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February 26, 2014
The Phil Naessens Show : The San Antonio Spurs Do Beat Top NBA Teams!
http://phillipnaessens.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/the-phil-naessens-show-the-san-antonio-spurs-do-beat-top-nba-teams/
On this edition of the Phil Naessens Show Zeb Benbrook joins Phil to talk about Jason Collins ten day contract with the Brooklyn Nets, Knicks Point Guard Raymond Felton facing gun charges and look at the Golden State Warriors. Rich Baxter joins Phil to discuss the Philadelphia Phillies and allegations they turned in one of their draft picks to the NCAA and look at the Phillies potential starting lineup. Michael Erler joins Phil to discuss statements George Karl made regarding the possibility Tim Duncan would retire and look at the fallacy that the San Antonio Spurs can’t beat the top NBA teams plus more NBA talk.
On this edition of the Phil Naessens Show Zeb Benbrook joins Phil to talk about Jason Collins ten day contract with the Brooklyn Nets, Knicks Point Guard Raymond Felton facing gun charges and look at the Golden State Warriors. Rich Baxter joins Phil to discuss the Philadelphia Phillies and allegations they turned in one of their draft picks to the NCAA and look at the Phillies potential starting lineup. Michael Erler joins Phil to discuss statements George Karl made regarding the possibility Tim Duncan would retire and look at the fallacy that the San Antonio Spurs can’t beat the top NBA teams plus more NBA talk.
History Trivia -
February 26
364 Valentinian I, founder of the Valentinian Dynasty and considered to be the last great Western Emperor, was proclaimed Roman Emperor.
1266 Battle of Benevento was fought between Charles of Anjou and Manfred of Sicily. Charles' victory resulted in the collapse of Hohenstaufen rule in Italy.
1616 Spanish Inquisition delivered an injunction to Galileo.
February 25, 2014
The Wizard's Cauldron: An Australian Romance: Danielle Belwater - around ...
The Wizard's Cauldron: An Australian Romance: Danielle Belwater - around ...: This week, author Danielle Belwater joins us all the way from Australia. A paranormal romance and YA author, Danielle has just released...
Mr. Chuckles stopped by The Wizard's Cauldron, checking out an Australian country girl
The Great Wizard says:
This week, author Danielle Belwater joins us all the way from Australia.
A paranormal romance and YA author, Danielle has just released her first novel; the beautifully titled and covered, "Of Fire and Roses." Take it from me, she is a delightful person who is a pleasure to interview.
She's just undertaken an endless blog tour and those of you interested in finding out more about blog tours, will be interested in meeting Danielle who has done a passable impression of One Direction's infinite World Tour this past two months. I interrupted Danielle on the Wizphone as she lassoed a bull on her ranch somewhere between the cobalt South Australian Pacific and the golden sands of the outback.
click on the link to read the interview in its entirety:
http://greenwizard62.blogspot.com/2014/02/an-australian-romance-danielle-belwater.html
The Phil Naessens Show: Rip City is Back!
http://phillipnaessens.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/the-phil-naessens-show-rip-city-is-back/
On this edition of the Phil Naessens Show Amar joins Phil to discuss the Utah Jazz, Dave Deckard joins Phil to talk Portland Trailblazers basketball and Amar rejoins the show to take a closer look at the Western Conference seeding plus much more NBA talk.
On this edition of the Phil Naessens Show Amar joins Phil to discuss the Utah Jazz, Dave Deckard joins Phil to talk Portland Trailblazers basketball and Amar rejoins the show to take a closer look at the Western Conference seeding plus much more NBA talk.
History Trivia - England's Elizabeth I is declared a heretic by Pope Pius V
February 25
777: Saint Walburga (Anglo-Saxon abbess and saint), patroness of sailors because her prayers calmed a stormy sea, and thereby saving a ship caught in its wake, died.
1570 Elizabeth I was declared a heretic by Pope Pius V.
1601 Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex and former favorite of Elizabeth I, was beheaded in the Tower of London for high treason.
777: Saint Walburga (Anglo-Saxon abbess and saint), patroness of sailors because her prayers calmed a stormy sea, and thereby saving a ship caught in its wake, died.
1570 Elizabeth I was declared a heretic by Pope Pius V.
1601 Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex and former favorite of Elizabeth I, was beheaded in the Tower of London for high treason.
