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Guest Occupation: Basketball Coach
Guest Biography:

Rachi Wortham, the former director of player personnel at Oregon State, has been selected to join the Montana men’s basketball staff as an assistant under Grizzly head coach Travis DeCuire.

 

Rachi (pronounced Rah-shee) comes to Montana after spending two seasons at Oregon State working under former Griz head coach Wayne Tinkle.

 

No stranger to the Big Sky Conference, Wortham served as an assistant coach at Eastern Washington from 2007-2011 under Kirk Earlywine. Wortham is also an EWU alumnus, where he was a standout guard from 2003-05, and was part of the Eagles’ first trip to the NCAA Tournament in 2004.

 

“I know Montana. I was at Eastern Washington for a long time, and I’ve seen the way they hold themselves, the way they prepare, the way they compete. They compete like winners, so I’m excited to be part of that mentality,” says Wortham.

 

Wortham and DeCuire’s prior relationship dates back to the mid 90’s when he played AAU basketball under DeCuire at the age of 15 in his hometown of Tacoma, Wash.

 

“We go back a long way,” says Coach DeCuire. “I’ve watched him grow, I’ve watched him kick in doors for opportunities. We’re talking about a young man that has always had leadership qualities, but has developed into a strong leader and a strong mentor of young men, and we need more of that.”

 

In addition to coaching at the collegiate level, Wortham has used basketball as a means of outreach and leadership development for organizations such as TEAM ACCESS, the YMCA of Pierce and Kitsap Counties, the Boys & Girls Club, the Isaiah Thomas Basketball Camp and Lids Team Sports-Nike Team.

 

Wortham’s duties for the Grizzlies under Coach DeCuire will include academic advising, player mentoring, recruiting and community outreach.

Guest Category: Sports & Recreation, Professional, High School, College
Guest Occupation: Basketball Player/Actress/Speaker
Guest Biography:

Joyce Ekworomadu is a Nigerian-American born August 6, 1986 in Edmond, Oklahoma and raised in Dallas, TX. She attended Texas State University where she averaged 18.9pts/gm, was Southland Conference Player of the Year, led the team to the school’s first ever Conference championship​, became the 5th player in Texas state history to record over 1500 points and 600 rebounds, voted on the all-Decade team, ESPN CoSIDA All-academic team, 3rd Place – ESPN 3PT Shootout (2008), was Nominated for Female athlete of the year and graduated with a BBA in Marketing.

Post college, she played in the WNBA, Poland, Italy and is a current member of the National Nigerian Basketball Team. She has traveled to over 40 countries playing the game of basketball.

Guest Category: Kids & Family, Sports & Recreation, Professional, High School, College, TV & Film
Guest Occupation: Multi-instrumentalist,Singer,Composer
Guest Biography:

Dutch Music Legends Focus Release New Album

“Focus 8.5 / Beyond The Horizon”

Dutch music legends Focus are known around the world for their iconic albums, including the hits HOCUS POCUS, SYLVIA and HOUSE OF THE KING. After the reunion of Focus and the release of the Focus 8 album, the band toured the world and was introduced to new musical styles and influences. The line-up on this album features THIJS VAN LEER, PIERRE VAN DER LINDEN, BOBBY JACOBS and JAN DUMÉE.

The sessions for the album were all recorded in between South American tour commitments during 2005, and every track is a previously unreleased composition by the members of Focus or producer MARVIO CIRIBELLI.

Thijs van Leer said of the album: “For Focus it was a thrill to first jam with Marvio and Marcio in a club in Niteroi and then end up in Rio de Janeiro in order to compose and record these beauties. Having one of the best drummers in Europe with Pierre van der Linden and one of South America’s best drummers with Marcio Bahia on the same album makes the world a better and happier place! Here they are!”

The album features all-star Brazilian musicians including ARTHUR MAIA and MARIO SEVE joining Focus on new recordings, and vice versa, plus a drum duet with MARCIO BAHIA…as musicianship once again goes Beyond the Horizon…

Thijs van Leer, holds the distinction of being the first ever knighted musician in Holland.

