seasons Archives - Good News! https://goodnewsplanet.com/tag/seasons/ Life Affirming Good News Tue, 27 Aug 2024 15:17:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://goodnewsplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-Earth-1200-×-1200-px-32x32.png seasons Archives - Good News! https://goodnewsplanet.com/tag/seasons/ 32 32 Back to School Edition 2024 https://goodnewsplanet.com/back-to-school-edition-2024/ Tue, 27 Aug 2024 15:12:20 +0000 https://goodnewsplanet.com/?p=85513 What’s Driving the News: The 2024 back to school season is starting off HOT, and it doesn’t seem to be cooling down any time soon. As students excitedly return to the classroom, schools must balance maintaining a comfortable learning environment in the face of extended warm seasons. Why This Matters: The nation’s schools annually emit as …

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What’s Driving the News: The 2024 back to school season is starting off HOT, and it doesn’t seem to be cooling down any time soon. As students excitedly return to the classroom, schools must balance maintaining a comfortable learning environment in the face of extended warm seasons.

Why This Matters: The nation’s schools annually emit as much carbon as 18 coal plants or 8 million homes, according to an analysis of U.S. Department of Energy data by the advocacy group Generation180. But K-12 schools and district leaders across the country are in the unique position to equip students with the knowledge and preparation for a future shaped by climate change. In addition, they have considerable carbon reduction possibilities being major building owners, transportation managers, and employers. Leveraging the power of schools and their district leaders would simultaneously have significant carbon reductions as well as introduce low carbon alternatives as a norm for students.

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Community solar is a great way for schools to achieve their sustainability goals while also significantly reducing their energy costs. According to Generation180, the amount of solar installed at K-12 schools in the United States has tripled since 2015. Today, over 6 million students attend a solar-powered school, and it is not hard to see why so many school administrators are turning to solar. At the university level, it also creates unique educational opportunities to prepare college students for well-paying jobs in a fast-growing industry, such as learning how to install solar panels. Pivot Energy is currently working with the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Denver (DU) to offset the schools’ electricity consumption with on-campus and off-site net metering solar projects. At DU, the off-site projects will be used for student learning opportunities to advance the clean energy workforce. Mat Elmore, SVP Strategic Accounts at Pivot Energy, can discuss the growing role schools and workforce development have in the clean energy transition.

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]]> 85513 How far and how close is Hollywood to China? Check out the story of Ma Xiaoqiu… https://goodnewsplanet.com/how-far-and-how-close-is-hollywood-to-china-check-out-the-story-of-ma-xiaoqiu/ Mon, 06 Dec 2021 16:06:37 +0000 https://goodnewsplanet.com/?p=75748 By Pacific Finance Hollywood is no stranger to China. Even if you haven’t heard of the highest grossing movies “Titanic” or “Avatar”, haven’t seen kids eyes glued to the screen when “Moana” comes on, or haven’t heard of “Superman” “Hunger Games” “The Expendables” or “Brave Heart”, Or spent time watching the Disney animation version of …

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Hollywood is no stranger to China. Even if you haven’t heard of the highest grossing movies “Titanic” or “Avatar”, haven’t seen kids eyes glued to the screen when “Moana” comes on, or haven’t heard of “Superman” “Hunger Games” “The Expendables” or “Brave Heart”, Or spent time watching the Disney animation version of “Mulan” you must have heard of the Sino-American co-production of “The Flowers Of War”, “The Great Wall” or “The Meg“.

Haven’t seen it? “The Meg” was released simultaneously in the summer of 2018 in mainland China and the United States, and in just three days of release, the box office in mainland China exceeded 300 million yuan; in the United States for three days, it also raked in nearly 200 million dollars! Still haven’t heard of it? When is the last time you’ve been to the movies?

Excellent Sino-American co-production films

Have you heard of “Kung Fu Panda”? The story of a lazy panda who dreams of becoming a kung fu legend. Kung Fu Panda was a global phenomenon: Kung Fu panda was everywhere!

