tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80686160992523893322024-03-08T10:21:32.918-07:00Greg Mortenson's BlogAsalam-o-Alaikum (Peace be with you). This blog is about Greg Mortenson, the author of New York Times #1 bestseller, "Three Cups of Tea" www.threecupsoftea.com, director of nonprofit "Central Asia Institute" www.ikat.org and founder of "Pennies for Peace" www.penniesforpeace.org, and the author of "Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs" www.stonesintoschools.com released Dec 1st, 2009 by VikingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-91715091088296921712011-04-20T00:19:00.001-06:002011-04-20T00:23:18.632-06:00Greg Mortenson's Response to Allegations on CBS<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><strong style="font-size: medium; ">Important Messages from Central Asia Institute</strong><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" >For further questions, concerns and inquires, please email </span><a href="mailto:media@ikat.org" style="text-decoration: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(119, 17, 55); font-weight: bold; font-size: medium; ">media@ikat.org</a><span class="Apple-style-span" >.</span><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; font-size: medium; "></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.7em; "></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(119, 17, 55); "><b><a href="http://ikat.org/wp-includes/documents/gregmessage.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Greg Mortenson’s Message to Supporters</span></a></b></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(119, 17, 55); "><b><a href="http://ikat.org/wp-includes/documents/message04-15-11.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" >An Important Message from Greg Mortenson 04/15/11</span></a></b></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(119, 17, 55); "><b><a href="http://ikat.org/wp-includes/documents/boardstatement4-16-11.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" >CAI Board of Directors Statement 04/16/11</span></a></b></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(119, 17, 55); "><b><a href="http://www.ikat.org/about-cai/financials/"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Please see Central Asia Institute’s Financials here</span></a></b></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(119, 17, 55); "><b><a href="http://ikat.org/wp-includes/documents/60minutesresponses.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" >CAI Board of Directors Response to “60 Minutes” Questions</span></a></b></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(119, 17, 55); "><b><a href="http://ikat.org/wp-includes/documents/gmresponse.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" >Greg Mortenson’s response to “60 Minutes” Questions</span></a></b></span></li></ul><p></p></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-74742142761553066022010-07-05T17:24:00.001-06:002010-07-05T17:26:06.057-06:00Greg Mortenson: A Face of America Commentary (July 2010)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Greg Mortenson: A Face of America Commentary</em></strong></h1><p class="style1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">By Tony Mussari<br />Copyright 2010<br />The Face of America Project<br />Mussari-Loftus Associates, LTD</p><p class="style1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">The seats in the Kirby Theater are empty. The room is dark, the books,<a href="http://faceofamericawps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Gm-2001_1020.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img src="http://faceofamericawps.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Gm-2001_1020.jpg" alt="" title="Gm 2001_1020" width="200" height="137" class="alignright size-full wp-image-942" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 16px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; float: right; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " /></a> pictures, graphics and all the other external trappings of Greg Mortenson’s visit are packed away. The letters on the marquis announce another event, but the memory of this magical moment will forever be recorded in the hearts and souls of the 1,800 people who filled the Kirby Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday last.</p><p class="style1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Among those memories are ten statements and five quotations that, if applied, can change our world for the better:</p><ol class="style1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Use books not bullets to bring peace to our world;</li></ol><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://faceofamericawps.com/news/greg-mortenson-a-face-of-america-commentary/">click here</a> for complete article</div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-37933897381097425682010-05-10T22:42:00.000-06:002010-05-10T22:44:19.586-06:003 Cups of Tea With Greg Mortenson (05/08/10)<div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">SBMS Teen Press</span></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A blog by the Santa Barbara Middle School Teen Press</span></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">May 8th, 2010</span></span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">
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<br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">UCSB Arts and Lectures and Direct Relief International treated Santa Barbara to yet another inspirational evening this week. Greg Mortenson, peacebuilder and author of Three Cups of Tea and Stones Into Schools overflowed the Direct Relief warehouse and the Arlington Theater, sharing his vision for peace in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the world.With palettes of aid wrapped and ready for far off neighbors their backdrop, theSanta Barbara Middle School Teen Press, working with Santa Barbara Kids Magazine, shared three cups of tea with Greg, shoes off, on the floor of the Direct Relief warehouse.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">
<br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">For complete article, please <</span></span><a href="http://sb.city2.org/blogs/sbmsteenpress/blog_entries/1757-3-cups-of-tea-with-greg-mortenson/blog_comments/new"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">click here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-53247254406113533542010-01-24T17:07:00.002-07:002010-01-24T17:11:03.068-07:00Greg Mortenson on Canada's # 1 Late Night Show (01/20/10)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/S1zhVeISLNI/AAAAAAAABok/DPNYhoExlGk/s1600-h/George+Stroumboulopoulos.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 120px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/S1zhVeISLNI/AAAAAAAABok/DPNYhoExlGk/s200/George+Stroumboulopoulos.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430463009683287250" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; "><div><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1264377961_0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Greg Mortenson</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> on Canada's # 1 </b></span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1264377961_1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Late Night</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> Show</b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></b></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>'The Hour'</b></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> with CBC TV host George Stroumboulopoulos</b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Wednesday, January 20, 2010, </b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ten minute video, click below:</span></span></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 112, 192); line-height: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; "><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/The_Hour/ID=1393356940"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1264377961_3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/The_Hour/ID=1393356940</span></span></span></a></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-67684055340601134632010-01-20T18:33:00.004-07:002010-01-20T18:35:35.022-07:00Philadelphia Inquirer (01/17/10)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/S1evC9DtlZI/AAAAAAAABoc/QiR-JITVh-I/s1600-h/tr.