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Have you ever lost a pet you loved dearly? Most of us have gone through this. Our topic is: Grieving the loss of our pets. For many people a pet is not “just a dog” or “just a cat.” Pets are beloved members of the family and, when they die, you feel a significant, even traumatic loss. My guest will be Shirley Meyers, a Clinical Therapist, who will help us find ways to accept and cope with our grief and loss. If you’ve lost a pet and feel like sharing your story, please call in today at Toll Free 888-429-5471.
Philanthrocapitalism didn't start with Gates, Broad, the Waltons, and the Koch Brothers. This war against public education by private foundations has been going on for decades.
Yesterday, it was Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, and Stokes. Today it is Gates, the Waltons, and the Broads. Then and now these philanthropists are the shapers of public education policies and practices. These practices have been used as a weapon against black and brown and poor children, their schools and their communities.
Please listen this Sunday and join the war against those entities out to destroy public education. Knowledge is power so listen in and call in and learn how to fight the philanthrocapitalists.
RESISTANCE MATTERS
RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE
RESISTANCE IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF EXPRESSION OF DEMOCRACY
RESISTANCE IS SURVIVAL
Spiritual Healer, Sacred Magistry Minister, Author and Ascension Guide
Kommany is Spiritual Healer, Sacred Magistry Minister, Author and Ascension Guide
"I am an Angel from the Angelic Realms and I am here in Service for Humanity as Divinely Willed from Prime Creator."
Pure Angel Kommany is a Spiritual Minister and Founder of Unified New Earth Sanctuaries and Angel Star Ascension Collective. After giving her freewill up to the Will of God, she was gifted with the ability to connect deeper within the higher realms and connect her consciousness with the souls of the universe allowing her to become of service in many ways to all of Earth’s Inhabitants.
She donates her time to the upliftment of Humanity in many ways as a Minister, Counselor, Writer, Holistic Healer, and Spiritual Guide.
Kommany Leazer is experienced in all aspects of self-sustainable living and building self-sustainable living communities. She is also a leader for the Angel Star Ascension Collective.
Kommany is available for public speaking engagements and consultations.
Holistic Life Coach
Biography of Juliea Vergara as taken directly from her website at: http://juliavergara.com/about-julia-vergara/
A one of a kind certified Life Coach and Trainer who specializes in guiding people to achieve their dreams, providing customized tools and techniques for you to develop and maintain a balanced life.
Julia Vergara is originally from Colombia where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Marine Biology. Wishing to advance both her professional and personal life experiences, Julia set off to Montreal gaining invaluable experiences and language skills as a result.
Having met and fallen in love with a man while vacationing in Miami, Julia put fate in the hands of higher powers and moved to the United States as a newly woman, putting professional endeavors aside for the time being. As with each of us, Julia faced challenges, some of which were both emotionally painful and difficult to overcome.
The all too common routines of many marriages became a part of life; working hard to pay bills, living each day for the tasks at hand rather than living for self-fulfillment and attainment of personal wishes.
Julia pursued a new found passion, that of providing professional massage. She was good and found that benefiting others in such a manner was rewarding to her. So the career is set again, but her marriage continued to falter; ultimately leading Julia to seek divorce as the only option for finding what would hopefully be a permanent peace of mind.
A devoted and open minded woman; Julia renewed her vows with the very same man, believing at the time that the changes in each of them were strong and powerful enough to heal the wounds, fill the voids, and create a foundation for future growth in their relationship; no small leap of faith as you may imagine…
The miracle presented itself differently than expected. While the bond between Julia and her husband never solidified, the couple did create a most wonderful child together, Veronica was born on January 19, 2008.
A mother now, and divorced again, Julia was feeling lost with no signs of a clear path ahead, she took the key step of reaching out for help; sensing that professional guidance would be beneficial to getting herself back on track.
The coaching sessions were a success and Julia discovered that exposing her own vulnerabilities and missteps brought forth a great sense of relief. She found renewed clarity and focus, allowing her to open her heart and truly touch upon the core of her life’s purpose. Discovering this calling to provide similar support for others as was offered to her, set the foundation for what is now an extremely fulfilling career as a life coach here on the island of Maui.
The desire for change can be very good, but the act of making changes is often far more difficult. Julia’s belief in her own intuition, supported by the trusted guidance of her coach, gave her the motivation, the fire to pursue her dream; personal life experiences fueled the flames.
She has gives core training sessions that offer each client a foundation for daily, weekly and long term balance in their lives by teaching how we can best overcome our resistance to change, and how we can look at changes as desired positive outcomes to pursue.
Active in her community, Julia continues to enhance the lives of others in many ways; facilitating conferences at business and association training seminars and through her soon to be published book on the subject that she cherishes most of all, coaching others towards a most fulfilling life and parenting.
