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by Betty Dravis
Betty Dravis: Dr. Salvin, you are a first for me! I have never interviewed anyone with your special skills before, so I hope that we both learn from this interview. Since I am a devout Christian, I'm somewhat of a skeptic–but a skeptic with an open mind…at least during the course of this interview (laughs). I know that you believe in God, too, so am eager to see how your psychic skills fit in with His plan for your life.
As you know, my co-author and I write books called Dream Reachers and they're all about high-achieving people and the problems they encounter in reaching their dreams. I chose to interview you because you definitely fit that category. As well as being on popular websites like Dames of Dialogue and Student Operated Press, your interview will also be included in Dream Reachers: Vol. 2.
I met you through Facebook and you come highly recommended by actress Katherin Kovin Pacino who is one of your best friends. Tell us how you met Kat and exactly what it is you do. I read that you had been a successful public health official and that you got started on your new path through a series of traumatic accidents. Can you share about that? I realize your life reads like a book, so please share the highlights.
That said, let me welcome you to Dames of Dialogue with open arms. It's always fun talking about the "unknown," so I suspect we will have fun. I know our readers enjoy reading about interesting people and you, Dr. Salvin, are that and more.
Dr. Linda Salvin: Hi, Betty… and please call me Linda. We have chatted enough on Facebook to be on a first-name basis. I prefer the informality of places like Facebook, as I know you do.
First off, let me thank you for inviting me to participate with your Dream Reachers, Vol. 2 publication as well as the Dames of Dialogue and Student Operated Press. I am honored to be considered a high-achiever among your other featured people. You have such an impressive catalogue of celebrities you have interviewed throughout the decades, I cannot see how I got so lucky to be included in your collection. Again, my heart-felt appreciation…
To answer your first question, my background is Health Education and Epidemiology, the study of epidemics. Many people thought it was skin, which is dermatology. (laughs) Although I will discuss my educational background in depth below, once out of school, many strange events began to take place in my life. The first occurred in the fall of 1977 after I returned from Europe. I had just been offered a position at General Dynamics in Pomona for an Industrial Hygienist. The job entailed creating a program to ensure the health and well-being of the manufacturing plant from chemical and toxic exposures. The weekend following the interview, I had a bizarre fall in the bathroom where I passed out, was rushed to the hospital and found I had sustained a concussion when my head hit the toilet and broke a chunk of porcelain. I was laid up for about ten days, called the company and asked if they could hold the job for me.
All the while, something inside me told me not to take it. I ignored that little voice and worked there for two-and-a-half years. I established the Industrial Hygiene program just as OSHA was coming of age in the late '70s. I was one of four professional women in a very male-dominated industry of many ex-military personnel; certainly not the place for someone like me who once walked moratoriums for the Vietnam War in high school!
During my years in the health field, among other things, at USC I did brain tumor research as well as research on Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange, developed the drug abuse program for Cal State Northridge, taught AIDS education to kids on parole in the California Youth Authority. But the funny thing was, I just could not figure out how I ended up working at a gray metal desk with my window looking out at barbed wire fences. I quit my job without having another to go to. My spiritual journey was about to begin…
Betty Dravis: Sorry you had the accident, Linda, but perhaps that ended up for the better since it probably had a great deal to do with your rethinking your job situation…even if you did go on to work over two years in that program. (laughs) And NO, I can't picture you behind a "gray metal desk," but it's heartening to know that you were helping people in both phases of your career. But please continue. I'm eager to learn all about your spiritual journey and everything you do now. I know you're a popular radio host with a big following, but other than that… Hmmmm…
Dr. Linda Salvin: Well, Betty, I'm just as eager to tell my story. Talking it out is cathartic, in a way. OK, after leaving General Dynamics in early 1980, a friend from San Francisco asked if I wanted to house-sit their home while she and her husband traveled through Europe. (I had actually known my friend in high school and ran into her in a college class in San Francisco.) Her offer came at an opportune time for me, so I took advantage of the offer to partly decide if I would want to relocate to the Bay Area again and partly to escape many of the conflicts I was facing.
Not sure what I was going to pursue at the time, I decided to return to what I have termed, "the scene of my crime" to figure out what happened to me along the way. I moved back to San Francisco for two months, but loved it so much that I stayed five–until deciding to return home to Los Angeles where I planned to enter the music industry once and for all.
I had begun my spiritual trek a year or two before, seeking out what God and the universe really meant to me, had in store for me and what spirituality might mean to me. I went on unemployment, taking time off after six straight years of college followed by a few years of work. It was time to think things through.
While there, I interviewed at UC Berkeley for an Epidemiology appointment, was flown down to Long Beach for an Industrial Hygiene position. I was offered both and rejected both.
While in San Francisco, I took what was then called est training, a popular self-awareness workshop. After that experience, staying with friends and finally getting ready to make a commitment again, I packed up my car, drove down the coast and landed in my parents' home in Beverly Hills. It was also their 30th wedding anniversary party and I wanted to be there to celebrate with them.
In December, 1980, I interviewed with an insurance company for an Environmental Health Specialist position which I was offered. I was in training just two months when I received my first out-of-town assignment; it was in San Jose, California. I drove to Newport Beach to meet my partner and then to John Wayne Airport to catch a plane to San Jose. We were to test ethylene oxide exposure in an autoclave to determine chemical exposure levels in a hospital. We needed to determine the safety and toxicity levels to insure health standards were in effect. An autoclave is where surgical instruments are sterilized. We instructed the staff not to open the autoclave door during the next four hours. At the two-hour-check mark, we discovered someone had tampered with our sampling and invalidated our entire day's work.
We decided to pack up and head back to the airport. While sitting in the coffee shop, I turned to look at the parked plane and said, "Doesn't it look like it could crack there?" When my partner turned, he did not see the exhaust or settlement line that I did, which seemed to appear beyond the wing of the plane. An hour-and-a-half later, our plane crash-landed to avoid collision with another plane taking off on the same runway. Statistically, the probability of all of us surviving was about two billion to one. But we did! I guess you could say that was my first premonition.
My life changed forever that day, February 17, 1981.
I spent many years confused, frightened, spiritually challenged, alone and trying to figure out what had happened to me. When I say alone, I mean few people could identify with my challenges, feelings or sensations. I didn't know I had become so God-conscious and psychic at the same time. I did not know where to turn, who to talk to. Even therapists could not identify with me. I was in conflict for at least six years, to say the least.
However, during that time, I had a number of "wake-up calls": my car was hit by a fire-truck; in 1984, I totaled a car; and had the white-light experience and was given a choice to live or die. Had I not experienced all of this, I would not believe it either…
Yes, there is a God in my life! Although raised Jewish, my awareness of God broadened. Yes, I believe there is something out there directing us all on our journey–especially when we veer from our truth–or to encourage us to move more toward our higher and ultimate purpose if the soul's yearning to grow is such. I know I had a thirst for knowledge I did not understand in high school but was philosophical in my own right. Yet, as an adult, I entered the world of science and was less creative than I had been.
We all change through our decisions. What I have learned is that if we get off the path, by opening spiritually, we can return to our God-given self and become who we were intended to be…
The plane crash opened my eyes, as did all the other accidents. I was going toward music but then psychic abilities took over and although I ran for eleven years–while attempting to work in public health, health education at a local university, working as an epidemiologist in cancer research, etc.–things still did not sit right within me. I became restless and uncomfortable within my own skin and did not know why. It was as if a surge of energy was pushing me. Intelligence, attractiveness, education, a nice salary and gee, something still wasn't right.
Betty Dravis: Frightening accidents and experiences like that would make anyone sit up and take notice, Linda. Yours was a hard path to get where God wanted you to be. Thanks for sharing your San Francisco college years. What other colleges did you attend? Since your parents lived in Beverly Hills, is that where you were born? A so-called Valley Girl at that time? (laughs)
Dr. Linda Salvin: I grew up in Sherman Oaks, Betty; my parents moved to Beverly Hills when I was in grad school. My college education extends beyond San Francisco State University. I began undergraduate work at Los Angeles Valley College in Van Nuys, California and left in my sophomore year, February, 1973. This is where I made a very big mistake in my life that now is just a chunk of time for learning a big lesson–a painful one at that! I followed a boyfriend up to college even though we had just broken up. I did not have the courage to say I no longer wanted to attend that school, so I left home and went anyway. Not a good experience for me but I did earn my BA in Health Science in May, 1975. I can still hear my mother asking if I wanted to come home and my reply of "No!" How many times do I wish I had said, "Yes?"
That summer after I graduated, I was working as a camp counselor at a Girl Scout camp when I received a phone call from my mother, saying I had been accepted to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for my Master's in Public Health Epidemiology. I really liked studying disease and thought it would be exciting to do and I considered becoming a doctor. I quit camp, went to visit friends in the Bay Area, returned to LA and prepared for grad school.
Four years after grad school was the life-altering plane crash. Gee, did my life change!
