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HIGHLAND — The New York State Bridge Authority awarded a $93.1 million contract Thursday to replace the deck on the 32-year-old south span of the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge for the first time.
HIGHLAND — The New York State Bridge Authority awarded a $93.1 million contract Thursday to replace the deck on the 32-year-old south span of the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge for the first time.
As expected, the eagerly sought contract went to the low bidder, Kiska Construction of Long Island City. Kiska, the U.S. arm of an international construction company based in Ankara, Turkey, bested nine other bidders whose prices ranged from $94.7 million to $116.8 million.
"I think what gave us a competitive edge is that we can work across the trades — we do our own steel, paint, concrete — and many other companies have to use subcontractors,'' said Alp Baysal, Kiska's vice president, in a telephone interview.
Before the vote, the board asked Brian Bushek, the authority's treasurer, whether the higher than anticipated cost would have a negative impact on the five-year capital plan of $165 million.
"They (the bids) were quite close together but a little higher than we had hoped,'' said Ron Dressel, pointing to the authority's $82 million estimate for the project.
Bushek and Joseph Ruggiero, the authority's executive director, assured the board that the additional $11 million expense wouldn't compromise or delay any projects that affect public safety on the four other bridges.
"We feel we're able to cover this,'' said Bushek. "The authority can afford to award at $93.1 million."
In moving to make the award, Richard Gerentine, the board's acting chairman, agreed: "I feel confident it is a very doable project."
The vote was unanimous.
The job represents Kiska's second with the authority. Last year, it won a $23 million contract to paint the north span of the bridge over three years.
Kiska is also in the second year of a $13.5 million contract with the Department of Transportation that calls for rehabilitation and preservation work on 52 Hudson Valley bridges.
The company has active contracts with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Port Authority and the New Jersey Department of Transportation as well.
Work on the deck will begin in March and be done mostly at night over three years to minimize the inconvenience to motorists.


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Illinois head coach John Groce revealed Monday that guard Rayvonte Rice has been battling a sore hip that clearly limited him during the Illini's 49-43 defeat at the hands of lowly Northwestern on Sunday.
Rice was not able to finish around the basket as forcefully as he usually does, shooting 2 of 11 from the field for a season-low eight points. He was averaging 18.8 points per game before Sunday, leading the Illini and the Big Ten, but did not score his first basket until 8:39 left in the second half. This was the first time this season he failed to score at least 12 points.
"I'll know how bad it is [later Monday], but Ray's a pretty tough kid," Groce said.
Without Rice shouldering the scoring load, the Illini offense looked, well as Groce said "inept."
They shot 28.1 percent from the field, scored just 15 points in the first half and missed their first 12 three-point attempts.
At first glance of the final score, those who did not watch the game may have wondered why Illinois and Northwestern never played the second half, but no the offenses were just that bad. This was the Wildcats first conference victory of the year, and they had not necessarily been close in the other games.
The Illini have struggled to score at times this season with Rice in the game, so if he has to miss any time or is hindered to the extent he was Sunday it will be tough for the Illini to replace him. He creates offense not only for himself, but by driving to the basket, defenses collapse on him to open up offensive rebound opportunities and open three-pointers.
This loss assures when the AP Top 25 poll comes out later today, the Illini are certain to be absent from it. They also suffered a 95-70 loss to Wisconsin on Wednesday.
The question remains how damaging will the loss to the Wildcats be to the Illini's NCAA tournament resume.

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Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan defended conservative advocacy groups as an "indispensable" part of the GOP coalition after Speaker John Boehner had lashed out at those same groups for opposing a bipartisan budget framework that Ryan had helped author.
"I think these are very important elements of our conservative family," he told Meet the Press moderator David Gregory in an interview airing on Sunday. "I would prefer to keep those conversations within the family."
After a week in Washington that had laid bare many of the familiar dividing that separate elected Republicans and their party's insurgent, conservative wing, Ryan made nice with many of the groups that had mobilized in opposition to the budget agreement he forged with Washington Democratic Sen. Patty Murray.
"I think these taxpayer groups are indispensable to keeping taxpayer interest accounted for, keeping people accountable," Ryan, the 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee said.
"And we sometimes have difference of opinions on tactics," he added. "We all believe the same thing with respect to our ultimate goal."
The House overwhelmingly approved the Ryan-Murray budget on Thursday with bipartisan support, though 62 House Republicans and 32 Democrats voted in opposition to the measure. The Senate is expected to take up the budget, which would stabilize government operations through late 2015, on Tuesday.
Though the budget proposal won over most House Republicans -- due, in part, to the sway Ryan holds among fiscal conservatives -- it did so over the objection of groups like the Club for Growth, Heritage Action and Americans for Prosperity. Each of those groups had urged lawmakers to oppose the budget because it set spending levels above "sequester" caps. Those groups had alerted members that they would tally votes for purposes of yearly "scorecards" that can often prove influential during GOP primary fights in House and Senate races.
The opposition from conservative groups provoked rare backlash from Boehner, who said those groups "have lost all credibility," and suggested they are more interested in raising money than electing GOP lawmakers.
In his interview with NBC, Ryan sought to explain the speaker's harsh words toward those outside groups.
"I think John just kind of got his Irish up," Ryan said. "He was frustrated that these groups came out in opposition to our budget agreement before we reached a budget agreement. I was frustrated, too … I think he was just basically voicing his frustration with their opposition before we had reached our agreement."
Both Ryan and his negotiating partner, Murray, addressed the new budget deal as well as the impact Obamacare might have in next fall's midterm elections. Murray dismissed the notion that the troubled rollout of the Affordable Care Act's exchanges might weigh on Democrats next November.
"I do not believe they will," said Murray, the former head of Senate Democrats' campaign efforts. "I think people will see the results of this law, meaning more security for themselves, in terms of their own health care coverage."


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ODNI Tasks Researchers With Figuring Out How To Store Section 215 Collections Off-Site
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One of the few stipulations in Obama's NSA reforms was to transfer the Section 215 collections to a third party and out of the NSA's direct control. The assumption is that these records will be held by those generating them -- the telcos. But the telcos have made it apparent that, while they have no problem asking "how high" whenever the NSA says, "jump," they have no interest in storing the records onsite. The administration didn't specifically order anyone to take control of the records, basically punting the issue to Congress and the DOJ and "allowing" them to sort it out.
