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Posted on 07/22/2003 6:51:44 PM PDT by blam
Explorer who discovered the 'Titanic' sets out to prove that Noah's flood formed Black Sea
By David Usborne
23 July 2003
The Bible tells us how the Great Flood happened, compelling Noah to herd all of animal life into his Ark.
The skies opened and it rained incessantly, in fact for 40 days and 40 nights. But some scientists have another theory altogether and this week an expedition will leave for the Black Sea to try to prove it.
Among the team will be Robert Ballard, the American underwater explorer who became famous when he found the Titanic beneath the Atlantic in 1985. He will be going with a special piece of equipment, a remote excavating submarine namedHercules.
No one disputes that the Black Sea was once a fresh-water lake that in ancient times became inundated by the salty Mediterranean. The arguments have been over how quickly it happened - was it only gradual? - and in what period. Until recently, most experts dated the flood to about 9,000 years ago.
But Mr Ballard thinks it was more recent, perhaps 7,500 years ago, which could more credibly make it the same flood that gave us the story of Noah. Moreover, he thinks it was sudden. As the ice age ended, sea levels rose and a strip of land dividing the Mediterranean and the Black Sea was breached.
It was, according to Mr Ballard, 61, a truly cataclysmic event. Previous expeditions tell us that the invasion of Mediterranean waters pushed up water levels in the Black Sea basin by about 500 feet (155 metres) and drowned about 60,000 square miles.
Mr Ballard thinks it was so rapid that salt water pushed in with 200 times the force of the Niagara Falls and that the rate of increase in the water level was six inches a day.
Demonstrating all of this is hard. And Mr Ballard faces scepticism from several quarters. Critics accuse of him pursuing the Noah's Flood legend for the sake of the inevitable publicity. He has never suggested that he will find the actual Ark. But even the vaguest possibility is enough to stir excitement.
Indeed, the $5m (£3.1m), two-week expedition, which begins from the Turkish Black Sea port of Sinop on Sunday, has been set up to garner maximum worldwide attention.
Its progress will be watched live by academics, archaeologists and even schoolchildren around the globe, thanks to a satellite link from the expedition's ship to a nerve-centre at the University of Rhode Island in the United States.
Mr Ballard says the relay is vital because it will allow as many specialists as possible to analyse what he uncovers. "Exploration by its very nature means you don't know what you're going to find," he said. "So in fact it's very probable you're not going to have the right mix of scientists when you make a discovery."
There will also be film crew on board and a full television series is planned for next year.
Sinop, a scenic and popular tourist destination, was chosen because it might have been an important hub for north-south trading across the Black Sea among ancient civilisations. Local populations may have sent olive oil, honey and iron in small amphora-like jars northwards in return for wine and other foods.
Archaeological activity became possible when the Black Sea was opened up with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The interest in exploring beneath its waves was all the more intense because the waters are not oxygenated, offering the prospect of shipwrecks and other remains that should be perfectly preserved. Indeed, what lies beneath the Black Sea could help archaeologists and historians to fill in blanks about periods of human existence going as far back as the Bronze Age and spanning the Roman and Byzantine empires.
Leading this latest expedition with Mr Ballard, is Fredrik Hiebert, a professor of archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania. He hopes to relocate wrecks that have already been identified, including one called "Shipwreck D", which has already revealed an intact and intricately carved mast protruding from the seabed.
He and Mr Ballard also plan to return to another earlier find - an arrangement of stones about 330 feet beneath the water that might have been a human dwelling. Critical to the venture is Hercules. A remote-controlled submersible, it is just 7 feet long from tip to tail and was built by Mr Ballard at the Robert Ballard Institute for Exploration, in Mystic, Connecticut. The plan is to send it down as far as the stone settlement. Equipped with lights and cameras, the vessel will send pictures to the ship and back to Rhode Island.
In addition, the Hercules has two remote-controlled arms, which will excavate around the site. "If we're successful with this, we're going to change the field of archaeology," Mr Hiebert said. "It's open coastlines all over the globe" for further expeditions.
Mr Ballard first located the stone settlement during an earlier expedition in 2000. It consists of quarried square stones arranged in a rectangle of 33 feet by 40 feet (10 by 12 metres) on a rocky outcrop.
He is hopeful that he will be able to trace the site to a period about 7,500 years - which would bolster his theory that there were human habitations on the shore of the old lake before the flood struck and the area was drowned. "Mother nature does not make square stones," he commented. "Humans make them."
Mr Ballard is not entirely alone in his beliefs. In 1997, the same theory to support the origin of the Noah legends was rehearsed in Noah's Flood, a book written by two leading American marine biologists, Walter Pitman and William Ryan. They concluded that the flood devastated the area 7,150 years ago. But there are problems with the idea. The Bible, for example, tells us that Noah lived in the arid deserts of Mesopotamia - in what is modern-day Iraq - whereas the Turkish shores of the lake where the Black Sea is today would have been lush with vegetation.
"The Noah's Flood idea is very sexy one, but it's wrong," Ali Aksu, a geologist at Memorial University in Newfoundland, told Newsweek.
He says that he can demonstrate that the Black Sea was already at current levels 7,500 years ago. Nor, he says, was there ever a dramatic and sudden flood.
Water from the Mediterranean, Mr Aksu counters, sloshed back and forth over countless years.
If the Back Sea 'sloshed back and forth', there would me many shore lines underwater at various depths. All that has been found is one well defined shore line dated at 5,600BC. I support the Ryan & Pittman theory of a sudden, massive flood.
They are marine scientists at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia U.
The book discusses at length the geological, oceanographic, archealogical, and linguistic evidence to back up this theory.
Thanks, I have it and also highly recommend the book.
Sexy? Perhaps his concept of sex is a bit different than mine.
Another excellent book is The Tarim Mummies by Victor Mair.
Given the mythological explanation, it is still possible that the myth is based on some historical event. There is for example a world-wide flood in Ovid's Metamorphoses which parallels but does not agree with the Biblical account in all respects.
He may be right about the geological history of the Black Sea, but this isn't Noah's Flood even given the mythological explanation. Too early.
Another theory is a tsunami in the Mediterranean caused by the volcanic eruption on Crete which destroyed the Minoan civilization around 3000 BC.
And if you like your theories wild, there is always Velikovski's Worlds in Collision scenario.
The 300-500ft sea level rise at the end of the last Ice Age flooded the continents sometimes hundreds of miles inland.
Take a look at this map of the world's oceans lowered by about 300 ft. Notice that there's no Persian Gulf, the Red Sea is land locked, the Mediterranean was seperated into at least three segments and I speculate that the Gulf Of Mexico was sealed off also, etc. That was a worldwide flood.
Yup. I expect that's on the schedule, recall that they have already seen structures down there.
