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Events:
Dear Producer,
The Alaska Ranger was a
200-foot fishing trawler. It sank in
the Bering Sea on March 23, 2008 – in
the winter, in the middle of the
night, in freezing water, on a day
with 20-foot seas and gale-force
winds. There were 47 people on board
and miraculously, 42 survived, thanks
to the extreme efforts of the Coast
Guard.
Popular Mechanics
journalist Kalee Thompson
has
the untold story behind the greatest
and most harrowing rescue in Coast
Guard history.
In her
book DEADLIEST SEA, Thompson
provides the first definitive account
of the extraordinary events of that
frigid Easter morning and introduces
the experiences of both the fishermen
and the rescuers who survived the
ordeal.
We have VIDEO and IMAGES of the rescue
for your website. In addition, we
have AUDIO of the Alaska Ranger’s
Mayday call. Several officers from
the Coast Guard rescue team are
available to join Thompson in an
interview.
Thompson can discuss:
OPENING SCENE OF HORROR: When the
first Coast Guard helicopter rescue
crew arrived at the last known
coordinates of the Alaska Ranger,
the ocean looked like a poorly-lit
runway: a string of strobe lights
flashing over a mile-long swath of
water. Stunned, the rescuers realized
that each light was a person already
succumbing to hypothermia.
STORY OF THE ONLY WOMAN ON THE SINKING
SHIP: Gwen Rains, a federal
biologist, was the only woman on the
Alaska Ranger. She’d been
aboard only 4 days before the sinking.
(Kalee has profiled Gwen in the June
issue of O Magazine. Go to
http://www.oprah.com.)
THE EXTREME EFFORTS OF THE COAST GUARD
TO SAVE THE CREW: How the Coast Guard
had to individually airlift 20
survivors from the frigid ocean –
an unprecedented feat in maritime
history.
- SHOCKING NEGLIGENCE: WHY THE TRAWLER
SANK: Commercial fishing is the
single deadliest job in the United
States. Each year, about 120 fishing
boats are lost in U.S. waters—most of
them because of mechanical or
structural malfunctions. The
under-regulation of the fishing
industry kills dozens of unknowing
crew members each year.
Press materials for DEADLIEST SEA,
including a Q&A with Thompson are
attached. Happy to send a review
copy, if you’re interested.
Let me know if you’d like to set
something up.
Many thanks,
Laura
Laura Reynolds
Reynolds Public Relations, Inc.
908 301-0006 office
202 669-1882 cell
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AUGUST 30TH
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5TH 2010
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The Big
Question
Did
Twitter
Start
a
Revolution?
And you
thought
you were
inconvenienced
by
Twitter's
server
maintenance?
Twitter
founders
Biz
Stone
and Evan
Williams
discuss
how
tweets
from the
Iranian
election
riots
nearly
weren't
broadcast
over
Twitter
due to
routine
website
maintenance.
The
company
postponed
the
scheduled
downtime
after
being
flooded
with
tweets,
emails
and
calls -
including
one from
the
State
Department.
Meanwhile
Jeffrey
Goldberg
and
Andrew
Sullivan
discuss
the
reliability
of
Twitter
postings
as a
source
for news
of
events
in Iran.
Sullivan
takes
them as
true,
first-person
accounts
on the
ground
while
Goldberg
defends
the
necessity
of a
reporter
to
investigate
and
gather
more
background
information.
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ENVIRONMENT
The Truth
about
Free-Range
Eggs
Author
Jonathan
Safran Foer
claims
agribusiness
is guilty of
"the worst
kind of
manipulation."
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ECONOMY
Unemployment
at 10%
by
Election
Day?
Moody's Mark
Zandi sees
continued
joblessness
amidst slow
recovery.
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TECHNOLOGY
Are
Wi-Fi
and 3-D
the
Future
of NFL
Football
Stadiums?
49ers CEO says
the new
stadium will
boost the NFL
game day
experience.
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OSS/BSS
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Visionary
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others explore
the changes
and
opportunities
impacting the
future of the
OSS/BSS
sectors of the
telecoms
industry.
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CULTURE
Top Chef's
Secret
Sauce
Rick
Bayless
reveals
innovative
uses of
the humble
blender.
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CREDIT
CRUNCH
'Trickle
Up
Economics'
Nobel
Prize
economist
Joseph
Stiglitz
blames
rising GDP
and
falling
incomes as
the cause
of the
economic
crisis.
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Geoffrey O’Brien
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF WALWORTH:
A TALE OF MADNESS AND MURDER IN THE
GILDED AGE
(HENRY HOLT 2010)
Tuesday, September 7, 7PM
Geoffrey O’Brien’s newest historical
and psychological thriller, The Fall
of the House of Walworth, is a
spellbinding tale of madness and
murder in a nineteenth century America
dynasty. On June 3, 1873, a
portly, fashionably
dressed, middle-aged man calls the
Sturtevant House and asks to see the
tenant on the second floor. The
bellman goes up and presents the
visitor's card to the guest in room
267, returns promptly, and escorts the
visitor upstairs. Before the bellman
even reaches the lobby, four shots are
fired in rapid succession. So begins
the fall of the Walworth’s, a Saratoga
family that rose to prominence as part
of the splendor of New York's
aristocracy.