For better or worse, the ODNI has already taken action toward fulfilling the president's order.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has paid at least five research teams across the country to develop a system for high-volume, encrypted searches of electronic records kept outside the government's possession. The project is among several ideas that could allow the government to store Americans' phone records with phone companies or a third-party organization, but still search them as needed.These researchers' suggestions will be weighed against anything the DOJ or Congress has to offer, albeit with a slight hometeam advantage. There are some protections the ODNI has specified that may make its conclusions preferable to others, in terms of data security at least, and possibly provide more flexibility for shifting records to whatever entity(ies) is left holding the metadata bag.
Under the research, U.S. data mining would be shielded by secret coding that could conceal identifying details from outsiders and even the owners of the targeted databases, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press and interviews with researchers, corporate executives and government officials…This would ease the logistics problem and (theoretically) reduce the possibility of abuse. But it doesn't eliminate every problem, including the "why" of collecting and storing millions of irrelevant phone records. While it will reduce the odds of abuse, it doesn't eliminate that prospect. Another concern is the fact that the use (as opposed to the collection and storage) of the data will still be removed from any meaningful oversight.
An encrypted search system would permit the NSA to shift storage of phone records to either phone providers or a third party, and conduct secure searches remotely through their databases. The coding could shield both the extracted metadata and identities of those conducting the searches, Bellovin said. The government could use encrypted searches to ensure that its analysts were not leaking information or abusing anyone's privacy during their data searches. And the technique could also be used by the NSA to securely search out and retrieve Internet metadata, such as emails and other electronic records.
On a more positive note, the encrypted search requirement would stave off hacking attempts and prevent the phone companies from knowing which records have been searched. Of course, while preventing the phone companies from knowing what's going on with their records does some damage to the recently loosened restrictions on government access reporting, it does at least eliminate one of the telcos' objections to maintaining the collected data onsite. (Although it can be argued that the telcos -- Verizon and AT&T especially -- have been so compliant over the years that storing data onsite won't be remarkably different than storing it at NSA data centers.)
There are some pluses to the ODNI's efforts, but the question of why the collection is needed still hasn't been answered. The administration's cosmetic reforms placed a few restrictions on the Section 215 program but completely avoided addressing the overall uselessness of the Fourth Amendment-skirting program. As the program morphs to meet the few requirements given, the NSA's supporters are likely to greet each change with more proclamations of the damage being done to national security. (Not that they haven't started already…)
Ultimately, the NSA has no need to keep the data onsite, considering it will now have to seek court approval before searching the database. It will still have some leeway to bypass the judicial constraints thanks to National Security Letters, but for the most part, it's a return to its 2009 restraints as ordered by FISC judge Reggie Walton after observing "systemic abuse" of the bulk records collections. With this in place, the agency can't really argue that uninterrupted, direct access is needed as it will be something it no longer has, onsite or not. Placing another small hurdle simply makes it a bit more difficult to abuse the collection and, after having free rein for so many years, a little friction is exactly what the agency needs to experience.
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Studio potter Dwo-Wen Chen describes his work as "undisciplined and whimsical". Born and raised in Taiwan, educated at RISD and now finds himself working in his studio in Pawtucket, Rhode Island for the past 12 years. He has incorporated both traditional and modern influence into his clay work and glazing techniques.Dwo-Wen creates his pieces through wheel-throwing and hand-building techniques. The glaze is applied carefully by brushstroke. Each piece is unique and no two pieces are identical.
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Prayer: The Power of Christian Hedonism
From Gospel Translations
By John Piper
About Christian Hedonism
Part of the series Desiring God
John 16:24
Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
Christian Hedonists are sometimes asked, Are you willing to be damned for the glory of God? That is, are you willing to surrender all joy if by this God would be more glorified? The point of the question is to hang Christian Hedonists on one horn or the other of a dilemma. If we say, no, we are not willing to be damned for the glory of God, then we seem to put our happiness above God's glory. If we say, yes, we are willing to be damned for the glory of God, then presumably we cease to be Christian Hedonists, because we have stopped pursuing joy.
Unbiblical Assumptions About Hell and God
But this attack on Christian Hedonism fails because the question it poses assumes two things that are not true: one about hell, and the other about God. When the critic asks, "Are you willing to go to hell for the glory of God?" he fails to see that if we answer yes to this question, it means that our deepest longing is to see God glorified through our life and death. Therefore, if we had to go to hell in order for God to be glorified, hell would be the means of satisfying our deepest longing. But then hell is no longer hell. Biblically, hell means total, irreversible misery with no satisfaction at all. And so the critic's question is built on an unbiblical assumption about hell.
It is also built on an unbiblical assumption about God. The question assumes that God could damn a person who is willing to be damned for God's glory. But this is an utterly unbiblical assumption. God's righteous commitment to uphold the value of his glory means that he will also uphold those who value his glory above all things. The God of the Bible cannot damn a person who loves his glory enough to be damned. And therefore the very question, "Are you willing to be damned for the glory of God?" is an offense against the righteousness of God. It forces us to entertain a possibility which God would be unrighteous to perform. It dare not be asked because the view of hell and the view of God which it assumes are both contrary to biblical revelation.
Our Interest and God's Glory Are One
And besides that, Christian Hedonism is really not the enemy the critic is after. He is after people who put their interests before God's interest, and who put their happiness above God's glory. But Christian Hedonism most emphatically does not do this. To be sure, we Christian Hedonists pursue our interest and our happiness with all our might; but we have learned from the Bible that God's interest is to magnify his glory by spilling over in mercy to us. Therefore, the pursuit of our real interest and our true happiness is never above God's but always in God's. The most precious truth in the Bible is that God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of his grace by making sinners happy in him. When we humble ourselves like little children and put on no airs of self-sufficiency, but run happily into the joy of our Father's embrace, the glory of his grace is magnified and the longing of our soul is satisfied. In God's wisdom and by God's grace our interest and his glory are one. Christian Hedonists are not idolaters when they pursue them both together.
One of the clearest demonstrations that the pursuit of our joy and the pursuit of God's glory are meant to be one and the same pursuit is the teaching of Jesus on prayer in the gospel of John. The two key sayings are John 14:13 and 16:24. The one shows that prayer is the pursuit of God's glory. The other shows that prayer is the pursuit of our joy. In John 14:13 Jesus says, "Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son." In John 16:24 he says, "Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full." The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. And the chief act of man by which the unity of these two goals is preserved is prayer. Therefore, Christian Hedonists who pursue in God's glory the fullness of their own joy will above all be people of prayer. Just like the thirsty deer buckles down to drink at the brook, so the characteristic posture of the Christian Hedonist is on his knees.
