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Ring 8’s Annual Holiday and Awards Ceremony 2013

Ring 8’s Annual Holiday and Awards Ceremony 2013

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27th annual Ring 8 Holiday Event & Awards Ceremony Fighter of the Year Danny Garcia.
2013 Ring 8 Award Winners

Fighter of the Year: Danny Garcia
Uncrowned Champion: Gasper Ortega
Official of the Year: Deputy Commissioner Robert Orlando
Amateur Official of the Year: Dan Gant
Member of the Year: Carmine Rastelli
Professional Judge of the Year: John McKaie
Prospect of the Year: Seanie Monahan
Professional Trainer of the Year: Bob Jackson
Amateur Trainer of the Year: Joe Higgins
Emile Griffith Good Guy Award: Sal Corrente
Long & Meritorious Service: Dr. William “Bill” Lathan
Meritorious Achievement Award :Heavyweight Champion Pinklon Thomas
Special Presentation: Bobby Bartels & Lenny Mangiapane
(honoring the 50th anniversary of their classic main event fight at Madison Square Garden

ABOUT RING 8: Formed in 1954 by an ex-prizefighter, Jack Grebelsky, Ring 8 became the eighth subsidiary of what was then known as the National Veteran Boxers Association – hence, RING 8 – and today the organization’s motto still remains: Boxers Helping Boxers.

RING 8 is fully committed to supporting less fortunate people in the boxing community who may require assistance in terms of paying rent, medical expenses, or whatever justifiable need.

Go on line to www.Ring8ny.com for more information about RING 8, the largest group of its kind in the United States with more than 350 members. Annual membership dues is only $30.00 and each member is entitled to a buffet dinner at RING 8 monthly meetings, the third Tuesday of every month, excluding July and August. All active boxers, amateur and professional, are entitled to a complimentary RING 8 yearly membership.

New York Produce Show and Conference 2013

New York Produce Show and Conference 2013

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The Eastern Produce Council and PRODUCE BUSINESS magazine once again joined forces to present an exciting world-class event for the industry. The three-day event included networking opportunities, a trade show of over 400 companies, retail “thought-leader” panel hosted by Perishable Pundit Jim Prevor, educational micro-sessions and tours of the region’s vibrant industry, including the local retailers, wholesalers, foodservice distributors and urban farms and unique eateries.

The program also included an outreach to students and faculty at regional universities as well as distinguished culinary schools; a media immersion program involving print, radio, TV and online outlets, plus a “Consumer Influencer” luncheon and show tour reaching out to bloggers, consumer editors and those working with all forms of social media.

Back by popular demand were two mini conferences for those who wish to come early and/or stay later. On Tuesday, December 10, the Global Trade Symposium offered attendees the latest insights on produce importing and exporting to and from the Northeast Region. On Thursday, December 12, the Foodservice Forum “Ideation Fresh” covered the role of produce in culinary innovation.

Tuesday’s Opening Cocktail Reception and Wednesday’s events were free to representatives of buying organizations, including retailers, wholesalers, and chefs, menu-planners and procurement executives at restaurants and other foodservice operators.

World Liberty TV’s Food & Wine Team was on hand to cover the 3 day event, see it all in our World Liberty TV., Food and wine channel.

The 2013 Phelophepa Awards and Benefit Dinner

The 2013 Phelophepa Awards and Benefit Dinner

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The American Friends of the Phelophepa Train, a 501(c) (3) organization, was formed 11 years ago to enhance funding and awareness for our preventive health organization targeting rural residents of South Africa. We value our American donors for their unwavering support and commitment to a vital cause in this culturally diverse developing country.

The Phelophepa Train brings a range of healing – physical, emotional and social – to what was once a racially torn nation. As the country’s “Miracle Train,” our staff provides basic health care to hard-to-reach residents of South Africa where the ratio of medical care is one doctor to every 5,000 citizens.

We feel strongly that our optimal resources are preventative care, basic health education and an efficient infrastructure to sustain them. More than ever, we need continued collective support to reach our goals.

