As some of you may have heard, Marinda Castro (the former CEO) has left the company due to a family emergency. Miranda has done a wonderful job and has left KHA in the best shape it's ever been in.
Wonderful new
versions of our application are now shipping in the North America
and
will soon be available in Australia. They are MacRepertory 6 and
ReferenceWorks 3. RW3 has a new Full Library called F
which contains some 600 volumes. (Library E2 has 409 volumes.)
They have had a great reception. The only problem being a huge
number of orders.
From what I hear we
will have an native OS X version of MR & RW early in the new
year, no one as yet knows the hour or the day.
Watch this space
It's the middle of May and we've had a busy time this past few months teaching literally hundreds of customers all over the US - and Australia! Miranda, Ellen, Gene, Nazirahk, David and Linda have been to San Diego, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Boulder, Ann Arbor, Phoenix, New York City, Boston, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland - and Marin!
Miranda and Ellen took several Road Shows to Sydney, Australia last month. There are lots of eager KHA customers Down Under and the Road Shows were packed.
A surprising phenomenon occurred at the Ann Arbor road show: 90% of the participants had Macintosh computers. This was remarkable because about two-thirds of our customers are now on Windows platforms so it was fun to teach to a Mac-based group for a change. Of course, an important feature of our programs is that they run immaculately on both PC and Macintosh platforms!
You've all been so enthusiastic it's been a pleasure to teach you
how to use and enjoy these programs to help you in your studies and
your healing work.
NCH Annual Conference
We were corporate sponsors of the NCH annual conference this year
held in Phoenix. What a nice showing of about 375 people. We had
almost our whole crew there. David and Linda Warkentin, Gene Sullivan
(Southern California Rep), Greg Kemp (Canadian Dealer), Ellen Goldman
and Miranda Castro!
We had a fun time giving out gifts to raffle ticket purchasers, schmoozing with all the people there, and getting Aura readings! All the lectures were interesting and informative. If you were there, it was wonderful to see you. If you weren't there, we hope to see you at the next conference!
Please Contact Us If:
Up Coming RoadShows Each Road Show is geared to the audience. We guarantee that you will come away with skills and tips that will improve the way you study and practice homeopathy.
June 7 (Fri): Marin - Open Evening at KHA Head Office!
Miranda Castro and Ellen Goldman
June 8 (Sat): New York - Nazirahk Amen
June 14 (Fri): Baltimore - Miranda Castro, Ellen
Goldman & Nazirahk Amen
June 28 (Fri): Galway, Ireland - Miranda Castro and
Mary Aspinwall
July 5 (Fri): London/VIPs only - Miranda Castro and
Ellen Goldman
July 13 (Sat): Bay Area - David and Linda
Warkentin
August 14 (Wed): Portland
Contact us for details.
We teach a certain amount of computer skills at each seminar and are on
a mission to encourage you to make friends with your computers. Many of
you have pretty sophisticated hardware and we know from experience how
rewarding it can be to use more of the features to help lighten your
load. If you struggle with using or even liking your computer then
check
out your local bookstore for books that the following words or idea in
their title: Computers Simply Explained! Go for the ones that have lots
of pictures in them. These books are great for learning the basics so
that your computers become more accessible - and automatically
friendlier! The Idiots and Dummies Guides have too much writing and not
enough pictures for some people - they can be generally overwhelming
and not basic enough if you didn't grow up with computers.
A CD-Rom Tutorial For those of you who are struggling to make
friends with your PC here's an excellent, interactive CD - in the
style of Mavis Beacon - with lots of fun stuff to keep your interest
as you learn. This tutorial is designed to help you feel confident
around a computer and to turn that feeling of intimidation into one of
excitement! You will learn to perform many of the simple tasks
the
will lead you down the road to being a capable computer user.
http://store.learn2.com
Our favourite computer teacher is Leo Laporte. Leo is the host of a cable program called "The Screen Savers". He and his co-host, Patrick Norton, spend an hour and a half each weekday on TechTV simplifying and de-mystifying the personal computer. If you don't get cable then check out TechTV's website, http://www.techtv.com/techtv/, and select The Screen Savers from the pop-down menu that appears when you click on TV Shows on the left hand side of the window.
Leo has written a wonderful book: Poor Leo's 2002 Computer Almanac,
available from Amazon.com for $17.49. It's full of interesting tips
and tricks for the PC and the Mac - for beginners and "super-geeks".
Leo takes the complicated and makes it simple. The tips range from
tweaking the task bar settings to modifying the registry, something
that
can put fear into the hearts of even the geekiest among us. Leo
explains it all in simple English and makes you feel that you can DO
IT!
Throughout the book his sense of humour makes the
book a fun read.