“A century from now, if editors still
exist, they’ll be getting pitches for
books that promise to reassemble the
lives of O.J. Simpson or Bernard
Madoff – long-forgotten characters
whose discovery has excited
some hopeful writer. That aspirant
author would be well advised to turn
to “The Fall of the House of Walworth”
– a first-rate book about a
second-degree murder – for lessons in
how to do it.”
--The New York Times Book
Review 8/1/10
Mona Simpson
MY HOLLYWOOD
(KNOPF 2010)
Thursday, September 9, 7PM
A wonderfully provocative and
appealing novel, from the much-loved
author of Anywhere But Here and A
Regular Guy, her first in ten years.
It tells the story of two women whose
lives entwine and unfold behind
the glittery surface of
Hollywood. My Hollywood is a tender,
witty, and resonant novel that
provides the profound pleasures
readers have come to expect from Mona
Simpson, here writing at the height of
her powers.
“A darkly beautiful atlas of the
American promised land, and a
definitive novel of modern
domesticity. Brilliant, in
short.”—Joseph O’Neill
Frederic Tuten
SELF PORTRAITS: FICTIONS
(W.W. NORTON 2010)
Wednesday, September 22, 7PM
These mysterious, interrelated
stories create a portrait of the
author’s life, both real and imagined,
as he appears in each tale variously
as hero, bystander, artist, and ghost,
yielding an enchanting autobiography
of the imagination. Fantasy and
reality collide as the book’s
principal characters—two lovers—meet,
part, and reunite, time and again, at
different stages in life and in
landscapes both familiar and exotic.
Death appears as a genial waiter in a
café across from the Metropolitan
Museum of Art; talking circus
elephants console a ringmaster for his
unrequited love; a young boy barters
with pirates for his grandmother’s
soul; and as a refrigerator begins
spilling mini-glaciers into a couple’s
East Village apartment, a voyage to
Antarctica commences on an icy
schooner waiting for them in Tompkins
Square Park.
Bragi Olafsson
THE AMBASSADORS
(OPEN LETTER 2010)
Tuesday, October 5, 7PM
Sturla Jón Jónsson, the
fifty-something building
superintendent and sometimes poet, has
been invited to a poetry festival in
Vilnius, Lithuania, appointed, as
he sees it, as the official
representative of the people
of Iceland to the field of poetry. His
latest poetry collection, published on
the eve of his trip to Vilnius, is
about to cause some controversy in his
home country—Sturla is publicly
accused of having stolen the poems
from his long-dead cousin, Jónas. Translated
from the Iclandic by Lytton Smith.
Bragi Ólafsson was born in Reykjavik
and is the author of several books of
poetry, short stories, and four
novels, including Party Games, for
which he re ceived the DV Cultural
Prize in 2004. The Ambassador was a
finalist for the 2008 Nordic
Literature Prize and received
the Icelandic Bookseller's Award as
best novel of the year.
"I'm convinced beyond any doubt that
Bragi Ólafsson is among our best
authors."
—DV Newspaper (Iceland)
Bo Caldwell
CITY OF TRANQUIL LIGHT
(HENRY HOLT 2010)
Wednesday, October 13, 7PM
Will Kiehn is seemingly destined for
life as a humble farmer in the Midwest
when, having felt a call from God, he
travels to the vast North China Plain
in the early twentieth-century. There
he is surprised by love and weds a
strong and determined fellow
missionary, Katherine. They soon find
themselves witnesses to the crumbling
of a more than two-thousand-year-old
dynasty that plunges the country into
decades of civil war. As the couple
works to improve the lives of the
people of Kuang P'ing Ch'eng— City of
Tranquil Light, a place they come
to love—and face incredible hardship,
will their faith and relationship be
enough to sustain them?
Harry Mathews
THE NEW TOURISM
(SAND PAPER PRESS 2010)
Tuesday, October 19, 7PM
The New Tourism is Harry Mathews's
first full-length poetry collection in
nearly 20 years. When Mathews
published his first poems in 1956, he
was associated with the so-called New
York School of poets, with three of
whom (John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and
James Schuyler) he founded the
review Locus Solus in 1961. Through
his friendship with Georges Perec, he
became a member of the Oulipo in 1972.
The author of six novels and
several collections of poetry, his
most recent publications are Sainte
Catherine, a novella written in
French, The Human Country: the
Collected Short Stories, The Case of
the Persevering Maltese: Collected
Essays, Oulipo Compendium, and My Life
in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973.