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 161px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/S1evC9DtlZI/AAAAAAAABoc/QiR-JITVh-I/s200/tr.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429000341103154578" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b>Philadelphia Inquirer</b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b>Sunday, January 17, 2010</b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 13px; "><h1><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Worldview: A surge in schools</span></span></h1><h2><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A best seller describes a compelling way to build ties with Afghanistan.</span></span></h2><div><p class="byline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">By Trudy Rubin</span></span></p><p class="byline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="byline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Readers often ask me if I've read </span></span><i><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1264037134_2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Three Cups of Tea</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, the </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1264037134_3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">best seller</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> by a self-styled "crazy American" named </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1264037134_4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Greg Mortenson</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. The book describes how he came to build girls' schools in </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1264037134_5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Pakistan</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> and </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1264037134_6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Afghanistan</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">.</span></span></span></i></p><p class="byline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Often the questioners are quite passionate. This is no surprise, since </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Three Cups of Tea</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> has topped the charts for three years, Mortenson's lectures pack huge halls, and America's top military brass frequently cite the book. Nearly four million copies have been sold, in 41 countries, and of the 131 schools that Greg's Central Asia Institute has built, none has been shut down by the </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1264037134_7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Taliban</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> . . . </span></span></p><p class="byline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> </span></p><p class="byline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">read on click here: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;color:#0070C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-indent: 0in !important; color:#0070C0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/trudy_rubin/20100117_Worldview__A_surge_in_schools.html">www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/trudy_rubin/20100117_Worldview__A_surge_in_schools.htm</a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/trudy_rubin/20100117_Worldview__A_surge_in_schools.html">l</a></span></span></span></span></span></p></div></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-8739049462638918122010-01-17T10:39:00.004-07:002010-01-17T10:43:25.727-07:00Bill Moyer's Journal, PBS TV 30" feature with Greg Mortenson (01/15/10)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/S1NMIJnO14I/AAAAAAAABoM/Wg6_FEDj7zY/s1600-h/pbs_logo.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 145px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/S1NMIJnO14I/AAAAAAAABoM/Wg6_FEDj7zY/s200/pbs_logo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427765678814713730" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b>Bill Moyer's Journal<br />PBS TV 30" feature with Greg Mortenson<br />Sunday, January 15, 2010</b><br /><br />Click link below<br /></span></span><a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01152010/watch2.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01152010/watch2.html</span></span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-17297494296907354192009-12-29T00:55:00.000-07:002009-12-29T00:56:17.379-07:00Garrison Keilor discusess Greg Mortenson's birthday and his hew book Stones into Stones on Writer's Almanac NPR (12/27/09)<script type="text/javascript" src="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/www_publicradio/tools/media_player/js/swfobject.js"></script><div id="writers_almanac_2009_12_twa_20091227_64s_player"></div><script type="text/javascript">/*<![CDATA[*/var so = new SWFObject("http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/www_publicradio/tools/media_player/s_player.swf", "writers_almanac_2009_12_twa_20091227_64s_player", "319", "83", "8", "#ffffff");so.addParam("quality", "high");so.addParam("menu", "false");so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");so.addVariable("name", "writers_almanac/2009/12/twa_20091227_64");so.write("writers_almanac_2009_12_twa_20091227_64s_player");/*]]>*/</script>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-91296663285718017222009-12-22T09:17:00.000-07:002009-12-22T09:18:20.939-07:00The inspiring sequel to "Three Cups of Tea" ... (12/21/09)<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; "><div id="ecxmastHead" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div id="ecxmLeader" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div id="ecxlogo" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; 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padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; " /></span></span></span></span></a></div></div></div><div id="ecxcontentBounds" style="text-indent: 0in !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div id="ecxmainColumn" style="text-indent: 0in !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><h1 class="head" style="text-indent: 0in !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span"><span class="ecxApple-style-span"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Stones Into Schools</span></span></span></span></span></h1><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span"><span class="ecxApple-style-span"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The inspiring sequel to "</span></span></b><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261498460_0" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Three Cups of Tea</span></span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">" follows </span></span></b><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261498460_1" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Greg Mortenson</span></span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> into remote </span></span></b><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261498460_2"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Afghanistan</span></span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> where he continues his quest to build schools.</span></span></b></span></span></span></p><div class="hr" style="text-indent: 0in !