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A Night at the Round Table™
THE NEW OFFICIAL NAME FOR a Stargate Round Table
Today's Talking Points:
Shartin N, who also was named Pacer of the Year, captured 83 votes in Horse of the Year balloting. Three-year-old colt pacer Bettor's Wish was second with 42 and 3-year-old colt trotter Greenshoe, the Trotter of the Year, was third with 14.
Also receiving Horse of the Year votes were Manchego (three), Warrawee Ubeaut (two), and Atlanta, Six Pack, and When Dovescry (one each).
Voting for Communicators HOF went to Jay Bergman from Sports Eye, now the Daily Racing Form and Joe Kyle, the Hervey Award winning photographer for 40 years with the Horseman and Fair World magazine. Both on now on the ballot for voting for Hall of Fame induction in September.
Kim Rinker, who works as media specialist for the Ohio Racing Commission and the Ohio Sire Stakes, was voted the new President of USHWA and USHWA treasurer, Barry Leftkowitz, the former PR man at Roosevelt and Yonkers Raceway was voted Vice President. Outgoing president Shawn Wiles is now the Chairman of the Board of USHWA.
Pompano Park hosting Living Legions tournament on Sunday with eight of the top dash winning drivers in history at the track. They read like a who’s who of harness racing greats.
Pompano Park was also in the spotlight last week, co-hosting the World Cup for Amateur Drivers Championship over two nights of racing.
Actor, mother and activist
GABRIELLA WRIGHT
Gabriella wright is an actor, mother and activist. Born in London , she is of Anglo-Mauritian French and Scottish descent. Embracing her many cultures, she has developed an inquisitive nature… always pushing her further on a journey to truly understanding the world of today .
Her career foils her personality… She is involved in a diverse and compelling line of projects, encompassing acting, modelling and humanitarian enterprises.
She has recently featured in action movies such as “The Transporter – Refueled,” and “Security,” along side Sir Ben Kingsley; Indie Productions like “The Alcoholist,” and “The Perfect Husband,” and also political documentary features such as “OXI, an Act of Resistance,” directed by Ken Mcmullen.
She has worked with luxury brands such as Kenzo Perfums, Poiray and Cartier.
Gabriella is a passionate advocate for women and children’s rights. Fund raising and public talking are core to her engagement.
‘‘The most important teaching I gained from being an actor and model is that people look up to you, no matter what. Even if you have inner conflicts, the outer world needs hope and people project what they need on you. Dreams aspirations, role modelling etc… and you sometimes have no idea that by just being present you are affecting and influencing someone’s life. So This job really is not about you , its about them.’’
Mediumship and Psychic Readings, Psychic Investigator, Psychic Detective, Former Police Detective
Frank St. James is well known for his work with many local police and investigative authorities. He appeared on The Psychic Detectives, as well as the Bio Show on A&E Cable, and is also a top radio personality. He was once a detective, has worked with the FBI, and the answers he gives are usually spot on! Frank is very popular at the New Jersey Psychic Fairs and books out quickly.
Quantum Shamanic Healer, Matrix Energetics, Owner URTHealer
Joseph Tajalle is affectionately known as Chief Joseph. His journey in this incarnation brought him from his birthplace of Okinawa, Japan - where he interacted with small galactic beings he called "the brownies" - to living in the United States. Born of an Okinawan mother and a Cherokee father, it wasn't until Joseph was 17 years old that he found out the father he knew as his Dad - who was Guamanian - wasn't his biological father. His initiation journey at finding his biological father (who his mother told him was dead) is a story of Divine Synchronicity.
Joseph's passion for natural health started when, overcome with psoriasis and eczema on 98% of his body, he gave up on the pharmaceutically driven US medical system and their toxic chemicals and started researching the root cause of his ailment. The long and winding road of Chiron, the wounded healer, brought him to an understanding that it was toxins in his body that was causing his immune system to be on overdrive - not his immune system attacking his body. And with that knowledge he cleared himself of the psoriasis and eczema that was so bad at times he'd have to wrap his cracked and bloodied hands and feet in bandages. His investigative journey also introduced him to an Arapaho-Iriquois Medicine Man who was also an Ortho-Molecular Biologist.
From that introduction Joseph developed his proprietary chelation product called SuperShotz* and the topical StopItch* under his business URTHealer - for YOU are the Healer. For people called to heal their body naturally, this chelation process (which includes the product, cleanses and awareness of the toxins in your life) provides a pathway out of many conditions if one is willing to do the work.
