HealthyLife Radio Network

HealthyLife.Net Radio Hosts Ten-Year Celebration with Listeners

noreply@blogger.com (Linda Mackenzie) — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:07:00 +0000

Los Angeles, CA, October 15, 2012…HealthyLife.net Radio (www.healthylife.net), the premier choice of positive talk on the Internet, is hosting its Tenth Anniversary Party with a remote broadcast on Saturday, October 20, 2012, 12 noon - 3 p.m., at the Redondo Beach Pier in Redondo Beach, California.

HealthyLife.net Founder and General Manager Linda Mackenzie, Program Director/News Anchor Jay Cruz and radio host/Redondo Beach Mayor candidate Steve Aspel will preside over the ocean-side birthday gala, joined by special celebrity guest, CURRENT TV radio host and star of the Sexy Liberal Tour Stephanie Miller. Adding to the fun of this special broadcast, is a cache of giveaways including gift cards for fabulous Portifino Hotel Stay-cations, Whole Foods and Sprouts organic groceries, Shade Hotel Lunch for 4 and more from the Redondo Beach Pier restaurants.

To extend the celebration to include the growing global list of listeners outside of California's South Bay, there are celebration surprises with giveaways through the HealthyLife.net social media

channels including LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. Full details available at: www.bit.ly/RrtiDL.

"Despite the challenges and changing landscape in play throughout the radio industry, we still continue to experience continuous, explosive growth in our listener base worldwide, which is a remarkable testament to the HealthyLife.net premise of positive talk and of course, our knowledgeable and entertaining content providers," states Linda Mackenzie.

"I could go on and on about the success our unique weekday positive news program or how our South Bay Saturday local programming is so well received, but instead, I'll just sum up the success of HealthyLife.net with the latest stats from independent/in-house analysis studies which indicate that HealthyLife.net has higher website rankings, page views and website visits, plus 1,200% more listeners than any terrestrial radio station's digital channels - without our 58 syndicated/simulcast channel provider numbers. Now that's something huge to celebrate!"

About HealthyLife.net - A pioneer in positive media since 2002, HealthyLife.net broadcasts on: internet, in cars, smartphones, tablets, WiFi, Microsoft® Windows Media Player® Radio Tuner, private radio networks and more. HealthyLife.net reaches 108 countries with 82.7% of listeners coming from 1,240 cities in all 50 U.S. States. The programs, hosted by recognized TV, film, radio and national experts (like Dr. Bernie Siegel, Golden Globe winner, Oscar nominee Sally Kirkland) span a variety of topics that are designed to help people have a happy, healthy life.

Internet Radio for Media Buyers

noreply@blogger.com (Linda Mackenzie) — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:12:00 +0000

Internet Radio for Media Buyers
In this economy you are being asked to do more with less, so don’t let your clients miss out on one of the fastest growing markets in the media industry – Independent Internet radio. Here are a few reasons why Independent Internet Radio is a great choice:

Missed Market of Engaged Listeners
According to the U.S. Census Bureau and Small Business Administration there are 21 million plus non-employer based businesses in the U.S. of which 52% are home based businesses. In comparison there are only 5milllion plus employer based U.S. businesses. More people are working on computers at home and will listen to internet radio in the background rather than be distracted watching TV or a video. Working alone, the innate need for social contact is met with an internet radio talk show. Listeners tend to feel they are not alone and have a chance to interact via telephone, text, email or social networks during live programs.

Higher Ad Receptivity
Studies have shown that people are hit with 3,000 -5,000 ads per day. This is usually too many for people to process so they tune most of them out – either physically, like a DVR, or mentally. However radio spot ads are less obtrusive because 1) they are expected. The host actually announces they are going to commercial break; 2) radio spots are sound bites, not visuals, which are less distracting; 3) radio is an emotional buy. It leaves the ‘pictures’ up to the mind of the listener who actually matches their ‘pictures’ directly to their needs. This does have more impact - think of the effect of the murder scene in ‘Psycho’ as compared to ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ where people get numb to the violence. 4) radio ads also have a better ‘top of mind’ recall experience; and 5) studies have shown that people will spend more time listening to radio ads, so they are more likely to remember and respond to them.

A Viable Growing Market
Internet Radio continues to expand in growth unlike terrestrial radio which entered the internet market too late. They are still struggling with the Internet and technology while trying to maintain their old paradigm which doesn’t work with today’s audience and technology. Internet radio stations can be, and many are, syndicated and simulcast on many distribution channels, creating a wider network appeal that reaches the listener wherever they are – internet, in-cars, smartphones, WiFi, Ipads, private radio networks, and more. Plus there is added ad shelf life with archives, downloads, podcasts and RSS feeds. In addition - Internet Radio’s Drive Time is longer from 8am – 5pm. Plus what is really great is that usually all this ‘reach’ is included free with your initial buy, making your ROI more economically effective.

A Full Digital Presence
Internet Radio can provide more than just radio spots for your clients. Banners, coupons, email blasts, social media mentions are just some of the added possibilities that come included with Internet Talk Radio ad campaigns giving your client a maximum digital presence exposure.

A Niche Market Demographic
Internet radio listeners do tend to have higher, more disposable income levels. Dependent upon the Internet Talk Station’s niche market, demographic information like age groups, gender, marital status and other data will vary but can give you a more specific choice for your client’s product or service – which leads to a better ROI.

Targeted Ad Placement
Imagine reaching local, national or global listeners all in one place. Internet Talk Radio allows media buyers to do this. Plus Internet Talk Radio Stations can target specific local, national and global audiences. Terrestrial radio has a small footprint with almost no local programming.

Better ‘Straight From the Source’ Tracking
No more extrapolated number from 3^rd parties. Internet Radio has more real stats available to them than terrestrial radio. There are no studies comparing terrestrial digital radio and independent internet radio. However to give you an example, when HealthyLife.Net Radio compared ‘apples to apples’ from the latest Triton Digital Media Study, HealthyLife.Net had 1200% more live session listeners than the top terrestrial digital radio stations using the exact same criteria. So don’t discount Independent Internet Radio stations – they are viable players in the media marketplace.

With Independent Internet Radio there is also a way to justify actual real numbers and ROI with minimal effort on your part. Your clients can actually set up a specific telephone number for ordering and for a banner link, set up a web landing page, with an unpublished link which can be placed on the radio site so clients can track their own statistics – which takes you out of the numbers game all together!

Independent Internet Talk Radio is not a replacement to traditional media but IS a viable addition. It’s a new marketplace that can produce for you now and is destined to only increase in the years to come.

HealthyLife.Net Radio Network is a 10-year young Internet Radio Network that provides economical full digital presence ad campaigns for media buyers.Visit http://www.healthylife.net/RadioShow/AdvertisingA.htm

Internet Talk Radio Advertising: Ugly Duckling Turns Swan

noreply@blogger.com (Linda Mackenzie) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:13:00 +0000

By Linda Mackenzie

When it comes to placing ad dollars many advertising and marketing companies perceive radio, and especially independent internet talk radio, as an ugly duckling. Today the majority of advertising budgets are going to video, search and digital websites which have high visitor counts. They shun the poor ugly duckling internet radio and only place minimal amounts of their budgets to old known terrestrial radio conglomerates. How’s that working for you?

