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will have a song that includes Macklemore and Ryan or Psy. Betcha'
The next Madonna album....
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I know she won't, but she really has got to get back with her old partner Patrick Leonard and see what they can do in the music scene now. He really brought out the best in her. But she's so superficial now that she's thinking only "youth-youth-youth". It would be cool if she had one more iconic song left in her, but I don't think she has. She probably has one more successful tour left in her, though.
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I think she might go with more Joe Henry collaborations after the disaster that was MDNA.
She's probably got her eye on some more cool and trendy like Claire Boucher.
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Nicki Minaj will be on it.
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Leonard and Henry worked so well for her because they're musicians first and producers second. Most of her other collaborators are DJs or the kind of producers who cut and paste everything in in the studio.
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I can't believe r1 responded in such a reasonable fashion. I hope the Madge loons grant him a fairly painless demise.
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I believe for her next album, Madonna will be re-recording some of her older stuff such as her 1920s wax cylinders.
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She could do an album of pop standards, like Rod Stewart did.
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Oh, yes, if anyone could breathe heart and soul into standards, it's the Ice Queen.
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I could see her collaborating with Goyte.
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At this point she'd probably collaborate with Goatse if she thought it would sell one more disc.
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She should do what she did with Ray of Light: Write the songs BEFORE she goes into the studio to record and produce.
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Maybe an album full of some of the standards that were popular during her girlhood, i.e., the 1890s.
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WHAT new album? Didn't I just DO an album? Christ, what's the point of doing another album when you bitches are just going to go apeshit for "Holiday" at the end of every concert?
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I think she needs to take a long break before she records again because people are getting tired of her and her antics. And when she comes back, she needs to come back acting her age. Try doing an adult contemporary album.
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[quote]I could see her collaborating with Goyte.
I loved their big hit, "Somebody That I Jews To Know."
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I can see her doing a track with some minor boy band like "the Wanted" and shoot a video where they are all just hungry for her cooze.
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Two words: Vegas.
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[quote]I think she needs to take a long break before she records again ...
A long break is not a good idea for someone her age.
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She made a 4-year break between her last 2 albums,does she really need another one?
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"Madge Gets Dotty: The Dorothy Fields Songbook!"
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She should def let Joe Henry produce the next record. He could really revitalize her run out run of the mill sound.
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The basic rule of thumb for Madonna's records is that she always is at least three years behind the curve, so expect her to be collaborating with Pitbull and Chris Brown.
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I hear this Katey Perry gal is really happening!
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[quote]She should def let Joe Henry produce the next record.
Please! Joe Henry sucked.
She needs to BEG Stephen Bray and Patrick Leonard to work with her again, but she fell out with them (like she does everyone) and she has too much pride to make amends. They gave her the most memorable songs of her career.
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Anybody else think the addition of a rap interlude is tired and ovah? If I can understand what they're grunting at all, it's the usual dumb/aggressive/sexual posturing they've been doing since the '80's. I'm not impressed. I don't think, "Wow, she's really hip and now to invite a guest rapper!". I just sit there and wait for it to be over.
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R25 I agree. The guest rapper shit is dated.
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She should collaborate with Boards of Canada. That would be amazing.
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She needs someone who will be able to properly showcase her talent and her voice.
And ballads! Bray and Leonard were able to get some truly heartbreaking performances out of her. There hasn't been a great Madonna ballad in ages.
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If there is any hope for the future of mankind, Madonna will not have another album.
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R16 Nailed it
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I heard that Madonna got really angry when Lourdes told her that her next album should include songs by Richard Clayderman.
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Her daughter is smarter than we give her credit for.
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i hope it comes with a free sample pack of Metamucil.....
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Madonna covers Joni Mitchell. An entire album.
Imagine what she could do with "Don Juan's reckless Daughter" as a dance song.
And the cover would be a recreation of Mitchell's cover to "Clouds."
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The next Madonna album....
...is one no one is fucking looking for.
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what a bunch of tired queens.
Yes, MDNA was a "disaster" (snicker) after it garnered her THREE Billboard awards (given out for sales, digital sales, radio play, club play).
Oh, and MDNA was in the top 10 for best selling albums last year (world-wide). Top 10.
Get a life losers.
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It's all about the tours for her now. That's where her focus and creativity is directed. It's also where the money is.
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It was commercially successful yeah, r36, but it wasn't very good. Lots of things are commercially successful, but creatively and artistically suck.
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The next Madonna album will be a pure piece of shit.
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She should do a complete 360 and do something that isn't trendy or current at all.
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She's missing her audience (white, Boomer and/or gay) by trying to be "edgy" and rope-in the kiddies. She needs to build off what she's done successfully before, and it should be something fraus can bop to while picking the kids up at soccer. All that vocorder/computer shit is sterile, could be anybody.
This is what she should be doing. Maybe I'd buy an album for the first time in a decade and a half.
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Yes r41, that song was a pleasant surprise to us who felt she didn't have a song like that left in her. She went all wrong when she started idolizing Britney and JT.
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[quote]I think she might go with more Joe Henry collaborations after the disaster that was MDNA.
Joe Henry worked on "MDNA". Can't stand him. She only worked with him to do her sister a favor.
She needs Patrick Leonard for writing. He can't produce.
Here's the thing: William Orbit produced the most critically acclaimed album of her career, and then she re-teamed with him on her last album and it was a dud. Lightning doesn't always strike twice.
Madonna only does albums now to promote her tour, which is what a Live Nation exec leaked to the NY Post.
William Orbit went apeshit on her, saying that she never came into the studio, she had everyone doing the work for her, and that's why "MDNA" flopped. It was pretty well-known from the start that her album was being written and produced without her while she went and promoted that god-awful "W.E.".
Madonna doesn't care about albums. There's no money in them for her, which is also the reason she makes cheap music videos.
She's all about opening gyms, doing perfume, and a million other embarrassing things.
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[quote]Yes, MDNA was a "disaster" (snicker) after it garnered her THREE Billboard awards (given out for sales, digital sales, radio play, club play).
Doesn't work that way, hon. Live Nation also payed for her crappy first single to be played. They also gave the album away with tickets, and perfume sales. She cheated.
[quote]Oh, and MDNA was in the top 10 for best selling albums last year (world-wide). Top 10.
Look at the sales for the rest of the albums that year, doll face. She also had the largest % sales drop in Sound Scan history.