In 1989, I was working for a private organization where we taught AIDS education to kids on parole in the California Youth Authority. On a weekend night, I was hit in my car by another car that jumped the lane, spun out on the Hollywood freeway. I was so frightened, I just said, "Oh, God, help me!" as I scrambled for the brake pedal. Like the Red Sea parting, all eight lanes heading north into the San Fernando Valley that night came to a halt and somehow, by the grace of God, I was able to turn my car around and drive over to the right shoulder where there were a few other cars who had been involved in the accident. I was not at fault. I had to get all the information from the other people. I knew I had a headache but did not know the extent of it at that time.
Each accident I had been in damaged my back, neck and arms, but they also took me out of my body and closer to God. After the last accident, I had such agonizing headaches that the neurologist told me it would take at least two years of treatment before I felt better. But after what I had been through since 1981, there was no way I'd spend two more years healing.
I was determined to get well fast, so I found a wonderful chiropractor who was able to unlock the pinched nerve and assist me. Thank God for chiropractors.
Betty Dravis: Those headaches must have been awful to endure, Linda, and I'm so glad you found help from a chiropractor. That's a wonderful testimony to their skills. My son-in-law Nick Rodriguez is a chiropractor. He and my daughter Allison own O'Hara Chiropractic in San Jose. He sure was a blessing to me when I suffered a pinched sciatic nerve. But please go on, your story is gripping.
Dr. Linda Salvin: Your son-in-law and daughter are healing people, too, Betty. I'm pleased to hear that. God's blessings on them…
The odd thing is that after that accident, I became more psychic, but due to the headaches, I quit my job, took on odd jobs and played music around town. But fate stepped in again: In 1991, I fell ill and needed emergency surgery. My gynecologist explained that as a result of tumors, if I didn't have surgery, I would end up dying. I remember him asking how important having children was to me. Having already by-passed a few of the relationships I had ever considered having children with, I knew the decision to surrender my child-bearing abilities for my life was my next challenge. So there I was, facing another very difficult and upsetting time…again.
The upside was that shortly after I began to heal, the energy from my hands began to flow from me and the healing gift I have today emerged. I did stand-up comedy for awhile and the joke was that they took out my uterus and I became a healer. Go figure… (laughs)
Betty Dravis: You've certainly had a lot of pain in your life, Linda, but you are such a giving, caring woman, I know you would suffer it all over again in exchange for the gift of healing and helping others. You're an amazing woman; a less strong woman wouldn't be able to endure what you did and then joke about it in your comedy routine. Wow! Tell us more… I'm eager to hear how you got started in radio, and I bet our readers are, also.
Dr. Linda Salvin: Well, Betty, I do have more to say, but I'm not used to talking in-depth about myself, so stop me if I go too far. (laughs) On the other hand, I could talk all night about my career. I love explaining the spiritual and metaphysical sides of life.
But first, I'll respond to your radio question: I got started in radio in1994. I worked for Psychic Friends Network, was in their Infomercial with Dionne Warwick for two seasons (1992-93), worked awhile as a psychic and then went out on my own. Shortly after the 1994 earthquake here in Los Angeles, I was selected out of 365 people to be the night-time psychic on Los Angeles's KBIG 104 FM radio. The station was one of the largest rock stations in town.
By that summer, I had built a following and was known as the radio psychic. The creative director there, who is still a great friend today, suggested I start my own show. I took his advice and after sixteen years, I have been nationally syndicated on AM/FM, cable and now I have my own Internet station. I hope to grow over time… as word gets out.
Betty Dravis: Congratulations on going national, Linda. That's a huge leap in the right direction. By stretching to reach your dreams, as we urge in our Dream Reachers books, you have fulfilled dream after dream. I'm sure your following will reach the stratosphere. I'm familiar with your show from your website and on Facebook and I got a taste of just how popular you are: When you and I started conversing there, I suddenly started receiving friendship requests from quite a few people who are huge fans of yours..and from your competitors, as well. (laughs) It was obvious, because they mentioned you in requesting my friendship. You can't keep any secrets on Facebook, can you?
Dr. Linda Salvin: I didn't know that, Betty, but you're right… (laughs) I love Facebook. It's a wonderful way to network, to meet people and, hopefully, help them with their everyday and health problems. Thanks for sharing that about my "fans" who contacted you. However, fans is such a presumptuous word… I like to think of them as clients…even friends.
But you asked about "all" I do, so I will start with metaphysics which is a combination of religion, psychology and esoteric beliefs. After all I had experienced and how I had grown, changed and evolved, I felt it best to validate my educational and professional side with the top degree to complement my previous academic degrees. I returned to school and received my PhD in 2008 from the American Institute of Holistic Theology
In the late '90s, I developed a candle line called Wicks of Wisdom® which are "…like a prescription for your soul."® These candles include three per set with essential oils, herbs and powders to assist spiritually to increase finances, love, health, luck, win legal cases, balance dysfunctional relationships and much more. For years, I have received testimonial after testimonial from my clients and that–along with the readings, healings and channelings–gives me great satisfaction. Knowing I have been able to help others achieve something on their journey through life makes it all worthwhile. People can see the candles on TV and our website http://www.wowtvoffer.com as well as http://www.lindasalvin.com
I mentioned channeling, Betty, and most people are interested in that. Here is the odd, painful way I came to learn I could channel: After the hysterectomy and the healing work, I discovered my body was developing more and more benign tumors. At one point I had about forty tumors removed from hips and thighs. They needed to come out as they each had their own independent blood supply, called angiolipomas.
I eventually discovered I was placing the energy from healing people back into my body. One day after surgery, I was wearing shorts, slapped my hands down on my lap and saw it: many of the scars of the various tumors that had been removed were in the perfect shape of my eight fingers and two thumbs. That's when I realized I had to change the way I dealt with energy.
I had three more surgeries for tumors by 1999 and each surgery seemed to elevate my gift. I have learned that since anesthesia is the closest thing to death, it may also have had something to do with the spiritual changes I went through while removing the negative masses of energy I had accumulated in my body (which are considered tumors).
After the first surgery to remove the tumors, I had a client come to see me. He asked about his wife who was deceased. I began to speak as if she were coming through me. He said I was just like her. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that I was given the gift of transmediumship after that surgery. All in all, the accidents led to opening up, finding God, knowing there is a force out there guiding me, you and the rest of the planet.
It appears that the first surgery took me to a new level and the following surgeries opened me up to yet a different world to help people, read, explore and comprehend the different dimensions of life.
I do not have enough time (or space here) to write a complete dissertation of my ideas of what this all means, Betty. I do know there is spirit; I do know there is something outside of ourselves and not just within ourselves that directs us. I feel that aligning and integrating is the key for the true life's happiness and purpose. Love, work, fulfillment, happiness, contentment come when doing God's will. There are challenges, decisions, choices and free will. I have learned how my will caused me upset and by becoming aware of spiritual laws, life's flow and synchronicity timing of people, places and things, life took on an entirely new meaning and path for my purpose and fulfillment.
Even while in therapy for treatment of the post anxiety stress disorder I suffered following the plane crash, I could not heal or recover properly. I had difficulty sleeping and awakening. The only way I began to feel comfortable was when I found God in my life. I began to trust the universe, the energy, and the messages of the universe. I began to see that everything happens in time for a reason; that God's rejection is God's protection; and a coincidence is God acting anonymously. I began to understand the synchronicity of life.
As I said above, a year after the plane crash, I was hit by a fire-truck and in 1984 had totaled a car and experienced the white light, where I was given the choice to live or die. Regarding the white light experience, I was driving home on a rainy night. The street lights were out. I was heading north as a car entered the intersection going west. I broadsided the car. I said to myself, "They're going so fast! I want to go home." Next thing I knew, my car spun out and as I was spinning and came to a halt, and–as God is my witness–a white light went from the top of my head, through the ceiling of my Camaro and into the heavens. I heard a loud voice say, "You can come with us now or stay and do…" and I was given a message I choose not to share at this time.
Freaking out, I chose to stay. Paramedics pried me out of my car. When I stood on the street, I cried, "They want me off the planet! They want me off the planet!" I was rushed to UCLA for observation. After all the accidents from 1981 to this one in 1984, I felt like something was out to get me, change me and finally, redirect me. I know, many people say they would never drive with me. The truth is, I have been through so many different events that most people never go through…or perhaps only once. But I've been through many which continued to alter my life and perspectives. After a while, I began to feel like I had a connection to the "other side," like a bumper car is connected by a metal rod to the electrical system above to drive around and bump other cars.
My first clients were through the Psychic Friends Network, even though after the plane crash my friends kept saying that everything I told them kept coming true. I knew I had become psychic but ran for eleven years before I embraced it and surrendered to using the gift for a career. The calls on the network helped me gain the confidence to read for people accurately.
Within months of my readings, I had several repeat callers telling me I was one of the few who knew what they were talking about, whose predictions actually came true and that I could help them. Six months into this, I received a call from the Psychic Friends Network office asking if I would be interested in being in their upcoming infomercial. I agreed and from there my psychic career took off. I worked the line a couple of years, was invited to do a few TV interviews like CNN-FN, Hard Copy, John & Leeza, etc. and one thing led to another. I had no idea what I was doing other than I created a business for myself using faith…with one foot in front of the other. Word got out on and off the radio, my client base grew to include celebrities and now, sixteen years later, I have read, healed and/or channeled for close to 18,000 – 20,000 people.