To purchase the New Album “Focus 8.5 / Beyond The Horizon” visit

Amazon .com, iTunes, Cherry Red Records

Track listing

1. FOCUS ZERO

2. HOLA, CÓMO ESTÁS?

3. ROCK 5

4. MILLENNIUM

5. INALTA

6. TALKING RHYTHMS

a) CONVERSATION OF DRUMS

b) CONVERSATION OF DRUMMERS

7. SURREXIT CHRISTUS

Visit FOCUS on Facebook  … https://www.facebook.com/Focus-the-band-197272485986/?ref=ts

Visit FOCUS on Twitter … https://twitter.com/Focustheband

Guest Category: Arts, Music
Guest Occupation: International speaker, filmmaker, writer, artist and autism advocate
Guest Biography:

KERI BOWERS

As an international speaker, filmmaker, writer, artist and autism advocate – but always an autism mom first – Keri is the owner of Normal Films, and co-founder of The Art of Autism. Keri has made 4 films, including:

Normal People Scare Me Too; a film about autism (2016), created and co-produced with her 27 year old autistic son, Taylor Cross, and produced by Joey Travolta.

ARTS (2008), a documentary highlighting the importance of music, dance, fine arts, and drama as vital tools to help develop a wide variety of skill sets, including educational, vocational, social, and life skills for people with disabilities.

The Sandwich Kid (2007), featuring her son, Jace (Taylor’s brother,) who interviews siblings to explore the intrinsic issues experienced by siblings of people with disabilities.

Normal People Scare Me; a film about autism (2006), which explores interviews (conducted by Taylor) of 65 individuals about living with autsm.

Keri is the author of three books, including Autism Movement Therapy: Waking up the Brain! (Jessica Kingsley, 2015); Mapping Transitions to Your Child’s Future, a workbook supporting transitions and life planning (Self-published; on demand), and Single Pregnancy, Single Parenting (Park Alexander Press, 1994). She was the editor of The Art of Autism: Shifting Perceptions (D. Hosseini). A featured columnist for Autism Asperger’s Digest Magazine, and occasional blogger, Keri focuses on the arts and autism as “power tools” to grow skills in autism.

In addition to operating Normal Films, her small indie production company, Keri is the founder of PAUSE4kids (1999) a non-profit supporting families of kids with special needs. She co-founded The Art of Autism in 2005, a social-entrepreneurship project that connects artists, bloggers, poes and other creatives with opportunities and venues to showcase their varied talents. She has been the creative art director for The Friendship Circle of the Conejo for 7 years, and has worked extensively with The Miracle Project, Los Angeles.

Keri’s numerous awards and recognitions for her work in program development over nearly 3 decades includes the prestigious Phoebe Apperson Hearst Award for Excellence in Education (best program at both the state and national levels, 2002). She has created numerous sustainable programs in the arts and awareness over the years.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Philosophy, TV & Film
Guest Occupation: Accomplished composer, arranger, songwriter and musical director
Guest Biography:

BRUCE GARNITZ

Originally from Chicago, Bruce Garnitz honed his talents in San Francisco’s eclectic music scene and polished them at Berklee College of Music in Boston. After graduating, he joined the faculty. Arriving in Los Angeles, Bruce built a reputation for musical excellence. Bruce is an outstanding entertainer, a dynamic guitarist and vocalist and has toured worldwide with his band.

An accomplished composer, arranger, songwriter and musical director, his musical talents have been heard in several popular television shows. His song “Telephone Blues” was in the Sony Pictures release “Are We There Yet?”, his song “Circles” was in the Warner Bros. current release “Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster” and his song “Wishing Well” as well as an on camera performance by Bruce was featured in an episode of the TV Show: “Children’s Hospital”. Most recently, he had four songs in the made for TV movie: “Game of Love” starring Heather Locklear in which she sings the song “We’ll Be Together One Day” which he wrote for the film and which she sings in one of the scenes.

His latest CD is called “I Must Be Dreamin'” and is available through iTunes, Amazon

A few words about Bruce Garnitz’s music:

Bruce Garnitz’s music has been described as “Jazz-Clectic”. There is a strong Blues influence from early Chicago roots. With a voice that channels the character in each song, ranging from the lighter to darker sides of life, usually with a twist, his songs take the audience on a musical, maiden voyage through the joys, sorrows and absurdities of the world around us.

Guest Category: Arts, Performing Arts, Music
Guest Occupation: Actor | Director | Writer | Producer
Guest Biography:

Tony Lo Bianco: Actor | Director | Writer | Producer has starred in the Academy Award-winning film The French Connection. He is a Tony-nominated and winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award in A View from the Bridge on Broadway. Obie Award for Yanks-3, Detroit-0, Top of the 7th and Emmy Award for his portrayal of Fiorello La Guardia in Hizzoner! In film, he has starred in The Juror, Blood Brothers, City Heat, Nixon, The Seven Ups, Honeymoon Killers and Kill the Irishman; totaling 102 films. Has directed one feature and 5 television shows.  He is proud of his involvement with The USO, Building Homes for Heroes, The Wounded Warrior Project, NIAF, Sons of Italy in America, Police and Fire Department and many other charitable organizations. Recently, Tony Lo Bianco won an Emmy award for Just A Common Soldier.

