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Around the turn of the century a bandit rode in from Mexico, robbed a small Texas bank, and fled back across the border. A Texas Ranger picked up his trail and nabbed him in a Mexican village. The bandit spoke no English and the ranger no Spanish, so another villager was asked to interpret.
"Ask him his name," said the ranger.
"He says his name is Jose," said the interpreter.
"Ask him if he admits robbing the bank."
"Yes, he admits it."
"Ask him where he hid the money."
"He won't tell me."
Leveling his pistol at Jose's head the ranger said, "Now ask him again where he hid the money."
Jose quickly blurted out in Spanish, "The money is hidden in the well in the village square."
"What did he say?" demanded the ranger.
The interpreter replied, "Jose says he is not afraid to die!"
The translation and interpretation of the news can play a crucial role on Wall Street. This is especially true when it comes to public perception; and the media plays a dominant role when it comes to shaping the public's perception. And their modus operandi is clear. For instance, everyone has heard of the classic, "Is the glass half full or half empty?" Well, when it comes to media translation and interpretation it's almost always half empty. Bad news sells newspapers, gets more TV and radio time . . . good news doesn't. I mean think about it, only a few weeks ago the media said that a Trump presidency would be devastating for the stock market and the economy. Now, because stocks have rallied, pundits see a boom. As the erudite King Report notes, "Wall Street is not rational; it is rationalizing."
Keeping the translation and interpretation theme in mind, come with us now in the Mr. Peabody "WayBack" machine. The time was May of 2015 and the S&P 500 (SPX/2213.35) had peaked around 2135. Subsequently, the index "back and filled" between that level and roughly 1800, on increasingly wrong-footed negative media news, until July of 2016 when it broke out to the upside and tagged ~2194. We counseled that upside breakout was significant and advised increased equity exposure. Silly us, because the SPX declined back to its 2080 – 2100 support zone shortly thereafter. Undeterred, we continued to recommend the accumulation of equities, believing another new upside "leg" for this secular bull was in the offing. So let's examine what has happened.
In the final analysis what has happened is that the D-J Industrial Average broke out to the upside in the charts from a 14-month consolidation in July of 2016. In the process it registered a Dow Theory "buy signal." Dow Theory is the interrelationship between the D-J Industrial and the D-J Transportation Average. We are one of the last practitioners of Dow Theory after the passing of our friend Richard Russell (Dow Theory Letters) last year. Dow Theory is not always right, and it is subject to interpretation, but it is right a lot more than it is wrong. There was a Dow Theory "sell signal" on September 23, 1999, a "buy signal" in June of 2003, another "sell signal" on November 21, 2007, followed by numerous "buy signals" since the March 2009 lows. Dow Theory says that the primary trend of the equity market is "up" despite all the alleged uncertainty. Of course with most of the indices trading out to new all-time highs, it belies the old stock market "saw," "The markets don't like uncertainty." In point of fact, "uncertainty" is the friend of the well prepared investor!
As for the short-term, there was this from an astute, Canada-based portfolio manager, namely Craig White:
I came across the following chart in my morning readings. I believe you had talked about a Bollinger Band (BB) squeeze in recent months, noting that we were at a multi-year compressed reading. I do admit I am no expert on BB's, but a 'squeeze' is a consolidation period of price, after which the price then breaks out in a particular direction if my past readings are correct. Looking at the chart (see chart 1 on page 3) highlighting the BB width, we can see that only 3 times since 1982 had we reached these recent 'squeeze' levels. The subsequent performance for equity markets was indeed favourable. I think it is no different this time.
Also waxing bullishly was Renaissance Macro's Jeff deGraaf in last Wednesday's MarketWatch article, as quoted by William Watts. To wit:
"The S&P 500 was up 3.4% in November through November 21. [deGraaf] found that when the S&P 500 is up 3.3% or more for the month through November 21, returns from that point through the end of the year average 200 basis points. When returns are less than 3.3%, the average is closer to 70 basis points."
