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Ronis received a B.A. of Fine Arts from Hunter College, with additional courses from Parsons School of Design and Fashion Institute of Technology. She then entered the fashion business where she held many executive positions, her last being Vice President of Design for Fashion Accessories at Liz Claiborne. Concentrating on what she does best, meeting and matching the right people, she left the fashion industry and founded Lisa Ronis Personal Matchmaking in 2000. Lisa’s approach to matchmaking is a very personalized and unique one. She works one on one with each client, offering coaching and feedback after the dates. She has earned the reputation as “the matchmaker who really listens”.
In addition to her matchmaking, Lisa offers image consulting to her clients. She helps them create a winning self-image and develop the attitudes and skills to find someone truly compatible.

For most of her life Lisa has been active in fundraising for various organizations. She has managed to incorporate her matchmaking business into her charity work by organizing fundraising events for singles. She continues to support many charities in New York City.
Lisa has appeared on NBC’s “The Match Off”, E! Entertainment, VH-1, and “Dateline NBC”. She also had her own reality show, “Manhattan Matchmaker”, which broadcast nationally in Canada. Lisa has been featured in The New York Times Style Section, Crain’s, Time Out New York, Elle, Marie Claire, Cosmo, and several others.

Lisa Ronis Personal Matchmaking (212) 254-8743 www.lisaronismatchmaking.com

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ASIAN AMERICAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER (AABDC) USHERS IN LUNAR NEW YEAR

-THE YEAR OF THE RABBIT – WITH A RALLY AGAINST ANTI-ASIAN HATE 

@ FEDERAL HALL NATIONAL MEMORIAL 26 WALL STREET IN MANHATTAN

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20 at 6:00 PM

Lunar New Year 4721 Event  To Feature Key Speakers

Kathy Wylde, CEO Partnership for New York City

Frank Wu, President, Queens College

NEW YORK, NY – 01/09/2023 – The Asian American Business Development Center (AABDC) announced hosts  a Lunar New Year celebration on Friday, January 20th @ 6pm ET.  The event will combine the traditional celebration of Asian heritage with a rally at Federal Hall National Memorial (26 Wall Street) in New York City to combat anti-Asian hate. (The main entrance of Federal Hall is located at 15 Pine Street (corner of Nassau and Pine Street) in Manhattan’s Financial District)     AABDC has led the Lunar New Year celebrations since 2000 in New York City and delighted the Asian American community by having the Empire State building lit up in red and gold, the auspicious color for the new year. Lunar New Year 4721  is  the Year of the Rabbit, signifying patience and luck. ..

Lunar New Year Rally & Celebration:

6:00 pm Arrive & Registration

6:30 pm-6:40 pm Program Starts with lion dance

6:40 pm-7:00 pm Announcement on ASAP / Keynote Speakers

7:00 pm-7:30 pm Culture Performance

7:30 pm-8:30 pm Networking Reception

8:30 pm Event Ends

Honorees

Consul General of Consulate General of Malaysia in New York:  Mr. Amir Farid Abu Hasa;  Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia in New York: Mr. Winanto Adi;   Consul for Economic Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia in New York: Mr. Herbhayu Needleman;  State Sentor:  Iwen Chu;  Deputy Commissioner, NYS Department of Labor:  Linda Sun;  Director of Asian Affairs, NYS Governor’s Executive Chamber: Elaine Fan;  Senior Advisor, United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: Lisa Hofflich;   Community Liaison of Community Engagement Division, Office of City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams:  Joonyong Ahn

According to president and founder John Wang, the Asian American Business Development Center, Inc. is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization established in 1994. It assists Asian American businesses in strengthening their capacity to compete in the mainstream market, to expand business opportunities and to promote recognition of Asian American businesses’ contributions to the general economy. For more information on AABDC, please visit: www.aabdc.com. or contact:  (212) 966-0100 / info@aabdc.com  

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Catalyst, a nonprofit focused on helping women work outside the home, on Tuesday celebrated adding its archives to Hagley Museum and Library’s collection of business records.

The organization, which also is celebrating its 60th anniversary, started as a way to encourage educated women to go to work at a time when businesses were dominated by men.

It evolved to encompass all women and work on helping corporations change workplaces to make them more attractive for women who wanted to work and have a family. Catalyst was an early champion of job sharing, for example.

Hagley will store and preserve Catalyst’s archives, which archivists say is the only collection of its kind that shows the evolution of women in business and the workplace.

