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The City of Dallas Just Renamed its Convention Center After Kay Bailey Hutchison
A couple of speakers showed up at the 1500 Marilla this morning to ask that the City Council to hold off on a fast-moving proposal to rename the Dallas Convention Center after recently retired U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Former councilwoman Sandra Crenshaw called for a public hearing before any action is taken, and council candidate Kermit Mitchell worried that attaching the name of a Republican might scare off some convention traffic. Another speaker cited a bill pending in the Texas legislature that would keep cities and the state from naming things for living politicians.
Council members themselves harbored no such reservations. They voted unanimously (four members were absent) to make the change, but not before heaping massive amounts of praise -- and a couple of bizarre extended metaphors -- on the former Senator.
Mayor Mike Rawlings kicked things off by lauding Hutchison's two decades in Washington, which he said "will positively affect our economy and quality of life in Dallas for many, many, many years.
"Let me be the first to say that much of Dallas' success ... is due in no small part to Senator Hutchison's leadership," he said.
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Councilwoman Linda Koop reeled off the transportation projects Hutchison has helped guide and secure funding for, including DART, Amtrak's Texas Eagle Service and the repeal of the Wright Amendment.
Then, the floor was yielded to Councilwoman Vonciel Jones Hill, who inexplicably began to wax poetic about Joe Louis, aka the Brown Bomber, the World War II-era boxing champion.
"I suspect from his ringside seat in heaven, he was looking down on you in the United State Senate as the Texas Titan ... For 20 years the Texas Titan stepped into the ring for Dallas and the state of Texas ... and succeeded in knockout bouts of beneficial legislation," Hill said.
She went on to declare Hutchison as the heavyweight champion of Texas and said she is "pleased to hand you yet another championship belt in the naming of our convention center."
Dwaine Caraway was no less effusive. A group of students from Townview's law magnet were walking in as he began speaking, and he turned to address them. "You are here on a very historic day," he said, calling the renaming of the Dallas Convention Center "one of the greatest moves in history that you can write down in your legacy that you have been a part of."
The flood of praised continued. "I just want you to know that we love ya' and this is gonna be a great day for you," said Sheffie Kadane. Ann Margolin, Pauline Medrano, Delia Jasso, Jerry Allen all spoke at length. Mayor Pro Tem Tennell Atkins was absent, but Hill said he called her from South Africa and whole-heartedly endorsed her Joe Louis metaphor.
Hutchison watched all this from the audience, politely smiling through it all. "Thank each of you for the very personal and individualized things that you said," Hutchison said once the vote took place. "I have to say, being described as a heavyweight champion wasn't really what I expected today."
Then, Rawlings called her down to pose for a picture with the entire City Council.
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1971-1974 Brown Ikes
The Eisenhower Dollar series included silver dollars struck for collectors at the San Francisco Mint. The composition of 40% silver resulted in the coins being issued at premium prices via individual sales. The coins were placed within plastic holders fitted into brown boxes, which resulted in the name "Brown Ikes".
Find a selection of Brown Ikes for sale below, including individual coins and multi-coin lots. These collectors coins were produced from 1971 to 1974.

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Net-Results, a leader in the marketing automation solutions industry has announced they have integrated their platform with Salesforce.com - the widely-used CRM.
"Net-Results' intuitive and comprehensive lead behavior tracking and management system provides a huge benefit to existing Salesforce.com customers who are running lean in this economy and can't afford to lose a good lead or waste time on weak prospect," said Net-Results CEO, Michael Ward. "Having accurate and detailed prospect activity data available in real-time accelerates the sales cycle that impacts your company's bottom line."
Part of what's now capable for Salesforce.com clients includes detailed, real-time summary data such as visitor information (recent visits, pages viewed visit duration, referral source and more), contacts and leads.
Net-Results provides sales and marketing tools that help define prospects visiting your website on an individual level. Behavior is tracked so that website owners can customize their approach to users based on your own parameters. Together, these solutions look to provide a streamlined marketing and sales strategy.
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DENVER (AP) — Mourners have attended a funeral at a Denver church for the oldest of the 12 people killed at the weekend movie massacre in suburban Aurora.
Gordon Cowden, who was 51, had taken his teenage children to see the "Dark Knight Rises." The teens weren't injured. Carrying flowers and passing a large portrait of Cowden, about 150 mourners gathered for the funeral, which was attended by officials including Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper.
Later this week, families of other victims planned to say their final goodbyes. Funerals are planned locally and from Texas to Illinois.


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Baby Name Poll Results
Sebastian Jason vs. Channing Jason vs. Ryder Jason
Next three names the wife and I like after Xavier, Leo, and Matteus (see other poll). Thanks for the help.
The Top Baby Name is...
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Jaisyn or Jeyson for the first name
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Yesterday, I fell behind my overall pace for the first time during NaNoWriMo. I was in a foul mood — and still am, to a lesser extent. But I caught up to pace today, and while I think I'm done for the night, it's still early and I may decide to write a little more this evening.
I'm less happy with my content. It's too sappy and the obstacles faced by the characters are being resolved too easily. But that's something to worry about next month, if I worry about it at all. I may just chalk this novel up to experience and not try to do anything with it.


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Nestled in the heart of Virginia's famous hunt country & Blue Ridge Mountains in Rappahannock County.
Our farm was purchased in 1998 and first planted with grape vines in 1999. We originally planted eight varietals: Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Viognier, Seyval, Norton, and Vidal. We have since introduced Merlot, Malbec, and Chardonnel to our site; we also planted additional Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc, and Viognier vines. Our vineyards are now comprised of eleven varietals, and total over twenty planted acres. Each variety contributes to a broad palette of textures & flavors allowing our winemaker to create rich, supple, elegant wines reflecting our dedication to the winegrower's art. We hope each visit to our tasting room, vineyard & winery is pleasant and memorable.
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Federal officials say more than 36,000 people in Montana selected insurance plans under the nation's health-care overhaul law by the March 31 deadline.
That exceeds health officials' original target of signing up 31,000 Montanans by the end of the open-enrollment period.
The Department of Health and Human Services released the data Thursday.
The department says 55,675 people in Montana completed applications and were eligible for coverage. Of those, 39,572 were eligible for financial assistance and 4,638 were eligible for Medicaid of the Children's Health Insurance Program.
A total of 36,584 people selected plans in the state. Of that number, 53 percent are women and 31 percent are between the ages of 55 and 64.
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Ravenswood Winery
2011 Single Vineyard Teldeschi Zinfandel
Zinfandel •Teldeschi Vineyard
California: Sonoma County: Dry Creek Valley
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Today's Ravenswood Winery 2011 Single Vineyard Teldeschi Zinfandel is a stunning wine that we just couldn't wait to bring to you. Full of bold and juicy fruit flavors, this is Zin taken to its zenith.
We've had a chance to bring you a few successive vintages of Ravenswood's Single Vineyard Zinfandel in the past, and while we loved those wines, there is something truly special about today's Zin. Bold without being overpowering, today's wine is jam packed with flavor but shows an elegance that kept us coming back for more.
Please don't wait to take the plunge on today's wine. It won't last the day!
Tasting Profile
Deep, dark scarlet in the heart of the glass, with a pretty pink ring around the edge.
Luscious aromas abound in this wine, with deep black cherry and blackberry framed against notes of fresh berry bramble, dried red currant, vanilla bean, dark roasted coffee bean, and a touch of gravelly minerality.
Bold without being overbearing, this is stunner of a Zinfandel. Rich, concentrated notes of black cherry, mulberry, and subtle raspberry are the first flavors to present themselves. These are joined by smoky sandalwood, briar patch, mocha, black peppercorn, a touch of dried rose petal, and a final echo of soft caramel.
Long and lasting, with a luxuriously silken mouthfeel, the finish features soft velvety tannins and juicy fruit flavors that linger and linger.
Herb encrusted pork chops, served with a dollop of balsamic-glazed sweet onions on top.
What the Winery Says
Teldeschi Zinfandel's powerful aromas of black cherries, coffee, caramel, and vanilla as well as other sweet dark fruit scents, combine to create the classic character of a great Dry Creek Benchland Zinfandel. Rich flavors of sweet cherry liqueur, vanilla, and smoke lead to a ripe, dense, long, moderately astringent, and bright fruit finish.
94 Point Review - Connoisseurs' Guide Ravenswood takes its accustomed place at the head of the class with its collection of single-vineyard offerings from 2011, and, among the many of a very good lot, the Teldeschi bottling wins top honors once again. Leading with a sweetly perfumed nose of dark berries and briar with highlights of stony soil lending it a singular complexity all its own, the wine comes across as serious and even somewhat brooding on the palate, and, while fairly sturdy, it is never severe. It is as deep as or deeper than most Zins we have yet tasted from the vintage, and there is not an ounce of fat to found on its well-muscled frame. It can only improve in the decade to come.
93 Point Review - Wine & Spirits Magazine The oldest vines in this Zinfandel, Petite Sirah and Carignane blend date to 1913 and 1919, planted on western-facing slopes of Dry Creek Valley benchland. That western exposure contributes to the sense of ripeness in the wine, but the old vines have sustained freshness in their fruit to keep it balanced. It smells like roasted meats and cherry skin, presenting its earthiness with frisky energy that leaves the mouth feeling clean and tasting good. The lovely richness will meld with slow-smoked beef ribs
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- 94 Points - Connoisseurs' Guide, 93 Points - Wine & Spirits Magazine
- Appellation
- Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma County
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- Teldeschi Vineyard
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- Tuscan Red Hill, Gravelly Loam
- 14.8%
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Ravenswood wines are powerful personalities – down-to-earth, elegantly rustic and robust. From our flock of Single Vineyard Designate wines, as unique as the individual vineyards they're from and the people that farm them, to the County Series wines that capture the spirit of California's best growing regions and the popular Vintners Blend bottlings sourced from vineyards throughout California, we strive to put what we pick from the fields right into the bottle. Unadulterated, unapologetic, unfussy, umwimpy.
Winemaker Joel Peterson
Joel Peterson has been into wine since he was 10, when his father asked him to take tasting notes for his parents' East Bay wine tasting group. In 1976, at the age of 29, he and business partner Reed Foster, whom he met in that group, started Ravenswood with $4,000, no vineyards and no winery. For labor, they called all their friends to help for free.
"I went through a lot of friends in the first year," Joel says.
He's among the men most responsible for establishing Zinfandel as a world-class grape. This winemaker is a strong advocate of terroir, the French idea of showcasing a vineyard's distinctive climate and soils through the unique flavor of the wine produced there.
Joel Peterson is unusual in that he makes Zinfandel to age. His wines are often more tannic than the current trend for ultra-ripe fruit, and not all are at their best immediately upon release. They start to resemble aged Bordeaux about 11 years after harvest. Many reach a nice balance of aged complexity with Zin-like character about six to eight years after harvest.