David Thomson
THE NEW BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
FILM
(KNOPF 2010)
Thursday, October 28, 7PM
For almost thirty years, David
Thomson’s Biographical Dictionary of
Film has been not merely “the finest
reference book ever written about
movies” (Graham Fuller, Interview),
not merely the “desert island book” of
art critic David Sylvester, not merely
“a great, crazy masterpiece” (Geoff
Dyer, The Guardian), but also
“fiendishly seductive” (Greil
Marcus, Rolling Stone).
In all, the book includes more than
1300 entries, some of them just a
pungent paragraph, some of
them several thousand words long. In
addition to the new “musts,” Thomson
has added key figures from film
history–lively anatomies of Graham
Greene, Eddie Cantor, Pauline Kael,
Abbott and Costello, Noël Coward,
Hoagy Carmichael, Dorothy Gish, Rin
Tin Tin, and more.
Paul Harding
TINKERS
(BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS 2009)
Wednesday, November 10, 7PM
Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for
Fiction, Tinkers is about the legacy
of consciousness and the porousness of
identity from one generation the next.
At once heartbreaking and life
affirming, it is an elegiac meditation
on love, loss, and the fierce beauty
of nature.
"There are few perfect debut American
novels… To this list ought to be added
Paul Harding's devastating first
book, Tinkers, the story of a dying
man drifting back in time to his
hardscrabble New England
childhood, growing up the son of his
clock-making father. Harding has
written a masterpiece around the
truism that all of us, even surrounded
by family, die alone."
—John Freeman, NPR's The Best Debut
Fiction of 2009
Salman Rushdie
LUKA AND THE FIRE OF LIFE
(RANDOM HOUSE 2010)
Tuesday, December 7, 7PM
With the same dazzling imagination and
love of language that have made Salman
Rushdie one of the great storytellers
of our time, Luka and the Fire of
Life revisits the magic-infused,
intricate world he first brought
to life in the modern classic Haroun
and the Sea of Stories. This
breathtaking new novel centers on Luka,
Haroun’s younger brother, who must
save his father from certain doom.
Filled with mischievous wordplay and
delving into themes as universal as
the power of filial love and the
meaning of mortality, Luka and the
Fire of Life is a book of wonders for
all ages.
Video by Max Kane of the Raid on
Hershberer's Wisconsin Farm
Short movie of Wisconsin
farm raids and Wisconsin
Department of Agriculture
Trade and Consumer
Protection agents featured
as dairy Cartel, and
highlighting multiple
Grazin Acres Farm
Raids(farmer Vernon
Hershberger. Includes the
Hershberger's actual,
never before released,
(911) call to Max Kane for
help. 5 time grammy award
winner Faith Hill closes
the short film with
America the Beautiful.
Enjoy the show!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txbNxLU3jr4
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Can hands-on healing can
cure cancer? Skeptics say
no. One man's research -- in
10 controlled, university
experiments with
cancer-injected mice --
shows that it does. A
skeptical scientist himself,
he's putting energy medicine
to the test and finding
astounding results... |
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October Book on
Proving Energy
Medicine in the
Laboratory |
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The Energy
Cure
Unraveling the
Mystery of Hands-On
Healing
By William Bengston,
PhD, with Sylvia
Fraser
October 2010
Paperback /
BK01588
290 pages / 5.25" x
8"
Health / Mind-Body
US $18.95
978-1-59179-911-5
U.S. Rights only
Can energy healing
really cure cancer?
Is it possible for
you to heal
someone's terminal
illness with your
bare hands? Is the
Western medical
community ready for
a fundamental change
in its approach to
treatment?
Drawing on his 35
years of rigorous
research,
unbelievable
results, and
mind-bending
questions, Bengston
challenges us to
totally rethink what
we believe about our
ability to heal.
Part memoir, part
instruction, this
book explores:
- How Dr. Bengston
discovered and
cultivated his
healing talent
- Bengston's
paradigm-shifting
experimental results
and why they seem so
difficult for some
to believe
- Image Cycling,
Bengston's unique
method for
activating your
healing abilities
- Stories of
people Bengston
worked with using
his technique, who
experienced
spontaneous
remission of cancer,
leukemia and other
diseases
- Questions for
medical
professionals and
researchers to
consider regarding
the potential of
energy medicine and
how additional
research could find
answers
See below for more
facts about his
research, suggested
interview questions,
and testimonials
from Bernie Siegel,
Larry Dossey, and
other scientific and
medical
professionals.
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Facts about
Bengston's Research |
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Over the past 35
years, Bengston has
successfully treated
many types of
cancer-bone,
pancreatic, breast,
brain, rectal,
lymphatic, stomach,
leukemia-as well as
other diseases, all
using a hands-on
technique that is
painless,
noninvasive, and has
no unpleasant side
effects.
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To Bengston's
knowledge, no person
he has healed ever
experienced a
recurrence.
