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MISSION:  Milestone Broadcast Corporation, MBC, est. 1985, uses their seasoned, respected and highly awarded  “GOOD NEWS DIGITAL MULTI- MEDIA, MULTI-CULTURAL  MULTI-LANGUAGE, BRAND & EXPERIENCE” to find, create, or receive “life affirming,” “thought provoking,” Good News, Entertainment, Events, Products & Services.  MBC digitally broadcasts and sells this content, products and services, along with advertising/sponsorships to the world.  

WHO WE ARE:

• Milestone Broadcast Corporation (MBC), a for-profit company, est.1985 by CBS/PBS TV Executive Paul Sladkus.  Paul helped create over 150 Award Winning programs & series, including: All in The Family, Sonny and Cher, and Carol Burnett, AFI Salutes Wells/Cagney with Sinatra on CBS; and Nature and The Brain Series ($20M project) on PBS. Paul was Business Manager of the $60M Channel 13/PBS TV network division.
• Leading full-service, multi-cultural, and multi-million dollar marketing organizations with clients that have included:  Citibank, Delta Airlines, IBM, Sprint, Western Union, US Postal Service, Ad Agencies, helping raise $30+ million dollars for media and Channel 13. MBC broke the Asian Market in America with groundbreaking research/1988.

MBC created the for-profit media division Good News Broadcast (GNB), est. July 4, 1998 www.goodnewsbroadcast.com, www.goodnewsplanet.TV and www.goodnewstogo.com .  In 2002,  MBC created a nonprofit 501 C 3 titled Good News Corporation, www.pausetheworldforpeace.org  (humanitarian events).

2024 Milestone Broadcast Corporation Corporate Video:

https://pausetheworldforpeace.org/2023/11/27/pause-the-world-for-peace-2023-sizzle-reel/

2023 International Day of Peace & Ecology Sizzle Reel for Times Square, September 21:

https://pausetheworldforpeace.org/2023/11/27/pause-the-world-for-peace-2023-sizzle-reel/

WHAT WE HAVE:

• Potential Investor Pre-Covid: New York State Institutional Equity Investor was interested in MBC back in 2021 Pre Covid, however, last we spoke beginning of 2022 they stopped investments for $2.5 million from our $5 million dollar raise, in fact, they wanted us to request $15 Million, we have to go back.  We seek a lead equity investor for $5 million. We also seek to merge with another media corporation.  ROI will be discussed and exit strategy to be discussed. IPO nationally and internationally is being considered.
• MBC Existing Content Good News Broadcast on WEB and YouTube: 6,500 long and short-form Good News TV programs, over 1,000 for-profit & nonprofit corporate branded content, with a reach of over 100+ Million.  Strong International Content Relationships, i.e., Good News China
• MBC Existing Content Good News to Go:  Good News To Go, AI to be used. www.goodnewstogo.com, has been used for our podcasts.  We will rebrand it to create additional features, similar to WeChat. We have a strong Trademarked HAPPY FACE WITH ARMS & LEGS LOGO.  The site will be a home for individual and corporate conversations, channels, and moments. Additional features: buy products, payment for expenses, services, i.e. cars, insurance. Some content will appear on www.goodnewsbroadcast.com, www.pausetheworldforpeace.org.
• NOTE:  ALL MBC MEDIA USERS MUST AGREE: To be used with our positive standards and practices, upbeat, not beat-up content.  No Negativity. Positive.
• MBC Existing Content: Movie/Book/TV/Concerts:   Release 2024:  Woodstock Forever: Peace, Love & HOPE, with Richie Havens and our 1989 20^th Anniversary Exclusive Footage. www.woodstockforever.com.  As of 081522, this asset was moved into our nonprofit, Good News Corporation, Production Company with be MBC.
• MBC Existing Content: Events/Producer – UN International Day of Peace & Earth & Water Day –  www.pausetheworldforpeace.org events September 21. Times Square, Central Park and other worldwide locations. We have been producing events since 2002. 9/11 Event in Times Square. This event is our nonprofit GNC, but all production work is by Milestone Broadcast Corporation. Broadcast partners UNIFY major 130 Million Followers Audience.
• MBC Physical Assets: TV Studio Equipment, 2,000 books/interviews, trademarked happy face, VW Bug 75, Montauk Office Condo
• MBC Product Assets for WEB SALES & Content: Specialty Shoes with Laura Norman the Reflexology Guru and a line of Active Wear with Claire Diab, Deepak Chopra’s Director of Chopra Centers and Yoga Guru. Patented 2 Screen Phone, getting close to a settlement with OEMs.
• WHAT NEED DO WE DISRUPT: MBC is a disruptive, multi-media, multi-cultural broadcast and marketing company.  What we do is HOT, in marketing. We are Good News, entertainment and events creator and content aggregator for consumers and businesses.  We are a disruptive media home for the world’s socially responsible and humanitarian efforts. MBC is one of the first streaming media companies with both short- and long-form broadcasts and creates/ receives content from domestic and international sources and impartially distributes this news, entertainment, and events.  MBC helps bring HOPE to the world through our stories. The content relates to health, science, culture, business, entertainment, international relations, and much more.  GNB is for the entire family and the world, focusing on 50+, their children/ grandchildren/pets.   MBC is multi-cultural, non-sectarian, non-political and also reflects niche community interests.  MBC publishes and syndicates content online, on-air, podcasts, and in print.  Our main sites are www.goodnewsbroadcast.com, www.goodnewsplanet.TV, www.goodnewstogo.com, and www.peacedayparty.org, www.pausetheworldforpeace.org, social networks.  

