Part of the new generation of spiritual visionaries and thought leaders, Derek Rydall is the author of the #1 Amazon/Barnes & Noble best-sellerEMERGENCE: Seven Steps for Radical Life Change and the world’s expert on the revolutionary Law of Emergence. He has trained top executives at Fortune 500 companies (from American Express to Disney) in empowered leadership and communications, coached celebrities and media professionals (including Oscar and Emmy winners) on creating conscious entertainment, regularly writes for The Huffington Post, and has touched hundreds of thousands around the planet with his message on finding your path, living your purpose and making a powerful impact! In his weekly Emergence podcast on iTunes he reveals cutting-edge spiritual principles and success strategies to achieve financial freedom and abundance, master productivity and creativity, and gain true wealth and happiness.

Chasidy Karpiuk, MA, RCC, CCC, CAP is a Registered Clinical Counsellor who has been working with mental health issues since the early 2000’s.  She is currently enrolled at Adler University completing a Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. Chasidy’s clinical work is with adults, families and couples facing challenges related to various areas in life, such as: work/school, relationships/intimacy, friendships, spirituality, and self-care. The following are some topics she has worked with clients on: addictions (substance, gaming, sex, etc.), relationships, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, stress reduction, life balance, and family relationships.

LITTLE STARS

“Zvjezdice” Girls’ Choir is one of the most representative music ensembles in Zagreb and Croatia. It was founded in 1985 and forms part of the Youth Music Centre in Zagreb. The members of the choir are all outstanding students of primary and secondary schools in Zagreb.

In three decades of its existence, the choir has developed a strong cooperation with the most prominent Croatian ensembles and performers, as well as with many conductors – from both Croatia and abroad.

Let us mention some of the best-known projects the choir has participated in: the performance of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in cooperation with Zagreb soloists and magnificent Croatian artists such as Ruža Pospiš Baldani and Dunja Vejzović, Symphony No. 3 and Symphony No. 8 by G. Mahler, cantata Carmina Burana by C. Orff, concert performance of Wagner’s Parsifal and Zajc’s Mislav, concert performance of Boito’s Mefistopheles, oratorio The Translation of St. Domnio by J. Bajamonti, scenic oratorio The Representation of the Soul and the Body by E. de Cavalieri, music melodrama Persephone by I. Stravinsky, appearances in operas Carmen by G. Bizet, Fire by B. Bersa, Werther by J. Massenet, The Child and the Magic Spells by M. Ravel, Pagliacciby R. Leoncavallo, Mirjana by J. Mandić,La boheme by G.Puccini,Postolar from Delft by Blagoje Bersa, Hansel und Gretel by E. Humperdinck, Tosca by G.Puccini the War Requiem by Benjamin Britten, oratorioJean d’Arc au Bucher (Joan of Arc at the Stake) by A. Honegger, oratorio Fidelissima advocata Croatiae by J. Magdić, Messe in G major by F. Schubert, concert performance of the opera Hansel and Gretel by E. Humperdinck, Missa apostolica by G. Wirth, etc.

The choir has performed alongside the Zagreb Soloists, the Symphony Orchestra of the Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT), the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the Croatian Chamber Orchestra, the Zagreb Wind Trio, the Windstrings string orchestra, the Opera Orchestra of the Croatian National Theatre (HNK), the Croatian Army Symphony Wind Orchestra, the Tamburica Orchestra of the HRT, etc.

Furthermore, the choir has performed under the direction of many renowned conductors such as V.Gergiev, S.N.Mariner, P. Dešpalj, K. Ono, M. Horvat, N. Bareza, M. Belamarić, R.F. de Burgos, A. Rahbari, F. Shipway, V. Kranjčević, U.Lajovic, S.Dinić, I.Lipanović, M. Tarbuk, M. Bašić, I. Kuljerić, P. Gotovac, M. Prohaska, I.Repušić, S. Britvić, T.Bilić, I.Skender, B.Šipuš, Z. Juranić, A. Bjelinski, J. Šego, etc.

The choir’s wide range of activities inside Croatia also includes a cappella performances at the International Children’s Festival in Šibenik (1990) and Dubrovnik Summer Festival (2000). The “Zvjezdice” choir filled the audience with enthusiasm in Norway, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Russia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.

