In the face of these trends that have upended thousands of lives, Red Cross volunteers are now responding to nearly twice as many major disasters than a decade ago — and relying on generous donations to be able to deliver emergency shelter, food, relief supplies, financial assistance and more.

These major disasters are also taking a hidden toll on communities and exacerbating people’s long-term health problems. That’s why the Red Cross makes sure that people have access to basic health care and emotional support at emergency shelters after disasters. This can include helping to replace lost prescription medications and medical equipment.

What’s more, these massive events are on top of everyday crises like home fires and storms — which are just as devastating to the families suffering from them. All told, generous donations make it possible for Red Cross volunteers to respond every 8 minutes to help families in need across the country.

Anne McKeough, chief development officer, American Red Cross, will discuss these disaster trends and how donations fuel the organization’s response to help ensure no one faces a crisis alone. She’ll also talk about how people can get involved by giving donations to help people affected by disasters big and small.

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ALBANY — New York’s population exodus continued to top national charts for a third consecutive year with a loss of more than 101,000 residents from the Empire State, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Texas and Florida continued to see the country’s highest population increases, adding more than 473,000 and 365,000 residents, respectively, followed by North Carolina and Georgia, which each added more than 100,000 residents during the one-year period.

Regionally, the South continues to lead the United States in population growth and has remained the most populous region, while the Northeast led the nation in decline and remains the least populous. Among states in the Northeast region, only New York and Pennsylvania saw declining populations this year.

The census report said that the country is returning to pre-pandemic levels, experiencing an increase of 1.6 million people and seeing more states with growing populations this year than since the start of the pandemic.

New York continues to be the fourth-most populous state, trailing California, Texas and Florida.

New York’s population exodus continues

More states gained than lost population during the 12-month period ending July 1. But New York logged the largest decline in the nation, losing more than 100,000 residents.

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, who represents the North Country and parts of the Capital Region, blamed the decline on “the consequences of far left Democrat leadership.” Stefanik, chair of the House Republican Conference, said lawmakers in Albany have an “extremist agenda.”

“Far left Kathy Hochul and Albany Democrats have made New York so unlivable that our state leads the nation in population loss with more than 102,000 residents leaving in one year alone,” Stefanik said in a statement. “With record crime and cost of living far beyond the national average, New York’s mass exodus is far from over.”

The Empire State also has topped states in declining populations since the pandemic, losing more than 631,000 residents between April 2020 and July, representing 3.1 percent of the state’s population.

In the Capital Region, residents left in higher numbers than they came in between 2020 and 2021, except for Saratoga County, which added 2,000 residents.

During that same time period, the Hudson Valley gained residents, while New York City and nearby counties lost population.

The following year, Albany and New Rochelle were the only cities among New York’s 12 most populous that added residents. In the year ending July 1, 2022, Albany’s addition of 91 residents boosted the population to 100,826. New Rochelle’s growth was more robust, with an increase of 899 people to 82,288 during that period.

New York, which the census report estimated to have just over 20.2 million residents in April 2020, had fallen to less than 19.6 million residents in July.

The state’s public school population has also seen a steep, nation-leading decline since the pandemic, according to data collected by the Associated Press.

The state experienced a 6 percent decline in public school enrollment — a reduction of about 157,000 students — from the 2019-20 to 2022-23 school years, the largest percent decrease of any state that has reported the data. (Tennessee has not yet released recent enrollment figures.)

Every county in New York experienced an enrollment drop in that time period with the most pronounced decreases in New York City, as well as Greene, Schuyler, Ulster and Columbia counties, state data shows.

The number of students attending public school in the state is down 10 percent from a decade ago and is at its lowest level since the mid-1950s, according to Ken Girardin, director of research at the Empire Center, a non-profit think tank in Albany.

The Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy released a report Thursday saying about 150,000 immigrants have arrived in New York between Oct. 1, 2022, and Aug. 1, including 30,000 children, a third of whom are under age 5.

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“Returning Hate for Hate multiplies hate , adding to deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars .
Darkness cannot drive out darkness ; only light can do that . Hate cannot drive out hate ; only love can do that . Hate multiplies hate , violence multipliers violence , and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction “.
Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King , Jr.

Renew Our Earth stands firmly in solidarity with the Asian American Community , just as we are in solidarity with the Jewish community , the Muslim Community and the Black community; and any other community that is the victim of systemic racism.

“ Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere . We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality , tied in a single garment of destiny . What ever affects one directly affects all indirectly .”
Dr. Rev . Martin Luther King , JR.

Ugoji Adanma Eze , Esq. Ph.D CEO And Founder .
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Mr. Ge Yuhua, California Sales Director of MXQ Life Water and California Media Director of Huayu China, the sponsor of this year’s Christmas Parade and Family Movie Awards, was on hand on behalf of Dr. Ma Xiaoqiu to bring you a wonderful live video!

Mr. Ge Yuhua

90th Annual Christmas Parade Press Conference

The 90-year-old Hollywood Christmas Parade has a long history and reputation as one of the most influential parade events in the country, held on the last Sunday of November every year with hundreds of thousands of spectators. This year’s Hollywood Christmas Parade, in conjunction with the Family Movie Awards, will be broadcast internationally during the holiday season by the American Forces Network, a mainstream media outlet in the United States, and will air on The CW Network in primetime television on December 16 from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
In an exclusive interview with Pacific Business, renowned director David Mackenzie, producer of the Hollywood Christmas Parade and the Family Movie Awards, said that this year’s Family Movie Awards have been taped and will be broadcast worldwide on the youth-friendly The CW Network and PopStar! He revealed that in recognition of the outstanding contributions to the awards by Family Movie Awards Lifetime Chairman Dr. Xiaoqiu Ma, the cities of California and Los Angeles, the Toys for Tots Foundation and the U.S. Marine Corps, and the entire parade will present a special plaque to Dr. Ma and MXQ LifeWater.

Interview with David McKenzie, Executive Producer of the Hollywood Christmas Parade

On Saturday, November 26th at 10am Beijing time, Dr. Xiaoqiu Ma will be joined by the Hollywood Christmas Parade production team, including Family Movie Awards star producers David Mckenzie, John Martta, Jeffrey Bogert, and Huayu China’s President Dr. Jin Sheng Di ( Dr Jeannie Yi, President of Huayu China, will be interviewed live on video by Ms. Gao Fengfang, host of VTV USA, to kick off the Christmas Thanksgiving season. For more information, please visit the Family Movie Awards Chinese website: 2022ffa.com

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Weiwei Talks about the

Christmas Parade, This is One

of China’s Most Popular Shows

and Beloved Hosts

HISTORY OF MILESTONE BROADCAST CORPORATION:  For those who don’t know, our company, Milestone Broadcast Corporation, MBC, was established in 1985, by Paul Sladkus, after working for 14 years with CBS and PBS/Channel 13 TV working on over 150 Award Winning shows & series, i.e., All in the Family, Sonny & Cher, Carol Burnett, Love of Life, AFI Salutes James Cagney & Orson Wells and Frank Sinatra Performed and on PBS the Nature and Brain Series. When Paul became Director of Marketing at the PBS WNYC station he was asked by the leading Chinese Media to represent them for advertising and marketing… he agreed, as he was brought up with Ethnic Media…either Hungarian, Yiddish or Jewish… he was always a believer in ONE WORLD and the WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER MIND SET AND THE BEAUTY OF COUNTRY CULTURE AND TRADITIONS. Paul realized if he could help multicultural communities it would be good, hopefully create more PEACE & UNDERSTANDING USING MEDIA WORLD WIDE WHICH WAS HIS MISSION, so, as mentioned in 1985 he started PSI a Full Service Multicultural Marketing, Advertising, Media Representative, PR, Events and Production Organization with clients like, i.e., Citibank, Delta Airlines, IBM, Sprint, US Postal Service, Western Union…and many advertising agencies. The PSI Research with St. John’s University became The Bible on how to market to the Asian American Community, we were told. MBC loved working with over 200 multicultural communities and we are VERY good at it, if you know anyone who needs help!!!! Our MBC websites with over 6,000 shows are  www.goodnewsplanet.TV or www.youtube.com/goodnewsbroadcast. Many of our shows are in different languages.Note: in 2002 we created our Nonprofit Good News Corporation for our Humanitarian Efforts, especially those for Peace, the Environment and Water.Lastly, Giving Tuesday was this week, so if you have any money left, please help us un-stress to raise funds for our Good News Corporation, nonprofit, events in 2023 go to:

1.    https://goodnewsplanet.com/pausetheworld/peace-day-donations/, lots of prizes, and even a trip to the Historic Montauk Manor.