Early History Of The Indo European Languages
"Our work indicates that the protolanguage originated more than 6,000 years ago in eastern Anatolia and that some daughter languages must have differentiated in the course of migrations that took them first to the East and later to the West. "
When they can prove that, then I'll listen to them.
Indeed. And not the only time it happened. But way too early for Noah, and not covering the tops of the highest mountains as the Bible said.
Biblical chronology is fairly straightforward. Certain historical personages such as Cyrus the Great can be independently dated tracing back from the present. From there it is just a question of following the Bible. Given a bit of ambiguity, Noah is 4000 BC or so.
A miraculous flood is a defensible position, but it isn't science.
The mythological approach has its problems also. Given the precision of Biblical chronology, at what point does it become pure myth?
I tend toward the mythological approach myself, but if I'm proven wrong it won't be by geology. You'll have to convince me that science isn't the last word on the subject.
"Space giants" from a culture that had no concept of outer space? That sounds to me like some New Age silliness, or "re-interpretation" if I was being nice.
The KJV translates it "giants" and describes them as "mighty men of old". Apparently the offspring of demon-possessed men, killed in the flood. I have seen Jewish speculation that the mythology of the Greek and Roman gods were distortedly based on them, but this is not part of the Jewish religion, nor am I convinced by this. Such speculation is merely a data point.
The "Greek and Roman gods" hypothesis, if I may so dignify it, is not irrelevant. Ovid attributes the flood to Jupiter having a snit, nothing about Divine justice. It's worth reading Metamorphoses just as part of a general cultural education. The creation story is much like the Bible as well, except that creation is attributed to an unknown god. After creation and the flood, it is not even slightly similar to the Bible, but it is as much part of our cultural heritage if not of religious truth or morality.
Maybe the Jason Project?
"Space giants" from a culture that had no concept of outer space? That sounds to me like some New Age silliness, or "re-interpretation" if I was being nice
Reading right out of the Torah in Hebrew the word is "nefilim", which means "the fallen" (from the Heavens, presumably) and is rendered as "the Titans" or "Giants" in most English translations of the Hebrew Scriptures. "Giants Fallen From the Heavens" is more-or-less the same thing as "Space Giants", isn't it?
We know that the Nefilm were halfbreeds -- the offspring of fallen angels ("the Sons of God") and human women. How exactly was this twisted mating accomplished? Nobody knows, of course, but with a bit of imagination one can speculate that perhaps it occurred through technological means, implying a society far more advanced than is usually imagined for that early period of history.
As I said: I'm no scholar. All of this is pure moonshine. Still, one must admit that there are an awful lot of funny things about the Noah story.
Everything before the flood is up for grabs. Presumably the book of Genesis as we know it was compiled rather than simply dictated. This is completely consistent with Divine inspiration as well as the mythological explanation.
If compiled, this would explain the allusions to stories that were known in more detail at one time. For example, Tubal-Cain inventing metal working, but only mentioned in passing as part of a genealogy. Or Enoch, who was "taken". There's even a whole apocryphal literature about Enoch, but this dates from much later.
The pious explanation is that the details of these stories are not necessary to understanding God's purposes. But they must have been known at one time, at least as stories.
Yup. There would have been millions of refugees from flooding everywhere and no-one would have figured out exactly the cause. Noah would have had decades (perhaps) of warning before the Black Sea flooded.
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When comedy teams break apart and venture out on their own, itbecomes obvious very quickly who was carrying the load and who was riding the coattails. Jim Abrahams appears to have been riding some coattails. He co-wrote "Airplane" with Jerry and David Zucker, and co-wrote the "Hot Shots" series with Pat Proft. By himself, however, he's directed "Big Business" and "Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael." Apparently, he also invented the Apple Computer with Steve Jobs but is still waiting for Steve to come over and show him how to use the mouse.
Abrahams must think the linchpin for good parody is the vaguely humorous placard, because in "Mafia!" he's spent an inordinate amount of time making sure the screen is filled with semi-clever signs, rather than taking advantage of the real parody possibilities that exist in the gangster genre.
"Mafia!" follows the "Godfather" films fairly closely. Lloyd Bridges fills the Marlon Brando role. Jay Mohr fills the Al Pacino role. Christina Applegate fills the Diane Keaton role. It also spoofs the James Caan role from "The Godfather" and the Sharon Stone role from "Casino," but fills them with such little-known actors that jotting their names down here so they can look them up on the Web while on break from their double-shift at "Arby's" would constitute a thrill both unprecedented and undeserved. Abrahams, in the meantime, does an excellent job of filling the Francis Ford Coppola role -- the one from "Jack."
When doing parody, it helps to muster the courage to actually insult the films being parodied. One gets the sense that had Coppola or Marlon Brando called him right in the middle of a crucial scene, Abrahams would have dropped everything to fly halfway across the world to gently gnaw the zits off their hairy rear-ends.
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Cecilia perfect in 6-3A campaign
CECILIA – The Bulldogs powered past Catholic High of New Iberia here last Friday to wrap up their second straight District 6-3A championship. Cecilia (7-2, 4-0) handed the Panthers a 47-13 defeat to complete the league campaign undefeated and stretch their winning district record to eight games over the past two years.
The 'Dogs were a little slow getting started, spotting Catholic an early 7-0 lead. But then Cecilia rolled to a 27-13 halftime edge and added 20 unanswered points in the second half for an easy win.
The comfortable halftime cushion allowed coach Terry Martin to let his reserves get in some playing time during the third and fourth periods. Eight different ball carriers contributed to Cecilia's 283 yards rushing and three different players completed passes during the contest.
Junior Justin Zenon broke the 100-yard mark, carrying 12 times for 107 yards and two touchdowns, while senior Orry Landry, who has been hobbled for several games, struck for three touchdowns while gaining 41 yards on six carries. Rounding out the scoring with a touchdown each were Marcus Wiltz (5--60) and Tim Hebert, who carried once for a five-yard TD.
Fake Punt
Catholic High caught the Bulldogs napping with a fake punt that turned a 4th-and-6 into
a first down at the Cecilia 29. Six plays later Alex Livingston got the TD from seven yards out and Michael Robicheaux's PAT put the Panthers up by 7-0.
The Bulldogs evened the score less than a minute later when Marcus Wiltz returned the ensuing kickoff 80 yards to the CHNI seven and Orry Landry took it in for the score. Kaleb Hebert booted the first of his three PATs to make it 7-7.
Cecilia went ahead for good early in the second period when Justin Zenon bulled into the end zone from the one to cap a 61-yard drive
The Bulldogs scored again on their next possession with two big plays. First Devin Broussard hit Carson Hamilton for a 36-yard pickup and then Marcus Wiltz ran 29 yards for the TD, putting Cecilia up by 19-7 after the two-point conversion attempt failed.