The call for this week: Interestingly, two of the longest secular bull markets chronicled in our notes began following Republican "revolutions." The 1953 to 1973 bull market sprung from Eisenhower's election (1952) and the subsequent infrastructure spending. The 1982 to 2000 secular bull market commenced with Ronald Reagan's election (1980) and was initially driven by his administration's tax cut and de-regulation policies. Yet Reagan's secular bull market had a slow start, which is eerily being tracked currently. When Reagan was elected the D-J Industrials rallied from ~925 to 1017 (+9.9%). Then in early December the Dow pulled back to 900 from where the fabled Santa Rally began. That rally took the Industrials back above 1000 by year's end only to see stocks decline into February where on February 5, 1981 President Reagan stated, "We have inherited the worst economic mess since the Great Depression." Of course with that kind of statement stocks bottomed, carrying the Dow back to 1024, which is when Fed Chairman Paul Volcker jammed the prime interest rate to 21½%. From there stocks stumbled, registering a Dow Theory "sell signal" that would leave the Dow at 776.92 in August of 1982, which happened to be the "valuation low," and the 1982 to 2000 secular bull market began. This is not an unimportant point, for the Dow made its "nominal" price low of 577.60 on December 6, 1974 (the lowest it would go in terms of price), but its "valuation low" (the cheapest it would get) came eight years later (8/12/82). So fast forward, the Dow's "nominal" price low came on March 6, 2009, but the "valuation" low didn't occur until October 3, 2011. Now consider this, NOBODY measures the 1982 – 2000 secular bull market from its "nominal" price low (1974), but rather from its "valuation" low of August 12, 1982. If that's the case currently, this bull market is not as old as everyone thinks. Indeed, this secular bull may not even have gray hair! Look for a short-term trading peak in this overbought market that sets the stage for the fabled Santa Claus rally.
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On "wholistic" medicine
If there's one aspect of so-called "alternative medicine" and "complementary and alternative medicine" (CAM) is that its practitioners tout as being a huge advantage over what they often refer to sneeringly as "conventional" or "scientific" medicine is that–or so its practitioners claim–alt-med treats the "whole patient," that it's "wholistic" in a way that the evil reductionist "Western" science-based medicine can't be.
Supposedly, we reductionistic, unimaginative physicians only focus on disease and ignore the "whole patient." Of course, to me this claim is belied by the hectoring to which my own primary care physician has subjected me about my horrible diet and lack of exercise on pretty much every visit I've had with her, but then maybe she's an anomaly, along with Dr. Lipson on this very blog and pretty much every other primary care doctor I've ever dealt with. Anecdotal experience, I know, but since alt-med mavens appear to value anecdotal evidence above pretty much all else I thought it appropriate to mention here.
Also belying the claim of alt-med practitioners that they "individualize" treatments to their patients in a way that science-based medicine does not is the maddening tendency of various alt-med modalities to settle on a single One True Cause of All Disease, be it liver flukes as the One True Cause of Cancer, heavy metal toxicity as the One True Cause of cancer, autism, and various other diseases, or "allergies," acid, or obstruction of the flow of qi as the One True Cause of All Disease.
Given the claim of "wholism" that is such an advertising gimmick among many of the varieties of woo, I'm always interested when I see evidence that alt-med is imitating its envied and disliked reductionistic competition. True, this is nothing new, given how alt-med has tried to seek legitimacy by taking on the mantle of science-based medicine wherever it can. Examples include the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), various organizations that try to confer legitimacy to pseudoscience by providing "certification" in various flavors of woo, and moves to push state medical boards to go further than that and confer legally protected status to practitioners by actually licensing them.
This latter tactic has been very successful in that many states now license acupuncturists, while some states even license naturopaths and "homeopathic physicians," the latter of which I find quite amusing because the term perfectly encapsulates what must remain of such a physician's medical training after being diluted to 30C with woo. The only difference is that, unlike what is claimed with homeopathy, diluting MD medical knowledge with woo does not make it stronger. In terms of naturopathy, though, one of the most alarming aspects of the infiltration of naturopaths into the health care system is that some states in the U.S. and provinces in Canada are seriously considering allowing them to prescribe real pharmaceutical medications, even though they lack the training and knowledge to use such drugs safely.
Imagine my combination of bemusement and alarm, then, when I learned of a new specialty of pseudoscience, namely the field of naturopathic oncology. Be afraid. Be very afraid. (I know I was when I first encountered this specialty.)
Naturopathic oncology
It's not surprising that I first discovered the "discipline" of naturopathic oncology at the Seattle Cancer Treatment and Wellness Center, which is affiliated with the Cancer Treatment Centers of America. As a science-based physician and surgeon I really detest CTCA because it is expert at combining state-of-the-art science-based medicine with pseudoscience like naturopathy, chiropractic, and acupuncture, as well as scientifically tested modalities known not to be particularly helpful in the clinical management of cancer, such as chemotherapy resistance testing (which could be the topic of an entire post). Suffice it to say that the last of these was prominently featured in Suzanne Somers' cancer book last year. In any case, CTCA covers a continuum from the boringly "conventional" (traditional surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation) to the questionable (chemotherapy resistance testing), to pure pseudoscience (naturopathy, acupuncture, homeopathy) mixing them together to the point where it is impossible for the average consumer to know which is science-based and which is not.