In a series of its notable international appearances, two United States tours deserve special mention. First came the highly successful tour in 2003 (New York, Pittsburgh, Dayton, Northern Kentucky), when the choir received a major acknowledgement – with December 12 being declared the “Zvjezdice” Day in New York and December 19 the “Zvjezdice” Day in Dayton. The other equally successful tour took place respectively in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York in 2004, and included the concert in the Church of the Holy Family at the United Nations Chapel in New York under the high patronage of Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Permanent Observer of the Holy See at the UN. In 2006, the tour to Australia and Malaysia (Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Kuala Lumpur) followed, and the tour to Canada took place in 2008.

More recent international successes of the “Zvjezdice” include the concert at New York’s Lincoln center in 2010, as well as the concert held on Europe Day in the Milan cathedral, the participation in Croatia-Slovenia project The Symphony of a Thousand by Gustav Mahler in 2011, the tour to Saint Petersburg in 2012 and the participation in the War Requiem in 2013.

Many works by the leading Croatian composers have been dedicated to the “Zvjezdice” choir, most notably The Four Seasons by Davorin Kempf, Orion, Venus, Andromeda by Milko Kelemen and Djevojačke vede (Maiden Vedas) by Ivo Josipović.

The “Zvjezdice” choir has received many national and international awards and some of the most notable are: two awards for best performance at the International Choir Festival in Llangollen, North Wales (the International Musical Eisteddfod), the outstanding performance awards at the Sligo Choir Festival, Ireland and Stavanger, Norway, the award for the best performance of a contemporary composition at the International Youth Choir Festival Celje. Along with Dunja Vejzović, Ruža Pospiš-Baldani and Zagreb soloists, the choir received the Ivan Lukačić Award for performing Stabat Mater by G. B. Pergolesi at the Varaždin Baroque Evenings in 1991.

The choir has an impressive discography list, consisting of several hundreds of recordings, a series of independent releases such as the CD Ave Mundi Gloria, a double CD titled the Zvjezdice jubilee (released for the choir’s 15th anniversary), DVDs released respectively on the occasion of the 20^th and 25^th anniversary, CD: the Zvjezdice 20 years with Croatian composers, and Christmas editions produced in cooperation with the Zagreb Soloists, the Zagreb Wind Trio, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra and the Croatian Army Orchestra. The CD titled “The Greatest Christmas Hits” created in cooperation with the Zagreb Soloists and Jacques Houdekis the award winner of the Croatian discography awards Porin for the year 2010.

Since the very beginning to date the choir’s artistic leader has been maestro Zdravko Šljivac to whom it owes its success and acclaim.

PASQUALE ESPOSITO

Pasquale Esposito was born in Naples, Italy. At the age of seven, while performing in his local church choir, he discovered the power of prayer and music and the divine impact they had on his community.

In 1998, Pasquale immigrated to the United States after winning the Green Card Lottery. He settled in the San Francisco Bay Area and pursued his passion for music by attending San Jose State University’s School of Music under the skillful direction of world renowned tenor, Professor Joseph Frank.

Throughout his tenure at SJSU, Pasquale accomplished and worked on several CDS and theatrical productions that showcased his talents as a tenor both nationally and internationally. Aside from touring, Pasquale takes great pride in performing many of his own compositions arranged in the pop-opera style. In 2009, he released his fifth album: “A Brand New Me” comprised of all of his original compositions and graduated from SJSU.

Following the success of “A Brand New Me,” Pasquale continued his artistic development and expanded into the classical genre. He collaborated with artistic director, Emily Ray, of the Mission Chamber Orchestra. Together, they used an innovative approach to profoundly impact their communities in a positive manner by presenting orchestral shows in the form of benefit concert events. To date, he has benefited: Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, Little Italy San Jose, the Sacred Heart Parish of Saratoga, Carmel Mission Basilica and the American Cancer Society to name a few.

In lieu of his contributions to the community, he was inspired to further give back to the future of music by mentoring young students at the Notable Music Academy that he established in 2010.

Currently, he will be releasing his sixth album titled: “Il Tempo,” a compilation of a variety of songs that have individually inspired and developed his passion as an artist. Following the release of the album, he will embark on a national tour featuring music from the highly anticipated album.

Dr. Sam Berne, a holistic health practitioner and author has been recognized as a leading expert in the field of Behavioral/Neurodevelopmental Optometry and Vision Therapy for more than twenty-nine years.
 