Well here’s the rub ducklings…you’re missing 8 to 10 hours of prime time audience from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. every weekday. Internet Radio is now full grown and it’s a beautiful Swan swimming strong. Feed the swan and you’ll get results and here’s why…

Do you realize that during the work day people are usually not allowed to surf the web or watch videos from their desks – their employers want them to work and frown on these activities. However, radio and internet radio is usually allowed because it is played in the background. Plus with WiFi, Bluetooth and Smartphones internet radio is readily available to the listener at the office and they are listening.

While people are driving to work with Bluetooth, in-dash and smartphone capabilities now available in cars, independent internet radio stations are here to stay and people ARE listening. Let’s face it. I certainly wouldn’t want to drive near a distracted driver who was watching a video or doing a search while driving and lately there are low rumblings in the government sector to research these activities in more depth for possible liabilities.

Per the latest census bureau statistics there were 27,281,452 employer firms compared to 21,351,320 non-employer firms and according to the Small Business Administration 52% are home-based businesses. People are meant to be social animals. Many of these people need social interaction during their workday - but working from home, alone, this may be difficult. Remember music incites the soul and talk insights the mind. Talk radio fills this social interaction gap and Internet Talk radio fills this gap with new, refreshing programs that are not the standard fare of the terrestrial industry.

Not all Internet Talk Radio stations are alike. Make sure you select a station that has longevity, experience and the audience. Longevity brings the station’s already loyal listeners. Experience means that they know how to implement advertising easily and effectively. Audience means they have a method to gather exact demographics of their listeners and measure audience size.

When deciding metric measurements with the digital broadcast section of terrestrial radio discern what metrics you are getting. Internet radio audience measurement is NOT website hits. Internet listeners come from the streaming server. Make sure that you get a breakdown per exact station and not just overall sessions that are for the entire empire. A well-established internet radio station has them and you’d be surprised at how many more listeners they do have. Check it out for yourself.

So next time you are making a decision on where to place your advertising dollars, step out of your comfort zone. Why not put a little bit of your budget towards trying Internet Talk Radio - the Ugly Duckling who is now a Swan and swimming strong. HealthyLife.net has been swimming strong for a long time now – why not try us?

Aspel Interviewing Lobsters

noreply@blogger.com (Linda Mackenzie) — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:01:00 +0000

Check out Steve Aspel talking to the Lobsters... http://youtu.be/clkdfhRoXRg

HealthyLife.Net Radio – Back In Time Capsule - 2003

noreply@blogger.com (Linda Mackenzie) — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:19:00 +0000

HealthyLife.Net Radio Network 2002-2012

10 years of Positive Talk

Back into the Time Capsule: 2003

With 3 months of Network Beta testing completed, in January 2003 we started other radio hosts with eclectic topics not found on traditional radio stations. Some of our new hosts included Raw Food Maven Elysa Markowitz, noted Naturopathic Doctor Dr. Gloria Gilbere and Golden Globe Winner, Academy Award nominee Sally Kirkland – who are all still with us today.

Our many guests were great too. We had Jean Houston’s dog sing opera on air to Stephanie Miller’s comic antics gracing our air waves.

In its infancy stage our show topics included natural health, business, spirituality and the paranormal. Even though internet radio was still new and most people didn’t even know what it was we managed to glean 589,787 listeners for the year.

We added a chat room and live call-ins to our shows and by the end of the year we had to move our studio to a larger location. We added more equipment, more hosts wanted to come on air and we were getting more listeners. It was time to take the next step…

More next month when we go…Back into the Time Capsule: 2004

HealthyLife.Net – Back In Time Capsule 2002

noreply@blogger.com (Linda Mackenzie) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:15:00 +0000

HealthyLife.Net Radio Network 2002-2012

10 years of Positive Talk

Back into the Time Capsule: 2002

In September 2002, after planning and with equipment bought, Linda Mackenzie Founder of HealthyLife.net Radio, went out to find a streaming provider. After looking high and low a fellow broadcaster asked if she knew about Earthchannel. She called Earthchannel and it just so happened that Cliff Johnson wasn’t just a random start-up broadcaster in this fairly new world of internet radio. Oh no! He was one of the original designers of streaming servers and had been involved in streaming service and technology from the beginning. After explaining the remaining little known pieces to the puzzle about Internet broadcasting, Linda in awe at his knowledge remembers asking Cliff jokingly, “Did God send you?” He promptly answered, “You bet He did!”

Linda decided that EarthChannel was her streaming provider of choice – and she has never been disappointed with service, price and availability. Cliff still proves to be a dear friend, the voice of reason and one of the most knowledgeable broadcast providers on the planet.

So on October 2, 2002, Linda began beta-testing the network. Not wanting to waste anyone’s time until everything was perfect her radio show was the only show on the network broadcasting 5 days a week. By the second week of broadcasting Linda was out looking at golf putter at a sports store. This incredible voice came out of nowhere and said, “Can I help you?” After a couple of minutes of conversation Linda asked, “Have you ever been in radio?” The guy was a little shocked and said, “Yes. In major markets in San Francisco for 15 years, until I got laid off.” Linda responded by saying, “Would you like to be in radio again?” After explaining what she was doing in Internet radio he decided he was interested. And that was what started a 10 year fruitful and beneficial business relationship with Dennis Glines, now the Program Director on the network.

During December Linda was still not satisfied with the sound quality of the station. So after several attempts with many computer people who didn’t know sound and many music people who didn’t know computers she put an ad in Craigslist. Sean Fodor came into the studio and Linda, who was frustrated by this time, turned on KABC from the radio and said to Sean “This is what I want to sound like.” He cocked his ear at the sound for a moment, said a simple “Okay.” Then made 2 or 3 adjustments on the sound equipment, which took about 2 minutes, and the sound was perfect.

With the streaming perfect, the sound perfect, the production engineering taken care of and Linda’s show getting call-in audience response, Linda started marketing to get other radio hosts onto the network. Not just taking anyone the criteria that a radio host had to have to be on the network was previous TV, radio, or national lecturer experience with an audience following. With the lay offs in terrestrial radio occurring, and still occurring to this day several hosts jumped on board …until…

More next month when we go…Back into the Time Capsule: 2003

Types of Internet Radio

noreply@blogger.com (Linda Mackenzie) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:48:00 +0000

by Linda Mackenzie

1. Internet Radio Show - an individual radio show with one or more hosts, which can be aired live or pre-recorded, and is broadcasted either on a radio station or as a podcast from an individual website.

2. Radio Station - A group of live and/or prerecorded scheduled programs that are grouped together and broadcast through a single channel of distribution.

3. Radio Network - A 24/7 individual radio station which is linked to other radio networks and broadcasts a common program theme in a specific format (e.g., Music, Talk, News/Talk) and is in syndication (contracted by another media channel for play) or simulcast (Simultaneous broadCast on other media channels) or both on many channels of distribution.

4. Radio Aggregator - A radio streaming service provider that provides streaming service for a single radio station or where 100's or 1000's of many different radio programs without one specific theme are grouped together and share streaming services as one station which may or may not be linked to other radio networks to syndicate/simulcast its stream.