We've written about naturopathy on multiple occasions here on SBM, but what is naturopathic oncology? Apparently it's an "emerging field" within naturopathy concerned with applying naturopathy to cancer. I don't know about you, but to be an "emerging field" within naturopathy is akin to being an emerging new paranormal phenomenon in the field of parapsychology. But, then, I'm just one of those nasty, reductionistic, skeptical, scientific physicians, so what do I know? On the other hand, Kimball Atwood characterized naturopathy as a "pseudoscientific cult"; so maybe I'm not that nasty, at least not in comparison. Be that as it may, let's take a look at a couple of definitions, written by naturopaths themselves. First, there's the Oncology Association of Naturopathic Physicians (OncANP) (yes, there is an Oncology Association of Naturopathic Physicians). This is how OncANP defines "naturopathic oncology":
Naturopathic oncology is the application of the art and science of naturopathic medicine to the field of cancer care and treatment. Naturopathic oncologists work both in hospital oncology settings and in private practices bringing their wisdom, perspective and experience to aid oncology treatment teams that seek the best positive outcomes for their patients.
It all sounds relatively benign; that is, unless you know what naturopathy is. OncANP tries to justify the "need" for naturopathic oncology thusly:
Aware that modern medicine has made little advance in its War on Cancer, many people with cancer choose to also include complementary and alternative medicine in their fight against cancer. They reach out and employ a wide range of therapies including meditation, prayer, acupuncture, herbal, botanical, nutritional, homeopathic, dietary and other holistic practices seeking benefit.
Naturopathic doctors and physicians are trained in accredited naturopathic medical schools in modern scientific nature cure. They are trained in both modern science and natural medicine. They emerge from their training well versed in the use of botanical medicine, homeopathy, diet, fasting, nutritional supplementation, orthomolecular medicine, psycho-immunology and other complementary and alternative medical techniques; they serve as capable guides for patients interested in exploring alternative medicine.
Those naturopathic doctors who choose to specialize in naturopathic oncology understand both the standard treatments employed by medical oncologists and how best to work with them in a collaborative model of cancer co-treatment. They are well aware of the multitude of 'alternative therapies' promoted to cure cancer and can help patients understand which might be useful and why.
Note the common CAM claim that we have made "little advance" in the War on Cancer used as a justification for offering pseudoscience. Most of the "therapies" offered are fairly benign, such as meditation and prayer, although I can't figure out why meditation and prayer are represented as "therapies" rather than manifestations of religion. Of course, much of what else falls under rubric of "naturopathic medicine" and "naturopathic oncology" is pure pseudoscience, in particular, orthomolecular medicine, a construct popularized by the late Nobel Prize winner gone woo Linus Pauling, is pure quackery, advocating as it does megadoses of various vitamins and supplements. Given how late in his life Pauling had come to believe that megadoses of vitamin C would cure cancer (they don't, alas), it's not surprising that Pauling was attracted to this particular form of quackery.
Then there's acupuncture, the Jack of All Trades in CAM. It's one of those modalities that, it seems, can do anything. Treat pain? Acupuncture. Improve the success rate of in vitro fertilization? Acupuncture. Reduce menopausal symptoms in women with breast cancer requiring anti-estrogen therapy. Acupuncture. Got migraines? Acupuncture. Asthma, allergies, bronchitis, sinusitis, sore throat, laryngitis, colds and flu? Acupuncture. Irritable bowel, colitis, constipation, diarrhea, gastritis, heartburn, food allergies, ulcers? Acupuncture. Cystitis, menstrual cramps, irregular or heavy periods, infertility, menopausal symptoms? Acupuncture.
Naturopathic oncologists even have their own board certification, just like real oncologists. They even put the letters after their name, FABNO, which stands for "Fellow of the American Board of Naturopathic Oncology." (Personally, I think it stands for "FAB? NO!") Of course, given the panoply of dubious therapies, some of them contradictory to each other, that naturopaths use, I really wonder what the certifying test is like. When, for instance, do you choose megadoses of vitamin C over acupuncture or vice-versa? When do you choose live cell therapy over this supplement or that supplement? And what is the scientific evidence that any of it does cancer patients any good whatsoever? Especially homeopathy. (More on that in the next section.)
The mind boggles that this "specialty" has its own board certification. How long before naturopathic oncologists push for special privileges in the states that license naturopaths? It's not even beyond my imagination to visualize them applying for, and getting, the prescribing power to administer chemotherapy along with their herbs, supplements, and other woo. Why would naturopathic oncologists even want this? Easy. For the same reason that naturopaths in general seem to be seeking prescribing power: Real drugs work, and if one mixes real drugs with naturopathy then patients will tend to attribute the success not to the evil pharmaceutical drug but rather to the naturopathic nostrum.
The Cancer Treatment Centers of America, naturopathic oncology, and other woo
I and other SBM bloggers have complained about the infiltration of what sometimes refer to as "quackademic medicine" into medical academia. Quackademic medicine, as you recall, is the term we use to describe how so many medical schools have taken to studying fairy dust treatments like reiki and acupuncture as though they are science-based, often justifying this study with the rationale that they are "ancient" treatments and that lots of people use them. Promoters of pseudoscience have even managed to carve out a whole center at that bastion of science-based medicine, the crown jewel of the biomedical research effort of the United States the National Institutes of Health. That center is the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM).