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></div><p class="ecxsByline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span"><span class="ecxApple-style-span"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">By </span></span></b></span></span></span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/About/Contact-Us-Feedback" style="text-indent: 0in !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span"><span class="ecxApple-style-span"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Marilyn Gardner</span></span></b></span></span></span></a></p><p class="ecxsByline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span"><span class="ecxApple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Monday, December 21, 2009</span></span></b></span></span></p><p class="ecxsByline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p class="ecxsByline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Until this year, children living in one of the remotest corners of eastern Afghanistan could only dream of getting an education. No schools existed to nourish hungry </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261498460_3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">young minds</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. But now, a simple wooden structure in the heart of a valley stands as a beacon of hope for a brighter future . . . Perched at an altitude of 12,480 feet, this schoolhouse sits on the “roof of the world,” where transporting construction materials is virtually impossible. It represents one of the proudest achievements of Greg Mortenson, an American mountaineer-turned-humanitarian. His passion for educating girls has led to the building of 131 schools in </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261498460_4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Pakistan</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and Afghanistan, often against daunting odds and amid considerable danger . . . </span></span></p><div class="ecxsBody" style="text-indent: 0in !important; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span"><span class="ecxApple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Read more . . . click here </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0070C0;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2009/1222/Stones-Into-Schools"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261498460_5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.csmonitor.com/Books/2009/1222/Stones-Into-Schools</span></span></span></a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-5927563154090424642009-12-09T11:12:00.002-07:002009-12-09T11:16:35.481-07:00Greg visits students at Bosque School - Alburquerque NM (12/08/09)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/Sx_pePbd_SI/AAAAAAAABn8/WF_jgp2coAM/s1600-h/HI5_GM_NM.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/Sx_pePbd_SI/AAAAAAAABn8/WF_jgp2coAM/s400/HI5_GM_NM.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413301982869716258" /></a><br /><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1260380876_0" style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(220, 238, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; background-position: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Greg Mortenson</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> greets students at </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1260380876_1" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Bosque School</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, Alburquerque NM on Dec 8th, 2009. Photo: Jeff McMillan. Greg visits over 200 schools a year in the U.S., from public to private, and rural and urban schools, and says it is his favorite thing to do, and is very inspired by children.<br /><br />To check out Greg's book tour, visit:<br /></span></span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.stonesintoschools.com/events/calendar"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1260380876_2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">www.stonesintoschools.com/events/calendar</span></span></span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-61377165369327120632009-11-22T10:43:00.003-07:002009-11-22T10:48:51.412-07:00Fighting Terrorism With Schools (11/22/09)<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/Swl5C4tkVSI/AAAAAAAABm8/F8VwfaHasrM/s1600/parade-logo.jpg"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 229px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 47px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406985918125200674" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/Swl5C4tkVSI/AAAAAAAABm8/F8VwfaHasrM/s400/parade-logo.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><strong>PARADE Magazine,</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><strong>Sunday, November 22, 2009</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><strong>By Greg Mortenson</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Greg Mortenson featured in PARADE Magazine, Sunday, 22, 2009 discusses his 17 years effort to promote literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan, the progress of the U.S. military to listen more, build relationships and empower the elders in the AF-Pak region, and announces the release of his new book, Stones Into Schools (Viking) on December 1st, 2009. Excerpts below. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">. . Young women are the developing world’s greatest agents of progress. Just one year of schooling will dramatically raise a girl’s later economic prospects, and where girls get to fifth grade, birth rates and infant mortality plunge. Teaching girls to read and write reduces the ignorance and poverty that fuel religious extremism and lays a groundwork for prosperity and peace . . . </span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">. . . To succeed as nations, Pakistan and Afghanistan require the full engagement of their women. But not just their women. In every village in which CAI operates, we seek the support of local religious leaders and elders . . </span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">For full article, click to </span><a href="http://www.parade.com/news/2009/11/22-fighting-terrorism-with-schools.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">www.parade.com/news/2009/11/22-fighting-terrorism-with-schools.html</span></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-75667857740479618182009-11-04T07:56:00.000-07:002009-11-04T07:57:25.912-07:00Greg Mortenson on CBS WISH 9 TV (11/02/09)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1257346529_0" style="cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">Greg Mortenson</span> on <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1257346529_1" style="cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">CBS</span> WISH 9 TV, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1257346529_2">Indianapolis, IN</span><br />Monday, November 2, 2009</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><a href="http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/local/marion_county/Author_shares_insight_into_Afghanistan_20091102">Click Here for the Video</a></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-73494144538935865792009-10-29T14:04:00.004-06:002009-11-22T20:03:47.447-07:00AMERICA'S BEST TWENTY LEADERS (10/22/09)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/Sun1uznWh0I/AAAAAAAABmk/Bhw24Xwuy4I/s1600-h/bestleaders_article_banner.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 75px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/Sun1uznWh0I/AAAAAAAABmk/Bhw24Xwuy4I/s400/bestleaders_article_banner.