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International Yoga Day 2022

Austin Tang — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 20:12:29 +0000

INVITATION

GOPIO Chapters (Manhattan, New York, Central New York, Central Jersey, Edison and Connecticut) and the Consulate General of India invite you to a Zoom session of HAPPY LIFE YOGA, virtually to celebrate International Yoga Day 2022. Register Today at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwuf-uqpjkiEtz8Tmadht1zLoRCAPLhxNmi. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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You Got This, Kid! Leadership Foundation by Chuck Saia

Austin Tang — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 17:57:00 +0000

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You Got This, Kid! Leadership Foundation
P: 267-405-1455
E: yougotthiskid2021@gmail.com
W: www.yougotthiskid.org

Hamden, Connecticut: What began with a book about helping young professionals navigate the ‘corporate jungle’ has evolved into a foundation that develops young leaders through training, immersive learning, self-discovery, and philanthropy.
While leadership development is at the core of the You Got This, Kid! (YGTK!) Leadership Foundation, YGTK!’s mission is to support those affected by Lupus and promote environmental sustainability in our local communities.

YGTK! Pillars

● Leadership Development: Provide leadership training and immersive learning experiences within universities and corporations internationally

● Advance Lupus Research and Awareness: Lead philanthropic efforts and provide support and resources for those affected by Lupus

● Environmental Sustainability: Our focus centers around removing toxins from our communities and environment, as they have a particularly harmful effect on those living with autoimmune diseases

The YGTK! Leadership Foundation’s programmatic and philanthropic efforts have expanded nationwide. Donations that are made to YGTK! go to YGTK!/the Saia Family Fund at Quinnipiac University.

Our foundation’s influence has only just begun, and we welcome you to join us in our journey to develop young professionals, support those affected by Lupus, and promote environmental sustainability in our local communities to make for a brighter tomorrow.

Donations
The foundation actively generates charitable funds through YOU GOT THIS KID! Words of Advice for Young Leaders book sales, merchandise sales, speaking engagements, and direct donations to support each of its pillars through Quinnipiac University.

Chuck Saia Bio
Chuck is a Senior Partner at Deloitte, the Author of You Got This, Kid! Words of Advice for Young Leaders, a Board Member at Quinnipiac University, an angel investor, the former Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte’s Risk and Financial Advisory business, former Chief Risk, Reputation and Regulatory Affairs Officer of Deloitte, a philanthropist focused on Lupus and environmental sustainability and a frequent author and contributor to publications, including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and Fortune.

Karin Wagner Bio
Karin has led marketing acquisition programs for various organizations, including CaringBridge.org and UnitedHealthcare. She now owns a marketing agency specializing in lead generation, based in St. Paul, Minnesota where she lives with her husband and two boys. Karin has been surviving and thriving with Lupus for 13 years and works to help others with autoimmune diseases live a higher quality of life. Karin strives to expand treatment options for people with Lupus and eventually reach a cure.

Alexia Papavasilakis
Alexia is a New York-based artist who, in Spring 2021, will graduate from Parsons School of Design with a BFA in Illustration. “You Got This, Kid!: Words of Advice for Young Leaders” is the first full-length book that her work has been published in, but over the past couple of years she has done editorial for Slate Magazine and Bias Journal of Dress Practice. Aside from that Alexia works on commission and occasionally displays her work in gallery spaces across New York City. Sustainability is an issue that always struck her interest, so from being a conscious consumer to being a conscious producer of art, she is willing to lend a hand to the environment in any way she can.

About YOU GOT THIS, KID!
Words of Advice for Young Leaders
You Got This, Kid! challenges young leaders to find the secret sauce that will help them carve their unique path through the corporate jungle. Drawing on 30 years of experience, author Chuck Saia makes seven unforgettable analogies between the business world and the animal kingdom, from developing an armadillo’s thick skin to spotting scorpion-like managers to building a team of dolphins. All proceeds from You Got This, Kid! Words of Advice for Young Leaders will be donated to the Saia Family Fund at Quinnipiac University benefiting Lupus research and environmental sustainability efforts. The book

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Tri-State Law Enforcement Foundation Inc benefit awards those doing good for our community, Videos and Podcasts are Here…

