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"real relief" I meant
Hi Penny I spent yesterday with Dad and all was well. Today is my free day and I won't be eating too much and no alcohol because I need to make up for missed cardio yesterday. And... I made lemon bars for dessert for last night's meal and yea I had one! The rest are in the freezer.
The Betagen never did arrive. Ha. Vitamin Shop here I come.
Hope you have a great weekend.
Hi Susie
I really screwed up this weekend and even yesterday, I skipped three workouts and ate horribly. Of coarse I feel disgusted with myself. I took my free day and made it 3 free days. I need to get it back together immediately or this whole thing will be a failure.
I'm glad your dad isdoing well and that you are sticking with the program. Thats a bummer about your betagen not coming. Is ther any recoarse for that?
Well I'm at work so I better get back to it. I hope you are well and doing great on the program this week.
Crisis averted,
It was a temporary foul up. I am back on track and will finish strong
Stay strong Penny! One day at a time. I am glad you are back on it.
I did get a refund quickly for the Betagen. Yea.
I have been sick, since last week with that sinus trouble again. It seemed to turn in to a cold. I've never had trouble with that before and finally today it is starting to clear up. Unfortunately I stopped my w/o last week. I will start again tomorrow!
My diet has been so so since I started feeling bad early last week. Tomorrow I'll get that right too!
Yikes it's been rough!!!
I will be totally back in starting tomorrow.
Hi Susie,
Wow sorry you have been sick. I hope by now you are feeling much better.
Soooo happy you got your money back. I would have hated to see you lose that. It's hard enough to make ends meet.
I am doing better, thanks. I fell off track hard but I'm ok now. We have 6 weeks until Thanksgiving. My original goal was to enjoy that day with my gamily instead of feeling self conscious and uncomfortable in my clothes. Hat goal can still be reached. My brother has commented a couple of time s that he noticed a weight loss on me. He may have just been being nice but it is still motivational.
Were you able to begin your work outs again? Hope so.
Well tomorrow is Saturday so I guess you will be with your father. Have fun.
I will be taking my mother and father to an early dinner and to the movies. It is my mother's birthday.
Well I hope you are enjoying your Friday and that you have a great weekend!
Family NOT gamily. I proof read these too ??
Hope you are well. I had a great weekend celebrating my mother's birthday with the family. I took her and my father out on Saturday. On sundae my whole family came to my house to celebrate with her. We had lots of fun.
Staying good with the program. Getting my work outs in regularly and eating pretty well.
How are you making out? Feeling any better?
Talk to you later
Hi Penny-
How nice for your mom to have the family together for her birthday. I used to enjoy having my parents and family over!
I am glad you are w/o regularly. Stay with it!
I am feeling much better thank goodness. Can't remember when I last had a cold! I am working out carefully, because I am just in the past few weeks having a lot of discomfort with my left hip. My w/o has been going along great, omitted lunge exercise per suggestion from the Dr. But lately the Aleve has not been helping like it had been up to about 2 mos. ago. The discomfort exists with walking and bending down to pick things up.. knee to chest. So I am careful with hamstrings and thighs.. doing more careful stretching there than anything else. When it comes time for surgery, I will be in great shape! I will see the Ortho Doc next week to discuss the situation. This hip issue has been going on for a long time and was tolerable.
Have a great weekend!
I got laid off this morning. Can you believe it after I passed on the other job last month because they told me I was not getting laid off. Real creeps these guys.
This just happened about an hour ago.
I hate to say but the challeng is not so important to me right now.
I hope you are ok
Hi Penny,
Wow that is unreal. I am so sorry that happened. It's so unfortunate that you found out what kind of people you were working for, that way. I certainly hope you will find a job very soon that really suits you and the company treats its people well.
Try to do some w/o since it will help with stamina and energy while you are looking ahead for another job.
I have gotten off track with workouts while getting involved with the decision to have surgery, settling on a surgeon...
The Dr. said to let him know when I am ready and now I am ready. Hard to believe it!
I had been pretty afraid of surgery but now I can't wait to feel better. It is nerve wracking but the outcome should be great.
When I go back to Dr. week after next, I will make a date for surgery.
I am still doing some w/o and other exercises.
I hope you get some interviews soon.
Penny, how are you? I hope you have had some luck with getting interviews.
I'm doing much better. Did you have your surgury? I hope you enjoyed the Holiday season with your father.
Hope to hear from you soon.
and REMEMBER:
It's impossible to be a QUITTER if you are still TRYING. Focus on PROGRESS, not perfection!
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DANVILLE The country group Lost Trailers will headline at the 2013 Danville-Howard Turkey on Friday, June 14. The venue for the festival and the concert will be the Memorial Park in Danville.
The Lost Trailers Stokes Nielson, singer-songwriter and guitarist, and Ryder Lee, lead singer and keyboardist, began making music together in high school, writing and recording demos on a short trip to Nashville in the late 90s. They also roomed together at Vanderbilt University and collaborated on a musical interpretation of a series of short stories. Bassist Andrew Nielson, Stokes younger brother, and drummer Jeff Potter attended the same high school and were the first recruits once Stokes and Lee began performing the songs they had recorded. Guitarist Manny Medina joined shortly thereafter.
Then working as a Nashville DJ, Stokes Nielson gave Willie Nelson a demo during an interview in 2000, which prompted Nelson to invite the band to play at his annual Fourth of July picnic.
The Lost Trailers accolades include snagging three ACM Nominations and several Top 20 hits on country radio while opening for Sugarland, Taylor Swift, Jamey Johnson and many others. The Lost Trailers continued touring through 2010, first as opener for Tim McGraws tour with Lady Antebellum, then as a part of the Inaugural Country Throwdown Tour with Montgomery Gentry and Jamey Johnson.
In the summer of 2011, singer/songwriter Jason Wyatt joined Nielson, launching the next chapter of The Lost Trailers. Wyatt spent years honing his live performance chops and songwriting skills in venues around West Texas, where he developed a reputation as a vocal gunslinger. Together they share the same vision, passion and excitement for making great music, and have found a unique similarity in their desire to write music that speaks to the heart of the everyday person.