“Kung Fu Panda” ($631 million at the global box office) and “Kung Fu Panda 2” ($665 million at the global box office) have made DreamWorks so much money that the whole world sought for “Kung Fu Panda 3” by a Sino-American co-production! After four years of hard work, “Kung Fu Panda 3” was brought into existence in 2016, earning $400 million at the box office in four days of release and $960 million in its final 30 days, making it the best-selling anime movie in Chinese history ($521 million worldwide).

“Kung Fu Panda” series movie

“Kung Fu Panda 3” set another record as the first ever Sino-American co-produced animated film. The Kung Fu Panda series is the brainchild of DreamWorks CEO Katzenberg and Shanghai Chinese Culture Industry Investment Fund Chairman Li Ruigang. Due to the super strong Chinese behind-the-scenes team, about 1/3 of the entire “Kung Fu Panda 3” film was produced in China.

Another record set by “Kung Fu Panda 3” is the large number of Chinese elements, such as jade and the creation of the incredibly beautiful and verdant Qingcheng Mountain in Sichuan, Po’s hometown. Another example is the Po’s tribe’s skill of Qi Gong, which is one of the essences of Chinese culture. If you go to Qingcheng Mountain, there will be men, women and children practicing kung fu on the mountain. Not to mention those original ink animations and Chinese landscapes, a strong sense of Chinese culture can be seen throughout the entire film.





“Kung Fu Panda 3″ set in Chengdu Qingcheng Mountain and Jinli ancient street

Here’s the problem: Chinese and American cultures are different, which dictates a different way of storytelling. Chinese people like to teach while being entertained and everything has to end up with a moral. However, in the US, if a movie can make the audience sit in the chair for 90 minutes without moving, then that will be a big success.

Back then, the difficulty was not to find a few hundred million to make a movie. Financing was not a problem in 2012 when Katzenberg teamed up with Li Ruigang and Hong Kong Lan Kwai Fong Group Chairman Sheng Zhiwen to set up the joint venture “Oriental DreamWorks” and create “Kung Fu Panda 3”. The company raised $330 million in its first round of funding based on a 1.6x return on investment for Kung Fu Panda 1 and Kung Fu Panda 2. The joint venture project is 54.55% owned by the Chinese side and 45.45% by the American side. Later, Kung Fu Panda 3 only used 1/3 of the capital.

The biggest dispute between Li Ruigang in Shanghai and Katzenberg was who had the right to make the “Oriental Dream Factory” story.


Li Ruigang, Chairman of Shanghai Chinese Culture Industry Investment Fund

Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation

Li Ruigang insisted that all the animated films produced by Oriental Dream Factory are Chinese stories, so the Chinese side must have the right to speak and must have its own understanding, which means borrowing the “magic hands” of Hollywood to tell the Chinese stories.

Katzenberg, however, insisted on his right to make decisions about the story, saying he knew at a glance what kind of story would sell. His reason was very simple: if he likes you, he’ll pay for you. The average box office of the movies released by DreamWorks was between 400 million and 500 million USD. At that time in China, only “Pleasant Goat” and ”Big Big Wolf” made more than 100 million RMB at the box office. That was the status quo in 2012, and there were only 8,000 screens in Chinese cinemas.

The final solution was to set up a creative executive committee in Oriental Dream Factory by Rui Gang Lai. Katzenberg and Li Ruigang, would get a vote that must be agreed upon. The latter agreement was a betting proposition – if the first three films were successful, Li Ruigang would have the final decision thereafter. Faced with the fast-growing consumer market in China, Katzenberg decided to “bet” on it.

At the same time, a grand dream project was rising with “Kung Fu Panda 3” in a prime location of 8.6 square kilometers in Xuhui Riverside. This project, tentatively named “Dream Center”, was the first cultural real estate project jointly operated by Shanghai Chinese Culture Industry Fund and China Development Finance, with a total investment of about 15 billion yuan. It was the ” Dream Center” that landed in China together with “Kung Fu Panda”.

Such a commercial masterpiece is hard to see in China’s animation industry. Even later, the dark horse of the domestic animation box office champion, “Monkey King: Hero Is Back”, after the box office broke 1 billion, not even a shadow of a derivative product to see. Whereas “Kung Fu Panda” was already planning a $15 billion “Kung Fu Panda” theme park before the movie even started shooting!