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Our Mission
The Tri-State Law Enforcement Foundation Inc. works closely with the top law enforcement officials in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Our organization provides support to children of fallen enforcement officials through scholarship grants and provides individual achievement awards to fraternal, religious, and ethnic organizations. Through the generous support of our funders, we are able to accomplish our mission as follows:

To provide assistance to law enforcement officials and their families when such needs arise

To provide scholarships and assistance to surviving widows and children of law enforcement officials killed in the line of duty

To provide graduate scholarships to law enforcement officers selected by their agency based upon achievement and performance in the line of duty

To foster and encourage cooperation among law enforcement agencies, affiliated organizations, the business community, and the public, by sponsoring annual events

To give recognition to specific law enforcement agencies and individuals for outstanding performance of duty

To give recognition awards to law enforcement officials and individuals who have had outstanding careers in law enforcement and service to their community and country

To recognize individual citizens who have supported law enforcement

To engage in activities and programs to improve the morale of law enforcement officers

To foster each of the above purposes and any and all related activities consistent with the above.

https://www.tristatelawenforcement.org/our-mission/

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ARCHDUCHESS ISABELLA MARIA LUISA VON HABSBURG-LOTHRINGEN TO DEBUT AT THE INTERNATIONAL DEBUTANTE BALL

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Archduchess Isabella Maria Luisa von Habsburg-Lothringen, daughter of Archduke Geza and Archduchess Elizabeth von Habsburg-Lothringen of Austria, will make her debut at The 60th International Debutante Ball on Monday, December 29th, 2014, in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.

Isabella is a student at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. As a high school student at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, Connecticut, she was the Senior Editor and Executive Director for the Broadcast Journalism Course and received many journalism awards including Finalist at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth in Seattle, Washington, in 2013 for I Love You Bear. She also created four public service announcements, and two documentaries: Natural Disasters: Haiti and Striving For Greatness: Twin Lakes Farm. She is fluent in French and received the La Comtesse Nathalie d’Esterno Prix d’Excellence 2014 for excellence in French Studies. In addition, she has won many equitation awards including Champion, Saugerties Children’s Hunter Division, Saugerties, New York, and Top Ten, Low Hunter Division and Top Five Children’s Equitation Division, Fairfield-Westchester Professional Horseman’s Association. Isabella was also the President of the Cleats for Kids Club at Convent of the Sacred Heart and a volunteer at the Padre Pio Shelter, a shelter for homeless men in the Bronx.

Miss Isabella Maria Luisa von Habsburg-Lothringen’s father, the Archduke Geza von Habsburg-Lothringen is an internationally renowned author and leading authority on Fabergé. He is the son of Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria and Princess Anna of Saxony, the grandson of King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony and the great-great grandson of Emperor Franz-Joseph I of Austria. Her mother, the Archduchess Elizabeth von Habsburg-Lothringen is the Managing Director of the Winston Art Group. Her great-grandfather, Albert Kunstadter, founded Formfit, and her family runs the Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation, a New York-based philanthropy.
The International Debutante Ball, founded in 1954, is considered one of the most prestigious debutante presentations. Young women of distinction from all over the country and around the globe are brought together at the ball and the surrounding parties with daughters of Diplomats, titled Europeans, Ambassadors, Governors and Presidents of the United States. Over the years, the ball has benefited numerous charities through the International Debutante Ball Foundation, including one of its major beneficiaries, the Soldiers’, Sailors’, Marines’, Coast Guard and Airmen’s Club of New York, which provides a home away from home for the men and women of our Armed Services

FORTY-SIX WOMEN MADE THEIR BOWS AT THE 60th INTERNATIONAL DEBUTANTE BALL Monday, December 29th, 2014

Forty-six women of distinction from the United States and abroad made their bows to society at the 60th Anniversary of the International Debutante Ball. The debutantes represented Austria, China, England, Hong Kong, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine and twelve American states. Each debutante was accompanied by her own escort in white tie and tails, and a military cadet who carried the flag of the country or state which she represented. This year there were five sets of sisters.

Sponsored by Piaget, and The Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation the Ball benefits go to The International Debutante Ball Foundation which supports numerous charities. The primary charity is The Soldiers’, Sailors’, Marines’, Coast Guard and Airmen’s Club, a home away from home for the military and their families. Partial support will go to the American Ballet Theater, Friends of Versailles and the American Theater Wing among others.

