Tim Russert, "Meet The Press" Host on Sundays

Have u heard about Tim Russert, a host on NBC's "Meet The Press" every Sunday morning?  I do have heard about him but I never watch his Sunday morning shows cuz discussion of political issues is so boring to me.  I am not interesting into them.  I would like discussing entertainment (movies, TV shows, and books); spouses' and family's relationships.  Otherwise, Tim Russert passed away so unexpectedly last Friday.  I can't believe the death of Tim Russert when I heard about him.  I almost missed reading a part of the caption at the bottom of TV screen about Tim's death late Friday afternoon.  I said in a confusion, "What?" and then I went to check out the Yahoo News online immediately to find out.  There is in it.  Tim died 2 days before Father's Day!  I am going to miss him very much.  "Today Show" kept discussing Tim Russert all over the weekend, on Friday night, and Sat and Sun mornings.  I just learned Tim has had a heart disease.  I didn't know that until last Sat.  Could Friday the 13th be cursing him?  Maybe but I don't know.  I just figured it out.  This morning I just found out Tim did taking a stress test last April but it's nothing happening to him.  He was in a good shape and on heart medication.  Tim did an exericse but not much.  Anyways, Tim came over to discussing an uncoming election on Today Show with Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira on sometimes early mornings.  He really LOVES talking about politics ever since he landed a job as political journalist in 1991.  Tim used to be a lawyer before that.  He was born and raised in Buffalo, New York.  I just found out Tim went to Woodstock in the summer of 1969.  Wow.  His father was furious when he found out.  Tim wrote 2 books, "Big Russ and Me" and "Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons".  I haven't read those books yet.  I heard Tim's son, Luke, wanted to grab Tim's chair from the set of "Meet The Press" cuz Luke felt it's a connection to him when Luke came over there for the last time after his father died.  I guess it's like a spirit.  Who is going to replace Tim Russert on "Meet The Press"?  I don't know for sure.  We will find out soon.  Goodbye, Tim Russert.  We will never forget his legend from now on.

Today Show: Hit-and-Run Victim Ignored

This morning, as I was watching Today Show on TV NBC , I was shocked and dismayed when I learned NO onlookers in Hartford, Connecticut (CT) are helping gravely injured elderly man after he was hit by a car in the city's surveillance.  This video was taken on May 30, 2008 at 5:49 pm.  Those onlookers are SO lazy and UNTHINKABLE!  I can't believe it!  God is not pleasing at what they are doing. Onlookers are not going to get a reward from the city of Hartford if they haven't heard about The Secret, a book by Rhonda Bryne.  I understood to what happened to this video with a closed-caption on my TV expect on this video in my computer.  It's about onlookers' behavior.  I am sure these onlookers are going to be very embarrassed if they did see a video of them on a national TV news.  Here is a link of video below:
Video By Today Show:  Hit-and-Run Victim Ignored

1888 Photo Depicts Helen Keller, Teacher Sullivan

This 1888 photo released by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston shows Helen Keller when she was 8 years old, left, holding hands with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, during a summer vacation to Brewster, Mass., on Cape Cod.

When I heard about a 1888 photo of Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, on the TV news last night and this morning, it got me interesting and this photo looks cool. I have never seen this one like that before. But I can't see the sign language of Sullivan spelling "doll" in that photo. I can tell that Helen was about improving her behavior and English skills during the year 1888. She looked much better than the year before. A year before 1888, Helen was a troublemaker and messy but in that 1888 photo, she looked so pretty and recovered. Wow! I am so impressed by seeing that photo.