The remainder of the 2013 festival schedule is taking shape and will be announced in March. For additional information, call (740) 392-6102 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Guests Dan Chabanov and Evan Murphy of CRCA/Foundation recall highlights from their road trip in late April to USA CRITS Speed Week, a series of seven races in seven southeastern cities.
Evan: This whole thing started off as a shit show. The night before we're supposed to leave we get an email saying show up at the van-rental office at 8 a.m. next day. The office is an hour away. The email was sent so late most of our teammates were asleep. Welcome to the Speed Week van. Organizational snafus continued. The next one happens when we decide to book a hotel en route to our first race.
Dan: Alejandro went 20 miles the wrong way to a different hotel than the one I'd booked on my phone.
Evan: You rerouted us, and an hour later we arrived at a hotel that neither of us can even remember.
Dan: All the hotels have just blended in my mind into one. Shitty bed. Hotel Indigo shines as a beacon of joy.
Evan: I'd heard about this notorious hotel outside Savannah, I think, the Rice Planters Inn, from the previous year's racers. Something about fireworks in the lobby and partying. And I mean, sure, it was a very shitty hotel. The TV was held onto the wall with, like, one screw. The towels were nasty. The walls had mold.
The most hilarious thing about Planters was how many parking spots SmartStop took up with their team vehicles. They had, like, a van, a trailer, and a Sprinter van. They were parked sideways across at least nine parking spots. We had one 12-seater van with six bikes on the roof, two inside, no decals. And we made it our own with the B.O. and farts of 10 consecutive days spent inside.
Speaking of our van, we rented a brand-new vehicle. It must have had under 400 miles. Perfectly clean.
Dan: We put a lot of fucking miles into it.
Evan: We left permanent bike-racer residue in the seats, and chain grease on the ceiling. But it was our home for 10 days as we traveled in a giant loop from Athens to Atlanta—monsoon—to an island off the southern coast of Georgia, back up to Greenville, as far north as Belmont, back to Sandy Springs—Atlanta, basically—and then back to NYC.
So Dan got sick. He got really fucking sick, and I was his roommate the whole trip.
Dan: By choice.
Evan: After the second race, in Roswell, where it poured, he was bed-ridden for the next three days. Honestly, I thought he was being a pussy, but he pretty much couldn't walk.
Dan: It was a blessing in disguise for you. I just sat around the hotel watching Mad Men for two days straight.
Evan: I got to double up and race my first pro crits.
Dan: Inevitably, other people ended up getting sick, but I want to point out that Alejandro got into the van in New York sick. We shouldn't have even let him get into the van.
Evan: So I got sick, then Jesse got sick, and so did Nick. But that was the week after Speed Week.
Dan: We should talk about how you lose to children, though.
Evan: I pretty much went down to Speed Week to gobble up points for my cat-one upgrade, and it worked out pretty great. I won four races, podiumed two, and got to race two pro crits, finishing both, one in the money.
Dan: But the one race where you had difficulty, you got beat by two kids who can't even drink, and one of them immediately after beating you got in the junior field and soloed away for the win. Of course this sucked because we had to wait around for an hour to do the podium.
Evan: One of the juniors who beat me explained how he had to get back home to finish up high school, and the other was heading to Russia or some shit for, like, some insane stage race. I'm 25 years old.
Dan: I mean, I feel like we can't not mention the Ruby Tuesday Thing.
Evan: OK, Nick Keough had the Ruby Tuesday Thing figured out. Basically you show up, immediately get a plate of salad. Of course this is the south, so by salad I actually mean some greens, pasta, bacon crumbs—
Dan: Those crack croutons!
Evan: Then you order anything that comes with salad. Right before your actual meal comes, you get up for another plate of salad. By this point you are actually full from the first plate. So you finish maybe half this plate of salad and ask for a to-go box, pretty much right when your food gets to the table. This way you have half a plate of salad and a full meal going back with you to the hotel room.
Dan: It's an unadvertised two-for-one meal deal.
I feel like we have to touch on the fact that the weather was just shitty all week. This was my second Speed Week, so I was expecting to come home sunburned, and I think I got paler on that trip.
Evan: Yeah, it rained most of the time, but was still hot and muggy.
Dan: I know you weren't there for Belmont, but the mayor of the town got on stage before the event and was like, You guys represent healthy lifestyle. Which is bullshit. We all looked around at one another like, What?
We sit around in hotel rooms to the point of atrophy, watching TV and eating garbage. And then go race, where we're basically "exercising" to the point of vomiting.
There's nothing healthy about this lifestyle.
Photos by Dan Chabanov, on Tumblr at bonedeth.