- The effectiveness
of Bengston's hands-on
treatment has now been
proven in 10
controlled
animal-experiments,
conducted in 5
university medical and
biological
laboratories by
trained, skeptical
researchers.
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Bengston's treatment
is not faith based.
Neither patient nor
practitioner is
expected to believe
in anything,
including the
process itself, for
it to be effective.
Bengston does not
consider hands-on
healing to be a
replacement for
traditional Western
medicine.
-
Bengston is a
sociology professor
at St. Joseph's
College in New York.
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Bengston did not
begin by testing
mice in a lab,
producing a theory
that now awaits
human application.
He went into the lab
to verify and gain
insight into a
procedure that he
had already
successfully used to
cure many people of
a variety of medical
problems, especially
cancer.
Summary of
Bengston's Research
History
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Bengston's first
experiment was
conducted with mice
in 1975 in the
biology department
at Queens College of
the City University
of New York.
-
Mice bred for
research were
injected with a
particularly lethal
strain of mammary
cancer that had
always resulted in
100 percent fatality
within 14 to 27
days. Through
hands-on healing,
100 percent of the
mice survived the
disease to become
cancer free and to
live a normal
two-year life span!
-
This experiment was
replicated once more
at Queens College
with the same 100
percent success.
Eight other
replications, with
minor variations, at
four other
biological and
medical laboratories
produced comparable
results.
-
Just as amazing,
mice that were
re-injected with
cancer cells did not
get cancer,
suggesting they had
developed an
immunity.
-
Recently, Bengston
has been undergoing
functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRIs,
which are multilevel
scans more detailed
than CAT scans) and
electroencephalographs
(EEGs, which measure
the brain's
electrical activity)
while in healing
mode.
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Audio Workshop
teaches Bengston's
healing technique |
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 Hands-On
Healing:
A Training Course in
the Energy Cure
Dr. William Bengston
theorizes that the
secret to his
hands-on healing
technique may be
"image cycling," a
process that
circumvents our
subconscious
resistance so that
our body can restore
itself to its
natural state of
wholeness.
Hands-On Healing
is a six-session
training course for
learning this
powerful
technique based on
his successful
research and
clinical experience.
Includes practical
instruction on
distance healing,
instilling healing
energy into objects,
and more.
This audio-course
will be available as
6-CD set or as a
digital download.
Spoken-Word Audio
AF01591D / 6 CDs / 7
hours / 7" x 6¾"
US $69.95 / Health,
Mind-Body
978-1-59179-914-6
Digital Download
AF01591W / UPC:
600835-159173 / US
$48.97
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Meet Bill Bengston
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William
Bengston, PhD,
a professor of
sociology at St.
Joseph's College in
New York, has been
involved in energy
medicine research
for more than 30
years. His research
has appeared in a
variety of
professional
publications and
journals, including
the Journal of
Scientific
Exploration and the
Journal of
Alternative and
Complementary
Medicine. He
has lectured widely
throughout the
United States and
Europe and also been
a guest of Dr.
Mehmet Oz on the
radio program Oprah
& Friends. He lives
in New York.
The Energy Cure
was written with
Sylvia Fraser,
author of six
novels, four
non-fiction books,
and many articles,
for which she has
won numerous awards.
In 2008, Fraser was
honored with The
Writers' Trust Matt
Cohen Award for
lifetime
achievement.
Recent Speaking
Engagements
Association
for Comprehensive
Energy Psychology
(ACEP). Keynote
speaker, annual
conference. San
Diego, CA, June 4-6,
2010.
www.energypsych.org
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Sample Interview
Question |
- How did you
discover your talent
as a hands-on healer?
- Have you yourself
ever been cured by
hands-on healing?
- Can you briefly
describe your method
in steps?
- How do you work
with your hands?
- Do you feel
anything in your hands
when you treat people?
- You say you use a
mental-imaging
technique. Why? How
does that work?
- Summarize the data
you've accumulated in
your 10 mice
experiments to prove
that your method
works. What diseases
or ailments are you
best at treating?
- You say you have
trouble treating
people with cancer
after they've had
chemotherapy or
radiation - why is
that?
- Is there any
disease or condition
that you can't cure,
or that you have
trouble curing?
- You're healing
abilities have been
tested with MRIs and
EEGs. What have they
shown?
- What do you mean
when you say that many
critics who consider
themselves skeptics
are really believers
and debunkers?
- What do you mean
when you say "belief
is irrelevant"?
- Can anyone learn
to be a healer?
- Tell me about some
of the people you have
helped.
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What People are
Saying... |
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"In both my
professional and
personal lives, I have
witnessed what Dr.
William Bengston
shares about energy
medicine, and so I can
accept and believe
what he presents in
The Energy Cure.
Human beings have
enormous healing
potential built into
them, and they, like
all forms of life, can
survive a great
variety of
illnesses---without
traditional medical
intervention."