In addition to Joseph's passion for natural health, he is also an experiencer, Sun Dancer, energetic healer and avid student of the downfall of the Archon Network.
*Anecdotal evidence only: StopItch/SuperShotz are natural supplements which are required to carry the following labeling: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Consult with your Health Care Practitioner before starting this or any other program.
Singer,Songwriter,Multi-instrumentalist,Producer
J O H N
M A Y A L L
'GODFATHER OF BRITISH BLUES'
NEW ALBUM WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
Todd Rundgren, Little Steven Van Zandt of The E Street Band, Alex Lifeson from Rush, Joe Bonamassa, Larry McCray and Carolyn Wonderland
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
For over 50 years, John Mayall has served as a pioneer of blues music, rightly earning him the title, "The Godfather of British Blues". In 2013, John signed with producer Eric Corne's label, Forty Below Records, and has since been experiencing a true artistic and career renaissance, including a Blues Hall of Fame induction in 2015.
On February 22nd Forty Below Records will release Nobody Told Me, the new studio album from The Godfather of British Blues, John Mayall.
As with his last handful of albums, Mayall again shares production duties with Forty Below Founder Eric Corne who also handles engineering and mixing duties.
The album boasts an impressive and diverse list of guest guitarists, all personal favorites of Mayall’s including Todd Rundgren, Little Steven Van Zandt of The E Street Band, Alex Lifeson from Rush, Joe Bonamassa, Larry McCray and Carolyn Wonderland who will be joining the band on tour. Also, on hand are Mayall’s dynamic Chicago rhythm section of Greg Rzab on bass guitar and Jay Davenport on drums, along with Billy Watts (Lucinda Williams) on rhythm guitar and Mayall’s regular horn section, moonlighting from their day job in The Late Show with Conan O’Brien’s house band.
The album was recorded at The Foo Fighters’ Studio 606 on the same legendary Sound City Neve console his one-time protégés from Fleetwood Mac used to record parts of the best-selling Rumors album.
“This project has been a true labor of love for me and I can’t wait for people to hear the fireworks that took place,” beams Mayall. Nobody Told Meis an apt title for the blues icon who suffered a recent unexpected health scare shortly after recording the album. But, the seemingly ageless road dog, who famously takes no days off and carries his own gear on tour, has been given a clean bill of health and plans to return to his usual grueling touring schedule to support the release.
John Mayall has actually run an incredibly great school for musicians. …Eric Clapton
John Mayall, he was the Master of It. If it wasn't for the British musicians, a lot of us black musicians in America would still be catchin' the hell that we caught long before. So, thanks to all you guys, thank you very much! …BB King
I had this friend in London, John Mayall of the Bluesbreakers, who used to play me a lot of records late at night. He was a kind of DJ-type guy. You'd go back to his place, and he'd sit you down, give you a drink, and say "Just check this out." He'd go over to his deck, and for hours he'd blast you with B.B. King, Eric Clapton - he was sort of showing me where all of Eric's stuff was from, you know. He gave me a little evening's education in that. I was turned on after that, and I went and bought an Epiphone. So, then I could wind up with the Vox amp and get some nice feedback. …Paul McCartney
Purchase Nobody Told Me, the new studio album from Blues Hall of Fame member, John Mayall boasts an impressive and diverse list of guest guitarists, all personal favorites of Mayall’s including Todd Rundgren, Little Steven Van Zandt of The E Street Band, Alex Lifeson from Rush, Joe Bonamassa, Larry McCray and Carolyn Wonderland who will be joining the band on tour. Nobody Told Me will be available Feb 22nd at amazon.com