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'Here's a CD to put the hype back into Hyperion … extraordinarily beautiful … the recording is blessed with top performers in the choir Polyphony under the conductor Stephen Layton, who carefully shapes the recitativo phrasing and demands crystal clarity in diction and ensemble. Hyperion has a winner' (The Times)
'The combination of tonal opulence, expressive depth and verbal conviction creates a heart-melting mix in When David heard, by far the longest work on the disc and a masterpiece of unaccompanied choral writing. Unmissable' (Classic FM Magazine)
'This beautifully performed and recorded CD contains the bulk of Whitacre's choral canon and displays his delicate yet vital approach to writing for voices. I guess if you like Tavener (or Pärt, who is strongly evoked in David), you'll enjoy Whitacre' (Gramophone)
'Cloudburst is the central piece here, a dazzling kaleidoscope of busy clamour, arcing lyricism, solo and spoken passages, sighing, handbells, wind chimes, inter alia. Whitacre was only 22 when he wrote it. Mightily effective, it's superbly performed (as is everything else on this CD) by Polyphony and Stephen Layton' (Five stars, BBC Music Magazine)
'I would certainly urge anyone with a love of choral singing to buy this disc, not merely to sample this atmospheric sound-world but to luxuriate in the gorgeous choral tone of Polyphony' (International Record Review)
'Ethereal and chillingly beautiful choral works—an intense and moving aural experience' (The Independent on Sunday)
'Whitacre has experienced enormous success recently, writing choral and wind ensemble music. It's not hard to see why, from this impeccably performed collection' (Fanfare, USA)
'This is one of the most exciting discs to come onto the market… The whole experience is simply stunning. The precise and secure tuning of Layton's group, with effective, elegant phrasing and ensemble makes this more than a winner—it's a superb disc' (Cathedral Music)
'As heart-stoppingly electrifying as anything you've ever heard … ranks as one of the truly worthwhile recording events of 2006' (ClassicsToday.com)
'A highly significant composer with a very genuine gift for choral writing and one, moreover, with that priceless ability to communicate strongly and effectively with his audience' (www.musicweb-international.com)
'Il y a des disques dont on n'attend rien et qui nous donnent tous! Eric Whitacre se spécialise dans la composition chorale. Et il a trouvé le bon filon….' (ClassicsTodayFrance.com)
'Whitacre creates magical compositions that are stunning in their power. A beautiful album' (The Daily Express)
'Theirs [Polyphony] is the sort of virtuosity that calls no attention to itself but unfolds the music with a spontaneous, ongoing sense of discovery' (Opera News)
'This one is in the We Told You So Department. American composer Eric Whitacre in his mid-30s, is – with the estimable Morten Lauridsen – a part of a growing bounty of choral exploration and development frequently now being recorded by the British-based Layton and his remarkable ensemble, Polyphony. And the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences have heard the word and smartly nominated this outstanding CD for a Best Choral Performance Grammy. The title work alone is a tour de force, the singers themselves creating the percussive sound of a raging storm. Note, also, the wrenching despair of "When David Heard" – this may be too much for families suffering the loss of military sons and daughers right now, by the way. Lauridsen's new "Nocturnes" also with Polyphony – hits stores in February. For now, soak yourself in this superb "Cloudburst"' (CNN, USA)
'A lifetime of listening to choral music had not prepared me for such lush harmonies — a cappella voices perfectly tuned and blended. This was my first encounter with Polyphony, possibly the best small (25 or so) professional chorus in the world. Polyphony is from Britain, where choral singing is a national fetish. Since their formation in 1986 by conductor Stephen Layton, they have amassed an impressive catalogue on the Hyperion label, which also includes the highly praised, Grammy-nominated recording of Morten Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna. But for pure Polyphony, the group's CD Cloudburst, comprised entirely of works by wunderkind composer Eric Whitacre, is a stunning recording, their best showcase yet' (Encore, USA)
'A sign that the 36-year-old American choral composer Eric Whitacre has arrived is that he has been given the glamour treatment by Stephen Layton's magnificent Polyphony, one of the finest a capella choral ensembles active in the world today' (Fanfare, USA)
'…if you have any interest in choral music, you absolutely must buy Cloudburst, a new CD of Whitacre's choral music, sung with otherworldly purity of tone and security of pitch by the vocal group Polyphony, conduced by Stephen Layton…if someone sat you down, played Whitacre's When David Heard, and told you it was a new piece by Arvo Pärt, you'd just think it was another in a very long line of works of unalloyed genius from Pärt…When David Heard is that good. Hair-raising. Electrifying. Whitacre has developed a remarkably distinct style…Whitacre is the genuine article…' (Stereophile, USA)
I hide myself [2'51]
i will wade out [2'45]
Go, lovely Rose [4'07]
When David heard [12'57]
hope, faith, life, love [3'50]
Her sacred spirit soars [5'08]
At the age of only 35, Eric Whitacre has already gained a reputation in the United States that many composers strive for a lifetime to achieve. The American Record Guide named his first recording one of the top ten classical albums in 1997, and the Los Angeles Times described his music as having 'electric, chilling harmonies; works of unearthly beauty and imagination'. His Water Night (included on this new recording) has become one of the most popular choral works of the last decade, and is one of the top-selling choral publications of all time.
Whitacre's published works have sold well over 350,000 copies worldwide. This is clearly a composer to watch, and if his phenomenal Stateside success is anything to go by, his emergence into the British music scene should be revelatory.
And who better to represent an innovative young choral composer than Stephen Layton and Polyphony, award-winning exponents of twentieth-century choral music? Their account of Britten's Sacred and Profane garnered the group a Gramophone Award and a Diapason d'Or in 2001, in 2002 a Gramophone Award nomination followed for the choir's Walton CD, and at the 2004 Gramophone Awards Polyphony's recording of works by Arvo Pärt, Triodion, was voted Best of Category in the Choral division.
Under Layton's directorship, Polyphony handles Whitacre's evocative and soulful music with consummate artistry; from the quiet intensity of Sleep to the breathtaking exuberance of With a lily in your hand, by way of the tender innocence of This Marriage (one of three premiere recordings on the disc), this new recording is a stunning showcase both for an up-and-coming young composer and also for the awesome talents of one of the UK's leading choirs.
Other recommended albums
Boughton: The Immortal Hour
2CDs Dyad (2 for the price of 1)CDD22040
How the world wags – Social Music for a 17th-century Englishman
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)CDH55013
Purcell: The complete secular solo songs
3CDs Boxed set (at a special price)CDS44161/3
Proudly a fifth generation Nevadan, Eric Whitacre was born on the second day of the 1970s in Reno, Nevadanorth east of San Francisco, directly north of Yosemite National Park and just east of the American Sierra Nevada ranges. His musical upbringing matched the lack of focus and patchiness of most of his contemporaries: piano lessons that didnt really stick, as he recalls, because he couldnt take the practice regime; playing the trumpet in junior high marching band for a few years, until he was kicked out for being troublesome; playing synthesizers in a teenage techno-pop band with the adolescent dream of being a rock star.
To his surprise he was admitted to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as a Music Education major, despite not being able to read music. And it was extra-curricular interestsnot Vegas gambling but womenthat sparked a major turning point: I was sort of tricked into joining the choir (there were a lot of cute girls in the soprano section) and on the first day of class we started rehearsing the Kyrie from the Mozart Requiem. My life was profoundly changed on that day, and I became a choir geek of the highest order.
From there the creative impulse took overdreams of rock stardom morphed into serious compositional study, there was the publication of his first work at the age of twenty-one, and a move to New Yorks Juilliard School in 1995 for a Masters with John Corigliano and David Diamond.
Since that first choral piece, Go, lovely Rose, at the age of twenty-one, Whitacres work has centred around music for voices. Writing for chorus is andI assumewill always be my vocation in the truest sense of the word, a real calling, he asserts. But two years later, at the age of twenty-three, Whitacre wrote a work for that other staple of American college campus and community music-makingthe symphonic wind band.
