This weekend we are holding the annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Every year I try to post links to MP3 audio and other Internet resources as they become available. This conference will include the sustaining of Thomas S. Monson as the President of the High Priesthood and Prophet.
MP3 Audio
These are links to the earliest available audio I can find. They will be replaced by links to the MP3s at the church website as they are posted.
Saturday Morning Session
Entire Session
President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Elder Russell M. Nelson
Elder Ronald A. Rasband
Sister Cheryl C. Lant
Elder Kenneth Johnson
Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin
President Henry B. Eyring
Saturday Afternoon Session
Entire SessionPresented by Robert W. Cantwell
Presented by F. Michael Watson
Elder Dallin H. Oaks
Elder Robert D. Hales
Elder Gerald N. Lund
Elder Carlos H. Amado
Elder Willian R. Walker
Elder Richard G. Scott
Elder L. Tom Perry
Sunday Morning Session
Entire SessionPresident Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Elder D. Todd Christofferson
Elder Sheldon F. Child
Susan W. Tanner
President Boyd K. Packer
President Thomas S. Monson
Sunday Afternoon Session
Entire SessionElder Jeffrey R. Holland
Elder David A. Bednar
Elder W. Craig Zwick
Elder Robert R. Steuer
Elder Dennis B. Neuenschwander
Elder Lance B. Wickman
Elder Craig C. Christensen
Elder M. Russell Ballard
President Thomas S. Monson
Streaming Video
Live Video, streamed over the Internet, as well as archived recordings of completed sessions is available on demand through BYU and KSL. We have been watching conference through BYU.tv for several years now and love it. The video player only works on Windows or Mac OS X (Sorry Linux Users!). This year KSL appears to be using the same player as BYU.tv, so they may be actually the same source. Also, the church is officially providing a Video Podcast for the first time this year (see the podcast section below).
Transcripts, mp3 audio, and video of the World Wide Leadership Training Meeting originally held on February 9th, 2008 by the LDS Church on the topic of “Building Up a Righteous Posterity” are now available online at the official church website:
Building Up a Righteous Posterity
All adult members of the church were encouraged to attend. If you weren’t able to do so, find some time to watch it online, or download the mp3 audio to listen to at your leisure on your iPod or other portable mp3 player.
I came across this brilliant video on YouTube over the weekend.
Q: What if the Beatles covered the classic Led Zeppelin song “Stairway to Heaven”?
A: The Beatnix
While I am not particularly musical, I have always been fortunate to be in the company of wonderfully musical people. In addition to my own immediate family, growing up I was close friends with the second generation of The Osmond Brothers. The 5 Browns are my first cousins.
Also among my closest friends is the hyper-talented Lowe Family. This past September, we traveled to Branson Missouri where they have been performing for some years now. They treated us like royalty and we had a great time.
The Lowe Family has self-produced a music video for their original song “We Will Go On,” written by my friend Doug Lowe.
Earlier this year they performed with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir during the broadcast of ‘Music and the Spoken Word.”
UPDATE: MP3s of most sessions, as wells as MP3s of each individual discourse in the sessions are now available from the official church website.
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Once again we are enjoying the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Each conference, I try to post links to MP3 audio and other resources as quickly as they become available. Not everyone can listen to or watch the conference as it is broadcast, but internet technology has progressed to the point that anyone can participate and listen to the words of the living Prophet, Twelve Apostles, and other general authorities of the church regardless of their schedule.
MP3 Audio
The links below are to the earliest available MP3 Audio files. They are often available shortly after each session ends through the podcast. As MP3 files are made available on the official church website, the links will be changed to point there.
Saturday Morning Session
Saturday Morning Part 1 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Saturday Morning Part 2 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Saturday Afternoon Session
Saturday Afternoon Part 1 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Saturday Afternoon Part 2 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Sunday Morning Session
Sunday Morning Part 1 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Sunday Morning Part 2 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Sunday Afternoon Session
Sunday Afternoon Part 1 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Sunday Afternoon Part 2 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Video
As a little incentive to visit our puppetry troupe’s new website, here is the first of our puppet videos :
The Hardware Store. – A hardware store clerk meets a very persistent customer.