If you are like me, the change of pace last summer and the sudden burst of activity this fall have probably done a lot of damage to the discipline of your prayer life. Probably all you need is someone to remind you of its importance and you will be back in the happy groove of early rising or midday meditation or late night prayer. We need points throughout the year where we take our bearings and re-adjust our course. I hope today is one of those points in your life of prayer.
Prayer as the Pursuit of God's Glory
Let's look more closely at prayer as the pursuit of God's glory, and prayer and the pursuit of our joy, in that order. In John 14:13 Jesus says, "Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son." Suppose that you are totally paralyzed and can do nothing for yourself but talk. And suppose that a strong and reliable friend promised to live with you and do whatever you needed done. How could you glorify your friend if a stranger came to see you? You could say, "Friend, please come lift me up and put a pillow behind me so I can look at my guest. And would you please put my glasses on?" And so your visitor would learn from your requests that you are helpless and that your friend is strong and kind. You glorify your friend by needing him and asking him for help and counting on him.
In John 15:5 Jesus says, "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." So we really are paralyzed. Without Christ we are capable of no good thing (Romans 7:18). But God wills that we bear fruit—that we love people into the kingdom. So he promises to do for us (as a strong and reliable friend) what we can't do for ourselves. And how do we glorify him? Jesus gives the answer in John 15:7, "If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will and it shall be done for you." We pray. We ask God to do for us through Christ what we can't do for ourselves—to make us bear fruit. Then verse 8 gives the result we're after: "By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit." So how is God glorified by prayer? Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that he will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy.
Another text in John that shows how prayer glorifies God is John 4:9–10. Jesus had asked a woman for a drink of water:
The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of a woman of Samaria?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
If you were a sailor severely afflicted with scurvy, and a very generous man came aboard your ship with his pockets bulging with vitamin C and asked you for an orange slice, you might give it to him. But if you knew that he was generous, and that he carried all you needed to be well, you would turn the tables and ask him for help.
Jesus says to the woman, "If you just knew the gift of God and who I am, you would pray to me." There is a direct correlation between not knowing Jesus well and not asking much from him. A failure in our prayer life is generally a failure to know Jesus. "If you knew who was talking to you, you would ask me!" A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying to push his bus out of a rut by himself because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on the bus. "If you knew, you would ask." A prayerless Christian is like having your room wallpapered with Dayton's gift certificates but always shopping at Rag Stock because you can't read. "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that speaks to you, you would ask—YOU WOULD ASK!"
And the implication is that those who do ask—Christians who spend time in prayer—do it because they see that God is a great giver and that Christ is wise and merciful and powerful beyond measure. And therefore their prayer glorifies Christ and honors his Father. The chief end of man is to glorify God. Therefore, when we become what God created us to be, we become people of prayer.
Prayer as the Pursuit of Our Joy
But the chief end of man is also to enjoy God forever. And that brings us back to John 16:24, "Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full." Is this not an invitation to Christian Hedonism? Pursue the fullness of your joy! PRAY! From this sacred word and from experience we can draw out a simple rule: Among professing Christians prayerlessness always produces joylessness. Why? Why is it that a deep life of prayer leads to fullness of joy and a shallow life of prayerlessness produces joylessness? Jesus gives at least two reasons.
One is given in John 16:20–21. Jesus alerts the disciples that they will grieve at his death but then rejoice again at his resurrection: "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned to joy. When a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world. So you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you." What is the source of the disciples' joy? Answer: the presence of Jesus. "I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice." No Christian can have fullness of joy without a vital fellowship with Jesus Christ. Knowledge about him will not do, and work for him will not do. We must have personal, vital fellowship with him; otherwise Christianity becomes a joyless burden. In his first letter John wrote, "Our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. And we are writing this that our joy may be full" (1 John 1:4). Fellowship with Jesus shared with others is essential to fullness of joy.
The first reason, then, why prayer leads to fullness of joy is that prayer is the nerve center of our fellowship with Jesus. He is not here physically to see. But in prayer we speak to him just as though he were here. And in the stillness of those sacred times we listen to his thoughts and we pour out to him our longings. Perhaps John 15:7 is the best summary of this two-sided fellowship: "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will and it shall be done for you." When the words of Jesus abide in our mind, we hear the very thoughts of the living Christ, for he is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And out of that deep listening of the heart comes the language of prayer which is a sweet incense before God's throne. The life of prayer leads to fullness of joy because prayer is the nerve center of our vital fellowship with Jesus.
The other reason prayer produces fullness of joy is that prayer provides the power to do what we love to do, but can't do without God's help. The text says, "Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full." Fellowship with Jesus is essential to joy, but there is something about it that impels us outward to share his life with others. A Christian can't be happy and stingy, because it is more blessed to give than to receive. Therefore, the second reason a life of prayer leads to fullness of joy is that it gives us the power to love. If the pump of love runs dry, it is because the pipe of prayer isn't deep enough.
In summary: The Bible plainly teaches that the goal of all we do should be to glorify God. But it also teaches that in all we do we should pursue the fullness of our joy. Some theologians have tried to force these two pursuits apart by asking questions like, "Are you willing to be damned for the glory of God?" But the Bible does not force us to choose between God's glory and our joy. In fact, it forbids us to choose. And what we have seen from John's gospel is that prayer, perhaps more clearly than anything else, embodies the unity of these two pursuits. Prayer pursues joy in fellowship with Jesus and in the power to share his life with others. And prayer pursues God's glory by treating him as the reservoir of hope. In prayer we admit our poverty and God's prosperity, our bankruptcy and his bounty, our misery and his mercy. Therefore, prayer highly exalts and glorifies God precisely by pursuing everything we long for in him and not in ourselves. "Ask and you will receive, that the Father may be glorified in the Son and that your joy may be full."
Plan for Prayer
I close with an earnest exhortation. Unless I'm badly mistaken, one of the main reasons so many of God's children don't have a significant life of prayer is not so much that we don't want to, but that we don't plan to. If you want to take a four-week vacation, you don't just get up one summer morning and say, "Hey, let's go today!" You won't have anything ready. You won't know where to go. Nothing has been planned. But that is how many of us treat prayer. We get up day after day and realize that significant times of prayer should be a part of our life, but nothing's ever ready. We don't know where to go. Nothing has been planned. No time. No place. No procedure. And you know as well as I that the opposite of planning is not a contagious flow of deep, spontaneous experiences in prayer. The opposite of planning is the rut. If you don't plan a vacation, you will probably stay home and watch TV. The natural, unplanned flow of spiritual life sinks to the lowest ebb of vitality. There is a race to be run and a fight to be fought. If you want renewal in your life of prayer, you must plan to see it.
