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john fowles | Email | Homepage | 03.14.05 – 3:02 pm | #
I don't think so. I Googled the phrase and there is no Mormon reference (or Benson reference) up to the sixth page, and that's where I stopped looking. It seems to be a very Christian saying.
Rusty | Email | Homepage | 03.14.05 – 3:45 pm | #
Nibley traced it to a later source, but I'm at work so I don't have anything to track down the citation (in Approaching Zion?), nor where he'd traced it to. IIRC, he was pretty emphatic that we use it as an excuse to draw too near to Babylon.
pate | Email | Homepage | 03.14.05 – 3:53 pm | #
I remember a Bagley cartoon that described Park City as "In Utah, but not Of Utah"
Mark Hansen | Email | Homepage | 03.14.05 – 4:49 pm | #
From L. Tom Perry, "In the World," Ensign, May 1988, 13:
From the teachings of the Savior we have adopted the common saying in the Church, "to be in the world, but not of the world." Normally, when this saying is used, we are emphasizing our need to stay free from sin and materialism which are so prevalent in the world in which we live. Of course, this is important—we should continually remind ourselves to keep our lives in harmony with the Lord's laws. For today, however, I would like to address the first part of the expression: "to be in the world."
john fowles | Email | Homepage | 03.14.05 – 5:00 pm | #
I included the above quotation just to show that it looks like Elder Perry also merely quotes it as a "common saying" in the Church and, if you look at the article, although he attribtutes it to John 15:19 as well.
For some reason I have President Benson in my mind as saying this as well. I will look around a little on lds.org to see if I can substantiate that, but I admit that I could be misattributing that.
john fowles | Email | Homepage | 03.14.05 – 5:04 pm | #
There's also a great little article in the 1974 Ensign that similarly merely attributes it to a general saying in the Church. See James A. Cullimore, "To Be in the World but Not of the World," Ensign, Jan. 1974, 119:
The members of the Church are constantly being reminded that even though they are "in the world, they should not be of the world." . . .
President Lee said on one occasion to the youth of the Church: "We don't pray that you may be withdrawn into a 'Shangri-la' away from the evils of the world, because you are to be a leaven wherever you are, to bring about righteousness, but we are pleading with the Lord with all our might that while you are in the world, you may be kept from evil." (Harold B. Lee, Decisions for Successful Living [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1973], p. 223.)
john fowles | Email | Homepage | 03.14.05 – 5:09 pm | #
Nibley traced it back to Diognetus.
Elder Benson used it in the 1970s. David O. McKay used it in the 1940s.
Justin | Email | Homepage | 03.14.05 – 6:12 pm | #
ok, so it's been used in the church, but does that mean we should avoid jobs or living in the world.
It's hard to avoid living in the world, or for that matter jobs in the world. Both businesses we own are certainly in the world. A movie theater where over a third of the movies are R rated. And a bridal store where 3/4 of the girls are either already living with their fiancee or at least have had sexual relations with them.
We are part of this world. Do we need to be worldly, or seek after things of this world or allow the thinks of this world to influence us negatively…NO.
I'm glad I grew up in the mission field, and raised my family in the mission field, there are great blessing in doing so.
Don | Email | Homepage | 03.14.05 – 8:10 pm | #
It is something we should carefully consider, that whole mindset of living in the world but not being a part of it. And it's a very individual thing. I often go to bars to see bands play and have no inclination to drink or smoke whatsoever. Having drunk people around doesn't bother me (until they get drunk enough to start wanting to blather to me because I'm female). But someone with an alcohol problem probably isn't going to be well off exposing themselves to that kind of temptation.
My husband and I always marvel at people who say things in church like, "We shouldn't have only Mormon friends. We need to be making friends with people who aren't Mormon." We always think to ourselves, You only have friends that are Mormon? How is that possible?
Susan M | Email | Homepage | 03.14.05 – 8:30 pm | #
Nice post, Rusty. I remember when Bob and I were barely home from our missions we had a conversation about this. (I laugh now when I think about how naive and inexperienced we were back then, but still. . .) We were both excited to realize that we had each learned that even in missionary work itself — not to mention in other aspects of life — having a certain degree of credibility is essential if you want to get close enough to people or situations to influence them.
One thing I love doing is spending lots of time in the Village. I get my hair cut by a gay guy there, I love shopping for clothes in the vintage/hipster stores and visiting the myriad indie record stores, and like Susan I enjoy seeing live music in bars. I'm not going to tell you that I do all that for the missionary opportunities (or that I've necessarily even got very much hipster credibility at all), but I do think people in that crowd take note in a positive way when they realize I'm Mormon and that I'm not just out to condemn every aspect of their lives.
Logan | Email | Homepage | 03.15.05 – 10:37 am | #
This is a good discussion. As a mostly irrelevant sidenote, many translations render John 17:15 as "keep them from the evil one" ie. Lucifer, not just general evil. This may have Temple echos, and I think William Hamblin discusses it in his "Temple motifs in John 17″ which is not widely available.
Ben S. | Email | Homepage | 03.15.05 – 11:08 am | #
Oh man, Logan, I remember those days… But seriously I remember two specific incidents on my mission where I just listened to Led Zeppelin with investigators for a couple hours. Neither of them joined the Church, but both helped give the Church a good name when it was commonly known as an evil sect in those parts.
Bob Caswell | Email | Homepage | 03.15.05 – 11:40 am | #
Yeah Bob, those conversations were great. It's still fun to tell missionaries in my ward what we distilled from those post-mish days of ours: that obedience is not the first law of heaven. (At least not as that phrase is often understood. Of course, I better stop now before this becomes a serious threadjack with a topic that probably deserves its own post.)
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NEW YORK - The image of Janis Joplin, dead now for 30 years, remains fixed: a blues-belting, bourbon-drinking rock icon who lived fast and died young.
But in a series of letters she wrote in 1965, two years before her breakthrough performance at the Monterey Pop Festival, a different Janis Joplin emerges: a studious homebody, singing alone in her room, battling the demons that eventually claimed her life.
"I've just been attempting to look at my life objectively from my new happy vantage point," she wrote in one typically reflective letter to then-boyfriend Peter de Blanc.
"I'm making 'A's' in 3, maybe 4, of my 5 classes," reads another, written in her neat, perfectly spaced script.
The letters - 64 in all, written between July 24 and Nov. 11, 1965 - were sent to de Blanc in New York. The couple had met in California, but she returned to her hometown of Port Arthur while de Blanc moved to Manhattan.
The Janis Joplin Archive, broken into 28 lots, goes up for auction today at the Swann Galleries in Manhattan. The gallery declined to identify the seller.
"This is a little piece of her heart," said Swann president Nicholas Lowry, invoking one of Joplin's biggest hits. "It's like her diary, written to her lover."