Catholic was able to close the gap later in the period after recovering a Bulldog fumble at the Panther 40. QB Taylor Bullock found Alex Livingston open for a 63-yard touchdown. The PAT kick failed, but Cecilia's lead shrunk to 19-13.
The Bulldogs got down to business on their next possession, using up the remainder of the period with a nine-play, 70-yard drive that ended with an 11-yard touchdown by Landry 44 seconds before intermission. Zenon's conversion run gave Cecilia more breathing room and a 27-13 halftime lead.
The second half was all Cecilia. A blocked punt deep in Panther territory set up a one-yard TD by Landry and then Zenon capped a 60-yard drive with a nine-yard run.
Junior running back Tim Hebert got the game's final touchdown midway through the fourth quarter on a five-yard run.
The Bulldogs host Brusly (5-4, 2-2) in the first round of the state playoffs Friday.


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These two little guys are the best of friends and know how to have a blast with one another. They run, jump, tumble and play with their toys and with each other.
As playful as they are, they are equally affectionate and will climb on your lap to cuddle with you.
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Happy Easter Applique
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Use simple applique and felt flowers to create a Happy Easter square for Easter decorating. Hang as a sign, turn into a decorative pillow or use around a fabric Easter basket. This Easter sewing project is the perfect use for fabric scraps.
Size: My finished panel measured 12" x 9" though of course you could make any size you liked. For this tutorial I will assume that your panel will be the same size as mine.
- 10 x 13" plain fabric for front
- 10 x 13" backing fabric
- 10 x 13" piece of old blanket, light weight wadding or similar to give your panel some body
- Fabric scraps for applique letters. Felt scraps for flowers and leaves
- 2 buttons
- Bondaweb 2 plastic curtain rings
- 48" jumbo ric rac braid spray fabric adhesive (optional)
- Embroidery floss air fade fabric marker pen
Assemble your materials:
When choosing your fabric scraps try to keep to 3 main colours. I chose lilac, yellow and green which to me are spring colours. It doesn't matter if touches of other colours creep in, but don't go mix and match mad, your finished panel will simply look bitty.
Make the applique design:
Fuse the bondaweb to the wrong side of the fabric scraps. Draw letters and cut out. If you have letter templates, you can trace.
Prepare the centres of your flowers in the same way. Do not fuse bondaweb to the reverse of the felt petals, simply cut out. Download the flower template here. Resize your templates to suit the size of panel you are making, but remember to adjust your fabric quantities accordingly.
Using the air fade fabric marker pen mark out two curves on your main panel as shown above. I did mine free hand, but if you have a flexible curve then that would be better.
Position your letters and flowers using the lines you have drawn as a guide. When you are happy with their positions then remove the backing from the bondaweb and fuse the Letters only to the main panel.
Put the flowers and leaves to one side for the moment. (do not sit on them or lose them! I am not joking!)
Lay the main panel on top of the blanket/wadding and hold in place with either spray fabric adhesive or by tacking. When you are stitching you will stitch through the letter, main fabric panel and blanket/wadding. This will hold the blanket/wadding in place and also give your stitching a nice padded effect.
With your embroidery floss (3 strands) stitch simple running stitch around the edges of each letter. This is all you will need to do to keep them in place as there won't be any wear and tear. If you've decided to make an Easter cushion (pillow) that is actually going to be used then I would recommend running a machine zigzag over the raw edges to hold the letters securely in place. Otherwise this really isn't necessary.
When you've done the letters, position the flowers. Do not remove the backing from the bondaweb on the central (fabric) petals as this will give them enough body and stiffness to stand up slightly making an attractive 3D effect. Hold the flowers in place by stitching on the central button.
Position the leaves. Hold in place with simple running stitch down the centres. Your applique panel is now completed. You may want to press it at this stage
Assemble your panel:
Position the jumbo ric rac braid around the edges of the panel as shown and machine or hand tack in place.
Place your backing fabric on top of your panel right sides together and pin or tack in place.
Machine around the edges stitching over the line of stitching where you attached the ric rac braid. Leave a gap of about 4" at the bottom of the panel for turning through.
Trim seam allowances and clip corners.
Turn through and topstitch gap closed.
Attach two plastic curtain rings to the back of your decoration for hanging.
Hang and enjoy!!
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Former PSU FB Marries Rachel Uchitel
October 4th, 2011| by Lost Lettermen
Alleged Tiger Woods mistress Rachel Uchitel has apparently moved from the links to the gridiron, as TMZ.com is reporting she married former Penn State fullback Matt Hahn last Sunday in Sin City.
TMZ claims that Uchitel and Hahn were in Las Vegas attending the wedding of a friend when they spontaneously tied the knot at the Little White Chapel, where Britney Spears married childhood friend Jason Alexander in 2004 before it was annulled.
We know, how romantic.
What you probably didn't realize is that Hahn, 26, was in Penn State's backfield from 2004-07, where he carried the ball 34 times for 134 yards and one touchdown in his career.
Hahn, an insurance broker, told the New York Post in March that he and Uchitel met through Facebook last fall (and they say chivalry is dead). The two are reportedly living together in San Francisco. When asked about her past, Hahn told the Post, "I don't judge anybody."
Uchitel, a decade older at 36, is infamous for her alleged affair with golfer Tiger Woods that the National Enquirer reported in 2009 after allegedly meeting him as a VIP hostess at The Griffin nightclub in Manhattan. Tragically, Uchitel was also engaged to investment banker James Andrew O'Grady, who was killed in the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001.
Between meeting on Facebook to a shotgun wedding in Vegas, it was certainly a bizarre sequence of events that led to the engagement between Hahn and Uchitel, but we wish them the best.
Hmm, we wonder what 84-year-old Nittany Lions coach Joe Paterno will get them for a wedding gift…


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2012 Draft Prep: Names to know for Draft Day
Astute Fantasy owners can't get enough insight and opinion. To that end, the newest member of our Fantasy team -- Nando Di Fino -- spotlights a random collection of players he'll have highlighted on Draft Day.
Some of you reading this column may know me from my random role in the novel Fantasyland. Others might know me from my days at ESPN, or The Wall Street Journal.
There's a select group who fondly remember me as "the calm one" from MLB Network's Fantasy 411 earthquake video last season (check it out). Still, plenty may remember me from the short-lived web series, The A--hole Who Listed Off Fancy Places He's Worked In A Fantasy Sports Column.
But if you've ever played against me in a draft or auction, you probably know me as, "that guy who refuses to use a laptop."
I'm a list guy. I love my research, and I love making lists. Every March, I have a notebook and I'll scribble notes like a madman in it. This year's notebook has everything from " Sean Burroughs / Steve Pearce on MIN" to " Oliver Perez in Seattle." But it's not just non-roster invitee, blast-from-the-past types. Notes like "A-Rod going late" and something as simple as "Hanley" with an up arrow next to him dot the pages as well.