Therefore, my simple exhortation is this: I urge you to take ten minutes this afternoon to rethink your priorities and how prayer fits in. Make some new resolve. Try some new venture with God. Set a time. Set a place. Choose a portion of Scripture to guide you. I've had to do this myself because I got caught off guard by the stress of these busy days. We all need mid-course corrections. Make this a great day of turning to prayer—for the glory of God and for the fullness of your joy.


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RISING SUN, Md. (AP) — A Virginia energy cooperative is proposing construction of a new natural gas-fired power plant near Rising Sun in northeastern Maryland.
The Old Dominion Electric Cooperative said Monday that it will seek approval to build the plant at the Rock Springs Generation Facility, which opened in 2003.
The cooperative says the new plant in Cecil County would use cleaner-burning natural gas and meet demand on the region's electric grid while creating 600 construction jobs and 30 permanent jobs. Old Dominion notes Maryland currently imports more than 40 percent of its electricity from out-of-state plants. The proposed plant would begin operating in 2017, providing enough energy to serve 390,000 homes.
Old Dominion says it provides wholesale power to 11 distribution cooperatives in Maryland, Virginia and Delaware that serve about 1.2 million people.
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Schedules for 2014-2015 continue to flow in:
• Three different versions of hair are among the highlights of the 93rd Hollywood Bowl season, which was announced Tuesday. The 2014 season begins June 14 and 15 with the 36th annual Playboy Jazz Festivals and spans 15 weeks through September.
Amid a dizzying number of pops, jazz, world music and movie nights, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will have its 10-week-long classical season, which begins July 8 and concludes September 11. Music Director Gustavo Dudamel, he of the curly hair, will lead four programs over five evenings, including another segment of his "Americas & Americans" series, an evening entitled "Noche de Cine" that will include a suite from Dudamel's score to the movie Libertador on July 31.
The other hair-related programs will be a 50th anniversary re-creation of The Beatles appearance at Hollywood Bowl that will take place August 22, 23 and 24, and a production of the 1968 Broadway musical, Hair, on August 1, 2 and 3. Since the listing for Hair includes the words "contains mature subject matter and brief nudity," one can assumed this will be a virtually complete production.
Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Phil's Conductor Laureate, is among the conductors who will lead the Phil. He has programs scheduled on July 15 and 17.
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The entire Hollywood Bowl press kit is HERE.
• The Los Angeles Master Chorale's 51st season will have Music Director Grant Gershon leading 10 concerts (14 performances) in Walt Disney Concert Hall that feature world premieres by Shawn Kirchner and Nack-Kum Paik. Nearly half of the 20 composers represented in the schedule are alive.
One who isn't alive (literally, at any rate) is Johann Sebastian Bach whose St. Matthew Passion will be featured twice: the Chorale, along with the Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra and Los Angeles Children's Chorus, will offer Bach's version on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, while Tan Dun's Water Passion after St. Matthew will be sung April 11 and 12, 2015. Dun's piece was commissioned by Helmuth Rilling for the 250th anniversary of Bach's death in 2000.
Another "Passion" oriented work will open the season on Oct. 19 when the Chorale presents Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light/The Passion of Joan of Arc. Written for chorus, soloists and orchestra, the piece accompanies Carl Dreyer's 1928 silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc.
The season announcement also reveals a bit about the upcoming Los Angeles Philharmonic season as the Chorale will sing in performances of Beethoven's Choral Fantasy and John Adams' Harmonium led by Gustavo Dudamel October 9-12; for performances of Berlioz' Romeo and Juliet under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen November 7-9; and in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis to be led by Michael Tilson Thomas January 9-11, 2015.
Details on the Master Chorale season are HERE.
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Customers are confronted with choices as soon as they sit down at restaurants. Tacos or a burrito? Pizza or pasta? Noodles or rice? A special feature published today in the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest's Nutrition Action Healthletter compares alternative choices of meals, desserts, snacks, and drinks found at many national restaurant chains and suggests the best choice.
One might assume, for instance, that burritos are healthier than tacos, since tacos' crispy shells are typically fried. In fact, the reverse is usually true. The flour tortillas used for burritos at chains like Qdoba or Chipotle have about 300 calories and 700 milligrams of sodium. And that's before ingredients like rice, beans, cheese, sour cream, and chicken might bring the totals to about 1,000 calories and 2,000 milligrams of sodium. In contrast, three crispy corn tacos with chicken, cheese, salsa, and lettuce total about 500 calories and 1,000 mg of sodium.
Sweet potatoes are usually considered a nutritional "superstar." But that's not the case for sweet potato fries, which are sometimes more caloric than their white potato counterparts. At "all-American" restaurant chain Johnny Rockets, diners can expect 590 calories per serving of sweet potato fries compared to 480 calories in its regular "American Fries." Johnny Rockets' sweet potato fries also have 800 mg of sodium—twenty times as much as its regular fries have (40 mg).
What about choosing between oatmeal and yogurt parfait at chains like Starbucks and Panera? Either item can make a healthful breakfast, according to Nutrition Action. Nutritionally, both beat every bagel, muffin, scone, or croissant. Nutrition Actionrecommends skipping much of the brown sugar, cinnamon crunch, and agave syrup toppings on the oatmeal. The parfaits pack more added sugar than the oatmeal, but they usually pack a bit more protein and calcium.
Chinese food can get complicated. Is chicken automatically better than beef? Not if it's breaded and fried like Kung Pao chicken or General Tso's chicken. One of those dishes has between 1,000 and 1,200 calories, before rice, at a chain such as Pei Wei or Pick Up Stix. Beef with broccoli and other nonbreaded beef dishes have 700 to 900 calories before rice.Nutrition Action recommends brown rice over white rice but points out that both have about 300 calories for a typical serving.
"At Thai restaurants, Pad Thai is wildly popular," said article co-author and CSPI nutrition director Bonnie Liebman. "People who would never order an entrée of fried rice don't flinch at eating a plate of oily noodles. The lesser known and veggie-rich Pad Pak typically has about a third of the calories as Pad Thai."
