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My latest musical discovery – where have I been?
This is from Mumford and Sons’ Sigh No More CD.
This video has had over 33 million views.
I like the music and the direction the band takes. No special effects, no over sexy choreography… Nice.
You can check the band out on Amazon.
Who’s excited about the release of the Avengers movie on DVD this coming Tuesday?
Make you sure pre-order now so it’s conveniently delivered to your home and all you have to do is pop in the video machine-y thing and enjoy Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner and Robert Downey Jr. save the world.
I loved the movie this summer. I thought it had just the right balance of action and humor. Loved the dialogue between the heroes. And they’re not hard to look at either.
My copy in on the way! Love Amazon shopping. It’s like gifts just show up at the door 🙂
This is a candid picture of Darlene Romano, soprano, in the late 1970s, backstage waiting to begin a concert with the San Diego Symphony starring Darlene and 5 time Academy Award winning composer/conductor and head of MGM department of music, Johnny Green.
Pope John Paul II praised Darlene when she sang for him at the Vatican with the Rome Orchestra. Maestro Kurt Herbert Adler, conductor and general director of the San Francisco Opera said for him Darlene Romano was the perfect “Mimi” in Puccini’s La Boheme.
After a fabulous career of over 3,000 performances, Darlene earned a “Doctor of Musical Arts” degree from the University of Southern California and has now conducted many of the shows she used to star in on the stage. She also serves as Dean of Fine Arts at a Southern California College.
Happy 65th Birthday to our darling Darlene!!
Jeff Timmons of 98 Degrees does his best “Tebow” after singing the national anthem at the UNLV Rebels game tonight in Las Vegas.
Folks can defend him all they like, but it really does raise some eyebrows when you realize that:
But Mitt Romney only releases 2 full years of tax returns.
Don’t you wonder why? Legal or not, what could he be hiding? And seriously, compared with all those other Presidents, doesn’t it seem strange?
Just days after a petition calling for Intel to drop it’s support garnered over 30,000 signatures in less than 24 hours, the Boy Scouts of America has lost its largest corporate donor, Intel, which announced Friday that it will no longer support the group until it vows to stop discriminating against gay people.
In a statement released to Think Progress on Friday, Intel’s Chief Diversity Officer, Rosalind Hudnell, confirmed that the company would no longer fund the Boy Scouts of America, so long as the Scouts stand by their long-held policy barring gay troops and leaders from participating in the organization.
“Due to significant growth in the number of organizations funded, earlier this year we revisited our policies associated with the program, and applied new rigor that requires any organization to confirm that it adheres to Intel’s anti-discrimination policy in order to receive funding,” said Hudnell.
Zach Wahls, who led the petition drive, said “Intel made the right decision here, in order to live up to their corporate values of diversity, equality and individual liberty.”
“Companies that support the LGBT community simply can’t be in the business of funding organizations that discriminate. Frankly, by sending this message, Intel is upholding the true spirit of Scouting better than the BSA is today,” he said.
According to Wahls, Intel gave almost $700,000 to the Boy Scout in 2010.