"MDNA" is the lowest-selling album of her entire career.
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[quote]She made a 4-year break between her last 2 albums,does she really need another one?
According to her Live Nation contract, yes.
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She had one last shot to reassert herself in the mainstream and she blew it with MDNA. The teens and twenty-somethings who drive the pop music industry aren't interested in listening to a woman old enough to be their mother or grandmother sing generic technopop songs about being a different kind of "girl," let alone seeing her gyrate in fishnets and flash her tits on stage. She's desperately needed to give up the sex goddess shtick for the past decade but her immense vanity prevents her from evolving beyond the nymphette image she still tries so hard to project, and which gets more and more ridiculous with each passing year. Her career has become an exercise in cognitive dissonance.
No doubt she'll continue to have lucrative tours but at this point her only true appeal is as a nostalgia act. It's just not cool to be into Madonna anymore.
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Funny R41 she's seems to be doing pretty good without you buying any of her music for a decade and a half
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The music she recorded when she was younger has a more mature adult sound than the music she records today. Crazy For You sounds like it was recorded by a woman in her 40's for a dentist office. Tracks on MDNA, on the other hand, sound like she's trying to sound like she's in her 20s. Very odd. At least Stevie Nicks is recording contemplative, mellow, age-appropriate music now and not trying to be something she wouldn't be believable at even two decades prior.
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Her rejected material is much better than most of what made it onto her albums. Across the Sky and Animal are just a few examples. So not only does she not care about her music anymore, but she doesn't even recognize some hit songs after she's recorded them.
And that is why her career is over.
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[quote]And that is why her career is over.
I'm not someone that hates Madonna. I'm not a fan of hers either. But that statement is sort of ridiculous. Her career is hardly over as she's still raking in a shit load of money. Is her music good or relevant, debatable, but that's a whole other issue.
Unfortunately, my guess is that even five or ten years from now, we'll still be saying, "and THIS is why her career is over."
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R50 Her touring career may still be doing well (a la Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, etc), but like those bands, nobody cares about the music they release now. Her career in terms of new music is definitely over. She hasn't had a #1 in 13 years and her last album was the worst selling album of her whole career.
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I agree with r1. She should take some time and write with Patrick Leonard and maybe Steve Bray and Shep Pettibone and once the songs are written and recorded, then hand them off to Guetta, Orbit, Timbaland, Pharrel or even Max Martin to remix the songs with whatever the hot sound is. They'd be smashes because the songs would be solid.
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Madonna's career lasted from 1984-1992. This year is the 21st anniversary of her career coming to an end. The media still treats her like it's the 1980's instead of 2013.
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Wasn't Ray of Light post 1992?
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Ray of Light was 1998 and Music was in 2002. But people who hate her wont give her credit for those and say her career "ended" a decade prior.
I think we need to define what makes a "career" end, because in most scenarios, your career ends when you no longer generate money. That hasn't happened for her yet.
And no, I'm not a huge fan of hers.
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I'm still scratching my head over Give Me All Your Love. Who in their right mind thought that should have been the lead single? It should have been Turn up the Radio.
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"Golden Oldies from a Golden Oldie: Madonna, Yesterday's Superstar, Sings the Standards You Remember from Your Chldhood"
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It should be said...Turn Up The Radio is a really shitty song too.
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Joe Henry is one of most acclaimed producers and artists in America, the list of artists his produced are stellar; Billy Bragg, Bonnie Raitt, Meshell Ndegeocello, Loudon Wainwright III, Kristin Hersh, Aimee Mann, Bettye LaVette, Solomon Burke. And his own records are just amazing.
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R55, don't forget about Hung Up
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Madonna is already recording her next album. It's a collaboration with Metallica and Lou Reed. It is tentatively titled, "Ma-Lulu". It is scheduled for release on the 12th of Never.
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I don't think she needs to do Joe Henry a favor. She basically jacked his song Stop and turned it into Don't Tell Me.
What bothers me about MDNA is that is such a shitty album. I had to skip a couple songs, they were just so repetitious and unlistenable.
She really does have unreleased stuff that is better, and she has produced enough good songs and worked with talented producers and songwriters to know better.
She must have a deal with LA Fitness because they played songs from MDNA as if they were big hits.
That Girl Gone Wild song is just wrong, and I had to decide whether or not to run for it and sidestep the aural torture. But mostly, I stuck it out knowing that another horrific, never-should-have-been-made song was burning itself into my psyche.
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I love for Gone wild, I really do. Probably her best song since bedtime story.
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The only good song from FlopDNA was "Gang Bang". She should have released that as a single instead of the cheesy, shitty ass singles she released. "Gang Bang" was a great dark track about wanting to get revenge on an ex who's fucked you over and it actually had a story. That "Give Me All Your Lovin'" was the biggest pile of shit I've ever heard, and I have no idea why that was a single. Same goes for "Girl Gone Nowhere" and "Turn Off the Radio".
She needs to go in a more adult contemporary direction next time a la "Bedtime Stories" or "Like a Prayer".
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Respondent agrees to pay civil money penalty assessed by the FDIC in the amount of $9,000.
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AmericanWest Bank ("Respondent") has been advised of the right to receive a NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT OF CIVIL MONEY PENALTY, FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, ORDER TO PAY, AND NOTICE OF HEARING ("NOTICE") issued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") detailing the violations for which a civil money penalty may be assessed against Respondent pursuant to section 8(i)(2) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act ("Act"), 12 U.S.C. §1818(i)(2), section 305(b) of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act ("HMDA"), 12 U.S.C. §2804(b), and section 203.6 of Regulation C of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 12 C.F.R. §203.6, and has been further advised of the right to a hearing on the alleged charges under section 8(i) of the Act, 12 U.S.C. §1818(i), and the FDIC's Rules of Practice and Procedure, 12 C.F.R. Part 308. Having waived those rights, the Respondent entered into a STIPULATION AND CONSENT TO THE ISSUANCE OF AN ORDER TO PAY CIVIL MONEY PENALTY ("AGREEMENT") with a representative of the Legal Division of the FDIC, whereby solely for the purpose of this proceeding and without admitting or denying any violations, Respondent consented and agreed to pay a civil money penalty in the amount of $9,000.00, related to its inaccurate submission of the application and loan data for calendar years 2002 and 2003 required by HMDA.