At the beginning of this interview you asked how I had met actress Katherin Kovin Pacino. Well, Betty, Kat and I met via my radio show. She was a listener, then a client. I read her a few times; she had already lost her husband Sal Pacino and I remember she had just met her current husband, Bill Lashbrook…or had just married him. We eventually became friends. She is a very down to earth, lovely person who I trust completely. That is difficult in the "Hollywood" scene. She is one of my friends who does not abuse my gifts and we understand each other. I do offer to assist her, to guide her. One of the sad things about my career is that there are people who want me only for my gift, but Bill and Kat see me as the person I am, as I see them for who they are, not what they do.
Betty Dravis: Twenty thousand people! Oh, my, that's impressive to think you've touched so many lives… Thanks for sharing how you met the gracious, charming Kat. I met her on Facebook and I'm grateful she led me to you. I agree, she's a lovely woman…inside and out. I was fortunate to meet her and Bill during the course of an interview for Dream Reachers, Vol. 2. My son Robert, his girlfriend Patty Carrillo and her mother Roma Vargas accompanied us to a fine Mexican restaurant in San Rafael. We had a wonderful time and it delights me that you both will be featured in our new book.
Dr. Linda Salvin: I heard about that from Kat, Betty, but I'd better get back to the question of how I got started in radio…before you get impatient with me. (laughs) I know you have a deadline: In 1994, after experiencing all I had in the '80s during that lost decade of mine–when all my friends were becoming yuppies and I was becoming psychic and spiritual with three near-death experiences–I had toyed with my music career again, but it never went anywhere. (Some news on that front is happening now, but I'll share that below.)
When I was accepted into the radio gig, I saw immediate financial results and opted to concentrate on radio and psychic work to help people (instead of my music). I gave up music for radio.
But my big news for today is that in February (2010), I just signed a new contract where I am being branded by a company for the new Dr. Linda Salvin Psychic & Astrology Network which is going to be a terrific new psychic and astrology line with great readers. I will be heard on national radio doing daily commercials for astrology and returning to terrestrial radio (AM/FM) with my two-hour broadcast, in addition to what I do currently online at http://www.lindasalvin.com We will be on hundreds of radio and TV stations advertising the line. The line will also upsell Wicks of Wisdom and the company will be airing my Infomercial. Therefore, everything I have done on my own until now (these past sixteen years) is being integrated and elevated to a new and grander level. Hopefully, we will go global.
Betty Dravis: OMG, Linda, your life story is mesmerizing. That white light experience would send the average person around the bend, but by that time you were deep into understanding your gifts, so were able to infiltrate them into your growing awareness of yourself and what you hope to achieve with your life. More power to you! And going national! All I can say is that you served a severe apprenticeship and are ready for it… Now, we have reached the point where you must share your other good news with us—your music news! I bet you are happy to finally be able to use your lifelong love of music as well as your psychic gifts. The future must look very rosy at the moment.
Dr. Linda Salvin: Gee, Betty, I thought music would simply be a form of pleasure and relaxation for me in my downtime at home. But as God and the universe would see it, after you asked me to write this, my dear friend George Brown (of Kool & the Gang) has offered to produce my music. We are meeting to discuss my songs which are quite spiritual and folksy. I began playing guitar at age nine and have never been able to evolve my style. I always sound like me, a folk singer, no matter what style I try to cover. I am most comfortable as a folkie, but was embarrassed by my style for many years. But now in the digital age, with online opportunities, it seems all genres are acceptable and music, which is the language of soul, is as unique as each of us. I have recorded demos of songs I've written and play rhythm acoustic guitar and am happy to finally be returning to the studio.
The future does, indeed, look rosy…very rosy! I am excited about the national syndication and the possibility of having my songs produced. I can't wait to see what develops.
Betty Dravis: That's encouraging, Linda. Music is a big part of who you are, also, and this opportunity will give you a healthy balance between the serious Linda and the fun-loving Linda. Go for it! But now, since we all love chocolate, I want to hear about this "heavenly healing, body-fortifying" chocolate you have on your website. I want some…and I want it now! (laughs)
Dr. Linda Salvin: Oh, I couldn't forget that, Betty! (laughs) Well, as I began working for myself, incorporating the spiritual trek I had been on–the numerous accidents, setbacks, career choices, the search for God and healing and what to do with myself–I reflected upon my education and realized what we need out there. As an undergrad in health education, I remember one professor pounding the definition of health into our heads: "Health is the state of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being and not merely the absence of disease." Ok… Well, after the accidents, I found that physical therapy, acupuncture, massage, psychotherapy, and other treatments I sought to calm my fears and suffering were not as helpful as seeking spiritual guidance with God and energy. So it dawned on me to incorporate my experiences and help others understand spirituality, spiritual health and integrate with my new gifts of sight and healing. So, I'm a spiritual psychic, metaphysical healer and medium.
Now here's where the chocolate comes in: I find products that work to help others, much like the healthy chocolate on my website. I have a very severe sugar sensitivity which I have battled most of my life but only in recent years have begun to understand and cope with. The smallest drop of sugar offsets my insulin levels so severely that my moods change drastically. I can become depressed, angry or weepy for a few days. Not a pretty sight… Remove the sugar and I'm fine. The same occurs with white flour products. Most of us do not understand that we really are what we eat.
While in New York in February, 2009, some friends introduced me to the product. I was nervous about trying it as I had not had sugar for nearly eighteen months. This was different, made for diabetics–which I am not. I am the opposite; my pancreas overproduces sugar. I guess I'm just so-ooo sweet! (laughs) Anyway, the product is full of antioxidants which destroy the free radicals in our body–which of course can cause our disease–so I decided to see what would happen. I had spoken to others and read miraculous health benefits from cardiovascular to diabetic.
The product is Xocai. The link is on my website. If any of your readers are interested, I would suggest they watch the video then contact me directly before purchasing so I can fully explain the product, health benefit and marketing abilities to make an income, too. If it works for me, it will work for you. Here is the link to the site. The video is amazing. Again, please contact me directly before ordering: http://mxi.myvoffice.com/lindacsalvin/index.cfm
In nine months on the chocolate, my cholesterol dropped forty-seven points; I visited the chiropractor twice in a year and not weekly as a result of the decrease in pain, an increase in flexibility and movement with synovial fluid; my arthritic pain and inflammation disappeared and I now have full range of motion in my neck where before I had about sixty percent from all the trauma in my past. The product works! The company says three or more a day is equivalent to eating a pound of broccoli. Which way would you prefer to ingest your antioxidants?
Betty Dravis: You don't have to be psychic to know the answer to that, Linda, so bring on the chocolate. I have nothing against broccoli, but much prefer the yummy taste of chocolate. (laughs) But now tell us, was your family behind you in your new calling? I know that most people don't deal well with change, so are there any humorous incidents from the time you switched careers that you'd like to share with us?
Dr. Linda Salvin: It pains me to say, Betty, but NO, my family has been very unsupportive about my chosen field as it is not something they understand, approve or respect. They were happy when I had my scientific title, and would have been more supportive if I had remained in the public health field. It has further isolated me from them with the additional challenges I have faced in building my business. No one could understand why I would be a psychic, let alone believe I am a psychic. I suffered quite a bit of ridicule from my family and even some friends, but when the infomercial ran and my parents' friends commented about seeing me on air, I got a little respect.
Unfortunately, there are the gypsies and fortune tellers who give us bad names and there are skeptics for whom I love to prove my psychic abilities.
No one could understand! I couldn't understand! All I knew was that I had developed a gift and after running from it for eleven years, I had to embrace it. I began my psychic career at age thirty-eight, radio at forty, received my PhD and launched the infomercial at fifty-four and here at fifty-six, I have an entirely new opportunity again.
Many people misunderstand the work, so there is no humor involved until I begin to ramble-off all the things that had happened to me. Before I reach the end, people do tend to grin a little…at the preposterousness of it all. And believe it or not, there are some things I haven't even mentioned. For one, I failed to mention that the City of Los Angeles denied the fire-truck accident… well, enough is enough, I'm sure… (laughs)
OK, how many lives have I had? I'm still here and wondering what all of this means and why me? I have scars inside and out, but I am how I am. If I can't find the humor past my own pain, how can I help others? I read, heal and channel with laughter even though many people do not understand my personality.
Laughter is natural medicine for the soul. I cry, I laugh. I heal, I love. I teach, help, heal.
Betty Dravis: Linda, I must say I don't know anyone else who has had that many bad things happen to them, but even I can see the humor in the way you describe them… all lumped together that way. Sort of a Divine Comedy up close and personal…or is it just the Inferno part of that classic? (laughs) But I admire your positive attitude and I, too, believe laughter is a natural medicine. Is that an additional reason for how you survived it all?
