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LOWER YOUR TAXES! Now & Forever with Ed Slott is the third public television special featuring renowned tax advisor, personal finance author and Certified Public Accountant Ed Slott. In this all-new program, Slott answers pressing viewer retirement questions: how not to run out of money in retirement, ROTH IRA conversion traps, 10 steps to pay less taxes, a rundown of key retirement terms, how to pick retirement professionals, and much more. Shot before a live audience, LOWER YOUR TAXES! Now & Forever features Slott’s humorous and informative style, filled with poignant anecdotes and a fresh new look. Throughout the special, Slott manages to make difficult subjects, including estate planning, family conversations about money, and retirement planning, understandable and fun.

A production of Inky Dinky Worldwide, Inc. Producer/Director: Bob Marty.
A presentation of WLIW21 in association with WNET.ORG.

About Ed Slott, CPA

Named “The Best” source for IRA advice by The Wall Street Journal, Ed Slott, CPA, is the creator and star of the national public television specials Stay Rich Forever & Ever with Ed Slott and Ed Slott’s Stay Rich for Life – two of the top fundraising specials of all time. He also created The IRA Leadership Program™ and Ed Slott’s Elite IRA Advisor Group™, specifically developed to help financial institutions and advisors, financial advisor firms and insurance companies become recognized leaders in the IRA marketplace. Slott is the author of several best-selling books including Stay Rich for Life! (Ballantine Books, 2009) and Parlay Your IRA into a Family Fortune (Penguin, 2005), publishes the monthly IRA newsletter, Ed Slott’s IRA Advisor, writes personal finance columns for numerous publications, and has been a frequent guest on national television and radio. Ed Slott and Company, LLC is based in Rockville Centre, New York.

Premieres nationwide March 2010 on PBS (check local listings)

Stunning Aerial and Ground Footage Showcase Natural Beauty and Vibrant Cities

WLIW21’s Visions® series has been bringing television audiences the world’s top destinations like no tour could for more than a decade. Visions® of Canada, the 24th program in the popular series, celebrates the best our northern neighbors have to offer, traveling east to west from the Atlantic Maritime Provinces to British Columbia. Following the February 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Visions® of Canada is part of special programming airing in March 2010 (check local listings) on PBS stations.

“Since we began the Visions® series in 1997, we have taken our viewers to some of the most interesting destinations in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East for vicarious vacations,” says Executive Producer Roy A Hammond. “With Canada, we shot some of the most stunning images yet in the series, and right in our own backyard”. Visions® hits the highlights of the world’s second-largest country, spanning six time zones to showcase Canada’s diverse natural beauty and vibrant cities. Stunning high definition aerial and ground footage, paired with music and informative narration, give rich historical context to dramatic land and seascapes.

From wine country to the Hockey Hall of Fame, from the abstract beauty of the ‘earth paintings’ formed by low tide on the Bay of Fundy to the height of commerce along the St. Lawrence River, Visions® of Canada reveals a country of amazing contrasts that form a cultural and geographic mosaic. French, English, Irish, and Scottish roots meet Vancouver’s flourishing Chinatown. Palm trees and snow-capped mountains share a common land mass. East meets west, old meets new, tradition engages innovation, and a proud past comes face to face with an exciting future. And you’d have to be in a barrel to get closer to Niagara Falls.

Visions® of Canada begins in the east in the Maritime Provinces as the original Viking explorers might have. As the helicopter-mounted camera soars over Nova Scotia, it is hard to imagine such transcendent beauty was ever the site of decades of conflict, evidenced today only in the English and French names of places like Charlottetown (for King George’s wife), Halifax (an English lord) or Cape Breton (Brittany’s namesake). Visions® offers a new and unique perspective on some of Canada’s most famous locations, giving a taste of the history behind the Thousand Islands, plunging into the raging waters of Horseshoe Falls and much more. You’ll almost feel the cobblestones on the streets of Quebec City and the creative buzz of cosmopolitan Montreal, and then head west to experience the riches of the national capital in Ottawa, generally considered Canada’s best kept secret. Continuing west, the camera skims the surface looking for shipwrecks in Fathom Five Marine National Park, combs the beach at Lake Huron during the height of Canadian summer in Ontario, and finds itself, like so many, seduced by the pulse of Toronto’s modern metropolis. Here, the CN Tower, the tallest freestanding structure in North America, helps us find our bearings from anywhere in the city.

Moving over central Canada, the camera sweeps over the sea of grass that is the vast prairie lands, climbs high into the Rockies where only professional climbers venture, provides the quickest route to the top of the 621-foot Calgary Tower, teases the tranquil turquoise waters of Lake Louise among an abundance of pristine mirrored lakes nearly close enough to touch, and joins the ancient spirits above the Pacific Rim to see the world as it appears nowhere else.

After a journey of stirring beauty from east to west, the end of the continent at British Columbia can feel like the end of the world. But before the sun sets, Visions® of Canada tours Vancouver Harbor, the blue jewel in the green mountain setting discovered by Captain George Vancouver in the late 1700s — and then ends its journey in the capital of British Columbia, Victoria.

Visions® of Canada is the 24th program in WLIW21’s acclaimed Visions® series. Past programs include tours of Italy, Greece, Puerto Rico, France, and Israel. Visions® provides a visual itinerary… an emotional visit to a family homeland… a souvenir of the trip of a lifetime… or the virtual realization of a fantasy vacation – and always a one-of-a-kind experience. For more information, visit visionsof.org.

Sites Visited

Roche Percé, Gaspé Peninsula
Port-Royal, Nova Scotia
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
St. Dunston’s Basilica
Jacques Cartier Monument, Gaspé
Royal Military College, Kingston
Fort Charotte, Halifax
Citadel, Halifax
Bay of Fundy
Confederation Bridge
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Laviolette Bridge
Manor Richelieu Hotel
Cap au Saumon Lighthouse
Montmorency Falls
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré
Québec City
Château Frontenac Hotel
La Citadelle
Place Royale
Maison Chevalier
Parlement de Québec
St. Helen’s Island
Montreal Olympic Park
Biosphere
1501 McGill College Tower
Habitat 67 (Expo 67)
Basilique Notre-Dame
Strathcona Music Building
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Place des Arts
Marché Bonsecours
Port Clock Tower
McGill University
James McGill
Botanical Gardens Pagoda
Thousand Islands
Boldt’s Castle
Niagara Falls
American Falls
Horseshoe Falls
Rideau Canal
Hamilton
Kingston
Fort Henry, Kingston
Ottawa Locks
Canadian Parliament
Byward Market
National Gallery of Canada
Canadian Museum of Civilization
National War Memorial
Georgian Bay, Ontario
Cabot Head Lighthouse
Fathom Five Marine National Park
“Wonderland” Maple, Ontario
Toronto
Princes’ Gates
Scotia Tower
CN Tower
Old City Hall
New City Hall
Roy Thomson Hall
Royal Ontario Museum
Art Gallery of Ontario
University of Toronto
Ontario Parliament
Rogers Centre
Air Canada Centre
Hockey Hall of Fame
Fort York
Toronto Islands
Midland, Ontario
Calgary Zoo
Fort Calgary North-West Mounted Police Memorial
Fairmont Hotel, Banff Springs
Lake Louise
Chateau Lake Louise
Spring thaw Yoho National Park
Upper Arrow Lake
Columbia River
Golden
Kelowna
Capilano Suspension Bridge
Vancouver Harbor
Science World
Public Library
Gastown Steam Clock
Canada Place
Harbour Centre Tower
Chinatown Gate
Dr. Sun Yat-sen
Dr. Sun Yat-sen Chinese Garden
Convention Centre
“Gassy” Jack Deighton
Vancouver Art Gallery
Stanley Park
Strait of Georgia
Vancouver Island
Gabriel Island Lighthouse
Victoria, Vancouver Island
Queen Elizabeth II Statue
Empress Hotel
Royal British Columbia Museum
Bastion Square
Butchart Gardens

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A production of WLIW21 for WNET.ORG. Executive Producer/Aerial Director: Roy A Hammond. Producer/Writer: Sam Toperoff. Underwriters: Public Television Viewers and PBS.

Northeast – Bill explores the Norman Rockwell Museum in Lenox, Massachusetts, where he learns about the artist’s unique creative process from a guide who posed for Rockwell as a child. Then in New York City, Bill sees how custom wallpaper is made in the workshop of famous designer Peter Fasano, and visits a living legend, renowned furniture designer Vladimir Kagan at his home.

Québec City, Canada – Bill walks the winding cobblestones streets of the old walled Québec City to reach the fabulous landmark Château Frontenac Hotel, where Chef Jean Soulard invites Bill to his rooftop inspiration, where he tends an herb garden and keeps bees.

Galveston, TX – Bill explores Galveston’s historic district and hotels, shares Galveston’s fascinating history, meets some of the local characters, and helps a family restore a home destroyed by Hurricane Ike.

Galveston, TX – Bill completes and furnishes a house in Galveston destroyed by Hurricane Ike and celebrates some of his favorite friends and places.

Visit 17 of North America’s most historic and scenic tourist steam railroads: from the frozen tundra of Alaska to the high desert of Arizona, the White Mountains of New Hampshire to the Black Hills of South Dakota, and through the prairies and mountains of Canada. Tour the Steam Town National Historic Site in Scranton, Penn. Receive a first-hand lesson on how steam engines work and the incredible amount of labor necessary to keep them in operation. Volunteer mechanics describe how every steam engine is a living, breathing being with its own personality — an “iron lady” with “good” days and “bad” days. The volunteers share their very real concerns that, as they age and pass away, too few young people are learning the mechanical skills necessary to carry on the tradition. Most important, ride along with pre-schoolers and senior citizens and enjoy the breath-taking landscapes that can only be seen by train and listen to passengers’ thoughts about how a ride on a steam train is like traveling through the past on a time machine. Grammy award-winning musician and storyteller David Holt hosts.

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Host Tory Salvia, President of The Sailing Channel, introduces the highly acclaimed half-hour sailing/travel/adventure series Distant Shores, produced by Canadian sailors Paul and Sheryl Shards. In the finale, the Shards continue exploring the island of Lesvos on the Greek Isles and travel to the town of Plomari, the capital of Ouzo where many traditional festivals celebrate the heritage of the region. The Shards arrive on the first day of the Annual Ouzo Festival and enjoy four nights of feasting, regional music and free ouzo provided by the local distilleries. Paul and Sheryl end their visit by attending the Annual Horse Festival, where local riders parade through town and display their riding skills in a unique dance competition at the waterfront. 30 minutes. ST and CC.

For more information on Distant Shores visit TheSailingChannel.TV

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Host Tory Salvia, President of The Sailing Channel, and his son, Jon, prepare to set sail on their family boat, while Tory introduces a unique video that expresses the joy and wonder of sailing through an original musical score and inspirational poetry. Dancing With the Wind tells the story of a two-day cruise along Florida’s central Gulf coast. The boat is Wind Ketcher, a classic Tom Gilmer-designed, 1976 Allied Seawind ketch with an Atlantic crossing under her keel. Her skipper is Ed Verner, a professional composer and musician. Wind Ketcher glistens and gleams across the waves, dancing with the wind to Ed’s melodies. Poetic narrative and gorgeous photography enhance the voyage as viewers sail through fair weather and squalls with Ed’s music and words matching the moods of the sea. Returning to port, Ed’s dance with the wind ends in the golden glow of a Florida sunset. 30 minutes. ST and CC.

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Host Tory Salvia, President of The Sailing Channel, introduces the highly acclaimed half-hour sailing/travel/adventure series Distant Shores, produced by Canadian sailors Paul and Sheryl Shards. Viewers sail with the Shards aboard their Classic 37 sloop Two Step as they explore the west coast of Turkey. In this week’s episode, the Shards begin their exploration of Istanbul from their base in Atakoy Marina. They visit the Grand Bazaar, one of the world’s oldest and largest covered markets, and learn about Turkish fashion, food, and night life with local friends. 30 minutes. ST and CC.

For more information on Distant Shores visit TheSailingChannel.TV