Moving away from the success of Kung Fu Panda 1, 2 and 3, China’s box office in 2020 will surpass the 10 billion mark, catching up with the United States. 8,000 screens has increased to more than 80,000. But why isn’t there an inspiring and heartfelt movie like “The Pursuit of Happiness”? In the 40 years of reform and opening up, from 1981’s “Hibiscus Town” to 2021’s “Hi, Mom!” There is not a single story on the screen that can make billions of people around the world eager to know the story behind China’s economic myth. Whether it’s in English or Chinese, China’s economic miracle was created by the Chinese people. How did they create it? What kind of a heartfelt Chinese story can we tell that will bring audiences around the world into the heart of China?

Dr. Xiaoqiu Ma, Lifetime Chairman of the Family Awards, connecting to Hollywood

The story we are all looking for is Ma Xiaoqiu’s story. After listening to the 12 songs written and sung by her and several pictures that might become movie commercials, two Hollywood movie production companies decided to start shooting the story of Ma Xiaoqiu.

“I’m writing a Marvel movie,” said a screenwriter for a Netflix series after an interview with Ms. Ma Xiaoqiu. “Today, I saw a Marvel-style hero in my life.”

Another person after listening to Ma Xiaoqiu’s songs: “Ode to Fuxi”, “You are beside me” and ” Mutual Fulcrum ” said he could not help but have tears in his eyes, saying, “This is the Chinese Tao, which enters the world of morality through the power of music.”

Just as Bill Gates envisioned his Windows XBox, Musk today envisioned his plan to fly into outer space with Space X, this screenwriter envisioned his short film about Ma Xiaoqiu’s music as X Tao – The Way to the Unknown: The Power of Music.


Dr. Ma Xiaoqiu


On December 9th in Hollywood Hills, Dr. Ma Xiaoqiu, although anxious that she might speak English and have Chinese subtitles, completely trusted professionals to quietly reveal a clip to an audience of a hundred people.

When the time comes, we’ll report on it! Let’s see just how far and how close Hollywood is to China!

Mutual Fulcrum Lyrics: Ma Xiaoqiu Compose: Ma Xiaoqiu

The fulcrum of the sun is the horizon of the moon The fulcrum of the moon is the half of the sun The sun does not rotate without the moon Without the sun, the moon will not move
Your fulcrum is my emotion My fulcrum is your wishes
Years without you I will be lonely Without me your path is lonely
The fulcrum of the sun gives the four seasons

The fulcrum of the moon provides the night and day Your fulcrum and my fulcrum are sails of hope
Your fulcrum and my fulcrum promise the brilliance of tomorrow

The fulcrum of the sun is the horizon of the moon The fulcrum of the moon is the half of the sun The sun does not rotate without the moon Without the sun, the moon will not move
Your fulcrum is my emotion My fulcrum is your wishes
Years without you I will be lonely Without me your path is lonely
The fulcrum of the sun the warmth of the four seasons The fulcrum of the moon supports the night and day Your fulcrum and my fulcrum set up the sail of hope
Your fulcrum and my fulcrum promise the brilliance of tomorrow

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]]> 75748 Saville Shela – A Man for All Seasons https://goodnewsplanet.com/saville-shela-a-man-for-all-seasons/ Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:05:29 +0000 http://goodnewsplanet.com/?p=64356 By Michael Skakun Saville Shela, legendary footballer, a man who embodied the quintessential English virtues of sportsmanship and teamwork sadly passed away on April 7th due to complications caused by the corona Virus at age 83. Saville was born in 1937 in Spitalfields, in the heart of London’s East End. His father Harry was a …

