Catalog of Interviews and Bits

COSBY GETS 3-10 YEARS IN PRISON...

'America's Dad' A Sexually Violent Predator...

Barbara Gaughen-Muller

Tom Corbett is emeritus Senior Scientist and an affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he served as Associate and Acting Director for a decade before his retirement. He received a Doctorate in Social Welfare from the University of Wisconsin and taught various social policy and program evaluation courses there for many years. During his long academic and policy career, he worked with governments at all levels including a stint in Washington D.C. where he helped develop President Clinton’s welfare reform legislation. He has written dozens of articles and reports on poverty, social policy, and human services issues and given hundreds of talks across the nation on these topics. In addition, Dr. Corbett has consulted with numerous local, state, and federal officials on various poverty, welfare, and human services issues both in the United States and Canada. Among many other things, he has testified before Congress, worked with the Wisconsin Legislature on important legislation, and served on an expert panel for the National Academy of Sciences. His most recent works include The Boat Captain’s Conundrum, Browsing through My Candy Store, Ouch, Now I remember, and The Other Side of the World. Now retired, the author lives with his wife of 45 years, Mary Rider, and their lovable Shih Tzu dog, Rascal, in Madison Wisconsin.

Petrella’s has had 3 CDs produced by the legendary record producer, author and award winning radio personality Jack Gale. Jack has produced for recording artists for more than 40 years including Tammy Wynette, Waylon Jennings, Tanya Tucker, Crystal Gale, Willie Nelson, Charley Daniels, Johnny Paycheck, Little Jimmie Dickens, George Jones and Tommy and Johnny Cash. Petrella’s latest CD “Shine on Me” was produced by Gale and celebrates 25 years in the country music business as an independent artist. This CD reflects the Country-Soul nature of Petrella’s music by fusing country, Gospel, R&B and rock. Petrella has also recorded with noted producers Anthony Smith (Clay Walker, Neil McCoy and Donna Summer) and Jason Miles (Sting and Suzy Bogguss)

Petrella has worked with some of the greatest studio musician in Nashville, including drummer Eddie Bayers (played on 150 gold and platinum albums, received the Academy of Country Music 'Drummer of the Year Award' for eight straight years, and has three times won the Nashville Music Awards 'Drummer of the Year'), fiddle player Rob Hajacos (played on George Strait, Garth Brooks, Brooks & Dunn, Taylor Swift and Kenny Chesney’s albums), slide guitar legend Buddy Emmons (Recorded with The Carpenters, Nancy Sinatra, Ray Charles, George Strait, Ricky Skaggs, The Everly Brothers and Willie Nelson) the renown Kevin Dorsey (Vocal director for Michaels Jackson’s concert tours ,including the Dangerous and History world tours.), and Oren Waters (member of the nation’s most successful backup singing group The Waters, 260 gold and 100 platinum albums).

Petrella has performed with Tracy Lawrence, Rhonda Vincent, Gladys Knight, Laythan Armour (WOW Gospel Producer), the LuLu Washington (choreographer for movie Avatar) dancer’s and at the very First FanFest in Anaheim California with Diamond Rio. Patty Labelle has labeled Petrella “The Singer” and Whoppi Goldberg gave her the handle “First Lady of Country Soul”.

As an independent artist, Petrella has won the Airplay International Golden Microphone Award and the Producer’s Choice Award. Her first album was nominated for Album of the Year by the Nashville tracker magazine and her single “Blues Stay Away from Me” went to #50 on the charts and was the #1 ranked independent single by Cashbox magazine.

Petrella is a member of the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI), The Reunion of Professional Entertainers (ROPE), Country Music Association (CMA), an

Dan Perkins, is a political contributor to DailyCaller.com, ClashDaily.com, Lifezette.com, Newsmax.com and TheHill.com.

ECONOMICS EXPERT: Dr. Michael Busler, Ph.D., is a public policy analyst, economics expert and a professor of finance at Stockton University in New Jersey. He is a featured columnist at Newsmax, Lifezette, and Townhall.com.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/oil-prices-jump-saudi-arabia-140000663.html

Oil prices were up early on Tuesday morning amid reports that Saudi Arabia would be comfortable letting oil prices rise above $80 a barrel and OPEC may not be rushing into further production boost commitments after the one they agreed upon in June.

At 08:02 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, WTI Crude was up 0.80 percent at $69.54, while Brent Crude was trading up 0.79 percent at $78.71.

The Saudis are said to be comfortable with the current oil prices, and even with Brent Crude rising past $80 a barrel, at least in the short term, as the oil market and global supply will be adjusting to significantly reduced Iranian oil exports, Bloomberg reportedon Tuesday, citing people familiar with Saudi Arabia’s thinking.–Yahoo

John Gwinner is a Chief Technology Officer with nearly 2 decades of experience in VR. He developed a

VR interface for CompuServe during the last wave of VR.

He helped develop VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) and Web3D with a focus toward PCs, and

put early versions of XML on the web. He was a returning speaker at the Game Developer Convention on

3D toolkits, AI, and VR. He was an early Kickstarter of a new VR Headset in 2014.

Now that VR is definitely taking off again, John is once again at the forefront, making it easy for people

to build Virtual Worlds. He is a top writer on Quora, answering questions about VR and its future

direction.

Slightly shorter:

John is a Top Quora writer for 2018; covering the fields of Virtual and Augmented reality.

He helped develop VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) and Web3D, and put early versions of XML

on the web.

He’s now again making it easy (er) for people to build Virtual Worlds by writing the book “Getting

started with React VR [React 360] for Packt publishing.

About the Author

Kevin Glynn, MD, is a senior physician with Scripps Health in La Jolla, California, where he also

served as chief of pulmonary medicine and medical director of respiratory care at Scripps Mercy

Hospital. His thirty years of treating respiratory disorders combined with his personal experience

as an asthma sufferer uniquely qualify him to tell the story of breathing. The former editor of the

San Diego Physician, and widely published in nationally circulated journals, Dr. Glynn was also

recognized for his contributions as a bedside teacher, receiving the Award for Sustained

Excellence in Teaching at Scripps Mercy – and it is this ability as a teacher that renders his

writing so compelling.

A cartoonist who drew gags for the San Diego County Medical Society magazine and self-

syndicated them to other journals, after retirement it came down to resuming cartooning or writing

a book. With so much to share, Dr. Glynn decided to write. Dr. Glynn lives in La Jolla with his

wife. When not writing, playing golf, or participating in community projects through Rotary

International, he spends his time cheering on his grandchildren at their soccer games.

About the Book

Comprehensive, easily understood, and eminently readable, Kevin Glynn, MD’s GASPING FOR

AIR provides readers with an understanding of the evolution of pulmonary health – the threats to

it, what we can do to avoid those threats, and the progress science has made in ensuring that in

our ever more mobile, ever more polluted world, we do not end up GASPING FOR AIR.

GASPING FOR AIR is available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.