5. Radio Syndicator/Simulcaster - An individual broadcast entity that picks up, links and broadcasts many radio stations/radio networks streams to broadcast them on their site.

6. On Demand Radio Archive - An individual Internet Radio Show or an individual radio program from a Radio Station/ Radio Network which has been archived and made available for listening at any time directly from their specific website.

7. On Demand Radio Download - An individual Internet Radio Show or an individual radio program from a Radio Station/ Radio Network which can be downloaded to a listener's computer to be made available for listening at any time via one or more various formats (e.g., .mp3, podcast, ITunes format, RSS feed, mobile).

8. Podcast Aggregator - A podcast streaming service provider that provides streaming service for 100's or 1000's of many different podcast program providers without one specific theme which are grouped together to share streaming services.

WHY INTERNET RADIO ADS vs. AM/FM OR CABLE TV ADS?

noreply@blogger.com (Linda Mackenzie) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:46:00 +0000

by Linda Mackenzie - GM, HealthyLife.Net Radio Network

1. MORE REACH

- Internet Radio has more Time Spent Listening (TSL)
72 million people in the U.S. spend an average TSL of 3-8 hours a day listening to a 24/7 Internet Radio network stream as compared to AM/FM radio's 3 hrs. 3 min. per weekday. For Podcast listeners TSL is usually 3 -5 minutes at the start of a broadcast.

- Internet Radio has longer Drive Time: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m
AM/FM radio's greatest listening time is 'drive time' on the way to and from work. In 2010 there were 11.3 million home based businesses in the U.S. and half of all businesses in the U.S. are home based. There is a greater and longer listening opportunity for home based businesses to listen to Internet radio. HealthyLife.net Radio stats, over the last 10 years, have shown our Drive Time to be: Weekdays, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

- Internet Radio's Footprint is Local, National and Global
AM/FM footprints are limited to 50w - 500w local terrestrial listening areas and although AM/FM stations do now stream on the Internet they came into the environment too late and latest listeners per station average below 300 listeners.

- Most watched Cable Stations Don't Allow Ads.
The Top 60 Cable TV channels (e.g., HBO) who are most frequently reached do not allow ads.

- 74% of Cable TV programs with a 2.0 or better rating are targeted to teens and kids.

- 27% of Cable TV Subscribers use DVR devices.
More than 1 in 10 Cable TV Subscribers record programs on a DVR and 42% watch these programs within 3 days after the original airdate. 21% fast forward through commercials or see ads after a promotion or sale date.

(Arbitron, Wall Street Journal, Neilsen, RAB, LA Market Ratings Estimates, Businessweek, SBA Office of Advocacy, Triton, Healthylife.net)

2. BETTER ENVIRONMENT

- Internet Radio is the Number 1 Position for frequent use of Internet by women at home, at work and at the University.

- Avg American spends 20 minutes per week shopping. The Average American woman spends 30 minutes a week shopping. 70% of buying decisions are made before they enter a store.

- Radio Listeners react better to commercials. After hearing a radio commercial 46.6% of Adults (18+ ) and 51.8% Women (25-54) react later that day and 55.9% of Adults (18+ ) and 64.6% Women (25-54) react later that week.

- Internet Radio Provides One-On-One customer response. Immediate customer response is available by click-through to your website for an immediate buy online.

(Arbitron, NAB)

3. GREATER AUDIENCE PERCEPTION

- Internet Radio and AM/FM radio less intrusive. Radio ads are considered to be less intrusive than Cable TV ads because they are expected and do not seem to appear at inconvenient moments.

- Internet Radio and AM/FM is considered to have less repeated ads.

- Cable TV channels use their best ad positions for their own trailers and inventory.

- Internet and AM/FM Radio ads are:

Perceived more personally relevant than any other media
Connected to a higher emotional level and buy
Best of all media for branding
Associated more than any other media with trust, honest and reliability
Considered to be the most positive
Most listened to and your message is HEARD by 92% of audience
Best to improve unaided Brand Name Recall

(Arbitron, Media Audits Media IQ Study)

HealthyLife.Net Radio creates win-win-win advertising - for you, your clients and the station. We have professional radio copywriters and voice over people that will write and produce your ad for free with any of our ad campaigns.

HOST OF THE MONTH: Dr. Jane Greer

noreply@blogger.com (Linda Mackenzie) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:33:00 +0000

Dr. Jane Greer

"Doc On Call"
Tuesdays, 11 a.m. PT

Each month we focus on one of our great hosts and this month we are talking to Dr. Jane Greer a 20-year nationally known therapist, author, feature writer and TV guest expert.
Dr. Jane's HealthyLife.net Archive Page
Dr. Jane's Website

HL- What led you to become a psychotherapist?
Starting in junior high school, I always loved talking with my friends and helping them work out boyfriend problems and anything else they were dealing with. As I got older, I discovered that helping people was a career choice and pursued it to acquire the skills to add to my innate love of finding solutions to difficulties and making life easier to deal with. It's a natural fit.

HL- What was your most fun TV interview as an expert?
Actually, there were many that were really fun. One TV show I really enjoyed was when I was featured as a guest on "To Tell the Truth" as the Sex Columnist for Redbook magazine. I managed to fool everyone, the audience, and celebrity panel!

HL- How do you relax?
The things I love to do to relax include reading thriller books, and magazines, doing yoga, listening to music, watching television, ballroom dancing, going to movies, going out to dinner, spending time with family and friends, shopping, traveling, and brushing my dog.

HL- When should someone seek a psychotherapist?
Someone should seek help when your unhappiness with yourself, a relationship you're in, or a situation you're dealing with such as a job, friendship, family matter affects you on a regular basis and leaves you feeling, alone, misunderstood, angry, disappointed, helpless, and stuck. That's the point at which these negative feelings can become like quicksand and make it hard for you to find your way out of their hold. Professional and objective help will give you both the perspective and the tools you can use to regain control and change things for the better for yourself.

HL-What do you like to cover on your "Doctor on Call" radio show? I love to talk with anyone who has some expertise in a given area that will be helpful to pass on to the listeners so that they can learn new information which they can then use to enhance their lives. Authors, doctors, comedians, educators, musicians, anyone who has a personal story to tell that will help others is welcome as a guest. Plus on the last Tuesday of the month at 11am PT we do a tasteful show called "Let's Talk Sex."

HL- How is your message universal?
We're so much more alike than different. We all want to feel good about ourselves, love and be loved, use our talents and be recognized for them, and ultimately to find meaning in life. My major in college was comparative religions, and I loved scribbling in the margins "I just read this same point in my Taoism class" or "This is also in the chapter on Judaism." These underlying truths that are in every spiritual tradition are what Aldous Huxley called The Perennial Philosophy. I think that the more we look at those underlying connectors, rather than at our differences, the better off we'll be.

HL- What can we expect on your future shows?
More interesting, exciting, and entertaining guests covering a range of topics that all deal with enhancing your self esteem and being your best self possible, including exercise, diet, skin, care as well as coping with illness and death and overcoming adversity in living.

HL- What is your favorite word and why?
My favorite word is fun. I love to have it; it's the best thing to share with everyone and anyone. I enjoy making each encounter fun, and making the difficult easier by turning challenges into fun.