It came in 350 boxes that are still being archived, but should be open to researchers in a few months.

FELICE N. SCHWARTZ

Looking at business through the eyes of women is an area Hagley hopes to be able to continue to strengthen.

The library already is known for having a major collection of manuscripts, archives, photographs and books from many companies, including DuPont, that document American business and technology.

Catalyst was established by Felice N. Schwartz in 1962.

The nonprofit’s debut tracks along with the rise of the feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but rather than burning bras, Catalyst wanted to encourage women to have the satisfaction of a career and a paycheck of their own while balancing that with family.

“The focus on the role of women in business is squarely where we are,” said CEO Lorraine Hariton. “Our vision and mission has evolved over time, but it’s always been about women being successful in business.”

Catalyst evolves
Somewhere in the 90s, Catalyst realized that corporations needed to change their workplaces in order to attract and keep more women and shifted focus to that. It champions diversity and embraces changes, such as working virtually, which it started doing 20 years ago.

The company is based in New York but is global. It works with hundreds of companies and has revenues of $25 to $30 million annually.

Catalyst bused dozens of workers to Hagley Tuesday to attend a preview of the archives as part of its 60th anniversary.

Sixty years from now, Hariton told the crowd, Catalyst will still be trying to help women in the workplace.

Also speaking Tuesday was Dr. Anne Boylan, professor emerita of history and women and gender studies at the University of Delaware.

She fascinated the crowd with stories about how women came to the workplace, starting with a study group created in December 1961 by President John F. Kennedy.

The Presidential Commission on the Status of Women was housed in the cabinet-level Department of Labor and led by former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Those on the committee included five cabinet secretaries, congressmen and leaders of important major corporations.

“In other words, this was not just window dressing. This was a consequential group,” she said. “It wasn’t just designed to sort of placate Kennedy’s women supporters.”

DR. ANNE BOYLAN

When the commission delivered its landmark 300-page report to Kennedy in October 1963, it offered a blunt assessment of women’s status in early 1960s America in everything from job opportunities, marriage and family life, to law, education, tax code and political status.

It said American women were systemically disadvantaged and treated as second class citizens in the economy and the family. It also said Black women and women of color generally suffered worse from economic and discriminatory structures in every facet of their lives.

Boylan pointed out that both Schwartz and Betty Friedan went to Smith College in the 40s. Neither was allowed into Ivy League schools, who accepted only men.

Schwartz founded Catalyst a year before Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” was published in 1963. The book was a reworked collection of essays that Friedan had written for magazines.

It’s possible, Boylan said, that Schwartz had read those articles.

The Catalyst archive promises to open a variety of new lines of research, Boylan told the crowd that filled the second floor of Hagley’s Soda House.

“It’s also likely to propel forward interpretive projects that historians have had in development for the past 25 years or so,” she said. “That project involves challenging outdated notions about women’s historical experiences during the 1950s and 1960s, especially experiences in the economy.”

The event ended with a preview of the archives’ content and a champagne toast celebrating Catalyst’s 60th anniversary.

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Sometimes,
I feel I want to go back in time…

Not to change things, but to feel a couple of things twice..

Sometimes,
I wish I was a Baby for a while…

Not to be walked in the pram but to see my Mother’s smile

Sometimes,
I wish I could go back to school…

Not to become a child but to spend more time with those friends, I never met after school..

Sometimes,
I wish I could be back in college…

Not to be a rebel but to really understand what I studied

Sometimes,
I wish I was a Fresher at my work…

Not to do less work but to recall the joy of the first pay cheque

Sometimes,
I wish I could marry again all over…

Not to change the partner but to ‘feel’ the ceremony better

Sometimes,
I wish my kids were younger….

Not because they grew fast but to play with them a bit more

Sometimes,
I feel I still had some more time to live…

Not to have a longer life but to know what I could give to others

Since the times that are gone can never come back,

let’s enjoy the moments as we live them from now on,
to the fullest..

Let’s Celebrate our Life – Every Moment, Every Day……

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Ten Principles of a Character Coach provides clear experienced-based advice on how to be a character coach.

Within Ten Principles of a Character Coach, Coach Gary Waters defines a character coach as someone who lives a life with integrity, honesty and moral values. He speaks specifically on how the sport of basketball has been riddled with scandals in recent years on the high school and college levels; and how the governing authorities are committed to repairing the reputation of college basketball. Ten Principles of a Character Coach addresses many of the issues that young men and women are experiencing in the athletic arena today. Coach Waters believes character and values need to be a high priority in those individuals tasked with guiding young people, as well as themselves.