ONCE AGAIN, WE NEED PRODUCTION VOLUNTEERS, ASAP. WE ALSO NEED FUNDING/SPONSOR NEW BUSINESS CONSULTANTS, ASAP. Here is our link to our 2022 Sizzle Reel, https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/772457663 please take 14 minutes to watch it, pass it along and be INSPIRED, it wasn’t easy editing down a 5 Hour LIVE BROADCAST.  you can also go to www.pausetheworldforpeace.org to watch it and the whole 5 Hour Broadcast that we are also editing and soon will post the final version. All money raised will be used for the following 2023 Events:1.      Times Square, NY 2023 Venue 10,000 During the eventA.   World Water Day March 22 Press Conference and Concert– 3 Hour LIVE BroadcastB.   Earth & Water Day Concert April 22 – 5 Hour LIVE BroadcastC.    911 Press Conference and Concert – 3 Hour LIVE BroadcastD.    International Day of Peace Worldwide Concert September 21, 2023 – 5 Hour LIVE Broadcast, including the 12 noon Moment/Minute of Silence Worldwide, Cease Fire, Acts of Peace/Kindness. Sizzle Reel: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/7724576632.    Central Park, Great Lawn NY, Venue 18,000 create Human Peace SignA.   9/11/23 – 4 Hour Celebrity Concert, including the 7pm (Covid Heroes & 9/11 Heroes Ringing Bell Time) Moment/Minute of Silence Worldwide, Cease Fire, Acts of Peace/Kindness3.    Centennial Memorial Hall at the Salvation Army, 14^th Street off of 6^th Ave., www.thecmt.org, Venue 1,500 SeatingA.   International Day of Peace Celebrity Concert Indoors – 3 Hour LIVE Broadcast, including the 7pm (Covid Heroes Ringing Bell Time) Moment/Minute of Silence Worldwide, Cease Fire, Acts of Peace/Kindness2023 Plans: Milestone Broadcast Corporation, est. 1985. We use our media to share, Life Affirming, Thought Provoking Good News, Entertainment, Events and Products each week. We are honored to share the GOOD in the world, as the people of the world are GOOD and the majority LIVE IN PEACE, let’s support them and use MEDIA FOR THE GOOD.  Go to:  www.goodnewsplanet.TV and or www.youtube.com/goodnewsbroadcast where we have over 6,000 shows.Lastly, HAPPY AND HEALTHY HOLIDAY SEASON…. WE ARE BLESSED

“All we are is what we are with each other.” Zeal 

With Respect. Love and May Peace Prevail on Earth,  For Information

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LET’S GROW TOGETHER. GOOD NEWS MOTTO: ALL WE ARE IS WHAT WE ARE WITH EACH OTHER. ZEAL

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Go To: www.pausetheworldforpeace.org We are working with The City of New York Major Adams Faith-Based and Community Partnerships, other cities worldwide including Philadelphia, Chicago, California, as well as Peace Partners from all 7 Continents, corporations, philanthropists and our IMPORTANT SCHOOLS OF THE WORLD.

The Celebrity Concert, starting at 7pm, when we will ring the bells for our heroes, will be a Worldwide Broadcast at www.thecmt.org. Greats in the entertainment industry will join us who have Peace and Live in their hearts and ACTIONS.

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Some say the metaverse is a virtual world. Some say the metaverse is a blockchain. Some say the metaverse is an algorithm ……
It’s all a phenomenon. What is the essence?

Today in the courtyard of Prof. Li Jianjun’s home in ergonomics, the California sun shines, the birds sing, the pool is sparkling, and heaven and earth are in harmony. Several partners produced a collision of thoughts in a smooth conversation with their skills. A professor with great wisdom, an Iranian prince, a mathematician, a life water development team, a Hollywood producer, and the founder of the American University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, chatting about the meta-universe. Thanks to this wonderful day, I wrote this reflection on the meta-universe like a fountain of thought.

How did the metaverse come into being? Virtual space is the vehicle of expression, technology is just a tool, and the purpose is to allow people to experience a new sense of a more multidimensional world. What is the essence?
In general research, there is a consensus that the “metaverse” is a new type of Internet application and social form that integrates multiple new technologies.

The metaverse has existed for a long time, but the term “metaverse” has only recently become popular. In the 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash, human beings live in a three-dimensional virtual world through “Avatar” (digital avatar), which the author called “Metaverse”, or “metaverse”. With the epidemic isolation, remote social networking, virtual reality, other lifestyle changes, and rapid technology development, even Facebook caught the pulse of the times and changed its name to Metaverse. The world has to start paying attention.