The FDIC considered the matter and determined it had reason to believe that the Respondent has engaged or participated in violations of law or regulation for which a civil money penalty of nine thousand dollars ($9,000.00) is appropriate to be assessed against the Respondent pursuant to section 8(i)(2) of the Act, 12 U.S.C. §1818(i)(2).
After taking into account the AGREEMENT, the appropriateness of the penalty with respect to the financial resources and good faith of the Respondent, the gravity of the violations by the Respondent, the history of previous violations by the Respondent, and such other matters as justice may require, the FDIC, accepted the AGREEMENT and issued the following:
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Respondent be, and hereby is, assessed a civil money penalty of $9,000.00 pursuant to section 8(i)(2) of the Act, 12 U.S.C. §1818(I)(2), the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged.
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Grave markers in Yorkshire
A Burial Cross, Grave Cross or Rest In Peace (R.I.P.) Cross marks the place where somebody is buried.
For sure, when we die, we don't smell very nice. (Many of us don't smell so nice when alive, either. This is nature's way of protecting the living, warning us away from possible infectious disease by making decomposing corpses unpleasant to have around. Since Adam's time, we have dug holes, deposited bodies, and covered them up.
6th century Coptic grave marker, Cairo Museum
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Burial is also a mark of respect for the deceased. The grave is the last resting place of the physical person and its precise location is important to family and friends. Consequently, a stone marker is used in most cultures that bury their dead.
For Christian cultures, the tradition has been to use a stone cross marker. The cross reminds the bereaved that the soul does indeed, live on into eternity.
The modern cross above (left) was cut from marble; a relatively easy process with today's modern machinery. Each arm has a Fleur de Lis and the inscription is IHS. Earlier grave markers, reflecting the limitation of machinery and perhaps scarcity of masons, were much simpler and showed just the deceased's initials (2nd image, above left).
The cross is so ubiquitous in graveyards that it has become a symbol for death, as shown by the small crosses in the advertising campaign to reduce driving speed.
In fact, the Christian cross is really a symbol of life (but it's a neat speed-kills advertisement nonetheless).
After death, Christians (and many of those with other faiths) believe that the Messiah will return and take his followers to Paradise. The Bible details this quite clearly, even to the point of assuring us that Christ will return from the east, which is why traditionally people are buried with their feet pointing eastward so they can be raised facing Christ to welcome him on his return.
See also Churchyard Cross, Funeral Cross and Wreath Cross.
"Fish and guests smell after three days"; a saying attributed to Benjamin Franklin, Oscar Wilde, and John Lyly's Euphues & His England, II. 81, 1580.
Can people be raised if they have been cremated? Well, since God created man from absolutely nothing, recreating man from something would be dead easy; whether it was from ashes, dust, or even just the historical fact of man's existence.


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A THIRD icon of the world stage spent Christmas Day in hospital — as George Bush Snr joined Lady Thatcher and Nelson Mandela on the sick list.
Bush, 88 — US President when Maggie was Prime Minister — was said to be battling a "fever".
Last night, despite a series of "setbacks" leaving him weak, he was described as "joking with the nurses".
His spokesman said: "Doctors still say they are cautiously optimistic, but every time they get over one thing, another thing pops up."
The ex-President's son George W Bush — who went on to become US leader himself — has been among visitors at the hospital in Texas.
Meanwhile in London, his father's old pal Baroness Thatcher, 87, was continuing to recover after a minor bladder operation.
The Conservative ex-PM was said to have been "in good spirits" after surgery to remove a growth.
In Pretoria, South Africa's former leader Mandela, 94 — who is being treated for a lung infection and gallstones — was said to be on the mend as tens of thousands prayed for him at Christmas church services.
President Jacob Zuma said after visiting him: "Doctors are happy with the progress he is making."


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As I said, the screws on the gun I received do go all the way through. I contacted Buffalo Arms and he checked the one he has left and they go through on that one also. They were too look into it further and let me know what they learned. The gun is marked on the barrel top Cimarron. I cannot speak as to "quality" but it sure is pretty. I will not be shooting it. I have one "shooter" and the rest are safe queens.
I cannot find another dealer that has one in stock so that they could actually look at the gun. The only stocking dealer I found was Cabela's and was told they unfortunately are not set up to do that but they are confident that the Uberti is "period correct" without protruding screws, and I could return it if it was not and they would eat the freight.
You may have answered where this Paterson came from. It supposedly is a Uberti also. see pic
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"so yeah" wrote:And I know what I'm talking about to. K? I watch the news and I know what is going on in the economy. Not all of us are "children" some of us actually do care about politics and who is gonna be the next president, vice president, govenor etc.
people in the light will never understand one who is in the darkness..unless the one in the light was in the darkness before...and was saved by someone in the light...then that person would understand them as much as other people..but one in darkness will never know what light is nor what is the meaning of happiness..but will only know deep sadness


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NEW YORK (Sep. 11)
The First International Conference on Teaching the Lessons of the Holocaust, with attendance scheduled at this time from the United States, West Germany and Israel, will be held in Philadelphia Oct. 18-20. The National Institute on the Holocaust, a non-profit educational and service agency, temporarily housed at Temple University, is the overall sponsor for the event.
Dr. Franklin H. Littell, director of the religion department at Temple University, will serve as chairman for the conference. He is considered the leading Christian theologian seeking to convince Christians that Christendom bears a major responsibility for the Nazi slaughter of European Jews. Littell is being assisted in planning the conference by Dr. Josephine Knopp, National Institute research director, and Prof. Miriam Bell of Temple University's religion department.
Knopp told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in a telephone interview that the principal theme of the three-day conference is to study in depth right and wrong ways to teach about the Holocaust at every age level. After decades of silence about the mass murders of European Jews, the proliferation of courses, in public schools and universities and in informal adult classes in this country and abroad has become so great as to make such an evaluation necessary, conference sources indicated.
Knopp said attendance for the event had been limited to 300 persons. Invitations have been sent to teachers, theologians, and others who have expressed interest in teaching about the Holocaust, she said.