The sale was not approved by the Joplin estate, but it could not legally block the auction. Michael Joplin, Janis' brother, felt the auction was linked to the upcoming Manhattan opening of a play based on his sister's life.
"The intensity of interest is really sparked by that," he said. "Love, Janis" - based in part on some of the singer's letters - opens April 22.
The letters are revealing in a variety of ways.
Joplin's writing is vivid and articulate, sprinkled with four-letter words and '60s argot ("Sorry to be such a drag").
In one eight-page confessional, she confesses that she descended into heavy methamphetamine use and experimented with lesbianism during a stay in San Francisco.
"All I did was be wild," she wrote. "... I really seem to have been trying to do myself in."
Eventually, Joplin did just that. She was found dead of an accidental heroin overdose on Oct. 4, 1970, at a Hollywood hotel.
But these are letters from her Texas hometown, where she returned in 1965 to refocus.
She enrolled in a local college, Lamar Tech; one lot includes a completed blue book from a sociology exam (Joplin received a 99).
Another lot features a letter with a self-portrait - an image about 180 degrees from the larger-than-life Joplin who fronted Big Brother & the Holding Company.
The drawing, on a sheet of writing paper, highlighted Joplin's "nice green Christmas dress," "groovy ole sandals," and "new thin gold hoop earrings."
A five-page letter, written on looseleaf paper torn from a notebook, detailed Joplin's efforts to keep her musical ambitions alive - practicing in her room as her father listened to Bach downstairs.
"I can really wail on it," Joplin wrote of one blues number, "Come Back Baby."
"If you can call it wailing when you do it all alone in your bedroom with your door closed," she continued. "I call it wailing."
Later, she writes wistfully, "I wish I had fans that thought I was as good as I do."
The entire collection was up for sale once before - via the online auction service eBay, where the unidentified seller asked for $250,000. When that fell through, it wound up at Swann, where the lots were expected to sell for between $3,000 and $10,000 apiece.
In the latest of the letters, dated Nov. 11, 1965, Joplin said she was taking Librium and seeing a counselor in an effort to cling to her sobriety.
She was "fairly adamant," she wrote, about not descending into substance abuse - and expressed fear that, "I'll end up back in that hellish jungle."
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Chandragupta Maurya (340 BC – 298 BC) was the founder of the Mauryan Empire and the first emperor to unify India into one state. He ruled from 322 BC until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favour of his son Bindusara in 298 BC.
Chandragupta Maurya is a pivotal figure in the history of India. Prior to his consolidation of power, most of South Asia was ruled by small states, while the Nanda Dynasty dominated the Gangetic Plains. Chandragupta succeeded in conquering and subjugating almost all of the Indian subcontinent by the end of his reign. His empire extended from Bengal and Assam in the east, to Afghanistan and Balochistan, eastern and south-east Iran in the west, to Kashmir in the north, and to the Deccan Plateau in the south. It was the largest empire yet seen in Indian history.
After unifying India, Chandragupta and his chief advisor Chanakya passed a series of major economic and political reforms. He established a strong central administration patterned after Chanakya's text on politics, the Arthashastra (English: Economics and Political Science). Mauryan India was characterised by an efficient and highly organised bureaucratic structure with a large civil service. Due to its unified structure, the empire developed a strong economy, with internal and external trade thriving and agriculture flourishing. In both art and architecture, the Mauryan empire constituted a landmark. There was a growth in culture which derived its inspiration from the Achaemenids and the Hellenistic world. Chandragupta's reign was a time of great social and religious reform in India. Buddhism and Jainism became increasingly prominent.
In foreign Greek and Latin accounts, Chandragupta is known as Sandrokottos and Androcottus. He became well known in the Hellenistic world for conquering Alexander the Great's easternmost satrapies, and for defeating the most powerful of Alexander's successors, Seleucus I Nicator, in battle. Chandragupta subsequently married Seleucus's daughter to formalize an alliance and established a policy of friendship with the Hellenistic kingdoms, which stimulated India's trade and contact with the western world. The Greek diplomat Megasthenes, who visited the Mauryan capital Pataliputra, is an important source of Mauryan history.
Chandragupta was influenced to accept Jainism by the sage Bhadrabahu; he abdicated his throne to spend his last days at the Shravana Belgola, a famous religious site in southwest India, where he fasted to death. Along with his grandson, Ashoka, Chandragupta Maurya is one of the most celebrated rulers in the history of India and is also known as Samraat Chakravartin. He has played a crucial role in shaping the national identity of modern India, and has been lionised as a model ruler and as a national hero.
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HARRISON, N.J.—On Saturday night, a little more than 24 hours after his trade from Toronto to the Red Bulls, Dwayne De Rosario made his debut in New York. Two minutes into his Red Bulls career after a halftime substitution, he had already created a goal, assisting Dane Richards's 47th-minute strike and making it clear that the Red Bulls offense was somehow going to get better.
On Friday, the Red Bulls acquired De Rosario, a five-time MLS All-Star, in their biggest deal of the season. In exchange for De Rosario, the Red Bulls traded midfielders Tony Tchani and Danleigh Borman and the team's first-round pick in 2012.
He joins an already-loaded Red Bulls attack that features Thierry Henry and 18-year-old sensation Juan Agudelo. After his debut on Saturday, Red Bulls manager Hans Backe called De Rosario's acquisition "the last piece" for a potential MLS Cup run. The Red Bulls were shockingly eliminated by San Jose in the first round last season.
"We have been looking for someone who has a creative foot, that can be a game-winner—scoring goals, preparing goals for others. We believe that one of the biggest assets you can see on any top team around the world is the fact that people score goals from the midfield," said Red Bulls general manager Erik Soler. "We believe that Dwayne is one of those game-changing players."
Soler said De Rosario fits inside the salary cap and as a result, the team gets to keep its third "designated player" spot—the three slots that exist outside of the salary cap and allow for MLS teams to sign top-flight players like the Red Bulls' Henry and Rafa Marquez, both World Cup stars. Soler said Toronto will pick up some of the salary in the trade. Soler admitted that he was trading youth for experience, as Tchani, 21, and Borman, 26 were part of a young core of Red Bulls. Soler said that he didn't mind adding the 31-year-old De Rosario because "today, a soccer player can be on the top level way into their late-30s. He's very fit."
De Rosario, a Canadian who has appeared in 55 games with his home country's national team, called it "extremely frustrating" that Toronto could not field a winning team when he was there. He said he did not want a trade "at first," but he did eventually "just because of a lot of going back and forth over the last years and [I] was just tired of that. I had enough."
Marquez, who plays for the Mexican National Team, said he was impressed by De Rosario's play for Canada. Henry said De Rosario's impact was "amazing."
"I think he changed the game in the second half," Backe said. "Also, the way he controlled our game—from the go left, go right, to the straight passes, very comfortable on the ball. He will definitely be a key player for us."
