Richard O’Barry gets misty eyed when he talks about Cathy. His beautiful girl died in his arms. Suicide he says. Cathy was a bottlenose dolphin, one of five he trained for the 60′s television hit, “Flipper.” Her death in captivity at the Miami Seaquarium changed his world and set him on a course of activism. [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Animal Suicide
Posted: May 27, 2010 in Animals, Education, Environment, Media, Movies, News, News and Views, Random Thoughts, Television, Travel, WomenTags: Animal Suicide, Atlanta, Cathy, Dolphin, Dr. Ann Weaver, Dr. Lori Marino, Emory University, Flipper, Florida, Georgia, HDNet, Jennifer London, Key Biscayne, Key West, Miami, Miami Seaquarium, Orca, Oscar, Richard O'Barry, St. Petersburg, Suicide, Tampa Bay, The Cove, World Report
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Favorite Friends I’ve Never Met
Posted: May 23, 2010 in Acid Attacks, Africa, Books & Authors, Canada, Colorado, Community Service, Facebook, Global Poverty, Human Rights, Inspiration, Judaism, Media, Middle East, Midlife, News, News and Views, Philanthropy, Poverty, Random Thoughts, Religion, Social Networking, Technology, Television, Terrorism, Travel, United States of America, WomenTags: Acid Attacks, Africa, Amazing Women Rock, Ashton Ramsey, BeadforLife, Blog, Canada, Capetown, Caroline Jones, Charleston, Colorado, David Letterman, Dolly Parton, Dubai, Facebook, FIFA, Gettysburg, Godwin Opuly, Griff Hoeveler, Hajj, Half the Sky, HDNet, In the Land of Invisible Women, Judaism, kampala, Karen Daniel, Kenya, Knoxville, Linda Ellerbee, Margaret Hoeveler, Mt. Diablo, Muslim, Nairobi, Namibia, NASCAR, Neil Wanless, New York City, Nguvu, Nicholas Kristof, Northern California, Pakistan, Pennsylvania, Qanta Ahmed, Riyadh, Rockies, Saudi Arabia, Sheryl WuDunn, Social Networking, South Africa, South Carolina, South Dakota, Susan MacCaulay, Swahili, Tennessee, Twitter, Uganda, United States, Vegan, Winner, World Cup, World Report, YouTube, Zippy Nyaruri
Several of my friends and even my family think social networking is a waste of time. They won’t Facebook, Twitter or read blogs and can’t really understand what I get from it. I’ve found the most vehement opposition from my tango dancing mother and my friends who are cyclists. These are not ladies who exercise casually, [...]
Budget Cuts and the Bus
Posted: May 23, 2010 in Aging, Economy, Inspiration, Media, Midlife, News, News and Views, Politics, Random Thoughts, United States of America, WomenTags: Budget Cuts, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, N.C. Maisak, New York, New York Times, QM22
So often when officials slash budgets they are just crunching numbers rather than considering stories of loss. This article by N.C. Maisak from the New York Times tells how a group of Queens, New York bus riders who have become friends, practically family, over their years while riding the QM22 route, are losing their community on wheels because of cuts by [...]
Huffington Post’s Newest Blogger
Posted: May 10, 2010 in Media, News, News and Views, Politics, Random Thoughts, Social Networking, Television, WomenTags: Blogging, Huffington Post, Vicky Collins
After two years of posts and almost 15,000 hits to this blog I have been accepted as the Huffington Post’s newest blogger. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vicky-collins/politics-with-my-cappucci_b_568633.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vicky-collins/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/denver/ Thanks to all of you who have supported my blogging effort by reading and commenting. Please tell your friends too. For more information on Vicky Collins visit http://teletrendstv.com.
Politics with my Cappuccino
Posted: May 7, 2010 in Barack Obama, Books & Authors, Business, Colorado, Economy, Facebook, Food, Health Care, Inspiration, Media, Middle East, Midlife, News, News and Views, Politics, Random Thoughts, Religion, Social Networking, Television, Terrorism, WomenTags: Bailout, Barista, Car Bomb, Coffee, Colorado, Congress, Consequential Strangers, Conservative, Denver, Facebook, Health Care Reform, Liberal, Melinda Blau, MSNBC, Muslim, New York City, NPR, Obama, Politics, President Obama, Race, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, Times Square
My barista leaned over the counter today. “What do you think of the MSNBC host who said she hoped it was a Tea Party member rather than a Muslim who set the car bomb in Times Square?” His colleague at the cappucino maker edged closer to hear what I had to say. “Well,” I replied, ”I wish it [...]
NBC Assignment Editor Wins Mega Millions Lottery
Posted: May 6, 2010 in Business, Community Service, Economy, Hawaii, Inspiration, Media, News, News and Views, Philanthropy, Random Thoughts, Religion, Television, WomenTags: $266 Million, Burbank, Gilbert Cisneros, Jacki Cisneros, KNBC, L & L Hawaiian Barbeque, Los Angeles, Matt Lauer, Mega Millions, Meredith Vieira, NBC, Today Show
How good is this! KNBC overnight assignment editor Jacki Cisneros and her laid off husband Gilbert Cisneros win the Mega Millions Lottery. They spoke this morning to Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira on NBC’s Today Show from the Burbank studios after winning $266 million. Gilbert bought his lottery tickets at L & L Hawaiian Barbeque in [...]
Denver Public Schools Takes a Stand
Posted: May 1, 2010 in Barack Obama, Children, Colorado, Education, Health Care, Human Rights, Inspiration, Law and Order, Media, News, News and Views, Parenting, Politics, Random Thoughts, Television, United States of America, WomenTags: Arizona, Barack Obama, Caplis and Silverman, Congress, Craig Silverman, Dan Caplis, Democrat, Denver, Denver Public Schools, Education, Governor, Health Care, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Immigration Reform, KHOW, Republican, Scott McInnis
My husband, Darrell, was beside himself. What’s up with this? We have a son about to enter the Denver Public Schools and here they are banning employees from travelling to Arizona because of opposition to the new immigration law. He was fuming. Don’t they have more important things to worry about (like higher graduation rates?) He even called KHOW’s Caplis and [...]