In Chinese, “Yu” is space, “Zu” is time. The universe is composed of time and space. The world we live in is three-dimensional space plus time, that is, four dimensions. Moreover, the meta-universe has broken through the four dimensions. In the original universe, each person has a small world, and each person’s small world can be linked together without the limitation of time and space. Humans create the “metaverse”, but humans do not create it. It is also a cosmic train driven by human technology, human civilization, earth’s nurture, the laws of the universe, and even unknown forces. We are coming infinitely closer to the universe, to an infinitely expanding universe.

The universe is called the universe because of its great dimensionality, its breadth of inclusion, its infinite information, and the fact that it contains everything. The meta-universe is called the universe because it contains human beings’ life and spiritual carriers. In the spiritual world of human beings, they can travel to outer space. They can travel through time and space. They can travel to parallel universes …… Everything is possible. In other words, the meta-universe is where the unlimited potential of human beings is developed.

In this metaverse era, everyone is a creator, driver, and innovator, and everyone is building the content and meaning of the metaverse. The meta-universe is a new universe in the human dictionary, but it is not a universe created out of thin air but a spiritual world created by the masses throughout human civilization and wisdom.

Freud believed that dreams express man’s unfulfilled desires, and the meta-universe is the booster of dreams. The torrent of the times will wash away the way you dream.

In the meta-universe, you can lie on the sofa and lead a thousand armies to fight; you can view your dream lover is deep in love with you; you can lie in a hospital bed and ride a motorcycle and police race; you can occupy the land and money in a rented house that makes you rich; you can take potato chips and put on VR eyes to view yourself eating an entire banquet. People can travel to the ends of the earth without leaving home, to experience all kinds of things on earth.

Technology has pushed the way and convenience of human life, but technology is only a tool. Numerous technology companies have taken advantage of the winds of the meta-universe to fly into the sky and make a fortune. So what is the next wave?

Let’s imagine the future of the metaverse again, like a city where no one is visible, but people exist, in the form of information, everywhere. All people’s minds, life experiences, crystallized wisdom, and knowledge base, can be stored in the cloud and everything becomes transparent. The speed of information transfer, the change to rapidity, and the authenticity of the experience make all countries, cultures, religions, ethnicities, and people groups on the planet, no longer separated. The idea of money first is slowly being eliminated, and the prosperity of the spiritual world becomes the new wind of the future. Whoever can lead the spiritual world will hold the future. Furthermore, in the spiritual world, whoever can master the ultimate law of the universe can dominate the universe.

Some people say the spiritual world is firewood. Some say the spiritual world is trying to get money, some say the spiritual world is dream imagination, some say the spiritual world is communicating with ghosts and gods, and some say the spiritual world is saving the world. It’s like the blind man feeling the elephant, and in the end ,feeling the whole picture pieced together – everyone sees the original face of the elephant, from the smallest to the collective subconscious of humankind, to the collective subconscious of the universe. The meta-universe is still just a fragment, and you and I are all cutters.

People have gone so far in the earthly world that they almost forget that our spirit can be as bright as the stars, our potential can be as constant as the sun, our senses can be aware of everything in heaven and earth, we can penetrate the past, present and future, and we can travel through space at will. Human beings were originally one, human beings and the earth were initially in harmony, and human beings and the universe were so close that everything is in the meta-universe. The meta-universe does not belong to human beings, but human beings see a silhouette of the universe from the meta-universe.

The metaverse is the ultimate point of life experience pursued by human beings, and the spirit is in search of the origin of the universe’s wisdom.
We hope that in the era of the metaverse, no one will be hungry, no one will not be misunderstood, no one will be deceitful, everyone will help each other, share, win together, and advance towards a higher civilization.

How big can this universe be? None of us knows …… However, we are creating it together.

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Quit hounding me!

Remain paws-fictive!

Please fur-give me.

Today has been ruff.

I’m mutts about you!

Let’s raise the woof!

I’ll collie you later.

Howl I ever live without you?

You need a new leash on life.

The dog is from California.

This place seems so fur-milliard.

Don’t bite the hound that feeds you.

People who hate dogs are re-pug-nan.

My dog’s favorite band is The Beagles.

I’m so fur-tannate to have you in my life

What dog does Dracula own? A blood-hound.

That dog was so cold, he was a pup-sickle!

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