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At last some time and ability to sign all of these EXCEPT:
Urgent Action Needed: Help Oceanic White Tip Sharks which is no longer available to sign.
Thanks all who posted these: For the oceans!
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Whew! Got them all except for the few that were closed. Sorry I was gone so long everyone.
Just found these from Shark Stewards:www.sharkstewards.org (Shark Stewards is a program of The Turtle Island Restoration Network
Support Our Texas Shark Fin Ban, Read why and Sign the Petition.
Protect Great White Sharks under the US Federal and California State Endangered Species Act. Learn More.
Join us in the Shark FIN-Free Movement! Please SUPPORT our work.
Signed and shared. I'm afraid of sharks but I don't agree with anything being tortured and murdered. They deserve to live in the ocean...and I'll stay on land [although, the land is probably more dangerous with all the humans walking around on it].
Signed Stop the import of Shark Fins to Canada today. Lydia, I think many of us are afraid of sharks and I don't want to meet up with one in the ocean. (although, the land is probably more dangerous with all the humans walking around on it]. Ya, many sharks on land
I knew nothing about shark finning until Capt. Paul Watson & Sea Shepherd got involved in it and started reading up. We have a large Chinese community in Vancouver and I was amazed to find out how many Chinese restaurants have this on the menu & the story behind it. Many Vancouver & Metro. Van cities were considering a ban until Toronto's ban was struck down by Ontario's Supreme Court as beyond the city's jurisdiction late 2012. I also read a Huffington post blog called "Is Baning Shark Fin An Equitable Way To Protect Sharks", which presents another side of the argument, and I hope I"m not going to be vilified for posting the link to this as I feel it's always important to know what both sides say in this complicated world: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/kim-bosco-mo/shark-fin-ban-bc-vancouver-canada_b_2148847.html
This is a very hot debate all over. And what can be done about the large numbers of sharks caught as by-catch in commercial fishing? I don't see how how anyone can debate against the finning of live sharks and dumping them into the ocean to die a slow & agonizing death though, and I am very concerned about their dwindling numbers, much of which I feel has to be because of shark fin soup. I learned much about sharks at Shark Savers:
which starts out like this. (And there are links to petitions that can be signed here)
SHARKS' ROLE IN THE OCEANS:Sharks play a very important role in the oceans in a way that an average fish does not. Sharks are at the top of the food chain in virtually every part of every ocean. In that role, they keep populations of other fish healthy and in proper proportion for their ecosystem. How do sharks keep the oceans healthy? Read the rest at the Shark Savers link provided.
Kung Hay Fat Choy! I couldn't sign this because Canad. provinces couldn't be chosen but all Americans should be able to. Chinese New Year begins this weekend, and people around the world will celebrate. It's a time when family, friends, and neighbors get together and wish for health, prosperity and happiness for the coming year. Symbolic red paper lanterns decorate doorways, and fireworks crackle and pop, ushering in the holiday with a joyous bang.
Sadly, among the meaningful festivities exists a cruel and outdated culinary tradition: eating shark fin soup. Every year, people catch millions of sharks, slice off their fins and throw them back into the ocean where they slowly drown. All for a bowl of soup.
HSI works and partners with organizations around the globe to curb this cruel, wasteful practice, and we're seeing progress! Be part of this important and fast growing global movement to protect sharks. Take HSI's No Shark Fin pledge today!
People, cities, and nations are taking action to end the cruelty by pledging not to eat or by banning altogether the sale of shark fin products.
Five U.S. states, including California, three Pacific territories and numerous municipalities in Canada have banned shark fins. And the Chinese government has announced a phase-out of shark fins from official functions within three years. The European Union is also making strides: just last year they strengthened the existing ban on shark finning in the EU.
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What's the Problem?
Porbeagle sharks breed slowly and only give birth to one or two pups a year, so any significant damage done to the population takes a long time to fix.
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An enormous inflatable manta ray and our Manta Ray of Hope team welcomed hundreds of attendees and key delegates from nations around the world to our event at the 16th meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITE. Mantas, together with 5 shark species won important new international protection at CITES.
I hope these work as links to info from Shark Savers:
In This Issue Mantas Win at CITES
I'm FINished with Fins in Taiwan
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I rec'd a group of 4 petitons from ForceChange in an email today. I'm hoping I can view in browser and post some under appropriate thread topics and that the link will work:
Protect Great White Sharks. The recently legalized practice of killing great white sharks that swim into coastal Australian waters will have a devastating impact on the environment. The Australian government needs to stop this destructive practice in order to protect its fragile coastal ecosystem.
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The group of us had a variety of yummy food. Mini cheeseburgers, the variety entree that included scallops, the crabmeat bisque, the crabmeat sandwich, and the fire baked pizza were all tasty. The decor was great, music enjoyable (jazz), and although there were multiple conversations all around, our group could talk comfortably to each other without elevating our voices. We also had a variety of desserts. I would recommend the 3 dessert sample: donuts, ice cream and whipped cream covered brownies, and the sorbet sampler were all very good. The cherry pistachio cheesecake was the only disappointment of the evening. Price moderate, if
you don't hop around the menu like we did! :-). Try it. You should really like it. A plus at this location.....right next door to a movie theater complex. So you can enjoy a flick first, then go there for din din.
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RioCan Leads $2.5 Billion Property Bond Push: Canada Credit
RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust led Canadian property companies that issued C$2.53 billion ($2.55 billion) in bonds last week, tapping low interest rates to refinance debt and generate cash for acquisitions.
RioCan, Canada's largest property investment trust, is counting on the spread between its borrowing costs and property returns to stabilize at about 2 percentage points to fuel the purchase of more shopping centers in the northeastern U.S., said Chief Executive Officer Edward Sonshine.
"I'd be disappointed if we did anything less than $500 to $600 million in property acquisitions in 2011 in the United States," Sonshine said in a telephone interview from Toronto. Further expansion "could take it up to a couple of billion dollars" in coming years, he said.
Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney last week left benchmark interest rates unchanged at 1 percent for a fourth month, spurring RioCan and others to refinance existing debt at lower rates and borrow more. First Capital Realty Inc., a Toronto-based retail property owner and developer, issued C$150 million in 5.48 percent 10-year notes to redevelop existing sites and buy new properties. The debt was sold at a spread of 231 basis points over government bonds.
H&R Real Estate Investment Trust, also based in Toronto, sold C$150 million in five-year notes at 4.78 percent for acquisitions. Cadillac Fairview, the real estate unit of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, sold C$2 billion of five and 10-year notes to refinance existing debt and raise capital.
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"These companies are building more financial flexibility so when the market rebounds they can react," said Mark Newman, vice president, consumer, retail, real estate at credit rating company DBRS Ltd. "In Canada, it's maybe more a case of raising capital for new development, whereas in the U.S., it's a case of picking up existing bargain property at bargain prices."
