Wed Jun 24, 2009

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Dr. Karen Sueda - Animal Planet's “Housecat Housecall.”
It is like “Supernanny” – for cats. A team of cat experts go into a person’s house and help them with cat behavior issues. The second season of the show debuted this month and Dr. Karen Sueda, an animal behaviorist and veterinarian who is a co-star of the show. Dr. Sueda is a graduate of the University of California, Davis veterinary school and went on to complete a one-year internship at the Veterinary Medical and Surgical Group in Ventura, CA. She returned to UC Davis and completed a three-year residency in Clinical Animal Behavior in 2005. Dr. Sueda taught veterinary students and served as a UC Davis behavior clinician for an additional year before founding the behavior service at VCA West Los Angeles Animal Hospital. In 2007, Dr. Sueda became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists. She currently sees both in-office and housecall behavior cases throughout southern California. Dr. Sueda’s special interests include feline behavior, anxiety-related disorders and the human-animal bond. She was born and raised in Hawaii where her family continues to reside.

Dr. Isabel Blumberg - Medical Expert and Online Advisor
Dr. Isabel Blumberg is a Board-Certified Obstetrician/Gynecologist in private practice in New York City. She holds degrees from The Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Princeton University. Dr. Blumberg is also a clinical instructor for the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at The Mount Sinai Medical Center and a resident medical contributor to sisterhoodsix.com, a website helping women navigate their way through motherhood. She has been recognized especially for her outstanding achievements in the area of obstetrics and gynecology research. The hot, humid and hazy days of summer can wear down the sturdiest soul but for pregnant women—the season can brings its special challenges to keeping comfortable. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, most of the approximately four million babies born each year arrive in late August and early September. That means a large majority of those moms are spending their third trimester in the hottest weather all year.

Sankar Das Gupta - President/Chairman - Electrovaya
The Maryland Science Center, with Electrovaya and ExxonMobil, is launchingan all-electric car-sharing program featuring the Maya300. Drive an electriccar for $7.50 an hour. That’s just one feature of a pilot program kickingoff in Baltimore, with hopes of additional cities following suit.

Kami Gray - "The Denim Diet"
Kami Gray, is a TV Wardrobe Stylist that says a dream pair of jeans can be a great motivator for losing weight and keeping it off. She doesn't trust the bathroom scale, but says a pair of jeans will never lie. Kami ought to know. She’s spent over twenty years cultivating a way of eating that makes sure her favorite jeans will always fit. That wasn't always the case. At age nineteen, her jeans were six sizes larger than they are today. Then she had an epiphany, which you will hear all about in The Denim Diet, and created a no-nonsense blueprint for reaching and maintaining a healthy body weight in 16 easy-to-remember habits to make and habits to break. Kami takes the best of all the diets you've tried and turns them into a simple, yes-or-no approach you can actually follow. With hilarious real life stories, gourmet recipes, and an infectious positive attitude, Kami will help you lose weight, get energized, and stay healthy without yo-yo dieting, gimmicks, or starving yourself while simultaneously minimizing the impact you make on the planet. How awesome would it be to develop 16 simple habits and lose the excess weight, have more energy, look and feel great, and get into those dream pair of jeans!

FLASHBACK - "America, Why I Love Her " - John Wayne
Erik and Jack were discussing how Americans don't always appreciate all that we have in this country and when a listener requested information about this 1967 song narrated by John Wayne, we thought that a good dose of Patriotism can be good for the soul. Enjoy!