While we've spent a lot of time on SBM lamenting and doing our part to combat the infiltration of pseudoscience into medical academia, we've spent comparatively little time on what is arguably an equally serious threat to science-based medicine. That is the infiltration of "integrative medicine" into private medical institutions that use integrative medicine as a marketing tool in order to distinguish themselves from the rest of the pack. Arguably, no hospital chain has been more successful at this than The Cancer Treatment Centers of America. Over more than 20 years, CTCA has built up a network of hospitals in suburban Chicago, Philadelphia, Tulsa, and suburban Phoenix, as well as a network of physician practice groups in Seattle and elsewhere. CTCA was founded in 1988 after its founder's mother lost her battle with cancer, its mission being to "change the face of cancer." Unfortunately, at least in its hospitals it is succeeding, and not in a good way. This is how CTCA describes its founder, Richard J. Stephenson's, mission to find treatment for his mother:
After his mother's diagnosis, Mr. Stephenson embarked on a mission to find the most advanced and effective cancer treatments available. He hoped his efforts would enable his mother to recover and remain an integral, irreplaceable part of his life and the lives of his children.
The Stephensons were sorely disappointed by what they found. What were regarded as world-renowned cancer treatment facilities were singularly focused on the clinical and technical aspects of cancer treatment, ignoring the individual needs of the patient and the multi-faceted nature of the disease. Tragically Mrs. Stephenson did not live to watch her grandchildren grow and mature.
To keep his mother's memory and spirit alive, Richard vowed to change the face of cancer care. He selected a group of outstanding oncologists and challenged them to find a way to deliver whole-person cancer treatment in a compassionate, nurturing environment.
Death from cancer is tragic; it's often painful and slow, and the sense of helplessness and loss that accompany watching the decline of a loved one to cancer is sometimes more than a person can bear. Mr. Stephenson might have done more good if he had dedicated his grief to founding truly science-based cancer hospitals that had ingrained in their culture caring and the "human touch." Unfortunately, he appears to have confused compassion and the human touch with "integrating" pseudoscience with science-based medicine. Instead of producing an institution that could really transform cancer care by preventing the tendency of large institutions to become impersonal, he's created a Frankenstein monster cobbled together using a lot of perfectly sound science-based treatments, including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation with pure pseudoscience like naturopathy and traditional Chinese medicine bolted on like the head of the Frankenstein monster.
Let me show you what I mean. I happen to have a few quick-and-dirty rules of thumb that allow me to rapidly identify a practice that is full of woo. These are just my opinion, but I find them fairly useful, much like identifying the "weasel words of woo" can be for Dr. Atwood. One of these rules of thumb states that, if a CAM practitioner offers "detox foot baths" as one of his services, he's a quack until proven otherwise (and he's unlikely to be proven otherwise if he's actually cynical enough or enough of a true believer to charge for quackery like "detox foot baths"). I haven't seen a naturopathic oncologist, either at CTCA or elsewhere, offer (yet) detox foot baths, but I have seen them offer homeopathy, and I've seen them advertise it at CTCA. In my opinion, homeopathy is rank quackery; there's just no other way to put it. In fact, these are the treatments that the naturopaths at CTCA offer:
- Nutritional supplements, including vitamins, minerals and amino acids
- Botanical medicine (the use of herbs)
- Homeopathic medicine
- Hydrotherapy
I'm always irritated when I see nutrition coopted this way. If you go to the nutrition page of CTCA, you'll find a lot of verbiage that sounds perfectly reasonable and science-based, albeit with exaggerated claims that science-based physicians don't pay any attention to nutrition. It's also claimed that malnutrition is one of the main causes of cancer death, accounting for perhaps one third of them, which is one of those claims that is superficially true but ignores the fact that many cancers cause cachexia by mechanisms that are poorly understood. This cachexia can't be reversed just by providing nutritional support, nor can it be so easily prevented. Worse, CTCA uses the term "superfoods," which is a marketing term designed to make claims about various foods far beyond what science will support. Certainly, it's not a medical or scientific term, and it's particularly annoying when CTCA claims that "superfoods" actually "fortify the immune system," as that's the same trivially meaningless claim made by woo peddlers of all stripes. In any case, the claim that CTCA is any better than any other cancer center at nutrition falls apart when I see things like this on its website:
According to the National Cancer Institute, 20% to 40% of cancer patients die from causes related to malnutrition, not from the cancer itself. CTCA chef Kenny Wagnor suggests loading your diet with anti-oxidants, which are found in bright colored foods such as berries. Chef Wagnor prepares a blackberry strudel packed with tasty berries and pecans–a great combination of cancer fighting foods!