Nutrition Action also makes recommendations between tea lattes and coffee lattes, gyro pitas and falafel pitas, and pizza and pasta.
In other articles, the new issue of Nutrition Action has three delicious, healthy, Asian-themed recipes from Healthy Cook Kate Sherwood, a review of microwave popcorns, and a cover story on multivitamin supplements. Nutrition Action Healthletter is published 10 times a year, has 900,000 subscribers, and accepts no advertising. CSPI recently launched NutritionAction.com, which offers a digital version of its print publication as well as Nutrition Action Daily Tips, a free daily e-letter about nutrition and health.
Contact Jeff Cronin (jcronin[at]cspinet.org) or Ariana Stone (astone[at]cspinet.org).


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Only one band has the charisma, the credentials, the catalog and the ka-ching caliber to trigger box-office pandemonium.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Rolling Stones!
Today the band announced it will kick off a nine-city North American leg of its 50 and Counting tour in Los Angeles at the Staples Center. The date will be announced pending the NBA/NHL playoff schedules. The tour will visit Oakland, San Jose, Las Vegas, Anaheim, Toronto, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia.
Tickets for Oakland, San Jose, Toronto and Chicago go on sale Monday at 10 a.m. local time and will be available at rollingstones.com. Ticket prices were not announced.
"50 and Counting has been pretty amazing so far," Mick Jagger said in a media release. "We did a few shows in London and New York last year … and had such a good time that we thought … let's do some more. It's a good show. Lots of the classic stuff everyone wants to hear … with a few little gems tucked in here and there. The stage is shaped like lips and goes off into the venue so I get to run around in the crowd. It's great fun to be able to get that close to the audience."
Keith Richards added: "From day one at rehearsals it sounded so fresh. You could tell that everybody was dying to get their teeth into it. It was like … open the gates … let us out! 'Cause man, it is the life and blood of us to play in front of people."
"Any year the Stones are touring is special," says Ray Waddell, Billboard senior editor/touring. "The Rolling Stones are one of the few guaranteed home runs in the live music business and have been since the early '80s. They are in an elite class. They don't compete with other bands. There is no substitute. That's why their ticket prices are what they are. How many opportunities do rock 'n' roll fans get to witness history, and maybe more importantly, how many more chances will there be?
"So while their ticket prices are typically the highest, so is the level of what's being offered. Few bands can serve up such a revered canon of songs that are so meaningful in rock and still play them at a very high level. All the talk about how high Stones tickets are misses the point: You get what you pay for. I saw them in December. They killed it."
Waddell has covered every Stones tour since Steel Wheels in 1989. Since then, the band has likely grossed at least $2 billion at the box office worldwide (receipts are incomplete) and another $1 billion in ancillaries like merchandising, sponsorships, live albums and DVDs, he estimates.
"They print money," he says, noting that the band's run of five 50 and Counting shows in late 2012 grossed $38.7 million, according to Billboard Boxscore.
That short stint ranked 33rd among 2012 tours, according to Pollstar. Tickets averaged $529 each, the priciest of the year's top 50 tours and more than double the cost of the next highest, $263 for an average Barbra Streisand ducat.
Price was no barrier. Every Stones show sold out.
"In terms of the business of touring, the Stones either invented it, improved upon it, and/or changed it forever," Waddell says "They've broken ground in the areas of production, sponsorships, merchandising, VIP ticketing and overall touring economics. So many things that are a matter of course in the live business today originated with the Rolling Stones. But none of that would matter if they weren't simply a kickass band with kickass songs."
The Stones' last global outing was A Bigger Bang, which grossed $558 million from August 2005 to August 2007. It stood as history's biggest until U2's ambitious 360 tour in 2009-2011 set new records for attendance (7.2 million) and gross ($736 million).
The Stones "won't come anywhere near breaking U2's record because they won't play near as many dates and the venues won't be anywhere near the capacity that U2 played," Waddell says. "U2's record may stand forever because of the unique nature of that tour and that band."
The Stones' tour news ends months of speculation that included the band's own tease campaign in the days leading up to Wednesday's announcement. The band posted #StartMeUpWednesday countdown hints on Twitter and Facebook and plastered billboards in the Bay Area and Las Vegas with their iconic tongue logo and such song titles and lyrics as Satisfaction and "You Get What You Need."
The band previously announced a headlining date June 29 at England's Glastonbury Festival and will also perform July 6 at London's Hyde Park.
The dates:
TBA, Los Angeles, Staples Center
May 5, Oakland, Oracle Arena
May 8, San Jose, HP Pavilion
May 11, Las Vegas, MGM Grand Garden Arena
May 15, Anaheim, Honda Center
May 25, Toronto, Air Canada Centre
May 28, Chicago, United Center
June 12, Boston, TD Garden
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Los Angeles Dodgers outfield prospect Scott Schebler, No. 9 on the Dodgers' Top 20 Prospects List, began to show his outstanding athletic ability while in high school at Cedar Rapids Prairie High School in Iowa. He set records in the 55-meter dash, the long jump and the 800-meter relay. Schebler also played soccer, basketball, football and baseball. His efforts led him to attend Des Moines (Iowa) Area Community College. In 2010, his only year at the junior college, Schebler led his club with a .446 batting average. Of his 91 hits, 20 were home runs.
The Los Angeles Dodgers selected the left-handed-hitting, right-handed-throwing Schebler in the 26th round of the 2010 First-Year Player Draft. He signed his contract late in the process and the club assigned him to the Rookie-level Arizona League, where he got his first taste of professional baseball, playing in just five games. Schebler opened some eyes with a .294 batting average and two triples in 18 plate appearances. He did not play defense in any of those games.
Schebler is 6-foot-1, 208 pounds. At 23 years old, he looks bigger in a well-proportioned frame that may still have a bit of room left for additional growth.
Schebler has legitimate power potential and good speed. Last year, he gained some confidence after a difficult 2012, when he played for Class A Great Lakes. Schebler hit .260 with just six home runs that season. But things changed last season, when he was named the Dodgers' Minor League Player of the Year at Class A Advanced Rancho Cucamonga, hitting .296 with 27 home runs and 91 RBIs. He also stole 16 bases and was caught five times. Schebler played 125 games, going to the plate 534 times. Of his 141 hits, 29 were doubles and 13 were triples. It was an outstanding season.