JOHN MAYALL ON TOUR 2019
Date Venue City
Tue 26 Feb 2019 Pakkahuone Tampere, Finland
Wed 27 Feb 2019 Cirkus Helsinki, Finland
Fri 01 Mar 2019 Nalen Stora Salen Stockholm, Sweden
Sat 02 Mar 2019 Slagthuset Malmö, Sweden
Sun 03 Mar 2019 Rockefeller Oslo, Norway
Mon 04 Mar 2019 Pustervik Gothenburg, Sweden
Tue 05 Mar 2019 Kulturhuset Viften Rødovre, Denmark
Wed 06 Mar 2019 Train Aarhus, Denmark
Fri 08 Mar 2019 Rosenhof Osnabrück, Germany
Sat 09 Mar 2019 Die Kantine Cologne, Germany
Sun 10 Mar 2019 Colos-Saal Aschaffenburg, Germany
Tue 12 Mar 2019 Die Fabrik in Altona Hamburg, Germany
Wed 13 Mar 2019 Columbia Theater Berlin, Germany
Thu 14 Mar 2019 Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Halle Halle, Germany
Fri 15 Mar 2019 Forum Karlín Prague, Czech Republic
Sun 17 Mar 2019 Klub Stodoła Warsaw, Poland
Mon 18 Mar 2019 Klub Studio Krakow, Poland
Tue 19 Mar 2019 Akvárium Klub Budapest, Hungary
Wed 20 Mar 2019 Porgy & Bess Vienna, Austria
Thu 21 Mar 2019 Dom Im Berg Graz, Austria
Fri 22 Mar 2019 Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine Udine, Italy
Sun 24 Mar 2019 Teatro Delle Muse Ancona, Italy
Mon 25 Mar 2019 Teatro Obihall Florence, Italy
Tue 26 Mar 2019 Auditorium Parco della Musica Rome, Italy
Wed 27 Mar 2019 Teatro Politeama Genova Genoa, Italy
Thu 28 Mar 2019 Auditorium Santa Chiara Trento, Italy
Fri 29 Mar 2019 Campus Industry Music 43123 Parma, Italy
Sat 30 Mar 2019 Pala Phenomenon Fontaneto d'Agogna, Italy
Sun 31 Mar 2019 Les Docks Lausanne, Switzerland
Tue 02 Apr 2019 La Laiterie Strasbourg, France
Wed 03 Apr 2019 Le Splendid Lille, France
Thu 04 Apr 2019 Zeche Bochum, Germany
Fri 05 Apr 2019 Hirsch Nuremberg, Germany
Sun 07 Apr 2019 Im Wizemann Stuttgart, Germany
Mon 08 Apr 2019 Muffathalle Munich, Germany
Tue 09 Apr 2019 Volkshaus Zürich, Switzerland
Thu 11 Apr 2019 Le Bataclan Paris, France
Fri 12 Apr 2019 De Roma Borgerhout, Belgium
Sat 13 Apr 2019 Patronaat Haarlem, Netherlands
Sun 14 Apr 2019 De Oosterpoort Groningen, Netherlands
Tue 16 Apr 2019 Ronnie Scott's London, UK
Tue 16 Apr 2019 Ronnie Scott's London, UK
Wed 17 Apr 2019 Ronnie Scott's London, UK
Wed 17 Apr 2019 Ronnie Scott's London, UK
Thu 18 Apr 2019 Ronnie Scott's London, UK
Thu 18 Apr 2019 Ronnie Scott's London, UK
Sat 18 May 2019 Doheny Blues Festival 2019 Dana Point, CA, US
Tue 18 Jun 2019 Aladdin Theater Portland, OR, US
Thu 20 Jun 2019 Tower Theatre Bend, OR, US
Sat 22 Jun 2019 Rio Theatre Santa Cruz, CA, US
Tue 25 Jun 2019 Crest Theatre Sacramento, CA, US
Wed 26 Jun 2019 The Siren Morro Bay, CA, US
Thu 08 Aug 2019 Iridium New York, NY, US
Fri 09 Aug 2019 Iridium New York, NY, US
Sat 10 Aug 2019 Iridium New York, NY, US
International public speaker, author, personal development coach
Piano soloist, chamber music collaborator and music educator
DR. SVETLANA TRANSKY
Dr. Svetlana Transky is an accomplished piano soloist, chamber music collaborator and music educator. Her musical training and background acquired at the prestigious Odessa Stolyarsky Music School for Gifted Youth in the former Soviet Union, stems from the pianistic traditions of eminent Heinrich Neihaus and Konstantin Igumnov. In Los Angeles, Svetlana continued her education with a reputable Master teacher Dorothy Hwang at the Colburn School of Music. Subsequently, she became a recipient of the prestigious John Crown Memorial Music Award and obtained her Bachelors, Masters and the Doctoral of Musical Arts Degree in Piano Performance with a minor in Music Education and Collaborative Arts under the tutelage of esteemed artist-teacher Daniel Pollack at the USC Thornton School of Music.
As a prizewinner of the Michelstadt International Music Festival in Germany and Missouri Southern International Piano Competition Svetlana had concertized as a soloist throughout Europe and the United States. Dr. Transky is in great demand as a chamber musician, as well as the vocal coach, collaborating with various chamber ensembles, prominent instrumentalists and vocalists.