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MASS members built several remote underwater vehicles (RUVs), or submersibles from basic materials found from hardware and electronic supply stores. The club ended up with two completely functional RUVs and control boxes. Each RUV can submerge, surface and travel up to 50 feet away from the operator. The operator controls each RUV by a control box connected to the RUV with a 50-foot Ethernet cable.
This project was the first major project by the Math and Science Club. In the future, the club would like to add a video camera and possibly some sensors to the RUVs that would allow A.C. Jones High School Aquatics classes to run tests at various water depths. Next year, the club plans to make several solar panels and would also like to perform some rocketry experiments in conjunction with the Academic Decathlon's curriculum on the U.S.-Soviet space race.
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BFC organized a guest lecture on "Floriculture: Future Trends & Scope"
NSS Volunteers of BFC distributed winter clothes to the needy
Expert Lecture organized at BFC
Students of BFC shine in B.Com(2nd Sem.) & BBA(4th Sem.) exams
Expert Lecture organized by Physics and Economics Department at BFC
Students of BFC shine in B.Sc.(Medical, NM, CSM) exams
BFC students learn about new techniques
Baba Farid College bagged 2nd position in Interzonal Youth Fest
440 students facilitated by BFGI
Rangoli making, diya decorations mark Diwali
Awareness rally for Pollution free Diwali
BFC became Interzone cricket tournament champion
BFC win zonal cricket meet
BFC(Agriculture) organised a Educational tour
Students of BFC shine in M.Sc.(Mathematic) exams
Visit to Old-age home by NCC unit of BFC
Students of BFC visits Kisan Mela at (PAU), Ludhiana
Baba Farid College bagged runners-up trophy at Zonal Youth Festival
Baba Farid College celebrated NSS Day
Baba Farid College Students win laurels
Dilpreet bags bronze in inter-college wushu
Best out of waste competition organized by BFC
Harvinder shines in M.Sc. Physics exam
Students of BFC organised NSS Camp at Village Deon
BFC students conclude their training workshops
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"Youth Fest-2016 Talent Hunt" was organized by Baba Farid College
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BFC organized an Inter College Competitions "Le Scienze 2016"
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BFC organised campaign against use of plastic bags
BFC students make it to university merit list
15 BFC students get placements
BFC organised a Rally & Seminar on World Water Day
BFC 14 students bag top varsity positions
2 Days National Seminar on 'Harcharan Singh Birth Centerary' Concluded Successfully
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Expert lecture held for agriculture students.
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BFC held workshop on trends & developments in economics.
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BFC holds literary competition.
BFC organized quiz competition on C language.
Guest lecture on handling of fruits and vegetables held.
BFGI team won Inter College Cricket Tournament.
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B.Sc agriculture results declared
Extension Lecture on Feminism.
BFC students win 2 Gold, 1 Silver
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Expert lecture on Research Methodolgy.
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Hardeep Kaur's research paper published.
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BFGI first convocation was a historic moment.
BFC students bring laurels to college.
Seven days NSS camp organized by BFGI.
Nepal students got top positions in university results.
BFGI gets Dr. Nachhattar Singh as new director academics
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Poetry competition held in memory of Prof. Rupinder Mann.
7 Students got placement in HCL.
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BFC Science Club holds Inter College Fest.
An Expert Lecture organized by Punjabi Dept.
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Guest lecture organized by Bio Tech. Department
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Amanveer kaur got First position in Debate at Inter-university Competition
15 Students got Placement in Infosys.
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Simranpreet won Gold medal in intervarsity power lifting championship.
BFC students won Bronze Medal in Athletics.
BFC dedicates Biology Lab in the memory of Late Prof. S.C Kapoor.
BFC students went to educational trips.
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Baba Farid College B.Sc students excel in exams.
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Seminar marks NCC Day at Baba Farid College.
BFC organized NSS Camp
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BFC student won Bronze Model in Boxing.
Students urged to excel in competitive exams.
BFGI Cricket Team has won Punjabi University Championship.
BFGI honours winners of Zonal Youth Festival.
Guest Lecture organized for B.Sc Agri students.
B.Com and BCA 2nd sem students shine in examination.
B.sc Agri students visited kesan mela.
M.Sc students shine in results.
Baba Farid College wins Zonal Cricket Tournament.
Opening of Zonal Cricket Tournament 2014.
BFC students shine in exams.
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Baba Farid College holds Talent Hunt Programme.
Inter College competition held at BFGI.
BFC organized workshop on computer hardware
BFC students visited Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant
Baba Farid College of Management & Technology (BFCMT) organized an Inter- College Literary Items Competition
BFC organized rally on health awareness.
M.A and M.Sc students of Baba Farid College shine in Examinations
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BFGI publishes its First Book of the edited research papers on Management, Commerce and Economics
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Phillies (40-45) at Pirates (52-31)
1:35 PM–PNC Park, Pittsburgh
This is going to be another awesome day at the ballpark – PNC will be packed again as Pittsburgh celebrates the Fourth of July and the first place Pirates. The Bucs will look to take the series against the Phils and maintain the best record in baseball. It doesn't get much better than that.
Today's starters…
Cole Hamels (2-11, 4.58) vs. Gerrit Cole (4-0, 3.70)
I have no idea what's happened to Hamels this season. Eleven losses and an enormous ERA – the lefty has been having a very rough season, especially by his standards. The Pirates beat him in April, but he pitched pretty well in that game.
Cole will look for a 5-0 start, although he's only really ben excellent in one of his outings (at Los Angeles) in my opinion. Still, the righty is more than holding his own at the big league level so far and everyone is always going to be excited to see him pitch.


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12th Annual Tournament on September 24, 2016
$350 per team • Max 4 anglers per boat • Last Year's Pay Out $17,430
Shot-gun Start at 7 am • Weigh In Ceremony at 3 pm Matanzas Inn: 414 Crescent St., Fort Myers Beach 33931 Donated items will be raffled off to raise money for Hope Hospice during the weigh-in. Afterwards, food will be provided to registered anglers during our dinner and awards ceremony; other guests may purchase a meal for $10. There is a full bar onsite, and we provide TONS of free Jell-O shots.
Captain's Meeting • September 23, 2016 at 6:30 pm Bahama Breeze: 14701 S Tamiami Trail (corner of Six Mile Cypress and US 41) At least one member of each team must attend the captain's meeting.


