Jamie Oliver

This year at the TED convention in Long Beach Jamie Oliver received an award for his work to fight Obesity. TED is a non profit organization dedicated to spreading the word about worth while ideas. In the above video Jamie gives a passionate speech focused on motivating people & industries to change the way we use food in hopes of saving lives from food related diseases that are gripping our society.

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"Born empty handed,
Die empty handed,
I witnessed life at it's fullest,
Empty handed."
-Marlo Morgan (author of Mutant Message Down Under)

California Foster Care

via Witness LA

On any given day, 80,000 youngsters are in the state's care. Mostly low-income and minority, these children often struggle with mental or emotional problems. Two thirds of foster kids drop out of high school. As adults, many wind up homeless or in jail.

Foster children with serious mental or emotional problems are often confined for years in institutions.

It's not uncommon for foster children to grow up anxious or depressed. Public health agencies are obligated to help these kids, but the "revolving door" nature of the treatment creates more problems. "


Please check out this 3 part audio series on California Foster Care System from the California Report. It's one of the best description of the current foster care system that I have heard. It also gives a great description of some of the work being done to bring about change & improvement to the flawed system.

Part One: Changing the Odds of Foster Care

Part Two: As Long as It Takes

Part Three: Helping the Most Troubled Foster Kids

Born Into Brothels

Beautifully and wonderfully told story. I rented this from our library today and was incredibly moved. Watching this film was a wonderful reminder of how important hope is and how incredible things can happen when we consciously take the time to look outside of ourselves.

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Heard about this from a work colleague of mine. Colbert like always does a fabulous job with the story.