February 24, 2014
The Phil Naessens Show 2014 NBA Trade Deadline and it’s Fantasy Basketball Impact
http://phillipnaessens.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/the-phil-naessens-show-2014-nba-trade-deadline-recap-plus-spurs-and-thunder-news/
On this edition of the Phil Naessens Show Tom Lewis joins Phil to talk about the impact of the Danny Granger trade, Evan Turner, Pacers legend Slick Leonard finally being inducted into basketball’s Hall of Fame and look ahead to this weeks Indiana Pacers games. Kyle McKeown joins Phil to discuss the NBA Trade Deadline moves and how they impact Fantasy Basketball owners. Joe Mullinax stops in to talk about the growing rivalry with the Los Angeles Clippers, Lionel Hollins griping about the Grizzlies, bad officiating and much more Memphis Grizzlies news.
On this edition of the Phil Naessens Show Tom Lewis joins Phil to talk about the impact of the Danny Granger trade, Evan Turner, Pacers legend Slick Leonard finally being inducted into basketball’s Hall of Fame and look ahead to this weeks Indiana Pacers games. Kyle McKeown joins Phil to discuss the NBA Trade Deadline moves and how they impact Fantasy Basketball owners. Joe Mullinax stops in to talk about the growing rivalry with the Los Angeles Clippers, Lionel Hollins griping about the Grizzlies, bad officiating and much more Memphis Grizzlies news.History Trivia - Pepin the Short of Gaul des. Charlemagne and Carloman inherit, dividing the kingdom
February 24
616 King Aethelbehrt of Kent died. Aethelbehrt was the first Christian king of England and was converted by St. Augustine of Canterbury.
786 Pepin the Short of Gaul died. His dominions were divided between his sons Charles (Charlemagne) and Carloman.
1208 St Francis of Assisi, 26, received his vocation in Portiuncula Italy.
1303 The Scots defeated the English at the Battle of Roslin, the First War for Scottish Independence.
1389 Battle at Falköping: Danes defeated King Albert of Sweden.
1496 England's Henry VII ended a commercial dispute with Flanders.
1582 Pope Gregory XIII published his plans for calendar reform (Gregorian Calendar) in a papal bull.
616 King Aethelbehrt of Kent died. Aethelbehrt was the first Christian king of England and was converted by St. Augustine of Canterbury.
786 Pepin the Short of Gaul died. His dominions were divided between his sons Charles (Charlemagne) and Carloman.
1208 St Francis of Assisi, 26, received his vocation in Portiuncula Italy.
1303 The Scots defeated the English at the Battle of Roslin, the First War for Scottish Independence.
1389 Battle at Falköping: Danes defeated King Albert of Sweden.
1496 England's Henry VII ended a commercial dispute with Flanders. 
1582 Pope Gregory XIII published his plans for calendar reform (Gregorian Calendar) in a papal bull.
February 23, 2014
From the pen of Mark Barry, Green Wizard Publishing - Mackenzie Knight: A Personal Story
http://greenwizardpublishing.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/mackenzie-knight-personal-story.html?view=classic
Mackenzie Knight: A Personal Story My beautiful and delightful friend, Mackenzie Knight, Indie author and paranormal DJ, is ill. I have known this for a year or so.
She has virulent cancer and it is spreading throughout her body. Her brother Michael made this announcement this morning on Facebook.
Mackenzie on Facebook
Mackenzie Radio Show
So I tuned in and had a listen. I never stopped. I listened every Sunday night, right to the point where her illness meant she could no longer continue. After two or three shows, I took the bull by the horns and contacted her on FB messenger and asked her if she would like to come round the Cauldron, my then fledgling Interview blog.
Mackenzie Interview on The Cauldron
She could have easily said no. At her peak, three to four thousand people downloaded Mackenzie's shows and at the time, I was getting fifty views for my interviews if I was lucky. On a good week.
Not only did she agree to be interviewed, she bought one of my books! That's how nice she is. For some weird reason, we became pals from a distance (Nottingham, England and South Dakota), and we e-mailed regularly about matters silly, paranormal and family.
It was one of those friendships which make you feel great about life and it came from nowhere.
Mackenzie is interested in the paranormal. Not the fictional paranormal of vampires and werewolves, but paranormal activity in real life. Her show is called Unearthly Encounters.
Unearthly Encounters Live!