Speakers for the conference include, to date, Prof. Yehuda Bauer and Prof. Chaim Schatzker, both of Hebrew University, and Prof. Aryeh Karmon of Ben Gurion University; Dr. Habs Herman Walz, director of the Evangelical Church-State Groups in West Germany, Friedrich Weibgen of West Germany, and Prof. A. Schallenberger of Duisburg University in West Germany; Elie Wiesel, the historian of the Holocaust; Joseph Borkin, an American lawyer-historian; and Dr. Sybil Milton of the Leo Baeck Institute. Schatzker and Karmon have written textbooks on the Holocause for use in Israeli schools and Schallenberger had helped to develop texts on the Holocaust which have recently been mandated for use in West German high schools.
The four principal sponsors of the event, to be held at the Holiday Inn, are the National Institute, the National Conference of Christians and Jews; the United States Catholic Bishops Conference; and the National Conference of Churches.
Knopp listed as additional sponsors a wide range of national and regional church, civic and academic groups, including the Augustinian Villanova Peace and Justice Institution; the Cardinals Commission on Human Relations; the Commission an Ecumenical and Interreligious Concerns of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church; Temple University's religion department; the Jewish Community Relations Council of Philadelphia; the Memorial Committee for the Six Million Jewish Martyrs; the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania; and the American Baptist Churches of Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Knopp said that neither the list of speakers nor the agenda had yet been put into final form. But a memorandum issued by Littell on June 23 stressed that the conference was planned as a working meeting, with major attention to workshops.
The memorandum indicated two categories of workshops. Workshops I will have sections for teachers at various levels, including elementary school, junior high, high school, college, graduate instruction, Sunday schools and Sabbath schools in congregations. Workshops II will cover professional and vocational ethics in Holocaust teaching and university-level education of specialists in the fields of law, medicine, police, clergy, education, journalists and businessmen.
According to the memorandum, lectures and reports tentatively scheduled include the right and wrong teaching of the Holocaust, the Holocaust as a watershed event in religion and education, textbooks and teaching in Israel, West Germany and North America, the lessons of the Holocaust for professions, a series of eyewitness reports from persons who opened the Nazi death camps, and the commitment of the West German Republic to the teaching of the Holocaust.
The conference will he preceded on Oct. 16 and 17 by an International Theological Symposium on the Holocaust, also at the Holiday Inn, on the theme of "What Shall the Church Teach Now?" Topics on the first day will include lessons of the Holocaust for Christians and what Christians should think of a continuing Jewish people. Topics on the second day will examine whether God is active in history, and the Holocaust and exegesis of the apostolic writings and the New Testament.
Littell also reported that throughout the international conference there would be exhibits and some special programs "illustrating other resources for teaching besides textbooks and other means of teaching besides the classrooms." He said of special importance will be a major art exhibit in three parts–artists' portrayal of the Holocaust; the art of the camp inmates, and Nazi misuse of art forms for propaganda.
Commenting that "a generation had to pass before anyone could begin to handle the traumatic event of the Holocaust–and the spiritually dangerous materials thereof," Littell declared that the Holocause, "at first perceived as a misadventure of the Jews" is now widely seen as "a crisis of Christendom." He stressed that the genocide of the Jews "was perpetrated by Christians who were not even excommunicated for it." He also rejected the initial idea that the Holocaust was "the result of an anti intellectual return to tribalism and paganism." The death camps, he said, "were built by Ph.D.s."
Littell reported plans are being made for an International Conference on the Lessons of the Holocaust, under auspices of the International Conference of Christians and Jews. Also planned is an International Scholars Symposium on the 40th anniversary of Kristallnacht, scheduled at the University of Washington in Seattle Nov.7-11, with floor participation limited to 250 scholars from all parts of the world.


text: Most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real, says Tamim Ansary, but it sits atop deeper, older struggles. In Games Without Rules, Ansary explains Afghanistan's history from the inside out, illuminating the long internal struggle that the outside world has never fully understood, and offering insight into a country still at the center of political debate.


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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS — Laurie Jaeger, associate professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University, was named a 2006 Piper Professor.
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Discussion in 'The National Football League' started by Ryan, Oct 3, 2010.
We get a good look at our next opponent tonight.
This pass rush scares me
So far this is the best the Giants have looked all season. We'll see.
The G boys will be a harder test no doubt
Man, the way the Giants D is shutting the Bears down Eli better get his act together and start putting up some points.
Peppers is a beast
I don't think I've ever seen this many sacks in a half. It's certainly been an entertaining game. If the Giants can get a couple more in the first half they'll be in striking range of single game sack record.
Like a video game out there
Maybe the bears should uh .... stop passing?
They had a similar game vs the Eagles last season or the season before on SNF. Actually they just mentioned that game. Osi had like 5 or 6 sacks.
I remember Osi getting 7 sacks two or three years ago. Arian better come to play next week.
Yeah, maybe it was 7. I think it was 2 years ago vs the Eagles on SNF.
I checked. I was incorrect. He had 6 sacks that day which is still an NFL record. Maybeit gets broken tonight. 9 sacks so far for that vaunted pass rush!!
How much of this is the bears horrid blocking and not the Giants rush? Before tonight the Giants only had 6 sacks on the year. Admittedly I haven't watched the Giants play before tonight so maybe I'm talking out of my ass.
Whats the over under for Cutler dying during halftime?
Cutler out w concussion and Todd Collins is in.
Not sure but the Giants haven't looked good on D all season. I did miss the Titans game since I was at the Texans game last week.
I am a Giants fan so I watch most of their games when they don't conflict with Texans.
That was a BS roughing the passer call. Gimme a break.
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I collect vintage china and ornaments as well as vintage and quirky fabric. I like to make cushion covers with unusual prints and add some of my kitsch vintage china around the house. We also frame our favourite pictures drawn by our little girl and use these as wall art; my eldest son is a design artist too and we have lots of designs that he's done, dotted around the house.
We love bookshelves and good storage. Our chosen "look" is quite traditional (as opposed to "on-trend") so no teal curtains and everchanging colour schemes over here! I would love to see a greater range of storage with some more innovative designs (your current selection is very standardised).
I've never bought any large-ticket items from Asda but like the selection of small things (cushions, photo frames, fleece blankets) are more my thing as everything has a practical use (my children are too small for ornaments to work! )
And your clothing range is a total lifesaver (esp school uniform).
We have a number of very nice furniture pieces which were bought to last. We update rooms reflecting the seasons. So in Autumn, Winter I hang much thicker fully lined curtains in warm colours (our Spring, Summer curtains are in very light, neutral colours). I put warm cushions and throws on the sofa (I tend to make everything myself, either knitting or sewing) and I put thick rugs on the floors.