The ball was founded in 1954 by Beatrice Dinsmore Joyce as a charity and the tradition continues today directed by her niece, Mrs. Gregory Scott Hedberg, Director and General Chairman. This year the Honorary Chairmen were Ms. Anne Eisenhower, Mrs. David R. Hamilton and Ms. Julia Irene Kauffman and Ball Chairmen included Mrs. Andrew E. Beer, Mrs. Spencer Neville Brown, Mrs. Ryland E.D. Chase, Mrs. D. David Eisenhower, Ms. Susan Eisenhower, and Mrs. William Dean McNaughton

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N.J. Burkett joined the Eyewitness News team in 1989

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and is currently the President of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, NY (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards). His distinctive storytelling, production skills and award-winning international reporting have added a unique dimension to WABC-TV’s coverage of metropolitan New York. In September 2001, after the two airliners struck the World Trade Center, N.J. and WABC-TV photographer Marty Glembotzky narrowly escaped the subsequent collapse of the South Tower. Their work was later seen on television news broadcasts across the nation and around the world. He spent nearly three months covering the war in Iraq. In the metropolitan area, he has reported on everything from crime, and state and local politics, to commercial plane crashes, hurricanes, blizzards, wildfires and Nor’easters on Long Island. N.J.’s work has been honored with several of the most prestigious awards in American television news, including the coveted Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Association. He shared the George Foster Peabody Award with his colleagues at ABC News for his reporting on the September 11th attacks. In March 2003, N.J. was awarded the Emmy® for Outstanding On-Camera Achievement from the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, his third Emmy®. His full name is Newton Jones Burkett, and he grew-up in New Jersey. Before joining Eyewitness News, N.J. was a correspondent for WFSB-TV.

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12-12-12 The Movie – Good News experienced the movie and the event.

admin — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:27:13 +0000

“121212 was a perfect event and the movie captures the essence of the intention of the event, people helping people when there is a need, in this case the Sandy Crisis. Thank you 121212, Paul Sladkus, Founder, www.goodnewsplanet.com .” Go to www.robinhood.org to donate for those who are still suffering from Sandy. www.121212concert.org

Release Date: Friday, November 15, 2013 in New York and Los Angeles

Synopsis: On December 12, 2012, some of entertainment’s most iconic names came together at Madison Square Garden for a historic concert to benefit the victims of Hurricane Sandy. 12-12-12 captures the unprecedented gathering of talent who turned up on stage and behind the scenes to raise over $50 million in one night for the Robin Hood Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund to support organizations helping victims in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The evening’s Emmy Award-nominated telecast included performances by some of the music industry’s legendary acts: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Roger Waters, Eddie Vedder, Chris Martin, Michael Stipe, Adam Sandler, Eric Clapton, Jon Bon Jovi, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Kanye West and included involvement from entertainment and media elite such as Billy Crystal, Susan Sarandon, Paul Shaffer, Brian Williams, Kristen Stewart, Jon Stewart, Chelsea Clinton, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Sean Combs, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi, Chris Rock, Seth Meyers, Jake Gyllenhaal, Blake Lively, Katie Holmes, Jason Sudekis, Jamie Foxx, Quentin Tarantino, and Christoph Waltz on this historic night.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/121212concert
Twitter: @121212Concert

About the Robin Hood Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund

Founded in 1988, Robin Hood is New York’s largest poverty-fighting organization, and has focused on finding, funding and creating programs and schools that generate meaningful results for families in New York’s poorest neighborhoods. The Robin Hood Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund has granted over $71 million to organizations throughout New York’s tri-state region that help individuals and families recover from the devastating effects of the storm. In addition, Robin Hood’s board of directors pays all administrative, fundraising and evaluation costs, so 100% of your donation goes directly to organizations helping victims of Hurricane Sandy rebuild their lives.