Eventually, I take the crazy scribbles and whittle them down to a smaller list. Maybe 20 or 30 players who I simply really like -- there's no set number or rhyme or reason to it. Last year's list included Jered Weaver , Curtis Granderson , J.J. Hardy and Brandon League . Just to show that the list isn't without its flaws, I should note that it also included Brandon Wood and Julio Borbon . Still, it had more hits than misses, and sticking to my guns eventually led to success in plenty of leagues. Sometimes it's as simple as "I like this dude;" other times, there might be some statistical hiccup that people are overlooking (or, conversely, I'm obsessing over). Regardless, it's part of the reason why I still use paper in my drafts -- I need to be scribbling. And the strategy has worked so far. Plus, scribbling on a laptop just isn't cost-effective.
The beauty of the scribbles, however, is that they can be easily transcribed to share with the masses, including the legions of laptop users. So, as a way to mark my first column here at CBSSports.com, I give you a randomly-selected group of players from my list. They're not quite sleepers and not exactly value deals. Just a bunch of players I'll go the extra mile for to get on my team in 2012 ...
Mark Buehrle , SP, Marlins: A lot of people are pointing to Buehrle's move to the National League -- and, in turn, a friendlier park -- as his strongest asset, but they're overlooking the best part about him: his consistency. For his career, Buehrle has a 3.83 ERA and 1.28 WHIP. He hasn't pitched fewer than 201 innings, or made fewer than 30 starts, since 2000. Let that sink in -- Bill Clinton was still President when Buehrle pitched less than 200 innings in a season. He'll come cheap in auction leagues and go late in drafts and is essentially a guarantee to get those solid numbers over the course of 200-plus innings, creating a rotation anchor that allows owners to take some gambles on other, less-steady players.
Austin Jackson , OF, Tigers: His average dropped 44 points from 2010 to 2011, which got him slapped with the "disappointment" label. But he more than doubled his home run output and will likely reap the benefits of Prince Fielder and Delmon Young being added to an already-potent lineup behind him. My new colleague, Al Melchior, agrees with me on Jackson, though his reasons are a little more abstract.
Anthony Rizzo , 1B, Cubs: All this debate about whether or not he'll start at first base seems a little disingenuous to me. Rizzo hit a miserable .141 in 128 at-bats last year, but he managed an absurdly-high eight doubles in that span (over a full season with that rate, he'd challenge for the league lead) and his .281 OBP almost doubled his average. The most telling sign that he'll likely get the nod at first? Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer, who drafted Rizzo as part of the Red Sox front office in 2007, traded for Rizzo under three months into their reign as President and GM, respectively, of the Cubs. Even if he starts in Triple-A, Rizzo will likely be up soon and make an impact in Wrigley's smaller confines.
Ricky Romero , SP, Blue Jays: The former first-round pick finished 2011 with 15 wins, a 1.14 WHIP, and a 2.92 ERA. He's progressively gotten better with every full season. Jered Weaver and Felix Hernandez took a very similar route before their breakout seasons.
Erik Bedard , SP, Pirates: Bedard quietly threw together a really solid season in 2011 before his trade to Boston. He's good for about a strikeout per inning and his low WHIP is seriously overlooked. Injury history aside, Bedard has two major things going for him: a move to the DH-less National League and the opportunity to work with Ray Searage, who is one of the game's best pitching coaches (Pittsburgh's team ERA dropped from 5.00 in 2010 to 4.04 in 2011 when he took over).
Hanley Ramirez , SS, Marlins: He's going at No. 22 overall in drafts, according to our current Average Draft Position data on CBSSports.com. That's embarrassing. For drafters. I wouldn't hesitate to take him in the top eight. If I'm sitting in the No. 7 spot in my draft, I might even consider taking him there (although it looks like I can get him on the way back). Ozzie Guillen shouting in one ear, the influence of Eduardo Perez in the other, and he was playing hurt in 2011. Plus, he'll be eligible at both shortstop and third base about a week into the season in most leagues. Are we forgetting the arguments we had the last two years about him being the overall No. 1 pick? One bad, injury-affected year, and he's dropped 21 slots?
Colby Rasmus , OF, Blue Jays: The "change of scenery" argument had holes poked in it after a sub-par run in Toronto last year, but Rasmus is more of the player we saw in 2010 than the one we saw in 2011. I like where he's going in drafts, and I wouldn't be afraid to snag him 20 picks earlier.
Mike Leake , SP, Reds: I have him all in CAPS in both my scribbles and my final list. I'll probably triple-highlight him on my draft sheets. I'm a believer. He posted a 1.17 WHIP last year, his second year in the majors. I wouldn't be surprised if the strikeout rate came up a little bit from 2010 and 2011, with the pitch counts not being such a huge problem any longer.
Jason Bay and Adam Loewen , OF, Mets: This may be the last chance many owners give Bay, but with the fences moved in at CitiField, there's at least an argument beyond, "he hit 36 homers three years ago," for liking him. Loewen, meanwhile, is an intriguing play. In really deep leagues, the former pitcher could find some value. It's entirely possible he could play his way into a starting job, beating out Scott Hairston and Lucas Duda . Loewen could be a cheap source of some power, speed, and average.
Josh Fields , 3B, Dodgers: He'll probably start 2012 in the minor leagues, but the former White Sox prospect is worth keeping an eye on, as he has been destroying the ball in spring training for the Dodgers and has just Juan Uribe blocking his path to completing the feel-good story. Even though it's not likely, this has all the makings of one of those situations where Fields grabs the job out of camp and puts together a really solid season out of nowhere.
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Audemars Piguet - White Gold & Diamonds - Tourbillon - Minute Repeater - Chronograph Audemars Piguet, Genève, Jules Audemars - Tourbillon - Minute Repeater - Chronograph, No. 678321, case No. F 96022, Ref. 26118 BC. Made in 2007, sold February 18th, 2008. Extremely fine and rare, large, water resistant, minute-repeating, 18K white gold and diamond wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, round button chronograph, register and an 18K white gold and diamonds Audemars Piguet deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted wooden box, Certificate of Origin, guarantee, instruction booklet and a piano-shaped box to amplify the sound of the minute repeater.
C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, bezel set with 36 Top Wesselton baguette diamonds total 3.40 carats, sides and lugs set with 415 Top Wesselton brilliants total 3.98 carats, straight lugs, transparent case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Sunburst guilloché black with applied white gold radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, 30-minute register at 3, aperture for the visible tourbillon regulator under a polished steel bridge at 6, carrying the blued steel seconds hand. White gold feuille hands. M. Cal. 2874, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 38 jewels, lateral lever escapement with visible oneminute tourbillon regulator with steel cage and 3 equidistant polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold and 5 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 14 mm.