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More Abriton PPMs – Seattle, Phoenix, Minneapolis, San Diego. In Seattle, Entercom's rocker KISW (99.9) takes top spot. Big gainer: Bonneville's sports talk KIRO-AM. Country stations, Entercom's KKWF (The Wolf) and CBS's KMPS (Seattle's Country) continue slow slide but hold top 10 positions….In Phoenix, CBS's rhythmic CHR KZON (101.5 Jamz) leads the pack. Big Gainers: Clear Channel's AC KESZ (99.9 FM) and Bonneville's talker KTAR-FM. Top 10 country rivals CBS's KMLE (Country 108) and Clear Channel's KNIX (102.5) flip rankings. In Twin Cities, all four top players take a monthly slide. All four market talkers combine for powerful combined 17.3 (6+) shares….In San Diego, Lincoln Financial Media's country KSON-FM slips from first to second. Big gainers: Clear Channel's KIOZ (Rock 105.3) and alternative rocker XETRA (91X)…..In Tampa, Cox Radio owns three of the market's top four stations. Top Gainer: Clear Channel's country WFUS (US 103.5)….On Long Island, Clear Channel's AC WALK-FM returns to top spot. For Mike Kinosian's detailed analysis of these markets, click here.
Big Hat, No Cattle? Pandora stock plunged 17% (nearly one-sixth of its value) on Friday after news broke about Apple's plans to create its own Pandora-like streaming radio service. While everyone in the industry is still buzzing this morning over what impact these giant internet music streaming goliaths will have upon traditional radio, the ledger indicates it is just as difficult, if not even more so, to make a "mass media" -level profit in the internet advertising game as it is in the old media business. Truth is, the new century ushered in by a terrible economy is creating a crisis in sustainable direction for the entire business of advertising and marketing – new media as well as old.
"Dish Nation" Premieres Tonight on Fox. The late-night, syndicated TV show that features radio morning show hosts and teams from all across America hits the air tonight at different times in each market on Fox Television stations. Among the morning shows featured on the program are: Scott Shannon and Todd Pettengill from WPLJ, New York; Atlanta-based, syndicated host Rickey Smiley; Blaine Fowler and Allyson Martinek from WDVD, Detroit; nationally syndicated Kidd Kraddick; and Miami-based DJ Laz. The show was tested last summer and begins its regular run tonight. Fox describes the show as "a daily program highlighting the nation's funniest radio shows; riffing on what's hot and happening that day in pop culture."
Townsquare Media Debuts PopCrush 105.7 in Albany. Reports of a suspected format change to Townsquare Media's WQSH, Albany become reality as the company shifts the format from 90s music-based "Crush 105.7" to the adult CHR "PopCrush 105.7."
Saga Flips WZBK, Milwaukee to Rhythmic CHR. Classic country is gone from Saga Communications' WZBK, Milwaukee as the company opts for a rhythmic CHR format branded as "Energy 106.9." Saga EVP Steve Goldstein comments, "As the CHR format evolves, there are great opportunities for stations that are newer, faster, cleaner and leaner. We're proud to be giving Milwaukee a new source of energy."
The Country's First "Jack" Station Now Sports. Front Range Sports Network officially flips KJAC-FM, Timnath, Colorado to a simulcast of its KDSP, Greenwood Village, Colorado sports talk 102.3 ESPN Denver. KJAC at 105.5 was affected by the Colorado wildfires back in June and went off the air for about 10 days. KJAC started a trend in jockless music radio that seemingly ignored formatic constrictions and played "whatever we want" back in 2004. The "Jack" format enjoyed novel popularity for a while but never took off as a bona fide ratings grabber.
Good Karma's WKNR, Cleveland Hit with $4k Fine for Contest Violation. The FCC is hitting Good Karma's sports talk WKNR, Cleveland with a $4,000 forfeiture order for running what it called a "bogus" contest called "Who Said That?" from November 2007 until September 2009. The contest involved callers having to identify the speaker of a clip played over the air. The complainant asserted that the station originally talked about offering prizes and then "dropped talking about prizes." Good Karma tried to argue that the programming in question was not a contest but was more accurately characterized as a program. But the commission ruled that the stations did conduct a contest and didn't "fully and accurately" and "with sufficient frequency" list the prizes that a contestant could possibly win. Good Karma Broadcasting, LLC is headed by Craig Karmazin, the son of Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin.
CBS Radio Participates in 7th Annual Greenfest Philly. CBS Radio Philadelphia partnered with the Clean Air Council for Greenfest Philly yesterday (9/9) from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm at Headhouse Square in the City of Brotherly Love. Greenfest Philly has become one of Philadelphia's most popular outdoor summer festivals. In its 7th year, Greenfest Philly's stated purpose is to create a fun environment to educate the public about steps people can take to be more sustainable in their daily lives. The festival also showcases businesses, regional green innovators, and nonprofits of all sizes with strong commitments to sustainability. CBS Radio's participation included: KYW Newsradio 1060's Kidcast Mobile Studio on-site. Children were recorded to sound like real KYW news reporters, with the audio placed on kywkidcasts.com for family and friends to listen. WPHT (Talk Radio 1210) was on-site with a prize wheel and swag bags. WIP (SportsRadio 94) had Xbox 360 playing the new Madden 2013, a prize wheel and a sound system to broadcast the Eagles game at 1:00 pm and oldies WOGL (98.1) played the Greatest Hits of the 60s, 70s & 80s before the game and had some swag bags and a prize wheel as well. Radio sponsors included Green Mountain Energy, Real Goods Solar and Rossi Honda.
ESPN O&O WEPN-AM/FM, New York Separate Sports Talk Programming. English-language sports talk is now heard only on the FM at ESPN O&O WEPN in New York as the sports media giant took the AM side Spanish with the debut of ESPN Deportes Radio Nueva York 1050 on Friday, just in time to broadcast the New York Jets season opener victory over division rival Buffalo in Spanish. Station GM David Roberts tells RadioInfo, "We are thrilled to add the New York Jets to our solid roster of play-by-play offerings just in time for our launch. There is tremendous passion for the NFL among the Hispanic community of New York, and this alliance with an elite franchise will further position 1050 AM as the Spanish-language audio destination for the Hispanic sports fan in New York." The station debuts two local sports talk shows today. The first is "Firma ESPN" from 7:00 am to 10:00 am billed as the only radio program devoted to the New York Hispanic sports fan. It is hosted by ESPN Deportes Radio veteran Renato Bermudez alongside the renowned Ernesto Jerez, the "signature Spanish-language voice of MLB," plus Jorge Ebro and many other ESPN Deportes Radio experts. The second program is "Zona ESPN NY," airing from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm and hosted by Carolina Guillen, Sebastian Christensen, along with Enrique Rojas.
Spoken-Word Content Aggregator Stitcher Offers Offline Mode. Stating that 38% of its users indicated they prefer to listen to the service offline to protect against mobile data overages, Stitcher released an offline mode update that enables anytime, anywhere listening for its iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad apps. "Listeners can now seamlessly access and discover the best of over 10,000 shows at work, at the gym, anywhere, regardless of cellular or WiFi connectivity," the company states. CEO Noah Shanok tells RadioInfo, "Our goal is to make on-demand radio more accessible than ever. Our most requested feature, offline mode, solves the biggest obstacle to listening on the go or when users would prefer to use Wi-Fi and conserve mobile data usage." Stitcher bills itself as "the mobile leader in on-demand news, entertainment, sports and talk radio."
Talk Host Ian Punnett Suffering from Tinnitus; Cuts Back On-Air Hours. Hubbard Radio morning drive talk host Ian Punnett is cutting his hours on the radio by half in order to curb his exposure to audio that aggravates his tinnitus – a condition he's been dealing with since 2009. The Pioneer Press reports Punnett, who co-hosts the morning drive show on KTMY, Minneapolis with his wife Margery, joins her on the air from 7:00 am to 9:00 am. Margery starts the program at 5:30 with Elizabeth Ries and wraps it up at 10:00 am. Punnett tells the Pioneer Press he first noticed the intense ringing in his head during a remote broadcast in 2009. "It never goes away. It's the last sound I hear at night, it's the first sound I hear in the morning. It often wakes me up in the middle of the night." The story notes Punnett and his doctors have decided cutting back on his air time is part of a more aggressive treatment for the condition.
More News. Former N'Sync band member Lance Bass will begin hosting a daily two-hour entertainment news and celebrity interview show titled "Dirty Pop" on Sirius XM Out Q beginning this Thursday (9/13)….Oscar Rodriguez has been named by the Texas Association of Broadcasters as its president. He replaces Ann Arnold, who died last week, . Rodriguez has been VP of the organization for the past 18 years….Melanie Walker is leaving the position of morning show producer at adult album rocker KFOG, San Francisco…..Liberty Media keeps creeping up on Mel's control of Sirius XM Satellite Radio. John Malone's company bought up another 5.5 million shares on Friday (9/7) and as a result gained another percentage point to its ownership share now at 49.3 percent.
Rare Opportunities at Federated Media's WOWO-AM/FM, Fort Wayne. Jon Zimney tells RadioInfo that there are two tremendous opportunities at Federated Media's heritage news/talk WOWO, Fort Wayne. After the departure of OM and PM drive host Gregg Henson in August, Woody Zimmerman was named PD for the station. But he's now been re-assigned to general manager of the company's Warsaw, Indiana cluster. In the interim, Zimney, who serves as program director and news director at Federated's WTRC, South Bend – 95.3 Michiana's News Channel – is doing double duty programming both stations. Additionally, WTRC morning host Casey Hendrickson is handling the PM drive duties at WOWO. Federated Media is looking for two individuals to fill the PD and talk host positions at WOWO. For the program director position, Zimney is looking for someone who can get the most out of talented talk show hosts and make them even better; has a strong understanding of local news and solid station programming; understands great news writing, presentation, and on-air execution; has a strong sense of news ethics and integrity; embraces and champions new technology in news (web, text, social media, video, etc); has examples of really good marketing, promotion and community involvement projects that they've conceived and executed. For the talk host position, they are looking for "a personality who is well-rounded in politics, social issues and recognizes compelling stories that generate talk. The ideal host is entertaining, informative and creative…can debate with listeners and guests in a spirited, but respectful manner, follows news like a hawk, expresses passion about local issues as well as national issues and also recognizes how everyday life can contribute to a show that is unique and compliments our winning lineup of Beck, Rush and Sean." To apply for either position, e-mail materials to Jon Zimney at: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Britney Spears in Christopher Kane | Fox's "The X Factor" Viewing Party
The "X Factor" judge attended a special viewing party for the FOX show last night in Los Angeles wearing a super short dress and big shoes! It's not that I dislike her black leather floral Christopher Kane dress; this Fall 2010 collection was one of my favorites. It's more-so the fact that the dress is too tight at her chest, it cuts off at the widest part of her leg, and she partnered it with chunky dark red burnished Miu Miu platform sandals that didn't help. | continue reading..


