The idea that thinking good thoughts leads to good outcomes is a core concept in positive thinking and mental well-being. By focusing on positive thoughts, you can shift your mindset and increase your likelihood of experiencing positive emotions, fostering resilience, and potentially attracting positive experiences.
Think Good Thought and set the course of your life in the right direction.
Blessings;
Marc

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Noah Fleischman is a Producer at WOR Radio who knows the TV Business Inside and Out.  What a great conversation we had about the Golden Age of Television .

Noah also is a Broadcast Consultant Concept Developer and won the 2023 IHeart Radio Collaborator of the  Year Award.

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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.

CONCEPT AND BUDGET: Below is our latest Pause the World for Peace Working Concept and Budget. We meet again with the City of New York on Monday, they are fully behind this years Peace Day. This year our Peace Day Outreach will be the most successful ever. We will have a major audience and equally important we will get many in the world to PAUSE FOR A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR PEACE, we will focus on Brooklyn, New York as we have many relationships there including those in the Mayor’s Office who run Brooklyn. .

Please let me know if you have any questions and if you want to be involved with this nonprofit outreach as soon as possible. Our budget requires $1.5 million aprox, as of June 24th, but we are working on it each and every day.

Our sponsor will receive an Executive Producer Title.

Peace Day 2022: Pause The World for Peace Working Budget TBD As of June 24, 2022
PRODUCERS – Good News Corporation (GNC), nonprofit – Headquartered in New York along with partners, New York City Mayors Office Faith-Based and Community Partnerships and many corporations/organizations/countries/philanthropists. 193 countries of the UN agreed to the International Day of Peace – Peace Day and we will work with Peace Ambassadors from each country.
CONCEPT: 4/22 Times Square Earth Day, 9/11 and 9/21 Times Square, 9/21 Celebrity Concert, to the borders of all countries & war zones creating a Human Peace Sign, to schools worldwide and community organizations working to have peaceful communities.
More Peace On Earth will occur and our sponsors/patrons/benefactors for sure will be recognized for it. A Moment for Silence at 12 noon Worldwide will occur on September 21, then after a World Peace Day Party.
BROADCASTED PRESS EVENTS: 3 Press Events Live to the World
1. Earth and Peace Day 4/22 in Times Square. Here is the link:
2. Press Event with the City of New York and Mayor Adams in July, possibly July 4th, then with an event on 9/11 in Times Square, partnering with 11 Days of Global Unity, massive press and advertising campaign for the entire project.
WORLDWIDE BROADCASTS:
1. September 21,2022 – 3 Hour Live WORLD Broadcast starting at 11:30am to 2:30pm est. in Times Square with Peace Video Segments from the 7 Continents of the World.
2. September 21, 2022 – 2 Hour Celebrity Concert starting at 7pm to 9pm est. in the gorgeous art deco 1,500 seat Centennial Memorial Temple, CMT www.thecmt.org

BUDGET/PRODUCTION: Our total budget is approx. $1.5 Million TBD budget details below. However, in essence the more money raised, the more we can do to help create a more powerful ACTIONABLE Peace Day and broadcast it. Additionally any money that we don’t use from our budget will go to more marketing for Peace. Every dollar will be accounted for as an honorable nonprofit corporation since 2002. Good News Corporation is working with some of the best production, marketing and advertising companies that have worked on major live concerts in Central Park, Times Square, Facebook and more. We are working with the most prestigious Public Relations Firms, including social networking and traditional and digital marketing/advertising for major corporations and events. We have lots of friends in the business after 50 years.
There will be video content featuring each continent. Peace Day will be celebrated during the day on September 21, 2022. The broadcast will incorporate pre-recorded rolls in from the world

Above the Line:

Executive Producers 2 x 75,000 $150,000

Producers/Video 7 Continents: (Philadelphia, Chicago, California – North America) Korea, Nigeria, Paraguay, Poland, Australia, Antarctica
7 x 1,000 7,000

Producer/Field 2 x 40,000 80,000

Associate Producer 2 x 30,000 60,000

Talent Times Square 10 x 1,000 10,000

Talent CMT 6 x 10,000 (Honorarium) 60,000

Host 5 x 2,500 (Honorarium) 10,000

Production Assistant 5 x 15,000 75,000

Writer/Researcher 1 x 20,000 20,000

Office and Administration
6 months x 15,000 90,000

Security CMT 5,000

Times Square/CMT Fee 20,000

Musical Director 10,000 10,000

Orchestra 25,000

Legal/Accounting 10,000

Total Above the Line $ 632,000

Below the Line:

Press Conferences Crew (3) x 10,000 30,000

Production Crew Times Square & CMT 50,000

Times Square Stage/Props 10,000. 10,000

Editors/Webmaster 2 x10,000 20,000

Post editing 2 x 10,000 20,000

Travel and Expense: Talent

Air, Ground, Accommodations, Meals, Misc.
6 x5,000 30,000

Below the Line $ 160,000

Marketing & Advertising

Social Marketing 100,000

Advertising 150,000

Publicist 4 months 40,000

Total Marketing/Advertising $ 290,000

Total Above/Below Line, Marketing/Adv.
$ 1,182,000

Contingency 10% $ 118,000

Total Funding Required $ 1,364,000

Respectfully Submitted,

Reverend Paul Sladkus, All Faiths and Spiritual
917 687 1790

#concept&budget #peaceday #mayoradams #peacelovehope #expense

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Tavern62 by David Burke’s menu feature modern American plates as a reflection of Chef Burke’s contemporary approach to cooking, with a nod to elevated New York classics paired with a curated wine list, craft beers and a specialty cocktail program.

For more information, please follow us @tavern62.

THE CHEF
David Burke/Executive Chef
DAVID BURKE

Executive Chef

A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, chef David Burke’s 25-year career is decorated with honors that pay homage to his respected culinary skill, creative whimsy, and philanthropic efforts, including appearances on Bravo’s Top Chef Masters, and receiving a US patent for his pink Himalayan salt dry-age technique for steaks.

In Fall 2015, David Burke joined ESquared Hospitality to work as a culinary partner on new and innovative concepts. In September 2016, David Burke and E2 Hospitality opened BLT Prime by David Burke in the Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C. Tavern62 by David Burke, a modern American tavern, is his newest collaboration with ESquared Hospitality that opened in October 2016 in New York City’s Upper East Side.

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• Why the U.S. needs to raise the age for social security benefits
• How mandatory military and social service could cut down on student loan debt
• Why regulating too-big-to-fail banks will stop damage to jobs and small businesses
• Why “Right to Die” is important for improving healthcare costs and efficiencies

“Five Easy Theses sets out key issues of public policy easy to identify in concept but long unresolved in practice. Stone proposes sensible approaches to breaking the long-standing political deadlock. The specific measures to deal with budgetary balance, income inequality, public education, healthcare, and financial reform should provide a guide for constructive debate as we choose our next president.”
— Paul A. Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987)
Current Chairman of the Volcker Alliance

At a time of political gridlock in Washington, Americans are eager to end infighting and find solutions.

FIVE EASY THESES: Commonsense Solutions to America’s Greatest Economic Challenges, is an urgent call to action to all of us and our leaders to find solutions to five of our most pressing economic and domestic public policy issues: Fiscal Balance, Inequality, Healthcare, Education, and Financial Sector Reform.

Highly praised by leading authorities in each of these five areas and from both sides of the political aisle including Paul Volcker, Edward O. Wilson, Atul Gawande, FIVE EASY THESES relies on straightforward common sense to liberate the public discourse from partisanship and focus it instead on what might really work to solve the economic problems most directly impacting our lives today.
James M. Stone, the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive of the Plymouth Rock Group of companies, former Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner, and former Chairman and Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, argues that it is time for the electorate to challenge the deadlocked status quo and pressure our political leaders in both parties to stop running away from the issues that really matter.

This book is not just for policy wonks but for anyone worried about their rising healthcare costs, the future of their Social Security and Medicare, the effectiveness of education to prepare their children, and how their prosperity might be affected by income inequality and recklessness in the financial sector.
In FIVE EASY THESES, Stone presents a researched analysis of each sector, offering the context needed to understand what got us to where we are, and proposes the potential solutions that will lead us on the right path. These include:

Fiscal Balance
Stone identifies the worst loopholes and sources of waste in today’s tax policy. The federal government should stop making commitments it has no plans to fund. This problem is most severe with respect to our Social Security promises to the next generation of elders. Congress should cease to offer expensive tax breaks that serve no useful policy purpose. The most wastefully extravagant of these tax expenditures is the deduction available to corporations and individuals for payment of interest on their debts. The Social Security system can be secured by ceasing to automatically expand benefits as life expectancies rise. The corporate and personal interest deduction should be flat-out repealed.