At the risk of annoying certain readers, I will point out the logical fallacy here: non sequitur. It does not follow from the observation that 20-40% of cancer deaths are related to malnutrition that eating lots of antioxidants will help you beat cancer. In fact, it's controversial whether antioxidants help or hinder chemotherapy, as I've written about before. My pet peeve about how CAM practitioners abuse nutrition as being somehow "alternative" and not considered important by scientific medicine, note how CTCA naturopaths actually offer homeopathy to cancer patients. Yes, cancer patients are being given magic water in order to relieve the side effects of their cancer therapy.
The coopting of science-based modalities like nutrtion at CTCA doesn't end there. It's everywhere. For instance, look at the CTCA webpage on Oncology Rehabilitation. In addition to standard physical and occupational therapy treatments, CTCA also offers:
- Swedish Massage
- Reflexology
- Lymphedema Massage
- Myofascial Release
I certainly don't have any problem with Swedish massage. It's not a "therapy" per se, but there's little doubt that it makes patients feel better. Lymphedema massage, if done according to science-based principles and not according to some "alternative" medicine techniques, is a valid technique to try to reduce the lymphedema that can occur as a complication of lymph node dissections performed for breast cancer and melanoma. However, reflexology is pseudoscience, as is myofascial release. Once again, CTCA is "integrating" woo with science. This is not surprising, given that its entire website is permeated with what Dr. Atwood would call the Weasel Words of Woo. Here is an example from the Bone Cancer Treatment page:
Your body is designed to inherently establish, maintain, and restore health. The healing process is ordered and intelligent; nature heals through the response of the life force. The role of the naturopathic practitioner is to facilitate and augment this process, to identify and remove obstacles to your health and recovery, to help your body maintain its healthy equilibrium, and to support the creation of a healthy internal and external environment for you.
Note the vitalism inherent in this brief passage, in which nature heals through the "life force." This is not science. It has no place in science-based medicine.
Naturopathic oncologists versus science-based medicine
Given the vitalism that permeates naturopathy, it's not surprising that naturopathic oncologists, like naturopaths in general, are not too receptive to scientific testing of their "art." Sure, they say they are, but when it comes right down to it, in contrast to science-based physicians, naturopaths can't accept negative clinical trials. For example, take a look at what naturopath Timothy Birdsall, FABNO, who is Vice President of Integrative Medicine for CTCA, says about research finding that his favored therapies don't work. In the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians' blog, he wrote an essay earlier this month entitled The Problem With Research in response to clinical trial results showing that selenium doesn't help patients with lung cancer. Here are some choice quotes:
To top it off, the reason I was out of the office last week was that I was attending the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the advisory body to NIH's NCCAM. On that council, we have talked about just this issue – why do therapies which seem to make biological and physiological sense, which have some epidemiologic data to support their use, and which naturopathic physicians (and other alternatively-minded practitioners) have been using for decades (or much longer), seem to fail in double blind, randomized clinical trials?
We science-based physicians ask ourselves the very same question time and time again. Many are the seemingly plausible therapies that, when tested in humans, failed to show benefit in cancer. Here's the difference. When we see therapies, no matter how plausible, that fail in randomized clinical trials, we abandon them. True, it may take more time than we'd like. The process may be messier than we like, as some physicians who are wedded to these therapies are reluctant to give them up when science doesn't support them. We then move on to try to figure out where our understanding of the biology went wrong. But abandon them we do. We don't blame science and the randomized clinical trial (RCT), as Birdsall does. First, he trots out the favored canard of CAM practitioners everywhere and argues that, because RCTs "answer simple, straightforward questions" and (presumably) his woo isn't simple. Of course, the question of whether selenium can, as he believes, be useful in treating lung cancer is actually a pretty simple, straightforward question not unlike the question of whether a certain chemotherapy can prolong survival or increase the cure rate of a cancer. Instead of realizing that, Birdsall attacks science:
And so I began to ponder the question, "What's wrong with research?" A part of me becomes enraged at the reductionistic, allopathic, biomedical model, which breaks things down into components so small that all synergism, all interdependence is stripped away, and then declares those components to be ineffective. Another part argues that the wrong component was selected, or was a synthetic form (although in the lung cancer study, they used selenium yeast). But ultimately, I find myself becoming offended because I believe that these therapies work… Whoa! Believe? OK, but where is the role for evidence? I used to believe that stress caused gastric ulcers. And then along came Helicobacter pylori, and I had to change my belief to match the evidence.