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There are distinct themes that run through every book by Thomas Pynchon I've had the pleasure to read. These themes begin and end with the struggle of technology versus the natural world. Pynchon once wrote an essay for The New York Times Book Review entitled "Is It O.K. to be a Luddite?"
"Now, given that kind of time span, it's just not easy to think of Ned Lud as a technophobic crazy. No doubt what people admired and mythologized him for was the vigor and single-mindedness of his assault. But the words "fit of insane rage" are third-hand and at least 68 years after the event. And Ned Lud's anger was not directed at the machines, not exactly. I like to think of it more as the controlled, martial-arts type anger of the dedicated Badass."
That paragraph alone makes the essay worth reading. Pynchon seems to be obsessed with the idea of whether humans can actually coexist with technology. And I don't mean cars and planes and the laptop I'm typing on; I mean the warplanes, bombs, drones, machines that are ruling our lives. This idea comes at an interesting time for me. While I'm drudging my way through "M&D" I'm also perusing P.W. Singer's "Wired for War," a startling book about the future of war as robotics and technology begins to shape and change it. Singer's book is terrifying. He predicts a future where robots not much different from stormtroopers are used in war, and "Terminator" and "Robocop" are no longer fiction. I honestly believe that if he's right—and experts time and again nod their heads in his general direction—we're in for one helluva ride.
It's the future Pynchon hesitates to embrace. In "Gravity's Rainbow"—my favorite Pynchon novel—he spends most of his time dreading the idea of the "bad guys" might uncover the secret of the "Schwarzgerät," or "black device." This mysterious "technology" holds all the power. Just as Singer suggests a future where a country with the latest technology could dominate on the battlefield, Pynchon suggests that it is a scary prospect to think what will happen if the "bad guys" are the ones in charge of it.[ref]And don't believe for one second that the United States is the guy in the white hat here. Things are much more complicated than that.[/ref]
The connection
At first glance, this novel following Mason and Dixon in a wild journey to the New World in order to draw an imaginary line doesn't have the first thing to do with technology and our relation to it.
But after the first 200 pages, I can't help but believe that is certainly one of the underlining themes. "GR" was set in a time of great technological advance—World War II—while these men are traveling in a time where skepticism rules the day. To these men there's nothing that isn't possible in this turn of the 18th Century world. As I talked about last week, there is also a running theme of finding our place in the universe among the chaos.
Traditional views of the world are colliding with a more scientific view and Pynchon uses these "star-gazing" characters to push us toward questioning our role in this chaos. There's some "Sirius business" unfolding in this novel. From Cape Town, the two men travel to the small island of St. Helena, a sort of "Purgatory," after the "Hell" of Cape Town.[ref]Perhaps leading to the New World as a sort of rebirth or "Heaven-like." This is complete conjecture on my part.[/ref] The island is ravaged by the natural world. Wind makes people go crazy and Mason actually hears his dead wife in the wind, telling him to "belong to the earth" and everything will be revealed. And St. Helena is located on a volcano, which the narrator points out could explode at any moment. As Mason hangs out on the island, Dixon heads back to Cape Town where the nymphos are still ravaging their prey. I can't help but think that this obsession with sex—the ultimate physical contact, as it were—helps push along the connection with the natural world. Once again Pynchon places our dance with Nature at the forefront.
Of course he balances all of this with supernatural events: talking to the dead, a theory that a serpent lives in the volcano, and that there exists a "gigantick Equation" in the stars to explain the universe. I'll be interested to see if technology somehow works its way into the story somehow.
Conspiracy everywhere
I fell behind my schedule this week. In fact I'm 60 pages back from where I need to be. The last phrase in my notes from Friday reads "conspiracy everywhere." One of the running themes in "GR" and definitely in "The Crying of Lot 49" is the idea that there are always extraneous circumstances of which the masses and main characters are unaware. These circumstances or facts or events are always shadowy in nature.
As he says in "GR" in his list of "Proverbs for Paranoids: Paranoids are not paranoids because they're paranoid but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations."
Mason and Dixon are both paranoid about how they ended being paired on this particular endeavor. Though Pynchon hasn't directly tackled it, there is mention of a conspiracy to place them together for some (sinister?) reason. I can't quite tell yet what this has to do with anything. And knowing Pynchon it might simply be his way of putting a paranoid—me—into a paranoid situation. Does that make any fucking sense? This book is infuriating.
One of my favorite bits of conspiracy are the clocks in Cape Town. The police actually believe that the clocks are there to keep tabs on them, to keep them on schedule. Even the Vrooms have a clock in their home. Guess what they call it? "Boet." Which the narrator explains means "big brother." How convenient.
It's another of the fascinating parts of the book. Fortunately I'm not completely bored yet. Angry? Yes. But not yet bored. See you next week. But before I do here's a Pynchon song about cheese.
"Here's to the great, Octuple boys! the
Mon-ster Cheese of fame,
Let's cheer it with, a thund'rous noise,
Then twice more the same,–
Oh the bells shall ring, and
The guns shall roar,
For the won-derful Octuple Glo'r….
Aye, all the Lads, who push and who-pull,
Ev'ry Master, ev'ry Pupil
Single-ton and married Coople,
Ev'ry minim, dram, and scruple
Of their Praise is Thine, Octuple!"
And, yes, the Gloucestershire cheese roll is very real.