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by Andrew Martin
In the United States people often say that every vote counts during election season. While that is true, Cambridge resident Bill Sander recently caste a vote that was slightly more important than some others. That is because Sander was nominated as a Vermont elector for the Democratic Party leading up to the 2012 election and in December, he cast one of the state's Electoral College votes for President and Vice President.
"I was very pleased and honored to be nominated as a Vermont elector and to be one of the 538 individuals to officially elect the president," commented Sander.
The United States Electoral College consists of 538 electors, and a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President. The number of electors for each state is equal to the number of members of the state's Congressional delegation, meaning that Vermont has three electors. While there are no guidelines for who is nominated as an elector, individuals often receive the honor to recognize service and dedication to their party
Each candidate running for President in a state has their own slate of electors who are usually chosen by the candidate's political party. When citizens vote for a candidate they are also technically voting for the electors associated with that candidate's party since if the candidate wins that particular state the electors will caste their state's electoral votes for their party's candidate in the Electoral College.
Democratic President Barack Obama carried Vermont in the 2012 election, meaning that it was Sander and the other two Democratic Vermont electors who gathered together on December 17 in Montpelier and caste their state's Electoral College votes under the supervision of the Vermont Secretary of State. The votes of Sander and his counterparts were then sent to Congress, as were the votes in all other states. On January 6, a joint session of Congress was held during which the official electoral votes from each state were opened, counted, and the official winner of the 2012 election was determined.
Along with casting one of Vermont's Electoral College votes, Sander will also be attending the formal inauguration of President Obama on January 21 in Washington D.C. as he and his wife, Jan, have received tickets to the ceremony. The couple's trip to the event will mark the end of a very political year. Along with serving as an elector for Vermont in 2012 and attending the inauguration ceremony, Sander also traveled to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte earlier in 2012 where he met his longtime idol, the recently deceased Senator Daniel Inouye, of Hawaii.
While he does not expect to be nominated as an elector again, it is not unheard of for an individual to serve as an elector for a state in more than one election, meaning that Sander could potentially receive the honor again in 2016.


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Launched in 2010, Richer Poorer is an emerging label devoted entirely to crafting quality socks for men. Made from a sturdy cotton blend, these stockings feature a touch of Spandex that ensures they don't fall down on the job. Based in Laguna Beach, California, and founded by designers Iva Pawling and Tim Morse, Richer Poorer is all about bold and classic patterns, bright colors, modern prints, and having fun. When it comes to clothing, people all too often treat their socks as an afterthought. So grab a pair — or three — of Richer Poorer's cottony confections, and enhance all your looks from the ground up.
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We'll take a whirlwind musical tour of London this morning. We'll see how royal patronage helped composers flourish through the centuries, and take a peek at some of the city's oldest and most renowned musical centers, including St. James's Palace and Westminster Cathedral.
Sunday Baroque, with Suzanne Bona
Many musicians have been immortalized by their fellow creative artists in other disciplines with poems, statues and paintings. British portrait master Thomas Gainsborough used some of his musician friends as subjects, Robert Browning wrote a poem about an 18th-century Venetian musician, and Leonardo da Vinci painted a few of his musical contemporaries. This morning's show will feature their music, and their stories.
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Carnegie Hall Live
Daniel Barenboim conducts his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in an all-Beethoven program. We'll hear the symphonies #2 and 9, with the Westminster Symphonic Choir and soloists. Established in 1999 as a workshop for young musicians from Israel, Palestine, and other Arab countries, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra has been described by one of its members as "a human laboratory that can express to the whole world how to cope with each other."
Deutsche Welle Festival
Leonard Slatkin conducts the German Symphony Orchestra of Berlin in Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring, Dvorak's Symphony #8, and Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings. Sol Gabetta is soloist in Bloch's Hebrew Rhapsody for cello and orchestra.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, with Jim Cunningham
Manfred Honeck conducts the music from Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet, The Nutcracker, and Yo-Yo Ma is soloist in Antonin Dvorak's stirring Cello Concerto.
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Rumours of Google's cloud storage service, dubbed Google Drive, have been rumbling for literally years but it looks as though a launch date may be in sight at last.
Google Drive, or Gdrive to its hipster friends, is said to be nearing a launch in the first week of April 2012.
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It seems that Google plans to offer 1GB of storage for free, while greater capacity will come with a price tag attached. The interface is said to echo that of Google Docs, and there'll be an API for third party apps so you can store content from external apps using the service too.
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The word comes from GigaOm, whose "well placed sources" are familiar with the company's plans – but come with caveats given the chequered past Google Drive has had.
The first time we heard tell of a cloud storage service from Google was six years ago – March 2006 to be exact – when a leaked presentation from the search giant spoke specifically of "Gdrive".
Since then, rumours of a launch have come and gone – most recently in February of this year – but none have yet come to fruition.
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Tea party tries to save one of its own in Illinois
Right-wing groups are pouring more than $1 million to support the reelection campaign of Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill.
"Adios Arpaio" campaign heats up in Arizona
The notoriously racist Tea Party darling likes to call himself "the toughest sheriff in the country," but it seems he is afraid to openly debate his main opponent.
Polls show Romney's ship running aground
The Quinnipiac/New York Times/CBS News poll of likely voters released today, taken entirely after Mitt Romney's 47% remarks, show his campaign running aground.
Romney's plane window flub shows his head's in the clouds
The next time Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney boards a plane, he'd like to be able to roll his window down.
Tea party targets 10 million Latinos for vote suppression
Tea party affiliated groups have added voter suppression efforts to their long-standing anti-immigrant policies, Latino leaders charge.
Ohioans "all fired up" by GOP vote suppression effort
100 public officials and supporters rallied in a show of determination to overcome efforts to stop Ohioans from voting in the presidential election.
Campaign intensifies in Battleground Ohio
Polls continued to show this past weekend that Mitt Romney is falling behind in Ohio, with President Obama now doing 50 percent or better.
Unions say Pennsylvania can't handle Voter ID demand
Labor unions have piles of evidence they say prove the law cannot be implemented without blocking the votes of as many as 750,000 people.
Virginia: Democrats inch forward but it's still close
Virginia is seen as a key swing state for the elections. Recent polls show Obama and the Democrats advancing, but nobody is counting on this.
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Italian resort Cortina D'Ampezzo is set to stage a chocolate-themed winter sport extravaganza next month including what is thought to be the world's first 'chocolate ski race'.
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Eurochocolate Ski will run from 16th to 19th December 2010 and is being held as part of the Eurochocolate Festival, an international chocolate festival being held at altitude for the first time this year.
'Eurochocolate Ski offers high-quality, pleasurable chocolate experiences directly on the slopes,' said a resort spokesperson.
