Daily Archives: 09/17/2012

(Community Matters) not to mention his gaming of independent voters – see the second video in this article by my good friend David Corn.

(Community Matters) Vanity Fair: Obama’s Way

An excellent article. Walking through the decision making process on Libya and the story of Taylor Stark, I think will make any American proud (R & D). Reading several books & articles over the last few weeks, I’m moved by the attention to the deliberateness of decision making and preserving one’s energy for that decision making.  Below, just a few of the lines from the VF article that jumped out at me – probably not so helpful out of context but meant to provide me with bookmarks for passages I want to discuss with Steven and others.

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(Community Matters) 22 races in 12 months, an international tour deploying the top engineers, racers, sponsors & fans from all around the world, for three days of festivities culminating in a 2-hour race . . . I might become an enthusiast.

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Fernando Alonso, Pedro de la Rosa, Sebastian Vettel . . . I’ve never known these names but learned some about them and the phenomenon of the race sitting between Juan Miro and Cookie Ruiz last night. I’d forgotten that Miro-Rivera Architects are the primary facilities designers for Circuit of the Americas and didn’t know that both Juan and Cookie were huge F1 fans. I’ve just ordered the movie Senna at Juan’s recommendation to understand the phenomenon.

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(Community Matters) Celebrating 16 Sept w/ gorgeous food & delicious friends on the Long Center stage while raising money for aspiring entrepreneurs – hits all my buttons! Kudos to Monica Peraza for organizing this third annual gala. Much fun w/ our table of friends: Charles Santos, Carol & Chris Adams, Cookie & JR Ruiz, Kip Keller, Michael Barnes, and Rosa & Juan Miro. bummed ST missed but he was in route to London

The MexNet Alliance’s mission is to provide opportunities to Spanish-speaking individuals that have a small business or are planning to start one, providing its students valuable information and tools that increase entrepreneurial success, creating jobs and generating wealth in the community.

David Garrido organized a slew of chefs who offered gorgeous appetizers during the cocktail hour, plus he prepared the sit down dinner’s first course, a scallop ceviche with habanero, while Chef Carmen “Titita” Ramirez Degollado, owner of El Bajio in Mexico City,  served a pheasant breast in white mole with a bean tamal.

Great turn out for the event – in addition to friends at our table – visited with Patsy & Jack Martin, Joe & Terry Long, Marc & Carolyn Seriff, Leo Ramirez, Erin Defosse, Steve Wanta, Richard Hartgrove & Gary Cooper, Sarah & Ernest Butler, John Hogg & David Garza, Amalia Rodriguez Mendoza, Gregory Vincent and heaps others