One of the biggest causes for celebration in 2012 is the long awaited launch of our second train. On March 12, the Phelophepa II embarked on its first journey to Mount Ruth in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The new train will double the capacity of the program and service new territories.

Since our U.S. launch in 2002, the American Friends of the Phelophepa Train has organized annual fundraiser galas and other events where we honor American business and social leaders who share our goals in bringing superior health services to the masses. Thanks to their support, and the contributions of new U.S. ambassadors and donors, we hope to continue to deliver the highest standard of care and improve the quality of life for rural South Africans.

Thanks to our American friends, our train has traveled thousands of more miles and succeeding in reaching approximately 5.5 million South Africans.

We have also garnered global recognition. In 2008, Phelophepa I became the first sustainable South African initiative to receive the prestigious United Nations Public Service Award for its excellence in public service delivery. Among other accolades, in 2011 Phelopheba I was honored by Texas’ Honor Society of Nursing with the Sigma Theta Tau International award, for making a visible difference in the lives of citizens in rural areas.

We have built a solid foundation and treated many South Africans in need of medical care. Looking to the future, we hope to enhance our work in the communities we serve through the following new initiatives:

Further develop and improve the trains’ infrastructure to strengthen and expand our reach.
Introduce truck service to enrich our work in villages and schools and ultimately build permanent clinics.
Modernize rail track maintenance to insure safe and continuous delivery of services.

As to bolstering our long-term goals, we have high expectations for a “Leadership & Development Project” to boost training for healthcare professionals on the Phelophepa Trains. Our focus centers on advanced diagnostic skills training, improved research and data capturing techniques, more technically advanced administration and management systems, and analysis of good governance practices.

Your generosity has helped us accomplish many feats. Our grand goal is to help rebuild South Africa’s public health and health education systems and guarantee health care access to all. With your continued commitment to Phelophepa, we know we can make this happen.

We owe it to the people we serve in South Africa, and hope that you will choose to be with us every step of the way.

The Ninth Annual, SNS Prediction Dinner (2013)

The Ninth Annual, SNS Prediction Dinner (2013)

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What Is SNS?

The Strategic News Service™ is the world’s most reliable source of advanced information at the intersection of technology and economics. Its publicly graded prediction rate in these areas is unmatched, and its success in pointing out critically important new strategic issues to global thought leaders – often in their own areas of expertise – is well-established. This is why Bill Gates, Paul Jacobs, Justin Rattner, Michael Dell, Steve Ballmer, Paul Ricci, Bill Janeway, and many other global intellectual, policy, and business leaders have become SNS members.

Since its 1995 inception, SNS has evolved into a global force, expressed partly through a remarkable membership, which works in three modes: to research and describe missing strategic insights into what is happening now, to accurately predict what is to be expected in the next 3-5 years, and to rally interest in accelerating the benign trends that matter most. In this way, together we have led a movement beginning with unbiased research in computing and communications, into global integration of markets and trends, and culminating in appropriate actions.

We believe that technology drives the global economy. For that reason, SNS finds its work now at the center of leverage for global leaders in every economic and policy segment. Active areas of discussion include: Computing, Communications, Cleantech, Security and Economic Cyberwar, Climate Change, Education, Finance, Fixing Healthcare, Ocean Health, Energy, Cloud Infrastructure, and more.

SNS Annual Predictions Dinner in New York: Held at the Waldorf Astoria each December since 2005, this event includes a cocktail reception and full dinner, an interview with a global leader on a topic of current SNS interest, and the release of SNS CEO Mark Anderson’s predictions about the year to come. These are then distributed by global news organizations, including the BBC World News, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes, NPR, and others. Publicly graded predictions accuracy rate since 1995: 94%

World Liberty TV was on hand and hear firsthand Predictions for 2014, by Mr Mark Anderson, CEO SNS in our World Liberty TV.

Labor Press Holiday Party (2013)

Labor Press Holiday Party (2013)

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Labor Press Party took place at NYC District Council of Carpenters, hundreds of Union Leaders, Politicians, and healthcare officials attended this well star studded event , organized by Neal Tepel , The Publisher of Labor Press and his staff members.