HealthyLife.Net Radio - Back In the Time Capsule

noreply@blogger.com (Linda Mackenzie) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:39:00 +0000

HealthyLife.Net Radio Network (2002-2012)

Celebrating 10 years of Positive Talk

Back into the Time Capsule: 2001

In September 2001, realizing that local radio stations and quality non-sensationalistic information was becoming practically nonexistent, Linda Mackenzie, an 18 year former data com engineer and 8 year terrestrial radio host, started looking for a solution. Her own all positive radio show was getting record listeners since first day of inception. She was getting 36-42 calls from listeners in the 40 minutes she opened the show up to callers.

Although she had tried for years to get her show syndicated and did with Wisdom Radio and PAX radio, major terrestrial radio stations did want to touch a positive show. They seemed to thrive on controversy and sensationalistic content designed to shock people.

So she planned for a year to see if it was feasible to start her own network – one with all positive talk that helped to eliminate fear instead of manifesting it. The internet was in its infancy and streaming media was not really main stream. In fact, few people knew of it.

She wanted to follow the template of terrestrial radio and so with her data com background and previous radio experience she went out to find the best software, equipment, streaming media, encoders, and all the myriad technical pieces and parts that make a radio station. She then found out about FCC and copyright rules; audio processing; personnel responsibilities and requirements and everything that made a terrestrial station work.

Realizing that that not ‘just talking on air doth a radio host make’ she understood that talented, seasoned radio hosts were needed to cull the listeners and keep them engaged. So she had to make a plan that included getting great talent, as well as, the listeners.

And she researched and planned and planned and planned…until…

More next month when we go…Back into the Time Capsule: 2002

Tune in to www.HealthyLife.net Radio - Where Positive People & Radio Unite!

Study Shows Listeners DO Hear Radio Ads

noreply@blogger.com (Linda Mackenzie) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:02:00 +0000

A new study released from Arbitron, Media Monitors and Coleman
Insights dispels the myth that radio stations get a lower radio
audience during commercial breaks than actual program segments.
The study shows more than 93% of the radio audience is retained
during commercial breaks in almost every market, throughout
almost every month and almost every day part in the year.

Some study highlights:

- Programs with a 1-3 minute commercial break delivered almost
the same audience. Longer commercial breaks delivered only
slightly less of an audience.

- 18 to 24 year old radio audiences retained 90% of its audience
during commercial breaks while 65+ audiences retained 98%.

-  Talk stations retained 99% of its audience during commercial
breaks while music stations retained 88%

The study was based on 17,896,325 unique commercial breaks involving 61,902,473
advertising minutes with the average radio station airing 2.6 commercial breaks at the
average of almost nine minutes per hour of advertising. The average commercial time
lasted approximately 3.5 minutes.

This is a bright and positive note for HealthyLife.net Advertisers because
HealthyLife.Net airs shorter commercial breaks than the study average which
according to the study retains the highest audience; it is a talk format
station which according to the study retains 99% of its audience; plus 49%
of HealthyLife.Net listeners are 55+, which again according to the study
retains 98% of its audience during commercial breaks.

Listeners DO hear our Advertiser commercials.

Ask about our economical - 2012 6-Pack Advertising Campaign!
It’s more than just voice ads plus, you’ll get 1,240 markets
and over 58-24/7 syndicated/simulcast distribution channels
all at one economical price.

Call (800)555-5453 or Email ad@healthylife.net

Move Over Terrestrial Radio - You’re Not in Kansas Anymore

noreply@blogger.com (HealthyLife.Net Radio Network) — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:34:00 +0000

Healthylife.net Radio Internet Stats Achieves Gain over Top Stations

Back in October 2002 HealthyLife.Net Radio struggled to get people to know what Internet Radio was all about. Today Healthylife.net Radio has widespread internet gains over top terrestrial stations such as KTLK, KFWB and KPFK.

HealthyLife.net Radio owner Linda Mackenzie was pleased with the recent February web statistics from Alexa.com and Compete.com comparing the station to some of the top market stations in the Los Angeles radio market.

Alexa 2010-2011

Compete 2010 -2011

Feb 2011
Healthylife.net:Unique Visitors 5195--Compete Rank 270,239
KFWB:Unique Visitors 558--Compete Rank 1,705,501
KTLK.com:Unique Visitors 795--Compete Rank 1,269,958
KPFK.com:Unique Visitors 215--Compete Rank 3,146,597

With over 55 channels of 24/7 syndicated/simulcast distribution channels Healthylife,Net reaches their audience via internet, mobile, podcast, on demand, download, RSS feed. WiFi, private radio networks, in dash board of some model cars and even in a radio alarm clock.

HealthyLife.Net averages 3 million listeners a month in 108 countries with 82.7% going to 1,240 cities in all 50 U.S. States. The all positive programs span a variety of genres and are hosted by recognized TV, film, radio and national experts. The network is designed with one purpose in mind - to help people have a happy, healthy life.

Natural Body-Mind-Spirit Tips for Surgery

noreply@blogger.com (Linda Mackenzie) — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:27:00 +0000

by Linda Mackenzie, C.H.T, Ph.D. (c)

Having surgery, whether elective or unexpected, can be a traumatic experience but there are some natural things that you can do on a body, mind and spirit level that may aid your healing process and boost a positive outcome. Remember every body is different and that positive emotions have been proven to boost the immune system – so stay positive! To help your body always select the ways and methods that feel right for you. Also remember herbs are natural medicine and have to be treated with knowledge and respect – so learn about the herbs you are going to take, before you take them.

FOR THE BODY

BEFORE SURGERY:

At least 2 weeks before surgery:

DO NOT TAKE these herbs/supplements which thin the blood:

Garlic, Feverfew, Kava Kava, Gingko Biloba, Essential Fatty Acids and Vitamin E.

DO start a basic “before surgery” vitamin/supplement regimen that includes:

Vitamin/Supplement Name	Activity that aid, help or restore…
Multi vitamin/mineral complex	general body support
Acidolphilus (high potency)	intestinal flora especially when taking antibiotics
CoEnzyme Q10	fight free radicals and oxygenates tissue for healing
Amino Acid Complex that includes L-Cystine, L-Lysine, L-Glutamine	speeds wound healing. breaks down mucus, aids muscles. tissue repair, collagen formation. muscle wasting, tissue damage,
Grape Seed Extract or Pau D’Arco	powerful antioxidant to fight free radicals in the body
Vitamin C (6,000-10,000 mgs. daily) w/ bioflavinoids (like rose hips)	the immune system, tissue repair and wound healing
Vitamin K	blood clotting
Calcium	tissue repair
Magnesium	tissue repair
Zinc	tissue repair
Silica	tissue repair
Vitamin D	tissue repair
Herb Name	Activity that aid, help or restore…
Bromelain or Tumeric	high potency anti-inflammatory
Green Tea	powerful antioxidant to fight free radicals in the body
Red Clover or Burdock Root	cleanses the liver and blood
Echinacea/Goldenseal	the immune system, natural antibiotic. Do not take goldenseal for more than 1 week at a time or if you are pregnant or allergic to rag weed.
Reishi Mushroom or Kelp	adverse effects of x-ray radiation
Milk Thistle	cleanses the liver
Chamomile Tea	insomnia, nervousness

Do enhance healing by adopting an immune system “boosting” diet:

Foods to Avoid: wheat, dairy and milk products, yeast, sugar, processed foods, fermented products, alcohol, smoking, carbonated soda and drinks, caffeine, peanuts, tomatoes, potatoes, mushrooms, eggplant, iceberg lettuce.