Note; 98% of the players graduated college who were coached by Mr. Waters he told Good News.

Furthermore, Coach Waters is convinced that following the principles within Ten Principles of a Character Coach will benefit anyone in developing their character. Ten Principles of a Character Coach (ISBN 978-1631950858 by Morgan James Publishing (December 15, 2020) Available on Kindle for $11.68 and $12.30 as a Hardcover) is for anyone looking to hone their leadership abilities and improve their communications in every aspect of their lives.

In an interview on your program Coach Waters can talk about:

How he will be working with police departments across the nation to end systemic racism and instill the 10 principles found in his book to offer a great sense of integrity, character, empathy, and leadership in law enforcement.

How the 10 principles come together to make an incredible leader

How he stayed focused on his team and continuing to lead when fortune, fame, and celebrations were around every corner.

What the most challenging issues are that face young athletes today and how this book can help them overcome them

How applying these 10 principles got him to where he is today

and much more!

Praise for Ten Principles of a Character Coach

“Character Coach is a breath of fresh air. It is a reminder that the real value of coaching is ‘influence’ not a won/loss record.

I highly recommend this book, especially for young coaches.”

—Dale Clayton, Vice President, Nations of Coaches

“This book is definitely insightful; every coach and manager

will benefit greatly from reading it. It’s a must read for any leader.”

—Johnny Dawkins, Head basketball Coach, Univ. of Central Florida

“The Ten Principles of a Character Coach is an effective guide for us always to

‘Do the Right Thing!’ The reader will find in this journey a plan to reach the ultimate victory of being a value-driven character coach.’’

—Laing Kennedy, Former Athletic Director, Kent State University

“Throughout the reading of Character Coach, it gives youa unique and personal perspective that all coaches at any level will be able to appreciate and learn from.

This book is a must-have for anyone who wants to enrich his or her life, as well as the lives of those around them.”

— Ernie Kent, Former Head Basketball Coach, Washington State University

Basketball Specialist/Director, Athletes in Action (AIA) “Gary has written a must-read that transcends any professional genre. The 10 Principles of a Character Coach

establishes character and morality-driven fundamental practices, for all aspiring and veteran coaches to infuse, into their coaching DNA.

This book is a blueprint for individuals, who aspire to lead others.”

—Mike Krzyzewski, Hall of Fame Inductee, Head Basketball Coach, Duke University

“In a world where values seem to be decreasing and tweets are increasing, the standards by which we measure a person’s character has become blurred.

Gary Waters 10 Principles of a Character Coach reminds us what is important and how to conduct our lives to make a difference, in the lives of others.

This book guides us through Waters’ life experiences as a coach, father and man of God, sharing golden nuggets of wisdom on character building.”

—Bill Self, Hall of Fame Inductee, Head Basketball Coach, University of Kansas

“In my 48 years of coaching, Basketball has always been a vehicle to develop the next generation. The life lessons learned in athletics are instrumental in the growth

of the student-athlete. The Character Coach epitomizes the foundational truths of integrity, discipline and character.”

—Vivian Stringer, Hall of Fame Inductee, Head Basketball Coach, Rutgers University

“With the ever-evolving dynamics in any professional genre, there remains one

constant for all leadership success; CHARACTER. Gary Waters

has done a tremendous job of conveying practical character attributes,

for leadership development. The Ten Principles of a Character Coach is a must-read for all professionals.”

—Tom Izzo, Hall of Fame Inductee, Head Basketball Coach, Michigan State University

Publisher: ‎ Morgan James Publishing (December 15, 2020)

Language: ‎ English

Hardcover: ‎ 136 pages

ISBN-10: ‎ 1631950851

ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1631950858

About the Author

Coach Gary Waters earned his reputation building college basketball programs. He was the winningest coach in the history of Cleveland State University. During his time at the school, Coach Waters won 194 games and led the Vikings to six postseason appearances. In 2009, Cleveland State made the NCAA Tournament and advanced to the second round after shocking Wake Forest. He rebuilt three programs — Kent State (92-60, five years), Rutgers (79-75, five years) and CSU — into winners. Coach Waters led Kent to its first NCAA Tournament appearance in 1999 and a second in 2001 before leaving for Rutgers. The winner of numerous honors, he was 2008 Horizon League Coach of the Year; 2011 Horizon League Champions; inducted into The Ferris State University and Kent State Hall of Fame; and winner of the John Lotz Barnabas Award by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes for the 2009-10 season. Coach Waters was named a Master Coach by the Nations of Coaches in 2015 and served on the board of the National Association of Basketball Coaches. Coach Waters is a Detroit native and graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration from Ferris State in 1975, a B.S. in Business Education from Ferris State in 1978, and an M.A. in Educational Administration from Central Michigan in 1976. He currently resides in Tampa, Florida. Check out his website @ www.coachwaters.com and get social with the coach on FaceBook | Twitter!