- Bernie
Siegel, MD
author of Faith,
Hope & Healing
and Help Me to
Heal
"Very
infrequently, a
scientist comes
along whose work
leads to a quantum
change in the
quality and
significance of
research in some
field. Such a
scientist is
William Bengston,
who is responsible
for such a change
in the recondite
field of anomalous
healing. His
results are so
extraordinary as
to eclipse all
previous work in
that field.
Bengston would be
a prime candidate
for a Nobel Prize
in Alternative
Medicine, if such
an award existed."
-Peter
Sturrock,
emeritus professor
of applied physics
at Stanford
University
"Great advances in
science and
medicine often
occur at the edge
of knowledge,
where things don't
fit in. Often the
misfits are
dismissed by
conventional
thinkers without a
hearing. Where
William Bengston's
work is concerned,
this would be a
profound mistake,
because many
precise scientific
studies now
confirm that
healers and
healing are real.
Somewhere along
the line,
physicians forgot
how to heal, and
'healing' became
an embarrassment.
Bengston is a
harbinger of a
marvelous trend:
the return of
healing to
medicine."
-Larry
Dossey, MD,
author of
Healing Words
"I believe that
energy healing's
time will come in
the next ten years
and that William
Bengston's work
will be seen as a
milestone in that
process. We're
already
experiencing a
meltdown of faith
in materialistic
systems, and that
includes the grip
of the
profit-driven
pharmaceutical
industry on
medical practice."
-Dr.
Edward Mann,
Canadian
sociologist and
energy healing
historian
"Bill Bengston is
a criminologist,
sociologist,
statistician,
college professor,
cancer researcher,
energy healer. An
expert in all
these fields! I
have been in
Bill's orbit
observing him
engage others in
rich dialogue. The
consistent effect
of his thesis of
life challenges
even brilliant
minds to rethink
their foundational
assumptions.
Bill's mesmerizing
memoir reads like
a novel."
-Francesca
McCartney,
doctor of energy
medicine, founder
and president of
Energy Medicine
University, author
of Body of
Health:The New
Science of
Intuition Medicine®
"Professor
William Bengston
is shaking the
foundations of
medical research.
What is at stake
is the entire
clinical trial
process. In
carefully
carried-out
experiments
Professor Bengston
showed dramatic
healing of cancer
tumors in mice
using energy
medicine. By
tracing the path
of healing
intention, he has
found that it
follows surprising
turns and is not
easy to control.
The simple model
of a controlled
study does not
work in medicine.
Bengston's story
is one of
breakthrough
discoveries and a
fascinating tale
that is not yet
complete."
-Garret
Moddel,
professor of
electrical
engineering,
Department of
Electrical,
Computer, and
Energy
Engineering,
University of
Colorado.
"Bill Bengston has
all the creds and
talent to make it
big-time in
mainstream
academia, but he
also has the guts
to stick to what
he sees and knows,
and tell us about
it, even if it is
way out of the
box. Here we have
his very exciting
adventures in
healing, with
decidedly
anomalous results.
It is to Bill's
great credit that
he tells it like
it is, and
sustains the
contact with this
mind-bending
material so that
it is neither
distorted,
ignored, or blown
out of proportion.
Really excellent
work!"
-Richard
A. Blasband, MD,
formerly faculty
member of Yale
Medical School
"Bengston's
research on the
healing of cancer
in mice is an
eye-opener, both
for its direct
implications and
for what it says
about the
difficulty of
gaining acceptance
for unconventional
results, no matter
how well
documented. His
methodology is
clear, his results
are unambiguous,
and several
experiments
strongly suggest
that his healing
technique is
teachable. Whether
you're a healer, a
doctor, a
biologist, or
simply an
interested
citizen, you owe
it to yourself to
find out what Bill
has been learning
over the last two
decades."
-York
Dobyns,
physicist,
Princeton
University
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We'll have early final
copies of both book
and audio this week.
Send me an email
to request your copy.
If you'd like to
interview Bill, just
let me know. In
September we'll
have video interviews
you can post on your
site.
Note: Sounds True has
rights to The
Energy Cure in
the United
States only.
It was published in
Canada (slightly
different version) as
"Chasing the Cure."
 With
best regards,
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Asheville Workshops
These classes are for any level
writer, and meet at 387 Beaucatcher
Road, Asheville. They include a
brown-bag lunch break. Registration is
in advance only, by mail or at our
website (www.twwoa.org).
Financial aid in exchange for
volunteering is available. For more
information, contact
writersw@gmail.com/828-254-8111.
Sept.
11: Fiction Writing Workshop with Brenda
McClain
The class will explore such elements as
story arc, characterization, voice,
point of view, and dialogue. Publishing
tips will also be given, and students
may bring five pages (double-spaced) to
the class for discussion. McClain's
fiction has won numerous awards,
including the 2004 S.C. Arts Commission
Fiction Fellowship and the S.C. Fiction
Project in 2002 and 2005. Meets
Saturday, 10-4 pm. $75/$70 members.