Dr. Linda Salvin: Well, most of the time it did feel like an inferno, Betty. (laughs) And I do believe that laughter, perseverance and God helped me survive…and it does to this day! I have fallen down, scraped my knees, cried my eyes out and yet, look outside on a beautiful day to see the trees, dogs, cats, flowers, birds and know that in the end, there is a reason for all of this and I do not give up. Now, as I mentioned, I have a company behind me when a year ago I thought it was dead for good. It was simply a trying transition.
The infomercial call center was not converting our sales, the radio station I had been on for three years went off the air and my mother passed away unexpectedly. All the plates I had been twirling–from radio, infomercial production, PhD, private clients, and whatever else I was doing–crashed….hit bottom. We can only do so much.
The universe will only give us as much as we can handle and allow us to see, heal and then start up again if you do not give up. Meeting the face of adversity is scary, painful and discouraging. I am not married (YET!) and have no one to fall back on except myself. And when I fail, I have nowhere to go but to God. Of course, I have friends, mentors, associates, family, etc. but when confronting some of the deepest and most spiritual transitions and experiences of my psychic gifts, accidents, surgeries and ascensions, I really had nowhere to turn, Betty. I just learned to go day-by-day and trust, believe and develop faith at such a level that people, places and things were put in my life for a reason. Most of the time I was right…
Sometimes we are forced to reinvent, redesign, rediscover and recreate ourselves. Not everyone is handed life on a silver platter with opportunities without hard work. Some people seem to have an easier time than others, true. I feel a lot is timing, chance and preparedness as well as the ability to create what you want and be willing to seek the opportunities as they present themselves. I know I have by-passed opportunities I regret in hindsight and I wonder what I will tackle next for the future. Each decision leads to another on the journey.
Betty Dravis: I have not had an easy journey, either, Linda, and I admire your ways of coping. I, too, trust in my faith in God and his son Jesus to see me through. But now I'm curious about something else: Most people in your line of work notice—or someone in their family notices—that the person has some psychic ability at an early age. Did you have any special abilities or did it all evolve after your accidents? And have your skills heightened as you inter-relate with more clients with special needs
Dr. Linda Salvin: As a child, I remember certain déjà vu experiences and a few past life experiences. I did not understand them at the time, but once I opened up, I began to remember. I recall something that occurred when I was about four years old: My father was showing me the sky in our backyard and I remember thinking to myself, Here I am again… meaning, I recognized that I had been here before. I know I am not of the earth plane. I did not understand it at the time.
I thought I had a pretty average childhood except I saw two planes collide in midair at age four. I began working for my parents at age ten, was a girl scout and sold cookies too. (laughs) Even then I knew that I was sensitive and intuitive, but I would not say I was psychic until after the plane crash awakened it and brought it all to light, so to speak. When I slid down the ramp from the plane, I noticed I was standing five feet, eight inches on the right side of my body and about fifty feet outside of my body on the left. That feeling (of being split in half) lasted about three or four months. I later learned I became what is known as a "walk-in," where someone is close to death and a new soul enters. Ruth Montgomery wrote a book called Strangers Among Us around 1979. She describes the theory of walk-ins and referred me to the book. I had no idea what it meant until a psychic explained the concept to me a month after the plane crash when she herself said, "You're a walk-in" and I asked what that meant.
Working with clients over time certainly helped me to hone in on skills, accuracy levels and my ability to immediately diagnose a situation with a client. I work quickly when I hear a person's problem.
As for clients with special needs, I have healed people from schizophrenia to heart pain and hives… I have lists of what I have done for people that traditional doctors or therapists have not been able to do. It is part of my spiritual gift. I just need to get it out to the universe on a grander level to reach more people. Your interview will also help me do that, Betty. Thanks again for this opportunity. Unfortunately, I cannot perform any techniques on myself, just as a psychic cannot read themselves! (laughs)
Betty Dravis: Your website lists many things that you do for your clients–readings, channelings, healings—and it also tells of your Wicks of Wisdom Candles and special healing chocolate. I admit that the idea of channeling and reincarnation is not in my belief system, but at the same time I believe you are the genuine thing…that you do have the gifts.
Thanks for explaining all that to us; people can visit your website to find out more and to read testimonials of how you helped so many others. But now will you please touch on a few downsides of your gifts?
Dr. Linda Salvin: One of the downsides, Betty, is that I am so sensitive that being in a mall can drive me nuts due to the various lights, sounds, voices. I tune in quickly in restaurants, can often read people at a distant table and feel their discomfort, lies and joys. I have learned over the years to turn it down and monitor my wave-lengths, so to speak.
Another upsetting factor is that many people abuse the fact I am psychic; they phone me as my friend when, in reality, they want help and are far from my "friend." When I shut down or put my boundaries up and state they need to pay, their attitude changes; they feel I owe it to them. I make a living professionally at this work, which is draining, tiring and often disturbing. But, people feel they deserve answers whenever they want, forgetting I am human, have a life, outside interests and try to work a schedule. The abuse that takes place is unbelievable and I really tire of it. My true friends do not cross that line. They pay me if they need me. Otherwise, we are friends and can enjoy life, love and fun outings together…without my reading for them. The biggest downside can be loneliness and being misunderstood.
Betty Dravis: You must have anticipated this question because you touched on it briefly above: I read somewhere that a lot of what a psychic does is a drain on his or her own system. Since you have experienced it, how do you prepare for a client session or for a radio show? And how do you unwind afterwards…with a glass of wine, as many people do when returning home from a hard day's work? (laughs)
Dr. Linda Salvin: Psychic, healing and channeling work is extremely draining. Many people do not understand the type of energy it takes to truly read. I pull energy from people. I am clairsentient, so I pick up emotions and practically get inside the other person or become them. I often hear people say, "He said that…" or "That's what I told my boyfriend…" or "How did you know I felt that…" and I simply say, "I'm psychic." Some people are more difficult to read than others as they are not as spiritual or psychically aware. Others test or play "stump the psychic" to see how I do and then I have to work twice as hard.
Many times I became angry as I pull their anger and give it back to them. My spirit mirrors them and the answers are revealed. In healing I absorb their negative and have to release it properly so I do not get ill. Channeling is a very different process. There are times I have been nauseous all night and when a client called for her appointment I explained I may not be able to read due to feeling so ill. Her response was, "Oh, you have Sally, she died of stomach cancer."
On another occasion, I did not sleep for two nights prior to a session; turned out the channeling was for a woman's deceased husband who died of sleep apnea. Another time I had an excruciating headache, only to find the client's friend passed of a brain tumor.
Channeling is draining, the energy comes in on the right side of my brain; I bring in one voice or spirit only; I am not good with party lines, as I call them, with more than one spirit. I translate what I hear and convey the messages. People are stunned at messages that come in about their childhood, clothing, food, events, cars, places they went, etc. Those are confirmations that their loved ones are around. There is a fine line between the physical and spiritual world. I communicate to give comfort and closure with love.
Despite the drain on my emotions, the letters of gratitude, emails, and testimonials on the radio over the years have made the work more than worthwhile. To know I have somehow touched the lives of others during grieving periods, painful periods, healed where doctors failed and eliminated frustrations…or a prediction about a sale of a home, getting a new job, meeting a new mate came true is gratifying. The excitement in a person's voice is overwhelming and pleasant.
As to how I prepare… Well, Betty, I prepare with a bit of meditation and protective shielding and sometimes with prayer to protect against negativity. I know I have protection, but when some negative spirit enters me it will throw me off balance even for a few days before I realize I am not myself; that an entity is attached to me or is in me. Many times, standing under a hot shower for awhile is the most healing and cleansing I can do for myself. There are essential oils and salts I bathe with at times to prevent the spirits from harming me, as well. This work can be damaging, which I do not even understand.
I do not drink alcohol. Lots of water, tea, and coffee are my liquids of choice. I try to drink a lot of water more than anything and flush my system of toxicity. I relax by looking at the sky at sundown as the colors of the day change. God paints a different sky each night, you know? The night sky is fascinating to me. I love the constellations, the Milky Way, watching the moon rise and shift in the sky. I observe certain planets and stars. Sometimes I look up and wonder why I'm here and whisper, "I want to go home," but I know I'm not done yet. I usually go out to dinner with friends in the evening, catch a movie or listen to live music. That is how I relax.
Betty, I could write a book on the channelings I have conducted and that would take up too much space for your interview, LOL. If I had not experienced psychic abilities, metaphysical healings or channeling the spirits with such great effectiveness, I would be skeptical. I have lived it, so I know it is real. I do not know why me or how I was chosen, but I was. It is not what I thought of as a good time when I was growing up. I did not seek this, it came to me as a result of surrendering my path to God's will and allowing the universe to use me as I was to become…a vessel of information to help others on a spiritual level.
Betty Dravis: I am amazed at how much you love people, Linda. To be willing to open yourself like that is extremely loving and caring. You are a very strong person and I admire you so much. In fact, your life story is mesmerizing. I especially enjoyed hearing a few of your success stories and if our readers want to know more, they are welcome to visit your website.
Now for a lighter question: Since you reside and work in the LA area, do you have any famous clients besides actress Katherin Kovin Pacino (who is also the stepmother of the living legend, actor Al Pacino)?