He developed innovative methods for healing the mind-body-spirit through eye therapy. His revolutionary Developmental Learning Program (DLP) provides individuals with natural alternatives for improving vision and overall health. Dr. Berne offers a holistic method that helps children with a variety of developmental delays from autism to Attention Deficit Disorder.  DLP uses Primitive reflex therapy, Continuum movement, Vision therapy, Light/color therapy, Craniosacral therapy and Medicinal Essential oils to aid patients with neurological problems.
 
Via his successful private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico and his informative workshops and retreats throughout the United States and Europe, Dr. Berne has promoted his unconventional philosophy of “throwing out labels, letting go of cookbook solutions and treating patients from the present forward.” Opposed to measuring a patient’s problems based on only mainstream ideas, Dr. Berne  has historically treated patients on a case-by-case basis. 
 
Throughout his career, Dr. Berne has written four insightful books and produced a DVD on autism. His first book,  Creating Your Personal Vision, was a huge success and its publication led to multiple broadcast interviews in New York and Los Angeles as well as nationally syndicated radio shows.
 
Dr. Berne teaches an extensive number of professional workshops in fields from Holistic Vision Therapy, Primitive Reflex Therapy and Helping Traumatic Brain-Injured Patients to Methods to Help ADD-Autism, Light Therapy and Subtle Energies. He lectures as a visiting professor at venues including The Esalen Institute, The Bodhi Manda Retreat Center and The Crossings-Austin with curriculums geared toward cutting edge ideas, human potential and healing.  He leads weekend retreats devoted to Vision Therapy and Electrophotonic Imaging, called Vision Energetics, a process that opens one’s consciousness and healing through the measurement of the body’s energy fields and the use of a variety of eye-vision-brain techniques which incorporate sound, breathe, movement and light/color to help change one’s consciousness.
 
Boasting an international following, Dr. Berne is often asked to lead his holistic health/vision retreats in cities ranging from Hawaii to Bimini, Bahamas where special needs children and their families have the opportunity to swim with Atlantic Spotted Wild Dolphins and have access to treatment.

Attendees experience primitive reflexes, light/color therapy and/or vision therapy activities and engage in therapeutic swimming with the dolphins.   The retreats give the group a chance to live within a community of like-minded people, interact with nature and work on focus, clarity, intention and spiritual expansion of their vision.
 
Dr. Berne takes pride in having earned Special Awards for Service from the Behavioral Optometrists in Mexico for providing many of his innovative holistic ideas to help children. In addition to lecturing and healing, Dr. Berne enjoys giving back to the community by opening up his private observatory to teach children and adults about astronomy. He jumps at the opportunity to share his knowledge of stars to spark the imagination of others.  Dr. Berne volunteers for local organizations where help is most needed, notably he regularly serves food at a local homeless shelter in Santa Fe.
 
Dr. Berne is a warm, compassionate, problem-solver who always strives for creative answers. Working tirelessly to understand the specific condition and needs of each of his patients, he offers honest and reassuring answers to their questions. For the last twenty-nine years, Dr. Berne’s genuine care and personal interest in helping others has driven him to unconventionally heal the mind-body-spirit through his eye therapy.

Dr. Nancy D. Young has over thirty years of experience specializing in therapy with adult individuals, couples, and groups. She is extremely compassionate and nonjudgmental while using a holistic/transpersonal approach. For twenty years, Dr. Young was an Adjunct Professor at Chapman University, teaching Psychology classes such as: Intro to Psychology, Interpersonal Attraction & Romantic Love, Human Sexuality, Sexual Disorders & Treatment, and Chemical Dependency Treatment.

Dr. Young's academic research interests were on romantic love—the differences between intense/compelling and secure/comfortable love experiences, behavioral self-reliance in women, and on the use of videotaped therapy in chemical dependency treatment. 

Past workshops Dr. Young has facilitated have included Romantic Relationships: A Traveler’s Guide, Gottman Method Couples Therapy (Art & Science of Love and clinicians' Level I & Level II Trainings),  Communicating with Heart & Power—How to be Gentle but Assertive, Never on Sunday: Women & Sexuality, and Voice Dialogue. Psychology of Selves & Aware Ego (Voices of Consciousness, Dances with Others, & Stretching of Consciousness)

Dr. Young specializes in a variety of therapeutic methods, including cognitive-behavioral, Voice Dialogue, EMDR, and Gottman Method couple’s therapy. She is certified in EMDR and in Gottman Couple’s Therapy.  She is a certified Art & Science of Love (Gottman) Workshop Leader and Level I & II  Trainer.  And she has been a Voice Dialogue Teacher/Trainer for over twenty years.

