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There is something extraordinary about watching the world gather in the center of the world.

Every April 22, Earth Day transforms Times Square into a global green stage — a place where music, environmental awareness, and collective responsibility collide in the most powerful way. Under the leadership of producer and humanitarian Paul Sladkus, the flashing lights of Broadway become a beacon for sustainability, hope, and action.

Artists perform. Activists speak. Screens that usually sell products instead amplify purpose. In a place known for movement, Earth Day asks us to think about preservation — the air we breathe, the oceans we depend on, the planet we call home. It is celebration with conscience. Energy with intention.

And then, in September, something even more profound happens.

Pause for Peace.

Also orchestrated by Paul Sladkus in Times Square, this gathering shifts the frequency from environmental awareness to global unity. Inspired by the spirit of international peace initiatives, the event invites the world — quite literally — to stop for a moment. In the middle of honking taxis, tourist chatter, and digital billboards, thousands come together to breathe… reflect… and stand for harmony.

It is a rare and moving sight: Times Square in intentional stillness.

A symbolic heartbeat for humanity.

Music once again plays a central role — because music crosses borders faster than politics ever could. Performers lend their voices to messages of compassion, non-violence, and understanding. Peace ambassadors, community leaders, and artists stand shoulder to shoulder, reminding us that unity is not naïve — it is necessary.

Earth Day calls us to protect our planet.

Pause for Peace calls us to protect each other.

Together, these Times Square gatherings reflect Paul Sladkus’ belief that entertainment can be transformational. That stages can become platforms. That crowds can become communities.

In the very place where the world meets, he creates moments where the world listens.

And for a few luminous hours each year, Times Square doesn’t just shine.

It heals.

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World Wide VIRTUAL Love 2 The World Broadcast

PRESS & FRIENDS REVIEW BROADCAST GO TO:

4/20/21 – New York, NY for Immediate Release: Contact Paul Sladkus 917 687 1790

WHEN: April 22, 2021 7pm est (When we ring the heroes bells) to 9pm est. on www.goodnewsplanet.TV and other worldwide channels. Download iradios.ca app in Google Play Store or I Store…Love 2 the World ITV for the whole Video broadcast or Live Radio for Audio only.

WHAT: A well-known group of media professionals are creating a special 24 hour broadcast for Earth Day. . The event will be followed up with another 24 hour broadcast from Niagara Falls on June 21st, on World Music Day and a Love Channel Announcement. Milestone Broadcast Corporation (MBC), is producing the New York special for the nonprofit Good News Corporation (GNC). Estimated Viewership, through traditional media, new technologies and social platforms to be in the billions.

WHO: Content for the broadcast will come from MBC’s (www.goodnewsplanet.TV), (www.goodnewsbroadcast.com) and GNC’s Peace Day Party (www.peacedayparty.org), as well as their movie, www.woodstockforever.org. More than ever do we need Peace & Love in the World, 193 Countries in the United Nations declared September 21 as the International Day of Peace… Cease Fire. McKinsey Co. states that 1.6. Billion people are aware of the day. Love for the Earth, is integral to Peace and our broadcasts has featured Earth Content for years, even worked with the UN for World Water Day. Any money raised will go toward charities of the talent, aligned with the Millennial Goals of the UN. .

SHOW PARTICIPANTS – Covid heroes are thanked and respected during the broadcast. Also appearing in the broadcast are people speaking for Peace, Love & HOPE for years: Dionne Warwick starts the Broadcast, Paul Sladkus Hosts, The Preamble sung by Therese Thomason, Michael Douglas, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dr.Jane Goodall, Shakira, Dr. Mehmet Oz, John Lennon/Yoko, Stevie Wonder, Ringo, Robin Williams, Alexandra Pope, Kerri Kasem, Michelle Phillips, FOWPAL, First Lady Matilda Cuomo, England’s National Health System, Tom Foolery, Kayla Peale/Amazon, Ms. Ma, Yue-Sai Kan, Dr..Bernie Siegel, George Goetschel, Nashville Symphony Choir, LiveClimate.com, Patrick Bergin, Chloe Temtchine, David Lynch, Harlem Globetrotters, Claire Diab, Reid Stowe, Katya Grineva, Giorgia Fumanti, Indiggo Twins, nonprofits and more

Additionally, there will be segments from a special movie release for August 2021 that occurred in 1989 for the 20th Anniversary of Woodstock at Times Square, NY with Richie Havens. Woodstock Forever: Peace Love & HOPE capturers that event with superstars/everyday people & heroes of today. www.woodstockforever.org.

Additional Great Talent in the broadcast are: Mario René Padilla Opening Music, Peyo The Horse, Tayna Lawrence McDonalds, Constatine Florist, Museum of Natural History, Kids hugging/kissing, Alexander Pope, Michelle Harris, Kerri Kasem, “Animal Angels”, Paul Josephs, Holmes Stoner, IBM, Franko Richmond Earth Pledge Song, Arcos Cielos Foundation, Avanti Consortium, LiveClimate.com, Mustard’s Retreat (Libby Glover, David Tamulevich), Robert Muller, Alisa Farina Maynard, Al Smith, Rick Ulfik, Juma Sultan & Geraldo Velez From the Original Jimmy Hendrix Band, Papa Guyo & Days of Wild Band , Michael Fitzpatrick, Heroes Thanks, Dame Munni Irone, Dr. Gellini, Steve Killelea, Prince Frederick Von Saxe-Lauenberg, Bill McCarthy, Dr. Hong, Tao-Tze, FOWPAL Anny Peng, Dr. Kazuko Hillyer Tatsumura, Mick Flynn, Mike Lewis, Vietnam Nancy Mikaelian Madey, Woodstock Trailer, Annie, Verizon, Google, Guita Sassoon Closing Music