HOW WE MAKE MONEY: MBC is an ideal media partner/sponsor/advertiser for corporations and non-profits that are seeking to promote goodwill/awareness and SALES for their CSR, ESG, DEI, as well as products, brands, or services. MBC has been a leader in Multicultural Marketing and will grow this business.  MBC is a portal with similar technology like YouTube, social networks like Facebook/Twitter with privacy features that we will not share information with anyone. We also ask people to share only positive comments. We have created BRANDED CONTENT FOR over 36 YEARS.  We are also a content creator in foreign languages, i.e. Good News China, a wire service, newsletters, print, Book/ Movie/TV/Podcast  2024 Release: Woodstock Forever:  Peace, Love, and HOPE, included is the 20^th Anniversary of Woodstock event that we produced. We also have part ownership in a 2-screen patented phone and plan to distribute a Good News Phone.   We developed Shop Good News like eBay. We have trademarked our Happy Face for logo use in our product and service sales, like EHarmony/Einsurance. We created a Social Network like FACEBOOK, with only Good News comments. We will give everyone in the world a job for posting his or her content.  Peace Day Concerts in Times Square and Central Park.  Potential Broadway Show, written and performed. Franchise Good News nationally and internationally.  

COMPETITIVE EDGE: Our brand and relationships are built. Over a thousand corporations are on Good News and like us, they represent millions of people.  What is special about us is that we are not competitive we are collaborative.  We are about “The Greater Good:  Your Good News is our Good News! Other companies have been successful, i.e., Buzz Feed, Upworthy, and Some Good News, making millions of dollars, with major investments. Our investment will do the same and more!

CASH FLOW SUMMARY AS OF January 2024 UPON INVESTMENT.   The company has computed its cash flow analysis for the first three years.  During the first year, the company experienced negative cash of approximately $4.6 million dollars, which is the basis of its $5 million capital requirement. We also have a $30 million raise details. See the Cash In Cash Out statement for a detailed statement of monthly cash flows. Building the full team and marketing will take time to stabilize, by year 3 ending cash will be $66.5 million.