Rebecca is Marketing Director for Tourism For Peace. She is working with our graphics, websites, media copy and Scrivener research. In her day job, Rebecca works as Associate Director of Creative Services at Technology Association of Georgia (TAG Education Collaborative), designing, editing and publishing Hub Magazine!  She also develops their logos, marketing material and manages their websites. She is fluent in French and English.

Trained as a Landscape Architect, Nevin is co-founder and Principal at Ursa International, a zoo design firm that he and his wife, Gail, established in 1994 in Atlanta, Georgia. Nevin works in a variety of settings, from Zoos to Nature Parks and Animal Sanctuaries all over the world.  Design goals are to improve conditions for captive wildlife and to give visitors an authentic experience of these animals, while educating them on the animal’s intrinsic value.  He has designed over 50 major projects for over 30 institutions in the US and 12 other countries, such as Italy, Jamaica, South Korea, Madagascar and Uganda.  He is currently designing a new Elephant Habitat for Zoo Atlanta in the zoo’s first land expansion in 30 years. He believes that zoos and aquariums can be seen as Places of Peace.

Catherine J. Rourke

Bio

Catherine Rourke is an award-winning investigative journalist, media trailblazer and social change Thought Leader specializing in Truth in Media, Medicine, Health Care and Social Justice.

The New York City native picked up a quill pen at age 4 and has been writing ever since. Her first social justice report “Who Rules America?” was published at age 15 and received a Quill & Scroll award. After completing her studies at the City University of New York and Oxford University in England, she took her first job at The Miami Herald. From there she spent the next 30 years serving as a reporter, photographer and editor for newspapers, magazines and book publishers around the nation.

Catherine’s writing primarily focused on social justice and the downtrodden in their own voices – the working poor, the homeless, labor concerns, women’s issues and human rights. But it was as a newspaper editor and columnist in Sedona, Arizona, that she faced a turning point in her profession when her investigative reports about mysterious deaths at a local medical facility met with media censorship.

Determined to uphold her moral responsibility as a journalist to serve the common good, she launched a nonprofit online newspaper in 2007 to deliver the truth and report about the downtrodden in their own voices. The Sedona Observer grew virally into a global vehicle for truth in media -- with 44,000 free subscribers around the world and 6 national press awards – with a slogan “Changing America by Changing Its Media First.”

The newspaper relies on public donations, so Catherine has received not one penny of income for her social justice reports. Instead, she is the recipient of 26 press awards, including “Arizona Journalist of the Year” ~ along with plenty of death threats.

She currently resides in Florence, Oregon, where she writes a column for the local paper and teaches creative writing classes. As a visionary writer  her mission centers on “soul-utions” for human transformation. Known as “The Editorial Intuitive,” she is currently writing a book titled “And Forgive Us Our Press Passes ~ Confessions of Modern Day Muckraker.”

Other Info

·         Former blogs: “Rebel with a Clause” and “Media, Medicine & Morality”

·         Books: “Unseen Dreams: Voices of Low-Wage Workers”

                  “Invisible Sedona ~ Forgotten People and Neglected News”

             Public contact email: editor@sedonaobserver

Sean Bennett has worked with: Whoopi Goldberg, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Donald Trump, Harrison Ford, Kelly Ripa, Adam Sandler, Carson Kressley, Bobby Flay, Ann Burrell, Ron Howard and even Donald Trump.

Sean has been an On Air Host and Media Guest for: MTV, Cablevision, United Stations, UPN, MNN, PBS Auctions, BBC, TLC, Food Network, and Vh1. Sean Bennett has been a member of The Screen Actors Guild, Actors Equity Association and American Federation of Television Radio Artists since 1998.

Hundreds of organizations, corporations and businesses have hired Sean including: Walt Disney World, Sony, Puffs Tissues, Mumm Cuvee, Coca Cola, General Mills, The New York Food and Wine Festival, Absolut, Commerce Bank, Kmart, General Motors and Scion.

On a personal note, Sean Bennett grew up in a single parent household, in a trailer park in Small Town, Florida. He now uses his multiple talents in multi media, while living in a luxury doorman building in NYC. His life is the inspiration for his upcoming book on luxury deals in Any City, USA.  He looks forward to using his humor and talents to help others live the life they desire,and help make dreams come true .

