Archive for December, 2009

Mormon entertainer youngest composer to win competition

By Emily Schmuhl Mormon Times Published: 2009-12-08 00:20:30 Nineteen year-old Derek Myler was up against some of the most musically talented undergraduates and graduates in the country. But the budding Mormon entertainer swept in and won the 2009-10 American Choral Directors Association’s Raymond W. Brock Memorial Student Composition Competition. “I’m very humbled and grateful to [...]

First Presidency Gives 2009 Christmas Message

SALT LAKE CITY 7 December 2009 The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints delivered its traditional Christmas …

Humor for the day — Christmas Decorations

Well, there is good news and bad news about my Christmas decorations. The good news is that I truly outdid myself this year.  The bad news is that I had to take them down after only two days.  I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever. Great stories.  But two things made me [...]

BYU professors: Glenn Beck doesn’t speak for all Mormons

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We’ve Figured Him Out

I love Ben Stein.  His humor and common sense is beyond reproach. We’ve Figured Him Out  – from the American Spectator By Ben Stein on 7.24.09 @ 9:45AM Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed? Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths: The [...]

All Aboard: The Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden

Next Wednesday the most famous Christmas Tree In New York City lights up where there was once a Botanical Gardens. Up in the Bronx at the New York Botanical Garden it is already beginning to look a lot like Christmas. On Saturday The Eighteenth Annual Holiday Train Show pulled into town and you can enjoy [...]

Global Warming Scandal and the News Networks

If you have watched any news lately, you would think the only thing going on in the world is problems in Tiger Woods’ life.  Well, it turns out there is a major scandal in the environmental community. It seems leading climate researchers have been exposed, by hackers into their system, as admitting to manipulating climate [...]

Copy of Poe’s first book sells in NYC for $662K

NEW YORK — A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s first book has sold for $662,500 at a New York auction. The copy of “Tamerlane and Other Poems” had been estimated to sell for between $500,000 and $700,000 at Christie’s today. The 40-page collection of poems was published in 1827. Poe wrote the book shortly [...]

Mysterious Voynich manuscript is genuine, scientists find

Vienna – An mysterious unintelligible manuscript that has puzzled researchers for decades has been dated to the 15th century and found to be genuine, according to US studies that were presented Thursday by Austrian broadcaster ORF. Many historians have so far believed that the so-called Woynich manuscript, which includes illustrations related to natural sciences, is a [...]

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