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398115812858300226" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><div style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">US News & World Report</span></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>AMERICA'S BEST TWENTY LEADERS<br /></b></span></span></span></span><div style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>October 22, 2009</b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Greg Mortenson: Promotes Peace With Girls Education</b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Greg Mortenson, coauthor of the wildly successful book </span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Three Cups of Tea: One Man</span></span></em><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">'</span></span></em><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">s Mission to Promote </span></span></em><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Peace.</span></span></em><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. One School at a Time,</span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> can recall the precise moment he knew that he had created a movement. A girls' school that Mortenson helped to open south of Kabul, Afghanistan, had been attacked by the Taliban in the summer of 2007 . . . </span></span></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Read on <</span></span><a href="http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/best-leaders/2009/10/22/greg-mortenson-promotes-peace-through-girls-schools.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">click here</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">></span></span></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><br /></span></div></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-91127724304013671182009-10-15T13:49:00.004-06:002009-11-23T22:52:18.047-07:00A Peace Prize to Share (10/15/09)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/Std-DBHOw9I/AAAAAAAABmc/OjVrXLcrFs0/s1600-h/securedownload.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 228px; height: 209px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/Std-DBHOw9I/AAAAAAAABmc/OjVrXLcrFs0/s400/securedownload.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392917669102928850" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Greg Mortenson with Jafarabad community</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">schoolgirls in northern Pakistan in 2003.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(Courtesy Greg Mortenson -- Central Asia Institute)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A Peace Prize to Share</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">By Tom Brokaw</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thursday, October 15, 2009</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In one way or another, President Obama's critics will dog him all the way to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, and even his admirers will continue to have doubts about his accomplishments if not his promise.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">He's getting a lot of advice on how to handle the moment when he accepts the prize, so here's an idea that may lift this discussion out of the partisan soup that is now the main course on our national agenda, whatever the issue.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The president should invite a high-profile and wide-ranging delegation of interests to accompany him. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen, representing diplomacy and arms in pursuit of peace. Greg Mortenson, the author of "Three Cups of Tea," who has spent years working for education and literacy (especially for girls) in mountainous parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Field representatives from organizations such as Refugees International, the International Rescue Committee (where I am a volunteer overseer), CARE, Save the Children and other groups doing the hard work of caring for the victims of war. Bill and Melinda Gates should be in his delegation, as well as Republican Sam Brownback, the senator from Kansas, who's been a tireless advocate of greater U.S. involvement to stop the genocide in Sudan.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Tom Brokaw is a special correspondent and former "Nightly News" anchor for NBC.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">complete article can be found under: </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/14/AR2009101402966.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/14/AR2009101402966.html</span></a></div><div><br /></div></span></span></b></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-25565001409062008102009-07-21T11:00:00.004-06:002009-11-22T20:02:49.292-07:00Teacher, Can We Go Now? NO (07/19/09)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SmX0nMBZaMI/AAAAAAAABlU/9YKoRgqGLH0/s1600-h/DSC_0008.JPG.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SmX0nMBZaMI/AAAAAAAABlU/9YKoRgqGLH0/s400/DSC_0008.JPG.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360959885533604034" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Admiral Mike Mullen, </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1248195614_0" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Chairman Joint Chiefs Of Staff</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1248195614_1" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Greg Mortenson</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> in Pushgur village, </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1248195614_2" style="cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background- border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom- background-position: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Afghanistan</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, July 15, 2009</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><img height="64" alt="The New York Times" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/nytlogo379x64.gif" width="379" /><br /></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><strong></strong></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">NEW YORK TIMES</span></span></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sunday, July 19, 2009</span></span></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">By </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1248195614_3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thomas Freidman</span></span></span></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Teacher, Can We Go Now? NO</span></span></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span></span><br /></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I confess, I find it hard to come to Afghanistan and not ask: Why are we here? Who cares about the </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1248195614_4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Taliban</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">? Al Qaeda is gone. And if its leaders come back, well, that’s why God created cruise missiles. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span></span><br /></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But every time I start writing that column, something stills my hand. This week it was something very powerful. I watched Greg Mortenson, the famed author of “</span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1248195614_5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Three Cups of Tea</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">,” open one of his schools for girls in this remote Afghan village in the </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1248195614_6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hindu Kush mountains</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. I must say, after witnessing the delight in the faces of those little Afghan girls crowded three to a desk waiting to learn, I found it very hard to write, “Let’s just get out of here.” . . . </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span></span><br /></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Which is why it was no accident that Adm. Mike Mullen, the U.S. chairman of the </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1248195614_7" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Joint Chiefs of Staff</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> — spent half a day in order to reach Mortenson’s newest school and cut the ribbon . . . .