THE ZIBBZ

The Zibbz are a sister / brother duo from the Swiss side of the Alps. Their music is electronically infused blues rock with a massive live backbeat and quirky synth-driven production by Stee Zibb. Front woman Coco Zibb can wail with the best of them. Her voice is a mix of Pink and Janis Joplin, providing the perfect mix of pop and raw emotional growl that makes for hit records.

Their love for music developed at an early age, growing up in a household of musicians, watching mom and dad play in rock n’ roll bands.

`I remember Stee used to mess up mom’s drum kits by adding pots and pans or whatever else he could find to put together his dream-kit,` says Coco.

Stee adds, `in the early days when Coco was living and performing in London, I’d call her after school to write songs over the phone; thats how The Zibbz got started!`

The Zibbz set off a buzz in Europe in 2010, starring in their own reality show on Swiss Music-TV, Joiz‘ (5 seasons) and playing the festival circuit. Their debut album “Ready?Go!” hit the national charts at number 14 and they return to Europe every year to play festivals.

Since moving to L.A. The Zibbz have rocked at famous venues all over town including the Viper Room, The Roxy Theatre, No Name and the Sayers Club. Opening at the El Rey for Juliette & the Licks in July 2015 was a recent highlight and garnered rave reviews from local press. Since teaming up with Cisco Adler & The Cell Management, they have crafted a brand new EP and plan to release several music videos in the coming months.

The Zibbz’s music strives to break down walls and lift the masses up beyond old notions of genre, gender, and race. Their combination of style and craft is a perfect shock to an industry in need of a swift kick in the ass.

DAVID RESNICK

David Resnick is a technology entrepreneur who creates impactful, playful, and community-building experiences. He is the CEO and co-founder of Bestr, an app to get the best recommendations from the right people. He is also the chief evangelist and co-founder of Stutter Social, an online community that uses Google Hangouts to host support groups across 40 countries. Google made press efforts on behalf on the organization (Forbes, LA Times) and promoted Stutter Social on social media and their internal company newsletter.

David’s work has garnered him speaking engagements at TEDxCulverCity, UCLA Student Leadership Training, the National Stuttering Association, FRED Talks, and the BIL Conference. He speaks about how to use technology to build empathic resonance; an experience that fosters connection, new opportunities, and compassion.

David was previously the co-founder of Love Intelligence Group, an entertainment technology company, where he built interactive visual shows for Enrique Iglesias, The Flaming Lips, and the Whitney Museum. He also co-founded Evolving Media, a digital agency, with clients including GlaxoSmithKline, Elton John, and Johns Hopkins University.

He was named MVP of his Div III college basketball team at Bard College and he holds his M.S. in Arts Computation Engineering from UC Irvine where his sensory augmentation inventions were featured in Engadget, Gizmodo, and the UCLA Gamelab. David has served on the Board of Directors of the International Stuttering Association and the Live Arts Collaboration.

Born and raised in Indiana, Liz Fohl started her musical career at a young age, recording various songs and performing around the city. At 18 years of age, she ventured out of her home state to pursue her musical passion at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Liz studied songwriting, music production and music business all while innovating, developing and tuning a foundation for her unique and creative musical career. So far, she has toured internationally and all over the United States.

After winning Berklee’s annual songwriting competition, Liz moved to Los Angeles where she now plays up to seven gigs a week and writes scores for television commercials and movies. With a brand new EP out, her music has already started to receive praise from critics around the country. Check out Liz’s SoundCloud where you can download her new single “Should’ve Known Better” for free! Also, don’t forget to find her on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

Eilish De Avalon

Born and raised in Geelong by European immigrant parents, I first became a journalist and editor, writing professionally for newspapers and magazines, before running my own family business. I’ve also been busy raising my sons, Kristofer and Matthew who are young men now.

It is often said that we study healing because initially we need healing ourselves. This was certainly true in my case. I grieved the loss of four members of my immediate family and became naturally curious about the after-life. My soul searching became somewhat of a spiritual pilgrimage where I questioned my religion, felt myself awakening to other beliefs. I felt that there was more I could offer people than just my wordsmithing. My spiritual pilgrimage took me through all the main religions and philosophies in a quest for truth. I studied the major sacred texts, meditation, learned how to astral travel, studied reincarnation, tantra, the Dharma, many healing modalities, these studies took years. I'm still learning, it’s an eternal quest.