Elsewhere in credit markets, the extra yield, or spread, investors demand to own the debt of Canadian corporations rather than the federal government was unchanged on Jan. 21 at 132 basis points from a day earlier, according to a Bank of America Merrill Lynch index. A basis point is 0.01 percentage point.
The province of Manitoba sold an additional C$250 million in 4.1 percent bonds maturing in March 2041. The bonds were priced to yield 79.5 basis points over comparable federal government bonds. The province of Ontario increased the size of its five-year floating-rate bond by C$50 million to C$966 million. Provincial bond spreads stood at 53 basis points on Jan. 21, from 54 basis points day earlier.
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The spread on Bank of America Merrill Lynch's index of BBB rated bonds, which tracks debt including RioCan's, narrowed to 178 basis points, from 186 on Dec. 31. The yield on Rio-Can's 5.65 percent note maturing in 2015 fell this month to 4.01 percent from 4.13 percent.
"Starting at the end of 2008, investment in U.S. real estate just stopped," RioCan's Sonshine said, recalling the depths of the credit crunch and its impact on the U.S. commercial property market.
The climate is improving after sales at U.S. retailers rose in December for a sixth consecutive month, capping the biggest one-year gain in more than a decade, data from the U.S. Commerce Department show.
"There's a lot of cash out there, for the right names," he said.
RioCan last week issued C$225 million in 4.5 percent bonds maturing in January 2016, increasing the size from C$175 million to meet demand. The bonds were sold to yield 192.5 basis points more than government debt. The cash will be used to retire debt on which RioCan paid 8.33 percent. Such savings will contribute "significantly" to earnings growth in 2011, according to Sonshine.
Access to Capital
If RioCan has any advantage over U.S. competitors, it's the terms on which it can borrow money, said Sonshine.
"Our access to capital is probably better than it's ever been and Americans' access to capital is quite constrained," he said.
The spread between RioCan's property returns and borrowing rates has narrowed to about 200 basis points from as much as 275 basis points, said Sonshine. He says it will probably stabilize at that level, making buying property appealing.
'2011 will still be a good time to do acquisitions," he said.


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It has been reported the 30-year-old defender could leave White Hart Lane this summer following yet another change in the dugout.
Dawson has been linked with moves to both Hull and Crystal Palace, but says his only focus is on helping Spurs progress next season.
Speaking while co-hosting the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast on talkSPORT, Dawson said: "I have been at Tottenham for nine-and-a-half years.
"It is a great football club and I have loved every minute of it while I have been here.
"The fans have been superb to me since day one because I have had some ups and downs, like everyone does.
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(BURBANK, CA) -- Ringing in the first week with our new President-Elect we have decide to take it up a notch and invite sexy hot blonde Brooke Belle to be our host of the famed Sardos Porn Star Karaoke this Tuesday night in Burbank, California.
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Since the media and the press love this girl so much expect there to be a full gaggle of Paparazzo on hand to follow her throughout the evening, and you can also be a party of that if you so wish. Want to remain ''Off Camera'' we would love to let you drink and hang out as well. Sardos has that comfortable feeling about it every night and thats part of the reason why it has become the preferred hang out spot for the adult industry, mainstream entertainment , and all around cool people.
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We always visit Alta at least once during our annual trip to Utah. This trip we went twice. The weather was just about the worst we've experienced on any trip but you can't fault the resort for that. This trip we did something we've never done before and hired a photographer for an hour to ski with us and take pictures of the family. We got quite a few good shots that are now proudly displayed on our "ski wall."
The resort is a favorite of my kids' because there is so much terrain to which they have access. They love the Sugarloaf chair and feel like real hotdog skiers skiing off that chair. They still enjoy skiing off the Sunnyside Chair and would be happy just skiing that all day.
We arrived about 20 minutes before the lifts started running on our first visit this trip and there were, no kidding, six other cars in the parking lot. We didn't wait in a lift line for more than 30 seconds all day. Our second visit was a carbon copy of the first. The weather was cold and overcast with off-and-on snowfall. It stopped early enogh in the afternoon both days for the road down the canyon was clear and easily passable.
This place is all about skiers! Whether you are looking for easy greens, blue cruisers or double black hair raisers, you'll find what you want and plenty of it. If you want fresh powder get there early after a big dump and elbow in with the locals.
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Picasso and Chicago at the Art Institute
Chicago — A century ago there was a radical upheaval in art, a single exhibit that shocked and enraptured audiences. The Armory Show of 1913 introduced America to modern art, to the work of artists such as Duchamp, Matisse, Braque and Picasso.
Actor John C. Reilly brings character to concert at Miller Caves
The Miller Caves, underneath the brewery that not only made Milwaukee famous but also helped define the city itself, apparently never seemed, until Sunday night, like a place to hold a concert.
In retrospect, after the very first such event courtesy of John C. Reilly and Friends, the historic location was a small club waiting to happen: The painted backdrop of cavorting (presumably) Germans had retro style, as did the overhead lamps and the high-arched ceiling. »Read Full Article(4)
What does strange press release from 'Mad Men' mean?
Two minutes after the end of Sunday's "Mad Men" episode - filled with personal drama, some of it involving, Pete, Bob, Ted and Peggy - AMC, I presume sent out this press release.
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Milwaukee's historic house museums are offering patrons a seat at their annual fundraising event Wednesday. And, afterward — guests can take the chairs with them. The Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum and the Charles Allis Art Museum have been blessed with chairs — or artistic riffs on chairs — created by local artists for this auction at 6 p.m. at the Villa Terrace. The seats range from an old easy chair dressed as a cozy grandmother to a pew made from doors to a partial-chair that's now totally sculptural. Other seats for auction are ones at theatrical productions, sporting events or a table in a local fine dining establishment. The evening also features live music, hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. Tickets are $25. Making a reservation would be appreciated and can be done by calling Ann Steinbach at (414) 278-8295 Ext. 5, but it isn't mandatory. Visit www.charlesallis.org/cavtgalleryofchairs.html »Read Full Article


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, Volume 22, Issue 3, pp 771-780
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Development and validation of a disease model for postmenopausal osteoporosis
- A. GauthierAffiliated withUniversity of GlasgowAmaris Consulting UK Ltd Email author
- , J. A. KanisAffiliated withUniversity of Sheffield
- , M. MartinAffiliated withi3 Innovus
- , J. CompstonAffiliated withUniversity of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine
- , F. BorgströmAffiliated withi3 InnovusLIME/MMC, Karolinska Institute
- , C. CooperAffiliated withUniversity of SouthamptonUniversity of Oxford
- , E. McCloskeyAffiliated withUniversity of Sheffield
- , On behalf of the Committee of Scientific Advisors, International Osteoporosis Foundation
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This article describes the development of a model for postmenopausal osteoporosis (PMO) based on Swedish data that is easily adaptable to other countries.