Good Foods: rye, corn (non-GMO), oat bran, brown rice, wild rice, goat cheese, eggs, butter, yogurt, fish, lamb, venison, chicken, turkey, duck, olive oil, safflower oil, borage oil, evening primrose oil, sweet potatoes, yams, bananas, kiwi, guava, papaya, pineapple, kiwi, avocados, strawberries, blueberries, beets, artichokes, cabbage, walnuts, cashews, almonds, pecans, vegetables, kale and herbal teas.

Nice To Use: Other Options for the Body

Massage, Acupressure, Reflexology: Relaxation, minimize stress, flush out toxins

AFTER SURGERY:

Keep up your basic “before surgery” vitamin/supplement regimen but add these:

Vitamin/Supplement Name	Activity that aid, help or restore…
Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs)	proper cell growth
Garlic	the immune system as a natural antibiotic
MSM	helps tissue healing and pain
Vitamin E (day after surgery)	tissue repair and circulation. Remember to use real Vitamin E: d-alphatocopherol, not the synthetic dl-alphatocopherol
Vitamin E Oil (after stitches have been removed)	reduce scar tissue and promotes healing. Apply topically several times a day.
Herb Name	Activity that aid, help or restore…
Nettle	intestinal bleeding
Dandelion	blood purification, kidneys
Homeopathic Remedy	Activity that aid, help or restore…
Arnica Montana	reduces swelling and aids healing

FOR THE MIND:

Do remember that YOU are responsible for your body

No one knows your body better than you do. Your doctor is going by generalities butevery body is different so don’t give away your power to anyone. Take the responsibility of yourself. Here are some tips on how you can work WITH your doctor:

- Before having surgery ask your doctor the right questions: Why, How, What, When, Where; what happens if I don’t have surgery; are there other alternatives other than surgery; what are the risks and benefits; what % of these types of surgeries are successful; how long is the recovery period?

- Get at least one or two other medical opinions prior to having surgery.

- Tell your doctor about the medications, herbs and supplements you are taking. Most Western MDs are not familiar with alternative therapies, including herbs, but that does not mean they do not work.

- Consult with your doctor to see if you can have less invasive laparoscopic surgery for your procedure.

- Ask about the risks and effects of anesthesia.

- Ask questions and do not apologize for asking questions. Remember you’re paying the Doctor. He is working with you as a partner, not as a Medical Deity or your boss. Make a list of your questions prior, during and after each meeting with your doctor so you don’t forget them and ask them!

- Be persistent and use caring assertiveness

- Participate as much as you can in your healing process.

Do Deal with Your Emotions

Learning that you are going to have or getting surgery comes with its very own pack of emotions: denial, anger, bargaining, sadness and acceptance. Learning to cope and deal with this in positive ways can help your healing process. You are what you think – so for a positive outcome – THINK POSITIVE! Here are some of the emotions you may have to deal with and some suggestions on how to handle them:

- Denial or “Numbness”: Look to balance your mind and work on looking at the real picture until you work your way into acceptance.

- Anger: acknowledge it, take an appropriate action (e.g., Punch a pillow, go into a room by yourself and scream, walk around the block, draw a picture) then let it go.

- Sadness- Let it out and cry, get support from friends, loved ones or a support group, start and write a your own healing journal, do artwork therapy, write a letter to yourself.

- Worry – is a useless emotion which accomplishes nothing and eats up your time. Time in which you can be doing something positive to help your healing process. When you get a “worry” thought acknowledge that you have it and let it go immediately.

- Change your emotions to positive ones like hope, joy and happiness

- Make your Environment Happy. Bring your favorite personal pictures, paintings, music, flowers and plants, aromatherapy fragrances with you to the hospital or even spruce up your room at home.

- Avoid negative people and situations.

- Make a list of supportive people and groups in your life and use the list!

Nice To Use: Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy Oil	Activity that aid, help or restore…
Rose, Lavender, Neroli, Bergamot, Chamomile,	Anxiety
Frankincense, Sandalwood	Fear & Insecurity
Jasmine, Grapefruit, Neroli, Sage, Ylang, Ylang	Depression
Jasmine	Lack of Confidence

Do Face Your Fears:

Once you get a clear picture from your doctor on what is going to happen to you before, during and after your surgical procedure you will have eliminated some of the fears. If other fears persist as to outcome, possible death, etc. remember a couple of things:

- The only thing to fear is fear itself. You are in God’s hands and will be all right – no matter what. Even if death occurs remember that it is not the end, but a transition. There is life on the other side, so you really never die you pass over to a better place. So reconcile with your fear of death.

- You create your reality with your thoughts. So if you feel, know and trust that the outcome will be positive and that you will heal – YOU WILL.

- Positive Energy resonates to a higher energetic frequency than negative. Positive energy that can make you feel good and help you face your fears can be activated by thought. The higher frequencies correlate with the upper chakras (esoteric electrical energy centers in the body) starting with the heart chakra and up to the crown chakra. To activate these centers -BUZZ. That’s right just buzz like a bee. You will be surprised as to how this works.

- Another helpful hint for fear is to BREATHE. Breathe in through the nose slowly and deeply and then breathe out with the mouth in a rhythmic pattern. This will immediately lower your pulse and heart rate and get you centered. Physically it activates the Vegas nerve which is the major quieting nerve in the body. The Vegas nerve starts at the base of the brain and branches out to the heart, lungs and intestinal track. By just breathing deeply it automatically quiets your body and centers you.

- Remember fear is your friend, not an enemy. Society teaches us that fear should be avoided but you can reprogram your mind to make fear a friend. You can always learn something you fear and once you learn it the fear usually doesn’t come back.

- Remember there are 4 steps to managing fear and turning it into a positive emotion: 1) Acknowledge your fear; 2) Feel how the fear is affecting your body; 3) Think about and determine what the best action is and 4) Do the action. Putting off the action delays releasing the fear.

- Let go of your fear, ego, rigid goals, expectations, negative attitudes and negative feelings and replace them with to Living in the Moment, trust, hope, positive intention and attitudes and positive feelings.

Nice To Use: Bach Flower Remedies

Bach Flower Remedy	Activity that aid, help or restore…
Rock Rose, Aspen, Cherry Plum	Fear
Gentian, Cerato, HornBeam	Uncertainty
Crab Apple, Willow, Elm	Despair
Rescue Remedy	Stress

Do Deal with Stress

To help your healing process here are some helpful hints you can use to deal with stress before, during and after surgery:

- Use the POWER of Positive thought and positive intention

- Meditate

- Practice Relaxation for Rejuvenation

- Use Visualization. You can visualize a time when you were in perfect health and everything was going 100% right in your life. Then anytime you are having a stressful time go back to that place, visualize it and feel the joy and happiness.

- Self Hypnosis

- Use aromatherapy oils or bach flower remedies

- Listen to calming music

- Pamper yourself with a candlelit bath, etc.