I also use plants and flowers to accessorize and contribute to the colour scheme. In the winter months I use lots of (fragranced) candles as well. All in all this creates a very different atmosphere. Spring & Summer are very light, fresh, airy. Autumn & Winter, heavy fabrics, warm colours, more closed, bit darker (lots of candles) and nice fragrances (orange, cinnamon, green mandarin, cloves etc.).
I do a similar thing with all other rooms throughout the house.
So basically: changing colours, fabrics and fragrance.
When refreshing a room, we might repaint but only if we need to. Mostly it's a change of bedding/cushions etc or something larger occasionally, like an armchair. We recently bought bright pink accessories to give a splash of colour to our black and white bathroom. Cheap, easy to do, and bathroom is still a blank canvas for when someone buys our house.
We enjoy buying local artwork (DH went to art college) so we've got a couple of lovely unique pieces. We tend to then work the room colours around those items. We mix more expensive items with cheaper accessories to keep the cost down. A good choice of functional items (Ikea-style) rather than fussy things, is what I'm most like to buy.
I am especially addicted to white crockery items (easy to mix & match from items bought anywhere). And clocks... love a good clock. I also love good quality storage items, we bought our wicker baskets from Habitat. Expensive but brilliant quality, I wouldn't buy cheap ones. They also had a brilliant range of sizes to choose from. Quirky kitchen storage or functional lounge storage (especially for toys) is always on my radar.
I guess, looking at Asda Direct, lots of it isn't to our taste, we're much more Ikea/Habitat, mixed with unique pieces. I'm much more into function than trendy colours. Probably not helped by the fact our house is tiny so every item in it needs to have a purpose or it's out!!
We rent and the house is all very beige. Walls, carpets and laminate.
I've got nice colour sofa cushions but the rest is just our furniture plonked in someone else's house.
Being skint means it all looks so unfinished, unsettled and temporary. Even though we'll probably rent forever
Maybe I'll look at getting some pictures on the walls (there are loads of nails up already, they're just empty)
When we moved into our house I was obviously feeling a bit glum as the majority of our rooms are various shades of grey. 3 years later I'm a bit sick of it and could do with lightening the place up!
We've inherited the in-laws' old sofas which are a dingy brown too, they could really do with a nice woollen throw and some cushions.
We have 3 DC's, a dog and a cat so we have gone for practicality all the way
Wooden floors on the ground floor and tiles on the kitchen floor.
Living room was meant to have a bit of a French theme going on, but in truth it didn't work very well as the blue paint I used was more 'Tesco Blue' than the faded sophisticated look I was hoping for. We are going to re do it and are in discussion!!
Dining room is more of a music room and has a wall full of books, we don't even have a dining table in there as we eat in the kitchen.
Bathrooms are white and silver and the kids rooms are semi themed.
DS1 has a city scape thing going on in black, white and apple green.
DS2 has a woodland theme (Thanks IKEA)
DD is 16, I think her room is white with lots of Tim Walker prints but to be honest I try not to go in there.
In the kids rooms I bought a lot of second hand solid wood furniture, then painted it cream and used a gloss paint to highlight edges/patterns so that all the pieces matched. The kids chose the gloss colour, and curtains /bed linen match the chosen colour. Works really well..
We have colour themes in the bedrooms, and living/dining room are neutral. One of the bedrooms has a blue theme (curtains, bedding, cushions) and my son's room is yellow with white wood and he has multicolour curtains. I don't have many ornaments as I have allergies and dust frequently. To personalise rooms I mainly put pictures of the family up. I also like adding rugs to give a room a different feel.
we've just repainted our bedroom so will shortly get our heads around accessorising. I love photos/pictures, also lots of fabric textures eg blankets/patchwork quilts/cushions etc.
We generally buy furniture second hand as you get a lot more for your money, so we've got quite a mix, some of which I intend to paint to match one another.
I also think lighting is key to making a room feel homely and so we have lots of lamps and different lighting.
I like to change things up so have plain pale walls (I'm the same with nail polish, like a different colour every 3 days!) that can blend with most colours. I change cushions and swap round the pictures with other rooms, for the girl's room I add fabulous bunting or rugs that can double up elsewhere too.
We personalise with items that mean something to us, like antique prints or maps we've given each other over the years. The kids' room is basically white but looks bright and colourful due to choice of bedding and being crammed full of favourite toys.
We've recently moved into a new house so all the rooms are fairly neutral with no wacky colour schemes/wallpaper. We're just in the process of deciding what to do to each room as most need a lick of paint but none are so bad that we can't live with them for a while.
We would only buy large pieces of furniture if our old ones were no longer useable or broke or were really scruffy or we really needed something in particular! We don't go for full on minimalism (as we have two kids!) but try to keep clutter to a minimum and personalise our rooms with photos, pictures, lamps, cushions and the odd candle or vase. We have been moving furniture round recently to try and get the rooms to work well and might buy the odd bit of small furniture, e.g. shelves, if needed.
Money and space is a bit tight so the way we achieve a new look is to change the little ones' artwork on display. We keep trying to find clever ways of adding more storage too, but we've kind of run out of ideas.
Having looked at the Asda home catalogue I'm thinking of getting a new duvet set for DH and me and some bright towels for DSs.
Well, we have lots of books that are on every surface and half of the floor in our house. I really want book shelves to put them on. Like this http://direct.asda.com/Reykjavik-Bookcase---Black-Ash/001710641,default,pd.html but full height. If ASDA is looking for some customer requests I would happily pay an extra fee for them to assemble the cheap flat pack furniture that I have bought at the same time as delivering them.
We tend to keep the walls and furniture neutral meaning that colour can be injected through the small things such as cushions. I'm not into nics-nacs so we don't have many if those. Just the odd thing.
I tend to stick with the same furniture and re paint it every year for a new look. Curtains are pretty expensive so i tend to get plain ones that last and accessorise with cushions, pictures, vases etc. Kitchen wise i do buy new crockery & glasses and i find that table mats need replacing fairly reularly so keep the colour theme with those, a blind and seat cushions. We like to pick things up cheaply from travelling and charity shops and adapt to suit our rooms.
I tend to refresh rooms, rather than give them a complete haul over. I use accessories such as candles, decorative hearts, wall stickers and photos to update a room, or add a colour accent.