I initially became a healer, studying Reiki (Mastership) and Spiritual Healing, Auric Diagnostics and Meditation Teaching with Michelle Boughen at the Gallery of Enlightenment but I had a few requests to do massage my healing clients, so I furthered my studies with Michelle and learned Indian Head Massage, Hawaiian Kahuna Lomi Lomi Bodywork massage, aromatherapy, and then later Balinese Bodyscrub and Massage Techniques. As Energy work was my main fascination, I found an excellent professor in my travels, Mr Lionel Thomas, who taught me Energetic Chinese Medicine and Advanced SFEF Kinesiology, Body Systems and SFEFopathy a variation of homepathics and I owe much of my success today to these two amazing teachers and mentors who have been my constant support networks over the years and they've helped me become the great healing practitioner that I am today.

Over the years, I've studied past life regression therapy, been involved in ghost busting and in mediumship development circles and basically have developed a huge repertoire in this otherworldly field. But as I like to keep one foot in each dimension, I also offer physical therapies in the holistic day spa business.

The Temple of Eilish also offers a selected day spa services as I am also a trained make up artist and have a wonderful range of Emani Mineral Make Up here, so if you're planning on a special night out, let me help you feel good inside and out.

I've a history of being in theatre as a performer and still devote my free time to devotional singing in Geelong the first Monday of the month from 7 pm at Cobbin Farm Chapel in Grovedale. My spirituality is my life, I adore being of services to humanity for the Greater Good of All, that is why I've incarnated and that is my life purpose. It's a wonderful honour to be able to be of service to humanity.

Blessed be. Eilish De Avalon

Gearóid Ó Colmáin is a writer and political analyst based in Paris. In this recent interview segment with RT International, he reveals a number of uncomfortable truths about this week’s alleged “ISIS Attacks” in Paris that have seemingly plunged Europe and North America into a pit of mass hysteria, Islamophobia, forced migration, war-hawking, rampant political opportunism and intellectual terrorism…

Our Very Special Guest Today is legendary Hit-maker Tommy James of The Shondells who has also written a bestselling book about his infamous and often intimidating association with Roulette Records and the “Godfather” of the music business Morris Levy.

After Tommy James and his family moved to Niles, Michigan he assembled what became a very popular local act called The Tornadoes. A local deejay asked the band to sign with his new label called Snap Records. One of the tunes recorded was a catchy rock and roll ditty written by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich called “Hanky Panky.”

The song quickly became a local hit and then rapidly faded away into oblivion.

Two years later an improbable occurrence unfolded when “Hanky Panky” was discovered in a record bin by a nightclub deejay in Pittsburgh. He began playing the newly discovered 45 at weekend dances and the response was beyond overwhelming.  A local record distributer bootlegged it and sold 80,000 copies in just ten days. By May of 1966 “Hanky Panky” became a number one hit in Pittsburgh. Later a promoter hunted down Tommy in Niles, Michigan and urged him to come to Pittsburgh where he was already a huge sensation.

A young and impressionable Tommy James would soon be trying to sell “Hanky Panky” to the largest record companies in New York. With an original copy from Snap Records and a bootleg copy in hand the executives from all the major labels positioned themselves to sign the rock and roll Boy Wonder. Strangely the next morning Tommy received a phone call informing him that all those record companies that were so eager to sign him had decided to pass. A disconcerted James then received a call from Jerry Wexler of Atlantic records who informed Tommy that he received a call from Morris Levy president of Roulette Records. The message was made crystal clear to Wexler and all the other record execs.

Levy said, “This is my F’ing record! Leave it alone.” 

(Hanky Panky became number one on the charts in America and the biggest summer hit of 1966)

Thus began the infamous relationship between Tommy James, Roulette Records and music mogul/ gangster Morris Levy. After every crime family member connected to Roulette Records had passed away, Tommy James was compelled to profess his incredible story. So with help from author Martin Fitzpatrick, James confessed his story into a book called Me, the Mob, and the Music which became a Simon and Schuster Best Seller. 