Dr. Linda Salvin: Some of the famous people I have worked with include movie producer Christine Peters; actresses such as soap stars Elaine Princi and Jasmine Blythe; singers Dionne Warwick, George Brown (Kool & the Gang), Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night), Vince Neil (Motley Crue) and Chris Poulson (Superficial Saints); actors Courtney Cox, Shadow Stevens, Rick Dees, Caroline Rhea, Cheech Marin (first known for Cheech & Chong, but who became a respected performer in his own right); Reality TV star Chad Rogers; author & infomercial king Kevin Trudeau; and an ESPN reporter when I predicted a world series in 2000…and many, many others. The list is on my website.
Betty Dravis: Wow—that's an impressive list, Linda. Now I'm curious to know if you've ever met a real, live ghost…er, make that a real, dead ghost? (laughs) Or been in a haunted house?
Dr. Linda Salvin: Betty, paranormal is not my thing. I prefer light to dark. It is fascinating to record sounds, voices and observe sightings, but it is not my specialty. But since you asked, yes, I have seen ghosts and I'll relate a few experiences for you: I had been on TV for a local show in Los Angeles called "9 on the Town" which is not on anymore. I was asked to visit the Queen Mary in Long Beach to identify all the haunted areas on the ship. In the show, you see me on tour with a staff member of the ship and I accurately identify the spirits, ghosts and locations of deaths on the docked Queen Mary.
Another incident: In 1992, a rock star passed away. He attended my high school, although I had never met him. He began channeling through me three days after his death. I have had messages from him for several years and effectively bring him through on the Ouija board. Yes, Betty, there are ways to effectively communicate with spirits safely with the Ouija board…and it can also be very dangerous. Anyway, on two occasions, he made himself present in my homes. The first time I saw him, he was standing in the doorway of my bedroom and hallway of an apartment in 1993. I was not scared; I was comforted, actually. The second apparition occurred when I rented a small home in the canyons. I had a fire going in the fireplace and he was sitting on the ledge of the fireplace. I just stared at him and he stared right back.
I've also seen shadows of my deceased animals walk by. I have not seen my mom who passed last March, 2009, but my father saw her in his new condo recently… Spirits and ghosts are real.
I felt spirits in a haunted hotel once and in a cemetery, I literally could hear voices of the deceased speaking to me in a certain row, yelling, screaming and requesting that I take them with me, get them out of there, release them from the grave, etc. I thought I was nuts but then I remembered what I do, who I am, why I was there, and I'd be ok. Two rows over, it was quiet. Go figure… Yes, spirits are alive in the graveyard too.
Betty Dravis: I might be a big sissy, Linda, but that gives me the creeps, but then I love horror movies, so go figure that oxymoron.
Now what do you think of Sylvia Brown, the psychic that TV personality Montel Williams presents on his show so frequently? And John Edward (McGee), famous for his TV show Crossing Over… Do you believe his claims of communicating with the spirits of the audience members' deceased relatives?
Dr. Linda Salvin: In 1994, prior to the earthquake, I was given Sylvia Brown's book My Guide, My Self. It is the only one of her books I have ever read. She has "ghost' writers," of course, speaking of ghosts. (laughs) Her book was fascinating and I related to it. I will not condone or condemn her work. I known that no psychic is one-hundred percent accurate and I do not believe any psychic should charge $750.00 for thirty minutes. There was a time when I received many of her clients, as well as James von Praagh's… As for John, I really do not know his work. I know people who have been to his seminars and simply adore him. I am sure he is extremely talented as a medium.
Betty Dravis: On the lighter side–and I do have a lighter side, Linda (laughs)—what is the best advice you ever received from your mother? Your father?
Dr. Linda Salvin: My mom used to say, "Always finish what you start." God knows, there are projects left undone, paths yet to be traveled. She would warn me not to get involved with certain guys, so of course I did. And, I paid the price later.
My dad would say, "Don't worry what others think, worry about yourself," but I was too insecure to understand for a long time. He would always want me to "give it the ol' college try" when I was down. When I complained that the good guys are either married or gay, he'd say two things: "They broke the mold when I was born," and "Linda, there's an ass for every chair that's built." My parents' advice served me well, but the one thing my dad said that is most helpful in my business is: "Get it in writing."
That's my dad! Just so you know, my parents built a company when I was young that was number fifty-eight on the NASDAQ. It went international and they travelled more than any rock band ever did. They were married fifty-eight and a-fourth years when my mother died. It was a soul-mate love affair. They were very happy and great parents. I still have my dad, thankfully.
Betty Dravis: I'm sorry to learn of your mother passing; belated condolences. But I'm glad you still have your father and it's wonderful to hear of successful marriages. I never tire of soul-mate stories. You were blessed to have such warm, loving parents. Even though they didn't understand your gifts, at least they raised you properly and gave you a great start in life; truths to fall back on.
But you can breathe a sigh of relief soon, Linda… I'm nearing the end of your grilling, but first I want to put you on the spot. Since you do telephone readings and answer on-air questions from your many followers–even on an international level–have you been able to "read" me through our Facebook and email correspondence. Please share what you have "picked up" about me…but be gentle. (laughs) I don't want to be a fair-weather friend, always seeking free answers and taking advantage of you, so I promise this will be a one-time thing…for the sake of the story.
Dr. Linda Salvin: OK, here goes, Betty… I feel you are jovial, fun, light-hearted and have a zest for life. You take each day as it comes, but with the strife we all do. You were brave in your day and are even braver and more carefree today. You are in excellent health, love your family, are down to earth and have three to five more publications still unwritten and yet to be published. Another contract is offered this summer/early fall for you. You also have a trip coming up this summer. October appears to be significant with publishing and family, so we will see what that brings. People love you and you love people, but you are selective as to who really gets to know you. You do have your boundaries… The person who crosses you will be sorry. You have a legend to leave the planet down the road. Country and nature are very important to you.
How's that for starters?
Betty Dravis: That's a fine start, Linda, and it intrigues me. It's odd to hear anyone tell me about my future. Since it is all positive, of course I love it, especially the part about my publishing and a new contract offer. There is, actually, something in the works; I'll let you know how and when it works out. And you are spot on: I do love people and am selective about who really gets to know me. I certainly hope no one crosses me because I truly don't want to make anyone sorry. (laughs)
But speaking of love, your love of people comes across in your on-air delivery and on your various internet sites. It has been said of you: "Her love of people is a beacon in the darkness." That description reminds me of a lighthouse, a fitting metaphor for you, IMO. You are warm, cozy and light the path…
I haven't seen you on TV, but your dear friend and client, actress Katherin Kovin Pacino, tells me that you positively shine on camera—and I believe it! Even your internet personality is endearing. You glow…
Before ending this interview, is there anything else in your immediate future… in addition to the fantastic news about your show being syndicated and going national and that your music may soon be produced?
Dr. Linda Salvin: I'm most excited about the new Dr. Linda Salvin Psychic & Astrology Network, of course. We discussed that above, but going national is a dream come true! As for other projects, in addition to the TV shows I mentioned above, I have a resume of shows on my website, but another exciting thing is that I recently did a pilot for a new psychic show. If it is picked up, I will be featured in thirteen episodes. I also have a few treatments and a script for a sitcom, talk show and movie, but so far have had no luck in selling them; all are based on my experiences as a psychic. And I'm also working on my autobiography.
Also, I would like to mention that I'm published in a book called Chopped Liver for the Family Spirit that consists of stories of overcoming adversity with people like Peter Marshall, Shelley Berman and the late Lloyd Thaxson.
Betty Dravis: That is certainly a full plate, Linda. I wish you the best of luck with all your projects. Now, if you will, please share three things that you couldn't live without.
Dr. Linda Salvin: Betty, I have to mention four things I couldn't live without: First are my father and friends. And it's obvious that I couldn't live without being able to help people, so my abilities are extremely important to me. I also love to travel and have been through most of the US, Europe, Japan, Thailand, parts of Mexico and Canada. And last but not least, I need my music in my life. I am beginning to return to music again. I'm playing guitar and re-writing songs. I have met new collaborators. Where I had once given up, doors seem to be opening.
Betty Dravis: I'm so happy for you, Linda. You are already a star in the LA area, but with your show going national, I hope you will soon be a household name…recognized by everyone. I wish you much success with your new show. That's awesome! I think we've established that you, Dr. Linda Salvin, are a dynamo…a regular whirlwind of energy who finds great satisfaction in helping others reach their goals and dreams…to live happier, healthier, more productive lives. And that's why we selected you to be in our Dream Reachers book: because you are a phenomenal Dream Reacher!
Before departing, Linda, please share with us how interested parties can reach you. A list of your internet links, radio call letters, phone numbers, etc. will be very helpful. Of course, you don't have to repeat the ones mentioned above.
Dr. Linda Salvin: People interested in a private, paid consultation for a reading, healing, channeling session or to purchase Wicks of Wisdom can call my office at 818-788-6077 direct or leave a message at 888-509-1077. The website is www.lindasalvin.com which also has my internet radio station. I play several pre-recorded radio shows 24/7 as well as do a live show on Saturdays at eleven am PDT, which you have called in and spoken with me. I will be returning to KABC and that show will be syndicated. There will be astrology spots on sixty-five stations nationally soon. People will soon hear about the Dr Linda Salvin Psychic & Astrology Network where they can call fabulous readers for spiritual and psychic advice.