- Use color therapy like soothing blues and greens.

- Take a 1 minute stress break. Close your eyes. Tell yourself you are going to be stressed for 1 minute and at the end of 1 minute you will be stress free. It works!

- Look in the mirror and use Positive Self-Talk to describe the outcome as you want it to be.

- Avoid using negative words like I can’t, I won’t, I shouldn’t, I couldn’t. Replace them with I can, I will, etc.

- Live in the Now, not the past or the future

- Don’t try to control things

- Feel, trust and know things will be all right and they will

I believe that anything can be accomplished, for your greatest good, if you have absolute and total faith. So it is important to believe and have faith that things will turn out exactly right for you. There has never been a negative time in your life that hasn’t turned into a positive for you. This is because negative experiences are growth lessons. Once you learn the lesson you never have to go through that experience in the exact same way again. This surgery may be a major change in your life, so welcome change as a friend. Look at this time as an opportunity to grow spiritually in a positive way. Here are some hints:

FOR THE SPIRIT:

DO Remember to Develop your Spiritual Side

- Develop a deep, abiding unshakeable faith

- Feel, Trust and Know that things are all right in every moment

- Remember that there are no mistakes only opportunities for growth

- Balance your mind, body and spirit

- Use gratitude for what you already have

- Discover the wonder of all things in every moment

- Forgive yourself and others every day

- Replace negative emotions like doubt, fear, etc. with hope

- Call on God’s Divine Love to fill your soul and give you peace

DO Remember to Use Spiritual Action

- Start a daily spiritual practice of prayer or meditation

- Draw some sacred artwork giving away your fears/concerns to God

- Write all your negative emotions on white paper, then burn the paper releasing everything to God

- Create a sacred meditation/prayer place. Put crystals, photographs and sacred objects in this place and then pray or meditate daily

- Ask your relatives and friends on the other side to support you

- Listen to spiritual or healing sound music

- Call on your angels to help you

DO Remember to Use Spiritual Protection

- Protect & cleanse your aura (the electromagnetic field around your body)

1. do a visualization of white light surrounding your entire body

2. use an aromatherapy oil: cedar, carnation, eucalyptus, gardenia

3. carry or wear a crystal: amethyst, aquamarine, jasper, lapis lazuli, quarts, pyrite

4. Meditate saying the Mantra OHM

5. Walk in nature

6. Hug a tree (trees strengthen auras)

7. Ask your Guardian Angel for assistance

- Protect, cleanse & balance your chakras (the esoteric electrical energy centers within the body)

1. balance the chakras by meditating

2. anoint your chakras with rose, lemon, sage, bergamot aromatherapy oils

3. place a specific crystal on a specific chakra area:

Chakra Crystals*

1^st Root hematite, red jasper, black onyx, ruby

2^nd Navel citrine, carnelian, chrysocolla, lapis lazuli

3^rd Solar Plexus amethyst, citrine, tigers eye

4^th Heart rose quartz, aventurine, malachite

5^th Throat sodalite, blue topaz, sapphire, lapis lazuli

6^th 3^rd Eye iolite, tigers eye, quartz

7^th Crown amethyst, rose quartz, clear quartz

*Please note that this is only a partial list of possible crystals.

- Use shape and symbol protection:

Symbol/Shape Meaning

Square Renewal

Circle Wholeness

Cross Protection, Balance

Octagon Renewal

- Use crystals for protection like: amber, angelite, aventurine, moonstone, white quartz, lapis lazuli, pyrite, obsidian

- Use color energy by wearing, viewing or visualizing specific colors:

Color Meaning

White Protection

Gold Spiritual Strength

Silver Spiritual Vitality

Blue Spiritual Tranquility

Green Body Healing

Yellow Clarity

Red Love

- Use vowel protection sounds:

Think Color Say Action

Violet A State of Calm, Peace

Yellow E Self-Confidence

Orange I Laughter, Humor, Gaiety

Red O Perfection

Blue U Completeness

Grey OO Healing

- Use a protection prayer, for example:

“I am completely protected only God and my Higher Self can influence me. The Light and the Positive Consciousness of the Universe protects me.”

Antiquated Animal Import Legislation Root Cause of Asian Carp Crisis

noreply@blogger.com (HealthyLife.Net Radio Network) — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:17:00 +0000

Antiquated Animal Import Legislation Root Cause of Asian Carp Crisis

PNNL: News - Soil science: healing our planet’s ills from the ground up

noreply@blogger.com (HealthyLife.Net Radio Network) — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:30:00 +0000

PNNL: News - Soil science: healing our planet’s ills from the ground up

Are You Sleeping in a Sanctuary?

noreply@blogger.com (HealthyLife.Net Radio Network) — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:35:00 +0000

by Faith Ranoli
Host of Heart & Home Thursdays, 1pm PT on http://www.healthylife.net

The one room in the house where we typically spend the most time is the bedroom. We sleep or rest on average seven hours a night, usually our pet sleeps just as long as we do in the bedroom with us. This time of rest is essential for the body to regenerate, and to renew itself.

Many studies have shown the importance of a healthy immune system and it's reliance on a good night's sleep. But what if your bedroom is emitting an energy field that has a toxic impact on your body's or your pet's body's energy field?

Will your body or our pet's, find that rest and regeneration it needs to keep you healthy? Most people do not think about the electrical or magnetic fields surrounding them, especially when sleeping.

Here are 8 things you can do to create a safer environment in which to sleep:

o Move your digital clock at least 6 feel from the bed.

o If crating a pet use a plastic crate and pay attention to the outlets that are near where you have placed the crate.

o Ensure your home's electrical system is grounded and in good working order.

o Move electrical appliances such as lamps, radios, TV's and cell phones away from the bed.

o Turn off all wireless devices, digital baby monitors, cordless phones, wireless headsets, and Bluetooth devices.

o Only use an electric blanket or waterbed heater to warm the bed then turn them off.

o Replace metal box springs with non-metal platforms.

o Install an electrical demand switch that turns off the electrical power to outlets around your bed.

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noreply@blogger.com (HealthyLife.Net Radio Network) — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:57:00 +0000

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Internet Radio Definitions

noreply@blogger.com (HealthyLife.Net Radio Network) — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:49:00 +0000

by Linda Mackenzie

Here's the Types of Internet Radio defined to make it less confusing for listeners, advertisers and...Ahem...the industry...

1. Internet Radio Show is an individual radio show with one or more hosts, which can be aired live or pre-recorded, and is broadcasted either on a radio station or as a podcast from an individual website.
2. Internet Radio Station – A group of live and/or prerecorded scheduled programs that are grouped together and broadcast through a single channel of distribution.
3. Internet Radio Network – A 24/7 individual radio station which is linked to other radio networks and broadcasts a common program theme in a specific format (e.g., Music, Talk, News/Talk,) and is in syndication (contracted by another media channel for play) or simulcast (simultaneous broadcast on more than 1 media channel) or both on many channels of distribution.
4. Internet Radio Aggregator – A radio streaming service provider that provides streaming service for a single radio station or where 100’s or 1000’s of many different radio programs without one specific theme are grouped together to share streaming services as one station which may or may not be linked to other radio networks to syndicate/simulcast its stream.
5. Internet Radio Syndicator/Simulcaster – An individual broadcast entity that picks up, links and broadcasts many radio stations/radio networks streams to broadcast them on their site.
6. On Demand Radio Archive – An individual Internet Radio Show or an individual radio program from a Radio Station/ Radio Network which has been archived and made available for listening at any time directly from their specific website.
7. On Demand Radio Download - An individual Internet Radio Show or an individual radio program from a Radio Station/ Radio Network which can be downloaded to their computer to be made available for listening at any time via one or more various formats (e.g., .mp3, podcast, ITunes format, RSS feed, mobile).
8. Podcast Aggregator - A podcast streaming service provider that provides streaming service for 100’s or 1000’s of many different podcast program providers without one specific theme which are grouped together to share streaming services.