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Paranormal Radio, at its best, we cover a vast number of topics, from the Paranormal,Bigfoot, UFO's,Psychics, The Occult, Witchcraft, Magick,Spirituality, to the Supernatural, and everything in between. I am an Author, ...
http://gfwd.at/14QWT0Uhttp://www.twitter.com/MackenzieKnighthttp://www.facebook.com//profile.php?id=1732278865&sk=inforead more
http://gfwd.at/14QWT0Uhttp://www.twitter.com/MackenzieKnighthttp://www.facebook.com//profile.php?id=1732278865&sk=info
Emerging from her interest, she interviewed countless practitioners, acolytes, and believers in ethereal concepts such as spirits, hauntings, poltergeists and - my favourite - extra-terrestrial life forms.
With her friends and colleagues on the panel, she sat patiently and politely and listened to some extremely convincing members of America's alternative fringe.
Believers. Fanatics. Paranormal authors with multiple books and essays to their credit. Academics with obscure doctorates in alien activity from universities and colleges that can only be found on the Internet. Hapless individuals who have survived alien abduction and are back to tell the tale. Families who, like the Lutz family in Amityville, have had to escape their haunted houses in the suburbs, unfortunately constructed on ancient native American burial grounds.
George LutzMackenzie interviewed them all with the same polite interest a mother might show to her daughter's new boyfriend, as she serves the tea and biscuits on lace doillies.
She is one of those perceptive interviewers who allow their guests to speak, who never overloads the show with her own opinions and who is genuinely interested in the conversation, no matter how bizarre.
And there have been some very wacky guests indeed: There was the three time author who, quite brilliantly, enlightened us about the existence of a tightly guarded farm somewhere in the MidWest which is in fact a portal to an alien universe.
Furthermore, the US government are aware of this, have purchased the farm and are actively engaging with the aliens.
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Mackenzie treated him with the respect you might show a BBC foreign correspondent live from the Gaza Strip - which is a major strength, one of the reasons she proved so popular.
(He also believed The Men In Black are real. This fella slayed me, he really did).
There was the show when a certain Doctor said that poltergeists tried to strangle his estranged girlfriend, while the two shared a bed somewhere in sunny San Diego.
When the Doctor, (of Alien Planetology or something), began to reveal to the listeners the fundamentals of his failing relationship, you slowly realised that the poltergeist explanation of the attempted strangulation was the rank outsider of the two possibles.
Yet Mackenzie never deviated once: She never doubted his sincerity even while the rest of us were calling the cops.
Our brilliant host remained indefatigable even when a rogue guest, an ersatz psychic, told Mackenzie that her bedroom closet was haunted with malevolent spirits who were a threat to her and her daughter, and that she needed an exorcism immediately.
Picture that happening to you.
You would be pretty annoyed - well, I would be furious at the cheek of it! - but Mackenzie was unflappable and polite to a fault.
When I started to sell a few books, Mackenzie invited me on the show to discuss things which are no longer important, but she fell ill and that never happened.
I pray everyday (even though I am not much of a believer), that one day, she will once again pick up the mic.
And over a distance of 6ooo miles (and thanks to the wonder of Skype), she and I will have a rap about nothing much at all and then make it the best radio show ever.
Why am I writing this?
Simple. I don't really know what else to do.
I'm upset and annoyed that Mackenzie is going through so much pain, with all the chemo, and experimental drugs, and the heavy duty morphine patches that wipe you out and stop working after a while. I feel impotent. I feel frustrated. I live 6000 miles away and I can't even sit and read her a book by her bedside.
That's why I had to write.
If you want to help Mackenzie, I'd like you to do one of three things.
a) Buy her book "Cypress Hill" and give it a review. She became so ill shortly after publication, she never got the chance to fully market it and it's been forgotten completely. That would cheer her up no end.
I have just done so and I shall be reading it next week. Like all authors, its being noticed and being read that is important rather than the money and the five stars.
If enough of us buy this book, and its the only thing I can think of to do, then it might just give her a boost. Hopefully, a significant boost too.
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I just bought: 'Cypress Hill' by MacKenzie Knightwww.amazon.co.ukA twist of fate. Eternal evil. A woman caught between life, heaven, and hell. A love that breaks the boundaries beyond the veil. By all medical standards, Mary Reilly is dead. Lifeless, her body lies on a cold steel gurney in t... b) Pray for her and drop a comment on her Facebook wall. She is Indie through and through and a massive supporter. That will give her a boost too.
c) Drop a comment on this blog and I shall forward it to Mackenzie's brother (who I don't know). Please RT this whenever possible. Believe me, she deserves it.