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Secondhand Smoke Causes ADHD in Children
New studies conducted by the American Academy of Pediatrics analyzed how exposure to second hand smoke affects learning behaviors and attitude towards smoking in young individuals.
One study, conducted by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Center for Health Statistics, found that nearly 5 million children under the age of 12 are exposed to second hand smoke in their home and that up to 8% of them suffer from learning disabilities, ADHD and other behavioral disorders. The findings show that children who had been exposed to second hand smoke had a 50% increased risk of developing two or more childhood neurobehavioral disorders compared to children not exposed to second hand smoke.
The study's authors determined that an important percentage of childhood neurobehavioral disorders could potentially be attributable to secondhand smoke exposure in homes. In the United States, the annual medical cost associated with treating a child with a neurobehavioral disorder is about $14,576 per individual, or a national total of about $9.2 billion each year, the report found.
On a brighter note, a different study looked at children 8 to 13, living in a home with a least one adult smoker, and determined that the children who described the smell of cigarette smoke as "unpleasant" or "gross" were up to 78% less likely to develop the habit than 8 to 13 children with a more passive reaction to the smell.
However, the National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse recently released a report which showed that 9 out of 10 people who meet the clinical criteria for substance abuse began smoking, drinking or using other drugs before they turned 18, and that this is a big concern in teens as they are more likely to try risky things while their brains are still developing.
Experts say that taking steps early on to avoid exposing children to smoke is critical. Setting a good example by not smoking and getting more involved in the activities of children are among the many things parents can do to help prevent children from smoking.
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Except where indicated, area codes are 419.
Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking!: Valentine Theatre, 410 N. Superior St.; Fri., 8. Tickets, $56, $46, and $36, from 419-242-2787 or valentinetheatre.com.
Out to Lunch: University of Toledo Department of Theater and Film; Center Theatre, UT Center for Performing Arts, Towerview Blvd at Campus Drive W; today, Fri., Sat., 7:30, Sun., 2. Tickets $12-$5 from 530-2375, utoledo.edu/BoxOffice, the box office from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri., and at the door.
The Liar: BGSU's Eva Marie Saint Theatre, Wolfe Center For the Arts, Ridge Street at Willard Drive, Bowling Green; today, Fri., 8; Sat., 2 and 8; Tickets $12-$7 from 372-8171, bgsu.edu/arts, or box office.
Three Sisters: University of Michigan Walgreen Drama Center, Arthur Miller Theatre, 1226 Murfin Ave., Ann Arbor; Fri., 8, Sat., 2 and 8; tickets, $28, $10 students with ID, 734-764-2538 or tickets.music.umich.edu.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Defiance College DC Players; Schomburg Auditorium, Dana Hall, 701 N. Clinton St., Defiance; today, Fri., Sat., 8, Sun., 2; tickets, $8-$6, free for faculty, staff, and students with ID; call 783-2462 or e-mail email@example.com. Some language may not be suitable for children.
Wizard of Oz: Tecumseh Youth Theatre, Tecumseh Center for the Arts, 400 N. Maumee St., Tecumseh; Fri., 7:30, Sat., 1:30 and 7:30, Sun., 3; tickets, $8 and $6, 517-423-6617, thetca.org, or at the door.
American Salvage: Mainstage Theatre, Owens Community College Center for Fine and Performing Arts, 30335 Oregon Rd., Perrysburg; today, Fri., Sat., 7:30, Sun., 3; tickets $6 at the door or from www.owens.tix.com.
Holiday Spectacular: Ohio Northern University, Biggs Theatre at Freed Center for the Performing Arts, 525 S. Main St, Ada; today, Fri., 7:30, Sat., 2 and 7:30; Tickets $15-$5 from 772-1900, online at ww.freedcenter.com
Henry County's Got Talent: Maumee Valley Civic Theater, John L. Johnson Auditorium, West Main Street, Napoleon; today, 7, preshow at 6:15; Tickets, $5, no charge for children under 5, from www.mvctohio.org.
Southern Fried Chicks: Cage-Free Comedy Tour: Valentine Theater, 410 N. Superior St.; Sun., 7. Tickets, $43, $34, and $27, from 419-242-2787 or valentinetheatre.com.
Jerry Seinfeld: Stranahan Theater, 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd.; 419-381-8851; Fri., 7; Tickets, $63-$78, stranahantheater.org, 381-8851, or 866-381-7468.
Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries): Reel Art International and Art Film Series, Way Library, 101 E. Indiana Ave., Perrysburg. Fri., 7; no charge.
Oregon Community Theatre will hold auditions for the comedy M*A*S*H from 6 to 8 p.m. today and Friday at St. Mark Lutheran Church, 611 Woodville Rd. Fifteen men and 15 women ages 16 and older will be needed. Jeff Smith will direct. Information: 419-691-1398. Performances will be Feb. 14, 15, 21, and 22 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 16 at 3 p.m. at Fassett Middle School Auditorium, 3025 Starr Ave., Oregon.


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One of the big trends this summer has been the ALS Associations remarkable success with its ice bucket challenge, but the very success of the campaign could pose a challenge of its own to the ALS Association and other charities.
Ice Bucket Challenge Raises Milestone for Charitable Planning
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Master of Health Management Systems
The Master of Health Management Systems degree program is a 36 credit program which can be taken on a part-time or full-time basis. Most courses are offered in the evening to accommodate working professionals. The Master of Health Management Systems (MHMS) program features:
- Flexible and customized electives
- Evening course availability
- State-of-the-art multimedia laboratories
- Professional partnerships in the local health care market
- An exceptional faculty
At Duquesne University's Department of Health Management Systems, we work with you to help you meet your goals.
30 Core Credits
- Healthcare Delivery & Organization
- Intro to Healthcare Finance
- Health Care Ethics
- Quality Assessment & Performance Improvement
- Health Information Management Policy
- Medical Informatics
- Evidence-Based Decision Making
- Systems Analysis
- Database Management and Controls
6 Elective Credits
- Data Distribution Systems
- Managed Care
- Graduate Internship
- Legal Issues in Healthcare
- Outcome Management
- Long-Term Care Administration
- Study Abroad
- Risk Management
Master of Health Management Systems / Master of Business Administration
Students interested in pursuing the joint MHMS/MBA program must be granted admission separately into the MBA program by the John F. Donahue Graduate School of Business . If accepted, students will work with the Department of Health Management Systems and the John F. Donahue Graduate School of Business to complete the appropriate MHMS/MBA course work. The MHMS portion of the required coursework includes a minimum of 30 MHMS credits. The six remaining credits will be accepted / waived due to business courses completed.
Please be advised that dual degrees must be confirmed at the same time.
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For bright color year-round, she chose unthirsty bloomers such as scarlet bougainvillea, drifts of yellow Jerusalem sage, and lavender. For shade around the periphery, she planted a locust, a pepper tree, and 'Swan Hill' olive trees.
For fragrance, she set an angel's trumpet in the entry courtyard beside a trickling fountain. "Its perfume is intoxicating, especially on balmy evenings when it wafts though the open dining room doors," Michele Maidens recalls.
Linda Schlein quickly got into the garden's sun-country mood. As the landscape grows, she tucks in more perennials that fit its theme -- with help from Maureen Decombe of Green Willow Gardens.
"This garden shows no fear of bright colors or strong architectural shapes," says Decombe.


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I got to hang out with this little lady again today because Mama had to go check out a new school for her. I'm lucky because her Mom is still in the process of interviewing for jobs & finding a place to keep her, so she's needed someone to babysit.
And I can't complain one bit!
I love it. I truly enjoy spending time with her and it scratches that girl-itch since I'm surrounded by boys. Heck, it scratches that BABY itch! Now don't get me wrong, we're done with babies. But I still have those motherly cravings when I see a baby. I have to fight that urge to grab any cute-non-crying-baby I see in public, and just RUN. (Don't tell me you don't feel it, too.)
There's really a lot of truth in those "motherly instincts" people talk about. It's just something you feel in your bones! In your very being.
I'm just glad I can help out, and I made it (hopefully) clear how much I love keeping her. Maybe I can keep up my babysitting duties even when Mom goes back to work.
She's definitely still very attached to her Mama, so there were some tears. But I can tell she's getting more used to me and the tears didn't last long. (See that single tear? So pitiful.)
But no worries, after about ten minutes she looked like this:
And then she got really excited when we saw these ghosts hanging in a neighbor's yard...
I kept saying "say boo!" to the ghosts and I think she did!
And then she started growling really loud at them. It was hilarious.
Oh, that amazing stroller? Well, Miss Lenore really loves going for walks. She prefers to be on the move or otherwise she starts thinking about Mama too much. ; ) So, when I saw this incredible vintage stroller (60s? 70s?) on Etsy at such a great price (even with shipping!), I had to pounce on it. I never see these in thrift stores, and this one was in mint-never-been-used condition. It was such a find, I had to have it.
Was it a silly purchase? Absolutely. Did I have buyer's remorse afterwards? Probably. But I justify it by saying I'll have it for my granddaughters (you know I'll end up with 8 grandsons). I'm going to try and take care of it to keep it in the condition it's in so that I can use it many years down the road (or I'll sell it maybe.) She's the perfect size for it and it feels very safe for a short walk.
The first time I took her for a walk, she became attached to my Miffy key chain, so I let her hold it every time we go for a walk now. She loves it! She has good taste.
The smock top was a purchase from Etsy as well. Luckily you can find vintage baby clothes very affordably and they are very easy to find at thrift stores for a couple bucks a piece. I've already procured some pieces for her for future photos. ; ) And speaking of vintage kids clothes, have you checked out my friend Heather's shop lately? She has lots of cute pieces! When Lenore is done with her vintage wardrobe, I'll be selling them in my Online Yard Sale, so be looking out for those.
The leaves are SLOWLY starting to change colors around here in Atlanta. It's still very green. But at least we have these orange friends to make it feel festive. Luckily the trees have completely changed right around Halloween. It's always perfect timing.
And speaking of pumpkins, we went pumpkin picking this past weekend with Lenore and her adorable brother Martin (who's exactly Campbell's age).
They recently moved here from Baltimore and I don't think they'd seen pumpkins quite this... LARGE. : )


