Huell Howser Will be Missed

Howser took his viewers to parks, museums, libraries, historic landmarks and any other place he found interesting. He would visit these places and conduct informal—but thorough—on the spot interviews. One week you could be watching Howser exploring Frank Sinatra’s house in Palm Springs and the next week he’d be in the Tehachapi Mountains visiting The Cesar Chavez Foundation.

“California’s Gold” ran for 18-seasons and started out the same year that California voters approved Proposition 187, the 1994 anti-immigrant measure introduced in response to the state’s changing demographics.

The show started at a time when the state was divided but “California’s Gold” still went in to a diverse set of communities and highlighted our differences so we could better understand each other and find similar interests.

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600 Guitarists Playing Tribute To India Rape Victim

"More than 600 guitarists in Darjeeling performed a singalong of John Lennon's Imagine in tribute to the gang rape victim whose death has stirred the nation."

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A New Year, A New Tradition

This year I want to start a new tradition on my blog. I'm going to post a story that's both newsworthy and heartwarming. It may go unnoticed by our traditional media sources but I feel like it will be worth reminiscing by the end of 2013. We're bombarded with horrible and tragic news every day, I'd like to counter that with something that sheds some good light on humanity.

That is all.

Thanks for stopping by, strangers that I know not of.

-F.O. Jr. III

La Negra

The Measure of a Civilization

"...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped. " ~ Last Speech of Hubert H. Humphrey

"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Ghandi

Gentleman's Guide to Shoes

La Pobreza Existe En Todos Lados

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Rodriguez: The Rock Icon That Didn't Even Know

Gael Ordaz

Born on December 22, 2012. 6lbs, 14oz.

Leadership

"If your actions inspire others to do more, to learn more, to dream more or to become more, you are a leader." 

-John Quincy Adams