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Tamara Lackey is a renowned professional photographer, innovative entrepreneur and web show personality. Widely known for creating authentic lifestyle photography, from children’s portraits to commercial and editorial projects, her work is praised within her industry and published internationally. Tamara’s work has been featured in dozens of media outlets including Vogue, O – The Oprah Magazine, Town & Country, Parenting Magazine, Food & Wine, The Knot, Professional Photographer Magazine, Rangefinder Magazine, Shutterbug Magazine, NBC’s The Martha Stewart Show and ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

Combining artistry with spontaneous authenticity, Tamara’s new web series, reDefine, examines inspiring stories of those who are navigating ways to maximize their life’s potential amidst the information age. Tamara’s interview style is relaxed, straightforward and often humorous, which showcases her abiding interest in how people from all walks in life achieve a satisfying life-work balance, avoid stress, and find meaning in the everyday moments.

A sought-after professional speaker, Tamara has addressed thousands at conventions and conferences, and serves as one of five Advisory Board Members for Professional Wedding & Studio Photographers International Association. Tamara’s blog averages 90,000 hits per month, and she boasts almost 20,000 followers on Facebook and Twitter combined.

Her educational book for professionals, The Art of Children’s Portrait Photography, was released to high praise from editorial reviews, peers and aspiring photographers in late 2008, quickly followed by her next projects – an instructional video titled Inside Contemporary Children’s Photography, created in partnership with Rex Ballard, and the Tamara Lackey Style Book, developed in collaboration with Kubota Image Tools. Translating her professional acumen and intuitive teaching skills to a consumer audience, Tamara recently released a unique “edutainment” guide, Tamara Lackey’s Capturing Life Through (Better) Photography™, which has already garnered acclaim in the professional and consumer markets. Visit: http://www.capturinglifebetter.com or http://tamaralackey.com.



For remarkable photos of attendees, sponsors, celebrities lending their support to a cause that helps the residents of the East End year round, contact: Melissa Lande, mlande@landepr.com, ASAP: Photos available of major personalities NOW.

 

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF THE EAST END HOLDS

FAMILY FESTIVAL BENEFIT ON JULY 23

 

CO-CHAIRED BY LAW AND ORDER’S SVU’S MARISKA HARGITAY,

ACTRESS AND COMEDIAN ALI WENTWORTH AND TV HOST KATIE BROWN

WHEN:              Saturday, July 23, 2011

 

WHERE:            Children Museum of the East End

                         376 Bridgehampton/Sag Harbour Turnpike, Bridgehampton, NY

                        631-537-8250

ABOUT THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF THE EAST END

 

For more information about the Children’s Museum of the East End, please visit www.CMEE.org.

 

PRESS CONTACT:       Cindy Morris at The Benson Agency, 617-877-4965 or cmorris@thebensonagency.com

OpenInvo is a business created by Emily Lutzker and a committee of founders who provide companies with access to untapped creative resources for innovation, and to offer support services to both buyers and sellers of intellectual property.

“Valuable innovation comes from unexpected sources. Creativity is rooted in putting seemingly disparate things together, so we created a technology platform where these disparate things could have a chance to cross-pollinate,” says Lutzker. http://www.openinvo.com/about-the-process.

While innovation consultancies and licensing agencies provide similar services, OpenInvo uniquely offers an access point to unexpected sources, rather than trying to generate innovation or scout innovation.Bringing creative types to people or institutions who can utilize those ideas, OpenInvo provides a win-win situation. The inventors win because they would not know how to bring their ideas to market; the companies win because they have access to fresh ideas.

“Imagination is one of the most vital qualities we have as human beings. It should not be confused with knowledge, skills, or talent, or even ambition. Imagination is the key to innovation, and it’s the basis of what will feed the US economy. People with great imagination are our natural resources – they should be nurtured and rewarded for the things they dare to dream,” says Lutzker. (And she means it.)

So far, OpenInvo, still in its infancy, has arranged/and is working on partnerships and new products, including:
 “Shockingly, I’m finding it as creative and exciting and fulfilling as any exhibition I ever had as an artist,” says Lutzker. “After all it’s based on building a business that sells creative ideas.”

Next from Open Invo: OpenInvo Studio, a series of workshops geared toward corporations that are designed to bridge the gap between the practical and the creative, imparting new skills for better teamwork, problem solving, efficiency, and fearlessness in the office. http://www.openinvo.com/openinvo-studio

BENEFITTING FROM OPENINVO’s RIGHT BRAIN CONCEPT

The OpenInvo Studio evolved naturally from the bigger concept that OpenInvo is a platform to support the innovation process; it is not simply the marketplace for ideas. With backgrounds in the arts and creative industries, we saw that the skills that these creative types use every day and often take for granted, are the key to what companies constantly ask for.