This was Ghost Train, which Whitacre has described, perhaps with unjust self-deprecation in an essay on orchestration, as just a giant half-educated guess. I really didnt know what I was doing, and I think I ended up making some choices by accident that inadvertently made the ensemble sound fresh.
He describes the enormous success of Ghost Train (over a thousand performances and forty recordings to date) as a complete flukeit skyrocketed to fame here and abroad, and suddenly afforded me the opportunity to become a full-time professional composer. So I ran with it.
It is a story up to now, then, of easy serendipity (coupled, of course, with evident intuitive musicianship and raw talent): joining the college choir because of the cute sopranos and becoming one of Americas most successful choral composers within a few years; writing a wind band piece with the proverbial blindfold on and generating a torrent of commissions and performances for the same forces around the world.
Whitacres musical influences are broad and far from exclusively classical. The pop/rock core of his musical upbringing prior to the college-days classical music epiphany is equally present in his work (we might hear, in particular, the melodic ease and richly compound harmonic textures of pre-punk, keyboard-dominated prog-rock). In that respect, he is probably quite typical of the younger generation of classical composers, raised on an omnivorous musical diet and with less of an old-school sense of high-art/low-art hierarchy. It is revealing, perhaps, that he describes his recent work based on Paradise Lost as an opera/musical which, he says, combines elements of traditional theatrical music with trance, dance and ambient electronica.
But aside from issues of genre definitions or blurring of stylistic boundaries Whitacres aims are simple: Most of all, I want the music to be relevant, and honest, and pure.
Purity, directness of expression, a keen sense of climax and anti-climax, a wide-eyed receptiveness to moments of ecstasy: these are constants and key characteristics in Whitacres often sublime music. By the standards of the last centurys more adventurous choral explorations, it is fundamentally conservative music, with few surprises or innovations harmonically or rhythmically. But it is surely Whitacres craftsmanship and impeccable sense of musical judgment that has spoken to many thousands of choristers and audience members in North America, and increasingly beyond; clashes strikingly made and deliciously resolved, triads piled on top of each other into shimmering clusters, beautifully made voice-leading. The way he lands on words, how he judges when and where to make a musicalemotional effect, the way he makes certain chords, or chord progressions, speak is extraordinarily refined and eloquent.
His choice of texts, the way he explains such choices, and his performance instructions are refreshingly direct and uncomplicated. For I hide myself, an Emily Dickinson setting, he writes: Just a simple song, really. All of the musical suggestions come from a careful study of the poem, a quiet, passionate soul occasionally speaking a little bolder than the age will allow. She loves almost to the point of distraction, and this mood must prevail in the performance: shy and sullen, her passion surging to the surface only to sink back into the silence that is herself.
For Water Night (1995), a subtle, ecstatically poised response to a remarkable poem by the Mexican, Nobel Prize-winning writer Octavio Paz (19141998), Whitacre wrote: The poetry of Octavio Paz is a composers dream. The music seems to set itself (without the usual struggle that invariably accompanies this task) and the process feels more like cleaning the oils from an ancient canvas to reveal the hidden music than composing.
The feel of this music, its reflective poise and its moments of mystical wonder, encourage the thought that it is overtly religious. But Whitacre refutes this: Im not Christian, nor do I consider myself to be religious. The poetry that I choose simply speaks deeply to me, and I just do my best to illuminate the words with music. For me, setting When David heard had nothing to do with its religious connotations, but rather its very human drama. It was written for a dear friend who lost his son, and was intended to give him some small measure of peace and meaning.
There is a similar ambiguity with Whitacres three E E Cummings settings, which he describes as Three Songs of Faith (or of Praise elsewhere), and as a cycle of pieces about my own personal faith: personal faith, then, as a private belief system and reflections on the spiritual and unknowable, not circumscribed by religious faith. In his note for i thank You God for most this amazing day Whitacre comments: The poetry strikes me as shiny and brilliant, and many of the chords (especially settings of the words painting the indescribable, i.e. infinite, You, opened, God) are intentionally designed to shimmer. And about hope, faith, life, love he admits to having had trouble setting the whole poem, which would call for vibrant and virtuosic music, a real show piece the more I thought about faith however, the more introspective I became, and I modified the poem entirely to fit that feeling. I took only the first four words (hope, faith, life, love) and the last four (dream, joy, truth, soul) and set each of them as a repeating meditation.
While Whitacre chose to set just eight words from that Cummings poem, for Lux aurumque he decided to have another poem translated into another language altogether before he set it. And unusually, it was not from a dead language into the vernacular, but the reverse. According to Whitacre, Edward Esch is a recluse, in the truest sense of the word born sometime in the early 70s, but rarely making a public appearance. A short poem of his was translated into Latin by a close friend of the composer, Charles Anthony Silvestri. Perhaps, like Stravinsky with his Oedipus Rex, Whitacre was drawn to the ritual antiquity of Latin? Yes, Im in love with Latin, the sounds of the vowels, the consonants, the logic of it all, the ancient quality it has. It just felt right to translate the text.
Whitacre finds the poetry of Silvestri, a Vegas-born Los Angeles history teacher, rich and full of possibility. Her sacred spirit soars reads as a pastiche Elizabethan madrigal text, a hymn to Cecilia and Fair Oriana that Whitacre sets for double choir with characteristic fluency (as steeped in stepwise movement as the Cummings setting i will wade out is intervallically more angular).
Silvestris poem Sleep is, in effect, a parody text created for the unusual reason of legal necessity (parody in the sense of applying new words to pre-existing music). Whitacre set Robert Frosts Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening in 2000, as a commission from a Texan lawyer/soprano in memory of her parents. He subsequently discovered, to his dismay, that the Robert Frost Estate forbade the poems setting to music (although twenty other settings apparently already existed). Forced with the prospect of denying publication of this work until the poem came out of copyright in 2038, Whitacre asked Silvestri to write an alternative text; the structure needed to be maintained, and certain words from the Frost poem, such as the recurring sleep, needed to be incorporated. It was an elegant solution to a problem that Whitacre evidently and understandably found exasperating (he freely admits culpability for not securing permission to set the text in advance; but it is another case of the laws potential to obstruct Arts true path ).