The following were honored:

Scott Stringer, New York City Comptroller Elect

Letita James, Public Advocate Elect

Daneek Miller, Council Member Elect.

Nautica Fashion Show During Fashion Week at Lincoln Center, NY – 2013

Nautica Fashion Show During Fashion Week at Lincoln Center, NY – 2013

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Nautica designer Chris Cox presented the Nautica Men’s Spring 2014 collection in a well-attended fashion show during Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week, held at The Stage at Lincoln Center on September 6, 2013 in New York City.

This is a very manly collection, sporty, nautical – picture the wind in his hair as he sails his yacht – or dingy – but looking incredibly sexy as he does so in Nautica’s Menswear collection.
Expect rugged wind cheater style jackets, knee-length coats, rolled up canvas trousers, shorts, shirts and sweaters, in colors like lemon yellow, red, navy blue, grey, khaki, black and white.
This collection from Nautica isn’t much into prints, as usual, except for the blue printed shorts and pants featured here and there is some very stylish color-blocking.

The following celebrities were in attendance: Actors Matt Letscher, Colin Egglesfield, Football player Kerry Rhodes and New York Knicks player Chris Smith.

Exclusive Interview with Award Winning Costume Designer/Stylist and Fashion Designer Patricia Field at Helen Yarmark’s PH – The Iconic Crown Building, New York, 2013

Exclusive Interview with Award Winning Costume Designer/Stylist and Fashion Designer Patricia Field at Helen Yarmark’s PH – The Iconic Crown Building, New York, 2013

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Field was born in 1941 in New York City to a Greek father and an Armenian mother, who emigrated from Plomari, Lesbos, Greece. She was raised in Astoria, Queens and has claimed credit for inventing the modern legging for women’s fashion in the 1970s. She is the owner of the eponymous boutique Patricia Field.

Field met Sarah Jessica Parker during the filming of 1995’s Miami Rhapsody. The actress became so enchanted with Field’s collections that they became friends and continued working with her on the series Sex and the City. Before beginning the first season of the Sex and the City television series on HBO, Parker asked to have Field design some of the clothes that her character, Carrie Bradshaw, would wear. During Field’s tenure as costume designer on Sex and the City, the show became famous for the fashions showcased.

For her work on Sex and the City, Field was nominated for five Emmy Awards, with one win, and nominated for six Costume Designers Guild awards, with four wins. She is one out of six Honorees of the 2008 Reel Time Film Festival. She went on to return as Costume Designer for Sex and the City: the Movie (2008) and the sequel Sex and the City 2 (2010). She worked in the Asian market by creating the fashion behind the Chinese feature film “杜拉拉升职记” (Go Lala Go) (2010). Her most recent project is Taiwanese television series, The Material Queen. Field’s television credits include Hope & Faith and Ugly Betty. She served as costume designer for the feature film The Devil Wears Prada, for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Costume Design, although in an extensive interview included as a bonus feature on the film’s DVD release, she admits she dressed the cast by gathering garments from other designers’ ready-to-wear collections rather than creating them herself.

Field, who is openly lesbian, was for many years romantically committed to costume designer Rebecca Weinberg (Field), with whom she has partnered on Sex & the City and Spin City.

She appeared as the first guest judge during the first season of the Bravo reality television series Project Runway. Her eponymous boutique was featured in a 2007 episode of Kathy Griffin’s reality show My Life on the D-List, as well as on a 2008 episode of Paris Hilton’s My New BFF. She designed the outfits in Namie Amuro’s music videos for her three songs New Look, Rock Steady, and What A Feeling from her single 60s 70s 80s, as well as Anna Vissi’s music videos for Stin Pyra and Alitissa Psihi from her album Apagorevmeno. In 2011, she designed all or most of the outfits for the characters in a Taiwan drama called Material Queen.

World Liberty TV was on hand at the Helen Yarmark’s PH at The Iconic Crown Building NY where Ms. Field was doing the styling for The Helen Yarmak line.

Pat Cleveland: First Black Supermodel, 2013

Pat Cleveland: First Black Supermodel, 2013

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Cleveland studied at New York’s High School of Art and Design, where her first love was fashion. By her early teens, she was designing and wearing her own creations. Her modelling career began by accident in 1967 when she was spotted on a New York subway by Carrie Donovan, an assistant editor at Vogue. The 14-year-old was on her way to classes at LaGuardia Performing Arts School when, “This assistant followed me,” Cleveland recalled. “My girlfriend said, ‘You better run. There’s a dyke chasing you’. I said, ‘What’s a dyke?’”

After working with Ebony, Cleveland began to attract the attention of the major fashion designers of the day, working first with famous names such as Jacques Tiffeau and Stephen Burrows. Soon she was meeting and working with all of fashion’s top playmakers, including Diana Vreeland, Irving Penn and Andy Warhol. But despite her early success Cleveland grew disillusioned with America and its racist attitudes towards black models. One day, fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez invited her to try her luck in Milan and Paris instead.

Cleveland returned to United States in 1974 (the year of US Vogue’s first black cover model), and continued modelling into the 1980s. She went into semi-retirement after getting married and giving birth to two children, Anna and Noel. Today she still makes intermittent appearances on television and on the runway.

Ellassay Designs from Shenzhen ,China Fashion Show at Lincoln Center NY 2013

Ellassay Designs from Shenzhen ,China Fashion Show at Lincoln Center NY 2013

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Shenzhen Ellassay Fashion Industry Co., Ltd. engages in the design, manufacture, and retail of fashion apparel and shoes for women in China. The company also publishes a fashion magazine. Shenzhen Ellassay Fashion Industry Co., Ltd. was founded in 1995 and is based in Shenzhen, China. It has retail stores in Shanghai, Harbin, Guilin, Dalian, Nanjing, Changsha, Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, and Xian, China.

World Liberty TV Team was on hand to cover the Ellassay Fashion line. They debuted at NY Fashion Week 2013.

Denghao Designs from Shenzhen, China – 2013

Denghao Designs from Shenzhen, China – 2013

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Shenzhen DENG Hao (Denghao) brands were at the evening at Lincoln Center (Lincoln Center) Studio Fashion Week main venue hall, held a fashion show with international trends.

The fashion show will be the United States and the international fashion industry, media and professional audience in Shenzhen’s top achievements in the field of fashion design epitomizes modern colorful costume culture of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, the fashion industry to expand in the international fashion industry’s influence, the fashion industry in Shenzhen business opportunities.

Catwalk designer brands Tang Hao (Denghao), its chairman and artistic director, Tang Hao China’s top ten fashion designers, has been concentrated on studying the original texture textures knitting process, the creation of the ‘Flower’ design style by the industry and the market Welcome, products are sold to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and other countries and regions. Hao was awarded the Best Women’s Design Award China, China Best Women’s Designer Award and many other honors.

It is reported that, in order to promote the international apparel brands in Shenzhen, Shenzhen, the fashion industry and to strengthen international exchanges and cooperation, Shenzhen fashion Legion Following five consecutive years to participate in London Fashion Week, will be a great debut for the first time the world’s largest fashion week – 2014 New York Summer Fashion Week main venue, setting off a brilliant ‘China Shenzhen fashion style.’ This is China’s largest city in the overseas fashion event.

Kristin Costa, Gothic and Costume Wear Designs ,2013

Kristin Costa, Gothic and Costume Wear Designs ,2013

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Kristin Costa had been into fashion design for as long as she can remember. Her first outfits were made for her friends when they re-enacted their adaptation of Gone with the Wind in fourth grade. “The costumes were made out of felt and glue,” the chirpy 25 year-old designer recalled over the phone. “I think my mom still has one of them in a closet somewhere.”
Since then, Kristin’s inspirations have been historical fashion, theater, steampunk, and art. “I love looking at fine art and historical costumes. What’s awesome about steampunk, especially, is the Victorian aspect, and I’m drawn to what comes from the past that’s really fantastic and regal.”

The outfits were a fascinating mix of ready-to-wear items and theatrical set pieces. I adored the perfect mauve-patterned dresses and the flirty brass-buttoned skirts, along with the bold cuts in menswear. The result was both showy and wearable, a mix worthy to display both in department store windows and beneath stage lights.

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