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Selected Signs III-VIII
ECM Records
Some albums, especially many of those issued by the venerable German label ECM, unfold like movie soundtracks. The magnificent six-CD set Selected Signs III-VIII unfurls like an epic trilogy without the moving pictures. With gentle shifts in genre and a stunning narrative arc, the collection offers a whole new dimension of label founder Manfred Eicher's vision, and provides a glimpse into the limitless possibilities of what can be done with the music he has long championed.
The two previous iterations of Selected Signs were more or less samplers of the ECM catalog. Selected Signs III-VIII consists of music carefully curated for the recent exhibition ECM—A Cultural Archaeology at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, which showcased the label's music, graphic art and photography. That an exhibit such as that could exist is a testament to Eicher's vision. His records look, feel and sound as though they are part of some greater whole, and indeed they are. This is made crystal clear throughout these six CDs.
Combing through this set is a bit like stepping back from a single painting and realizing it is part of a vaster mural. That pieces as disparate as Steve Reich's pulsating, minimalistic "Music for 18 Musicians," Meredith Monk's unsettling "Scared Song" and Ornette Coleman's classic "Lonely Woman" (performed here by trumpeter Don Cherry, saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Ed Blackwell) can live together in such harmony is a revelation.
It also says something about the program's curators, whose role in this is akin to that of a DJ who assembles a mixtape. But this is much grander. The curators combed through ECM's massive oeuvre and pulled together seemingly unrelated strands in order to make a cohesive whole. They avoided obvious choices—Dave Holland's Conference of the Birds, say, or Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert—and dug deeper.
These six discs aren't organized strictly, but they're more or less given themes. The event begins with a presentation of modern classical music, including Tigran Mansurian's mournful string-quartet piece "Testament" and movements from Arvo Part's quietly beautiful Tabula Rasa, alongside updated treatments of Bach, Haydn and Shostakovich, nonconforming pieces such as Heiner Goebbels' macabre, theatrical "Hörstück II," and sacred vocal music, including the one non-ECM piece in the project, an excerpt of John Tavener's gorgeous (if repetitive) "Funeral Canticle," which was used to great effect in the Terrence Malick film The Tree of Life.
Yet this is no mere sampler. Full suites are incorporated where the programmers deem appropriate. To wit, there are 12 movements from Eleni Karaindrou's Concert in Athens (featuring chamber, tango, waltz and orchestral pieces); 10 tracks from Andrey Dergatchev's ominous, disturbing score to the Russian thriller The Return; and nearly all of trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer's icy jazz-electronica album Khmer.
ECM's pioneering European jazz aesthetic takes over for the final two discs, traversing a wide span that roams from pianist Tord Gustavsen's Chopin-influenced "Prelude" and the Jimmy Giuffre 3's "Jesus Maria," to a solo performance from trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and an innovative take on John Coltrane's "Spiritual" by the Steve Kuhn Trio with saxophonist Joe Lovano. The set contains some nice surprises, too, such as "Zone" by trumpeter Ralph Alessi's recent quartet with pianist Jason Moran, a beautiful tune called "Telepathy" by the little-known Colin Vallon Trio that will undoubtedly inspire listeners to investigate the Swiss pianist further, and two-and-a-half minutes of wolf growling.
Full of surprising juxtapositions and hidden gems, Selected Signs III-VIII is a monumental achievement by a vitally important cultural institution. By design or not, this sweeping survey from ECM invites listeners, too, to dig deeper—and perhaps do some mixing and matching of their own.


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DescriptionWhile you were inside that cave, your big friend Darnell came by with some alarming news.
Since the val'kyr arrived, we've seen more and more undead that chose not to join our forces under the banner of the Dark Lady. They've been gathering at a small camp here in the valley, and now they've organized forces.
They plan to attack Deathknell, <class>.
Darnell is just down the road, to the east. Be careful, <name>. While those undead aren't completely brainless, they're still not quite right in the head.
<name>. You made it.
You see those tents up there? That's where we're headed. The battle's probably already started.
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The Weekly Smörgåsbord #2
Posted by Darin Hayton on 02/28 at 12:22 AM
This week's selection of blog posts:
- "A WTF Scientific Paper from Edinburgh, 1884" — A fascinating report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
- "The Story of 1960" and "The Story of 1985" — the latest two posts on the life and career of Linus Pauling.
- "So What Did Darwin Get Wrong" and "Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini on natural selection" — a couple posts about the new book by Fodor and Piatelli-Palmarini, What Darwin Got Wrong.
- "Education about the philosophy of science is too little too late" — A short article in Times Higher Education about the importance of incorporating history of science into curricula much earlier.
- "How Do We Fix Science Journalism" — Interesting, in part because it reveals how little the debate has progressed in the last year or so.
- "Is Science a Belief? Is Religion a Science?" — uses fMRIs and other technologies to compare science and religion.
- "GG Superstar!" — ThonyC, aka Mr. Renaissance Mathematicus, has written another nice post on Galileo.
- "Schaffer on Bodies, Evidence, and Objectivity" and "The Natural Philosophy Problem" — Reflects on historiography, especially related to "the problem of natural philosophy."


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By Eric Butler, Freedom Correspondent
CLOVIS — If Saturday night's championship of the Clovis volleyball tournament were a card game, the visitors showed an impressive hand early.
But Clovis had some good hands too, both on defense and offense, and the host Wildcats dealt out an 18-25, 25-12, 25-12, 25-12 victory over Portales to win their own invitational for a second year in a row.
After watching Portales (3-1) impressively take the first game, Clovis (3-1) got its offense in gear — particularly around junior Lainey Flatow and sophomore Antiesha Brown. Flatow, the tournament MVP, scored 21 kills for the match after registering only one in the opening game.
"I didn't look at the (stats) chart, but I know she was over 20 kills. She had 22 or 24 the first night (vs. Tatum), the same the next ballgame (vs. St. Michael's, in the semifinals)," Clovis coach Darrel Ray said. "When you're talking in the 20s in kills, you're talking about some good play."
An 8-0 run by Clovis at the start of the second game, behind the serving of setter Meagan Baglein, propelled the Wildcats in a different direction. Brown was able to hang in the air and find the open spots in the Portales defense, had two kills in the run to go with one from Flatow and another from senior Haleigh Marshall as the 'Cats jumped out to a 9-1 lead.
Brown, Flatow and Marshall also played well in the fifth game of the semifinal victory over the Lady Horsemen earlier in the day.
"We paid a lot of dues last year training a freshman, but you can see why we spent so much time with her," said Ray of Brown. "It's showing up now in a big, big way."
"We got off to a slow start, but we picked it up," Brown said.
Jasmine McDonald, Clovis' other middle, was selected to the all-tournament team and garnered nine kills in the victory over Portales.
With Clovis up 6-5 in the third, kills by Brown and McDonald kicked off an 8-1 run to give the hosts control of that game. In the fourth, the Wildcats got the first five points as Flatow and Brown had two kills apiece in the early streak.
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For Portales, the team leader in kills was senior Bethany Self as the 6-foot-1 outside hitter got 11 overall. However, Self scored six of those in the first game — when the Rams' offense was at its best. In the opening game, with the game tied at 10-10, Self got consecutive kills to give her team the lead for good.
Portales, which had nine kills from Jordan Roehl in the loss to Clovis, earlier beat Hobbs for the second time this season in a four-game semifinal.
After the championship match, Portales coach Ruth Chavez admitted her team looked pretty good in the first game — before the Clovis defense shut off the Rams' offense.
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Family Recipe
Isabella Rossellini's daughter Elettra has a witty, attractive food/recipe blog where she shares a customizable pasta dish her grandfather, the iconic director Roberto Rossellini, used to make.
The spice!
Welcome to Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages On these pages, I present solid information on (currently) 117 different spice plants. Emphasis is on their usage in ethnic cuisines, particularly in Asia; furthermore, I discuss their history, chemical constituents, and the etymology of their names. Last but not least, there are numerous photos featuring the live plants or the dried spices.
So many herbs, so little time
Four parsley plants. Two creeping oregano. Two creeping thyme. Three basil. Two rosemarys. Thank god the sage died. Pesto. Pesto. Pesto. Pesto. Pesto. (previously)
I hate cilantro.
Herbs and Spices
Gernot Katzer's spice pages - everything you need to know about herbs and spices - 117 of them, in fact, indexed in multiple languages. It seems some Metafiltarians (among others) have a low opinion of coriander...It's my favourite herb, and I was suprised that some people can't handle it, but this site suggests repulsion against it may be genetic! Lots of great stuff to be found, including plenty of herbs you've never heard of.
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Digital Rights Mismanagement
Categories: Antitrust • DRM Analysis • DRM as Market Lock • Policy Analysis
How Apple, Microsoft, and Sony cash in on piracy prevention by using it as an anti-competitive, anti-consumer means to lock customers in. All the while, a threat of legal sanctions hang over anyone wanting to break, or anyone willing to assist them in breaking, those locks to move their 'purchased' content to a competitive platform or service.
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New Dehumidification System at Air Canada Centreby Staff Writer / Toronto Maple Leafs
(TORONTO) -- John Ferguson, vice-president and general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, and Diego Roccasalva, vice-president of building operations for Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment, announced the installation of the new dehumidification system at Air Canada Centre. At an investment of nearly $4 million, the new dehumidification system will improve ice quality for the players and building conditions for the fans. Watch the videoView More


