Lisa Napoli's Blog, page 30
September 2, 2011
#Bhutan Shop in #Topanga
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Topanga, CA 90290
Tel: 310 455 0731 or 866 6bhutan
E-mail: sonofarmer@yahoo.com or bhutanshop@verizon.net
Website: www.bhutanshop.com
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August 31, 2011
Great human of the week:
The Fresno Schools superintendent who not only gave up his 800k salary for the next three years since he doesn't need any more money, who then said he'd give the salary he legally has to take to charity:
August 28, 2011
@liveTalksLA #Business
Also announced this week, this raft of morning talks with a more business-y bent. Jeff Jarvis, Lawrence Lessig, Jennifer Granholm, Daniel Kahneman, and more.
Up first: Future of newspapers on September 8th.
http://business.livetalksla.org/
Don't forget the night series:
http://www.livetalksla.org
Be Friends with Prime Minister of #Bhutan on #Facebook
While you're at it "like" the King's page, too: 
(Thanks to dear Gada, our trusty correspondent from Mauritius.)
August 26, 2011
August 25, 2011
Love getting mail like this:
On Facebook:
"Hi Lisa, I´m from Brazil… I´m planning go to Bhutan and I´ve just started to read your book and i´m loving it … now I´m sure that i will go there, despite being so expensive. Diego M."
Now, if only we can get him to donate to our READGlobal www.BookstoBhutan.com efforts to build a library….
August 24, 2011
View of Bunker Hill from The City Club
See me in our swimming pool? (Thanks Mary!)
#happiness @conversationedu: the real purpose of economic development
From an Australian magazine called The Conversation, all about the growing movement to mimic Bhutan's commitment to Gross National Happiness over economic development.
#ElPaso, #Bhutan aka @UTEP and new Bhutanese style footbridge
How do you get to the Sun Bowl? You can practice, practice, practice….or stroll over this $2 million dollar new Bhutanese-style pedestrian walkway that just opened on the campus of UTEP in El Paso.
Curiously the news reports don't mention that the footbridge is built (as is the rest of the campus) to mimic Bhutanese architecture.) But thankfully, Willie Quinn clued me in.Willie asks: Anyone know how to say "footbridge" in Dzongkha?
photo by Rudy Gutiterrez of the El Paso Times