Distributor: The Weinstein Company

Directed by: Amir Bar-Lev and Charlie Lightening

Produced by: Meghan O’Hara

Executive Produced by: Paul McCartney and Scott Rodger

Sound: Tom Efinger

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Norman Lear, one of Good News Media Heroe’s speaks to us at the International Emmys

editor — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:57:57 +0000

where he was given and award.
Norman Milton Lear (born July 27, 1922) is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times and Maude. As a political activist, he founded the advocacy organization People For the American Way in 1981 and has supported First Amendment rights and progressive causes. He was also the founder of AVCO Embassy Pictures (Before it was defunct at 1986)
Early life
Lear was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Jeanette (née Seicol) and Herman Lear, who worked in sales.[1] He grew up in a Jewish home and had a Bar Mitzvah.[2] Lear went to high school in Hartford, Connecticut and subsequently attended Emerson College in Boston, but dropped out in 1942 to join the United States Army Air Forces. During World War II, he served in the Mediterranean Theater as a radio operator/gunner on Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers with the 772nd Bombardment Squadron, 463rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) of the Fifteenth Air Force. He flew 52 combat missions, for which he was awarded the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters. Lear was discharged from the Army in 1945. He and his fellow World War II crew members are featured in the book “Crew Umbriago” by Daniel P.Carroll (tail gunner), and also in another book: 772nd Bomb Squadron: The Men, The Memories by Turner Publishing Company.
Career
In 1954, Lear was enlisted as a writer hoping to salvage the new Celeste Holm CBS sitcom, Honestly, Celeste!, but the program was canceled after eight episodes. During this time, he became the producer of NBC’s The Martha Raye Show, after Nat Hiken left as the series director. In 1959, Lear created his first television series starring Henry Fonda, a half-hour western for Revue Studios called The Deputy.
1970s
Starting out as a comedy writer, then a film director (he wrote and produced the 1967 film Divorce American Style and directed the 1971 film Cold Turkey, both starring Dick Van Dyke), Lear tried to sell a concept for a sitcom about a blue-collar American family to ABC. They rejected the show after two pilots were filmed. After a third pilot was shot, CBS picked up the show, known as All in the Family. It premiered January 12, 1971 to disappointing ratings, but it took home several Emmy Awards that year, including Outstanding Comedy Series. The show did very well in summer reruns, and it flourished in the 1971-1972 season, becoming the top-rated show on TV for the next five years. After falling from the #1 spot, All in the Family still remained in the top ten, well after it transitioned into Archie Bunker’s Place. The show was based on the British sitcom Til Death Us Do Part, about an irascible working-class Tory and his Socialist son-in-law.
Lear’s second big TV hit was also based on a British sitcom, Steptoe and Son, about a west London junk dealer and his son. Lear changed the setting to the Watts section of Los Angeles and the characters to African-Americans, and the NBC show Sanford and Son was an instant hit. Numerous hit shows followed thereafter, including Maude (the lead character of which was reportedly based on Lear’s then-wife Frances), The Jeffersons (both spin-offs of All in the Family), One Day at a Time and Good Times.
What most of the Lear sitcoms had in common was that they were character-driven, had sets that more resembled stage plays than common sitcom sets, were shot on videotape in place of film, used a live studio audience, and most importantly dealt with the social and political issues of the day. Ironically, although Lear’s shows are often considered somewhat autobiographical and closely identified with his personal experiences, his early hits were actually all adapted from someone else’s creations: the two aforementioned British adaptations and Maude, while reputedly based on Lear’s wife, was actually the brainchild of series producer Charlie Hauck. Bud Yorkin was also the major force behind All in the Family, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, and countless others.
Lear’s longtime producing partner was Bud Yorkin, who created/produced All in the Family, Sanford and Son, What’s Happening!!, Maude, and The Jeffersons, split with Lear in 1975. He started a production company with writer/producers Saul Turteltaub and Bernie Orenstein, but they had only two shows that ran more than a year: What’s Happening!! and Carter Country. The Lear/Yorkin company was known as Tandem Productions. Lear and talent agent Jerry Perenchio founded T.A.T. Communications (T.A.T. stood for “Tuchus Affen Tisch”, which is Yiddish for “Putting one’s butt on the line”) in 1974, which co-existed with Tandem Productions and was often referred to in periodicals as Tandem/T.A.T. The Lear organization was one of the most successful independent TV producers of the 1970s. TAT produced the influential and award-winning 1981 film The Wave about Ron Jones’ social experiment.
Lear also developed the cult favorite TV series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (MH MH) which was turned down by the networks as “too controversial” and placed it into first run syndication with 128 stations in January 1976. A year later, Lear added another program into first run syndication along with MH MH, All That Glitters. He planned in 1977 to offer three hours of prime time Saturday programming directly, with the stations placing his production company in the position of an occasional network.[3] Lear himself stepped down as production supervisor on his shows in 1978 to work on a film dealing with his concerns about the growing influence of radical right-wing evangelists. The film was never fully developed, but the process stimulated his long engagement in political activism.
1980s
In 1982, the company bought out Avco Embassy Pictures from Avco Financial Corporation, and the Avco part of its name was dropped. Embassy Pictures was led by Alan Horn and Martin Schaeffer, later co-founders of Castle Rock Entertainment with Rob Reiner. In 1985, Lear sold all his film and television production holdings to Columbia Pictures (then owned by the Coca-Cola Company) which acquired Embassy’s film and television division (which included Embassy’s in-house television productions and the television rights to the Embassy theatrical library) for $485 million in shares of The Coca-Cola Company. Lear and his longtime partner Jerry Perenchio split the net proceeds (about $250 mm). Coke later sold the film division to Dino De Laurentiis and the home video arm to Nelson entertainment (led by Barry Spikings).