REVIEWS

OPRAH WINFREY  – “I love you too.” (Farewell Season of The Oprah Winfrey Show)

NEW YORK FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL –  “Sean Bennett’s enthusiastic performance truly shines. He is emotionally available with classic movie star features.”

COMMON SENSE MEDIA- “Inspiring!”

 APPLAUSE, APPLAUSE –  “ Bennett Is Brilliant! Sean Bennett steals the show.”

JIMMY FALLON – “Holy Headshot (Bennett’s first publication Simon & Schuster) has a spot in my library. I can not wait for the audio version.”

Max and Karen Langenburg are Co-inventors of Langenburg Oxygen Water Albrecht (Max) Langenburg was born in 1948 in Germany. His advanced studies in German engineering and biochemistry were integrated with practical applications in machining and prototyping. This combination allowed Max to conceive and then develop technologies with speed and effectiveness.

Max came to the United States in 1984, and has devoted his career to researching, inventing and developing life-changing technologies in water science, mechanical engineering, human cell studies and biophysics. Over the past 37 years, his passion for inventing has devoted countless hours and millions of dollars developing revolutionary premium water processing applications for communities, industry and for holistic health advocates.

The videos at the website provide a vision of how advanced this oxygen water technology is.

That includes exceptionally pure oxygen water with ideal PH and unique hydration properties that activate the memory of healthy cells like no other bottled water on the market. Optimal cell metabolism thus translates to improved elimination of cellular wastes, better assimilation of blood plasma nutrients, and cellular repair and rejuvenation in the process.

Max is currently President of Langenburg Technologies, LLC in Eugene, Oregon. He has four children and his wife Karen is owner of the company.

"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of the oceans." ~ Khalil Gibran

TINA NICOLE

Most attorneys can’t claim a love for textiles, but Tina Nicole is not your average lawyer. As the lead designer and co-founder of Nathan Anthony Furniture, nor is she your average furniture designer.  When the vivacious American of Italian descent studied abroad at Stratford-Upon-Avon, England with UCLA and at Bologna University, Italy, and then spent the summers of her young adulthood touring Italian cities, she was exposed not only to beautiful fabric, but also to the distinctly European design sensibility that informs her work today.

Tina had always yearned to express herself in creative terms – before pursuing her professional goals she completed the fashion merchandise, marketing and textiles program at FIDM and was a window dresser for iconic retail brands Colors de Benetton and Polo Ralph Lauren. So perhaps it was kismet, after all, marrying furniture and mattress factory owner Khai Mai. In 2004, having cut her teeth in the esteemed chambers of United States Federal District Court Chief Judge, Terry J. Hatter Jr. and Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge, Alex Kozinski, she left the office and courtroom commute for good, to start the couple’s custom furniture design business, which is named for their son. Finally, surrounded by beautiful upholstery covers, she gets to dress up the sofas, chairs, and other furnishings in the modern and contemporary styles she likes best.

Features: Tina Nicole has been recognized for design excellence by The American Society of Furniture Designers and The Design Society in the U. K. Her award winning furniture products for Nathan Anthony have been featured in top interior design projects and media outlets, including Architectural Digest, Interior Design, Design et al and Milieu magazines.

Awards: Winner, Sofa Category 2015 International Product Design Award, London; Finalist, Chair Category 2015 International Product Design Award, London; Finalist, 2012 Pinnacle Awards, Sofa Category, North Carolina.

Philosophy:

“You have to constantly observe and study everything around you. In the fields of furniture, home décor, fashion, architecture, fine art, graphic art, music, movies, theater and technology – ideas are everywhere. Designing works best when not heeding convention or rules. Look at things upside down, sideways and out of order. Focus on the parts that make up the whole. Look at the shadows a light casts. When you look at things outside of context, you get a glimpse of something new. Being inspired to create is when you feel truly alive. Just start drawing a line or write a sentence or slap paint on a canvas and let it compose.” – Tina Nicole

OREN HARRIS

It’s difficult, if not impossible, to put a finger on exactly who Oren Harris is.

A being who is living as Infinite Self within a finite world, Oren is a real life demonstration of the saying, “be in the world, but not of it”, and is capable of showing up in a vast number of ways to best serve those he is inspired to work with.

There are a couple of things you can put your finger on, however.

Oren is a world-class facilitator & transformation specialist, and his clients always reach their next level through working with him.

Always.

