the bag."
p.401. "Much of these discussions occurred at..." Should be "many," not "much."
p.417. "The victory of the Nazis and the Aryanization of the Berlin Institute was a catastrophe not just for Germany. For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, it also announced a grave, immediate threat to Europe and more immediately, Austria." I am not calling anybody an anti-Semite, but in a book about Freud and the origins of psychoanalysis this passage just stinks. It's like writing a book about the origins of Blues music and saying the slave trade was a disaster not just for the shipbuilders whose galleys were often wrecked on the ocean, but also for the investors in those shipping companies. Not very sensitive.
p.428. "This conclusion encouraged Klein's move from the complexities of inner and outer to just the inner." Writer and editor are sleeping peacefully.
p.437. "...who Anna introduced.." WHOM she introduced.
p.438. "After the rise of the Nazis, many German analysts came to Vienna to participate in the stimulating analytic scene, despite the risk that Hitler's shadow loomed over Austria." I see no way to construe this that does not involve a mistake. "Loom" is not a transitive verb. Also, risk + shadow + loom = redundancy.
p.453. "...continuum between biology, psychology, and sociology." The preposition "between" is used for two elements; AMONG is used for three or more.
p.454. "...moral and ethical self-reflection.." What is the difference? If there is none, or if you haven't the space to specify it, then choose one term and drop the other. As it is, you're blowing smoke.
p.465. "In 1938, 30 percent of the I.P.A. membership lived in America, and that percentage was about to grow exponentially." That's a howler.
What is the smallest exponent? 30 to the zero power is one, so he can't mean that. 30 to the one is 30, which is no growth at all. But then 30 squared is 900. That means that out of every 100 (per-cent, remember?) psychoanalysts, 900 of them live in America. Or if he means 30% times 30%, then the number is getting smaller, not growing.
p.466. "On the first day of September 1939, Adolph Hitler invaded Poland." That's the worst way to put it. The Wehrmacht invaded Poland; millions of enthusiastic racist Nazis from Germany and Austria invaded Poland under orders from Hitler, the mentally ill puppet of military industrialists and financiers like Krupp, Thyssen, and Bayer.
p.471. "A series of ten discussions took place between January 27, 1943, to May 3, 1944." FROM x TO y, or BETWEEN x AND y, but not BETWEEN x TO y.
I haven't cited any of the merely typographical errors which plague this celebrated book. The errors I have cited above are the sort that students make--intelligent students who are simply too young and inexperienced to have read the thousand books you've got to read in order to accumulate so much mental exposure to good writing that you stop making these errors. But this book--which has its merits, and even a few passages of grace and beauty--bears four flatulently adoring blurbs from Harold Bloom, Paul Auster, Jonathan Lear, and Murray Gell-Mann. Heck, let's throw in the very Nobel Prize withal, shall we? Somebody pick up the phone and call Stockholm...
Meanwhile, can I have my $32.50 back?


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Melinda brings her stellar reputation, leadership skills and deep experience to Orrick's San Francisco office. She is a seasoned trial lawyer and a Fellow with the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers. Most recently, in January of this year Melinda and the team successfully represented a tech executive at trial who was charged with criminal theft of trade secrets. Following a two-week jury trial and one hour of deliberations, the client was acquitted on all counts.
After being nominated by President Barack Obama and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate, Melinda served as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California from August 2010 through September 2015, overseeing the U.S. Department of Justice's work in a district that is an epicenter for complex, cutting-edge investigations and prosecutions. She led a team of more than 130 criminal and civil Assistant U.S. Attorneys in handling a high volume of matters that involved export enforcement, computer intrusions and intellectual property theft, international corruption, digital currency issues, securities fraud, and economic crimes, health care fraud, national security, public integrity and civil rights violations, and organized crime, among other things. Melinda served as Co-Chair of the White-Collar Crime Subcommittee of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee and was a member of the Cybersecurity and Health Care Fraud Subcommittees, where she collaborated with U.S. Attorneys nationwide on the development and implementation of national policies and practices regarding the government's approach to economic crimes and cybersecurity.
Melinda is an experienced trial lawyer and is a Fellow with the American College of Trial Lawyers. She has personally handled securities fraud, mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, trade secret theft, bribery, antitrust, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, environmental, civil rights, defense contractor fraud, health care fraud, money laundering, narcotics trafficking, and child exploitation cases. Melinda has served as lead or co-lead counsel in more than 20 jury and bench trials, including a number of complex white-collar and civil rights cases. Among her most notable trial accomplishments, Melinda served as co-lead trial counsel representing the CFO of a publicly-traded pharmaceutical company who was charged with violating the federal criminal securities laws. The client was acquitted and completely vindicated following a lengthy trial. She also successfully defended at trial the former GC of a publicly-traded software company, who had been charged with federal criminal securities law violations. Following a three-week jury trial, all charges against her client were dismissed. And most recently, Melinda and the team represented a tech executive at trial who was charged with criminal theft of trade secrets. Following a two-week jury trial and one hour of deliberations, the client was acquitting on all counts. While serving as an AUSA, Melinda led the federal government's successful investigation and criminal trial against prison guards at Pelican Bay State Prison charged with violating the civil rights of numerous prison inmates in their care.
