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[ Saturday, May 10, 2008 08:22 ]
Legacy Journal: Mother’s Day, Tessa’s 4th BD, and the Lilacs are Blooming in Highland Pk
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* First, Tessa Little is now officially four years old. The California Princess has made the Rochester transition in style and is preping for KG in the Brighton School District in the Fall of 2009. Meanwhile, she is continues to play the role of Emma's younger sister, best friend and student, cat tormentor, and non-stop asker of questions about how stuff works.
** The Lilac Festival around the corner in Highland Park is in full bloom and the weekend music is swinging. The opening parade with Strong Drum and Bugle Corps from the upstate region, is now history.
*** Meanwhile, Erika Little has earned the title Mother of the Year. Relocating cross country from California, finding and updating the perfect house, guiding the kids, working at the URMC, in a Clinical Research Unit, and hosting guests and visitors is only part of the Little story of the past eight months.
The truth is, Mom’s tend to be the world’s most passionate warriors and best truth tellers.
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[ Friday, December 21, 2007 12:11 ]
Legacy Journal: The Russian Bear Facts, Competing California Style, and Romney Substance.
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News: International
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Question: ? What country led the world in petroleum product exports before the beginning of the 20th century? Who was Karl Popper?
* Time Magazine has name Russian turnaround artist, Vladamir Putin, as its Man of the Year. It is widely assumed that he was the compromise choice. Al Gore was a runner-up. General Petrais, the architect of successful miliary the Surge Strategy in Iraq was an also ran. Putin is portrayed as news worthy, smart in his marathon interviews, fearless, feisty, a pragmatic and proud nationalist, and combative at the age of 56. Gore come across as --- well more concerned about a global human population that quadrupled in the past 100 years and is now collectively overheating the planet. Meanwhile, Putin is putting cash in the cribs of new Russian citizens, building a fleet to ply ice free summer sea lanes in the Arctic Ocean, negociating gas pipe lines out of largely Muslim states of the former USSR, signing uranium deals with Australia, visiting Indonesia, working with neighboring Iran, working strategically for access pipeline and shipping access to warm water ports across a dozen time zones. Worry about AGW? Bring it on. Alcohol as a Fuel? Foolish. Putin is blunt, quick, and on his game—winning were and when it matter for Russians.
** Barbara Boxer (D) Senator CA,, Chairperson, Committee on the Environment and Public Works responded angrily on the PBS News Hour to the EPA’s refusal to grant its 51st exemption request and waive federal law and allow California to continue authoring its own standards for tailpipe exhaust pollution.
*** The Charlie Gibson ABC Evening News interview with candidate Mitt Romney was generally well received. With Tancreto of Colorado dropping out of the race, Romney has now begun the first in what may be a slow and long series of former candidate endorsements. The last man standing at the time of the Republican National Convention will be progressing in the national polls and in the song book of the media chorus. Will that be the case when the last woman standing is crowned with a Stetson at the Democratic National Convention in Denver?
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: Putin is diminutive, a fitness buf, and a Judo expert.
:: Senator Boxer is diminutive, aggressive, and supported by the nytimes Opinion Page Editorial writers. Arrogance and Warming is today, characterization of the issue. Who has this one right. Gore? Boxer? the nytimes? Putin? It depends on your point of view. If you are Russian, you have already place your short term bet, your future security, and your place in history on realpolitic men like Putin.
::: Meanwhile, Mitt Romney is in a classic turnaround position. Time, momentum, vigor, experience and teamwork are on his side. Witness the Jon Huntsman
Holiday giving factor. Once again, insular, arrogance and myopic views of the world is not limited to one individual, one group or one institution. The evidence: an ad hominem, anti-endorsement attack on candidate Romney in the Editorial Pages of a Concord, NH paper.
Answer: Russia. No, we are not smarter than a 5th grader, but Popper was wise in the ways of Science.
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[ Thursday, December 20, 2007 06:43 ]
Legacy Journal: Music and Performance from the Heartland.
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Arts and Culture
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“If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.”—Brigham Young
Question?: What is the longest, continuously running network broadcast in the United States?
* Christmas is a time for the performance of exceptional music and rich visuals. One of example is the annual PBS presentation of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Orchestra, and Sissel from Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah.
** Christmas calories and fitness are another issue of perception over reality. Gina Kolata, as usual, clears up the confusion.
*** Recent Ob-Gyn Rounds at UofR Highland, an e-mail from Damon in The City, and workouts at JCC reminds me of the continuing legacy of a San Francisco original, Dr. John Kerner, long associated with the MT. Zion Hospital and Medical Center. He is part of a video presentation, a Chronicle porfile, and a recent award from the French government at a ceremony held in Washington, D.C.
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So, what are the messages and the meaning for Christmas 2007?
: First, the Mormon faith is not a radical non-christian cult. The LDS church in the mainstream of more than 350 years American religious history.
:: Second, the 360 member volunteer Choir, the 20,000 seat performance hall, and the recording facilities at the Conference center, are unique, without peer and a part of a noble and enduring American tradition.
::: Third, featuring the Norwegian star, Sissel, is season appropriate and reflects a continuing global reach originating since 2000 from Salt Lake City and the Convention Hall.
:::: Fourth, the program support of the Sorenson and Eccles families and foundations is evidence of the sustaining power of the pioneering foundations of region.
::::: Fifth, the program needed no host or spokes person. The richness and quality of the choral, instrumental and dance performances said it all. It is part of the Mormon way, after all.
Answer: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Spoken Word, since 1929
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