</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span></span><br /></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Read more at:<br /></span></span><span><strong><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/opinion/19friedman.html"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1248195614_8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/opinion/19friedman.html</span></span></span></span></a></strong></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-80078510114358916042009-07-05T15:58:00.002-06:002009-11-22T20:08:44.671-07:00Good Housekeeping (June 2009)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SlEiPaPKT8I/AAAAAAAABlM/u1sFPVBW4Cc/s1600-h/Greg+Mortenson+with+children+in+Pakistan.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 325px; height: 325px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SlEiPaPKT8I/AAAAAAAABlM/u1sFPVBW4Cc/s400/Greg+Mortenson+with+children+in+Pakistan.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355099080056524738" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Good Housekeeping</b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>June 2009</b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Teach a Girl, Change the World</b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>By Judith Stone</b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Together, a visionary dad and his intrepid daughter are on a mission to help needy kids in a troubled part of the globe — one penny at a time. Before Greg Mortenson reveals the most powerful piece of advice ever imparted to him by his 12-year-old daughter, Amira, he wants to chat a bit about whether or not he's a bad dad.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For more click here . . .</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For complete article click here:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/family/real/education-for-girls">http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/family/real/education-for-girls</a></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><b><br /></b></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-18986240080859005702009-07-05T15:53:00.004-06:002009-11-22T20:05:06.409-07:00Sailors & U.S. Marines hear unique viewpoint from best-selling author (06/26/09)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SlEhewH-bHI/AAAAAAAABlE/5INBWYIB4hk/s1600-h/090625-n-9958g-013.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SlEhewH-bHI/AAAAAAAABlE/5INBWYIB4hk/s400/090625-n-9958g-013.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355098244118375538" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Times;"><p style="margin-top: -0em !important; margin-right: -0em !important; margin-bottom: -0em !important; margin-left: -0em !important; padding-top: -0em !important; padding-right: -0em !important; padding-bottom: -0em !important; padding-left: -0em !important; "><table class="contentpaneopen"><tbody><tr><td class="contentheading" width="100%"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">NAVY COMPASS<br />Sailors & U.S. Marines hear unique viewpoint from best-selling author<br /></span></span></b></td><td align="right" width="100%" class="buttonheading"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="contentpaneopen"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><span class="small"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">By MCC Bill Gowdy </span></span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" class="createdate"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Friday, 26 June 2009</span></span></b></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p style="margin-top: -0em !important; margin-right: -0em !important; margin-bottom: -0em !important; margin-left: -0em !important; padding-top: -0em !important; padding-right: -0em !important; padding-bottom: -0em !important; padding-left: -0em !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: -0em !important; margin-right: -0em !important; margin-bottom: -0em !important; margin-left: -0em !important; padding-top: -0em !important; padding-right: -0em !important; padding-bottom: -0em !important; padding-left: -0em !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">SAN DIEGO (June 25, 2009)-- Individual Augmentee (IA) and </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1246830604_0" style="cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom- background-position: initial initial; color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Global War on Terrorism</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (GWOT) Support Assignment (GSA) sailors currently assigned to the Navy Mobilization and Processing Site (NMPS) at </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1246830604_1" style="cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom- background-position: initial initial; color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Naval Base San Diego</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (NBSD) were treated to a presentation on life in the rural hinterlands of </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1246830604_2" style="cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom- background-position: initial initial; color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Afghanistan</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and an interesting perspective on the war by a best-selling author.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: -0em !important; margin-right: -0em !important; margin-bottom: -0em !important; margin-left: -0em !important; padding-top: -0em !important; padding-right: -0em !important; padding-bottom: -0em !important; padding-left: -0em !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: -0em !important; margin-right: -0em !important; margin-bottom: -0em !important; margin-left: -0em !important; padding-top: -0em !important; padding-right: -0em !important; padding-bottom: -0em !important; padding-left: -0em !important; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1246830604_3" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Greg Mortenson</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, author of the N.Y. Times best-seller</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><strong style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1246830604_4" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background- background-position: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Three Cups of Tea</span></span></span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">,</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> offered stories of his experiences and unique views that are increasingly being shared by senior military leaders.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: -0em !important; margin-right: -0em !important; margin-bottom: -0em !important; margin-left: -0em !important; padding-top: -0em !important; padding-right: -0em !important; padding-bottom: -0em !important; padding-left: -0em !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: -0em !important; margin-right: -0em !important; margin-bottom: -0em !important; margin-left: -0em !important; padding-top: -0em !important; padding-right: -0em !important; padding-bottom: -0em !important; padding-left: -0em !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Many of his views run counter to what is considered conventional wisdom. </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: -0em !important; margin-right: -0em !important; margin-bottom: -0em !important; margin-left: -0em !important; padding-top: -0em !important; padding-right: -0em !important; padding-bottom: -0em !important; padding-left: -0em !