After earning her law degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 1987, Melinda began her career as a litigation associate and then served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California in Los Angeles. She thereafter worked as a partner in a San Francisco boutique law firm before being tapped by then U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller (who later served as FBI Director and later the Special Counsel investigating Russian interference in U.S. elections) to serve as a supervisor in the San Francisco U.S. Attorney's Office. Melinda stepped down as the Chief of the White-Collar Section in 2003, joining Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe as a litigation partner in San Francisco.
Melinda has conducted and supervised countless complex investigations in connection with her work representing companies, boards of directors and the government. She typically first meets with the client to discuss and understand the facts and allegations, as well as context and culture, and then to agree on a focused, efficient investigative plan. Melinda understands that some investigations require a broad, exhaustive approach, and that some can be more narrowly tailored and conducted in a way that minimizes disruption. These investigations have involved allegations or concerns regarding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, trade secret theft, bribery, antitrust enforcement, health care fraud, public corruption, securities fraud, and mail and wire fraud, among others.
Melinda also has significant experience representing high-level executives in connection with government investigations and cases, as well as in internal investigations. She is currently representing the General Counsel of a national bank; the founder and former CEO of a San Francisco-based tech company; the founder and CEO of a tech company in connection with a wide-ranging international investigation; the former CEO of a health care company; and more. Melinda understands the special challenges her individual clients face, cares deeply about the difficulties they face, and quickly gains their trust.
Melinda is called upon regularly to speak at conferences and law schools, as a keynote speaker, panelist, or moderator, on a wide range of legal and career-related subjects. She is also often asked by media outlets to provide information and commentary regarding issues ranging from the work of the Special Counsel to criminal justice reform.
New York
Tal Hacohen is a partner in the Corporate Group of Orrick's New York office and is a member of the Global Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Group.
Tal represents U.S. and multinational public and private company clients in a variety of transactions and across industries, including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, private placements and restructurings. Tal also advises boards of directors and shareholders in all aspects of New York and Delaware corporate, partnership and limited liability company law, including corporate governance and fiduciary duty matters.
In addition, Tal represents numerous early- and growth-stage technology companies (with a particular focus on Israeli-related companies) in equity and debt financing rounds and general corporate matters.
Tal was recently recognized as a "40 under 40 Emerging Leader" by The M&A Advisor, an "Acritas Star" by Acritas and a "Rising Star" by IFLR for his work in the area of Mergers & Acquisitions.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Sarah Hafeez is an associate in the Washington, D.C., office and is a member of the firm's Litigation practice group.
New York
Bill Haft is a corporate finance lawyer and serves as head of Orrick's global Banking & Finance group. He has a broad practice counseling international financial institutions and corporations in credit and capital markets transactions; bank, structured and asset finance; project finance; securities regulation and commercial law; mergers and acquisitions; joint ventures and restructurings.
Bill regularly counsels clients in connection with cross-border matters, including maritime, energy and infrastructure transactions.
Reflecting feedback from his clients, Bill was recently named to BTI's "Client Service All-Stars," an exclusive recognition for lawyers who demonstrate superior client service. Described by an IFLR1000 client commentator as "extremely responsive" with a "deep spectrum of knowledge," in Banking and Finance, Bill is also consistently recognized as a leading international lawyer by Chambers Global for his "experience working with French and other European clients on capital markets transactions."
Bill has particular experience in the maritime sector having advised on numerous complex international shipping and offshore corporate and capital markets transactions and restructurings on behalf of a cross section of banks, arrangers, investors, owners and operators.
Before joining Orrick, Bill practiced with two other international law firms in New York and Paris.
Los Angeles
Kevin Hale is resident in the Los Angeles office and a member of the firm's Public Finance Department. Kevin has more than 12 years of experience working as bond counsel and disclosure counsel on tax-exempt bond financings including certificates of participation and lease revenue financings, tax increment redevelopment financings, Mello-Roos district financings, assessment district financings, single- and multi-family housing financings, transportation and capital improvement revenue financings, both pooled and stand-alone Marks-Roos financings and general obligation bonds.
Kevin has also served as bond counsel in conduit financings by the California Educational Facilities Authority (CEFA), the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (I-Bank), the California Statewide Communities Development Authority (CSCDA) and several local agency issuers for the benefit of educational and cultural facilities throughout California.