Note the standard attack on "reductionism" and "allopathy" and the "biochemical model." Then note the irony as Birdsall, while declaring that naturopathic oncologists must become science-based and train the next generation of naturopaths to be "great scientists" (I spit up my iced tea when I read that line), he proposes in essence destroying science in order to save it for naturopathy–or, more precisely, to use it to legitimize naturopathy:
Third, we should collaborate with other professions and institutions to craft the research models necessary to adequately perform "whole systems" naturopathic research. There are examples of this type of approach already existing in the health systems research literature which can be adapted to our needs. In the end, we must create and validate the tools to dethrone the randomized controlled trial as the gold standard, and construct new ways to validate clinical approaches to health issues. Much as the homeopaths of 2+ centuries ago created the proving as a way to better understand and utilize their remedies, we must refuse to be limited by the way conventional medicine views health and disease.
I would argue that invoking the magical techniques of people who believe that diluting a remedy makes it stronger and that water remembers all the good bits that have been in it but forgets all the urine and poo (as Tim Minchin so hilariously put it) is not the way to argue for science. Of course, the short version of this is: If RCTs don't show that naturopathy works, we need to dethrone RCTs and make up our own research methods. Yes, I know RCTs have problems and limitations, but those problems and limitations don't include not being able to answer the question of whether selenium and antioxidants can improve survival in lung cancer patients.
Sadly, it's not just academia that is under siege by unscientific medical philosphies and treatment systems. True, academia sets the stage and promotes the spread of pseudoscience-based medicine because it is medical academia that does the research and trains the next generation of physicians. However, most medical care in this country is still provided by private physicians and private hospitals, and some private hospitals like CTCA have discovered that "integrating" pseudoscience-based medicine with science-based medicine can be a recipe for success. As "alternative" medicine infiltrates academia more and more, I fear that the stigma for offering these therapies will decrease more and more, leading to more hospitals and clinics like CTCA.
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I found the room on the private accommodation section of QMUL accommodation website last year (http://qmul.studentpad.co.uk/Property/4181404#agentdetails). The landlord's information is as follow:
Address: Flat 5, Moray House, Harford Street, London E1 4PH
Landlord: Mr Kamrul Islam
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Room number:1
Tenants:2 (shared room)
Rent: monthly, £600,
Due time: 12th every month
Pay date:3rd every month
Payment method: bank transfer
oral notice was given on 12th, April, text message notice was given on 15th April, the ending time is 12th May, Then I verbally applied for another one and a half month rent ( due time:27th June) and the landlord agreed. My friend and I paid £600 for the rent from 12Th May to 12th June on 3rd May. On 3rd June, we paid £300 as the rent from 12th June to 27th June. On 4th June, The landlord told us pay one month rent (£600) rather than half a month rent. we denied cause we will only life there for half a month. After a discussion (or quarrel), the landlord, my friend and I agreed to end the tenancy by 12th June.
From 5th June to 12th June, my roommate and I asked the landlord to return the £300 several time, The landlord said he didn't check the bank account or just kept silence and didn't give positive reply. On 12th June, my roommate and I returned the key and moved out the flat. The deposit (£600) was returned on 13th June, but the £300 pre-paid rent was still held by the landlord. Between 14th June and 19th June, my roommate dialed the landlord several times. The landlord said he has a final crisis and want to return by the end of the June. My roommate and I don't trust the landlord and I think he just make an excuse and don't want return the money. On 20th June my roommate told me the landlord didn't reply and asked me to push the landlord and ask the exact date of money transfer. I sent him the following text message:
" Please refund the £300 pounds by today, otherwise we will take legal action tomorrow"
My roommate and I didn't get any rely from the landlord on 20th June. In the following two days, we made many phone calls to the landlord and the landlord didn't pick my phone and finally relied my friend's and said he would have a conversation with my roommate on 23rd June. On 23rd June, The landlord still didn't give a clear answer about when he will give back the money and asked the reason why I sent a text message like above. I replied "it is our money and you don't have the right to keep it". We argued about 1-2 minutes and pissed each other off. At the end of the phone conversation, He told "take the legal action if you like" and hanged up the phone.
End of the story
I hope my reviews could be helpful to some other students or tenants, then they could avoid gross experience as I had.
The landlord still doesn't return the £300, I am going to resolve it in court.
Reviews on the Landlord and flat: ( just skip this part if you are not interested)
Generally, the landlord is mean and plays tricks
1. Shower boiler
He is too mean to fix the shower boiler and buy a cancun shower handset as an alternative. The shower water is cold when someone open the hot tap in the kitchen. We tolerated this and , in most cases, chose to have a shower at Qmotion gym as we have a membership of the gym.
2. Oven
He didn't fix the oven until I threaten that I would move out if he did fix the oven. It took one moth for him to fix the oven.