The chocolate experiences continue off the slopes as well. The event will see a whole host of chocolate-themed activities including a chocolate slalom, chocolate curling, markets selling worldwide chocolate delicacies, exhibitions dedicated to chocolate, an educational chocolate experience for children, chocolate-tasting classes for adults, chocolate spa and beauty treatments, and much more.
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Obama: Make Your Turkey 'Pardons' Mean Something
Every year, a couple of days before Thanksgiving, our nation's president "pardons" two of the 46 million turkeys who are set to be slaughtered for holiday meals. And every year, we write to the president asking him to ensure that the turkeys receive the care necessary to give them the lengthy, happy lives that they deserve.
This year, we're asking President Obama to send the birds to a reputable animal sanctuary instead of to Disneyland, where the pardoned birds are traditionally sent—and where they usually die from agonizing genetic defects within a year of finding "freedom." Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary has already agreed to take the turkeys if Obama makes the informed, humane decision to send them there.
We're also urging Obama to recognize the millions of compassionate Americans who personally pardon turkeys every Thanksgiving by choosing a cruelty-free feast for the first family this year. We're even offering them a sure-to-be-succulent vegan holiday meal—all-American vegan apple pie and soy ice cream included.
Saving lives, being healthy, and fighting climate change—you can never have too many things to be thankful for, which is why a vegan Thanksgiving is the best way to celebrate the holiday. Now, pardon me while I plan a menu.
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Tofu pumpkin pie? Last I heard pumpkins weren't animals. I'll settle for the real thing.
I hope President Obama takes you up on sending the turkeys to a sanctuary. It's really a small gesture when you think that only 2 birds among millions get a pardon for committing no crime.
At least some turkeys are being pardoned I hope they do ok. This holiday eventhough my family eats meat I will not be I have successfully got my mom to make 23 veggie dishes that contain no animal products for thanksgiving dinner for everyone plus a tofu pumkin pie for me. Best wishes for the lucky pardoned turkeys.
He should also demand Secretary Of The Interior Ken Salazar a rancher to save all the majestic wild horses in the West.
I say that as long as those turkeys don't have any gentic defects then they should be allowed to live normal and happy lives.
it does not matter were you take the turkeys there still going to die of there gentic defect there programed to grow fast and large to the point there hips will not take it and break along with there legs. so those pardoned turkey would be better off dead


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German and English lyrics for the Austrian, German, and Swiss national anthems.
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The Williamsport Symphony Orchestra will share three "Fantastic Tales" - each with vastly different stories and musical arrangements - with its upcoming concert Feb. 11 at the Community Arts Center, 220 W. Fourth St.
Featured musician for the February concert is Max Zorin, a violinist and WSO's own concertmaster. Zorin can be seen at each concert entering the stage directly before the music director and leading the tuning of the instruments before the music begins.
"This is not a common solo appearance. We are used to the solo coming from someone who is isolated from the orchestra," explained Masetro Gerardo Edelstein, WSO music director. "In this case he is integrated ... his solo will come from (within) the orchestra."
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Edelstein and Zorin met in 2005 when Zorin joined the faculty at Penn State University as a professor of music. Edelstein joined the WSO in 2009 and invited Zorin to audition for the concertmaster position, which was open at the time.
The position of concertmaster is essential to the orchestra, Edelstein noted, as the concertmaster is the second in command and is in charge of leading the entire string section, organizing the tuning of instruments and leading musicians in the bowing of instruments (the technique the audience views when musicians move their bows along their instruments in unison, creating a synchronized effect).
Zorin's violin will function as storyteller for the WSO performance of "Sheherazade, Suite Symphonique, Op. 35" by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The piece is based on the story of "One Thousand and One Nights," also known as "The Arabian Nights." The four movements of the piece are based around groups of tales told by Scheherazade, a young woman who volunteered to marry a sultan who was known to marry virgins and kill them the day after the wedding in order to keep them from becoming unfaithful. Scheherazade told her husband a story each night for 1,001 nights to distract him and keep him from killing more women. The sultan was taken by his new wife's stories and continued allowing her to live in order to hear more each night. Edelstein said the symphony's composer, Rimsky-Korsakov, "was captured by this story."
Instead of choosing a few stories to feature from the thousands told by Scheherazade, Rimsky-Korsakov created a tone poem with four movements that shared the mood of the tales. "The idea was not to tell a particular story with each movement but just to give an idea what each tale was about," he said, adding that the piece is cyclical in that "all the movements are connected."
Edelstein said Rimsky-Korsakov was an exceptionally "colorful" composer who used a variety of instruments and who created an exuberant mood.
"It's like looking at a beautiful picture that has lots of colors," he said.
Rimsky-Korsakov also has a connection to the first piece of the concert, "Night on Bald Mountain" by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky. Mussorgsky left the piece unfinished and it was orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov after his death.
"People might recognize this piece for being the scariest part of (the 1940 Walt Disney film) 'Fantasia,' " Edelstein said. "Night on Bald Mountain" provides the background music for the witches' sabbath depicted in the film. "I remember as a kid covering my (eyes) when that part came on," Edelstein added.
The middle piece tying the concert together will bring the Wild West to Williamsport with "Suite from Billy the Kid," by Aaron Copland.
"This piece is one of the three most famous ballets that Aaron Copland wrote ... the three of them are based on American folk stories," Edelstein said.
The songs will be acompanied by dance as three students from Saint John's School of the Arts dance ensemble will perform. Sara Scheiderich, 17, Elivia Nocket, 17, and Ethan Alexander, 14, will perform dances led by Theresa Kendall, choreographer. The collaboration with local dancers is an important aspect of the show, Edelstein said, because visual touches make the performance more enjoyable and memorable for the audience.
"I never program a piece I'm not passionate about," he said; but he also wants the audience to love each piece as much as he does.
"We do this for the audience," he said. "It's absolutely our job, the musicians, to make the music in a way that we can inspire, that we can reach the hearts of the people, that we can show that this music should be performed and should be heard."
"Fantastic Tales" will begin at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 11 at the Community Arts Center. Tickets are available at the CAC box office and by calling 570-326-2424 or visiting www.caclive.com.


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JANNIE BLACKWELL was administrative assistant to her husband, City Councilman Lucien Blackwell, whose West Philadelphia councilmanic district included the Osage Avenue MOVE house bombed by police, and the square block of neighboring houses that were destroyed by the resulting fire.
1985: While her husband met with Mayor Goode on the MOVE conflict, Jannie Blackwell was at home on Melville Street near Locust, two miles from the MOVE house, when the bomb was dropped on it.
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Historical Christianity and modern ignorance - Printable Version
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Historical Christianity and modern ignorance - DanielM - 09-03-2011
Recently, whilst reading on the beautiful history of the Church, I have been wondering why so many Christians have no interest in knowing about the Early Church, or History of Christianity in general. This honestly baffles me.