No matter how far along an individual is in their personal or spiritual development, and no matter how large and impactful their expression has become, Oren has the special ability to clearly see the next level of their infinite potential that is available to them, and is able to masterfully guide them into embodying their next level of potential over and over again.

Because of this, those who work with Oren usually become clients for life, as they realize the immeasurable value of having a being by their side who can see, speak to, and draw out all of who they really are every time they connect with him.

Oren’s ultimate “superhero” ability is something that comes naturally to him… so naturally, in fact, that he doesn’t even notice it most of the time, but its impact is very real and frequently life-changing for those who happen to experience it.

His presence activates people.

Time and time again, individuals who cross paths with Oren, even if for a brief moment, report back that after their encounter with him, their expansion accelerated and significant shifts almost immediately started taking place in their lives.

Such is the power and consequence of being beheld with Unconditional Love, a rare and priceless gift that Oren has tapped into, consistently embodies, and shares with the world everywhere he goes.

Regardless of where you are on your respective path, if you’re an individual who is fired up about and wholeheartedly committed to fully engaging life and giving it all that you’ve got, then Oren is inspired to connect with, and potentially work with you.

Check out his ever growing list of services to get a better idea of how you can best plug in, book him for a speaking engagement at oren@orenharris.com.

Dan Mackenzie is an Emmy-nominated singer/songwriter/producer/composer signed to Secret Road. He is the winner of two ASCAP Foundation songwriting awards, (Sammy Cahn and Joe Raposo). Mackenzie’s writing/producing credits include Joss Stone, Martin Sexton, Lisa Loeb, and Margot Bingham. He also has many TV and film credits, including Discovery Channel’s Monster House, (2004-2006), Dear Dumb Diary (2013) and Basmati Blues (2016), a musical starring Brie Larson, Scott Bakula, Donald Sutherland and Tyne Daly.

 Terrance is the  co-founder of Thug Ministries (juvenile gang prevention). He has an associates degree in counseling from Jacksonville College of Theology. Terrance is the Chief Adjutant of the Connecting Faith Fellowship under the leadership of Presiding Bishop David Gillard. He's an Associate Pastor at The Faith Center in Memphis , TN.  He is a husband, a father to 5 boys, a Prophet to this Nation, and most importantly he Loves God!

IAN PLIMER is Professor Emeritus of Earth Science at The University of Melbourne. He was formerly Professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich and at the University of Newcastle. He won the Leopold von Buch Medal for Science and has thrice won the Eureka Prize, the latest of which was for his book A Short History of Planet Earth. Professor Plimer has published over 120 scientific papers and books and 6 books for the lay person on topics raging from religious fundamentalism to mining history. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, member of numerous professional organisations and serves on many national and international scientific commissions. He is currently edits the Academic Press Encyclopaedia of Geology, is filming a BBC natural science program and continues his weekly ABC regional radio broadcasts. He is a director of a UK and Australian listed public companies.

BOOKS BY IAN PLIMER...

HEAVEN AND HELL: The Pope condemns the poor to eternal poverty by Ian Plimer

The Encylical Letter of Pope Francis Laudato Si "care for our common home" was influenced by atheists, communists and green activists. The Pope advocates burdening the Third World with inefficient unreliable high cost renewable energy and agriculture thereby keeping the poor in eternal poverty. Only when Third World children can do homework at night using cheap coal-fired electricity can they escape from poverty. Looking purely at the science rather than the theology, Ian Plimer shows the failure of the current Pope in his understanding of the real issues affecting poverty, especially in Third World countries.

Not for Greens: He Who Sups with the Devil Should Have a Long Spoon by Ian Plimer

The processes required to make a humble stainless steel teaspoon are remarkably complicated and every stage involves risk, coal, energy, capital, international trade and finance. Stainless steel cutlery has taken thousands of years of experimentation and knowledge to evolve and the end result is that we can eat without killing ourselves with bacteria. We are in the best times to have ever lived on planet Earth and the future will only be better. All this we take for granted. Greens may have started as genuine environmentalists. Much of the green movement has now morphed into an unelected extremist political pressure group accountable to no one. Greens create problems, many of which are concocted, and provide no solutions because of a lack of basic knowledge. This book examines green policies in the light of established knowledge and shows that they are unrealistic. Policies by greens adopted by supine governments have resulted in rising costs, increased taxes, political instability, energy poverty, decreased longevity and environmental degradation and they don't achieve their ideological aims. Wind, solar and biomass energy emit more carbon dioxide than they save and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions does nothing to change climate and only empties the pocket. No stainless steel teaspoon could be made using green "alternative energy". This book argues that unless the greens live sustainably in caves in the forest and use no trappings of the modern world, then they should be regarded as hypocrites and treated with the disdain they deserve.

Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science by Ian Plimer

Climate, sea level, and ice sheets have always changed, and the changes observed today are less than those of the past. Climate changes are cyclical and are driven by the Earth's position in the galaxy, the sun, wobbles in the Earth's orbit, ocean currents, and plate tectonics. In previous times, atmospheric carbon dioxide was far higher than at present but did not drive climate change. No runaway greenhouse effect or acid oceans occurred during times of excessively high carbon dioxide. During past glaciations, carbon dioxide was higher than it is today. The non-scientific popular political view is that humans change climate. Do we have reason for concern about possible human-induced climate change?

This book's 504 pages and over 2,300 references to peer-reviewed scientific literature and other authoritative sources engagingly synthesize what we know about the sun, earth, ice, water, and air. Importantly, in a parallel to his 1994 book challenging “creation science,” Telling Lies for God, Ian Plimer describes Al Gore's book and movie An Inconvenient Truth as long on scientific “misrepresentations.” “Trying to deal with these misrepresentations is somewhat like trying to argue with creationists,” he writes, “who misquote, concoct evidence, quote out of context, ignore contrary evidence, and create evidence ex nihilo.”

Telling Lies for God: Reason vs Creationism by Ian Plimer

This controversial analysis of creationism examines the arguments put forward to support the acceptance of a literal interpretation of the Biblical account of creation, and presents counterarguments from a scientific viewpoint. Also critically examines the material that many creationists use to support their beliefs. Includes a bibliography. The author is professor of geology at the University of Melbourne.

Shirley Tabb LICSW LCSW-C is a preeminent Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) Washington, DC and Licensed Clinical Social Worker –
Clinical tract (Maryland) advocate who has assessed and helped over 1000 people in the District of Columbia access community resources and home health services under the Home and Community Based Medicaid Waiver for the Elderly and Disabled.

Shirley has history of hosting her own talk show on DC Cable Television where she discussed pertinent issues facing poor, elderly, and disabled people receiving or
in need of Medicaid or private-pay home health care. These shows are available for viewing on YouTube and Vimeo.com.

Social marketing and community liaisons are strengths that enabled her to raise over $2 million dollars (media and in-kind services) while working in Adoptions and Foster Parent Recruitment fundraising in the community and during her annual Celebrity Golf Tournaments with big named sponsors including Phi Beta Sigma, Les Brown, Radio One, Price Waterhouse Coopers, ESPN, and major foundations including the Fannie Mae Foundation and Microsoft who donated a quarter of a million dollars to DC CFSA, during one of her annual fundraisers.

The Microsoft donation of $250,000 in computer software and games for foster and adoptive parents/children was the largest donation in the foundation’s history of giving to any non-profit organization.

A staunch advocate for children and the elderly, Shirley was also selected from among over 1000 nominees to be honored at the annual Working Woman’s Award Luncheon sponsored by WJLA – TV Channel 7 (Washington, DC) and Metro area Toyota dealers in 2006.

Another strong passion is end of life care issues and opportunities and Shirley enjoys speaking with community groups and working with families with loved ones with life threatening illnesses when in hospice. She is available for speaking engagements and bereavement counseling at Shirley.tabb@gmail.com.

I am Uluki king of the Waa Wurrung (raven tribe) of the upper Yarra valley North east of so called melbourne of so called Australia. My bloodline are the keepers of the creation dreaming (genesis dreaming) and the secret of our first Father and Mother who they are and where they come from which soon shall be revealed.

The corporate government of so called Australia has listed my people and language as extinct and allowed false claimants called wurrundjeri; which translates to ‘deceased people’ in our language to claim our land, therefore claiming our past, present and future.

We need help exposing these people and their exploits and are now putting a call out for solidarity and unity. We currently occupy land near the Healesville sanctuary which is the gateway to the Toolangi forest and have been threatened to be removed as trespassers on our own country, I can not fight this alone we have no where else to go and my family need a home and need your help.

All peoples, I ask you to join us in our struggle.

Contact uluki.bgm@gmail.com

Sincerely yours,

Uluki Brendan Murray

King of the Waa Wurrung (raven tribe)

Upper yarra valley.

Boori Biami(children of creator)