The aims of the study were to develop and validate a model to describe the current/future burden of PMO in different national settings.
For validation purposes, the model was developed using Swedish data and provides estimates from 1990. For each year of the study, the "incident cohort" (women experiencing a first osteoporotic fracture) was identified and run through a Markov model using 1-year cycles until 2020. Health states were based on the number of fractures and death. Fracture by site (hip, vertebral, and non-hip non-vertebral) was tracked for each health state. Transition probabilities reflected site-specific risk of death and subsequent fractures. Bone mineral density (BMD) was included as a model output; model inputs included population size and life tables from 1970 to 2020, incidence of fracture, relative risk of subsequent fractures based on prior fracture, relative risk of death following a fracture by site, and BMD by age (mean and standard deviation).
Model predictions averaged across age groups estimated the incidence of hip, vertebral, and other osteoporotic fractures within a 5% margin of error versus published data. In Sweden, the number of osteoporotic fractures is expected to rise by 11.5% between 2009 and 2020, with a shift towards more vertebral fractures and multiple fractures.
The current PMO disease model is easily adaptable to other countries, providing a consistent measure of present and future burden of PMO in different settings.
KeywordsBone mineral density Epidemiology Fracture Osteoporosis T-score
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- Development and validation of a disease model for postmenopausal osteoporosis
- Journal
Osteoporosis International
Volume 22, Issue 3 , pp 771-780
- Cover Date
- 2011-03
- 10.1007/s00198-010-1358-3
- Print ISSN
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- 1433-2965
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- Springer-Verlag
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- Bone mineral density
- Epidemiology
- Fracture
- Osteoporosis
- T-score
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- Authors
- A. Gauthier (1) (2)
- J. A. Kanis (3)
- M. Martin (4)
- J. Compston (5)
- F. Borgström (6) (7)
- C. Cooper (8) (9)
- E. McCloskey (3)
- On behalf of the Committee of Scientific Advisors, International Osteoporosis Foundation
- Author Affiliations
- 1. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
- 2. Amaris Consulting UK Ltd, 3b Healey Street NW1 8SR, London, UK
- 3. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
- 4. i3 Innovus, Middlesex, UK
- 5. University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
- 6. i3 Innovus, Stockholm, Sweden
- 7. LIME/MMC, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- 8. University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- 9. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK


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R. K. Narayan, India's Prolific Storyteller, Dies at 94
By BARBARA CROSSETTE
Published: May 14, 2001
R.K. Narayan, the literary chronicler of small-town life in South India and one of the first Indians writing in English to achieve international acclaim, died yesterday in Madras, India. He was 94.
Long before writers of the subcontinent broke free of the passions and ideologies of the independence movement and Partition, Mr. Narayan explored the value of village traditions and the lives of ordinary people. In the 1930's, he created a town in South India that he called Malgudi and populated it with characters who could be fussy, tricky, harmlessly rebellious or philosophical -- but who were always believable. Mr. Narayan would return again and again to Malgudi in many of his 34 novels and hundreds of short stories.
Although Mr. Narayan's writing may strike many foreign critics as dated today, his books accurately portray an India that hovers between the unchangingly rural and the newly industrial and that is still filled with individualistic, often eccentric personalities that recall his imagined universe.
Mr. Narayan's biographers, Susan Ram and N. Ram, have noted that Malgudi ''connects with a rural hinterland, and jungle and forest are never far away.'' They added: ''This town teems with life, abounds with color. To wander any street, peer through a window or push open a door is to encounter a character.''
As a fiction writer, Mr. Narayan preceded by more than half a century the current crop of Indian novelists writing in English about ordinary people living their ordinary, or sometimes extraordinary, lives.
Although he wrote exclusively in English to a relatively small audience in his homeland, Mr. Narayan did not deal, except obliquely, with the impact of Britain on India and the struggle for independence. V. S. Naipaul once observed that Mr. Narayan was interested not so much in the social changes that came to his archetypal Indian town as in ''the lesser life that goes on below: small men, small schemes, big talk, limited means: a life so circumscribed that it appears whole and unviolated, its smallness never a subject for wonder, though India itself is felt to be vast.''
In ''Gods, Demons and Others'' (1964), Mr. Narayan's retelling of stories from the Sanskrit religious epics ''The Mahabharata'' and ''The Ramayana'' and from Tamil epics, he explained his approach: ''It is personality alone that remains unchanging and makes sense in any age or idiom, whether the setting is 3000 B.C. or 2000 A.D.''
Mr. Narayan was 29 and had collected many rejection slips when his first book, ''Swami and Friends,'' was published, in Britain, in 1935. It was Graham Greene who managed to find a publisher after the book had been rejected half a dozen times. Greene said that ''Swami'' was ''closer to Chekhov than to any English writer, with the same underlying sense of beauty and sadness,'' and he admired Mr. Narayan so much that he went on to find publishers for his second and third novels, ''The Bachelor of Arts'' and ''The Dark Room.''
In addition to nearly three dozen novels and several short-story collections, Mr. Narayan published a memoir and countless essays during his rich literary life. He was never short of causes, especially the environment. While in his 80's, he took on the plight of Indian children and made them the subject of an unusual inaugural speech in India's upper house of Parliament, the Rajya Sabha, to which he was named in 1985 for his cultural contributions to the country. Children, he said, no longer had time to play ''or look at birds and trees.''
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayanaswami was born in Madras on Oct. 10, 1906, one of several children in a middle-class family. He shortened his long South Indian family name to Narayan in 1935 at the insistence of Graham Greene and his English publisher, Hamish Hamilton, according to the Rams. Mr. Narayan was a Tamil Brahmin, a member of arguably India's most intellectually gifted caste and of a community intensely devoted to education and the arts that has produced, in addition to writers, a number of renowned scientists.
Because his father was a headmaster in the government educational service who traveled frequently and his mother was a frail woman, he was largely brought up by his grandmother, who arranged lessons for him in Tamil and fascinated him with her Indian tales and poetry. His grandmother also had a steady stream of visitors who stopped in her backyard to have their horoscopes read and to receive advice about their love lives. His childhood days with his grandmother and her visitors provided the material for ''Swami and Friends.''
After his father was transferred to a school in another South Indian city, Mysore, Mr. Narayan studied at the Maharaja of Mysore's Collegiate High School. In 1930, he graduated from the maharaja's college, tried teaching for a short and unhappy spell and then plunged directly into writing full time, a profession almost unknown in India, then or now. His family was shocked but supportive.
''I chose to be writer,'' he later told a radio interviewer, ''mainly because it is the only career which guarantees absolute freedom to live as one pleases.''


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Most Swiss Stocks Fall as Rajoy Says Bailout Not Imminent
Most stocks in Switzerland declined as comments by Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy that a bailout for the country isn't imminent overshadowed better-than-estimated U.S. jobs and services data.