As someone with a vast interest in history, I see no reason anyone would want to be a Christian and (in some cases) would actively pursue ignorance as to the origins of his or her faith.
I became interested in Orthodoxy through studying Christian and Early Church History, which eventually led me to join the Church, and I do not understand why there are so many Christians that have zero interest in studying their faith deeper. It really stumps me.
Does anyone have any idea on this? Are many modern Christians really finding bliss in some form of ignorance?


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Since the latest unprovoked attacks against Israel on its northern border and the escalation of hostilities on Israel's southern border, ADL's 30 regional offices across the country are fully engaged in a range of activities related to the current crisis. Working both behind the scenes and in the public domain, the League's professional staff and lay leaders are mobilized and taking a proactive role in organizing and participating in events of solidarity and support for the Jewish state and people in this time of crisis, while responding to unfair and biased criticism of Israel's military actions against the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
Here are some of the ways ADL is working every day to rally critical support for the Jewish State:
Solidarity with Israel Rallies: Across the country, ADL has worked closely with local Jewish federations and institutions and others in the community sympathetic to Israel's plight to get out their numbers in shows of strength and solidarity with Israel. The rallies, attracting in some instances thousands of people, have been addressed by leading members of Congress, Jewish, Christian and other interfaith leaders, mayors, governors, and community leaders, showing the multiplicity and diversity of voices in the United States who strongly support the Jewish State's just campaign to stop the terrorist attacks and ensure the security of its people. Just a sampling of some of the cities and regions who, working alongside ADL, have organized community-wide rallies or briefings in response to the crisis include: New York, Dallas, Chicago, Boston, Austin, Washington, D.C., Denver, south Florida, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Albuquerque, San Francisco, St. Louis, Connecticut and Seattle.
Providing interviews, context, and reaction to local newspapers and broadcast media and responding to editorials and op-eds. Opinion articles and letters from ADL have appeared in various national, regional and local newspapers. ADL's staff continues to monitor media coverage of the crisis as the news from the region unfolds and changes daily.
Solidarity Ads: Various regional offices have taken out ads in their local newspapers, in some cases co-signed with others in the community, again showing the strong local support for Israel. At the national and international level, ADL's pro-Israel ads have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune.Monitoring Anti-Israel Demonstrations: Both at the national and local level, ADL is monitoring and reporting on the activities of anti-Israel activists, as well as extremist organizations on the far left and right that routinely use outbreaks of violence in the Middle East as a pretext to spread hateful anti-Semitic canards and stereotypes, or to spread misinformation or disinformation about the state of Israel and its history.
Working with the Bush Administration and a bi-partisan group of members of Congress to ensure America's steadfast support for Israel never wavers. This includes applauding those government leaders, such as President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who have taken a strong stand in support of Israel's right to self defense. ADL's Washington Government and National Affairs Office is keeping abreast of all Israel-related developments inside the Beltway. And the League's International Affairs team is reaching out to leaders around the world to make Israel's case and urge their support.
Providing round-the-clock updates on the League's Web site at www.adl.org. In the days and weeks ahead, as the situation in the Middle East changes on a daily basis, ADL will be providing updates, commentary and context on its Web site, tracking the voices of key decision-makers around the world in response to the crisis, monitoring the Arab media for anti-Semitic images, and updating the League's body of research on terrorist groups and leaders and their supporters and backers in the region, including in-depth backgrounders on Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Iranian regime's anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements. In addition, staff in ADL's Israel Office will offer commentary on the situation and mood in Israel through periodic ADL Jerusalem Journal reports.
ADL stands mobilized, committed and ready to serve the public and Israel's needs for the long haul, as the crisis in Israel continues to develop at this critical juncture for the Middle East. For more information on what you can do to help Israel, contact your local ADL Regional Office.
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Just slow weight loss then gain when nothing changed
I wouldn't say all that! Unless, those are your symptoms? Those are just possibilities, not definite answers.
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Just slow weight loss then gain when nothing changed
So I weigh 2 kg less than 4 months ago and have been 100% primal in that time.
And when primal oct 11-may 12 didn't lose scale weigh but lost inches but was doing cf 5 days a week then
When I eat less I get really hungry, can't sleep, but I lose fat. When I eat more, I feel great, but gain fat. I have never experienced the miracle of eating more, feeling fantastic and getting firmer, as shown by a couple of classic female weight lifting amateurs on their blogs.
My feeling is that athletic level of leanness (15-20% for females) comes with a competition-style efforts, i.e. continuous improvement and hours per day of training. Starvation is a compensation when I reached my athletic ceiling (which is dastardly low). I would say one needs to eat more and allow for weight gain if the athletic performance improves when food intake increases. If it is still stalling, increased food intake will likely go for the most part into the fat storage and is detrimental.
Unless you simply can't survive on low cal any more as is my current case.
I frankly don't believe starvation mode can be entered by a person who do not have anorexic disorder, as your mind will not over-ride the body impulse to eat when it needs nourishment.
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I wasn't always an athlete and I wasn't always primal. I was once skinny-fat with a substantial beer gut. It took me a lot of years of eating like crap to get there and it took me a long time to correct it, but now I am always a week of IF and a couple sprint sessions away from single-digit body fat (I compete in weight-class sports).
I don't think these people are asking how to get shredded, but rather how to live a life where they stay at a healthy, decent , weight without having to stress about it, starve themselves, count the bites of food they put into their mouths and analyze them with a calculator. I remember a post in which Richard Nikoley called such a thing a birthright. I thought the term particularly appropriate.


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—The effectiveness of the skin antiseptic may be an important factor in determining contamination rate in blood culturing. If these results are confirmed by others, then institutions that have a high blood culture contamination rate when using an iodophor for skin preparation should consider changing to iodine tincture.(JAMA. 1993;269:1004-1006)
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The monthly scheduled city council meeting is tomorrow night. We will, as usual, discuss a number of topics. The most important, and least expected issue until recently, is the Malden city sales tax. The City of Malden has collected a sales tax to provide money for the general revenue for as long as I can remember. The tax rate is currently one and three quarters percent.
The Missouri Supreme Court decided a few months ago that city sales taxes as levied by municipalities were illegal. Cities have been collecting sales taxes for decades, but I assume the appropriate Supremes had not examined the basis for legality of the tax. Possibly the previous Supremes were of the Diana Ross variety. Anyway, every city is now in the position of waiting to see when and if their revenue stream is affected and for how long and how much.