SuperVIEW By Space-Time Research Pty Ltd

noreply@blogger.com (Linda Mackenzie) — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:00:00 +0000

SuperVIEW By Space-Time Research Pty Ltd

IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives in the Next Five Years

noreply@blogger.com (HealthyLife.Net Radio Network) — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:21:00 +0000

IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives in the Next Five Years: "Innovations in computers and data centers are enabling the excessive heat and energy that they give off to do things like heat buildings in the winter and power air conditioning in the summer. Can you imagine if the energy poured into the world's data centers could in turn be recycled for a city's use?
Up to 50 percent of the energy consumed by a modern data center goes toward air cooling. Most of the heat is then wasted because it is just dumped into the atmosphere. With new technologies, such as novel on-chip water-cooling systems developed by IBM, the thermal energy from a cluster of computer processors can be efficiently recycled to provide hot water for an office or houses."

Car Internet Radio ToGo Mainstream At CES

noreply@blogger.com (HealthyLife.Net Radio Network) — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:01:00 +0000

Car Internet Radio ToGo Mainstream At CES: "NEW YORK – Internet radio will go mainstream inthe mobile electronics..."

Traffic Rankings–Part of the Picture

noreply@blogger.com (Linda Mackenzie) — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:45:00 +0000

by Linda Mackenzie
Some guy called me up to tell me that my website statistics were wrong. So because we are a conscious business I looked at the actual site visit and page view numbers provided to me from my website provider and found that they were completely different and much, much higher. We are not signed up for any Analytics program such as Google Analytics or Quantcast so I wondered - where are these traffic rating sites getting their website numbers for my site?

I researched the site where the guy got my bogus numbers from and then many more traffic ranking sites. This is what I think I found, since most of the traffic ranking sites do not give you where they get their numbers from - by which they use to report my numbers…

Major Search Engine Companies like Google, Yahoo, Bing and others get their data and page rankings from impressions and conversion rates of people looking for or going to your site. (In Humanese this means if they type in your website name to look for your site and/or if they went to your site after they logged in to their site). However the numbers provided are only from the data from that specific search engine company. So my thoughts are:
-- Most important - they are not looking at all the actual traffic to my site
-- After a user finds my site they may not “search” for it again and can go directly to my site.
-- These numbers are not tracked by the search engine company. If they are, without my permission, there may be some privacy issues being violated here.
-- They reflect numbers only from their search engine site, not other search engine sites
-- The traffic they report is weighted pertaining to their specific criteria

The Conclusion: Search Engine Traffic Rankings are only part of the picture. They DO NOT and CAN NOT give you the whole picture of the real traffic of any website, except their own.

Major Web Analytic Companies - When you sign up for Google Analytics, Quantcast or any other web site analytics package they give you code to put on your site so they can track your website statistics. Sometimes you need to place the code on every page you want tracked. They then get their numbers for your website, not your web provider. This is slightly better but it still relies on how they weight their data and on what criteria they use to determine your data.

The Conclusion: Search Engine Traffic Analytics Rankings are only part of the picture. They MAY give you the whole picture of the real traffic of a website if the criteria is set up that way.

Alexa’s Traffic Ranks are based on the traffic data provided by Alexa Toolbar users and data collected from other, diverse sources (certainly that does not include everyone on the web). The Rankings are determined by the number of unique Alexa users who visit a site on a given day and as far as pageviews it is determined by the total number of Alexa user URL requests for a site. Multiple requests for the same URL on the same day by the same user are a single Pageview.

The Conclusion: Alexa DOES NOT and CAN NOT give you the whole picture of the real traffic of any website, except their own.

Independent Traffic Ranking & SEO Sites are either using one or more of the specific search engine statistics (which are only part of the picture) or their own analytics software which you either must sign up for or sometimes pay to use (which again is only as good as the criteria that the analytics software is set up for).

The Conclusion: Most Independent Traffic Ranking Sites DO NOT and CAN NOT give you the whole picture of real traffic on any website, except their own. The Independent Traffic Ranking sites with their own analytic packages may give you the whole picture but is dependent on whether you signed up directly with them and what criteria they use to determine traffic.

THE FINAL CONCLUSION:
So, how can someone get actual traffic of a website? Ask the owner of the site. He or she is the only one that gets the actual statistics from their web provider. Web Providers are the only Source of all real data of any site. If the web provider is reputable and honest they will provide the owner of the site with real stats. Of course we have to remember that the web site providers have their own criteria for determining actual data too.

Do website stats correlate to radio listeners on an internet radio site? As far as my radio listener stats they DO NOT come from website statistics whether it be site visits or page views. These website statistics have to do with who is coming to my site but NOT the actual numbers of listeners. Those numbers come directly from my streaming aggregator and (if provided) from our over 52 distribution channels which syndicate/simulcast HealthyLife.net Radio Network 24/7.

THE TOUGHEST MEAT CAN BE MOST DESIRABLE

noreply@blogger.com (HealthyLife.Net Radio Network) — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 06:18:00 +0000

By Daena Smoller

As a radio field journalist for HealthyLife.net, I have the fantastic opportunity to cover a variety of events. One such recent blogger excursion for me was the 2010 SILVERMAN Triathlon in Southern Nevada.

SILVERMAN is hailed as the most challenging triathlon in the United States. And it’s not even a qualifying competition so no doubt, these triathlon participants are competing in SILVERMAN for the sheer thrill of it and a sense of accomplishment and self-satisfaction.

Needless to say and as I’m sure anyone would expect me to do, I had it in mind that I would write a terrific article about this grueling competition that in full, encompassed a mind-blowing 2.4 mile open water swim in a chilly mountain lake, followed by a 112 mile bike ride through the breath-taking, rugged and totally unforgiving mountain / desert terrain of the 1.5 million acre Lake Mead National Recreation Area (the nation’s first national recreation area, 1964) and an exigent 26.2 mile run.

However, my best intentions of writing a sports-minded article literally exploded into a billion little pieces when I arrived on-site during the day of SILVERMAN registration. Why? Because this was a single woman’s WONDERLAND! Thousands of hard male bodies were everywhere with the majority clad in colorful spandex suitable for long bike rides that truly eliminates any real work for the imagination. Simply put, no “easy-fit” jeans being sported here!