Julia is keenly aware that a centered life begins in the early years, when children are free of judgment and far more open to learning. Her book to be published, illustrates techniques for balanced parenting, creating balanced children, and how to use energy to raise happier kids. She offers steps that make parenting easier by using energy techniques, speaking to how modern children require parents to take modern approaches.
This journey, this awakening and preparation; provides Julia with first hand experiences that draw her naturally to an approach of inspiration and personalized guidance for each and every client.
Julia is the definition of a “Holistic Life Coach”, integrating everything in the wellbeing of a client: health, career, finances, relationships and more. Her personal experiences paired with a desire to pass along what she has learned from them, combine perfectly with professional training and a dedication to actively listening and understanding the needs of each client. There is one end in mind when Julia and a client work together, to define, inspire, and fulfill that client’s expectations for a peaceful and tranquil life.
Julia Vergara -Life Coach “Empowering lives through inspiration”
Export Author, Writer, Scientist, Pharmacist, Researcher, Musician, Editor, Artist, Producer, Historian
Michael Tellinger has become one of South Africa’s bestselling export authors. His regular articles on human origins and his book Slave Species of god have been praised by readers in over 20 countries.
Michael is a scientist in the true sense of the word, never shying away from controversial issues, scrutinising every clue meticulously. He graduated in 1983 from the University Of Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, with a B.Pharmaceutics degree, a passion for the cosmos, genetics and human history.
His research and astute understanding of his subject matter has made him a regular guest on many radio shows in the USA and UK with popular hosts like George Noory on Coast to Coast; Kevin Smith, Hillary Raimo, American Freedom Radio, Howard Hughes in the UK; the Camelot Project, and more.
Before applying his writing and research skills to books, Michael followed his other passion, for music. He spent much of his early years in the arts performing on stage and screen. As part of the duo “Stirling & Tellinger” he had several music hits in South Africa. In 1986, he worked in Los Angeles for Cannon Films as a sound designer and editor; and wrote and recorded the controversial anti-apartheid song “We come from Johannesburg”, which was banned under the previous regime. His latest contribution to the arts was a song called “Side By Side With Angels”, for the TSUNAMI disaster fund in 2005, which featured a number of top SA artists. He has written a number of screenplays, children’s educational books and TV shows.
As a producer he created a variety of TV shows and worked as a presenter on numerous others. As a writer in advertising in 1989, he received a Clio award in New York and in 2000 he presented his own weekly show on 567 Cape Talk radio in Cape Town, exploring technology, science and astronomy.
After a 30-year long obsession with the origins of humankind and the genetic anomalies of our species, he took some time out to write Slave Species of god, which became an instant bestseller in South Africa. When Johan Heine exposed the mystery of the stone ruins of South Africa to Michael in 2007, they began an irreversible process of research that led Michael to some startling scientific conclusions and the completion of two more books, Adam’s Calendar and Temples Of The African Gods.
It is uncanny that Michael’s passion for music and his understanding of sound frequency, harmonic resonance and wave formation in scientific terms, has allowed him to make the astounding breakthrough in decoding the mystery of the ancient ruins and lost civilisations of southern Africa.
Michael Tellinger, is an author of four books, scientist and explorer, who has become a real-life Indiana Jones, making ground-breaking discoveries about advanced vanished civilizations at the southern tip of Africa. His continued efforts and analytical scientific approach have produced stunning new evidence that will force us to rethink our origins and rewrite our history books.
Michael is the founder of the global UBUNTU Liberation Movement of higher consciousness and the UBUNTU Party as a political front for this global movement, with members in over 200 countries. The UBUNTU Party participated in the South African elections on the 7th of May 2014 under his leadership - and is now also registered in the UK as a political party. The UBUNTU Party UK will participate in the UK elections on 7 May 2015 under the leadership of Paul Toussaint.
Michael's major contribution to the field of ancient discovery has been delivering the proof of the tools and artefacts that support his scientific findings. He discovered more than 10 million stone ruins that are not dwellings, but energy generating devices. His Torus Stone, that crashed the TSA security systems at DOHA International Airport in July 2013, has sparked the imagination of the global scientific fraternity in the quest for delivering a new free energy device to the people of the world.
Registered Nurse, Traggers Masso-Therapist, and Expert on Essential Oils
Ann Windau is an Aspiring and Dedicated Nurse working (ever so) diligently and passionately as a psychiatric nurse... and has been doing so for the last 25 years.
She is also a Master Reiki Therapist... a long-time student for several alternative Healing Energy Modalities, and a highly esteemed practitioner and knowledgable resource on Trager Masso-Therapy,
Ann Windau is also an expert on THE VITAL & ESSENTIAL NATURE OF ESSENTIAL OILS.