Enjoy.
Sorry for the lapse in blog postings during the last couple of weeks. Blogging is but one of my time-wasting endeavors. As many of you know, another is Puppetry.
My cousin Rus Wilson, his wife Kelly, my close friend Sean Healy, my wife Chastity, and I founded the Maxed Out Puppetry – Puppet Comedy Troupe nearly a decade ago while still students and recent graduates of Brigham Young University. Since then we have performed at museums, libraries, festivals, parties, churches, and many other venues, primarily in Utah County, but also as far north as the Davis County Library in Layton and as far south as Filmore.
Since then we have been joined by additional puppeteers: Caitlin Shirts, Patrick Svensson, and David Wilson.
We are very excited to present our brand-spanking-new website:
Just wanted to remind you all about tonight’s Skook Reunion Concert and Fund raiser for LDS Humanitarian Services. Get on your dancing shoes and bring your kids.
Click her for Concert details.
And just to get you in the mood, here is a video mashup of Skook’s song “Popularity” with the incomparable Jerry Lewis dancing from a scene of the 1963 version of The Nutty Professor:
See you there!
As the 4th of July approaches each year in Utah Valley, it has come to be almost expected that a serious fire will break out somewhere on the nearby mountains.
Here is a brief video of the fire burning this evening above the foothills in northern Provo Utah, near the Edgemont neighborhood, as visible from a street near my home:
A while ago I wrote about my fascination with Vaudeville and the talent of that era.
This mashup of video of some fellows dancing the Charleston in the 1920s’ with the electronic dance music of Daft Punk is too cool not to share:
Those of you who have known me in person for any significant amount of time know that I love to dance, though it wasn’t always so. Dancing is an important part of our family culture. I’m not talking about competitive ballroom dance or anything intense like that, though many of us have taken ballroom dance classes casually, and some have even competed on a novice level. When I was growing up it wasn’t uncommon for my parents to put on some music and dance, just for the fun of it. Now that we are all grown, when we get together we often dance—and it is blast.
This weekend we are watching the April General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Each conference, I try to post links to MP3 audio and other resources as they become available for those who were unable to listen or watch.
A few years ago, in addition to our own little children, my wife and I were the legal guardians for a few of her siblings. One of her brothers, who at the time was 13 years old, was struggling with learning Math in the local Middle School.
I would spend hours every week sitting down with him to help him understand the math he was expected to be learning for his class. Even with my contribution he really struggled.
The next school year the Alpine School District adopted a new math curriculum called Investigations math based on a Constructivist philosophy of learning. To be fair there are some portions of Educational Contructivism that I agree with, but the applied Contructivism of the Investigations program turned out to be a really terrible way to learn math.
Many of you may have seen the well done, now-famous PC vs Apple computer commercials where the two computers are symbolized by two people: The Apple Computer, who is “cool” and likable, and the PC Computer, who is “nerdy” and uptight. If you haven’t, you can view them online at the Apple website.
Well, the Community Christian Church has produced some parody commercials using the same format, but to compare and contrast what they call “Christians” with what they call “Christ Followers.”
I spent nearly my entire weekend (night and day) extracting, preparing, encoding, and uploading digital video. I am happy to say that the ordeal is mostly over and I’m very excited about the result.
I know what a bad feeling it is to go into the voting booth and to look at empty names, with no idea who they are or what they want to accomplish other than what I can assume from their party affiliation. So, as part of my volunteer efforts for Citizens’ Resource we now have short, online video presentations by nearly all of the candidates that will appear in contested races on the Utah County ballot available on Google video.
Hopefully all of you will take advantage of email, blogs, and the word-of-mouth power of “viral marketing” to help as many people view these videos as possible before voting on November 7th.