1888 photo depicts Helen Keller, teacher

Society staff discovers 1888 image from donated collection

The Associated Press

updated 7:48 p.m. ET, Wed., March. 5, 2008

BOSTON - Researchers have uncovered a rare photograph of a young Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 years after it was taken on Cape Cod and tucked inside a family album.
The photograph, shot in July 1888 in Brewster, shows an 8-year-old Helen sitting outside in a light-colored dress, holding Sullivan's hand and cradling one of her beloved dolls.
Experts on Keller's life believe it could be the earliest photo of the two women together and the only one showing the blind and deaf child with a doll — the first word Sullivan spelled for Keller after they met in 1887 — according to the New England Historic Genealogical Society, which now has the photo.
"It's really one of the best images I've seen in a long, long time," said Helen Selsdon, an archivist at the American Federation for the Blind, where Keller worked for more than 40 years. "This is just a huge visual addition to the history of Helen and Annie."
Image stuffed inside a family album For more than a century, though, the photograph was hidden in an album that belonged to the family of Thaxter Spencer, an 87-year-old man in Waltham.
Spencer's mother, Hope Thaxter Parks, often stayed at the Elijah Cobb House on Cape Cod during the summer as a child. In July 1888, she played with Keller, whose family had traveled from Tuscumbia, Ala., to vacation in Massachusetts.
Spencer, who doesn't know which of his relatives took the picture, told the society that his mother, four years younger than Helen, remembered Helen exploring her face with her hands.
In June, Spencer donated a large collection of photo albums, letters, diaries and other heirlooms to the genealogical society, which preserves artifacts from New England families for future research.
"I never thought much about it," Spencer said in a statement released by the society. "It just seemed like something no one would find very interesting." Spencer has recently been hospitalized and could not be reached for comment.
It wasn't until recently that staff at the society realized the photograph's significance.
'It's a beautiful portrait' D. Brenton Simons, the society's president and CEO, said the photograph offers a glimpse of what was a very important time in Keller's life.
Sullivan was hired in 1887 to teach Keller, who had been left blind and deaf after an illness at the age of 1 1/2. With her new teacher, Keller learned language from words spelled manually into her hand. Not quite 7, the girl went from an angry, frustrated child without a way to communicate to an eager scholar.
While "doll" was the first word spelled into her hand, Helen finally comprehended the meaning of language a few weeks later with the word "water," as famously depicted in the film "The Miracle Worker." Sullivan stayed at her side until her death in 1936, and Keller became a world-famous author and humanitarian. She died in 1968.
Jan Seymour-Ford, a research librarian at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, which both Sullivan and Keller attended, said she was moved to see how deeply connected the women were, even in 1888.
"The way Anne is gazing so intently at Helen, I think it's a beautiful portrait of the devotion that lasted between these two women all of Anne's life," Seymour-Ford said.
Selsdon said the photograph is valuable because it shows many elements of Keller's childhood: that devotion, Sullivan's push to teach Helen outdoors and Helen's attachment to her baby dolls, one of which was given to her upon Sullivan's arrival as her teacher.
"It's a beautiful composition," she said. "It's not even the individual elements. It's the fact that it has all of the components."

January 25, 2008: TODAY Show Interview With Former Child Star Ricky Schroder

Do u remember watching Silver Spoons on NBC in the early 198os? I did when I was teenager but some of episodes I watched but the closed-caption wasn't ready to be invented yet. Ricky Schroder was in it for playing a son of a wealthy man. He also was a former child star. I saw some of his childhood movies, not much, before Ricky went on to become a TV star. I didn't think he looked cute back then but now, I do recall how cute Ricky was. After Ricky left TV series, I hadn't heard about him in several years until he showed up to do more acting on 2 different TV series when he got older but I didn't watching them. When Ricky reappeared on TV, I was shocked to see how changing he looks. Wow! Ricky is still looking handsome. And I found out he's married and have 4 beautiful children. I watched an interview with Ricky by TODAY Show reporter on TV with a closed-caption this morning. Ricky was discussing another movie on TV. That TV movie will be aired on Sunday night, January 27th on ION channel at 9 pm Eastern Time. It's called "Journey to the Center of the Earth". Don't forget if u wants to watch it. I will probably watch it. See a link of video of an interview below:
An Interview with Ricky Schroder
See a bio about this actor: Ricky Schroder
Have a great weekend!
(Update at 5:51 pm): I tried to embed this video three times but unsuccessfully, it didn't work out. I was disappointed so I changed my mind about it.