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Just before Christmas Santa delivered gold for shareholders of Charter Communications (NASDAQ:CHTR). Santa made a first stop at Cablevision (NYSE:CVC) headquarters, leaving coal, when it was announced that Tom Rutledge was abruptly leaving his role as #1 operating executive at CVC. Rutledge is the most highly regarded executive in the cable industry, a role that was magnified at CVC due to the volatile decision making of the controlling shareholders, the Dolan family. In addition, CVC arguably faces the toughest competitive environment among major cable companies as it goes head-to-head with Verizon's (NYSE:VZ) FiOS in its NYC metropolitan area markets. CVC fought off Verizon successfully for many years despite street fears and the company produced industry leading financial and subscriber results cementing Rutledge's stellar reputation.
The specific reason behind Rutledge's abrupt departure from CVC remains a mystery but that does not matter to CHTR. CHTR is a good landing spot for Rutledge as its current CEO was already planning to leave in February. CHTR has recently largely completed its capital spending program to upgrade its infrastructure. Major products like broadband, phone, and digital cable are under-penetrated in CHTR's systems. CHTR faces less competition with barely any FiOS overlap and AT&T's (NYSE:T) U-Verse at 30% of subs. Satellite is CHTR's primary competitor but service providers lack a broadband offering, which is increasingly the premier product in cable's bundle.
CHTR shares trade at a slight premium to its cable peers. However, the company has the potential to produce the fastest organic growth in cable in revenue, EBITDA, and free cash flow. Overall, CHTR's investment profile is excellent. The primary risk is that the new CEO brings expectations down to lower his own bar and/or pursues acquisitions rather than using free cash flow to deleverage, buy back shares, or pay dividends. CHTR is also heavily leveraged but free cash flow should handle the debt load comfortably over the next several years.
I like the CHTR story. If CHTR is able to hit current 2012 estimates, I think the shares can trade to $65-$70 in 2012, up 20%-30% from current prices. In the short term, I think the shares can continue to rise as sentiment and sponsorship among analysts and investors toward the shares improves thanks to the arrival of Rutledge.
Disclosure: CHTR is widely held by clients of Northlake Capital Management, LLC, including in Steve Birenberg's personal accounts. Steve is sole proprietor of Northlake, an SEC registered investment advisor. CVC and CHTR are net long positions in the Entermedia Funds. The Entermedia Funds are long/short equity hedge funds focused on media, entertainment, communications, and related technologies. Steve is co-portfolio manager of Entermedia, owns a stake in Entermedia's investment management company, and has personal monies invested in the Funds.