No such copyright and public domain issues could arise with other poets Whitacre has set: This Marriage, a simple, touching, homophonically parallel setting of the thirteenth-century Persian Sufi mystic, Rumi; Edmund Wallers Go, lovely Rose from 1645; and Emily Dickinsons I hide myselfthe last two of which, together with the dance-like setting of Federico García Lorcas With a lily in your hand, form Whitacres Three Flower Songs.
In addition to Water Night, two other Octavio Paz settings appear on this disc: the dreamy, erotic A Boy and a Girl, and Cloudburst. Apart from being the most episodic and adventurous work, the latter is the only non a cappella work here, and reveals through some striking effects Whitacres keen imagination for colour. Piano and percussion (including wind chimes and thunder sheets) are joined by handbells, as well as clapping, finger-clicking and thigh-tapping by the singers to create, most effectively, a simulated rainstorm.
The Cloudburst is a ceremony, Whitacre writes, a celebration of the unleashed kinetic energy in all things. The mood throughout is reverent, meditative and centered the performer must take the spiritual journey with total respect for the power of the water and profundity of the rebirth. New-agey stuff on paper, perhaps, but the musical results are wholly convincing and lacking in phoniness. Magical new sounds, singability and a special atmosphere, simply and resourcefully achievedconsiderable achievements from a composer twenty-two at the time, whose exposure to classical music and its notation was non-existent just a few years previously.
Meurig Bowen © 2006


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To the editor,
I realize the topic of smoking will be met with opposition, but I write to you in regard to the "fire-safe cigarette" legislation that has been implemented in Kentucky. The Coalition for Fire-Safe Cigarettes crusaded to get these legislations passed across the states because they did not want to get it tied up in Congress awaiting a national standard.
I miswrote about the Annual Grist Mill Day being sponsored by the Historical Society. I have been informed that Grist Mill Day is actually sponsored by Bill Kelly Sr. and Bill Kelly Jr. of the Connorsville Mill and Company and all proceeds from that day are donated to the museum.
If I got anything else wrong, I apologize. My point was just to thank people for being involved in the community.
Jeff Neal
For Christmas my husband bought me a GPS device for my car.
I am notorious for my directional dyslexia, which I blame on my dad. When I was a kid he told me to get lost and, ever the obedient child, I've been doing so ever since.
I don't understand north. I know the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, but I couldn't point it out to you. Orlando and Tampa are both south of where I live, but they feel northish to me.
Our state's budget crisis may soon result in a crisis in personal and community safety for Kentucky's law-abiding citizens.
Kentucky's county attorneys face cutting more than $1.1 million dollars from their budgets over the next six months. This is equivalent to 77 staff members losing their jobs effective January 1, and will have a devastating effect on our system of public safety and criminal justice.
The new year is a time for reflection. I think that it is important to thank people who have contributed to making Cynthiana and Harrison County a better place to live. These are people or groups of people who selflessly contribute their time, energy, and yes, sometimes even money for the betterment of the community. I won't mention names so that I don't slight anyone, but you know who you are.
How good it was to see the picture of five U.S. presidents (former, present and to-be) meeting together and smiling! In some countries, when a new president is elected, he very soon imprisons or assassinates his predecessor for fear that person will find a way to capture that position again.
To the editor,
In difficult economic times like these, a community's elected officials face incredible challenges.
Often, they are required to make choices and decisions that they never dreamed they might face when agreeing to offer themselves up for public service. It's called being a leader, and our community is fortunate to have five such individuals on the Harrison County Board of Education.
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On March 30, 198 1, the United States faced the tumultuous situation of having its leader incapacitated when President Regan was hit by a would-be assassin's bullet. That day, in the absence of Vice President Bush, American's heard the infamous words of Secretary of State Alexander Haig who pompously proclaimed "I am in control here!"
We are proud to announce once again that on Jan. 19, 2009 we will be Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Day. We are celebrating this wonderful day with a march starting at 10 a.m. at Ebenezer United Methodist Church. The length of march will be determined by the weather and yet not unbearable. We are hoping for a big turn out with much more participation than ever. The march will leads us back to Ebenezer United Methodist Church where we will have our special services. Our guest speaker for the day will be Mary Evans Sias. Please come out and fellowship with us and make this a great event.
With the disgraced Detroit three automakers getting an additional $5 billion, on top of the $17.4 billion of our taxpayer dollars a few weeks ago, we should remember the last several billion dollars that we gave the industry, and the outcome of it. In the 1990s, the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles worked to make 80+ miles per gallon cars and allowed for communications amongst scientists between the big three auto makers to help speed that process along.
Friends of the food pantry and this community have done it again. By this, I mean, you have absolutely out done yourselves this year in supporting this worthwhile mission, the Food Pantry. When I think it can't get any better, it does. "Praise God from who all blessings flow."
What a wonderful year 2008 was for the Harrison County Clothing Closet. With the help of your generous donations of gently used clothing and the monetary donations we were able to help 2,045 less fortunate people.
First I want to thank each of the ladies and gentlemen that take time out of their busy schedules to help out each Monday and Wednesday at the closet. We can not operate with out them.
We all have those special places.
On a recent news assignment this past week, I spoke with a man that lost his special place.
In the middle of Nebo Road, I spoke with Charles Bell about the arson fire that had destroyed his mother's family home only days ago.
Needless to say, he was very emotional as he looked up at the house that once was white, but now was a burned black.
Dear Editor,
Current events concerning the present crisis in Gaza, deadly quakes in Indonesia, famine in third-world nations and our own collapsing economy and war in Iraq bring to mind the words of our Lord from Matthew 24, "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places" (verse 7, KJV).
Those who write columns are bound to get people who disagree with them — like "Ole Fred."
Fred has written me a few times, most recently to take offense at a column about Christians who cuss and how I didn't want to be one anymore. For the life of me I can't figure out how he could find fault with that, but he did.
One thing he wrote in his e-mail caught my attention and I've thought -- and prayed -- about it all week, in case he's right and I have this whole grace thing wrong.
One of the things I love most about my job is getting to talk to people, especially those people that have a passion for what they do.
I talked to many passionate individuals this holiday season.