Syngenta AG paced losses in the Swiss Market Index, falling 1.6 percent, as rival Monsanto Co.'s earnings forecast trailed analyst estimates. Julius Baer Group Ltd. dropped 1.9 percent. Swiss Re Ltd. led gains, rising 1.7 percent.
The benchmark SMI fell 0.1 percent to 6,604.44 at the close of trading in Zurich, as more than two shares decreased for each one that climbed. The gauge dropped 1.7 percent last week amid concern that the U.S. Federal Reserve's latest round of bond buying will fail to encourage economic growth. The broader Swiss Performance Index retreated 0.2 percent today.
"Comments made by Spanish Prime Minister Rajoy after yesterday's close that there are no plans for requesting aid in the near future have proven to be a setback for those who had hoped that uncertainty concerning Spain would finally be coming to an end," Markus Huber, head of German sales trading at ETX Capital in London, wrote in e-mailed comments.
Spain has no plans to ask for a bailout soon, Rajoy said late yesterday, in response to mounting speculation that a request was imminent.
In the U.S., a report from Roseland, New Jersey-based ADP Employer Services showed companies added 162,000 workers to payrolls in September. The median forecast of 38 economists surveyed by Bloomberg projected a 140,000 advance.
U.S. Services
The Institute for Supply Management's index of U.S. non-manufacturing businesses, which covers about 90 percent of the economy, rose to 55.1 in September from the prior month's 53.7, the Tempe, Arizona-based group said today. The median forecast of 77 economists surveyed by Bloomberg projected 53.4.
China's non-manufacturing industries expanded at a pace slower than any previous reading compiled by Bloomberg News starting March 2011. The purchasing managers' index fell to 53.7 in September from 56.3 in August, the National Bureau of Statistics and China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said in Beijing. Readings above 50 indicate expansion.
The volume of shares in SMI-listed companies changing hands was 22 percent lower than the 30-day average today, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Syngenta, the world's largest agrochemical company, dropped 1.6 percent to 353 Swiss francs, the biggest decline since August. Profit for fiscal 2013, which began Sept. 1, will be $4.18 to $4.32 a share, St. Louis-based Monsanto said today in a statement. The average of 18 estimates compiled by Bloomberg was for earnings of $4.38.
Baer, Richemont
Julius Baer, the Swiss wealth manager established in 1890, declined 1.9 percent to 32.79 francs.
Richemont, the maker of Chloe bags and Dunhill briefcases, retreated 1.2 percent to 57.95 francs. Swatch Group AG, the biggest maker of Swiss watches, fell 1.3 percent to 379.60 francs.
Implenia AG, a Swiss builder, dropped 1.3 percent to 38.80 francs as Helvea SA downgraded the stock to accumulate from buy.
Swiss Re, the second-biggest reinsurer, advanced 1.7 percent to 64.20 francs, its third day of gains.


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Polarisation characters of the Raman lines of calcium fluoride (fluorspar) and potassium aluminium sulphate (alum) were investigated under the following conditions. Unpolarised light was incident normally on a face of the crystal making an angle 22.5° with a cubic face and the light scattered transversely along a cubic axis was analysed by a double image prism kept with its principal axes inclined at 45° to the vertical. Under these conditions the depolarisation factors of the Raman lines belonging to the totally symmetric (A), the doubly degenerate (E) and the triply degenerate (F) modes should be respectively =1, >1 and <1. The characteristic Raman line of CaF2 at 322 cm−1 exhibited a depolarisation value less than 1, showing thereby that the corresponding mode is a triply degenerate one (F). The Raman lines observed in the spectrum of K-alum were also classified and the results were compared with those given by previous investigators using standard crystal orientations.
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Jo Dee Messina has teamed up with Beachbody and celebrity fitness trainer Autumn Calabrese to bring country music and exercise together for one exciting workout. Country Heat is scheduled to be released on July 28 and will feature "Night Crawl," an original song written and performed by Jo Dee specifically for this program.
To celebrate the release of Country Heat, Jo Dee and Autumn will head out on a one-day media tour in Nashville, TN on Tuesday, July 26, bringing their friendship and variety of talents to radio stations across the country and local television. Included on the press tour are interviews with Wise Brothers radio stations (TBA) from 6:00am-8:00am CT; WSM Radio's "Coffee, Country & Cody Radio Show" at 900am CT; "Talk of the Town" on Nashville's Channel 5 at 11:00am CT; and Nash Nights Live with Shawn Parr at 2:00pm CT.
Jo Dee will also join Autumn at the kickoff for Beachbody's annual summit, which will host approximately 30,000 fitness coaches, when she performs "Night Crawl" at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, TN the evening of July 28.
"Night Crawl" will be available for purchase on iTunes and other digital platforms beginning Tuesday, July 26.]]>
Jo Dee Messina Brings Soul To Kia Of Meridian Show
Perseverance and personality. Those are just two of the qualities Jo Dee Messina brought to Mississippi last night for the Jo Dee Messina & Friends event, sponsored by Kia of Meridian.
Suffering from a ruptured disc in her back didn't stop the nine-time No. 1 artist from bringing an abundance of life to the Temple Theatre as she performed for an engaged and interactive crowd of fans, many of whom were clad in Jo Dee merchandise that spanned the duration of her lengthy career. Those fans were treated to an array of chart-topping hits, as well as newer songs and a yet-to-be-released tune; but it wasn't just the music that made Meridian magical. It was the passion, determination, humor, humility, and honesty that a fan can only obtain at a Jo Dee event that made this particular show rank atop the "best concerts of 2016" list. Read More at NashvilleGab.com
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Country music has always been known for fun and honest storytelling and empowering tunes. And multi-platinum artist Jo Dee Messina has done more than her part when it comes to keeping with this tradition. So I was thrilled to catch up with Messina for my podcast Whine At 9 to discuss her whirlwind career and new […]
It was the title track from her newest album, , combined with the first chapter of another of Jo Dee's recent collaborations, a book called , which garnered me speechless. Individually, both bodies of work would have provoked my tears to begin to flow, but together, Jo Dee spoke to my heart in a way that reminds me of just how precious the gift of motherhood actually is.]]>
Jo Dee Messina has a new single out and the story behind it — and its release — is a must read! See our exclusive interview on NashvilleGab!
After countless articles about and interviews with Jo Dee Messina, I believe the cat is out of the bag — I am a tremendous supporter of this artist, her talent, and her projects. While I spoke with Jo Dee, someone I have come to consider a friend in this industry, about her touching, emotionally driven new single "Will You Love Me?", I felt overcome with angst and sympathy regarding the track. And that ability to take feelings, put them to music, pour herself into the delivery, and do it all with unadulterated honesty is why Jo Dee and her song deserve accolades.