21 Things You Should Know About Essential Oils
Essential oils are not really oils. They do not contain the fatty acids that constitute what we would consider an actual oil. Valerie Gennari Cooksley, author of Aromatherapy: Soothing Remedies to Restore, Rejuvenate and Heal defines essential oils as “highly concentrated plant constituents possessing potent medicinal and cosmetic qualities.” However, I think Stephanie Tourles nailed it in Organic Body Care recipes when she said, “I consider essential oils the life force or the soul of the plant.”
Most essential oils are high in antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral properties: This makes them an excellent addition to your homemade cleaning preparations. Oils that are best for cleaning are: Lemon, grapefruit, eucalyptus, peppermint, tea tree, lavender, and rosemary.
Essential oils are miniscule in molecular size, which means they are absorbed well by the skin – making them perfect ingredients in personal care items intended to heal, soften, and nourish. However, they do not accumulate in the body over time – they simply offer up their healing properties and then pass on through.
Scientific studies have shown that rosemary essential oil helps your brain perform. Specifically, smelling rosemary essential oil helps memory recall and performance on tests. Interestingly, this study also showed that groups that inhaled either rosemary or lavender essential oil felt much more relaxed than those who inhaled no odor at all.
Fragrance oils and essential oils are NOT the same thing. As a rule of thumb, if you see the word “fragrance” or “fragrance oil” or even “perfume” on anything, you can assume this is synthetic and NOT natural. (Even if it says natural fragrance.)
Essential oils are wholly natural and cannot be patented; which means that you’ll never see an essential oil in a pharmaceutical drug. As such, you can expect that the vast majority of mainstream healthcare practitioners will never recommend essential oils as therapeutic alternatives to drugs. More importantly, because essential oils cannot be patented, drug companies will not waste money studying them. This limits our scientific knowledge of essential oils GREATLY, and the majority of what we know about them are things that have been passed down through thousands of years of personal use and experimentation.
Enormous amounts of plants are needed to produce essential oil. In fact, on the extreme end, it takes 4000 pounds of Bulgarian roses to produce 1 pound of essential oil. Other plants like lavender only take 100 pounds of plant material to produce a pound of essential oil. Still, can you imagine how concentrated essential oils must be, in light of how many plants are used to produce them?
Most essential oils should never be used undiluted on the skin. Instead, they should be combined with “real” oils (called carrier oils), waxes, butters, alcohols, or other diluting measures. Because they’re so concentrated, if you don’t dilute, you may end up with an unfortunate reaction (and unhappy skin).
There are a few essential oils that are generally recognized as safe to use undiluted. Of course, there has to be a few exceptions to the rule. Again, in Organic Body Care Recipes, the author points out that the only essential oils that are widely acknowledged as safe to use undiluted (sparingly) are: lavender, German chamomile, tea tree, sandalwood, and rose geranium.
Never use an undiluted essential oil on a baby or child. Children have much thinner, more delicate skin than adults have, and tend to be very sensitive to the potency of essential oils. In fact, even if you do use essential oil in a recipe for children, only use half of the essential oil recommended in the recipe. That’s all they’ll need, anyway. (Here is a list of 19 essential oils that are safe for babies and children.)
Avoid the following essential oils while pregnant or nursing (and skip EOs completely in your first trimester): Aniseed, cedarwood, chamomile, cinnamon, clary sage, clove, ginger, jasmine, lemon, nutmeg, rosemary, sage (this is only a partial list of some of the more common essential oils – view the full one here).
To test if you’re sensitive to an essential oil (which is probably best to do before using it in a skincare preparation): Combine one drop of essential oil with 1/2 tsp carrier oil (like olive, jojoba, or sweet almond). Rub this on the inside, upper portion of your arm and wait a few hours. If no redness or itching develops, you’re most likely not sensitive to that essential oil.
Keep all essential oils out of the reach of children – and avoid contact with your eyes. This is just standard safety precautions, but must be mentioned
Do not take essential oils internally, especially oils like wintergreen and eucalyptus. While some essential oils may be used well-diluted in something like toothpaste with safety, it’s generally recognized that there’s no need to take essential oils internally. In fact, there are several toxic essential oils that should be avoided even through skin contact. Luckily, these are NOT common essential oils, and most of them you’ll never find in the store.
Not all essential oils are created equally, nor does more expensive necessarily mean “better.” There are certain brands I will use in a less therapeutic fashion (like for cleaning), because they’re far less expensive than their counterparts. When you see a wide fluctuation in price between, say, lavender essential oils, you can bet that the far less expensive one is likely lower in quality. However, a small variation in price differences on the higher end will NOT mean a better essential oil. It will just mean a higher price. (A little birdie also told me that there are also only a handful of essential oil distilleries in the world, which means that most essential oils come from the exact same places – thus there is little difference in quality between the more “typically priced” EOs.) What I’m saying here is: Understand that you DO have to pay for quality, but that if you’re just using essential oils in non-therapeutic fashions, it’s okay to use less expensive oils (like the Beeyoutiful ones pictured at the top of this post, or NOW brand essential oils). But if you want high quality, I suggest using Mountain Rose Herbs or another ethical supplier that offers organic essential oils (grown without pesticides or toxic fertilizers).