The brand Tandem Productions was abandoned in 1986 with the cancellation of Diff’rent Strokes, and Embassy ceased to exist as a single entity in late 1987, having been split into different components owned by different entities. The Embassy TV division became ELP Communications in 1988, but shows originally produced by Embassy were now under the Columbia Pictures Television banner from 1988–1994 and the Columbia TriStar Television banner from 1994-1998.
Lear is unofficially credited with giving Rob Reiner, son of Carl Reiner (and a star of All in the Family) his start as a director by financing the mockumentary This is Spinal Tap. Lear’s Act III Communications, founded in 1986 with Tom McGrath as President, produced several notable films, including Rob Reiner’s next three films: The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, and The Princess Bride, as well as Fried Green Tomatoes.
1990s
Lear attempted to return to TV production in the 1990s with the shows Sunday Dinner, The Powers That Be, and 704 Hauser, the last one putting a different family in the house from All in the Family. None of the series proved successful, despite critical acclaim.
Today, Lear’s TV library is owned by Sony Pictures Television.
However, Lear was successful as a businessman, especially with his leveraged acquisition vehicle Act III Communications, founded in 1986 and led initially by Tom McGrath (who met Lear while negotiating on behalf of Coca-Cola the acquisition of Lear’s old company) and later by Hal Gaba, a former Embassy executive. This included: Act III Theatres, sold to KKR in 1997 at what is to this day considered a record premium; Act III Broadcasting, sold to Abry Communications; and Act III Publishing, sold to PriMedia. Lear is also the owner of Concord Records and in 2005 consummated a 50% interest in the film library and production assets of Village Roadshow Productions Pty Ltd.
In 1997, Lear teamed up with Jim George to produce the Kids’ WB cartoon series, Channel Umptee-3. It premiered on Kids WB’s Saturday morning lineup on October 25, 1997. The cartoon made television history, as it was the first to meet the Federal Communications Commission’s then-new educational/informal programming requirements. Like Lear’s other television works, it received positive reviews, but ratings were low due to the network’s focus on their core high-rated programming at the time. A time switch from a concrete Saturday schedule to a revolving Friday timeslot caused the show’s ratings to dip even more, and it was eventually canceled after one season. September 4, 1998 marked the last airing of Umptee-3 on the WB.
2000s
In 2003, Lear made an appearance on South Park during the “I’m a Little Bit Country” episode, providing the voice of Benjamin Franklin. He also served as a consultant on the episodes “I’m a Little Bit Country” and “Cancelled”. Lear has attended a South Park writers’ retreat,[4] and served as the officiant at Trey Parker’s wedding.[5] Awards
In 1967, Lear was nominated for an Academy Award for writing Divorce, American Style. Lear was among the first seven television pioneers inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1984. He received four Emmy Awards (two in 1971, and one each in 1972 and 1973) and a Peabody Award in 1978. He received the Humanist Arts Award from the American Humanist Association in 1977. His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 6615 Hollywood Boulevard.
In 1999, President Bill Clinton awarded the National Medal of Arts to Lear, noting that “Norman Lear has held up a mirror to American society and changed the way we look at it.” Also in 1999, he and Bud Yorkin received the Women in Film Lucy Award in recognition of excellence and innovation in creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television.[6] Political and cultural activities
In addition to his success as a TV producer and businessman, Lear is an outspoken supporter of First Amendment and liberal causes. The only time that he did not support the Democratic candidate for President was in 1980:[7] he voted for John Anderson because he considered the Carter administration to be “a complete disaster”.[7] In 1981, Lear founded People For the American Way, a civil liberties advocacy organization. People For ran several advertising campaigns opposing the interjection of religion in politics. In 1987, People For campaigned against Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States. The organization is still active.
In 1989, Lear founded the Business Enterprise Trust, an educational program that used annual awards, business school case studies, and videos to spotlight exemplary social innovations in American business. In 2000, he provided an endowment for a multidisciplinary research and public policy center that explored the convergence of entertainment, commerce, and society at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication. It was later named the Norman Lear Center in recognition.
Lear serves on the National Advisory Board of the Young Storytellers Foundation. He has written articles for The Huffington Post.
Lear is a trustee emeritus at The Paley Center for Media.[8] Declaration of Independence
In 2001, Lear and his wife, Lyn, purchased a Dunlap broadside—one of the first published copies of the United States Declaration of Independence—for $8.1 million. Not a document collector, Lear said in a press release and on the Today show that his intent was to tour the document around the United States so that the country could experience its “birth certificate” firsthand.[9] Through the end of 2004, the document traveled throughout the United States in the Declaration of Independence Roadtrip, which Lear organized, visiting several presidential libraries, dozens of museums, as well as the 2002 Olympics, Super Bowl XXXVI, and the Live 8 concert in Philadelphia.
Lear and Rob Reiner produced a filmed, dramatic reading of the Declaration of Independence—the last project filmed by famed cinematographer Conrad Hall—on July 4, 2001, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. The film, introduced by Morgan Freeman, features Kathy Bates, Benicio del Toro, Michael Douglas, Mel Gibson, Whoopi Goldberg, Graham Greene, Ming-Na, Edward Norton, Winona Ryder, Kevin Spacey, and Renée Zellweger as readers. The film was directed by Arvin Brown and scored by John Williams.
Declare Yourself
In 2004, Lear established Declare Yourself, a national nonpartisan, nonprofit campaign created to empower and encourage eligible 18-29 year-olds in America to register and vote. Since then, it has registered almost 4 million young people and contributed significantly to the unprecedented turnout of young voters.
Born Again American
As part of the ongoing drive to promote active and thoughtful citizenship, Lear premiered BornAgainAmerican.org at the Presidential Inauguration in 2009. The BornAgainAmerican campaign includes a speciall