                                                     First/Year                        Second/Year                 Third/Year

Beginning Cash                        5,000,000 (Invest.)         9,000,000                  26,000,000

Total Cash Out                         8,500,000                        10,500,000                  14,500,000

Total Cash In                          12,500,000                        27,500,000                  55,000,000

Ending Cash                             9,000,000                       26,000,000                  66,500,000

USE OF FUNDS:  Our R&D phase has established thousands of relationships.  Funding will help MBC make sales for integrated media relationships with content from existing and new corporations, non-profits, and producers.  For example, MBC produced content in conjunction with and entirely on Johnson and Johnson, “The JNJ Care Giving Show.” JNJ paid to produce and broadcast the show on MBC and other media.  Integrated content is the future. With funding, MBC will inform the world about our media and create user-generated interactivity and social networking.  We are one of the first for branded content. We are opening offices in China.

We seek funding to ensure we have ample resources to serve our forthcoming clients and build the reputation of our brands.  Funds will supplement our cash flow in order that we may 1) ensure the smooth implementation of commercial applications based on our assets, 2) protect our assets, 3) promote these assets, 4) have the funds to support the rapid expansion of production capabilities, 5) recruit, train and retain a high-quality operations, sales, production, and marketing staff and 6) Build out user-generated/social network on Good News Planet.

SWEAT EQUITY AND CASH INVESTED:  Over $5.5M in cash, sweat equity, and deferred salaries and expenses have gone into MBC. Including $500,000 from an investor Continental Vista, who assisted us with cash and paid positions in his company, with no equity in MBC.

CONCLUSION:   We are here to discuss your needs and targets and how your investment can meet them. We look forward to meeting with you to discuss this presentation in detail.

WHILE MAKING YOU MONEY SHARING THE GOOD IN THE WORLD.

 All we are is what we are with each other.  Good News Motto.  Zeal

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ARLINGTON, Va., – June 6, 2013 – LG Electronics and Sprint today announced the upcoming availability of the LG Optimus F3 smartphone offering features designed to make the device more accessible for people with vision loss or other disabilities. The LG Optimus F3 offers access to the Sprint 4G LTE1 network, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, a long-lasting 2,460mAh battery, a vivid IPS display, and premium features that allow customers to connect and share with ease.

At just $29.99 (excluding taxes) with a new line or eligible upgrade, two-year service agreement and $50 mail-in rebate via reward card2, this device will be the most affordable 4G LTE smartphone from Sprint at launch. Available in two colors – silver and purple – the LG Optimus F3 can be purchased beginning June 14 at www.sprint.com or by calling 1-800-SPRINT1. It will be available in all Sprint retail channels later this summer.

The LG Optimus F3 is the first phone to come preloaded with TalkBack, which is accessible when users take the phone out of the box and power it on. Talkback is a text-to-speech accessibility feature from Google that helps blind and vision-impaired users interact with their devices more easily. With the TalkBack feature “on” from the get-go, customers will benefit from voice guidance as they go through the activation and setup process on their device.

“Sprint is committed to providing technology that meets the needs of all of our customers,” said Dan Hesse, Sprint CEO, who announced the device today at the M-Enabling Summit in Arlington, Va. “The LG Optimus F3 offers a robust list of features for any customer, and it is uniquely empowering for people with disabilities.”

“Combining intelligent features with the user-friendly LG interface, the LG Optimus F3 allows users to easily collaborate and communicate while handling a variety of tasks or enjoying entertainment content,” said Wayne Park, president and CEO of LG Electronics USA. “This device exemplifies LG’s commitment to delivering compelling accessibility features.”

The LG Optimus F3 is Sprint ID-enabled, allowing users to download the new Accessible Education ID pack. This ID pack makes it easy for millions of K-12 students with print disabilities – individuals who cannot effectively read print because of visual, physical, perceptual, developmental, cognitive or learning disabilities – to access Web-based educational resources on their smartphone. The Accessible Education ID pack is a package of applications and mobile Web services available in a single download.

The Accessible Education ID pack features customized mobile Web services that are designed to eliminate clutter and display only the parts of Web pages of interest to the user. It also provides students who do not have computers or Internet connections at home with mobile-friendly interfaces and Web-based educational resources.