I believe Christmas couldn't have come at a better time for all of us this year. With the economy at record bottom and so many families struggling to make ends meet, it was such a breath of fresh air to welcome the hope of Christmas into the community.
And that's where the passionate individuals enter.
With apologies to Charles Dickens, it truly was the best of times and the worst of times.
I had just learned I was pregnant with our now- 25-year-old daughter. We had wanted another child, and the news was definitely in the best of times category. It remained best and blissful for about a month until the worst of times began.
I can still see my husband walking across the yard of our apartment complex toward our back gate. It was the middle of the morning as he handed me a check and said, "I lost my job — I got laid off."
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We have embarked together into this New Year. "Ye have not passed this way heretofore," (Joshua 3:4). "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come,...." (11 Tim. 3:1-17). Study the text carefully and be prepared.
It's hard celebrating your birthday with Jesus.
Don't get me wrong... if there's anyone I would like to share birthday associations with, it would be the main man himself. I'm just saying, it's a little difficult sharing the spotlight with someone referred to as the Savior.
My Christmas birthday has always been somewhat of a struggle, if you will.
The first struggle I've always encountered has been the disbelief of the audience.
"You're a Christmas baby?" they ask, eyes wide.
I, personally, and on behalf of the Soldier Support Group, would like to thank everyone that helped to make our Christmas boxes for our troops a success.
I am very thankful and proud that I can call Cynthiana and Harrison County my home. Ask anyone in town, "Whats happening?" and the answer is always, "nothing ever happens here." But this past year I've had the pleasure to learn and get to know that there is all types of things happening.
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St. Edward's to host business forum and luncheon with the Friendship Delegation from Austin's sister city, Oita, Japan
AUSTIN-St. Edward's University will host a business forum and luncheon with the Friendship Delegation from Austinês sister city, Oita, Japan, on Monday, Oct. 30. The business forum will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Jones Auditorium of the Ragsdale Center followed by a luncheon at noon in the Mabee Ballroom of the Ragsdale Center on St. Edward's campus. The delegation will include the Honorable Kunio Toyama, vice-governor of Oita Prefecture, Kinosuke Kinoshita, mayor of Oita City, and various business and civic leaders of Oita.
The event marks the 10th anniversary of the relationship between Austin and Oita, Japan, through the Austin-Oita Sister City Committee, founded in 1990, whose purpose is to foster goodwill between the cities of Austin, Texas, and Oita, Japan. The business forum and luncheon will serve as an opportunity to encourage business exchange between Austin and Oita in various areas. Interpreters will be available for translation.
The business forum and luncheon will include local leaders from Austin including: Mayor Kirk Watson, Earl Maxwell, chair of the Mayor's International Infrastructure Task Force; Janet Smith, president of the Greater Austin International Coalition; Mark Hazelwood, president of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce; Deirdre Mendez, Austin Software Council and Jan Triplett, Business Success Center.
Both events are free and open to the public, but reservations are required.
St. Edward's University is an independent, Catholic liberal arts university of 3,800 students in Austin. It was founded by the Congregation of the Holy Cross.


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Commencement 2014
University wide Commencement Ceremony
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Homewood Field
Procession begins at 8:40 a.m.
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Johns Hopkins University is committed to becoming a showpiece of environmental leadership by demonstrating smart, sensible, and creative actions that promote the vision of sustainability. The University's commitment to sustainability extends to all aspects of campus life –including commencement.
Sustainable Commencement practices include: minimizing print materials, selling and renting out caps and gowns made from 100% recycled materials, using stage decor that can be reused every year, using local caterers who specialize in green practices, publishing information on the web, using FSC certified paper for the Commencement program, webcasting the event for those who are unable to travel, switching from disposable to compostable dinnerware and switching from plastic bottles of water to biodegradable bottles of water—and having these items, along with food scraps, collected for composting.
We invite you to support our efforts to minimize waste and have as little impact on the planet as possible during Commencement by choosing a sustainable transportation found on the maps/parking page or bringing your own reusable water bottle. It is important to us that all attendees stay hydrated and healthy in the warm weather. Even though we will be providing biodegradable bottles of water, no waste is better than some waste. Bring your own bottle to reduce the amount of waste at the event and to stay hydrated. If you do not bring your own bottle, please be conscious of your waste by properly disposing of your biodegradable water bottle in one of the many bins marked "compost" on the Homewood field.
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Agar is a gelling agent derived from red algae that is commonly used in Asian cuisine, modern kitchens, and as a substitution for gelatin in vegan and vegetarian recipes.
In a previous lecture series, I discussed how gelatin is commonly used and some of it's common pitfalls. One of the major shortcomings of gelatin is its inability to set in acidic environments. Take for example the winter citrus terrine pictured left; when I first started developing this recipe, I used gelatin. Time and time again, the terrine wouldn't set up as I planned.
When I took the pH of the terrine mixture, I realized it was at 3.2, which is below the acidity threshold of gelatin at 4. When I switched to agar, my setting problems went away, only to be replaced by other issues such as mothfeel and weeping (agar gels tend to leak liquid). But with a little research...
Stella Culinary's Guide To Gelatin (Three Part Lecture Series)
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Tune into CMA Fest: Country's Night To Rock
Tune into CMA Music Festival: Country's Night To Rock to see Lenny perform alongside Jason Aldean! The show premieres August 12, 2013 at 8pm/7pm Central.
Filmed during CMA Music Festival Thursday through Sunday, June 6-9, the special features many of today's most exciting Country Music stars as they hit the stage during the four-day party and celebration of America's music. The annual event is unlike any other, with autograph signings in the new Fan Fair X, live music on 11 stages, more than 450 artists and celebrities and a guest list of 71,000 avid singing-and-dancing-till-dawn fans.
Artists performing as part of the sold-out nightly concerts at LP Field during 2013 CMA Music Festival include Gary Allan, Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Kelly Clarkson, Florida Georgia Line, Hunter Hayes, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Kip Moore, Jake Owen, Brad Paisley, Blake Shelton, Taylor Swift, The Band Perry, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban and Zac Brown Band.


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Members of the coaching fraternity most often stick up for another when a job's on the line. And in most cases, ex-coaches don't call for the heads of the guys currently coaching at their old schools.