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: -0em !important; margin-right: -0em !important; margin-bottom: -0em !important; margin-left: -0em !important; padding-top: -0em !important; padding-right: -0em !important; padding-bottom: -0em !important; padding-left: -0em !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Read more - click here . . . </span></span></p><p style="margin-top: -0em !important; margin-right: -0em !important; margin-bottom: -0em !important; margin-left: -0em !important; padding-top: -0em !important; padding-right: -0em !important; padding-bottom: -0em !important; padding-left: -0em !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 112, 192); "><a target="_blank" href="http://www.navycompass.com/index.php/top-stories/1623-mccawsw-bill-gowdy-"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1246830604_5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.navycompass.com/index.php/top-stories/1623-mccawsw-bill-gowdy-</span></span></span></a></span></p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-31468051411925164432009-05-30T09:51:00.006-06:002009-11-22T20:07:40.881-07:00'Tea' author speaks to NC special op Marines (05/28/09)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SiFWmMbPLGI/AAAAAAAABkk/IjJjpZGM-WM/s1600-h/IMG_9149.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SiFWmMbPLGI/AAAAAAAABkk/IjJjpZGM-WM/s400/IMG_9149.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341645847208602722" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Associated Press - News Observer, North Carolina</span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">'Tea' author speaks to NC special op Marines</span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">by KEVIN MAURER, Associated Press Writer</span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thursday, May 28, 2009</span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) - Special operations Marines trained to infiltrate enemy lines and kill Taliban fighters spent Thursday morning with a man known for winning allies in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan one cup of tea at a time.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">for the complete article, please follow the link below:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/1565/v-print/story/1545623.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.newsobserver.com/1565/v-print/story/1545623.html</span></a></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-50516197773387230722009-04-19T10:02:00.002-06:002009-04-19T10:04:36.201-06:00ABC News Person of The Week (03/27/09)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SetLVSrRJAI/AAAAAAAABcQ/0ZIghI72wFk/s1600-h/ABC+News+Person+of+The+Week.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 253px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SetLVSrRJAI/AAAAAAAABcQ/0ZIghI72wFk/s400/ABC+News+Person+of+The+Week.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326433813458396162" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';font-size:11px;"><h2 style="font-weight: bold; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">'Three Cups of Tea' Author Never Gave Up on His Peacebuilding Efforts To Establish Girls Schools</span></span></span></span></h2><h2 style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><div class="intro" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div class="dek" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><h2 style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 110%; font-size:161.7%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">By ALICE MAGGIN</span></span></span></span></span></span></h2></div></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">To view ABC News video clip, click here:</span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 112, 192); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7193877">http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7193877</a></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></span></h2><h2 style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></h2></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-91800992048407248822009-03-13T11:13:00.003-06:002009-03-13T11:21:52.998-06:00Mortenson @ West Point (03/13/09)<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SbqU3KEn-QI/AAAAAAAABcI/poqe42sop6A/s1600-h/GM+Afghan+students+Wakhan+2006.jpg.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312722385754388738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SbqU3KEn-QI/AAAAAAAABcI/poqe42sop6A/s400/GM+Afghan+students+Wakhan+2006.jpg.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><strong>Times Herald-Record (Hudson Valley, NY)<br />Mortenson tells West Point Army cadets how to win in Afghanistan<br />Friday March 13, 2009<br />By </strong></span><a title="See Profile" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><strong>Alexa James</strong></span></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><br />WEST POINT — Author and Greg Mortenson introduced himself to an auditorium of Army cadets, then told them how to win in Afghanistan: "Drink more tea."<br /><br />Mortenson met with students in West Point's Counterinsurgency Operations class on Tuesday to discuss his humanitarian work in Central Asia and his best-selling book, "Three Cups of Tea."<br /><br />The Army veteran explained: "First cup you're a stranger, the second cup a guest. On the third cup you become family."<br /><br />"That doesn't mean you just go around drinking tea and having peace and freedom in the world," he said. "What it means is, you have to build relationships."<br /><br /><em>For complete article, please click below:<br /></em></span><a href="http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090313/NEWS/903130339/-1/NEWS" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><em>www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090313/NEWS/903130339/-1/NEWS</em></span></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-63316647377111875762009-03-10T09:07:00.001-06:002009-03-10T09:08:57.407-06:00Author Greg Mortenson to speak at West Point (03/09/09)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SbaChDrXOlI/AAAAAAAABcA/K9SG-W5q5kw/s1600-h/TimesHeraldRecord1.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 237px; height: 38px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SbaChDrXOlI/AAAAAAAABcA/K9SG-W5q5kw/s400/TimesHeraldRecord1.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311576314964556370" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';"><h1><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Times Herald Record </span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(Middletown - Hudson Valley, NY)</span></span></span></h1><h2><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Author Greg Mortenson to speak at West Point</span></span></span></h2><div class="bylineDate"><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Monday, March 09, 2009</span></span></span></span></div><div class="bylineDate"><span><p class="articleGraf" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">By Alexa James</span></span></span></p></span></div><div class="bylineDate"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#000000;"></span></span></span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></span></span></div><p class="articleGraf" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236697540_0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">WEST POINT</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> — Best-selling author </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236697540_1" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Greg Mortenson</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> will deliver a </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236697540_2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">public lecture</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236697540_3" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">on Tuesday night</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> to Army cadets taking a </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236697540_4" style="background-color: rgb(220, 238, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Military Science</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Counterinsurgency Operations course at West Point.