Applications within the Accessible Education ID pack, developed by Apps4Android, include:
• Six applications that simplify access to WebMATH, a free website hosted by Discovery Education that helps students learn how to solve math problems. Solutions to all problems are presented in a real-time, step-by-step, manner.
• KhAndroid: a fully accessible Android application that enables its users to view Khan Academy’s library of more than 2,200 micro lectures via video tutorials. Topics covered include math, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy and economics.
• IDEAL Equation Finder: a speech recognition-based application, designed to take advantage of EqsQuest’s semantic search technology for math and science. Semantic search technology seeks to improve search accuracy by understanding a searcher’s intent and the contextual meaning of terms as they appear in searchable data spaces.

With nearly 90 Sprint ID packs available today, Sprint ID allows consumers, on select Android-powered devices from Sprint, including the LG Optimus F3, to download “ID packs” – a bundle of content that delivers a complete mobile experience in a few simple clicks. ID packs include applications, widgets, ringtones and wallpapers. Whether they are an environmentalist, sports lover, music enthusiast, fitness fanatic, gamer or an individual with disabilities, Sprint ID makes it easy for customers to personalize their smartphone by allowing them to download ID packs with content to fit their lifestyle.

In addition, the unique LED indicator on the LG Optimus F3’s home button offers a rainbow of color options that can assist those with hearing impairment, such as green for a phone call or red for a text message. Specified colored and patterned light provides charging status and notifications, such as alarms, calendar reminders, new messages and missed events.

Built with a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera and convenient front-facing camera, the LG Optimus F3 is packed with nifty camera features that allow users to enhance special moments and photos. With Beauty Shot, users can snap photos that enhance their friends’ and their own appearances. Cheese Shot lets users take a voice-activated photo by simply saying “cheese” while Panorama Shot helps users to capture the entire scene in a single photo.

Additional features include:
• VuTalk3 allows users to send handwritten messages, photos or drawings back and forth in real time to visually share ideas and collaborate.
• QSlide 2.0 allows users to overlay up to two application windows on an existing open application, adjusting size and transparency as needed for greater multitasking functionality.
• QuickMemo lets users add their own creative commentary to pictures or screenshots with the swipe of a finger then share it via social media, email or SMS.
• QTranslator allows users to translate words and phrases from 44 different languages into 64 native languages.
• Android 4.1.2, Jelly Bean
• Vivid 4-inch IPS display with super strong Corning® Gorilla® Glass 2
• 1,080p full-HD video capture
• Multilanguage support with 53 keyboard input languages
• SmartShare – share media wirelessly to DLNA® enabled devices
• Wi-Fi Direct file sharing
• Android Beam to share content via Near Field Communication (NFC) and Bluetooth® technology
• LG Tag+ – preset, individual phone profiles activated using NFC technology tags
• Quiet Mode – specify times to disable notifications for calls and messages
• ULE Platinum Certified – the highest level of environmental performance recognized by sustainable requirements established by UL Environment and Sprint

Sprint now offers 4G LTE service in 88 markets nationwide, including Los Angeles, Charlotte, Boston and Dallas. Many Sprint customers are discovering Sprint 4G LTE in cities that haven’t yet officially been announced, including Washington, D.C., New York and San Francisco. Sprint has announced more than 170 additional markets where LTE will be available in the coming months. For the most current maps, please visit www.sprint.com/4GLTE.

To learn more about what Sprint is doing to empower customers with disabilities, please visit www.sprint.com/accessibility.

About LG Electronics USA
LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a $45 billion global force and technology leader in consumer electronics, home appliances and mobile communications. In the United States, LG Electronics sells a range of stylish and innovative mobile phones, home entertainment products, home appliances, and air conditioning systems and energy solutions, all under LG’s “Life’s Good” marketing theme. LG Electronics is a 2013 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year. For more information, please visit www.lg.com.