May 24-26
Nancy Herrick
Toronto, Canada
Contact: nshomeopathy@hotmail.com
May 26
12.00 mid-day PST (8 pm GMT!)
Miranda Castro
Olne.net Live Chat
Contact: http://www.olne.net
May 31-June 2
Deborah Collins
Vancouver, BC
Contact: aryana@homeopathycourses.com
June 11-13
Eileen Nauman
Waalwijk, Netherlands
Contact: jan.dingemans@xs4all.nl
June 13-17
Paula Herscu ND
Alonissos, Greece
Contact: eakh@gvs.net
June 22
Richard Pitt
San Francisco, CA
Contact: (415) 695-2710
July 20
Miranda Castro
San Francisco, CA
Contact (415) 695-2710
July 26-28
Dr AU Ramakrishnan
Boulder, CO
Contact: kaphananda@aol.com
August 16-18
Alize Timmerman
New York, NY
Contact: kathy@homeopathyschool.com
September 12-14
Rajan Sankaran
Munich, Germany
Contact: gebhardt.hansel@-online.de
September 25-29
Dr Jayesh Shah
New York, NY
Contact: sjbaker@t-link.net
October 4-7
Jeremy Sherr
Denver, Colorado
Contact: jpolzell@bestweb.net
October 11-13
Dr AU Ramakrishnan
Boulder, CO
Contact: kaphananda@aol.com
October 12-20
Shirley Casey
Denver, Colorado
Contact: shirley@ewildagain.org
October 13-19
Massimo Mangialavori Stillwater, MA
Contact: bwood@igc.org
October 17-19
Jan Scholten
Toronto, Ontario
Contact: aryana@homeopathycourses.com
October 21-25
Jan Scholten
Madison, Virginia
Contact: lisa@whnow.com
October 24-28
Divya Chhabra
Vancover, Canada
Contact: k_boutilier@telus.net
October 26-27
Shirley Casey
Denver, Colorado
Contact: shirley@ewildagain.org
November 9-10
Rajan Sankaran
Montreal, Canada
Contact: ibekhor@yahoo.com
November 16-17
Rajan Sankaran
London, UK
Contact: ldw52@earthlink.net
Nov 22- Dec 4
Rajan Sankaran
Mumbai, India
Contact: spirit@vsnl.com
September 26,
2003
- October
10, 2003
Rajan Sankaran
Esalen, CA
Contact: mfairbanks@igc.org
Up-coming Homeopathy Conferences
June 16-18
NCH Summer School
Baltimore, MD
Miranda Castro and MJ Hanifan
June 28-30
Annual Irish Homeopathic Conference
Galway, Ireland
Miranda Castro, Divya Chhabra, Nuala Eising, Massimo Mangilovari, and more! Contact: izzy1@eircom.net
September 20-22
Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy
Annual Conference
Park City, Utah
Contact: Sstorozum@theavh.org
October 19-20
Arizona Classical Homeopathy Conference
Phoenix, Arizona
Contact: lesleypatrick@worldnet.att.net
November 1-3
North American Network
of Homeopathic Educators Conference
Phoenix, Arizona
Contact (602) 347-7950
Homeopathy 103:
Intermediate Acute Homeopathy (save $50)
Intermediate Homeopathic Animal Homeopathy (save
$40)
Case Studies in Animal Homeopathy (save$40)
Advanced Practice Seminar (save $25)
Homeopathy & Midwifery I (save $30)
Homeopathy & Midwifery II (save $30)
Contact:
http://www.homeopathic.org or call 703-548-7790
OLNE is a members-only website for the homeopathic profession. It contains feature articles, health news, provings, cases, transcripts of the live chats, discussion groups and chat rooms (open 24 hours).
Miranda is Olne's next guest on Sunday the 26th of May at 12.00 mid-day Pacific Standard Time (8 pm GMT!)
Contact: http://www.olne.net
Teleosis Foundation will offer free homeopathic services to the homeless and low-income communities through The Suitcase Clinic, a non-profit health care service provider established in 1989. The Suitcase Clinic, runs on an all-volunteer basis by UC Berkeley undergraduates, medicaland optometry students, and professionals, offers health care, medicine, vision screening, legal advice, foot-washing, chiropractic, hair styling, massage and Trager free to the public. Seventy percent of the clients are homeless.
Dr. Joel Kreisberg will offer homeopathy on Monday nights at two of the three clinics. It is his intention to have other practitioners volunteer to offer homeopathy. The Teleosis Foundation is also pleased to offer preceptorships for advanced students at these clinics. Students will triage patients, take cases and sit in under the supervision of Dr. Kreisberg. Preceptors will commit to twice a month from 6-10 PM Monday nights for 5 months. Teleosis is accepting applications for two students immediately.