"Will You Love Me?" is a song that Jo Dee wrote about a friendship that went dark when the spotlight that shone on the Grammy-nominated artist began to dim. The situation pained Jo Dee to the point of needing a release, and she chose the route of pen to paper to work through her grief. The song has become a fan favorite, as she has been performing it on the road for some time now with a full band behind her and a piano-only introduction and finale. When Jo Dee partnered with Country Now for an acoustic recording session, the song was brought to the table and, unbeknownst to the singer-songwriter, her newest single was being born.
I went to do Country Now, that's live from Blackbird. They were like "will you come in and perform a couple of songs acoustically?" and I wasn't even going to do this song, but my publicist was like "hey! Why don't you do that song, you know, your new song?" And I was like "I've never done it acoustically," 'cause you know, you have seen it live. It starts with a piano, it's got layers of guitar, it's slamming the drums, it's a rocking tune. I didn't know if we could pull it off acoustically, but we figured we'd give it a shot. And, so, I told the story of really finding out who your friends really are, when you go through life's hard times, and you know, when my mom became ill and I lost the funding of a major label, it's amazing who shows up, and it's also hurtful who doesn't show up. So, that's where the song came from, and I performed it, and Butch Waugh . . . one of the leaders in this project of this YouTubechannel said "can I take this song over to Sirius?" He was like "I love this song. I love the passion behind this song." So, he took it over to Sirius and they said "we're in." And I was like "it's an acoustic version (laughs)!"
Thus, a single was now suddenly in Jo Dee's hands and the support began pouring in from big names in the industry, such as Butch Waugh, the powers that be at Sirius XM, and terrestrial radio stations. Of course, with the whirlwind creation and marketing of a brand new, never before recorded single underway, the question of whether another album, containing the track, will be released in the near future.
So, they're kind of pushing us to get into the studio again to get new songs cut, which will happen in the next month or so. It just happened. Literally. I was touring, we were on a three week run out to the west coast and all these guys are talking and it's happening, and I come back and got an e-mail from my publicist saying "FYI, XM's going to start playing your song." I didn't even get it! So, the folks from Country Now . . . brought it over there and they were gracious enough to play it.
Not only is Jo Dee ecstatic that her song, albeit unexpectedly, is receiving positive attention; her fans are thrilled for her and sharing their enthusiasm with the artist who deserves the respect she is receiving.
Fans are stoked! Like, people come to my shows and they're like "I just heard this song on XM!" I'm like "okay, that's awesome (laughs)!"
And while Jo Dee's new song is making waves, catching ears, and turning heads, the question remains: Has the subject former friend heard the song yet?
Oh, I don't know! She doesn't return my calls still (laughs)!
Even though Jo Dee can laugh about the lack of response from the former friend now, once upon a time the situation wasn't so funny. In fact, it was downright hurtful enough to drive Jo Dee to create a song that allowed her to emit what was in her head and heart.
I didn't reach the point of acceptance while I was writing the song and you can hear it. And it's funny because, and then you've seen it live, when I sing it, you can feel the emotion that I felt when I was writing it, because it is literally my heart on the stage. It's like that part that says "when you've taken all I can give and there's nothing left, will you love me then?" That is the most hurtful line in the whole song and that was like "wow! I spent my whole life giving and now when I don't have anything to give, where does everybody go?" It was very honest, and you know the turn around of that whole story. . . . You know that I found out that the one that is most faithful, loyal, and gracious is the Lord God, Jesus Christ. That is who stands there when everyone else is gone, for me. . . . It's very current in the emotional place when I perform it and when I wrote it, I was angry. I was hurt. I was everything that goes along with losing a friend.
Perhaps what has made this song especially unique is that intense emotion that has gone into the lyrics and every performance of the song, which has given way to a rather versatile track. As such, the song has been described as one that can "stand on its own," even with the removal of the piano, layers of guitars, and slamming drums.
Because the track can be relayed seamlessly, whether fully produced or acoustic, Jo Dee will be going back into the studio to record "Will You Love Me?" the way she initially heard it in her head when she wrote it and still envisions it. That means fans will also have access to a symbol banging, guitar riffing, drum slaying version of the song — on a forthcoming album.
It might be an EP 'cause I can get it flipped around faster. We're doing another song, it's called "Masquerade," I really just wrote it three weeks ago. It's the same vein as that song. That same really heavy, rocking layered guitar sounding. And it's such a blast! We've got the material to go in and cut an EP immediately, but it's a style no one's ever heard for me.
For now, Jo Dee is bridging the gap between planning her next offering and releasing same with promoting her new single, touring, accepting speaking engagements, and "expanding on [her] writing."
[I'm] plugging away; new material. Going in kind of a new direction for me musically. That's real exciting to be sitting on the brink of that. And then a girl I was writing with was like "we need to write more of this stuff! This is great! This is so much fun!" So, as soon as I get off the road, I'm going to have a chance to go into that whole writer mode and, in the process, maybe scripting another book. You know me! I always have fifty million things going (laughs).
The first peek at Jo Dee Messina's new material, "Will You Love Me?" can now be found on iTunes in its most raw form. And know — each time you clickdownload, each time you hit play, each time you learn a new lyric, each time you belt this song from the depths of your core — Jo Dee expresses her heartfelt gratitude for your support.
Just a huge gratitude for the people who believed it and carried it over to XM. We're getting calls from terrestrial radio, regular radio stations now . . . asking us for versions of it now. I just think, you know, Jen, just to have somebody believe enough in your stuff enough to push it, as opposed to trying to roll that boulder by yourself. It's a big deal. So, I'm just coming from a place of gratitude on this one.
Source: Exclusive Interview: Jo Dee Messina – We Will Love Her Then & Always]]>
Multi-Platinum selling country superstar Jo Dee Messina has teamed up with Country Now, the most viewed and highest-rated dedicated country music YouTube channel, to release a brand new single "Will You Love Me," that premiered on SiriusXM – The Highway over the weekend. In another innovative move from the country music icon, who released her last album ME through Kickstarter, Jo Dee has partnered with Country Now to release the single, which was recorded in June at Nashville's historic Blackbird Studios. "Will You Love Me" a Country Now 'Live From Blackbird' acoustic single is available now at iTunes http://smarturl.it/JoDeeWYLM and the accompanying video from the session can be seen here http://bit.ly/1UihRxn.
Country Now welcomed Jo Dee to Blackbird Studios for an episode that was posted at the end of August and fans can check out here http://bit.ly/1MybHrp. She performed some of her biggest hits including her debut single "Heads Carolina, Tails California," "Lesson in Leavin'" and her #1 smash hit "Bring On the Rain." But as soon as she began singing "Will You Love Me," penned by Jo Dee from real life events, it became clear they had something special on their hands and a partnership was created to release that exact acoustic version. The single has been a favorite out on the road with fans frequently requesting it and asking for it to be released so Jo Dee jumped on the plan to partner with Country Now for the release of the acoustic version of the song.