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Statement of Purpose
Rebecca Hill

Lucky is the person who can find a profession that closely matches her skills and ideology. I am lucky. A crooked path I took in this discovery, meandering through biology, education, religion, and art before I found a field of study that could integrate all these interests and speak to my convictions. In fact, up until a year ago, I had never even heard of landscape architecture. At the time, I was applying for a six-month internship at Slide Ranch an environmental education center located in the coastal wilderness near Muir Beach. It was while living in this community that I learned of landscape architecture, and when I heard, my heart said, “YES!”

Slide Ranch is a small, hundred-year-old farm where one can witness the interface of wild and tamed beauty in a single view. It has, as its mission, a desire to promote to its visitors a personal sense of connection to the natural world and a more sustainable use of natural resources. During my year stay, these values were also strengthened in me. The population we most served were urban youth—kids from San Francisco or other Bay Area cities that would come to the ranch for a few hours or, in some cases, a few days.

What an experience to see them bound off the bus, excited and rowdy, often turning their nose up at the rustic, non-linear surroundings. I would smile secretly know that, within 24 hours, the natural beauty of the place would calm and balance them, allowing for deep breaths and reflective thoughts. One boy from San Francisco, who had been at Slide Ranch for three days, wrote, “I like it here because it is pretty, and I am near the ocean and I can think.” “Children are more deeply affected by the environment than any other age group,” and “[they] learn from the environment what society values” (Marcus and Sarkissian, 109). I realized it was the communing with nature, above all else, that provided these kids with a sense of order and calmed their urban spirit.

As much as I loved sharing Slide Ranch with those who came from the city, I realized that traveling 45 minutes in a car to a remote area is next to impossible for many. The natural world had to be brought to them, and while they could not get the full experience, a neighborhood garden, a small green space in the housing project could be the next best thing and go a long way to restoring the soul.

As creations of nature, I believe it is necessary for our well being to have some intimate connection to the natural world. Of course, we are and always have been dependent on the land—a symbiotic relationship, where our actions affect the land and vice versa (Hough, 240-241) The problem is this is difficult to remember when we are surrounded by pavement and imagine our food to sprout from the aisles of Safeway. As landscape gives way to cityscape and our association with nature declines, we feel less connected to the world—isolated from the cycles in which we evolved and thrived and disconnected from other members of our species. More gardens and well-designed green space could change that providing connectedness, a basis for socializing, time for contemplation, and source for neighborhood revitalization (Francis and Hester, 247). Urban landscapes could be used to decorate, “enhance urban climate, create wildlife habitat. . .produce food” (Hough, 241), and bring people together in viable way (Francis and Hester, 247): in short, they could allow the land and the people to participate in the natural processes that they are wont to do. I want to be involved in this process. I want to be in a profession that can give people the tools and the power to change their environment and promote the coming together of separate souls to create a synergy of change.

I could write of my love of gardens, my appreciation of art, my gravitation towards the technical—though, with my background in scientific research and gardening, I feel it is apparent. These motivations play a large part, but what really drives my desire to become a landscape architect is the opportunity to act on my belief that the quality and beauty of a person’s environment directly contributes to his/her health, happiness, and sense of worth. Modern society and urban living have cast us out of our natural habitat, but we must find our way back to the Garden, for it there that humans have the most direct connection with the spiritual—a communion we have created to foster.

Bibliography
Hough, Michael. (1984) City Form and Natural Process: Towards a New Urban Vernacular.
New York: Von Nostrand Reinhold Company.
Francis, Mark, and Randolph T. Hester., eds. (1990). The Meaning of Gardens. Cambridge:
The MIT Press.
Marcus, Clare Cooper, and Wendy Sarkissian (1986). Housing as if People Mattered. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
May we let what Rebecca has written inspire us. What is your Statement of Purpose?
Here are some current articles:
Fixing What Highways Destroyed by David Leonhardt, NYT: May 28, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/briefing/us-highways-destruction-sugar-hill.html
How Art is Retelling Powerful Stories of Tulsa Massacre Capturing Communities’ Hope, PBS, May 28, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/briefing/us-highways-destruction-sugar-hill.html

Security is in the Secret Place

I sent this Christmas, 2017, when all my children, grandchildren, siblings, nieces, and nephews were safe but near hurricanes, fires, and shootings. Now we’ve experienced 2020 and 2021. Are we prepared for whatever the future may hold?