Guest Category: Arts, Business, Comedy, Health & Lifestyle, Philosophy, Self Help, Spiritual, TV & Film, Variety
Guest Occupation: cellular memory practitioner, medical intuitive, healer
Guest Biography:

Mike Carey, has been involved in alternative health since 1979, when he became very ill.  He was mis-diagnosed twice before finding the cause of his health problems, but was then told that he would probably be on medication the rest of his life.  His cousin, who was deeply involved in health and nutrition, finally convinced Mike to try natural things to get well.  In less than 30 days, Mike was totally well and off all medications for good.  This is what peaked his interest in helping others through the use of natural remedies.  From this point on, it was a learning process involving studying, attending seminars, taking classes, and practicing what he was learning on friends and relatives, or anyone that was open-minded.

Mike eventually learned how to do muscle testing, using a method involving the acupuncture points on the body.  It opened up a new way of determining health problems, but did not indicate the cause of the problems, only that they were there.  Mike´s youngest daughter suffered with Chronic Fatigue for 8 years, from the age of 8 until she was 16.  She had no energy to do anything and would often lay on the floor in a fetal position and cry because her life was passing her by.  Dozens of doctors, Naturopaths, and other health practitioners were not able to find the cause or help her recover.  It was then that Mike learned about cellular memory and how to tap into it to determine the cause of the problem as well as the natural remedy.  Mike did this with his daughter and was able to find the cause of her Chronic Fatigue and also how to cure it.  In 2 days, all of her energy came back, – after 8 years. This inspired Mike to learn more and to help as many as he could.

Cellular memory is very controversial with many, but not with Mike.  His study showed that every cell in your body knows everything that has ever happened to you in your life.  It is also believed that every cell has enough storage capacity to store all of the books of the Encyclopedia Britannica, many times over.  Being able to tap into this memory is a gift that has proven itself over and over.  As a result, Mike now has clients in 15 countries around the world referred by someone who and tests them via the phone or by Skype.  This is possible because everything in the universe works by electricity and frequencies, including your body and the phone.  Frequencies also travel through the air or we would not have GPS, TV, WIFI, or those little key fobs that open your car door.  Mike believes that the accuracy of this testing is somewhere around 98% and he has been doing this type of testing for the past 21 years.  At least 99% of his new clients are got good results.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Medicine, Science, Self Help
Guest Occupation: Gives personal Medium readings around the world
Guest Biography:

One night in 1997 Richard Schoeller thought he was dying because he found himself surrounded by both sets of deceased grandparents. They reassured him that it wasn’t his time to join them and that their visit was to help him understand that he could now “see them.” Who could ignore a visit like that? Richard had to learn more about what had just happened, so he began taking classes and researching the ability to communicate with those who have passed into spirit.

Richard focuses on providing evidence that life and love continue after the change known as death. Richard was instrumental in founding the Summerland Church of Light, NSAC, a chartered Spiritualist Church, in Hauppauge Long Island.

He has been studying the Science, Philosophy and Religion Spiritualism since 1997 and holds the credentials of Certified Medium, Commissioned Spiritualist Healer, National Spiritualist Teacher and NSAC Missionary. He also served as a Trustee on the National Spiritualist Association of Churches Board from October 2004-2010 and in October 2012 received the NSAC Teacher of the Year Award.

Aside from being a member of the Lily Dale Assembly and the International Spiritualist Federation, he is a director and teacher with the Inner Spiritual Center, Wayne NJ. Richard lectures, teaches classes and demonstrates mediumship in England, Switzerland and Germany and served a number of Spiritualist churches and centers in New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Michigan, California, Wisconsin, Virginia, Nevada and Florida.

As a lecturer, Richard offers workshop presentations which include: “Mediumship 101,” “The Beginning of Modern American Spiritualism,” “Mediumship and Natural Law,” “Mental and Physical Mediumship Explained” and “Evidential Mediumship”

Guest Category: Education, Paranormal, Physics & Metaphysics, Spiritual, Access Consciousness, Medium & Channeling, Psychic & Intuitive