So here’s what I'd really like to share about covering SILVERMAN:

To those women searching out a cool means of meeting men outside of traditional ‘meat’ markets, consider planning your next vacation around a competitive event such as SILVERMAN. But don’t attend just as a spectator, volunteer! Sure! You can volunteer at most competitions like assisting with registration (a perfect opportunity introductory face-to-face time) or volunteer at an AID station (physical contact may actually occur while a biker or runner is reaching out to grab the bottle of water or other sustenance that you’re offering). And don’t forget to take advantage of attending the additional events surrounding the competition, too (great opportunity to show off your social skills).

If you need motivation, check out these photos of the awe-inspiring landscapes and of course, some of the fine competitors of SILVERMAN 2010, HERE.

Being the Change Through Social Media and Internet Radio

noreply@blogger.com (HealthyLife.Net Radio Network) — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:26:00 +0000

by James Bean

People using sites such as Facebook, Myspace, Care2, and countless other social networking venues of the web are roughly divided into two categories:"whisperers", and "broadcasters".

Whisperers basically just want to be left alone. They have a small circle of close friends they desire to keep in touch with, and that's it. They aren't necessarily out to add hundreds of Internet "friends" from far away exotic lands such as Outer Mongolia and Tuva.

Social networking broadcasters however, have much in common with those inhabiting the world of internet radio. They are seeking good ratings, a growing audience tuning in, more subscribers, an expanding coverage map, more downloads, hits and page views. They have messages to communicate. Adding new friends from Mongolia or Madagascar is perfectly acceptable! They might seek to "be the change", perhaps are involved with a cause they passionately wish to promote across the globe. Mahatma Gandhi said, "Be the change you want to see in the world."

Though amplified by electronic equipment including the hubs of the worldwide web these days, the concept of creating networks of communication, new ideas, education, and social reformation, is at least as ancient as Mongolian Yurts, Tuvan Throat Singing, Babylonian Ziggurats, the Pyramids of Giza and those of Central America. A couple of decades before the Internet revolution, the late Robert Muller (1923-2010), Former Assistant Secretary General to the United Nations, and Laureate of the UNESCO Prize 1989 for Peace Education, wrote the following visionary poem about the power of networking.

‘Decide to Network. Use every letter you write, Every conversation you have,
Every meeting you attend, To express your fundamental beliefs and dreams.
Affirm to others the vision of the world you want. Network through thought. Network through action. Network through love. Network through the spirit.
You are the center of a network. You are the center of the world. You are a free, immensely powerful source of life and goodness. Affirm it. Spread it. Radiate it. Think day and night about it. And you will see a miracle happen: the Greatness of your own life, In a world of big powers, media, and monopolies, But of six billion individuals Networking is the new freedom, the new democracy, A new form of happiness.’

I continue to be inspired every time I read those words. Muller was also Chancellor Emeritus of the University for Peace (UPEACE or UPAZ) based in Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica, which, once-upon-a-time, was the home of Radio For Peace International, a community radio station broadcasting to the Americas and the world via shortwave radio.

It was great to be able to share my program, Spiritual Awakening, via RFPI for most of the years the station was on the air. Someone told me that Robert Muller tuned in one day and actually heard me read from a booklet called Ambassadors For Peace, featuring a dialogue about world peace between Robert Muller and Sant Darshan Singh, presenting some very positive visions of a Golden Age. Now as I broadcast Spiritual Awakening on HealthyLife.net Radio Network who knows who I am reaching within the millions of people who tune in monthly, sharing my messages.

In conclusion, we not only transmit messages to the world via radio, Twitter, Facebook updates or Blogging but on a subtle level, even our very thoughts are like radio waves escaping into the ethers, and those thoughts have a effect as well.

As Spiritual Master Shivbrat Lal puts it:“The human body is a kin to a radio broadcasting station. It transmits into the ethers subtle and mental waves of what the mind thinks. Mental thought-forces and spiritual currents go out in the atmosphere according to the disposition of one's mental and spiritual make up. The human body system is also a radio receiver.” And from Ralph Waldo Emerson: "A man is what he thinks all day long."

It’s Amazing to realize that the totality of that thought-life during this earth-walk adds up to become our legacy here. Not only akashic records, magnetic tape, or a digital format, indeed, all our thoughts, words, and deeds become a factor, a part of the grand equation of the collective thoughts, words and deeds of the earth, slightly moving humanity in one direction or another, here in what Guru Nanak called "Dharm Khand", (The Realm of Action, Karma, Dharma: Moral or Ethical Activities).

In Decide to Be a Global Citizen, By Robert Muller he says, “A good inhabitant of planet Earth. A member of the great human family. Pray, think, act, feel and love globally, And you will aggrandize yourself to the outer limits of being. Know this planet. Love this planet. Care for this planet. For you come from Mother Earth And you will return to Mother Earth. You are made of her elements. You are the Earth, become conscious of herself. You are her eyes, her ears, her voice, her mind and her heart. Save your Mother Earth from her matricidal children who destroy her, who divide her, who spike her with nuclear arms, who hold their territories to be greater than the globe and their groups, greater than humanity. Unite, global citizens, to save and heal planet Earth and to make our Mother bloom again as the most beautiful planet in the universe.”

Check out James Bean's Show Spiritual Awakening Tuesdays 12 noon Pacific Time on http://www.healthylife.net

Trini Lopez on HRN News at 7 - Nov 23

noreply@blogger.com (HealthyLife.Net Radio Network) — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:45:00 +0000

Tune in and listen to legendary great Trini Lopez on Healthylife.net Radio Network's HRN News@7 November 23rd at 7am and 7pm PT and all day after 9am PT on archives for 24 hours.

Trini was a poor boy from the barrio of Dallas, Texas. He remembers barely enough food for the family, the amount always determined by his parents' ability to get whatever work they could.

Trini learned to play the guitar from his father. Then he played for money on the street corners. He eventually went on to form his own group. It was then that the world saw the beginnings of the singing, acting, and very talented Trini Lopez.

When Trini was 18 years old, King Records in Cincinnati, Ohio, heard that Trini had written and recorded a single in Dallas on a little label called Volk Records. The name of the song was The Right to Rock. The single made a little noise in Dallas, enough noise for King Records to be impressed with Trini's voice and style. King Records offered Trini a recording contract and for three years.

The first big break came at the popular night spot called P. J.'s. Here, he was spotted by the world famous record producer, the late Don Costa, who then brought Trini to the attention of his longtime idol, Mr. Frank Sinatra. The great singer recognized a fellow stylist and immediately signed Trini to an exclusive eight-year contract with his own label - Reprise Records. Reprise released his first album, "Trini Lopez at P. J.'s," which became a No. 1 hit album. Out of that album a single, "If I Had a Hammer" became a No. 1 hit in thirty eight countries. "If I Had a Hammer" hammered his name in GOLD with many hit albums and many hit singles ... and in the hearts of millions of fans throughout the world! Following "Hammer" were many hits which he wrote, as well as songs like "I'm Coming Home Cindy", "Michael," "Lemon Tree," Kansas City," "America," and, of course, "La Bamba.

Trini is a firm believer in the saying "It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice," and he does practice what he believes by unselfishly giving of his time and talent to many worthwhile causes such as The March of Dimes, Cancer Research Foundation, Diabetes Foundation, Boy Scouts of America, Variety Clubs International, and many more.

Tune in and enjoy!