About Sprint Nextel
Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses and government users. Sprint Nextel served more than 55 million customers at the end of the first quarter of 2013 and is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including the first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in the United States; offering industry-leading mobile data services, leading prepaid brands including Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless; instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone. The American Customer Satisfaction Index rated Sprint most improved, across all 47 industries, during the last five years. Newsweek ranked Sprint No. 3 in both its 2011 and 2012 Green Rankings, listing it as one of the nation’s greenest companies, the highest of any telecommunications company. You can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com or www.facebook.com/sprint and www.twitter.com/sprint.

14G LTE not available everywhere
2The American Express Prepaid Reward Card (“Card”) provided in connection with this Rebate offer is a prepaid Card that is usable at U.S. merchants that accept American Express Card. Some limitations apply. The Card is not redeemable for cash (except where required by law) and does not provide ATM access. Use of Card constitutes acknowledgement that it is given as a reward and no consideration, value, or money has been paid by the holder to American Express in exchange for this Card. USE OF CARD IS SUBJECT TO THE CARDHOLDER AGREEMENT. SUBJECT TO APPLICABLE LAW, A $3.00 MONTHLY FEE WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST CARD BALANCE, STARTING SIX MONTHS AFTER CARD ISSUANCE, UNLESS FUNDS ARE EARLIER DEPLETED. For BALANCE, customer service and Cardholder Agreement, visit americanexpress.com/sprint or call 1-866-608-3756. Card issued by American Express Prepaid Card Management Corporation.
3 Must initially be established with a contact over a voice call

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Halloween or Hallowe’en (a contraction of “All Hallows‘ Evening“),^[5] also known as All Hallows’ Eve,^[6] is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on October 31, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows (or All Saints).

Typical festive Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (also known as “guising“), attending costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.

History

According to many scholars, it was originally influenced by western European harvest festivals and festivals of the dead with possible pagan roots, particularly the Celtic Samhain.^[6][8][9] Others maintain that it originated independently of Samhain and has Christian roots.^[10]

Celtic influences

Though the origin of the word Halloween is Christian, the holiday is commonly thought to have pagan roots.^[11] Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while “some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain“, which comes from the Old Irish for “summer’s end”.^[11] Samhain (pronounced sah-win or sow-in) was the first and most important of the four quarter days in the medieval Gaelic (Irish, Scottish and Manx)^[12]calendar.^[13][14] It was held on or about October 31 – November 1 and kindred festivals were held at the same time of year in other Celtic lands; for example the Brythonic Calan Gaeaf (in Wales), Kalan Gwav(in Cornwall) and Kalan Goañv (in Brittany). Samhain is mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature and many important events in Irish mythology happen or begin on Samhain. It marked the end of theharvest season and the beginning of winter or the ‘darker half’ of the year.^[15] This was a time for stock-taking and preparing for the cold winter ahead;^[11] cattle were brought back down from the summer pastures and livestock were slaughtered.^[15] In much of the Gaelic world, bonfires were lit and there were rituals involving them.^[15] Some of these rituals hint that they may once have involved human sacrifice.^[16][11] Divination games or rituals were also done at Samhain.^[15]

Samhain (like Beltane) was seen as a time when the ‘door’ to the Otherworld opened enough for the souls of the dead, and other beings such as fairies, to come into our world.^[17][18] The souls of the dead were said to revisit their homes on Samhain.^[19] Feasts were had, at which the souls of dead kin were beckoned to attend and a place set at the table for them.^[20] Lewis Spence described it as a “feast of the dead” and “festival of the fairies”.^[21] However, harmful spirits and fairies were also thought to be active at Samhain. People took steps to allay or ward-off these harmful spirits/fairies, which is thought to have influenced today’s Halloween customs. Before the 20th century, wearing costumes at Samhain was done in parts ofIreland, Mann, the Scottish Highlands and islands, and Wales.^[22] Wearing costumes may have originated as a means of disguising oneself from these harmful spirits/fairies, although some suggest that the custom comes from a Christian or Christianized belief (see below). In Ireland, people went about before nightfall collecting for Samhain feasts and sometimes wore costumes while doing so.^[22] In the 19th century on Ireland’s southern coast, a man dressed as a white mare would lead youths door-to-door collecting food; by giving them food, the household could expect good fortune from the ‘Muck Olla’.^[23] In Moray during the 18th century, boys called at each house in their village asking for fuel for the Samhain bonfire.^[24] The modern custom of trick-or-treating may have come from these practices. Alternatively, it may come from the Christian custom of souling (see below).