Income Inequality
The greatest threat to traditional American values today is the drift toward an aristocracy of wealth. It is harmful that the fruits of our recent economic growth have virtually all been taken by top 0.1% of the population. To remedy this, and restore the economic strength of the middle class while maintaining a safety net for those in need, we must take steps that may sound as radical as the income tax sounded a hundred years ago but are just as necessary. We must begin to tax unrealized gains resulting from investment asset appreciation, and we must stop cold the leakage from inheritance taxes brought about through trust loopholes and excessive exemptions.

Education
Our system of grade school education and our private-public balance of higher education are in need of major repair. The grade school curriculum is poorly serving those who will not be earning a four-year college degree. The costs of college are undermining the benefits of higher education to all but the wealthiest students. Our nation ranks no better than mediocre by international measures of educational attainment. A universal national service program would offer a powerful set of solutions to the educational shortcomings, while providing other social and economic benefits as an extra dividend. The book lays out an 8-point plan and a bold post-secondary program to make education more effective and affordable for both college-bound and work-bound young people.

Healthcare
The United States spends about 18 percent of its GNP on healthcare, while the rest of the developed world averages a little more than half that. Yet, our people experience worse health outcomes than those in other nations. The extra spending exceeds a trillion dollars a year, a vast amount you could put to many better uses. Only within the framework of a single-payer, single-negotiator, single-regulator system can we provide rationality, sensible incentives, and cost-effective administration. The gain to the public of a trillion dollars a year would be the largest available boost to the economy within reach today, and proper incentives would improve America’s health outcomes

Financial Sector Reform
With first-hand experience as a financial regulator, Stone shows how an out-of-control gargantuan banking, derivatives and hedge fund sector can be curbed to make finance serve, rather than dominate, America’s real commercial sector. The emergence of unmanageably large and complex banks whose failures would bring all of us down, the creation of hedge funds whose security and business practices remain beyond regulatory purview, and the rise of derivatives traded with nearly unlimited leverage, all contribute to the financial sector’s enrichment at the rest of the economy’s expense. The overall scale of the financial sector is out of proportion to its economic value. The current situation is at least as hazardous as before the crash. Banks should be downsized. Hedge funds should cease to exist outside of the successful and safe regulatory structure applied to mutual funds. And derivatives trading should be backed up by reserves that would reduce its volume to a tiny fraction of today’s unimaginable numbers.

While these theses are by no means “easy”, together they have the potential to break through political paralysis and transform the future prospects of America’s next generation. FIVE EASY THESES is the book that is needed now to inspire people on both sides of the political aisle to demand the solutions and leadership that it will take to set our country on the right path.

About the Author:
James (Jim) Stone is the founder, Chairman and CEO of the Plymouth Rock group of companies. He began his career by teaching economics, after earning a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard. He served as Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner from 1975 to 1979 and then as Chairman and Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission for four years. On his return from Washington, he founded Plymouth Rock.

He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Boston Globe, and currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Global Post, a web-based international news service. Jim is a member of the Board of Directors of two non-profit organizations, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Management Sciences for Health, for which he serves as Chairman of the Board. Jim has served as an advisor to governments in three developing countries, and he has authored a book and numerous articles on insurance and finance. Jim is married, the father of two children, and lives in Boston.

FIVE EASY THESES
Commonsense Solutions to America’s Greatest Economic Challenges
By James M. Stone

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See Some of the Hottest Custom Concept and
Performance Cars That Will Be On Display at the Show

Plus James Bell from GM Talks about Rubbing Elbows With NASCAR Royalty Jeff Gordon, Ron Fellows and Ricky Carmichael at the Star Studded Chevy Party

The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show is undoubtedly one of the coolest, hippest and cutting edge events of the auto industry. Filled with the hottest accessories and latest automotive innovations, this is the place to get the info on what will be hot on the highway next year. SEMA also draws the industry’s brightest minds – some of the racing industry’s most popular drivers to one place, the Las Vegas Convention Center, where they certainly have a roaring good time!

In interviews on Tuesday, November 5, 2013, James Bell will be giving everyone a sneak peak at some of the items being unveiled and fill us in on the details from the big party at the Palazzo Hotel the night before where racecars drivers like Jeff Gordon, Ron Fellows, Ricky Carmichael and others celebrities were on hand to kick off the auto industry’s fashion week.

In this case, what happens in Vegas, doesn’t stay in Vegas – it’s bound for every street and highway in the US and beyond. More information is available at media.gm.com

Suggested Questions:
• Why is SEMA such an exciting show?
• What goes on there behind the scenes?
• Who did you see at last night’s party?
• What’s hot for the coming year?

