An International Friend Indeed: Action Time Guy in the T.M.B.I.F Park #ATG
An International Friend Indeed:
Action Time Guy and I were hanging out in Theodore M. Berry, International Friendship Park located in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was a great day!
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Vision Walk Held at Sawyer Point
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The annual Vision Walk was held Saturday morning in the downtown area, commencing at the Theodore M. Berry International Friendship Park, just east of downtown.The event raises money for The Foundation Fighting Blindness, which helps support research into retinal diseases.Local 12's Paula Toti served as media chair for the event. It's a cause close to her heart. Her husband is president of The Foundation Fighting Blindness's Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Chapter.The walk raised more than $133,000.
Ted Berry: Mayor talks about impact of anti-poverty programs in Cincinnati
Theodore M. Berry overcame poverty and racism with a fierce determination and became Cincinnati’s first African-American mayor in 1973. Berry rose from the West End to local prominence as a lawyer/prosecutor, president of the Cincinnati NAACP, city council member and civil rights activist. Appointed by President Johnson , he went to Washington in 1965 as assistant director of the War on Poverty, in charge of the community action program. After returning in 1969, he was appointed to a council vacancy in 1971 and chosen as mayor by the Charterite-Democratic council majority. Berry was committed to advancing social causes and improving the lives of the poor and powerless, and he inspired others to join him. He served with quiet dignity and respect and was revered by people no matter their color or politics. When Berry died on Oct. 15, 2000. Mayor Charlie Luken summed up: “Few if any Cincinnatians have achieved his stature and meant more to the community than he did.” Berry was 94.
One Nation Indivisible | John Bridgeland | TEDxPennsylvaniaAvenue
How can America restore its ability to solve big problems, bring young people together in common purpose across race, ethnicity, politics and religion, and heal a divided nation? Former White House Domestic Policy Director John Bridgeland shares his vision for universal voluntary national service — drawing on his experience after 9/11 and the lessons of U.S. history. Now is a more urgent time than ever to bring this big idea to scale.
John Bridgeland is Founder & CEO of Civic Enterprises, Vice Chair of the Service Year Alliance at The Aspen Institute to make a service year a common expectation and opportunity for all 18-28 year olds, Co-Convener of Grad Nation to reach a 90 percent high school graduation rate by 2020, and Vice Chairman of Malaria No More, a nonprofit working to end malaria deaths in Africa by the end of 2016.
Previously, Bridgeland was appointed by President Obama to serve on the White House Council for Community Solutions. He also served as Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, Assistant to the President of the United States, and first Director of the USA Freedom Corps under President George W. Bush. He was a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Commission on Political Reform. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Virginia School of Law. He lives in McLean, Virginia with his wife and three children.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at
Powell Moore, Reflections on Georgia Politics
ROGP 095. Powell Moore interviewed by Bob Short, December 8, 2009.
Powell A. Moore began his career in politics in 1966, when Senator Richard B. Russell appointed him as his press secretary. After Russell's death, Moore went to work in the Justice Department as deputy director of Public Information under President Nixon. He then developed a foundation client and consulting business called the Marketing Corporation of America. In 1981, he was appointed to serve President Ronald Reagan as deputy assistant to the president for Legislative Affairs. In 1982, he was appointed assistant secretary of state for Intergovernmental and Legislative Affairs. In 1998, he became chief of staff for Senator Fred Thompson in Tennessee. Moore was later sworn in as assistant secretary of defense for Legislative Affairs under President Bush in 2001. In 2006, he was appointed representative of the U.S. Secretary of Defense to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and in this capacity was stationed in Vienna, Austria. Moore discusses the various presidents he has worked under, his opinion of party politics in Georgia, and his friendship with Richard B. Russell.
From the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. For more information, see:
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Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)