Where is security? I encourage you to memorize Psalm 91—it’s The Protection Psalm. Many give testimony of its saving their lives. Some books with these testimonies: Psalm 91: Real Life Stories of God’s Shield of Protection and What This Psalm Means for You and Those You Love. By Peggy Joyce Ruth. There are books for Military, Mothers, Children—all with true stories of the power of this Psalm. If you’ve read my book, They That Sow in Tears, you know this Psalm saved my life. We’re not to be afraid. As this Protection Psalm is in your sub-conscious mind, its positive vibration will feed your soul. Also, it’s good for our brains to memorize. 

Answering: How did 9/ll affect you?

SECURITY IS IN THE SECRET PLACE

I lived in Riverdale in the Bronx, less than one hour by subway from the World Trade Center. The morning of 9/ll I went to vote. I half heard some ladies talking something about, “Isn’t it terrible? The World Trade Center. . .” But my mind wasn’t focused on this conversation. I was thinking of my new grandson, Jonathan, born just three days earlier on the eighth.
As soon as I got home, I called my daughter in Tallahassee, Florida, to see how they were doing.
“Mom!” she exclaimed, “We’ve been trying to call you but couldn’t get through! The World Trade Center. . . .”
It was she who told me. I flipped on the TV as she spoke. However, only one channel was broadcasting because of what had been done to the towers. Finding that one, I, like most Americans, watched all day.
In my first reactions, I wondered, what other things were going to be blown up. Should I get out of New York City? And if so, what should I take with me? But where would be a safe place to go?
However, as days passed, and I heard of military plans, increasing security at the airports, etc., I instinctively knew that security did not rely in these measures. Physically, no matter how much money was spent, there was no way that one could foreknow where to put policemen, scanners, and the military for certain safety. There could only be one antidote for fear—Security is in the Secret Place. Victory is only possible through weapons of the Spirit—love, joy peace, prayer, praise, faith, food, clothing, shelter, etc. If ever there was opportunity to learn this, it is now.
“911,” people said, “The emergency number.” However, God has a 911 number—Psalm 91:1: “He that dwelleth in the Secret Place of the Highest shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” This Psalm became an anchor for me: “Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror. . .He shall give His angels charge over thee. . .” I determined to be motivated by love and develop my inner listening powers.

Security is in the Secret Place

God’s 911# Psalm 91:1

To Memorize: Read aloud for 10 days. Then shut the Bible and stumble through the best you can. Open and see where you missed. At the end of a month, or less, you will have memorized it. For children who can’t yet read: Read it for 10 days. Then leave out words for them to fill in—more and more until it is memorized. You might start with shorter Psalm 23 or 100. Psalm 27 is good for fear.

He (She) who dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High
shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress:
my God: in Him will I trust.
Surely, He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler,
and from the noisome pestilence.
He shall cover you with His feathers,
and under His wings you shall take refuge.
His truth shall be your shield and buckler.
You shall not be afraid for the terror by night;
Nor for the arrow that flies by day;
Nor for the pestilence that walks in darkness;
Nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday.
A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand;
But it shall not come nigh you.
Only with your eyes shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked.
Because you have made the Lord, who is your refuge, even the Most High, your
dwelling place,
No evil shall befall you, neither shall any plague come nigh your dwelling.
For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.
They shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
You shalt tread upon the lion and cobra:
The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.
Because he hath set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him.
I will set him on high because he has known My name.
He (she) shall call upon Me and I will answer him (her):
I will be with him (her) in trouble; I will deliver him (her), and honour him (her).
With long life will I satisfy him (her) and show him (her) My salvation.”

There is a Hebrew word, Tikkun which means “to heal, repair, and transform the world.” We each have a tikkun–something we are supposed to do to heal, repair and transform the world.” We should help each other do what we are created to do. With God nothing shall be impossible.
Copyright, 2021—this means you have the right to copy and let the wind carry it. ?

Here is Rebecca’s Memorial Page:

https://www.forevermissed.com/rebecca-hill-leising/about

Please go to A Butterfly for Rebecca–also statement from her Swarthmore College

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