She has performed for Sundays Live – KUSC Radio program from LACMA and was a recording pianist for PBS-NOVA movie special “Darwin’s Darkest Hour” shown on KCET. For several years, Dr. Transky was a pianist with Synergy chamber ensemble and performed in “Recovered Voices” series, founded by James Conlon. Svetlana is a frequent artist with the Enlightenment Chamber Music Series, as well as with the Artistic Soirees music events. Dr. Svetlana Transky is on a piano faculty at the Colburn School of Performing Arts, where she teaches applied private and group piano classes.
Cinematographer, model maker, sculptor and stop motion animator
GENE WARREN, JR.
My experience in the motion picture, television and commercial world began in 1962 at 21 years of age. It was a one day construction job as a permit in the grip department on the I Love Lucy set at Desilu Studios. I didn’t work again for 3 months. Then it was a few days here, a month there, a couple of weeks at Warner Bros. then a month at MGM etc., for about 2 years until I earned union seniority while on the night shift at Columbia Pictures and was immediately bumped up to a day staff job as the number 8 crab dolly operator on the lot. The youngest dolly grip staffer at the time in Hollywood I might add. As a consequence I worked at least a few days on almost every feature and TV show produced on the lot from mid 1964 until January 1969. It was the old studio system and I was never laid off.
The reason I mentioned at length my early days as a grip and dolly/crane operator was because the dolly job most often positions you in the middle of the on set discussions between the Director, DP and the actors. There was no school like it. And since I was interested in my craft and film making in general I always paid attention and listened in. A few examples of films and TV that I worked on most or all of principal photography in those years were; Walk Don’t Run, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, Murderers Row, Enter Laughing, Three On A Couch, Trouble With Angels, Dead Heat On A Merry-Go-Round and the Monkees TV show.
In 1969, not wanting to remain in the grip department the rest of my life, I left the steady job and began working off and on at my fathers visual effects company, Excelcior Animated Motion Pictures. It was one of the few small effects companys in Hollywood before Star Wars changed everything. The animation done at Excelcior was stop motion and it turned out that I had a natural talent and worked on and animated many Dough Boy, Hamburger Helper, Swiss Miss and Chuck Wagon commercials during the almost 12 years I worked at Excelcior. We also produced the miniature work and dinosaur stop motion for the Saturday morning children’s show Land Of The Lost. Also the miniature effects work for the TV series The Man From Atlantis, the Roger Corman film Avalanche and John Frankenheimers Black Sunday.
Thru the hands on work I became an accomplished cinematographer, model maker, sculptor and stop motion animator. I also helped break down scripts and plan how to do the effects. Since my fathers studio did not have an optical printer until the last 2 years before he closed, we would try and do as much as possible in camera.
Excelsior was closed in 1979 and I and two partners, Leslie Huntley and Peter Kleinow opened Fantasy II film effects in 1980. We now had an optical department but continued to do as much work in camera as we could. Both because it was usually more cost effective and tended to look better. I believe that even today, in the digital age, the above holds true.
I, and my partners received an Emmy for visual effects in the mini series Winds of War in 1983. Then in 1991 I received an Oscar for Terminator II Judgement Day. The last significant miniature work I was involved in was Wes Anderson’s Moorise Kingdom.
I still think there is a place for in camera effects of all kinds and my years of experience actually doing them would greatly aid students in USC’s film school. Whether one wants a career in directing, producing, production design or cinematography, a thorough appreciation of the myriad techniques available, can only help develop a more well rounded filmmaker. The choice of one method over another can affect both quality and the budget.
Transpersonal Counseling
Jodie Senkyrik began having psychic experiences growing up, but didn’t begin his spiritual study until his early 20’s during the 1980’s. He began giving clairvoyant readings in 1985, yet broadened his clairvoyant readings with a background in psychology, being trained in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology and having earned an M.A. in Transpersonal Psychology in 1993 at John F. Kennedy University’s Graduate School for Holistic Studies.
Jodie has been, and is still, a regular workshop presenter in the Texas area for the A.R.E. during their Spring and Fall retreats since 2001, as well as his own retreats, having given workshops on such topics as The Karmic Connection to the 9-11 Attack, A Psychic View of Love & Death, Psychic Ability in Human Beings, Meditating for Answers, Prayer without Words, Atlantis, the Atlantean Hall of Records, Creating Heaven on Earth, and many others. His website and blog has posted 300 plus articles on spiritual and psychic topics.