</span></span></span></p><p class="articleGraf" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#000000;"></span> </span></span></p><p class="articleGraf" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Mortenson wrote “</span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236697540_5" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Three Cups of Tea</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">,” a story about his effort to fight terrorism and promote peace by building schools in impoverished parts of </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236697540_6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Pakistan</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> and </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236697540_7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Afghanistan</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. As of 2008, he's established more than 78 schools for roughly 28,000 children.</span></span></span></p><p class="articleGraf" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#000000;"></span> </span></span></p><p class="articleGraf" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Mortenson's work has been rife with conflict. In 1996, he survived an eight-day armed kidnapping in Pakistan. In 2003, he escaped a firefight between feuding Afghan warlords by hiding under animal hides in a truck heading for a leather-tanning factory.</span></span></span></p><p class="articleGraf" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#000000;"></span> </span></span></p><p class="articleGraf" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">After 9/11, he received hate mail and death threats from Americans who were angry about his education efforts for Muslim children.</span></span></span></p><p class="articleGraf" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#000000;"></span> </span></span></p><p class="articleGraf" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In August 2008, Pakistan's government gave Mortenson its highest civil award, the Sitara-e-Pakistan (Star of Pakistan) for his humanitarian efforts. Pakistan's president will confer the award </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236697540_8" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">on March 23</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> in Islamabad.</span></span></span></p><p class="articleGraf" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#000000;"></span> </span></span></p><p class="articleGraf" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">“Mortenson’s involvement in </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236697540_9"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">central Asia</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> is critical to a holistic approach to assisting other countries,” said Maj. James Spies, the Counterinsurgency Operations course director at West Point.</span></span></span></p><p class="articleGraf" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#000000;"></span> </span></span></p><p class="articleGraf" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">“The military has re-learned the lessons of counterinsurgency that point out the need to build up the whole of a society to assist them in solving the core problems that created an insurgency.”</span></span></span></p><p class="articleGraf" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#000000;"></span> </span></span></p><p class="articleGraf" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The lecture will take place in </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236697540_10" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Thayer Hall</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">’s Robinson Auditorium at </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1236697540_11" style="border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">6:30 p.m</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SZMQVYq0i2I/AAAAAAAABbc/uAcCNavrkwk/s400/wp.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301599145930558306" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><div style="background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border- color:initial;"><strong><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Washington Post</span></span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span><span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Helping Kids for Peace<br /></span></span></strong><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Kindness Saved Greg Mortenson's Life. Now He's Passing It On.</span></span></em></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234374594_0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wednesday, February 11, 2009</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><em><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">by Valerie Strauss</span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Imagine that you are climbing down the world's second-largest mountain, and suddenly you realize you are lost and alone. You have no water and only one protein bar. And you haven't taken a shower for three months!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span></span><br /></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">That's what happened to </span></span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234374594_1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Greg Mortenson</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span></span><br /></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">At that moment, he began an adventure that changed his life -- and the lives of countless people in Pakistan and Afghanistan.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border- color:initial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">click here for complete article:<br /></span></span></i><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span></span></span></span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/10/AR2009021003591_pf.html"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1234374594_8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/10/AR2009021003591_pf.html</span></span></span></a></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-51002382026183829942009-02-04T16:39:00.003-07:002009-02-04T16:44:28.534-07:00NY Times Best Seller List 02/15/2009<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">All three "Three Cups of Tea" books are on NY Times Bestseller List. Thank you for your support, please keep spreading the word of peace.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SYona2AY5MI/AAAAAAAABbU/BmO47NiJA9M/s1600-h/3CT_NY.jpg"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299091253682037954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 377px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SYona2AY5MI/AAAAAAAABbU/BmO47NiJA9M/s400/3CT_NY.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-36107403836001127262009-01-30T08:33:00.003-07:002009-12-22T10:27:00.993-07:00At Mills Lawn School, a penny saved is a penny learned (01/29/09)<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SYMeIXT0C6I/AAAAAAAABbM/z_CJePUGcFI/s1600-h/012909_pennies.