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How to Design Your Home with Colors from Your Heart!

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COLOR YOUR LIFE (2007; St. Martins Griffin) is a revolutionary new guide to creating beautiful colors inspired by your own personality. A syndicated columnist and popular lecturer, Elaine Ryan has helped thousands of ordinary people seeking harmony between their homes and their selves. Adding color to your life is all about discovering the colors that resonate with you personally. Forget the experts and listen to yourself, Ryan says: you can discover your innate relationship with color by reviving your memories of color, and identifying your associations with color. Too often people end up defaulting to white and beige in their homes because they are afraid of picking colors that clash or making an expensive mistake that they will regret or grow tired of. To address this common fear, Ryan spent eight years developing her foolproof, patented Color Bars color matching system that takes the anxiety out of combining colors. With Ryans easy to use Color Bars, anyone can learn how to become a color expert. For more information, visit http://elaineryan.com http://elaineryan.com More about Elaine Ryan: Elaine Ryan, an interior designer for more than thirty years, is the cofounder of the Phoenix chapter of the International Interior Designers Association and is the inventor of the patented Color Bars Color Matching System. She has been featured in major publications, including The New York Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times for her expertise on color in the interior environment. She lives in Connecticut. https://videos.whiteblox.com/gnb/secure/player.aspx?sid=33100

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