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Saville Shela, legendary footballer, a man who embodied the quintessential English virtues of sportsmanship and teamwork sadly passed away on April 7th due to complications caused by the corona Virus at age 83.
Saville was born in 1937 in Spitalfields, in the heart of London’s East End. His father Harry was a furrier and came from a Romanian family and lived in the Tenter Ground, Stepney. His mother Gertie was born in Mlawa, Poland, she settled with her family in St. George’s Street in Stepney in 1913. His maternal grandfather Ephraim was a Talmud Chochum who served as Gabbai at the Cannon Street Road Synagogue for many years. His paternal grandmother Devorah was a devout woman and well-respected healer who specialized in the use of homeopathic remedies.
Saville grew up in Evering Road, Clapton. He attended Northwold Road School and Lea Bridge Road Talmud Torah before going to Parmiters Grammar School in Bethnal Green. He lived through the Blitz when the Luftwaffe bombed London night after night during the Second World War. He used to collect shrapnel from the various bomb sites. One morning he found the post office at the top of northworld road had been completely destroyed except for a retaining wall. The bomb fell only a few hundred yards from where he lived.
After the war, the young Saville loved to watch his football heroes at Tottenham Hotspur and watched the great push and run team which won the first division in 1951 under Arthur Rowe. Ron Burgess was his favourite player. He was asked to join one of East London’s youth football clubs, Walsingham Rovers. They played their home matches near Clapton Dog Track and in one record-breaking season went unbeaten winning 40, drawing 2 matches and he scored 34 goals. Saville excelled at most sports but at football he was unrivalled and soon found himself recruited to play for the famed Hackney Club where he was the youngest member of the team at 13 playing with 18 year olds. He left Hackney to join Stamford Hill Club and led them to many AJY Football Championships and captained the Great Britain AJY Team. Saville also represented the club at cricket and table tennis. He also recounted the story of his unbeaten boxing career. The Club trainer asked him to accompany the team to a match against the Brady Boys Club, another well known East End Youth Club. Before he knew it, the trainer had the gloves on him and into the ring he went. The large crowd assembled in the gymnasium started shouting come on Tiger, as his crouching style was akin to the great boxer Alfie Phillips, known as the Aldgate Tiger. Saville won his fight, Stamford Hill defeated Brady and many reckoned he could have gone far in the ring, but the modest Saville decided Football was more his cup of tea than boxing and he duly retired unbeaten.
He left school at 15 and went to work in the fashion business for Posners, where his Uncle Sid recommended him. At age 18 in 1955, he was called up and spent two years in the Royal Air Force. In the second year, he was sent abroad to Germany and stationed at Alhorn in the British

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Section. His footballing prowess soon brought him to the attention of the Station Manager and Saville was selected for The Royal Air Force Football Team which played matches against amateur and semi-professional German teams throughout the region. A great English Patriot, Saville said of his experience in the Air Force, “It was two of the happiest years of my life.”
When he left the RAF, Saville joined the firm of Esbee Gold, a manufacturer of Woman’s Fashions. He serviced retail and wholesale customers the length and breadth of Great Britain. At the same time he was offered a professional trial at Tottenham Hotspur but never went and joined the senior amateur football club Wingate FC, where for 10 years he topped the scoring ranks averaging 20-30 goals a season. The Great Britain selectors duly noted his talent and he was selected for the 1961 Maccabiah Games in Israel. He was top scorer during the tournament and Britain won its only ever Gold Medal with Saville scoring both goals against the host nation in a 2-1 victory in Haifa. The winning goal against Israel was probably the strangest one he ever scored. The ball was headed out of the box from a corner and as it bounced he back-heeled it hard on the half-volley from 20 yards out and it flew past the keeper into the top corner of the net. He won silver at the 1965 Maccabiah Games. Saville scored over 350 goals during his playing career.
Later in the 1960s he started his own fashion business in Commercial Road and for over 30 years brought his own creative innovations to the world of fashion. He married his beloved wife Sheila in 1966 just a few weeks before England won the World Cup and they were married for 53 years. After retiring from football he took up squash and made it to the final of the All-London Maccabi Open Championship. He later took up tennis and represented Great Britain Seniors in Spain and at the 1997 Maccabiah.
Into his eighties he was still super fit, swimming 80-100 lengths every day. Saville was respected and held in the highest esteem in the fashion industry and in the football world and by all those fortunate enough to have encountered this wonderful, kind, compassionate man. He never forgot his humble beginnings in East London. In December 2019 he enjoyed one of his proudest moments, accompanying his wife of 53 years Sheila and daughter in law Mary to Buckingham Palace to watch his son Jason’s MBE investiture by Prince William, for services to Football Education and Youth with Disabilities. In keeping with his father’s legacy of giving and community spirit, Jason has launched The Covid Comfort Angels initiative to bring comfort and solace to those who are also mourning and have relatives in hospital. http://thejosephskakunproject.org/covid-comfort-angels/ Saville Shela had the ability to bring out the best attributes in everyone he met in sports and in life, he truly was a man for all seasons.