Sept.
25: Writing Your Memoirs with Anne
Barnhill
Participants will discuss what a
memoir is, how it might be shaped and
how to get started. Excerpts from
several published memoirs will be
discussed, and writing exercises will be
given to jog the memory and expand that
memory into an episode or chapter.
Barnhill is the author of
What
You Long For, and
At Home in the Land of Oz: Autism, My
Sister and Me. She holds an
M.F.A. in Creative Writing from UNC-Wilmington
and teaches workshops throughout the
state. Meets Saturday, 10-4 pm. $75/$70
members.
Writer's Retreat at Folly Beach, SC
The deadline to RSVP is
Sept. 3
to join a writer's retreat at the beach
Oct.14-17. We'll be renting a house at
the beach to get away from it all and
read, write, and swim. The rate is $375,
all inclusive except for meals. Details
are at our website,
www.twwoa.org. Or contact
writersw@gmail.com/828-254-8111.
Charlotte Workshops
The Writers' Workshop is
offering these workshops which meet at
Providence Presbyterian Church in
Charlotte. Registration is in advance
only, by mail or at our website (www.twwoa.org).
Financial aid in exchange for
volunteering is available. For more
information, contact
writersw@gmail.com/828-254-8111.
Sept.
11: Writing Your Memoirs with Anne
Barnhill
The class will discuss what
a memoir is, how it might be shaped and
how to get started. Excerpts from
several published memoirs will be used
to show the various ways of telling your
story, and hands-on writing exercises
will be given to jog the memory and
expand that memory into an episode or
chapter. Creative writing techniques
will also be given to bring one's story
to life. Barnhill is the author of
What
You Long For, and
At Home in the Land of Oz: Autism, My
Sister and Me. She holds an
M.F.A. in Creative Writing from UNC-Wilmington
and teaches workshops throughout the
state. Meets Saturday, 12-5 pm. $75/$70
members.
Sept.
18: Poetry Workshop with Laura
Hope-Gill
Beginning and experienced
poets will learn how to reconnect with
the creative flow. Using works by master
poets as guides and inspiration,
students will generate new work and
expand their toolbox of poetic
techniques. Hope-Gill is an NC Arts
Fellow and the author of
The
Soul Tree: Poems and Photographs of the
Southern Appalachians. Meets
Saturday, 12-5 pm. $75/$70 members.
Sept.
25: Writing and Revising the One-Act
Play with Richard Krawiec
The class will learn
aspects of writing the one-act play,
focusing on dialogue that reveals
character and keeps the plot moving.
Students may bring the first 10 pages of
work to the class. Through reading aloud
and revising, participants will learn
how to ready their work for the stage.
Krawiec has published 4 plays, including
Forensic, presented in 2009 at
Burning Coal Theater in Raleigh; and
Cluck
Variations, which debuted at
Common Ground Theater in Durham and was
cited as an Indy Pick by
The
Independent Weekly. Meets
Saturday, 12-5 pm. $75/$70 members.
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The Nation Institute Names
Andrew Breslau as its New
President
The Board of Trustees of The
Nation Institute announced today
that they have named Andrew
Breslau to serve as the
Institute's President. A nonprofit
media center, The Nation Institute
was established in 1966 to extend
the reach of progressive ideas and
strengthen the independent press.
The trustees are proud to name as
its new president a person who
understands the mission and values
of an organization that has long
been a beacon of principled
dissent and has a significant
impact on the most urgent social
and political issues of our day.
Since 2006, Andrew Breslau has
served as the Executive Director
of City Futures, the parent
organization of the public policy
think tank, Center for an Urban
Future. There, he acted as City
Futures' chief executive,
publisher, fundraiser, and
financial officer. During his
tenure, the Center issued
groundbreaking reports documenting
the importance of immigrant
entrepreneurs to the nation's
economy and the need for cities to
invest in strategies to alleviate
income disparity.
Prior to City Futures, Breslau
worked at CNN for eight years as a
senior manager and producer.
Tasked with managing a team of
journalists covering the U.S
economy, he also helped cover
events overseas that ranged from
the 50th anniversary of the
People's Republic of China to the
World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland. During the 1996
election cycle, he was the
director of special projects for
the Democratic National Committee,
where he handled press relations
and organized artists and
celebrities on behalf of President
Clinton and Democrats across the
country.
From 1990 to 1995, he served as
the director of public affairs for
Manhattan Borough President Ruth
Messinger. Breslau was the
founding associate director of the
media watch organization, Fairness
and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR).
He began his career as a staff
member at Mother Jones. He
graduated from Brandeis University
with a bachelor's degree in
politics.
David Jones, Chair of the
Institute's Board, said: "The
selection of Andrew Breslau as the
next President of The Nation
Institute was an inspired choice
by the Search Committee. With his
background and experience in both
journalism and politics, he is
singularly qualified to lead The
Nation Institute as its carries on
its role as a leading progressive
and independent voice of American
social and political life."