Betty Dravis: Thanks so much for sharing your goals and dreams with us today, Linda. I truly enjoyed visiting with you. Keep us posted on your future achievements and I'll let you know when your predictions for me come true.
Dr. Linda Salvin: I would love to continue keeping you posted with future events, phone numbers and releases as I evolve into the next phase of my life. The activities are multi-faceted because I love so many things. Ultimately, though, I hope to find the love of my life and partner with my twin. I feel I recently met him. Let's see if I'm right…if things turn out the way I hope…
Before I leave, Betty, I forgot to add something about how my faith and trust in the universe helped me overcome all the adversity and somehow it is leading me back to some of my original goals and passions, as well. Therefore, God has a plan and we never know what it is. Everything happens for a reason! There are no accidents. We just have to become willing to surrender and follow His will, which may not be ours.
OK, that's it! I promise…no more! (laughs) Thanks to you, your co-author Chase Von and the other Dames of Dialogue for letting me express myself so openly. Keep up the great Press and please keep in touch.


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Lanzarote Gets The Go Ahead
The Spanish town of Costa Teguise, on the Canarian Island of Lanzarote will welcome the PWA to its shores for the second bout of men's freestyle, and the first showdown in the women's freestyle discipline.
Dates have been confirmed, and the action will take place between the 23rd and the 28th of June. Expect to see all the big names from men's and women's freestyle throwing down in anything from light breezes, to 40 knot trade winds and mast high surf. If last year is anything to go by, this event will go off.
Tune into pwaworldtour.com to stay up to date with all the action from this freestyle epic, including awesome photo and video galleries, interviews with the sailors, and daily summaries of the competition.
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Coke's progress partially allays Leyland's concern
Coke's progress partially allays Leyland's concern
"Obviously, we need to get him going, so I would say that ... Concerned? A little bit. But in a panic mode? No," Leyland said. "But we've got to get him going. He's very important for us, because our other two lefties are very inexperienced. So it'll be important to get him going. It's just a matter of him getting the ball where he's trying to get it."
Leyland expounded on those comments Thursday.
"I thought his velocity was better [Wednesday]," Leyland said. "He's just having, up to this point, a funny year. But we've got to get it changed, because he's very important for us. [Duane] Below's really not an ideal specialist lefty guy. He's a long guy and a good one."
"Up here, the bottom line is the bottom line. It's about results. But I do think Cokey threw the ball much better [Wednesday], and he had a tough confrontation with [Eric] Chavez, who did a heck off a job."
The Chavez at-bat lasted 11 pitches, including seven foul balls, before Chavez slapped a ground ball to second for an RBI groundout. The vast majority of those pitches were curveballs.
Coke threw 25 pitches, 21 of them for strikes. Just two of those strikes, however, were swings and misses. That might be a statement about his breaking ball more than his velocity or command.
"I see some that are sharp and some that aren't," Leyland said. "That's just an observation from the bench. When you see the one that's got the late bite, they usually miss it. And you see the one that just kind of goes, they foul it off. And that's what Chavez did."


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Great silhouette. And I think Lyndee is right. It's close to prime rib and half a year of steer from being a bull.
Time for some prime rib!!!! :)
Man oh man, that's a whole lot of bull.
Beautiful photo, JC!!
EEEEEEEEK!.......It's devoured nearly a whole tree!..........
Yup ... definitely think it's better to be on the opposite side of the fence ! Don't wear anything red !
What lurks in the shadows can cow mankind. (Oooooh! I know, but I had to do it)
What a neat shot! Thanks, Jim. :-))
Hopefully just curious, not threatening? Great photo.
That's a lot of BULL ...
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Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography, expanded 2nd edition
(Rizzoli Books, 2007)
Essential reading for anyone interested in the world-famous realist artist, this biography, now in a second, expanded edition, doubles the number of illustrations, and includes a section of paintings in color as well as a section on Hopper's international influence on culture, especially on contemporary art, poetry, and cinema. The original biography (Knopf, 1995) has long been considered the seminal review of Edward Hopper's life and work. The biography's focus is the laconic, introverted painter's stormy forty-three-year marriage to outspoken and gregarious Josephine ("Jo") Nivison, herself an artist, and draws extensively on Jo Hopper's intimate diaries, which she kept from the early 1930s until shortly before her death in 1968 (just ten months after her husband died). Gail Levin is a professor of art history at Baruch College and The Graduate Center.
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Brandon J. Duckworth (born January 23, 1976 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is a Major League Baseball player. A right-handed starting pitcher, Duckworth currently pitches for the Kansas City Royals.
From 2001-2003, the first three years of his career, Duckworth pitched for the Philadelphia Phillies, compiling a 15-18 record. While with the Phillies, Duckworth had a fan section called the Duck Pond. On November 3, 2003, he was traded by the Philadelphia Phillies with minor leaguer Taylor Buchholz and Ezequiel Astacio to the Houston Astros for Billy Wagner. Spending the next two years in Houston with limited playing time, Duckworth signed as a free agent with the Pittsburgh Pirates in December 2005.
Without wearing a Pirates uniform in 2006, he was traded by Pittsburgh to the Kansas City Royals for cash considerations. In his first two seasons with the Royals, his record was 4-10 with a 5.37 ERA.


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Is there anyone in state education who has not been involved in attempts to persuade the poorest young people to go to university? Primary and secondary schools, further education colleges, universities, their students and education charities have all been doing their bit. The government pledged £430m on "widening participation" in higher education for 2006-07. This goes up to £436m for 2007-08. The government says we need to attract students from a broader cross-section of society for "social justice and economic competitiveness".
And yet, despite the efforts and considerable funds, the programme has seen limited success. "Progress remains stubbornly slow," Bill Rammell, the higher education minister, now admits.
Numbers must rise
The latest statistics from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) show 24.72% of those accepted to university were from the four lowest socio-economic groups in 2005. The year before the figure was 25.61%. The government has not set a target for the number of young people in higher education from the poorest backgrounds, but says it wants numbers to rise. By 2010 "towards 50%" of 18- to 30-year-olds should be in higher education, the government says.
This week the initial findings of a study commissioned by the Higher Education Careers Service Unit (report, page 10) indicate that if a student's parents have been to university, they are twice as likely to go as a student whose parents have not.
Speaking to Education Guardian, Rammell offered his answer to the lack of success in widening participation: the mistake has been in targeting the wrong students, as well as many of the right ones. He believes Aimhigher - the organisation that coordinates widening participation activities across England - has had a "scatter-gun" approach to raising the aspirations of disadvantaged groups, rather than prioritising those who should be targeted. Students who were anyway likely to go on to higher education have taken part in the activities alongside the main focus - those who were not.
"[Aimhigher] hasn't been rigorously targeting students from the poorest backgrounds," Rammell says. "It has gone significantly beyond people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. The first priority does have to be those who have families who have not gone into higher education."
This is an embarrassing situation for the government after six years of effort. Aimhigher was launched by the Department for Education and Skills in 2001, under the name Excellence Challenge. It joined with Partnerships for Progression, run by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) and the Learning and Skills Council, becoming Aimhigher in 2004.
Last month Sir Martin Harris, director of the Office of Fair Access, suggested some of the money currently spent on bursaries might be better used targeting children in their early teens from families that have never experienced higher education.
The minister himself now wants students taking part in widening participation activities to be asked the occupation of the main wage earner in their household, the educational background of their parents or carers and the postcodes of their home and school. They will also be quizzed on their ethnicity, age, sex and asked about any disabilities.
This way, it will be easier to monitor how effectively widening participation activities target the poorest. "Data has been previously collected, but not an accurate picture established," says Rammell.
Now he believes the most labour-intensive and expensive activities, such as mentoring, master classes and extended taster days at universities, should be only for the very poorest students. By this he means students who come from families in which the main earner has a "routine" occupation, such as a bus driver or cleaner, a "semi-routine" occupation, such as a care assistant, or a technical role, such as a train driver.
He also wants primary school children and adults over 30 from under-represented groups to be included in more widening participation activities, along with the core age group of 13- to 19-year-olds. His guidance and that of a task group from Hefce were published last week.
What has gone wrong?
So where has Aimhigher gone wrong? Katherine Hewlet, head of educational development and widening participation at the University of Westminster, agrees with the minister's description of Aimhigher's approach as "scatter-gun", but believes the programme hasn't done so badly. "Monitoring and evaluating those who take part in widening participation activities has been piecemeal, but despite this, Aimhigher has been absolutely excellent, particularly in the way it has fostered collaborations between schools and universities."
Jo Wiggans, director of Aimhigher in Greater Manchester, does not agree with Rammell's assessment. What might look like a "scatter-gun" approach from the outside is in fact "focused targeting" - for example, rural and urban areas are treated very differently, she says. "The funding was always targeted in Aimhigher so that the Greater Manchester urban area, with very high levels of urban deprivation and therefore low levels of participation in higher education, receives 10 times as much Aimhigher funding as a small rural partnership in an area of relatively high participation in higher education, so there are different approaches. But all of them are targeted."