The bathroom is the easiest to do - every now and then I buy really bright towels and a bath mat to match, then a candle in a matching colour, it makes a huge difference.
We bought our place a year ago and it certainly needed 'updating' due to redundancies and now a surprise pregnancy, we've not got as far along with that as we would have liked but its still home! Its amazing how little accessories and quality bits and peices can improve a room!
i like to change the least expensive items to make a new look. We are doing up our home now but in my last one I kept to the same colour scheme in each room and just changed the accessories/curtains and ornaments. I used to refresh now and again with a lick of paint usually of the same kind of colour but a different shade slightly, its just too much money to change carpets so usually the colour scheme ran with the colour of the carpet although i once had a purple carpet on a staircase and that was a nightmare! I think its nice to get new cushions now and again because they look tired after a year of being crushed. Sometimes i just re-arrange the furniture for a change and to make it feel different.
Neutral tones throughout the house, same for the carpets, gives a feeling of calm. I hate 'busy' accessories, fine in other peoples' homes, not mine!
Our rooms are full of books, inherited furniture, soft furnishings I've made or others have made for me and paintings I've collected over the years from places I've travelled. I love it as everything around us is personal, filled with memories and is irreplaceable. It started when we first bought a house and had no money to furnish it and since then we've just kept on collecting rather than choosing to buy stuff.
My house is a minimalists nightmare! It's also a bit scruffy as we don't replace things unless they cease to be functional really. It's also not a fashionable house, although the whole shabby chic movement made us ahead of the trend for a while!
I can't imagine decorating just to keep up with fashion but I do remake cushion covers now and again as that's a no cost way to ring the changes.
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Pollan's Advice to Obama: Turn White House Lawn Into an Organic Farm
The last time there was an energy crisis in the United States, President Carter installed solar panels to power the White House. Republican president Ronald Reagan promptly removed the panels when taking office.
President-Elect Obama faces not only an energy and economic crisis, but also the potential catastrophe of climate change. One aspect of the current crises often overlooked by politicians is food policy.
Michael Pollan explained at the Bioneers conference:
Energy. The total economy depends on cheap energy, not to mention peace and no threat from terrorism, in order to move goods from point of cheapest production to point of highest purchase. We will not reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy or confront the issue of climate change without dealing with the industrial food system, which consumes 17 percent of our fossil fuel.
Obama needs to address the industrial, transcontinental food system, as it is connected to the economic, climate, and energy crises facing the world. What better way for the president to participate in the local food revolution then turning five acres of the White House Lawn into an organic farm?
It's typical of first ladies to redecorate the White House's interior. Instead, I would like to see the first family tackle the White House lawn, as would TheWhoFarm (aka The White House Organic Farm Project) and Eat the View. WhoFarm is asking "our 44th President oversee the planting of an organic farm on the grounds of The White House, our nation's First Home, at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC."
We, the people, respectfully request that an organic farm be planted on the grounds of The White House, at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC.
The White House Organic Farm (aka TheWhoFarm) will be a model for healthy, economical and sustainable living everywhere. It will serve as an educational tool and economic aid, and as a means to provide food security in the Nation's Capitol. It will reconnect the Office of the Presidency to the self-sufficient agricultural roots of America's Founding Fathers.
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Article I: The Farmers
Public school children and Americans with disabilities will work The White House Organic Farm, to set an example for the world of hands-on learning and will foster an independent, do-it-yourself work ethic.
Article II: The Eaters
The White House Organic Farm's harvest will provide fresh food for the President, the President's family, and the President's distinguished guests. Just as importantly, it will also supply healthy food to public school lunch programs and food pantries in Washington, DC.
Article III: The Delivery
Food from The White House Organic Farm will be delivered to local public schools and food pantries by volunteers on foot and by bicycle, at a net-zero cost to U.S. taxpayers.
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The White House organic farmers will plant a diverse mix of heirloom seeds passed down from Thomas Jefferson's farm at Monticello and seeds donated by American farmers and gardeners, to celebrate both the rich agricultural traditions of the Office of the President and the passions of everyday Americans for working her fertile and bountiful land.
Article V: The Soil
The White House Organic Farm will use healthy topsoil, nourished by compost supplements from yard and food waste from all three branches of the federal government; from The White House, from The United States Capitol, and from The United States Supreme Court.
Michael Pollan has endorsed the project:
Since enhancing the prestige of farming as an occupation is critical to developing the sun-based regional agriculture we need, the White House should appoint, in addition to a White House chef, a White House farmer. This new post would be charged with implementing what could turn out to be your most symbolically resonant step in building a new American food culture. And that is this: tear out five prime south-facing acres of the White House lawn and plant in their place an organic fruit and vegetable garden.
Obama has read Pollan's piece "Farmer-in-Chief", to which he responded in Time with no mention of a White House organic farm:
I was just reading an article in the New York Times by Michael Pollen about food and the fact that our entire agricultural system is built on cheap oil. As a consequence, our agriculture sector actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector. And in the mean time, it's creating monocultures that are vulnerable to national security threats, are now vulnerable to sky-high food prices or crashes in food prices, huge swings in commodity prices, and are partly responsible for the explosion in our healthcare costs because they're contributing to type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease, obesity, all the things that are driving our huge explosion in healthcare costs. That's just one sector of the economy.
We need a White House organic farm. Obama should follow the lead of the Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand whose Thong Noi palace is a model of organic farming. It really is a small, relatively simple step the new president could take, and there is precedent. Woodrow Wilson allowed sheep to graze on the South Lawn.
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I cannot for the life of me figure out the logic of carrying a locked and loaded handgun into a movie theatre full of kids and moms
mark - the gun is not going to jump out of the holster and begin attacking everyone. You do realize this, right?
Here's a a post by another member of TFL named pax. Maybe it'll help you understand the mindset behind carrying everywhere. She is addressing another member of TFL. This quote is from post #26 in
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Good post. Let me try to find some common ground.
I know what you mean about some posts being funny. You're amused by folks who carry everywhere. I'm bemused when I see threads with titles like, "Do you carry to a friend's house?" "Do you carry at home?" "Do you carry to work?" "Do you carry at church?" etc ad infinitum.