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]]> 64356 Pepcom September 2012 https://goodnewsplanet.com/pepcom-september-2012/ Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:41:33 +0000 http://goodnewsplanet.com/?p=22414 Season’s Greetings from Miami Beach. Holiday Spectacular! is heating up this year with sun, surf and sand from South Beach. Experience the art deco delights of Miami Beach without leaving New York, alongside 75+ of the world’s top tech companies making a splash with a preview of this year’s hottest holiday gadgets. The eclectic evening takes …

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Season’s Greetings from Miami Beach. Holiday Spectacular! is heating up this year with sun, surf and sand from South Beach.

Experience the art deco delights of Miami Beach without leaving New York, alongside 75+ of the world’s top tech companies making a splash with a preview of this year’s hottest holiday gadgets.

The eclectic evening takes place Thursday, September 20th, from 6:00 – 9:00pm at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan.

But before you cruise up and down Ocean Drive.

Here is the list of companies that attended that we have press releases to share with those interested in those companies.  Please email me paul.sladkus@bogoodnewsbroadcast.com if you would like a copy of their press release.

  • 3M
  • Activision
  • Audience
  • Audyssey
  • Belkin
  • Blue Microphones
  • Brookstone
  • Brother
  • Buffalo Technology
  • Canon
  • Carbonite
  • Cobra
  • Cricket
  • CyberLink
  • Cygnett
  • D&M Holdings
  • Dell
  • DeLorme
  • Discovery Bay Games
  • D-Link
  • Duracell Powermat
  • Energizer
  • Epson
  • Evernote
  • Fitbit
  • Fujitsu
  • Belkin
  • Blue Microphones
  • Brookstone
  • Brother
  • Buffalo Technology
  • Canon
  • Carbonite
  • Cobra
  • Cricket
  • CyberLink
  • Cygnett
  • D&M Holdings
  • Dell
  • DeLorme
  • Discovery Bay Games
  • D-Link
  • Duracell Powermat
  • Energizer
  • Epson
  • Evernote
  • Fitbit
  • Fujitsu
  • Belkin
  • Blue Microphones
  • Brookstone
  • Brother
  • Buffalo Technology
  • Canon
  • Carbonite
  • Cobra
  • Cricket
  • CyberLink
  • Cygnett
  • D&M Holdings
  • Dell
  • DeLorme
  • Discovery Bay Games
  • D-Link
  • Duracell Powermat
  • Energizer
  • Epson
  • Evernote
  • Fitbit
  • Fujitsu
  • General Imaging
  • HeartMath
  • HEX3
  • HP
  • iHealth
  • Imation
  • Kensington
  • Kingston Technology
  • Kobo
  • Kyocera
  • Lantronix
  • LARK
  • Lenovo
  • Livescribe
  • Logitech
  • Lookout Mobile Security
  • Looxcie
  • magicJack
  • Magnetyze by BuQu
  • MetroPCS
  • Motorola Mobility
  • Mozilla
  • Nest
  • NetGear
  • Nikon
  • Paradigm
  • Parallels
  • Parrot
  • PDP
  • PENTAX RICHO IMAGING
  • Performance Marketing Brands
  • Philips
  • Phorus
  • Plantronics
  • PlayOn
  • PlayStation
  • Qualcomm – Snapdragon
  • Relive
  • Roku
  • Samsung CED
  • Samsung EBD
  • Samsung Mobile
  • Samsung Techwin
  • Seagate
  • simple.tv
  • simplehuman
  • Sonos
  • Sony Network Entertainment
  • Speck
  • Sprint
  • SugarSync
  • Switch Lighting
  • Tagg-The Pet Tracker
  • Targus
  • Tech21
  • Texas Instruments DLP
  • THQ
  • T-Mobile
  • Toluna
  • ViewSonic
  • Voxx International
  • VTech
  • Western Digital
  • zBoost by Wi-Ex

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