To test your essential oil to see how “pure” it is, put a single drop of it on a piece of construction paper. If it evaporates quickly and leaves no noticeable ring, it is pure. If you have a ring left, then it is likely diluted by the manufacturer with an oil of some sort (this test will not work for myrrh, patchouli, and absolutes).
Essential oils will last for at least 5 years (if not 10), so one bottle could literally last you a decade. Hopefully that thought will help mitigate the cost involved in purchasing some essential oils. Because they are SO concentrated and only a tiny amount is needed in anything you do, they’ll last you a very, very long time. The only exception to this rule is citrus oils, which will see a reduction in potency after a year or two.
Store your essential oils in dark glass bottles (which they were probably packaged in) and out of direct sunlight. This is simply to help preserve their potency.
Remember that what you’re allergic to in food, you will be allergic to in essential oils. So if, for some reason, you can’t eat sage without breaking out in a rash, steer clear of sage essential oil (or any product containing it).
USE ESSENTIAL OILS TO HELP YOUR MOOD.
Lavender, peppermint, grapefruit, chamomile, lemon, ylang-ylang all help produce happy, joyous moods. Clary sage helps with PMS (although there have been reports that overuse of clary sage can lead to intoxication). Rosemary increases focus and concentration. Don’t forget the mood benefits of essential oils. Here’s an information packed aromatherapy reference chart to refer to.
The recommended usage of many essential oils is hotly contested throughout the aromatherapy profession. The majority of oils you find in the supermarket are absolutely safe (though you should research them before using them); however, once you start digging into the world of essential oils, you’ll find that professionals – even within the same organization – debate extensively over the use of certain oils. If you’re ever unsure about an oil or its use, do the research you can, and if you still cannot make up your mind as to its safety – avoid it. But, by all means, do NOT be afraid of essential oils. Just use them with care and respect, and all will be fine.
Los Angeles-based songwriter, New Age Pop artist and community organizer
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KOMO 4 News Anchor
Eric was the Sports Director at KOMO for many years, but recently he became the anchor for the 5:00 news.
He was raised in Spokane (East Valley High School), and majored in broadcasting in the Edward R. Murrow School of Communications at Washington State University. He also played baseball at WSU (he says with very limited success).
In his 15 years at KOMO, Eric has been awarded more than 25 Regional Emmy Awards, and in 2007 was given the highest prize in local television news, a National Edward R. Murrow Award for best feature story in the country.
He has been in the middle of most of the major Seattle sports stories of the past decade and a half. He was there for the '95 Mariners, and the '96 Sonics, the Seahawks Super Bowl run, too many Apple Cups to count, and the Storm's championship season.
In 1993 he created a popular weekly feature called, "Eric's Little Heroes." Seattle laughed for years at kids running the wrong way, saying the wrong things, and proving every week what sports are truly about. And after being gone for a couple of years, "Eric's Little Heroes" has returned to KOMO 4.
Eric has a wife and two children; a boy and a girl. In his spare time he plays in an adult baseball league, works on his antique Ford, plays piano, and writes music.
Professor of Medicine at Temple U and Author
Dr Rich Snyder is an osteopathic physician board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology (the study of kidney disease). His areas of specialization include kidney disease, high blood pressure, adrenal health and medical education. He is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is the author of five books including Adrenal Fatigue For Dummies and What You Must Know About Kidney Disease: A Practical Guide For Using Conventional and Complementary Treatments. He is also the High Blood Pressure Expert on About.com
Holistic Nutritionist and Author
Marni Wasserman is a Graduate of the Institute of Holistic Nutrition in Toronto and the Natural Gourmet Culinary School in New York, and is the founder of Marni Wasserman’s Food Studio & Lifestyle Shop located in midtown Toronto where she teaches her signature cooking classes, and offers collaborative workshops and urban retreats. This is also a place where she features her favourite sustainable superfood products.
As a prominent figure of health and nutrition in Toronto, Marni is a regular contributor to Chatelaine, Huffington Post and Tonic Magazine. She has made several TV appearances, been hosted on radio talk shows, consulted with The Windsor Arms Hotel for vegan and vegetarian menus, and participates in several live speaking and cooking demonstrations. If that wasn’t enough, she is also the author of book Plant Based Diet for Dummies, Fermenting For Dummies and several well-received plant-based eBooks.