So it should come as no surprise that legendary Georgia coach Vince Dooley took up for Mark Richt in a short Q&A with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution today. But that doesn't make his argument wrong:
"If you stay in this business long enough, you're going to go through some down times. Joe Paterno had about four losing seasons in five years before he went on his run. Bear Bryant, in 1969 and '70, had some struggling times. He got beat by Vanderbilt up in Nashville. I remember his athletic director saying he was going to look for a new coach. At the end of the season he said, 'I looked all over the country and can't find one better than the one I got right now.' I've been through it myself. In fact, we're celebrating the '71 team reunion this week. That was an 11-1 team that finished sixth or seventh in the country. But the two years before that were down years. We won the SEC championship in '66 and '68 prior to that. So yo have to be able to weather those down years and go forward. Every coach has to go through it. And usually you come out a better coach by having gone through it. So I'm confident Coach Richt is going to address it…
Coach Richt is a proven coach. He's the type of guy you want at Georgia, the way he conducts himself, his character and the way he represents the university. I think he has the support of the greatest majority of people because they believe in him. I believe in him, too. So I think he'll come out of it as other coaches have gone through it and have come out of it. He'll be fine. He'll be here a long time."
Like Bear Bryant whom he mentioned, Dooley coached in a very different age. He coached before million dollar salaries, wall-to-wall media, and Mt. Everest-type expectations.
Starting in 1964, here are Dooley's records at Georgia in five-year intervals:
1964-1968… 7-3-1, 6-4, 10-1, 7-4, 8-1-2… with two SEC titles
1969-1973… 5-5-1, 5-5, 11-1, 7-4, 7-4-1… with zero SEC titles
1974-1978… 6-6, 9-3, 10-2, 5-6, 9-2-1… with one SEC title
1979-1983… 6-5, 12-0, 10-2, 11-1, 10-1-1… with three SEC titles
1984-1988… 7-4-1, 7-3-2, 8-4, 9-3, 9-3… with zero SEC titles
In the current environment, would Dooley have made it to his 17th season to win a national title with Herschel Walker? Easy answer. No. No way. He likely would have been fired in 1969 or 1970. Possibly in 1973 or 1974. Maybe in 1977 or 1979.
For comparison, his what Richt's 10-year run looks like:
2001-2005… 8-4, 13-1, 11-3, 10-2, 10-3… with one SEC title
2006-2010… 9-4, 11-2, 10-3, 8-5, 6-7… with one SEC title
With two losses to Top 10 teams to open the current season, a vocal chunk of the Georgia fanbase wants Richt adios'd.
"But, John, you said it yourself, it's a different day and age."
True enough, but that doesn't mean it needs to be an age of insanity. Mark Richt never had a losing record until last season. In fact, until last year he'd always had at least three more wins than losses at the close of each season.
So what is the expectation level in this new age? Perfection? A 20-year run with 20 consecutive winning seasons and a trip to Atlanta every December?
If Richt finishes with a losing record this fall, we at MrSEC.com would have a hard time keeping him, too. After all, there's the reality of selling tickets involved in all of this, too. But Richt's decline to date has been just two years long (if you count 8-5 as a "major" decline). The jury is very much still out on this year's squad.
Vince Dooley said exactly what we would expect him to say about Mark Richt. And everything he said is right. We're not saying Greg McGarity should hand his coach a lifetime contract. But we do think — despite the writing that appears to already be on the wall — that Richt should be given at least until the end of the season to be judged.
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On the eve of Easter, we noticed an unusual chain of spam messages. The spammers offered various services: from reducing mortgage costs and helping repay a loan, to enhancing male sexual performance. Neither the subject nor the text of the message had any allusions to the approaching holiday; however, the links leading to the sites advertised by the slogans included Easter-themed keywords: eastertime, easterbunnies, greateastern.
Recently, we've seen SMS Trojans starting to appear in more and more countries. One prominent example is Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.Stealer.a: this Trojan came top in Kaspersky Lab's recent mobile malware ТОР 20. It can currently send short messages to premium-rate numbers in 14 countries around the world.
But this is not all. Another Trojan, Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakeInst.ef, targets users in 66 countries, including the US. This is the first case we have found involving an active SMS Trojan in the United States.
The situation surrounding attempted mobile malware infections is constantly changing, and I'd like to write about one recent trend. Over the last year, Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.Stealer.a, a mobile Trojan, has become a leader in terms of the number of attempted infections on KL user devices, and now continually occupies the leading positions among active threats. For example, in Q1 2014 it accounted for almost a quarter of all detected attacks.
This SMS Trojan has actively been pushed by cybercriminals in Russia, and there have also been continual attempts to attack users in Europe and Asia. Infections with this Trojan have occurred virtually everywhere across the globe:
Cybercriminals often like to use a bogus letter to trick people into opening malicious attachments. There are two tricks that make this work: a message from a familiar name (a bank, social network, service provider or other organization that might interest the recipient) and an intriguing or alarming subject. An attack based on fake messages supposedly from coffee chain Starbucks combined the two.
In the first week of April 2014 we were at �The Symposium on Security for Asia Network" (SyScan), a �geeky� single-track conference located in Singapore.
I liked the friendly atmosphere from the very first slides of the event (as is seen above).
The program covered hardware and software attacks like �Car Hacking�, �Defeating SecureBoot�, �Point-of-Sale�-hacks (�Flappy Bird� injected on a mobile POS device was my favorite), �RFID�-hacks, �Anti-Virus Software� flaws, �Phone hacks�, �OS-Hacks� and a �Linux Memory Forensic� case study amongst others.
All of the presentations were of quite high quality in content and most of the speakers did a nice job presenting their content.
Much beer did flow at the �BarCon� at the end of day one ...
Many websites show different text depending on where the user lives. For instance, home pages of some portals show you the news and weather of your region by default, because you are most likely to be interested in this kind of information first of all.
Of course, spammers and fraudsters also make use of this approach.
The following letter, written in Spanish, advertises an easy way to earn money online:
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"Moscow City dad makes $14,000 per month" – says the title.
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This month's Adobe Patch Tuesday revolves around Flash. This means the zero-days used by VUPEN to exploit Adobe Reader at CanSecWest last month go unpatched.