I firmly believe that God, Buddha, Krishna, Fate or Mother Earth won't let Mackenzie pass away. She's too good. And way too young (Mackenzie is in her forties).
But most of all I believe in the power of love and positive thinking and Mackenzie deserves all my positivity, all my love and all my belief.
If you can throw in some of that too, brilliant. Glad to have you on board.
Mark
US - BUY Cypress Hill here.
UK - BUY Cypress Hill here. ****Any comments left for Mackenzie on this blog post will be forwarded to her.Thank you for reading Mackenzie's story. Mary Ann Bernal
Mackenzie Knight: A Personal Story My beautiful and delightful friend, Mackenzie Knight, Indie author and paranormal DJ, is ill. I have known this for a year or so.She has virulent cancer and it is spreading throughout her body. Her brother Michael made this announcement this morning on Facebook.
Mackenzie on Facebook
"Hi, This is to Mackenzie Knights friends ! This is Michael Alisero Mackenzie's Brother. My sister is slowing losing her battle with Cancer and she wanted me to tell you to please pray for her and she doesn't know if she will be back on. If you have any questions please feel free to write me on Face book at Mike Alisero. Thank you"I met Mackenzie purely by chance. I was bored one night and came across a link on my timeline advertising her radio show.
Mackenzie Radio Show
So I tuned in and had a listen. I never stopped. I listened every Sunday night, right to the point where her illness meant she could no longer continue. After two or three shows, I took the bull by the horns and contacted her on FB messenger and asked her if she would like to come round the Cauldron, my then fledgling Interview blog.
Mackenzie Interview on The Cauldron
She could have easily said no. At her peak, three to four thousand people downloaded Mackenzie's shows and at the time, I was getting fifty views for my interviews if I was lucky. On a good week.
Not only did she agree to be interviewed, she bought one of my books! That's how nice she is. For some weird reason, we became pals from a distance (Nottingham, England and South Dakota), and we e-mailed regularly about matters silly, paranormal and family.
It was one of those friendships which make you feel great about life and it came from nowhere.
Mackenzie is interested in the paranormal. Not the fictional paranormal of vampires and werewolves, but paranormal activity in real life. Her show is called Unearthly Encounters.
Unearthly Encounters Live!
follow messageParanormal Radio, at its best, we cover a vast number of topics, from the Paranormal,Bigfoot, UFO's,Psychics, The Occult, Witchcraft, Magick,Spirituality, to the Supernatural, and everything in between. I am an Author, ...
http://gfwd.at/14QWT0Uhttp://www.twitter.com/MackenzieKnighthttp://www.facebook.com//profile.php?id=1732278865&sk=inforead more
http://gfwd.at/14QWT0Uhttp://www.twitter.com/MackenzieKnighthttp://www.facebook.com//profile.php?id=1732278865&sk=info
Emerging from her interest, she interviewed countless practitioners, acolytes, and believers in ethereal concepts such as spirits, hauntings, poltergeists and - my favourite - extra-terrestrial life forms.
With her friends and colleagues on the panel, she sat patiently and politely and listened to some extremely convincing members of America's alternative fringe.
Believers. Fanatics. Paranormal authors with multiple books and essays to their credit. Academics with obscure doctorates in alien activity from universities and colleges that can only be found on the Internet. Hapless individuals who have survived alien abduction and are back to tell the tale. Families who, like the Lutz family in Amityville, have had to escape their haunted houses in the suburbs, unfortunately constructed on ancient native American burial grounds.
George LutzMackenzie interviewed them all with the same polite interest a mother might show to her daughter's new boyfriend, as she serves the tea and biscuits on lace doillies.She is one of those perceptive interviewers who allow their guests to speak, who never overloads the show with her own opinions and who is genuinely interested in the conversation, no matter how bizarre.
And there have been some very wacky guests indeed: There was the three time author who, quite brilliantly, enlightened us about the existence of a tightly guarded farm somewhere in the MidWest which is in fact a portal to an alien universe.
Furthermore, the US government are aware of this, have purchased the farm and are actively engaging with the aliens.