The reason those threads amuse me is because, well, I carry. And I go places and do things. I don't carry "to a friend's house," or "to church" or "at home" -- I simply carry, wherever I might be. My default setting is to carry and if I'm not carrying it is because I made a deliberate decision not to do so right then. The reason I carry is never because I think whatever I'm doing is particularly dangerous; if I think something is particularly dangerous, I simply don't do it (or at least I find a way to do it more safely -- such as during the day instead of at night, or with a friend instead of alone). So all the angst about whether carry is appropriate in a particular venue just leaves me bemused.
A lot of people do the exact opposite. They go places and do things, but their default setting is to leave the gun locked up at home. If they carry at all, it's because they made a conscious decision to carry that day -- generally because they thought they were doing something particularly dangerous. I don't do it that way simply because my crystal ball has never been very good and I've noticed that bad things generally happen to me when I'm not expecting it. If other folks have noticed that bad things happen to them only when they are expecting it and prepared for it, who am I to argue? It's their lives.
I just wish they could refrain from insulting me for my choices, in the same way I refrain from insulting them for their choices.
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Homeless, at-risk veterans treated to their own 'Day of Service'
For unemployed Vietnam Veteran, Herbert Caughman, today's event might really make a difference.
"It's going to give me the clothes that I need," Caughman said today, "they do have things to help you look good and due to the fact that I don't have the money at the present time to get clothes it's going to help a lot."
Caughman has a job interview on Tuesday and received a new haircut, a new coat, and a new outlook today as part of the Washington DC VA Medical Center's annual "Day of Service" in Northwest, Washington DC.
The annual event is completely free for veterans who are homeless or have fallen on hard times and at risk of becoming homeless soon. The services were provided by a team of nearly 60 federal, state, and local agencies and charity groups and all aimed at help veterans get back on their feet.
"These things I could not afford to get on my own, so I guess that says it all, Veteran Benjamin Cox, one of the nearly 500 veterans who came out today, said.
The day provided medical help to the veterans, such as flu shots, eye exams, dental exams, mental health services and HIV tests. But there was also the self-confidence boosts, like new shoes, new coats, a shower station and a barber shop.
"Don't have no money, money low, can't pay my bills," Janice Whiting said today, "I'm very blessed to be here today."
While all veterans today said this will help, they also admit though that much more than a new pair of shoes, or a coat – what they really need is a job.
Rosalynn Ellah service in the Iraq War and has been out of a job for nearly three years since she came back after her deployment. While she admits that anything free helps in her current situation, and walked away with two new pairs of shoes, what she really needs is a paycheck.
"If we have a job at least we can provide for ourselves," Ellah said, "But without a job life is very difficult and to be without a job for two years, almost three years, that's a very long time."
A job training program was offered today for the vets, to match jobs with the right people. But Bryan Hawkins, Medical Center Director for the DCVA Medical Center says often times small things like a new pair of shoes can do something simple toward scoring a new job.
" When you feel good you go out and you do good things and you do things by yourself, it does a lot for the self-esteem," Hawkins said, "it's not just a haircut, not just a feel good thing but to get them back to being productive citizens."
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Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation, in conjunction with the Friends of Levitt Shell Sioux Falls, today unveiled the design plans for the Levitt Shell to be constructed in Falls Park West. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2018 with the first public performance in 2019.
The Falls Park West and Levitt Shell project will feature a covered outdoor amphitheater and a gently sloping lawn seating area, that faces south looking toward downtown. The design of the stage cover and shell incorporates soft undulating lines that complement the adjacent river. Plans include state-of-the-art sound and lighting, and a large video board near the stage for enhanced viewing. Other features to be created with the project include; support facilities, connective pathways, landscaping, open green spaces, architectural elements, signage, and more.
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The national Levitt Foundation will grant Friends of Levitt $500,000 toward construction costs and significant operational support going forward. In addition to providing design and site development at Falls Park West, the City of Sioux Falls will retain ownership of the venue and land as well as provide maintenance for the grounds.
The estimated $4.6 million project will be funded by a combination of City contributions and funding from the national Levitt Foundation and the Friends of Levitt Shell Sioux Falls. Levitt at the Falls kicked off a $1.06 million Chamber Community Appeals-approved campaign on November 1, 2016, and the campaign will end March 31, 2017. The plan will come to fruition when the first performance takes place in 2019.
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Improving Your Team, or Butting In?
Last week, fellow Tout Wars NL participant and industry friend Todd Zola sent out an email to all of the Tout and LABR warriors, asking each to give their brief thoughts for a roundtable he was putting together. The question:
If you are obviously not going to win a league such as Tout Wars or LABR, will you make trades with those competing in an effort to move up in the standings, even if it is not a "money" finish?
This is a question I have a very strong opinion on, though up until this year I didn't realize there were people who held the opposite stance. You can read everyone's responses here, but here's the Spark Notes version: most people said "yes," but a few said "no" (with varying shades of grey).
For me, the answer is simple: yes. Unequivocally and always. The argument from those who say no is that trading with contenders will influence the standings and can even decide who wins the league. Well, yeah. That's what trading is: an attempt to make one's team better. An attempt to win.
The best argument presented in favor of making these kinds of trades is that, even if you don't trade with a contender, you're going to influence the race anyway. (I believe I was the first to raise this point, but many others reiterated it throughout the discussion.) If the contending owner is winning the home run category by 30 long-balls but is in a tight spot with steals, he's going to need to trade power for speed if he hopes to win. Sure, maybe if you trade with him you hand him the title, but if you refuse to trade with him, you're merely handing the title to someone else—his competitor. Not doing anything is still doing something.
And personally, I think the owner who realizes he needs to buff up in a certain area and actively looks for trades to improve deserves to be rewarded (or at least not punished). He shouldn't be put at a disadvantage just because the value on his team happens to be clustered among certain categories, in essence wasting some of the value, while his competitor's team is more balanced. And, of course, every team has room to improve somewhere. If one competing owner comes to me with a trade offer that improves my chances of moving up and/or winning, I'm going to take it. If that owner's competition is upset, well, maybe they should have been talking trade with me themselves. They have no one to blame but themselves. If you're contending for a title and not regularly checking in with the other owners in your league, you're probably making a mistake.
Trading is a part of this game that we play; it's a vital skill that most championship-caliber players need to have. If we're not going to engage in trades, though, then why do we allow them at all? Why not just draft and hold?