3. Leaving a small space in the kitchen for us, while the landlord took most the space in the kitchen
4. Mean on heater
a. Only open the heater close the midnight and turn it off in the following early morning (7am maybe)
b. Heater works for a shorter period than the campus counterpart
c. Only the landlord can get access to the switch of heater, my roommate and I can't get access to it. We asked the landlord to turn up the heater and refused by the landlord who complained the heater could cost a lot of bill (I know it is expensive to use the heat, but you promise all bills included and we can use the heater as we like at the beginning )
5. Arguing about the start date of the rent.
a. He argues that the rent start from the beginning of every month, but the tenancy contract states "From 6th August 2015-11th Sep. 2015 the rent is £400, the rent is £600 per month payable in advance from 12 Sep. 2015" .The start date of the rent is black and white, however the landlord still argued several times
b. We signed the contract on 06/08/2015, and we only paid £400 from 06/08/2015 to 11/09/2015 cause we didn't move in until 12th Sep. 2015. We thought the rent was reasonable and paid £400 to take the room from the market.
6. Asked to turn off the light in the hallway
a. One morning, I went to the shower and switched on the light on the hallway. I went back my room after shower and didn't turn off the light in the hallway. The wife of the landlord switched off the light, shouted at me aggressively, and told me she could sleep when the hallway light is on (her room gate is closed and the hallway light would affect her at all). I was planning to take my toothbrush and go back to the shower room for toothbrush. I kept silent and closed the door after she left. I didn't even want to argue with her cause I knew it makes no sense to argue with a person like her and the only way is to move out. After that experience, I made my decision to move out ASAP.
7. Didn't keep his words
8. Injustice. once, the landlord shouted at me when my beef was burned and left a smoky kitchen. He even threaten to kick us out in a week. We said nothing when her wife sometimes cook at 6am in the morning and created a strong curry smell in the kitchen and hallway. Also, we kept silent when her wife cook at both lunch time and dinner time(lunch time is reserved for us and another tenant).


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These guys—fiddler Ketch Secor, guitjoist Kevin Hayes, upright bassist Morgan Jahnig, guitarist Willie Watson, and banjoist Critter Fuqua—have definitely got the back porch vibe down cold. Their knowledge was earned the hard way—through incessant van touring and a stint in North Carolina, where they soaked up the culture and wound up playing the roots music mecca MerleFest when Doc Watson's daughter happened to stumble across them playing in front of a pharmacy. It sounds more like a story fit for the Soggy Bottom Boys than a quintet of 21st century upstarts, but when you're old school, you earn your stripes the old school way.
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But the look and the story (legend?) of O.C.M.S. would all be for naught if their album wasn't so sharp. The band scored their biggest coup when they joined up with producer David Rawlings, best known for his work with New Folk leading light—and fellow old soul—Gillian Welch. Welch pops up in a few places on O.C.M.S., (wo)manning the drum kit, but her and Rawlings's mere presence casts a sepia tone over the album—surely a move the Old Crow guys planned.
Rawlings-as-producer keeps things simple—it is a string band album, after all—and his laissez-faire approach allows the listener to appreciate the interplay between fiddle, guitjo, bass, guitar, and banjo on tunes like "Trials and Troubles" and "We're All in This Together". On a string band album, capturing the musicians' sense of community and camaraderie is as important—if not more important—than the songs themselves. On that front, Old Crow succeed admirably—the fun these guys are having playing together is pouring through the speakers and they sound like they know they are plugging directly into the music and mood of their forebears, both literal and figurative. (It's apropos, maybe, that much of O.C.M.S. was recorded at Woodland Sound Studios, where the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band made Will the Circle Be Unbroken some 30-odd years ago.)
But mood aside, O.C.M.S. bring the tunes, too. Much has been made of the band's punk leanings, but I don't hear it. Sure, they've got some barn-burning rave-ups in "Tear It Down", "Hard to Love", and "Hard to Tell", but it's nothing you wouldn't hear on, say, an album released on Bloodshot Records. If they're being pushed as a punk old-time string band, someone's marketing department is going about this band all wrong. If anything, a light should be shone on the band's "authenticity" (for lack of a better word) in recreating old songs—five of O.C.M.S.'s 11 tracks are traditional tunes—and, more impressively, their ability to pen new tunes that sound about 70 years old. Most of the writing duties are handled by Fuqua and Secor (with some contributions from Watson), but who woulda guessed a young guy like Fuqua could write a line like "My wife died hungry while I was plowing land" from "Take 'Em Away"?
Not only playing but internalizing old-time string band music and introducing it to 21st century audiences while still remaining true to the genre's roots will prove to be Old Crow Medicine Show's lasting musical contribution.
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Daughter of Providenceby Julie Drew
Julie Drew's extraordinary novel is a breakthrough work in the tradition of Richard Russo and Annie Proulx. summer, 1934: Anne Dodge, raised by her old-money father in a small Rhode island coastal town, has always been
The "sympathetic and compelling" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) novel about a young woman untangling family secrets and claiming her independence.