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297110715762740130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 256px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SYMeIXT0C6I/AAAAAAAABbM/z_CJePUGcFI/s320/012909_pennies.jpg" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Yellow Springs News (OH)<br />January 29, 2009<br />At Mills Lawn School, a penny saved is a penny learned<br />By Susan Gartner</span></strong></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div><a href="http://www.ysnews.com/stories/2009/01/012909_pennies.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.ysnews.com/stories/2009/01/012909_pennies.html</span></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The ad hoc public relations team hurried down the hall, snaking their way past the lobby where colorful flags from 20 different countries hung from the ceiling. The group quickly grew in number as they stopped to collect more members en route to the 10:45 a.m. press conference. Sometimes a quick hug with a new arrival would take place before continuing on. The group, representing varying levels of fundraising experience, squeezed around a small, round conference table to discuss the project, how it got started, and what they had learned so far.<br />McKenna Banaszak-Moore began the meeting by stating that the money being raised will be used to assist people in Afghanistan and Pakistan, “to help build schools and let girls have an education.”<br />...</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">click here for complete article: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Trebuchet, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); line-height: 20px; "><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ysnews.com/stories/2009/01/012909_pennies.html" style="text-indent: 0in !important; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "><span style="text-indent: 0in !important; font-family: verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.ysnews.com/stories/2009/01/012909_pennies.html</span></span></a></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Contact: </span></span><a href="mailto:sgartner@ysnews.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:sgartner@ysnews.com"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">sgartner@ysnews.com</span></span></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068616099252389332.post-80861815617054525352009-01-27T17:37:00.001-07:002009-01-27T17:39:56.938-07:00Three Cups of Tea for children (01/27/09)<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SX-pCzK0m3I/AAAAAAAABbE/RldDljeC8Ug/s1600-h/YA.jpg"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296137552371424114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 126px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 193px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wWQEtv8xAv0/SX-pCzK0m3I/AAAAAAAABbE/RldDljeC8Ug/s320/YA.jpg" border="0" /></span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Tampa Examiner</span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">January 27, 2009 </span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">by Karen Deerwester, </span></strong></div><div><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-494-Parenting-Examiner" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Parenting Examiner</span></strong></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"> </span></div><div><br /><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Three Cups of Tea for children: Greg Mortenson writes new books for kids by Karen Deerwester </span></strong></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Greg Mortenson's new books for young readers debuted last week. </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Listen-Wind-Greg-Mortenson/dp/0803730586/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233018405&sr=8-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Listen to the Wind</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"> is written for the 5 to 8 year olds and </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Three-Cups-Tea-Journey-World/dp/0142414123/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233018405&sr=8-3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Three Cups of Tea, the Young Reader's Edition</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"> is for 8 years and up. When I recommended these </span><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-494-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m1d22-Greg-Mortenson-Three-Cups-of-Tea-new-releases-for-kids" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">last week,</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"> one reader asked for more information on the books and their amazing author, Greg Mortenson. The original </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Three-Cups-Tea-Mission-Promote/dp/0143038257/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_c" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Three Cups of Tea</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"> has been on the New York Times Best Sellers list for 102 weeks and counting. These new books for children are sure to follow. Both books introduce children to a larger world - to other cultures, to compassion and appreciation of other people, and to the dynamic power of education and peace. Mortenson's first book told us of his journey that begun as a young mountain climber and ended as a humanitarian building schools in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Greg Mortenson tells a hero's story - one of truth and honor. He taught me that "peace education" is the daily practice of seeing other people's points of view, respecting differences, generously extending the benefit of the doubt to sometimes hurtful situations, and searching for peaceful solutions instead of impulsive defensiveness. Mortenson teaches all of us how to effect positive change through relationship-building - taking the time to share "three cups of tea". Young children will enjoy hearing the story of Listen to the Wind, as told by the children of Korphe. They will recognize the lives they share and imagine living with yaks and goats. American children will be intrigued when they read:<br />With our small fingers we wedged tiny slivers of stones into the cement to make our walls stronger. Our school grew each day, up from the high, flat ground where we used to write with our sticks. Mortenson's books give parents and teachers a wealth of ideas and activities to construct lifelong meaning from the words and images on these pages: children can reenact the building process from carrying supplies across treacherous landscape to erecting walls; they can compare how people in far away places dress, what they eat or recreate the style of home; children can take up the cause of helping Dr. Greg by getting involved with </span><a href="http://www.penniesforpeace.org/home.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Pennies for Peace</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">. The Young Reader's Edition retells Dr. Greg's original story with breathtaking clarity for his new audience. The foreward by Jane Goodall connects Dr. Greg's work to another extraordinary role model for young children. The lessons of this book are personal and inspiring. Children, like Dr. Greg's many adult readers, will be forever changed by meeting a real-life, get-dirty, break-few-rules adventurer like Dr. Greg. And meeting the children whose lives he touches. These are must-have books for your at-home or school library. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:85%;"></span> </div><div><span style="font-size:85%;">Click here for complete article</span></div><div><a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-494-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m1d27-Three-Cups-of-Tea-for-children-Greg-Mortenson-writes-new-books-for-kids" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">http://www.examiner.com/x-494-Parenting-Examiner~y2009m1d27-Three-Cups-of-Tea-for-children-Greg-Mortenson-writes-new-books-for-kids</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com