Making jack-o’-lanterns at Halloween may also have sprung from Samhain and Celtic beliefs. Turnip lanterns, sometimes with faces carved into them, were made on Samhain in the 19th century in parts of Ireland and the Scottish Highlands.^[25] As well as being used to light one’s way while outside on Samhain night, they may also have been used to represent the spirits/fairies and/or to protect oneself and one’s home from them.^[26] However, a Christian origin has also been proposed.^[27]

Christian influences

Halloween is also thought to have been influenced by the Christian holy days of All Saints’ Day (also known as All Hallows, Hallowmas or Hallowtide) on November 1 and All Souls’ Day on November 2.^[28]They are a time for honoring the saints and praying for the recently departed who had yet to reach Heaven. All Saints was introduced in the year 609, but was originally celebrated on May 13.^[29] In 835, it was switched to November 1 (the same date as Samhain) at the behest of Pope Gregory IV.^[29] Some have suggested this was due to Celtic influence, while others suggest it was a Germanic idea.^[29]

By the end of the 12th century they had become holy days of obligation across Europe and involved such traditions as ringing bells for the souls in purgatory. “Souling”, the custom of baking and sharing soul cakes for “all crysten christened souls”,^[30] has been suggested as the origin of trick-or-treating.^[31] Groups of poor people, often children, would go door-to-door on All Saints/All Souls collecting soul cakes, originally as a means of praying for souls in purgatory.^[32] Similar practices for the souls of the dead were found as far south as Italy.^[33] Shakespeare mentions the practice in his comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1593), when Speed accuses his master of “puling [whimpering or whining] like a beggar at Hallowmas.”^[34] The custom of wearing costumes has been linked to All Saints/All Souls by Prince Sorie Conteh, who wrote: “It was traditionally believed that the souls of the departed wandered the earth until All Saints’ Day, and All Hallows’ Eve provided one last chance for the dead to gain vengeance on their enemies before moving to the next world. In order to avoid being recognised by any soul that might be seeking such vengeance, people would don masks or costumes to disguise their identities”.^[35] In Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night, Nicholas Rogers explained Halloween jack-o’-lanterns as originally being representations of souls in purgatory.^[27] In Brittany children would set candles in skulls in graveyards.^[36]

In Britain, these customs came under attack during the Reformation as Protestants berated purgatory as a “popish” doctrine incompatible with the notion of predestination.^[28] The rising popularity of Guy Fawkes Night (5 November) from 1605 onward, saw many Halloween traditions appropriated by that holiday instead, and Halloween’s popularity waned in Britain, with the noteworthy exception of Scotland.^[37]There and in Ireland, the rebellious Guy Fawkes was not viewed with the same criminality as in England, and they had been celebrating Samhain and Halloween since at least the early Middle Ages,^[12] and the Scottish kirk took a more pragmatic approach to Halloween, seeing it as important to the life cycle and rites of passage of communities and thus ensuring its survival in the country.^[37]

Spread to North America

North American almanacs of the late 18th and early 19th century give no indication that Halloween was celebrated there.^[38] The Puritans of New England, for example, maintained strong opposition to Halloween^[38] and it was not until the mass Irish and Scottish immigration during the 19th century that it was brought to North America in earnest.^[38] Confined to the immigrant communities during the mid-19th century, it was gradually assimilated into mainstream society and by the first decade of the 20th century it was being celebrated coast to coast by people of all social, racial and religious backgrounds.^[39]

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