Tommy James has sold over 100 million records and was awarded 23 gold singles plus nine gold and platinum albums. Some of his legendary hits include “Hanky Panky,”  “I Think We’re Alone Now,” “Mony Mony,” “Crimson and Clover,” “Crystal Blue Persuasion,” “Sweet Cherry Wine” and “Draggin’ The Line.”

During 1968-69 Tommy James and The Shondells sold more single records (45’s) than any artist in the world, including The Beatles.

It is my great pleasure to welcome legendary hit-maker and best-selling author TOMMY JAMES!

Converting stem cells, turning on DNA and replacing dying cells! What we don't know.  Super Hydrate & Charge Your Cells !

Stem cell therapy is probably the hottest topic in medical research. The applications of stem cell therapy appear to be virtually endless. Studies have been done with numerous disease states such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoarthritis, stroke, burns, and spinal cord injury. Stem cell therapy is even being tested to regenerate organs and teeth and to increase longevity.

About Brian David Andersen:

Brian grew up in the “burbs” of Dallas and graduated from Irving High School in 1971. A knee injury during his junior year of high school ended hopes of participating in small college basketball so he focused all of his energies on newspaper and commercial photography. Brian’s mother, Vonnie, worked as an editor for the Irving Daily News and Brian photographed numerous assignments for the paper including covering Dallas Cowboys football games as a sideline photographer.

During Brian’s freshman year of high school, a medical doctor persuaded his father and five other individuals that the cure for their diabetes was the surgical removal of their pituitary glands. Keith Andersen was the last of the five test victims to die. The loss of his father from this controversial medical procedure two weeks after Brian’s high school graduation made him acutely and painfully aware of the shortcomings of traditional western medicine.

After the first semester of his freshman year, Brian transferred from East Texas State University to the University of Missouri at Columbia to pursue his dream of photographing assignments for the National Geographic Magazine. His advisor was Missouri photojournalism instructor Cliff Edom who coined the word photojournalism and had placed over 10 of his students with the National Geographic photo staff over a 40-year teaching career. Unfortunately, Edom was forced into retirement during Brian’s sophomore year and replaced with as award winning newspaper photographer, Angus McDougal.

Due to his very strong portfolio, Brian was one of the youngest staff photographer interns to work for a major metropolitan newspaper during the summers of 1972 and 1973. An odd set of circumstances set the foundation for Brian having a spot news picture he took to be published on the front page the very first day he reported for work at the Dallas Times Herald

Meeting His Mentor

Brian’s freshman year he was given the assignment of photographing the home of the President of the University of Missouri. While breaking down his gear, Brian was approached by a man in his early sixties who asked him what he thought about the luxury residence. Brian proceeded to criticize the inconvenient entryway into the patio area. The man asked Brian if he would communicate his negative pinions to the architect? But before Brian could answer that question, the man extended his hand and said, “Well, your answer does not matter because I am the architect and my name is Hurst John and what is your name?”

Hurst was a self-taught residential and commercial architect. He was also a very radical believer and practitioner of alternative health care and medicine and a devoted health food nut. While Brian completed a photo-essay on Hurst, the eccentric architect became his mentor and Brian traveled the back roads and high society homes of Missouri with his new friend and confidant.

While in his sophomore year, Hurst asked Brian a key question: “Can a person who graduated from college really and truly call himself a free person?” Hurst urged Brian to observe his fellow classmates and teachers for the next year before answering that question. At the end of his junior year and a tumultuous relationship with photojournalism Professor McDougal, Brian concluded he could not consider himself a truly free person if he earned a college degree. He walked away from two scholarships paying his full tuition.

Full Encounter with Western Medicine

Brian went to work as a nursing technician and then a surgical technician at local hospitals in the Columbia, Missouri area. Eighty-five year old Ralph Loomis, an associate of Hurst John, operated a literacy program in Brazil and wanted to tour other humanitarian operations before visiting his facility. Brian accompanied Ralph throughout Central and South America during the summer of 1974.