Kevin also has extensive experience working as counsel to underwriters and placement agents and is routinely engaged and consulted on disclosure and structuring issues by national and regional investment banks working with public sector clients.
Prior to joining the firm, he was an associate with Wehner & Perlman where he had significant responsibility in the litigation of actions for fraud and securities fraud under California and federal securities laws, both civil and criminal.
Wheeling, W.V. (GOIC)
Wheeling, W.V. (GOIC)
Melanie is a member of the firm's Supreme Court and Appellate practice.
Before joining Orrick, Melanie served as a law clerk and judicial assistant to the Honorable Thomas M. Hardiman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and as a law clerk to the Honorable Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She was previously an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, and a litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York.
Melanie received her law degree from Vanderbilt Law School, where she was an Articles Editor for the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. She graduated from Vanderbilt University.
Hong Kong
David Halperin, a senior partner in Orrick's Hong Kong office, is a member of the Corporate Group. His practice focuses on corporate and commercial matters, banking and finance projects for investment funds and their managers, and entertainment and media clients.
David has advised a number of venture capital and direct investment clients with respect to their Asian investments.
Before joining Orrick, David served as an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1966-1970, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander (U.S.N.R.) and serving from 1969-1970 as a special assistant to Admiral E.R. Zumwalt, Commander of Naval Forces, Vietnam and later Chief of Naval Operations. From 1970-71, he served as personal assistant to Dr. Henry Kissinger, assistant to the president for national security affairs. David worked for Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York from 1974-1976 before joining the Hong Kong office of Coudert Brothers in 1976. He became a partner of Coudert in 1983 and has practiced in Hong Kong for over 40 years.
Los Angeles
Ashley Halvorsen is an associate in the Structured Finance group in the Los Angeles office.
New York
Sophia's practice focuses on federal income tax law, with an emphasis on renewable energy investment, energy tax credits and domestic and international project developments and financing transactions. She has represented both lenders and borrowers in various financing transactions, and also sponsors in renewable energy transactions.
New York
Siobhan Handley is Orrick's Chief Talent Officer. She is responsible for developing and executing talent and human resource strategies to advance the firm's strategy and serve its clients.
In collaboration with the firm's leadership team, she focuses on designing and implementing programs to recruit, inspire and advance the best legal and staff talent.
Siobhan previously served as Orrick's Managing Director for Resources. In that role, she spearheaded the development of the firm's innovative talent model—the first of its kind in a major law firm—which replaces the traditional associate lockstep advancement system with merit-based advancement. As chair of the firm's Talent Committee, she oversees Orrick's lawyer training and performance feedback program – which is one of the most rigorous in the market. She also has led the creation of a range of new lawyer and professional staff roles.
Siobhan brings to this role extensive experience on the front line of client service, having been a partner in the firm's product liability litigation and mass tort defense group. For more than a decade, she was a member of the Orrick team that acted as National Counsel to Union Carbide Corporation in connection with asbestos-related personal injury lawsuits and served as lead trial counsel in cases across the country. Siobhan was one of the key trial counsel in the highly-publicized landmark trial in Texas State Court, Brazoria County, where Kelly-Moore Paint Company sued Union Carbide for $1.4 billion in compensatory damages and $4.2 billion in punitive damages that resulted in a complete defense verdict. In addition, she served as trial counsel for significant product liability cases for other clients including Wyeth and Flexible Products.
Christine is recognized by her clients for her unique ability to distill complicated concepts into powerful and persuasive narratives that put their interests front and center.
She has experience working on multi-jurisdictional litigations and regulatory investigations that involve a complex combination of securities law, shareholder litigation, and regulatory compliance. Her experience also includes litigating matters with the Washington Attorney General's office. Christine dives into new cases and areas of law fearlessly and has a talent for quickly getting up to speed and crafting strategies to stop the opposition in its tracks.
Christine has a strong interest in the intersection of financial litigation and regulation and emerging fintech, and she has written articles on the intersection of securities law and cryptocurrency, which are featured below. As technology advances beyond the traditional language of the law, Christine understands that clients need a cohesive strategy to move their business forward while avoiding legal pitfalls.
Christine also maintains a pro bono practice centering on immigration and prisoners' rights.
Rick advises investment funds and asset managers on structured finance, securitisation and fund financing solutions in respect of a wide range of alternative and illiquid asset classes.
He has experience with funding structures backed directly and indirectly by commercial real estate, private debt and other asset classes. He advises on fund leverage matters including warehouse lines, loan-on-loan and repo financing, as well as loan portfolios (performing and non-performing) acquired or disposed of using securitisation and structured lending techniques.Rick handles derivatives-related matters as as well as standard and esoteric securitisations, across a wide range of specialty finance structures and asset classes.


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