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The making of a Chinese asset management firm
through Book of Virtues 道德经

Preface
Let dreams take wing

In the past 40 years, a Chinese revolution had been going on in the name of reform and opening up. The result is that a powerful China was born. Not only has China become the second largest world economic power, but China’s soft power is permeating every aspect of Chinese life and has been re-shaping China’s corporations and their cultures. In the 80s and 90s, while China was faltering in its direction forward and growing in all areas through trial and error in the daunting face of Western cultures, technology advancements and management efficiency, today’s China, in its newly found confidence, methodology, wealth, and in its lessons learned, is firm on its principles and directions. Ding Yifeng, a grassroots multi-billion dollar asset management firm is such a company. Instead of being a spinoff of a foreign financial firm that had flocked into China in the past decade, equipped with Western sophisticated financial tools, mathematic modeling and certain glamour, Ding Yifeng is 100% home grown. The tools they use mostly are Chinese wisdoms embodied in the Classics such as Book of Virtues 道德经 (bc. 571)and Book of Changes 易经 (over 5000 years old) and the desires not to yield to personal weaknesses and give in to fear and greed, but persevere through will power and patience instilled in them by the oriental wisdom.
“If you rush, you lose investors’ money. No one has the right to do so,” said Ms Ma Xiaoqiu, President and Co-Founder of Ding Yifeng-the three Chinese characters Ding Yifeng 鼎益丰 stand for prosperity, affluence, and harvest. To Ding Yifeng people, stock market is like a game of confidence and mass psychology play a key role. “Even rocket scientists are causing an avalanche and Occupy Wall Street is a social media phenomenal, let alone us. We are small potatoes and we cannot afford to lose,” said one of the drivers to the author. Mind you, the driver was worth 70 million rmb (10 mil USD) today after investing in the company’s cautiously selected two Hong Kong listed companies.
Ding Yifeng owns four Hong Kong listed companies, one of them-HKStock Code 00612- had the world record performance of 1230% return in 2018 and was recommended by four major world leading index, including MSCI China Index, Hengsheng, Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Four years ago, Ding Yifeng started to buy 612 stocks on the secondary market when the latter were traded 40 cents per share. In two years’ time, it turned from trash to cash. And the stock price soared to 28 HK dollars per share in late November, 2018.
It just didn’t happen overnight. It was planned to win.

Registered on Jan. 1, 2011, with eight staff members, Ding Yifeng took a tiny hotel room in Pengnian Square, Shenzhen Luohu district, that has a view of Hong Kong skyline. First day in the office, President Ma said that one day they would make it to Hong Kong. All eight of them believed it. Maybe, that is what we would call the power of dream? Or power of a story Ms. Ma once read and learned by heart when she was 11 years old. That story was A Foolish Old Man Who Moved the Mountains 愚公移山. Like all the Chinese kids born in the early 1960s, Ms. Ma lost three and half years of elementary education. The schools boarded up for “making the revolution” of accusing one another for being a counter revolutionary. At the age of 11, the revolution was over and it was time to go to school. Ms. Ma, now 11, could not read nor write. What would it matter anyway to place her at 3rd Grade or 4th Grade? Give her an extra year to catch up. The teacher placed Ma at Grade 3.
“The reason I was not kicked out was because I could recite the three Old Articles by Chairman Mao Zedong. I learned them by heart and recited them to my neighbors on the streets: Serve the People 为人民服务; A Foolish Old Man Who Moved the Mountains愚公移山; and Norman Bethune纪念白求恩. These are all very difficult things to do and these heroes did it—to push the comrade out while oneself was buried alive in the coal mine; to move the mountains; and to die for not one’s own country! True, I missed the basic training of how to spell and write, but I learned to always put others in front. That is a valuable lesson, with which we built a billion dollar company.”
That was true. With her partner, Chairman Sui Guangyi and Ding Yifeng people, in under 8 years, they built Ding Yifeng, an asset management firm with 80 billion RMB under management and the investments were strategically made in six major industries, namely, culture, high tech, investment banking, gold, health and tourism.

The story of Ma Xiaoqiu is not only the story of a contemporary Chinese woman CEO, but also the collective carrying capacity of Chinese women entrepreneurs who nurture and succeed. The Ding Yifeng Group, headed by Ma at the helm, is a model in execution. Her recent speech at UN not only reflects the unique Chinese value systems, but a strong personal statement that one’s fate is connected with the fate of the country. Her speech “Chasing the Sun in My Heart” tells a story from a personal dream to a national dream, from a new angle by adding the company data.
It was impressive.
The book is divided into seven parts with a full text of 250 pages + supplementary readings + 35 photos of the milestone years. It tries to tell a true story from a Chinese perspective and from a Western perspective. When faced with the task of learning from others and also from own culture, each of us is faced with the task of listening to the symphony of life with an open heart and an open mind.

Ma Xiaoqiu Dr. Jeannie Jinsheng Yi

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Because of our depth of knowledge and reach in the LGBT market, Flip was brought in to craft a compelling and relevant LGBT campaign for AT&T. The 2013 campaign featured work across digital, social, and traditional platforms in both niche and mainstream publications.

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