Julie Drew's extraordinary novel is a breakthrough work in the tradition of Richard Russo and Annie Proulx. summer, 1934: Anne Dodge, raised by her old-money father in a small Rhode island coastal town, has always been told that her mother abandoned them. But then Anne learns that she has a half- sister, Maria Cristina --and when Maria Cristina comes to live with Anne and her father, ugly truths begin to surface about the family.
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"First novelist Drew draws a careful portrait of both social and family problems." - Kirkus Reviews
"A sweeping drama...Drew perfectly captures the old New England feel of her shore-town setting and lavishes attention on the period details that transport readers back to the 1930s...Fans of Tara Hyland and Elizabeth Bard will love this poignant page-turner..." - Booklist
"Anne is a sympathetic heroine, and Drew's storytelling is compelling." - Cleveland Plain Dealer
"...a beautifully written and moving debut novel by an important new voice in American fiction." - BookReporter.com
A period novel—set in 1934—that examines dark secrets in a fading Rhode Island family.
The Dodges are well off (Old Money), though patriarch Samuel Dodge has been trying to reopen a family-owned textile mill that had been closed because of changing economic circumstances. His daughter, narrator Anne Dodge, is more interested in building boats with long-time family friend Ezra than in any business interests. A college graduate, Anne has yet to decide what she wants to commit to and is bitter that her Portuguese mother Inêz has run away from the family. Anne's bitterness is somewhat sweetened when Maria Cristina, her 12-year-old half-sister, unexpectedly turns up. Anne develops a curious relationship with her sister—she's in equal measure affectionate and irritated by her, especially when Maria Cristina constantly thrusts herself into every aspect of Anne's life. And while there's no doubt about the identity of Maria Cristina's mother, the identity of her father is problematic—Ezra? Or perhaps even Samuel Dodge himself? Anne's life becomes complicated when Oliver Fielding, a young and attractive entrepreneur, starts showing interest in investing in the mill as well as an interest in Anne. Further complications arise when a combination of social idealists and thugs protest Samuel's plan to "exploit" local workers.
First novelist Drew draws a careful portrait of both social and family problems.
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Betrayal, innocence, passion and mystery – author Julie Drew masterfully weaves these elements through a fresh tale that draws the reader in and doesn't let go until the stunning conclusion. This is a story that will transport you and leave you wanting more; I found myself re-reading sections and hoping that Ms. Drew continues the saga in another book. Daughter of Providence is a wonderful read, beautifully written, original, and thought provoking; you don't want to miss this one!
I read quite a lot of historical fiction, though not much set in the twentieth century, and I was knocked out by this. The atmosphere is wonderfully vivid and memorable, but the best thing about the novel is its sharply realized characters and their complicated relationships. The plot is strikingly interesting. I found this novel powerful and affecting, and it lingers in my mind. I read so much that I forget most novels fairly soon after I read them, but not this one.
Daughter of Providence is what excellent writing is all about: a strong, intriguing story line; powerful, page-turning drama; exquisite attention to language that is often poetic. Although I bought the book in hardback, I plan to get an e-book copy to have the novel close at hand. A superb first novel from an author worth following.
The setting of this novel is Providence, RI, which initially didn't interest me, but I quickly learned how relevant Anne's lessons were to my own life. Anne is learning who she is in an environment where a woman obeys her elders and her betters (in both cases, men). I found myself comparing my own philosophical and generational differences with my father as I read the novel, and I remembered all the times I thought, "When do I take a stand?" Then I compared the class struggles of the novel, particularly the results of a rapidly diminishing working class and a rapidly growing prejudice towards immigrants, and I realized that I could be reading about any American city today. The storyline is good, but it's the parallels that get you. Drew reminds us what happens to those who forget history. . .
I read this book in a day. It was great. It kept me guessing until the very end. I can't wait to read another of Julie Drew's books. She's an awesome writer. check it out!!!
Set in the labor, ethnic, and sexual politics of 1930's New England, this book still manages to be oh so relevant to today. At its core it is a family drama about the cost of keeping secrets and the even greater price of discovering the truth. The characters are wonderfully drawn; the plot kept me guessing until the final page; the prose is simply beautiful. A great summer read. It will keep you reading late into the night.
Daughter of Providence offers insight into the challenges inherent in our American melting pot. While we watch the new relationship develop between Anne, white and privileged, and her step-sister Maria Christina, second generation immigrant, we also see the pristine public image of Anne's father falter and implode changing the lives of everyone involved. Despite the depth of the multiple issues impacting the characters, such as race, class, education, and more, Drew's writing style makes this an easy but highly engaging read. Simply put, it's a page turner with a shocker of an ending readers should not miss.
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