A landmark event in Brian’s life was observing and photographing the health clinic operated by Carroll Behrhorst, MD in the rural area of Chimaltenango, Guatemala for the poverty-stricken Cakchiquel Indians. Twelve years earlier Dr. Behrhorst moved his family from a successful practice in Kansas to pioneer the field of rural tropical medicine. Brian was impressed and transformed by the attitudes and practices of Dr. Behrhorst that radically differed from the western medicine he was dealing with on a daily basis.

One month after returning from Dr. Behrhorst’s clinic, National Geographic published a fluff story and a very weak photo-essay about Guatemala. During his encounter with the Behrhorst clinic, Brian was given a crash course on how the corporations and the US military were decimating the Guatemala rural countryside for politics and profit. The Guatemala Brian experienced was quite different from the Guatemala depicted in the frivolous National Geographic text and pictures. Brian knew he had the talent to take pictures for any professional magazine. However, after his encounter with the Behrhorst clinic and observing the disappointing magazine article, he realized he would have had conflicts during long-term relationships with the up-side-down direction and purpose of publications such as National Geographic.

Charles Baxter, MD, the next-door neighbor of the Andersen family in Irving, TX and a world-renowned burn expert, arranged for Brian to experience four months hands-on training as a burn technician University of Texas Health Science Center. He then transferred to producing, directing and photographing training films for nurses and doctors specializing in burn therapy. After one year of being totally immersed in western medicine, Brian slowly came to the realization there was more to health than just surgery and drugs and he could no longer be part of traditional medicine.

Around the World

In 1978 Brian received a modest inheritance from his grandfather and the drums of international travel began to beat. He moved to San Diego, took a one-week crash course in SCUBA diving and crossed the Pacific to dive shipwrecks at Truk Lagoon. The photographer in him came out again and Brian headed to Thailand where he did a seven-month photo-essay of Phuket. His pictures depicted the reality of life for the people in the region. With minimal dive experience, he became a dive guide in the wild and wooly beginning days of the now resort vacation destination of Pattaya, Thailand.

From Thailand, Brian traveled to Russia and via East Berlin on to West Germany. While in Berlin, he contracted to be a dive guide for a group of Germans in the Red Sea. They drove a 1947 Mercedes Benz military truck to Venice, Italy and then took a ferry to Greece and then on to Haifa, Israel and then drove the truck on to Ras Mohammed on the very tip of the Sinai Peninsula.

At that time, the Sinai had just been turned back over to Egypt and was still under joint Egyptian/Israeli military control. While out on a hike out by himself Brian became lost. An unmarked F-4 Phantom jet noticed Brian in his French military pants and green outdoors shirt. The jet descended to 25 feet and Brian could see the pilot had opened his gun turret and was ready to fire. As the plane approached, Brian had no choice but to raise his hand and make hitchhiker motion with his thumb. Brian could see the teeth of the pilot as he hysterically laughed when passing over. During a second pass the navigator pointed Brian in the correct direction. Not far from this encounter, Moses had separated the waters of the Red Sea. Moses’ magical staff guided the former slaves of Egypt into the Sinai Desert and the crew of a mysterious F-4 Phantom guided Brian out of the Sinai Desert. However, Brian did not eat any manna bread from heaven but he did munch on numerous bags of organic granola.

Brian then traveled to Tel-Aviv where he was offered a photographic assignment by AP to go to Kenya. When he investigated the situation, he found out that the killing and extreme violence of the regime of Idi Amin in Uganda was spilling over into Kenya. Standing at the airport in Tel-Aviv, Brian bought a ticket back to Dallas.

Breakthrough Underwater Video Technology

Back stateside, Brian moved to San Diego where he worked as a freelance writer and photographer. Brian completed a photo-essay and video documentary on a prison-retraining program that teaches inmates to be commercial divers at the California Institution for Men at Chino. The photo-essay became a book co-authored by his brother Kevon titled Prisoners of the Deep and the video documentary titled Dive To Freedom was broadcast on several local cable stations.

The documentary was released in 1985. The underwater segments were taken by the first and best professional camera housing for the high-end Betacam and Ikegami video cameras of the 1980s. The underwater camera housing was inspired by Brian and co-designed and fully manufactured by his business partner Elwyn Gates.