Now in its 26^th year, the guide by Douglas Ward is the only cruise book you will ever need. Douglas Ward, the world's foremost authority on cruising and the author of all 26 editions of the 2011 Berlitz Complete Guide to Cruising & Cruise Ships —an indispensable book for cruisers that is, Ward proudly says, “totally independent, with no commercial links to any cruise operator.”
In a 45-year career in cruising, he has earned a reputation as "the most feared critic in the business," according to The Times of London. Using an elaborate rating system, he has logged more than 5,600 days at sea on more than 1,000 cruisesThat is because Mr. Ward created a ranking system that enables him to systematically check every possible aspect of hundreds of cruise ships each year.
Equipped with tape measure and flashlight, Ward prowls and inspects each ship like a maritime Sherlock Holmes, thoroughly checking (and critiquing) all aspects of the cruise experience—from the quality (or lack thereof) of the cuisine and the entertainment to the size and comfort level of the cabins and the “hidden costs” that can ensnare the unwary (like paying “extra gratuities”). No element goes unnoticed. Is the height of toilets or the water pressure of showers problematic? Are the bath towels soft enough? Are there proper facilities for the disabled? The kitchens may be clean, but what of the fingernails of the servers—and are they attentive enough? That is Douglas Ward at work...
In the past ten years, American cruise travel has increased by 6.4%.  This year, it is estimated that 14.3 million people will embark on a cruise. Berlitz’s COMPLETE GUIDE TO CRUISING & CRUISE SHIPS 2011 is singularly devoted to provide consumers with every possible detail to help them choose the best possible cruise vacation this year with detailed, candid reviews of over 250 major ships, and Ward’s no-holds-barred assessments on:
 

• Steering clear of some so-called “cruise discounts” that may actually be pricey marketing gimmicks
• Avoiding some cruise-line rip-offs (watch yourself, for example, on currency conversions, paying extra gratuities and the  “unacceptably high” cost of transfer buses in some ports)
• At-a-glance charts comparing the major cruise lines for cabin facilities, food, service and tours
• The top cruise lines’ strengths and weaknesses
• Where to find the best spas and entertainment
• Expert advice for singles, honeymooners, families, and the physically-challenged
• Expedition cruises, sailing ships and freighter travel
• Full-color maps of principal cruise destinations

According to The Reliable Source, Tipper Gore, ex-wife of almost President Al, turned up in DC last night to emcee a screening of “The Music Never Stopped,” a film about family, healing and the Grateful Dead. Invited by Mickey Hart, a world leader in world music and longtime Grateful Dead percussionist, she was joined by the inspiration of the film neurologist/author Oliver Sacks, other DC luminaries, and Mickey who, at 67 was denied a glass of chardonnay because he had no ID.

That and Tipper's wearing of her wedding ring seemed to be meta tag alerts in this story.

The piece focused on the event:

• Tipper was there wearing her wedding ring.
• Nancy Pelosi was there without a gavel (ok I said the gavel part).
• Mickey denied a drink is big news.

"The film is based on a case study by Sacks and tells the story of a father and his estranged son who slowly rebuild a bond throught he music of the Dead. Dad's a mellow guy who favors crooners and classics but the hemp-fueled hits of the '60s provide therapeutic enough for his neurologically disabled kid," summarizes the pieces. Good summary.

The real news:

• Washington luminaries came out to see the film- what did they think?
• Tipper Gore is friendly enough with Micky Hart to draw a crowd, and he's no deadbeat- just a leader in world music.
• Oliver Sacks has unreaveled mysteries of the brain. In this one, he uses music as an example of healing. THIS is original.

It goes on to report that Rep Jim McDermott (D-Washington), serving his 12th term in the House, harummped the question . This implies, "I don't get it." Perhaps not a Deadhead but he asked a legitimate question- basically, "Why the Dead and not, for example, Paul Simon?" The Honorable McDermottt is, in fact, honorable, and has been in public service since 1970 - not counting the Navy and the fact that he's a doctor and was interested in the film.

As a physician, Representative McDermott is especially interested in health care issues. While serving in the Washington State Legislature, he crafted the Washington Basic Health Plan, the first state program in the country to provide low-cost health insurance to the unemployed and working poor. In the U.S. Congress, Representative McDermott is consistently active on health care reform issues. He founded and chairs the Congressional Task Force on International HIV/AIDS, and championed the AIDS Housing Opportunities Act.

So please, Reliable Source, let's not give Jim a harummp. Let's just say he ASKED. And let's give the people who work in neurological health care in a productive way some kudos.

PS -And now we have a film that prove this includes the Grateful Dead. You could say it includes much artistic endeavor in general which speaks to people emotionally and helps heal individuals and relationships.