Want to live to be a thousand years old? It’s not far fetched at all if you ask theoretician and geneticist Aubrey de Grey. He believes within the next 25 years there is a 50/50 chance we’ll have the technologies to extend human life indefinitely. I learned of Aubrey and his ideas in 2005 and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘NBC’
Serengeti Highway: Going the Wrong Way
Posted: December 27, 2010 in Africa, Animals, Business, Economy, Endangered Species, Environment, Inspiration, Media, News, News and Views, Photography, Politics, Random Thoughts, Television, TravelTags: Africa, Highway, NBC, Richard Engel, Serengeti, Today Show
A plan by the government of Tanzania to build a road through the pristine Serengeti is so misguided, especially when there are other options for commerce. To put a busy road through one of the last untouched spaces on earth is a crime. Thank you Richard Engel of NBC for exploring the subject and to [...]
War and Remembrance 4
Posted: November 16, 2010 in Children, Education, Global Poverty, Human Rights, Inspiration, Judaism, Law and Order, Media, Middle East, News, News and Views, Parenting, Philanthropy, Politics, Poverty, Random Thoughts, Religion, Television, Terrorism, Travel, United States of America, Violence, War, WomenTags: 9-11, Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, George Bush, Greg Mortenson, Holocaust, Laura Bush, Muslims, NBC, Pakistan, Pearl Harbor, Taliban, Today, Veteran's Day, Women
Part 4 in the dialogue between me and Ben Coker, Jr. of South Carolina following my Veterans Day post. Hi Mr. Coker, I’m enjoying our dialogue. I am not the student of history that you are but as a television news producer and international traveler I think I’ve got a pretty good handle on current [...]
BeadforLife on 9News
Posted: October 9, 2010 in Africa, Business, Children, Colorado, Community Service, Global Poverty, Human Rights, Inspiration, Media, News, News and Views, Philanthropy, Poverty, Random Thoughts, Television, Travel, United States of America, WomenTags: 9News, Bazi Kanani, BeadforLife, Denver, NBC, Uganda
Thanks Bazi Kanani of Denver’s 9News for doing this wonderful story about the income generating project, BeadforLife. If you would like to host a bead party visit http://beadforlife.org. The organization is on its way to booking 100 parties in 100 days. It’s time and money very well spent and the women of Uganda will rain [...]
Why I Work at the Olympics
Posted: February 12, 2010 in Canada, Children, Human Rights, Inspiration, Media, News, News and Views, Olympics, Politics, Random Thoughts, Sports, Technology, Television, Travel, WomenTags: 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Broadcasting, Canada, NBC, Olympics, Opening Ceremony, Television, Today Show, Vancouver
My 16 year old son is mad at me. When I call home his anger is palpable. He does not understand why I leave home for extended periods of time every couple of years to work at the Olympics. He won’t listen when I try to explain so I’m putting it out to the world. [...]
Haiti Earthquake: Telling the Story
Posted: January 14, 2010 in Business, Global Poverty, Haiti, Human Rights, Inspiration, Media, Natural Disasters, News, News and Views, Philanthropy, Poverty, Random Thoughts, Television, Travel, United States of AmericaTags: ABC, Al Roker, Anderson Cooper, Ann Curry, Blogs, Brian Williams, CBS, cell phones, CNN, Earthquake, Facebook, Haiti, Katie Couric, Kerry Sanders, Los Angeles Times, NBC, New York Times, NGO, Port Au Prince, Twitter, YouTube
The Los Angeles Times and the New York Times are doing a great job reporting a backstory in Haiti. Their journalists are telling how broadcast and cable news handled the incredible logistics of deploying their people to Port Au Prince to cover the story. This is not to diminish the role of Facebook, Twitter, blogs, YouTube and cell [...]
Blair and the Balloon Boy
Posted: October 22, 2009 in Children, Colorado, Crime, Law and Order, Media, News, News and Views, Parenting, Random Thoughts, Technology, Television, Weather, WomenTags: Balloon Boy, Blair Ewalt, brazil, Cirque du Soleil, CNN, Colorado, David Lane, Entertainment Tonight, Falcon Heene, Fort Collins, Fox News, Japan, John Mark Carr, Jonbenet Ramsey, Larimer County Sheriff, Larry King Live, London, Mayumi Heene, NBC, NBC News, Richard Heene, Sheriff Jim Alderden, Take Your Kid to Work Day, Today Show
My 11 year old son, Blair, wanted to go to Cirque du Soleil this year, but because our schedules were so busy, we missed it. Instead he went to the Balloon Boy media circus. Because my husband was traveling and I was a single mom over the weekend I didn’t want to leave him at [...]
Andrea Jaeger’s Silver Lining
Posted: August 18, 2009 in Children, Colorado, Community Service, Health Care, Inspiration, Judaism, Media, News, News and Views, Philanthropy, Religion, Sports, Travel, WomenTags: Andrea Jaeger, Aspen, cancer, Colorado, Lee Cowan, NBC, NBC Nightly News, Silver Lining Foundation, Silver Lining Ranch, tennis
Andrea Jaeger is a former tennis great turned nun who heard a higher calling. She now runs the Silver Lining Foundation which helps terminally ill children. One of the highlights of the experience has been camp for kids battling cancer which has been held during summer and winter months in Aspen, Colorado. She is now [...]