I first saw Schebler this past Spring Training, followed by his appearance in the 2014 Southern League All Star Game, when he played left field for the Northern Division as a member of the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts. Schebler caught my attention with a home run off Mississippi Braves prospect J.R. Graham. He also doubled and walked. Schebler participated in the league's Home Run Derby, which was won by the Cubs' Kris Bryant.
The major issue facing Schebler remains his high strikeout rate. Even last year, in his best season, he struck out 140 times to accompany those 27 homers. Schebler has improved this season in Double-A, but the rate is still high. He has twice as many at-bats so far against right-handed pitching, but his overall batting average against lefties is higher. That's the same as it was last year as well.
Schebler has a somewhat "beefy" type body that might be construed as a football frame. His swing can get long when he tries to do too much and hit a five-run homer. Schebler has to guard against trying to pull every pitch. He's the type of player that may see the exaggerated defensive shift to the right side until he shows he can use more of the field, taking pitches foul pole to foul pole.
Schebler has work to do recognizing pitches and being more patient at the plate. Using more discipline and recognizing breaking balls and offspeed pitches outside the strike zone will be one area that will help with gaining better contact and cutting down the strikeouts. Pitchers, however, will have difficulty getting fastballs by him that are anywhere near the strike zone. Schebler can feast on mistakes.
Defensively, Schebler profiles best as a left fielder. I think he has enough speed and a strong and accurate enough arm to be an average defender at that corner. Schebler can also play right, but he probably would find more consistent comfort and confidence in left.
Schebler has time to develop at the Minor League level. While the Dodgers may appear to be deep in outfielders at the Major League level, only Joc Pederson (No. 3) and Alex Verdugo (No. 10) join Schebler as top-rated prospect outfielders in the team's system.


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Fatal Four Way Elimination Match - U.S. Champion John Cena vs. Booker T vs. Rene Dupree vs. Rob Van Dam.
Cena did a rap after his entrance, ripping on Kurt Angle and his opponents. Cena mentioned that RVD "rollls blunts", that Booker used to be GI Bro, and that Dupree gets excited by being surrounded by "seamen" (because the Navy was present).
The match started with Van Dam brawling with Booker in one corner, while Cena fought Dupree in the other. Cena and RVD then exchanged punches in center ring, until Dupree and Booker recovered and got back in the mix. Van Dam tossed Booker to the floor and rammed him into the security wall, but Booker came back by ramming RVD into the ring apron and the steel steps. In the ring, Dupree suplexed Cena for two, and hit a kneed to the midsection, followed by a dropkick to the back of the head. Booker rammed RVD into the steps again, and watched Dupree battle Cena, since it was an elimination match and he didn't need to break up covers. Cena hit an atomic drop on Dupree, but Dupree dodged a charge and Cena fell to the floor. Booker tossed RVD into the ring, and Dupree went after him. Dupree hit a reverse rolling neck snap on RVD for a two count. Booker continued to watch from ringside, while Dupree put Van Dam in a chinlock. Dupree missed a charge in the corner, and Van Dam hit a kick to the head. Van Dam had to double pump on the ropes when he slipped, but still hit the split leg moonsault for two. Van Dam hit the Rolling Thunder splash for two. Cena was now watching from the floor as well. Van Dam catapulted Dupree over the top rope to the floor. Cena went to pick up Dupree, but RVD hit a slingshot somersault on both men. RVD tossed Cena in and got a two count. RVD grabbed a rolling cradle and small package for two counts. RVD slid out of the ring on a Cena whip and tossed Booker T into the ring. Cena hit Booker with a back elbow for a two count, then slammed him for another two. Cena rolled out of the ring, and tossed Dupree in. Dupree reversed a whip and hit Booker with a powerslam for two. Dupree did his dance, and Booker grabbed him in a spinebuster, then collapsed to the mat. Booker and Dupree were both down on the mat, and RVD hit Dupree with the Five Star Frog Splash. Cena went to the top rope, but RVD kicked him off. RVD hit Booker with the Five Star Frog Splash, but Cena ran in and cradled RVD for the pin at the eight minute mark. Rob Van Dam is eliminated.
Booker T rammed John Cena into the ringpost on the floor, then tossed him into the ring. Booker and Dupree stomped Cena in a corner, and Booker hit a suplex followed by a Dupree fistdrop. Booker hit a kneedrop, and Dupree hit another fistdrop. Booker hit a kick, and Dupree went to cover Cena, and the two started arguing, with Booker saying it was "his cover". Dupree rolled up Booker for two, and the two started shoving each other. This enabled Cena to rally, hitting clotheslines on both men and the Throwback on Booker. Cena went to give Dupree the FU, but he grabbed the ropes. Booker kicked his hand away, and Cena hit the FU on Dupree. Booker hit an ax kick on Cena, then covered Dupree for the pin at the eleven minute mark. Rene Dupree is eliminated.
Booker covered Cena for two, and hit a side slam for another two. Booker hit a back elbow for two, then applied a rear chinlock. Cena fought out, and Booker hit a back kick for two. Booker applied a cobra clutch, but Cena fought out and hit a clothesline, back elbow and side slam. Cena hit the Five Knuckle Shuffle fistdrop, then pumped his sneakers. Booker kicked him and hit a sunset flip out of the corner for two. Booker hit a superkick, then measured for the ax kick. Cena ducked the kick and hit the FU for the pin at the 16 minute mark.
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The character is a mixture of many different impulses as well as my everlasting preoccupation with death itself. Still, it was not a long-cherished wish of mine to make a cartoon about just another allegory of the Grim Reaper, it simply came in handy since my former cartoon series was reaching to its end.
The original concept was not very elaborated. I wanted Death to have a pseudo-medieval look (which, in fact, isn't medieval at all but came up only in the baroque, but that's a different story), but I didn't want to give him a skull or any face at all. However, I do have a weakness for challenging mimics. My other cartoon series, NINA, shows figures without pupils and noses, whereas Death has only his eyes and occasional eyebrows to express himself. The look that finally made it is still very opulent, though! My original sketches wanted him to express his mood only by the shape of his hood and not even grant him eyes.
In contrast to some embodiments that picture Death as some romantic lad ("last lover"), I prefer to see him as a cynic. A little bit arrogant, stubborn nagger, very tangible and sometimes even ridiculous. Death as I show him is not an epic figure, he is more like some ordinary guy who really likes to do his job, if only his clientel were less reluctant!
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Designing the Maiden was an even harder task. While I knew how to characterize Death from the beginning, I didn't have a clear vision of his opponent. Amongst many, many sketches appeared one day the one that had to be her.