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The death of "common sense" and the age of dependance
If ever there was an apt description of our general problem in this country, Dr. Milton Wolf nails it in the first paragraph of his discussion of the building disaster we call ObamaCare.
The fatal conceits of Obamacare are the absurd notions that the government can spend your money more wisely than you can and that bureaucrats are more capable than you are to make your own most intimate, personal decisions. The antithesis of government-centered Obamacare is what I simply call "Patientcare." Patients should be at the center of our health care universe, not President Obama and not the government.
We suffer under a landslide of the same fatal conceit applied to literally hundreds of government programs in this country. These fatal conceits (or flawed premises if you prefer) have cost us literally trillions of dollars and much of our freedom. Government has essentially decided that it's priorities for your money are more important than your priorities for what you earn. And, it had also decided that in many areas it can make better decisions for you than you can make for yourself.
But, that's not the problem in full. In full, the problem is exacerbated (and the notion "validated") by the number of people who, for whatever reason, have bought into the efficacy of these conceits. They believe the flawed premises to be true and willingly cede their money and freedom believing government does indeed spend their money more wisely and is more capable than them of making "good" decisions on their behalf.
The problem, of course, is that as long as those people who willingly enslave themselves to government exist in large enough numbers, they'll succeed in putting the shackles on the rest of us as well. As long as they look at the federal government as their care giver, they force that on the rest of us as well.
One of the reasons we have the debt and deficit problems we currently suffer is the left has been very successful in selling those flawed premises via emotional appeal to low information (and frankly, ignorant) voters. They've avoided rational discussion with "for the children" campaigns. They've often claimed "market failure" where government created problems through preverse incentives and market intrusion and then push government as the solution.
Years ago we came from a people that knew that nothing was "free". They knew that there really wasn't anything called a "free lunch", someone had to pay for it. The knew that you were responsible for your own welfare, self-defense and freedom. And interestingly, so did most of the politicians of the time. Oh there were certainly those among them that believed as the left does today, but they were a distinct minority. Their creed was considered extreme and, frankly, un-American.
Now it is they who are "main stream" and those who call for much less government intrusion in our lives who seem to be considered the extremists. Common sense, the ability to see through the blarney and nonsense, seems to have died. In the so-called information age, we seem to have a growth of ignorance. Part of that I lay at the feet of another government program that has been a woeful failure – public schooling. Common sense tells you that such an institution would be unlikely to teach anything negative about government and, in fact, might even become a bit of a propaganda arm for it. That it might involve itself in a bit of indoctrination. That it might fill fairly benign subjects with information preferred by government and spend less time on information that wasn't in favor at the time or is contrary to the agenda it prefers. But that all assumes an ability to teach the core competencies, something most of our school systems seem unable to do with any great success. So we have the misinformed and the illiterate buying into the government's flawed premise in droves.
Obviously a great deal of things over the years have led us to this point of dependency on government. And we know how it ends. It is the blue state model and the blue state model is failing all over the country and the world.
Yet was still hear it extolled by its zealots and lapped up by the ignorant who refuse to look beyond the promises. It still amazes me that we've managed to get in this mess and can't seem to find the intestinal fortitude to say "enough" and begin doing the very unpleasant task of reversing it. But that's the problem, isn't it? It would be unpleasant. And we don't like unpleasant. So instead, we continue to believe the fantasy.
The problem, of course, is like Toto in the Wizard of Oz, reality is going to pull back the curtain very soon and expose the fantasy for the fraud it is. And then we'll look back at "unpleasant" as something we wish we'd done.
By then, it will be way too late.
We should pay less attention to "results" produced by computer models
That's the basic message our friend Warren Meyers (of Coyote Blog and now Forbes) makes in an article. His points are not only good, but valid. And if one thinks about how inaccurate the models we've seen drive debate and spending are, we'd insist on better data before those decisions are made.
Meyer points out that there are few, if any CEOs in non-financial firms who would invest a penny based solely on computer models. Yet we have this propensity to place much more confidence in models that have done nothing to earn that confidence than they deserve.
For instance:
Last week the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) released its congressionally commissioned study on the effects of the 2009 stimulus. The panel concluded that the stimulus had created as many as 3.6 million jobs, an odd result given the economy as a whole actually lost something like 1.5 million jobs in the same period. To reach its conclusions, the panel ran a series of complex macroeconomic models to estimate economic growth assuming the stimulus had not been passed. Their results showed employment falling by over 5 million jobs in this hypothetical scenario, an eyebrow-raising result that is impossible to verify with actual observations.
Not only is it impossible to verify, it was issued as a defacto "truth" and the "stimulus" was declared a "success". And don't forget the inclusion, now, of one of the world's best weasle words to pad the results – jobs "saved". However the administration goes to great lengths to ignore its previous claim that if the "stimulus" was passed, unemployment wouldn't rise above 8%. One has to guess, given the results, that the computer model was wrong about that.
Meyer goes on to point out how the modeling which can't predict the complex world of economics, is somehow considered the "gold-standard" of predictability when it comes to the exponentially more complex climate. So much so that governments everywhere are basing trillions of dollars of taxes (cap-and-trade) on the results of such models in an supposed effort to "save the planet".
While we have been bombarded with hockey sticks and forlorn polar bears, our focus in climate should really be on the computer models. The primary scientific case for man-made CO2 as the main driver of global temperatures is made in exactly the same way that the stimulus was determined to have created 3.6 million jobs: computer modeling. No one yet has been clever enough to structure a controlled experiment to isolate the effect of rising CO2 levels from other changing variables in the complex global climate. So, just like the CEA did in scoring the stimulus, climate scientists use computer models to run virtual experiments, running the models backward over the last century with varying assumptions for CO2 levels.
This modeling approach yields amazingly circular logic. Like macroeconomic models built by devoted Keynesians, climate models are constructed by academics who passionately believe that a single variable, CO2 concentration, is the dominant driver of the whole complex climate system. When run retrospectively, the models they create unsurprisingly give the result that past temperature increases are mainly attributable to CO2. The problem with these models is that when run forward, as in the case of the Washington Redskins election model, they do a terrible job of predicting the future. None of them, for example, predicted the flattening of global temperatures over the last decade.
Yet policy has been proposed and written based on results that are nonverifiable and questionable at best. That's insanity. But the purported case for using the results is if we wait for real data it may be too late. But when the real data appears (such as the flattening of global temps for this past decade) the modelers and proponents of the government action want to ignore it and deny its importance.
This all goes back to two themes I've been hammering for quite some time – common sense and scientific skepticism. Both are necessary tools of a rational person. And Meyers nails the point:
Our common sense about government stimulus tells us that the government is highly unlikely to invest money more productively than the private entities from whom the government took the money. Unfortunately, we have allowed this common sense to be trumped by computer models. Once our imperfect understanding the economy was laundered through computer models and presented with two-decimal precision, smart people somehow lost their skepticism.
We are now facing what is potentially an even more expensive decision: to regulate CO2 based mainly on computer models that claim to be able to separate the effects of trace concentrations of CO2 from a hundred other major climate variables. If your common sense is whispering to you that this seems crazy, listen to it. Otherwise all we get is garbage in, money out.
The "garbage in" should be obvious. Unfortunately, the "money out" is money coming out of your wallet to pay for unproven science and unfounded economic models.
Bureaucracy and bureaucratese – no sign of common sense
This story out of Ann Arbor, MI is a perfect example of bureaucratic inertia and the use of bureaucratic language to evade a common sense solution to a changed situation:
The debate in Ann Arbor, where firefighters are being laid off due to a multimillion dollar budget deficit, is over an $850,000 piece of art.
That's how much the city has agreed to pay German artist Herbert Dreiseitl for a three-piece water sculpture that would go in front of the new police and courts building right by the City Hall.
The city has the money to do it because in 2007, it agreed to set aside for public art 1 percent of money that went into capital improvement projects that were $100,000 or larger. Most capital projects involve streets, sewers and water.
Anyone – what has changes since 2007? Perhaps the economic climate? So if a city can agree to "set aside" money for public art – a luxury for economically flush time – why can't it now agree to change that previous agreement? Why can't it now spend the money set aside on critical jobs jeopardized by the economic downturn?
Well here's the city administrators answer, I guess:
City Administrator Roger Fraser wrote in an e-mail that the solid waste coordinator position was eliminated as a cost-cutting measure because the solid waste millage had decreased. Fraser wrote that the art coordinator position would be paid for by the public art fund.
Fraser noted that the public art dollars did not come from the city's general fund, which is used to pay salaries and benefits, and that less than $6,000 of the art money came from the general fund.
The art projects also must have a "thematic connection" to the source of funding, Fraser wrote. The $850,000 art project is water-themed, because the money came from storm water funds.
So there. If that isn't a pant load of, well you know what it is. As one resident noted, when it wants too the city has always found ways to shuffle money from one fund to another. But if it did that, it couldn't scare the hell out of the citizenry claiming it was going to have to lay off critical public safety types and therefore justify increasing taxes, etc.
"Administrators cry poverty while lavishing money on the beautiful people," LaFaive said. "The threat to dismiss firefighters often comes while officials protect golf courses, wave pools and art. No city can cry poverty while it defends recreation and aesthetics such as art."
Have you ever noticed that? Layer upon layer of bureaucrats and non-essential workers stay on staff, but police and fire protection are the first on the block. Meanwhile almost a million bucks is slated for "water art". And it is all defended by bureaucratic nonsense – bureaucratese. When they want to do something, the rules mean nada. When they don't want to for whatever reason, the rules constrain them.
And Ann Arbor isn't unique here – the same song and dance is going on at the state and local level.
This is your government at work. The politicians are only the part-time help. Bureaucrats are who really run it all. And the the result?
Well, look around you.
Are We Needlessly Scaring Ourselves To Death?
I think we many times become overwrought about things without ever really taking the time to put the threat into perspective. Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight throws some numbers out there for us to consider as we assess the latest terrorist attempt. Taking the decade of October 1999 to September 2009 (stats for this month and others following September are not available yet) and even including the 9/11 attacks (TSA didn't appear until after those) there have been six terrorist acts or attempted terrorist acts involving aircraft. Silver breaks down the numbers:
Over the past decade, according to BTS, there have been 99,320,309 commercial airline departures that either originated or landed within the United States. Dividing by six, we get one terrorist incident per 16,553,385 departures.
These departures flew a collective 69,415,786,000 miles. That means there has been one terrorist incident per 11,569,297,667 mles flown.
Wow. Not a huge threat. I take many more chances with my life in Atlanta traffic every day. But, to put it in even better contrast, how about the old stand-by: How do my chances compare to being struck by lightning?
There were a total of 674 passengers, not counting crew or the terrorists themselves, on the flights on which these incidents occurred. By contrast, there have been 7,015,630,000 passenger enplanements over the past decade. Therefore, the odds of being on given departure which is the subject of a terrorist incident have been 1 in 10,408,947 over the past decade. By contrast, the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are about 1 in 500,000. This means that you could board 20 flights per year and still be less likely to be the subject of an attempted terrorist attack than to be struck by lightning.
So in answer to the title is an unqualified "yes". That's not to say we shouldn't maintain an awarness on flights of idiots like this last one and do precisely what the passengers did to thwart his attack. But then we know not to stand on a hilltop in a lightning storm wrapped in copper wire too. We take proper precautions, but we don't obsess over it.
Given these stats and what we have to go through to fly now, I'd say we're past the obsessive stage and into the downright parnoid stage.
We do this alot anymore. Maybe it is the proliferation of mass communication which seems to magnify the significance of the story without providing any context like Silver has. Guys like this latest wannabe bomber are not a great threat to us.
We average 50 commercial crashes a decade and have since the 1950s. Yet for all those decades we happily climbed on board understanding that our real chances of being in an airline crash were really very small. And as you can see, given those numbers, your chances of being in a non-terrorist caused crash are significantly higher than those caused by terrorism. Yet it is the "terrorist" attack over which we obsess.
Life's a risk. We know that and risk ours everyday. We do so because we know that in reality the risk we take is very low and not doing so would limit how we lived our lives to a very mundane and boring routine. We'd hate it. And we normally pride ourselves in understanding that we must take risks to live life to the fullest.
I can't help but think that every attempted or failed attack like this one that drives the neurotic over-reaction that follows is considered a victory by our enemies. We need to quit enabling that.


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Re-entry Draft Today
The Columbus Dispatch - December 05, 2011 10:03 AM
The Crew's latest chance to find help for next season arrives this afternoon in the form of Major League Soccer's Re-entry Draft. The first round of the draft, which was initiated in 2010 as part of a new collective bargaining agreement, kicks off today at 5 p.m.
What remains to be seen is how active the Crew -- or the rest of MLS -- will be in the first round. Teams are not required to make a selection, although each team has the option to do so. If a team selects a player in the first round, that player then must then have his 2012 option exercised or the team must extend him a Bona Fide Offer. Should a player decline the Bona Fide Offer, the team will still retain his rights.
Those rules change with the second round of the draft, which takes place next Monday. In the second round, teams can select from players under contract and not under contract and therefore have more room to negotiate.
Last season, only two players were taken in the first round. The Crew took Aaron Hohlbein and D.C. United selected Joseph Ngwenya. Hohlbein refused to sign with the Crew and spent the past sesaon playing for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the North American Soccer League. The entire first-round draft lasted five minutes.
Eleven players were taken in the second round. Included on that list was Crew forward Jeff Cunningham.
The Crew has the ninth pick today.
In other MLS news, Lee Nguyen announced on his Twitter page that he has signed with the league for the upcoming season. The 25-year-old midfielder will be made available via a weighted draft lottery.
Twitter: @AdamJardy