The Missouri Legislature has entered the fray of the political argument. It's hard to say who is on whose side. There is the old saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." We didn't know the sales tax method was broken until the Supremes told us. Rather than restore the method that was used since the inception of sales taxes (or use taxes or whatever label we place on a tax) that adds a percentage to the cost of an item purchased, our legislature and governor are debating how to do it. It appears that the City of Malden will either approve or disapprove an ordinance tomorrow night that will set the general revenue sales tax rate at one and three quarters percent and that rate will be contingent upon the citizens of Malden giving their consent at the next election. The most immediate result is that the City of Malden will attempt to complete a budget for the fiscal year starting July 1, 2012 and will not know when and if a large portion of expected revenue will be available.
Saturday, I attended the annual "Malden in May" event. There was a good crowd, and money was raised for good causes. I can recommend the barbecue from Steve Rackley and the chocolate covered strawberries from Anita Green. The highlight for me, and I'm sure many others, was the dedication of the bandstand in downtown Malden in honor of Narvel Felts. Narvel was, as always, very gracious, and he did sing for us. Narvel sang his own composition, FROM MEMPHIS TO MALDEN and when he was done I believe everyone knew the location of Narvel's heart and affections. Narvel will be playing the Rogers Theater in Poplar Bluff on June 2nd. I saw him there last summer and it was a complete sell out. I suggest you get your tickets as soon as possible. I believe his next closest performance will be at the Missouri State Fair in August.
I often hear people say, "Why doesn't Malden have.....?" You can fill in the question, but one common one is, "Why don't we have a farmers' market?" The City of Malden has done everything it can to make a farmers' market possible. The legislation has been approved to eliminate a business license, to waive collection of the sales tax (uh-oh), and to designate several areas for farmers' markets. All this was done several years ago. We now have a farmers' market thanks to Max Hilfiker of our community. People make things happen, and Max, as I believe everyone knows him, has built a great facility on Broadwater Road just east of Madison Street. He has scheduled a grand opening for the coming Memorial Day Weekend. If you want to buy or sell fresh produce stop by and lend your support to one of the things that people commonly ask for in Malden.
Please join us if you can at any of the city council meetings or the meetings of the various boards that keep our community functioning. If anyone is interested, there are openings on the Airport Board and the Park and Recreation Board. Please contact me if you are. Please come to any meeting and keep an eye on us because we will spend your money wisely or foolishly depending on your point of view. Have a safe Memorial Day!
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Comedy's primetime momentum is spilling into development season.
With CBS' "The Big Bang Theory" morphing from hit to megahit, and new ABC laffer "Modern Family" earning critical raves and good ratings, things have finally been perking up for the long-downtrodden laffer genre.
That upbeat forecast helped fuel a bit of a buying frenzy this summer, as the nets nabbed more comedy projects than normal, particularly of the multicamera variety.
More recently, the success of "Modern Family" and "Cougar Town" and the critical acclaim behind "The Middle," "Community" and even improved soph laffer "Parks and Recreation" has led to a last-minute surge in single-camera comedy purchases.
"There's definitely an enthusiasm (for comedy) this year," says one network exec. "Everyone sees an opportunity, and has been emboldened by the early success of some shows."
Also possibly fueling the comedy explosion is the sheer number of out-of-work comedy writers with time on their hands to craft new, well-thought-out concepts.
"People have had more time to noodle around," one agent says.
The pitch cycle for dramas, on the other hand, took a little longer to get moving , according to industry players.
As development season continues, some normalcy has returned to the process, execs and agents say, now that enough time has passed from the 2007-08 writers' strike.
Says an exec: "The rhythm is back in terms of the season."
But the movement toward more year-round development, which predates the strike, also continues.
"Everything is trending more year-round," one tenpercenter says. "You could probably sell anything year-round if it's strong enough."
Scribes getting early commitments include Greg Garcia, who wasted no time after the cancellation of "My Name Is Earl," scoring a put pilot at Fox for "Keep Hope Alive," a project about a twentysomething slacker who winds up having to care for an infant. Garcia also has a project in the works at ABC.
Fox also gave an early nod to "That '70s Show" alum Mark Brazil's new entry, "Rednecks and Romeos."
The comedy revival has brought back a group that rode the last comedy wave to great success: the "Home Improvement" trio of Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David McFadzean, who have a multicam comedy at ABC about a stay-at-home working dad.
Family and relationships actually show up in much of this year's comedy development. Several focus on newlyweds, or couples with new babies. There are also a handful of projects about siblings in the works.
At ABC, Shana Goldberg-Meehan's "Leapfrog" looks at two sisters who are in two very different relationships. And Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa's "18 Years" centers on a married couple whose lifestyle dramatically changes with kids.
NBC's "Nature vs. Nurture," from David Guarascio and Moses Port, looks at a heart surgeon and his underachieving family, while another project would star Debra Messing as a CEO who loses her job and becomes a full-time parent.
And CBS' "Hitched," from Josh Schwartz and Matt Miller, revolves around newlyweds who realize they don't really know each other, while the Eye's "True Love," from Matt Tarses, examines twentysomethings looking for love.
It's not all family, however: ABC's comedy project from Greg Malins and Arianna Huffington looks at a group of Congress members living together in D.C.
Humor is even seeping into the drama side, as net execs say they're looking to lighten up after several years of going down the path of dark procedurals and serials. That already can be seen this fall in the success of "Glee," which is light enough that Fox bills it as a comedy.
"For quite a while, the idea of the antihero was the prevalent thing in drama," one exec says. "But people are taking measures to look into their ideas and try to find more aspirational aspects of their show. There are opportunities to find some fun and comedy in their ideas, and not go exceedingly dark.
"That's doesn't speak to every pitch or show, but it's something I'm sensing writers are trying to incorporate as part of their pitch," he says.
For example, NBC's "Rex Is Not Your Lawyer," from Barry Schindel, centers on a attorney whose panic attacks lead him to coach his clients to represent themselves. CBS' Peter Tolan drama project, about an eccentric professor-turned detective, also appears to have some laughs.
Not everything is being played for laughs, however. Fox has a Chicago-set cop drama from Shawn Ryan, and "Worthy," about a politico being blackmailed, while NBC has the Jennifer Johnson drama "Chase," from Bruckheimer TV, about fugitives. At ABC, a thriller from Kevin Falls looks at a mysterious man in a company town.
Meanwhile, the nets are also circling around more familiar franchises, including "The Traveler's Wife" and "St. Elmo's Fire" at ABC, "Hawaii 5-0" and the book "Deliverance Dane" at CBS, "Heathers" and the website "Texts From Last Night" at Fox, "Prime Suspect," "The Rockford Files" and DC Comics title "Midnight Mass" at NBC, and the book "Confessions of a Back-up Dancer" at the CW.
That's possibly also a reaction to what's working among hourlongs this season: loud and/or easily promotable skeins like "Glee," "FlashForward" and "NCIS: Los Angeles," all of which were marketing priorities at their respective networks.
With so many dramas already on the air, both via broadcast and cable, that may explain why the nets are having a field day with comedy, while being a tad more picky with drama.
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