The only thing I knew right from the beginning was that she should not be your average "beauty". I personally like the way she looks, I find her cute, but she's definitely not the big-boobed hot-sexy type that one usually finds as comic heroines. She's average looking, and that's just what I wanted her to be.
I also wanted to give her a personal history - e.g. a job, family & friends - right from the beginning. I dropped those plans, thinking it better for the reader to get to know her step by step, just like Death vice versa, which turned out as a good idea, I think, because it left more room for drama.
Oh, and for all who'd like to know: Her hair is dyed, but her eyes are genuine green.
Little Death
I have tried to explain the idea behind this character many, many times, but still, people don't quite seem to comprehend it. I cannot do more than just repeat what I wrote already:
I know that this character might be a little problematic to the readers who are not familiar with la petite mort. It obviously doesn't exist in the USA, I don't know about Britain or other countries. One thing is sure, though: In French and German speaking countries, it should be known. I believe the term little death origines in France. In a common way it describes the sexual highlight, the orgasm. At least this is the best known meaning of what is indicated by saying someone just experienced a little death! (a rather poetic circumscription, as you might have guessed)
There are, however, other meanings of the word. Some equalize it with sleep, yet the most popular name for Morpheus had always been Brother of Death (vice versa, Death has been described as Brother of Sleep), so I didn't take this into my own definition of Little Death.
Other sources referred to la petite mort as any sort of sudden inner disarray, which is experienced either through positive feelings (love, joy, ecstasy) or the contrary (pain, disappointment, fear, sorrow). In either way, this experience has to come in a sudden rush from within. So, it's not the sort of pain we feel when we bruise a finger, it's the pain we feel inside when we realize e.g. someone very dear deceived us or when we are really embarassed. On the other hand, it can be the uplifting of the soul when we hear certain music, or when we succeeded in something.
It is fast and it is strong, and it feels as if one's heart was ready to jump out of the throat. I am sure that everyone has experienced that kind of feeling in some way. Well, yes, and that's it - or rather him. Little D.
The Beetle
You don't have to look too closely to notice hundreds of mistakes within the drawings of the Beetle. The truth is that I am not very skillful nor experienced in drawing cars, and I had absolutely no idea of how many VOLKSWAGEN bugs there were! You could ask me why I started out with a cartoon series that takes place on the highway in the first place - and I cannot answer but: It was time for the challenge!
If you think I'm too picky on myself regarding the correctness of the Beetle - I can assure you, it's only concerning this particular car. I don't care the least for any other car in the cartoon, whether it's correctly drawn or not. But the Beetle is special, since it's the most beautiful car in the whole world! :-)


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Prosecutors said Thursday a Colorado teenager confessed to killing a 10-year-old girl who lived less than a mile from his home — a crime that authorities previously said was probably committed by someone known to the small community of Westminster.
GOLDEN, Colorado — Prosecutors said Thursday a Colorado teenager confessed to killing a 10-year-old girl who lived less than a mile from his home — a crime that authorities previously said was probably committed by someone known to the small community of Westminster.
In addition, prosecutor Hal Sargent said 17-year old Austin Reed Sigg acknowledged a separate attack in May on a female runner by a stranger who grabbed her from behind and put a rag that smelled of chemicals over her mouth.
Police have said the two crimes were connected but didn't elaborate. Authorities also said they had DNA evidence to prove their case.
Seven of Jessica Ridgeway's family members sat with their arms around each other as Sigg made his first appearance in a heavily guarded courtroom in Golden. Sigg glanced in their direction just once.
Four of his family members also were in court, and they occasionally sobbed during the hearing.
Sigg, who wore a blue-green jail uniform and had a light goatee, mostly sat with his head bowed. At one point he spoke to the judge, saying in a high-pitched voice, "I don't understand what that ... " before breaking off when one of his attorneys began speaking to him.
When District Judge Ann Gail Meinster asked Sigg if a parent was present, he said yes and looked toward his relatives.
In the audience, Jessica's mother, Sarah Ridgeway, wore a purple ribbon in her hair. Purple was Jessica's favorite color, and purple ribbons and balloons have become a symbol of remembrance for her family and the public.
Sigg is being held without bail on suspicion of murder and kidnapping in the death of Jessica, and attempted murder and attempted kidnapping in the case of the runner. Prosecutors are expected to formally charge him next week.
Jessica disappeared three weeks ago after leaving her home in the Denver suburb to walk to school. She never arrived. Her remains were found on Oct. 10.
Sigg was taken into custody late Tuesday after police received a phone call, apparently from his mother Mindy Sigg, who later told The Associated Press in a phone interview that he turned himself in.
"I made the phone call, and he turned himself in. That's all I have to say," she said before breaking down in tears and hanging up.
Authorities have released few details about their investigation, and court documents have been sealed. A police custody report said Sigg was cooperative when he was arrested and waived his rights, though his public defenders said during the hearing that the waivers had been revoked.
Public defender Ryan Loewer had argued for setting bail for Sigg, saying he has no prior criminal history. Prosecutor Hal Sargent said Sigg had confessed and that investigators had a strong case.
"There's DNA evidence, and the evidence is overwhelming," he said.
After the hearing, Jefferson County District Attorney Scott Storey said prosecutors cannot seek the death penalty for Sigg because he is a minor, even though he is being prosecuted as an adult.
Under Colorado law, juveniles can be sentenced to life in prison if convicted of murder but it would be up to a judge to determine whether that's appropriate.
In addition, defendants in such cases would be eligible for parole in 40 years, said Jeanne Smith, former El Paso County prosecutor and director of the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice.
Storey declined to discuss the possibility that Sigg might enter an insanity plea.
Former high school classmates painted a picture of Sigg as an intelligent teen who often wore black and complained about school but who would stay late sometimes to work on computers.
Sigg was interested in mortuary science and was taking forensics classes, said Rachel Bradley, 17, who attended Standley Lake High School with him.
At the time of his arrest, Sigg was enrolled at Arapahoe Community College, which offers the state's only accredited mortuary science program.
Sigg left Standley Lake High in July after finishing the 11th grade and later earned a GED. School officials don't know why he left.
Yearbooks showed Sigg was a member of the choir in his freshman and sophomore years.
Former schoolmate Sarah Morevec said Sigg had been bullied for having a high voice.
Elliott reported from Denver. Associated Press writer Kristen Wyatt in Denver contributed to this report.


