Posts Tagged ‘United States’

I Support Kony2012

Posted: March 7, 2012 in Africa, Barack Obama, Children, Community Service, Crime, Education, Global Poverty, Human Rights, Inspiration, Journalism, Law and Order, Media, Movies, News, News and Views, Parenting, Philanthropy, Politics, Poverty, Random Thoughts, Television, Terrorism, Travel, United States of America, Violence, War, Women
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Joseph Kony is infamous for his atrocities and crimes against humanity in Uganda and neighboring countries and now the group Invisible Children is trying to make him famous.  Kony is one of the most sought after war criminals and the hope is by bringing attention to him the whole world will engage and finally hunt [...]

Blaine Harrington’s Photo Exhibit

Posted: December 17, 2010 in Africa, Colorado, India, Inspiration, Media, News, News and Views, Photography, Random Thoughts, Travel, United States of America, Women
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My friend, Blaine Harrington, is one of the most accomplished travel photographers in the world. He will be the featured photographer in an exhibit called “Unifying the World through Color” at the Denver Photo Art Gallery (for those of you in Denver it is John Fielder’s gallery at 833 Santa Fe Drive) starting on Friday, [...]

BBC: The Joy of Stats

Posted: December 9, 2010 in Africa, Books & Authors, China, Economy, Education, Global Warming, Health Care, Human Rights, India, Inspiration, Media, News, News and Views, Poverty, Random Thoughts, Television, United States of America
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What a clever way to make complicated and essential statistics user friendly. The BBC hit it out of the park with this program. For anyone interested in global poverty and the inequities between the haves and the have nots, Hans Rosling’s demonstration is must see TV. For more information on Vicky Collins visit http://teletrendstv.com.

A Westerner Ponders Arranged Marriage

Posted: October 26, 2010 in Children, Commonwealth Games, Human Rights, India, Inspiration, Media, Middle East, News, News and Views, Parenting, Random Thoughts, Religion, Social Networking, Technology, Travel, United States of America, Women
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One of the most interesting things I read in the newspaper while in Delhi was the matrimonials in the Sunday Times of India.  The section consisted of page after page of personal classifieds by families unapologetically seeking the perfect made to order husband or wife for children whose time has come to make a love [...]

We are the World (Cup)

Posted: June 27, 2010 in Africa, Canada, Inspiration, Media, Music, News, News and Views, Random Thoughts, Sports, Television, Travel, United States of America
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Sad to see the United States go down to Ghana in the 2010 FIFA World Cup but also glad to see Africa still in the game. The energy in the streets of Kampala was amazing while we were there. People would crowd outside of bars and stare through the windows of stores to watch the [...]

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, Women
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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, [...]

Oh Canada

Posted: February 18, 2010 in Canada, Inspiration, Media, News, News and Views, Olympics, Random Thoughts, Television, Travel, United States of America
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Walking down Granville Street in Vancouver tonight I saw something you hardly ever see  in the United States.  Twenty something girls playfully singing and strutting to their national anthem.  They were on the crosswalk and at the top of their lungs they were singing “Oh, Canada, our home and native land…”  Of course patriotism and spirit are running [...]

Africans on Obama

Posted: July 10, 2009 in Africa, Barack Obama, Global Poverty, Inspiration, Media, News, News and Views, Politics, Travel, Women
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NOTE: THIS IS A REPRINT OF A BLOG FROM 11/27/2008 FOLLOWING BARACK OBAMA’S ELECTION.  IT STILL RINGS TRUE AS HE PAYS HIS FIRST POST-PRESIDENTIAL VISIT TO ACCRA, GHANA IN WEST AFRICA WITH FIRST LADY MICHELLE AND DAUGHTERS SASHA AND MALIA OBAMA. Our Ugandan driver picked us up from the airport in Entebbe on November 9.  We were [...]