"The music industry is constantly changing and I want to make sure that I change right alongside and keep up, especially as an independent artist," said Jo Dee. "Country Now is made up of an innovative, creative, and professional team so I am incredibly excited about releasing this single with them and to finally get an acoustic version of this song out there!"
Since breaking onto the music scene Messina has had six #1 songs including "I'm Alright," "Bring On The Rain" (a duet with Tim McGraw), "That's The Way," "Bye Bye," "Stand Beside Me" and "My Give A Damn's Busted," as well as thirteen Top 20 singles. She has scored three #1 albums, sold more than 5 million albums worldwide and has received critical acclaim for her explosive singing style and electrifying performances. Jo Dee has won countless awards including the Academy of Country Music's Top Female Artist of the Year, was the winner of the CMA's prestigious Horizon Award and was the first female country artist to score three multiple-week #1 songs from the same album. Jo Dee's latest studio album ME, an album, created with the fans, for the fans, is being dubbed by fans and media alike as her best album to date.
Country Now, a YouTube/Greenlight Media & Marketing partnership, is the first original country music and lifestyle-dedicated YouTube channel. Country Now is the home of the highly acclaimed series Live From Blackbird Studio, whose intimate performances have featured some of Country music's best including Hunter Hayes, Eli Young Band, Love and Theft, Joe Nichols, John Butler Trio, Parmelee, and countless others. It is produced and directed by Stokes Nielson. Butch Waugh and Jay Frank serve as strategic advisors for the show.
Pandora has spent more than a decade navigating the brutal music industry. It's still losing money, but artists are becoming fans.
Country singer Jo Dee Messina popped in with her band on a toasty afternoon in late July to entertain over 100 employees. She was in town for a concert at the jazz club Yoshi's.
Messina, whose latest album was funded through a Kickstarter campaign, told the Pandora audience that she'd met with some company representatives at the Country Music Association festival a few weeks earlier.
They suggested she come in and perform ahead of her show. Messina was so taken by the outreach that she wanted to go bigger.
"I said we need to do something more, like have a big Pandora bus going around the country," she said at the start of her half-hour set.
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"The setup that Country Now created at Blackbird Studios was so great, allowing me the opportunity to play my songs in an acoustic, organic environment that really enabled the songs to shine," said Jo Dee. "I am very happy with the outcome!"
"Jo Dee's performance was really phenomenal," said Dominic Sandifer, President Country Now/Greenlight Media & Marketing. "It captured the essence of what 'Live from Blackbird' is all about – passionate musicianship and a voice that is as amazing as it has ever been."
Since breaking onto the music scene Messina has had six #1 songs including "I'm Alright," "Bring On The Rain" (a duet with Tim McGraw), "That's The Way," "Bye Bye," "Stand Beside Me" and "My Give A Damn's Busted," as well as thirteen Top 20 singles. She has scored three #1 albums, sold more than 5 million albums worldwide and has received critical acclaim for her explosive singing style and electrifying performances. Jo Dee has won countless awards including the Academy of Country Music's Top Female Artist of the Year, was the winner of the CMA's prestigious Horizon Award and was the first female country artist to score three multiple-week #1 songs from the same album. Jo Dee's latest studio album ME, an album, created with the fans, for the fans, is being dubbed by fans and media alike as her best album to date. For more information on Jo Dee Messina you can go to www.jodeemessina.com.]]>


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William Peace University To Freeze Housing And Board For 2013-2014 Academic YearBy William Peace University on April 18, 2013 3:03 pm
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RALEIGH, N.C. – William Peace University (http://www.peace.edu), a private four-year university located in downtown Raleigh, has announced that it will freeze housing and board for the 2013-2014 academic year at the same level of the current academic calendar. The decision was made in an effort to monitor costs and provide students with a viable access to higher education. For students enrolling in fall 2013, standard housing will remain at $6,186 and the standard 14-meal plan will remain at $2,814. The housing and board freeze follows the institutions previous announcement in 2012 to freeze tuition for the 2013-2014 academic calendar, which marks the second consecutive year for William Peace University. Tuition will remain at $23,700. The tuition, housing and board freeze reflects the same amount it cost for students attending William Peace University since the 2012-2013 academic year, which marked a 7.73 percent reduction instituted in fall 2012.
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The ability to freeze tuition, housing and board in the state of our current economy comes from the focus of William Peace University's Board of Trustees on controlling institutional costs overall, much of which came from the cost savings program implemented in 2011. William Peace University has implemented refined internal processes and environmental initiatives such as recycling more materials and becoming more energy efficient in an effort to decrease expenses.
"William Peace University's ongoing commitment to higher education has been centered on three guiding principles – affordability, accessibility and accountability – as we truly believe that each of these play an integral role in providing students with the education they rightfully deserve," said Debra M. Townsley, Ph.D., president of William Peace University. "It is our primary focus to equip students for their professional career, but the only way to ensure that it takes place is by establishing a system that addresses the financial considerations of students today. Our economy is improving, but is still a challenge for most Americans. We hope that the tuition, housing and board freeze will better assist students throughout the learning process."
William Peace University is located in the heart of Raleigh, North Carolina. It was founded in 1857 as Peace Institute, offering education for boys and girls in primary grades and to women from high school to college. Peace, an all-women's college, became a four-year baccalaureate college and graduated its first bachelor's students in August of 1996. Exclusively an all-women's institution for its first 152 years, Peace began offering coeducational evening courses through the William Peace School of Professional Studies in 2009. In 2011, Peace College transitioned to William Peace University and welcomed its first coeducational class to its day program in fall 2012. Its mission is to prepare students for careers in the organizations of tomorrow. On average, more than 90 percent of the university's graduates are placed in jobs or graduate school within one year of graduation. For more information, please visit http://www.peace.edu.


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Travel buddies: Expedia acquires Travelocity for $280 million
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|Cookie tray put together by a recipient
Every year I put together a Christmas Cookie Box for friends and family. This past Chrismas they were sent out the last weekend of November for deilvery before Advent.
The cookies sent out were:
- Current Gingerbread Cookies
- Mincemeat Pinwheels
- Clove Sugar Cookies
- Cherry & Nut Biscotti
- Speculaas
- Chocolate Espresso Cookies
- Christmas Balls
- Gingerbread Hearts
- Braune Kuchen - Brown Crisp Baltic Cookies
- Lemon Butter Cookies
Over the next couple of weeks I'll publish each of cookies individually. You want some right?
|The Pre Baking Ingredient Table
|Current Ginger Shortbread
|Mincemeat Pinwheels
|Clove Sugar Cookies
|Cherry and Nut Biscotti
|Chocolate Espresso Cookies
|Christmas Balls
|Gingerbread Hearts
|Braune Kuchen - Brown Crisp Baltic Cookies
|Lemon Butter Cookies