About the Talent:

James Bell, Head of Consumer Affairs, General Motors

With over 16 years of experience, James Bell is a nationally recognized and authoritative resource within the automotive industry. During his tenure, James has diligently analyzed and effectively communicated automotive data and research to multiple constituencies, including the national and international media, automotive manufacturers, dealers, and the every-day car shopper. His multifaceted experience has led to a unique perspective on the industry that easily crosses over the boundaries between the general consumer and passionate enthusiast. Prior to joining GM, James was Vice President of Corporate Communications and Executive Market Analyst for Kelley Blue Book. In this role, he was charged with promoting the KBB.com brand and driving traffic to its award-winning Web site. Bell also oversaw the company’s consumer communication efforts through social media and viral marketing platforms. In addition, he served as the company’s chief spokesperson with the media and has been featured on national television news shows on CNN, Fox News, CBS, NBC, national and local talk radio, as well as within the pages of both respected newspapers and automotive trade publications. James also served on the board of directors for the Motor Press Guild in Los Angeles and was President of this revered organization, the largest of its kind in the U.S., in 2010 and 2011. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Communications and Political Science from California State University.

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Since July 4, 1998, GNP is offering a new media concept for news and entertainment about people making a positive, constructive impact on society, no matter what the obstacles are. UP-BEAT, NOT BEAT-UP, SOLUTIONS ORIENTATED MEDIA.

Good News Planet (GNP) was established by Milestone Broadcast Corporation, est. 1985 and  is a rapidly growing media lifestyle publications covering and distributing news and entertainment from domestic and international sources related to health, science, business, international relations, and multi-cultural and niche community interests. GNP publishes and syndicates content on-line, on-air, and in print under the Good News Planet Brand. We are one of the first news, entertainment and events media to combine the article with the audio interview and continuously to develop innovations in news media, especially on the WEB. .

Approximately 80 percent of GNP articles and attached audio interviews are made available forever on demand, from the internet, at all times. GNP’s current story archive contains over 5,000 audio, video and text stories and events, indexed by most major search engines. Most stories are indexed by major search engines within four weeks.

Serving a niche but extraordinarily influential community with excellent brand equity that ranges from international lawmakers and industry shakers, GNP is a powerful community of people and organizations who have contributed stories to the site. Currently, 100,000 unique visitors from this audience generate 1 million hits each month. . The audience is made up of a highly-influential, professional persons concerned about making a positive impact on the World and future generations through media. They collaborate with Good News Planet, via their agencies and in person at Good News Planet events, to network with individuals who share their interest in leveraging the power of media to make a positive impact on society.

ABOUT  THE GOOD NEWS PLANET BRAND.   This is the international place of record to build good will for brands by ‘walking the talk’. GNP IS A HUMANITARIAN AGGREGATOR OF CONTENT. We encourage you to make your mark to investors, lawmakers, and citizens from around the World as a sponsor and supporter of the publication, and let the World know that you support people and organizations that care about doing good things for the benefit of all kinds of communities. We offer the following information to those seeking to place content on Good News Broadcast:

‘Good News’ Brand Essence: A place where people can participate in news media in positive ways.

‘Good News’ Brand Promise: We promise to provide voice, in audio, video and text media, and any emerging technology platform that helps to fairly present constructive, unbiased, newsworthy information to all audiences – without preference to any single political, religious, business or social agenda. ‘Good News’ Brand Tone and Manner: Positive, life-affirming, thought-provoking, and up-beat. Content Example One: We would cover news about an earthquake just like any other news organization. To make the story ‘Good News’, we cover multi-national relief efforts, provide unedited audio and video interviews for download, and offer information how our audience can participate in those efforts.

Another content example: We would cover the introduction of a new medicine for heart attack patients. Because Good News is defined as presenting the story without preference to any business agenda over another, we merely present the product as ‘a solution’, but not ‘the best solution’. We then give the audience resources to do their own research and supply the various media resources we can to help audiences make a decision about the story.

Programming for GNB comes from leading independent or network producers throughout the world who care about the power of and responsibility of using media to create a positive dialogue within audience communities.

In addition, inspirational writers, lecturers, celebrities and world figures will be part of the “team”. But the team is larger than that, as it requests you to become part of it and help create the content.

Bottom Line: We are offering our archives to serve as a resource for people making a positive impact on society through news, entertainment and events, no matter what the obstacles are.

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