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I am using a Philips DVDR 5500 as the video source for my Archos 405. I'm using the SCART out on the DVD via the DVR Station; I use the HDMI out on the DVD to my TV.
Timed recordings work fine, as long as I leave the DVD switched on to the channel I want. However, I can't get the Archos to control the DVD recorder by remote control. I think I've tried all of the power off codes, but none seem to work. And I can't get the channels to change either. This is really annoying, as it means I can only record programs from one channel.
Could anyone recommend how I can get the Archos/DVR Station to control the DVD recorder?
Another thing I've noticed sometimes is if I switch off the TV when the Archos is halfway through a recording, the DVD recorder resets, and if I'm lucky I just get a few seconds of blank audio/video when I play the recording back; if I'm unlucky, the soundtrack resumes after the DVD resets, but the image remains frozen.
Could anyone advise how I could avoid these annoying interuptions?
Many thanks in advance.
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18-Year-Old Arrested After Stealing Wreckage of Paul Walker Crash
Here is the evolution of celebrity idol worship: an 18-year-old Paul Walker fan was arrested last night in Los Angeles after stealing a piece of the deceased actor's Porsche and posting a photo on Instagram.
After searching a home in a northern L.A. suburb in Canyon County, the L.A.P.D. arrested Jameson Witty a week after he took a roof panel from the 2005 Porsche off a tow truck that was transporting the wreckage away from the crash site. TMZ has video of Witty running up to the bed of the tow truck and picking off the panel before sprinting away, which would almost be unbelievable if we weren't talking about TMZ.
If you were to click that TMZ link, you would notice that (in typical TMZ fashion), Witty and his accomplice — who has not yet been picked up — are called "scumbags." This doesn't seem to be exactly true. Witty, who calls Walker a "childhood idol," posted a note on Instagram late last night apologizing and explaining that he intended to use the piece of wreckage to make a memorial.
Kids, they do stupid things!


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In the previous post of our twelve-part blog series on the Top 10 Technology Trends for advisors and their partners, we discussed the integrated workstation and its role in providing efficiency to advisors. The fourth trend we will discuss in this post is integration itself.
From email to word processing to marketing resources, in today's integrated world, the expectation is that data will only need to be entered one time. For example, it's becoming an expectation that a client letter written in a word processing program will automatically integrate with the client's CRM system user record, automatically populating the client's name and address, as well as storing the document in the client's account history.
The benefits of integration are clear:
- First, integration eliminates multiple instances of manual data entry which both saves time and eliminates errors.
- Second, integration provides a better and more consistent user experience because the user does not have to go back and forth between different software to enter key data.
- Third, integration can provide a cost-effective way to improve the experience a client has with his or her advisor. For example, preparing an in-depth snapshot of a client's portfolio would be cost prohibitive if the advisor had to manually enter data from multiple systems, and then cut and paste data into a report creation tool or word processing program. True integration, however, allows an advisor to offer this type of information on a client-by-client basis with a button click.
In the last post in this series, we mentioned that one of the important elements that integration enables is for the advisor to "have their cake and eat it too." This means that with integration, an advisor can choose from a variety of best-in-class technologies that work seamlessly together instead of just purchasing an all-in-one solution that may not have the desired functionality. For example, the CRM functionalities of some all-in-one solutions are great but they may not provide the desired level of goal-based planning that comes with some of the better financial planning software solutions. With true integration, the advisor can separately purchase the CRM and the planning software that best fits the advisor's objectives knowing that ultimately the two systems will share the same data.
Most technology vendors in the advisory space have dedicated resources for integrating with other software applications. Unfortunately today, most advisors just tell their vendors to change the vendor's technology in certain ways versus carefully explaining why the change can improve the advisor's job. The opportunity for advisors is to work closely with technology vendors to scope out specific requirements and for the advisor to show the vendor how—by implementing a specific requirement—the vendor can actually grow their business.
For example, if an advisor wants a vendor's CRM system to integrate with financial planning software, instead of just requesting the change, the advisor would be better served by working very closely with the vendor. By sharing with the vendor how making the change would improve the advisor's business and could improve the vendor's business (e.g., if the vendor made the change, they could market their CRM solution to all existing users of that specific planning software providing the CRM vendor with a competitive advantage), everybody wins.
Advisors would be well served to think of their technology vendors as true business partners that can aid in full integration, ultimately helping both the advisor and vendor.
View all the articles in this series at the Top Tech Trends home page.


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Reader "Steve Dildo" has alerted us to the client list of the "Desert Divas," an Arizona prostitution ring that was busted three years back. Mr. Dildo was most interested in the presence of a "Kevin Pitsoogle" on the list, but we've determined that this name is fake, unconnected to the similarly named former West Virginia basketball player. That left us with the data set itself: the list contained the price paid for each encounter, along with the specific prostitute involved, the phone operator who set up the appointment, and the way that each client had been referred to the ring (by a website, by a friend, and so on).
While the plurality of encounters cost $375, many clients paid more or less than that. We looked at the 1,370 first-time transactions that deviated from the standard price—the average price among this subset was $510—to try to find the pattern behind the pricing.
Our investigation produced a model that explains 71 percent of the variance in cost. It's not just the identity of the prostitute that influences the charge: the identity of the phone operator is important as well. About 18 percent of the change in price can be explained by who the prostitute was, while 12 percent of the change can be explained by who the phone operator was.
That first figure seems self-explanatory, but why are the people who handle the setup so important? One possible explanation would be that a given receptionist tends to send out the same prostitutes, which would make the operators' effect a meaningless ghost of the prostitutes'. But that isn't the case: There's no significant interaction between the two groups. Our remaining best guess is still an unknown variable: Perhaps certain operators are assigned to clients expected to pay more, or are better at upselling clients to more expensive services.
The referral method was important as well: The interaction between the means of referral and the specific phone operator accounted for 7.2 percent of the total variance, and that between the referral and the prostitute explained 6.7 percent. This means that certain pairings of methods and employees explain a decent portion of the change in cost.
The cheapest clients came from "The Erotic Review," an online escort directory; our model predicts that clients who found the Desert Divas via that site paid just $400, compared to the $510 average for the non-standard-price crowd. The big spenders came to the Divas from Eros Guide, another site — clients from there would be expected to pay $679.
The moral of the story: be careful what prostitution rings you frequent, lest you become the subject of statistical hypothesis testing. Here are the test results, for those interested: