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Guest Occupation: Producer and director
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Thomas Baldinger is a producer and director, known for Two Sides of Love (2014), Who's Jenna...? (2016) and Two Sides of Love (2013). Who’s Jenna, which screens at this year’s Golden Door International Film Festival, stars Tracey Birdsall as a young woman whose new boyfriend suspects she might be an adult film star.

Who’s Jenna?– cast/crew, Thomas Baldinger (director), Tracey Birdsall, Bill Sorvino

Guest Category: Arts, TV & Film
Guest Occupation: Actor
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Award winning actor Bryan McClure is best known for his performances in hit series Hawaii Five-O, the comedy The Starving Games and the upcoming sci-fi project Space Command. The young actor, who trained extensively with Billy O’Leary and Diana Castle, now appears in a new horror-thriller web-series called "Strings." This original YouTube show--targeted at the 12 to 20 age range--began on August 15, 2016, and has been described as a mix between the "Saw" franchise and "Teen Wolf." The series opened with the main characters trapped in a seemingly inescapable room. To escape, the group must work together to figure out why they were targeted.

Guest Category: Arts, TV & Film
Guest Occupation: Actor
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Child star Jay Underwood, best known for playing the title role in “The Boy Who Could Fly” and co-starring in such films as “Uncle Buck” with John Candy and “No Greater Love”, played Johnny Storm in a never-released “Fantastic Four” movie.  Now, after 20 years, audiences will find out why that film – produced by B-movie legend Roger Corman – was never released, via a documentary called “Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four”. Underwood and his co-stars from the never released movie participate in the documentary.

Guest Category: TV & Film
Guest Occupation: Former MLB player
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Bret Boone Former MLB player​ April 6, 1969) is a former Major League Baseball second baseman. During his career Boone was a three-time All-Star, four-time Gold Glove winner, and two-time Silver Slugger Award winner. He is a member of the Boone family, one of the most recognizable families in baseball.

Boone started his playing career with the Seattle Mariners where he set the club record for home runs in a season by second baseman in 1993 (12 in 76 games)[3] but was traded that same year to the Cincinnati Reds along with Erik Hanson.

In 2001 Boone returned to the Seattle Mariners, the organization with which he came up from 1990 to 1993.[4] Now an All-Star—having averaged 21 home runs a year from 1998 through 2000, twice reaching a career high in doubles (at 38, in 1998 and 1999) -- Boone's superior play continued as he led the league in runs batted in (141), while producing a batting average of (.331). He also broke the Mariners' team record of home runs for a second baseman with his 37 home runs while hitting 37 doubles.

Boone started in the All Star Game in Seattle, received a Silver Slugger Award and finished third in the AL MVP voting. His Mariners paced the league with a record 116 wins, earning the AL West championship and advancing to the ALCS, tying the all-time team record for wins in a season with the 1906 Chicago Cubs.

The following year Boone won a Gold Glove for his defense and continued to show the power he had demonstrated the previous years, hitting 24 home runs with 34 doubles. On May 2, 2002, Boone and teammate Mike Cameron became the first teammates to each hit two home runs in a single inning, doing so in the first inning against the White Sox.

With local media and behind the scenes he was famous for his humorous behavior. Boone took up not one but three lockers, as Erick Walker notes, "one for him, another with a nameplate above that read 'Boone's friend' and a third with a nameplate that read 'Boone's friend's friend' that was scattered with about 100 bats.

Guest Category: Sports & Recreation, Professional, High School, College
Guest Occupation: Author, Metaphysician and Entrepreneur
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Rev. Mary Linn Clarke, founder of the Inner Light Metaphysical Center since 1975, was raised in this philosophy. It was the only Metaphysical Center to be invited to be a member to the International Council of World Churches. She has done extensive study in this field under the late Dr. Enid Smith and Rev. Lillian Dee Johnson. She studied extensively at Harmonia College in St. Petersburg, Florida, as well as in Chesterfield, Indiana. Rev. Clarke is noted for her healing abilities, as well as her teaching in the development of Metaphysics and what it can do for your spiritual development; mentally, physically and spiritually. Currently Rev. Clarke resides in Ellenton, Florida, with her husband Rev. Thomas Clarke. They continue to guide and teach others this philosophy at various Metaphysical Centers in the area. Rev. Clarke enjoys helping others and hopes this book will provide spiritual enlightenment to all who read it.

Mary Linn’s facebook page https://www.facebook.com/cosmiccenterofspirituallight

Mary Linn is currently holding her weekly 10am Sunday Spiritualist Service at the Cosmic Center of Spiritual Light in Sarasota.

Guest Category: Literature, Education, Alternative Health, Energy Healing, Philosophy, Physics & Metaphysics, Personal Development, Spiritual, Access Consciousness
Guest Occupation: Health Coach, Life Coach, Personal Stylist
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Hi, I'm Lindsay! I am the founder and owner of Well Beaming, LLC; a company devoted to improving the health and wellness of others through a deeper understanding of how the mind-body connection influences everything from how we eat, to how we dress, and our overall life style! I have always had a passion for health and fashion. After graduating with a finance degree from Washington State University, I decided to follow my passion and worked for Nordstrom where I learned the basic fundamentals of putting together an outfit, regardless of your age, shape or size. At the age of 24, I moved to Los Angeles & began a career in Entertainment. As a Casting Assistant, I worked on ABC’s Extreme Weight Loss. After reading thousands of contestant’s stories about their struggle to achieve good health and happiness, I knew I had to make a difference. I enrolled in the Institute of Integrated Nutrition and received my certification. I moved back to the Northwest with a mission to help people understand real health is SO much more than diet and exercise.  It is about feeling your best in all aspects of your life.

Guest Category: Arts, Design, Fashion, Education, Health & Lifestyle, Alternative Health, Fitness & Exercise, Nutrition, Personal Development
Guest Occupation: Attorney/Educational Columnist
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Wendy Lecker is a senior attorney at the Education Law Center, where she oversees ELC's school funding and school equity work in New York.   Wendy was a staff attorney at the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), plaintiffs in New York’s landmark school funding case. She has also worked as a consultant in education finance and policy for The Rural School and Community Trust and Connecticut Voices for Children. She is currently an education columnist for Hearst Connecticut Media Group.

Guest Category: Education
Guest Occupation: Investigative Blogger and Citizen Journalist
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Jonathan Pelto has been actively involved in Connecticut public policy, advocacy and electoral politics for 40 years.

Presently, an investigative blogger and citizen journalist, Pelto uses blogging and social media as advocacy tools to educate, persuade and mobilize people with a focus on issues related to public education and the Corporate Education Reform Industry’s growing efforts to undermine and privatize public education in the United States.

In addition to writing a daily blog, which has become the most read commentary site in Connecticut, he has also written a number of articles about education reform issues for media outlets including The Progressive Magazine and Truthout.

In conjunction with education advocate Diane Ravitch, Pelto created and continue to manage the Education Bloggers Network, a confederation of over 238 bloggers and commentators from around the country who share a belief in public education and a willingness to use their time and energy fighting against the Corporate Education Reform Industry.

In 1984, Pelto was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives as a senior at the University of Connecticut and, over five terms, rose to the level of Deputy Majority Leader.  Pelto was a long-time member of the Appropriations and Education Committee and chaired the Appropriations Sub-Committee on Higher Education.

Since leaving the Legislature in 1993, he’s worked as a communications strategist developing and implementing sophisticated public relations, media relations and advocacy programs aimed at educating, persuading and mobilizing targeted audiences.  His clients have included many of Connecticut’s most significant non-profit organizations, corporations, associations and unions, as well as Native American Tribes.

Over the years he’s also managed or worked on numerous political campaigns at the federal, state and local levels including campaigns Chris Dodd, Gary Hart, Connecticut gubernatorial and congressional campaigns and many state legislative races.

In 2014, Pelto was a petitioning candidate for governor in Connecticut running as the nominee of the newly created Education and Democracy Party.  Pelto’s running mate was Hartford Connecticut educator and policy activist, Ebony Murphy.  Pelto and Murphy were not able to collect the necessary signatures to get on the November 2014 ballot.

Guest Category: Education