Brian had Elwyn turn the mounting ring for the large Fuji lens 90 degrees so the width of the housing was under a sleek eight inches. All previous and competing professional underwater housings were big sewer pipes or boxes with difficult controls. The monitor was outside the housing and could be manipulated into various positions.

Due to Brian’s research and insistence, their video housing was the first underwater system to test and use a dome port for the camera lens. Elwyn was very skeptical about the dome port because camera housings using movie cameras could only use flat lens ports. Other underwater camera professionals prejudiced towards movie film cameras laughed at the idea for a dome port but Brian finally managed to persuade Elwyn to use his creative abilities for manifesting the first dome port to be deployed on an underwater video system.

Their dome port, cut from a domed ship compass container, was not only outstanding but also improved color saturation by 200 percent compared to a flat port. The dome port allowed full zoom of Fuji lens and eliminated refraction when the port is half in and half out of the water. With flat ports the upper portions are much smaller than the lower portions that are underwater. Elwyn went on to win an Emmy Award for Technical Achievement.

Brian was hired by the ABC network to video the windsurfing and yachting segments of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The uplifted dagger board of a catamaran swept within a few feet of the dome port while he bobbed in the water with his assistant Mike Pelissier, the co-founder of Ocean Technology Systems. The dynamic clip was used numerous times when transitioning from the various summer competition events to the commercials. It was while filming this segment that Brian sustained an injury to his right knee that would later provide the foundation for a major breakthrough in the history of his subtle energy research that was yet to come.

Brian was also hired by the French Provincial Government to participate in a documentary about the Salmon Run on the Saint Jean River in Eastern Canada that was the most popular television program on the government station in Quebec during 1985. The half out of water and half in water segments made the program.

Frustration set in with slow moving technology and the temperamental nature of Hollywood clients.

Brian exited the underwater television business in early 1987 to pursue a career as an independent researcher, inventor and scientist specializing in alternative health care.

Subtle Energy Research

With his journalism background, Brian entered the fields of chemistry, physics and alternative health care as an investigator seeking the truth rather than a student seeking a passing grade. Brian was free to take any kind of risks and follow all kinds of paths and he did not care what others thought about his theories, directions, methods, or goals.

The starting gun had fired for the marathon that was to become Tri-Vortex Technology.

Yan Golding is a passionate cultural creative, yoga teacher, permaculture teacher, community builder, dancer and explorer of consciousness. Before the age of 18 he lived in five different countries and has continued traveling extensively so he never knows how to respond when people ask “Where are you from?”.

After graduating from a Quaker high school in the US he went to study aerospace engineering in The Netherlands. After 6 months he felt thoroughly saturated with the education system and became a ski-instructor. At 24 he embarked on a life-changing, 2 ½-year overland journey from Amsterdam to Australia, where he came in contact with meditation, yoga, wwoofing and rainbow gatherings. Since then he has participated sparingly in financial and cultural norms, retaining a natural curiosity (and sometimes bewilderment) for many of our social habits.

In 2002 Yan returned to South Africa with his partner, who he met in Auroville, India, to help create a community on 700 Ha of beautiful land. There he remained continuously for nine years, becoming the leading co-founder of Khula Dhamma Ecovillage. During that time he trained as a permaculture & ecovillage designer, massage therapist, vision quest facilitator, natural builder, yoga facilitator and taught himself a wide variety of skills related to sustainable and community living- including basic midwifery as he delivered his two beautiful daughters into this world.

In 2010, while attending an ecovillage design course, Yan was struck with a vision of an intentional unification and conscious collaboration among all people and groups who are dreaming and working for a brighter future. Since then he has devoted most of his creativity and energy towards raising awareness among the many branches of social change about our collective potential to work together to catalyse a fundamental cultural and systemic shift.

Currently Yan is serving as a lead focaliser for United Earth – an emerging global platform for unity and collaboration.

He now lives in South Portugal where he intends to co-create another ecovillage. Locally, he is part of the steering group for Transition Town Lagos and is exploring new paradigms and practices around gardening in conscious co-creation with Nature Intelligences.