Another point that I don't believe was raised in the roundtable is how to handle free agent pickups. If you're not going to trade with contending owners for fear of altering their chances of winning, are you going to submit FAAB bids for players that they might also want? It's a slippery slope. And at what point do you say, "Okay, my season is over, no more trading or picking up free agents for me"? Even at that, maybe you can't win the league, but if you pack it in, refuse to better your team, and slip a few spots in certain categories, that could very well affect those at the top of the standings who were close to you in those categories.
In LABR NL this year, I'm currently in fifth place and desperately trying to claw my way into a money spot (I'm 4.5 points out of third). With perhaps insurmountable leads in wins and strikeouts, I'm doing all I can to trade my starting pitching, which I have a lot of (Cole Hamels, R.A. Dickey, Ryan Dempster, A.J. Burnett, Tim Hudson, Erik Bedard, Michael Fiers, Wade LeBlanc, J.A. Happ, Ted Lilly). Unfortunately, many owners feel content with their own pitching and would rather not give up offense, leaving only five or six teams as potential trading partners. I dealt Hamels to one of them but haven't found a suitable deal for any of my other guys yet. One of those teams, when I approached about a potential trade, gave me the "I'd rather not affect the top of the standings" spiel. Eliminating a potential trading partner and removing an entire roster of hitters from play artificially limits my options. If I wind up having to sit on all this pitching (I won't deal them for less than I feel they're worth, regardless of the tight spot I'm in; doing so would hurt me when trying to make trades in subsequent years), it's going to be very frustrating. If I could just get even value for a couple of these players, I should be able to manage a top-three finish (or better).
There's a lot more that can be said about this topic, but a lot of it was said in the roundtable itself, and quite frankly, I'm running on fumes when it comes to this debate. There are some really intelligent people on the opposite side of the fence from me, and their points are all well taken and worth reading; I just don't happen to agree with them in this case. What do you guys think?
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I agree with you. If you want to be fair to the other owners, the thing to do is run your own team as well as you can, and treat all the other owners impartially. As long as you're trading in your own best interests, it's not unfair to anyone else. Everyone is free to trade to improve their team.
Aug 09, 2012 03:56 AM
In a single-season league, I can see both sides. I'm currently 10th in a 12-owner mixed league, and realistically can't make up 30 points in the standings. Should I be trading to improve my team? Doesn't really matter. Should I accept trade offers that come my way if they work for both owners? Yes. That's what I've been doing.
Aug 09, 2012 04:44 AM
Yes, agreed. I may not actively pursue trades as much if I'm completely out of it, but I will definitely listen to offers and take them seriously.
Aug 09, 2012 11:16 AM
We have a hard trading deadline the Sunday after the real MLB deadline. I would quit playing this game altogether if it was any other way. There are plenty of shady deals the first four months, no reason to add to the madness at the end of the season. Trading can be for the lazy who don't watch the wire or want to bother following the ebb and flow of injuries and fill ins. It's find when everyone knows the rules and there is a deadline, but if worked my butt off for five or more months, weathered all the Jose Bautista, Andy Pettitte, Brett Gardner, Luke Scott and every other multi-game non DL situation and just happened to be neck and neck in homers because of it (even though my roster is far superior), I would lose it if a guy who had it in for me liquidated a high priced power hitter for a middling prospect just to stick it to me. Not happening on my watch. "Trading in your own best interests" is just not something you can measure when half of the other owners are questionable players in the first place. The last two months are for succeeding on your own merits, not because somebody hands you a gift. The only way you should be able to improve your team during the stretch is by monitoring the waiver wire and making shrewd free agent pickups; in other words, by paying attention, working hard and earning your place in the standings. Just my two cents.
Aug 09, 2012 06:02 AM
You could always do a bit of work on the trade market yourself. I don't see how getting production from trading is any less legitimate than picking someone up on the waiver wire. If the other people are getting all the best deals, and people want to stick it to you, you are doing something wrong. Anyway, almost all leagues have a deadline between the end of July and the third week in August , so I'm not really sure what your point is.
Aug 10, 2012 06:17 AM
Derek, I agree with you. But as with anything, balance is the key. In other words, trade with contenders - yes. Lopsided trades - no. This is a bigger issue in keeper leagues, where "dumping" owners will unload everything that isn't bolted down for even a marginal keeper.
Aug 09, 2012 06:06 AM
Yeah, keeper leagues and "dumping" is a much more complicated subject. I have an opinion on it, but then we start getting into another topic entirely :)
Aug 09, 2012 11:18 AM
My super-intense keeper league has a pretty solid counter to dumps: we have a salary minimum which every team needs to abide by (in addition to our cap).
Aug 09, 2012 12:47 PM
Derek, I think you should post an article about your take on dumping. It should lead to an interesting discussion. My 24 year old 4x4 25/280 NL only league uses an in-season salary cap to prevent contenders from building $500 super teams and it would be fun to discuss on here.
Aug 11, 2012 09:53 AM
Our league shreds itself on this issue every year. Trade deadline August 1. 13 team NL keeper league. This year's controversy--Ryan Braun obtained in exchange for Oscar Taveras, Gerrit Cole, Vance Worley and Chris Heisy. Major league players Worley and Heisey are virtually worthless. Minor leaguers have no value this year, huge potential. Seven thousand dollar prize pool. No end in sight to the annual trade protest votes all over how to value potential without unprincipaled meddling in this year's standings?
Aug 09, 2012 07:34 AM
It looks fair to me. That's the blessing and curse of keeper leagues. One reason that during the years I'm working for a championship, I still take top prospects with my reserve or $1 picks than utility infielders. Because those prospects have trade value that can get me studs. Our league has a max in-season salary cap of $430 to handle stuffing teams with too many studs.
Aug 09, 2012 08:42 AM
I like having a consolation trounament for the 2nd division clubs with a $ payout for the winner. This helps keep struggling managers engaged throughout the year. I was in next to last place when I made an 8-player blockbuster last week with a contending team, nobody batted an eye.
Aug 09, 2012 09:21 AM
My take is that every player should take those actions that he or she feel are going to rank them higher in the league. The inaction and point differentials caused by coasting teams are just as bad as those caused by trading.
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Brendan Schaub comments on his next bout against Lavar Johnson. The bout is set to take place at UFC on Fox 5 Dec. 8, 2012 from Key Arena in Seattle, Washington.
Schaub has been finished in his past two bout via knockout. Firstly losing to Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira at UFC 134 in Brazil the loss was then followed another first round knockout loss to Ben Rothwell.
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