Although the Institute and The
Nation magazine are separate
organizations, they have a long
and historic partnership, sharing
the mission of promoting
independent journalism. The
Nation's editor-in-chief and
publisher, Katrina vanden Heuvel,
said: "I am thrilled that Andy
Breslau, a person who so clearly
values the power of progressive
ideas and independent media in a
democracy, will head the
Institute. I look forward to
working together to leverage and
amplify the increasingly visible
role of The Nation Institute and
The Nation in these
challenging times."
Breslau said: "The voices that The
Nation Institute promotes and
nurtures and the issues they raise
have never been more important. I
am honored to take on the
Presidency of the Institute and
look forward to working with its
outstanding staff, intrepid
reporters, provocative authors and
exceptional fellows. Together, we
will continue to challenge
conventional wisdom, uncover
uncomfortable truths and provoke
the kind of vocal debate our
nation so desperately needs."
Breslau will assume his new
position on October 4. He succeeds
Hamilton Fish, who served as the
Institute's President from 1996 to
2009. Fish now serves as President
Emeritus. Past Presidents include
Les Dunbar and Haywood Burns. The
Nation Institute was founded by
Carey McWilliams and James J.
Storrow, Jr., then editor and
publisher respectively of The
Nation.
About The Nation Institute
The Nation Institute's dynamic
range of programs include a
bestselling book publishing
imprint, Nation Books; the
award-winning Investigative Fund,
which supports groundbreaking
investigative journalism;
nationally televised town hall
meetings and debates; the widely
read and syndicated website
TomDispatch; an internship program
at The Nation magazine;
Journalism Fellowships that fund
up to 25 high-profile reporters
every year and the prestigious
Puffin/Nation and Ridenhour prizes
that honor outstanding public
citizenship and acts of
truth-telling. Work produced by
The Nation Institute has sparked
Congressional hearings, new
legislation, FBI investigations
and the resignation of government
officials, has changed the debate
and has a powerful impact on the
most urgent social and political
issues of our day.
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Fitnessgram® wants your
school to earn a chance at
a $10,000 NFL PLAY 60
health and wellness grant!
In partnership with the
National Football League,
Fitnessgram presents Back
to Football Friday--a
national celebration of
NFL team pride on Friday
Sept. 10th. Schools who
participate in this event
can submit entries (up
until Sept. 17th)
describing their how they
celebrated Back to
Football Friday. The NFL
will select 34 winning
schools--32 in NFL markets
and 2 outside of market.
Each winner will receive a
$10,000 NFL PLAY 60 Health
and Wellness Grant and a
visit from an NFL player
that will include an
assembly and a gym class
component.
Winners will be selected
based on the following
elements:
- Relevance to the theme
of Health and Wellness
- Event/Activity
Originality
- Level of NFL Passion
Click here for
complete information about
how your schoo  l
can participate, and when
you register, remember to
select "Fitnessgram" as
"How you heard about Back
to Football Friday.
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Request your copy of the
new Physical Education,
Health and Dance catalog!
 The
2011 Physical Education,
Health and Dance catalog has
a brand new format! The
catalog now includes
relevant articles from
leaders in the PE, health,
and dance fields. These
articles offer valuable
information to improve and
expand your programs. HK
products pertaining to the
articles are organized so
you can easily find the
resources you need. HK
products are now organized
around topics, with
suggested grade ranges
listed for every title. Some
of these topics include
assessment, technology in
physical education,
equipment-related resources,
afterschool and classroom
teacher resources, and many
more.
To download your copy of the
new catalog
click here. To receive a
print copy of the catalog
please visit our
Request a Catalog page.
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New Physical Activity
Release
41 great geocaching learning
experiences for all ages and
abilities
Geocaching for Schools and
Communities is the
ideal resource for
organizing geocaching for
learners of any age group.
Written by authors who have
presented geocaching at five
national AAHPERD
conferences, this one-stop
resource provides everything
you need to know about
leading and participating in
geocaching activities:
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How to use GPS units and
set up caching activities
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How to use both low-tech
and high-tech approachesto
caching so your fun isn't
dependent on your level of
technological expertise
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How to create
interdisciplinary
connections using caching
activities
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Strategies for developing
geocaching programs and
clubs in a variety of
settings, including
schools and recreation and
youth programs
You learn the history of
geocaching, the nuts and
bolts of how it works, and
strategies for using
geocaching for
health-related fitness. This
book offers in-depth
information about satellites
and the triangulation
necessary for locating
latitude and longitude
coordinates and how to use
computers and the Internet
in geocaching as well as
low-tech discussions of
using maps in finding
caches.
Read more
from
Geocaching for Schools and
Communities.
Click here to read about
the benefits of geocaching.