CVE-2014-0506 and CVE-2014-0507 deal with remote code execution and were both used separately at CanSecWest's Pwn2Own. (It looks like these CVEs were initially assigned CVE-2014-0511 and CVE-2014-0510.)
Absolutely all of the latest versions of Microsoft Word and some versions of Internet Explorer maintain critical vulnerabilities enabling remote code execution. Today, Microsoft releases two critical patches to close multiple vulnerabilities with each. Two important updates are released to address a batch file handling issue and another RCE hole in Microsoft Publisher. All of these are addressed with MS14-017 through MS14-020.
Both end users of Microsoft Office software and system administrators of SharePoint portals, Microsoft Office Web Apps servers, and even Apple Office for Mac users need to download and install these patches: MS14-017 and MS14-018.
These sorts of Office vulnerabilities are commonly and frequently the delivery vector for targeted attack spearphishing campaigns. Red October, NetTraveler, and Icefog, all abused Office vulnerabilities in their spearphishing campaigns. There are many more of these groups, and they will continue to actively pursue potential victims, in part using exploits for Office applications.
On the brighter side, Microsoft is doing a fantastic job of consistent response and update delivery. Accordingly, their software, while it continues to be heavily used, does not continue to remain even in the top 10 vulnerable software applications that we see. Those spots still go to Oracle's Java, Adobe's Flash and Photoshop, Apple's Quicktime, WinRAR, WinAmp and other media players, and other apps that are frequently targeted by commodity exploit packs.
The Internet Explorer vulnerabilities do not hit all of the Microsoft platforms in the same manner as the Word vuln this month, although critical RCE is enabled by every version of unpatched Internet Explorer code on at least one version of every Microsoft Windows platform. So, Internet Explorer 6, which no one should be using, maintains critical RCE on the now unsupported Windows XP SP3 and XP Pro x64 SP2. IE 7, 8, 9 all maintain critical RCE as well. Internet Explorer 10 is not affected. IE 11 on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 maintains critical RCE, but moderate severity on Windows Server 2008 and Windows 2012 R2. The Windows Update software will smoothly make sense of all of the versioning and patch needs for you when run. Nonetheless, there are serious issues here that exploit packs likely will attack with fresh exploit code.
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Support for Windows XP is ending: after today there will be no new security updates, non-security hotfixes, free or paid assisted support options or online technical content updates.
Is this a problem? After all, it's a 12-year old operating system.
It wouldn't be, if it weren't for the fact that there are still a lot of people running Windows XP - our data indicate that around 18 per cent of our customers are still running Windows XP. That's a lot of people wide open to attack once the security patches dry up: effectively, every vulnerability discovered from now will become a zero-day vulnerability � that is, one for which there is no chance of a patch.
The problem will be compounded once application vendors stop developing updates for Windows XP - every un-patched application will become another potential point of compromise, further increasing the potential attack surface.
Switching to a newer operating system might seem like a straightforward decision. But though Microsoft has given plenty of notice about the end of support, it�s not so difficult to see why there might be difficulties for some businesses. On top of the cost of switching operating system, it may also mean investing in new hardware and even trying to replace a bespoke application developed specifically for the company - one that will not run on a later operating system. So it's not so surprising to see some large organisations paying for continued support for XP .
So if you don't switch right now, can you stay secure? Will your anti-virus software protect you?
Certainly it will provide protection. But this only holds good if by 'anti-virus' we mean a comprehensive Internet security product that makes use of proactive technology to defend against new, unknown threats - in particular, functionality to prevent the use of exploits. A basic anti-virus product, based largely on signature-based scanning for known malware, is insufficient. Remember too that, as times goes by, security vendors will implement new protection technologies that may well not be Windows XP-compatible.
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There's no question that switching to a newer operating system is inconvenient and costly - for individuals and businesses. But the potential risk of using an operating system that will become increasingly insecure might well outweigh the inconvenience and cost.
We've written several times about mobile malware that can send text messages to premium numbers or steal money from online bank accounts. We also know that cybercriminals are constantly looking for new ways of stealing money using mobile Trojans. So our recent discovery of Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.Waller.a highlighted a new get-rich technique that not only sent a premium SMS but also saw the malware attempt to steal money from a QIWI electronic wallet.
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- PhD, Economics, John Hopkins University, 1997
- MA, Economics, University of Chicago, 1992
- BS, Business Administration, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1990
Professional Experience
- Assistant Professor, Indiana University, 2005-present
- Assistant Professor, University of North Dakota, 2003-2004
- Lecturer, University of Liverpool, 2001-2003
- Lecturer, Brunel University (London), 1997-2001
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Rauh, Michael T. and G. Seccia, "Agency and Anxiety'' Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Vol. 19, Issue 1, (Spring 2010), pp. 87-116. Read Abstract ››
Ramalingam, Abhijit and Michael T. Rauh, "The Firm as a Socialization Device," Management Science, Vol. 56, No. 12, (December 2010), pp. 2191-2206. Read Abstract ››
Rauh, Michael T. (2009), "Strategic Complementarities and Search Market Equilibrium,'' Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 66, No. 2, pp. 959-978. Read Abstract ››
Caglayan, M., Filiztekin, A., and Michael T. Rauh, (2008), "Inflation, Price Dispersion, and Market Structure,'' European Economic Review, Vol. 52, No. 7, pp. 1187-1208. Read Abstract ››
Rauh, Michael T. (2007), "Nonstandard Foundations of Equilibrium Search Models,'' Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 132, No.1, pp. 518-529. Read Abstract ››
Rauh, Michael T. and G. Seccia, (2006), "Anxiety and Performance: An Endogenous Learning-By-Doing Model," International Economic Review, Vol . 47, No. 2, pp. 583-609. Read Abstract ››


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You're arguing something you have no understanding of. The reality is, neither do I. At this point, I don't have this amazing faith that gives strength in the worst of times. But, I've damn sure seen it in action. I've known some brilliant people who were very religious. Very committed, and their religious teachings figured into every major decision they made. No, I don't "get it" yet, just like you.
However, I don't simply assume my powers of logic are above anyone who's deeply religious. I think it's way more complex than that. All I'm saying is, don't develop some DU'ish attitude toward the possibility of life altering faith. I've never met a person who regretted finding. You never know.
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