For more information please contact:
Teleosis Foundation at teleosis@igc.org or
510-558-7285.
Shirley Casey - our favorite wildlife rehabilitator wrote to us with information that will be of interest to all alternative health care practitioners. Cautions about the overuse of antibiotics are well addressed by the organization: the Prudent Use of Antibiotics. Their website http://www.Apua.org provides information on the impact of antibiotics on people, animals, and the environment.
Most worrying of all, recent research at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine investigates (wild) animals in the wild with resistance to antibiotics, even if they had never been directly given antibiotics.
The staff at the Harvard School of Public Health also has a new book by Kimberly Thompson.
Many homeopaths have concerns about antibiotics suppressing or
palliating symptoms. Some new information is spreading the word
about problems with antibiotics to an even broader audience.
Books to read, and maybe recommend to patients, are
The Antibiotic Paradox: How the Misuse of Antibiotics Destroys Their
Curative Powers by Stuart Levy, MD and Overkill by Kimberly
Thompson.
After more exposure to this type of information,
surely the public will have more reason to consider homeopathy!
Here's a great way
to step outside of the linear models of case analysis exacerbated
by the Numbered and Waffle graphs! What homeopaths are really
interested in is the 'Characteristic Remedy' based on one or more
'Characteristic Symptoms'. This is the one most likely to
succeed.
The Scatter Graph lets you know if you have one of
more remedies emerging as strong and characteristic contenders using
two
or more analysis strategies. This graph is a godsend in acutes and some
homeopaths use it with every patient to visually confirm a remedy - or
not i.e. to go back to the drawing board if there's a 'flat' graph with
all the remedies mashed together.
The Bar Graph gives you the same information using a single analysis strategy. You can't see the rubrics and just get a visual representation of which remedy or remedies are characteristic in your chosen set of rubrics.
Use a Bar or Scatter Graph to confirm or check a remedy you are considering. Or to help get your mind out of a rut - where you want to give a remedy that is coming to the front of a Numbered or Waffle Graph but isn't genuinely characteristic for your patient.
Here's how to design and save a Scatter Graph!
You have to have the Pro version of MacRepertory to
do this.
3. Click on the
Scatter Graph icon (4th one down)
4. Select PROMINENT on one axis and SMALL REMEDIES
on the other axis (by clicking on the fields
to the left and underneath the graph)
5. Click OK and the Scatter Graph pops up
6. While the Scatter Graph is open go back to the
Graph Menu and select Save Graph
7. Check the following boxes: Graph Type, Strategy
and Stars!
8. Click OK and hey presto - a new icon appears on
your Graph Window Task Bar
9. Anytime you want to see how your rubrics look as
a Scatter Graph just click on the icon.
This particular graph gives you information about the remedy or remedies that are more prominent and small. The remedy or group of remedies that appears in the upper right hand corner of the graph will be the significant one or ones to consider.
You can also design other Scatter Graphs with different criteria.Say you want to search for fear of the dark but when you search for 'fear' in the same sentence as 'dark' you get 167 results, some of which are not very interesting. If you bring the two words closer together you will capture more accurate results. Use a number connector by deleting the sentence connector (highlight it and press the back space key) then simply type the number 5. RW will now search for fear within 5 words of dark. Using Library E2 you will get 135 results. Typing a 2 connector gives you 122 results. (This is double the number of remedies in Fear of the Dark in the Complete Millennium Repertory).
SEN = 2: Sentence connector - press the space bar twice
PAR = 3: Paragraph connector -
press the space bar three times
SEC = 4: Section connector -
press the space bar four times
REM = 5: Remedy connector - press
the space bar five times
Type the numbers 1 to 9 to create
Number Connectors
Type Ctrl or Cmd + 0 to make a
'Not' Connector (see HeartBeat # 1)
!: Type an exclamation mark to
limit your search to exactly that word
/: Type a slash to create an 'or'
connector
sunstroke SEN ailments/effects REM urticaria SEN chronic REM moody/changeable REM startled 3 easily REM fruit/orange SEN agg/worse
This makes it gloriously easy to type in even a complex case
quickly.
This then reads as follows:
Sunstroke in the same sentence as ailments or
effects in the same remedy as urticaria in the same sentence as chronic
in the same remedy as moody or changeable in the same remedy as
startled within 3 words of easily in the same remedy as fruit or
orange in the same sentence as aggravates or worse
Phew! The remedy is right there!
Here are the rubrics extracted from the above 'case'
Ailments (or effects) of Sunstroke
Chronic urticaria
Changeable moods
Startled easily
Fruit/Orange agg.