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Free ASEP Webinar
available
The American Sport Education
Program (ASEP) recently
conducted a free Webinar,
"Combating Heat-Related
Illnesses," led by John
Storsved, HSD, ATC, and was
aimed at coaches, athletic
administrators, and athletic
trainers interested in
knowing more about how to
recognize, treat, and
prevent heat-related
illnesses in athletes.
Click here to view the
recorded presentation.
The next offering in the
ASEP Successful Coaching
Webinar Series is "Nutrient
Timing for Peak
Performance," scheduled for
Wednesday, September 15 from
1:00 - 2:00 pm eastern time
and featuring presenter
Heidi Skolnik.
Click here to register.
ASEP's aim is to offer
Webinars periodically over
the coming months on a
variety of sport-related
issues. Watch the ASEP Web
site (www.ASEP.com)
for further details on
upcoming Webinars.
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*Offer valid for
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lesser value. Journals
must be ordered together
by phone, fax, or mail.
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Earn money for your
association or
organization!
Our Associate Program
provides a convenient way
for to you to raise money
for your organization while
at the same time
highlighting resources that
can help your members
enhance the quality of their
physical education
curricula. You can encourage
your members to purchase
Human Kinetics resources
through your web site both
as a way to support your
organization and as a way to
highlight quality resources
that relate to topics you
may choose to emphasize.
Please contact Kate Kaput
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get started in this easy and
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The mission of the
Himalayan Institute is
to offer knowledge,
training, and the
environment to realize
one's full potential and
bring a qualitative
transformation in
ourselves and in the
larger world of which we
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Perennial Teachings of the
Bhagavad Gita
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with Rolf Sovik
FREE FOR CERTIFIED
YOGA TEACHERS (HI MEMBERS)
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The Bhagavad Gita is a
spiritual jewel embedded
in the epic story of India
called the Mahabharata.
The Gita unfolds as a
dialogue between Arjuna, a
seeker caught in a
tumultuous battle, and
Krishna, the Lord of Life.
Arjuna’s uncertainty about
his duty leads Krishna to
provide him with
penetrating guidance—words
that illustrate the
importance of surrendering
the ego. Action, devotion,
knowledge, and
meditation—these are the
paths Krishna reveals to
Arjuna. Join us to:
- Understand the
criteria that inform us
when actions are
appropriate and when they
are not
- Explore the path of
devotion as a means for
surrender
- Use music and
devotional ritual to tap
into our creative
potential
- Recognize the internal
energies that are imbedded
in our habit patterns
- Practice techniques to
purify the mind and deepen
meditation
About Rolf Sovik
 President
and Spiritual Director of
the Himalayan Institute
and a clinical
psychologist in private
practice, Dr. Rolf Sovik
has studied yoga in the
United States, India, and
Nepal, and holds degrees
in philosophy, music,
Eastern studies, and
clinical psychology.
Co-director of the
Himalayan Institute of
Buffalo, he began his
practice of yoga in 1972,
and was initiated as a
pandit in the Himalayan
tradition in 1987. He is
the author of
Moving Inward,
co-author of the
award-winning
Yoga: Mastering the Basics,
and a columnist for
Yoga International
magazine.
Cost:
Tuition-free
for members with yoga
teacher certification;
non-members $275. Add 2
nights’ accommodations.
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Your Heart's Desire:
A Svaroopa Yoga Weekend
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with Swami Nirmalananda
Saraswati |
 Access
your own inner answers!
Discover the difference
between your heart’s
desire and the passing
desires that distract you
from the purpose of your
life. In this weekend,
Swami Nirmalananda
explains the uses of
Svaroopa Yoga’s powerful
tools for body, breath,
mind, and heart. She
clarifies yoga’s teachings
on detachment, dispassion,
compassion, and love: most
importantly, she explains
how your core opening can
expand exponentially
inward, to the deepest
levels of your being.
You’ll leave with more
clarity about how to live
your life on target.
Cost:
Members $250; non-members
$275. Add 2 nights’
accommodations.
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Yoga International
has explored the
deeper dimensions of
yoga in all its myriad
facets for nearly 20
years—and our cover is
no exception. Since
the beginning we’ve
welcomed the challenge
of conveying yoga’s
boundless, organic
message through a
still medium.
Illustrations and
collages that hinted
at yoga’s profound
goals were the first
to grace our cover.
Next we transitioned
to photography
depicting spiritual
themes such as fire,
meditation, and, of
course, the physical
expression of
steadiness and ease
through asana. (Check
out our online
cover gallery
to see the evolution.)
To celebrate our name
change back to
Yoga International,
we’ve launched
our latest cover look
on the fall issue.
YI’s creative
director, Jeanette
Robertson, describes
the cover concept as
an attempt to “quiet
the distractions” in a
media world where most
covers are “screaming
for attention.”
Through yoga images
that are both
“dramatic and
elegant,” Robertson
hopes to project a
meditative quality by
“relying on an
external posture to
portray an interior
landscape.”
Let us know
what you think of the
new cover look - we
love hearing from you.
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