[image error]
Mackenzie treated him with the respect you might show a BBC foreign correspondent live from the Gaza Strip - which is a major strength, one of the reasons she proved so popular.
(He also believed The Men In Black are real. This fella slayed me, he really did).
There was the show when a certain Doctor said that poltergeists tried to strangle his estranged girlfriend, while the two shared a bed somewhere in sunny San Diego.
When the Doctor, (of Alien Planetology or something), began to reveal to the listeners the fundamentals of his failing relationship, you slowly realised that the poltergeist explanation of the attempted strangulation was the rank outsider of the two possibles.
Yet Mackenzie never deviated once: She never doubted his sincerity even while the rest of us were calling the cops.
Our brilliant host remained indefatigable even when a rogue guest, an ersatz psychic, told Mackenzie that her bedroom closet was haunted with malevolent spirits who were a threat to her and her daughter, and that she needed an exorcism immediately.
Picture that happening to you.
You would be pretty annoyed - well, I would be furious at the cheek of it! - but Mackenzie was unflappable and polite to a fault.
And that very contrast between Mackenzie's calm rationality and the unhinged madness she faced every Sunday night made Unearthly Encounters unmissable.
When I started to sell a few books, Mackenzie invited me on the show to discuss things which are no longer important, but she fell ill and that never happened.
I pray everyday (even though I am not much of a believer), that one day, she will once again pick up the mic.
And over a distance of 6ooo miles (and thanks to the wonder of Skype), she and I will have a rap about nothing much at all and then make it the best radio show ever.
Why am I writing this?
Simple. I don't really know what else to do.
I'm upset and annoyed that Mackenzie is going through so much pain, with all the chemo, and experimental drugs, and the heavy duty morphine patches that wipe you out and stop working after a while. I feel impotent. I feel frustrated. I live 6000 miles away and I can't even sit and read her a book by her bedside.
That's why I had to write.
If you want to help Mackenzie, I'd like you to do one of three things.
a) Buy her book "Cypress Hill" and give it a review. She became so ill shortly after publication, she never got the chance to fully market it and it's been forgotten completely. That would cheer her up no end.
I have just done so and I shall be reading it next week. Like all authors, its being noticed and being read that is important rather than the money and the five stars.
If enough of us buy this book, and its the only thing I can think of to do, then it might just give her a boost. Hopefully, a significant boost too.
[image error]
I just bought: 'Cypress Hill' by MacKenzie Knightwww.amazon.co.ukA twist of fate. Eternal evil. A woman caught between life, heaven, and hell. A love that breaks the boundaries beyond the veil. By all medical standards, Mary Reilly is dead. Lifeless, her body lies on a cold steel gurney in t... b) Pray for her and drop a comment on her Facebook wall. She is Indie through and through and a massive supporter. That will give her a boost too.
c) Drop a comment on this blog and I shall forward it to Mackenzie's brother (who I don't know). Please RT this whenever possible. Believe me, she deserves it.
I firmly believe that God, Buddha, Krishna, Fate or Mother Earth won't let Mackenzie pass away. She's too good. And way too young (Mackenzie is in her forties).
But most of all I believe in the power of love and positive thinking and Mackenzie deserves all my positivity, all my love and all my belief.
If you can throw in some of that too, brilliant. Glad to have you on board.
Mackenzie, you are adored by so many of us and I wish you, with everything I have, improved health, a prognosis you and your family deserve, and the end of pain. And one day, I know you'll interview me and I'll make you laugh like you've mislaid a feather duster in your knickers!We're thinking of you.
Mark
US - BUY Cypress Hill here.
UK - BUY Cypress Hill here. ****Any comments left for Mackenzie on this blog post will be forwarded to her.Thank you for reading Mackenzie's story. Mary Ann Bernal
History Trivia - Roman Emperor Diocletian orders a general persecution of the Christians
February 23
303 Roman Emperor Diocletian ordered a general persecution of the Christians.
532 work began on the third Cathedral of Santa Sophia in Constantinople.
1447 Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester and fourth son of Henry IV, brother of Henry V, died.
1455 Johannes Gutenberg prints 1st book, Bible (estimated date).
303 Roman Emperor Diocletian ordered a general persecution of the Christians.
532 work began on the third Cathedral of Santa Sophia in Constantinople.
1447 Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester and fourth son of Henry IV, brother of Henry V, died.
1455 Johannes Gutenberg prints 1st book, Bible (estimated date).