Wiggans says until now Aimhigher has targeted young people on the basis of whether their parents have been to university, rather than whether they are in the lowest socio-economic groups. "The statistics are clear that socio-economic status is the vital defining factor and I think this guidance is throwing down the gauntlet," she says.
The "scatter-gun" approach is not necessarily a bad thing, says Geoff Parks, director of undergraduate admissions at Cambridge University. "Widening participation activities are about more than just whether a student goes to university," he says. "They affect what they aspire to do and where they aspire to go."
Rammell and Hefce's guidance throws up all sorts of difficulties for teachers. Should they, for example, tell better-off pupils they cannot go on a trip to a university with their friends? How easy will it be to establish the likelihood of a pupil going to university based on what they say about their dad's job?
Creating a rapport
Essex University has managed to raise the proportion of its students from the poorest backgrounds more substantially than most in the past few years. In 2003-04, 28.1% of its students were from the lowest socio-economic groups - just under average for a UK institution. A year later the figure was 30.1%.
Rachel Earle, head of undergraduate admissions and widening participation at Essex, says this is in part because the university has created a rapport with the families of students who have no experience of higher education. It has also grown its "outreach programmes" with schools and colleges that have low participation rates in higher education.
"We've found our parent and student summer schools for families not acquainted with universities to be a great success," she says. "We have also increased the amount of work we do with children in care and local authorities. But widening participation does take time and we have to all allow for that."
Parks believes the government's own actions have derailed the widening participation programme. "If the government stopped making so many changes, prospective students would better understand what it is all about. I'm talking about the constant change in the organisational structures associated with widening participation, changes in the funding arrangements, changes in the secondary curriculum and examinations systems and changes in student funding arrangements," he says. "Every time there is a change, the better advised and informed adapt more quickly and gain a temporary advantage, even when the change is intended to benefit others."
At Cambridge University, 12.4% of students were from the lowest socio-economic backgrounds in 2004-05, compared with 11.4% the year before.
Afi Narh-Saam decided to apply to Cambridge, where she is now studying law, after visiting the university with her south-east London comprehensive. She believes widening participation activities should focus on pupils before they get to year 12. "As far as I am concerned, those are the important years that any scheme should focus on," she says. "Finding out in year 12 that music technology or drama will hinder one's chances of getting into Cambridge is definitely too late."
In and outside the box
Shabana Pervez, who attended a Birmingham comprehensive, decided to apply to Cambridge after an Islamic Society access day. She is now studying theology and religious studies. She says her teachers played a big part in encouraging her to apply. "Schools must encourage their students to aim higher from a young age," she says. "We are all told to 'think outside the box', but teachers must ensure students know there is a box in the first place."
Other universities, such as the University of Westminster, attract more students from the lowest socio-economic groups by virtue of being located in very diverse areas. Students from the lowest socio-economic backgrounds made up 44.2% in 2004-05. A year earlier they made up 43%.
But Hewlet says Westminster's location is not the main reason for her institution's success in recruiting such high numbers of the poorest students.
"It's also to do with us having easy transport links to students from across London," she says. "And we have a very broad range of vocationally relevant courses. We have a high number of students from further education colleges and our teaching and learning styles reflect that."
Across the sector, it is getting harder for the lower socio-economic groups to get into university because those whose parents went to university take it for granted that they will too, making competition for places tougher, says John Selby, director of widening participation at Hefce.
This does not deter Dr Richard Miles, an admissions tutor at Cambridge University, or many others in his position. Already this year Miles has visited disadvantaged areas in Lincolnshire, Manchester, Leicestershire, the Wirral, Bath, Somerset, Bedfordshire, London and Yorkshire. His message to students is that "Cambridge is about an intellectual rather than socio-economic elite", he says. The pace of improvement may be slow but across the sector plenty of effort seems to be going in.
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Summertime. Katharine Hepburn finds love and gentle heartbreak in romantic Venice; with Rossano Brazzi (TIME, June 27).
The Great Adventure. Arne Sucksdorff's nature film, a blending of terror and tenderness in the seasonal round of life in a Swedish forest (TIME. June 20).
The Seven Year Itch. Though they promise more fun than they deliver, Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell help Director Billy Wilder make George Axelrod's comedy a fairly engaging romp (TIME, June 13).
Hiroshima. A propaganda-heavy but harrowing Japanese-made film about the atomic destruction of a living city (TIME, May 23).
Violent Saturday....


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Building a Six-Figure Counseling Practice:
According to Salary.com, a Licensed Professional Counselor working in Cambridge, MA makes a median average of $40,798 per year. In a city where rent for a small apartment runs north of 2K a month, that's beyond bleak.
While nobody chooses counseling as a profession because of the high pay, is dismal compensation our fate? Financially speaking, are counselors better off giving advice while tending bar? I don't think so.
With good planning and hard work, earning over $100,000 profit in year two of private practice is for many an obtainable goal.
Money in Private Practice
As counselors, we loathe to discuss money–we want to focus on patient care. However, it's a necessary part of keeping the doors open. Truth is, you can't help anyone if you're out of business, and a counseling practice is precisely that—a business. Hence, we're going to look at the financial aspects of running a viable business/practice.
Note: the following numbers are only estimates for a solo-practitioner in private practice. You might need to adjust expenses, client fees, and volumes based on your own goals and the costs of your area. I've tried to be conservative when referencing revenues, and liberal when referencing expenses.
Client Fees
Client fees vary depending on location and payer and whether it is an in-office visit or online counseling. For example, in Virginia a masters-level clinician accepting 3rd party insurance payments might earn $99 for a diagnostic evaluation (90791). Ongoing appointments for individual or family psychotherapy (90834/90837/90847) might pay around $70. Let's estimate your average session fee to be a moderate $75 per session.
Fulltime Caseload
The number of sessions that constitutes a fulltime caseload is often debated amongst clinicians. Some persons feel that 30 sessions per week is a heavy caseload, while others find that they can serve 40+ clients per week. I find 35 clients per week to be a reasonable number. If you're providing 45-minute sessions, that's 26.25 hours of face-to-face work with clients each week. Add in schedule gaps and practice management duties, and you're looking at a 40 to 45-hour workweek. It's a full time job, but sustainable.
In addition, let's say that you give yourself a modest 4 weeks of vacation every year.
Simple Math:
35 (sessions per week) x 48 (weeks per year) = 1,680 (sessions per year)
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1,680 (sessions per year) x $75 (fee per session) = $126,000 (gross yearly revenue)
Normal Practice Expenses
Office and Operational Expenses
There are numerous small and seemingly hidden costs to running a private practice: from patient parking, to coffee, to organic tissues, to printer ink. Here are some ballpark numbers for the solo private practice.
- Rent (one office): $550 per month = $6,600 per year
- Office supplies (computer, software, phone, furniture, printer, coffee, etc.) = $3,000 per year Note: furniture, unless financed, will be an initial outlay of several thousand dollars.
- Professional dues, continuing education, & liability insurance = $800 per year
($800 won't get you to a national conference, but it will cover the basics. There are many options for low cost CEs–one just needs to look).
- Accounting & Legal fees = $500 per year
- Other Miscellaneous = $1000 per year
Total Office and Operational Expenses: $11,900 per year
In addition, two potentially larger expense categories are in the realm of marketing and billing.
Advertising and Marketing
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There's no "correct" amount to spend on marketing and advertising. In fact, many counselors get by with spending very little. However, for the sake of this exercise, let's say that you'll take 5 percent of your gross yearly revenue and invest it into marketing and advertising your practice.
Simple Math:
5 percent (marketing and advertising) of $126,000 (yearly revenue) = $6,300 (marketing per year).
Medical Billing
While some counselors prefer to do their own medical billing, you may wish to hire a company to handle it for you. A customary cost is 8 percent of what the billing company collects, which comes out to around 5.5 percent of your gross revenue (note that it's 5.5 percent because medical billing companies don't customarily take a share of client deductibles, or co-pays).
Simple Math:
5.5 percent (billing company) of $126,000 (yearly revenue) = $6,930 (billing company fee)
Simple Totals:
$126,000 (gross revenue)-$11,900 (office & ops expenses) –$6,300 (marketing per year) –$6,930 (billing company fee)
= $100,870 (final net revenue)
And there we have it: a 6-figure private practice. A far cry from $40,798!
While the above provides an outline of private practice financials, no counseling practice will perfectly mirror the example. To help you determine more accurately your practice's finances, here is a list of financial variables for your consideration:
1. The "final net revenue" above does not include the cost of health insurance, retirement planning, accounting services, or taxes, which are often partially covered by an employer. These items will detract from your expendable income.
2. Owning a business might have tax advantages that one doesn't receive as an employee. For example, if you purchase a new laptop it might qualify as a business expense (meaning it's paid for with pre-tax money).
3. The estimates above assume that one will be able to maintain a client roster of 35 client sessions a week (by year two). Low new client volume, or high client attrition, can reduce your weekly session count.
4. Client cancellations and/or client no-shows could lower (or raise) your income, depending on how you manage your practice schedule.
5. To expedite the building of a caseload in year one, more money could be invested into advertising (or time spent in professional networking).
6. After building a strong reputation and establishing active referral sources, you may be able to eliminate advertising and marketing (reclaim up to 5 percent).
7. If you see some (or all) cash-pay clients, you can reduce or eliminate medical billing expenses (reclaim up to 5.5 percent).
8. If demand for your services outweighs supply (that's you), you can raise your cash-pay rates to $99 (add $40,320 revenue!). Note: you can also add a second clinician, but that starts a whole new level of mathematical complexity.
9. The estimates above do not account for unpaid session fees (subtract up to 4 percent).
10. If you accept credit cards, subtract roughly 2 percent revenue from whatever percentage of session fees you expect to process with plastic.
11. If you decide to work 40, 45-minute sessions per week (30 face-to-face hours with clients), add $18,000 revenue.
12. If you reduce your time off from 4 weeks to 3 weeks, add $2,625 revenue (not worth it!).
As a rule, counselors aren't motivated or excited by numbers (who enjoyed psych-stats? Not me!). So, thanks for hanging in there. I look forward to your comments, questions, and thoughts on Twitter @anthonycentore.
How Much Money Can a Counselor in Private Practice Make?
Not to be missed, Dr. Anthony Centore breaks down the revenues and expenses (and variables) of beginning and running a solo counseling private practice. To watch full video, click here: http://thriveworks.com/private-practice/


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Hollie-May Saker, 18, was forced to shake off the hand of a protester who grabbed her as she appeared in the Nina Ricci show.
TV footage showed topless activists from Ukrainian group Femen climb onto the catwalk and rush to the front of the stage just as Saker was reaching her turn.
One of them grabbed her wrist as she started to head to the backroom, but the Liverpool-born model casually shook off the approach and continued with her walk.
Security guards then grabbed the protester and another that had managed to get up onto the catwalk, and bundled them off the stage.
Both the activists had appeared on the podium semi-naked with slogans on their body, apparently protesting at the fashion industry's over-sexualisation of women.
One of the slogans read: "Models don't go to brothels."
Afterwards, an angry Saker let rip about what had happened on her Twitter account.
She stormed: "Have fun scrubbing that **** of your body silly ***** never been to a brothel in my life."
Another Tweet read: "[Fuming] that ***** ruined my walk."
Speaking after the incident, she told the Liverpool Echo: "I punched her. I didn't mean to, but she grabbed my arm and I just wanted to get her off me.
"I was the 19th girl out of the catwalk and I could hear screaming behind me.
"The next thing I just saw half-naked women with black marker pen scrawled across their bare chests, and that's when she came at me.
"I was so angry, but I knew I had to be professional so I carried on walking with a bit of sassiness.
"My Scouseness came out a bit, but I wish it had come out a bit more.
"Thinking about it now I wish I'd pushed them both off the stage because they ruined my favourite show."
Afterwards many on Twitter praised the young model for keeping her composure amid a charged scene.
Kaitlin Monroe wrote: "shout out to @holliemaysaker for handling that pointless protest gracefully."
Another, calling themselves Dimitris, tweeted: "This is definitely going down in modeling history. You handled it really well! They both looked so stupid."
Others criticised her reaction, saying she should have been more receptive to their feminist stance.
One tweeter, calling themselves agnesb, said: "@holliemaysaker calling her "a silly *****" is j wrong. no name-calling amongst women I say.we're all on the same side!"
International women's group Femen has carried out a string of direct action protests, including interrupting visits by Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel.


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Blue Star Strategies, LLC, a boutique international government affairs firm in Washington, D.C., is seeking a paid fall intern. With constant access to the firm's senior partners, this opportunity allows for substantive work on major projects.
Our clients are foreign governments and businesses as well as U.S. companies seeking services abroad, with a focus on Europe and Latin America in more than 30 countries. Our current sectors range from construction, financial services, media, multilateral organizations, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, to workforce development.
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The internship will be for approximately three (3) months, ideally Tues. September 8 – Fri. December 4, 2015, but with some flexibility on the start and end dates. The intern will be expected to work 40 hours per week, Monday-Friday, 9am-6pm, and will be paid a monthly stipend as an independent contractor.
Job Requirements
Knowledge of the U.S. political system and current world affairs are a must, as are superb writing, researching and analytical skills. Preferred prior internship experience includes Capitol Hill, U.S. Department of State or Commerce, multilateral organizations, non-profits and private sector. Candidates must also be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and some administrative experience is preferred. Fluency in English and proficiency in a second European language (preferably Spanish) or Indo-European language (preferably Latvian or Russian) is also highly desirable. We are seeking a M.A. student or recent graduate.
How to Apply
Please send your resume and cover letter to our Intern Coordinator: firstname.lastname@example.com. In the subject line, please write "BSS internship application."


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"Shark wrangler Marcus Kitching has nine boxes of dead fish to attract and "manage" the sharks. For each underwater session, he collects around 20 Caribbean reef sharks, some up to 3m long. They aren't man‑eaters, but even an unintentional nip can slice off a finger, so Kitching wears head-to-toe chainmail.
There are just 40 minutes of each dive-time, so the crew have to work fast. Lights are quickly secured with weights, but every so often a shark rams into the photographer's strobes or clips the crew with a fin as it streaks past. After two challenging days underwater, the team are left with 40 empty air cylinders, nine sodden designer outfits, one set of very bloodshot eyes – and an amazing set of pictures. It's a wrap." How to Spend it/ FT Magazine
Although laws ban the hunting of these magnificent sharks, the fishing industry in South America unintentionally find these sharks in about 40% of their catch. Sadly the numbers of Caribbean reef shark are declining, their population continues to dwindle.


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Dr. Peter Parilla, professor of sociology and director of the Criminal Justice Program, has been named associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Parilla, who received the Professor of the Year award at St. Thomas Day festivities recently, will replace Dr. Merritt Nequette, who will retire at the end of August. Parilla recently was selected following an internal search open only to College of Arts and Sciences faculty.
A 1972 magna cum laude graduate of St. Thomas, Parilla started teaching at St. Thomas as an adjunct faculty member in 1977; he joined the faculty full-time in 1982 after completing a doctorate at the University of Minnesota.
During his St. Thomas career, he has served on major standing committees, including the Faculty Affairs Committee, which he chaired. He also served on the Undergraduate Planning and Policy Committee and the Educational Policy Committee, the Academic Council, the Faculty Development Committee, the Undergraduate Studies Committee (which he now will chair as associate dean), the University Senate and the College Senate, which he chaired. He has been chair of the Sociology Department and has served on the Strategical Planning Steering Committee; he currently serves on the North Central Accreditation Committee on Planning and has been a member of several advisory committees and boards as well as more than a half-dozen search committees.
"I am just delighted to have someone with the breadth and depth of Peter's experience working with me in the dean's office," said Dr. Thomas Connery, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. "It is just about impossible to replace someone like Merritt Nequette, who has a remarkable institutional memory and never misses a detail. But Pete is highly regarded across the college, and I know department chairs and faculty will be pleased to know that he will succeed Merritt."


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OSX Webcam Instructions
To run an iSight webcam first make a directory off your home directory. Call it webcam or something like that.
I downloaded isightcapture from Intergalactic. This free, but not open source, program will grab a picture from your iSight. Put this program in your new webcam directory.
To ftp the pictures up to your website you need to create a perl program 'webcam.pl'
This perl program takes and uploads a picture every 300 seconds ( 5 minutes ) change the number of seconds to suit you.
#loop forever or until program terminated
while (){
$takepicture = "./isightcapture snapshot.jpg";
print $takepicture."\n";
if ( system($takepicture)) { print "failed to take picture\n"; }
$uploadpicture = "ftp < upload";
print $uploadpicture."\n";
if ( system($uploadpicture)) { print "failed to upload picture\n"; }
Now make that file executable at a command prompt type
>chmod 755 webcam.pl
Next create a .netrc file in your home directory substituting yourwebsite.com, yourloginame and yourpassword. Be sure permissions are set to 600 ( chmod 600 .netrc ).
machine yourwebsite.com
login yourloginname
password yourpassword
{this is highly insecure, your password is in plain text so use this at your own risk!}
Finally create the upload file. snapshot.jpg is the name of the picture that isightcapture takes. Change yourwebsite.com and yourwebcamdirectory to be the name of your website and the directory on your website you are uploading your snapshots into.
open yourwebsite.com
cd yourwebcamdirectory
put snapshot.jpg
Once all this is done and everything is in the same directory except .netrc open a new terminal window, cd to your webcam directory. Type ./webcam.pl and you're taking and uploading pictures. You will see the output from isightcapture and the ftp program. So any problems should be clear to you and easy to fix.
Now in your webpage just put in a link to the picture to have the current picture appear in a webpage.
*All these sample files can be downloaded osxwebcam.tar.gz


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